You can do just that. You can add music through iTunes if you want it to show up in the iPod menu system on the actual device with drag and drop through Windows. No problem.
You can also use the device as a standard fireware/USB removable HDD. Drag & drop file transfer in Windows, without iTunes even installed. No problem.
The 'problem' is that the MP3 files put on the device through iTunes are renamed, and put into special directories. You can copy these back to your HDD all you want, No problem. Except for the fact that the filenames were changed. That's the only gotcha. Not a very big one, if you ask me, and this application apparently renames the files back again.
Best of luck trying to get rid of the heat. Remember, convection won't work, only radiation. Silly, convection couldn't work because there is no real "up" in space. You know? Heat rises? I therefore propose the use of fans...
These comments are touching on several different concepts.
1. Within an the artificial atrmosphere of a pressurized orbiting vehicle, stand-alone convection doesn't help to cool the heat source. (Heat not rising and all) Fans are employed heavily to keep the air moving away from the heat source. Laptops and other computers on board have these problems solved quite well due to the fans.
2. Radiation: Radiation doesn't work any differently in space than on the ground. Hot objects emit heat. Convection is the method of moving the heat away from the radiating object. Objects radiating heat simply create a ball of heat surrounding the radiating object. (candle flames are spherical)
3. Radiation in the vacuum of space: This works quite well. Space is so damn cold (-157 C), radiators are employed heavily in spacecraft to dissipate heat. The International Space Station uses massive radiators (using a system of heat exchangers, amonia/water loops, 17,000-rpm impellers, etc..) to release the heat as infrared radiation.
The Space Shuttle Orbiters use massive radiators along the length of the payload bay. That's why you never see the orbiter with the doors closed during nominal operations. If they can't get the doors open upon reaching orbit, they've got to come right back, because they can't vent their heat.
So... If you put your CPU outside and it could survive the -157C temperature, it wouldn't need fans for cooling. Inside, you'd need all sorts of equipment to get the heat away from the CPU, and outside your environment.
As for the efficiency of fans in microgravity, I've not seen any data indicating positive or negative effects.
Not all the people ever involved in the rover project are going to be occupied with this problem right now. Some engineer who calculated the orbital insertion trajectory isn't going to have a thing to do with the wheel problem, and might be at his desk right now, eating his lunch, and reading/.
You never know.
And you don't expect that they all work 24X7? They have lives too...
Not only are orders modified, but entire plot devices as well.
For instance, there's multiple ways the group gets to The Restaurant, and when they actually go there.
The planet the Restaurant is located on also varies. (Indeterminate numbers in the Bistromathic matrix perhaps, or maybe the Restaurant's location is non-contiguous on the Probability axis.)
The nature of the Black Ship from The Restaurant also varies.
After reading all the books (again, for the 42nd time) and hearing the radio series (back to back in the past 3 weeks), it seems that the missing bits from the movie (based on The Review) are the same missing bits from the Radio series. Some of the really funny bits (The Joo-Janta 2000 Peril Sensitive Sunglasses spring to mind) weren't in the Radio, but were in the book and TV series. I can still listen to the radio series and find them to be a perfectly wonderful version of the story. If the Movie favors the Radio series more than the TV/Books, I can accept and live with (and possibly even enjoy) that.
Regardless of how much changes, my favorite bit has always been the bit with Prosser. The book version with visions of warriors is awesome. The TV version with Ford convincing Prosser to lie in the mud is hysterical (much funnier than when Arthur does it in the radio series. Arthur just doesn't seem that smart.) "In, as you said, the mud." Cracks me up every time.
I just wish Marvin's voice had some mechanical undertones to it. Just hearing Rickman's voice in the trailer just sounds like Rickman being depressed. He just doesn't sound like a robot. Marvin's voice in the TV series and Radio series combined the voice with some robot-ish sound effects.
Maybe they've done this in the acutal film. The few times I've actually heard his voice in the trailers seemed like they were tacked on at the last minute...
There's actually something of this around already. Some of the stations crew logs are available for public viewing on the web. These are pretty interesting accounts of the daily life of an on-orbit station crew.
Here's a link to Expedition 1's (the first crew of ISS) page, with a link there for the Ship's Logs. Not all the Expeditions have one, but some do. Some are rather interesting. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp1/
Meanwhile, the life of an astronaut prior to flight is training, training, training, and more training. Post flight is debrief, debrief, debrief, and more debriefs.
