It's understandable from a policy level but they have been throttling the hell out of their trans-Pacific connections. Our team over there was getting 36kbs downloads from a (flaky GoDaddy client) connection the other day.
The truth is the Chinese govt. faces a very real terrorism threat w/ the upcoming Olympics and are doing everything including monitoring the Net to keep it from happening.
The root of the issue is that us space advocates are busy. Many of us are involved in aerospace or technology companies and don't have as much time for advocacy. Others have given up, retired or are still establishing their networks. There is an amazing generation coming up right now that is passionate about space. One thing however: NASA is increasingly irrelevant even to those that work there. Private and military space are where the action is. SpaceX, SpaceDev, Virgin, etc and AFRL have so much more going on. NASA is a politically-correct football that gets kicked around. Not to diss to much, they do the impossible and make it look easy. It's just that what NASA does best (Robot probes, basic research) has been superseded by what they do mediocre: operations.
Space is not just about "exploration" - and NASA is not going to do any colonizing - that is the venue of private activity.
Personally, I'm to busy working and keeping my wife in grad school to worry about March Storm and ISDC.
Loaners, not really as we are small in numbers. Agile in our case doesn't mean rolling in hardware.
Like most offices we are a "headphones" place. However any time I get an error or someone enters/leaves skype my machine goes "SQQRAAAWKKKK" instead of a nice "eeep" if my 'phones aren't plugged in. Working speakers would be less disturbing to my cubemate as this Macbook sounds like a tortured chihuaha.
i value on-hand, colloquial experience as much as objective analysis. In that regard, Apple has screwed up.
Here's what I know: last spring the brand-new video lab at a major metropolitan newspaper suffered 2 firewire port failures on new Apple towers. That is unacceptable for shipped hardware, IMHO. It might not be objective enough for you, but it was a major pain in my ass working around Apple's hardware deficiencies for me. YMMV.
Now, my Macbook goes "SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK" when I play a sound. Multitouch is nice, but the problems are very frustrating.
My company bought a white Macbook for me about 6 weeks ago, it arrived with broken internal speakers. The nice kids at the Mac store ordered the parts and said to bring the machine in for a quick fix. Being all cool and slack, the Apple store does not take appointments, so I brought the machine in last nite to see if they could fix it. The nice technician told me it would take 1-2 days and there was nothing to speed the process. This Macbook is my work machine, it's not for school or personal use - it's part of a (small, agile) global enterprise that runs 24/7 and I can't be without it for that long. HP and Dell send technicians onsite to service problems like this, no questions asked. It's like pulling teeth to get repairs out of your people. Until you figure out how to fit into business customer's needs, you will self-limit your reach.
Of the 4 new Macs I've worked on in the past year, 1 Macbook, 3 silver towers, 3 of the machines had hardware problems out of the box or within 1 week of unpacking. Specifically the broken speakers and dead Firewire ports. FIX YOUR QA PROBLEMS, CUPERTINO.
In the meantime I will be recommending HP, Lenovo or other for laptops and desktops.
Sincerely, A Burned Customer.
PS - why is it called the "Genius Bar" if they are such idiots about these things?
How about infantry that can carry 20mm Bushmasters as sidearms? Soldiers wearing as much armor as a Bradley, logistics teams that don't get injured/tired as easily and medics that can easily pick up and run off with injured troops.
My personal favorite, once this gear is on the surplus market: powered armor rickshaw! Weld a sitting capsule to the back of the suit and run your clients through traffic. Hooahh!
The major difference is that Soyuz hasn't killed anyone since 1971 or there-abouts. Statistically STS and Soyuz are indistinguishable but STS's accidents have been spread throughout it's operational life while Soyuz' deaths all occurred early on in development.
(funny, you are "friend", "friend of a friend" and "foe of a friend" on my slashdot-o-meter)
Ballistic reentry like this is still under computer control. Manual reentry is for an even-worse condition Soyuz. IIRC ballistic reentry is for off-nominal or main computer crashing. Article says they altered course before reentry without telling MCC so they were either having trouble or screwing around. This is another testament to Soyuz robustness - still the safest spacecraft around.
I really don't get it. We played "Industry Standard" on Bob's new iPhone over WiFi and it looked GREAT. Not just great, but better than on my PC great. What is The Steve jabbering about? Maybe if you try to load some craptastic webpage with a full UI of Flash and 17 videos playing simultaneously on it, but YouTube's Flash video plays fine on the iPhone and that is what counts for 99% of users.
Sounds like 13-17 for me - my pack of D&D friends always took care of each other. We still play once in a while now in our 30s and owe Mr. Gygax a great debt. RIP.
