The principle is: Take a plane which can gather height quite fuel-efficient and then launch a specially designed spacecraft from this plane.
Saves a lot of fuel, might proove safer (the accellerations needed are not so high) and allows a complete reuse of the whole system.
But great ideas (this idea (I think it's even completely caculated through) for more than 40 years.) alwas rot in favour of inferior ideas.
We are blasted for attacking Iraq, when the entire world thought Saddam had biological weapons. And with France, Germany, and Russia balking at using force, Saddam had enough time to move tons of the stuff out of the country or bury it in the middle of the desert.
1) By now, even the Bush Administration has admitted that no weapons of mass destruction existed.
2) Assume you have some: Would you rather bury them and await your enemy pants down -- or would you rather use them? Saddam had nothing to loose...
3) Well bashing France, Germany and Russia reveals your true nacionalsts attitude. Voting for peace seems to be a bad thing, huh? "In dubio pro reo" is only for cowards, isn't it?
4) People of good old europe predicted, that using your army in Irak, Iran, Syria... will shake up the political region there, resulting in a unpredictable situation -- most probably even worse than before. Well, we are seeing it now.
And personally, for your information, I personally think the US should pull out of the nation-building mentality. We should stop acting like the Europeans, thinking we have the right to interfere in other cultures like they always did. The United States was founded as a repulsion of that idea. Why did we lose sight of that and start to emulate them again?
You know Europe? You know that the USA is the MAIN interfering force in the world for at least 50 years now -- they are not only interfering with politics, but with their army -- which involves killing people -- and with their intelligence, like building terrorist camps to make the commies a hard life... well commies are gone, now the terrorists fight their parents... well, bad luck.
Well, I'm also not a good photographer... but I appreciate the slides so much... that I'm willing to pay for them;-)
Also, I'm not against digi, don't get me wrong... as soon as the need is pressing enough (the need to consume, ya'know;-)) and the money is there (unlikely) I will by me a digi body also. It is so nice to just take a lot of photos and sort out the bad ones directly at the spot. You end up with a lot more better photos.
But: All pipe dreams at the moment, though; it's all about having the spare money to spend. Sigh.
Well said.
Or, in other words: to get the image quality on the film, you have to have high quality lenses. These don't come cheap. For the average home user in particular, the quality of the DSLR body will far exceed the quality of their glass.
Well... sure, you are right. Thats also because of many people are (and were) thinking, thet the body is more important than the lens. (think about all the people running around with a Eos 1 and a cheap kit-lens).
But my reason for still sticking to the analog film is: I like to vie slides. The look great. It just looks, like beeing agin there, where the photo has been taken. Unbelievable play of light and shadow...
And with a digi-cam you end up using a beamer, which has (in comparison) really bad colours and also a really crappy resolution (
I'm intending to replace the 75-300 with two lenses: the 70-200 f/2.8 IS, and the 100-400mm zoom.
Same or me: I'll replace my 75-300 IS with a 100-400 IS as soon as it is dying... but it seems to want to live forever;-). The 70-200 f/2.8 IS is not so much a candidate for me... I also own the 100 f2 Makro, for portrait and... well makro;-) and thats enough for me. Also dont miss to by a 50mm lens... really great for low light photography.
Perhaps more than the have...
If a war starts, US will be on the ground -- economically booted.
Therefore... china can do practically everything with the US!
E.g.:
http://www.studien-von-zeitfragen.net/Zeitfragen/C ollapse_in_2005_/collapse_in_2005_.html The largest buyers of US government debt have been the central banks of the Asia-Pacific. The central banks of Japan and China alone hold more than $1 trillion of US Treasury bonds as foreign currency reserves. Worldwide foreign central banks hold some $1.3 trillion of US government debt. If private debt is added, the United States is the world's largest debtor, with some $3.7 in net foreign debt, as of the start of this year, likely well over $4 trillions by now. In 1980 when Ronald Reagan was elected the US was the world's creditor with a plus of $1 trillion....
You need at least a compression ratio of 1:40. Doable, yes, definitly. The lower the bandwith, the higher compression you need... and of course the higher the visual distortion (or the needed processing-power).
So... 512 upstream look quite reasonable to me... for a high-quality video and audio stream.
On the other Hand, the video transmitted is 320x240 at 16fps... quite a lot.
Raw Data is about 2Mbyte/s... so even after compression it reamains a lot (and it has to be a online-compression... so you can't squeeze the very last bit out of it).
But on the other hand, 512kbit is said to be the maximum required, bt scales down to what is available... so I'm sure it will also work with a lower bandwith.
(If not, well... not many will be able to use it;-))
Well... if you need 512kbit down (the weakest assumption)... what do you think where these 512kbit are comming from? Right, frome the 512kbit upstream from your buddy. Well and vice versa.
