JAI has native codecs for some formats and also Java codecs. The native ones are used by default but they can be turned off i.e. the Java codecs are used instead.
They used a lot of memory because they don't cache, I think. The whole uncompressed image gets read into memory which can use hundreds of MB.
All I know is that every large Java system seems to have parts written in native code called through the JNI.
The JVM has been around for a long time and still can't do things like device drivers. Performance code, like parts of Java Advance Imaging, are native. A lot of people turn the native parts off though because they use ridiculous amounts of memory.
I think it's just too hard to make VM's that do everything well.
So speaking the truth equates to being a flame-stoking bigot?
Which "truth" are you referring to? This one?
They stop treating their women as if they were afraid of women's sexuality...and stop sticking their women in beekeepers' outfits
First of all, Moryath seems to be getting his zingers from Bill Maher. I'm a big fan, but ya know, he's not exactly a sociologist. Also, Maher is a Muslim name, so that's confusing.
The point is, who does Moryath mean by "they"? All Muslims? Hardly. Most Muslim men I know are big fans of female sexuality. To a fault. The fraction of Muslim women who are forced into burqa is minuscule. The broad implication that Islam says throw a tarp over women is ridiculous.
Personally I wouldn't say bigotry though. I'd just say, not educated enough yet.
What a thoughtful post and I thank you for taking the time to write it.
You make a good point about the expansion of American secular culture around the world and how it can't be stopped. People like to enjoy themselves. Arbitrary rules, and all religions are full of them, must eventually fall because there is no clear "why". Read the Catholic explanation of what the Trinity means for a good example. It's an explanation, but not one that makes any sense when you deconstruct the words.
I realize American imperialism is brought up as the reason for this violence. But I'm convinced that's bullshit. The widespread dissemination of foreign cultures is the more real and subtle threat.
I have to disagree about your assessment of American influence. The US has taken the side of many wildly unpopular and brutal dictators out of expediency, and the chickens are home to roost. The effects are twofold: one, injustice breeds extremism, and two, America becomes the obvious target. While you may or may not be right that the threat of American secularism is what makes the Sheiks nervous, the foot soldiers aren't motivated by hatred of Brittany Spears. They are motivated by the experience of spending their entire life in a Palestinian refugee camp, for example. And, unfortunately, it's not hard to find the American handiwork in many oppressive Muslim countries.
Most of those situations might have their roots in the cold war which had to be won by whatever means necessary, but the cold war doesn't explain everything. Aramco, for example. That's about access to oil, plain and simple and most people outside of the US believe the Iraq invasion was also.
The key difference, however, is that Muslim extremists are more likely to blow things up to get their way, or at least threaten to do so. Sure, you get the occasional Christian nut who tries to shoot an abortion doctor or something, but that's the extent of it. But Christians consistently denounce the act. On the other hand, at best Muslims won't say anything at all and at worst will run into the streets in celebration.
I'm sorry if I misinterpret your meaning, but you seem to be saying there is something different about Islam that leads to more violence and more extreme violence. No. It's not Islam, for it's no more arbitrary and supernatural than any other religion. The difference is the countries where it is predominantly practiced. They tend to be undemocratic and poor. People are more likely to be uneducated, desperate, and hopeless. That's the real reason for the high levels of violence.
I understand that it must be very annoying for Americans to see people celebrating attacks on innocent Americans and the temptation must be strong to dismiss all those people as savages at best or enemies at worst. They aren't America's enemy, they are their own oppressive governments' enemies. Rightly or wrongly they believe the US supports their oppressors. Fair or not, America needs to convince them otherwise.
I do hope nobody sees this as an attack on the US, because in spite of everything the world is lucky the US exists in the form it does. However, one can't blame Islam per se, the blame exists as a complicated historical process and America is involved.
Please my friend can we stop with the Islam bashing? I'm begging.
I'm just a good old Canadian boy who happened to marry into a family of Muslims and let me tell you the only thing that the entire lot of them want to do is have six-thousand course dinner parties that go on for hours and dance. I'm serious.
