With all the money that goes into sending the spacecraft up, getting the robot out, having him do whatever, then having him either blow up or come down burning, wouldn't it just be easier to make a new one, add in a robotic arm or two so it can do self-repairs, and send that up?
Why did that get posted anonymously? I set it to No Karma Bonus, not anon. Anyway, color bars are your friend, use them, trust them, and when they're wrong, they're right until you try matching them up with bars from another source.
Calibrating a CRT-based monitor isn't too hard. All you need is a monitor that has the same inputs as your source has outputs AND manual controls [brightness, contrast, phase/hue, color/saturation], a way to generate color bars (SMPTE or EIA are best, but anything with the bars and PLUGE will work) an eye (or two).
I do agree with this, but for the 3d design community [for movies and otherwise], this would be a great way to show models being worked on to an art director on the road without sending him/her a 3d model and requiring him/her to render, or sending a batch of renders.
The amplifying vacuum was created in 1913, and used almost immediately.
Yes, the CRT was INVENTED before, but it was DEVELOPED into what we now know as CRTs by Philo T. Farnsworth's development of all-electric television (1927) and Vladimir Kosma Zworykin's kinescope (1929).
AT&T's amplifying vacuum is the reason that radios work/worked as long range as they do/did. It is the reason that ship-to-shore communications worked. It is a large part of the start of broadcast media. It happened before TVs, the CRT is a special tube and was developed MUCH later. Without amplifying vacuums driving radio, there wouldn't have been as big of a 'drive' for TV.
Actually, most likely, tech support. Think about it. If I, as a major corporation, give joe-schmo a copy of an open source app I made to, lets say, track finances, and he starts using it, its doing what he needs, and its tax time, and all of a sudden it stops working, and I don't provide free tech support and he NEEDS it to work, don't you think I'll make a little money (assuming joe-schmo doesn't read code)?
Even my Inspiron 5150 [and its predecessor, the Inspiron 5100 which I had] is completely 'linux friendly' with the exception of the wireless card (broadcom chipset), which can work under linux using ndiswrapper (tested on the 5150 with Fedora Core 2), and many people are working on native drivers for (this chipset seems [to me] to be one of the most used in OEM products).
Dell does ship systems running Red Hat Linux, they used to list a lot of the systems on their business-oriented site/sections with an OS option of Red Hat Linux, but this seems to have decayed, so you may need to call them to get one.
Well, does this mean that the AOL unit of Time Warner is splitting into 4, or that AOL/Time Warner as a whole will split into 4?? If the latter, then one of the parts should cease to suck [as much] because it would be Time Warner alone.
-- The best thing about buying a Mac -- AOL is not included.
I have heard of this happening so many times...
So should expect to see less 'AOL Broadband Service' bills showing up at friend's houses who (1) never had AOL, (2) aren't even in a market where they offer direct broadband service, and (3) have complained to AOL multiple times; or will these keep coming??
I personally think that this won't stop these 'erroneus' billings. What does anyone else think?
-- The best thing about buying a Mac -- AOL is not included.
Yes, but magnetic medium physically falls apart after large ammounts of use or being stored in an improper environment. It is usually very hard to keep magnetic media properly. Even CD and DVD based writable media does not keep as well as replicated media due to the chemicals in it. Also, most sticker-type labels contain chemicals that will weaken the CD/DVD based media even more. BTW, I have about 3 copies of that on 4 disks each, and only one of them works properly.
I typed this just as I went to class, I saw the/. article just before I closed my pc (notebook) and wanted to read it, but I did not have the time. As it was, I was 2 minutes late for class.
-- Some of us have lives off the internet. The rest of us just pretend
1) The NYTimes article link requires a login.
2) I don't have the time to sign up
3) Most of us have known of digital decay for a long time. It was blatently apparent with magnetic medium [as dropout has be known to occur in every magnetic medium over the years)
With all these new patent laws, I'm surprised no one has the patent for teleportation. Everything else that absolutely everyone has had an idea of/about is being patented now, why not teleportation or phase changing solid matter.
-- All this and more through Gene Splicing, Roddenberry or otherwise
1) That made no sense, and doesn't really matter
2) Not for at least 4 generations back
3) You still cannot cause a slashdot effect on the whole universe.
I actually have a copy of an old application that does many things like this (for Windows - 3.x and earlier), called HP Dashboard [by none other than Hewlett-Packard]. From what I've read, Borland was planning to purchase it at one point.
Some other Info:
[URL:http://www.wohl.com/g0040.htm]
Duct tape is (like) the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it binds the universe together.
Anyway, how are you going to cause a slashdot effect to the universe? Telescopes/cameras/computers don't tend to shut down planets (or other celestial bodies).
Slashdot Mirror
Thats why it has 2, one to repair the other if it dies.
With all the money that goes into sending the spacecraft up, getting the robot out, having him do whatever, then having him either blow up or come down burning, wouldn't it just be easier to make a new one, add in a robotic arm or two so it can do self-repairs, and send that up?
Why did that get posted anonymously? I set it to No Karma Bonus, not anon. Anyway, color bars are your friend, use them, trust them, and when they're wrong, they're right until you try matching them up with bars from another source.
