Just because a company's revenue continues to grow doesn't mean that company's profit margin is a constant percentage... A multi-billion dollar corporation could very easily be making only five-hundred thousand in profit. Despite the size of the comany, adding another five hundred grand to their profit is still twice what they were making.
I'll attest to that. I once wanted to reinstall Windows on my Compaq Presario, but it took a while to make them understand when I told them that no, the base material that was on the HD was gone.
The whole point behind an SUV is that, under current regulations, it's classified as a light truck, and so doesn't have some of the environmental restrictions that come with sedans, etc.
This is different. In your case, the HD controller told the OS that 8GB was available, but the OS checked, and only 6GB were partitioned so as to be available.
Partitioning is different from internal capacity. For more info, see the warning linked to in the article.
I'm not so much thinking about orbital debris as I am about physical activities involving massive objects. Like assembling an interplanetary rocket you couldn't boost whole into space.
If you're going to start building large craft, you begin to run into all sorts of risks. Some of those risks can be mitigated by better (more expensive) construction. A light material that holds up well under constant pressure isn't going to be preferable to a heavier material that can take bangs and scrapes of low velocity, but high inerta.
And then there's the risk that human life will be lost. But the public is going to have to learn to live with that risk, if we're ever going to go anywhere with our species. I don't ever recall reading a SF novel in which those "in the know" regarded space travel as completely safe. Most of them compared the dangers to the risks faced by sefarers in the colonial days.
If they could pack any sort of optical imaging device, they'd have a blast. Broken ground is where you'll find all sorts of rock layers and other things of interest. Or not at all, and that'd still be interesting.
Just continously change your refresh rate. That'll cause trouble.
I imagine someone could build an intermediate framebuffer-like device that could take normal VGA input and continuously change the CRT's input signal. Just like playing with the X, Y and Z voltages on a osiloscope.
Also, interleaved modes.
The first method would require an old (or dirt cheap) display, though, because a lot of displays today try to do extra things. Also, you could try triple- and quad-interleaved modes.
I hope they set up some sort of GPS system, then. You're going to need to find out where you are after every dust storm.
Fortunately, it should be possible to do it with relatively few satellites. Just three, in fact, for a base system, if all are geosynchronous.
And the ball should have some means of getting itself out of a bowl. Maybe a high-RPM motor inside that runs off a large capacitor to give a sudden burst of torque.
It doesn't matter that it'll take a long time to fill the geosynchronous circle.
If you take care of the dead/useless satellites now, it'll be a lot easier and cheaper than it would be to take care of the problem when it starts really getting crowded up there.
I can see this as easily being banned in buildings with sensitive material, like military schools, and certainly business meatings and production floors.
I only really see this being useful for teenagers and people whose companies don't depend on secrecy at their level.
Orson Scott Card talked about something similar in The Worthing Saga. Instead of two-hour movies, people would watch a continuous section of a person't life. Except the recording device captured the whole area, and was strapped to the star's leg.
I had a class in high school called "Global Issues"... I hated it. It made me aware of things I didn't want to know about, like female circumcision, Waco, Ruby Ridge, anti-abortion violence and domestic terrorism. And we watched "Arlington Road" (which really disturbed me.)
And the teacher seemed to me to be an obsessive conspiracy theorist.
But when I have kids, I'll make sure they take that class. It opened my eyes to a lot of stuff that I used to change the channel on.
This was at Grandville High School, if anyone cares. Call your local school district and tell them you want them to adopt a class like it.
Don't thank NASA, thank the corporations that find it cheaper to leave their dead satellites in orbit rather than pay to have them de-orbited. And the federal government for not passing a law that dead US satellites had to be deorbited.
What we need is some numbers as to how much cheap space is really left up there, and point out to congress that once it's gone, the economy will have lost a boosting factor.
Unfortunately, the ISS wasn't built to handle stress from collision. Even a docking-gone-bad caused a leak. Imagine what a direct collision on the side would cause.
We've got a long ways to go before we can afford to build the kind of strength we need into space platforms.
I dunno, personally I'd consider both of them high--many local exploits can be exploited remotely as well via buffer overflows and the like.
Not only that, but as root, you can be anyone on the system. And you have access to everyone's private keys that they have on the system.
Do any of the users have key-based authentication to get into other boxes on your system? Guess what: You better consider those boxes compromised as well.
I guess that's why I like the idea of SELinux. Different domains can prevent someone with even root access from messing with your logs. Much less your libraries.
Well, the old DOS trackers would take advantage of the GUS cards by loading the samples into the wavetable memory. I'm hoping there's a linux player out there that'll do the same thing with my emu10k1 chipset on my SB Live.
On the other hand, it'd be neat if there was a virtual fs utility that'd let general userspace applications access the samples. Kinda like sysfs.
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Just because a company's revenue continues to grow doesn't mean that company's profit margin is a constant percentage... A multi-billion dollar corporation could very easily be making only five-hundred thousand in profit. Despite the size of the comany, adding another five hundred grand to their profit is still twice what they were making.
I'll attest to that. I once wanted to reinstall Windows on my Compaq Presario, but it took a while to make them understand when I told them that no, the base material that was on the HD was gone.
The whole point behind an SUV is that, under current regulations, it's classified as a light truck, and so doesn't have some of the environmental restrictions that come with sedans, etc.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a virus that actually infects cable modems
I'd be pleased, actually. Since the lack of a monoculture could demonstrably reduce the damage.
