One reason I understand for having Hubble in space is the fact that diffraction of light from the atmosphere and maybe even minute seismic vibrations from the earth would distort the picture for a large telescope. Does anyone know from close we are to the point where larger land telescopes will be made impractical be these phenomenon?
From my understanding on a system that can see through the encryption you are unable to see the first track. Would this not in fact be illegal as they are not allowing you to use a product (i.e. the first track) that you purchased, even if it is unintentional.
Contrary to the perception in North America english is actually used very little over the world. It is only 10th most popular over the world and even on the internet it comprises of only about 43% of the material. It is inevitable that english will become even more marginalized over the world and if North American buisnesses are going to prosper they are going to have to learn to serve these new market.
I wonder if some of them may decide to start their own artist run label. While the ones to first join would of course be taking a HUGE chance (especially if they're an established artist already), perhaps they could set up a distribution network like Napster. I sure they would instantly have huge grassroots support from the net which may be sufficient to get them through the growing pains so new artists would also be willing to sign up with them. From my understanding of record contracts they would lose the right to use their old material on CD's (although with the exception of the big names they didn't make that much money off them anyways) and they could still use them in concert. While it would take a few big names to start it off the bulk of their membership would likely be new bands who don't want to get a bad deal to begain with when they could get a fair cut from the start and good exposure to their music online.
Re:And this is what's wrong with NASA
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I want to see NASA become synonymous with "technical progress" like it was when I grew up
What makes you think it isn't? Just because we haven't found e.t. or colonized the moon yet doesn't mean we aren't making technical progress.
right now, it is synonymous with "wasted tax money" and that is not a favorable label to have during such a terrible recession.
On the contrary one of the better ways to get out of a depression is known as Keynsian economics (I probably misspealt it) where the government spends money with the effect of creating jobs and stimulating the economy. While this is somewhat beside the point as it is usually done with blue collar workers is this case the result is somewhat the same. For every dollar spent on Nasa I've heard estimates of everywhere from $12-$20 being generated in the ecomony. That's not to mention the huge technical advances derived from the space industry (how common do you think sattelite communicaton would be if it wasn't for the pioneering experience from the space industry, not to mention numerous innovations that have come from the space program. I recall a while ago I found a link to a site on/. (Im sorry but I'm on a slow connection now and don't have the time to look it up now) that listed many of these innovations (I believe velcro may of been among them although I may be mistaken). Still it is important not to realize that advances must not be obvious to be important, it would be foolhardy to throw away so much future knowledge over anxieties over a downturn in the economic cycle. Right now the fields of research being explored by Nasa and increasingly by the international community are relatively new to are species are we still understand little of what we may learn to do, can we afford to risk trowing away so muchin the long run to ease short term suffering.
By the way there is a slight inaccuracy in the post.
the sodium 21 was transmuted into magnesium 22, which decays into the radioactive isotope sodium 22
as opposed to remaining as magnesium 22. That being said this is still a huge breakthough. With the exception of hydrogren and helium all the elements in the universe are believe to have been formed in Novas or Supernovas. These researchers now has the ability to observe this process directly. Up till now all our knowledge on the subject in based on theories based observations of distant (super)Nova. Who knows the possible extensions of this technology? Transmutation of elements? Fission reactors? Not to mention the huge betterment of our understanding of these processes which will undoubtedly lead to new fields of research which may lead to other breakthroughs in themselves.
If you bothered to read/research my comment before responding you'd realize I wasn't complaining about being unable to use it under ME, I said in the post that it gave instructions! My point was the program gave me the impression that it could only work under Dos, an option that I believe is unavailable under Windows XP.
-US takes the initiative to throw off the chains of an obsolete and oppressive monarchy.
And starts a long history of going off and starting war while instating several military dictatorships. While Canada's ties to the monarchy are superficial and gives up membership in the commonwealth (we also didn't have to kill any one). By the way, remember the war of 1812;)
-Americans call themselves "Americans," as is their right.
Just don't do it anywhere else in the world if you don't want to get shot.
