Including platforms like this. I know I'd like to hack on a machine I'm much more intimately familiar with, if even only by stint of association (marginally) with the engineers that designed and built it...
Anyone know how to deal with Real audio these days without having to buy RealPlayer Gold 8? Where's the free client download for Real- is it not available any more?
It's been so long since I cared about RealAudio, I didn't realize they've gone completely commercial now... kinda sucks.
After the engine design is refined to the point of being operationally implementable - i.e. we can build them, and they work - I would imagine the next phase of the program would be better fuselage design to accomodate room for passengers, a pilot, missiles, satellites, etc.
I think this stage of the testing is geared to study the engine dynamics more than anything else - i.e. how does the scramjet perform under specific controlled conditions. Looking at the current fuselage design, I believe it's current purpose is simply to give the engine what it needs to get started at hypersonic speeds, and run long enough for us to be doing telemetry on the *engine*, not the rest of the plane itself.
So, we're only seeing a small part of the eventual (hopefully) implemented design of scramjet-based transportation systems.
I'm sure we'll get to the rest of the plan once the engines have been proven and tested. It's all about the scramjet right now, in other words...
Wow, sounds like you're doing pretty well with robotics, being able to asess things as well as you have here. (Might be easier to read if you add paragraphs next time, though...)
Here's a question and a "smartass comment" too , and rest assured I'm asking because your project really is quite interesting:
(There's a bit of extra circutry we add in in order to clean up the singnal... i.e. give more consistan readings)
What sort of circuit design did you use in that extra circuitry, out of interest... some sort of filter, or opamp?
Therefore, our robot had 2 sensors on each side so it could "balance" itself, and make sure it was parralell at any time. It also had a front sensor, so it could see if it was nearing a wall in front, which is critical due to the way the robot "decides" to do things.
You could've achieved the same results, with only *2* sensors total required, if you'd done a bit more math (trig) and "intrinsicly purposed design" with where you put those two sensors. Would've resulted in a smarter bot, too... Can you figure out how, now that you've had a chance to review things in practice?
(Sorry if this is a question you're already answering in school...)
1300 branches is a lot of terminals - well, for IBM, it's probably an average account, but regardless:
Surely your regional IBM office would entertain the idea of producing a version of the Netstation that had a small (4 gig?) disk in it, to put/swap on?
Seems to me that this is the advantage of open-source based systems like this. If the code for the Netstation were available, perhaps you'd be able to open those terminals up, add a laptop drive, and install your own init scripts that set up/swap for you... solving your problem.
That you assume that Orwell's tale was applicable *only* to those given the moniker of 'government' is a sure sign of your own shallow understanding of that which you read...
This is akin to saying "someone famous, powerful or beautiful needs to outline the benefits of doing _______ before I make it a fundamental part of my life, and promote it's acceptance among my peers".
You sure you want to be in that sort of frame of mind for the rest of your life?
Space Activism is something we can *all* do. Space belongs to those who take it.
And what's to stop us from eventually, at some point, using the same technology to buy gas, order groceries, call for AAA, etc?
I think something like this was attempted already in the violent landscape of Consumer America, right? I seem to recall something like this being cracked and misused quite spectacularly recently...
This sort of thing must be doing wonders for the various individual encryption rights efforts going on right now...
... but it's comments like this which make the visit worth it:
"Maybe I'm just disillusioned, but I have more fun playing with people I know and trust then strangers. Strangers cheat. " - CmdrTaco, on multiplayer online gaming.
Code reviews on a team basis are one thing, as are the inevitable bugs that slip through the cracks in this environment.
Backdoors which have been specifically placed there *by design*, as an implementation of corporate policy regarding control and access to 'fielded products', is another thing entirely.
Your company - Microsoft - has a particularly bad habit when it comes to shifty, underhanded policies such as this backdoor situation, and therefore it's not unreasonable to expect that the community at large raise alarm torches when holes such as this are discovered.
