Seems like the days off CCD are numbered...
this system uses VLSI instead of CCD, much easier to produce and integrate on a chips, heck, it IS the same technology they use to produce chips.
Digital camera's are bound to reduce in price thanks to VLSI, already you can buy professional digital camera's using this technology, for an unheard of price.
On the topic of this robot thingy itself: think some NASA scientist are going ballistic if they see this, they're also studying on this, but the results are A LOT slower. (they say it's due to the admittetly extraordinary complicated maths/ volume of calculations involved, guess they'll have to rethink some of these claims)
Boy oh boy, what they do not show on the video's, is the size of the computer controlling it, they claim is fairly integrated, but, it's always easy to rig a puppet on a string demonstration, where a CrayII runs the show, behind the curtains...
MIR was waaaay over its shelf-time, but the severely cash strapped Russians kept it going; bravely or stupidly?
The American press was going: 'it's a disaster waiting to happen' and they were all but forced by the Amercan Gvt to deorbit it, because there were concerns that keeping it going would impede the ISS funding.
The FGB (functional cargo block) and living quarters in use on the iss are just modules VERY similar to the original MIR predecessors, and they function just fine (thanks to funding)
Before this goes O.T.: this all sounds eerily familiar when you look at the shuttle: it should've been decommissioned by now, according to the original plans, but NASA plans to use it for years into the future... This does NOT look good....
yes it's quite clever.
You sure know the people who always send you funny mpgs, jpegs, exe games etc? They CC to virtually everyone in their contactlist, so after a while you KNOW their mails contain attachments... And of course you will open them, just to have a laugh; I'm sure a lot of people get fucked that way, trusting their CC mailfriends... Is it stupid to trust those attachment because you ALWAYS get those from them? i guess so, if you own a PC running OE. Oh well...
no private company is planning to put a launcher, capable of (manned) orbital operation into space in the short timeframe. Rutan, Xcor, et.c. are going to do a SUB orbital jump. That's something completely different. China OTOH will put their astronauts in orbit by the end of this year, if all works out according to plan.
phew, *wipes perspiration from large forehead* almost thought me ws so stupid to go into discussion w a creationist. Glad to see yer not one of those.... (do i sound obsessed? I'm not, just on caffeine and cayenne)
If this is not a troll, then it is certainly comparing apples with pears, DNA!= radiosignal....
Really, i can't, for the love of my life, imagine what you're trying to prove?
creationism? or......
No. Doesn't make sense to me, sorry. Would you care to elaborate?
O.T., i know, but might ET not've been so technically advanced, that he evolved less 'wild nature capable to survive?'
Like hell, we would be torn to pieces by a big cat, nowadays, our B.C. ancestors were a bit more rugged, albeit not so smart. We evolve toward less physical fitnes for the wilderness, because we don't need to cope with that wilderness anymore, we just grow bigger heads, and a beerbelly, gues eventually human race would evolve towards an ET creature in the long run, ET couldn't cope on eart because there was still wilderness, well we're working on that issue anyway.. (irony)
Fort the Japanese audience....
KARAOKE versions of your favourite games...
imagine a guy on a stage, half drunk, singing W00t w00t!
Boy, life can be fun for crazy people...
it's not pointless, that"s why you were modded down.
Now don't ask ME what the point is, i really suck in mathematics (but stil love it though)
but if you see somewhere the word 'prime', think computer en/decryption, et. c.
i even guess it could be used for cancer research....
imagine, you create some kind of Ueber-universal Avatar, that you use everywhere: in games, but also in places like/., other forums...
Some people build up quite a reputation in several fields, through hard work, searching studying,...teaching things online.
Let's imagine, I'm using this avatar 'Mr. Smith' (Yea...,) widely recognized in certain semi-pro forums, et.c. If somebody hacked into my ueber-avatar-account and start posting spurious things in my name, or go on a rampage in some games, using hacks,... my Avatar would lose a lot of it's 'worth,' however virtual it may seem, but i would be really pissed off, for the so-called virtual money-worth-karma-acceptance et.c. is, or could be, in fact very important to me for my work, research, et.c.
>Get a dose of reality and understand that the culture and civilization embodied by the United States is the most morally superior culture and civilization in the history of the planet.
You MUST be kidding, right? What you're claiming is that the rest of the world is less moral than you guys???
I'm sorry, but your way of seeing things is just insulting for the rest of the world.
