I just got a brand new Dell 2001FP for $640 off of craiglist JUST to prove the point every respectable/. user has already said. There is NO lag associated with LCD hardware. There are several inputs to choose from. VGA has no lag. S-Video has no lag. DVI and Composite should just as well have no lag but I haven't the hardware to test them. I play Battlefront Multiplayer online with no lag even on laggy servers the mouse responds well. I am using a MX700 Wireless mouse in conjuction. My mouse actually does lag when it is low on batteries. Did the person submitting this story check to see if his mouse was blinking? Maybe he was too busy looking at the cursor.
FIRST POST CLAN SHUGASHACK BABY!!! JEWCJEW MAMA bring back da shack
so what happened to the shacknews server?
FRANCE SUCKS
started a club at my high school called BPAC the constitutino says we dont like france
Hey,
I missed the beginning of the second press conference but one of the other Aerospace Students gave me some important information that was released.
At the External Tank seperation, the crew takes pictures and observes the event so that engineers can examine it for irregularities. The Crew reported that a chunk of foam broke off and hit the wing of the orbitor. It was NASA's intention to examine these afterwards; obviously this will not happen.
At some point prior to landing (I don't know if it was day1, 2, or 15) Tracking and Data as well as the crew lost sensors in the affected wing. They could no longer monitor temperature, tire pressure, and many other systems in that side of the orbitor. Engineers on the ground did not see this as a significant problem and gave a thumbs up for the return home. One thing I overheard on one of the news channels was a possibilty of an APU problem. As I learned during one my last two trips to ASA, the APU functions normally at 8000 RPM; at that speed if something breaks, everything nearby is gonna hit the fan.
ON A POSITIVE NOTE: Nasa has still maintained a perfect track record of not losing a life in space. The tally is 3 on the ground, and 14 in flight. If you want to look at historical aspects, this has been a grim week for the space agency. On monday was the Apollo 1 Anniversary, Tuesday was the Challenger Accident's Anniversary, and then there is Columbia today. I always thought Columbia would be the orbitor I'd one day see in the Smithsonian.
Colin asked me a few questions this morning:
1) Do I think this was an act of terrorist? No F-ing Way!. My reason is the only thing that could reach that high is an Intercontinental Ballistic Missle (ICBM). And even if it is likely that someone could get ahold of an ICBM, it would be damn difficult to be able to hit a target moving faster than 12,000mph. If a terrorist could get an ICBM, he wouldn't get something nice like the US has with GPS computers to get accuracy of within 100 feet of the target.
2) What was my article for Popular Science (PS) about. A few magazines, in particular PS, have been strongly criticizing the ISS. They claim it has been a waste of money that is generating almost no scientific value. I call BS. The ISS has constantly been performing experiments, and like an assembly line, requires time to gain it's momentum. Two things are keeping the ISS from running at full capacity. 1 is the Crew Return Vehicle (CRV); a project Nasa Administrator Sean O'Keefe canceled for "budget reasons". 2 is the station being completed with all modules, experiment racks, and Personal Satellite Assistants. Lets not forget that more than 2 of the experiment modules have yet to be put in orbit. And as for the cost; Nasa Engineers had to redesign the ISS 6 times (I don't know if this includes Freedom or not), and each time they had to start over at the beginning---because the mission statement changed. W! hy did the mission statement change so many times?--congress. As a friend of my professor put it; "There are three types of space stations. There's a volkswagon, a pickup truck, and a cadilac. What we have is the volkswagon, for the price of the cadilac because we've had to spend so much money redesigning it so many times."
Colin if there was another question in there that I missed, let me know and I'll get back to you on that. But today has been a great day to have Nasa TV.
The debris hit the left wing. Several problems arrose but the two inparticular listed by nasa was tire pressure started to read off the mark (low) and was over temping. Structure was also over temp. These and several other problems arrose at 9:00 eastern. The tragedy occurred at 9:30, 10 minutes prior to landing at KSC. For the life of me I can't remember how long it takes for re-entry to landing; so I don't know if problems arrose after re-entry of not. If anyone knows, please let me know.
Thanks,
Mike
Hail Columbia!
