Geosync has nothing to do with determining north or south of the equator unless they're doing somthing with the timeing and shift of position of the satalites to determine that.
Geosync orbits are not always equatorial. it's possible to have Geosync that's over spots other than the equator. Though I believe there is a sort of figure eight pattern for such satalites for some reason that might complicate a gps like system, but if thier already sub-geosync they're already dealing with such complications.
Up to point mass matters, there is also the matter of secondary radiation. Now IANAPP, but as I understand it one of the problems is stray neutrons hitting things and causing a shower of secondary particles that are more damaging than the original neutron would have been. Water IIRC is much better in this regard. Especialy better than most metals. A real physicist, or at least a student on the road thereto, could probably explain better and maybee clear things up if my laymans reading and/or memory have bolloxed the details.
I don't think the blue laser can be used, but as I understand it the idea would be to have a regular frequency laser eigther in the same r/w head or a second head to read cd and regular dvd's.
Ahh, that makes more sense. I had only seen a brief news clip on tv, and it wasn't clear exactly when in the flight the problem occured.
Wish I had the option of being there, but I live in the St. Louis are of Missouri, a little far for a weekend drive.
He was pointed nearly straight up (that's how it looked, about a 75-85). And rotated about his axis of travel (roll? drawing a stupid blank for some reason).
Only thing I can think of is if the two wings were in differently moving masses of air when this occured. He was likely travelling very fast at the time, near his top speed (mach3? my memory is crap today).
Not necessarily you. Just that fact that an area has a high gun ownership tends to scare crooks away. they don't want to get shot, and when they can't tell who's armed and who's not why would they risk it?
If you are going to depend on 'trained professionals' everytime to deal with violent criminals you had best hope not to ever meet violence of that sort face to face. Unless of course you plan on hiring a body guard. Police, by the nature of thier job, only deter crime as a side effect. Thier main purpose is to solve crimes after the fact and arrest people.
Crooks who steal guns do NOT generaly go after people carrying them, slight problem with getting shot for trying. And again even if a few get stolen, do you think most crooks are stupid enough to try and use one in a crime when any number of passersby just might be able to put an end to thier ways suddenly? And if they do what are thier odds of surviving for a second try.
A disarmed populace on the otherhand is easy pickings for criminal, because they will still have thier guns. Even if they didn't odds are they will have some sort of advantage. Guns are called the great equalizer for reason, they enable a 60 year old grandma to stop a husky 25year old from beating her up for her tv and spare cash.
So even if your not willing to defend yourself and your familly, please don't argue the rest of us shouldn't be allowed to. Especially since you'll benifit from our willingness to do so.
Looks like someone got modded by a humorless baggage handler for one of the airlines.
Lighten up people, some jokes I can see getting down modded by mistake or for mentioning proffit or russia, but this one was obviously enough a joke that you'd have to be minus a few clue points to miss.
No, not first, but it gets list somewhere I'm shure. At least for any craft that has to deal with atmosphere.
Me first thing I worry about is the Huge laser cannons and force shields. That and a seat for cute blue space chick.
Maybe this is why NASA hasn't called back.
The explanation is fairly straight-forward. The Authors of the constitution and the second amendment had just fought off the rule of a king and government they felt was unjust.
In part they were able to do so through the formation of the various state militia's, groups of privately armed and trained citizens. Thus they saw fit to explicitly prohibit the federal government from infringing in the private ownership and possesion of arms. In large part specificaly so such militia's could be formed if needed. Arms being "every arm of the soldier, however terrible" according to them, Jefferson specifically iirc.
The only confusing part of that is the use of the phrase 'well regulated' as the term has changed meaning in common usuage to mean regulated as in regulations of law or rule, back then it ment regulated as in a properly functioning machine.
Of course many have tried, falsly, to claim that the second only refered to 'official' militia's, such as the national guard. However any reading of what the founding fathers themselves said about thier intent shows that the militia is the main side benifit of the second (thus it's specific mention), not it's sole purpose nor a limit thereof.
"Also, there is the (probably true) view that most of the technically illiterate masses out there, confronted with the need to download a strange piece of software so they can browse some website, will simply skip the site and go elsewhere."
Could you PLEASE convince all the sites running flash and such crap about this. I'm sick of hitting sites with a 1-5 meg download just to see some intro page full of this crap before I can get to WHY I'm at that site in the first place. There are a lot of 'web developers' who thinks there is valid point to this crap when 95% of the time it's just a pain in the @$$ attempt to show off.
