Why tax? The Russans have figured it out while NASA brass have draget their feet on this one.
Start haulling tourist! Those guys are getting 20 million a pop! Pluse they get free work when the guy gets up there.
If you are going anyway why not haull a paying person! Nasa is thinking of starting the Teacher In Space program again. Why? Start haulling paying people instead.
Also NASA need to work out cheeper ways to LEO. Once that is done, as the saying goes, you are half way to anywhere. The suttle is basically 60-70 tech even though it has been upgraded they need a cheeper and better way up there. There are way too many parts that break or take forever to fix or even get at.
With paying people then you could finish the station and really make it a place not a hope.
Actualy I remember watching both those years they races. The engine were waxing the compition and had the others really scared! They had put a lot of restriction to stop it and did for the third year. The problem was the std drive train parts just could not take the strain.
The last year they races, it pop something in the drive train feeding power to the wheels. The motor was ok. Somthing about a 10 dollar part I think. The races designed for both years had four wheel drive while the other gas powered races were only 2 wheel drive. Mad it more complex. It almost won but broke down some where near 5 to 10 laps to the checker flag.
After that indi racing, around the early 1970ths, the had a race from cost to coast for alternative powered cars. I think it was MIT that built a Turbine/Electric full size truck. How about a electric truck that could leave burnning rubber at 80 mph! They had a picture of it in either Popular Science or Popular Mechanics.
Most of the off shore power boats have switch from Spitfire to turbine engines and do very well.
Instead of a gas engine use a small constly running turbine. Its ideal for this setup. Use direct drive wheels like in the recent PS mag with a super capactor as a buffer between the turbine and the drive motors. Simple less parts and weight.
Hydrogen is a medium to transport energy that is renuable and used in certain ways much more effecent than a clem cell. It is not an energy source. And need a way to make it that is cheep and easy to do.
There are a ton's of very inefficient device that put a load on the power grid that even if the hydrogen FC was only 10~15% would save a ton of energy and time. Charging a clem cell is inefficient, non renuable and are reaching there limits on energy densenty.
For example look at the latest Honda ad. It show a { real } robot going outside. It has a life of around 30 minutes and not effency due to its limited battries. If they had a power source with more KW per pound would be a boost to it.
Look at some of the camera. If they use AA cells the recharging one are getting up to 2amp! Very dangerious if you short them out. And they are getting near how much max energy you can squeeze in a certain size add up to a major problem shortly for portable electric devices. A small FC would allow quick recharge and long running time.
Ok I just want the bot that can run for a day of work.;)
Yes it takes a lot of pull so I could see if you utilize a black hole to move the beam but then the BH would distort both time and the CD to the point of makeing the whole thing usless.
About ten to 15 years a go, Byte mag had an article on a pice of silicon that could switch light around. This was at the time that creating a head to move fast was though to be hard and nothing over 4x could be accomplished.
The problem is that they need to drop the one long track and go with a mutiple track concept like a HD. The standard has it dating back to the orgin of CD but I think some concept of stationary media and opticle scanning will proabbly win out. The delay time for getting it spun and access is the big kicker right now.
Wonder when the quantium concept will replace this stuped idea. By having two particles tangles and by changing one it affect the other then you have one heck of a radio! This is an effect that has been proven.
In effect a direct connection that is not a direct connection. It turns into basic net tech without the noize and mess that UWB will create.
The only way UWB will work is dump the current stuff ( all radios from 60hz through microwave ) and make everthing, communication, data whatever switch over completly. Hum. Wonder if using Teslar thinking these devices could live off of the noize generated by other devices? Self powered devices you cant switch off?
Yes they do. The few time I was at a hamfest that demo it, it took a special FCC temp license to run the station. And they did not run it long.
Back in the old days ( 1960~ 1980 ) when car ignition were not shielded and mechanical you had a dickens of a time trying to shield the system so you could use a radio. Knew every braded supply place in 40 mile rage to build shielding for it.
Hum. Some where I still have a 1969 Japanes Imae Corvet car with a spark gap generator as the transmiter for the car. No battries needed for the transmiter. Simular to a one button afare with Go-Left-Right-Stop sequency. It did work.
Yes the studies show you must dream and it also remove the toxins that build up { yes the mind engine does polute! } or you go mad. The study was done in the early 60 or 70th I think. The mind must have some time to sort thing out and clean up the mess.
Remember a Superman comic that had this as the main plot point.
Best to get short naps on a project then burn your way through it.
Yes coffee is nice but the direct beans chewing is better and a person can carry a pocket full. Also SoBe and B3 are good but cost a lot! Wish Jolt was more avaiable.
