They have raised maybe 10-20% of the money they will need to make it to the FIRST Launch. How long have they been doing this "in the dark"? Something tells me your deposit is as secure with them as your 401K was with Bernie Madoff.
I doubt your insurance pays off if something happens on your "trip" due to poorly designed Russian hardware. You think the US program is risky and we all know we've had fatalities but the Russians are far ahead in cosmonuat deaths, many which were never recognized as occuring during the Cold War.
I think I'll wait until Bert Rutan gets his craft ready for business.
Here in the USA we have this thing called "Free Speech" which makes it perfectly legal to make such advertisements. The drug you mention is a prescription drug which has to be given by a medical doctor which means the person DID consult for medical advice in order to get a prescription. As long as the MD isn't buying into the "off-label" use of the drug (that is illegal to advertise off-label use as the drug is not considered safe in that regard) all is cool. One more reason why we don't want the crappy UK systems of medicine and Government. Our system may be screwed up but it's still the best one of all the systems.
There is no such thing as a 100% Secure Network as long as humans are involved, cables can be tapped, servers can be compromised or hacked. It's how much security is good enough for your business depending on your risk tolerance. I know of several P2P SECURE PRIVATE networks are in use, I can't divulge details but they are in the Financial business and the Defense area. It's not the technology that's the problem, it's how it is used.
Banks use P2P software but it's over trusted network links and the information is encrypted. What do you think the sevice is that handles wire transfers but a P2P program moving money from one bank account to another electronically according to rules. Data transfers are tightly controlled.
So, it's not P2P technology that is the issue, it's using a PUBLIC P2P system where you don't know if the person on the other end is trustworthy and won't pilfer anything you exposed but didn't protect.
RTFA, it's SENSITIVE but unclassified. Perhaps it was underclassified but that's not the point. Using Limewire on a Gov't machine is a really bad idea. If this had been about details related to GWB no one would have even mentioned it.
Too broad, that term is vastly overused. There are distinct differences in each area of application of computing power. I know, I've worked in many of them in my 30 yrs of Software/Systems.
Agreed. I don't drink it. I live where I can get some good regional beers which I greatly prefer and willingly pay for $$ to consume. Plus it keeps the little guys around, I don't want to see a Wal-Mart of beer.
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OSAMA?? Is that you??? I got this guy from the Government that is here to help you with your cave...
Really? So what DO you call the use of a computer to solve with "brute force" complex Mathematical problems, like very large prime numbers, or roots of very complex equations, or Computational Fluid Dynamics problems???
Try telling that to someone outside the USA. Many of them think it's piss poor beer. Just wait, when InBev gets finished with ruining the brand by cost cutting no one will care.
How can the court decide when it's clear there are no objective measureable standards for "best" and "most reliable"? If there was a standard all one has to do is check the data submitted by each side versus the standard. In the Auto Industry they have the JD Powers surveys that one could refer to, others seem to trust Consumer Reports. The only thing this is doing is running up legal fees for both companies and affecting profits. On a personal note my work Crackberry is Verizon and my personal iPhone is AT&T and I've not noticed any significant differences in the "reliability" or speed. "Speed" is so nebulous, you could have a bazillion bits/sec connectivity and a dog slow web site, or be in a congested cell area where your speed is throttled. A whole lot to do about nothing, just gives the companies something to complain about rather than improving services.
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That's the first incorrect "fact". Wonder how many others there are.
You dont always pay MORE. They can use economies of scale to cost LESS than your own Datacenter and they still make money. There are two versions of outsourcing at Datacenter: You can own the equipment and co-locate and they provide power, cooling and bandwidth or you can turn it all over to them and you lease it back (this is more like the "cloud"). I have seen deals where you can save serious $$$ by not using an in-house Datacenter as power is more expensive, network is more expensive and it requires people 24x7x365 to staff it plus the expenses of tax and upkeep on the building. You have to develop a cost model based on your needs and see whether you save money. As someone else said, outsourcing is NOT the best option always. But there are some really good deals out there.
Bottom Line -- A State should NOT build a $300M datacenter when other options exist. Just think of the cost to run that datacenter due to a bloated inefficient state workforce and union rules. And of course it'll never be built on time and on budget either.
