Next they need to make it so Bob's Crappy Search doesn't come up as the number one match when I search for "text string", leading me to whatever.com/text/string/text_string.html which is just a page full of matches much less useful than anything google would come up with on its own.
Yes, that's annoying. What gets me is the obscure searches I've made that turn these up. It's almost as if they react to my query in real time like LimeWire spam used to (maybe still) do(es). But that shouldn't be possible since this is out of Google's database. How do they do that?
Another thing I've run into lately are article aggregators. These sites take articles from other sites and end up high in the search engines. The article has usually been what I was looking for but I wanted the original source complete with illustrations.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think phased arrays are new. A Yagi antenna is a phased array, right?
Anyway, the wikipedia article says a phased array is directional.
But what if you had a transmitter on the orbiting reciever spacecraft that sent a pure tone to the falling probe and small a directional reciever (which did not need to be pointed) on the probe?
"Directional receiver" and not needing pointing are mutually exclusive by definition. Or am I missing something again?
I'm far from an expert, but I've spent a lot of time reading and testing HDTV antenna reception (which by the way is the same as regular VHF and UHF reception except the signal is coded differently...don't buy a special "HDTV" antenna because there's no such thing). The farther away you are from the source, the weaker the signal. Then there is interference caused by the environment (sun, other manmade transmissions) and reflections. To improve reception you have to get a higher gain antenna...basically every means of improving the gain makes it an increasingly directional antenna. Now here on Earth I can align the antenna using many references...compass, known geography, etc., and the direction and distance remain constant. In space I'm sure it's much more complex to discover and maintain alignment.
Hi res pictures are very very cool, but I'm shocked at how much they can apparently deduce and discover about distant objects with the limited probes and Earth-based (or Earth orbit based) observations.
So you're left with what, corporations funding NASA? That's not gonna happen, and for good reason. Would you like to see a General Motors sticker on a Mars rover or the Golden Arches (TM) painted on the side of a probe landing on Triton? I wouldn't.
There are Lego building blocks on the MER rovers. I don't know if the brand name is there, but it was promoted a bit when the rovers were approaching Mars. Seems like there was another corporate tie-in or two.
By that logic Linux as loaded by loadlin.exe could be considered DOS based. From Win95 up I don't believe any system calls made it back to the DOS boot system (save perhaps DOS TSR programs/drivers if loaded?), but it was in memory lying dormant somewhere.
Maybe I'm being pedantic. Even if what I say is all true the Win9x line was a hybrid of 32-bit and 16-bit and switched from protected mode to real mode and back as it saw fit. (thunk compiling)
What you describe sounds like what I do. Well, I'm much more than eyes and hands, but I'm a step down from Network Engineer or Systems Analyst. (In principle, at least.)
My problem is I don't know what to call myself or what job to look for. PC or desktop tech I think understates my skills, and engineer or analyst overstatse my experience.
I'd call myself a systems tech or generalist or netadmin, but the jobs I see described in job ads don't match what I have been doing for 9 years. Additionally my job requires a lot of customer service skill.
I know I'm needed out there, but I don't know how to describe what I do or locate my type of job. (I'm well employed but want to move for family reasons; it doesn't look like my employer will have openings there in my timeframe, although I will offer them a chance to make one for me when I have my ducks in a row and am ready to move.)
But in order to keep internet2 aligned with its true goals of promoting research, we will have to give some governing council the authority (even imperative) to fight this piracy and THEN take it to the respective IP owners like MPAA. I think it is silly that the burden should fall on MPAA to regulate such things, and it is because of this lunatic system that we are forced to deal with lawsuits from companies who snoop at file sharers.
Did you just suggest a new government organization to find, identify and report IP violations? Do you want the government to put people in jail, charge them money or just tattle to the MPAA and let them sue as they elect? Who's going to fund this governing council?
Unless I just totally missed the boat, Windows and Linux have a file size limitation of around 2 gigabytes.
Wha?
You missed the boat. Various FAT filesystems may be limited to 2GB, but Linux and modern Windows have no such built in limits. Check on the individual filesystems. I know NTFS can go over 4GB; I think it's capable up to a few TB. ext2 may have some lesser limits but is well over 4GB. XFS, JFS and ReiserFS are worth a look.
Cool. You learn something every day. I'm from Texas and have traveled New Mexico a fair bit and didn't know about burrowing owls. Next you'll tell me jackalopes are real.
I'm not familiar with Watchmen, but the litigation stopping superheroes and the relocation program seem fairly obvious to me. Not in a bad way.
For example since I've grown up diving boards are no longer at public pools and playgrounds went from towering slides of metal to rubberized containment rooms. (Due to litigation leading to skyrocketing liability insurance premiums.) In a way the loss of diving boards and tall slides and flying jennies has taken away some feeling of power/exhiliration that hasn't been replaced. Superheroes grounded by legislation seems a logical extension of the concept to me.
As a kid, when you're different from others you are pressured to conform often to the point of supressing who you think you are. (Actually we get this as adults, too.) The relocation program is a logical implementation of this and humurous when likened to the WPR program.
