Geosynchronous means that if the sattelites TRULY are geosynchronous, then they'd NEVER collide, because they're (relative to earth) not moving and would never share a path.
do these sattelites ONLY orbit at the equator, though? I mean, if a sattelite is orbiting over, say, argentina, it would be travelling over a smaller "orbit" than a sattelite travelling over southern Mexico.
If they DO orbit only over the equator, then the math would be one dimensional, as you say, otherwise, my two dimensional (orbital plane) math is correct.. I think. (-: I'm a web developer. My math skills have been largely unused since school. (-:
Geosynchronous Sattelite orbit is approx. 35,000km above earth's surface.
The earth's radius is at the surface ~6400 km.
So, the surface area (s) of of a GS sattelite's orbital plane would be:
s = 4(pi)(radius)^2
s = 4(3.14159)(35000 + 6400)^2
s = 4(3.14159)(41400)^2
s = 4(3.14159)(1713960000)
s = 21538238385.6
~21 _billion_ square kilometers is a whole lotta sky to plug up. AND, that's assuming that all GS sattelites travel on the same orbital plane.
BUT, assuming it's a plane, we have to worry about sattelites orbital paths intersecting at a time when both sattelites are at the intersection points of their orbits.
I'm sure that sattelite collisions are MUCH more more of a problem than "crowding the skies with junk".
Our Canadian laws are often directly influenced by lawmakers south of the border. Just because you can't vote for him doesn't mean that you can't encourage him.
Since when did Blizzard own all rights to the word "diablo"?
Well, according this entry in TESS, since Dec. 26, 2000, officially and possibly as early as April 26, 1996.
Also note the clause:
IC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: ENTERTAINMENT IN THE NATURE OF AN ONGOING TELEVISION PROGRAM IN THE NATURE OF ACTION ADVENTURE FANTASY, AND PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF MOTION PICTURES
It looks like they DO in fact own the rights to make movies called Diablo, and they're certainly allowed to try anyone else who moves in on their territory..
IANAL though.
There's a guy- I don't know if you've heard about this guy, he's been on the news a lot lately. There's a guy- he's English, I don't think we should hold that against him, but apparently this is just his life's dream because he is going from country to country. He has a senate hearing in this country coming up in a couple of weeks. And this is what he wants to do. He wants to make the warnings on the packs bigger. Yeah! He wants the whole front of the pack to be the warning. Like the problem is we just haven't noticed yet. Right? Like he's going to get his way and all of the sudden smokers around the world are going to be going, "Yeah, Bill, I've got some cigarettes.. HOLY SHIT! These things are bad for you! Shit, I thought they were good for you! I thought they had Vitamin C in them and stuff!" You fucking dolt! Doesn't matter how big the warnings are.
Same idea. (-:
No matter how big the banners are, they're still going to (eventually) become transparent to most webusers.
It's often not simple to find out what email address belongs to specific IPs, though.
I've actually used an open print-share to print a message like "You're sharing your printer to the world. This can be fixed by right-clicking on your printer and selecting 'sharing', then assigning a password. If you need help, please feel free to email me at........."
But then they just get scared and think I'm some cracker. People don't listen until someone gets hurt.
I'm not trying to be elitist about this, but look, for example at the DDoS stuff a year or so ago. Nobody cared that it was possible, until it hurt a bunch of dotcoms, then there were all kinds of outcries, and now the problem has died, and nobody cares now. Even though DDoS is still very possible.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it."
-Kay, Men In Black, 1997
you wouldn't believe the number of @home users who have a share called "C" which is read/write access to their whole hard drive, not just the mp3s, shared over SMB, publicly.
Or maybe you would..
Is this a default when you run the @home install CD or something?
But my confusion about insert cables is that they only have 3 connectors, and I didn't think it was possible to share ground between two separate (send, return) AC signals.
Most of my electrical/electronic theory stuffs is DC based..
First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me -- and by that time no one was left to speak up.