That happens to be one of my favorite methods! Of course only when a)it's mine, thus no-one is paying me to play around. and b) I admit to myself I'm really just playing around and hoping to fix it by accident as an afterthought more than anything else.
Faulty power supplies are responsible for a LOT of problems, most people blame half of them on the software or other components and never think to check the ps. I've solved more than a few issues with new power suplies.
Probably somthing got damaged by the old one and finally died when a borderline component couldn't take one more power cycle.
If a sudden loss of power to the ps causes a mb to fry in any consumer PC then, IMHO, somthing is defective, possibly the ps. It shouldn't happen period. Power outages are to likely in typical home or small bussiness to guarantee it'll never go out suddenly.
Turning of a switched outlet is no worse, and often better, that a random outage.
I've been through lots of outages, and even had my comp connected to switched outlet someone (ok,ok, me somtimes) would turn off without making shure the comp was powered down. NEVER have I had that dammage anything more than data on the hd.
Somtimes it's pure luck though. I've had a monitor catch fire while online, yet other than the slight flames comming out the monitor issue everything was working just fine. Well at least for 30 seconds or so it took to figure out what that odd noise and smell was + 10 or seconds to believe it and pull the plug.
I'm always being called by friends to fix thier computers (or anything remotely electronic) and somtimes they turn it on and it's broke, but I get within 5 feet of it and it works perfect till I leave.
I've had friends explain what they did to fix a problem I've verified exists, and yet if I do it it mysteriously works.
Now most of the time I do have to figure it out to fix it, but this sort of 'luck' happens often enough to give one a certain reputation.
Of course there is a small price to pay, I've never had a wristwatch last more than 3 months, ever. Somtimes just quiting for NO reason what so-ever including once when one quit just as I put it on, still in the store.
The BSA used to have a reputation for pulling gestapo tactics. I haven't heard much lately, but I wouldn't really put anything past them.
Do a google on them sometime, there is bound to be plenty of horror stories out there.
I don't, have a copy of photoshop that is. PaintShop pro works just fine for me. It's about $100 retail. They sell it for less on thier website, where you can get a fully working version for free, that times out if it discovers your system date is more than 60 days later than the install date.
The cheapest way to get is paid download, followed by odering a boxed ver from thier website (you can download the full version at the same time) followed by buying at the store.
It will use all the same plugins as the Adobe product will. I dunno what features Photoshop could have to be worth several times as much, but PaintShop has more than I'll ever use. The only thing I can figure is thier selling to the same demographic as Apple Computers.
Low income, high crime areas seldom cover an entire state or even city.
Besides you can not expect the police to do everything to get rid of crime. In fact the supreem court has even ruled that the police have a duty to the community as a whole, not to specific individuals, If you expect the police to save you everytime, sooner or later your going to find out they can't be everywhere at once and are not expected to be.
If the local citizens aren't involved it won't go away anyway. This is part of what the second amendment helps with. Gun ownership deters crime.
I don't want to live in a nany state where the federal government wipes my nose for me and tells what to eat, think, and do.
Exactly. Your point compliments mine well. Wish I'd said it.
New tech new oportunities. And new toys as well. Plus the tech developed for this will have aplications in other fields and vice versa. Just look at all the nifty toys we got from space exploration. Things like solar blankets, gps, satelite communications and entertainment, Tang, etc.
And the designers of these things will have to hired as will the people running the assembly lines, the marketing people to sell them, the programmers to write the firmware, the people who ship them, and so on.
New tech means new jobs making, selling, operating, repairing and shipping the new tech.
I harware encoding is available on some AIW products. The 9600 has it.
If you goto ati's site and use thier 'product compare' feature it shows 9600 and higher as doing encoding with hardware. But not all AIW radeon models are available to compare.
Some AIW products do this, including the original AIW-Radeon I have sitting on a shelf, one vga and one dvi connector.
The AIW-9600 does not however, it has dual vga adapters.
However two big chain 'resturaunts' I know run unix varients. On is Pizza Hut, who sadly runs sco unix.
The other is Papa-Johns, I'm not positive here as I was just told 'unix I think, I know it's not winows' by the manager who's not really very computer savy.
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Geosync has nothing to do with determining north or south of the equator unless they're doing somthing with the timeing and shift of position of the satalites to determine that.
Geosync orbits are not always equatorial. it's possible to have Geosync that's over spots other than the equator. Though I believe there is a sort of figure eight pattern for such satalites for some reason that might complicate a gps like system, but if thier already sub-geosync they're already dealing with such complications.