Tire heat has nothing to do with it. The tires are designed to handle the heat if properly inflated with Nitrogen. Remember these are racing tires, built for much different use than passenger tires. The intakes are to cool either the motors or brakes or both and probably some air to the driver's cool box. Perhaps there would also be some amount of downforce, you would have to see the bottom of the car to know for sure.
Twin 100kW motors so 268HP. No metion of how many sets of twin 100kW motors.
If it only hits 171 then it's going to have to get out of the way of the Prototypes like Mercedes and Audi who can hit 250 on the Mulsanne. Don't expect it to have a podium finish.
But still impressive if the car lasts 24 hours. Lots of things can and do break.
Typical/. over-reaction, I'd like to see Supporting sources on this.
Where I live a LOT of corn is grown and NONE from Monsanto. The don't own the market and I can buy corn seed all day long from other companies big and small, some are even Mom & Pop firms.
Also generally cross-polinated hybrids do not reproduce true to either type. So the farmer who tried this would be very unlikely to get free RoundUp-Ready corn or even decent corn like he had the year before. He'd get a hodge-podge of things, some good, some really bad. A lot of risk to take to save a few bucks you may ruin your whole crop. Of course I have seen farmers do things a lot more dumb than that.
Talk is cheap but when it comes time to vote people are concerned that the "change" may not be what they want as it upsets the status quo and they are happy the things as they are. For example Obama promised some changes (to gather votes) that he has backed out on which means next time folks may think twice about voting for the "Change" candidate. Politics isn't about change it's about personal power and since change is defined as anti-system and the system gives the power (or beats the crap out of you with it) what office candidate *really* wants to change anything?? It would be counter productive.
In reality to get change in the current system in the USA you would need simultaneous change in all three branches of Government and in the same direction. I'd say thats darn near impossible.
based at 1000W/M solar intensity and 20% conversion factor it would take about 550,000 sq Meters of panels. Thats going to be a panel about 2 meters wide the whole PHX to Tucson distance without factoring in inversion losses, power line losses, etc so add 15% for that.
It would be easier and cheaper to build the solar farm halfway and just transmit the power via lines to the tracks and use standard electric train infrastructure.
Since cost per unit goes down with scalability you should build more panels than you need and sell the rest back to the electic system. Plus that gives you spare panels. As long as the sun is shining on 100% of the cells you have that 110MW power available every second the sun is shining. Since the train isn't 100% duty factor the rest is profit!!
Now finding 110MW of power available to run the train at night is not easy so you need to provide storage batteries which takes more solar panels
This is a heck of an undertaking and I wish the crew all the luck in the world. If something doesn't work or doesn't quite fit it will be interesting to see if NASA has planned workarounds or lets the astronauts engineer on the spot solutions. Duct tape, baling wire and chewing gum have been fully supplied on the STS:)
It will be nice to see instrument (WFC3 and COS) upgrades I worked on in 2001-02 finally get installed. I'm not too sure about the 10yrs extra life claim, as some of these upgrades have already been around 5 or more yrs in the powered off state and stored in an inert environment and over time electronics degrade regardless. Last time any of the were powered up was Thermal Test in 2004 so I hope they have done a Power On Self Test before they stashed them on board the STS. I have no idea where this 10 more years of service comes from, as NASA's web site for the mission says "warranty good till 2013" maybe longer. Perhaps this is based on the prior performance of items which far exceeded expectations (See we CAN build good stuff in the USA..just not cheap!)
Battery technology has come a long way since the last update so the new batteries should have great power to weight ratio. The upgraded detectors should provide better data gathering but the technology isn't cutting edge as the WFC3 is 2K x 4K (8M)
pixels in UV and 1K x1K i(1M) in IR. HST does not operate in the visible light range and images you see are colorized from data gathered from several instruments. Still pretty good data gathering capability and maybe the best we get for a long time as NASA is in such disarry right now who knows if JWST will get up by 2013 as planned.
