I suspect a space elevator would vibrate too much for Hubble to work with. The reason it's out by itself in the high orbit and not attached to a manned station is to avoid dust, gas, heat and vibration. Even a really well damped elevator would probably blur Hubble images horribly.
An elevator would be a better way to lift parts or a replacement though.
The complaints I've been told about involve being told there's a crunch period early on in the project, in order to reduce problems at the end, only the crunch time is extended indefinately. The point is that months of 80 hour weeks are written into the schedule at the beginning and continue even when the project is hitting all it's milestones. That's not working 50% and making up for it later, that's EA managment deciding they'd rather have burnt out employees doing a bad job for more hours.
Possibly the Hummer was tested against the Shadow as a potential replacement for the jeep? That would partly explain the phrasing, although it's a horrible bit of writing.
No-one will use the xxx domain, because two weeks after it appears, "family" groups will start hassling ISPs to block, filter and generally suppress it. At the moment they can avoid it by saying it's impractical to block stuff by address, but when it's just a matter of dropping a TLD from their DNS...
Hey, the air in SAAB was always wierd. Don't tell me that a series where people can survive on airless rocks wearing flightsuits and O2 helmets, where airlocks cycle instantly without pressure losses in the cabin, where toxic atmospheres don't contaminate the cabin... Don't tell me that series couldn't have Wang getting into the airlock and sealing himself in before the whole thing blew.
Is there a decent quality version of "Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best" around? Mine came from a torrent, and for some reason #24 is a quarter the res of the (pretty good quality) others.
Personally, I think they'd all have made it. I mean, they spent half the episodes being "dead" or getting rescued at the last minute. I expect episode 2x01 would have featured Wang drifting around in a mysteriously acquired spacesuit, and I can't see Vansen or Damphousse dying in a crash.
"Our launch checklist in fact instructed us, the firing crew, to double-check the locking panel in our underground launch bunker to ensure that no digits other than zero had been inadvertently dialed into the panel."
Sounds like it only had a number keypad. I dunno why the article has a row of Os later.
Got an email this afternoon from an online store saying they weren't able to handle any credit card orders at the moment because both their primary and backup link to the Barclays Banking Network was down because of a fire. I assume it's the same fire (sounds like the right area). Do have to wonder why they bother with a backup if it's running through the same facility.
I know someone who used a 1 gig microdrive as storage for their Toshiba PocketPC. Reduced the battery life by 50% if you used the disc much, and it got very hot. The big storage capacity was nice, but it wasn't a very effective tradeoff. Bigger CF cards are probably a better solution for most people unless the 4+ gig drives use a lot less power.
So, you missed the bit on the front page that says "MARCH 1, 2004, marks the 50th anniversary of the BRAVO HYDROGEN BOMB TEST, the largest weapon ever tested by the United States, which occured on Bikini Atoll." then?
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How does banks having bad web developers mean that "the geeks don't understand what businesses need"?
And legacy software didn't stop them switching from mainframes to unix to windows in the first place, so why's it different now?
Wordpad (at least the Win2K version) doesn't have a spellcheck. Which is kinda important for most people who don't want their letters to look like Slashdot posts. MS Office *is* horribly overpriced crap though, I don't know anyone who actually bought a retail box of it.
The lawyer's job is to settle the problem and get your desired outcome, or as close to that as possible. That might mean a macho chest-beating legal display, but sometimes that's just counterproductive. Get aggressive enough and people will turn around and fight you rather than trying to compromise and save face and money all around.
See SCO or your local feuding neighbours for good examples of what aggressive legal threats/action can earn you.
Yeah, it's a dupe, but I still find this one funny.
"I've been pounding the table here for a year or so saying there's no free lunch, and there is going to be a day of reckoning for every company that thinks they are going to try and sell a free model." That's Darl McBride, president and CEO of the SCO Group, a perennial loser at selling UNIX and, until recently, Linux operating systems."
The Mindstorms stuff is great, and it's a shame to see it killed. Can't help but think it was too expensive though, several times I've looked at buying a set and reluctantly decided it's too expensive. Lego's always been expensive though, so maybe they know their market.
I'm actually quite happy they're killing the movie tie-in stuff, because the sets seem to be mostly specialist blocks that are fairly useless outside the movie setting. More of a "play set" than a construction set.
