Yeah, I agree. I understand that the idea of having disposable parts will save money, and keeping the astronauts as far away from the less-trusted parts is a good idea...
To say "we don't care if it just falls apart" is a little concerning, however. If something goes wrong with the fuel tank, it can EXPLODE. I don't care where you put the capsule, an explosion can still kill the astronauts.
NASA claims that the tile gap filler that has come loose was a result of vibrations on liftoff, NOT the result of falling debris...
So moving the return capsule up to the nose of the craft will prevent repeats of 1986 and 2003, but won't fix every problem. They should instead be trying to build a shuttle that won't rattle apart on takeoff.
Even so, one high-quality ADC is much more feasible than 200+ individual poor quality ones. Expensive, yes, but not unfeasible. VHS-quality shouldn't be too hard to achieve.
I just don't see the market for this product - people don't want quantity anymore, they want quality. People are trading up their SD for HD, why would they want a months worth of VHS-quality when they can have 100 hours of HD or at least high-quality SD?
We all know that recording more than a few channels at the same time runs into the processing power and bandwidth bottlenecks. But when you think about it, all those channels come in over ONE little wire. What if the broadcast is being recorded BEFORE being demultiplexed. Effectively, you could just get a fast enough A/D and sample the raw cable and do the tuning later. Cable is a one-way transmission, still, so what difference does it make when you do the actual tuning?
This is assuming analog cable, of course. Even with this concept, you'd still have degraded quality, just from the lack of bandwidth of the A/D conversion. Recording a single tuned channel at high quality is hard enough, trying to get a fast enough A/D to get a high enough bandwidth to not lose too much on the A/D could be tough. (in this case, I'm using the real meaning of bandwidth, as in frequency bandwidth of the A/D).
I'd like to see the same thing at an even lower level....instead of requiring that these computers add numbers....why not just make them perform the simple task of a binary logic gate. We can hand out hats with:
-|>-, =|)-, =)>- on them, and you can just hand giant heads/tails coins around a room in a particular pattern. A full adder is what, 3 or four gates, something like that? I'll be heralded as having quadrupled the number of jobs in the sector!
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Bummer. I was actually looking forward to getting email for my sn @ aol.com. How convenient would that be to be able to pretend to be a stupid aol luser when contacting tech support for a company? The options are endless.
1). Some kind of crime occurs 2). Penny and Brain try to solve it 3). Gadget gets himself in trouble and nearly dies 4). Penny uses her computer book to "Find The Right Frequency" which inevitably gets her into Dr. Claws secret lair 5). Penny and Brain foil the crooks, but somehow it looks like Gadget accidently caught the criminals 6). Bad guys get taken away by the inspector, but claw escapes, saying "next time, Gadget. Next Time" 7). His cat meows.
I can understand that - in a robotics competition, who cares about the report, display, or whatever the engineering evaluation consists of? It's not like they were trying to design and SELL the thing. They were just working on a proof of concept, and 48 >> 32 when it comes to that.
...he phoned Frank Szwankowski, who sold industrial and scientific thermometers at Omega Engineering in Stamford, Connecticut. Szwankowski knew as much about thermometer applications as anyone in the US...
"You know," he (Frank Szwankowski) said, "I think you can beat those guys from MIT. Because none of them know what I know about thermometers."
Wasting time was the best thing I ever did in high school!
No rent, no bills, no responsibilities. Work 20hours a week to pay for a junker car and just tool around and waste time. Those were the days! Now if I want to waste time it needs to be on a weekend or vacation day...
In brief: some instructional lab computers may no longer accomodate all possible computing tasks. E.E. lab computers are there for very specific instructional purposes, and our priority is to keep those classroom applications working. In some cases, faculty have requested that certain machines have network access restricted to UNL-campus-only mail and web servers (which we are able to do.) In ALL cases, classroom computers will require a unique log-in and password, that will be explained to you at a later date. And with very few exceptions, only system administrators will be able to install new software on Windows computers. Under no circumstances is recreational peer-to-peer file sharing permitted on University-owned PCs.
Good! All systems should require a unique per-user login. And all users should be held responsible for what happens to that PC while they are logged in. The system drives should be write-protected, save for/temp, and network drives should be the only place for people to save/install things. Furthermore, the systems should be wiped clean at *least* monthly (ghost or similar fast network system restore).
Yes, that's *exactly* what we need is more confusion as to what goes where in the airwaves. No, we don't want standards like "Channel 6 is always ~87Mhz" oh no....We want each company to just pick their own frequencies and purposes and then CHANGE them on a whim. What a GREAT idea!
You know, the FCC has a purpose other than censorship...they are there to organize what goes in the air, different frequency bands for different purposes. So what if we waste some small partition of frequencies? Change the classifications for what goes where if you want, but don't just throw it to the dogs.
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20 just didn't fit with the parody song :-P
Heeeeere I come, 10 years too laaaaaaate!!
Welcome to the mid 80s with the multi-button mice, apple.
Yeah, I agree. I understand that the idea of having disposable parts will save money, and keeping the astronauts as far away from the less-trusted parts is a good idea...
To say "we don't care if it just falls apart" is a little concerning, however. If something goes wrong with the fuel tank, it can EXPLODE. I don't care where you put the capsule, an explosion can still kill the astronauts.
NASA claims that the tile gap filler that has come loose was a result of vibrations on liftoff, NOT the result of falling debris...
So moving the return capsule up to the nose of the craft will prevent repeats of 1986 and 2003, but won't fix every problem. They should instead be trying to build a shuttle that won't rattle apart on takeoff.
