The preceeding post is quite clear and AFIK correct in pointing out the inherant stability of the several capsule systems and also re the lack of such stability in the Shuttle.
What needs to be made clear is that such stability is common to all BALLISTICflight just as the *lack* of such stability is essential to all DIRIGIBLE flight.
A stable vehicle cannot be *steered* and a steerable vehicle will not be stable. A shuttle type vehicle is unlikely to land on a mountain top as did one early Soyuz capsule, but the price of control must always be less stability.
Evaluating trade-offs will always be a thankless job with the knowledge that no matter what you decide someone will always say you were wrong.
Back in the 80's it became very urgent for me to get my mouth reined in to the point where it would NOT be a problem re co-workers or inlaws. After some months with no success at all, it came to me almost like the lightbulb in a cartoon **Since I can't STOP cursing-What about changing HOW I curse so it won't upset the civilians? In less than a year I had totally re-trained myself to curse PRE-1950'S LIMEY STYLE!!
Still *real* cursing, and quite functional as *venting*, but unless you happen to be a proper middle class Brit who was almost to old to serve in WW2 it's not likely that you're going to be greatly upset by my *BLOODY's* *BUGGER's or *SODDING's*
Saved my job and on one weird night perhaps my life.
Here's an even greater absurdity from a few years earlier:
When I showed up to take the final exam in Trig (1961) the Proctor, who was one of the regular Math teachers but not the one who had taught my section, confiscated my sliderule about 5 minutes into the test. Using only half familiar printed trig tables and gawd awful quantities of flopsweat I barely managed a *B*.
I wish to hell I had known enough about reality back then to have walked out in protest. And this was at a *good* school [for public].
It would be nice to think that there might be less of this sort of stupidity as technology becomes a constant for even the most rabid Luddite, but I suspect we've all been burned too many times to put any money behind that hope.
I would think that having this moronic scheme *defeated* would be the least of their worries. Sure, the hackers and other out-front digital badass' will be an expected problem, but they will be the least problem; god help these corperate fools if they manage to piss-off any substancial number of the generally peaceful tech world.
Payback at 100:1 is fine with me as a starting point, but that's because I'd prefer a new fight over more of the same every time.
IMHO there is still no better way to get live humans from here to there [or the opposite] than the classic dual tangent transfer described sometime in the early 20th century by an individual named either Hoffman or Hohman.
Until and unless you come up with a source of unlimited delta V that's what we're stuck with.
Either Asimov or Clarke wrote a short story involving a race between a chemical powered ship which accelerated at 2 or 3 G's for a day or so and then *coasted* until it needed to *brake* vs a nuclear ion drive ship which could only manage a few hundredths of a G, but did so continuosly for the entire trip [don't remember if it shutdown while transitioning from accelerating to decelerating] but having read the story as a child I never had any trouble grasping the *power* of either *T-squared* or *V-squared*
OK Creepy Crawler, I'd like to compare your *ex-Catholic* take on the subject with mine--a former fairly hard core *Agnostic* { mainly because the one group clearly more fixed and rabidly dogmatic in their views than the *every word of scripture is the exact and perfect truth* zealots is the Atheiests--too embarasingly stupid to tolerate either]
-1. The utterly simple and consistant nature of the universe
Four forces, all of which combine into one under the conditions of an event which we can *hear* today if we just listen. 3k, sure aint A440, but it wasn't hard to find .
In fact that 3k background just might fit the definition In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God.... now couldn't it?
-2. I would have to say that the results of the VERY careful translations of both the* Dead Sea Scrolls and a number of other [carefully screened for authenticity] ancient manuscripts DO show that Mainstream biblical translations *Oxford Annotated Revised Standard Version* and several others are far better than.999 identical That does not say anything at all about the reporting, but it does point to one hell of a good chain of custody.
If you are faulting one of the two aspects you have an obligation to clearly specify which.
-3.evidence, etc.....
Far too vague a statement to critique--except to point out that the five Christian gospels clearly show a progression from Thomas', written VERY Closely after the events/quotations by a direct observer, and that of John, written almost a century later by quite possably the finest Public Relations' Man in the entire history of Western thought.