At 9:00am Eastern. Tracking and communications lost contact with the Orbitor Columbia and was viewed to break up over the east side of texas. They were flying at over 200,000 feet and 12,500mph at the time. Wether it hit something, broke up, or had an internal explosion is unknown. 7 Astronauts died, unofficially announced but the American Flag at KSC is at half mast. There was no way that they could have made an emergency escape because of how fast it hit the fan.
Comlumbia was the strongest built of the fleet, if another is as strong it would be Discovery. This was the 107th Shuttle flight. The Space Shuttle has the best track record in the world; but how many in congress are going to listen to that.
We still have three able launchers and a full inspection underway. But Congress continues to choke Nasa of money, maybe now after the third disaster they'll do it.
Nasa hasn't released much. All I know is this just shot my Popular Science article right in the foot. I know it's a selfish statement, but it's the truth. But it is odd that this happened during one of the safest legs of a flight.
We still have 3 Astronauts on the ISS, but they are in no danger; They'll most likely stay an extra few months while Nasa and Congress bitch at each other.
I just hope this doesn't stop NASA, or else our development is screwed and the Astronauts will have died in vain.
Mike
ASA Mission Specialist, Pilot
This mission was not just a routine trip to the ISS. This was the first scientific research mission in a very long time. This also included the first Israeli astronaut. For the first time since the Challenger mission, a the teacher in space program was reinstated and the kindergarten teacher who was the backup for Challenger finally got her chance to go. Also, there is a program organized to allow children all over the country to send their expiraments into space and communicate work with the astronauts. Note, Security was very high around columbia and the crew to insure safety from sabotage. The Columbia was a 22-year old craft--NASA's oldest shuttle--and this was evidently supposed to be its last mission. As someone just pointed out on another mailing list, that seems old indeed when you consider that few people drive 22-year-old cars. This was the 113th flight in the program's 22 years and was this craft's 28th flight. On launch day, a piece of insulating foam on the external fuel tank came off during liftoff and was believed to have struck the left wing of the shuttle. Leroy Cain, the lead flight director in Mission Control, had assured reporters Friday that engineers had concluded that any damage to the wing was considered minor and posed no safety hazard.
Shuttle commander Rick D. Husband, Pilot William C. McCool, Payload Commander Michael P. Anderson, Mission Specialists David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla and Laurel Clark and Israel's first astronaut, Ilan Ramon, were on board.
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-1 07/mission-sts-107.html
Colin
ASA Pilot, Mission Specialist
"Obscene" or hardcore pornography is defined in a US Supreme court case search the name Miller V. California 1973. im too lazy to search it for you heres my summary: Miller v. California (1972) I. Issue before the court Is the sale and distribution of obscene materials by mail protected under the First Amendment's freedom of speech guarantee? What is defined as obscene and what standards are there? Can state courts define limits on the First Amendment?
II. Facts of the Case Miller, after conducting a mass mailing campaign to advertise the sale of "adult" material, was convicted of violating a California statute prohibiting the distribution of obscene material. Some unwilling recipients of Miller's brochures complained to the police, initiating the legal proceedings. Miller was convicted, but he appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. He argued that state, rather than national, standards violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments. III. Decision (1973) The Court held that obscene materials did not enjoy First Amendment protection. The Court modified the test for obscenity established in Roth v. United States and Memoirs v. Massachusetts, holding that "the basic guidelines for the trier of fact must be: (a) whether 'the average person, applying contemporary community standards' would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest. . . (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value." The Court rejected the "utterly without redeeming social value" test of the Memoirs decision. A jury may measure factual issues of prurient appeal and patent offensiveness by the standard that prevails in the forum community without using a "national standard." IV. Reasoning Sex and nudity may not be exploited without limit by films or pictures exhibited or sold in places of public accommodation any more than live sex and nudity can be exhibited or sold without limit in such public places. At a minimum, prurient, patently offensive depiction or description of sexual conduct must have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value to merit First Amendment protection. For example, medical books for the education of physicians and related personnel necessarily use graphic illustrations and descriptions of human anatomy. In resolving the inevitably sensitive questions of fact and law, we must continue to rely on the jury system, accompanied by the safeguards that judges, rules of evidence, presumption of innocence, and other protective features provide, as we do with rape, murder, and a host of other offenses against society and its individual members.