I don't disagree with you that security by peer review has its flaws.
But then, so does Microsofts' aggressive predatory business practices.
For what reasons, exactly, do you respect the French government?
Peekabooty and tools like it, are the last defense for citizens against the thought police. Just because the French know how to make wine doesn't mean their government isn't as dangerous as the one in the USA, or the one in ROC, or the one in EEC, etc...
Get yourself a couple of cheap USB camera's ($30 or thereabouts), an old laptop - old Pentium will do - and see if Ricochet wireless modem service is available in your area.
If so - piece of cake. Hook 'em up, either write some software (Linux-wise) to do regular posts of the images to a web server over radio modem somewhere, or get any one of the countless Windows apps that have been written for just this sort of thing off the 'net...
The more I think about this, the more I realise it was pretty dumb to waste an "Ask Slashdot" on it... in about 5 minutes of web searching, you can find solutions pretty easily...
Dude, it's not that it's 99% titanium, it's that the titanium in the case, whatever percentage that may be (definitely low), is 99% grade pure titanium...
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... and I also sorta remember, at the time, reviewers making moderately similar comments to yours.
Face it. You're getting old. Movies don't mean the same thing to 15 year olds now, as they did when you were 15.
Can't you tell?
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He's probably trying to infer that his wife/girlfriend/teenage daughter is a bit too shy of the sun ... infrared ... etc...
Weird Aussie humor. I don't get it, and I'm Australian.
... it's an X-box. You'd be paying Microsoft for something they control the specs on...
...
Think about it before you consider I'm just flaming.
Sony too, should have you thinking same thoughts.
It is my humble opinion that we mustn't forget our strengths at being able to engineer *anything* on a hobbyist/cooperative basis.
Including platforms like this. I know I'd like to hack on a machine I'm much more intimately familiar with, if even only by stint of association (marginally) with the engineers that designed and built it
Not Microsoft.
Anyone know how to deal with Real audio these days without having to buy RealPlayer Gold 8? Where's the free client download for Real- is it not available any more?
... kinda sucks.
It's been so long since I cared about RealAudio, I didn't realize they've gone completely commercial now
After the engine design is refined to the point of being operationally implementable - i.e. we can build them, and they work - I would imagine the next phase of the program would be better fuselage design to accomodate room for passengers, a pilot, missiles, satellites, etc.
...
I think this stage of the testing is geared to study the engine dynamics more than anything else - i.e. how does the scramjet perform under specific controlled conditions. Looking at the current fuselage design, I believe it's current purpose is simply to give the engine what it needs to get started at hypersonic speeds, and run long enough for us to be doing telemetry on the *engine*, not the rest of the plane itself.
So, we're only seeing a small part of the eventual (hopefully) implemented design of scramjet-based transportation systems.
I'm sure we'll get to the rest of the plan once the engines have been proven and tested. It's all about the scramjet right now, in other words
Wow, sounds like you're doing pretty well with robotics, being able to asess things as well as you have here. (Might be easier to read if you add paragraphs next time, though...)
... some sort of filter, or opamp?
... Can you figure out how, now that you've had a chance to review things in practice?
...)
Here's a question and a "smartass comment" too , and rest assured I'm asking because your project really is quite interesting:
(There's a bit of extra circutry we add in in order to clean up the singnal... i.e. give more consistan readings)
What sort of circuit design did you use in that extra circuitry, out of interest
Therefore, our robot had 2 sensors on each side so it could "balance" itself, and make sure it was parralell at any time. It also had a front sensor, so it could see if it was nearing a wall in front, which is critical due to the way the robot "decides" to do things.
You could've achieved the same results, with only *2* sensors total required, if you'd done a bit more math (trig) and "intrinsicly purposed design" with where you put those two sensors. Would've resulted in a smarter bot, too
(Sorry if this is a question you're already answering in school
http://www.wsmr.army.mil/paopage/Pages/blst016.htm
:)
Freaked me out for a second.
