America does do this. Orbital's OSP-2 launch vehicle uses a Peacekeeper booster and their Minotaur uses a Minuteman II booster. Lockheed Martin's Atlas and Titan were originally designed as an ICBM and started being re-tasked to launch satellites in the '60's.
they did; but, the scientists mentioned something about how fast they were traveling: (I'll quote some from the spaceflightnow article)
"The photo sequence began around 12:30 a.m., 18 minutes or so after Cassini finished a 96-minute rocket firing to brake into orbit around Saturn. Streaking just above the rings at speeds greater than 50,000 mph, Cassini's narrow-angle camera took a series of snapshots, opening its shutter for just five milliseconds per picture to avoid blurring. Each picture was separated from those on either side by about 600 miles because of Cassini's extreme velocity."
"It takes us about a minute to take a picture and so in the time we shutter the exposure, read out the camera and get ready to take a picture again, we have crossed a thousand kilometers."
They never had a chance to get a close up of the debris in the rings. In fact, it would take a significant effort, timing it just right, to do so; and, they would risking damage by exposing the camera lens to any dust in the path. If you remember, they were turning Cassini so the big dish pointed in the direction of travel to act as a shield against any small objects in their path, as they crossed the rings.
Had a History of Science prof. explain to us exactly what our nuclear capabilities were in the mid '80's. Summary went something like, each side had enough weapons to destroy the world 100 times over. Even if only 1% of our/their missles/bombers launched and made it through whatever theoretical defenses you want to image, result == total annihilation.
Because the missle could rain the proverbial hellfire down on you... One missle could carry more than enough payload to destroy any european country. They had as many as, say, 100-150 built in the '80's. They could either be configured with 10 500-750kT warheads or a single 20MT warhead. Very deadly...
I'm definitely glad they've found a peaceful use for those boosters.
while I don't doubt some of it (at least the scientists with the knowledge) ended up in China, Iran & North Korea...
A lot of it ended up in the hands of the former Soviet states. Places like Georgia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Chechnya. Most of these guys are pretty safe. Some of them should scare you. As the previous poster implied, a lot of the material is still unaccounted for...
Don't kid yourself... they don't have vaccines for the super-bugs developed for use as weapons. Some of them were designed specifically to circumvent known vaccines; so, it wouldn't matter even if you got the vaccine. you'd still be dead.
I didn't mean to overlook them, I was a HAM myself, (kc4cky) but unfortunately let my liscense lapse, since I haven't been able to afford any equipment for a while... So, I refer to my fallback position, the lowly cell phone.
he feeds the troll:
you realize that when the hurricane came through NC and VA last year, the only form of communications available were Police radio, Rescue radio, Ham operators, and CELL PHONES.
when the hurricane came through NC and VA last year, cell phones and portable radios were the only form communication that worked for over a week. The cell phone coverage was spotty at times as the cell towers batteries ran down and the generators occasionally ran out of fuel.
I digress... My point was, when a disaster strikes, you often have volunteers helping with the disaster relief. In our case, the volunteers were relying on cell phones for communications. Not everyone has access to police or rescue radios.
It's not about killing the bpl technology. It's also not about the Hams in particular. This system was blasting the entire HF and part of the VHF spectrum. Spectrum used by aircraft, fire, rescue, police, military, etc, etc...
The parent article comes directly from the ARRL, which is why it's amateur radio -centric. The amateurs were the ones who first located the source of the noise; because they had the equipment and know-how on tap.
The point is, the bpl technology in use was violating FCC rules by causing interference. The utility couldn't fix it; so, the FCC has every right to shut them down.
It was definitely the northbridge chip. It may have been flakey since day one; but, it was intermittent enough that I could get work done and assumed it was a Windows problem. After about two years, it became seriously screwed up. I ran a bunch of diagnostics and found the memory controller in the northbridge seemed to be flakey. If I kept it artificially cool (read as spraying freon on the chip) it would get better...
I freely admit I often don't have an F'n clue.
The correct answer is "I don't know; but, I can find out..." I'm damn good at research and that is a very very handy asset.
As one of five developers working for a small company, where all five of us are working on different projects, I'm one of those guys in the room. I don't see what the problem is. No one has a clue what I'm doing, nor could anyone outside the core developers understand it; and, really they don't care as long as it works and is completed on time.
All I ask is you have reasonable expectations and make damn sure there's GOOD coffee available. (unfortunately, neither request has been met lately...)
Actually, SCO is going after IBM, Novell, Redhat, Daimler-Chrysler, and Autozone. You could argue Redhat is a fairly small players (having a market cap of $4.90Billion and a gross annual income of $140.5Million), you might even try to make a similar argument with Novell (with a market cap of $3.45Billion and Gross Revenue of $1.1Billion); but, the same can not be said of IBM, Daimler-Chrysler and Autozone.
BTW, the Redhat and Novell statements were sarcasm. They're not small players by any stretch of the imagination, unless your trying to compare them directly to Big Blue itself (who's market cap is $152Billion and has annual gross revenues of $91.3 Billion)
Dude, I'm not a teenager (mid 30's) and I can assure you, without that 1-2 pots of STRONG coffee I drink every day, I'd loose my job and or my 3yr old & the new baby would both die of neglect.