DAMN, now there was a Flac!
Your #4 was a lame strawman which you set up just so you could knock it down....BOO HISS BOO
As for the rest of your post--Well, I supose I wouldn't object to you making any of those statements to my kids, but I most strongly DO NOT WANT YOU EVEN TALKING TO MY SISTER--I prefer Outlaws to inlaws.
-
Being mainly focused on editorial subjects and informal portraits **headhunting** always made the absolutely neutral, saturated blacks that give an image *authority* a critical factor. Despite the massive progress in ink technology, driven lately by the digital imaging revolution, coupled dyes have not and probably never will, equal the exquisite precision that comes from Silver-*LOTS* of Silver, and that don't come cheap.
I have read that new mined Silver production provides only a small part of what is required by current technologies, and many of these simply would not be viable excepy for the massive recycling of X-Ray and process films, etc.
This has made me wonder what recent tech developments are also forcing similar recycling developments, and which might be held back by the lack of current recycling of critical materials? The cost of Silver has driven the development of non-Silver based imaging technology, and forced massive changes in several industries. Being on top of what the next generation of development will require recycling to focus on is certainly the road to massive profit for those who are able to correctly predict what garbage to purchase now, while it's still cheap. And, of course, to lock up with futures' contracts.
A little over ten years ago, driven by frustration over both my own low level of competance and the terrible quality of every book on *SLIDERULES that I'd been able to find in many years of searching, I speant about three months brute-forcing the rules for using almost all of the scales on the K&E Log-Log Duplex DeciTrig sliderule, which is the standard against which other sliderules are compared.
Generating the rules turned out to be the easy part of the job--*Proving* them was the most difficult work of my life, driving me to tears and black depression on several ocassions.
The end result, which easily fits on both sides of two 4x6 file cards, is the simple rules for all of the operations on all of the standard scales, excepting only the Log-Log scales.
If any/. ers would like a copy of these cards, just send the usual stamped, self-addressed envelope to:
Silverhammer P.O. Box 556
Cazadero, CA 95421-0556
It will be interesting to see how many/. readers are interested in using the old slipstick. A few dozen responses would be a happy suprise, but just to cover my ass I'd better limit it to the first 1000.
There was nothing else that came close to matching DuPont Double Weight Velour Black in either SemiGloss or unFerrotyped Gloss for having both DEEP blacks that never blocked up and a reasonably linear scale that retained separation through the highlights. Sure it could take juse short of forever in the soup and a lot longer than that to wash, but nada por nada. Agfa did make a couple of very decent types but close is still second place.
GET REAL!! Nobody with a working brain can be bothered with learning strings of letters, digits, or anything else without context. That is the critical distinction separating living, thinking organisms from even the most complex switching network....which is all any digital computer is or will ever be. Thinking beings are always oriented towards context, connection and consequence. Which is why **Bad Boys Run On Your Grass But Virgin Girls Won't** will never be forgotten once learned. It has EVERYTHING- Plot, Character, Conflict, Resolution, and perhaps even a Lesson Learned. And that is what life is all about. So you can damn well **Eat It Raw.**
I hope MURPHY doesn't read/. posts or this will buy me the farm for sure
I've had no real problems at all running two ATI cards to give three monitors.
A 7000VE 64meg DDR in the AGP slot takes care of two and an ALL-IN-WONDER VE in the number 0 PCI slot provides the third monitor, TV capture and/or feed.
HYDRAVISION takes care of managing the whole setup just fine with very few major hiccups.Parent post is certainly inline with the general experiance regarding ATI drivers, and when they don't want to co-operate, Hell would be a greatimprovement over trying to get them to work together.
However, ATI now has both a CATALYST remover and a SMARTGART remover available to download, and while the required sequence of removals and installs is quite complex and needs to be followed exactly all the way through-if you blow it at any point there's no sense in fighting- just start over.
