The blimps you talk about would not be suitable for power generation.
Running a tether from the ground to one of these blimps would be impractical and dangerous. The blimps are designed to sit above populated areas to deliver wireless broadband to the entire area. I have no doubts they will be self sustaining power wise, but to run a tether to the ground would make it impossible to install where needed.
These power generating kites and similar tethered contraptions will need empty space to set up home.
The mass of the cables and everything else will mandate it. I think if they actually build one of these, it would make an excellent proving ground for a space elevator, I have no doubt similar problems and events would be seen by both camps.
All my family have signed up for this, and as its launch grows nearer its getting exciting. This may be the only way I can get into space, so jumped at the chance when offered last year.
Its also good for my son, who can show all his class the certificate hes got for signing up.
Its a support issue. A patient in a traumatic situation may require a large team of people, and the best place to get that is still the hospital. This doctor is only going to be as backup for the triage the field medics can perform. Over here in the UK, we have a system where paramedics are sent out alone on motorbikes and smaller ambulances, they cannot return the patient to a hospital, but can usually get to an incident scene faster, and begin assessment and initial treatment faster than a larger ambulance.
These first few minutes of assessment are the most important time, and the patient will not be moved until they are either stable, or so critical, waiting would be dangerous.
This is news for nerds. Or do you think no geeks were living in asia, or holidaying on the beach?
Nobody is left untouched by this disaster, whether its friends, relatives or enemies. As you know, many lives have been lost, and we are only just beginning to see the problems that lie ahead. Linux, sco or microsoft aren't mentioned directly, but even they are effected.
Could it be a certain mail server is doing things differently when a probative smtp mail check is sent.
Spammer connects to SMTP server, tells it who it is, tells it who the mail is from, tells it who its too, and if thats OK (account not rejected) then it closes the connection.
Some servers may be taking this as a valid completed email where infact it was closed by the sender prematurely? The email could end up blank because the information passed at that stage is not yet part of the header fields of the actual email data.
Aren't Microsoft known for trying to second guess the developer by completing half baked requests?
Because the images come from multiple servers, and its actually the html that had image frames with specified sizes - even if the images were missing the space is still taken up - hence the jumping around. I've always run with gif animations turned off, and display all images as static so whatever they are doesn't much bother me, its the jumping around/refreshing constantly that annoyed me.
Using bittorrent from a certain site is like going onto kazaa and downloading only files from one semi trusted individual users filelist.
Searching kazaa brings you up all the different variations that wouldn't normally be spread.
I'm quite certain that there are bad files being shared with bit torrent, but since the level of trust would die after only one file, its not worth it.
Suprnova adverts were HORRIBLE. and the way the page jumped around made my eyes hurt, they were on an 8 second rotation, and it was silly at times. I could never find a "nice" way to remove them, so put up with them. Yes I run firefox, no I haven't got the ad extension, I accept flat none animated adverts, and have never installed flash for ff.
The first article mentions the beam inside the cockpit at 8500 feet.
Authorities are investigating a mysterious laser beam that was directed into the cockpit of a commercial jet traveling at more than 8,500 feet.
You can't physically SEE the cockpit with a telescope or laser from that height unless the plane is banking?
I can see 100% the danger during approach, but the high altitude one seems a bit strange.
As for accuracy, test it out yourself - hold your arm out and follow a moving plane - its not all that difficult, and I imagine some counterstrike playing kid could just hold a laser up and say "look im shining on the plane" without realising he's been noticed by the flightcrew.
I personally don't think there is a high tech aiming device in use here - it would be too easy to locate and identify, besides at 8500 feet, what could they hope to achieve? Its not at all like final approach where every second does count.
Nowadays, we think nothing of opening an mp3. Back then, music was supplied with short samples and tracker files. An old Amiga now would collapse trying to decode one nowadays, and video would just be totally out. Things do change, and I'm now reasonably happy with the x86 platform, purely because of hardware support - I can buy pretty much anything for it and get it working. I will always miss my Amiga though:)
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The blimps you talk about would not be suitable for power generation.
Running a tether from the ground to one of these blimps would be impractical and dangerous.
The blimps are designed to sit above populated areas to deliver wireless broadband to the entire area.
I have no doubts they will be self sustaining power wise, but to run a tether to the ground would make it impossible to install where needed.
These power generating kites and similar tethered contraptions will need empty space to set up home.
The mass of the cables and everything else will mandate it.
I think if they actually build one of these, it would make an excellent proving ground for a space elevator, I have no doubt similar problems and events would be seen by both camps.
OMG!
:)
Segfault666 replied to me!!!
I'll never click refresh again.
I do know what you mean though, but I have to keep my feet kindof on the ground, the areas I am aiming for do not involve space missions
They are really proud to have Half Life 2 listed amongst their runnable software.
However, there is a large difference between one company proclaiming it, and how it actually plays.
Does anybody have any experience with running HL2 on linux? How does it fare against the Win version on same hardware?
All my family have signed up for this, and as its launch grows nearer its getting exciting.
