This is called the "Heal Factor". I'ved dealed with a lot used/crappy/old/picked up on the street computer equipment. Zero budget IT basically. Very often when all troubleshooting fails one must resort to the Heal Factor. It's a gamble, but very often it works. I've had a monitor, 2 hard drives, and a bunch of random cards return from the dead like that. Sometimes when they don't a Jedi mind trick is required.
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So.. basically you're saying that we should build a shuttle replacement for export as well, sorta like the F-16 Fighting Falcon model?
Funny, I used to live there. The thing w/ CO is that there's a regular schedule. It's sunny in the morning, partly cloudy by noon, and rains/snows at night. Maintaining a garden was wickid easy, just plant it and hope the hailstorms don't kill it. In Boston the weather's all over the place, and it shifts constantly, and it's not on a schedule like Ft. Collins, cuz there ain't no foothills (esp ones tatooed w/ a big A) heah!
It's just a name for a really powerful computer to be used by scientists to run models of whatever it is they're studying. These things don't get covered in mainstream news. If you want more information on supercomputers, go to http://www.top500.org/ (No, your G4 didn't make it).
But as for the name "Earth Simulator", that's exactly what it is, a name. Who knows, in Japanese its name could be The Matrix.
And how is a consumer to read a EULA on a website if they do not have internet access?
I hate EULAs as much as the next geek, but the simple way to pull this off is to require internet access. They can just print on the box that the consumer must have internet access installed to buy the software, but not enforce it.
I have a friend from Boston that helped me on a Lorenz Equations assignment. Towards the end of the assignment, there was a question asking what we had learned from the lorenz equation. He wrote the following:
The Lorenz Equations show that a small change at the beginning _CAN_ drastically alter the ending, just like the title of the assignment. Basically Lorenz showed that weather is random. What I don't understand, however, is why it took a tenured mathematician at a prestigious university to figure this out when all that is needed is a New Englander!
The professor, a native Masshole, gave him full credit on the problem.
Did they actually crawl into the tank? If they did that's probably the big red LOX/LH2 tank, and they didn't want to dammage it.
I'm not saying that the fear of people getting hurt is unjustified. There is still a risk, but just not as severe as the news reported. Granted they were trying to keep the Texans from shooting up the stuff, but for better or for worse I think it was overexaggerated and mostly bullshit. Besides, people should have the common sense to not pick up metal pieces that fall out of the sky.
History The Russian Shuttle Buran ("Snowstorm" in Russian) was authorized in 1976 in response to the United States' Space Shuttle program. Building of the shuttles began in 1980, with the first full-scale Aero-Buran rolling out in 1984.
Test Flights The first suborbital test flight of a scale model of Buran took place in July 1983. There were five additional flights of the scale model in following years. Aerodynamic tests of the full-scale Buran analogue began in 1984. This aero-Buran was worn out after 24 test flights and would not fly again. The last of these aerodynamic test flights was in April 1988.
Orbital Launch The first and only orbital launch of the shuttle Buran was at 3:00 GMT on November 15, 1988. The flight was unmanned, as the life support system had not been checked out and the CRT displays had no software installed. The vehicle was launched on the powerful Energiya booster into an 247 by 256 km orbit at 51.6 degrees inclination. The Buran orbited the Earth twice before firing its thrusters for reentry. The flight ended at 6:25 GMT when the vehicle touched down at Tyuratum. The Buran 1 mission was limited to 2 orbits due to computer memory limitations.
Aftermath Although the first orbital flight of Buran was unmanned, it demonstrated much promise. The autopilot that landed the shuttle was able to overcome a 34 mph crosswind to land within 5 feet of the runway center line. Also, of the 38,000 heat shield tiles that covered Buran, only 5 were missing.
Cancellation After the first flight of Buran, funding for the project was cut. Although the project wasn't officially canceled until 1993, much of the work was halted long before that date. There were two other Buran shuttles under construction. The second orbiter, "Ptichka" ("Little Bird" in Russian) was originally scheduled for completion in 1990. The third Buran was due in 1992. Neither was finished. In November 1995, the partially completed shuttles were dismantled at their production site. The manufacturing plant is scheduled to be converted for production of buses, syringes, and diapers.
