Forget the Buran orbiter, its wouldn't be worth the trouble. Energia can boost any payload, including the Space Shuttle orbiter. The orbiter would actually be too light; Energia was meant for much heavier payloads. The orbiter's engines would be of no use, though, since Energia has its own.
The insulation is there mostly to prevent ice buildup, not to keep the fuel cold. Ice buildup is not a problem for rockets that have payload at the top, since the ice would just fall away at launch. For the shuttle they thought, a piece of foam insulation impacting the orbiter is much better than a slab of ice.
The Soviets tried a spaceplane (Buran), heavily copied from the U.S. Shuttle, and quickly decided it was too expensive to operate.
The whole Soviet economy happened to be falling apart at the time, that's why the Buran was too expensive for them to operate, at the time. The Buran only looks like it's been copied from the space shuttle, i.e. it's only similar aerodynamically. But otherwise it's a very different system.
The biggest difference - the engines are expendable, mounted on the booster, and not on the orbiter. One big advantage of this is that the booster could be readily used to lift other payloads than the Buran orbiter. As it has been, and will be.
Honestly, I don't know. The 98 was implemented basically as a DOS extender with the Windows GUI apps all running in one VM, and DOS boxes each in its own VM. KRML386.EXE was the thing that started the Windows GUI. The design was rather symmetrical, so you could just replace it with pretty much any other DOS or DPMI-extended program (DPMI=DOS Protected Memory Interface, the API for the DOS extender beneath Windows).
Basically it had similar effect to replacing init with sh on your friendly *NIX box, which is a useful trick that has its own merits:-).
In case of Windows 98 the most useful thing you got by running COMMAND.COM like this was logn file names without need to start the bulky and unscriptable GUI. I've built a custom image replicator this way that was used for loading hard drive images into embedded 98 boxes (yeah, I know:-)) on the production line. The other option was to use linux, but I wasn't quite sure how to do a "SYS C:" from linux, and the capitalization on the filenames was getting all screwed up (back then VFAT module was still somewhat "new").
NT (including 2000 and XP) has a completely different architecture. I figure, you'd want to replace something like WINLOGON.EXE, or whatever the closest equivalent of init there is on Windows. I'm sure there are people here who are a lot more knowledgable about how WinNT starts.
I still think 'talk' was a much more interactive experience.
Still is. Which is why I still use talk a lot more than any IM. It just saves a lot of time, if you can guess what the other person is typing and start to reply. We use talk regularly around the office, sometimes using e-mail to request a conversation, so as to make it less disruptive.
They could pretend to be a phone company repairmen, and snap a picture of the serial number plate off the back of your printer with a little spy camera.
Or, they could break down your door and shove a search warrant down your throat.
Or, they could go through your garbage and find a sheet of mapquest directions you threw away.
No. All they have demonstrated is that they can block access to one, well-known web site. As if we didn't know they could. There is a long way between blocking this and blocking "every porn site" or such like.
There was a scene in one TV show in the early 90s when there is this grocery store in Beverly Hills, and there are some 5 or 6 girls shopping, and a cell phone goes off, and they all dive into their purses to check if its theirs. That was supposed to be funny. The joke is rather hard to get 15 years later - only rich people had cell phones, so they'd get confused if there were too many of them in one place and a cell phone went off. Ha-ha - funny.
Now my roommate's dog has the same phone as me, and so does one in 3 randomly-choosen people. It's the last years free phone, v180/t610/e105, whatever the fuck t-mobile was giving away around christmas time. If you don't change your ringer/faceplate/wallpaper, how the heck are you supposed to tell if it's yours?
And please, please, change your ringtone from the default "Nokia tune" or "T-mobile jingle". I you don't make sure you stay away from me when your phone goes off, 'cause I might just instinctively kick you in the face.
The other SMS announce sequence that my Nokia has reads "CONNECTING PEOPLE". Pretty cool; now only if the stupid phone didn't hang during every other conversation...