If all else fail's then electro-shock and toothpick will work.;)
Same here esp when I found out you must let the whole thing sit for 30 seconds before moving it after power down. Sheech! Can see wate but 30 seconds? Have not needed to do that on any drive since the 100mb hd.
Big or little would not sick them on anyone. Below spects and basicaly junk.
I know. Try to get info on basic stuff is tough. But try for MP3 decoder chips esp those based on DSP stuff and hope you have some spare cash like around that amount you mention.
Miss the days of Heathkit.:( Built 810 monitor scopes, rigs etc from them.
One main problem is getting the part then making a board that can take it. A R&D place can write off dead ends but hard for hobbist.
Except for Circuit Cellar Ink have stop the others since they are basical borning simple articles. Not like the old days.
I agree. Whitebox computer are much better since the componets are generic and can be switch in and out.
I built my first computer, a SWTP products 6800 based unit. Took about 1 month of sticking parts on boards etc. Even built one from parts with my own design and layout using a RCA 1802, video chip and 1k { 1024 byts! } of memory. Was fun!
Would never buy a prebuilt. Have had to fix those and most are pure junk inside. Esp the HP units.
I do remember magnetic bubble memory. I cant remember if it was Fuji or TI that released it but the cost was gigantic and limited to like 2048 bits or somthing like that. Baicaly died when cmos memory went blastic in size per cost. Also it had quite a few suport chips to get it working.
Oops yep the book. The story goes { could be wrong } that the produces of the film want a "Bug battle" movie. But could not quite get it to work { still dident in the end. } Desided to use Startship Trooper for the framework and that they could get the fund's to do it if they used the name. They droped the battle suits { bad idea } and most of the life as a grunt story. Pop in a lot of bugs and dumb relationships. And out pops a real stinker of a movie.
Typical Hollywood thinking. Hollywood just cant get the concept of scifi! It escape there little limited minds. And this next hack will not be any difference I am sorry to say.
Saw this a few years ago. There is also MediaOne and a few others.
The main difference between these units and TIVO/Replay is the guide that drive the units. The other is just string the hardware with software glue to drive it. Its a greate step for a open source program but the hardware is Europe based minus a guide.
The real problem is there is nothing worthwhile on tv anymore. Except for the SciFi channel and Enterprise the rest is either reusing ideas and scripts dating back to the mid fifties!
Between TVguide.com and Zap2it.com could substute but the self maintaining of TIVO/Replay still make it a better deal. Esp with twin 128mb HD!
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PC are really dirty wide band noize devices. Have seen spectrium display in getting FCC class B tickets for computer would scare the heck out of anyone. The Birdies generate are a nightmare to supress. That is why you wont find AM Broadcast band PC cards. The 1-30mhz receivers are usualy outside controled by RS232 etc. There are a few that fit inside but have a lot of receive holes.
There is TenTec
http://www.tentec.com/rx350.htm } and Icom that have computer controled receivers that have spectrium display. The TenTech has its own display and the Icon uses the computer screen.
Heck I had fits keeping the noize from digital frequency counter and synth units from impacting the receivers.
I hope the ability for the hobiest to play around with circurity dont dissapear but trying to wire up some of this SMT stuff is getting a bit fun to do along with just getting the parts!
I agree on the OLED! Esp since it looks like they can "print" them on any plasic surface. Problem is water will wreck if not sealed. Some car radio displays have them. There is also a flat pannel tech that is based off of small pointed emitters that has self generated brilance and cheep. Was in MaximumPC about 3 months back I think.
LCD are nice but feels like a tech being push hard against its limits to do the task.
From the inside trade journels I have seen over the last few years basicaly state. Joe sixpack is not buying it. There is way too much in option setups etc for even the best sales person to convince Joe to buy.
Also in the last few months was stated that the FCC was retinking the whole mess due to the time table being completly out of wack.
Good idea but that only for CD-R & RW. Standard pressed CD are stuck between a top and bottom layer of plastic. IE the data is in the middle. Both sides are tested with the least amount of data error being the side left and the "bad" side gets silk screen.
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Why tax? The Russans have figured it out while NASA brass have draget their feet on this one.
Start haulling tourist! Those guys are getting 20 million a pop! Pluse they get free work when the guy gets up there.
If you are going anyway why not haull a paying person! Nasa is thinking of starting the Teacher In Space program again. Why? Start haulling paying people instead.
Also NASA need to work out cheeper ways to LEO. Once that is done, as the saying goes, you are half way to anywhere. The suttle is basically 60-70 tech even though it has been upgraded they need a cheeper and better way up there. There are way too many parts that break or take forever to fix or even get at.
With paying people then you could finish the station and really make it a place not a hope.
Photoshop I agree but Premiere?
