Just woke up after sleeping all day and it's great to see all of your comments. Thanks for reading about my experience and posting info about the chase planes!
Yeah we were in the northern most corner too. We probably saw each other:) I was thinking that maybe for the next flight we could find some scaled composites jumpsuits or something and sneak over to the VIP area.
Just got back home from the Mojave airport and let me tell you the experience of watching this amazing aircraft reach the edge of space was awesome. Six friends and I drove from Los Angeles to Mojave and when we arrived there around 3 am and the place was already full of people. For the next few hours we explored around the field, bought some very reasonably priced breakfast burritos and ran around the tarmac. All the vendors seemed to be local groups and didn't rip you off (except for coffee and krispie cremes which were a somewhat large dollar a piece).
Mojave airport is really cool in itself, no fences around and you can wander all over if you want. We got some good spots as near to the takeoff and landing as possible ( they did restrict where you could watch the event, and the ships wheels actually left the ground about 50 yards north of us) and camped out. Everybody around was really excited. Many had come from really far away, like this pair of guys we met from Seattle. I'm sure that there were many who were from much further than that. There was a big mix of people. Lots of old timer aviation types, college age kids, and families. I'm sure much of the town of Mojave were there. We talked to this one guy who was bringing a group of kids from the local high school who were in their special engineering program(something I didn't have at my HS).
When they announced that the ship was actually going to take off on time I was pretty surprised. I just had a feeling it was going to be delayed. At about 6:40 the low altitude chase plane took off, it was a bright red little single engine plane which according to the announcer was flown by the spaceshipone pilot the night before in order to pull 6G's so that he could go to sleep! Next (I think) came the medium altitude chase plane, which was this really cool and modern looking craft with propellers in the back and a little wing on the nose. Then came White Knight, carring SpaceShipOne which look completely unorthodox and bizarre in person, even if you've already seen pictures of them. It taxied along the tarmac that ran past the crowd did a U turn then sped up and soared off of the runway to a cheering crowd. As everybody watched the ship gain altitude, the high altitude chase taxied and lifted off. This jet was pretty interesting, It sort of looked like a fighter jet that had been squashed to make it all squat lookin, sort of a caricature of a fighter jet. The ship climbed really slowly, about an hour of circling around the airfield getting smaller and smaller. Then we got the word that the rocked was going to take off . The ship was about 2/3 of the way almost directly between the horizon and the sun (the sun being fairly low since this is about 7:45 am). Then all of a sudden this huge contrail appeared and traveled straight up just to the right of the sun traveling at an amazing speed. The crowd loved it , after watching the ship climb slowly for an hour this was really dramatic. The trail kept moving up until it seemed to be about 70degrees above the horizon when the engine cut off. After a few minutes with everybody searching the sky for the craft *boom*, a little sonic boom let loose and the ship then appeared. It circled around a few times on its way down and met up with the chase planes. They all flew in a pretty tight formation and the ship finally made an amazingly smooth landing considering it was an unpowered odd looking bulbous craft. Everybody was ecstatic as SpaceShipOne rolled by, this odd looking craft had reached the edge of space and had made it back in one piece. After that, the low altitude chase plane made a flyby, which was pretty cool but then the topper was when White Night flew towards the crowd then pulled up proudly displaying it's bizarre silouette.
I'm really really happy that I got to have this experience. This amazing flight was the first time in my 19 years that I felt that I was actually witnessing history being made with my own eyes.
I connect to the I2 hub through UCLA and can usually download and upload from and to other schools at about 30kBps - 200kBps which frankly is not that amazing considering how incredibly fat our pipe is (downloads from good servers can reach about 600kBps). The really amazing thing occurs when I connect to other UC users. UCSD and UCD transfers can reach about 3Mb/s. I'm guessing that UC's are on the same backbone?
It's kind of funny though, There are some poor souls here whose dorm networks are only wired for 10Mbit haha. So if you are coming to UCLA check to see what kind of network the hall you are requesting has.
Oh and I'm not too worried about the RIAA since I don't share mp3s. Actually, only IPs from schools with I2 connections are allowed on the hub so how would the RIAA even get on, that is can you only get an I2 connection if you're a scientific or educational network?
So I2 is not that special for speed but what's really great about it is that there's tons and tons of files and lots of anime. Now what I have to figure out is how I can stay on the network when I move out next year. Do you think I could I run a proxy server on a friend's resnet computer and then connect though that so I look like I have an I2 IP?
