They just announced for the Xbox2 that they are pulling the harddrive and will be using flash media. I guess they don't like their Xboxes (Yes even after you pay money for them they still see them as theirs) to be anything other than Xboxes.
Actually it would be more like several hundred billion, not just a few. Anyway giving aerospace a kick is not a bad thing. It is one of the largest employers for the US, it is one of the few industies where it is illegal for them to export to lower expenses, and besides who do you think is going to be building orbital and solar craft that will expand what science can be done in the future?
Look at the age of the shuttle and most of the military jets the US uses these days. Other than a few exceptions there isn't an airframe that was developed less than 30 years ago. It is the logical time now to maybe cut back on the science a bit and put some more money into developing capability, as we are now hitting the edge of how far some of the technologies can be pushed, that were developed during the last big aerospace subsidies from the 60's.
I don't understand why everyone is getting so bent. The year after they lower Hubble into a firey grave they are planning on launching a replacement observatory that is supposed be considerably more powerfull. Sure it was the first to show us deep space but it is after all expendable and was never planned on being used for a few years anyway.
There are two very good programs to get you off the ground.
DvD decrypter will rip the DVD nicely, menus and all to your harddrive.
Most software media players will not recognize DVD menus, but one called ZOOM Player will, and just happens to be a nice player to boot.
After you have those it is simple a question of hardrive space. Most movies run between 5-8gb so 1000 DVD's going to require something in the neighboorhood of 5-8tb. Most of the newer high end mother boards will hold up to 10 devices (CD/DVD/hardrives). You biggest problem is going to be one of heat, noise, and enough power connectors. You might want to think about is having multiple servers, with one connected to the TV with the absolute minimum required to run in order to keep it quiet, but enough to fullfill any recording you'll want to do. You then would have one or more servers tucked away on a home network where they won't bother you, with their hardrives mapped to your main server at the TV.
Don't forget you'll want to use to use your machine as an MP3 jukebox as well as a video recorder (TV shows).
While it's not a computer solution Sony does make 200+ DVD carasel players. A friend of mine uses two of them to hold his collection, and has them set up to be controlled by his palm top. He has an older machine connected in as well for the mp3 and video recording functions.
The VOIP that the FCC ruled on is not as you portray it. Free World is simply an organization that helps hand out numbers for voip so people can conviently connect to one another only over VOIP. They offer no service what's so ever that allows you to connect to tranditional phone networks. (Though they do encourge people with VOIP/standard phone systems to let others connect through them for free.) If they did, then they would have to maintain connections to the phone network and money would have to change hands in order for this to work. Pure VOIP already pays it's own way. To talk to my parents in the midwest or my buddy who is stationed in Korea, we all have to pay for broad band, there is no free ride for the VOIP! My buddy does have a second funtion that he pays for so he can call his family in Washington to their standard phone line and they to him, making it a local call. Again not free.
Even the hotels and businesses you mentioned still must pay for some sort of connection to the outside world for local calls (non-VOIP).
The funny thing from the orignal probes that we sent, they auto colored the sky to be blue as that was what they assumed the color to be. It red along with the ambeient light that refects off of the ground.
You've got the speed right, at least if I remember correctly. There comparison was that the latest probes could cover the distance in a day or two what took the previsous probes a month to cover. They are also supposed to last at least 90 days, again if I remember correctly, so that combined with the fact that there are two probes we should see a alot more variety out of the photos in the days to come.
The first thing they took pictures was of the probe, which makes perfect sense. If you just sent a probe all of that way wouldn't you want to make sure everything was in order and that the pictures backed up what the onboard equipment was sending back.
Well actually they did. Read up on the rovers, they are quite mobile when compared to the previous ones sent. I doubt they will stay at the landing zone much longer if they don't find anything of interest.
Sorry that photo was taken in California. Go north on I-14, out of LA for about 3 housrs, till you get to Red Rock Canyon park, you can also take pictures of Venus, the Moon, and if no one is watching Uranus.
