Because, at a disipation of 1.4W max, you'd probably have to do be in a dark room to see the projected image. This is going to be faint and low contrast. Think penlight power. Most standard "conference room" style projectors are several hundred watts.
Strange but true: Some early russian rockets were fuled by ethanol (R2, copy of the german WW2 V2 rockets). In those days, the problem was the troups mixing the rocket fuel into their vodka. (or just drinking it neat, when the vodka rations ran out)
There's the loophole! If there's even the slightest chance it might cause an abortion, then the right wing in the states won't let it be used, even if it can be used to fry half the Democratic party supporters (unborn or otherwise).
But one of the subtle long term aims of DRM is not to prevent you from viewing content that you havn't paid for, but is to make it difficult for other content providers to compete in the marketplace. In other words, music, movies and games just wont play on your box unless the content developer has bought the 'keys' necessary to encode the media as required. Sort of like the game consoles work now - the game developers have to license the development kits from the console makers - and they control who creates what games. So, the end result is that rhe big media providers will be able to 'buy up' sole 'delivery' rights, so you will have to pay expensivly for crap. How would you feel if your TV would only recieve 'allowed' broadcasts? What would that do to independent news providers? No transmit key from big brother - no ability to transmit. All they have to do is wait until all the sheeple run out and buy the shiny new boxes.
1) The disk would be in a L1 Halo orbit, by orbiting around the L1 point is is much easier to stay there.
Yes, the disk will act as a huge sail. This is a good thing.
2) The disk can be 'tilted' as required so as to compensate for any residual forces pushing it off station. 3) The constant large solar presure on it will in effect move the stable L1 point TOWARDS the sun significantly. As a result, you can use a smaller diameter (cheaper!) sail, and still block the same % of light reaching the earth.
Regarding your term: "Plane crash" could be "aeronautic ground avoidance exception (AGAE)"
The correct definitions are actually:
Controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) - An event where an aircraft collided with obstacles, objects or terrain during powered, controlled flight with little or no awareness on the part of the pilot of the impending impact.
Managed flight into terrain (MFIT) - An event where an aircraft collided with obstacles, objects or terrain while being flown under limited control or reduced performance, with insufficient height/performance to reach a designated landing area.
Uncontrolled flight into terrain (UFIT) - An event where an aircraft collided with obstacles, objects or terrain after control of the aircraft was lost in-flight (includes cases where the pilot became incapacitated) but the aircraft structure did not change prior to impact.
So, global flyer has "lost" about 15% of its fuel load. (~ 2600/18500) But, didn't they plan on carrying about 15% EXTRA fuel than was strictly needed, just in case? How convienient. They wouldn't be trying to stage a dramatic finish, coasting to the airfield running on fumes? Or perhaps I just shouldn't post on slashdot when I'm tierd and more cynical than usual(!)
Not as simple as that. That target demograph is not driven by whether *they* like whatever product you are pushing, but whether *their friends* think it is cool or not. You can flog any kind of c**p to them, as long as a sufficient % of them *believe* that all other 14 year olds love it.
Hm, up to say 5 years ago, Intel probably made the most money out of a new PC.
Then, with the compitition from AMD etc, the relative processor prices dropped, and the relative cost of the MS windows and MSOffice stuff went through the roof, and now MS software is the most expensive single component of the average (legally licensed) system. Bill gates likes it that way.
But recently, it seems that a lot of people have deep enough pockets to shell out >500 notes for whatever the latest and greatest [Ge]00 [Pro|XL|PE] video card is. Lots of moola going to Ati & NVidea.
Bill G is not happy about *that*. MS generally will not allow other companies to make more money from the PC that they do.
Expect soon a licensing/patent/legal change that reverses the situtation. MS has probably has enough submarine patents hidden away so it can demand a big % from the GPU manufactures if they want their cards to be allowed to run under windows. At the very least, expect a *huge* increase in the cost to get high end graphic card drivers signed to run under the OS.
