That was taken into account. Remember the air there is much, much thinner and a 30MPH wind would be hard to even feel. Plus it would have to overcome the magnetic attraction. At least that was NASA claim.
The rovers have been on mars during some great mars weather. A 70MPH wind here can do a lot of damage, on mars with less air pressure 70MPH is not so bad. The winds might be enough to keep them fairly clean....if you look at the pictures they are pretty dirty but not as bad as NASA said they would be, or the iron is not sticking that well to the craft.
If you ever seen the National Geographic special about if the moon landings are fake Ralph Rene is out by a rock and dirt pile with a leaf blower showing that the moon landings were fake because he was moving dirt and rocks around with his leaf blower. This guy work for NASA and he thinks that the moon in a vacuum will react the same way as the dense air on earth.
After seeing Ralph Rene I can see the NASA people be wrong....sometime quite often.
I could not find a price for the rad hardened Pentium chip but since Sandia is making it I don't think it will be any cheaper. I could also find no processor name for the Intel chip. A look at the wiki and it does not show any other processors than PowerPC except for an old 8bit in 1976 and a sun sparc.
If you check out the wiki entry about rad hardened chips it is quite amazing.
The computer in each Mars Exploration Rover runs with a 32-bit Rad 6000 microprocessor, a radiation-hardened version of the PowerPC chip. This chip is used in IBM's heavy duty computers and is the same family of chip in the pre-intel Macs, Xbox 360, GameCube and the Cell version will run the PlayStation 3.
The chips are fairly cheap and have lightning fast floating point calculations via alti-vec. They are also very easy to program for.
NASA claimed they would only work for 90 days due to the high iron content of martian soil. In 90 days the solar cells were supposed to be covered with magnetized iron dust and the cells would not get enough sun to charge them. That never happened. Considering the cold, dusty, unsheilded environment they are in it is amazing they have lasted over two years.
Either all the reporters over at C|Net are getting payola from Microsoft for writing favorable articles or the reporters are so bad they should not be reporting on the tech industry.
Their glowing articles about Microsoft turn out to be wrong, their hit pieces on Apple turn out to be wrong, do they ever get anything right? They are starting to make meteorologists look like psychics.
Yes, I had to see them go back and redo the original like they did to E.T. and the like. I mean picking up several years later or now for that fact. It could play into the fact that computers are a lot more powerful and even make use of the internet.
If you look at films like Sky Captain which was nearly all CGI I think the world of tron would make better fodder.
I liked it when it was released as well. Even the arcade game was pretty cool but I was never too good at that. Burgertime was my game.
Thanks for the tip. I am not much of a gamer anymore. I may get one and play it for a while and then I am good for game playing for a while. The last two games I really played are Battlefield:1942 and Alice....so you can see it is a while between FPS games.
Tron was so cutting edge that a lot of people did not like it. I have always liked the film and I really wish Disney would reshoot the film using the CGI of today. Maybe a Tron version II.
I live in California and I am represented, if you could call it that, by Nancy Pelosi. She is great at promising all kinds of things but she always falls short when it comes time to deliver. Several years ago I wrote all my representatives including Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. Not one democrat replied to me not even a form letter. Every republican either wrote me, called me or made an appointment for me to meet with them. Wanting to give the democrats another shot at it I both emailed them and sent a letter via snail mail. Nothing, nada, not even a form letter. I guess it is okay to elect her as long as she does not have to talk to the "little people".
She could promise everyone a new car but she could not deliver it. Not surprisingly she is up for re-election this year. Coincidence?
Well you are basically saying want I was saying, in so many words. The reason for his headline was not really of any value. I don't think any robot with weapons will be given full control over the target that it chooses. There will always be a human in the loop. I do think such semi-automated systems have helped cut down on innocent people dying. Since bombs can be pinpointed to one target, we can observe and make sure the target is the target we are looking for and many of the other ways technology has helped it has cut down on collateral damage. It has not dropped it to zero but it is better than it was 10 years ago. It is also true that because of that it maybe used a lot more than it should.
It is a lot more proper if you ask me than slamming a place into the side of the building.
That is pretty much what I do. I use Photoshop for stuff that needs Photoshop. Most other is handled as you say by my favorite scripting language using ImageMagick The only other program I use for bitmapped graphic is the swiss army knife program GraphicConverter. It handles just about every graphic format made for every computer ever made. If I ever need to move a Commodore64 graphic file to Pison or Sun Rastersystem it will do it.....I don't know why I would;-)
At the time I don't have UNIX installed on my Windows box so it just uses Photoshop. I use the Mac for 90 percent of my graphic work anyway.