It's true, they do have the NASA channel, but it's boring as hell. I love space, and even I can't watch it for very long. Half the air time is 'out the window views', which is more of a TV screen saver than an actual program.
I'd really like to see them hire a professional Hollywood TV company to produce their material. Make it more interesting, more engaging, and more accessable to Joe Public. Some people still think MIR is in orbit. My grandmother thinks the shuttle goes to the moon, other people think we've never been there.
They have a long way to making the public aware of what they're doing, what they're actually there for, and some of their accomplishments, other than the high publicity milestone events.
"Beginning in March, the Mint will launch a six-month nationwide television, radio, print, transit and Internet advertising campaign to promote public and business-sector awareness and use of the Golden Dollar."
Anyway...
If the US Mint can spend money saying "Hey look, we came up with another coin! Ummm, support our money?", then NASA really should spend money to say "Hey look, we invented pacemakers, and a ton of other amazingly important inventions! Support our funding so we can make more world changing technologies!"...
If more people knew just how many of the 'essential' technologies they use on a daily basis came from NASA, they'd have a lot more support from the general public. Unfortunately, since advertising isn't rocket science...
That 7,500 was probably their entire PR budget for the year.
Their PR budget is abysmally low, and they usually don't know how to best use it.
When was the last time you saw a TV commercial about NASA? It's not that US government departments don't get PR budgets, it's that NASA isn't usually very effective with theirs. I can still remember when the US Mint was advertising the gold dollar coins... Lots of the public service ads on TV are paid for by various governmental agencies via some public organization...
Personally, I'm glad to see them finally do something creative with their budget.
On board the International Space Station, they run programs checking for bit flips. Single Event Upsets happen occasionally, but it's difficult to tell if they're associated with actual hardware failures or just if they're just coincidental.
They have 2 networks of IMS A-31P laptops for Command & Control of the station (PCS) and another network for situation awareness, procedure viewing, inventory tracking, Office tools (Word, email, etc...) and a few other uses. They're not completely COTS laptops - they've been modified somewhat for radiation and cooling purposes (convection cooling doesn't work in microgravity) but they're pretty close to what you'd buy on Earth.
The printers, on the other hand, have some really cool attachments for the paper input & output trays to keep the paper from floating off... but that's another topic.
"examine" and "medicine" were the toughest words for me to learn to spell, yet they were fairly important in Planetfall. (Examine being important in most all Infocom games.
I think it's due to the rigid parsing structure and spelling constraints that my grammar skills are what they are today.
I blame the click-fest games and minimal typing interfaces on the current 'how r u?' and 'c u l8r' epidemic.
I appreciate the quality levels in the ongoing 'Myst' games, but the engrossing _story_ just isn't there. Infocom games permanently set the bar for immersive storylines. I can still remember the plot behind most of the Infocom games I played, but most of the other hundreds of games I've ever played were just 'go kill the head bad guy, and a number of his subordinates along the way.' Boring......
They included the setup, but not the punchline.
If they're not going to go with the extra 30 seconds it would have taken to do it properly, they shouldn't have done it at all...
Leave out that bit and use that time to actually complete other bits, rather than do more bits halfway.
Where have you seen anything even remotely resembling elements from Mostly Harmless or So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish?
The Total Perspective Vortex & Zarniwhoop scenes (Which have thusfar been completely hidden in any advance screenings of the film) should be very good.
How about the entire Krikit plot? You know, the entire plot of Life, The Universe, and Everything? I'd love to see where that fits in. Perhaps that's where Malkovichcomes in.
When they get to the bits involving So Long..., who plays Fenchurch?
Who plays Random from Mostly Harmless?
I can't wait to see Old Thrashbarg gesturing wildly at Pika Birds before the Perfectly Normal Beasts arrive!
The fact that these scenes haven't even been filmed yet is just a minor detail that will be remedied later once the film editors discover time travel.
Once that's done, your post will actually become accurate! Hurrah!
They have been making tweaks as they go. Columbia, the first orbiter, had several design elements that the other orbiters don't have. (Look at pictures of the tail in comparison with the other orbiters for a quick example)
All the orbiters are different weights, for another example. As they went, they designed better technologies to acomplish the same goal.
They've been doing avionics upgrades (as discussed above), and had many, many major design changes planned. Some orbiters have heat resistant blankets instead of tiles to reduce weight and complexity.