If they worry about anything, which they don't seem to much, it's that their religion has been hijacked by nutcases. I guess we could talk about how the nutcases seem to always come from fundamentalist dictatorships that America had a hand in creating and supporting (The House of Saud, the Wahib clan, The Shah of Iran, the Taliban, Musharraf, Assad).
But that is another discussion. If anyone holds to the belief that inside the heart of every Muslim is a bloodthirsty jihadist looking for the right time to strike, well, you couldn't be more wrong. Why not just go with the flow and enjoy the fact that middle eastern women tend towards the large-chested and friendly?
His team studied 24 normal volunteers between the ages of 55 and 76. Half were experienced at searching the Internet and the other half had no Web experience. Otherwise, the groups were similar in age, gender and education.
TFS is completely wrong. It isn't a comparison of young/old, it's a comparison of experienced vs inexperienced subjects all of whom are middle aged or elderly.
Funny, I didn't read all the summary I went right to the article and I missed how wrong the summary is.
TFA says nothing about younger people. The test subjects were aged 55 to 76.
The noted result was that older people who do a lot of searches show more brain activity when doing searches than other older people who don't do a lot of searches.
So you can hypothesize from that result that doing searches might slow age-related loss of brain function.
Correlation blah blah causation, but at the same time correlation doesn't not imply causation either. Plus, it makes sense.
If you don't want your child watching it, DON'T RELY ON TV AS A BABYSITTER.
I reject your assertion that only bad parents let their children watch TV.
Have you ever tried to monitor your kids 24/7? Do you even have kids? Do you even like kids?
Or do you come from the class of people that analogize having kids with crime and parenting is the sentence? Because as far as I can tell that's a particularly odious "libertarian" attitude. ("Libertarian" being shorthand for "I want that money I see deducted in taxes on my payslip.")
Parents should be pushing their kids to spend this time doing *constructive* activities, such as those that inspire aspirations of becoming engineers, scientists, artists, etc...
Amen brother.
NOT activities that make 'stupid spoiled whore' seem like a desirable occupation
You might want to rethink your decision to call children "whores".
Rather, they (parents -- NOT GOVERNMENT) should be taking the whitelist approach, which, given an infinite content set, is far more realistic to successfully maintain.
Agree with your key assertion there, however, you realize that government is fundamentally an expression of collective will and exists to more efficiently do things that could be done individually? And if there was no government people would spontaneously organize to create one?
And that certain parties have an interest in weakening the collective power of people in order to divide and conquer which is manifest by a long-term trend to de-legitimize government workers. Beginning with Regan's firing of the air traffic controllers and continuing up to this day resulting in the inability of authorities to find a fucking tent for people to live in when their city goes underwater.
I believe certain parties have concluded it is too hard to actually shrink government so that best strategy is to make it incompetent.
That means not sitting your kid in front of the TV while you go persue your own hobbies or work (imagine that: sacrificing for the sake of your family).
Question: do people often threaten to stick a fork in your eye? Because you can't go around calling people greedy just because parenting is hard and you want that money you see deducted in taxes on your payslip.
I guess most parents sacrifice plenty.
a kid needs a good parent more than the latest clothing, a big TV, or yearly vacations.
Well, yeah. A vacation every five years might be nice. Or a car that will actaully get you where you are going. I don't have either. Am I sacrificing enough by your old-cootish standards, or should I cash in my pension and work till I'm 80 too?
investing their OWN TIME into raising their kids.
You use caps too much.
Now, of course, we should, as always, still remain vigilant and make sure that this newfangled "parent-empowered" censorship isn't simply a masquerade for actual forced censorship (read: government censorship)...
I'd rather be vigilant that 800 billion a year isn't being transfered from the poor to the super-rich because the collective power of the people has been neutered by decades of the boobification of government so that wealth redistribution fades in importance to Janet Jackson's nipple.
I feel that creationism is best seen by science teachers not as a misconception but as a world view. ~ Michael Reiss
My world view involves turtles and free sex for nerds. I demand accommodation!
Seriously though, who in their right mind believes that teenagers are going to think up all sorts of salient arguments in defence of creationism. They aren't. They will bring to class talking points that have been drilled into them by their religious leaders. Class will then become just an extension of the big muddle that Christianity wants to drape over all intellectual pursuits so they can offer their belief system as the only alternative to "theory".
