The space industry is spread out over the entire country.
This list could go on and on. Saying it is only
Florida and Texas that benefit is mildly absurd. I agree with the idea, but it isn't nearly as narrow as that.
T-Mobile has no problems with tethering that I am aware of and I have been using it on several phones for some time. (2 different Nokia S60 phones, and a Win phone) Their support people even support it.
Now I just need to make sure a regular user has the permission to set env variables... seems unlikely, but it's worth a shot. Generally regular users can modify ENV vars for themselves, but not the system level vars so you should be fine with bat scripts to swap the env around. I can't recall which takes precedence in the case of a conflict though, been a while.
Can't comment on Children of Hurin as I haven't read my copy yet, but I
am wondering why so harsh in regards to Kevin J Anderson.
Sure, none of the prequels are on a level with Dune but what
is. Even Frank couldn't maintain that level of writing.
Messiah IMHO was not awful and not great. Most of
God Emperor was a yawn fest. To each their own. I was just
wondering what specifically you despised about Anderson's work.
And is it only the stuff he has done alone, only the stuff he
did with Brian Herbert, or both.
Exploding munitions wouldn't be optimum for hitting the vehicle IMHO as most of the energy is essentially wasted. Better to drive a mass into it around the center of mass/gravity I would think. Logistically a bitch, but far more effective than trying to leverage fireworks against orbital momentum. The idea isn't to blow it up, just to give it a shove in direct opposition to the forward motion to subtract out as much momentum as possible thereby making it fall out of orbit. Granted, since it appears the NRO owns the soon to be space junk there may be a reason to go for maximum carnage, but I don't see how explosives are going to be a useful solution. Better to control the impact point if the intent is to retain control of onboard goodies. Luckily that is also the best way to ensure safety of people at said impact point.
Getting a significant mass in place to pull it off is likely unrealistic or at least prohibitively expensive.
I don't buy the can't be shot down point. It it were to be hit (hard) from the front relative to it velocity vector there would be enough loss of momentum to cause it to come down. I would think that would qualify as shot down, though not in a Hollywood like dramatic splash down kind of way. Effective nonetheless. Calculated correctly this should allow some control of where the bits would fall. The problem I think would be getting the missile in line with the angle of attack needed while retaining enough oomph to cause a large loss of momentum on the part of the space vehicle in question.
I would have to read it as both, with 'cyber' attacks capability being a very small subset of an overall net centric capability goal. The larger part of that goal being by far the more difficult to implement. Besides the non-trivial technological hurdles, the problem of training battle staff to deal with several new command and control concepts and deal with immense amounts of data provided at speeds they are not prepared to act upon.
It depends on how you look at it. I don't play the lottery often, but when I do I see it as a charitable donation to college funds with no expectation of return. I may not be a brilliant mathematician, but I can figure odds so as a financial investment the lottery is useless. The number of high school grads getting a free ride to state colleges due to the lottery is a good thing overall though and worth my few dollars a year.
In the case of PNM, they probably need the advertising to bring people back from the edge before blowing up their building downtown due to customer service issues.:-)
Hareware Support: Wireless, whether 802.11, GPRS, EDGE, or SuperFooLink
is not what it could be. 3D driver recompile shenanigans are
not fun. Enough with the hibernation/suspend issues.
More seamless integration of emulation environments. Wine,
Crossover, whatever.
Printing.
Optional Integration of KDE widgets ala Karamba, but without
the resource suicide.
One a more application side of things:
Better OO interoperability
Better support for viewing/manipulating high resolution Jpeg2000 and
NITF files
Open replacements with a decent level of compatibility for:
STK
The Linux version was abandoned several releases ago. Combined with
the ever increasing expense when you add modules to do anything useful
and this is a great candidate for a profitable open source app.
Labview
The NI lock in might be impossible to get around, but almost anything
would have to be better.
Visio
Currently number one reason to stay current with Crossover Office.
And on a totally not Linux note:
Better partition management for FreeBSD if for no other reason than to
rescue people (ie me) from piss poor planning at build time.
The problem as I see it is that the value to me as the consumer is
exactly the opposite.
Most movies worth watching are only good for one or two viewings.
A good one a few more, and a great one maybe a couple of
times a year.
On the other hand there's Floyd, Maiden, Dylan, Clash, NMA, Godsmack,
BB King, Sublime, Trent, Stevie Ray, the Stones, the Band, Janis,
Hendrix, etc. The replay value is astounding. I
wouldn't want to even try to figure listen count for even a single
month much less years. Even books, which are my real
addition, have anywhere near that level of continued value.
So while the cost to produce for a movie may be ludicrous,
it's value to me is fairly limited. A CD though I will listen
to regularly for years. Burned copies for the car, ripped
copies for portables, but at home it's usually the CD changer that
provides my music fix and certainly the CD that I count on for my
'master' copy.
Not that I am advocating the out of control album prices these days, it
just gets me that they are the same price for such vastly differing
levels of value. I understand the price point stuff, it just bugs me. I'll shut up now.