Each orbiter was slightly tweaked to perform certain functions. Due to the station's orbit, any orbiter that was to go to the station had to be modified for weight requirements just to get there.
My personal favorite were the Flyback Boosters. Modified solid rocket boosters designed to fly back to KSC and land like a plane to eliminate refurbishing them after fetching them out of the ocean.
Unfortunately, NASA's budget isn't something they can plan for over a long term period. They have to fight for every penny from congress, and are subject to the President's whims. When Bush took office, one of his first acts was to scrap two elements of the International Space Station. How can you plan and budget effectively with things like that happening?
Some of NASA's budget is also diverted over to the 'Save the Russian Space Program' fund. A presidental mandate ensured that we'd be employing Russian rocket scientists so they wouldn't end up going to work for some other country and designing missiles or other weapons.
Other major SSTO (Single Stage To Orbit) designs have been developed (X-33, Delta Clipper) only to be nixed by Congress.
NASA does contract out a great deal of the STS processing; United Space Alliance handles a major portion of Shuttle & Station aspects.
NASA also cannot sell anything. Their charter prevents them from profiting from their research. If NASA could sell some of their technologies (Velcro, Microwaves, UV Sunglasses, Pacemakers, etc...) they'd be amazingly rich. Unfortunately, they have to give it all away.
Personally, I hope NASA will someday be split into a research organization and an exploration organization. It's trying to do both, and its budget can't really sustain it.
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I'm still in shock that a home computer can be used for anything other than a World of Warcraft terminal.
I clicked the link in the first post, and got a picture of a very flexable man performing acts upon himself which were exactly unlike electronic card games.
Is there some kind of FAQ or something I can print out, form into a cup, and vomit into after seeing that image?
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I thought the case wasn't so much about the posting of the pictures, but the fact they weren't removed at her request.
They'll give dead people's email to families, but won't take down nude photos at the subject's request? That's odd.
You can do just that.
You can add music through iTunes if you want it to show up in the iPod menu system on the actual device with drag and drop through Windows. No problem.
You can also use the device as a standard fireware/USB removable HDD. Drag & drop file transfer in Windows, without iTunes even installed. No problem.
The 'problem' is that the MP3 files put on the device through iTunes are renamed, and put into special directories.
You can copy these back to your HDD all you want, No problem. Except for the fact that the filenames were changed. That's the only gotcha.
Not a very big one, if you ask me, and this application apparently renames the files back again.
Perhaps if they used these things to spawn-camp the commission's members, and take 'em all out, this wouldn't be an issue anymore.
But then, you know there'd be whiners going on about camping, and the use of aim bots...
What about horroscopes?
What does it mean when Earth is rising in Jupiter while you're on Mars?
Silly, convection couldn't work because there is no real "up" in space. You know? Heat rises? I therefore propose the use of fans...
These comments are touching on several different concepts.
1. Within an the artificial atrmosphere of a pressurized orbiting vehicle, stand-alone convection doesn't help to cool the heat source. (Heat not rising and all) Fans are employed heavily to keep the air moving away from the heat source. Laptops and other computers on board have these problems solved quite well due to the fans.
2. Radiation: Radiation doesn't work any differently in space than on the ground. Hot objects emit heat. Convection is the method of moving the heat away from the radiating object. Objects radiating heat simply create a ball of heat surrounding the radiating object. (candle flames are spherical)
3. Radiation in the vacuum of space: This works quite well. Space is so damn cold (-157 C), radiators are employed heavily in spacecraft to dissipate heat. The International Space Station uses massive radiators (using a system of heat exchangers, amonia/water loops, 17,000-rpm impellers, etc..) to release the heat as infrared radiation.
The Space Shuttle Orbiters use massive radiators along the length of the payload bay. That's why you never see the orbiter with the doors closed during nominal operations. If they can't get the doors open upon reaching orbit, they've got to come right back, because they can't vent their heat.
So... If you put your CPU outside and it could survive the -157C temperature, it wouldn't need fans for cooling.
Inside, you'd need all sorts of equipment to get the heat away from the CPU, and outside your environment.
As for the efficiency of fans in microgravity, I've not seen any data indicating positive or negative effects.
Not all the people ever involved in the rover project are going to be occupied with this problem right now. /.
Some engineer who calculated the orbital insertion trajectory isn't going to have a thing to do with the wheel problem, and might be at his desk right now, eating his lunch, and reading
You never know.
And you don't expect that they all work 24X7?
They have lives too...