What you are asking for is a new, larger Newton. Or a Windoze tablet running Tablet Edition 2005 - which had the whole "lined legal pad" as a program. Apple lacks interest in tablet/slate machines since the Steve took over. Direct quote on the Newton 2100 "If it doesn't have a trackball, it's not a computer." Think Different, my eye.
Not to give a specific product plug (and it lacks 8 hours of battery life) - but you can buy an HP TX2000 series tablet starting at about a $1000, with WiFi and the kind of note-scribble mode you are looking for. YMMV, but I've been repeatedly screwed by Apple.
I read the dead-tree article earlier today (yes, we get the Times and yes we're under 65 years old!) and thought it was pretty interesting. Professional writers are finally getting sick of the bugware that is M$ Word.
My solution when doing creative or business writing is to use a text editor for writing, usually Emacs but whatever works. Emacs is nice because it is free, familiar and runs on anything. After the writing is done, I lay out the text in an Adobe InDesign book. It's very easy to "flow" text through the pages, make text wrap around images, etc. with InDesign. It's powerful because it is a full publishing package unlike Word, IMHO. It also integrates with Photoshop/Illustrator in ways the M$ fails to do. Final output is usually to PDF.
YMMV, but splitting writing completely from layout/design has improved my work greatly.
If the density is to high to be H20 ice only, could it include heavier volatiles without rocks? I'm trying to think of how it could have both a liquid ocean/pockets and not have significant sodium output.
I assumed it was differentiated because of it's roundness. Nothing like ground truth to answer these questions.
Subject asks it all. Would it be possible for Enceladus to be pure ices with little or no rocks? It is a round moon, so it should be differentiated. Could that differentiation be layers of ices (say water Ice III below, leading up to softer ices including other volatiles) without rocks? Enceladus could still have an ocean, just one without rocks. This presents potential life-genesis issues (which generally require rock-chemistry) but presents no inherent conflict with the idea of it having an ocean.
That launch site is more convenient to the East Coast US than Spaceport New Mexico or Mojave. It is also well-placed for northern European clients. They should market a 2 week package, 3 days to unwind in Iceland, a week of training and fun in Cape Breton, your suborbital flight, and a couple days to relax afterwards.
It's pretty high inclination which could grow into accessing the rumored 61 degree orbit of the Bigelow complex.
and the material would be available at the stroke of a keyboard. It would be inevitable if Youtube has the material that it will end up available online. YouTube (Google) is positioning itself as the "channel" of the Internet. Part of what they will eventually offer, IMHO, is micro-payments based on viewership. To them, it doesn't matter if it's Gone With the Wind or home-cam video, it's just content. That sort of situation is win-win for the studios. Their next trick will be offering the studios some kind of cut of user-edited videos based on percentage of each copyright holder's material. This would allow users to remix video at will and everyone gets a fair cut of advertising dollars. YouTube benefits from having even more content and a provides a fair playing field for all involved.
On an artistic note, people need material to practice video editing. Being able to recut shots from other projects is a valuable learning experience. Every Naruto fan-vid on YouTube is someone learning to edit.
Who do you trust more, Google or the government you live under? That is the root question.
There have been many recent breeches of information security in government and corporate computers. (esp. banking/credit/health sectors) Does a company like Google, who's bread and butter is information, have a naturally more trustable position from the end-user's perspective? Is it possible for Google to create a firewall to protect users from all data intrusion?
Google briefly had a market cap higher than Lockheed. They represent much more than just a search engine.
"Mecha" not "mechas". The same way that "deers" or "mooses" are incorrect. One mecha or many mecha, there is no S at the end.
Besides that, a Robotech live-action with today's 3D animation will absolutely rock! It'd be hard to pack into 2 hours, but I'd like to see some of the 2nd and 3rd Robotech series (and/or Macross Plus) mecha involved, since they look so cool.
I had a decent Iridium satellite sighting tonite in Providence, RI. Right at zenith with the Summer Triangle, north to south with a nice big flare. The three stars were the only ones visible along with Jupiter, just before the sky went really dark. That said, the difference between here in the city and in the country in Maine is amazing. In a rural (but not Wild) area, the Milky Way is visible and full constellations readily visible.
As one friend's kids once exclaimed on a drive from city to country, "Mom! What are all those little lights in the sky??"
Reducing light pollution only makes sense, since electric light directed into the sky literally is wasted light.
Slashdot Mirror
Ouch.
It's understandable from a policy level but they have been throttling the hell out of their trans-Pacific connections. Our team over there was getting 36kbs downloads from a (flaky GoDaddy client) connection the other day.
The truth is the Chinese govt. faces a very real terrorism threat w/ the upcoming Olympics and are doing everything including monitoring the Net to keep it from happening.
