I'm thinking in a weird way solar is an apt word (also a stupid choice in this case) - solar panels generate electricity from light, I have no idea how this thing works, though I imagine it too generates electrical pulses from light.
I saw somewhere on TV, a woman had a plastic looking panel implanted into her brain, with a huge bundle of wires sticking out the side of her skull. These wires were plugged into a computer/camera arrangement in such a way as the outlines of objects would be interpreted as a series of dots.
I don't really remember the outcome, though I do recall she bitched constantly that she couldn't see like she used to (even after the medical staff explained this little detail to her several times before the operation)
That russian girl was flown to the US for further testing - this was on nat-geo or discovery not long ago. This is all from memory so I may be wrong...
She had to specify the problems of 7 or 9 patients (can't remember exactly) - she did score quite high, but not high enough for it to be any more believable than educated guess work. Threw a bit of a tantrum when she found out she would not be able to view the bodies of the patients before making her decision.
She took far longer to make a diagnosis under test conditions than the the scratchy home video's from Russia.
She had been hanging around hospitals back home, so this is not at all suprising. All the evidence points toward her 'not' having any magical powers.
That sounds a little like me port scanning your system without permission, finding a hole, busting in, then using your webserver for my own world domination plans - complete with 500 gigabytes of transfer per day.
Nothing in any internet constitution to prevent me doing that. You left the door open. Not everyone lives in the US, not everyone has a legal system in place to deal with or care about exploiting overseas computer systems. (I live in Asia)
Getting over it is not always an option for some. I'm certain you'd be pissed if I did that. Remember, your laws don't apply to what I do.
Come on, you don't need $20000 test equipment to push a tiny little power supply to the edge of its existance. The first paragraph looks more like a marketing scam.
A nice old 3 inch nail bent up and jammed into the plugs for a few seconds should sort the good supplies from the bad:-)
I'm thinking the average person goes 'ohhh pretty colours - those space people sure are good with computers and stuff'
The average person cares not about where the image came from, but simply the impression it has on them as an individual. The massive public probably wouldn't notice too much if hubble no longer existed. This does not imply that it is in any way acceptable! Since your statements above are indeed true for the scientific community that has benifited most of all. (I'm thinking that last sentence might cause flames, not meaning to though.)
Sure, the hubble is cool and all, but I don't 'feel' it the same way people do with a much stronger connection to astronomy. It would be great to see it stay up for a few extra years, sadly, I think much of the 'replacement' talk is hot air.
Throw some tech up there now, surely it's not that hard to slap on a few extra cameras or filters to these replacements.
I personally don't get all hung up on the money side of it - more of a star trek utopian view where people can get whatever they want, so they work simply because they 'want to' - free in a sense. (Ok, so this is likely never going to happen, since the logic of it doesn't really pan out)
Pictures of the moon landing - oh you mean the fake ones? (Ok I kid, I kid!)
Of course we've been into space, (and to the moon) otherwise what the hell am I pointing government satellite dishes at every day - 'cause I'm getting lots of signal in that direction.
I actually live in Asia, a lot of these 'sweatshops' are bloody nice work environments! Just as nice as anything you'd find in Australia - the difference is the workers are paid a little higher than average wages most times. If the company is foreign owned or 'bankrolled' - then conditions have to be compliant with all health and safety regs. The exact same pair of jeans sold in america for $100 will cost around $5-$10 here, on the street (shopping centers)
Workers get breaks, medical, dental, nobody under 18, the law is enforced pretty well since failure to do so means big government fines.
It all works out in the end.
These offshore 'call centers' are staffed by college graduates mostly, just looking for a good income - problem is a few 'Americans' think they are 'stupid' in many instances, and hate talking to them. (I have a neice working in one, I hear the stories every day) Can really screw up ones day. These people are smart, they just don't speak english fluently.
Just my 2 cents. (Excluding China, I don't know anything about that place - so previous poster might be right)
That would be one slab per secret - lemon flavored stuff will get you two! If you bring the full strength stuff - I'll take it with no secrets in return, then jam each can in 'special' hand picked locations to be found at the next 30 year renovation. You may write politically incorrect slogans on each can:-)
Things like this are not all just urban myth - I'm sure lost machines can easily happen in any large organisation.
Government induced renovation is a good time to discover lost stuff. Floor removals, mods to fake ceilings, climbing through various crawl spaces to find the odd sparc 5 doing who knows what (until you unplug it and wait for the phone calls)
Boot tracks across the roof of 40 foot high ceilings, 'elvis was here' written inside ducting and many other odd places. Strange stuff.