I have been an imageMajick user for some years now I while I find it great for simple tasks and great for batch conversions it is no Photoshop. I think there is room for both. For simple image conversion or batch processing I use an Apple Automator action to call a do shell script. For others I drop into the terminal. For retouching or other tasks, it is Photoshop only.
As far as I know it has been on the books a long time that destroying evidence of a crime is illegal. Why should computer files be any different?
I mean if this guy killed your grandma should he get off if he destroyed all the evidence?
Of course the crime of destroying evidence may carry a lot smaller jail term of the crimes people are trying to hide so it is worth the risk of being charged for it. Trying to convince a jury there was intent to destroy it is even harder.
Of course this person was in a legal dispute with IAC and he would be just as miffed if they destroyed evidence. His own actions make him look guilty even if he might not be.
My ldeal house would do everything as perfectly as possible. It would water the lawn only as much as it need and at a time of day that made the most of the water used.
My house would learn my habits. It would only heat or cool the rooms I am expected to be in if that was the most energy efficient way to do it, if it were more efficient to heat or cool the whole house it would do that.
It would let me know if the mail came or if they USPS trucks were ever equipped with GPS, it would let me know the mailman is just down the street so I should get the mail out.
It would make sure I never missed a show I wanted to see or listen to on the radio. My media would be available anywhere, anytime, any place.
Everything I want a house to do could be done today if it were not so expensive. So I guess the biggest thing I would want my house to do is to do it cheaply!
And how many platforms does Internet Explorer now support. One.
The fact that Microsoft is creating content creation tools that make web pages viewable only with Internet Explorer on Microsoft Windows is more of an immature act than any of the mozilla folks can come up with. The same goes for media player. If you ask me Microsoft is fishing for another Anti-trust suit and this cannot help them with the EU problem.
This is true. I always liked him no matter what his politics are. That is true for a lot of people I like. I enjoy their craft but not their politics. The only one I really hold their politics against them is Barbra Streisand. Always hated her, always will.
I just checked out her site and she is bitching about the port deal. That was posted before it was known that her honey, Bill Clinton, was a major force behind it. I wonder if she will change her tune now.
I think the port deal sucks....no matter who came up with it.
Actually a tower does have stored energy in it. What really worries me is that foundation. Since he used no rebar and the concrete was poured in layers over a long period of time the tower base may only really be anchored in a few inches of concrete. He also had a perfectly round base. When you dig a hole it is usually far from perfect and that helps anchor the tower. Mine was in very dry soil most of the year and I hit hard pan about a foot and half down.
The guy my luck out and it may never come down. As I said before I would sure hate to have it point my direction!
Not a lot of people realize that just the tower sitting the with no wind and no ice still has a lot of stored energy in it. When my dad and I put our own towers in we may have gone a little overboard on the construction of the bases but they have withstood 100+MPH winds and micro bursts from the thunderstorms, even some near misses from funnel clouds. The micro bursts and tornados that have come close are a rare sight in California but our somewhat overloaded towers always stayed up. Mine is currently on the ground since I moved from the house it was installed at. The base is still there....it will be for long time to come.
That is what I am say. You had a rebar cage, as did mine. You probably poured all your concrete in one pour like I did. I was lucky the cement truck pulled right up to the hole. Your tower legs were buried as well just like my rohn tower was. You probably graveled the bottom of the hole like I did.
The bolts on his tower legs will probably stay but I worry about the welds and the bolts on the base plate. That and the concrete with several pours over a couple of days and no rebar. I am no so sure the tower this guy put up will hold in those winds with an ice load.
One thing the mars rovers have proved that mars is warming as well.
I like what Dennis Miller said about global warming. "I am supposed believe the temperature readings from a hundred years ago? Hell we were still crapping outdoors."
It sounds like your father did more than this person did. The wind load on the type of tower this person has is quite a lot. The connection to the base is but one thing wrong with it. He used no rebar in the base. He has several different concrete pours instead of just one with no rebar connecting the layers. He has a high water table and he put no gravel in the base for drainage when the table drops.
I am a ham radio person myself. I know a lot of people in the radio business who do towers for a living. They would cringe in fear on that tower. True, the tower may never come down but I would sure hate it to be aimed at my house in a high wind. I have seen towers that were brought down with winds of only 90MPH and no ice load and erected better than his.
I hope you are right......if not I hope he is insured.
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That was taken into account. Remember the air there is much, much thinner and a 30MPH wind would be hard to even feel. Plus it would have to overcome the magnetic attraction. At least that was NASA claim.