I don't believe the toxic rocket fuel line. Here's why:
The tanks were nearly empty. This was at an _END_ of a mission. Granted there may have been reserves on board, but what needed to be used was used. The main engines were dry, and what was left was purely maneuvering fuel.
The percentage of the total mass of the shuttle that the fuel occupied is very small. Most of what feel were structural components.
Considering the number of pieces the Columbia broke into, it doesn't seem likely that any of the tanks survived intact, aka sealed.
Heat. IIRC, the shuttle broke up at Mach 18. It turned into a fireball that streaked through the sky. It is logical to assume that much of the fuel had burned away (or chemically changed) once it contacted the plasma around the vehicle.
Wind. Skydivers jumping from 10,000 feet (2 miles) experience wind above 100 mph. The shuttle hit the atmosphere at supersonic speeds. Any remaining liquid would likely evaporate during the fall. Even if the liquid boils at 500C, the speeds at which the components were traveling would create dynamic pressures so low that any liquid in contact with the boundary layers would evapaorate. In short, liquids traveling at that speed would cavitate. Simpler reason: the liquid would blow off.
IIRC, the shuttle broke up 20 miles above the earth. According to standard atmospheric tables, the air pressure would be 0.32" Hg, 1% of that at sea level. Lower air pressure makes it easier for liquids to evaporate.
Case 2: Assuming that they're capping it at 1 gigabit, 1 gigabit = 100,000,000 Bytes (100,000,000 Bytes) / (86400 seconds) = 1,157 = 1KB/s
So basically you're better off w/ a 56K w/ no download cap. US$40/mo (Assuming similar rates) is not worth a faster ping.
One thing to note, NTL has said that they will only be persuing persistent offenders
Sounds like a euphemism to kill P2P, but basically anybody who really uses their home computer(s) is bullseyed. Ebay merchants, small business owners, students. IMHO, NTL may have just signed their own death warrant.
Enterprise, the first Space Shuttle Orbiter, was originally to be named
Constitution (in honor of the U.S. Constitution's Bicentennial). However,
viewers of the popular TV Science Fiction show Star Trek started a write-in
campaign urging the White House to select the name Enterprise.
Designated, OV-101, the vehicle was rolled out of Rockwell's Air Force
Plant 42, Site 1 Palmdale California assembly facility on Sept. 17, 1976.
On Jan. 31, 1977, it was transported 36 miles overland from Rockwell's
assembly facility to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility at Edwards Air
Force Base for the approach and landing test program.
The nine-month-long ALT program was conducted from February
through November 1977 at the Dryden Flight Research Facility
and demonstrated that the orbiter could fly in the atmosphere
and land like an airplane, except without power-gliding flight.
Two NASA astronaut crews-Fred Haise and Gordon Fullerton and
Joe Engle and Dick Truly-took turns flying the 150,000-pound
spacecraft to free-flight landings.
The ALT program involved ground tests and flight tests. The ground
tests included taxi tests of the 747 shuttle carrier aircraft with the
Enterprise mated atop the SCA to determine structural loads and responses
and assess the mated capability in ground handling and control
characteristics up to flight takeoff speed. The taxi tests also
validated 747 steering and braking with the orbiter attached. A ground
test of orbiter systems followed the unmanned captive tests. All orbiter
systems were activated as they would be in atmospheric flight. This was
the final preparation for the manned captive flight phase.
Five captive flights of the Enterprise mounted atop the SCA
with the Enterprise unmanned and Enterprise's systems inert
were conducted to assess the structural integrity and performance
handling qualities of the mated craft.
Three manned captive flights that followed the five captive
flights included an astronaut crew aboard the orbiter operating
its flight control systems while the orbiter remained perched
atop the SCA. These flights were designed to exercise and
evaluate all systems in the flight environment in preparation
for the orbiter release (free) flights. They included flutter
tests of the mated craft at low and high speed, a separation
trajectory test and a dress rehearsal for the first orbiter
free flight.