This is politics, not education. Fanatical Christians are like a mosquito keeping you up at night, they just won't go away. The only thing you can do is keep swatting, or get bit.
That's the way racism works nowadays, it's not overt. In an instance where the blond young man from Westmount might be get off with a minor sanction, the brown man gets the book thrown at him.
It's related to the Conservative's (motto: gee we wish we could be Republicans and maybe if we suck up hard enough one day we will be) "tough on crime" self-delusion, which, as we see in the US, winds up with the prisons full of black men receiving government-paid training in the homosexual lifestyle and criminal arts. With full deniability of racism built in.
I would much rather hire this guy. Even more so because even in the position of having the possibility to be malicious in his intent he didn't turn to the evil side. Now you're just gonna turn him into a pariah and ruin the life of a person who clearly would have been a more then productive member of society.
If you don't hire him I will. And I'll help him get a pardon and his record expunged. This guy demonstrated real-world initiative and ethics.
An academic slap on the wrist? Fine. Stern talking to from his parents? Fine. Facing 10 years in prison? What the fuck.
For those who didn't RTFA, he has a possibly Arabic name. Canada is doing a through job embarrassing itself, acting as if brown men from the middle east are second class citizens.
This is Kafaesque, top to bottom, possibly racist, and stupid.
It does, however, dovetail with my belief that Canada's universities are little more than factories to churn out drones for the handful of super-rich families that run the country. If you want opportunity here, better emerge from the proper vagina.
It's laughable where they come up with these astronomical numbers. Items that have been found in coal seams include bells, shoe soles, toys, spoons, spark plugs just to name a few. Yes they appeared to be "fossilized" in the coal but if we are to believe these guys, that spark plug that was found has been there for 300 million years. Unbelievable.
You're having us on, aren't you? Oh you mischievous rapscallion you! Well played sir, indeed!
STS was a good idea that became compromised. Almost all of the original concepts had the external tank as an actual vehicle itself with wings and the main engines mounted on it. The orbiter was generally on top or ahead of the tank/carrier in a safer position than it is on the STS.
Note also that in the two STS accidents the crew cabin emerged from the initial failure mainly intact. Both times. There is no reason why a detachable crew cabin couldn't be designed that would rocket away from a failing orbiter. Even in the hypersonic regime the cabin would protect the astronauts until the altitude and speed were low enough for ejection.
My point is that a lot of knowledge and technology has been developed by the shuttle program. At great expense in dollars and lives. People know why it's expensive (probably due to onerous maintenance and overhaul, plus paperwork introduced for CYA purposes after Challenger) and a follow-on program would be able to fix the expense and safety problems.
Maybe I'm just one of those people who gets annoyed when logical solutions are avoided because they are hard.
I'll take Griffin's assertions of context at face value and assume he thinks it's the right thing to replace the STS with Constellation.
He did, however, say the retirement of the STS was not based on engineering. I can see why he might say that.
The most incredible thing about the STS is the main engine, both incredibly amazing and incredibly problematic. The development of those machines as been long and winding. Here is a nice summary of the problems they had just up to first flight.
The thing is, work on improving those engines has continued non-stop since 1972, and finally their performance and reliability is in the ballpark of where is was originally spec'd to be.
Dit staat waarschijnlijk een op het punt van de laatste merkbare sub-atomic ontdekkingen ergens gemaakt dan bij CERN anders aangezien LHC is de jacht voor het deeltje te beginnen Higgs dat zelfs voor het experiment ontwijkend blijft dat enkel omega-sub-B. ontdekte.
Group 3: quarks; Top & Bottom, lepton; tau, neutrino; tau neutrino
So this newly discovered particle is made of quarks from two groups, the strange quark from group 2 and the bottom quark from group 3. Has that been seen before? I never knew it happened.
Very detailed solutions of nonlinear field equations. The kind of thing that aerothermodynamics deals with.
If someone comes out of the woodwork who happens to be a cross between Alan Turing and Kelly Johnson, maybe that person could use a machine like this to design a combined cycle turbo/ram/scramjet and then Richard Branson could use it to power a real spaceship, not something that's just called a spaceship.