And yes, the AIW is by far the fussyist to install that I've run across, and MUST be designated as primary or nothing whatsoever will work.
Evry detail of the install sequence MUST be correct for this to work, but there's nothing else I've ever found that comes within orders of magnitude in terms of BANG FOR THE BUCK. YMMV
Thank all the bloody gods for SOME sense and perspective on this issue. Slashdot has shown a worrisome tendency of late to be massively and overwhelmingly populated by kneejerk monomaniacs with little or no comprehension that there IS a real world that must be maintained.
California is already deep in the financial hole and this [Borders'] sort of petty cheating and then attempting to pretend that the [yes, critically important] issue of the freedom of cyberspace somehow justifies that cheating is lame and selfserving crap carefully designed to play to that exact mindset.
AFIK it's far better to control the 239-240 ratio in the initial production rather than later. The longer the fuel rods are in the reactor the greater the yeild of 240.
Don't know if the count is any higher now, but last I was aware of TWO Airbus ploanes had engaged in CONTROLLED FLIGHT INTO TERAIN, one of them while the flight crew franticly attempted to regain control from the computer.
I use the Model designations for Military hardware as passwords and keep photos of those I'm currently using on the wall near my monitor.
Someone would have to recognise the equipment AND know the correct designation and even then they would have no way to link a picture to a site or file.
There are hundreds of them *already loaded* so why not get some use from that, and some of the British Mark designations use special characters in addition to being seriously weird.
Better binders generally have *D* rings and always have the mechanism mounted to the BACK not to the spine. But I usually manage to overload even the strongest eventually.
In color film technology other than 3-strip T, there are no remaining silver xtals-i.e. grain, because they are removed in processing leaving only *dye clouds* which make up the image.
Just to clarify the technical infrastructure requirements for a plute implosion device, every flash head for the old Graflex [later Singer-Graflex] StroboFlash portable electronic flash units, which were THE standard professional strobes throughout the 1960's and 70's and are still seen` from time to time still working 45+ years after their introduction, contains a Thyrotron which is the vacuum tube equivalent of a Krytron. The powerpack also contains fast-dump capacitors rated at better than 200 joules with a discharge time of less than 1/2000 second. If you can calculate and fabricate the explosive lenses that's the source for the firing device.
Good luck, I guess-just don't be too close when you test your gadget.
Pre-dating you by a decade, I remember very clearly the two semesters that I took consecutive 5 unit courses in programming *Unit Record Machines* by plugging [really] thousands of wires into holes in program boards as large as 1x1.5 meters. Each and every move of each and every character required plugging a wire from one hole to another. And any branching operation took twice, plus running the wires for the condititional, etc.
No there ain't no magic.
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What needs to be made clear is that such stability is common to all BALLISTIC flight just as the *lack* of such stability is essential to all DIRIGIBLE flight.
A stable vehicle cannot be *steered* and a steerable vehicle will not be stable. A shuttle type vehicle is unlikely to land on a mountain top as did one early Soyuz capsule, but the price of control must always be less stability.
Evaluating trade-offs will always be a thankless job with the knowledge that no matter what you decide someone will always say you were wrong.
Still *real* cursing, and quite functional as *venting*, but unless you happen to be a proper middle class Brit who was almost to old to serve in WW2 it's not likely that you're going to be greatly upset by my *BLOODY's* *BUGGER's or *SODDING's*
Saved my job and on one weird night perhaps my life.
When I showed up to take the final exam in Trig (1961) the Proctor, who was one of the regular Math teachers but not the one who had taught my section, confiscated my sliderule about 5 minutes into the test. Using only half familiar printed trig tables and gawd awful quantities of flopsweat I barely managed a *B*.
I wish to hell I had known enough about reality back then to have walked out in protest. And this was at a *good* school [for public].
It would be nice to think that there might be less of this sort of stupidity as technology becomes a constant for even the most rabid Luddite, but I suspect we've all been burned too many times to put any money behind that hope.
Payback at 100:1 is fine with me as a starting point, but that's because I'd prefer a new fight over more of the same every time.