In the five free flights the astronaut crew separated the
spacecraft from the SCA and maneuvered to a landing at Edwards
Air Force Base. In the first four such flights the landing was
on a dry lake bed; in the fifth, the landing was on Edwards'
main concrete runway under conditions simulating a return from
space. The last two free flights were made without the tail
cone, which is the spacecraft's configuration during an actual
landing from Earth orbit. These flights verified the orbiter's
pilot-guided approach and landing capability; demonstrated the
orbiter's subsonic terminal area energy management autoland
approach capability; and verified the orbiter's subsonic
airworthiness, integrated system operation and selected
subsystems in preparation for the first manned orbital flight.
The flights demonstrated the orbiter's ability to approach and
land safely with a minimum gross weight and using several
center-of-gravity configurations.
For all of the captive flights and the first three free
flights, the orbiter was outfitted with a tail cone covering
its aft section to reduce aerodynamic drag and turbulence. The
final two free flights were without the tail cone, and the
three simulated space shuttle main engines and two orbital
maneuvering system engines were exposed aerodynamically.
The final phase of the ALT program prepared the spacecraft for
four ferry flights. Fluid systems were drained and purged, the
tail cone was reinstalled, and elevon locks were installed. The
forward attachment strut was replaced to lower the orbiter's
cant from 6 to 3 degrees. This reduces drag to the mated
vehicles during the ferry flights.
After the ferry flight tests, OV-101 was returned to the NASA
hangar at the Dryden Flight Research Facility and modified for
vertical ground vibration tests at the Marshall Space Flight
Center, Huntsville, Ala.
On March 13, 1978, the Enterprise was ferried atop the SCA to
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, where it was mated with
the external tank and solid rocket boosters and subjected to a
series of vertical ground vibration tests. These tested the
mated configuration's critical structural dynamic response
modes, which were assessed against analytical math models used
to design the various element interfaces.
These were completed in March 1979. On April 10, 1979, the
Enterprise was ferried to the Kennedy Space Center. mated with
the external tank and solid rocket boosters and transported via
the mobile launcher platform to Launch Complex 39-A. At Launch
Complex 39-A, the Enterprise served as a practice and launch
complex fit-check verification tool representing the flight
vehicles.
It was ferried back to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility
on Aug. 16, 1979, and then returned overland to Rockwell's
Palmdale final assembly facility on Oct. 30, 1979. Certain
components were refurbished for use on flight vehicles being
assembled at Palmdale. The Enterprise was then returned
overland to the Dryden Flight Research Facility on Sept. 6,
1981.
During May and June of 1983, Enterprise was ferried to the
Paris, France, Air Show, as well as to Germany, Italy, England
and Canada, and was returned to the Dryden Flight Research
Facility.
In the April-October 1984 time period, Enterprise was ferried
to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and to Mobile, Ala.
From there it was taken by barge to New Orleans, La., for the
United States 1984 World's Fair.
In November 1984 it was ferried to Vandenberg Air Force Base
and used as a practice and fit-check verification tool. On May
24, 1985, Enterprise was ferried from Vandenberg Air Force Base
to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility.
On Sept. 20, 1985, Enterprise was ferried from Dryden Flight
Research Facility to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On
Nov. 18, 1985, Enterprise was ferried from the Kennedy Space
Center to Dulles Airport, Washington, D.C., and became the
property of the Smithsonian Institution. The Enterprise was
built as a test vehicle and is not equipped for space flight.
Following in the Enterprise's, the orbiter Columbia was created and it became the first Space Shuttle to fly into Earth orbit in 1981. Four sister ships joined the fleet over the next 10 years: Challenger, arriving in 1982 but destroyed four years later; Discovery, 1983; Atlantis, 1985; and Endeavour, built as a replacement for Challenger, 1991.
In the day-to-day world of Shuttle operations and processing, Space Shuttle orbiters go by a more prosaic designation. Enterprise is commonly refered to as OV-101, for Orbiter Vehicle-101.
