Im not sure why everyone here equates the administrator saying the ISS & shuttle as a waste with him saying we just shouldnt have done anything. He is saying we could have built Better Stuff with that money. I dont know if anyones noticed, but the shuttle is being retired and replaced with an apollo replica. The design was good then and apparently better than shuttle at meeting our current & future requirements, hence the shuttle was a wasted effort. Its going in the can for a reason. Further, the ISS, although putting it into orbit required alot of new technology, isnt quite so useful as an end result as say a permanent base on the moon which would have required an equal amount of new technology and actually has an over-arching goal that even joe-six pack gets: getting all our eggs out of this one basket and learning to live more off the extraterrestrial land. No one is saying the ISS was useless, just that something else could have provided all of its benefits and more.
I think the audience would lose interest after myself and my other nasa compadres have arguments like "DOOOD, elliptical polarization can be attained ONLY when the time-phase difference between the n components is odd multiples of pi/2 and their magnitudes are not the same." "WTF man obviously if our fresnel approximation has pi/8 error built into it we can still use the lorentz reciprocity theorem instead to skip all this! You were always were too busy in grad school hitting on the chick on the matlab tech support line" >insert fight with TSSOP components
"Unfortunately, these accomplish this speed increase by bonding together two or more of the 802.11g standard channels. Therefore, if you have multiple 802.11g networks, they can interfere with each other. This can result in a slowdown in the conventional 802.11g network.
MIMO avoids this problem by not bonding together 802.11 channels. Instead of sending one data stream down one channel and another stream down another channel, MIMO simultaneously transmits multiple data streams over the same channel. "
Hm the documents could have used some outside consulting during editing. The crayola drawing of the CEO lighting the "Roket" with a match while firing his blaster at teethy aliens might hinder them convincing venture capitalists they know how to leverage dynamic market synergies.
Anyone else having trouble viewing these avi's in windows media player? I think its a codec problem.. know where to get the right one? Yes yes give me the link to linux.org har har;p.
The problem of orbital radio science is dish size. To point your antenna beam at a very small slice of sky you need a very large antenna. Further, the lower the frequency of the radio signals you want to explore, the larger your dish will have to be. Size and weight will kill most large antenna designs as the largest rocket to launch these things can contain like a moving truck sized thing. Now look at aricebo. Now you could build a distributed array in space, and thats the focus of alot of NASA research right now. Constellation-X is covering some of the issues of knkowing where one element of your array is relative to another. Yea its x-rays, but same orientation issues.
WOW, you give people heroin (which is what Oxycontin is) and they suddenly form bonds and empathy with one another quite easily! Shocking! Isnt this amazing 'trust' part of the collage of emotions surrounding why we all like to get drunk and high around one another in the first place? I'd like to see this study repeated with the subjects having 4 shots of whiskey first or if you wanted to see a remarkable 100%, give them ecstacy.
Agreed. I hate 'ethical' angles whos angle is primarily derived from "geez thats kinda gross." Humans are meat. Animals are meat. If we take some meat out of animals and sew it into ourselves rather than chew it and swallow it whats the difference? The animal still lived a pretty shitty life before it was slaughtered just as all farm animals do now, why not use them to do more than add pounds to our ass?
As far as brain material goes, again i think the parent is generally correct. Who wouldnt use material from a slightly bright sheep to save their parents from alzheimer's? But I guess whats troubling is how bright is that sheep. If it is being raised for slaughter, is it more cruel to kill something that is more cognizant of its own reality? And if there were a sliding scale of cruelness where do we draw the line if at all? When is it not different than raising children for their organs?
Hard to say but my brain hurts now.. time for some Wendys.
Never heard of it.. watched the trailer.. lets see.. Group of hot 20 to early 30 somethings stuck on a spaceship. -Check. Explosions. -Check. Cheesy one liners. -Check. Chicks doing karate to high-intensity techno. -Check. So what hollywood spin-the-action-movie-wheel-for-a-plot have you guys bought into this time? And whos the guy who did something creative once so they can stick his name on it to attempt to give it some sort of nerd legitimacy?
ah oh Oh! YES! OH!- ahh shit. Just when i thought someone on slashdot arrived with a real resume of pure testosterone to give us all some credibility.. water polo??! One of my friends in college was on the varsity water polo team.. he was a fat guy named rob and he had one eye and he was about as athletic as a walrus.
