Of course it's too slow. He probably has gigabit in his office, fastest available residential service to his home, dedicated 802.11g or 802.11n wifi access points for any mobile platform he uses, then he has to drop back to sharing an Edge link with rates of 200-300kbps... By comparison it would seem slow as hell. He's not known to be patient.
The predictions were based on the computer models. In hindsight, they went back and analyzed the atmospheric data and found that there was a lot of dust in the atmosphere, being carried by the prevailing winds. The dust was coming from the sahara. It appears that the dust had the affect of reducing storm intensity. That's the kind of thing that's hard to account for in a model. Especially when it the variables can change significantly from year to year.
Juno is slated to go into Jupiter orbit. Solar may be useable out to Jupiter. The panels have to increase in size proportional to the distance from the sun squared... The weight increases exponentially. To reach past Jupiter it becomes impossible (practically) to launch that much mass from the ground. If you want 1kW of power at Saturn or maybe the Kuiper belt you have to use nuclear. If Voyager 1 and 2, launched in 1977, were powered by solar, even using these new panels, we would not still be receiving telemetry from it. Voyager 1 is currently is currently 18 times farther from the sun than Jupiter. Voyager 2 is currently 15 times farther from the sun than Jupiter. Both are studying the boundary of our solar system.
Yeah, I suspect much of the advances in solar technology have come out of NASA's budget. This is the kind of area where NASA and DOE spending feeds back obvious results.
I get frustrated as well when people protest launching nuclear powered spacecraft. The probability of an accident is extremely small. The probability of that accident affecting populated areas is smaller. The effect would be insignificant barring an explosion at the launch tower; and, that would be contained to the area around the base. If people are going to make the argument against, I wish they would do it with real numbers. If you're going to argue that "it's bad" then show me how bad and show me how that level of "bad" compares to the safety standards...
Actually it was a problem with the update MCE Rollup 2, which you installed concurrently with the WMP 11 package. Re-installing MCE was an unnecessary but effective way of resolving the problem.
Linux doesn't fix everything. I keep a couple of linux boxes around myself for various tasks. My laptop runs Ubuntu. My main work machine, however, happens to be a Windows MCE box because I have to software only available on the Windows platform and make a living (in part) writing code using Visual Studio.
If you read on like the poster suggested (and obviously the poster himself didn't read the articles) you'd find out that
1. This is an old problem
2. This was a driver issue that only affected people who had changed hardware components.
If they were to try this in the US with slogans like "We watch over you for your security" painted on the sides, I'd guess they would last, maybe, a few hours.
Someone would hole the envelope with a rifle.
Of course there would be the obligatory references to "Big Brother" and such. I can hear the rhetoric now...
If we do try to establish a permanent presence, like a "base" on Mars, we will need to do exactly this kind of thing: "ship a backhoe to Mars." Not a backhoe in the traditional sense; but, this kind of equipment will be required to set up the infrastructure and build the first permanent habitations. Not to mention the need for heavy equipment for acquiring raw materials, to begin development of locally available resources. In the first years, you will be far, far from self sustaining and just about everything, including all kinds of equipment and supplies, will need to be shipped to the surface of Mars.
The first trip will be a round trip mission to leave footprints, a few flags, and gather some rocks. They will take everything they need for the duration of the journey.
Any missions to build a permanent presence, will likely have to be proceeded by years of equipment drops at the settlement site, so that when the first people arrive, there are crates and crates of supplies and equipment sitting there, waiting to be opened and used. Going to Mars in any kind of semi-permanent way will be the logistical nightmare of (truly) epic proportions.
And, you're right. It's not a DVR... It's a HD video ipod / remote interface to your entertainment center. There's really not much there that I couldn't do with my desktop, provided I upgraded the video card AND put it in the same room as my TV. However, I won't be too surprised if someone, fairly soon, figures out how to interface one of the usb interfaced tv tuners or video input devices to it. Something like the Hauppauge HVR-950. Then, it can become a full DVR.