Now for the rant: I NEED my caffeine. I'm a junky -- I'll admit it. Hell, I have a couple of those ThinkGeek caffeine cups sitting on my desk at work. I also keep M&M's and/or choco covered coffee beans on my desk. Don't mess with my caffeine!
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Yes it does. "Fab 30" and "Fab 36" are in Dresden. They make the Athlons at "Fab 30". I'm not sure if "Fab 36" makes Athlons or Opterons.
America does do this. Orbital's OSP-2 launch vehicle uses a Peacekeeper booster and their Minotaur uses a Minuteman II booster. Lockheed Martin's Atlas and Titan were originally designed as an ICBM and started being re-tasked to launch satellites in the '60's.
"The photo sequence began around 12:30 a.m., 18 minutes or so after Cassini finished a 96-minute rocket firing to brake into orbit around Saturn. Streaking just above the rings at speeds greater than 50,000 mph, Cassini's narrow-angle camera took a series of snapshots, opening its shutter for just five milliseconds per picture to avoid blurring. Each picture was separated from those on either side by about 600 miles because of Cassini's extreme velocity."
"It takes us about a minute to take a picture and so in the time we shutter the exposure, read out the camera and get ready to take a picture again, we have crossed a thousand kilometers."
They never had a chance to get a close up of the debris in the rings. In fact, it would take a significant effort, timing it just right, to do so; and, they would risking damage by exposing the camera lens to any dust in the path. If you remember, they were turning Cassini so the big dish pointed in the direction of travel to act as a shield against any small objects in their path, as they crossed the rings.
very scary.
The Titan booster has peaceful uses. The nuclear warhead does not. (No, they can not be used to deflect an incoming asteroid)
The way Ash (aka Bruce Campbell) wields his shotgun, it is a Weapon of Mass Destruction = )
Because the missle could rain the proverbial hellfire down on you... One missle could carry more than enough payload to destroy any european country. They had as many as, say, 100-150 built in the '80's. They could either be configured with 10 500-750kT warheads or a single 20MT warhead. Very deadly...
I'm definitely glad they've found a peaceful use for those boosters.
A lot of it ended up in the hands of the former Soviet states. Places like Georgia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Chechnya. Most of these guys are pretty safe. Some of them should scare you. As the previous poster implied, a lot of the material is still unaccounted for...
Don't kid yourself... they don't have vaccines for the super-bugs developed for use as weapons. Some of them were designed specifically to circumvent known vaccines; so, it wouldn't matter even if you got the vaccine. you'd still be dead.
I didn't mean to overlook them, I was a HAM myself, (kc4cky) but unfortunately let my liscense lapse, since I haven't been able to afford any equipment for a while... So, I refer to my fallback position, the lowly cell phone.
he feeds the troll:
you realize that when the hurricane came through NC and VA last year, the only form of communications available were Police radio, Rescue radio, Ham operators, and CELL PHONES.
I digress... My point was, when a disaster strikes, you often have volunteers helping with the disaster relief. In our case, the volunteers were relying on cell phones for communications. Not everyone has access to police or rescue radios.
Nice PR twist they used. Before they can implement it, they'll have to prove to the FCC that they've solved the interference problem.
The parent article comes directly from the ARRL, which is why it's amateur radio -centric. The amateurs were the ones who first located the source of the noise; because they had the equipment and know-how on tap.
The point is, the bpl technology in use was violating FCC rules by causing interference. The utility couldn't fix it; so, the FCC has every right to shut them down.
before computers, the hackers were all hams. It's not a bunch of sad lonely guys holed up in bunkers you're talking about, it's people like you.
They said in the FAQ that wet wood would not cause it to misfire.
It was definitely the northbridge chip. It may have been flakey since day one; but, it was intermittent enough that I could get work done and assumed it was a Windows problem. After about two years, it became seriously screwed up. I ran a bunch of diagnostics and found the memory controller in the northbridge seemed to be flakey. If I kept it artificially cool (read as spraying freon on the chip) it would get better...
YOu know they've got their act together when they can survive a slashdotting... while serving up a 3+ Mb video.
That was Excellent. Had to literally LOL... People looking at me now, must go back to work : )
I owned one of these; it did run for two years without problem before the chipset started to flake out.
As far as I can tell, VIA has fixed it's problems.
I freely admit I often don't have an F'n clue. The correct answer is "I don't know; but, I can find out..." I'm damn good at research and that is a very very handy asset.
All I ask is you have reasonable expectations and make damn sure there's GOOD coffee available. (unfortunately, neither request has been met lately...)
BTW, the Redhat and Novell statements were sarcasm. They're not small players by any stretch of the imagination, unless your trying to compare them directly to Big Blue itself (who's market cap is $152Billion and has annual gross revenues of $91.3 Billion)
this new chipset has mpeg-4 decode hardware built in.
Now for the rant: I NEED my caffeine. I'm a junky -- I'll admit it. Hell, I have a couple of those ThinkGeek caffeine cups sitting on my desk at work. I also keep M&M's and/or choco covered coffee beans on my desk. Don't mess with my caffeine!