Russel Hill in Canberra is a bit of an underground maze of tunnels - quite a few buildings are interconnected - (and no, there is no tunnel between parliament house and DSD/DIO/ASIS/ASIO/HQADF etc.) These things are loaded with electrical and electronic crud dating back 30 years.
It's easily possible to 'forget' where things are located, yet still depend on their existance on a daily basis.
Only to make a political point. Same as 'dealing with software / movie / audio piracy' - they get a large road roller and flatten a bunch of jewel cases while just around the corner it's business as usual.
The common reality is corruption, not the death penalty.
If they can do it in F1 with telemetry and a bank of fairly modest hardware, then a car shouldn't be that hard one would think.
Mind you, as others have suggested, it's probably a good idea to run it side by side with the original stuff. A larger 'custom' dash - maybe monster garage could do it. (Though it'd have to be along with a V-12 powered apple juicer or something.)
Would that not make him somewhat blinded? In government we put out tenders to build things like satellite receiving stations and look 'seriously' at ALL respondents. It's not always a matter of who has the best track record or the lowest price.
I think any CTO not able to think beyond the big few (whoever they are this month) - perhaps shouldn't be so deserving of the position.
Of course he's not seriously going to drop by Joe Bobs with the company credit card - but any sane person would put it out to tender. Describe what is needed, and go fishing through the results. World Bank wont have to build the PC's, but they sure as hell could give a parts list and have it built to spec.
I disagree with the poster claiming parent is an idiot. It is basic economics - a company wants a hundred platforms pre-built and installed from a 'parts list' then any corporate entity with half a brain cell is going to do this. (And they DO) Who gives a rats if IBM / DELL or whoever do not. (That is speculation at best, as I'm sure they do - just need to find the right contact)
The CTO in this instance simply did not do what most would consider even rudimentary research. He would be more deserving of the term 'ignorant' (or idiot)
Bad form to reply to self - telecommunications companies being only a single example - please don't take my post too literally. It's the concept of making money on a global scale.
The joys of living in asia - you can buy hardware pre-patched, pre-hacked, and pre-wired for any media content on the planet....and what was that copyright thing again?
Plenty of hard/software hacks that let you just turn the bitstream back to a zero and record the digital stream directly already. DA/AD always drops quality - nyquist theorem and all. It's one step too many - solutions already exist - google knows best.
I'm a little late into this thread - but for whatever it's worth - using 30-100 foot receiving dishes, we are able to sync on pretty well any satellite signal (B/QPSK/QAM/TDMA etc) just so long as it's around 5 db above the noise floor. You get lucky sometimes, get good captures from way outside the intended beam coverage. (36000 kilometers away, most of the satellites are transmitting no more than about 15 to 30 watts)
WiFi uses the same modulation techniques, though the circuitry is not at the same level as a radyne, comstream, SDM or whatever. I wasn't aware they were limited to 1 watt, that's pretty crappy when in 'farmer' mode.
At 2 GHz - I'd imagine 1000' line of site would work no problem at all, unless it's raining or you're shrouded in heavy fog, have a red barn with white stripes in the way... etc.
It's almost like google want to be the central repository of all knowledge. I'm no expert, but could this lead to 'problems' down the line similar to the way Microsoft have cornered the PC market.
Total information domination. Might lead to the 'all information has a cost' thingy people shout about from time to time.
I don't remember if it was discovery or nat-geo - they had a short documentariy on this setup - their explanation was atmospheric control, though they did say (probably accurately) that the site needed much more funding and a massively larger antenna array for it to be of any practical use. Spoke about the different treaties preventing them from moving the project much further at the present time.
They were talking an array spread over a couple of hundred 'football fields' to be effective - many other posters more intelligent than I have said this already.
Figure of speech. Nothing I say here is 'deadly serious' - the only result that I wanted was for the spam to stop - I paid them money for an internet connection - not a direct advertising conduit.
Wasn't in the terms of contract so why put up with it? The only financial recompence would be to pay for the time spent downloading their crap from the point I asked them to stop. If you couldn't use your phone for a month because the system was dead, would you 'want' to pay them the normal fee?
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This antenna boom wouldn't happen to resemble a forked piece of willow would it? :-)
Some old geeky farmer code lashed on to a couple of actuators and a divining rod...
I'm thinking in a weird way solar is an apt word (also a stupid choice in this case) - solar panels generate electricity from light, I have no idea how this thing works, though I imagine it too generates electrical pulses from light.