It's not that crazy to imagine a talented individual could simulate all the expensive work on scramjets that NASA has done over the last 15 years and maybe design a workable SSTO air-breathing flying thingy. I'd love that. Someone has to make Constellation look like the sad dinosaur it really is.
The real obstacle to that would be the simulation software. That's why it'll take a genius or two.
In 1969, an American oil company sent an ice-strengthen oil tanker, the SS Manhattan, on a test-voyage through the Northwest Passage. The company, which was cooperating closely with the U.S. government, made a point of not seeking permission from Canada.
If the US resumes that path, and there's no evidence they will right now, it'll lead to a fundamental change is the perceived "special relationship" between Canada and the US. Americans would be surprised at the change in attitude that would result.
However, I believe things are quite a bit different now compared to 1969. We have Russia making macho territorial claims all over the place and Canada (plus Denmark) are in the best position to legally defeat those claims, not the US.
Also, there might be some recognition in Washington that treating the NWP as the high seas could easily result in an environmental mess of biblical proportions because, for example, dumped oily bilge water in the cold Arctic water doesn't disperse like it does in warmer climates. A large oil spill up there would be an unmitigated disaster.
Finally one would assume the US would like to know, via Canadian tracking of ships in it's territorial waters, who's going where. Canada would have some rights to actually board and inspect ships which is much superior to what the US could find out if the passage was international waters in which case they would be limited to satellite, radar, or airborne tracking.
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because his Java apps use ridiculous amounts of memory and he has to find something else to blame :-)
Maybe. Maybe it's the codecs. http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=120199
JAI has native codecs for some formats and also Java codecs. The native ones are used by default but they can be turned off i.e. the Java codecs are used instead.
They used a lot of memory because they don't cache, I think. The whole uncompressed image gets read into memory which can use hundreds of MB.
All I know is that every large Java system seems to have parts written in native code called through the JNI.
The JVM has been around for a long time and still can't do things like device drivers. Performance code, like parts of Java Advance Imaging, are native. A lot of people turn the native parts off though because they use ridiculous amounts of memory.
I think it's just too hard to make VM's that do everything well.
So speaking the truth equates to being a flame-stoking bigot?
Which "truth" are you referring to? This one?
They stop treating their women as if they were afraid of women's sexuality...and stop sticking their women in beekeepers' outfits
First of all, Moryath seems to be getting his zingers from Bill Maher. I'm a big fan, but ya know, he's not exactly a sociologist. Also, Maher is a Muslim name, so that's confusing.
The point is, who does Moryath mean by "they"? All Muslims? Hardly. Most Muslim men I know are big fans of female sexuality. To a fault. The fraction of Muslim women who are forced into burqa is minuscule. The broad implication that Islam says throw a tarp over women is ridiculous.
Personally I wouldn't say bigotry though. I'd just say, not educated enough yet.
What a thoughtful post and I thank you for taking the time to write it.
You make a good point about the expansion of American secular culture around the world and how it can't be stopped. People like to enjoy themselves. Arbitrary rules, and all religions are full of them, must eventually fall because there is no clear "why". Read the Catholic explanation of what the Trinity means for a good example. It's an explanation, but not one that makes any sense when you deconstruct the words.
I realize American imperialism is brought up as the reason for this violence. But I'm convinced that's bullshit. The widespread dissemination of foreign cultures is the more real and subtle threat.
I have to disagree about your assessment of American influence. The US has taken the side of many wildly unpopular and brutal dictators out of expediency, and the chickens are home to roost. The effects are twofold: one, injustice breeds extremism, and two, America becomes the obvious target. While you may or may not be right that the threat of American secularism is what makes the Sheiks nervous, the foot soldiers aren't motivated by hatred of Brittany Spears. They are motivated by the experience of spending their entire life in a Palestinian refugee camp, for example. And, unfortunately, it's not hard to find the American handiwork in many oppressive Muslim countries.
Most of those situations might have their roots in the cold war which had to be won by whatever means necessary, but the cold war doesn't explain everything. Aramco, for example. That's about access to oil, plain and simple and most people outside of the US believe the Iraq invasion was also.