I'm not going into politics here, but really, really, a lot of people are getting fed up with this kind of bragging, How're we supposed to look eachother in the eye, if one party is constantly screaming "I'm oh so superior, compared to you, it is my way or the highway..." et.c.
I'm not anti-American, but sometimes this kind of rhetoric makes me really nervous.
They got a knowledgable user on the line that pointed out a 'looming issue' so the smartest thing they could do was to get their hands on that unit ASAP to study the problem and fix it. no need to second guess that way.
Hats off for management that actually has some INSIGHT in problemsolving; Exchanging yr PB for a Ti was a nice touch, thou. (of course you saved them a lot of money in the long run, so, it was just a case of honest, gentlemenlike behaviour..)
really, folks, isn't/. supposed to give bonuspoints to people who post thing that make you think a bit more critically?
I've seen this guy going from interesting to flamebait!!! why for Csake?
I, for one, admit havin read sagans statement several times, thinking 'whoa, cool one,' but the parent is right.
its just that extraordinary claims provoke a natural reaction: disbelief, and for the NON scientific crowd, it requires extr. proof.
Real scientist are supposed to be objective (i know, they too, are only human, so in a way Sagan WAS right, but still...
Isn't this the scientist that claimed the results showed a kind of errrr... internal clock behaviour? 's been too long since i read about it, but it went something like this: the outcome of the experiments showing fluctuations, possibly pointing to organisms that exhibit some signs of a diurnal rhythm, even sealed off from the exterior conditions. It looked promising, but i never heard about it since. So, is this the same guy, and if not, what happened with that avenue of thinking?
The oldest known 'long text' originated in the third millennium B.C.! got written down for the first time around 700 B.C.
Of course, this is in fact a bit of a strange thing to read: extremely repetitive (echoes of the oral tradition), of extremely old fashioned, missing pieces...
BUTBUTBUT
it gives you a kick, knowing you're reading sumting REALLY ancient, even the big flood, from the O.T. is originally described in this text.
Also, a bit of the mother of all fantasy novels, i guess....
Not your average book, sure, but a really interesting read...
coincidence (the name)
apollo 12,14;15 (don't remember) did a quick stroll to a probe on the moon, that had landed there a while before them, they took some pieces off it to study back on earth (to know how badly it had deteriorariar eeehhh ated, i guess.)
Back on earth, it turned out there were still some live bacteria inside some of the pieces...
The article mentions the mud/liquid water could be present THIS VERY DAY, if this would turn out to be true,... boy, staggering.... Liquid water on Mars! I hope they really decontaminated all previous probes properly, would be quite a shock to discover earth-bacteria living there, instead of martian bugs.
What I don't understand, wasn't there a law in Europe that explicitly forbids to sell at a loss?
(that's why you see the razors packed with a packet of blades)
Wasn't MS attempting to do something fishy? or is selling at a 90% reduced price STILL profitable, if so, they're just telling everybody they are getting ripped off, making HUGE profits on evvery piece of ware they sell...
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they oughta float some above Iraq, Baghdad as a stopgap measure until communications infrastructure is mended. come to think of it, would come in very handy in desaster stricken places, like Algeria, where earthquakes destroyed a lot of the infrastructure.
Biggest problem I see; these balloons are filled with helium, when they use a pipe to channel the voices thru these things, won't they come back sounding like that nervous duck?
I dunno, IANAE (engineer)
... But I initially confused The title for saying actually exploiting mines... Would be cool to have something like that, too... a lot less people would have to risk their lives, that way. Also, imagine robot miners on the moon, on mars... Let them loose for a couple of months, years,... and hey presto: ready to use subsurface tunnels for manned missions, with a bounty of ore, ready to process, to boot.
That's the way to go!The main reason (i think) for Americans huge energy consumption compared to the rest of the world, is because AC's are used everywhere, most of the time, houses, work, cars...
A lot of places in Europe have comparable climate with New York; but usage of AC is A LOT lower, especially in domestic circles, people using them are considered 'wasters of energy, too lazy to open ther windows at night et.c.)
admittedly, New York is not the hottest place in US of A, I guess sometimes AC's are a real necessety to live a Western (= very active, no sleeping during the hot hours, et c) life...
