Assuming its like the time they dropped the car out, they will just cut the roof off.. although I personally think it would be cooler if they all exited the folding door in the front..
It would be cooler. However, try getting 40 people out of a bus who are all decked out in skydiving equipment (rigs, helmets, etc), from a bus that's rockin & rolling in the sky in less than a minute. I would not want to be near the back.
Plus, if they got even a mild spin going, they'd still be in the bus when it hit the ground.... centrifugal forces can really ruin your day.
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Chances are that it's a turboprop jet. It's still a jet engine, but rather than using the jet itself to generate thrust, the jet turns rotors instead.
No, the plane in the picture is a Skyvan, which is twin-turbine prop-driven aircraft.
They WANT to enlist a C5A military transport jet to drop the bus out of. MUCH bigger plane. Also much more expensive to run. Hence the dream.
of course it's not. You're paying a company for an ungaruanteed service (read your TOS, i bet you find alot of "up to"s and "as high as" phrases in there. You're paying a consumer-level price for a consumer-level service.
If you want guaranteed bandwidth and the "right" to run servers, fine, pay for it. Most ISPs would be happy to let you run servers if you pay for the business-grade service.
People running servers off of their own machines are GENERALLY a)more likely to be bandwidth hogs (read: warez) and b) more likely to cause trouble for the ISP (read: warez)
The average person doesn't have a legitimate need to run servers from their home.
The cable that comes into my house can be used for speeds in excess of 30Mbps, if I recall correctly, yet I have a mere 1.5-2Mbps
actually 30Mbps is what 1 Tv channel (6MHZ) worth of bandwidth will get you. Take a modern 850MHz Cable plant and that gives you roughly 4.25Gbps of bandwidth possible over the cable coming into your house.
The trick there, though, is that they'd have to stop broadcasting TV on that system to get you the bandwidth, but the raw capacity is there, and that's per-node.
I'm not sure i had a point, just though i'd share the data... doesn't that make you feel better about your 1.5Mbit? *grin*
The ET (external tank), big orange external gas (H2) and oxidizer tank (O2) is not recovered. This is a big waste.
There was walk once upon a time about carrying the ET into orbit along with the Orbiter and using it(several of them) for building up a space-station... you've got 2 quite air-tight (and large) vesssels in each one.
Does anyone know what happened to this idea? Too economical?
Why would that be? You pull your cord, and nothing happens. You pull you reserve cord, and nothing happens. That takes all of ten seconds. What says everyone is going to pull at once?
in the scenerio you just described, 5 seconds later you hit the ground.. See below for why...
Why not? It seems to me that some dives have minutes in the air, which is probably time enough.
An average skydive from full altitude in the slowest normal attitude will take about 70 seconds from exit to deployment... about 5 seconds before deployment everyone turns and flies as far away from eachother as they can so that their canopies don't collide.
Yes, everyone opens at about the same time.
It may SEEM like minutes to you in Pointbreak, Dropzone, Cutaway and Fandango, but it certainly isn't that way in real life. I invite you to come try it sometime, hopefully before you attempt to spread any more wildly inaccurate information (and get modded informative *sigh*)
But Linux is bloated as can be nowadays. My last Suse came on 8 CDs or 1 DVD, and RedHat recommends like 2.5GB of space.......ugh
sure but that's cause they include assloads of optinoal software.... note -- optional.
If windows came with the huge variety of stuff that most modern linux distros come with, it would also be more immense than it is already.
Many/Most of these distros only require 1 CD to do a basic install.
Now, if the distros could get off their asses and standardize on some packing format/file layout. they wouldn't need to include everything because you could have a linux tucows that would actually work on everything.
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no, no, no... By making it available for apache they suddenly open themselves up to gain a HUGE portion of the web-programming market-share.
It's tough to be ubiquitous when your software won't run on 59.7% of the websites out there.
It's a lot easier to get people to move to IIS later if all of their code (.NET) is portable.
You can't use this system on e-commerce, because you can't write the order data. The only thing this may stop is people r00ting boxes and posting "hacked by chinese!". In other words, this is for protecting static web pages, or content that doesn't take user input.