Not only are orders modified, but entire plot devices as well.
For instance, there's multiple ways the group gets to The Restaurant, and when they actually go there.
The planet the Restaurant is located on also varies. (Indeterminate numbers in the Bistromathic matrix perhaps, or maybe the Restaurant's location is non-contiguous on the Probability axis.)
The nature of the Black Ship from The Restaurant also varies.
After reading all the books (again, for the 42nd time) and hearing the radio series (back to back in the past 3 weeks), it seems that the missing bits from the movie (based on The Review) are the same missing bits from the Radio series. Some of the really funny bits (The Joo-Janta 2000 Peril Sensitive Sunglasses spring to mind) weren't in the Radio, but were in the book and TV series. I can still listen to the radio series and find them to be a perfectly wonderful version of the story. If the Movie favors the Radio series more than the TV/Books, I can accept and live with (and possibly even enjoy) that.
Regardless of how much changes, my favorite bit has always been the bit with Prosser. The book version with visions of warriors is awesome. The TV version with Ford convincing Prosser to lie in the mud is hysterical (much funnier than when Arthur does it in the radio series. Arthur just doesn't seem that smart.) "In, as you said, the mud." Cracks me up every time.
I just wish Marvin's voice had some mechanical undertones to it. Just hearing Rickman's voice in the trailer just sounds like Rickman being depressed.
He just doesn't sound like a robot.
Marvin's voice in the TV series and Radio series combined the voice with some robot-ish sound effects.
Maybe they've done this in the acutal film. The few times I've actually heard his voice in the trailers seemed like they were tacked on at the last minute...
"Share and Enjoy!"
Sounds right.
He is a prototype, after all.
I'd like to see him with one leg replaced with a peg. I can't picture it at all with the movie incarnation...
There's actually something of this around already.
Some of the stations crew logs are available for public viewing on the web.
These are pretty interesting accounts of the daily life of an on-orbit station crew.
Here's a link to Expedition 1's (the first crew of ISS) page, with a link there for the Ship's Logs. Not all the Expeditions have one, but some do.
Some are rather interesting.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp1/
Meanwhile, the life of an astronaut prior to flight is training, training, training, and more training. Post flight is debrief, debrief, debrief, and more debriefs.
Yep. I figured that's what you thought I meant.
It's true, they do have the NASA channel, but it's boring as hell. I love space, and even I can't watch it for very long. Half the air time is 'out the window views', which is more of a TV screen saver than an actual program.
I'd really like to see them hire a professional Hollywood TV company to produce their material. Make it more interesting, more engaging, and more accessable to Joe Public.
Some people still think MIR is in orbit. My grandmother thinks the shuttle goes to the moon, other people think we've never been there.
They have a long way to making the public aware of what they're doing, what they're actually there for, and some of their accomplishments, other than the high publicity milestone events.
http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/golden_dollar_ coin/index.cfm?action=Pr8
"Beginning in March, the Mint will launch a six-month nationwide television, radio, print, transit and Internet advertising campaign to promote public and business-sector awareness and use of the Golden Dollar."
Anyway...
If the US Mint can spend money saying "Hey look, we came up with another coin! Ummm, support our money?", then NASA really should spend money to say "Hey look, we invented pacemakers, and a ton of other amazingly important inventions! Support our funding so we can make more world changing technologies!"...
If more people knew just how many of the 'essential' technologies they use on a daily basis came from NASA, they'd have a lot more support from the general public.
Unfortunately, since advertising isn't rocket science...
That 7,500 was probably their entire PR budget for the year.
Their PR budget is abysmally low, and they usually don't know how to best use it.
When was the last time you saw a TV commercial about NASA?
It's not that US government departments don't get PR budgets, it's that NASA isn't usually very effective with theirs.
I can still remember when the US Mint was advertising the gold dollar coins... Lots of the public service ads on TV are paid for by various governmental agencies via some public organization...
Personally, I'm glad to see them finally do something creative with their budget.
But you've got to give them props for dunking one of them in a glass of water...
On board the International Space Station, they run programs checking for bit flips.
Single Event Upsets happen occasionally, but it's difficult to tell if they're associated with actual hardware failures or just if they're just coincidental.
They have 2 networks of IMS A-31P laptops for Command & Control of the station (PCS) and another network for situation awareness, procedure viewing, inventory tracking, Office tools (Word, email, etc...) and a few other uses.