That would require a show of skill beyond what a lot of virus writers have been showing. Of course, once one example exists, there will be knockoffs.
Installing a kernel over ssh? Sounds like a short-story thriller waiting to happen. :)
So write them back with that information and ask them how it's outside of their jurisdiction.
Perhaps they have to wait until they hear what the SEC has to say about MS paying off SCO.
This is different. In your case, the HD controller told the OS that 8GB was available, but the OS checked, and only 6GB were partitioned so as to be available.
Partitioning is different from internal capacity. For more info, see the warning linked to in the article.
If you run Windows, all you'd need is the power from the escape key...
I'm not so much thinking about orbital debris as I am about physical activities involving massive objects. Like assembling an interplanetary rocket you couldn't boost whole into space.
If you're going to start building large craft, you begin to run into all sorts of risks. Some of those risks can be mitigated by better (more expensive) construction. A light material that holds up well under constant pressure isn't going to be preferable to a heavier material that can take bangs and scrapes of low velocity, but high inerta.
And then there's the risk that human life will be lost. But the public is going to have to learn to live with that risk, if we're ever going to go anywhere with our species. I don't ever recall reading a SF novel in which those "in the know" regarded space travel as completely safe. Most of them compared the dangers to the risks faced by sefarers in the colonial days.
If they could pack any sort of optical imaging device, they'd have a blast. Broken ground is where you'll find all sorts of rock layers and other things of interest. Or not at all, and that'd still be interesting.
:)
Oh, the joys of exploring.
Just continously change your refresh rate. That'll cause trouble.
I imagine someone could build an intermediate framebuffer-like device that could take normal VGA input and continuously change the CRT's input signal. Just like playing with the X, Y and Z voltages on a osiloscope.
Also, interleaved modes.
The first method would require an old (or dirt cheap) display, though, because a lot of displays today try to do extra things. Also, you could try triple- and quad-interleaved modes.
They've been working on UAV probes for Mars for a while.
I remember reading (on Slashdot) about both blimps and about solar powered gliders.
However, decreasing the overall density with a light gas would certainly allow the rover to move quicker and risk getting stuck in fewer places.
You wouldn't need direct recording. I imagine a notarized logbook of what is seen by human eyes is good enough in a court of law.
I hope they set up some sort of GPS system, then. You're going to need to find out where you are after every dust storm.
Fortunately, it should be possible to do it with relatively few satellites. Just three, in fact, for a base system, if all are geosynchronous.
And the ball should have some means of getting itself out of a bowl. Maybe a high-RPM motor inside that runs off a large capacitor to give a sudden burst of torque.
I didn't say they were unlikely to make money. The teenage market succumbs to fads frequently. Possibly to the point of being gullible.
It doesn't matter that it'll take a long time to fill the geosynchronous circle.
If you take care of the dead/useless satellites now, it'll be a lot easier and cheaper than it would be to take care of the problem when it starts really getting crowded up there.
I can see this as easily being banned in buildings with sensitive material, like military schools, and certainly business meatings and production floors.
I only really see this being useful for teenagers and people whose companies don't depend on secrecy at their level.
Orson Scott Card talked about something similar in The Worthing Saga. Instead of two-hour movies, people would watch a continuous section of a person't life. Except the recording device captured the whole area, and was strapped to the star's leg.
I had a class in high school called "Global Issues" ... I hated it. It made me aware of things I didn't want to know about, like female circumcision, Waco, Ruby Ridge, anti-abortion violence and domestic terrorism. And we watched "Arlington Road" (which really disturbed me.)
And the teacher seemed to me to be an obsessive conspiracy theorist.
But when I have kids, I'll make sure they take that class. It opened my eyes to a lot of stuff that I used to change the channel on.
This was at Grandville High School, if anyone cares. Call your local school district and tell them you want them to adopt a class like it.
Don't thank NASA, thank the corporations that find it cheaper to leave their dead satellites in orbit rather than pay to have them de-orbited. And the federal government for not passing a law that dead US satellites had to be deorbited.
What we need is some numbers as to how much cheap space is really left up there, and point out to congress that once it's gone, the economy will have lost a boosting factor.
Unfortunately, the ISS wasn't built to handle stress from collision. Even a docking-gone-bad caused a leak. Imagine what a direct collision on the side would cause.
We've got a long ways to go before we can afford to build the kind of strength we need into space platforms.
I dunno, personally I'd consider both of them high--many local exploits can be exploited remotely as well via buffer overflows and the like.
Not only that, but as root, you can be anyone on the system. And you have access to everyone's private keys that they have on the system.
Do any of the users have key-based authentication to get into other boxes on your system? Guess what: You better consider those boxes compromised as well.
I guess that's why I like the idea of SELinux. Different domains can prevent someone with even root access from messing with your logs. Much less your libraries.
The insinuation is that it's not good to be smug about running Windows. But mentioning that directly gets you modded as a troll.
Well, the old DOS trackers would take advantage of the GUS cards by loading the samples into the wavetable memory. I'm hoping there's a linux player out there that'll do the same thing with my emu10k1 chipset on my SB Live.
On the other hand, it'd be neat if there was a virtual fs utility that'd let general userspace applications access the samples. Kinda like sysfs.