Although I support the efforts of the ISS and orbital research from what I've heard there is in fact not a lot of good research they can do in weightlessness. Personally I think it says something when you're accepting experiments from junior high schools to do in space that probably converts to thousands of dollars of time and resources on the part of the space agency. Does anyone know of useful research being conducted by astronauts (i.e. no Hubble or exploration vehicles) or that has been proposed?
I just downloaded Free BeOS on my Windows ME machine (don't worry I plan on installing Linux over christmas!) and when I tried to open it I got an interesting message which was basically BeOS does not run under windows, it runs under DOS, now ME doesn't support DOS but the program still gives instructions on how to run it out of DOS. With my machine I also have a free upgrade coupon to windows XP (hey I'm not actually giving them money and I don't think ANYTHING can be worse than ME), than something occurred to me, wasn't one of the changes with XP an elimination of DOS. Could this dumping of DOS also been an attempt to kill BeOS (and any other OS's who worked by running off of Dos instead of making the user get a new partition) or was it just a happy coincidence for Redmond?
Actually if you read the Scot Hacker acrticle the main reason for the demise of BeOS (not to mention the major hurdle right now that stands in the way of Linux catching on) is the fact that in MS's contract with vendors they do not allow them to sell a duel boot machine with windows. In other words Microsoft makes it illegal for you to walk into a computor store and buy a machine that allows you to load both Windows and Linux out of the box. If there is a more blatant example of monopolist practices out there someone please tell me. This is definatly an issue that/.ers should run with and try and draw some media attention to for it was in all likelyhood the cause of the demise of BeOS and might catch Linux if we're not careful too.
In Nasa terms several million isn't really all that much (which makes it slightly surprising why they cut off funding). Still I would argue that the extra costs could be fully accounted through saleries of personnel and cost of communicating with the craft. Ignoring the undoubtedly huge saleries many likely make there is also the possibility that they may need new hardware to communicate with the craft. I would assume that their existing hardware may be already allocated to other missions and they may not have the satellites available to communicate with the craft.
I think it is easy to rate this mission as a great success. If I recall correctly it used something like 9 new technologies including the ion drive and AI. Considering the fact that it continued for 2 years longer than it was designed for (and probably could have gone for longer if they'd gotten the additional funding) says great things about the advancements in space exploration and lends the possibility to deep space exploration on a level significantly higher than what we could previously achieve.
While these uses may be illegitimate this was not a concern for Sony. Sony only had an issue when these chips allowed users to play pirated game by allowing the consols to read CD-R's in addition import games.
For the most part collisions with space junk isn't quite as big a problem asd you'd think. The reason is in order to have a stable orbit at a certain altitude the object must have a certain velocity (which wold be the same for all other objects at that altidude) as a result the only time a near collision like this could happen is if the debris happens to have an intersecting orbit which is still extremely unlikely. Even in this case the debris would probably not have collided if it hadn't been moved, it was just a percautionary measure. Still does anyone know if there are plans for manouvering rockets on the completed ISS?
Re:Piezoelectric fans are already available
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you would need 10 to 15 piezoelectric fans to achieve equivalent volume air flow.
I'm not sure of the size of these fans but I'd suspect you'd ned a lot more room in your case to accomodate 10-15 of them (probably making them impractical for laptops). Furthurmore given the fact that you wouldn't be able to place all of them in close proximity to the chip I also suspect you would need more than 10-15 to achieve the same airflow as a regular fan.
It seems to me that if we are going to find signs of life anywhere on Mars it would be in the ice caps. Spores have been known to survive thousands of years on earth, perhaps we could find some form of microbe still frozen in the ice that could even survive if thawed. It may even be possible for these life form to still thrive (Volcanic activity creating liquid water beneath the caps?). I believe Nasa should make it a priority to have their next surveyor gather samples of the ice for analysis.
Re:Piezoelectric fans are already available
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you would need 10 to 15 piezoelectric fans to achieve equivalent volume air flow...
