[i]The improvements in picture quality is worth the money alone.[/i]
Bull. The MPEG compression artifacts are readily noticeable. And the sharper and better your television is, the more it's noticeable.
Plus the fact that if you didnt have a license fee, then the taxes would go up to fund it anyway. HOWEVER... I do object to paying for BBC Services that I don't use. So, I always thought there should be a subscription system. When digital technology is king, this shouldnt be a problem to implement.
Hence it is Slashdot's problem, and not Firefox's.
People always say "It's up to the coder to create valid code" - so lets see that rather than whining about a browser that sticks to the standards just fine.
Why is this a good thing? They created some fake images in a terrain generator, and that is supposedly beating ESA? ESA released the ACTUAL images, not fake ones.
"Excuse me, yes, you, over here please. Did you say place the small metal flap into the buckle... or, place the buckle over and around the small metal flap?"
(c) George Carlin.
Shit i would appear to have taken your post the wrong way.
I thought it meant no trophies for the pilots because they failed to catch it, but you meant because they didnt get their moment of glory so to speak.
Apologies, im a prick.
Braking back into orbit and rendezvouing with an orbiting station will require shitloads of fuel, so this way was more economical. Your understanding of spaceflight physics is a little bit off...
If you were launching from Hawaii you could perform an abort landing on the east coast of the US no problem, in the early portion of a flight. Any later on, and you'd be aiming for orbit anyway (check your abort modes). But like it's been pointed out, the transporting of material there would make the cost skyrocket.
I dont understand how an satellite falling out of orbit experiences changes in anything other than altitude. To see the south pole from the equator would need a pretty major plane change.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. The stuff to perform a repair mission has already been developed, and used on numerous occasions. In addition, the new instruments are tested and ready to go. This would not be a significant departure from other missions. What IS a significant departure is the robotic aspect, and the attaching of the deorbit booster.
I expect that the jump from 1990 to 2004 will take a considerable amount of writing, when you think of all the technological advances we have had in such a short amount of time. And as someone else has pointed out, it does say "regular basis"
I certainly can't, but my ears are probably fucked. 128 is fine, 192kbps is too much of a space eater to keep a huge collection.
It could be argued that 160 is a nice trade off between space and quality, but i have recompressed all of my mp3s down to 128 because I have so many. People make fun of me though for doing it:(
And I think he means 62,000 miles. 62 Miles is only the boundary of space. What would the point of finishing there be? The reason he says 62,000 is because it covers everything useful in space travel, from Low earth orbit up past geosynchronous orbit.
I am going to have to configure putty to paste on middle mouse button, because sometimes I'll have lots of text in the clipboard, and miss while right clicking on something else.
Which is embarrassing sometimes, depending on the contents of the aforementioned clipboard.
Yes, you're half right, comms sats will be mostly going to Geo synchronous orbit, but theres a lot of use for sun synchronous orbits, which the vega looks like its capable of.
On the subject of the BBC's use of realplayer, can anyone tell me why, despite the oodles of bandwidth they have, their live news streams are broadcast at a pitiful 35kbps? I know they have the broadband news console, and the radio streams are of decent quality, but im talking about live events.
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[i]The improvements in picture quality is worth the money alone.[/i] Bull. The MPEG compression artifacts are readily noticeable. And the sharper and better your television is, the more it's noticeable.
Plus the fact that if you didnt have a license fee, then the taxes would go up to fund it anyway. HOWEVER... I do object to paying for BBC Services that I don't use. So, I always thought there should be a subscription system. When digital technology is king, this shouldnt be a problem to implement.
Hence it is Slashdot's problem, and not Firefox's. People always say "It's up to the coder to create valid code" - so lets see that rather than whining about a browser that sticks to the standards just fine.
Why is this a good thing? They created some fake images in a terrain generator, and that is supposedly beating ESA? ESA released the ACTUAL images, not fake ones.
Told completely incorrectly. Q) Why does everyone at NASA drink Pepsi? A) Because they can't get 7-Up
"Excuse me, yes, you, over here please. Did you say place the small metal flap into the buckle... or, place the buckle over and around the small metal flap?" (c) George Carlin.
It would be like the Anti-Outsourcing.
You will be able to stream it...
Shit i would appear to have taken your post the wrong way. I thought it meant no trophies for the pilots because they failed to catch it, but you meant because they didnt get their moment of glory so to speak. Apologies, im a prick.
Braking back into orbit and rendezvouing with an orbiting station will require shitloads of fuel, so this way was more economical. Your understanding of spaceflight physics is a little bit off...
Yeah, NASA TV viewers saw it unfold live, and its already been show on news networks.
You need to RTFA's. They didnt even get a CHANCE to catch it, because the chutes didn't open.
If you were launching from Hawaii you could perform an abort landing on the east coast of the US no problem, in the early portion of a flight. Any later on, and you'd be aiming for orbit anyway (check your abort modes). But like it's been pointed out, the transporting of material there would make the cost skyrocket.
Can he do something with it at home to get it running? Not sure what he'd do with it at home, like, but it'd be cool nontheless.
I dont understand how an satellite falling out of orbit experiences changes in anything other than altitude. To see the south pole from the equator would need a pretty major plane change.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. The stuff to perform a repair mission has already been developed, and used on numerous occasions. In addition, the new instruments are tested and ready to go. This would not be a significant departure from other missions. What IS a significant departure is the robotic aspect, and the attaching of the deorbit booster.
I expect that the jump from 1990 to 2004 will take a considerable amount of writing, when you think of all the technological advances we have had in such a short amount of time. And as someone else has pointed out, it does say "regular basis"
It could be argued that 160 is a nice trade off between space and quality, but i have recompressed all of my mp3s down to 128 because I have so many. People make fun of me though for doing it :(
And I think he means 62,000 miles. 62 Miles is only the boundary of space. What would the point of finishing there be? The reason he says 62,000 is because it covers everything useful in space travel, from Low earth orbit up past geosynchronous orbit.
They do this in F1 now too.
See, it's not THAT good.
Which is embarrassing sometimes, depending on the contents of the aforementioned clipboard.
Yes, you're half right, comms sats will be mostly going to Geo synchronous orbit, but theres a lot of use for sun synchronous orbits, which the vega looks like its capable of.
Pretty useful, the pauses annoy the bejesus out of me. Of course, you lose the live-ness of the stream, but, ho hum.
On the subject of the BBC's use of realplayer, can anyone tell me why, despite the oodles of bandwidth they have, their live news streams are broadcast at a pitiful 35kbps? I know they have the broadband news console, and the radio streams are of decent quality, but im talking about live events.