On any real e-commerce site all of the dynamic data is read form/written to a database -- generally on another machine. So yes this will keep people from trashing your code.
Keeping them from trashing your data is another story, but that was already addressed in the oringal posting.
So would a CD Rom image of your web directory. Save Muchos buck$
Sure, but you can't update that from another machine on-the-fly.
The point of this thing is that you have it connected to 2 machines: Read-only for the webserver, and read-write from an admin server that's not web-accessable.
Fiber or Ethernet?
Token ring FDDI or 1000BaseT?
Isn't Ethernet Link layer, not physical layer? WHy could it not be Ethernet on fiber?
1000bastT would be gig over copper, if anything.
1000baseFX perhaps?
And tokenring is not ethernet./nitpick
If he opened the parachute in high in the atmosphere the thin air would push LESS in the parachute then it would close to the ground (that's why he will travel so fast in the first place) the force would be the same any point on the trip down.
See, i theorize the same thing, but people SWEAR that they have harder(faster) openings when they're at higher-than-normal altitudes. The only thing i can figure about this is that the thinner air gets you going faster, but when the canopy inflates, all the surface area still does a really good job of grabbing the air that's there (there's some force^2 as surface area doubles or someting, isn't there?)...
think that it was a younger version of her, unaware of the dangers of the man sitting next to her, rather than her come back from the future to try and set things right No, they weren't trying to set things right. They knew that they couldn't alter the course of events because they happened. They wanted to get their hands on a sample of the pure virus/bacteria/whatever and be able to create a cure. They didn't want him to try and change things because they knew he couldn't. That's what was going to happen because it already had.
That depends on what kind of five-nines you're talking about. 5-nines of software uptime is much better than 5-nines of flights landing safely.
99.999% of flights landing safely gives 1 crash every 2 days.
there is such a thing as a flat rate uplink, you just have to buy it that way instead of teired pricing... tired is great until you exceed the allowance, then you get reamed.... so pay a bit more for flate rate and they you can chug away all day long at full tilt on your OC3 and not worry about it
and the bigger boys (at&t for one) have peering agreements with the other carriers -- so they don't see that cost at all..
decent packet shaping on a network keeps bandwidth available to the web surfers even when the p2p boys are blasting away with their MP3s... this would also make capping bandwidth at 1mbit (burstable for slower times) easier and more flexible.
I mean, all they need to do is put a trap on the line that filters out the analog signals, cable modems run on digital channels anyway.
Wrong. Everything on the cable system (including digital cable) is pumped into the analog portion of the system (on it's own respective frequencies) before it gets to the fiber portion of the network, and comes into your house in the same analog fashion that's been used for years. The only difference between a "digital" and "analog" channles to the cable system is... well.... there isn't one. It's all about the sending and receiving equipment. Digial cable channels actually take up space in the spectrum where a normal channel would go.. the difference is that they take up less bandwidth (2MHz per digital channel as opposed to 6Mhz per analog channel) so you can squeeze more channels into the same space.. even more if they're all "low-bandwith" channels (not a lot of movement), the digital video is, after all, Mpeg2, and the less movement you have the less datarate yuo need.
Digial cable boxen are essentially cable modems with a built-in tuner and video output features... they even run on IP for communiactions with the head-end.
From what i was able to divine from our senior cable engineer, cable companies HAVE to (legally) deliver local broadcast content if you're getting any service at all.. Hence the common $10 surcharge if you have only cable modem service. The diference is they don't have to tell you about it.
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Assuming its like the time they dropped the car out, they will just cut the roof off.. although I personally think it would be cooler if they all exited the folding door in the front..
It would be cooler. However, try getting 40 people out of a bus who are all decked out in skydiving equipment (rigs, helmets, etc), from a bus that's rockin & rolling in the sky in less than a minute. I would not want to be near the back.
Plus, if they got even a mild spin going, they'd still be in the bus when it hit the ground.... centrifugal forces can really ruin your day.
Chances are that it's a turboprop jet. It's still a jet engine, but rather than using the jet itself to generate thrust, the jet turns rotors instead.