The rovers have been on mars during some great mars weather. A 70MPH wind here can do a lot of damage, on mars with less air pressure 70MPH is not so bad. The winds might be enough to keep them fairly clean....if you look at the pictures they are pretty dirty but not as bad as NASA said they would be, or the iron is not sticking that well to the craft.
If you ever seen the National Geographic special about if the moon landings are fake Ralph Rene is out by a rock and dirt pile with a leaf blower showing that the moon landings were fake because he was moving dirt and rocks around with his leaf blower. This guy work for NASA and he thinks that the moon in a vacuum will react the same way as the dense air on earth.
After seeing Ralph Rene I can see the NASA people be wrong....sometime quite often.
The RAD6000 is between 200,000 and 300,000.
I could not find a price for the rad hardened Pentium chip but since Sandia is making it I don't think it will be any cheaper. I could also find no processor name for the Intel chip. A look at the wiki and it does not show any other processors than PowerPC except for an old 8bit in 1976 and a sun sparc.
If you check out the wiki entry about rad hardened chips it is quite amazing.
The computer in each Mars Exploration Rover runs with a 32-bit Rad 6000 microprocessor, a radiation-hardened version of the PowerPC chip. This chip is used in IBM's heavy duty computers and is the same family of chip in the pre-intel Macs, Xbox 360, GameCube and the Cell version will run the PlayStation 3.
The chips are fairly cheap and have lightning fast floating point calculations via alti-vec. They are also very easy to program for.
NASA claimed they would only work for 90 days due to the high iron content of martian soil. In 90 days the solar cells were supposed to be covered with magnetized iron dust and the cells would not get enough sun to charge them. That never happened. Considering the cold, dusty, unsheilded environment they are in it is amazing they have lasted over two years.
Either all the reporters over at C|Net are getting payola from Microsoft for writing favorable articles or the reporters are so bad they should not be reporting on the tech industry.
Their glowing articles about Microsoft turn out to be wrong, their hit pieces on Apple turn out to be wrong, do they ever get anything right? They are starting to make meteorologists look like psychics.
Speaking of the gaming museum I use Mame to play all those games that ate my quarters back in the 80's. Dig Dug anyone?
Yes, I had to see them go back and redo the original like they did to E.T. and the like. I mean picking up several years later or now for that fact. It could play into the fact that computers are a lot more powerful and even make use of the internet.
If you look at films like Sky Captain which was nearly all CGI I think the world of tron would make better fodder.
I liked it when it was released as well. Even the arcade game was pretty cool but I was never too good at that. Burgertime was my game.
Thanks for the tip. I am not much of a gamer anymore. I may get one and play it for a while and then I am good for game playing for a while. The last two games I really played are Battlefield:1942 and Alice....so you can see it is a while between FPS games.
Tron was so cutting edge that a lot of people did not like it. I have always liked the film and I really wish Disney would reshoot the film using the CGI of today. Maybe a Tron version II.
I live in California and I am represented, if you could call it that, by Nancy Pelosi. She is great at promising all kinds of things but she always falls short when it comes time to deliver. Several years ago I wrote all my representatives including Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. Not one democrat replied to me not even a form letter. Every republican either wrote me, called me or made an appointment for me to meet with them. Wanting to give the democrats another shot at it I both emailed them and sent a letter via snail mail. Nothing, nada, not even a form letter. I guess it is okay to elect her as long as she does not have to talk to the "little people".
She could promise everyone a new car but she could not deliver it. Not surprisingly she is up for re-election this year. Coincidence?
Well you are basically saying want I was saying, in so many words. The reason for his headline was not really of any value. I don't think any robot with weapons will be given full control over the target that it chooses. There will always be a human in the loop. I do think such semi-automated systems have helped cut down on innocent people dying. Since bombs can be pinpointed to one target, we can observe and make sure the target is the target we are looking for and many of the other ways technology has helped it has cut down on collateral damage. It has not dropped it to zero but it is better than it was 10 years ago. It is also true that because of that it maybe used a lot more than it should.
It is a lot more proper if you ask me than slamming a place into the side of the building.
Are there any robots in existence that are Three Laws Safe? Are there any robots at all that have any of Asimov's laws?
That is pretty much what I do. I use Photoshop for stuff that needs Photoshop. Most other is handled as you say by my favorite scripting language using ImageMagick The only other program I use for bitmapped graphic is the swiss army knife program GraphicConverter. It handles just about every graphic format made for every computer ever made. If I ever need to move a Commodore64 graphic file to Pison or Sun Rastersystem it will do it.....I don't know why I would ;-)
At the time I don't have UNIX installed on my Windows box so it just uses Photoshop. I use the Mac for 90 percent of my graphic work anyway.