I overclocked my 89 and it was pretty sweet because I could render a 3d graph in 2/3 the time! Mine had a switch too so you could change the capacitance back to normal if you wanted to to play a game or something. My stupid friend made one also but he just directly soldered on a new capacitor with no switch and it ended up being faster than mine (I think the extra wires in mine wonked up the capacitance a little) Anyway, it's a fun project and there's nothing that impresses girls in high school more than an overclocked calculator!
Haha well i'm glad i took the calc AP test a few years ago when my ti-89 made mincemeat of those integrals.
What you could do if your ti-89 is attached at the hip is pull out the innards and stuff it in a ti-83 case which is the same size (although, I think there is some extra plastic crap you have to excise) and bam, an 83 that can do symbolic integrals! Just don't get caught.
USB mice have a refresh rate of only 125Hz. A ps/2 mouse can be run at 200Hz with a program called ps2 rate (was for 98 not sure if it works for xp) so your ps/2 mouse can actually run smoother than your USB. Also I recall that I had a logitech ps/2 mouse whose driver had a refresh rate setting.
What are the specific differences between consumer level hardware and fancy server level stuff like SPARC processors??
I remember asking my boss when I was doing an internship why they had the fancy sun workstations when my programs would compile twice as fast on the dual P3 computers. He said something to the effect of "reliability". I noticed some other weird things about our fancy hardware also. There was this really expensive digital camera we got had this crazy problem where one of it's grounds was actually at 4.9v with noise that went above 5(triggering the shot) Apparently the company that made the camera was totally unhelpful when asked about the problem.
Also, The fancy video capture board that handled the the camera didn't even have drivers for Linux. The company just made drivers for Windows but the drivers cost an extra few hundred dollars! What the hell is that?!
Maybe this is normal to a lot of you guys but it was pretty shocking to me. I guess companies put up with a lot more BS than the consumer.
So really, how much more reliable are these mysterious computers, processors, and hardware, and how much more do they cost? Is reliability really worth it for a workstation which backs up all it's data on a server anyway?
Well I care if public transportation is inefficient and wasteful. Think about how well routes could be planned if the Dept of Transportation had extensive data on the public's use of transportation around the city. We ought to support systems like this and think about what ecstacy the geeks who work in transportation will be in with all sorts of data for their computers to crunch. Besides, think about all the ways you could use this system to fool the government. You could register a card in your name and give it to a friend to carry around so that you have an alibi. Or you could get a bunch of them with phony info to bewilder anyone trying to track you.
You don't know what you're talking about. For one, it's not high voltage that kills you, it's high current. Take a look at the website, the current is produced by a few AA batteries. Do you think that would be able to deliver enough amps to kill you? Also, the both electrodes are placed on only one side of the controller so the current only passes through one hand.
I think the point of the article is that this technology already exists and it's the implementation that's really innovative. The challenge is making such a system practical for use on the battlefield so that a soldier isn't lugging around a couple of car batteries, a PC, bulky wireless equipment etc...
if / meant 1 and \ meant zero then a glyph that is/\ would be 10 right? So what if the glyph was upside down so that it looked like \/, 01? It looks like the chess scanner program tries to match the pattern with a reference so even if it is upside down it should work, but how is this "glyph" system used to encode information if the slash order become backwards when turned upside down?
I agree, I'm sick of having to wade through a bunch of posts nitpicking about some spelling or punctuation error so that the poster can feel like they're the queen of the grammar fairies or something.
Note: This post intentionally not gone over with a fine tooth comb for errors because I have more important things to do and this isn't a fucking novel.
The game isn't even worth the time and bandwidth used to download it. It runs pretty crappy, and it looks even worse. It's downright impossible to control and you have no idea what you're doing most of the time. It is blatantly obvious that they rushed it to make the release date. Well I'm talking about the PC version that is, I don't know about the XBox or PS2 versions which could very well be really cool.
I would assume that the pound needs some sort of accurate reference too so what is it? Or is it just defined in terms of what fraction of a kilogram the pound is?
I don't know about you but I laughed really hard when I read this post, I think it ought to be modded up.
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Since EM radiation refers to the "electromagnetic spectrum", part of which is the infrared range which is "heat" I would say that the original poster is correct.
Excuse me, Radiation? Sure computers produce some electromagnetic fields but I seriously doubt that computers are spouting gamma rays, or alpha or beta particles which would cause gene damage. It's ignorance like this that makes people scared of power lines and cell phones with their ooh scary! "radiation"
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Just woke up after sleeping all day and it's great to see all of your comments. Thanks for reading about my experience and posting info about the chase planes!
Yeah we were in the northern most corner too. We probably saw each other :) I was thinking that maybe for the next flight we could find some scaled composites jumpsuits or something and sneak over to the VIP area.
