I used my truck to supply power for my house when Hurricane Isabel came through and knocked out the grid for the better part of a week. It makes sense, given the energy capacity of the battery in an electric vehicle, to consider them as an option for emergency backup power.
Well, they have to test docking, which was the whole point of the COTS 3 flight; so, unless there's a problem I would expect them to at least make the attempt. And, if you're going to test docking, you might as well carry something useful but non-critical along. Something like food, water, spare clothing, and so on; so, if you lose the cargo you know you're not going to impact ISS operational requirements.
That's because the only images they have are from the low-res navigational imager. They will fire up the high res camera and other instruments now that they're in Vesta orbit.
Time to start harping about that, if its gonna take that long.
You're not saying anything I haven't brought up before, in fact you missed a couple of points. Doesn't matter what I say, management thinks they know what they're doing so they make their choices. Stuff breaks and then they act surprised, even though I have email going back to 2003 documenting these discussions.
As it is, I'm about to bail. I've had enough of being ignored then being held accountable. To top it all off, the pay is bad (so, chances of them hiring more folks are close to zero).
Virtualization won't work. It's a manufacturing production environment with instrumentation hanging off of the computers. Virtualization does not provide the necessary hardware interface / drivers.
We have a lot of production software written to target Windows XP. We're still running some DOS software on Windows 98 boxes. The two of us working on this, part time, can not possibly move all the software to the Windows 7 platform by that time. Don't blame me, blame the short-sighted managment that has chosen to ignore all of my recommendations for the past 8 years.
PCB prototypes and an online portal where you could place orders for components and then pick them up in the store with the PCBs. That would definitely get me back in the stores.
Wouldn't be hard to implement either. They could partner with someone like Digikey, who caters to the DIY crowd and engineerings building prototypes, and then direct ship to the stores.
It had occured to me that you could simply set up the uplinks en-mass -- let them use up all the missiles. But then it occured to me that between the capability to jam signals over large geographic area, and the anti-satellite capabilities, if the US Government really wants to shut down communications, they will. It's have to be an extreme situation.
You would try to log in? Really? I'd either boot to my own OS disk with the machine disconnected from the network or pull the drives and reconstruct the data offline.
It's more likely to be simpler than that. They have a DC-8 rigged for engine testing. So they use that. And yeah, it's got a lot of history, so it is well-documented.
A lot of programmers and IT people (myself included) are running Win7 desktops; but, are still supporting a significant inventory of XP machines. It's a not so subtle reminder to get our collective asses in gear.
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A lot of what they're looking for has already been extensively covered under the context of sci-fi.
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And end up a kilometer inland, away from your source of cooling water.
I used my truck to supply power for my house when Hurricane Isabel came through and knocked out the grid for the better part of a week. It makes sense, given the energy capacity of the battery in an electric vehicle, to consider them as an option for emergency backup power.
Used to call it "trichlor". "trike" is similar enough.
The Chinese know this... That's why they've been investing heavily in Africa for the past decade or two.
Well, they have to test docking, which was the whole point of the COTS 3 flight; so, unless there's a problem I would expect them to at least make the attempt. And, if you're going to test docking, you might as well carry something useful but non-critical along. Something like food, water, spare clothing, and so on; so, if you lose the cargo you know you're not going to impact ISS operational requirements.
God is knocking and He wants in bad.
That's because the only images they have are from the low-res navigational imager. They will fire up the high res camera and other instruments now that they're in Vesta orbit.
This is a Great idea! That is, until the new super bees decide humans taste better than pollen and nectar.
Time to start harping about that, if its gonna take that long.
You're not saying anything I haven't brought up before, in fact you missed a couple of points. Doesn't matter what I say, management thinks they know what they're doing so they make their choices. Stuff breaks and then they act surprised, even though I have email going back to 2003 documenting these discussions.
As it is, I'm about to bail. I've had enough of being ignored then being held accountable. To top it all off, the pay is bad (so, chances of them hiring more folks are close to zero).
Virtualization won't work. It's a manufacturing production environment with instrumentation hanging off of the computers. Virtualization does not provide the necessary hardware interface / drivers.
We have a lot of production software written to target Windows XP. We're still running some DOS software on Windows 98 boxes. The two of us working on this, part time, can not possibly move all the software to the Windows 7 platform by that time. Don't blame me, blame the short-sighted managment that has chosen to ignore all of my recommendations for the past 8 years.
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I second that remark. Gotta put vacation in remote southern hemisphere location on my list.
You gotta stop using AOL dialup for your internet connection.
What they carry now is a sad assortment of random parts. Hardly substantial.
Then they need to carry a substantial inventory.
PCB prototypes and an online portal where you could place orders for components and then pick them up in the store with the PCBs. That would definitely get me back in the stores.
Wouldn't be hard to implement either. They could partner with someone like Digikey, who caters to the DIY crowd and engineerings building prototypes, and then direct ship to the stores.
It had occured to me that you could simply set up the uplinks en-mass -- let them use up all the missiles. But then it occured to me that between the capability to jam signals over large geographic area, and the anti-satellite capabilities, if the US Government really wants to shut down communications, they will. It's have to be an extreme situation.
The US also has missles designed to lock onto transceivers and destroy them. Your satellite uplink might not last long.
You would try to log in? Really? I'd either boot to my own OS disk with the machine disconnected from the network or pull the drives and reconstruct the data offline.
Microsoft should pay the $200 and seize the entire TLD.
You have a point there...
It's more likely to be simpler than that. They have a DC-8 rigged for engine testing. So they use that. And yeah, it's got a lot of history, so it is well-documented.
A lot of programmers and IT people (myself included) are running Win7 desktops; but, are still supporting a significant inventory of XP machines. It's a not so subtle reminder to get our collective asses in gear.