The good news is "almost no radiation" is actually quantified, sort of. The law says that no one can be exposed to more than 100mRem/year. That's against a background dose of somewhere between 250-400mRem/year depending on where you live.
U.S. guidelines allow personal exposure of up to 100mRem from any one facility, for the general population. Insignificant when you get 300-400mRem per year from the soil, buildings, air, sun...
Me. I'd be happy if I could have a dual head 18-19" display... Right now I"m working with a slightly fuzzy 17" that's begging to have a soda poored, *ummm* I mean, accidentally spilled into it.
While this is true, I've been a part of projects where we had been given some fixed $$$ by congress and had to make do. Linux made buying computers possible. Without it, we wouldn't have been able to afford the liscences; and, without the computers, the work would have never been completed.
or they simply see a payoff as less expensive than the case would be
I can't imagine how this could be the case. SCO's set a precedent by asking for $Billions in their first case. At $699 per CPU, they could easily come up with a multi-billion dollar number for the U.S. Gov't too.
After all, they don't have any reason to support free software.
yes they do. By using linux, they save money that would have been spent on licensing. They can then use this money for their other pet projects...
That they'll pick the U.S. Gov't. I can't think of anyone who's a much bigger user of Linux that also has Unix licenses. NASA, DOD & DOE have all worked to improve (add to) linux. NASA & DOE more or less created the Beowulf cluster.
They don't retract them "all the way" on purpose: It's better to have an airbag lying deflated and partially retracted, but flat, than to risk having it all bunched up, in a knot, under one of the petals. If it's not retracted far enough or flat enough for the rover to drive over, they can always try retracting it more or try the "lift and tuck" maneuver.
not that simple: They still have their income from lisences on the POS side -- Until McDonalds, Pizza Hut, et.al. migrate away from SCO, they'll have some guaranteed income for he forseeable future.
I think you missed his point: While we are doing work on astronomy, it is important to continue to do work on deep sea biology; and, vice-versa. By the time we have developed that spacecraft you speak of, we'll also have the ability to go deep into the watery abyss.
There's no point in not working on them concurrently -- maybe one area will benefit from discoveries in the other in ways you don't expect...
Sounds like a good job for a mini-itx and a TV tuner card. The only question I'd have (since I haven't tried it) is: Does a VIA mini-itx have enough horsepower to record (encode) one show and play (decode) another at the same time. If not, there's a P4 mini-itx that should be available from Commell.
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Pathfinder was done with a mix of Sun and SGI. Virtual controls were done on SGI.
Ahhhh, my evil plan reaches fruition. Finally!
Hey! Let's make it 50Gig and we can avoid the ground completely! Ground? What Ground?
The good news is "almost no radiation" is actually quantified, sort of. The law says that no one can be exposed to more than 100mRem/year. That's against a background dose of somewhere between 250-400mRem/year depending on where you live.
just go to your local hospital. Most have a radiology department. Ask if you can hang out at the reactor or accelerator...
Have you ever seen an assay on fly-ash?
U.S. guidelines allow personal exposure of up to 100mRem from any one facility, for the general population. Insignificant when you get 300-400mRem per year from the soil, buildings, air, sun...
You do realize how much angular momentum the EARTH has, right?
I have a right to whine, and a reasonable expectation for better quality: I'm not a student, That's the computer I'm using at work...
While this is true, I've been a part of projects where we had been given some fixed $$$ by congress and had to make do. Linux made buying computers possible. Without it, we wouldn't have been able to afford the liscences; and, without the computers, the work would have never been completed.
I can't imagine how this could be the case. SCO's set a precedent by asking for $Billions in their first case. At $699 per CPU, they could easily come up with a multi-billion dollar number for the U.S. Gov't too.
After all, they don't have any reason to support free software.
yes they do. By using linux, they save money that would have been spent on licensing. They can then use this money for their other pet projects...
If they're going after 800lb gorillas...
It only takes 3 or 4 ignitors if you don't set them up correctly...
They don't retract them "all the way" on purpose: It's better to have an airbag lying deflated and partially retracted, but flat, than to risk having it all bunched up, in a knot, under one of the petals. If it's not retracted far enough or flat enough for the rover to drive over, they can always try retracting it more or try the "lift and tuck" maneuver.
not that simple: They still have their income from lisences on the POS side -- Until McDonalds, Pizza Hut, et.al. migrate away from SCO, they'll have some guaranteed income for he forseeable future.
Wait, Damn, I'll probably be changing careers too...
'nuff said
Ya got to start somewhere...
There's no point in not working on them concurrently -- maybe one area will benefit from discoveries in the other in ways you don't expect...
For the cost of all this, they could have easily put the cpu in liquid nitrogen and paid for enough nitrogen to last for years...
A job where I make enough money to support my family without worrying if we'll have enough money to pay the bills this month...
Sounds like a good job for a mini-itx and a TV tuner card. The only question I'd have (since I haven't tried it) is: Does a VIA mini-itx have enough horsepower to record (encode) one show and play (decode) another at the same time. If not, there's a P4 mini-itx that should be available from Commell.
Those aren't solar panels. They're radiators for the heat generated by the reactor.
You laugh; but, I've seen messages not unlike this one...