Given the slightest rotational component, and the camera will be spinning around in random directions . Given the slightest translational motion in relation to the shuttle and you may never get it back. You're going to need gyros and thrusters. It's going to have to bake at 500 degrees one minute and go to minus 200 degrees the next. It's going to have to survive 3+ g's force and the vibration of takeoff. It's going to have to survive micrometeor impacts. Our mom's 8mm just ain't going to cut it here, folks!
I've worked with x86 Linux servers in datacenters from Compaq and Dell with 24x7 4 hour contracts. I'm sure major vendors of AMD based servers will have them too. Sun is VERY worried. Sun is doomed. I give them 4 years tops.
The Shuttle was built by subcontractors, about 10,000 of them. And no, having 1 contractor with all the divisions needed to make everything from tires to space toilets to tiles wouldn't make the thing any more reliable.
you forgot some things, like gyros to stabilize it, power supplies, and by the way forget about an ATX motherboard functioning in the oven to cryogenic temperature range it would experience in space. Thanks for the $250 space junk design, though, much cheaper than any of NASA's or the USAF.
wrong math...113 flights means 2 in 113 chance of a crew dying. Guess what, space travel is a deadly, dangerous undertaking, and will be so for the next 50 years at least. The astronauts know that they are playing with death every time they go up. There will be more deadly accidents, it is the price of going into space.
a remote controlled mini space vehicle? that IS complicated and expensive. Probably easier to inspect visually via optics from space station or existing sattelites so equipped (used to be done from ground but discontinued)
Giving a kid a model of a vehicle that inflicted death and mayhem on the Nazis is a Good Thing. Teaching that freedom comes at a great price is a Good Thing.
it's right between cable channels 16 and 17 (in U.S.A.)....actually, it'll be a part of what channel 16 includes, as there's 4.5MHz upper sideband of video that it will pass.
neat chart including broadcast and standard cable base frequencies here
and 10,000 years from now, they'll be able to clone ugly fat smart male nerds from DNA residue found in keyboards, mice, mouse pads, and the underside of workstation desks.
Well, "paper" has changed over the years. old scrolls, manuscripts, and books are on thin animal skin (vellum) and can last 2,000+ years under the right conditions....the wood based stuff we usually call paper oxidizes, turning dark and crumbling in less than 100 years unless special preservation steps are taken. For paper made of cloth rag, you can get 100-200 years (paper until the 19th century was made this way). Some combinations of inkjet/laser toner and rag "paper" can last 140+ years, it's claimed.
137MHz...that's a bit above the 1.7MHz where the AM broadcast band ends, and the 108MHz where the FM broadcast band ends...though comsumer radios that receive the "aircraft" band can receive the frequency. Next problem is tapping the IF (the result of mixing signal from a local oscillator to heterodyne with the incoming signal to covert it to a lower frequency (makes sum & difference frequencies, all but difference filtered out)
The foreign IT workers will get certified, too, if that's what it takes...and the outsourcing industries will be SURE to make it so they can be, the cost savings is too great (bleah! I hate it!)
actually, I think alot of systems and systems integration will go offshore too.
There have been other U.S. industries that have been moved offshore permanently....the steel industry & heavy tool & die, for instance, is but a shell of its former self here (my dad's industry)
What're the next Big Things? Healthcare, biotech, nanotech, alternative energy, security....plenty of things to keep a geek happy, but first our employment recruiting process needs an overhaul...we geeks can learn new things, and don't want to be doing the same thing for 10+ years. Hopefully HR & recruiters will sprout a brain stem in this matter soon, as there will be new kinds of jobs, and NO ONE will have 5+ years experience doing them.
yeah, the guy's re-invented the moped.....and of course at very small engine sizes, 2 stroke (more pollution) is much more efficient than 4 stroke. My father's 49cc moped gets 90MPH if driven between 20-30MPH.
My wife is from Cambodia. I've seen first hand what NOT using antibiotics and NOT using chemicals to preserve their food and NOT using hand sanitizers can do (beggars with limbs rotting from their bodies in markets, children with parasites visible under their skin, etc.).....I say *our* way of doing things is in EVERY way superior to the alternative of people who live "naturally". Take a trip to a third world shithole sometime and have a look. I agree there are bad effects from using antibiotics, preservatives, "chemicals", and overmedication....but perversly to not use them is even worse.
He's only helpless because he thinks he is. He'd be better off changing his perspective and truly living. And these "mean" things I pointed out are part of that.