So... for perfect quality it is at least a 512/512 ADSL needed... or better (which can then be a eg. 6Mbit/512kbit)...... so not too hard to figure out, or?
Denying advantages (and ignoring disadvantages) is a kind of lying in your own pocket.
It IS more convinent to drag&drop a file to your mate. No sense on discussing that.
But somehow it seems to me, that you got the topic wrong: It's not about Winows vs. Linux (or UNIX or whatever) it is just about convenience -- and convenience wins.
It is NOT convenient to set up a ftp-server. It is not conveniant to cope the file to the server, then get the rigt URL, send it to your mate, who in turn fires up his browser (ok, normally automatically) to download the file.
It's NOT conveniant to first register with dyndns because you have dynamic IPs.
It's not conveniant for your mate to do the same, if he wants to resend you something in return, to do all this also -- especially, if your 'mate' on the other side is your grandma, who is happy if she is able to hit the right icon;-)
But it IS conveniant to just drag&drop a file simply on your mate, and he gets it (in theory).
Don't get me wrong again... most of my time I'm using UNIX and Linux machines. I'm having my own http and ftp-server. I'm doing things like you suggest, but it is NOT as convenient as drag&drop.
Bush will trust in the substance, which makes him moer powerful (at least he thinks) like... hmm... cocaine and if nothing else is there also alcohol.
Who needs a god, if you can feel like one? harharhar
It's all about convenience. There is nothing more convenient than drag&drop a file to your mate around the world -- just without starting another application and having everything configured the right way. Not everybody has a always-on internet line, so most probably they also don't have a webserver running, have their IP memorized (or use Dynamic DNS)... and setting up VPN is a pain in the ass, what will it be for just ONE file?
You could also do machine code, but somehow people like higher languages more... may be they are more convenient -- just a little bit;-).
Taken aside, it#s also tacxkled...
Whats worse: Having sex or being shot?
I just don't understand the fear of sexuality. Is it unnatural? Is it bad? Is it worse than violance?
Are your parents impure because they did something which lead to you (not the poster in personal, just everybody)?
Considering the average size of harddrives for desktop systems, your argument is almost pointless.
Of course you are right. And also the speed-argument is somewhat right. It won't make your applications lightning-fast. (Of course depends on your application. The (non-desktop) application like courier-imapd rocks with reiser.
But why not use it, if you can get it all for free?
People (hmm... gamers) upgrade their processor for less advantage...
A better question is: if you're a home desktop user what benefit does a journaling file system give you?
The thing is, Reiser ist not only about journalizing but also about performance because of stuffing things together in a more intelligent way. Therefore you don't waste harddisk space and the access of the data is also faster (especially with many small files).
Therefore you get benefits even on your home desktop
Since robot muscles are solved, this seems to be the key feature for future robots.
Robotic musceles are solved? Thats new to me.
They are far, far away from being "solved". Atrificial muscels (made of fibers) are energy inefficient and bulky. DC-Motors are bulky and heavy, yet better in efficiancy still not good enough.
Take forexample a human Hand: What do you think, how many muscles (=motors) do we have? And thats only the motors... strings, wires, powersupply adds.
And for the article: Its nice that they manufacture such a skin... but how many degrees of freedom is it able to measure? 1 is definitly to few. How are the signals read? The have to be amplified a lot, so how many wires are needed? Wehere is the amplification done? Just imagine ous small finger -- is there inside enoug room for the bearing structure plus amplification-electronics plus wires?
NOT the skin itself is the problem, but to integrate it successfully in a human-sized, human-capable robotic hand.
So, the biological system on earth is too complicated for a evolving approach the ID people state, right?
They are assuming the creator is even more complex than we, right?
From where does he come? Has he also been created, as he is also to complicated to evolve?
No, the answer "He has been there forever." is plainly inacceptable, as "we" could then also have been here forever. So simply no creator is needed at all.
Therefore teaching ID at schools is about the same as teaching astrology or future-telling. Simply NONSENSE.
By comparison the modern x86 is a dream to program for, just note how two fairly radically different cpu's (Athlon64 and the P4) handle the same code very nicely without any big performance issues. Compare this to the Cell, where all the explicitness will make sure that any binary you write for the Cell today will run like crap on the next version.
Ever tried to program the mathematical coprocessor unit in assembler?
A dream to program for? You must be some kind of god or so.;-)
I own a Audi A2 1.2TDI -- it one of those superefficient cars, which shoud consume about 3 litres/100 kilometers (about 75 MPG). Mine does (with not too careful driving and aircondition and servo-steering) about 60MPG.