No, the plane in the picture is a Skyvan, which is twin-turbine prop-driven aircraft.
They WANT to enlist a C5A military transport jet to drop the bus out of. MUCH bigger plane. Also much more expensive to run. Hence the dream.
But, the question: Is it (bandwidth) a "right?"
of course it's not. You're paying a company for an ungaruanteed service (read your TOS, i bet you find alot of "up to"s and "as high as" phrases in there. You're paying a consumer-level price for a consumer-level service.
If you want guaranteed bandwidth and the "right" to run servers, fine, pay for it. Most ISPs would be happy to let you run servers if you pay for the business-grade service.
People running servers off of their own machines are GENERALLY a)more likely to be bandwidth hogs (read: warez) and b) more likely to cause trouble for the ISP (read: warez)
The average person doesn't have a legitimate need to run servers from their home.
The cable that comes into my house can be used for speeds in excess of 30Mbps, if I recall correctly, yet I have a mere 1.5-2Mbps
actually 30Mbps is what 1 Tv channel (6MHZ) worth of bandwidth will get you. Take a modern 850MHz Cable plant and that gives you roughly 4.25Gbps of bandwidth possible over the cable coming into your house.
The trick there, though, is that they'd have to stop broadcasting TV on that system to get you the bandwidth, but the raw capacity is there, and that's per-node.
I'm not sure i had a point, just though i'd share the data... doesn't that make you feel better about your 1.5Mbit? *grin*
could just run the bulk of the system as read-only and mount your data partition as dos or vfat.... nice and persistant.
OR just run the whole darned thing as UMSDOS.
The ET (external tank), big orange external gas (H2) and oxidizer tank (O2) is not recovered. This is a big waste.
There was walk once upon a time about carrying the ET into orbit along with the Orbiter and using it(several of them) for building up a space-station... you've got 2 quite air-tight (and large) vesssels in each one.
Does anyone know what happened to this idea? Too economical?
Why would that be? You pull your cord, and nothing happens. You pull you reserve cord, and nothing happens. That takes all of ten seconds. What says everyone is going to pull at once?
in the scenerio you just described, 5 seconds later you hit the ground.. See below for why...
Why not? It seems to me that some dives have minutes in the air, which is probably time enough.
An average skydive from full altitude in the slowest normal attitude will take about 70 seconds from exit to deployment... about 5 seconds before deployment everyone turns and flies as far away from eachother as they can so that their canopies don't collide.
Yes, everyone opens at about the same time.
It may SEEM like minutes to you in Pointbreak, Dropzone, Cutaway and Fandango, but it certainly isn't that way in real life.
I invite you to come try it sometime, hopefully before you attempt to spread any more wildly inaccurate information (and get modded informative *sigh*)
But Linux is bloated as can be nowadays.
My last Suse came on 8 CDs or 1 DVD, and RedHat recommends like 2.5GB of space.......ugh
sure but that's cause they include assloads of optinoal software.... note -- optional.
If windows came with the huge variety of stuff that most modern linux distros come with, it would also be more immense than it is already.
Many/Most of these distros only require 1 CD to do a basic install.
Now, if the distros could get off their asses and standardize on some packing format/file layout. they wouldn't need to include everything because you could have a linux tucows that would actually work on everything.
no, no, no... By making it available for apache they suddenly open themselves up to gain a HUGE portion of the web-programming market-share.
It's tough to be ubiquitous when your software won't run on 59.7% of the websites out there.
It's a lot easier to get people to move to IIS later if all of their code (.NET) is portable.
You can't use this system on e-commerce, because you can't write the order data. The only thing this may stop is people r00ting boxes and posting "hacked by chinese!". In other words, this is for protecting static web pages, or content that doesn't take user input.
On any real e-commerce site all of the dynamic data is read form/written to a database -- generally on another machine. So yes this will keep people from trashing your code.
Keeping them from trashing your data is another story, but that was already addressed in the oringal posting.
So would a CD Rom image of your web directory. Save Muchos buck$
Sure, but you can't update that from another machine on-the-fly.
