Logic Design The original AGC4 was built almost entirely from 1964-era 3-input NOR gate ICs; about 5,000 of them. Original gate-level logic designs are not available.
So they were right - we DID loose the plans for the original Apollo!
Question: What's on the horizon in terms of future interests?
Answer: Well, I think I will spend a large percentage if not all of my main efforts for the rest of my career on manned-space travel. I think we can, if we do it right, be within 20 to 25 years of being able to visit hotels in orbit and many thousands of people being able to afford to do that. I would like to see affordable travel to the moon before I die, so I am starting relatively soon on developments for orbital-space tourism.
Better get that moonship sorted before Fri 13th April 2029, Burt..
(NEWSFLASH - Asteroid 2004 MN4 is now upgraded to Torino risk scale 4 - highest ever score for any asteroid..)
Already? Could that be proof that the RIAA are hiring hackers?:-)
First I will say that I am not interested in downloading the vast bulk of stuff out there - Its way less hassle just to hire the DVD or tape it off TV or whatever.
However I have always found the whole idea that just providing *links* (going right back to Napster) is some sort of criminal or civil offence.
Look at it this way. If you sell ripped off CDs or DVD at a market & get caught, thats a copyright offence - ok.
But if I just say to someone "I know of a guy in such-and-such a place that sells ripped off CDs or DVD " - should just providing that info (or link) an offence? So why just limit the principle to Copyright? Why not *ANY* sort of offence? If you provide a link (for whatever reason, and by this logic maybe even inadvertently) to a place that is engaged in some "illegal" activity, that becomes an offence, right?
Essentially we just end up with a situation of "legislation creep" where the bounds of law expand to such an extent that it is impossible to avoid breaking the law in some trivial way - and you can be arrested on the whim of the authorities.
And have you noticed the ever swelling prison populations (increasingly harvested as cheap/slave labour) around the world - UK, USA, maybe China..
Every time we look at these systems with a new generation of science instruments, there is a re-writing of the text books, and it will take years to untangle what Cassini is telling us now.
Great though Cassini is, I think there is an argument for doing a larger number of smaller missions, using tried-and-tested technology - for example, New Horizons to Pluto is a mere $600 million, vs the $3 billion Cassini costs, and we could have a follow up New Horizons-II mission to Uranus & several KBO's for even less..
Solar? no atmosphere, plenty of power - far better than the hottezst desert on earth.. remember we only need enough to make fuel for one rocket, and O2 to breath, over a longish period..
My problem is with the patent - is this really such an original idea?
What you are *supposed* to do is click on the "yes I want to buy it" button. Then go to the web page and fill in a credit card (any numbers will do), or dig out an old cheque book from your attic..:-)
I think electric hybrids will be the way to go short-term - electric motors for city driving, & some sort of combustion engine (petrol, E85, ethnol, gas, hydrogen..) for longer runs. If you can get a reasonable battery storage in there, you can probably charge from the mains overnight with cheap off peak electricity and do short daily city runs without turning the combustion engine on at all!
There will be a chance also to soak up cheaper off-peak power that renewables like wind generate, as the proportion of that sort of power on the grid goes up..
I would like someone to look at that more closely - there are some well known age-old methods already around for chemically extracting oxygen from oxides & other minerals..
Maybe when we go to the moon, we should leave all the patents on earth!
Simple: D.D.O.S these sites..
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In the long run, its cheaper to make Elecricity/Hydrogen from green renewables (Wind, Solar, Tide etc) than from Nuclear or Oil, because of long-term environmental costs. ie: Off-shore wind power delivers at £0.03/kw/hr, and falling..
If you were part of a human distributed computing grid would the postman occasionally deliver a letter saying "when you have some spare time, what is 645 times 821?"
Excess free H2 would indeed be a killer, as the Hindenburg demonstrated, although I think you mean O3..
Of course there would be lots of other things happening in the cities where O3 was high - other pollutants, stress, and things that make people ill - now if the research factors that out, it might be onto something.
Excess H2 in US cities would be a GOOD thing - if the USA was to commit to widespread usage of Hydrogen power generated from renewables (it probably actually has enough wind/solar resources to make ALL the power it needs, if some niceties like infrastructure are sorted.. see www.awea.org) it would not have a lot of death from O3, or need to fight nasty wars in the middle east.. but then you voted JR Ewing back in, didnt you..
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Logic Design
The original AGC4 was built almost entirely from 1964-era 3-input NOR gate ICs; about
5,000 of them. Original gate-level logic designs are not available.
So they were right - we DID loose the plans for the original Apollo!
Need I say more?
Question: What's on the horizon in terms of future interests?
Answer: Well, I think I will spend a large percentage if not all of my main efforts for the rest of my career on manned-space travel. I think we can, if we do it right, be within 20 to 25 years of being able to visit hotels in orbit and many thousands of people being able to afford to do that. I would like to see affordable travel to the moon before I die, so I am starting relatively soon on developments for orbital-space tourism.
Better get that moonship sorted before Fri 13th April 2029, Burt..
(NEWSFLASH - Asteroid 2004 MN4 is now upgraded to Torino risk scale 4 - highest ever score for any asteroid..)
