I think there is a big difference between a robot that lasts way beyond its designed lifetime and space module that carries people. The ISS is in a very hostile environment that undergoes millions of temperature and stress cycles over its lifetime. Eventually the metal will fatigue and fail. It is no different than what happens with an aircraft over its lifetime. Once you get past a certain point you can not fully trust the structural integrity with people on board.
I primarily use rss feeds to find new articles. I was tracking digg by rss until they started framing. I immediately dropped all news feeds from them and avoided using their site. Once I read that digg made frames an opt-in feature, I added Digg back into my news reader.
If I find some other site(like Slashdot) were to do the same thing, they would have one less set of eyeballs looking at their site.
There are established procedures for landing with no radio. A light gun with red and green is used so that the tower can signal an aircraft when it is okay to enter final and land.
I was in a similar situation. The first thing I did was try to figure out how to ensure that once I started an exercise routine, I could continue it. It had to be a lifestyle change.
Initially I bought an exercise bike, but later I bought a treadmill. Since I did not want to spend thirty minutes staring at a wall while I ran, I bought a 13 inch flat panel TV and attached it to the wall in front of my treadmill. I attached a DVD player and watch rentals from netflix. Watching something with lots of action makes it easier to push yourself harder.
The most important thing to maintain my routine is that I do my run as soon as I get home from work. I do not let myself get sidetracked on anything else. I have been following this routine for about 5 years now.
In addition to keeping the weight off, it has really helped with stress levels. I have also found that the days I usually feel worn down and tired after work are the days that I have my best runs.
While I think the addition of a chromosome is a significant step, I think it is also very important to notice that this research is going to be published in the open journal PLOS Genetics.
Also according to the article, Monsanto has a nonexclusive license. They can not lock out the rest of the world from making use of this technique. It was probably very tempting for Chromatin to sell out, but it sounds like they have some ideals.
I am wondering why human rights groups do not use UAV's to try and monitor abuses. They are small and could be launched anonymously from bordering countries. They could even be inexpensive enough to not bother with recovery. This could make it more difficult for authorities to trace the aircraft back to the launch site or originating country.
I have to agree as well. By failing to impeach, a dangerous precedent is being set. We are saying it is okay for presidents, regardless of the political party, to ignore the constitution and govern in a monarchical fashion when it is convenient to do so. By failing to draft articles of impeachment, Congress is failing their constitutional responsibility of checking the power of the president.
After installing patches on Wednesday I started having a peculiar problem when running vmware 5.4. The host box network connectivity would be lost. It would take a reboot of the machine to reestablish the network connection. I also had one unexpected system reboot when running the arp command while troubleshooting the problem. The problem appears to have gone away once I uninstalled the latest patches. No way to know which one was causing the problem. This was on a Windows XPSP2 box.
This make me think of a B sci fi movie I saw many years ago and I can not remember the title of.
I think it was black and white. It was about a scientist who created a simulation of the world that he could watch under a microscope. As he watched history, which progressed at an accelerated rate, and a war happened he was attacked by a ghost of some kind. Just as history was to the point that he could see what would happen in the future he was attacked a final time by the ghost and had to destroy the experiment before the ghost killed him. I guess the moral being you are not allowed to know the future.
I may not have all the details correct, but maybe someone can tell me the name of that movie?
Blender has a rather unintuitive interface and most of the documentation is not that great.
Fortunately I came across this excellent
tutorial . The file is a pdf.
It took me about a month of evenings and weekends, but once I was through the tutorial I was quite comfortable with the interface. It is really amazing what you can do with Blender once you get over the learning curve.
What about the brain though.
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It does not do any good to have a working body if I am still brain dead at the end of the process. It might be useful so organs could be used for a transplant.
I have often wondered about sending a bunch of cubesats out to explore the solar system. Even if all they carried was a simple camera we could collect lots of interesting data. Plus it may give us a better idea of where to send the more expensive probes
I have to think that is part of the reason that Microsoft put the restrictions into its EULA about running Vista in VM's. They do not want people to start realizing that with a VM, the OS is just another application.
Bell's inequality did not rule out anything. Bells Theorem stated the hidden variables question in such a way that it could be experimentally tested. When the experiments were done, it was demonstrated there are no hidden variables in quantum mechanics. The experiments could have confirmed the existence of hidden variables, but they did not.
I am sitting here today facing the possibility of losing electrical power due to icestorms. Having a small machine that can run independently of the power grid indefinitely would be nice.
So if the earth can so completely erase the existence of an intelligent civilization is there any reason to think we are the first intelligent species to appear on this planet. Applying the same principle as the earth not being the center of the universe, is there any reason we are the first technological civilization to evolve here?
Even if a prior native intelligence made it to the moon and mars would we even be able to find evidence there?
I had never thought about using a hypertransport connection to get an fpga connected to a cpu, but I had often wondered about fitting an fpga into an sdram socket. You just write your block of data out to memory and read the results back.
Although where I work we would like to use postgresql, we do not because it does not support case insensitive queries like mysql, sql server and sybase.
I run vmware with a triple monitor setup and have had no real problems with 5.5. The only minor annoyance is when the vmware session is maximized in one monitor it will not relese the mouse automatically. You have to escape out of full screen to get the mouse out of the session.
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I think there is a big difference between a robot that lasts way beyond its designed lifetime and space module that carries people.
The ISS is in a very hostile environment that undergoes millions of temperature and stress cycles over its lifetime.
Eventually the metal will fatigue and fail. It is no different than what happens with an aircraft over its lifetime.