Hopefully they will focus on the stuff that makes them different from the usual single-purpose fad toys.
It depends what you're doing really. If it's just stills with vast amounts of raytracing and shadows on then it might be easy to send off and get the images back. If it's rendering into uncompressed high-res video for compositing later then it might mean moving a couple of gig of data back afterwards, which is something of a pain on anything other than a LAN.
Maybe they could send the data back on DVD or something, although that might take a lot longer depending on location.
I sometimes wish I could send my renders away to be processed. 574 hours to go...
CBS, under orders from Viacom CEO Mel Karmazin, has threatened to stop all HDTV broadcasts unless the broadcast flag is approved.
Erm, who exactly are they supposed to be threatening? A) are they really likely to stop doing one of the few things that's likely to make them more revenue in a pretty damn saturated/stagnating US TV market? B) Why the hell do the FCC care if CBS wants to put themself out of business?
It's like McDonalds asking for a tax break on one of their menu items, because they can't make money on it, and their blackmail tool is to threaten to stop selling it.
Is the FCC committed to moving everyone to HDTV by some cutoff date? Does HDTV use a different frequency, and they want to reuse the old one?
I R'ed TFA, and I can't see anything that explains this.
The problem is that clever stuff like watermarking or specially encoding the discs is going to be lost when it's compressed. There aren't that many people trading full DVDs yet, although I've seen a few on usenet. What they already do is put a banner along the bottom or a code number overlayed on the video, but the rippers can just pixel them out if they want to. I suppose it's a compromise between making it hard to rip at good quality, and making it look nice for the reviewers.
It's hardly the same as jailing people. They're just saying that they don't want to hire or work with people who either approve of SCO's actions, are too stupid to realise what a shakedown those actions are or don't have the courage to leave when they realise what's going on. That might be a very high standard to set, but I don't see why they can't set it.
I seriously doubt there are any laws preventing discrimination based on someone's previous actions, or lack of same.
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I suspect a space elevator would vibrate too much for Hubble to work with. The reason it's out by itself in the high orbit and not attached to a manned station is to avoid dust, gas, heat and vibration. Even a really well damped elevator would probably blur Hubble images horribly.
An elevator would be a better way to lift parts or a replacement though.
The complaints I've been told about involve being told there's a crunch period early on in the project, in order to reduce problems at the end, only the crunch time is extended indefinately. The point is that months of 80 hour weeks are written into the schedule at the beginning and continue even when the project is hitting all it's milestones. That's not working 50% and making up for it later, that's EA managment deciding they'd rather have burnt out employees doing a bad job for more hours.
Possibly the Hummer was tested against the Shadow as a potential replacement for the jeep? That would partly explain the phrasing, although it's a horrible bit of writing.
It's sad that I can't tell if you're joking, or running for office.
No-one will use the xxx domain, because two weeks after it appears, "family" groups will start hassling ISPs to block, filter and generally suppress it. At the moment they can avoid it by saying it's impractical to block stuff by address, but when it's just a matter of dropping a TLD from their DNS...
Hey, the air in SAAB was always wierd. Don't tell me that a series where people can survive on airless rocks wearing flightsuits and O2 helmets, where airlocks cycle instantly without pressure losses in the cabin, where toxic atmospheres don't contaminate the cabin... Don't tell me that series couldn't have Wang getting into the airlock and sealing himself in before the whole thing blew.
No legal ones. There are some bootlegs around, but they're supposed to be from VHS tapes, so I don't know what the quality's like.
Is there a decent quality version of "Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best" around? Mine came from a torrent, and for some reason #24 is a quarter the res of the (pretty good quality) others.
Personally, I think they'd all have made it. I mean, they spent half the episodes being "dead" or getting rescued at the last minute. I expect episode 2x01 would have featured Wang drifting around in a mysteriously acquired spacesuit, and I can't see Vansen or Damphousse dying in a crash.
"Our launch checklist in fact instructed us, the firing crew, to double-check the locking panel in our underground launch bunker to ensure that no digits other than zero had been inadvertently dialed into the panel."
Sounds like it only had a number keypad. I dunno why the article has a row of Os later.