Like the cheesy insecure bookmarkable login URL that Slash uses for example (which is just your name and password plain text in the URL which you should never use unless you're on acid, lazy, and/or realize that losing your slashdot user account will in no way affect your life because you are not a moron and use a unique password so bring on the packet sniffers;)
Uh, no offence CT, but everytime anyone logs into slash, even though the regular POST based login form, their username and password are transmitted in plaintext to the slashdot server (since https://slashdot.org doesn't seem to exist) The URL isn't any more insecure in this respect. I haven't looked at the cookie implementation, but I'd guess that your username and password are transmitted with that, too, making your login info sniffable every time you view any.slashdot.org page.
IMHO, especially when it comes to the web, the best designers wouldn't make good programmers and the best programmers wouldn't make good designers.
BUT it's important for the programmers to know how the design process works, in order to accomodate the design. It's equally important for the designers to know, basically, how the programming infrastructure (in my case, HTML tables, CSS, and limits) works.
I'm a good programmer. But not such a great designer. And I've worked with great designers who couldn't code a line if they copied and pasted it out of the help file, but they know HOW it worked.
You have to make sure you match up your new LED's with the old LED's polarity, otherwise it will not work. We have tested to see if putting the LED in backwards will ruin your mouse. With our mouse, it did not hurt it at all.
I gotta wonder.
LED: Light Emitting DIODE.
Diode. Of COURSE putting it in backwards isn't going to HURT. It's just going to break the light circuit, and not emit any light.
The way I see it: if you need to be told not to put a diode in backwards, you shouldn't be soldering your mouse.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm dumb.
Geosynchronous means that if the sattelites TRULY are geosynchronous, then they'd NEVER collide, because they're (relative to earth) not moving and would never share a path.
do these sattelites ONLY orbit at the equator, though? I mean, if a sattelite is orbiting over, say, argentina, it would be travelling over a smaller "orbit" than a sattelite travelling over southern Mexico.
If they DO orbit only over the equator, then the math would be one dimensional, as you say, otherwise, my two dimensional (orbital plane) math is correct.. I think. (-: I'm a web developer. My math skills have been largely unused since school. (-:
[these numbers could be wrong... fair warning]
Geosynchronous Sattelite orbit is approx. 35,000km above earth's surface.
The earth's radius is at the surface ~6400 km.
So, the surface area (s) of of a GS sattelite's orbital plane would be:
s = 4(pi)(radius)^2
s = 4(3.14159)(35000 + 6400)^2
s = 4(3.14159)(41400)^2
s = 4(3.14159)(1713960000)
s = 21538238385.6
~21 _billion_ square kilometers is a whole lotta sky to plug up. AND, that's assuming that all GS sattelites travel on the same orbital plane.
BUT, assuming it's a plane, we have to worry about sattelites orbital paths intersecting at a time when both sattelites are at the intersection points of their orbits.
I'm sure that sattelite collisions are MUCH more more of a problem than "crowding the skies with junk".
adhesives..
oh right.. 3Com.. I keep getting them mixed up with 3M.
(-:
T&A factor aside, I thought Coyote Ugly was a decent movie, with a good story.
*looks out the window*
yup. Matrox _IS_ still here.
not only if you're from the US.
Our Canadian laws are often directly influenced by lawmakers south of the border. Just because you can't vote for him doesn't mean that you can't encourage him.
I've used the DC30+, and I'm assuming the DC10+ is similar, extensively, and you are indeed correct. It uses MJPEG and not true MPEG.
MJPEG is hardly comparable to MPEG.
Although, it might work for this specific application..
Well, according this entry in TESS, since Dec. 26, 2000, officially and possibly as early as April 26, 1996.
Also note the clause:
It looks like they DO in fact own the rights to make movies called Diablo, and they're certainly allowed to try anyone else who moves in on their territory..
IANAL though.
Same idea. (-:
No matter how big the banners are, they're still going to (eventually) become transparent to most webusers.
I knew someone would post this analogy, and it's just not applicable.
Sally had to ACTIVELY set up this share in windows.
NOT putting up a fence is passive.
Not even the same ballpark.
I have.
........."
It's often not simple to find out what email address belongs to specific IPs, though.
I've actually used an open print-share to print a message like "You're sharing your printer to the world. This can be fixed by right-clicking on your printer and selecting 'sharing', then assigning a password. If you need help, please feel free to email me at
But then they just get scared and think I'm some cracker. People don't listen until someone gets hurt.