Generally you get a waiver from everyone in the area for certain bands. Specifically those freqs used for your self destruct and what not. It's probably easier to get the Navy to pay attention to them out on Quaj than Florida or Virginia too.
I fail to see how making them leave the firewalls alone after they
broke them is unrealistic. The simulation is of a small
business network where the Boss is unlikely to have a good
understanding of the seriousness of an intrusion, but is almost
certainly likely to understand what losing his internet connection is
costing him. So when the Boss discovers he can't send or
receive mail,check his stock portfolio, chat with his
mistress, and then gets calls from customers saying they can't connect
to his website to buy stuff he pays a visit to the IT new hire and lays
done the law. No more dorking with the firewall. At least during business hours.
This sort of thing is all too common and IMHO a perfectly reasonable
simulation event. It's also one of the reason I am quite so
happy not to be working primarily in IT anymore.
All of the 'long life' birds take a dozen or more years and ludicrous amounts of money to build. They are basically archaic tech before they leave the integration highbay, much less the launch pad.
The small, relatively inexpensive short lifespan spacecraft are fairly current as far as technology goes and still very viable. Being able to perform minor repairs on orbit extends that capability a good bit. The more important factor is the prerequisite of standard parts and a small number of standard and modular buses which will cut the development time way down and drop costs. Since the first Plug'n'Play type satellite is already in development, we should start seeing this as a viable option in a few years.
I would call the LotR effect absolutely spectactular for the very reason that they aren't noticable as effects. Rather than a nice story played to a green screen, it's a fantastic story filmed on location in Middle Earth as it were. The effects provided a non-intrusive and believable backdrop for the story telling.
The books are still useful for browsing to learn new ideas.
More so when offline for travel or whatever.
Having originally come upon Perl kinda sideways and in a very narrow
niche looking at how others were using it was a good thing. I
started using it because it provided a back door method of sending
commands through a truly horrid and unwieldy ground system I was once
forced to use for a year or so. Now I use it quite regularly
for more 'normal' activities as well as dynamically creating code in
another less feature rich language.
Slashdot Mirror
Ugh ....
Maryland - Goddard Space Flight Center
New Mexico - AF Research Lab - Space Vehicles, Sandia Labs, Los Alamos Labs
Colorado - Ball, Raytheon, etc
California - JPL, Livermore Labs and way too many others to list
Virginia - Navy Research Lab, Wallops Island
Texas - UT Dallas, Texas A&M, Johnson Space Center, many more
Arizona - Orbital Sciences Corp., GD, etc
Tennessee - Oakridge
Alabama - U.S. Space and Rocket Center
Utah -Space Dynamics Laboratory, L3
Florida - Kennedy, ATK and many more
Alaska - Kodiak Island
The space industry is spread out over the entire country. This list could go on and on. Saying it is only Florida and Texas that benefit is mildly absurd. I agree with the idea, but it isn't nearly as narrow as that.
T-Mobile has no problems with tethering that I am aware of and I have been using it on several phones for some time. (2 different Nokia S60 phones, and a Win phone) Their support people even support it.
Can't comment on Children of Hurin as I haven't read my copy yet, but I am wondering why so harsh in regards to Kevin J Anderson.
Sure, none of the prequels are on a level with Dune but what is. Even Frank couldn't maintain that level of writing. Messiah IMHO was not awful and not great. Most of God Emperor was a yawn fest. To each their own. I was just wondering what specifically you despised about Anderson's work. And is it only the stuff he has done alone, only the stuff he did with Brian Herbert, or both.
But how much of that decline is due to consumers sitting out the format fiasco, partaking of On Demand offerings, or doing the Netflix thing?
Exploding munitions wouldn't be optimum for hitting the vehicle IMHO as most of the energy is essentially wasted. Better to drive a mass into it around the center of mass/gravity I would think. Logistically a bitch, but far more effective than trying to leverage fireworks against orbital momentum. The idea isn't to blow it up, just to give it a shove in direct opposition to the forward motion to subtract out as much momentum as possible thereby making it fall out of orbit. Granted, since it appears the NRO owns the soon to be space junk there may be a reason to go for maximum carnage, but I don't see how explosives are going to be a useful solution. Better to control the impact point if the intent is to retain control of onboard goodies. Luckily that is also the best way to ensure safety of people at said impact point. Getting a significant mass in place to pull it off is likely unrealistic or at least prohibitively expensive.
I don't buy the can't be shot down point. It it were to be hit (hard) from the front relative to it velocity vector there would be enough loss of momentum to cause it to come down. I would think that would qualify as shot down, though not in a Hollywood like dramatic splash down kind of way. Effective nonetheless. Calculated correctly this should allow some control of where the bits would fall. The problem I think would be getting the missile in line with the angle of attack needed while retaining enough oomph to cause a large loss of momentum on the part of the space vehicle in question.
It has big buttons on two edges for page advance, no need to leave the headspace of the story to flip pages.
I would have to read it as both, with 'cyber' attacks capability being a very small subset of an overall net centric capability goal. The larger part of that goal being by far the more difficult to implement. Besides the non-trivial technological hurdles, the problem of training battle staff to deal with several new command and control concepts and deal with immense amounts of data provided at speeds they are not prepared to act upon.