Calibrating a CRT-based monitor isn't too hard. All you need is a monitor that has the same inputs as your source has outputs AND manual controls [brightness, contrast, phase/hue, color/saturation], a way to generate color bars (SMPTE or EIA are best, but anything with the bars and PLUGE will work) an eye (or two).
I do agree with this, but for the 3d design community [for movies and otherwise], this would be a great way to show models being worked on to an art director on the road without sending him/her a 3d model and requiring him/her to render, or sending a batch of renders.
The amplifying vacuum was created in 1913, and used almost immediately. Yes, the CRT was INVENTED before, but it was DEVELOPED into what we now know as CRTs by Philo T. Farnsworth's development of all-electric television (1927) and Vladimir Kosma Zworykin's kinescope (1929).
Its possible, but it wasn't really done, normally they would just transmit ship-to-ship-to-ship-to-ship-to-shore before the amplifying vacuum
AT&T's amplifying vacuum is the reason that radios work/worked as long range as they do/did. It is the reason that ship-to-shore communications worked. It is a large part of the start of broadcast media. It happened before TVs, the CRT is a special tube and was developed MUCH later. Without amplifying vacuums driving radio, there wouldn't have been as big of a 'drive' for TV.
Thats what Microsoft has been doing for years, it works for them.
Actually, most likely, tech support. Think about it. If I, as a major corporation, give joe-schmo a copy of an open source app I made to, lets say, track finances, and he starts using it, its doing what he needs, and its tax time, and all of a sudden it stops working, and I don't provide free tech support and he NEEDS it to work, don't you think I'll make a little money (assuming joe-schmo doesn't read code)?
Hey, alot of companies do this. All they do that isn't stated here is throw 100 times as many ads at you.
Even my Inspiron 5150 [and its predecessor, the Inspiron 5100 which I had] is completely 'linux friendly' with the exception of the wireless card (broadcom chipset), which can work under linux using ndiswrapper (tested on the 5150 with Fedora Core 2), and many people are working on native drivers for (this chipset seems [to me] to be one of the most used in OEM products).
The one I have uses the standard Windows XP installer, just slightly modified.
Dell does ship systems running Red Hat Linux, they used to list a lot of the systems on their business-oriented site/sections with an OS option of Red Hat Linux, but this seems to have decayed, so you may need to call them to get one.
The Precision-n series workstations ship with Red Hat® Enterprise Linux WS
Dell and Red Hat have even 'joined forces'
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Well, does this mean that the AOL unit of Time Warner is splitting into 4, or that AOL/Time Warner as a whole will split into 4?? If the latter, then one of the parts should cease to suck [as much] because it would be Time Warner alone.
--
The best thing about buying a Mac -- AOL is not included.
I have heard of this happening so many times...
So should expect to see less 'AOL Broadband Service' bills showing up at friend's houses who (1) never had AOL, (2) aren't even in a market where they offer direct broadband service, and (3) have complained to AOL multiple times; or will these keep coming??
I personally think that this won't stop these 'erroneus' billings. What does anyone else think?
--
The best thing about buying a Mac -- AOL is not included.
Yes, but magnetic medium physically falls apart after large ammounts of use or being stored in an improper environment. It is usually very hard to keep magnetic media properly. Even CD and DVD based writable media does not keep as well as replicated media due to the chemicals in it. Also, most sticker-type labels contain chemicals that will weaken the CD/DVD based media even more.
BTW, I have about 3 copies of that on 4 disks each, and only one of them works properly.
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Amiga Forever! Apple II for almost as long!
I typed this just as I went to class, I saw the /. article just before I closed my pc (notebook) and wanted to read it, but I did not have the time. As it was, I was 2 minutes late for class.
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Some of us have lives off the internet. The rest of us just pretend
Server's running fine. They must have switched it to the X-Box cluster.
1) The NYTimes article link requires a login. 2) I don't have the time to sign up 3) Most of us have known of digital decay for a long time. It was blatently apparent with magnetic medium [as dropout has be known to occur in every magnetic medium over the years)
With all these new patent laws, I'm surprised no one has the patent for teleportation. Everything else that absolutely everyone has had an idea of/about is being patented now, why not teleportation or phase changing solid matter.
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All this and more through Gene Splicing, Roddenberry or otherwise
1) That made no sense, and doesn't really matter 2) Not for at least 4 generations back 3) You still cannot cause a slashdot effect on the whole universe.
I actually have a copy of an old application that does many things like this (for Windows - 3.x and earlier), called HP Dashboard [by none other than Hewlett-Packard]. From what I've read, Borland was planning to purchase it at one point.
Some other Info:
[URL:http://www.wohl.com/g0040.htm]
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My Amiga GUI doesn't even need a dashboard.
Also, http://www.spaceweather.com/ should have some pictures (it has some already).
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In case of slashdot effect, please break braces, read comment.
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Duct tape is (like) the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it binds the universe together.
Anyway, how are you going to cause a slashdot effect to the universe? Telescopes/cameras/computers don't tend to shut down planets (or other celestial bodies).
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