On the second orbit. But only using the 20 Megacycle transmissions--none of my group was equiped to monitor 40 Megacycles.
crucial
The only place I'd trust that'll beat Newegg's prices [sometimes]
Either Asimov or Clarke wrote a short story involving a race between a chemical powered ship which accelerated at 2 or 3 G's for a day or so and then *coasted* until it needed to *brake* vs a nuclear ion drive ship which could only manage a few hundredths of a G, but did so continuosly for the entire trip [don't remember if it shutdown while transitioning from accelerating to decelerating] but having read the story as a child I never had any trouble grasping the *power* of either *T-squared* or *V-squared*
that anyone tried to write the way I was always criticized mfor.
-1. The utterly simple and consistant nature of the universe Four forces, all of which combine into one under the conditions of an event which we can *hear* today if we just listen. 3k, sure aint A440, but it wasn't hard to find .
In fact that 3k background just might fit the definition In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God.... now couldn't it?
-2. I would have to say that the results of the VERY careful translations of both the* Dead Sea Scrolls and a number of other [carefully screened for authenticity] ancient manuscripts DO show that Mainstream biblical translations *Oxford Annotated Revised Standard Version* and several others are far better than .999 identical That does not say anything at all about the reporting, but it does point to one hell of a good chain of custody.
If you are faulting one of the two aspects you have an obligation to clearly specify which.
-3.evidence, etc..... Far too vague a statement to critique--except to point out that the five Christian gospels clearly show a progression from Thomas', written VERY Closely after the events/quotations by a direct observer, and that of John, written almost a century later by quite possably the finest Public Relations' Man in the entire history of Western thought. DAMN, now there was a Flac!
Your #4 was a lame strawman which you set up just so you could knock it down....BOO HISS BOO
As for the rest of your post--Well, I supose I wouldn't object to you making any of those statements to my kids, but I most strongly DO NOT WANT YOU EVEN TALKING TO MY SISTER--I prefer Outlaws to inlaws. -
I have read that new mined Silver production provides only a small part of what is required by current technologies, and many of these simply would not be viable excepy for the massive recycling of X-Ray and process films, etc.
This has made me wonder what recent tech developments are also forcing similar recycling developments, and which might be held back by the lack of current recycling of critical materials? The cost of Silver has driven the development of non-Silver based imaging technology, and forced massive changes in several industries. Being on top of what the next generation of development will require recycling to focus on is certainly the road to massive profit for those who are able to correctly predict what garbage to purchase now, while it's still cheap. And, of course, to lock up with futures' contracts.
A little over ten years ago, driven by frustration over both my own low level of competance and the terrible quality of every book on * SLIDERULES that I'd been able to find in many years of searching, I speant about three months brute-forcing the rules for using almost all of the scales on the K&E Log-Log Duplex DeciTrig sliderule, which is the standard against which other sliderules are compared.
Generating the rules turned out to be the easy part of the job--*Proving* them was the most difficult work of my life, driving me to tears and black depression on several ocassions. The end result, which easily fits on both sides of two 4x6 file cards, is the simple rules for all of the operations on all of the standard scales, excepting only the Log-Log scales.
If any /. ers would like a copy of these cards, just send the usual stamped, self-addressed envelope to:
Silverhammer
P.O. Box 556
Cazadero, CA 95421-0556
It will be interesting to see how many /. readers are interested in using the old slipstick. A few dozen responses would be a happy suprise, but just to cover my ass I'd better limit it to the first 1000.
There was nothing else that came close to matching DuPont Double Weight Velour Black in either SemiGloss or unFerrotyped Gloss for having both DEEP blacks that never blocked up and a reasonably linear scale that retained separation through the highlights. Sure it could take juse short of forever in the soup and a lot longer than that to wash, but nada por nada. Agfa did make a couple of very decent types but close is still second place.
Ask Quentain Tarentino--I think that Pulp Fiction demonstrates a remarkable understanding of time.