It depends on how you look at it. I don't play the lottery often, but when I do I see it as a charitable donation to college funds with no expectation of return. I may not be a brilliant mathematician, but I can figure odds so as a financial investment the lottery is useless. The number of high school grads getting a free ride to state colleges due to the lottery is a good thing overall though and worth my few dollars a year.
In the case of PNM, they probably need the advertising to bring people back from the edge before blowing up their building downtown due to customer service issues. :-)
Hareware Support: Wireless, whether 802.11, GPRS, EDGE, or SuperFooLink is not what it could be. 3D driver recompile shenanigans are not fun. Enough with the hibernation/suspend issues.
More seamless integration of emulation environments. Wine, Crossover, whatever.
Printing.
Optional Integration of KDE widgets ala Karamba, but without the resource suicide.
One a more application side of things:
Better OO interoperability
Better support for viewing/manipulating high resolution Jpeg2000 and NITF files
Open replacements with a decent level of compatibility for:
STK
The Linux version was abandoned several releases ago. Combined with
the ever increasing expense when you add modules to do anything useful
and this is a great candidate for a profitable open source app.
Labview
The NI lock in might be impossible to get around, but almost anything
would have to be better.
Visio
Currently number one reason to stay current with Crossover Office.
And on a totally not Linux note:
Better partition management for FreeBSD if for no other reason than to rescue people (ie me) from piss poor planning at build time.
The problem as I see it is that the value to me as the consumer is exactly the opposite.
Most movies worth watching are only good for one or two viewings. A good one a few more, and a great one maybe a couple of times a year.
On the other hand there's Floyd, Maiden, Dylan, Clash, NMA, Godsmack, BB King, Sublime, Trent, Stevie Ray, the Stones, the Band, Janis, Hendrix, etc. The replay value is astounding. I wouldn't want to even try to figure listen count for even a single month much less years. Even books, which are my real addition, have anywhere near that level of continued value. So while the cost to produce for a movie may be ludicrous, it's value to me is fairly limited. A CD though I will listen to regularly for years. Burned copies for the car, ripped copies for portables, but at home it's usually the CD changer that provides my music fix and certainly the CD that I count on for my 'master' copy.
Not that I am advocating the out of control album prices these days, it just gets me that they are the same price for such vastly differing levels of value. I understand the price point stuff, it just bugs me. I'll shut up now.
Generally you get a waiver from everyone in the area for certain bands. Specifically those freqs used for your self destruct and what not. It's probably easier to get the Navy to pay attention to them out on Quaj than Florida or Virginia too.
Nearly all launch vehicle platformsin the US outside of the shuttle are privately owned.
Atlas V is Lockheed Martin
Delta is Boeing
And my current personal favorite due to the recent perfect ride they gave us, the Minotaur is Orbital.
I fail to see how making them leave the firewalls alone after they broke them is unrealistic. The simulation is of a small business network where the Boss is unlikely to have a good understanding of the seriousness of an intrusion, but is almost certainly likely to understand what losing his internet connection is costing him. So when the Boss discovers he can't send or receive mail,check his stock portfolio, chat with his mistress, and then gets calls from customers saying they can't connect to his website to buy stuff he pays a visit to the IT new hire and lays done the law. No more dorking with the firewall. At least during business hours.
This sort of thing is all too common and IMHO a perfectly reasonable simulation event. It's also one of the reason I am quite so happy not to be working primarily in IT anymore.
It's probably safe to say most everything in orbit with the ability to upload software updates has had software updates. That is just how things go.
All of the 'long life' birds take a dozen or more years and ludicrous amounts of money to build. They are basically archaic tech before they leave the integration highbay, much less the launch pad.
The small, relatively inexpensive short lifespan spacecraft are fairly current as far as technology goes and still very viable. Being able to perform minor repairs on orbit extends that capability a good bit. The more important factor is the prerequisite of standard parts and a small number of standard and modular buses which will cut the development time way down and drop costs. Since the first Plug'n'Play type satellite is already in development, we should start seeing this as a viable option in a few years.
I would call the LotR effect absolutely spectactular for the very reason that they aren't noticable as effects. Rather than a nice story played to a green screen, it's a fantastic story filmed on location in Middle Earth as it were. The effects provided a non-intrusive and believable backdrop for the story telling.
If you are in the DC area you can always try Wallops Island for launches of some smaller vehicles.
Almost certainly was Kapton. Better thermal properties and doesn't off gas much. Is a nice space industry equivalent to Duct tape though.
I guess all those high horsepower BSD webservers out there aren't at all interesting to them then.
Ugh ... Ft. Meade, Maryland mayhaps. Just a guess.
The books are still useful for browsing to learn new ideas. More so when offline for travel or whatever.
Having originally come upon Perl kinda sideways and in a very narrow niche looking at how others were using it was a good thing. I started using it because it provided a back door method of sending commands through a truly horrid and unwieldy ground system I was once forced to use for a year or so. Now I use it quite regularly for more 'normal' activities as well as dynamically creating code in another less feature rich language.