I'm not trying to be elitist about this, but look, for example at the DDoS stuff a year or so ago. Nobody cared that it was possible, until it hurt a bunch of dotcoms, then there were all kinds of outcries, and now the problem has died, and nobody cares now. Even though DDoS is still very possible.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it."
-Kay, Men In Black, 1997
I tend to agree fully. (-:
it's (un)common sense.
If I set up a share for my friend accross the country to use, and don't set a password, it's OBVIOUS that anybody else can use this share.
Survival of the fittest. If someone is that dumb, they deserve to get their precious bandwidth wasted.
I can defend Bob and Joe trading MP3s, but if they do it via Sally's open share (and grab some of her files too), that's a totally different thing.
I disagree. What if 'Sally' was running an anonymous FTP server, would it be any different?
No.
If 'Sally' didn't want anyone and everyone using her read/write share, she shouldn't have left it wide open. It's that simple.
you wouldn't believe the number of @home users who have a share called "C" which is read/write access to their whole hard drive, not just the mp3s, shared over SMB, publicly.
Or maybe you would..
Is this a default when you run the @home install CD or something?
AC is ALTERNATING current, not 'ascending'.
But my confusion about insert cables is that they only have 3 connectors, and I didn't think it was possible to share ground between two separate (send, return) AC signals.
Most of my electrical/electronic theory stuffs is DC based..
I suspect that rental chains will be unaccepting of this new technology.
Blockbuster makes a full night's rental from me every time I forget to take a movie back on time.
They could never collect late fees if this technology was used, which, I suspect, would hurt their income, significantly.
audio is AC? I didn't think so.
Are you sure about this? I don't mean to undermine, but do you have a link? I'd like to read about it.
All bunch of questions popped into my head when reading this, like how does a Tip Ring Sleeve insert cable work, if the audio signal as AC? hmmm.
S
figures.. htm
http://chic.com.tw/mice/MBOT/OPTICAL/all-opt-mice
I looked before posting, I swear. (-:
got a link to this? I'd like to check it out.. 8 hours every 3 days isn't much. I'm sleeping for at least that much (-:
Use 'Y' adaptors to split one signal into many, not to combine many into one.
I agree. You're effectively feeding the output of one card into the OUTPUT of another card if you use these things this way. Which could be bad.
Unless you put diodes in line from the sound card to the Y, but I think you're better off buying a cheap (<$200) 4 or 8 channel audio mixer.
an optical wireless mouse. I suspect they're not made because the batteries would die too fast.
However, I wouldn't mind dropping my mouse on a charger at night to restore battery power, à la wireless phone. I should patent the idea (-:
kidding.
Like the cheesy insecure bookmarkable login URL that Slash uses for example (which is just your name and password plain text in the URL which you should never use unless you're on acid, lazy, and/or realize that losing your slashdot user account will in no way affect your life because you are not a moron and use a unique password so bring on the packet sniffers ;)
.slashdot.org page.
Uh, no offence CT, but everytime anyone logs into slash, even though the regular POST based login form, their username and password are transmitted in plaintext to the slashdot server (since https://slashdot.org doesn't seem to exist) The URL isn't any more insecure in this respect. I haven't looked at the cookie implementation, but I'd guess that your username and password are transmitted with that, too, making your login info sniffable every time you view any
IMHO, especially when it comes to the web, the best designers wouldn't make good programmers and the best programmers wouldn't make good designers.
BUT it's important for the programmers to know how the design process works, in order to accomodate the design. It's equally important for the designers to know, basically, how the programming infrastructure (in my case, HTML tables, CSS, and limits) works.
I'm a good programmer. But not such a great designer. And I've worked with great designers who couldn't code a line if they copied and pasted it out of the help file, but they know HOW it worked.
I gotta wonder.
LED: Light Emitting DIODE.
Diode. Of COURSE putting it in backwards isn't going to HURT. It's just going to break the light circuit, and not emit any light.
The way I see it: if you need to be told not to put a diode in backwards, you shouldn't be soldering your mouse.