Is there somthing like Premiere { that does not shread a OS }in Linux?
Since the X file have been dying these past few years might as well kill off what is still good!
Actualy I remember watching both those years they races. The engine were waxing the compition and had the others really scared! They had put a lot of restriction to stop it and did for the third year. The problem was the std drive train parts just could not take the strain.
The last year they races, it pop something in the drive train feeding power to the wheels. The motor was ok. Somthing about a 10 dollar part I think. The races designed for both years had four wheel drive while the other gas powered races were only 2 wheel drive. Mad it more complex. It almost won but broke down some where near 5 to 10 laps to the checker flag.
After that indi racing, around the early 1970ths, the had a race from cost to coast for alternative powered cars. I think it was MIT that built a Turbine/Electric full size truck. How about a electric truck that could leave burnning rubber at 80 mph! They had a picture of it in either Popular Science or Popular Mechanics.
Most of the off shore power boats have switch from Spitfire to turbine engines and do very well.
Instead of a gas engine use a small constly running turbine. Its ideal for this setup. Use direct drive wheels like in the recent PS mag with a super capactor as a buffer between the turbine and the drive motors. Simple less parts and weight.
Hydrogen is a medium to transport energy that is renuable and used in certain ways much more effecent than a clem cell. It is not an energy source. And need a way to make it that is cheep and easy to do.
;)
There are a ton's of very inefficient device that put a load on the power grid that even if the hydrogen FC was only 10~15% would save a ton of energy and time. Charging a clem cell is inefficient, non renuable and are reaching there limits on energy densenty.
For example look at the latest Honda ad. It show a { real } robot going outside. It has a life of around 30 minutes and not effency due to its limited battries. If they had a power source with more KW per pound would be a boost to it.
Look at some of the camera. If they use AA cells the recharging one are getting up to 2amp! Very dangerious if you short them out. And they are getting near how much max energy you can squeeze in a certain size add up to a major problem shortly for portable electric devices. A small FC would allow quick recharge and long running time.
Ok I just want the bot that can run for a day of work.
Yes it takes a lot of pull so I could see if you utilize a black hole to move the beam but then the BH would distort both time and the CD to the point of makeing the whole thing usless.
About ten to 15 years a go, Byte mag had an article on a pice of silicon that could switch light around. This was at the time that creating a head to move fast was though to be hard and nothing over 4x could be accomplished.
The problem is that they need to drop the one long track and go with a mutiple track concept like a HD. The standard has it dating back to the orgin of CD but I think some concept of stationary media and opticle scanning will proabbly win out. The delay time for getting it spun and access is the big kicker right now.
Wonder when the quantium concept will replace this stuped idea. By having two particles tangles and by changing one it affect the other then you have one heck of a radio! This is an effect that has been proven. In effect a direct connection that is not a direct connection. It turns into basic net tech without the noize and mess that UWB will create. The only way UWB will work is dump the current stuff ( all radios from 60hz through microwave ) and make everthing, communication, data whatever switch over completly. Hum. Wonder if using Teslar thinking these devices could live off of the noize generated by other devices? Self powered devices you cant switch off?
Yes they do. The few time I was at a hamfest that demo it, it took a special FCC temp license to run the station. And they did not run it long.
;)
Back in the old days ( 1960~ 1980 ) when car ignition were not shielded and mechanical you had a dickens of a time trying to shield the system so you could use a radio. Knew every braded supply place in 40 mile rage to build shielding for it.
Hum. Some where I still have a 1969 Japanes Imae Corvet car with a spark gap generator as the transmiter for the car. No battries needed for the transmiter. Simular to a one button afare with Go-Left-Right-Stop sequency. It did work.
We basicaly have these now. They are called PC.
Yes the studies show you must dream and it also remove the toxins that build up { yes the mind engine does polute! } or you go mad. The study was done in the early 60 or 70th I think. The mind must have some time to sort thing out and clean up the mess.
Remember a Superman comic that had this as the main plot point.
Best to get short naps on a project then burn your way through it.
Hum.
;)
Yes coffee is nice but the direct beans chewing is better and a person can carry a pocket full. Also SoBe and B3 are good but cost a lot! Wish Jolt was more avaiable.
If all else fail's then electro-shock and toothpick will work.
Same here esp when I found out you must let the whole thing sit for 30 seconds before moving it after power down. Sheech! Can see wate but 30 seconds? Have not needed to do that on any drive since the 100mb hd.
Big or little would not sick them on anyone. Below spects and basicaly junk.
I know. Try to get info on basic stuff is tough. But try for MP3 decoder chips esp those based on DSP stuff and hope you have some spare cash like around that amount you mention.
:( Built 810 monitor scopes, rigs etc from them.