The point of this thing is that you have it connected to 2 machines: Read-only for the webserver, and read-write from an admin server that's not web-accessable.
Fiber or Ethernet? Token ring FDDI or 1000BaseT? Isn't Ethernet Link layer, not physical layer? WHy could it not be Ethernet on fiber? 1000bastT would be gig over copper, if anything. 1000baseFX perhaps? And tokenring is not ethernet. /nitpick
wow.. imagine a beowulf cluster....
Most first time sky divers jump at 1066M.
I jumped from 4000M last weekend.
Actually 1000M is right about where most skydivers open their parachutes on an average jump. Some lower, some higer, but 1000M is average.
I jumped from 4000M last weekend, too.. opened just below 1000M and was still well within the rules.
troll.
If he opened the parachute in high in the atmosphere the thin air would push LESS in the parachute then it would close to the ground (that's why he will travel so fast in the first place) the force would be the same any point on the trip down.
See, i theorize the same thing, but people SWEAR that they have harder(faster) openings when they're at higher-than-normal altitudes. The only thing i can figure about this is that the thinner air gets you going faster, but when the canopy inflates, all the surface area still does a really good job of grabbing the air that's there (there's some force^2 as surface area doubles or someting, isn't there?)...
He could use his reserve, which according to FAA TSO guidelines must open within 300 feet, but an opening that quick would damage the reserve.
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A reserve that would blow up on a terminal deployment wouldn't be much of a reserve, now would it?
Remember, he was talking 200Kph, not Mph.200Km/hr isn't all that fast... it's approx terminal at sealevel.
I've had a reserve deployment at terminal and nothing blew up.
think that it was a younger version of her, unaware of the dangers of the man sitting next to her, rather than her come back from the future to try and set things right
No, they weren't trying to set things right. They knew that they couldn't alter the course of events because they happened. They wanted to get their hands on a sample of the pure virus/bacteria/whatever and be able to create a cure. They didn't want him to try and change things because they knew he couldn't. That's what was going to happen because it already had.
That depends on what kind of five-nines you're talking about. 5-nines of software uptime is much better than 5-nines of flights landing safely. 99.999% of flights landing safely gives 1 crash every 2 days.
AFAIK the F-16 is the same way. I think it was actually the first production US military aircraft to do this, yesno?
dude.. you just slashdotted your friend..... un-cool
unless of course you're using an unpowered firewire port, such as those found on most forewire pc-card adaptors.
there is such a thing as a flat rate uplink, you just have to buy it that way instead of teired pricing... tired is great until you exceed the allowance, then you get reamed.... so pay a bit more for flate rate and they you can chug away all day long at full tilt on your OC3 and not worry about it and the bigger boys (at&t for one) have peering agreements with the other carriers -- so they don't see that cost at all.. decent packet shaping on a network keeps bandwidth available to the web surfers even when the p2p boys are blasting away with their MP3s... this would also make capping bandwidth at 1mbit (burstable for slower times) easier and more flexible.
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I mean, all they need to do is put a trap on the line that filters out the analog signals, cable modems run on digital channels anyway.
Wrong. Everything on the cable system (including digital cable) is pumped into the analog portion of the system (on it's own respective frequencies) before it gets to the fiber portion of the network, and comes into your house in the same analog fashion that's been used for years. The only difference between a "digital" and "analog" channles to the cable system is... well.... there isn't one. It's all about the sending and receiving equipment. Digial cable channels actually take up space in the spectrum where a normal channel would go.. the difference is that they take up less bandwidth (2MHz per digital channel as opposed to 6Mhz per analog channel) so you can squeeze more channels into the same space.. even more if they're all "low-bandwith" channels (not a lot of movement), the digital video is, after all, Mpeg2, and the less movement you have the less datarate yuo need.
Digial cable boxen are essentially cable modems with a built-in tuner and video output features... they even run on IP for communiactions with the head-end.
From what i was able to divine from our senior cable engineer, cable companies HAVE to (legally) deliver local broadcast content if you're getting any service at all.. Hence the common $10 surcharge if you have only cable modem service. The diference is they don't have to tell you about it.