Clippy is now carrying a large baseball bat. With a nail in it.
That's handy. Now, once this is the default spyware scanner bundled as part of the OS, then the spyware author will just have to update that list when the malware is installed.
Yeah, I know that that list is probably 'protected'. Just like the rest of the OS I suppose.
You can run the cacls command in a console window in an admin account on XPHome to set security and access on files and folders (AccessControlLists). No need for XPpro! I use this at home to allow me to run games in my limited user account, so they don't complain about not having admin access. (Still can't get punkbuster running on wolf ET this way though......anybody know how?)
IMHO, the pioneer probes are/were 'spin stabilised', i.e. are constantly rotating in order to keep them stable. This helps to cancel out most forces interfering with them during their journey (i.e. solar wind, light pressure, thermal radation, outgassing etc), and therefore makes it easier to extract the resudial unexplained force. However, he Voyager probes are '3-axis-stabilised', i.e. they maintain their orientation in space by means of gyros and thrusters. (This is a very good idea for steadly pointing cameras at planets as you fly past.) But, as a result, it is much harder, if not impossible, to compensate for the above mentioned forces. The voyagers are probably also affected by the same unexplained force, but this small force is overwhelemed by the uncertantinty of the magmitude of the other forces acting on those spacecraft. Therefore, there is not much point mentioning them!
Looks like the US space program has lost the ability to do un-manned re-entries, and not just manned ones. Another sad day, but another sign of the decline of the american space program.
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Strictly speaking, the F1 engine is actually the oxidiser pump for the hybrid rocket engine - it runs the peroxide pump.
(i'll go back and lock myself in the basement now)
Go easy on him. He's just running on a single core....
Because, at a disipation of 1.4W max, you'd probably have to do be in a dark room to see the projected image.
This is going to be faint and low contrast.
Think penlight power.
Most standard "conference room" style projectors are several hundred watts.
But did they find any oil?
Strange but true:
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Some early russian rockets were fuled by ethanol (R2, copy of the german WW2 V2 rockets). In those days, the problem was the troups mixing the rocket fuel into their vodka. (or just drinking it neat, when the vodka rations ran out)
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/R/R_ser
Check back tomorrow, and learn that anything will beat slashdot's dupe filter.
You are in a twisty maze of articles. ...all alike
He dosn't really need to yet.
The price of oil and gas is going up just fine without any intervention from him.
Isn't that all that matters?
There's the loophole! If there's even the slightest chance it might cause an abortion, then the right wing in the states won't let it be used, even if it can be used to fry half the Democratic party supporters (unborn or otherwise).
They'll probably get it right tomorrow in the dupe.
But one of the subtle long term aims of DRM is not to prevent you from viewing content that you havn't paid for, but is to make it difficult for other content providers to compete in the marketplace.
In other words, music, movies and games just wont play on your box unless the content developer has bought the 'keys' necessary to encode the media as required.
Sort of like the game consoles work now - the game developers have to license the development kits from the console makers - and they control who creates what games.
So, the end result is that rhe big media providers will be able to 'buy up' sole 'delivery' rights, so you will have to pay expensivly for crap.
How would you feel if your TV would only recieve 'allowed' broadcasts? What would that do to independent news providers? No transmit key from big brother - no ability to transmit.
All they have to do is wait until all the sheeple run out and buy the shiny new boxes.
1) The disk would be in a L1 Halo orbit, by orbiting around the L1 point is is much easier to stay there.
Yes, the disk will act as a huge sail.
This is a good thing.
2) The disk can be 'tilted' as required so as to compensate for any residual forces pushing it off station.
3) The constant large solar presure on it will in effect move the stable L1 point TOWARDS the sun significantly. As a result, you can use a smaller diameter (cheaper!) sail, and still block the same % of light reaching the earth.
Regarding your term:
"Plane crash" could be "aeronautic ground avoidance exception (AGAE)"
The correct definitions are actually:
Controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) - An event where an aircraft collided with obstacles, objects or terrain during powered, controlled flight with little or no awareness on the part of the pilot of the impending impact.