I agree, i stopped having pitty for Kazaa users years ago. If a company is blatent enough to openly put spyware in their products, you could argue theres a good chance theyre doing every other bad thing you can dream up, and pretty much you are retarded for continuing to use it. Can you say Real Player? I refuse to fix anyones computer who continues to install real player.. i just give them a good slap in the face and a hand shake. Same with kazaa. Its freakin 2005, computer ignorance is no longer a good excuse for not using a tiny bit of intelligent discretion. Its now ok to just say "Youre an idiot" to someone in this instance just as its ok to say the same when they buy an 'amazing' stereo out of the back of a van.
Those who have not learned from history are doomed to repeat it. Once again. THOSE WHO HAVE NOT LEARNED FROM HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT. Modern young conservatives think social security was just put in place one day buy a bunch of save the world liberal wackos for no particular reason. The great depression was an awful good reason. That cant happen again? One of my favorite phrases: The British think 100 miles is a long distance, Americans think 100 years is a long time.
For all you algorithm specialists/electrical engineers, radio frequency interference (RFI) detection and mitigation is a newly emerging field that is mostly in its infancy. Interference in the water vapor emission bands is really just one example of all the RFI work that needs to be done. I went to a conference on this very subject, and yes people applied neural nets to the problem with a whole host of other methods but in the end it all just didnt work that great. And there are not too many people working on this issue right now. False positives (mistakenly thinking time slice x is RFI) are just still way to darned high to justify any of the systems I saw going on a space-flight mission. But youre up the right alley, this is definatly a machine intelligence issue. Besides remote sensing RFI issues, the communication systems guys down the hall from me are starting to talk about major investments for RFI related comm issues. And they have the big bucks compared to our group who gave 2 guys a measly $100K to build us water vapor sensor (radiometer) for the bench where we could inject noise and RFI in different parts of the system (I think an undergrad could have built this really). Take note..:)
Very very interesting to stop and say using the fourier series any function including taking a marker and making a silly line accross a board can be broken down into a sum of good ol sines and cosines. Just when you thought the world was steeped in chaos...
"In 10 years, everyone will know that if they want to, they can go to orbit in their life," SpaceShipOne designer Burt Rutan told NBC's "Today" show on Tuesday. "They will know that instead of just hope or dream."
So he said "orbit." And being who he is he knows the difference between orbit and what SS1 currently does.. is this a forecast of a new craft in the works that actually achieves orbit??!:)
Hey, Ray. Do you remember something in the Bible about the last days, when the dead would rise from the grave?
RAY
I remember Revelation 7:12. And I looked, as he opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became as black as sackcloth. And the moon became as blood.
WINSTON
And the seas boiled and the skies fell.
RAY
Judgment Day.
WINSTON
Judgment Day.
RAY
Every ancient religion has its own myth about the end of the world.
WINSTON
Myth? Ray, has it ever occurred to you that maybe the reason we've been so busy lately is because the dead have been rising from the grave?
long pause
We were watching it live in the NASA cafeteria (GSFC) at lunch time on the tvs.. silence.. camera follows, follows, follows.. then the best collective "OH SHIT!" ive heard yelled in years. Then the cooks came out to watch and gave the best "Damn y'all dun fucked up huh?" look ive seen in years.
Luddites.. Obviously by that time combustion engines will be replaced with a beowulf cluster of 8 million mechanical nano mice running on hamster wheels to periodically achieve Plank energy and create brief worm holes that would suck down then push the engine cylinders.
I vote netgear as the superior AP as i can get an excellent connection on my unsuspecting neighbors network. And I live in a very old apartment building with concrete walls a foot thick and theres a stairwell between me and the closest neighbor:)
Further I wonder how this system will consume less power than moving through the copper as they claim.. Even if they shield the case well i think there will be tons of internal RFI from crosstalk, requiring a pretty high signal to noise ratio to keep communication stable, i.e more power consumption. Bit error rates will increase likewise the faster they try to make these things. Sounds very cool tho, wish i was working on it:)
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When we played we decided the same thing because what crazy nut would make a country you couldnt pronounce? We just dubbed it "the ketchup country."