The key difference, however, is that Muslim extremists are more likely to blow things up to get their way, or at least threaten to do so. Sure, you get the occasional Christian nut who tries to shoot an abortion doctor or something, but that's the extent of it. But Christians consistently denounce the act. On the other hand, at best Muslims won't say anything at all and at worst will run into the streets in celebration.
I'm sorry if I misinterpret your meaning, but you seem to be saying there is something different about Islam that leads to more violence and more extreme violence. No. It's not Islam, for it's no more arbitrary and supernatural than any other religion. The difference is the countries where it is predominantly practiced. They tend to be undemocratic and poor. People are more likely to be uneducated, desperate, and hopeless. That's the real reason for the high levels of violence.
I understand that it must be very annoying for Americans to see people celebrating attacks on innocent Americans and the temptation must be strong to dismiss all those people as savages at best or enemies at worst. They aren't America's enemy, they are their own oppressive governments' enemies. Rightly or wrongly they believe the US supports their oppressors. Fair or not, America needs to convince them otherwise.
I do hope nobody sees this as an attack on the US, because in spite of everything the world is lucky the US exists in the form it does. However, one can't blame Islam per se, the blame exists as a complicated historical process and America is involved.
Please my friend can we stop with the Islam bashing? I'm begging.
I'm just a good old Canadian boy who happened to marry into a family of Muslims and let me tell you the only thing that the entire lot of them want to do is have six-thousand course dinner parties that go on for hours and dance. I'm serious.
If they worry about anything, which they don't seem to much, it's that their religion has been hijacked by nutcases. I guess we could talk about how the nutcases seem to always come from fundamentalist dictatorships that America had a hand in creating and supporting (The House of Saud, the Wahib clan, The Shah of Iran, the Taliban, Musharraf, Assad).
But that is another discussion. If anyone holds to the belief that inside the heart of every Muslim is a bloodthirsty jihadist looking for the right time to strike, well, you couldn't be more wrong. Why not just go with the flow and enjoy the fact that middle eastern women tend towards the large-chested and friendly?
China intentionally hides the news that poisoned milk is in their distribution system to avoid any sad faces during the Olympics (R)(tm).
Thousands of children are intentionally allowed to get sick and some die while their cute little Olympic (R)(tm) mascots dance around all happy happy.
Now they hilariously submit that identity checks are justified "for the sake of children."
More lies from the big red Chinese lie machine.
Er...
"Bruce Schneier knows the state of Schroedinger's cat?"
Nah, Americans have known about McLuhan for years.
TFA:
His team studied 24 normal volunteers between the ages of 55 and 76. Half were experienced at searching the Internet and the other half had no Web experience. Otherwise, the groups were similar in age, gender and education.
TFS is completely wrong. It isn't a comparison of young/old, it's a comparison of experienced vs inexperienced subjects all of whom are middle aged or elderly.
Funny, I didn't read all the summary I went right to the article and I missed how wrong the summary is.
TFA says nothing about younger people. The test subjects were aged 55 to 76.
The noted result was that older people who do a lot of searches show more brain activity when doing searches than other older people who don't do a lot of searches.
So you can hypothesize from that result that doing searches might slow age-related loss of brain function.
Correlation blah blah causation, but at the same time correlation doesn't not imply causation either. Plus, it makes sense.
South Park reference...
c.
I should watch more TV.
Note the quotation marks.
If you don't want your child watching it, DON'T RELY ON TV AS A BABYSITTER.
I reject your assertion that only bad parents let their children watch TV.
Have you ever tried to monitor your kids 24/7? Do you even have kids? Do you even like kids?
Or do you come from the class of people that analogize having kids with crime and parenting is the sentence? Because as far as I can tell that's a particularly odious "libertarian" attitude. ("Libertarian" being shorthand for "I want that money I see deducted in taxes on my payslip.")
Parents should be pushing their kids to spend this time doing *constructive* activities, such as those that inspire aspirations of becoming engineers, scientists, artists, etc...
Amen brother.
NOT activities that make 'stupid spoiled whore' seem like a desirable occupation
You might want to rethink your decision to call children "whores".