Yeah, Cars looks iffy, but I'm guessing they're either aiming at the young kid market, the Nascar fan market or both. Or maybe it will be great for everyone. Hey, the Chevron commercials were cute.
Liked the opening short, but the owl bugged me. They're nocturnal tree dwellers. Conversely I had no issues with the jackalope. Go figure.
Instead of asking why the American people voted for Bush, ask yourself why the Democrats couldn't come up with a better candidate than Kerry.
Very apt. From the Harkin Fish Fry onward I realized the Democratic field was a gaggle of boring idiots. I was quite dismayed.
Later I got caught up in "anything is better than Bush", but after yesterday the old saying "the devil you know is better than the devil you don't" comes to mind. I still would rather Bush had lost, but I think the lesson for the Democrats is "not Bush" (or "not Cheney" in 4 years) is not a winning candidate. I hope they learn that lesson quickly.
In retrospect I also think the Democrats got too caught up in hope and hype and overlooked Bush's supporters and his good qualities. As much as I think he's bad for America I can still admit he's dome some things I like. Upon further reflection I can actually start thinking that Bush is to Republicans what Clinton was to Democrats: a friendly voice that speaks your concerns. I think Democrats were too busy vilifiing Bush to notice we had no other unifying platform ourselves.
Interesting point on the HURD. I hadn't thought of it that way before, but I discovered and used Linux in 1994 when I wanted a cheap or free way to learn Unix. I've followed the HURD off an on for the past couple of years because I think it's a neat idea with potential, but it has no immediate use to me besides geek appeal, and there are many other things with better utility and geek appeal to me.
(I still hope the HURD will be something someday.)
Oddly enough, a buddy of mine described this to me as a business idea, and a day or two later saw the ad for these on TV. I emailed him the link and said "too late".
I looked for them at my local Wal Mart a few weeks ago but didn't find them.
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Next they need to make it so Bob's Crappy Search doesn't come up as the number one match when I search for "text string", leading me to whatever.com/text/string/text_string.html which is just a page full of matches much less useful than anything google would come up with on its own.
Yes, that's annoying. What gets me is the obscure searches I've made that turn these up. It's almost as if they react to my query in real time like LimeWire spam used to (maybe still) do(es). But that shouldn't be possible since this is out of Google's database. How do they do that?
Another thing I've run into lately are article aggregators. These sites take articles from other sites and end up high in the search engines. The article has usually been what I was looking for but I wanted the original source complete with illustrations.
TuxRacer is the sort of game you would expect to see at an arcade.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think phased arrays are new. A Yagi antenna is a phased array, right?
Anyway, the wikipedia article says a phased array is directional.
But what if you had a transmitter on the orbiting reciever spacecraft that sent a pure tone to the falling probe and small a directional reciever (which did not need to be pointed) on the probe?
"Directional receiver" and not needing pointing are mutually exclusive by definition. Or am I missing something again?
I'm far from an expert, but I've spent a lot of time reading and testing HDTV antenna reception (which by the way is the same as regular VHF and UHF reception except the signal is coded differently...don't buy a special "HDTV" antenna because there's no such thing). The farther away you are from the source, the weaker the signal. Then there is interference caused by the environment (sun, other manmade transmissions) and reflections. To improve reception you have to get a higher gain antenna...basically every means of improving the gain makes it an increasingly directional antenna. Now here on Earth I can align the antenna using many references...compass, known geography, etc., and the direction and distance remain constant. In space I'm sure it's much more complex to discover and maintain alignment.
Hi res pictures are very very cool, but I'm shocked at how much they can apparently deduce and discover about distant objects with the limited probes and Earth-based (or Earth orbit based) observations.
What odds would you want before taking action?
It's not a question of odds. How do you determine odds on something you don't understand?
So you're left with what, corporations funding NASA? That's not gonna happen, and for good reason. Would you like to see a General Motors sticker on a Mars rover or the Golden Arches (TM) painted on the side of a probe landing on Triton? I wouldn't.
There are Lego building blocks on the MER rovers. I don't know if the brand name is there, but it was promoted a bit when the rovers were approaching Mars. Seems like there was another corporate tie-in or two.
I hope I never, ever have to draw this gun in anger.
Yeah, me too. Anger? Anger and guns are a bad combination. How about necessity? Anger shouldn't enter into it. You're not the incredible hulk.
Disclaimer - I'm not even in the US.
Yes, we know.
I recall OS/2 2.1 being out before Win95, but I'm pretty sure Warp came out later.
2.1 was still better than Win95...except for software availability when developers started developing to the Win9x-specific libraries.
By that logic Linux as loaded by loadlin.exe could be considered DOS based. From Win95 up I don't believe any system calls made it back to the DOS boot system (save perhaps DOS TSR programs/drivers if loaded?), but it was in memory lying dormant somewhere.
Maybe I'm being pedantic. Even if what I say is all true the Win9x line was a hybrid of 32-bit and 16-bit and switched from protected mode to real mode and back as it saw fit. (thunk compiling)
What you describe sounds like what I do. Well, I'm much more than eyes and hands, but I'm a step down from Network Engineer or Systems Analyst. (In principle, at least.)