Im not sure why everyone here equates the administrator saying the ISS & shuttle as a waste with him saying we just shouldnt have done anything. He is saying we could have built Better Stuff with that money. I dont know if anyones noticed, but the shuttle is being retired and replaced with an apollo replica. The design was good then and apparently better than shuttle at meeting our current & future requirements, hence the shuttle was a wasted effort. Its going in the can for a reason. Further, the ISS, although putting it into orbit required alot of new technology, isnt quite so useful as an end result as say a permanent base on the moon which would have required an equal amount of new technology and actually has an over-arching goal that even joe-six pack gets: getting all our eggs out of this one basket and learning to live more off the extraterrestrial land. No one is saying the ISS was useless, just that something else could have provided all of its benefits and more.
I think the audience would lose interest after myself and my other nasa compadres have arguments like "DOOOD, elliptical polarization can be attained ONLY when the time-phase difference between the n components is odd multiples of pi/2 and their magnitudes are not the same." "WTF man obviously if our fresnel approximation has pi/8 error built into it we can still use the lorentz reciprocity theorem instead to skip all this! You were always were too busy in grad school hitting on the chick on the matlab tech support line" >insert fight with TSSOP components
MIMO avoids this problem by not bonding together 802.11 channels. Instead of sending one data stream down one channel and another stream down another channel, MIMO simultaneously transmits multiple data streams over the same channel.
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From the above posted tech article..
Hm the documents could have used some outside consulting during editing. The crayola drawing of the CEO lighting the "Roket" with a match while firing his blaster at teethy aliens might hinder them convincing venture capitalists they know how to leverage dynamic market synergies.
Anyone else having trouble viewing these avi's in windows media player? I think its a codec problem.. know where to get the right one? Yes yes give me the link to linux.org har har ;p.
The problem of orbital radio science is dish size. To point your antenna beam at a very small slice of sky you need a very large antenna. Further, the lower the frequency of the radio signals you want to explore, the larger your dish will have to be. Size and weight will kill most large antenna designs as the largest rocket to launch these things can contain like a moving truck sized thing. Now look at aricebo. Now you could build a distributed array in space, and thats the focus of alot of NASA research right now. Constellation-X is covering some of the issues of knkowing where one element of your array is relative to another. Yea its x-rays, but same orientation issues.
WOW, you give people heroin (which is what Oxycontin is) and they suddenly form bonds and empathy with one another quite easily! Shocking! Isnt this amazing 'trust' part of the collage of emotions surrounding why we all like to get drunk and high around one another in the first place? I'd like to see this study repeated with the subjects having 4 shots of whiskey first or if you wanted to see a remarkable 100%, give them ecstacy.
matlab has a symbolic toolkit now. I havnt tried it but im buying it soon, and im excited.. damn im a dork.
a "p-n junction"? does this quoatable newfangle device have anything to do with those "lasers" i hear about?
As far as brain material goes, again i think the parent is generally correct. Who wouldnt use material from a slightly bright sheep to save their parents from alzheimer's? But I guess whats troubling is how bright is that sheep. If it is being raised for slaughter, is it more cruel to kill something that is more cognizant of its own reality? And if there were a sliding scale of cruelness where do we draw the line if at all? When is it not different than raising children for their organs?
Hard to say but my brain hurts now.. time for some Wendys.
Never heard of it.. watched the trailer.. lets see.. Group of hot 20 to early 30 somethings stuck on a spaceship. -Check. Explosions. -Check. Cheesy one liners. -Check. Chicks doing karate to high-intensity techno. -Check. So what hollywood spin-the-action-movie-wheel-for-a-plot have you guys bought into this time? And whos the guy who did something creative once so they can stick his name on it to attempt to give it some sort of nerd legitimacy?
ah oh Oh! YES! OH!- ahh shit. Just when i thought someone on slashdot arrived with a real resume of pure testosterone to give us all some credibility.. water polo??! One of my friends in college was on the varsity water polo team.. he was a fat guy named rob and he had one eye and he was about as athletic as a walrus.