Of course, laptop manufacturers could buy in bulk (100+) easily at $39. $390 to $585 per fan, significantly less.
While it would seem like a likely candidate for Atlantis I would wonder due to geographical location wether it would fit the profile. Given the fact that 4000 b.c would still be ancient history by Plato's time in order for him to have written of this city as Atlantis, ships from there would of had to been very well docemented in Greece. This means several would of had to reach Europe from Cuba. In order for ships to make this journey they must of had exceptional naval expertise in order to make this journey (not to mention a motive for sailing over what they probably thought was an empty ocean!) While this civilization was without a doubt expectionally advanced for it's time I find it unlikely that it would be Atlantis.
It's good to see Apple making a move to change to 15'' viewable. When iMacs first came out one of the reasons they took off so well is the 15'' monitor was standard. However 17'' is now standard and most consumers arn't happy with a small 15'' CRT screen. I think that either this move or changing to a 17'' CRT (although that would take away from much of the compact size which is likely why they haven't done it) is necessary to revitalize iMac sales.
I can't see why so many people seem mad at MS. Don't you realize this is just another humanitarian effort of the part of the world's greatest philanthropist Bill Gates. MS is just trying to save people the pain of using an unstable, overpriced, insecure, banking system as well as stop the flow of open source application made by greedy, unscrupulous, devil worshipping, European communist infiltrators attempting to overthrow democracy through their subversive operating systems. If you think about it it is really your ethical duty to help stop the loss of freedom and support Microsoft's well intentioned attempts to improve (as if that were possible!) their software.
By the way DMCA rocks!!
(protect the right of song artists and support the RIAA, another well intentioned organization with only the intrests of song artists and music in heart!)
I think one reason that companies may be reluctant to switch critical systems to open source is the possiblity of a group of crackers giving themselves a backdoor into their computers. Although I'm not familiar with the organization process of an open source project I would think that an unscrupulous person may involve themselves with the construction of the OS and may be able to create backdoors for them to use at a later timem, leaving the company with no one to blame.
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One reason I understand for having Hubble in space is the fact that diffraction of light from the atmosphere and maybe even minute seismic vibrations from the earth would distort the picture for a large telescope. Does anyone know from close we are to the point where larger land telescopes will be made impractical be these phenomenon?
From my understanding on a system that can see through the encryption you are unable to see the first track. Would this not in fact be illegal as they are not allowing you to use a product (i.e. the first track) that you purchased, even if it is unintentional.
Contrary to the perception in North America english is actually used very little over the world. It is only 10th most popular over the world and even on the internet it comprises of only about 43% of the material. It is inevitable that english will become even more marginalized over the world and if North American buisnesses are going to prosper they are going to have to learn to serve these new market.
I wonder if some of them may decide to start their own artist run label. While the ones to first join would of course be taking a HUGE chance (especially if they're an established artist already), perhaps they could set up a distribution network like Napster. I sure they would instantly have huge grassroots support from the net which may be sufficient to get them through the growing pains so new artists would also be willing to sign up with them. From my understanding of record contracts they would lose the right to use their old material on CD's (although with the exception of the big names they didn't make that much money off them anyways) and they could still use them in concert. While it would take a few big names to start it off the bulk of their membership would likely be new bands who don't want to get a bad deal to begain with when they could get a fair cut from the start and good exposure to their music online.
What makes you think it isn't? Just because we haven't found e.t. or colonized the moon yet doesn't mean we aren't making technical progress.
right now, it is synonymous with "wasted tax money" and that is not a favorable label to have during such a terrible recession.