GET REAL!! Nobody with a working brain can be bothered with learning strings of letters, digits, or anything else without context. That is the critical distinction separating living, thinking organisms from even the most complex switching network....which is all any digital computer is or will ever be. Thinking beings are always oriented towards context, connection and consequence. Which is why **Bad Boys Run On Your Grass But Virgin Girls Won't** will never be forgotten once learned. It has EVERYTHING- Plot, Character, Conflict, Resolution, and perhaps even a Lesson Learned. And that is what life is all about. So you can damn well **Eat It Raw.**
I hope MURPHY doesn't read /. posts or this will buy me the farm for sure
I've had no real problems at all running two ATI cards to give three monitors.
A 7000VE 64meg DDR in the AGP slot takes care of two and an ALL-IN-WONDER VE in the number 0 PCI slot provides the third monitor, TV capture and/or feed.
HYDRAVISION takes care of managing the whole setup just fine with very few major hiccups.Parent post is certainly inline with the general experiance regarding ATI drivers, and when they don't want to co-operate, Hell would be a greatimprovement over trying to get them to work together.
However, ATI now has both a CATALYST remover and a SMARTGART remover available to download, and while the required sequence of removals and installs is quite complex and needs to be followed exactly all the way through-if you blow it at any point there's no sense in fighting- just start over.
And yes, the AIW is by far the fussyist to install that I've run across, and MUST be designated as primary or nothing whatsoever will work.
Evry detail of the install sequence MUST be correct for this to work, but there's nothing else I've ever found that comes within orders of magnitude in terms of BANG FOR THE BUCK. YMMV
Thank all the bloody gods for SOME sense and perspective on this issue. Slashdot has shown a worrisome tendency of late to be massively and overwhelmingly populated by kneejerk monomaniacs with little or no comprehension that there IS a real world that must be maintained. California is already deep in the financial hole and this [Borders'] sort of petty cheating and then attempting to pretend that the [yes, critically important] issue of the freedom of cyberspace somehow justifies that cheating is lame and selfserving crap carefully designed to play to that exact mindset.
AFIK it's far better to control the 239-240 ratio in the initial production rather than later. The longer the fuel rods are in the reactor the greater the yeild of 240.
Don't know if the count is any higher now, but last I was aware of TWO Airbus ploanes had engaged in CONTROLLED FLIGHT INTO TERAIN, one of them while the flight crew franticly attempted to regain control from the computer.
I use the Model designations for Military hardware as passwords and keep photos of those I'm currently using on the wall near my monitor. Someone would have to recognise the equipment AND know the correct designation and even then they would have no way to link a picture to a site or file. There are hundreds of them *already loaded* so why not get some use from that, and some of the British Mark designations use special characters in addition to being seriously weird.
Doing that one one step beyond by also swapping the mouse buttons makes it orders of magnitude more difficult to deal with.
Better binders generally have *D* rings and always have the mechanism mounted to the BACK not to the spine. But I usually manage to overload even the strongest eventually.
In color film technology other than 3-strip T, there are no remaining silver xtals-i.e. grain, because they are removed in processing leaving only *dye clouds* which make up the image.
Just to clarify the technical infrastructure requirements for a plute implosion device, every flash head for the old Graflex [later Singer-Graflex] StroboFlash portable electronic flash units, which were THE standard professional strobes throughout the 1960's and 70's and are still seen` from time to time still working 45+ years after their introduction, contains a Thyrotron which is the vacuum tube equivalent of a Krytron. The powerpack also contains fast-dump capacitors rated at better than 200 joules with a discharge time of less than 1/2000 second.
If you can calculate and fabricate the explosive lenses that's the source for the firing device.
Good luck, I guess-just don't be too close when you test your gadget.
Pre-dating you by a decade, I remember very clearly the two semesters that I took consecutive 5 unit courses in programming *Unit Record Machines* by plugging [really] thousands of wires into holes in program boards as large as 1x1.5 meters. Each and every move of each and every character required plugging a wire from one hole to another. And any branching operation took twice, plus running the wires for the condititional, etc. No there ain't no magic.
In this context wouldn't the last word in your sig be Tandy ?