If you imagine that - you need to study up on your history.
No, I don't. I'm well aware that Copernicus wasn't discovering anything new (Aristotle knew this). However, he was still fearful in pointing it out to the powers that be. Cf. Galileo.
Ford wanted to use the Robinson since it was shown to be a better screw for mass production, but couldn't come to an agreement with him to license the screws in order to allow them to be made in sufficient quantity for Ford's manufacturing use.
Not quite. Ford wanted to buy it outright. Robertson wanted to licence Ford to use them, or sell them to Ford, and that wasn't good enough for Ford. Control issues.
I'm sure if the drive was useful in any meaningful way it would have been utilized.
Kind of like if Robertson screws were better than Phillips screws, they would have been utilized by Henry Ford?
Robertson screws are easily measurable... microwave drives, not so much. Bad analogy on you.
I knew I should have qualified that. That was not intended to be analogous. I wasn't cheering for the mw drive with that; just saying that just because something's better, it doesn't mean it gets picked for the team.
As for Boeing's vetting of advanced tech, where's their Dreamliner now? Grounded!
...you'd think that if high energy in a closed, conical microwave cavity produced thrust, someone would have noticed before this. We've done a lot of work with microwaves.
"You'd think that if the world were a sphere circling the Sun, someone would have noticed before this." I imagine Copernicus hearing something along those lines, then Galileo.
I'm sure if the drive was useful in any meaningful way it would have been utilized.
Kind of like if Robertson screws were better than Phillips screws, they would have been utilized by Henry Ford? That stuff often doesn't work out the way sane people think it ought to.
Because it's not clear what is and what is not commercial.
So? What's that got to do with anything? Pay for the right to use it, and you can then do anything you want to find out if it is. Hell, you could use the work to do your own research for free, then if you find out it has commercial applications get a licence.
I'm Canuckian, but have no idea what you're talking about.
I'm also enjoying "Allman Bros.' "Live At Fillmore East." Woodstock next; Jimi Hendrix' ("Star Spangled Banner") and Grace Slick CSN&Y's "Wooden Ships", & etc. "Soldiers are hunting us down..."
Yeah, great, your civilization's four thousand years old. Big deal. What've you done with that other than bury pottery armies and oppress your own people (and other people)?
Okay, they've done some fantastic things with food, including pasta/noodles, admitted. And rocketry, and gunpowder, and weaponry (lots of weaponry),... Still,...
The Korean War pretty much sucked in every way. Ditto The Cultural Revolution, the Red Guard, and everything related to Mao. Ditto VietNam, Tibet,... Tsianenman Square...
I believe you're mistaken about this. One of the things it did just before touch down, en-route to Mars, was update on-board software. They planned it that way. Get the hardware out there, then give it updated smarts when that's ready. Smart. And, "The rover installed its full surface operations software after the landing because its computers didn't have room for it during flight. The new software essentially replaced the flight software."
Note, I'm an astronomy junkie, but an amateur. Do your own research and don't consider my words definitive. Just tryin' to help.:-)
... there is no way that the thing was ever designed for such tracking rates
If you're playing with something like space, you need to design in the exponential. Eleven klicks per sec. is pretty slow compared to a lot of stuff that's flying around out there.
At 1000 degree/s tracking rate if you want to keep the target stable in focus at closest appoach. I doubt that thing has gyros to give it that much rotational momentum...
We've sent out stuff that are damned near blasting past planets, yet they manage to handle the flyby easily even at the velocity at which they're moving.
Cosmic particles go quite a bit faster than that mere "stuff."
For the girls/females/women out there, ovaries are ballsy-ish, yes? I didn't intend that epithet to exclude you, just so's you know. Had to say that (for whatever reason, I'm not entirely sure). Carry on; kthxbye. Tooduls!!!111:-)
A Mars Rover is not a ship. It is a Robot - and robots often have Male gender.
I'd have been just as offended if TFS had ascribed it a "he." It's an it! Gender has no place when you're speaking about a machine. Well, okay, Data was obviously male, fine. Ptheh.
