I also think there is a strong correlation to the 5/95 (in some cases 10/90 or similar) rule. 95% of the work (research) is done during first 5% time, the rest %5 of work requires %95 of the time to be done.
Oh wait... It took 1500 years to decently describe %5 of the matter in the Universe...
There is no solution short of leaving Mars alone. Surely all probes crashed on Mars may have brought bacteria stubborn enough to survive preflight cleaning, the space flight and the entry. They may or may not thrive in future and have some long term effects. If anything, exposure to vacuum and solar flares may only aggravate situation forcing bacteria to mutate.
But do we need any solution? After all, any manned expedition will surely affect Mars more than any probe before. Exploring Mars and fear of contamination are contradictory. There is a saying in Russia, if you are affraid of wolves, then dont explore the forest, meaning that if you want to explore something, you have to overcome your trivial fears.
While I applaud to using GA to optimize the compiler settings, which basically tweaking handling of loops and function calls, how about figuring out which is most optimal way to store different variables, in registers, caches L1 and L2, RAM, HDD, tape? FYI, that is a known NP-hard problem.
I searched Ebay for 'protection', 'DDOS', and could not find any relevant auctions. I desided not to offer the protection from DDoS myself, because I can not provide that and thus it would be a fraud. Can I just offer a promise not to shoplift, I think I am able to deliver that. How much should I ask, is $50 ok?
Quotes from Property Rights in Space By Gregory W. Nemitz
Work-Equity Appropriation
I do utilize 433 Eros in a virtual way, not requiring my physical presence or actual possession of the asteroid. In my quest to perfect my property right I use Eros and my plans' perceived value to attract resources, expert assistance, and to instigate the development of space resources.
At the same time,
Another Example for Clarity
A person is walking down the street and drops a $20 bill into the gutter. A short while later, I am the first to come along and see it. Because I am the first, as soon as I see it and intend to pick it up, it becomes my property, so long as there is no evidence found of the identity of the unfortunate one.
Near Shoemaker's equity is very similar to the $20 bill example. Should the $20 bill be left to rot or be claimed by another? No, of course not. The same is true with the $225M equity left in-situ Eros by the spacecraft. The first claimant of the un-owned thing, would be the owner.
Ok, I claim ALL dropped and lost banknotes (be that US or any other currency) to be mine. Everyone who found them please send them to the rightful owner, that is me! My presence when and where you found the banknote(s) or the possession of the banknote(s) are not required to make the property claim for the named the banknote(s).
1. The provisions of this Agreement relating to the moon shall also apply
to other celestial bodies within the solar system, other than the earth,
except in so far as specific legal norms enter into force with respect to
any of these celestial bodies.
From Article 11
3. Neither the surface nor the subsurface of the moon, nor any part
thereof or natural resources in place, shall become property of any
State, international intergovernmental or non-governmental organization,
national organization or non-governmental entity or of any natural
person.
3. Neither the surface nor the subsurface of the moon, nor any part thereof or natural resources in place, shall become property of any State, international intergovernmental or non-governmental organization, national organization or non-governmental entity or of any natural person.
Compare it to Maritime claims on Antarctica: none; 20 of 27 Antarctic consultative nations have made no claims to Antarctic territory (although Russia and the US have reserved the right to do so) and do not recognize the claims of the other nations;
Now, when a bit changes from 1->0, the voltage (accumulated charge) is simply shorted to ground (via resistive path that dissipates heat).
Can't someone modify those resistive paths so that less heat is released into environment and some useful work is done, like charging the batteries, running motors, etc?
Another silly idea. Can't someone take those resistive paths out of the CPU box so that the heat won't hurt the CPU as much?
Try linear regression to log(x), log(y); it ll give you power of -.4, and constant ~log(3000)
log(y)=log(3000)-log(x)*.4 (approximately)
Of course I assumed specific type of dependence, and that speed goes to infinity as the size goes to 0. The speed might as well be bounded even if size 0 is reached.
I would prefer Air Force's simulators. I really want to feel how F16 or F117 fighter feels like...
Some people might like Navy's...
When will NASA start popularizing themselves with free simulators?
Standing ~40 inches (1.0 meters) tall and weighing about 10 kilograms (quite chubby) at launch...
If the scale doesnt matter in laws of physics one can expect a useful payload to be ~ 100t/60^3 ~ 460grams ~ 1 pound to be launched to low orbits, and about 100 grams to the geostationary orbit, and about 150 grams to be sent on the lunar mission trajectory.
Besides the prime crew (M. Foale, A.Yu. Kaleri, P. Duque) there was a backup crew (W. McArthur, V.I. Tokarev, A. Kuipers) of the Soyuz TMA-3 ship. If, for any reason, NASA backed out, but Russians (and probably ESA) did not share the same concerns, they would have sent Tokarev instead of Foale. For the first time ever, the ISS team would have been %100 Russians, thanks to whistle-blowers in NASA. Then the American Public asked NASA "Ahem, did you just spend some $30bln+, and then backed out, giving the way to Russians?" And then what? Will NASA just write off ISS, and let other nations use it? Or NASA will sabotage any such use, possibly by disassembling or destroying american parts of ISS or making them uninhabitable or otherwise offlimit to visitors? I know that is ridiculous, but so are any demands to abandon the project.
For your information. Russians can build Energias, which is a monstrous rocket booster capable to lift huge fully automated cargo vessels. In contrast to american shuttles, Buran, the russian shuttle, did not have to use engines for the lift off, all the heavylifting work was done by Energia. Buran's engines were used primarily for maneuvering on orbit and deorbiting. Its only flight has been fully automated. That would have been an ideal tool to bring pieces of ISS up there. In fact Russians proposed use of Energia/Buran for ISS construction, but NASA, of course rejected the plan. Russians did not have enough money, and NASA wanted to sponsor its own technologies, and use american labor. It cost a lot more, but helped Boeing, other NASA's contractors, and, probably, american economy in general. More was spent, but more was spent in US, not in Russia.