More idiot children where crushed to death by soda machines they tipped over on themselves than dozens!
More people choked to death on a snack food, than dozens.
More people fall over and die in the bathroom after smacking their head on the toilet than dozens.
It's sad and it's tragic, but when you compare dozens with the millions jerks the police have to deal with DAILY, I wouldn't even start getting remotely worked up until the number of "innocents" and I use this word with a bit of sceptisism (many of the so called innocents tends to be dirt bags that had it coming for something else anyway) that the police kill anually starts getting into the thousands. If anything the police should be shooting more people not fewer, especially if they have something as dangerous as a rake. What kind of dumbass confronts the police with a rake. You should be shot outright just on principle for that kind of stupidity.
I gave up on making media back ups along time ago. It would still take me close to 20 DVD to back up just my MP3 collection, that's not even getting into my digital photos, programs, msc file storage, TV show recordings, and DVD collection. As it is now I've got three 120gb harddrives maxed and need to get something much bigger.
Wake me up when they come up with something that holds 50+gb on a single disk.;) of course by the time they do I'll be up in the terabytes and it'll be too small.
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Cool you got a new harddrive! How big is it? 300mb, wow, that'll last you forever!
I actually I was stationed in South Dakota (Rapid City) You had 3-4 flavors of high speed to pick from there, and that was four years ago. I now am in Southern California and you are amongst the chosen ones if you can get anything above 28.8K.
What happened is the power company saw a ripe plumb to be picked since both the cable company and the phone company in that area were dragging their feet, and the power co was looking for something to expand into since growth is fairly slow in those areas. So they used their right of ways (power lines) to run fiber to everyones home in South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Minosota, and Nebraska. Since they were neither a cable or phone provider they had little or no restictions against them from providing mulitple services. For a flat $100 you got digital cable, a cable modem, and unlimited local phone (anything on their network was considered local). Don't forget to mention your power bill all rapped up in one month statement.
Panicing both the phone and cable companys rushed their services in to keep from being shut out of the market. So believe it or not. South Dakota is pretty shit hot when it comes to high speed. Now California on the other hand ughhhhh! I have to move at the end of the month accross town, about 1/2mile to far out to get DSL. I'll slit my wristes before going back to dial-up.
That is not going to have much of an affect on gamers. It will not handicap those with a better system.
It's not going to make the game run any different, it'll just cap the max frames at 60. Older cards will still bottom out when there is too much on the screen at the same time, while the more powerful systems will stay parked at 60fps.
Glock Model 36 $500
7 rounds of 45 ACP pumped into career criminal $1.05
$30,000 saved a year for the next ten years by taking out the human garbage. Priceless.
Yes they are some monsters, but then again if they built a computer with the same power as the one you are sitting at now back in the day it would have covered probably half of the town you live in.
I bet you they could come up with something that doesn't weigh all that much more than some of the heavier rims available today for full size cars/trucks.
The wheel have magnets in them so as long as they are turning they are generating a load (breaking). That type of breaking is used to recoup some of the energy and would be in addition of standard breaks. You would have a tough time coming to a complete stop with just regenative breaking unless they applied alittle power in reverse to completely stop.
They didn't put the motors on the front wheels so gyroscopic effect wouldn't be as bad on the steering. Besides these are city busess they won't be going to fast to start off with so it shouldn't be that much of an issue.
For higher performance cars though, if they wanted to put motors at each wheel for traction control and lower center of grav, they could use motors that have coils instead of magnets so they could be lighter. They could also use the stearing method that motorcyles use which takes advantage of gyroscopic effect to lean the bike and make it turn. (Anything above a walking pace you actually turn the opposite direction you want to turn.) Of course this could all be self defeating and end up being heavier and more complicated than simply having a transmission with a more centrally located motor.
Actually you can do vegi oil if you have a diesel engine. You can make your own fuel if you have a good source and if not all diesel fuel in the midwest uses vegi oil as a 10% additive.
Last time I checked they were damn close to 80mpg cars. Go buy one from Honda or Toyota.