Ok, more to the point: I look at this and see more than a DVR. I see a $299 (very) small form factor computer with a Pentium M (per Anandtech), 100base-T ethernet and wi-fi. $299 is dirt cheap and there's a lot you can do with a lowly Pentium M... It doesn't have to run Linux as long as it's installed OS can be modified.
I wonder how many don't want internet connections at home simply because they have access to the internet at work, and their employer has liberal usage policies. My employer is like this -- as long as you keep it legal and clean (no porn, no illegal downloads or p2p file sharing) they have no problems with personal usage. Some people might find it hard to justify spending $$$ per month when they don't need to.
I don't get it... Why do people keep trying to do this!?
Isn't it obvious that once a computer can read our minds, and see how messy it really is up there, they'll have all the they need to justify taking over "to protect us from ourselves"
This is really a non-problem that was worked out in production direct-injection cars over a decades ago. Many modern diesels use electronic direct injection, which, in a modern diesel (>20:1 compression), requires pressures significantly higher.
I was expecting a tour of the accelerator. Not a tour of the visitor center and a film of someone taking pictures of eyewash stations and cooling towers.
Sad really... The interviewers hardly seemed interested in SLAC.
I'll assume you've never been to college and explain it too you.
It's very common for companies to either give software (and hardware) to students for free or offer it at a STEEP discount.
I was given free copies of the Borland developer suite, the Microsoft Basic and Fortran compilers, CAD software, etc. I also picked up a $3500 software package for $149 through the university bookstore. A friend of mine was an Apple hardware beta tester.
The idea behind this is that once a student enters the job market, he/she will take with them the experience and generally a positive opinion of using the product. (Hey, they gave me freebies!). As a result, it is more likely they will either recommend or purchase that product.
It's a marketing system that has been proven to work.
Your thinking of Transmeta. However, modern Intel and AMD x86 processors do this as well by convert x86 instructions into RISC-like micro-ops internally.
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They don't give you a new phone; it's a refurb. Same deal with the iPods.
In my experience there are way too many people who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a soldering iron.
Put down the soldering iron and back away. That's right, back away from the soldering iron.Of course it's too slow. He probably has gigabit in his office, fastest available residential service to his home, dedicated 802.11g or 802.11n wifi access points for any mobile platform he uses, then he has to drop back to sharing an Edge link with rates of 200-300kbps... By comparison it would seem slow as hell. He's not known to be patient.
You mean the moon?
The predictions were based on the computer models. In hindsight, they went back and analyzed the atmospheric data and found that there was a lot of dust in the atmosphere, being carried by the prevailing winds. The dust was coming from the sahara. It appears that the dust had the affect of reducing storm intensity. That's the kind of thing that's hard to account for in a model. Especially when it the variables can change significantly from year to year.
Juno is slated to go into Jupiter orbit. Solar may be useable out to Jupiter. The panels have to increase in size proportional to the distance from the sun squared... The weight increases exponentially. To reach past Jupiter it becomes impossible (practically) to launch that much mass from the ground. If you want 1kW of power at Saturn or maybe the Kuiper belt you have to use nuclear. If Voyager 1 and 2, launched in 1977, were powered by solar, even using these new panels, we would not still be receiving telemetry from it. Voyager 1 is currently is currently 18 times farther from the sun than Jupiter. Voyager 2 is currently 15 times farther from the sun than Jupiter. Both are studying the boundary of our solar system.
Yeah, I suspect much of the advances in solar technology have come out of NASA's budget. This is the kind of area where NASA and DOE spending feeds back obvious results.
I get frustrated as well when people protest launching nuclear powered spacecraft. The probability of an accident is extremely small. The probability of that accident affecting populated areas is smaller. The effect would be insignificant barring an explosion at the launch tower; and, that would be contained to the area around the base. If people are going to make the argument against, I wish they would do it with real numbers. If you're going to argue that "it's bad" then show me how bad and show me how that level of "bad" compares to the safety standards...