Digital has never been Kodak's strong side. They made a comparatively decent digital camera way back when, when no one was making good digital cameras anyways. So, WTF?
You don't spend much time analyzing aerial data, do you?
No. I spend much time designing electronics and software. I don't go bonkers every time a surplus electronics shop opens next door. I can't use surplus stuff for real work. Google maps doesn't seem to have been meant as a source of data for professionals - which is why it's so amusing that Google maps are so interesting to you - I'd thought you had your own, better, sources!
If you are a geologist urban planner, or historian, why can't you buy satellite imagery? You'd get well-specified data, and not just some pictures from an unknown source. The cost of the data should be inconsequential if you have any kind of a budget. Having to pay twice for data from tax-funded sources is outrageous, but it doesn't make your life harder.
What I'm trying to say, professionals might have a use for this, but it shouldn't benefit them that much. On the other hand, if you are about to go hiking or hunting, or skiing, or fishing, then this is your only chance to see the area where you are going before you get there. It's also a great addition to driving directions. Would be even better if the imagery was real-time, or near real-time.
At least Bush won't push new gun laws. See, US is a great country, but US government has done some really, really bad shit before, like slavery two centuries ago, and concentration camps for Japanese-Americans 60 years ago. It's just the way our democracy works - it allows the stupid populace to elect dumb-ass presidents who fuck that same populace over. Every once in a while, the populace would wise up and elect a normal guy, but it doesn't happen all that often.
This time, judging by how they "almost" elected Bush twice in a row, it could get much worse before it gets better.
The basic rule of DIY for me is, when I want an object, I only build it if I can't buy it. For some reason - "obscenely expensive", "not exactly what I want", etc.
Then, sometimes you are not interested in owning the object as much as in actually owning the experience of having built the object.
It's a neat, small, easy-to-use source of small quantities of high-energy neutrons, useful for applications like portable backscatter scanners.
It's not a potential power source, and it's not a cold fusion device. It's based on the same principle as every other fusion-based neutron source, like the fusor, or pulse neutron tube - you use an electric field to accelerate nuclei to a very high energy and slam them into a target. The only difference about this device is that it uses this tiny pyroelectric crystal to create the electric field, instead of a bulky, expensive super-high-voltage power supply.
The way things are going, we might be not too far behind... The difference being that in the US the favourite tool of the evel might rather turn out to be a C&D leter, rather than an actual gun to the head - not quite as deadly, but just as efficient.
What does it take to fix it when it does clog? I have an HP, and that has the printer head in the cartridge, so there is no clogging problem. Then, on the other hand, the aftermarket ink truly sucks, and I have to buy the original cartridges for to get the print quality I want. Then, on the other other hand, I got my work to buy cartridges for me, so I don't care if they are expensive...
But enough about HP. How do you replace the printhead on the Canon?
The first time I had a need to copy a DVD, it took me all of 3 minutes to get the software off the internet. The copy I made was for legal purposes, and I'm only now starting to get pissed as I'm coming to realization that the software I used was probably illegal, or at least questionable.
I recently went to the RIAA site, and checked the bands that I listen to, and (surprise) asit turns out, I don't listen to RIAA music. I don't watch Hollywood movies either. Not because of any political reasons, but because their content is just so crappy. In other words, I don't have anything to do with any stupid media corporations. I don't use their product, I don't purchase their product, I don't work for them, and I don't own their stock.
Yet, the damn f#$%ers just can't leave this alone. I'm so pissed.
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CDMA is used by GPS satellites as well.
Don't forget radars and military communications. Those applications used spread spectrum technology for stealth long before cell phones.
..felt strain isolation pad..
In other words...sticky tape. Great. My bathroom tile is attached better then that.
Just kidding, of course:-)
Forget the Buran orbiter, its wouldn't be worth the trouble. Energia can boost any payload, including the Space Shuttle orbiter. The orbiter would actually be too light; Energia was meant for much heavier payloads. The orbiter's engines would be of no use, though, since Energia has its own.