It has a so called start-stop-automatics whicht stops the engine on every stop (whenever I'm on the brake and my speed is 0) and starts again the engine whenever i release the break. In -- I would assume -- less then one second. No problems there.
So a diesel shoud do quite well as a hybrid, I assume...
You know about Reinforcement Backgammon-Players?
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They learn how to win against all other (including humans) just by playing against themselves with an additional teacher (a program) who tells them, if the have won or lost.
Tesauro with his TD-Gammon was the first one... search on Goolgle for it, or try this one: http://satirist.org/learn-game/systems/gammon/td-g ammon.html
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Well ... you are thinking of something like this?d ex.html ... you most probably will need babelfish for reading this. :-(
http://www.marssociety.de/html/html/Archimedes/in
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Harharhar ... das ist kein deutsch ;-)
Oh well ... ok --- the translation of my almost-sentence:
harharhar ... thats no german ;-)
Well, according to other news sites, they did a validation on the following monday, where the stats didn't change ...
The principle is: Take a plane which can gather height quite fuel-efficient and then launch a specially designed spacecraft from this plane.
Saves a lot of fuel, might proove safer (the accellerations needed are not so high) and allows a complete reuse of the whole system.
But great ideas (this idea (I think it's even completely caculated through) for more than 40 years.) alwas rot in favour of inferior ideas.
2) Assume you have some: Would you rather bury them and await your enemy pants down -- or would you rather use them? Saddam had nothing to loose
3) Well bashing France, Germany and Russia reveals your true nacionalsts attitude. Voting for peace seems to be a bad thing, huh? "In dubio pro reo" is only for cowards, isn't it?
4) People of good old europe predicted, that using your army in Irak, Iran, Syria
You know Europe? You know that the USA is the MAIN interfering force in the world for at least 50 years now -- they are not only interfering with politics, but with their army -- which involves killing people -- and with their intelligence, like building terrorist camps to make the commies a hard life
Also, I'm not against digi, don't get me wrong ... as soon as the need is pressing enough (the need to consume, ya'know ;-)) and the money is there (unlikely) I will by me a digi body also. It is so nice to just take a lot of photos and sort out the bad ones directly at the spot. You end up with a lot more better photos.
But:
All pipe dreams at the moment, though; it's all about having the spare money to spend. Sigh.
Well said.
Well
But my reason for still sticking to the analog film is: I like to vie slides. The look great. It just looks, like beeing agin there, where the photo has been taken. Unbelievable play of light and shadow ...
And with a digi-cam you end up using a beamer, which has (in comparison) really bad colours and also a really crappy resolution ( I'm intending to replace the 75-300 with two lenses: the 70-200 f/2.8 IS, and the 100-400mm zoom. ... but it seems to want to live forever ;-). The 70-200 f/2.8 IS is not so much a candidate for me ... I also own the 100 f2 Makro, for portrait and ... well makro ;-) and thats enough for me. Also dont miss to by a 50mm lens ... really great for low light photography.
Same or me: I'll replace my 75-300 IS with a 100-400 IS as soon as it is dying
If a war starts, US will be on the ground -- economically booted.
Therefore ... china can do practically everything with the US!
E.g.: http://www.studien-von-zeitfragen.net/Zeitfragen/C ollapse_in_2005_/collapse_in_2005_.html
...
The largest buyers of US government debt have been the central banks of the Asia-Pacific. The central banks of Japan and China alone hold more than $1 trillion of US Treasury bonds as foreign currency reserves. Worldwide foreign central banks hold some $1.3 trillion of US government debt. If private debt is added, the United States is the world's largest debtor, with some $3.7 in net foreign debt, as of the start of this year, likely well over $4 trillions by now. In 1980 when Ronald Reagan was elected the US was the world's creditor with a plus of $1 trillion.
You need at least a compression ratio of 1:40. Doable, yes, definitly. The lower the bandwith, the higher compression you need ... and of course the higher the visual distortion (or the needed processing-power).
So ... 512 upstream look quite reasonable to me ... for a high-quality video and audio stream.
But on the other hand, 512kbit is said to be the maximum required, bt scales down to what is available ... so I'm sure it will also work with a lower bandwith. ... not many will be able to use it ;-))
(If not, well
Well ... if you need 512kbit down (the weakest assumption) ... what do you think where these 512kbit are comming from? Right, frome the 512kbit upstream from your buddy. Well and vice versa.
... for perfect quality it is at least a 512/512 ADSL needed ... or better (which can then be a eg. 6Mbit/512kbit) ... ... so not too hard to figure out, or?
So
It IS more convinent to drag&drop a file to your mate. No sense on discussing that.
But somehow it seems to me, that you got the topic wrong: It's not about Winows vs. Linux (or UNIX or whatever) it is just about convenience -- and convenience wins.