On the contrary one of the better ways to get out of a depression is known as Keynsian economics (I probably misspealt it) where the government spends money with the effect of creating jobs and stimulating the economy. While this is somewhat beside the point as it is usually done with blue collar workers is this case the result is somewhat the same. For every dollar spent on Nasa I've heard estimates of everywhere from $12-$20 being generated in the ecomony. That's not to mention the huge technical advances derived from the space industry (how common do you think sattelite communicaton would be if it wasn't for the pioneering experience from the space industry, not to mention numerous innovations that have come from the space program. I recall a while ago I found a link to a site on /. (Im sorry but I'm on a slow connection now and don't have the time to look it up now) that listed many of these innovations (I believe velcro may of been among them although I may be mistaken). Still it is important not to realize that advances must not be obvious to be important, it would be foolhardy to throw away so much future knowledge over anxieties over a downturn in the economic cycle. Right now the fields of research being explored by Nasa and increasingly by the international community are relatively new to are species are we still understand little of what we may learn to do, can we afford to risk trowing away so muchin the long run to ease short term suffering.
p.s. Sorry for the ramble;)
the sodium 21 was transmuted into magnesium 22, which decays into the radioactive isotope sodium 22
as opposed to remaining as magnesium 22. That being said this is still a huge breakthough. With the exception of hydrogren and helium all the elements in the universe are believe to have been formed in Novas or Supernovas. These researchers now has the ability to observe this process directly. Up till now all our knowledge on the subject in based on theories based observations of distant (super)Nova. Who knows the possible extensions of this technology? Transmutation of elements? Fission reactors? Not to mention the huge betterment of our understanding of these processes which will undoubtedly lead to new fields of research which may lead to other breakthroughs in themselves.
If you bothered to read/research my comment before responding you'd realize I wasn't complaining about being unable to use it under ME, I said in the post that it gave instructions! My point was the program gave me the impression that it could only work under Dos, an option that I believe is unavailable under Windows XP.
And starts a long history of going off and starting war while instating several military dictatorships. While Canada's ties to the monarchy are superficial and gives up membership in the commonwealth (we also didn't have to kill any one). By the way, remember the war of 1812;)
-Americans call themselves "Americans," as is their right.
Just don't do it anywhere else in the world if you don't want to get shot.
Although I support the efforts of the ISS and orbital research from what I've heard there is in fact not a lot of good research they can do in weightlessness. Personally I think it says something when you're accepting experiments from junior high schools to do in space that probably converts to thousands of dollars of time and resources on the part of the space agency. Does anyone know of useful research being conducted by astronauts (i.e. no Hubble or exploration vehicles) or that has been proposed?
I just downloaded Free BeOS on my Windows ME machine (don't worry I plan on installing Linux over christmas!) and when I tried to open it I got an interesting message which was basically BeOS does not run under windows, it runs under DOS, now ME doesn't support DOS but the program still gives instructions on how to run it out of DOS. With my machine I also have a free upgrade coupon to windows XP (hey I'm not actually giving them money and I don't think ANYTHING can be worse than ME), than something occurred to me, wasn't one of the changes with XP an elimination of DOS. Could this dumping of DOS also been an attempt to kill BeOS (and any other OS's who worked by running off of Dos instead of making the user get a new partition) or was it just a happy coincidence for Redmond?
Actually if you read the Scot Hacker acrticle the main reason for the demise of BeOS (not to mention the major hurdle right now that stands in the way of Linux catching on) is the fact that in MS's contract with vendors they do not allow them to sell a duel boot machine with windows. In other words Microsoft makes it illegal for you to walk into a computor store and buy a machine that allows you to load both Windows and Linux out of the box. If there is a more blatant example of monopolist practices out there someone please tell me. This is definatly an issue that /.ers should run with and try and draw some media attention to for it was in all likelyhood the cause of the demise of BeOS and might catch Linux if we're not careful too.
In Nasa terms several million isn't really all that much (which makes it slightly surprising why they cut off funding). Still I would argue that the extra costs could be fully accounted through saleries of personnel and cost of communicating with the craft. Ignoring the undoubtedly huge saleries many likely make there is also the possibility that they may need new hardware to communicate with the craft. I would assume that their existing hardware may be already allocated to other missions and they may not have the satellites available to communicate with the craft.