The root of the issue is that us space advocates are busy. Many of us are involved in aerospace or technology companies and don't have as much time for advocacy. Others have given up, retired or are still establishing their networks. There is an amazing generation coming up right now that is passionate about space. One thing however: NASA is increasingly irrelevant even to those that work there. Private and military space are where the action is. SpaceX, SpaceDev, Virgin, etc and AFRL have so much more going on. NASA is a politically-correct football that gets kicked around. Not to diss to much, they do the impossible and make it look easy. It's just that what NASA does best (Robot probes, basic research) has been superseded by what they do mediocre: operations.
Space is not just about "exploration" - and NASA is not going to do any colonizing - that is the venue of private activity.
Personally, I'm to busy working and keeping my wife in grad school to worry about March Storm and ISDC.
Loaners, not really as we are small in numbers. Agile in our case doesn't mean rolling in hardware.
Like most offices we are a "headphones" place. However any time I get an error or someone enters/leaves skype my machine goes "SQQRAAAWKKKK" instead of a nice "eeep" if my 'phones aren't plugged in. Working speakers would be less disturbing to my cubemate as this Macbook sounds like a tortured chihuaha.
Josh
i value on-hand, colloquial experience as much as objective analysis. In that regard, Apple has screwed up.
Here's what I know: last spring the brand-new video lab at a major metropolitan newspaper suffered 2 firewire port failures on new Apple towers. That is unacceptable for shipped hardware, IMHO. It might not be objective enough for you, but it was a major pain in my ass working around Apple's hardware deficiencies for me. YMMV.
Now, my Macbook goes "SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK" when I play a sound. Multitouch is nice, but the problems are very frustrating.
Josh
My company bought a white Macbook for me about 6 weeks ago, it arrived with broken internal speakers. The nice kids at the Mac store ordered the parts and said to bring the machine in for a quick fix. Being all cool and slack, the Apple store does not take appointments, so I brought the machine in last nite to see if they could fix it. The nice technician told me it would take 1-2 days and there was nothing to speed the process. This Macbook is my work machine, it's not for school or personal use - it's part of a (small, agile) global enterprise that runs 24/7 and I can't be without it for that long. HP and Dell send technicians onsite to service problems like this, no questions asked. It's like pulling teeth to get repairs out of your people. Until you figure out how to fit into business customer's needs, you will self-limit your reach.
Of the 4 new Macs I've worked on in the past year, 1 Macbook, 3 silver towers, 3 of the machines had hardware problems out of the box or within 1 week of unpacking. Specifically the broken speakers and dead Firewire ports. FIX YOUR QA PROBLEMS, CUPERTINO.
In the meantime I will be recommending HP, Lenovo or other for laptops and desktops.
Sincerely,
A Burned Customer.
PS - why is it called the "Genius Bar" if they are such idiots about these things?
How about infantry that can carry 20mm Bushmasters as sidearms? Soldiers wearing as much armor as a Bradley, logistics teams that don't get injured/tired as easily and medics that can easily pick up and run off with injured troops.
My personal favorite, once this gear is on the surplus market: powered armor rickshaw! Weld a sitting capsule to the back of the suit and run your clients through traffic. Hooahh!
The major difference is that Soyuz hasn't killed anyone since 1971 or there-abouts. Statistically STS and Soyuz are indistinguishable but STS's accidents have been spread throughout it's operational life while Soyuz' deaths all occurred early on in development.
(funny, you are "friend", "friend of a friend" and "foe of a friend" on my slashdot-o-meter)
Ballistic reentry like this is still under computer control. Manual reentry is for an even-worse condition Soyuz. IIRC ballistic reentry is for off-nominal or main computer crashing. Article says they altered course before reentry without telling MCC so they were either having trouble or screwing around. This is another testament to Soyuz robustness - still the safest spacecraft around.
Doh! Foiled again! Curse you Steve Jobs and your tricky media layers!
didn't need to install anything, just went to youtube.com and searched for my videos - they played fine on his iPhone. Seamless, one might say.
I really don't get it. We played "Industry Standard" on Bob's new iPhone over WiFi and it looked GREAT. Not just great, but better than on my PC great. What is The Steve jabbering about? Maybe if you try to load some craptastic webpage with a full UI of Flash and 17 videos playing simultaneously on it, but YouTube's Flash video plays fine on the iPhone and that is what counts for 99% of users.
Sounds like 13-17 for me - my pack of D&D friends always took care of each other. We still play once in a while now in our 30s and owe Mr. Gygax a great debt. RIP.
