-SS Freedom was meant to be a waypoint to the moon and Mars (and as free west propaganda)
-SS Freedom was killed because Congress told NASA to get funding internationally
-Russians said OK, we'll participate, but the orbit has to change b/c it's easier for them
-Now the ISS is useless for trans-lunar b/c of different orbit, so once everyone is done with the station it will be abandoned and de-orbited
-There's a bunch of noise about going back to the moon
-If that's the case, wouldn't it be useful to just MOVE the ISS to the right orbit? Then it could be used for it's original ORIGINAL purpose, namely trans lunar waypoint. Hell, Burt Rutan should be able to reach it in a few years. Then, a very expensive asset could be reused.
Can rocket scientists tell me why this would not work?
On Saturday night I was at a friend's house, and we had a few. More than a few, ok. We are all photo dorks so me and a few other guys have gear laid out on every available surface, including the floor. I'm showing pics on my Macbook, and I fold it up and put it to one side on the floor. My friend comes up to talk to me and I look up and BS with him for a minute, then I look down.
The stupid motherfucker was STANDING on my Macbook.
After appropriate freaking out, I unfold it and wake it up. Works perfect. I'm typing on it right now. Apple gets my dollar forever. My Macbook cost a whole $1249 Cdn and i've got FireWire, integrated camera and optical out plus a retarded easy to use OS, eat that Dell. I know for a fact that a Vaio or a newer HP would have just folded under that kind of abuse.
My 1996 Mystique had the standard Ford shitty CD player from the early 90's. It had a button mysteriously labeled "comp" - consulting the manual revealed that it stood for "compression" and it was explained that it made "soft passages louder" and "loud noises quieter" - so it could not have been that computationally expensive for a 3rd rate car manufacturer to put it on a fifth-rate CD player 10 years ago.
Needless to say, the button stayed in the OFF position permanently.
Spoken like someone who does not know the hand that feeds. IT governance, or "paths" as we are calling them here, these days is driven to IT by business needs, and IT must adapt to it. IT is at a point where it can, should, and has to adopt to a business' needs rather than the business modifying itself to meet IT's needs. IT ignores this sea-change at it's own peril. Witness outsourcing.
(ooh, that was kind of troll-y, I wonder if this will be modded?)
I could go on, Google is chock full of this stuff. But given the skulduggery engaged by past (and, I guess, current) administrations, would Gates be any worse by comparision?
"It also adds support to the idea that there was an ancient Greek tradition of complex mechanical technology which was later transmitted to the Arab world, where similar but simpler devices were built during the medieval period. Of course, they had to copy it. Jawas would never come up with such a white device on their own."
I couldn't believe what I was seeing, and I refreshed, and it dissapeared. But I found it again in the edits and that blew me away.
Shame on the racist troll asshole that put that up. (NB: it wasn't me!)
What you say is very true, however, you have to contrast this with the vagracies of political will and pandering to voters in districts that make components for the US space program. This is why the Shuttle, the ISS, and NASA in general is such a frigging mess. Say what you will about the "independence" of NASA's program in getting buckets of money and given license to pursue pure science, there's something to be said about free market economics in terms of getting shit done.
>No two configurations being exactly alike is NOT a weakness when it comes to >PBX. The whole POINT of asterisk is its (theoretically) unlimited flexibility >and expandability.
s/g/asterisk/sendmail
Same diff. And this is why a lot of PBX guys and Asterisk critics have a hard time wrapping their heads around. They are thinking in terms like this *is* a box that is desirable to mount on the plywood backboard next to the bix block in the telephone room, but it isn't really. You *can* buy a configuration like this in a Sokeris or mini-AT or what have you, but it's most comfortable on the server rack, doing things that most other IP PBX'es aspire to.
I admit, this is not a Joe Sixpack product. But, neither is Sendmail.
Asterisk *will* be part of the next list guaranteed. It's just hasn't had press aknowledgement except for a couple of Business Week articles. It's too early to pronounce it as changing the telephony landscape, because it is currently in the process of doing so.
It's only been, what, 18 months since 1.0.9 was released, the first "ready for prime time" version?
Everytime I see someone mention Asterisk on/. there are responses like "wtf is this" so here is what the big deal is about I read that as some 5 million odd hits
And as to how this is different than Skype, well, essentially, you can plug it into anything. Asterisk interoperates with 15 of 20 items on TFA's list. (skype support is being worked on I hear as is the GoogleTalk protocol) And that leads to uber cool shit like this being possible
I am running 30 remote boxes for a business over 30 Shaw cable modems to an Asterisk server via IAX. I am passing TOS bits and I know for a fact that Shaw is dropping the TOS bits. I tested this by running test calls from cable modem to cable modem - all on Shaw, never hopped to another network - and examining the TOS with TCPdump. 0x0. *and* we are paying the $10 extra - they call it "lightspeed" or some such.
That being said, it ain't that bad with Shaw. Thank god for the Asterisk jitterbuffer, though.