Those are the correct specs, check Apple's web site. I've not had any problems getting my iPhone to work at > 100F but I've never tested the lower end. That range is probably based on a distribution where X% (90-95%) of the phone features would still work 100% of the time. Unless they are testing all iPhones and iPods then picking up the ones that are still working on the outlying edges of the envelopes and sending those to the military the phone is being used where it should not be.
The non-operating temps go to -4F to 113F which are still out of the range of Iraq (hot end) and Afghanistan (cold end). So unless there is some way to keep it cooler (an external fan?) or warmer (that one is easier..keep it next to your body or in some insulated sleeve) I don't think it's a front line device. As someone said making a MIL-SPEC version that takes the "shake and bake" requirements into account would be very expensive and it would be as bulky as a brick.
Eminent Domain really isn't going to be invoke for IP rights. They are the military and with just a few calls and the IRS shows up for an unannounced audi, some info on Jobs health is "leaked" to the press., a few guys with really short hair start stalking the execs, a few black helicopter buzz low over the building and an urban warfare "exercise" is scheduled near the Apple campus...but really the Government just pays for, out the ass, for the special rights to the IP of the iPhone as needed. Why cut off a very good customer who will pay a LOT more than anyone else for something they really want? You'd be amazed that the behind the common everyday logo hides some really high-tech gear when it is in the hands of the DOD.
Don't forget the CDO's and other instruments written on the now worthless mortgages. If you do ALL the math, including what the CDO's are, what they are insured at, the other investors who have NOT yet surfaced asking for bailouts (Life Insurance, Property Insurance, etc.) for recovering their losses in the CDOs and other housing market investments. AIG is just the tip of the iceberg. If you add in the fact that some of these mortgage debts have been resold in packages that would have face values of 5-10X the underlying mortgages the dollars mushroom quickly. I have seen estimates of the worldwide impact at about a QUADRILLION (aka 1,000 trillion) dollars which is about 167K for every person on the planet. I think that estimate is high but not out of the range of consideration. This makes the South Seas Bubble which damn near busted the worlds richest nation (England) and brought about things like the French Revolution a mere blip on the charts.
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They have raised maybe 10-20% of the money they will need to make it to the FIRST Launch. How long have they been doing this "in the dark"? Something tells me your deposit is as secure with them as your 401K was with Bernie Madoff. I doubt your insurance pays off if something happens on your "trip" due to poorly designed Russian hardware. You think the US program is risky and we all know we've had fatalities but the Russians are far ahead in cosmonuat deaths, many which were never recognized as occuring during the Cold War. I think I'll wait until Bert Rutan gets his craft ready for business.
Here in the USA we have this thing called "Free Speech" which makes it perfectly legal to make such advertisements. The drug you mention is a prescription drug which has to be given by a medical doctor which means the person DID consult for medical advice in order to get a prescription. As long as the MD isn't buying into the "off-label" use of the drug (that is illegal to advertise off-label use as the drug is not considered safe in that regard) all is cool. One more reason why we don't want the crappy UK systems of medicine and Government. Our system may be screwed up but it's still the best one of all the systems.
There is no such thing as a 100% Secure Network as long as humans are involved, cables can be tapped, servers can be compromised or hacked. It's how much security is good enough for your business depending on your risk tolerance. I know of several P2P SECURE PRIVATE networks are in use, I can't divulge details but they are in the Financial business and the Defense area. It's not the technology that's the problem, it's how it is used.
Banks use P2P software but it's over trusted network links and the information is encrypted. What do you think the sevice is that handles wire transfers but a P2P program moving money from one bank account to another electronically according to rules. Data transfers are tightly controlled. So, it's not P2P technology that is the issue, it's using a PUBLIC P2P system where you don't know if the person on the other end is trustworthy and won't pilfer anything you exposed but didn't protect.
RTFA, it's SENSITIVE but unclassified. Perhaps it was underclassified but that's not the point. Using Limewire on a Gov't machine is a really bad idea. If this had been about details related to GWB no one would have even mentioned it.
Too broad, that term is vastly overused. There are distinct differences in each area of application of computing power. I know, I've worked in many of them in my 30 yrs of Software/Systems.
Agreed. I don't drink it. I live where I can get some good regional beers which I greatly prefer and willingly pay for $$ to consume. Plus it keeps the little guys around, I don't want to see a Wal-Mart of beer.