I think it is easy to rate this mission as a great success. If I recall correctly it used something like 9 new technologies including the ion drive and AI. Considering the fact that it continued for 2 years longer than it was designed for (and probably could have gone for longer if they'd gotten the additional funding) says great things about the advancements in space exploration and lends the possibility to deep space exploration on a level significantly higher than what we could previously achieve.
While these uses may be illegitimate this was not a concern for Sony. Sony only had an issue when these chips allowed users to play pirated game by allowing the consols to read CD-R's in addition import games.
For the most part collisions with space junk isn't quite as big a problem asd you'd think. The reason is in order to have a stable orbit at a certain altitude the object must have a certain velocity (which wold be the same for all other objects at that altidude) as a result the only time a near collision like this could happen is if the debris happens to have an intersecting orbit which is still extremely unlikely. Even in this case the debris would probably not have collided if it hadn't been moved, it was just a percautionary measure. Still does anyone know if there are plans for manouvering rockets on the completed ISS?
you would need 10 to 15 piezoelectric fans to achieve equivalent volume air flow.
I'm not sure of the size of these fans but I'd suspect you'd ned a lot more room in your case to accomodate 10-15 of them (probably making them impractical for laptops). Furthurmore given the fact that you wouldn't be able to place all of them in close proximity to the chip I also suspect you would need more than 10-15 to achieve the same airflow as a regular fan.
It seems to me that if we are going to find signs of life anywhere on Mars it would be in the ice caps. Spores have been known to survive thousands of years on earth, perhaps we could find some form of microbe still frozen in the ice that could even survive if thawed. It may even be possible for these life form to still thrive (Volcanic activity creating liquid water beneath the caps?). I believe Nasa should make it a priority to have their next surveyor gather samples of the ice for analysis.
you would need 10 to 15 piezoelectric fans to achieve equivalent volume air flow...
Of course, laptop manufacturers could buy in bulk (100+) easily at $39. $390 to $585 per fan, significantly less.
Just how big is your laptop?
The human's finally beat the machines once and for all with their deadly secret weapon... /. effect!
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While it would seem like a likely candidate for Atlantis I would wonder due to geographical location wether it would fit the profile. Given the fact that 4000 b.c would still be ancient history by Plato's time in order for him to have written of this city as Atlantis, ships from there would of had to been very well docemented in Greece. This means several would of had to reach Europe from Cuba. In order for ships to make this journey they must of had exceptional naval expertise in order to make this journey (not to mention a motive for sailing over what they probably thought was an empty ocean!) While this civilization was without a doubt expectionally advanced for it's time I find it unlikely that it would be Atlantis.
It's good to see Apple making a move to change to 15'' viewable. When iMacs first came out one of the reasons they took off so well is the 15'' monitor was standard. However 17'' is now standard and most consumers arn't happy with a small 15'' CRT screen. I think that either this move or changing to a 17'' CRT (although that would take away from much of the compact size which is likely why they haven't done it) is necessary to revitalize iMac sales.
Any one else see the irony in the multitude of posts telling people how to get back on line?
I can't see why so many people seem mad at MS. Don't you realize this is just another humanitarian effort of the part of the world's greatest philanthropist Bill Gates. MS is just trying to save people the pain of using an unstable, overpriced, insecure, banking system as well as stop the flow of open source application made by greedy, unscrupulous, devil worshipping, European communist infiltrators attempting to overthrow democracy through their subversive operating systems. If you think about it it is really your ethical duty to help stop the loss of freedom and support Microsoft's well intentioned attempts to improve (as if that were possible!) their software.
By the way DMCA rocks!!
(protect the right of song artists and support the RIAA, another well intentioned organization with only the intrests of song artists and music in heart!)
Could milions of trolls and Nimda spreaders be taken off line?"
It seems the editors spellchecker has already been taken off line.
I think one reason that companies may be reluctant to switch critical systems to open source is the possiblity of a group of crackers giving themselves a backdoor into their computers. Although I'm not familiar with the organization process of an open source project I would think that an unscrupulous person may involve themselves with the construction of the OS and may be able to create backdoors for them to use at a later timem, leaving the company with no one to blame.