It is NOT convenient to set up a ftp-server. It is not conveniant to cope the file to the server, then get the rigt URL, send it to your mate, who in turn fires up his browser (ok, normally automatically) to download the file. ;-)
It's NOT conveniant to first register with dyndns because you have dynamic IPs.
It's not conveniant for your mate to do the same, if he wants to resend you something in return, to do all this also -- especially, if your 'mate' on the other side is your grandma, who is happy if she is able to hit the right icon
But it IS conveniant to just drag&drop a file simply on your mate, and he gets it (in theory).
Don't get me wrong again ... most of my time I'm using UNIX and Linux machines. I'm having my own http and ftp-server. I'm doing things like you suggest, but it is NOT as convenient as drag&drop.
Bush will trust in the substance, which makes him moer powerful (at least he thinks) like ... hmm ... cocaine and if nothing else is there also alcohol.
Who needs a god, if you can feel like one? harharhar
You could also do machine code, but somehow people like higher languages more ... may be they are more convenient -- just a little bit ;-).
Whats worse: Having sex or being shot?
I just don't understand the fear of sexuality. Is it unnatural? Is it bad? Is it worse than violance?
Are your parents impure because they did something which lead to you (not the poster in personal, just everybody)?
But what is, if he clicks "No"? ;-)
Of course you are right. And also the speed-argument is somewhat right. It won't make your applications lightning-fast. (Of course depends on your application. The (non-desktop) application like courier-imapd rocks with reiser.
But why not use it, if you can get it all for free? ... gamers) upgrade their processor for less advantage ...
People (hmm
A better question is: if you're a home desktop user what benefit does a journaling file system give you?
The thing is, Reiser ist not only about journalizing but also about performance because of stuffing things together in a more intelligent way. Therefore you don't waste harddisk space and the access of the data is also faster (especially with many small files).
Therefore you get benefits even on your home desktop
Robotic musceles are solved? Thats new to me.
They are far, far away from being "solved". Atrificial muscels (made of fibers) are energy inefficient and bulky. DC-Motors are bulky and heavy, yet better in efficiancy still not good enough.
Take forexample a human Hand: What do you think, how many muscles (=motors) do we have? And thats only the motors ... strings, wires, powersupply adds.
And for the article: Its nice that they manufacture such a skin ... but how many degrees of freedom is it able to measure? 1 is definitly to few. How are the signals read? The have to be amplified a lot, so how many wires are needed? Wehere is the amplification done? Just imagine ous small finger -- is there inside enoug room for the bearing structure plus amplification-electronics plus wires?
NOT the skin itself is the problem, but to integrate it successfully in a human-sized, human-capable robotic hand.
So, the biological system on earth is too complicated for a evolving approach the ID people state, right?
They are assuming the creator is even more complex than we, right?
From where does he come? Has he also been created, as he is also to complicated to evolve?
No, the answer "He has been there forever." is plainly inacceptable, as "we" could then also have been here forever. So simply no creator is needed at all.
Therefore teaching ID at schools is about the same as teaching astrology or future-telling. Simply NONSENSE.
By comparison the modern x86 is a dream to program for, just note how two fairly radically different cpu's (Athlon64 and the P4) handle the same code very nicely without any big performance issues. Compare this to the Cell, where all the explicitness will make sure that any binary you write for the Cell today will run like crap on the next version.
;-)
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Ever tried to program the mathematical coprocessor unit in assembler?
A dream to program for? You must be some kind of god or so.
However I got your point
And being a driver of a tiny 3000 lb sports car
... It's just amusing to me, to see what's considered tiny on the other side of the big lake ...
Tiny? A Lotus Elise woud count as tiny (about 1300lb?) yet not 3000lb???
Ok, I got your point
I own a Audi A2 1.2TDI -- it one of those superefficient cars, which shoud consume about 3 litres/100 kilometers (about 75 MPG). Mine does (with not too careful driving and aircondition and servo-steering) about 60MPG.
...
It has a so called start-stop-automatics whicht stops the engine on every stop (whenever I'm on the brake and my speed is 0) and starts again the engine whenever i release the break. In -- I would assume -- less then one second. No problems there.
So a diesel shoud do quite well as a hybrid, I assume
Passive walkers exist since the 90s (or even before).h p?id=37
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A quick googeling gave me the following:
http://agrosy.informatik.uni-kl.de/wmc/overview.p
And an almost passive construction:
http://agrosy.informatik.uni-kl.de/wmc/overview.p
They learn how to win against all other (including humans) just by playing against themselves with an additional teacher (a program) who tells them, if the have won or lost. ...g ammon.html
Tesauro with his TD-Gammon was the first one
search on Goolgle for it, or try this one:
http://satirist.org/learn-game/systems/gammon/td-