Mycroft
Up to point mass matters, there is also the matter of secondary radiation. Now IANAPP, but as I understand it one of the problems is stray neutrons hitting things and causing a shower of secondary particles that are more damaging than the original neutron would have been. Water IIRC is much better in this regard. Especialy better than most metals. A real physicist, or at least a student on the road thereto, could probably explain better and maybee clear things up if my laymans reading and/or memory have bolloxed the details.
Mycroft
I don't think the blue laser can be used, but as I understand it the idea would be to have a regular frequency laser eigther in the same r/w head or a second head to read cd and regular dvd's.
Mycroft
Ahh, that makes more sense. I had only seen a brief news clip on tv, and it wasn't clear exactly when in the flight the problem occured.
Wish I had the option of being there, but I live in the St. Louis are of Missouri, a little far for a weekend drive.
Mycroft
He was pointed nearly straight up (that's how it looked, about a 75-85). And rotated about his axis of travel (roll? drawing a stupid blank for some reason).
Only thing I can think of is if the two wings were in differently moving masses of air when this occured. He was likely travelling very fast at the time, near his top speed (mach3? my memory is crap today).
Mycroft
Not necessarily you. Just that fact that an area has a high gun ownership tends to scare crooks away. they don't want to get shot, and when they can't tell who's armed and who's not why would they risk it?
If you are going to depend on 'trained professionals' everytime to deal with violent criminals you had best hope not to ever meet violence of that sort face to face. Unless of course you plan on hiring a body guard. Police, by the nature of thier job, only deter crime as a side effect. Thier main purpose is to solve crimes after the fact and arrest people.
Crooks who steal guns do NOT generaly go after people carrying them, slight problem with getting shot for trying. And again even if a few get stolen, do you think most crooks are stupid enough to try and use one in a crime when any number of passersby just might be able to put an end to thier ways suddenly? And if they do what are thier odds of surviving for a second try.
A disarmed populace on the otherhand is easy pickings for criminal, because they will still have thier guns. Even if they didn't odds are they will have some sort of advantage. Guns are called the great equalizer for reason, they enable a 60 year old grandma to stop a husky 25year old from beating her up for her tv and spare cash.
So even if your not willing to defend yourself and your familly, please don't argue the rest of us shouldn't be allowed to. Especially since you'll benifit from our willingness to do so.
Mycroft
Looks like someone got modded by a humorless baggage handler for one of the airlines.
Lighten up people, some jokes I can see getting down modded by mistake or for mentioning proffit or russia, but this one was obviously enough a joke that you'd have to be minus a few clue points to miss.
Mycroft
Not to mention they have to notify the Prize people of a prize attempt at least 60 days in advance for it count. No advance notice, No prize.
Mycroft
No, not first, but it gets list somewhere I'm shure. At least for any craft that has to deal with atmosphere.
Me first thing I worry about is the Huge laser cannons and force shields. That and a seat for cute blue space chick.
Maybe this is why NASA hasn't called back.
Mycroft
The explanation is fairly straight-forward.
The Authors of the constitution and the second amendment had just fought off the rule of a king and government they felt was unjust.
In part they were able to do so through the formation of the various state militia's, groups of privately armed and trained citizens. Thus they saw fit to explicitly prohibit the federal government from infringing in the private ownership and possesion of arms. In large part specificaly so such militia's could be formed if needed. Arms being "every arm of the soldier, however terrible" according to them, Jefferson specifically iirc.
The only confusing part of that is the use of the phrase 'well regulated' as the term has changed meaning in common usuage to mean regulated as in regulations of law or rule, back then it ment regulated as in a properly functioning machine.
Of course many have tried, falsly, to claim that the second only refered to 'official' militia's, such as the national guard. However any reading of what the founding fathers themselves said about thier intent shows that the militia is the main side benifit of the second (thus it's specific mention), not it's sole purpose nor a limit thereof.
Mycroft
"Also, there is the (probably true) view that most of the technically illiterate masses out there, confronted with the need to download a strange piece of software so they can browse some website, will simply skip the site and go elsewhere."
Could you PLEASE convince all the sites running flash and such crap about this. I'm sick of hitting sites with a 1-5 meg download just to see some intro page full of this crap before I can get to WHY I'm at that site in the first place. There are a lot of 'web developers' who thinks there is valid point to this crap when 95% of the time it's just a pain in the @$$ attempt to show off.
Mycroft
That happens to be one of my favorite methods!
Of course only when a)it's mine, thus no-one is paying me to play around. and b) I admit to myself I'm really just playing around and hoping to fix it by accident as an afterthought more than anything else.