I have been an imageMajick user for some years now I while I find it great for simple tasks and great for batch conversions it is no Photoshop. I think there is room for both. For simple image conversion or batch processing I use an Apple Automator action to call a do shell script. For others I drop into the terminal. For retouching or other tasks, it is Photoshop only.
I thought Al Gore invented the flying saucer........or at least came from one?
As far as I know it has been on the books a long time that destroying evidence of a crime is illegal. Why should computer files be any different?
I mean if this guy killed your grandma should he get off if he destroyed all the evidence?
Of course the crime of destroying evidence may carry a lot smaller jail term of the crimes people are trying to hide so it is worth the risk of being charged for it. Trying to convince a jury there was intent to destroy it is even harder.
Of course this person was in a legal dispute with IAC and he would be just as miffed if they destroyed evidence. His own actions make him look guilty even if he might not be.
My ldeal house would do everything as perfectly as possible. It would water the lawn only as much as it need and at a time of day that made the most of the water used.
My house would learn my habits. It would only heat or cool the rooms I am expected to be in if that was the most energy efficient way to do it, if it were more efficient to heat or cool the whole house it would do that.
It would let me know if the mail came or if they USPS trucks were ever equipped with GPS, it would let me know the mailman is just down the street so I should get the mail out.
It would make sure I never missed a show I wanted to see or listen to on the radio. My media would be available anywhere, anytime, any place.
Everything I want a house to do could be done today if it were not so expensive. So I guess the biggest thing I would want my house to do is to do it cheaply!
Here is its location in the food chain, between soup and dessert.
Become a member of PETA, People Eating Tasty Animals.
And how many platforms does Internet Explorer now support. One.
The fact that Microsoft is creating content creation tools that make web pages viewable only with Internet Explorer on Microsoft Windows is more of an immature act than any of the mozilla folks can come up with. The same goes for media player. If you ask me Microsoft is fishing for another Anti-trust suit and this cannot help them with the EU problem.
This is true. I always liked him no matter what his politics are. That is true for a lot of people I like. I enjoy their craft but not their politics. The only one I really hold their politics against them is Barbra Streisand. Always hated her, always will.
I just checked out her site and she is bitching about the port deal. That was posted before it was known that her honey, Bill Clinton, was a major force behind it. I wonder if she will change her tune now.
I think the port deal sucks....no matter who came up with it.
Thank you!
Actually a tower does have stored energy in it. What really worries me is that foundation. Since he used no rebar and the concrete was poured in layers over a long period of time the tower base may only really be anchored in a few inches of concrete. He also had a perfectly round base. When you dig a hole it is usually far from perfect and that helps anchor the tower. Mine was in very dry soil most of the year and I hit hard pan about a foot and half down.
The guy my luck out and it may never come down. As I said before I would sure hate to have it point my direction!
Yep, great page!
Not a lot of people realize that just the tower sitting the with no wind and no ice still has a lot of stored energy in it. When my dad and I put our own towers in we may have gone a little overboard on the construction of the bases but they have withstood 100+MPH winds and micro bursts from the thunderstorms, even some near misses from funnel clouds. The micro bursts and tornados that have come close are a rare sight in California but our somewhat overloaded towers always stayed up. Mine is currently on the ground since I moved from the house it was installed at. The base is still there....it will be for long time to come.
That is what I am say. You had a rebar cage, as did mine. You probably poured all your concrete in one pour like I did. I was lucky the cement truck pulled right up to the hole. Your tower legs were buried as well just like my rohn tower was. You probably graveled the bottom of the hole like I did.
The bolts on his tower legs will probably stay but I worry about the welds and the bolts on the base plate. That and the concrete with several pours over a couple of days and no rebar. I am no so sure the tower this guy put up will hold in those winds with an ice load.
How come the left thought he was great and a thinking mans comic, then when came out as republican they can't say enough bad things about him?
One thing the mars rovers have proved that mars is warming as well.
I like what Dennis Miller said about global warming. "I am supposed believe the temperature readings from a hundred years ago? Hell we were still crapping outdoors."
It sounds like your father did more than this person did. The wind load on the type of tower this person has is quite a lot. The connection to the base is but one thing wrong with it. He used no rebar in the base. He has several different concrete pours instead of just one with no rebar connecting the layers. He has a high water table and he put no gravel in the base for drainage when the table drops.
I am a ham radio person myself. I know a lot of people in the radio business who do towers for a living. They would cringe in fear on that tower. True, the tower may never come down but I would sure hate it to be aimed at my house in a high wind. I have seen towers that were brought down with winds of only 90MPH and no ice load and erected better than his.
I hope you are right......if not I hope he is insured.