I'd like to perform a one act play I call, "Creative screwed me like a bitch"
booradley: (audigy) Buy me! I'm ever so sexy
booradley: (to audigy) ok. come home with me and we'll play among the stars
booradley: (audigy) tee hee! I love you, boo!
booradley: I love you too, audigy
:: later::
booradley: (to audigy) there, you're all installed. how do you feel?
audigy: LET JESUS FUCK YOU! VRAAAGH!
* audience gasps.
booradley: * audigy is putting noise across your PCI channels!
booradley: (hard drive) Mein leben!
booradley: * hard drive has died
booradley: (audigy) Blaaah! blaaaugh! your mother sucks cocks in hell!
booradley: (modem) aaieee!!
booradley: *modem has died
booradley: and the new modem I got connects at 32k tops
Shendal: By far, that's the best one-act IRC play I've read this season. Do I smell a Tony award?
Get a clue dude and at least Google a little bit before you post. Chernobyl happened because of a shit design that was made *just after* the second world war. The RMBK-1000 design is a close cousin to Enrico Femi's original reactor and was inherently flawed. Yes, I choose to say technology will advance and solve these kinds of problems. You think engineers have been sitting around with their thumbs up their ass for the past 50 years? By your logic, you shouldn't drive around in an M-class 'cause your grandpappy got waxed in his Rambler in 1964.
As to the waste, Google for "pebble bed reactor waste" and you will find it won't be an issue, if we can just convine people like you to look at the evidence rationally instead of dismissing it with a "ooooh I've heard THAT before" type of flippant comment.
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WTF, dude the anniversary.pl page says how many people are going to show up, so that's a kind of self policing mechanism right there.
Shameless Plug: 24 attendees, Halo 3, DJ, Guitar Hero, real girls all in a sweet, happenin, grungy bar with decent beer.
CALLING ALL CAPITAL REGION SLASHDOT UID HOLDERS: WE NEED 6 MORE AND THEY WILL CLOSE THE BAR DOWNSTAIRS FOR US, SIGN UP NOW!!
yes, I really was shouting that time.
IANARS, but:
-SS Freedom was meant to be a waypoint to the moon and Mars (and as free west propaganda)
-SS Freedom was killed because Congress told NASA to get funding internationally
-Russians said OK, we'll participate, but the orbit has to change b/c it's easier for them
-Now the ISS is useless for trans-lunar b/c of different orbit, so once everyone is done with the station it will be abandoned and de-orbited
-There's a bunch of noise about going back to the moon
-If that's the case, wouldn't it be useful to just MOVE the ISS to the right orbit? Then it could be used for it's original ORIGINAL purpose, namely trans lunar waypoint. Hell, Burt Rutan should be able to reach it in a few years. Then, a very expensive asset could be reused.
Can rocket scientists tell me why this would not work?
On Saturday night I was at a friend's house, and we had a few. More than a few, ok. We are all photo dorks so me and a few other guys have gear laid out on every available surface, including the floor. I'm showing pics on my Macbook, and I fold it up and put it to one side on the floor. My friend comes up to talk to me and I look up and BS with him for a minute, then I look down.
The stupid motherfucker was STANDING on my Macbook.
After appropriate freaking out, I unfold it and wake it up. Works perfect. I'm typing on it right now. Apple gets my dollar forever. My Macbook cost a whole $1249 Cdn and i've got FireWire, integrated camera and optical out plus a retarded easy to use OS, eat that Dell. I know for a fact that a Vaio or a newer HP would have just folded under that kind of abuse.
lol MOD UP you beat me to it! Haven't listened to it for 10 years, never plan to again.
My 1996 Mystique had the standard Ford shitty CD player from the early 90's. It had a button mysteriously labeled "comp" - consulting the manual revealed that it stood for "compression" and it was explained that it made "soft passages louder" and "loud noises quieter" - so it could not have been that computationally expensive for a 3rd rate car manufacturer to put it on a fifth-rate CD player 10 years ago.
Needless to say, the button stayed in the OFF position permanently.
Spoken like someone who does not know the hand that feeds. IT governance, or "paths" as we are calling them here, these days is driven to IT by business needs, and IT must adapt to it. IT is at a point where it can, should, and has to adopt to a business' needs rather than the business modifying itself to meet IT's needs. IT ignores this sea-change at it's own peril. Witness outsourcing.
(ooh, that was kind of troll-y, I wonder if this will be modded?)
...he wants his bong back, man.
I could go on, Google is chock full of this stuff. But given the skulduggery engaged by past (and, I guess, current) administrations, would Gates be any worse by comparision?
This shit...is...bananas! bee ayy enn ayy enn ayy ess
Hey it's no worse than the other shitty jokes in this thread.