Miss the days of Heathkit.
One main problem is getting the part then making a board that can take it. A R&D place can write off dead ends but hard for hobbist.
Except for Circuit Cellar Ink have stop the others since they are basical borning simple articles. Not like the old days.
I agree. Whitebox computer are much better since the componets are generic and can be switch in and out.
:)
I built my first computer, a SWTP products 6800 based unit. Took about 1 month of sticking parts on boards etc. Even built one from parts with my own design and layout using a RCA 1802, video chip and 1k { 1024 byts! } of memory. Was fun!
Would never buy a prebuilt. Have had to fix those and most are pure junk inside. Esp the HP units.
PS: Thos same computer still fire up and work!
A Ham ticket is still fun! :)
Its not too hard to get parts even in small quanity and there are the local ham swapmeets.
You dont need the super fancy equipment. Even old tube rig can be got for cheep prices and with some cleanup can be use again.
Good use for the tech you need to get a ticket.
I do remember magnetic bubble memory. I cant remember if it was Fuji or TI that released it but the cost was gigantic and limited to like 2048 bits or somthing like that. Baicaly died when cmos memory went blastic in size per cost. Also it had quite a few suport chips to get it working.
1) Basicaly a Transistor is a variable resistor.
2) Before Cmos and TTL ther was RTL logic. (Resistor Transistor Logic).
Oops yep the book. The story goes { could be wrong } that the produces of the film want a "Bug battle" movie. But could not quite get it to work { still dident in the end. } Desided to use Startship Trooper for the framework and that they could get the fund's to do it if they used the name. They droped the battle suits { bad idea } and most of the life as a grunt story. Pop in a lot of bugs and dumb relationships. And out pops a real stinker of a movie.
Typical Hollywood thinking. Hollywood just cant get the concept of scifi! It escape there little limited minds. And this next hack will not be any difference I am sorry to say.
Since thay cant create they "Copy" aka "Remake" it. Holywood is basicaly bankrupt in the idea department.
;)
Even when they have an orginal ideas the muck it up. Look at Starship Trooper. Good story horrible movie. Just had too mant bugs in it.
This is a bad thing. The odds are it will be Akria in name only unless they change that also!
Ok its code name Longhorn... There is Gateway that uses a cow for a logo. Combind the two and you have a scarry though!
The best new feature are those that work!
Actualy TIVo is basicaly a 75mhz PowerPC CPU with 8mb of ram { 4 of it for video } and running Linux. Funny huh! :)
Good showing for Linux!
Saw this a few years ago. There is also MediaOne and a few others.
The main difference between these units and TIVO/Replay is the guide that drive the units. The other is just string the hardware with software glue to drive it. Its a greate step for a open source program but the hardware is Europe based minus a guide.
The real problem is there is nothing worthwhile on tv anymore. Except for the SciFi channel and Enterprise the rest is either reusing ideas and scripts dating back to the mid fifties!
Between TVguide.com and Zap2it.com could substute but the self maintaining of TIVO/Replay still make it a better deal. Esp with twin 128mb HD!
PC are really dirty wide band noize devices. Have seen spectrium display in getting FCC class B tickets for computer would scare the heck out of anyone. The Birdies generate are a nightmare to supress. That is why you wont find AM Broadcast band PC cards. The 1-30mhz receivers are usualy outside controled by RS232 etc. There are a few that fit inside but have a lot of receive holes.
There is TenTec
http://www.tentec.com/rx350.htm }
and Icom that have computer controled receivers that have spectrium display. The TenTech has its own display and the Icon uses the computer screen.
Heck I had fits keeping the noize from digital frequency counter and synth units from impacting the receivers.
I hope the ability for the hobiest to play around with circurity dont dissapear but trying to wire up some of this SMT stuff is getting a bit fun to do along with just getting the parts!
I agree on the OLED! Esp since it looks like they can "print" them on any plasic surface. Problem is water will wreck if not sealed. Some car radio displays have them. There is also a flat pannel tech that is based off of small pointed emitters that has self generated brilance and cheep. Was in MaximumPC about 3 months back I think.
LCD are nice but feels like a tech being push hard against its limits to do the task.
From the inside trade journels I have seen over the last few years basicaly state. Joe sixpack is not buying it. There is way too much in option setups etc for even the best sales person to convince Joe to buy.
Also in the last few months was stated that the FCC was retinking the whole mess due to the time table being completly out of wack.
Good idea but that only for CD-R & RW. Standard pressed CD are stuck between a top and bottom layer of plastic. IE the data is in the middle. Both sides are tested with the least amount of data error being the side left and the "bad" side gets silk screen.
;)
So you would need to do both sides.