Just got back home from the Mojave airport and let me tell you the experience of watching this amazing aircraft reach the edge of space was awesome. Six friends and I drove from Los Angeles to Mojave and when we arrived there around 3 am and the place was already full of people. For the next few hours we explored around the field, bought some very reasonably priced breakfast burritos and ran around the tarmac. All the vendors seemed to be local groups and didn't rip you off (except for coffee and krispie cremes which were a somewhat large dollar a piece).
Mojave airport is really cool in itself, no fences around and you can wander all over if you want. We got some good spots as near to the takeoff and landing as possible ( they did restrict where you could watch the event, and the ships wheels actually left the ground about 50 yards north of us) and camped out. Everybody around was really excited. Many had come from really far away, like this pair of guys we met from Seattle. I'm sure that there were many who were from much further than that. There was a big mix of people. Lots of old timer aviation types, college age kids, and families. I'm sure much of the town of Mojave were there. We talked to this one guy who was bringing a group of kids from the local high school who were in their special engineering program(something I didn't have at my HS).
When they announced that the ship was actually going to take off on time I was pretty surprised. I just had a feeling it was going to be delayed. At about 6:40 the low altitude chase plane took off, it was a bright red little single engine plane which according to the announcer was flown by the spaceshipone pilot the night before in order to pull 6G's so that he could go to sleep! Next (I think) came the medium altitude chase plane, which was this really cool and modern looking craft with propellers in the back and a little wing on the nose. Then came White Knight, carring SpaceShipOne which look completely unorthodox and bizarre in person, even if you've already seen pictures of them. It taxied along the tarmac that ran past the crowd did a U turn then sped up and soared off of the runway to a cheering crowd. As everybody watched the ship gain altitude, the high altitude chase taxied and lifted off. This jet was pretty interesting, It sort of looked like a fighter jet that had been squashed to make it all squat lookin, sort of a caricature of a fighter jet. The ship climbed really slowly, about an hour of circling around the airfield getting smaller and smaller. Then we got the word that the rocked was going to take off . The ship was about 2/3 of the way almost directly between the horizon and the sun (the sun being fairly low since this is about 7:45 am). Then all of a sudden this huge contrail appeared and traveled straight up just to the right of the sun traveling at an amazing speed. The crowd loved it , after watching the ship climb slowly for an hour this was really dramatic. The trail kept moving up until it seemed to be about 70degrees above the horizon when the engine cut off. After a few minutes with everybody searching the sky for the craft *boom*, a little sonic boom let loose and the ship then appeared. It circled around a few times on its way down and met up with the chase planes. They all flew in a pretty tight formation and the ship finally made an amazingly smooth landing considering it was an unpowered odd looking bulbous craft. Everybody was ecstatic as SpaceShipOne rolled by, this odd looking craft had reached the edge of space and had made it back in one piece. After that, the low altitude chase plane made a flyby, which was pretty cool but then the topper was when White Night flew towards the crowd then pulled up proudly displaying it's bizarre silouette.
I'm really really happy that I got to have this experience. This amazing flight was the first time in my 19 years that I felt that I was actually witnessing history being made with my own eyes.
Whoops, meant to say other UC school transfers can reach 3MBps not 3Mbps, It's pretty annoying that a case error results in an 8X difference.
I connect to the I2 hub through UCLA and can usually download and upload from and to other schools at about 30kBps - 200kBps which frankly is not that amazing considering how incredibly fat our pipe is (downloads from good servers can reach about 600kBps). The really amazing thing occurs when I connect to other UC users. UCSD and UCD transfers can reach about 3Mb/s. I'm guessing that UC's are on the same backbone?
It's kind of funny though, There are some poor souls here whose dorm networks are only wired for 10Mbit haha. So if you are coming to UCLA check to see what kind of network the hall you are requesting has.
Oh and I'm not too worried about the RIAA since I don't share mp3s. Actually, only IPs from schools with I2 connections are allowed on the hub so how would the RIAA even get on, that is can you only get an I2 connection if you're a scientific or educational network?
So I2 is not that special for speed but what's really great about it is that there's tons and tons of files and lots of anime. Now what I have to figure out is how I can stay on the network when I move out next year. Do you think I could I run a proxy server on a friend's resnet computer and then connect though that so I look like I have an I2 IP?
The 83 plus silver is 130$ and the 89 is 150$. Only 20 bucks more for pretty print, symbolic integration, better screen, better UI etc. etc.
I overclocked my 89 and it was pretty sweet because I could render a 3d graph in 2/3 the time! Mine had a switch too so you could change the capacitance back to normal if you wanted to to play a game or something. My stupid friend made one also but he just directly soldered on a new capacitor with no switch and it ended up being faster than mine (I think the extra wires in mine wonked up the capacitance a little) Anyway, it's a fun project and there's nothing that impresses girls in high school more than an overclocked calculator!