300 years ago in europe or america or anywhere, people weren't getting pumped full of antibiotics at an early age. Do you have any idea what this can do to an immune system?
er, make someone live to be 70 or 80 on average?
try staying indoors for 20 years or so, then go sunbathing. I mostly have done that...I spend most of my life indoors with all these nasty chemicals, and I drink diet soft drinks by the gallon....no cancer or diseases so far, but stay tuned....
Strange that human life expectancy has been going UP for the past century with all these poisons in our habitats. There are toxins, poisons, killer bacteria, killer viruses, radiation in nature also.....this guy's problems are 99% mental, and if he lived 300 years ago in Europe or America, he'd likely be dead already.
Later, SCO subpoenaed God, arguing He couldn't possibly have created the code that run the universe without substantial use of unlicensed Unix(tm) source
Remember India still has a caste system; most people there live in total filth and poverty. By supporting the very small percentage of the population who have wealth and power and ability to travel/telecommute, Sun is basically on the same level as a slave master or feudal baron.
Linux is gaining the features to handle very large scale systems, and it is only a matter of time (a very short time) before alternative processors can scale to huge SMP systems (and they already have a better internal architecture than Sparc).
In my previous 4 jobs, only specified and procured Sun systems from workstation to 4 CPU class, so I'm sure my biases won't hurt SUNW any...but hopefully I can influence the thinking of at least a few other managers/admins who read slashdot.
but Sun's language on this SCO issue implies there may be something wrong with Linux. The truth is that this is a pathetic last gasp & grasp by SCO to flounder into some money either by making a legal pest of itself or getting bought out. SCO is peddling obsolete technology, and Linux is eating its lunch.
I'm getting fed up with Sun. All the reasons I have embraced Sun for the period 1990 to 2000 have evaporated. No leadership in CPU technology for the next 4-5 years, unwillingness to give Ultrasparc III technology to OpenBSD, implying there may be merit to SCO's position, farming out IT jobs to India.....Sun is on my shit list now...FOAD!
Yes, and languages like SmallTalk and Ruby also allow similar constructs.....the one advantage I can see from looking at the AO extensions to Java is perhaps a little more clarity in being able to quickly see the melds between methods of disparate classes, but the functionality is no different.
I did see a project on sourceforge to add explicit AOP to Ruby, perhapss making code more understandable, but of course one can hook methods without it
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Given the slightest rotational component, and the camera will be spinning around in random directions . Given the slightest translational motion in relation to the shuttle and you may never get it back. You're going to need gyros and thrusters. It's going to have to bake at 500 degrees one minute and go to minus 200 degrees the next. It's going to have to survive 3+ g's force and the vibration of takeoff. It's going to have to survive micrometeor impacts. Our mom's 8mm just ain't going to cut it here, folks!
I've worked with x86 Linux servers in datacenters from Compaq and Dell with 24x7 4 hour contracts. I'm sure major vendors of AMD based servers will have them too. Sun is VERY worried. Sun is doomed. I give them 4 years tops.
The Shuttle was built by subcontractors, about 10,000 of them. And no, having 1 contractor with all the divisions needed to make everything from tires to space toilets to tiles wouldn't make the thing any more reliable.
you forgot some things, like gyros to stabilize it, power supplies, and by the way forget about an ATX motherboard functioning in the oven to cryogenic temperature range it would experience in space. Thanks for the $250 space junk design, though, much cheaper than any of NASA's or the USAF.
wrong math...113 flights means 2 in 113 chance of a crew dying. Guess what, space travel is a deadly, dangerous undertaking, and will be so for the next 50 years at least. The astronauts know that they are playing with death every time they go up. There will be more deadly accidents, it is the price of going into space.
a remote controlled mini space vehicle? that IS complicated and expensive. Probably easier to inspect visually via optics from space station or existing sattelites so equipped (used to be done from ground but discontinued)
Giving a kid a model of a vehicle that inflicted death and mayhem on the Nazis is a Good Thing. Teaching that freedom comes at a great price is a Good Thing.
it's right between cable channels 16 and 17 (in U.S.A.)....actually, it'll be a part of what channel 16 includes, as there's 4.5MHz upper sideband of video that it will pass.
neat chart including broadcast and standard cable base frequencies here
Hemp (the fiber of which used to make rope, and the leaves of which is used make hippies & the early BSD's) paper can last 1,500+ years
and 10,000 years from now, they'll be able to clone ugly fat smart male nerds from DNA residue found in keyboards, mice, mouse pads, and the underside of workstation desks.
Well, "paper" has changed over the years. old scrolls, manuscripts, and books are on thin animal skin (vellum) and can last 2,000+ years under the right conditions....the wood based stuff we usually call paper oxidizes, turning dark and crumbling in less than 100 years unless special preservation steps are taken. For paper made of cloth rag, you can get 100-200 years (paper until the 19th century was made this way). Some combinations of inkjet/laser toner and rag "paper" can last 140+ years, it's claimed.