Of course, despite evident capabilities of Russians, they are not able to build or to use ISS without NASA, even with cooperation with Europeans and Japanese and Chinese. Not yet anyway.
To hinder mass copying, songs you buy from the three stores are in special encrypted formats, not the open MP3 format...
At the same time,
For instance, you can play your purchased songs on only three computers, and
burn the same playlist of these songs to only a limited (???) number of home-made CDs.
Can't you make copies of the CDs, burned by their jukeboxes, using other programs? Or rip them? Of course, it may be DMCA violation, but what the point of such encryption, which can be so easily decrypted almost without loss of quality. Or I am missing something?
Slashdot Mirror
I also think there is a strong correlation to the 5/95 (in some cases 10/90 or similar) rule. 95% of the work (research) is done during first 5% time, the rest %5 of work requires %95 of the time to be done. Oh wait... It took 1500 years to decently describe %5 of the matter in the Universe...
try .
A dialogue at Autozone:
Customer: Do you have parts for russian cars?
Salesperson: Ehhh, what do you need?
Customer: a bucket of 5cm nails, please?
Imagine, some geographical society in europe in 1600s considering earth exploration with 100-1000 years scale.
Oh i get it, it refers to Blue Jeans Levi's.
But do we need any solution? After all, any manned expedition will surely affect Mars more than any probe before. Exploring Mars and fear of contamination are contradictory. There is a saying in Russia, if you are affraid of wolves, then dont explore the forest, meaning that if you want to explore something, you have to overcome your trivial fears.
Power5 dissects Arse.
If you point all of them at piece of solder, will it melt? If you point all of them at a match will it ignite?
Just imagine a railroad from Moon and H2 pipe from Sun to Earth.
While I applaud to using GA to optimize the compiler settings, which basically tweaking handling of loops and function calls, how about figuring out which is most optimal way to store different variables, in registers, caches L1 and L2, RAM, HDD, tape? FYI, that is a known NP-hard problem.
I searched Ebay for 'protection', 'DDOS', and could not find any relevant auctions. I desided not to offer the protection from DDoS myself, because I can not provide that and thus it would be a fraud. Can I just offer a promise not to shoplift, I think I am able to deliver that. How much should I ask, is $50 ok?
From Article 1
From Article 113. Neither the surface nor the subsurface of the moon, nor any part thereof or natural resources in place, shall become property of any State, international intergovernmental or non-governmental organization, national organization or non-governmental entity or of any natural person.
Compare it to Maritime claims on Antarctica: none; 20 of 27 Antarctic consultative nations have made no claims to Antarctic territory (although Russia and the US have reserved the right to do so) and do not recognize the claims of the other nations;
I just bought a pack of batteries, but the batteries were not included, so I had to buy them again.
Pilot's traning may be crucial in situations like this .
log(y)=log(3000)-log(x)*.4 (approximately)
Of course I assumed specific type of dependence, and that speed goes to infinity as the size goes to 0. The speed might as well be bounded even if size 0 is reached.I would prefer Air Force's simulators. I really want to feel how F16 or F117 fighter feels like... Some people might like Navy's... When will NASA start popularizing themselves with free simulators?
y=3000/x^0.4
where x is size (nm), y is speed (GHz). 1000GHz will be reached at ~15nm.Standing ~40 inches (1.0 meters) tall and weighing about 10 kilograms (quite chubby) at launch...
If the scale doesnt matter in laws of physics one can expect a useful payload to be ~ 100t/60^3 ~ 460grams ~ 1 pound to be launched to low orbits, and about 100 grams to the geostationary orbit, and about 150 grams to be sent on the lunar mission trajectory.Besides the prime crew (M. Foale, A.Yu. Kaleri, P. Duque) there was a backup crew (W. McArthur, V.I. Tokarev, A. Kuipers) of the Soyuz TMA-3 ship. If, for any reason, NASA backed out, but Russians (and probably ESA) did not share the same concerns, they would have sent Tokarev instead of Foale. For the first time ever, the ISS team would have been %100 Russians, thanks to whistle-blowers in NASA. Then the American Public asked NASA "Ahem, did you just spend some $30bln+, and then backed out, giving the way to Russians?" And then what? Will NASA just write off ISS, and let other nations use it? Or NASA will sabotage any such use, possibly by disassembling or destroying american parts of ISS or making them uninhabitable or otherwise offlimit to visitors? I know that is ridiculous, but so are any demands to abandon the project.
For your information. Russians can build Energias, which is a monstrous rocket booster capable to lift huge fully automated cargo vessels. In contrast to american shuttles, Buran, the russian shuttle, did not have to use engines for the lift off, all the heavylifting work was done by Energia. Buran's engines were used primarily for maneuvering on orbit and deorbiting. Its only flight has been fully automated. That would have been an ideal tool to bring pieces of ISS up there. In fact Russians proposed use of Energia/Buran for ISS construction, but NASA, of course rejected the plan. Russians did not have enough money, and NASA wanted to sponsor its own technologies, and use american labor. It cost a lot more, but helped Boeing, other NASA's contractors, and, probably, american economy in general. More was spent, but more was spent in US, not in Russia.
Of course, despite evident capabilities of Russians, they are not able to build or to use ISS without NASA, even with cooperation with Europeans and Japanese and Chinese. Not yet anyway.
Russian Space Corporation Energia