My problem is I don't know what to call myself or what job to look for. PC or desktop tech I think understates my skills, and engineer or analyst overstatse my experience.
I'd call myself a systems tech or generalist or netadmin, but the jobs I see described in job ads don't match what I have been doing for 9 years. Additionally my job requires a lot of customer service skill.
I know I'm needed out there, but I don't know how to describe what I do or locate my type of job. (I'm well employed but want to move for family reasons; it doesn't look like my employer will have openings there in my timeframe, although I will offer them a chance to make one for me when I have my ducks in a row and am ready to move.)
Is it really so hard to believe that 2 people in separate countries can be interested in each other without some hidden motive?
Well, since I get all my socialization from movies and TV, yes.
(Ba dum bum. I'll be here all week. Oops, week's over.)
But in order to keep internet2 aligned with its true goals of promoting research, we will have to give some governing council the authority (even imperative) to fight this piracy and THEN take it to the respective IP owners like MPAA. I think it is silly that the burden should fall on MPAA to regulate such things, and it is because of this lunatic system that we are forced to deal with lawsuits from companies who snoop at file sharers.
Did you just suggest a new government organization to find, identify and report IP violations? Do you want the government to put people in jail, charge them money or just tattle to the MPAA and let them sue as they elect? Who's going to fund this governing council?
It's 12 feet long. Small for a plane, but not "tiny". The B52 is friggen huge. The pegasus is pretty big, too.
Too bad there's not a person in the picture for reference.
Thanks for pointing out it was black. I couldn't figure out which part was the X-43A until you mentioned that; before it blended in with shadow.
Unless I just totally missed the boat, Windows and Linux have a file size limitation of around 2 gigabytes.
Wha?
You missed the boat. Various FAT filesystems may be limited to 2GB, but Linux and modern Windows have no such built in limits. Check on the individual filesystems. I know NTFS can go over 4GB; I think it's capable up to a few TB. ext2 may have some lesser limits but is well over 4GB. XFS, JFS and ReiserFS are worth a look.
Are you kidding? I never go clubbing without my turkey baster.
Cool. You learn something every day. I'm from Texas and have traveled New Mexico a fair bit and didn't know about burrowing owls. Next you'll tell me jackalopes are real.
Gratuitous random link.
I'm not familiar with Watchmen, but the litigation stopping superheroes and the relocation program seem fairly obvious to me. Not in a bad way.
For example since I've grown up diving boards are no longer at public pools and playgrounds went from towering slides of metal to rubberized containment rooms. (Due to litigation leading to skyrocketing liability insurance premiums.) In a way the loss of diving boards and tall slides and flying jennies has taken away some feeling of power/exhiliration that hasn't been replaced. Superheroes grounded by legislation seems a logical extension of the concept to me.
As a kid, when you're different from others you are pressured to conform often to the point of supressing who you think you are. (Actually we get this as adults, too.) The relocation program is a logical implementation of this and humurous when likened to the WPR program.
DadGum!
Yeah, Cars looks iffy, but I'm guessing they're either aiming at the young kid market, the Nascar fan market or both. Or maybe it will be great for everyone. Hey, the Chevron commercials were cute.
Liked the opening short, but the owl bugged me. They're nocturnal tree dwellers. Conversely I had no issues with the jackalope. Go figure.
Instead of asking why the American people voted for Bush, ask yourself why the Democrats couldn't come up with a better candidate than Kerry.
Very apt. From the Harkin Fish Fry onward I realized the Democratic field was a gaggle of boring idiots. I was quite dismayed.
Later I got caught up in "anything is better than Bush", but after yesterday the old saying "the devil you know is better than the devil you don't" comes to mind. I still would rather Bush had lost, but I think the lesson for the Democrats is "not Bush" (or "not Cheney" in 4 years) is not a winning candidate. I hope they learn that lesson quickly.
In retrospect I also think the Democrats got too caught up in hope and hype and overlooked Bush's supporters and his good qualities. As much as I think he's bad for America I can still admit he's dome some things I like. Upon further reflection I can actually start thinking that Bush is to Republicans what Clinton was to Democrats: a friendly voice that speaks your concerns. I think Democrats were too busy vilifiing Bush to notice we had no other unifying platform ourselves.
Dewey Defeats Truman!
Oh shit, I'm moving to Canada now...
I thought dander was dried saliva from lick grooming their fur that flakes and becomes airborne. Too lazy to double-check, though.
Interesting point on the HURD. I hadn't thought of it that way before, but I discovered and used Linux in 1994 when I wanted a cheap or free way to learn Unix. I've followed the HURD off an on for the past couple of years because I think it's a neat idea with potential, but it has no immediate use to me besides geek appeal, and there are many other things with better utility and geek appeal to me.
(I still hope the HURD will be something someday.)
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Oddly enough, a buddy of mine described this to me as a business idea, and a day or two later saw the ad for these on TV. I emailed him the link and said "too late".
I looked for them at my local Wal Mart a few weeks ago but didn't find them.
I hope you don't mind I took the liberty of fertilizing your caviar.