They're not completely COTS laptops - they've been modified somewhat for radiation and cooling purposes (convection cooling doesn't work in microgravity) but they're pretty close to what you'd buy on Earth.
The printers, on the other hand, have some really cool attachments for the paper input & output trays to keep the paper from floating off... but that's another topic.
"examine" and "medicine" were the toughest words for me to learn to spell, yet they were fairly important in Planetfall. (Examine being important in most all Infocom games.
I think it's due to the rigid parsing structure and spelling constraints that my grammar skills are what they are today.
I blame the click-fest games and minimal typing interfaces on the current 'how r u?' and 'c u l8r' epidemic.
I appreciate the quality levels in the ongoing 'Myst' games, but the engrossing _story_ just isn't there. Infocom games permanently set the bar for immersive storylines.
I can still remember the plot behind most of the Infocom games I played, but most of the other hundreds of games I've ever played were just 'go kill the head bad guy, and a number of his subordinates along the way.' Boring......
He wrote you back? That rules!
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I loved (and still do) all those old Infocom games when I was a kid...
Planetfall taught me how to type.
Bureaucracy taught me how to swear.
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?name=Bureau
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They included the setup, but not the punchline. If they're not going to go with the extra 30 seconds it would have taken to do it properly, they shouldn't have done it at all... Leave out that bit and use that time to actually complete other bits, rather than do more bits halfway.
Where have you seen anything even remotely resembling elements from Mostly Harmless or So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish?
The Total Perspective Vortex & Zarniwhoop scenes (Which have thusfar been completely hidden in any advance screenings of the film) should be very good.
How about the entire Krikit plot? You know, the entire plot of Life, The Universe, and Everything? I'd love to see where that fits in. Perhaps that's where Malkovichcomes in.
When they get to the bits involving So Long..., who plays Fenchurch?
Who plays Random from Mostly Harmless?
I can't wait to see Old Thrashbarg gesturing wildly at Pika Birds before the Perfectly Normal Beasts arrive!
The fact that these scenes haven't even been filmed yet is just a minor detail that will be remedied later once the film editors discover time travel.
Once that's done, your post will actually become accurate! Hurrah!
They have been making tweaks as they go. Columbia, the first orbiter, had several design elements that the other orbiters don't have. (Look at pictures of the tail in comparison with the other orbiters for a quick example)
All the orbiters are different weights, for another example. As they went, they designed better technologies to acomplish the same goal.
They've been doing avionics upgrades (as discussed above), and had many, many major design changes planned.
Some orbiters have heat resistant blankets instead of tiles to reduce weight and complexity.
Each orbiter was slightly tweaked to perform certain functions.
Due to the station's orbit, any orbiter that was to go to the station had to be modified for weight requirements just to get there.
My personal favorite were the Flyback Boosters. Modified solid rocket boosters designed to fly back to KSC and land like a plane to eliminate refurbishing them after fetching them out of the ocean.
Unfortunately, NASA's budget isn't something they can plan for over a long term period. They have to fight for every penny from congress, and are subject to the President's whims.
When Bush took office, one of his first acts was to scrap two elements of the International Space Station.
How can you plan and budget effectively with things like that happening?
Some of NASA's budget is also diverted over to the 'Save the Russian Space Program' fund. A presidental mandate ensured that we'd be employing Russian rocket scientists so they wouldn't end up going to work for some other country and designing missiles or other weapons.
Other major SSTO (Single Stage To Orbit) designs have been developed (X-33, Delta Clipper) only to be nixed by Congress.
NASA does contract out a great deal of the STS processing; United Space Alliance handles a major portion of Shuttle & Station aspects.
NASA also cannot sell anything. Their charter prevents them from profiting from their research. If NASA could sell some of their technologies (Velcro, Microwaves, UV Sunglasses, Pacemakers, etc...) they'd be amazingly rich.
Unfortunately, they have to give it all away.
Personally, I hope NASA will someday be split into a research organization and an exploration organization. It's trying to do both, and its budget can't really sustain it.
I'm still in shock that a home computer can be used for anything other than a World of Warcraft terminal.
I don't get it either...
I clicked the link in the first post, and got a picture of a very flexable man performing acts upon himself which were exactly unlike electronic card games.
Is there some kind of FAQ or something I can print out, form into a cup, and vomit into after seeing that image?
Maybe not. But good idea...
Unfortunately, making an SEP truly IS Somebody Else's Problem, thus rendering the plans to the field itself invisible.