At the time of the Moon landing, three stations - Goldstone in California, Honeysuckle Creek in Canberra, and Parkes in New South Wales - simultaneously recorded the events onto magnetic data tape. The direct recordings were not of broadcast quality, says John, so they had to set up a regular TV camera pointed at a small black-and-white TV screen in the observatory to obtain higher-quality images that could be relayed to television stations around the world.
They didn't use the TV camera to obtain a higher quality, but to convert from the odd signal used by NASA [1] to PAL/NTSC.
1: the nonstandard TV signals were used to make video transmission possible in the small amount of bandwidth available.
And it's not limited to buildings. Along a nearby highway, glass screens were placed as a sound barrier. The angle of the screens is such that at certain times of day, the sun is reflected right into the motorists' eyes.
Wikipedia has a better list, it seems. Most likely candidate is orbiter 2.02:
At the time of the halting of the Buran-Energia program, Buran 2.02 was under construction on the factory floor at the Tushino Machine Building Plant just outside of Moscow. Her level of completion was estimated between 10-20 percent.
With funding gone, Buran 2.02 remained unfinished on the factory floor for a number of years. Recently she has been dismantled and moved outside to the back of the premises. She now lies exposed to the elements. Many of her tiles have since been stripped, such as those shown below can now be bought on the internet.
This page contains a list of the Buran airframes and their locations. This page has a photo of the OK-1K2 unfinished orbiter, this is the closest match to the photos shown in TFA. Aerospaceweb lists this orbiter as having been sold to the Technikmuseum Speyer in 2004, but I've recently been there and they have the OK-GLI atmospheric test bed on display, not OK-1K2.
I would use projectors not screens. Set up a whole wall of the room (or a large bordered portion) to act as a window.
That would require a high-res webcam to work well.
And you'd need to set it up to reproduce at 1:1 scale, no larger; this means that with a projector you're wasting a whole lot of real estate on irrelevant stuff (i.e. not the person but his kitchen). Having a nice large monitor is good; a projector is overkill, IMO.
IMO, multithreading (or any other method to isolate tabs from each other so the browser won't hang when one tab is busy) is a more urgent need than any speed increase.
The CyberMotion Simulator isn't the first to use an industrial robot as the motion platform for a game. When I visited Legoland (Billund) in 2004, they had several robots set up as a thrillride, with the robot going through a user-programmable motion pattern.
Engine management is a lot more sophisticated than a mechanical carburettor can ever hope to be. Between environmental regulations (cleaner air), diagnostics (cutting down on repair time) and performance (getting more from a smaller, lighter engine without compromising reliability) it's gotten quite complicated. Then there's the chassis, with ABS, ESP and other electronic driver aids. Miles of wiring have been replaced by a lighter, more reliable bus system for all electric functions in the car. Some of this is down to ever-tighter regulation (emissions, safety). Others are due to the competitive nature of car sales: ever more features get tacked on. Thanks to electronics, cars have gotten a lot more reliable over time. The last few years, car companies have overstepped, though, offering new features before they were ready, and not doing enough testing for proper integration.
This museum has a fascinating collection of things to do with undersea communication, focusing on the early telegraph lines. A number of cables come ashore at the museum site, and they've hooked some of them [*] up to an amplifier and loudspeaker. The currents induced in the cable form sounds that vary from noise to eerie wailings.
Until now, FF updates require a restart. The update may be silent, but the restart is still going to require user notification. So what's the advantage here?
If you want to access the info anywhere, but keep the files private, you could store them on a USB drive instead. That eliminates most security holes, and you could easily encrypt the files for even better security. This also gives you the option to launch applications from the drive (I use FirefoxPortable, for instance), ie. applications that you control instead of the company. That still leaves the possibility of the company snooping on any connections you make, unless you encrypt those.
Keeping personal stuff on a work computer is just bad informational hygiene.
I'm an engineer who occasionally does a bit of programming. I've found that programming skills need to be maintained, or they deteriorate to the point of being useless.
I recently did a few Python scripts after about a year of not programming anything. The first few days were filled with 'how did this work again?' and lots of looking up basic information. The first script took me 3 times longer to write than it would have last year. A professional would have taken 10% of the time I needed. I probably wasted more time than these scripts will ever save me.
Now that's ok with me because I enjoyed the challenge, but it's not a sound business decision.
ISTR that the Apollo LM was constructed for the Moon's gravity and would collapse under its own weight on Earth. It's interesting that a vehicle that's made for a 0.38G environment works on Earth.
Your netbook likely isn't running lots of processes, each of which have a number of large files open. Antivirus can get incredibly annoying under such circumstances.
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I don't know how much of an net positive environmental impact recycling rare earths from circuitry provides
As I recall, separating ore into rare earths isn't a clean process either, so it may still come out ahead.
Alternatively, wear shoes with grippy (profiled rubber) soles instead of stupid leather soles.
The footage we're talking about was originally taken with a slowcan camera, 250 TV lines at 10 fps. That's not "a high definition camera".
At the time of the Moon landing, three stations - Goldstone in California, Honeysuckle Creek in Canberra, and Parkes in New South Wales - simultaneously recorded the events onto magnetic data tape. The direct recordings were not of broadcast quality, says John, so they had to set up a regular TV camera pointed at a small black-and-white TV screen in the observatory to obtain higher-quality images that could be relayed to television stations around the world.