Quit kissing your sister/mom and think for just for the briefest of moments. I know it's going to hurt but try anyway. If it's twice as effiecient as a standard vehicle then we could turn that around and nearly make it twice as big at the same efficiency. Now that's the American way!
The space program of the 60's to the present has DIRECTLY contribiuted to, let's see advancements in advanced metals, plastics, medicine, aerospace, communications, computers, and chemistry. Yeah we managed to spend more money on all of that back in the 60's and never made any of that money back....Yeah rrrright..oh wait a minute what exactly are we the world leaders in these days? Advanced metals, plastics, medicine, aerospace, communications, computers, and chemistry...it would have been better spent on some poor trash that would have made the grand contribution of 5 more people who would have grown up to be poor trash, half of which would have ended up in prison....yes argueably a much better investment than a space program
Why should we help society, if it is not willing to help itself?
Which is better? Creating advancements that lead to the expansion of the economy and new inroads to human achievement or spending money on people whose greatest goal in life is to live off the govenment dole? If the government wants to spend on a health issue that would have the greatest impact on the quality of life for people in society it would be on mandatory birth control for those on welfare. Those are the people I assume everyone is agonizing over, when they want to "help society" There is little excuse in this day and age why anyone cannot get an education and move up out of that condition if they really wanted too. The hard reality of it is most people don't care and never will.
Hmmm we spent billions to send a guy to the moon and we ended up with the largest and farthest reaching space programs on the planet, not to mention the thousands of innovations that came from it that made us into a technological and industrial leader.
We've spent billion and continue to do so in the search for cures of diseases, and we are finding cures.
We spend billions to provide food and shelter for the 3rd world. All we get is criticised for not doing enough, even though what we contribute out strips the rest of the world put together.
We currently spend billions on the nation's education system. Of course "good intensions" has made it into a bloated and inefficient mess. If anything we need to start changing the rules so teachers and administrators that are not serious about education get the big boot to the butt.
A tax break is not a break after years of tax increases, it's an adjustment back to a more sane level. If anything more programs should get the axe. Money doesn't solve problems, people do, and until the American people and the world at large care enough to step up and give their time there will always be problems.
As far as the perpetual war, you must have been asleep in history class. We have not stopped being "at war" for nearly the last 50 years. Try reading a few history books and get a clue. While you are at it look to see who has actually been starting them.
Suddenly the lack of free health care and SS is a problem. When exactly in our history has either been free, and please tell me why they should be? I whole heartedly support emergency care as well vacines and preventative medicine, but full medical coverage will put us in a hole that we will never be able to dig ourselves out of. If you want free health care go live in Europe, but don't whine about the 60% income tax.
These HUGE problems have always existed and always will exist, so when exactly is the right time to goto the moon? The last time we went was when we were on the verge of global nucluer war! Which for some odd reason causes todays issues to pale in comparison
A duh, there are no other MAJOR space fairing nations other than Russians and they cannot afford to pay the bills, so why should we wait around for the Dutch to start a space program?
This current conflict looks nothing like Vietnam, as sad as the casualties are, it's not even close. We are not currently fighting with one hand behind our back like in Vietnam, and our opponent isn't being backed by a major Cold War super power. If anything people are saying we are being too rough on the insurgents.
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Man this stuff is funny. EU politians need to lay off the drugs.
They just announced for the Xbox2 that they are pulling the harddrive and will be using flash media. I guess they don't like their Xboxes (Yes even after you pay money for them they still see them as theirs) to be anything other than Xboxes.
They've anounced they're pulling the HD in the Xbox2. I guess they didn't like anyone reprograming their Xbox to do anything other than being an Xbox.
Look at the age of the shuttle and most of the military jets the US uses these days. Other than a few exceptions there isn't an airframe that was developed less than 30 years ago. It is the logical time now to maybe cut back on the science a bit and put some more money into developing capability, as we are now hitting the edge of how far some of the technologies can be pushed, that were developed during the last big aerospace subsidies from the 60's.