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news146.html
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/
Wow, now at 1/62! Lets see what happens xmas day..
Glad to here it! If you dont know the quote, google it - its from the "League of Gentlemen"..
Already? Could that be proof that the RIAA are hiring hackers? :-)
First I will say that I am not interested in downloading the vast bulk of stuff out there - Its way less hassle just to hire the DVD or tape it off TV or whatever.
However I have always found the whole idea that just providing *links* (going right back to Napster) is some sort of criminal or civil offence.
Look at it this way. If you sell ripped off CDs or DVD at a market & get caught, thats a copyright offence - ok.
But if I just say to someone "I know of a guy in such-and-such a place that sells ripped off CDs or DVD " - should just providing that info (or link) an offence? So why just limit the principle to Copyright? Why not *ANY* sort of offence? If you provide a link (for whatever reason, and by this logic maybe even inadvertently) to a place that is engaged in some "illegal" activity, that becomes an offence, right?
Essentially we just end up with a situation of "legislation creep" where the bounds of law expand to such an extent that it is impossible to avoid breaking the law in some trivial way - and you can be arrested on the whim of the authorities.
And have you noticed the ever swelling prison populations (increasingly harvested as cheap/slave labour) around the world - UK, USA, maybe China..
Orwell anyone?
"Your bike (XP) has been infected with the bikesky virus. All your spokes are belong to us!! Bwhahahaha!"
Oh, and can it run li..
In Chernobyl, around 1986..
(insert oblig "In Soviet Russia" joke here..)
Just post the secret text up on the online version of NYT.. No one will read it there..
Any thoughts?
I would guess the issue is the type of mission - NH is a fly-by, which is not sufficient time to do much with an apature radar..
The cheap $100 mil SMART-1 mission does have a tiny radar, but it needs many polar-orbits to build up the picture..
So I guess the cheap option to the $10 bil JIMO mission, the under $1 bil europa orbiter, could have a radar, if they wanted..
We need more missions to the gas giants..
Every time we look at these systems with a new generation of science instruments, there is a re-writing of the text books, and it will take years to untangle what Cassini is telling us now.
Great though Cassini is, I think there is an argument for doing a larger number of smaller missions, using tried-and-tested technology - for example, New Horizons to Pluto is a mere $600 million, vs the $3 billion Cassini costs, and we could have a follow up New Horizons-II mission to Uranus & several KBO's for even less..
Plausible Deniability From Rockstar Cryptographers
Yeh, because we need a cryptographer to understand what mick jagger says these days..
Solar? no atmosphere, plenty of power - far better than the hottezst desert on earth.. remember we only need enough to make fuel for one rocket, and O2 to breath, over a longish period..
My problem is with the patent - is this really such an original idea?
When you recieve spam, do not click to remove..
:-)
What you are *supposed* to do is click on the "yes I want to buy it" button. Then go to the web page and fill in a credit card (any numbers will do), or dig out an old cheque book from your attic..
I think electric hybrids will be the way to go short-term - electric motors for city driving, & some sort of combustion engine (petrol, E85, ethnol, gas, hydrogen..) for longer runs. If you can get a reasonable battery storage in there, you can probably charge from the mains overnight with cheap off peak electricity and do short daily city runs without turning the combustion engine on at all!
There will be a chance also to soak up cheaper off-peak power that renewables like wind generate, as the proportion of that sort of power on the grid goes up..
I would like someone to look at that more closely - there are some well known age-old methods already around for chemically extracting oxygen from oxides & other minerals..
Maybe when we go to the moon, we should leave all the patents on earth!
Is it that simple?
..Possibly the best game in the history of computing, ever.. for the Vic-20..
..in my bedroom. It has stopped, and shows *exactly* the right time twice a day.
This "accurate" clock you describe is only exactly right every few billion years..
you are in a red rocky landscape..
GO NORTH..
you are in a red rocky landscape..
DIG.
ok. you see some red sand.
it is getting dark.
GO NORTH..
you were eaten by a grue.
In the long run, its cheaper to make Elecricity/Hydrogen from green renewables (Wind, Solar, Tide etc) than from Nuclear or Oil, because of long-term environmental costs. ie: Off-shore wind power delivers at £0.03/kw/hr, and falling..
Wake up america!
I had to read that twice..
If you were part of a human distributed computing grid would the postman occasionally deliver a letter saying "when you have some spare time, what is 645 times 821?"
Excess free H2 would indeed be a killer, as the Hindenburg demonstrated, although I think you mean O3..
Of course there would be lots of other things happening in the cities where O3 was high - other pollutants, stress, and things that make people ill - now if the research factors that out, it might be onto something.
Excess H2 in US cities would be a GOOD thing - if the USA was to commit to widespread usage of Hydrogen power generated from renewables (it probably actually has enough wind/solar resources to make ALL the power it needs, if some niceties like infrastructure are sorted.. see www.awea.org) it would not have a lot of death from O3, or need to fight nasty wars in the middle east.. but then you voted JR Ewing back in, didnt you..
See also "The case against Hubble"..
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/hubble-04p.html