Rather, they (parents -- NOT GOVERNMENT) should be taking the whitelist approach, which, given an infinite content set, is far more realistic to successfully maintain.
Agree with your key assertion there, however, you realize that government is fundamentally an expression of collective will and exists to more efficiently do things that could be done individually? And if there was no government people would spontaneously organize to create one?
And that certain parties have an interest in weakening the collective power of people in order to divide and conquer which is manifest by a long-term trend to de-legitimize government workers. Beginning with Regan's firing of the air traffic controllers and continuing up to this day resulting in the inability of authorities to find a fucking tent for people to live in when their city goes underwater.
I believe certain parties have concluded it is too hard to actually shrink government so that best strategy is to make it incompetent.
That means not sitting your kid in front of the TV while you go persue your own hobbies or work (imagine that: sacrificing for the sake of your family).
Question: do people often threaten to stick a fork in your eye? Because you can't go around calling people greedy just because parenting is hard and you want that money you see deducted in taxes on your payslip.
I guess most parents sacrifice plenty.
a kid needs a good parent more than the latest clothing, a big TV, or yearly vacations.
Well, yeah. A vacation every five years might be nice. Or a car that will actaully get you where you are going. I don't have either. Am I sacrificing enough by your old-cootish standards, or should I cash in my pension and work till I'm 80 too?
investing their OWN TIME into raising their kids.
You use caps too much.
Now, of course, we should, as always, still remain vigilant and make sure that this newfangled "parent-empowered" censorship isn't simply a masquerade for actual forced censorship (read: government censorship)...
I'd rather be vigilant that 800 billion a year isn't being transfered from the poor to the super-rich because the collective power of the people has been neutered by decades of the boobification of government so that wealth redistribution fades in importance to Janet Jackson's nipple.
Android developer QQA2504?
Yes master.
Compute the value of pi to the final digit.
Computing...coommmpppuuutttinnggggg...coooooommmmmmmmmmpp...
*POP*
(Feet up on desk). And thus once again job security is ensured.
I feel that creationism is best seen by science teachers not as a misconception but as a world view. ~ Michael Reiss
My world view involves turtles and free sex for nerds. I demand accommodation!
Seriously though, who in their right mind believes that teenagers are going to think up all sorts of salient arguments in defence of creationism. They aren't. They will bring to class talking points that have been drilled into them by their religious leaders. Class will then become just an extension of the big muddle that Christianity wants to drape over all intellectual pursuits so they can offer their belief system as the only alternative to "theory".
This is politics, not education. Fanatical Christians are like a mosquito keeping you up at night, they just won't go away. The only thing you can do is keep swatting, or get bit.
That's the way racism works nowadays, it's not overt. In an instance where the blond young man from Westmount might be get off with a minor sanction, the brown man gets the book thrown at him.
It's related to the Conservative's (motto: gee we wish we could be Republicans and maybe if we suck up hard enough one day we will be) "tough on crime" self-delusion, which, as we see in the US, winds up with the prisons full of black men receiving government-paid training in the homosexual lifestyle and criminal arts. With full deniability of racism built in.
I would much rather hire this guy. Even more so because even in the position of having the possibility to be malicious in his intent he didn't turn to the evil side. Now you're just gonna turn him into a pariah and ruin the life of a person who clearly would have been a more then productive member of society.
If you don't hire him I will. And I'll help him get a pardon and his record expunged. This guy demonstrated real-world initiative and ethics.
An academic slap on the wrist? Fine. Stern talking to from his parents? Fine. Facing 10 years in prison? What the fuck.
For those who didn't RTFA, he has a possibly Arabic name. Canada is doing a through job embarrassing itself, acting as if brown men from the middle east are second class citizens.
This is Kafaesque, top to bottom, possibly racist, and stupid.
It does, however, dovetail with my belief that Canada's universities are little more than factories to churn out drones for the handful of super-rich families that run the country. If you want opportunity here, better emerge from the proper vagina.
It's laughable where they come up with these astronomical numbers. Items that have been found in coal seams include bells, shoe soles, toys, spoons, spark plugs just to name a few. Yes they appeared to be "fossilized" in the coal but if we are to believe these guys, that spark plug that was found has been there for 300 million years. Unbelievable.