As for your list, I've always thought R2D2, C3PO, Kryten, and Marvin were suspiciously female, especially R2 and Marvin.
By the way, Curiosity's UI is still on earth... and on dozens of different computers at Nasa. It's kind of silly to say curiosity is only powered by this tiny processor.... that processor is just accepting and implementing commands.
It's also done an "apt-get dist-upgrade" remotelely, by design. Cool bot.
Case in point: which is harder to code against: a command line interface, or a full-on GUI?
What a stupid question. What are your priorities; pretty or correct?
"Should I launch the missile now or not?" You can ask that question at the command line (defaulting to yes, no, or maybe), or you can offer the user a pop-up window which would do the same.
Choices, choices, choices,... Why do I so often feel like I'm in a Douglas Adams novel?
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If you imagine that - you need to study up on your history.
No, I don't. I'm well aware that Copernicus wasn't discovering anything new (Aristotle knew this). However, he was still fearful in pointing it out to the powers that be. Cf. Galileo.
Ford wanted to use the Robinson since it was shown to be a better screw for mass production, but couldn't come to an agreement with him to license the screws in order to allow them to be made in sufficient quantity for Ford's manufacturing use.
Not quite. Ford wanted to buy it outright. Robertson wanted to licence Ford to use them, or sell them to Ford, and that wasn't good enough for Ford. Control issues.
I'm sure if the drive was useful in any meaningful way it would have been utilized.
Kind of like if Robertson screws were better than Phillips screws, they would have been utilized by Henry Ford?
Robertson screws are easily measurable... microwave drives, not so much. Bad analogy on you.
I knew I should have qualified that. That was not intended to be analogous. I wasn't cheering for the mw drive with that; just saying that just because something's better, it doesn't mean it gets picked for the team.
As for Boeing's vetting of advanced tech, where's their Dreamliner now? Grounded!
...you'd think that if high energy in a closed, conical microwave cavity produced thrust, someone would have noticed before this. We've done a lot of work with microwaves.
"You'd think that if the world were a sphere circling the Sun, someone would have noticed before this." I imagine Copernicus hearing something along those lines, then Galileo.
The most inviolable law in the universe is that everything flies pointy end first.
That's Hollywood's view. In their view, explosions in space make big booming sounds and fast things make zooming sounds.
I'm sure if the drive was useful in any meaningful way it would have been utilized.
Kind of like if Robertson screws were better than Phillips screws, they would have been utilized by Henry Ford? That stuff often doesn't work out the way sane people think it ought to.
Because it's not clear what is and what is not commercial.
So? What's that got to do with anything? Pay for the right to use it, and you can then do anything you want to find out if it is. Hell, you could use the work to do your own research for free, then if you find out it has commercial applications get a licence.
No sympathy for you.
Canada bows quickly to US patent pressure, so no, Canada wouldn't work.
I believe you're wrong. We don't much fscking care what your USTR may think. We'll happily burn down your Whitehouse anytime. Just give us a call. :-)
Would Canada work for those purposes?
I'm Canuckian, but have no idea what you're talking about.
I'm also enjoying "Allman Bros.' "Live At Fillmore East." Woodstock next; Jimi Hendrix' ("Star Spangled Banner") and Grace Slick CSN&Y's "Wooden Ships", & etc. "Soldiers are hunting us down ..."
"Alice's Restaurant" comes to mind too.
Can you be sure that aggressive approach gets the best results?
Who cares, as long as the bastard's dead? Lifes's short. You wanna live forever?
Not applicable here, but it was an interesting ploy.
Sic a lawyer on a lawyer, or threaten to. I like that. Beats the "Ice pick in the back" approach.
It'd be cheaper to take a hit out on the guy who filed the lawsuit.
It's even cheaper to do it yourself. Ice picks are very affordable. Patent rolls, take note.
Can someone please phone me and read this to me, I am too lazy to read.