If you keep the foam, you'd be lifting it along with the fuel tank, which is a waste of energy. Of cause, you could make the foam shed off at launch.
The insulation is there mostly to prevent ice buildup, not to keep the fuel cold. Ice buildup is not a problem for rockets that have payload at the top, since the ice would just fall away at launch. For the shuttle they thought, a piece of foam insulation impacting the orbiter is much better than a slab of ice.
The Soviets tried a spaceplane (Buran), heavily copied from the U.S. Shuttle, and quickly decided it was too expensive to operate.
The whole Soviet economy happened to be falling apart at the time, that's why the Buran was too expensive for them to operate, at the time. The Buran only looks like it's been copied from the space shuttle, i.e. it's only similar aerodynamically. But otherwise it's a very different system.
The biggest difference - the engines are expendable, mounted on the booster, and not on the orbiter. One big advantage of this is that the booster could be readily used to lift other payloads than the Buran orbiter. As it has been, and will be.
Honestly, I don't know. The 98 was implemented basically as a DOS extender with the Windows GUI apps all running in one VM, and DOS boxes each in its own VM. KRML386.EXE was the thing that started the Windows GUI. The design was rather symmetrical, so you could just replace it with pretty much any other DOS or DPMI-extended program (DPMI=DOS Protected Memory Interface, the API for the DOS extender beneath Windows).
Basically it had similar effect to replacing init with sh on your friendly *NIX box, which is a useful trick that has its own merits:-).
In case of Windows 98 the most useful thing you got by running COMMAND.COM like this was logn file names without need to start the bulky and unscriptable GUI. I've built a custom image replicator this way that was used for loading hard drive images into embedded 98 boxes (yeah, I know:-)) on the production line. The other option was to use linux, but I wasn't quite sure how to do a "SYS C:" from linux, and the capitalization on the filenames was getting all screwed up (back then VFAT module was still somewhat "new").
NT (including 2000 and XP) has a completely different architecture. I figure, you'd want to replace something like WINLOGON.EXE, or whatever the closest equivalent of init there is on Windows. I'm sure there are people here who are a lot more knowledgable about how WinNT starts.
Windows 98 used to have "runlevel 3". Worked like this:
1. Rename krnl386.exe (to whatever)
2. Copy command.com to krnl386.exe
The thing would boot to command prompt with all the VxDs loaded and the VM fully functional -- pretty cool, if you have a use for such a beastie.
I still think 'talk' was a much more interactive experience.
Still is. Which is why I still use talk a lot more than any IM. It just saves a lot of time, if you can guess what the other person is typing and start to reply. We use talk regularly around the office, sometimes using e-mail to request a conversation, so as to make it less disruptive.
They could pretend to be a phone company repairmen, and snap a picture of the serial number plate off the back of your printer with a little spy camera.
Or, they could break down your door and shove a search warrant down your throat.
Or, they could go through your garbage and find a sheet of mapquest directions you threw away.
:-)
No. All they have demonstrated is that they can block access to one, well-known web site. As if we didn't know they could. There is a long way between blocking this and blocking "every porn site" or such like.
..are nothing new. OLEDs are more appropriate for keyboard switches, since they don't need backlight and glass.
There was a scene in one TV show in the early 90s when there is this grocery store in Beverly Hills, and there are some 5 or 6 girls shopping, and a cell phone goes off, and they all dive into their purses to check if its theirs. That was supposed to be funny. The joke is rather hard to get 15 years later - only rich people had cell phones, so they'd get confused if there were too many of them in one place and a cell phone went off. Ha-ha - funny.
Now my roommate's dog has the same phone as me, and so does one in 3 randomly-choosen people. It's the last years free phone, v180/t610/e105, whatever the fuck t-mobile was giving away around christmas time. If you don't change your ringer/faceplate/wallpaper, how the heck are you supposed to tell if it's yours?