I'm curious about the tire theories as well. A few years back the Concorde crash investigation focused on the tires exploding. These are not your usual 35 PSI bike tires. A tire for the shuttle must not only support the landing, but endure the conditions of launch as well as be able to handle at least an extra 14.7 PSI of pressure in space. Now, one of the strange things about tires is that much of it is still an art. Take vulcanization, for instance. From what I've read, the science behind it is not completely understood. Just my 2. Remember this is just another theory from another geek.
Scream at them, blow a whistle into the phone, press and hold buttons...
Here are my 4 favorite methods back in high school:
Speedtalker
Telemarketer: Hello Sir, my name is Jeff from Bigcorp. I'd like to tell you about our special offer today. Me: Wait a second...... you have exactly 28 seconds to make your sales pitch, GO! Be sure to interrupt them to give them 15/10/5 second warnings. Then at the end still say no and politely tell them to remove your number from their list.
Hold Marathon
Telemarketer: Hello Sir, my name is Jeff from Bigcorp. I'd like to tell you about our special offer today. Me:[beep] Please hold. [Cheesy MIDI elevator music]
See how long they last every 5 minutes pick up the phone and tell him to keep waiting and that you're very interested in the product.
Klingon
Telemarketer: Hello Sir, my name is Jeff from Bigcorp. I'd like to tell you about our special offer today. Me:tlhImqaH boHIvlaH bIQong SuQong bInep juHIvbe' HIDjolev meqleH ghanjaq!
Phone sex
Telemarketer: Hello Sir, my name is Jeff from Bigcorp. Could I have a few minutes of your time? Me: What are you wearing? Do you like it rough? When was the last time you had a real man? You like it up the ass don't you? Use this w/ both male and female telemarketers. If they don't give up at first then just get as disgusting as you can.
Speaking of after-market, aren't there alternate manufacturers that you can get thinkpad batteries from? E.g. request a pack made by Sony/Panasonic/Toshiba/etc.
From where would you supply the air for the necessary bubbles? If you're in a submarine that's been submerged for say 2 weeks, is there a stable source of air to inject?
After the settlement of the strike and the successful launch of their ADR stock, Sony had returned to normal. An eventful 1961 drew to a close on December 16, when Sony concluded a contract with Paramount Pictures to provide technical assistance in the production of a chromatron tube and color television receiver utilizing it.
The days of radio are over. The future lies in television. Ibuka's simple comment resulted in the birth of Sony's model TV8-301, the world's first portable television. It was, however, a black and white receiver.
We are surrounded by vivid colors in our daily life. Television, then, must be true to life. A TV set that cannot reproduce color is far from having been perfected. Producing color TVs was the next logical step for anyone involved in television. Sony was no exception. Many people had taken part in the technical research of color TVs from the earliest days of television. Early color receivers used cathode-ray tubes developed by RCA, which employed the three-electron gun shadow mask system. These cathode-ray tubes had three major drawbacks however: they were expensive, difficult to tune and broke down often. In comparison with black and white sets, the images were much darker. Moreover, when viewed in a normally lit room, the beautiful colors did not come through. Colors often ran into one another --- in general it was difficult to attain an accurate picture.
The consensus was that the dark picture and failure to produce true color did not merit the high price. This feeling accounted for the slow sales of color sets. In the U.S., the ratio of B/W TV owners to color TV owners was 50 to 1 (50 million to 1 million). In Japan, the situation was worse, with only 300 color receivers sold in contrast to nine million B/W sets.
Ibuka and the others decided that if they were going to tackle color TV, they would not rely on the shadow mask process with all its drawbacks. The Sony staff was confident that they could come up with a television without precedent. Sony is an innovator. We do things that no one has done. With this, Sony began the urgent search for a replacement to the shadow mask.
The SV-201 all-transistor VTR.