I'm sorry, i meant to say the ti-83+ not the ti-83. Although bonus points if you manage to get the innards of an 89 into a regular 83.
Haha well i'm glad i took the calc AP test a few years ago when my ti-89 made mincemeat of those integrals.
What you could do if your ti-89 is attached at the hip is pull out the innards and stuff it in a ti-83 case which is the same size (although, I think there is some extra plastic crap you have to excise) and bam, an 83 that can do symbolic integrals! Just don't get caught.
USB mice have a refresh rate of only 125Hz. A ps/2 mouse can be run at 200Hz with a program called ps2 rate (was for 98 not sure if it works for xp) so your ps/2 mouse can actually run smoother than your USB. Also I recall that I had a logitech ps/2 mouse whose driver had a refresh rate setting.
What are the specific differences between consumer level hardware and fancy server level stuff like SPARC processors?? I remember asking my boss when I was doing an internship why they had the fancy sun workstations when my programs would compile twice as fast on the dual P3 computers. He said something to the effect of "reliability". I noticed some other weird things about our fancy hardware also. There was this really expensive digital camera we got had this crazy problem where one of it's grounds was actually at 4.9v with noise that went above 5(triggering the shot) Apparently the company that made the camera was totally unhelpful when asked about the problem. Also, The fancy video capture board that handled the the camera didn't even have drivers for Linux. The company just made drivers for Windows but the drivers cost an extra few hundred dollars! What the hell is that?! Maybe this is normal to a lot of you guys but it was pretty shocking to me. I guess companies put up with a lot more BS than the consumer. So really, how much more reliable are these mysterious computers, processors, and hardware, and how much more do they cost? Is reliability really worth it for a workstation which backs up all it's data on a server anyway?
Well I care if public transportation is inefficient and wasteful. Think about how well routes could be planned if the Dept of Transportation had extensive data on the public's use of transportation around the city. We ought to support systems like this and think about what ecstacy the geeks who work in transportation will be in with all sorts of data for their computers to crunch. Besides, think about all the ways you could use this system to fool the government. You could register a card in your name and give it to a friend to carry around so that you have an alibi. Or you could get a bunch of them with phony info to bewilder anyone trying to track you.
You don't know what you're talking about. For one, it's not high voltage that kills you, it's high current. Take a look at the website, the current is produced by a few AA batteries. Do you think that would be able to deliver enough amps to kill you? Also, the both electrodes are placed on only one side of the controller so the current only passes through one hand.
Wow I am totally impressed by the trailer. Does anyone know whether this thing will ever be screened in LA?
They use a different receiver mounted near the one that is generally used for gathering data.
I think the point of the article is that this technology already exists and it's the implementation that's really innovative. The challenge is making such a system practical for use on the battlefield so that a soldier isn't lugging around a couple of car batteries, a PC, bulky wireless equipment etc...
if / meant 1 and \ meant zero then a glyph that is /\ would be 10 right? So what if the glyph was upside down so that it looked like \/, 01? It looks like the chess scanner program tries to match the pattern with a reference so even if it is upside down it should work, but how is this "glyph" system used to encode information if the slash order become backwards when turned upside down?
I agree, I'm sick of having to wade through a bunch of posts nitpicking about some spelling or punctuation error so that the poster can feel like they're the queen of the grammar fairies or something. Note: This post intentionally not gone over with a fine tooth comb for errors because I have more important things to do and this isn't a fucking novel.
The game isn't even worth the time and bandwidth used to download it. It runs pretty crappy, and it looks even worse. It's downright impossible to control and you have no idea what you're doing most of the time. It is blatantly obvious that they rushed it to make the release date. Well I'm talking about the PC version that is, I don't know about the XBox or PS2 versions which could very well be really cool.
I would assume that the pound needs some sort of accurate reference too so what is it? Or is it just defined in terms of what fraction of a kilogram the pound is?
Woah, I had no idea. I will miss those siren sounds though every time i clean my computer.
I don't know about you but I laughed really hard when I read this post, I think it ought to be modded up.
Since EM radiation refers to the "electromagnetic spectrum", part of which is the infrared range which is "heat" I would say that the original poster is correct.
Excuse me, Radiation? Sure computers produce some electromagnetic fields but I seriously doubt that computers are spouting gamma rays, or alpha or beta particles which would cause gene damage. It's ignorance like this that makes people scared of power lines and cell phones with their ooh scary! "radiation"
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