OSAMA?? Is that you??? I got this guy from the Government that is here to help you with your cave...
Really? So what DO you call the use of a computer to solve with "brute force" complex Mathematical problems, like very large prime numbers, or roots of very complex equations, or Computational Fluid Dynamics problems???
Try telling that to someone outside the USA. Many of them think it's piss poor beer. Just wait, when InBev gets finished with ruining the brand by cost cutting no one will care.
How can the court decide when it's clear there are no objective measureable standards for "best" and "most reliable"? If there was a standard all one has to do is check the data submitted by each side versus the standard. In the Auto Industry they have the JD Powers surveys that one could refer to, others seem to trust Consumer Reports. The only thing this is doing is running up legal fees for both companies and affecting profits. On a personal note my work Crackberry is Verizon and my personal iPhone is AT&T and I've not noticed any significant differences in the "reliability" or speed. "Speed" is so nebulous, you could have a bazillion bits/sec connectivity and a dog slow web site, or be in a congested cell area where your speed is throttled. A whole lot to do about nothing, just gives the companies something to complain about rather than improving services.
That's the first incorrect "fact". Wonder how many others there are.
No shame but a good karma boost. Nice move! Wiley indeed!
You dont always pay MORE. They can use economies of scale to cost LESS than your own Datacenter and they still make money. There are two versions of outsourcing at Datacenter: You can own the equipment and co-locate and they provide power, cooling and bandwidth or you can turn it all over to them and you lease it back (this is more like the "cloud"). I have seen deals where you can save serious $$$ by not using an in-house Datacenter as power is more expensive, network is more expensive and it requires people 24x7x365 to staff it plus the expenses of tax and upkeep on the building. You have to develop a cost model based on your needs and see whether you save money. As someone else said, outsourcing is NOT the best option always. But there are some really good deals out there. Bottom Line -- A State should NOT build a $300M datacenter when other options exist. Just think of the cost to run that datacenter due to a bloated inefficient state workforce and union rules. And of course it'll never be built on time and on budget either.
Tire heat has nothing to do with it. The tires are designed to handle the heat if properly inflated with Nitrogen. Remember these are racing tires, built for much different use than passenger tires. The intakes are to cool either the motors or brakes or both and probably some air to the driver's cool box. Perhaps there would also be some amount of downforce, you would have to see the bottom of the car to know for sure.
Chuck Norris can go from Zero to 60 in 0.1 seconds. He does not need a car to accomplish this. Fixed it for ya.
Twin 100kW motors so 268HP. No metion of how many sets of twin 100kW motors. If it only hits 171 then it's going to have to get out of the way of the Prototypes like Mercedes and Audi who can hit 250 on the Mulsanne. Don't expect it to have a podium finish. But still impressive if the car lasts 24 hours. Lots of things can and do break.
Typical /. over-reaction, I'd like to see Supporting sources on this.
Where I live a LOT of corn is grown and NONE from Monsanto. The don't own the market and I can buy corn seed all day long from other companies big and small, some are even Mom & Pop firms.
Also generally cross-polinated hybrids do not reproduce true to either type. So the farmer who tried this would be very unlikely to get free RoundUp-Ready corn or even decent corn like he had the year before. He'd get a hodge-podge of things, some good, some really bad. A lot of risk to take to save a few bucks you may ruin your whole crop. Of course I have seen farmers do things a lot more dumb than that.
Talk is cheap but when it comes time to vote people are concerned that the "change" may not be what they want as it upsets the status quo and they are happy the things as they are. For example Obama promised some changes (to gather votes) that he has backed out on which means next time folks may think twice about voting for the "Change" candidate. Politics isn't about change it's about personal power and since change is defined as anti-system and the system gives the power (or beats the crap out of you with it) what office candidate *really* wants to change anything?? It would be counter productive. In reality to get change in the current system in the USA you would need simultaneous change in all three branches of Government and in the same direction. I'd say thats darn near impossible.
the HST web site at GSFC and STSI says Thermal Vac was in late '04 so it must be out of date?