Sony was not alone. Dissatisfaction with the shadow mask screen was widespread. One possible substitute was the banana tube. Television signals were sent through this long thin tube, followed by RGB signals flashed at timed intervals, shuttered through a striped filter rotated through the beam. The rotating sound made a clattering noise, which in Japanese is onomatopoetically referred to as karakara. The color television using it was given the dubious, but amusing, name of karakara television, because of its phonetic closeness to the word color. The apple tube, which had been developed by Philco, was another possibility. Then there was the chromatron tube. This was the invention of famous American atomic physicist and Nobel laureate, Dr. E. O. Lawrence.
In March 1961, Kihara and his staff took part in the IRE Show which was held at the New York Hilton Hotel and the New York Coliseum. An exhibit of the latest technology and technological applications, this was more like a scientific exposition than the present day trade show. Kihara and his staff had brought along the SV-201, the world's smallest video recorder and Hi-D (high-density) metal powder-coated tape which had been developed for the recorder.
Here at the show, the Sony staff came across the brightest color display they had ever seen. It had originally been conceived as an IFF (Identification of Friend or Foe) display for military use. At one glance, however, Kihara knew that it was what they had been looking for.
Sony said its decision was reached for reasons of cost as well as market demand. "We see a trend toward larger size screens in CRTs," said Eddie Taylor, a business planning manager for Sony's display division, in a brief interview.
These days a 15" LCD costs as much as a 15" CRT 5 years ago. The general public probably likes LCDs more, and the people who are willing to shell out serious cash on CRT want the biggies. Just look at the price structure. The most and least expensive 19" monitor costs $350 and $430, respectively. For 21" CRTs, the prices are $600 and $1700 (not counting the color reference one). Now let's just say manufacturing costs for the 21" = 120% (random number, but makes some sense) of the 19". Then Sony would be making a much larger profit margin on CRTs, and bailing out before price wars make the 19" unprofitable.
Sony's decision came as no surprise to those who have closely watched monitor manufacturers slowly shift away from cathode-ray tube (CRT) production to manufacturing LCDs. Sharp, Matsushita, and Hitachi all have pulled out of the CRT tube business, and their display divisions have either purchased tubes from companies like Toshiba or exited the CRT monitor business altogether in favor of LCDs, analysts said.
Ok, here's my idea. I know it's really me daydreaming but anyway:
How about both LCD & CRT? With many video cards supporting multiple monitors, this wouldn't be too difficult. Set the LCD smack dab dead center in front of you. Put the CRT off to the side, a corner position. My CRT is already on a corner, best place to have a monitor (you can also slide the desk about a foot away from the wall and let the monitor hang). You have the best of both worlds. Make sure both monitors are the same size & the screens are at the same height, then use software gamma correction if necessary. Play games on the CRT, read on the LCD.
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This is called the "Heal Factor". I'ved dealed with a lot used/crappy/old/picked up on the street computer equipment. Zero budget IT basically. Very often when all troubleshooting fails one must resort to the Heal Factor. It's a gamble, but very often it works. I've had a monitor, 2 hard drives, and a bunch of random cards return from the dead like that. Sometimes when they don't a Jedi mind trick is required.
So.. basically you're saying that we should build a shuttle replacement for export as well, sorta like the F-16 Fighting Falcon model?
Funny, I used to live there. The thing w/ CO is that there's a regular schedule. It's sunny in the morning, partly cloudy by noon, and rains/snows at night. Maintaining a garden was wickid easy, just plant it and hope the hailstorms don't kill it. In Boston the weather's all over the place, and it shifts constantly, and it's not on a schedule like Ft. Collins, cuz there ain't no foothills (esp ones tatooed w/ a big A) heah!
It's just a name for a really powerful computer to be used by scientists to run models of whatever it is they're studying. These things don't get covered in mainstream news. If you want more information on supercomputers, go to http://www.top500.org/ (No, your G4 didn't make it).
But as for the name "Earth Simulator", that's exactly what it is, a name. Who knows, in Japanese its name could be The Matrix.
Did they actually crawl into the tank? If they did that's probably the big red LOX/LH2 tank, and they didn't want to dammage it.