Mycroft
Faulty power supplies are responsible for a LOT of problems, most people blame half of them on the software or other components and never think to check the ps. I've solved more than a few issues with new power suplies.
Probably somthing got damaged by the old one and finally died when a borderline component couldn't take one more power cycle.
Mycroft
If a sudden loss of power to the ps causes a mb to fry in any consumer PC then, IMHO, somthing is defective, possibly the ps. It shouldn't happen period. Power outages are to likely in typical home or small bussiness to guarantee it'll never go out suddenly.
Turning of a switched outlet is no worse, and often better, that a random outage.
I've been through lots of outages, and even had my comp connected to switched outlet someone (ok,ok, me somtimes) would turn off without making shure the comp was powered down. NEVER have I had that dammage anything more than data on the hd.
Mycroft
The also sell 'spill covers' for keyboards. Basically soft,clear plastic molded overlays that protects the keyboard.
Mycroft
"Sometimes the server room looks more like the Red Green show than anything else.... "
"If you can't duck it, fuck it."- Red Green referenceing his current duck-tape Rube Goldberg contraption/repair.
Mycroft
Somtimes it's pure luck though. I've had a monitor catch fire while online, yet other than the slight flames comming out the monitor issue everything was working just fine. Well at least for 30 seconds or so it took to figure out what that odd noise and smell was + 10 or seconds to believe it and pull the plug.
I'm always being called by friends to fix thier computers (or anything remotely electronic) and somtimes they turn it on and it's broke, but I get within 5 feet of it and it works perfect till I leave.
I've had friends explain what they did to fix a problem I've verified exists, and yet if I do it it mysteriously works.
Now most of the time I do have to figure it out to fix it, but this sort of 'luck' happens often enough to give one a certain reputation.
Of course there is a small price to pay, I've never had a wristwatch last more than 3 months, ever. Somtimes just quiting for NO reason what so-ever including once when one quit just as I put it on, still in the store.
Mycroft
The BSA used to have a reputation for pulling gestapo tactics. I haven't heard much lately, but I wouldn't really put anything past them.
Do a google on them sometime, there is bound to be plenty of horror stories out there.
Mycroft
I don't, have a copy of photoshop that is.
PaintShop pro works just fine for me. It's about $100 retail. They sell it for less on thier website, where you can get a fully working version for free, that times out if it discovers your system date is more than 60 days later than the install date.
The cheapest way to get is paid download, followed by odering a boxed ver from thier website (you can download the full version at the same time) followed by buying at the store.
It will use all the same plugins as the Adobe product will. I dunno what features Photoshop could have to be worth several times as much, but PaintShop has more than I'll ever use. The only thing I can figure is thier selling to the same demographic as Apple Computers.
Mycroft
Low income, high crime areas seldom cover an entire state or even city.
Besides you can not expect the police to do everything to get rid of crime. In fact the supreem court has even ruled that the police have a duty to the community as a whole, not to specific individuals, If you expect the police to save you everytime, sooner or later your going to find out they can't be everywhere at once and are not expected to be.
If the local citizens aren't involved it won't go away anyway. This is part of what the second amendment helps with. Gun ownership deters crime.
I don't want to live in a nany state where the federal government wipes my nose for me and tells what to eat, think, and do.
Mycroft
Exactly. Your point compliments mine well. Wish I'd said it.
New tech new oportunities. And new toys as well.
Plus the tech developed for this will have aplications in other fields and vice versa. Just look at all the nifty toys we got from space exploration. Things like solar blankets, gps, satelite communications and entertainment, Tang, etc.
Mycroft
And the designers of these things will have to hired as will the people running the assembly lines, the marketing people to sell them, the programmers to write the firmware, the people who ship them, and so on.
New tech means new jobs making, selling, operating, repairing and shipping the new tech.
Mycroft
I harware encoding is available on some AIW products. The 9600 has it.
If you goto ati's site and use thier 'product compare' feature it shows 9600 and higher as doing encoding with hardware. But not all AIW radeon models are available to compare.
Mycroft
Some AIW products do this, including the original AIW-Radeon I have sitting on a shelf, one vga and one dvi connector.
The AIW-9600 does not however, it has dual vga adapters.
Mycroft
However two big chain 'resturaunts' I know run unix varients. On is Pizza Hut, who sadly runs sco unix.
The other is Papa-Johns, I'm not positive here as I was just told 'unix I think, I know it's not winows' by the manager who's not really very computer savy.
Mycroft