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Seems like the days off CCD are numbered... this system uses VLSI instead of CCD, much easier to produce and integrate on a chips, heck, it IS the same technology they use to produce chips. Digital camera's are bound to reduce in price thanks to VLSI, already you can buy professional digital camera's using this technology, for an unheard of price. On the topic of this robot thingy itself: think some NASA scientist are going ballistic if they see this, they're also studying on this, but the results are A LOT slower. (they say it's due to the admittetly extraordinary complicated maths/ volume of calculations involved, guess they'll have to rethink some of these claims) Boy oh boy, what they do not show on the video's, is the size of the computer controlling it, they claim is fairly integrated, but, it's always easy to rig a puppet on a string demonstration, where a CrayII runs the show, behind the curtains...
MIR was waaaay over its shelf-time, but the severely cash strapped Russians kept it going; bravely or stupidly? The American press was going: 'it's a disaster waiting to happen' and they were all but forced by the Amercan Gvt to deorbit it, because there were concerns that keeping it going would impede the ISS funding. The FGB (functional cargo block) and living quarters in use on the iss are just modules VERY similar to the original MIR predecessors, and they function just fine (thanks to funding) Before this goes O.T.: this all sounds eerily familiar when you look at the shuttle: it should've been decommissioned by now, according to the original plans, but NASA plans to use it for years into the future... This does NOT look good....
yes it's quite clever. You sure know the people who always send you funny mpgs, jpegs, exe games etc? They CC to virtually everyone in their contactlist, so after a while you KNOW their mails contain attachments... And of course you will open them, just to have a laugh; I'm sure a lot of people get fucked that way, trusting their CC mailfriends... Is it stupid to trust those attachment because you ALWAYS get those from them? i guess so, if you own a PC running OE. Oh well...
no private company is planning to put a launcher, capable of (manned) orbital operation into space in the short timeframe. Rutan, Xcor, et.c. are going to do a SUB orbital jump. That's something completely different. China OTOH will put their astronauts in orbit by the end of this year, if all works out according to plan.
phew, *wipes perspiration from large forehead* almost thought me ws so stupid to go into discussion w a creationist. Glad to see yer not one of those.... (do i sound obsessed? I'm not, just on caffeine and cayenne)
If this is not a troll, then it is certainly comparing apples with pears, DNA!= radiosignal.... Really, i can't, for the love of my life, imagine what you're trying to prove? creationism? or...... No. Doesn't make sense to me, sorry. Would you care to elaborate?
O.T., i know, but might ET not've been so technically advanced, that he evolved less 'wild nature capable to survive?' Like hell, we would be torn to pieces by a big cat, nowadays, our B.C. ancestors were a bit more rugged, albeit not so smart. We evolve toward less physical fitnes for the wilderness, because we don't need to cope with that wilderness anymore, we just grow bigger heads, and a beerbelly, gues eventually human race would evolve towards an ET creature in the long run, ET couldn't cope on eart because there was still wilderness, well we're working on that issue anyway.. (irony)
Fort the Japanese audience.... KARAOKE versions of your favourite games... imagine a guy on a stage, half drunk, singing W00t w00t! Boy, life can be fun for crazy people...
it's not pointless, that"s why you were modded down. Now don't ask ME what the point is, i really suck in mathematics (but stil love it though) but if you see somewhere the word 'prime', think computer en/decryption, et. c. i even guess it could be used for cancer research....
imagine, you create some kind of Ueber-universal Avatar, that you use everywhere: in games, but also in places like /., other forums...
Some people build up quite a reputation in several fields, through hard work, searching studying,...teaching things online.
Let's imagine, I'm using this avatar 'Mr. Smith' (Yea...,) widely recognized in certain semi-pro forums, et.c. If somebody hacked into my ueber-avatar-account and start posting spurious things in my name, or go on a rampage in some games, using hacks,... my Avatar would lose a lot of it's 'worth,' however virtual it may seem, but i would be really pissed off, for the so-called virtual money-worth-karma-acceptance et.c. is, or could be, in fact very important to me for my work, research, et.c.
>Get a dose of reality and understand that the culture and civilization embodied by the United States is the most morally superior culture and civilization in the history of the planet. You MUST be kidding, right? What you're claiming is that the rest of the world is less moral than you guys??? I'm sorry, but your way of seeing things is just insulting for the rest of the world. I'm not going into politics here, but really, really, a lot of people are getting fed up with this kind of bragging, How're we supposed to look eachother in the eye, if one party is constantly screaming "I'm oh so superior, compared to you, it is my way or the highway..." et.c. I'm not anti-American, but sometimes this kind of rhetoric makes me really nervous.