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I just got a brand new Dell 2001FP for $640 off of craiglist JUST to prove the point every respectable /. user has already said. There is NO lag associated with LCD hardware. There are several inputs to choose from. VGA has no lag. S-Video has no lag. DVI and Composite should just as well have no lag but I haven't the hardware to test them. I play Battlefront Multiplayer online with no lag even on laggy servers the mouse responds well. I am using a MX700 Wireless mouse in conjuction. My mouse actually does lag when it is low on batteries. Did the person submitting this story check to see if his mouse was blinking? Maybe he was too busy looking at the cursor.
FIRST POST CLAN SHUGASHACK BABY!!! JEWCJEW MAMA bring back da shack so what happened to the shacknews server? FRANCE SUCKS started a club at my high school called BPAC the constitutino says we dont like france
Hey, I missed the beginning of the second press conference but one of the other Aerospace Students gave me some important information that was released. At the External Tank seperation, the crew takes pictures and observes the event so that engineers can examine it for irregularities. The Crew reported that a chunk of foam broke off and hit the wing of the orbitor. It was NASA's intention to examine these afterwards; obviously this will not happen. At some point prior to landing (I don't know if it was day1, 2, or 15) Tracking and Data as well as the crew lost sensors in the affected wing. They could no longer monitor temperature, tire pressure, and many other systems in that side of the orbitor. Engineers on the ground did not see this as a significant problem and gave a thumbs up for the return home. One thing I overheard on one of the news channels was a possibilty of an APU problem. As I learned during one my last two trips to ASA, the APU functions normally at 8000 RPM; at that speed if something breaks, everything nearby is gonna hit the fan. ON A POSITIVE NOTE: Nasa has still maintained a perfect track record of not losing a life in space. The tally is 3 on the ground, and 14 in flight. If you want to look at historical aspects, this has been a grim week for the space agency. On monday was the Apollo 1 Anniversary, Tuesday was the Challenger Accident's Anniversary, and then there is Columbia today. I always thought Columbia would be the orbitor I'd one day see in the Smithsonian. Colin asked me a few questions this morning: 1) Do I think this was an act of terrorist? No F-ing Way!. My reason is the only thing that could reach that high is an Intercontinental Ballistic Missle (ICBM). And even if it is likely that someone could get ahold of an ICBM, it would be damn difficult to be able to hit a target moving faster than 12,000mph. If a terrorist could get an ICBM, he wouldn't get something nice like the US has with GPS computers to get accuracy of within 100 feet of the target. 2) What was my article for Popular Science (PS) about. A few magazines, in particular PS, have been strongly criticizing the ISS. They claim it has been a waste of money that is generating almost no scientific value. I call BS. The ISS has constantly been performing experiments, and like an assembly line, requires time to gain it's momentum. Two things are keeping the ISS from running at full capacity. 1 is the Crew Return Vehicle (CRV); a project Nasa Administrator Sean O'Keefe canceled for "budget reasons". 2 is the station being completed with all modules, experiment racks, and Personal Satellite Assistants. Lets not forget that more than 2 of the experiment modules have yet to be put in orbit. And as for the cost; Nasa Engineers had to redesign the ISS 6 times (I don't know if this includes Freedom or not), and each time they had to start over at the beginning---because the mission statement changed. W! hy did the mission statement change so many times?--congress. As a friend of my professor put it; "There are three types of space stations. There's a volkswagon, a pickup truck, and a cadilac. What we have is the volkswagon, for the price of the cadilac because we've had to spend so much money redesigning it so many times." Colin if there was another question in there that I missed, let me know and I'll get back to you on that. But today has been a great day to have Nasa TV. The debris hit the left wing. Several problems arrose but the two inparticular listed by nasa was tire pressure started to read off the mark (low) and was over temping. Structure was also over temp. These and several other problems arrose at 9:00 eastern. The tragedy occurred at 9:30, 10 minutes prior to landing at KSC. For the life of me I can't remember how long it takes for re-entry to landing; so I don't know if problems arrose after re-entry of not. If anyone knows, please let me know. Thanks, Mike Hail Columbia!