Managed flight into terrain (MFIT) - An event where an aircraft collided with obstacles, objects or terrain while being flown under limited control or reduced performance, with insufficient height/performance to reach a designated landing area.
Uncontrolled flight into terrain (UFIT) - An event where an aircraft collided with obstacles, objects or terrain after control of the aircraft was lost in-flight (includes cases where the pilot became incapacitated) but the aircraft structure did not change prior to impact.
(!)
Hm, What's the odds that this article was released exactly a week early?
(please adjust as required for dupe submissions)
In related news, Austria was today added to the members of the "Axis of Evil"
So, global flyer has "lost" about 15% of its fuel load. (~ 2600/18500)
But, didn't they plan on carrying about 15% EXTRA fuel than was strictly needed, just in case?
How convienient.
They wouldn't be trying to stage a dramatic finish, coasting to the airfield running on fumes?
Or perhaps I just shouldn't post on slashdot when I'm tierd and more cynical than usual(!)
From a .sig that I saw somewhere -
"I hope that I die peacefully in my sleep, just like my grandmother.
Not screaming in terror, like her passengers..."
Not as simple as that. That target demograph is not driven by whether *they* like whatever product you are pushing, but whether *their friends* think it is cool or not.
You can flog any kind of c**p to them, as long as a sufficient % of them *believe* that all other 14 year olds love it.
Hm, up to say 5 years ago, Intel probably made the most money out of a new PC.
Then, with the compitition from AMD etc, the relative processor prices dropped, and the relative cost of the MS windows and MSOffice stuff went through the roof, and now MS software is the most expensive single component of the average (legally licensed) system. Bill gates likes it that way.
But recently, it seems that a lot of people have deep enough pockets to shell out >500 notes for whatever the latest and greatest [Ge]00 [Pro|XL|PE] video card is. Lots of moola going to Ati & NVidea.
Bill G is not happy about *that*.
MS generally will not allow other companies to make more money from the PC that they do.
Expect soon a licensing/patent/legal change that reverses the situtation.
MS has probably has enough submarine patents hidden away so it can demand a big % from the GPU manufactures if they want their cards to be allowed to run under windows.
At the very least, expect a *huge* increase in the cost to get high end graphic card drivers signed to run under the OS.
Clippy is now carrying a large baseball bat. With a nail in it.
Ah, so it has an "always ignore" feature?
That's handy. Now, once this is the default spyware scanner bundled as part of the OS, then the spyware author will just have to update that list when the malware is installed.
Yeah, I know that that list is probably 'protected'. Just like the rest of the OS I suppose.
But what happens if you take the neutred moggie to your local pet cloning company?
If this covered under the DCMA?
You can run the cacls command in a console window in an admin account on XPHome to set security and access on files and folders (AccessControlLists).
No need for XPpro!
I use this at home to allow me to run games in my limited user account, so they don't complain about not having admin access.
(Still can't get punkbuster running on wolf ET this way though......anybody know how?)
IMHO, the pioneer probes are/were 'spin stabilised', i.e. are constantly rotating in order to keep them stable. This helps to cancel out most forces interfering with them during their journey (i.e. solar wind, light pressure, thermal radation, outgassing etc), and therefore makes it easier to extract the resudial unexplained force.
However, he Voyager probes are '3-axis-stabilised', i.e. they maintain their orientation in space by means of gyros and thrusters. (This is a very good idea for steadly pointing cameras at planets as you fly past.)
But, as a result, it is much harder, if not impossible, to compensate for the above mentioned forces.
The voyagers are probably also affected by the same unexplained force, but this small force is overwhelemed by the uncertantinty of the magmitude of the other forces acting on those spacecraft. Therefore, there is not much point mentioning them!
Hmm, they must be very efficient panels if they work by moonlight!
Looks like the US space program has lost the ability to do un-manned re-entries, and not just manned ones.
Another sad day, but another sign of the decline of the american space program.