Once you get past a certain point you can not fully trust the structural integrity with people on board.
I still visit Digg or Slashdot to read the full article description,
click associated links and read comments. So my eyeballs are on the site.
I just will not put up with some site framing the site they are linking to.
I primarily use rss feeds to find new articles. I was tracking digg by rss until they started framing.
I immediately dropped all news feeds from them and avoided using their site. Once I read
that digg made frames an opt-in feature, I added Digg back into my news reader.
If I find some other site(like Slashdot) were to do the same thing, they would have one
less set of eyeballs looking at their site.
There are established procedures for landing with no radio. A light gun with red and green is used so that the tower can signal an aircraft when it is okay to enter final and land.
I was in a similar situation. The first thing I did was try to figure out how to ensure that once I started an exercise routine, I could continue it. It had to be a lifestyle change.
Initially I bought an exercise bike, but later I bought a treadmill. Since I did not want to spend thirty minutes staring at a wall while I ran, I bought a 13 inch flat panel TV and attached it to the wall in front of my treadmill. I attached a DVD player and watch rentals from netflix. Watching something with lots of action makes it easier to push yourself harder.
The most important thing to maintain my routine is that I do my run as soon as I get home from work. I do not let myself get sidetracked on anything else.
I have been following this routine for about 5 years now.
In addition to keeping the weight off, it has really helped with stress levels. I have also found that the days I usually feel worn down and tired after work are the days that I have my best runs.
Danger Room - National Security
http://blog.wired.com/defense
Threat Level-Security and Politics.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/
While I think the addition of a chromosome is a significant step, I think it is also very important to notice that this research is going to be published in the open journal PLOS Genetics.
Also according to the article, Monsanto has a nonexclusive license. They can not lock out the rest of the world from making use of this technique. It was probably very tempting for Chromatin to sell out, but it sounds like they have some ideals.
I am wondering why human rights groups do not use UAV's to try and monitor abuses. They are small and could be launched anonymously from bordering countries.
They could even be inexpensive enough to not bother with recovery. This could make it more difficult for authorities to trace the aircraft back to the launch site or originating country.
I have to agree as well. By failing to impeach, a dangerous precedent is being set. We are saying it is okay for presidents, regardless of the political party, to ignore the constitution and govern in a monarchical fashion when it is convenient to do so. By failing to draft articles of impeachment, Congress is failing their constitutional responsibility of checking the power of the president.
After installing patches on Wednesday I started having a peculiar problem when running vmware 5.4. The host box network connectivity would be lost. It would take a reboot of the machine to reestablish the network connection. I also had one unexpected system reboot when running the arp command while troubleshooting the problem. The problem appears to have gone away once I uninstalled the latest patches. No way to know which one was causing the problem. This was on a Windows XPSP2 box.
I think you are right. Many thanks.
Interesting name match with the Star Trek episode.
This make me think of a B sci fi movie I saw many years ago and I can not remember the title of.
I think it was black and white. It was about a scientist who created a simulation of the world that he could watch under a microscope. As he watched history, which progressed at an accelerated rate, and a war happened he was attacked by a ghost of some kind. Just as history was to the point that he could see what would happen in the future he was attacked a final time by the ghost and had to destroy the experiment before the ghost killed him. I guess the moral being you are not allowed to know the future.
I may not have all the details correct, but maybe someone can tell me the name of that movie?
Blender has a rather unintuitive interface and most of the documentation is not that great. Fortunately I came across this excellent tutorial . The file is a pdf. It took me about a month of evenings and weekends, but once I was through the tutorial I was quite comfortable with the interface. It is really amazing what you can do with Blender once you get over the learning curve.
It does not do any good to have a working body if I am still brain dead at the end of the process.
It might be useful so organs could be used for a transplant.
From the Danger Zone this briefing claims that flipper would do a much better job
If not totalitarian, then maybe Czar Putin I.
I have often wondered about sending a bunch of cubesats out to explore the solar system.
Even if all they carried was a simple camera we could collect lots of interesting data.
Plus it may give us a better idea of where to send the more expensive probes
I have to think that is part of the reason that Microsoft put the restrictions into its EULA about running Vista in VM's. They do not want people to start realizing that with a VM, the OS is just another application.
Bell's inequality did not rule out anything.
Bells Theorem stated the hidden variables question in such a way that it could be experimentally tested.
When the experiments were done, it was demonstrated there are no hidden variables in quantum mechanics.
The experiments could have confirmed the existence of hidden variables, but they did not.
I am sitting here today facing the possibility of losing electrical power due to icestorms. Having a small machine that can run independently of the power grid indefinitely would be nice.
So if the earth can so completely erase the existence of an intelligent civilization is there any reason to think we are the first intelligent species to appear on this planet. Applying the same principle as the earth not being the center of the universe, is there any reason we are the first technological civilization to evolve here?
Even if a prior native intelligence made it to the moon and mars would we even be able to find evidence there?
I had never thought about using a hypertransport connection to get an fpga connected to a cpu, but I had often wondered about fitting an fpga into an sdram socket. You just write your block of data out to memory and read the results back.
for the virus scanner and one core so I can get some work done!
Although where I work we would like to use postgresql, we do not because it does not support case insensitive queries like mysql, sql server and sybase.
I run vmware with a triple monitor setup and have had no real problems with 5.5. The only minor annoyance is when the vmware session is maximized in one monitor it will not relese the mouse automatically. You have to escape out of full screen to get the mouse out of the session.