The summer of the Pathfinder mission, a friend of mine who works at Caltech / JPL used a 17MB panaromic jpeg to create a QTVR (Quicktime Virtual Reality) movie of the Martian landscape around the Pathfinder.
Said QTVR movie was embedded into a.caltech.edu web page entitled, "Control the Mars Pathfinder camera", with a note, "This page will take a few minutes to load because of the time it takes for radio signals to reach Mars and return."
Not mentioned, it cost less than the making of even a medium-sized Hollywood movie.
Since NASA went with the 'more, but cheaper and less reliable' mission attitude, whenever considering costs of successful NASA missions, the costs of the duds must also be taken into account.
That said, Pathfinder was a bargain at twice the price.
Spam first got on my nerves in '94, and at the time very few members of Congress had websites, encouraged email. What I thought would be a great idea to get Congressional action on spam would be to get a few hundred thousand people to forward each and every piece of spam they received to all 535 members of Congress. Include a sentence in the body of the email to the effect of, "Dear Congressman / Congresswoman, Please pass legislation outlawing this kind of unsolicited commercial email.... blah blah blah...."
Now if each member of congress received a few hundred thousand pieces of forwarded spam a day, what might they do? Outlawing the forwarding of spam to elected officials, with a legislative suggestion, would certainly be more of a 1st Ammendment violation than outlawing spam itself. --
The external tank is not just a huge hollow beer can - within it are separate tanks of liquid H and O2, along with insulation, piping, etc...
I don't know if the actual visible part of the tank is high pressure (it probably is, or could be easily made to be), but to be of any use as an ISS component the tank would need a major redesign.
I teach economics and this reminds me of one of my favorite economist jokes:
An alumnus returns to visit one of his favorite professors - his macroeconomics professor. It's final's week and as they walk down to the classroom together the alum says to the prof, "Hey - that's the exact same exam you gave to me 10 years ago."
"Yes, but I assure you that now all of the answers are completely different."
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So maybe now we can get rid of that N'Sync guy once and for all.
JOHANNERGURG (Rueters) - Bazooka Joe was arrested and being held without bail for posession of decoder rings with intent to encrypt.
I know that the makers of the device claim it goes beneath the skin, but...
t y/ present/s5p4.pdf
http://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/workshop/securi
Either that, or simply hack off some M.B.A. marketing weenie's hand to log in.
The summer of the Pathfinder mission, a friend of mine who works at Caltech / JPL used a 17MB panaromic jpeg to create a QTVR (Quicktime Virtual Reality) movie of the Martian landscape around the Pathfinder.
.caltech.edu web page entitled, "Control the Mars Pathfinder camera", with a note, "This page will take a few minutes to load because of the time it takes for radio signals to reach Mars and return."
Said QTVR movie was embedded into a
Not mentioned, it cost less than the making of even a medium-sized Hollywood movie.
Since NASA went with the 'more, but cheaper and less reliable' mission attitude, whenever considering costs of successful NASA missions, the costs of the duds must also be taken into account.
That said, Pathfinder was a bargain at twice the price.
... maybe we can get rid of that N'Sync guy once and for all.
I did a quick google search for congressional emails, and found the following:c ercosts/sena teem.html
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A deluge of email would probably cause all of them to switch to web based email of the form-filling nature.
Spam first got on my nerves in '94, and at the time very few members of Congress had websites, encouraged email. What I thought would be a great idea to get Congressional action on spam would be to get a few hundred thousand people to forward each and every piece of spam they received to all 535 members of Congress. Include a sentence in the body of the email to the effect of, "Dear Congressman / Congresswoman, Please pass legislation outlawing this kind of unsolicited commercial email.... blah blah blah...."
Now if each member of congress received a few hundred thousand pieces of forwarded spam a day, what might they do? Outlawing the forwarding of spam to elected officials, with a legislative suggestion, would certainly be more of a 1st Ammendment violation than outlawing spam itself.
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The external tank burns up upon reentry. A forward looking camera would capture some hot footage indeed.
The external tank is not just a huge hollow beer can - within it are separate tanks of liquid H and O2, along with insulation, piping, etc...
I don't know if the actual visible part of the tank is high pressure (it probably is, or could be easily made to be), but to be of any use as an ISS component the tank would need a major redesign.
If your looking for the hottest footage, stay tuned for a few minutes after the tank detaches.
I've only read about the Xserve, and have not heard it pronounced by Apple.
Is it pronounced:
X-serve?
Ten-serve?
Zerve?
I teach economics and this reminds me of one of my favorite economist jokes:
An alumnus returns to visit one of his favorite professors - his macroeconomics professor. It's final's week and as they walk down to the classroom together the alum says to the prof, "Hey - that's the exact same exam you gave to me 10 years ago."
"Yes, but I assure you that now all of the answers are completely different."
Upon further review, it was found that the vast majority of thse pages were quoted as saying, "I.B.M., that company with no flair whatsoever...."
One feature of spammers is to adapt to any sort of anit-spam technology. What's to stop spammers from writing spam filled with 'non-spam' words?