We already had psDoom...
Do I hear psHalo??
I meant VHS quality shouldn't be too hard to achieve on a HIGH quality ADC
So you seem to know more about it than the article - how many channels are in a multiplex / how many total channels are being recorded at once?
Even so, one high-quality ADC is much more feasible than 200+ individual poor quality ones. Expensive, yes, but not unfeasible. VHS-quality shouldn't be too hard to achieve.
I just don't see the market for this product - people don't want quantity anymore, they want quality. People are trading up their SD for HD, why would they want a months worth of VHS-quality when they can have 100 hours of HD or at least high-quality SD?
We all know that recording more than a few channels at the same time runs into the processing power and bandwidth bottlenecks. But when you think about it, all those channels come in over ONE little wire. What if the broadcast is being recorded BEFORE being demultiplexed. Effectively, you could just get a fast enough A/D and sample the raw cable and do the tuning later. Cable is a one-way transmission, still, so what difference does it make when you do the actual tuning?
This is assuming analog cable, of course. Even with this concept, you'd still have degraded quality, just from the lack of bandwidth of the A/D conversion. Recording a single tuned channel at high quality is hard enough, trying to get a fast enough A/D to get a high enough bandwidth to not lose too much on the A/D could be tough. (in this case, I'm using the real meaning of bandwidth, as in frequency bandwidth of the A/D).
I was going to give up my old ScreenName to get a better one...
but I'm thinking with a score of 18245, I should sell it on eBay instead
Now we'll see men crying when they break a nail
the team is now developing a system that can write data to a fingernail which is still attached to a finger.
Yeah, I wasn't really looking forward to having my fingernails peeled off...
I'd like to see the same thing at an even lower level....instead of requiring that these computers add numbers....why not just make them perform the simple task of a binary logic gate. We can hand out hats with:
-|>-, =|)-, =)>- on them, and you can just hand giant heads/tails coins around a room in a particular pattern. A full adder is what, 3 or four gates, something like that? I'll be heralded as having quadrupled the number of jobs in the sector!
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
Bummer. I was actually looking forward to getting email for my sn @ aol.com. How convenient would that be to be able to pretend to be a stupid aol luser when contacting tech support for a company? The options are endless.
or you can just hexedit the command.com binary to do your bidding:
"Bad Command or File Name"
"We don't run that, sucka"
etc
wow, one comment and it's already /..ed
that's like a 2mph wind knocking over the house, right?
I dunno, can it beat Inspector Gadget?
1). Some kind of crime occurs
2). Penny and Brain try to solve it
3). Gadget gets himself in trouble and nearly dies
4). Penny uses her computer book to "Find The Right Frequency" which inevitably gets her into Dr. Claws secret lair
5). Penny and Brain foil the crooks, but somehow it looks like Gadget accidently caught the criminals
6). Bad guys get taken away by the inspector, but claw escapes, saying "next time, Gadget. Next Time"
7). His cat meows.
wow, we've reinvented the laptop, except we gave it a shorter battery life.
What exactly is the revelation of this project, again?
I can understand that - in a robotics competition, who cares about the report, display, or whatever the engineering evaluation consists of? It's not like they were trying to design and SELL the thing. They were just working on a proof of concept, and 48 >> 32 when it comes to that.
From the Article on Wired:
...he phoned Frank Szwankowski, who sold industrial and scientific thermometers at Omega Engineering in Stamford, Connecticut. Szwankowski knew as much about thermometer applications as anyone in the US...
"You know," he (Frank Szwankowski) said, "I think you can beat those guys from MIT. Because none of them know what I know about thermometers."
The RIAA Killed My Grandmother!!!
Wasting time was the best thing I ever did in high school!
No rent, no bills, no responsibilities. Work 20hours a week to pay for a junker car and just tool around and waste time. Those were the days! Now if I want to waste time it needs to be on a weekend or vacation day...
First ever car radio virus for the voice activated system
Disguised as the newest boy-band album, it features such tracks as:
"shuffle on, shuffle off, shuffle on, shuffle off"
"volume up, volume up, volume up, volume up"
"mute"
and my personal favorite, "format memory card"
> applications are due today.
I think Adam Sandler says it best: "This information could have been brought To My Attention YESTERDAY!"
In brief: some instructional lab computers may no longer accomodate all possible computing tasks. E.E. lab computers are there for very specific instructional purposes, and our priority is to keep those classroom applications working. In some cases, faculty have requested that certain machines have network access restricted to UNL-campus-only mail and web servers (which we are able to do.) In ALL cases, classroom computers will require a unique log-in and password, that will be explained to you at a later date. And with very few exceptions, only system administrators will be able to install new software on Windows computers. Under no circumstances is recreational peer-to-peer file sharing permitted on University-owned PCs.
/temp, and network drives should be the only place for people to save/install things. Furthermore, the systems should be wiped clean at *least* monthly (ghost or similar fast network system restore).
Good! All systems should require a unique per-user login. And all users should be held responsible for what happens to that PC while they are logged in. The system drives should be write-protected, save for
What a USELESS article...
Yes, that's *exactly* what we need is more confusion as to what goes where in the airwaves. No, we don't want standards like "Channel 6 is always ~87Mhz" oh no....We want each company to just pick their own frequencies and purposes and then CHANGE them on a whim. What a GREAT idea!
You know, the FCC has a purpose other than censorship...they are there to organize what goes in the air, different frequency bands for different purposes. So what if we waste some small partition of frequencies? Change the classifications for what goes where if you want, but don't just throw it to the dogs.