And please, please, change your ringtone from the default "Nokia tune" or "T-mobile jingle". I you don't make sure you stay away from me when your phone goes off, 'cause I might just instinctively kick you in the face.
The other SMS announce sequence that my Nokia has reads "CONNECTING PEOPLE". Pretty cool; now only if the stupid phone didn't hang during every other conversation...
Digital has never been Kodak's strong side. They made a comparatively decent digital camera way back when, when no one was making good digital cameras anyways. So, WTF?
You don't spend much time analyzing aerial data, do you?
No. I spend much time designing electronics and software. I don't go bonkers every time a surplus electronics shop opens next door. I can't use surplus stuff for real work. Google maps doesn't seem to have been meant as a source of data for professionals - which is why it's so amusing that Google maps are so interesting to you - I'd thought you had your own, better, sources!
If you are a geologist urban planner, or historian, why can't you buy satellite imagery? You'd get well-specified data, and not just some pictures from an unknown source. The cost of the data should be inconsequential if you have any kind of a budget. Having to pay twice for data from tax-funded sources is outrageous, but it doesn't make your life harder.
What I'm trying to say, professionals might have a use for this, but it shouldn't benefit them that much. On the other hand, if you are about to go hiking or hunting, or skiing, or fishing, then this is your only chance to see the area where you are going before you get there. It's also a great addition to driving directions. Would be even better if the imagery was real-time, or near real-time.
That's what my mom used to say... wait... no..
C'mon, Clinton was no better. Don't forget:
1. Bombing Belgrade
2. DMCA
At least Bush won't push new gun laws. See, US is a great country, but US government has done some really, really bad shit before, like slavery two centuries ago, and concentration camps for Japanese-Americans 60 years ago. It's just the way our democracy works - it allows the stupid populace to elect dumb-ass presidents who fuck that same populace over. Every once in a while, the populace would wise up and elect a normal guy, but it doesn't happen all that often.
This time, judging by how they "almost" elected Bush twice in a row, it could get much worse before it gets better.
The basic rule of DIY for me is, when I want an object, I only build it if I can't buy it. For some reason - "obscenely expensive", "not exactly what I want", etc.
Then, sometimes you are not interested in owning the object as much as in actually owning the experience of having built the object.
It's a neat, small, easy-to-use source of small quantities of high-energy neutrons, useful for applications like portable backscatter scanners.
It's not a potential power source, and it's not a cold fusion device. It's based on the same principle as every other fusion-based neutron source, like the fusor, or pulse neutron tube - you use an electric field to accelerate nuclei to a very high energy and slam them into a target. The only difference about this device is that it uses this tiny pyroelectric crystal to create the electric field, instead of a bulky, expensive super-high-voltage power supply.
The way things are going, we might be not too far behind... The difference being that in the US the favourite tool of the evel might rather turn out to be a C&D leter, rather than an actual gun to the head - not quite as deadly, but just as efficient.
What does it take to fix it when it does clog? I have an HP, and that has the printer head in the cartridge, so there is no clogging problem. Then, on the other hand, the aftermarket ink truly sucks, and I have to buy the original cartridges for to get the print quality I want. Then, on the other other hand, I got my work to buy cartridges for me, so I don't care if they are expensive...
But enough about HP. How do you replace the printhead on the Canon?
The first time I had a need to copy a DVD, it took me all of 3 minutes to get the software off the internet. The copy I made was for legal purposes, and I'm only now starting to get pissed as I'm coming to realization that the software I used was probably illegal, or at least questionable.
I recently went to the RIAA site, and checked the bands that I listen to, and (surprise) asit turns out, I don't listen to RIAA music. I don't watch Hollywood movies either. Not because of any political reasons, but because their content is just so crappy. In other words, I don't have anything to do with any stupid media corporations. I don't use their product, I don't purchase their product, I don't work for them, and I don't own their stock.
Yet, the damn f#$%ers just can't leave this alone. I'm so pissed.