What you are asking for is a new, larger Newton. Or a Windoze tablet running Tablet Edition 2005 - which had the whole "lined legal pad" as a program. Apple lacks interest in tablet/slate machines since the Steve took over. Direct quote on the Newton 2100 "If it doesn't have a trackball, it's not a computer." Think Different, my eye.
Not to give a specific product plug (and it lacks 8 hours of battery life) - but you can buy an HP TX2000 series tablet starting at about a $1000, with WiFi and the kind of note-scribble mode you are looking for. YMMV, but I've been repeatedly screwed by Apple.
Josh
So, umm, anti-gravity only works in the dark?
Go Pats!
I read the dead-tree article earlier today (yes, we get the Times and yes we're under 65 years old!) and thought it was pretty interesting. Professional writers are finally getting sick of the bugware that is M$ Word.
My solution when doing creative or business writing is to use a text editor for writing, usually Emacs but whatever works. Emacs is nice because it is free, familiar and runs on anything. After the writing is done, I lay out the text in an Adobe InDesign book. It's very easy to "flow" text through the pages, make text wrap around images, etc. with InDesign. It's powerful because it is a full publishing package unlike Word, IMHO. It also integrates with Photoshop/Illustrator in ways the M$ fails to do. Final output is usually to PDF.
YMMV, but splitting writing completely from layout/design has improved my work greatly.
Josh
If the density is to high to be H20 ice only, could it include heavier volatiles without rocks? I'm trying to think of how it could have both a liquid ocean/pockets and not have significant sodium output.
I assumed it was differentiated because of it's roundness. Nothing like ground truth to answer these questions.
Subject asks it all. Would it be possible for Enceladus to be pure ices with little or no rocks? It is a round moon, so it should be differentiated. Could that differentiation be layers of ices (say water Ice III below, leading up to softer ices including other volatiles) without rocks? Enceladus could still have an ocean, just one without rocks. This presents potential life-genesis issues (which generally require rock-chemistry) but presents no inherent conflict with the idea of it having an ocean.
Josh
the first domesticated animal. Humans follow the same rules for breeding that other animals obey.
My wife always says I'm such a monkey, but I keeping telling her that I'm an ape.
That launch site is more convenient to the East Coast US than Spaceport New Mexico or Mojave. It is also well-placed for northern European clients. They should market a 2 week package, 3 days to unwind in Iceland, a week of training and fun in Cape Breton, your suborbital flight, and a couple days to relax afterwards.
It's pretty high inclination which could grow into accessing the rumored 61 degree orbit of the Bigelow complex.
and the material would be available at the stroke of a keyboard. It would be inevitable if Youtube has the material that it will end up available online. YouTube (Google) is positioning itself as the "channel" of the Internet. Part of what they will eventually offer, IMHO, is micro-payments based on viewership. To them, it doesn't matter if it's Gone With the Wind or home-cam video, it's just content. That sort of situation is win-win for the studios. Their next trick will be offering the studios some kind of cut of user-edited videos based on percentage of each copyright holder's material. This would allow users to remix video at will and everyone gets a fair cut of advertising dollars. YouTube benefits from having even more content and a provides a fair playing field for all involved.
On an artistic note, people need material to practice video editing. Being able to recut shots from other projects is a valuable learning experience. Every Naruto fan-vid on YouTube is someone learning to edit.
Josh
Who do you trust more, Google or the government you live under? That is the root question.
There have been many recent breeches of information security in government and corporate computers. (esp. banking/credit/health sectors) Does a company like Google, who's bread and butter is information, have a naturally more trustable position from the end-user's perspective? Is it possible for Google to create a firewall to protect users from all data intrusion?
Google briefly had a market cap higher than Lockheed. They represent much more than just a search engine.
Josh
Will check out Macross Zero on Netflix. Sounds great. I was really impressed with the new Appleseed movie - the 3D in that was gorgeous.
"Mecha" not "mechas". The same way that "deers" or "mooses" are incorrect. One mecha or many mecha, there is no S at the end.
Besides that, a Robotech live-action with today's 3D animation will absolutely rock! It'd be hard to pack into 2 hours, but I'd like to see some of the 2nd and 3rd Robotech series (and/or Macross Plus) mecha involved, since they look so cool.
I had a decent Iridium satellite sighting tonite in Providence, RI. Right at zenith with the Summer Triangle, north to south with a nice big flare. The three stars were the only ones visible along with Jupiter, just before the sky went really dark. That said, the difference between here in the city and in the country in Maine is amazing. In a rural (but not Wild) area, the Milky Way is visible and full constellations readily visible.
As one friend's kids once exclaimed on a drive from city to country, "Mom! What are all those little lights in the sky??"
Reducing light pollution only makes sense, since electric light directed into the sky literally is wasted light.