Wow. And I thought I was fscked up today. I didn't wake up until 1500h. You people give me hope for the week.
Don't stop, keep going. Oh wait...there's not much more after that is there.
Hmm ...
Would you mind listing all the shitty things the United States has done over the same time frame?
Note I'm not a Murrican, and yeah I know about all the shitty things they've done, and are doing. I often wonder how they manage to sleep at night.
I was just ranting. They've both done some marvelous, and some marvelously ugly, stuff.
Yeah, great, your civilization's four thousand years old. Big deal. What've you done with that other than bury pottery armies and oppress your own people (and other people)?
Okay, they've done some fantastic things with food, including pasta/noodles, admitted. And rocketry, and gunpowder, and weaponry (lots of weaponry), ... Still, ...
The Korean War pretty much sucked in every way. Ditto The Cultural Revolution, the Red Guard, and everything related to Mao. Ditto VietNam, Tibet, ... Tsianenman Square ...
Tell me when to stop. :-P
Problem with china is, you stick your neck out and fail, your head is promptly removed.
That's Japan. "It was a good death." -- The Last Samurai.
Curiosity can get by with less brainpower because it's not going to be put in the hands of all those senile old Apple customers.
Or, prepubescent doofuses (Morons / "morans"? Imbeciles? Twits? Nutbars?) who think cell phones are the cat's meow.
User upgrades in the field? Mars rover: zero.
I believe you're mistaken about this. One of the things it did just before touch down, en-route to Mars, was update on-board software. They planned it that way. Get the hardware out there, then give it updated smarts when that's ready. Smart. And, "The rover installed its full surface operations software after the landing because its computers didn't have room for it during flight. The new software essentially replaced the flight software."
Note, I'm an astronomy junkie, but an amateur. Do your own research and don't consider my words definitive. Just tryin' to help. :-)
... there is no way that the thing was ever designed for such tracking rates
If you're playing with something like space, you need to design in the exponential. Eleven klicks per sec. is pretty slow compared to a lot of stuff that's flying around out there.
At 1000 degree/s tracking rate if you want to keep the target stable in focus at closest appoach. I doubt that thing has gyros to give it that much rotational momentum...
We've sent out stuff that are damned near blasting past planets, yet they manage to handle the flyby easily even at the velocity at which they're moving.
Cosmic particles go quite a bit faster than that mere "stuff."
... I do admit that's pretty cool; ballsy even.
For the girls/females/women out there, ovaries are ballsy-ish, yes? I didn't intend that epithet to exclude you, just so's you know. Had to say that (for whatever reason, I'm not entirely sure). Carry on; kthxbye. Tooduls!!!111 :-)
Why do I so often feel like I'm in a Douglas Adams novel?
Maybe you're listening to too much bad poetry? :-)
I do not want to think about Vogon poetry this early on a Saturday morning. :-O
oppress your own people (and other people)? : China Y / USA N
You got that one wrong. China Y / USA Y.
A Mars Rover is not a ship. It is a Robot - and robots often have Male gender.
I'd have been just as offended if TFS had ascribed it a "he." It's an it! Gender has no place when you're speaking about a machine. Well, okay, Data was obviously male, fine. Ptheh.
As for your list, I've always thought R2D2, C3PO, Kryten, and Marvin were suspiciously female, especially R2 and Marvin.
By the way, Curiosity's UI is still on earth... and on dozens of different computers at Nasa. It's kind of silly to say curiosity is only powered by this tiny processor.... that processor is just accepting and implementing commands.
It's also done an "apt-get dist-upgrade" remotelely, by design. Cool bot.
Case in point: which is harder to code against: a command line interface, or a full-on GUI?
What a stupid question. What are your priorities; pretty or correct?
"Should I launch the missile now or not?" You can ask that question at the command line (defaulting to yes, no, or maybe), or you can offer the user a pop-up window which would do the same.
Choices, choices, choices, ... Why do I so often feel like I'm in a Douglas Adams novel?