Got an email this afternoon from an online store saying they weren't able to handle any credit card orders at the moment because both their primary and backup link to the Barclays Banking Network was down because of a fire. I assume it's the same fire (sounds like the right area). Do have to wonder why they bother with a backup if it's running through the same facility.
I know someone who used a 1 gig microdrive as storage for their Toshiba PocketPC. Reduced the battery life by 50% if you used the disc much, and it got very hot. The big storage capacity was nice, but it wasn't a very effective tradeoff. Bigger CF cards are probably a better solution for most people unless the 4+ gig drives use a lot less power.
So, you missed the bit on the front page that says "MARCH 1, 2004, marks the 50th anniversary of the BRAVO HYDROGEN BOMB TEST, the largest weapon ever tested by the United States, which occured on Bikini Atoll." then?
How does banks having bad web developers mean that "the geeks don't understand what businesses need"?
And legacy software didn't stop them switching from mainframes to unix to windows in the first place, so why's it different now?
Wordpad (at least the Win2K version) doesn't have a spellcheck. Which is kinda important for most people who don't want their letters to look like Slashdot posts. MS Office *is* horribly overpriced crap though, I don't know anyone who actually bought a retail box of it.
The lawyer's job is to settle the problem and get your desired outcome, or as close to that as possible. That might mean a macho chest-beating legal display, but sometimes that's just counterproductive. Get aggressive enough and people will turn around and fight you rather than trying to compromise and save face and money all around.
See SCO or your local feuding neighbours for good examples of what aggressive legal threats/action can earn you.
Yeah, it's a dupe, but I still find this one funny.
"I've been pounding the table here for a year or so saying there's no free lunch, and there is going to be a day of reckoning for every company that thinks they are going to try and sell a free model." That's Darl McBride, president and CEO of the SCO Group, a perennial loser at selling UNIX and, until recently, Linux operating systems."
Couldn't say it better myself.
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The Mindstorms stuff is great, and it's a shame to see it killed. Can't help but think it was too expensive though, several times I've looked at buying a set and reluctantly decided it's too expensive. Lego's always been expensive though, so maybe they know their market.
I'm actually quite happy they're killing the movie tie-in stuff, because the sets seem to be mostly specialist blocks that are fairly useless outside the movie setting. More of a "play set" than a construction set.
Hopefully they will focus on the stuff that makes them different from the usual single-purpose fad toys.
How exactly is the parent a troll?
It depends what you're doing really. If it's just stills with vast amounts of raytracing and shadows on then it might be easy to send off and get the images back. If it's rendering into uncompressed high-res video for compositing later then it might mean moving a couple of gig of data back afterwards, which is something of a pain on anything other than a LAN.
Maybe they could send the data back on DVD or something, although that might take a lot longer depending on location.
I sometimes wish I could send my renders away to be processed. 574 hours to go...
No idea if this works, but a workaround
CBS, under orders from Viacom CEO Mel Karmazin, has threatened to stop all HDTV broadcasts unless the broadcast flag is approved.
Erm, who exactly are they supposed to be threatening? A) are they really likely to stop doing one of the few things that's likely to make them more revenue in a pretty damn saturated/stagnating US TV market? B) Why the hell do the FCC care if CBS wants to put themself out of business?
It's like McDonalds asking for a tax break on one of their menu items, because they can't make money on it, and their blackmail tool is to threaten to stop selling it.
Is the FCC committed to moving everyone to HDTV by some cutoff date? Does HDTV use a different frequency, and they want to reuse the old one?
I R'ed TFA, and I can't see anything that explains this.
The problem is that clever stuff like watermarking or specially encoding the discs is going to be lost when it's compressed. There aren't that many people trading full DVDs yet, although I've seen a few on usenet. What they already do is put a banner along the bottom or a code number overlayed on the video, but the rippers can just pixel them out if they want to. I suppose it's a compromise between making it hard to rip at good quality, and making it look nice for the reviewers.
It's hardly the same as jailing people. They're just saying that they don't want to hire or work with people who either approve of SCO's actions, are too stupid to realise what a shakedown those actions are or don't have the courage to leave when they realise what's going on. That might be a very high standard to set, but I don't see why they can't set it.
I seriously doubt there are any laws preventing discrimination based on someone's previous actions, or lack of same.