137MHz...that's a bit above the 1.7MHz where the AM broadcast band ends, and the 108MHz where the FM broadcast band ends...though comsumer radios that receive the "aircraft" band can receive the frequency. Next problem is tapping the IF (the result of mixing signal from a local oscillator to heterodyne with the incoming signal to covert it to a lower frequency (makes sum & difference frequencies, all but difference filtered out)
The foreign IT workers will get certified, too, if that's what it takes...and the outsourcing industries will be SURE to make it so they can be, the cost savings is too great (bleah! I hate it!)
actually, I think alot of systems and systems integration will go offshore too.
There have been other U.S. industries that have been moved offshore permanently....the steel industry & heavy tool & die, for instance, is but a shell of its former self here (my dad's industry)
What're the next Big Things? Healthcare, biotech, nanotech, alternative energy, security....plenty of things to keep a geek happy, but first our employment recruiting process needs an overhaul...we geeks can learn new things, and don't want to be doing the same thing for 10+ years. Hopefully HR & recruiters will sprout a brain stem in this matter soon, as there will be new kinds of jobs, and NO ONE will have 5+ years experience doing them.
yeah, the guy's re-invented the moped.....and of course at very small engine sizes, 2 stroke (more pollution) is much more efficient than 4 stroke. My father's 49cc moped gets 90MPH if driven between 20-30MPH.
For added security, I encrypted this post with Rot-13 *twice*
My wife is from Cambodia. I've seen first hand what NOT using antibiotics and NOT using chemicals to preserve their food and NOT using hand sanitizers can do (beggars with limbs rotting from their bodies in markets, children with parasites visible under their skin, etc.).....I say *our* way of doing things is in EVERY way superior to the alternative of people who live "naturally". Take a trip to a third world shithole sometime and have a look. I agree there are bad effects from using antibiotics, preservatives, "chemicals", and overmedication....but perversly to not use them is even worse.
He's only helpless because he thinks he is. He'd be better off changing his perspective and truly living. And these "mean" things I pointed out are part of that.
300 years ago in europe or america or anywhere, people weren't getting pumped full of antibiotics at an early age. Do you have any idea what this can do to an immune system?
er, make someone live to be 70 or 80 on average?
try staying indoors for 20 years or so, then go sunbathing. I mostly have done that...I spend most of my life indoors with all these nasty chemicals, and I drink diet soft drinks by the gallon....no cancer or diseases so far, but stay tuned....
Strange that human life expectancy has been going UP for the past century with all these poisons in our habitats. There are toxins, poisons, killer bacteria, killer viruses, radiation in nature also.....this guy's problems are 99% mental, and if he lived 300 years ago in Europe or America, he'd likely be dead already.
Later, SCO subpoenaed God, arguing He couldn't possibly have created the code that run the universe without substantial use of unlicensed Unix(tm) source
"It's not SHIT, it's ENERGY!!"
Blaster, smack him!
Remember India still has a caste system; most people there live in total filth and poverty. By supporting the very small percentage of the population who have wealth and power and ability to travel/telecommute, Sun is basically on the same level as a slave master or feudal baron.
Linux is gaining the features to handle very large scale systems, and it is only a matter of time (a very short time) before alternative processors can scale to huge SMP systems (and they already have a better internal architecture than Sparc).
In my previous 4 jobs, only specified and procured Sun systems from workstation to 4 CPU class, so I'm sure my biases won't hurt SUNW any...but hopefully I can influence the thinking of at least a few other managers/admins who read slashdot.
but Sun's language on this SCO issue implies there may be something wrong with Linux. The truth is that this is a pathetic last gasp & grasp by SCO to flounder into some money either by making a legal pest of itself or getting bought out. SCO is peddling obsolete technology, and Linux is eating its lunch.
I'm getting fed up with Sun. All the reasons I have embraced Sun for the period 1990 to 2000 have evaporated. No leadership in CPU technology for the next 4-5 years, unwillingness to give Ultrasparc III technology to OpenBSD, implying there may be merit to SCO's position, farming out IT jobs to India.....Sun is on my shit list now...FOAD!
Yes, and languages like SmallTalk and Ruby also allow similar constructs.....the one advantage I can see from looking at the AO extensions to Java is perhaps a little more clarity in being able to quickly see the melds between methods of disparate classes, but the functionality is no different.
I did see a project on sourceforge to add explicit AOP to Ruby, perhapss making code more understandable, but of course one can hook methods without it