You're having us on, aren't you? Oh you mischievous rapscallion you! Well played sir, indeed!
STS was a good idea that became compromised. Almost all of the original concepts had the external tank as an actual vehicle itself with wings and the main engines mounted on it. The orbiter was generally on top or ahead of the tank/carrier in a safer position than it is on the STS.
Note also that in the two STS accidents the crew cabin emerged from the initial failure mainly intact. Both times. There is no reason why a detachable crew cabin couldn't be designed that would rocket away from a failing orbiter. Even in the hypersonic regime the cabin would protect the astronauts until the altitude and speed were low enough for ejection.
My point is that a lot of knowledge and technology has been developed by the shuttle program. At great expense in dollars and lives. People know why it's expensive (probably due to onerous maintenance and overhaul, plus paperwork introduced for CYA purposes after Challenger) and a follow-on program would be able to fix the expense and safety problems.
Maybe I'm just one of those people who gets annoyed when logical solutions are avoided because they are hard.
I'll take Griffin's assertions of context at face value and assume he thinks it's the right thing to replace the STS with Constellation.
He did, however, say the retirement of the STS was not based on engineering. I can see why he might say that.
The most incredible thing about the STS is the main engine, both incredibly amazing and incredibly problematic. The development of those machines as been long and winding. Here is a nice summary of the problems they had just up to first flight.
The thing is, work on improving those engines has continued non-stop since 1972, and finally their performance and reliability is in the ballpark of where is was originally spec'd to be.
Mainly due to new fuel and oxidizer turbopumps.
And now they throw it all away. I just don't get it. It's too Arrow-esque for me.
Why not re-do the STS instead of re-doing Apollo?
Can someone translate that last sentence for me?
Done:
Dit staat waarschijnlijk een op het punt van de laatste merkbare sub-atomic ontdekkingen ergens gemaakt dan bij CERN anders aangezien LHC is de jacht voor het deeltje te beginnen Higgs dat zelfs voor het experiment ontwijkend blijft dat enkel omega-sub-B. ontdekte.
Ok I thought quarks, leptons, and neutrinos were grouped like this:
Group 1: quarks; Up & Down, lepton; electron, neutrino; neutrino
Group 2: quarks; Charm & Strange, lepton; muon; neutrino; muon neutrino
Group 3: quarks; Top & Bottom, lepton; tau, neutrino; tau neutrino
So this newly discovered particle is made of quarks from two groups, the strange quark from group 2 and the bottom quark from group 3. Has that been seen before? I never knew it happened.
I mean, what do they actually use this for?
Very detailed solutions of nonlinear field equations. The kind of thing that aerothermodynamics deals with.
If someone comes out of the woodwork who happens to be a cross between Alan Turing and Kelly Johnson, maybe that person could use a machine like this to design a combined cycle turbo/ram/scramjet and then Richard Branson could use it to power a real spaceship, not something that's just called a spaceship.
It's not that crazy to imagine a talented individual could simulate all the expensive work on scramjets that NASA has done over the last 15 years and maybe design a workable SSTO air-breathing flying thingy. I'd love that. Someone has to make Constellation look like the sad dinosaur it really is.
The real obstacle to that would be the simulation software. That's why it'll take a genius or two.
From http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/01/30/DefendNorthwestPassage/:
If the US resumes that path, and there's no evidence they will right now, it'll lead to a fundamental change is the perceived "special relationship" between Canada and the US. Americans would be surprised at the change in attitude that would result.
However, I believe things are quite a bit different now compared to 1969. We have Russia making macho territorial claims all over the place and Canada (plus Denmark) are in the best position to legally defeat those claims, not the US.
Also, there might be some recognition in Washington that treating the NWP as the high seas could easily result in an environmental mess of biblical proportions because, for example, dumped oily bilge water in the cold Arctic water doesn't disperse like it does in warmer climates. A large oil spill up there would be an unmitigated disaster.
Finally one would assume the US would like to know, via Canadian tracking of ships in it's territorial waters, who's going where. Canada would have some rights to actually board and inspect ships which is much superior to what the US could find out if the passage was international waters in which case they would be limited to satellite, radar, or airborne tracking.