At 9:00am Eastern. Tracking and communications lost contact with the Orbitor Columbia and was viewed to break up over the east side of texas. They were flying at over 200,000 feet and 12,500mph at the time. Wether it hit something, broke up, or had an internal explosion is unknown. 7 Astronauts died, unofficially announced but the American Flag at KSC is at half mast. There was no way that they could have made an emergency escape because of how fast it hit the fan. Comlumbia was the strongest built of the fleet, if another is as strong it would be Discovery. This was the 107th Shuttle flight. The Space Shuttle has the best track record in the world; but how many in congress are going to listen to that. We still have three able launchers and a full inspection underway. But Congress continues to choke Nasa of money, maybe now after the third disaster they'll do it. Nasa hasn't released much. All I know is this just shot my Popular Science article right in the foot. I know it's a selfish statement, but it's the truth. But it is odd that this happened during one of the safest legs of a flight. We still have 3 Astronauts on the ISS, but they are in no danger; They'll most likely stay an extra few months while Nasa and Congress bitch at each other. I just hope this doesn't stop NASA, or else our development is screwed and the Astronauts will have died in vain. Mike ASA Mission Specialist, Pilot This mission was not just a routine trip to the ISS. This was the first scientific research mission in a very long time. This also included the first Israeli astronaut. For the first time since the Challenger mission, a the teacher in space program was reinstated and the kindergarten teacher who was the backup for Challenger finally got her chance to go. Also, there is a program organized to allow children all over the country to send their expiraments into space and communicate work with the astronauts. Note, Security was very high around columbia and the crew to insure safety from sabotage. The Columbia was a 22-year old craft--NASA's oldest shuttle--and this was evidently supposed to be its last mission. As someone just pointed out on another mailing list, that seems old indeed when you consider that few people drive 22-year-old cars. This was the 113th flight in the program's 22 years and was this craft's 28th flight. On launch day, a piece of insulating foam on the external fuel tank came off during liftoff and was believed to have struck the left wing of the shuttle. Leroy Cain, the lead flight director in Mission Control, had assured reporters Friday that engineers had concluded that any damage to the wing was considered minor and posed no safety hazard. Shuttle commander Rick D. Husband, Pilot William C. McCool, Payload Commander Michael P. Anderson, Mission Specialists David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla and Laurel Clark and Israel's first astronaut, Ilan Ramon, were on board. http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-1 07/mission-sts-107.html
Colin
ASA Pilot, Mission Specialist
"Obscene" or hardcore pornography is defined in a US Supreme court case search the name Miller V. California 1973. im too lazy to search it for you heres my summary:
Miller v. California (1972)
I. Issue before the court
Is the sale and distribution of obscene materials by mail protected under the First Amendment's freedom of speech guarantee? What is defined as obscene and what standards are there? Can state courts define limits on the First Amendment?
II. Facts of the Case
Miller, after conducting a mass mailing campaign to advertise the sale of "adult" material, was convicted of violating a California statute prohibiting the distribution of obscene material. Some unwilling recipients of Miller's brochures complained to the police, initiating the legal proceedings. Miller was convicted, but he appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. He argued that state, rather than national, standards violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
III. Decision (1973)
The Court held that obscene materials did not enjoy First Amendment protection. The Court modified the test for obscenity established in Roth v. United States and Memoirs v. Massachusetts, holding that "the basic guidelines for the trier of fact must be: (a) whether 'the average person, applying contemporary community standards' would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest. . . (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value." The Court rejected the "utterly without redeeming social value" test of the Memoirs decision. A jury may measure factual issues of prurient appeal and patent offensiveness by the standard that prevails in the forum community without using a "national standard."
IV. Reasoning
Sex and nudity may not be exploited without limit by films or pictures exhibited or sold in places of public accommodation any more than live sex and nudity can be exhibited or sold without limit in such public places. At a minimum, prurient, patently offensive depiction or description of sexual conduct must have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value to merit First Amendment protection. For example, medical books for the education of physicians and related personnel necessarily use graphic illustrations and descriptions of human anatomy. In resolving the inevitably sensitive questions of fact and law, we must continue to rely on the jury system, accompanied by the safeguards that judges, rules of evidence, presumption of innocence, and other protective features provide, as we do with rape, murder, and a host of other offenses against society and its individual members.