I agree, i stopped having pitty for Kazaa users years ago. If a company is blatent enough to openly put spyware in their products, you could argue theres a good chance theyre doing every other bad thing you can dream up, and pretty much you are retarded for continuing to use it. Can you say Real Player? I refuse to fix anyones computer who continues to install real player.. i just give them a good slap in the face and a hand shake. Same with kazaa. Its freakin 2005, computer ignorance is no longer a good excuse for not using a tiny bit of intelligent discretion. Its now ok to just say "Youre an idiot" to someone in this instance just as its ok to say the same when they buy an 'amazing' stereo out of the back of a van.
Those who have not learned from history are doomed to repeat it. Once again. THOSE WHO HAVE NOT LEARNED FROM HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT. Modern young conservatives think social security was just put in place one day buy a bunch of save the world liberal wackos for no particular reason. The great depression was an awful good reason. That cant happen again? One of my favorite phrases: The British think 100 miles is a long distance, Americans think 100 years is a long time.
For all you algorithm specialists/electrical engineers, radio frequency interference (RFI) detection and mitigation is a newly emerging field that is mostly in its infancy. Interference in the water vapor emission bands is really just one example of all the RFI work that needs to be done. I went to a conference on this very subject, and yes people applied neural nets to the problem with a whole host of other methods but in the end it all just didnt work that great. And there are not too many people working on this issue right now. False positives (mistakenly thinking time slice x is RFI) are just still way to darned high to justify any of the systems I saw going on a space-flight mission. But youre up the right alley, this is definatly a machine intelligence issue. Besides remote sensing RFI issues, the communication systems guys down the hall from me are starting to talk about major investments for RFI related comm issues. And they have the big bucks compared to our group who gave 2 guys a measly $100K to build us water vapor sensor (radiometer) for the bench where we could inject noise and RFI in different parts of the system (I think an undergrad could have built this really). Take note.. :)
These guys have been at it for quite awhile with some nice results.
Very very interesting to stop and say using the fourier series any function including taking a marker and making a silly line accross a board can be broken down into a sum of good ol sines and cosines. Just when you thought the world was steeped in chaos...
"In 10 years, everyone will know that if they want to, they can go to orbit in their life," SpaceShipOne designer Burt Rutan told NBC's "Today" show on Tuesday. "They will know that instead of just hope or dream."
So he said "orbit." And being who he is he knows the difference between orbit and what SS1 currently does.. is this a forecast of a new craft in the works that actually achieves orbit??!:)
Hey, Ray. Do you remember something in the Bible about the last days, when the dead would rise from the grave?
RAY
I remember Revelation 7:12. And I looked, as he opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became as black as sackcloth. And the moon became as blood.
WINSTON
And the seas boiled and the skies fell.
RAY
Judgment Day.
WINSTON
Judgment Day.
RAY
Every ancient religion has its own myth about the end of the world.
WINSTON
Myth? Ray, has it ever occurred to you that maybe the reason we've been so busy lately is because the dead have been rising from the grave? long pause
RAY
shivering
How about a little music?
We were watching it live in the NASA cafeteria (GSFC) at lunch time on the tvs.. silence.. camera follows, follows, follows.. then the best collective "OH SHIT!" ive heard yelled in years. Then the cooks came out to watch and gave the best "Damn y'all dun fucked up huh?" look ive seen in years.
Luddites.. Obviously by that time combustion engines will be replaced with a beowulf cluster of 8 million mechanical nano mice running on hamster wheels to periodically achieve Plank energy and create brief worm holes that would suck down then push the engine cylinders.
This is so perfectly out of a william gibson novel i want to hurl :)
I vote netgear as the superior AP as i can get an excellent connection on my unsuspecting neighbors network. And I live in a very old apartment building with concrete walls a foot thick and theres a stairwell between me and the closest neighbor:)
Further I wonder how this system will consume less power than moving through the copper as they claim.. Even if they shield the case well i think there will be tons of internal RFI from crosstalk, requiring a pretty high signal to noise ratio to keep communication stable, i.e more power consumption. Bit error rates will increase likewise the faster they try to make these things. Sounds very cool tho, wish i was working on it:)