I saw somewhere on TV, a woman had a plastic looking panel implanted into her brain, with a huge bundle of wires sticking out the side of her skull. These wires were plugged into a computer/camera arrangement in such a way as the outlines of objects would be interpreted as a series of dots.
I don't really remember the outcome, though I do recall she bitched constantly that she couldn't see like she used to (even after the medical staff explained this little detail to her several times before the operation)
That russian girl was flown to the US for further testing - this was on nat-geo or discovery not long ago. This is all from memory so I may be wrong...
She had to specify the problems of 7 or 9 patients (can't remember exactly) - she did score quite high, but not high enough for it to be any more believable than educated guess work. Threw a bit of a tantrum when she found out she would not be able to view the bodies of the patients before making her decision.
She took far longer to make a diagnosis under test conditions than the the scratchy home video's from Russia.
She had been hanging around hospitals back home, so this is not at all suprising. All the evidence points toward her 'not' having any magical powers.
That sounds a little like me port scanning your system without permission, finding a hole, busting in, then using your webserver for my own world domination plans - complete with 500 gigabytes of transfer per day.
Nothing in any internet constitution to prevent me doing that. You left the door open. Not everyone lives in the US, not everyone has a legal system in place to deal with or care about exploiting overseas computer systems. (I live in Asia)
Getting over it is not always an option for some. I'm certain you'd be pissed if I did that. Remember, your laws don't apply to what I do.
Come on, you don't need $20000 test equipment to push a tiny little power supply to the edge of its existance. The first paragraph looks more like a marketing scam.
:-)
A nice old 3 inch nail bent up and jammed into the plugs for a few seconds should sort the good supplies from the bad
I'm thinking if it emits large amounts of fire from all over its surface, (burny hot stuff) it's a star.
I'm thinking the average person goes 'ohhh pretty colours - those space people sure are good with computers and stuff'
The average person cares not about where the image came from, but simply the impression it has on them as an individual. The massive public probably wouldn't notice too much if hubble no longer existed. This does not imply that it is in any way acceptable! Since your statements above are indeed true for the scientific community that has benifited most of all. (I'm thinking that last sentence might cause flames, not meaning to though.)
Sure, the hubble is cool and all, but I don't 'feel' it the same way people do with a much stronger connection to astronomy. It would be great to see it stay up for a few extra years, sadly, I think much of the 'replacement' talk is hot air.
Throw some tech up there now, surely it's not that hard to slap on a few extra cameras or filters to these replacements.
I personally don't get all hung up on the money side of it - more of a star trek utopian view where people can get whatever they want, so they work simply because they 'want to' - free in a sense. (Ok, so this is likely never going to happen, since the logic of it doesn't really pan out)
Pictures of the moon landing - oh you mean the fake ones? (Ok I kid, I kid!)
Of course we've been into space, (and to the moon) otherwise what the hell am I pointing government satellite dishes at every day - 'cause I'm getting lots of signal in that direction.
I actually live in Asia, a lot of these 'sweatshops' are bloody nice work environments! Just as nice as anything you'd find in Australia - the difference is the workers are paid a little higher than average wages most times. If the company is foreign owned or 'bankrolled' - then conditions have to be compliant with all health and safety regs. The exact same pair of jeans sold in america for $100 will cost around $5-$10 here, on the street (shopping centers)
Workers get breaks, medical, dental, nobody under 18, the law is enforced pretty well since failure to do so means big government fines.
It all works out in the end.
These offshore 'call centers' are staffed by college graduates mostly, just looking for a good income - problem is a few 'Americans' think they are 'stupid' in many instances, and hate talking to them. (I have a neice working in one, I hear the stories every day) Can really screw up ones day. These people are smart, they just don't speak english fluently.
Just my 2 cents. (Excluding China, I don't know anything about that place - so previous poster might be right)
That would be one slab per secret - lemon flavored stuff will get you two! If you bring the full strength stuff - I'll take it with no secrets in return, then jam each can in 'special' hand picked locations to be found at the next 30 year renovation. You may write politically incorrect slogans on each can :-)
Things like this are not all just urban myth - I'm sure lost machines can easily happen in any large organisation.
Government induced renovation is a good time to discover lost stuff.
Floor removals, mods to fake ceilings, climbing through various crawl spaces to find the odd sparc 5 doing who knows what (until you unplug it and wait for the phone calls)
Boot tracks across the roof of 40 foot high ceilings, 'elvis was here' written inside ducting and many other odd places. Strange stuff.