I don't understand why everyone is getting so bent. The year after they lower Hubble into a firey grave they are planning on launching a replacement observatory that is supposed be considerably more powerfull. Sure it was the first to show us deep space but it is after all expendable and was never planned on being used for a few years anyway.
DvD decrypter will rip the DVD nicely, menus and all to your harddrive.
Most software media players will not recognize DVD menus, but one called ZOOM Player will, and just happens to be a nice player to boot.
After you have those it is simple a question of hardrive space. Most movies run between 5-8gb so 1000 DVD's going to require something in the neighboorhood of 5-8tb. Most of the newer high end mother boards will hold up to 10 devices (CD/DVD/hardrives). You biggest problem is going to be one of heat, noise, and enough power connectors. You might want to think about is having multiple servers, with one connected to the TV with the absolute minimum required to run in order to keep it quiet, but enough to fullfill any recording you'll want to do. You then would have one or more servers tucked away on a home network where they won't bother you, with their hardrives mapped to your main server at the TV.
Don't forget you'll want to use to use your machine as an MP3 jukebox as well as a video recorder (TV shows).
While it's not a computer solution Sony does make 200+ DVD carasel players. A friend of mine uses two of them to hold his collection, and has them set up to be controlled by his palm top. He has an older machine connected in as well for the mp3 and video recording functions.
Even the hotels and businesses you mentioned still must pay for some sort of connection to the outside world for local calls (non-VOIP).
The funny thing from the orignal probes that we sent, they auto colored the sky to be blue as that was what they assumed the color to be. It red along with the ambeient light that refects off of the ground.
You've got the speed right, at least if I remember correctly. There comparison was that the latest probes could cover the distance in a day or two what took the previsous probes a month to cover. They are also supposed to last at least 90 days, again if I remember correctly, so that combined with the fact that there are two probes we should see a alot more variety out of the photos in the days to come.
Sorry that photo was taken in California. Go north on I-14, out of LA for about 3 housrs, till you get to Red Rock Canyon park, you can also take pictures of Venus, the Moon, and if no one is watching Uranus.
More idiot children where crushed to death by soda machines they tipped over on themselves than dozens!
More people choked to death on a snack food, than dozens.
More people fall over and die in the bathroom after smacking their head on the toilet than dozens.
It's sad and it's tragic, but when you compare dozens with the millions jerks the police have to deal with DAILY, I wouldn't even start getting remotely worked up until the number of "innocents" and I use this word with a bit of sceptisism (many of the so called innocents tends to be dirt bags that had it coming for something else anyway) that the police kill anually starts getting into the thousands. If anything the police should be shooting more people not fewer, especially if they have something as dangerous as a rake. What kind of dumbass confronts the police with a rake. You should be shot outright just on principle for that kind of stupidity.
Wake me up when they come up with something that holds 50+gb on a single disk. ;) of course by the time they do I'll be up in the terabytes and it'll be too small.
Highschool flashback
Cool you got a new harddrive! How big is it? 300mb, wow, that'll last you forever!
What happened is the power company saw a ripe plumb to be picked since both the cable company and the phone company in that area were dragging their feet, and the power co was looking for something to expand into since growth is fairly slow in those areas. So they used their right of ways (power lines) to run fiber to everyones home in South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Minosota, and Nebraska. Since they were neither a cable or phone provider they had little or no restictions against them from providing mulitple services. For a flat $100 you got digital cable, a cable modem, and unlimited local phone (anything on their network was considered local). Don't forget to mention your power bill all rapped up in one month statement.
Panicing both the phone and cable companys rushed their services in to keep from being shut out of the market. So believe it or not. South Dakota is pretty shit hot when it comes to high speed. Now California on the other hand ughhhhh! I have to move at the end of the month accross town, about 1/2mile to far out to get DSL. I'll slit my wristes before going back to dial-up.
It's not going to make the game run any different, it'll just cap the max frames at 60. Older cards will still bottom out when there is too much on the screen at the same time, while the more powerful systems will stay parked at 60fps.