I do like this link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:RTG_radiation_we need Gore to run for President. He created the internet; so, I'd expect him to protect it.
Why is it getting warm in here?
Actually it was a problem with the update MCE Rollup 2, which you installed concurrently with the WMP 11 package. Re-installing MCE was an unnecessary but effective way of resolving the problem.
Linux doesn't fix everything. I keep a couple of linux boxes around myself for various tasks. My laptop runs Ubuntu. My main work machine, however, happens to be a Windows MCE box because I have to software only available on the Windows platform and make a living (in part) writing code using Visual Studio.
If you read on like the poster suggested (and obviously the poster himself didn't read the articles) you'd find out that
1. This is an old problem
2. This was a driver issue that only affected people who had changed hardware components.
It's quite a stretch to go from 18mm to geo-sync orbit, isn't it?!
Someone would hole the envelope with a rifle.
Of course there would be the obligatory references to "Big Brother" and such. I can hear the rhetoric now...
wasn't Microsoft in the bidding for DoubleClick as well?
The first trip will be a round trip mission to leave footprints, a few flags, and gather some rocks. They will take everything they need for the duration of the journey.
Any missions to build a permanent presence, will likely have to be proceeded by years of equipment drops at the settlement site, so that when the first people arrive, there are crates and crates of supplies and equipment sitting there, waiting to be opened and used. Going to Mars in any kind of semi-permanent way will be the logistical nightmare of (truly) epic proportions.
And, you're right. It's not a DVR... It's a HD video ipod / remote interface to your entertainment center. There's really not much there that I couldn't do with my desktop, provided I upgraded the video card AND put it in the same room as my TV. However, I won't be too surprised if someone, fairly soon, figures out how to interface one of the usb interfaced tv tuners or video input devices to it. Something like the Hauppauge HVR-950. Then, it can become a full DVR.
Ok, more to the point: I look at this and see more than a DVR. I see a $299 (very) small form factor computer with a Pentium M (per Anandtech), 100base-T ethernet and wi-fi. $299 is dirt cheap and there's a lot you can do with a lowly Pentium M... It doesn't have to run Linux as long as it's installed OS can be modified.
I wonder how many don't want internet connections at home simply because they have access to the internet at work, and their employer has liberal usage policies. My employer is like this -- as long as you keep it legal and clean (no porn, no illegal downloads or p2p file sharing) they have no problems with personal usage. Some people might find it hard to justify spending $$$ per month when they don't need to.
After they formated the drive they did a clean install of the OS over it. That makes it a tad more difficult to recover the data.
I know this is /. but if you'd read the article you would find they tried that. No Joy.
Isn't it obvious that once a computer can read our minds, and see how messy it really is up there, they'll have all the they need to justify taking over "to protect us from ourselves"
I know you're joking; but, just to be clear... No.
This is really a non-problem that was worked out in production direct-injection cars over a decades ago. Many modern diesels use electronic direct injection, which, in a modern diesel (>20:1 compression), requires pressures significantly higher.
if you rtfa, you'd see that Ford is testing it.
I was expecting a tour of the accelerator. Not a tour of the visitor center and a film of someone taking pictures of eyewash stations and cooling towers.
Sad really... The interviewers hardly seemed interested in SLAC.
It's very common for companies to either give software (and hardware) to students for free or offer it at a STEEP discount.
I was given free copies of the Borland developer suite, the Microsoft Basic and Fortran compilers, CAD software, etc. I also picked up a $3500 software package for $149 through the university bookstore. A friend of mine was an Apple hardware beta tester.
The idea behind this is that once a student enters the job market, he/she will take with them the experience and generally a positive opinion of using the product. (Hey, they gave me freebies!). As a result, it is more likely they will either recommend or purchase that product.
It's a marketing system that has been proven to work.
Your thinking of Transmeta. However, modern Intel and AMD x86 processors do this as well by convert x86 instructions into RISC-like micro-ops internally.