This may be the only way I can get into space, so jumped at the chance when offered last year.
Its also good for my son, who can show all his class the certificate hes got for signing up.
VNC isn't slow.
;)
My 100mbit connection to the office runs VNS almost perfectly at 640*480*16colors
Hang on.
Your using a network application to tell us that network applications aren't here?
Spyware and trojans have been doing exactly this for years now.
Unfortunately, its taken an enormous earthquake, and phenominal tidal wave to unite the world.
People from around the world have been united in grief.
Thats just the problem.
;)
These Mercury rovers are doing REALLY well despite being on the wrong planet
I suppose you could do some kind of hash from ip6 down to ip4. ;)
It may infact make the internet a bit more random and fun again
Do you sit nursing your downloads?
I certainly don't, its like ordering a pizza.
You call for it, and do whatever else until it arrives.
Its a support issue.
A patient in a traumatic situation may require a large team of people, and the best place to get that is still the hospital.
This doctor is only going to be as backup for the triage the field medics can perform.
Over here in the UK, we have a system where paramedics are sent out alone on motorbikes and smaller ambulances, they cannot return the patient to a hospital, but can usually get to an incident scene faster, and begin assessment and initial treatment faster than a larger ambulance.
These first few minutes of assessment are the most important time, and the patient will not be moved until they are either stable, or so critical, waiting would be dangerous.
This is news for nerds.
Or do you think no geeks were living in asia, or holidaying on the beach?
Nobody is left untouched by this disaster, whether its friends, relatives or enemies. As you know, many lives have been lost, and we are only just beginning to see the problems that lie ahead.
Linux, sco or microsoft aren't mentioned directly, but even they are effected.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/26/14372
There are others, slash isn't exactly known for doing things once only.
I've had a few of them, and pondered about it.
Could it be a certain mail server is doing things differently when a probative smtp mail check is sent.
Spammer connects to SMTP server, tells it who it is, tells it who the mail is from, tells it who its too, and if thats OK (account not rejected) then it closes the connection.
Some servers may be taking this as a valid completed email where infact it was closed by the sender prematurely?
The email could end up blank because the information passed at that stage is not yet part of the header fields of the actual email data.
Aren't Microsoft known for trying to second guess the developer by completing half baked requests?
Because the images come from multiple servers, and its actually the html that had image frames with specified sizes - even if the images were missing the space is still taken up - hence the jumping around.
I've always run with gif animations turned off, and display all images as static so whatever they are doesn't much bother me, its the jumping around/refreshing constantly that annoyed me.
Using bittorrent from a certain site is like going onto kazaa and downloading only files from one semi trusted individual users filelist.
Searching kazaa brings you up all the different variations that wouldn't normally be spread.
I'm quite certain that there are bad files being shared with bit torrent, but since the level of trust would die after only one file, its not worth it.
Suprnova adverts were HORRIBLE.
and the way the page jumped around made my eyes hurt, they were on an 8 second rotation, and it was silly at times.
I could never find a "nice" way to remove them, so put up with them.
Yes I run firefox, no I haven't got the ad extension, I accept flat none animated adverts, and have never installed flash for ff.
The first article mentions the beam inside the cockpit at 8500 feet.
Authorities are investigating a mysterious laser beam that was directed into the cockpit of a commercial jet traveling at more than 8,500 feet.
You can't physically SEE the cockpit with a telescope or laser from that height unless the plane is banking?
I can see 100% the danger during approach, but the high altitude one seems a bit strange.
As for accuracy, test it out yourself - hold your arm out and follow a moving plane - its not all that difficult, and I imagine some counterstrike playing kid could just hold a laser up and say "look im shining on the plane" without realising he's been noticed by the flightcrew.
I personally don't think there is a high tech aiming device in use here - it would be too easy to locate and identify, besides at 8500 feet, what could they hope to achieve? Its not at all like final approach where every second does count.
I wouldn't want to be locked inside a sealed tin can with fellow crewmembers after curry night.
I knew all my hours of watching weren't wasted.
Such deadpan humour doesn't go down well in America for some reason (as the other AC responder shows)
Theres a badly presented but excellent resource listing the scripts for most dwarf episodes here
You see him grab a scrubbing brush and start feaverishly brushing a toilet.
You see, his version of the book had a typo. The "cleansing of the shite" scene was taken literally.
I've been thinking that all week unfortunately.
Folks, give your family an extra hug tonight.
One other point worth making.
:)
Nowadays, we think nothing of opening an mp3. Back then, music was supplied with short samples and tracker files. An old Amiga now would collapse trying to decode one nowadays, and video would just be totally out.
Things do change, and I'm now reasonably happy with the x86 platform, purely because of hardware support - I can buy pretty much anything for it and get it working.
I will always miss my Amiga though
It was an Amiga actually, and I know the 650 could do a LOT more than the 020, thats why I said "felt".
:)
Day to day computing has never been about mhz, its responsiveness and getting things when you expect them, the Amiga was always there for me