More like poker. Fucking balls made of ice, that's what that Ivan has. Good thing too.
crap moderated this post incorrectly so I have to post to undo the mod sorry
I saw this on the Wikipedia entry:
"It also adds support to the idea that there was an ancient Greek tradition of complex mechanical technology which was later transmitted to the Arab world, where similar but simpler devices were built during the medieval period. Of course, they had to copy it. Jawas would never come up with such a white device on their own."
I couldn't believe what I was seeing, and I refreshed, and it dissapeared. But I found it again in the edits and that blew me away.
Shame on the racist troll asshole that put that up. (NB: it wasn't me!)
What you say is very true, however, you have to contrast this with the vagracies of political will and pandering to voters in districts that make components for the US space program. This is why the Shuttle, the ISS, and NASA in general is such a frigging mess. Say what you will about the "independence" of NASA's program in getting buckets of money and given license to pursue pure science, there's something to be said about free market economics in terms of getting shit done.
'Cause they do.
Sounds like someone is smoking a little doobie and riffing on Zeno's Paradox
Dude, chill. It's going to be all right.
Five words: A Day In The Life
Sheesh, man, learn your rock history. Styx wasn't even close.
>No two configurations being exactly alike is NOT a weakness when it comes to >PBX. The whole POINT of asterisk is its (theoretically) unlimited flexibility >and expandability.
s/g/asterisk/sendmail
Same diff. And this is why a lot of PBX guys and Asterisk critics have a hard time wrapping their heads around. They are thinking in terms like this *is* a box that is desirable to mount on the plywood backboard next to the bix block in the telephone room, but it isn't really. You *can* buy a configuration like this in a Sokeris or mini-AT or what have you, but it's most comfortable on the server rack, doing things that most other IP PBX'es aspire to.
I admit, this is not a Joe Sixpack product. But, neither is Sendmail.
Asterisk *will* be part of the next list guaranteed. It's just hasn't had press aknowledgement except for a couple of Business Week articles. It's too early to pronounce it as changing the telephony landscape, because it is currently in the process of doing so.
/. there are responses like "wtf is this" so here is what the big deal is about I read that as some 5 million odd hits
It's only been, what, 18 months since 1.0.9 was released, the first "ready for prime time" version?
Everytime I see someone mention Asterisk on
And as to how this is different than Skype, well, essentially, you can plug it into anything. Asterisk interoperates with 15 of 20 items on TFA's list. (skype support is being worked on I hear as is the GoogleTalk protocol) And that leads to uber cool shit like this being possible
I think it's worthwhile to note that the movement of people through air travel in the US would be a signifigant vector for the spread of an infectious disease considering that nearly 800 million people are expected to move through the US by air in 2007
That's 12% of the population of the planet
I am running 30 remote boxes for a business over 30 Shaw cable modems to an Asterisk server via IAX. I am passing TOS bits and I know for a fact that Shaw is dropping the TOS bits. I tested this by running test calls from cable modem to cable modem - all on Shaw, never hopped to another network - and examining the TOS with TCPdump. 0x0. *and* we are paying the $10 extra - they call it "lightspeed" or some such.
That being said, it ain't that bad with Shaw. Thank god for the Asterisk jitterbuffer, though.
Mighty Mouse.
mmmmMMMmmmm Jewel Saite ....
....I'll be in my bunk.
Tom Clancy outlined this in "Sum of All Fears", reference: http://kh.bu.edu/qcl/pdf/hughes_r199518777668.pdf
Not like I'm a Tom Clancy fanboy or anything. Just sayin.
How About -
B.F.T ?
I'd like to perform a one act play I call, "Creative screwed me like a bitch"
:: later ::
booradley: (audigy) Buy me! I'm ever so sexy
booradley: (to audigy) ok. come home with me and we'll play among the stars
booradley: (audigy) tee hee! I love you, boo!
booradley: I love you too, audigy
booradley: (to audigy) there, you're all installed. how do you feel?
audigy: LET JESUS FUCK YOU! VRAAAGH!
* audience gasps.
booradley: * audigy is putting noise across your PCI channels!
booradley: (hard drive) Mein leben!
booradley: * hard drive has died
booradley: (audigy) Blaaah! blaaaugh! your mother sucks cocks in hell!
booradley: (modem) aaieee!!
booradley: *modem has died
booradley: and the new modem I got connects at 32k tops
Shendal: By far, that's the best one-act IRC play I've read this season. Do I smell a Tony award?
Get a clue dude and at least Google a little bit before you post. Chernobyl happened because of a shit design that was made *just after* the second world war. The RMBK-1000 design is a close cousin to Enrico Femi's original reactor and was inherently flawed. Yes, I choose to say technology will advance and solve these kinds of problems. You think engineers have been sitting around with their thumbs up their ass for the past 50 years? By your logic, you shouldn't drive around in an M-class 'cause your grandpappy got waxed in his Rambler in 1964.
As to the waste, Google for "pebble bed reactor waste" and you will find it won't be an issue, if we can just convine people like you to look at the evidence rationally instead of dismissing it with a "ooooh I've heard THAT before" type of flippant comment.