Nice concept, though. Probably be nice to be able to have bots competent enough to put out a nuke.
1300 branches is a lot of terminals - well, for IBM, it's probably an average account, but regardless:
/swap on?
/swap for you ... solving your problem.
Surely your regional IBM office would entertain the idea of producing a version of the Netstation that had a small (4 gig?) disk in it, to put
Seems to me that this is the advantage of open-source based systems like this. If the code for the Netstation were available, perhaps you'd be able to open those terminals up, add a laptop drive, and install your own init scripts that set up
That you assume that Orwell's tale was applicable *only* to those given the moniker of 'government' is a sure sign of your own shallow understanding of that which you read ...
This is akin to saying "someone famous, powerful or beautiful needs to outline the benefits of doing _______ before I make it a fundamental part of my life, and promote it's acceptance among my peers".
You sure you want to be in that sort of frame of mind for the rest of your life?
Space Activism is something we can *all* do. Space belongs to those who take it.
I concur.
And what's to stop us from eventually, at some point, using the same technology to buy gas, order groceries, call for AAA, etc?
...
...
I think something like this was attempted already in the violent landscape of Consumer America, right? I seem to recall something like this being cracked and misused quite spectacularly recently
This sort of thing must be doing wonders for the various individual encryption rights efforts going on right now
... without needing to cheat. It scares me how good that girl is with a railgun sometimes.
... but it's comments like this which make the visit worth it:
...
"Maybe I'm just disillusioned, but I have more fun playing with people I know and trust then strangers. Strangers cheat. " - CmdrTaco, on multiplayer online gaming.
That one goes in the quotebin
Code reviews on a team basis are one thing, as are the inevitable bugs that slip through the cracks in this environment.
Backdoors which have been specifically placed there *by design*, as an implementation of corporate policy regarding control and access to 'fielded products', is another thing entirely.
Your company - Microsoft - has a particularly bad habit when it comes to shifty, underhanded policies such as this backdoor situation, and therefore it's not unreasonable to expect that the community at large raise alarm torches when holes such as this are discovered.
I don't disagree with you that security by peer review has its flaws.
But then, so does Microsofts' aggressive predatory business practices.
And by stint of association with the US, the French government is "A-OK with me"?
Hmm.
For what reasons, exactly, do you respect the French government?
Peekabooty and tools like it, are the last defense for citizens against the thought police. Just because the French know how to make wine doesn't mean their government isn't as dangerous as the one in the USA, or the one in ROC, or the one in EEC, etc...
This is one particular case where platform agnosticism is crucial.
Does Peekabooty run on Windows/MacOS/Linux/*BSD/BeOS/etc?
Is the source available? Can we port it quickly?
I'll be interested to see their launch of this tool at Defcon this year...
Get yourself a couple of cheap USB camera's ($30 or thereabouts), an old laptop - old Pentium will do - and see if Ricochet wireless modem service is available in your area.
... in about 5 minutes of web searching, you can find solutions pretty easily...
If so - piece of cake. Hook 'em up, either write some software (Linux-wise) to do regular posts of the images to a web server over radio modem somewhere, or get any one of the countless Windows apps that have been written for just this sort of thing off the 'net...
The more I think about this, the more I realise it was pretty dumb to waste an "Ask Slashdot" on it
Dude, it's not that it's 99% titanium, it's that the titanium in the case, whatever percentage that may be (definitely low), is 99% grade pure titanium...
Apple. Mind Control. You make the connection.
Oh my god, you are so right. What an amazing plot!
Damnit, I *knew* there was a reason I'm getting so sexed up on Apple these days.
Geeze that makes me mad.
Well, at least it's not the lust for titanium that I thought it was...
Laughing my ass off. Your response is so funny that I'll happily burn karma to let you know I'm sitting here laughing out really loud.
Honestly!
Good luck, SlipOnChickenFat!