They got a knowledgable user on the line that pointed out a 'looming issue' so the smartest thing they could do was to get their hands on that unit ASAP to study the problem and fix it. no need to second guess that way. Hats off for management that actually has some INSIGHT in problemsolving; Exchanging yr PB for a Ti was a nice touch, thou. (of course you saved them a lot of money in the long run, so, it was just a case of honest, gentlemenlike behaviour..)
really, folks, isn't /. supposed to give bonuspoints to people who post thing that make you think a bit more critically?
I've seen this guy going from interesting to flamebait!!! why for Csake?
I, for one, admit havin read sagans statement several times, thinking 'whoa, cool one,' but the parent is right.
its just that extraordinary claims provoke a natural reaction: disbelief, and for the NON scientific crowd, it requires extr. proof.
Real scientist are supposed to be objective (i know, they too, are only human, so in a way Sagan WAS right, but still...
Isn't this the scientist that claimed the results showed a kind of errrr... internal clock behaviour? 's been too long since i read about it, but it went something like this: the outcome of the experiments showing fluctuations, possibly pointing to organisms that exhibit some signs of a diurnal rhythm, even sealed off from the exterior conditions. It looked promising, but i never heard about it since. So, is this the same guy, and if not, what happened with that avenue of thinking?
The oldest known 'long text' originated in the third millennium B.C.! got written down for the first time around 700 B.C. Of course, this is in fact a bit of a strange thing to read: extremely repetitive (echoes of the oral tradition), of extremely old fashioned, missing pieces... BUTBUTBUT it gives you a kick, knowing you're reading sumting REALLY ancient, even the big flood, from the O.T. is originally described in this text. Also, a bit of the mother of all fantasy novels, i guess.... Not your average book, sure, but a really interesting read...
coincidence (the name) apollo 12,14;15 (don't remember) did a quick stroll to a probe on the moon, that had landed there a while before them, they took some pieces off it to study back on earth (to know how badly it had deteriorariar eeehhh ated, i guess.) Back on earth, it turned out there were still some live bacteria inside some of the pieces...
The article mentions the mud/liquid water could be present THIS VERY DAY, if this would turn out to be true,... boy, staggering.... Liquid water on Mars! I hope they really decontaminated all previous probes properly, would be quite a shock to discover earth-bacteria living there, instead of martian bugs.
No, you can't interview a crater, everybody knows that! They interviewed the Mars Global Surveyor! (Gee, you people are weird!)
What I don't understand, wasn't there a law in Europe that explicitly forbids to sell at a loss? (that's why you see the razors packed with a packet of blades) Wasn't MS attempting to do something fishy? or is selling at a 90% reduced price STILL profitable, if so, they're just telling everybody they are getting ripped off, making HUGE profits on evvery piece of ware they sell...
maybe he's not searching to be destroyed...
they oughta float some above Iraq, Baghdad as a stopgap measure until communications infrastructure is mended. come to think of it, would come in very handy in desaster stricken places, like Algeria, where earthquakes destroyed a lot of the infrastructure.
Biggest problem I see; these balloons are filled with helium, when they use a pipe to channel the voices thru these things, won't they come back sounding like that nervous duck? I dunno, IANAE (engineer)
So, if I understand this right, all i have to do is open the chassis (check,) get out me hacksaw (check,) and star Fè6('NO CARRIER
... But I initially confused The title for saying actually exploiting mines... Would be cool to have something like that, too... a lot less people would have to risk their lives, that way. Also, imagine robot miners on the moon, on mars... Let them loose for a couple of months, years,... and hey presto: ready to use subsurface tunnels for manned missions, with a bounty of ore, ready to process, to boot.
That's the way to go!The main reason (i think) for Americans huge energy consumption compared to the rest of the world, is because AC's are used everywhere, most of the time, houses, work, cars... A lot of places in Europe have comparable climate with New York; but usage of AC is A LOT lower, especially in domestic circles, people using them are considered 'wasters of energy, too lazy to open ther windows at night et.c.) admittedly, New York is not the hottest place in US of A, I guess sometimes AC's are a real necessety to live a Western (= very active, no sleeping during the hot hours, et c) life...