based at 1000W/M solar intensity and 20% conversion factor it would take about 550,000 sq Meters of panels. Thats going to be a panel about 2 meters wide the whole PHX to Tucson distance without factoring in inversion losses, power line losses, etc so add 15% for that. It would be easier and cheaper to build the solar farm halfway and just transmit the power via lines to the tracks and use standard electric train infrastructure. Since cost per unit goes down with scalability you should build more panels than you need and sell the rest back to the electic system. Plus that gives you spare panels. As long as the sun is shining on 100% of the cells you have that 110MW power available every second the sun is shining. Since the train isn't 100% duty factor the rest is profit!! Now finding 110MW of power available to run the train at night is not easy so you need to provide storage batteries which takes more solar panels
This is a heck of an undertaking and I wish the crew all the luck in the world. If something doesn't work or doesn't quite fit it will be interesting to see if NASA has planned workarounds or lets the astronauts engineer on the spot solutions. Duct tape, baling wire and chewing gum have been fully supplied on the STS :)
It will be nice to see instrument (WFC3 and COS) upgrades I worked on in 2001-02 finally get installed. I'm not too sure about the 10yrs extra life claim, as some of these upgrades have already been around 5 or more yrs in the powered off state and stored in an inert environment and over time electronics degrade regardless. Last time any of the were powered up was Thermal Test in 2004 so I hope they have done a Power On Self Test before they stashed them on board the STS. I have no idea where this 10 more years of service comes from, as NASA's web site for the mission says "warranty good till 2013" maybe longer. Perhaps this is based on the prior performance of items which far exceeded expectations (See we CAN build good stuff in the USA..just not cheap!)
Battery technology has come a long way since the last update so the new batteries should have great power to weight ratio. The upgraded detectors should provide better data gathering but the technology isn't cutting edge as the WFC3 is 2K x 4K (8M)
pixels in UV and 1K x1K i(1M) in IR. HST does not operate in the visible light range and images you see are colorized from data gathered from several instruments. Still pretty good data gathering capability and maybe the best we get for a long time as NASA is in such disarry right now who knows if JWST will get up by 2013 as planned.
Those are the correct specs, check Apple's web site. I've not had any problems getting my iPhone to work at > 100F but I've never tested the lower end. That range is probably based on a distribution where X% (90-95%) of the phone features would still work 100% of the time. Unless they are testing all iPhones and iPods then picking up the ones that are still working on the outlying edges of the envelopes and sending those to the military the phone is being used where it should not be. The non-operating temps go to -4F to 113F which are still out of the range of Iraq (hot end) and Afghanistan (cold end). So unless there is some way to keep it cooler (an external fan?) or warmer (that one is easier..keep it next to your body or in some insulated sleeve) I don't think it's a front line device. As someone said making a MIL-SPEC version that takes the "shake and bake" requirements into account would be very expensive and it would be as bulky as a brick.
Eminent Domain really isn't going to be invoke for IP rights. They are the military and with just a few calls and the IRS shows up for an unannounced audi, some info on Jobs health is "leaked" to the press., a few guys with really short hair start stalking the execs, a few black helicopter buzz low over the building and an urban warfare "exercise" is scheduled near the Apple campus...but really the Government just pays for, out the ass, for the special rights to the IP of the iPhone as needed. Why cut off a very good customer who will pay a LOT more than anyone else for something they really want? You'd be amazed that the behind the common everyday logo hides some really high-tech gear when it is in the hands of the DOD.
Don't forget the CDO's and other instruments written on the now worthless mortgages. If you do ALL the math, including what the CDO's are, what they are insured at, the other investors who have NOT yet surfaced asking for bailouts (Life Insurance, Property Insurance, etc.) for recovering their losses in the CDOs and other housing market investments. AIG is just the tip of the iceberg. If you add in the fact that some of these mortgage debts have been resold in packages that would have face values of 5-10X the underlying mortgages the dollars mushroom quickly. I have seen estimates of the worldwide impact at about a QUADRILLION (aka 1,000 trillion) dollars which is about 167K for every person on the planet. I think that estimate is high but not out of the range of consideration. This makes the South Seas Bubble which damn near busted the worlds richest nation (England) and brought about things like the French Revolution a mere blip on the charts.