They didn't use the TV camera to obtain a higher quality, but to convert from the odd signal used by NASA [1] to PAL/NTSC.
1: the nonstandard TV signals were used to make video transmission possible in the small amount of bandwidth available.
And it's not limited to buildings. Along a nearby highway, glass screens were placed as a sound barrier. The angle of the screens is such that at certain times of day, the sun is reflected right into the motorists' eyes.
Wikipedia has a better list, it seems. Most likely candidate is orbiter 2.02:
At the time of the halting of the Buran-Energia program, Buran 2.02 was under construction on the factory floor at the Tushino Machine Building Plant just outside of Moscow. Her level of completion was estimated between 10-20 percent.
With funding gone, Buran 2.02 remained unfinished on the factory floor for a number of years. Recently she has been dismantled and moved outside to the back of the premises. She now lies exposed to the elements. Many of her tiles have since been stripped, such as those shown below can now be bought on the internet.
This page contains a list of the Buran airframes and their locations. This page has a photo of the OK-1K2 unfinished orbiter, this is the closest match to the photos shown in TFA. Aerospaceweb lists this orbiter as having been sold to the Technikmuseum Speyer in 2004, but I've recently been there and they have the OK-GLI atmospheric test bed on display, not OK-1K2.
Considering the amount of heat given off by a flash [1], I wonder if that's feasible. Also, can an LCD be made dark enough for this?
1: I've tried using my hand to partially cover the flash for close photography. Even a single flash is painfully hot.
Right; what good could astronomy possibly do? We don't need to know about outer space! [/sarcasm]
This 'little Photoshop session' helps astronomers better understand what they observe. It's part of the process that started with Copernicus.
To make things easier, there's also a Lockheed Orion aircraft...
I would use projectors not screens. Set up a whole wall of the room (or a large bordered portion) to act as a window.
That would require a high-res webcam to work well.
And you'd need to set it up to reproduce at 1:1 scale, no larger; this means that with a projector you're wasting a whole lot of real estate on irrelevant stuff (i.e. not the person but his kitchen). Having a nice large monitor is good; a projector is overkill, IMO.
IMO, multithreading (or any other method to isolate tabs from each other so the browser won't hang when one tab is busy) is a more urgent need than any speed increase.
The CyberMotion Simulator isn't the first to use an industrial robot as the motion platform for a game. When I visited Legoland (Billund) in 2004, they had several robots set up as a thrillride, with the robot going through a user-programmable motion pattern.
Engine management is a lot more sophisticated than a mechanical carburettor can ever hope to be. Between environmental regulations (cleaner air), diagnostics (cutting down on repair time) and performance (getting more from a smaller, lighter engine without compromising reliability) it's gotten quite complicated. Then there's the chassis, with ABS, ESP and other electronic driver aids. Miles of wiring have been replaced by a lighter, more reliable bus system for all electric functions in the car.
Some of this is down to ever-tighter regulation (emissions, safety). Others are due to the competitive nature of car sales: ever more features get tacked on.
Thanks to electronics, cars have gotten a lot more reliable over time. The last few years, car companies have overstepped, though, offering new features before they were ready, and not doing enough testing for proper integration.
This museum has a fascinating collection of things to do with undersea communication, focusing on the early telegraph lines. A number of cables come ashore at the museum site, and they've hooked some of them [*] up to an amplifier and loudspeaker. The currents induced in the cable form sounds that vary from noise to eerie wailings.
* copper cables that are no longer in use
Until now, FF updates require a restart. The update may be silent, but the restart is still going to require user notification. So what's the advantage here?
If you want to access the info anywhere, but keep the files private, you could store them on a USB drive instead. That eliminates most security holes, and you could easily encrypt the files for even better security.
This also gives you the option to launch applications from the drive (I use FirefoxPortable, for instance), ie. applications that you control instead of the company. That still leaves the possibility of the company snooping on any connections you make, unless you encrypt those.
Keeping personal stuff on a work computer is just bad informational hygiene.
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Electrons really move slowly in metal. In a vacuum tube like a CRT, pretty quick.
Clearly, what we need is to harness this speed by building electronic elements that work by firing electrons across a vacuum.
Are frame rendering times so unpredictable you can't render a frame just-in-time? The uncapped approach seems wasteful.
It is quite standard practice for games to render uncapped.
Why is that? What benefit is there to rendering frames at a rate higher than the monitor's refresh rate?
I'm an engineer who occasionally does a bit of programming. I've found that programming skills need to be maintained, or they deteriorate to the point of being useless.
I recently did a few Python scripts after about a year of not programming anything. The first few days were filled with 'how did this work again?' and lots of looking up basic information. The first script took me 3 times longer to write than it would have last year. A professional would have taken 10% of the time I needed. I probably wasted more time than these scripts will ever save me.
Now that's ok with me because I enjoyed the challenge, but it's not a sound business decision.
ISTR that the Apollo LM was constructed for the Moon's gravity and would collapse under its own weight on Earth. It's interesting that a vehicle that's made for a 0.38G environment works on Earth.
for a storage monitoring system.
Your netbook likely isn't running lots of processes, each of which have a number of large files open. Antivirus can get incredibly annoying under such circumstances.