Glock Model 36 $500
7 rounds of 45 ACP pumped into career criminal $1.05
$30,000 saved a year for the next ten years by taking out the human garbage. Priceless.
I bet you they could come up with something that doesn't weigh all that much more than some of the heavier rims available today for full size cars/trucks.
They didn't put the motors on the front wheels so gyroscopic effect wouldn't be as bad on the steering. Besides these are city busess they won't be going to fast to start off with so it shouldn't be that much of an issue.
For higher performance cars though, if they wanted to put motors at each wheel for traction control and lower center of grav, they could use motors that have coils instead of magnets so they could be lighter. They could also use the stearing method that motorcyles use which takes advantage of gyroscopic effect to lean the bike and make it turn. (Anything above a walking pace you actually turn the opposite direction you want to turn.) Of course this could all be self defeating and end up being heavier and more complicated than simply having a transmission with a more centrally located motor.
Last time I checked they were damn close to 80mpg cars. Go buy one from Honda or Toyota.
Quit kissing your sister/mom and think for just for the briefest of moments. I know it's going to hurt but try anyway. If it's twice as effiecient as a standard vehicle then we could turn that around and nearly make it twice as big at the same efficiency. Now that's the American way!
The space program of the 60's to the present has DIRECTLY contribiuted to, let's see advancements in advanced metals, plastics, medicine, aerospace, communications, computers, and chemistry. Yeah we managed to spend more money on all of that back in the 60's and never made any of that money back....Yeah rrrright..oh wait a minute what exactly are we the world leaders in these days? Advanced metals, plastics, medicine, aerospace, communications, computers, and chemistry...it would have been better spent on some poor trash that would have made the grand contribution of 5 more people who would have grown up to be poor trash, half of which would have ended up in prison....yes argueably a much better investment than a space program
you my friend are an idiot.
Which is better? Creating advancements that lead to the expansion of the economy and new inroads to human achievement or spending money on people whose greatest goal in life is to live off the govenment dole? If the government wants to spend on a health issue that would have the greatest impact on the quality of life for people in society it would be on mandatory birth control for those on welfare. Those are the people I assume everyone is agonizing over, when they want to "help society" There is little excuse in this day and age why anyone cannot get an education and move up out of that condition if they really wanted too. The hard reality of it is most people don't care and never will.
I say abandon them ...
Oh by the way, no point, I'm still ranting
We've spent billion and continue to do so in the search for cures of diseases, and we are finding cures.
We spend billions to provide food and shelter for the 3rd world. All we get is criticised for not doing enough, even though what we contribute out strips the rest of the world put together.
We currently spend billions on the nation's education system. Of course "good intensions" has made it into a bloated and inefficient mess. If anything we need to start changing the rules so teachers and administrators that are not serious about education get the big boot to the butt.
So exactly what exactly is your point again?
As far as the perpetual war, you must have been asleep in history class. We have not stopped being "at war" for nearly the last 50 years. Try reading a few history books and get a clue. While you are at it look to see who has actually been starting them.
Suddenly the lack of free health care and SS is a problem. When exactly in our history has either been free, and please tell me why they should be? I whole heartedly support emergency care as well vacines and preventative medicine, but full medical coverage will put us in a hole that we will never be able to dig ourselves out of. If you want free health care go live in Europe, but don't whine about the 60% income tax.
These HUGE problems have always existed and always will exist, so when exactly is the right time to goto the moon? The last time we went was when we were on the verge of global nucluer war! Which for some odd reason causes todays issues to pale in comparison
A duh, there are no other MAJOR space fairing nations other than Russians and they cannot afford to pay the bills, so why should we wait around for the Dutch to start a space program?
This current conflict looks nothing like Vietnam, as sad as the casualties are, it's not even close. We are not currently fighting with one hand behind our back like in Vietnam, and our opponent isn't being backed by a major Cold War super power. If anything people are saying we are being too rough on the insurgents.