Russel Hill in Canberra is a bit of an underground maze of tunnels - quite a few buildings are interconnected - (and no, there is no tunnel between parliament house and DSD/DIO/ASIS/ASIO/HQADF etc.) These things are loaded with electrical and electronic crud dating back 30 years.
It's easily possible to 'forget' where things are located, yet still depend on their existance on a daily basis.
Only to make a political point. Same as 'dealing with software / movie / audio piracy' - they get a large road roller and flatten a bunch of jewel cases while just around the corner it's business as usual.
The common reality is corruption, not the death penalty.
If they can do it in F1 with telemetry and a bank of fairly modest hardware, then a car shouldn't be that hard one would think.
Mind you, as others have suggested, it's probably a good idea to run it side by side with the original stuff. A larger 'custom' dash - maybe monster garage could do it. (Though it'd have to be along with a V-12 powered apple juicer or something.)
Would that not make him somewhat blinded? In government we put out tenders to build things like satellite receiving stations and look 'seriously' at ALL respondents. It's not always a matter of who has the best track record or the lowest price.
I think any CTO not able to think beyond the big few (whoever they are this month) - perhaps shouldn't be so deserving of the position.
Of course he's not seriously going to drop by Joe Bobs with the company credit card - but any sane person would put it out to tender. Describe what is needed, and go fishing through the results. World Bank wont have to build the PC's, but they sure as hell could give a parts list and have it built to spec.
I disagree with the poster claiming parent is an idiot. It is basic economics - a company wants a hundred platforms pre-built and installed from a 'parts list' then any corporate entity with half a brain cell is going to do this. (And they DO) Who gives a rats if IBM / DELL or whoever do not. (That is speculation at best, as I'm sure they do - just need to find the right contact)
The CTO in this instance simply did not do what most would consider even rudimentary research. He would be more deserving of the term 'ignorant' (or idiot)
Bad form to reply to self - telecommunications companies being only a single example - please don't take my post too literally. It's the concept of making money on a global scale.
Too far from asia? Maybe their industry giants (telecomms and such) already have market domination and control the 'flow' of electronic appliances.
Similar thing happens in Australia.
The joys of living in asia - you can buy hardware pre-patched, pre-hacked, and pre-wired for any media content on the planet. ...and what was that copyright thing again?
Plenty of hard/software hacks that let you just turn the bitstream back to a zero and record the digital stream directly already. DA/AD always drops quality - nyquist theorem and all. It's one step too many - solutions already exist - google knows best.
I'm a little late into this thread - but for whatever it's worth - using 30-100 foot receiving dishes, we are able to sync on pretty well any satellite signal (B/QPSK/QAM/TDMA etc) just so long as it's around 5 db above the noise floor. You get lucky sometimes, get good captures from way outside the intended beam coverage. (36000 kilometers away, most of the satellites are transmitting no more than about 15 to 30 watts)
WiFi uses the same modulation techniques, though the circuitry is not at the same level as a radyne, comstream, SDM or whatever. I wasn't aware they were limited to 1 watt, that's pretty crappy when in 'farmer' mode.
At 2 GHz - I'd imagine 1000' line of site would work no problem at all, unless it's raining or you're shrouded in heavy fog, have a red barn with white stripes in the way... etc.
It's almost like google want to be the central repository of all knowledge. I'm no expert, but could this lead to 'problems' down the line similar to the way Microsoft have cornered the PC market.
Total information domination. Might lead to the 'all information has a cost' thingy people shout about from time to time.
Paid for services - no money, no info.
I don't remember if it was discovery or nat-geo - they had a short documentariy on this setup - their explanation was atmospheric control, though they did say (probably accurately) that the site needed much more funding and a massively larger antenna array for it to be of any practical use. Spoke about the different treaties preventing them from moving the project much further at the present time.
They were talking an array spread over a couple of hundred 'football fields' to be effective - many other posters more intelligent than I have said this already.
http://www.rotten.com/library/conspiracy/haarp/
Don't I feel like a dick - wrong link
Apologies all.
Hang on - let me adjust my tinfoil hat a little - it's a giant death ray.
http://jkidd.tripod.com/b/94.html
Figure of speech. Nothing I say here is 'deadly serious' - the only result that I wanted was for the spam to stop - I paid them money for an internet connection - not a direct advertising conduit.
Wasn't in the terms of contract so why put up with it? The only financial recompence would be to pay for the time spent downloading their crap from the point I asked them to stop. If you couldn't use your phone for a month because the system was dead, would you 'want' to pay them the normal fee?
That is the key reasoning! Not money.