I'm not saying that the fear of people getting hurt is unjustified. There is still a risk, but just not as severe as the news reported. Granted they were trying to keep the Texans from shooting up the stuff, but for better or for worse I think it was overexaggerated and mostly bullshit. Besides, people should have the common sense to not pick up metal pieces that fall out of the sky.
I was trying to support your comment.
My
Case 1:
Assuming that they're capping it at 1 gigabyte,
1 gigabyte = 1,000,000,000 Bytes (I know it's a touch more, but for simplicity...)
(1,000,000,000 Bytes) / (86400 seconds) = 11,574 = 12KB/s
Case 2:
Assuming that they're capping it at 1 gigabit,
1 gigabit = 100,000,000 Bytes
(100,000,000 Bytes) / (86400 seconds) = 1,157 = 1KB/s
So basically you're better off w/ a 56K w/ no download cap. US$40/mo (Assuming similar rates) is not worth a faster ping.
Sounds like a euphemism to kill P2P, but basically anybody who really uses their home computer(s) is bullseyed. Ebay merchants, small business owners, students. IMHO, NTL may have just signed their own death warrant.
More info on Enterprise(OV-101) from http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbi ters/enterprise.html
I'm curious about the tire theories as well. A few years back the Concorde crash investigation focused on the tires exploding. These are not your usual 35 PSI bike tires. A tire for the shuttle must not only support the landing, but endure the conditions of launch as well as be able to handle at least an extra 14.7 PSI of pressure in space. Now, one of the strange things about tires is that much of it is still an art. Take vulcanization, for instance. From what I've read, the science behind it is not completely understood. Just my 2. Remember this is just another theory from another geek.
I thought Columbia was the one shuttle that could NOT dock with the ISS.
RIP, OV-102.
Telemarketer: Hello Sir, my name is Jeff from Bigcorp. I'd like to tell you about our special offer today.
Me: Wait a second...
Be sure to interrupt them to give them 15/10/5 second warnings. Then at the end still say no and politely tell them to remove your number from their list.
Telemarketer: Hello Sir, my name is Jeff from Bigcorp. I'd like to tell you about our special offer today.
Me:[beep] Please hold. [Cheesy MIDI elevator music]
See how long they last every 5 minutes pick up the phone and tell him to keep waiting and that you're very interested in the product.
Telemarketer: Hello Sir, my name is Jeff from Bigcorp. I'd like to tell you about our special offer today.
Me:tlhImqaH boHIvlaH bIQong SuQong bInep juHIvbe' HIDjolev meqleH ghanjaq!
Telemarketer: Hello Sir, my name is Jeff from Bigcorp. Could I have a few minutes of your time?
Me: What are you wearing? Do you like it rough? When was the last time you had a real man? You like it up the ass don't you?
Use this w/ both male and female telemarketers. If they don't give up at first then just get as disgusting as you can.
I'm sure there's after-market replacement batteries out there.
Hell I can still get a battery for my Zenith Supersport 286.
Speaking of after-market, aren't there alternate manufacturers that you can get thinkpad batteries from? E.g. request a pack made by Sony/Panasonic/Toshiba/etc.
Moreover, imagine if the sub doesn't use neutral bouyancy but flies through the water.
Wouldn't you add induced drag? ( D_i = (C_L^2 / (pi * e * AR)) * 1/2 * rho * V^2 * S)
From where would you supply the air for the necessary bubbles? If you're in a submarine that's been submerged for say 2 weeks, is there a stable source of air to inject?
http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/1-10/h1.html
Ok, here's my idea. I know it's really me daydreaming but anyway:
How about both LCD & CRT? With many video cards supporting multiple monitors, this wouldn't be too difficult. Set the LCD smack dab dead center in front of you. Put the CRT off to the side, a corner position. My CRT is already on a corner, best place to have a monitor (you can also slide the desk about a foot away from the wall and let the monitor hang). You have the best of both worlds. Make sure both monitors are the same size & the screens are at the same height, then use software gamma correction if necessary. Play games on the CRT, read on the LCD.
Think Jurassic Park