Though those solar panels aren't so whimsy when it comes to ranges of conditions in which they operate, which was the point; slightly outside of the problem, both literally and figuratively.
There is an easy fix for sun-pointing - spin stabilisation. Not always optimal of course, but Juno design and mission objectives make me think it will be utilised.
And as you said, solar panels will improve (possibly dramatically), so your quick calculations of required surface were not about the panles which might be used in a few decades...
Types of capacitors used in HDDs, which seem to be from the more durable types (isn't the decay in those primarily from operation anyway?), might fare at least as good as mechanical elements...
Which makes it just as incorrect - many current models still record in MJPEG. Many not "very old" ones at all also do - an there are tons of them still in use.
You're confusing two different things - meeting objectives of that particular launch, with a corresponding capability which the Dragon spacecraft proper is yet to demonstrate.
They were looking for something sensible, most valuable in terms of data, and available to launch; so settled on what they had at hand & which is quite close to Dragon spacecraft (mostly a structural mockup which certainly doesn't have at least most of its crucial subsystems) - only as far as the rocket is concerned. The rocket met all its objectives in terms of launching Dragon. But not Dragon, because it wasn't present.
Funny thing is, you're basically saying this at the end - "the primary objectives were to test the launch vehicle itself rather than the thing on the top."...
Of course it has worse compression...but "a really huge bitrate for lousy quality" goes too far. DV is, in its essence, very similar to MJPEG (the latter probably slightly better usually) - is DV really "lousy quality"? And with a "really huge bitrate" MJPEG might be really fine for most stuff.
That's beside the point of curse how it is on its way out; perhaps except in Nikon cameras, so far.
"Nearly every consumer device outputs video in MPEG format" - not really, since there's a LOT of devices outputting in MJPEG. At least "still" - since this way of saving video seems to be, for some time now, on its way out in newer ones.
Not saying that the situation isn't suboptimal anyway, of course. And TBH I'm not sure if WebM can change much - Microsoft (yes, them out of all companies...) VC-1 codec was probably also meant to bypass MPEG-LA; didn't really work well.
It gets upgraded automatically anyway, no reason to encourage people there... (yes, I do hope, perhaps in vain, that it doesn't affect the decisions on the level of "I can't use this browser, it has too low number")
Since a helicopter landed on the Everest few years back, I imagine you can also basically just fly to the worst parts of the Himalayas, if you really want to.
Unless it's a massively parallel array of ARM cores. An idea which some people are supposedly exploring. And for which ARM-like cores seem suited.
With control of single manufacturer over hardware, OS, libraries and...developers it might be even workable (unlike quickly shifting PCs to many-core model)
Intel probably still has something. Recent "Atom for smartphones" most likely includes an ARM core in its radio interface. And in the "southbridge" there's a part described as 32 bit host controller (or something like that) - would be surprising if not some ARM (why wouldn't it be one?)
BP's safety procedures are based on industry standards, which were so good that there had never been a spill in the 40 years prior to the BP spill. 40 years without incident, think about that.
Looking at the amounts (also diversity - each time you talk to them, there's something different) of gear in posession of local merchants, and the margins they keep (just compare the values when selling and buying), it seems more like you're just their productive labourer;p
I don't think it's fair to say that Dragon met all of its objectives in terms of launch - large part of that would be its internal instrumentation, avionics, equipment, etc. surviving the conditions of launch. Which might sound like something which they shouldn't screw up, but since all that stuff was absent - we can't be sure yet.
Should be really fun on a mission to Titan - in many ways, worst of both worlds (just, when firmly in the atmosphere, with 100C lower temperature and possibly greater rate of heat loss due to higher density of the atmo...OTOH, that higher density and lower forces involved in buoyancy, might slightly help against convective heat loss? At least the temperatures are quite stable...)
But nevermind machines, this one will be relatively easy (one our probe survived already, before its batteries got exhausted) - I wonder, do you have anybody at hand there who is quite into survival gear and would find it entertaining to contemplate what would be needed for a human to survive in such environment?:)
I guess, apart from "scaled up" extreme cold weather outerwear (virtually hermetic & with full helmet?), active heating would be necessary? For example via a garment related to liquid cooling ones in spacesuits, but in this case routing the heat from some carried RTG (hell, even the visor would seem to need quite a lot of it, to avoid condensation in such temp differences). Plus some crafty footwear to isolate from the ground, if only because large part of it is composed of volatiles in "our" temperature ranges... (??)
I would take gladly B&W screen in the least expensive versions; why do we need color for most of the stuff we do on PCs/etc. anyway? (accidentally, the/. page on which I'm writing this reply is completelly greyscale except for yellow "DON'T FEAR THE PUNGUINS"...that's why we need color?)
Cheaper, saving battery, can be made very good even without backlight (saving the costs and even more the battery) - what's not to like?
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Though those solar panels aren't so whimsy when it comes to ranges of conditions in which they operate, which was the point; slightly outside of the problem, both literally and figuratively.
There is an easy fix for sun-pointing - spin stabilisation. Not always optimal of course, but Juno design and mission objectives make me think it will be utilised.
And as you said, solar panels will improve (possibly dramatically), so your quick calculations of required surface were not about the panles which might be used in a few decades...
Easy, just assure nepotism / etc. can work.
Types of capacitors used in HDDs, which seem to be from the more durable types (isn't the decay in those primarily from operation anyway?), might fare at least as good as mechanical elements...
Vast majority of "paper" works surviving to this day does so in fact thanks to retention.
Which makes it just as incorrect - many current models still record in MJPEG. Many not "very old" ones at all also do - an there are tons of them still in use.
You're confusing two different things - meeting objectives of that particular launch, with a corresponding capability which the Dragon spacecraft proper is yet to demonstrate.
They were looking for something sensible, most valuable in terms of data, and available to launch; so settled on what they had at hand & which is quite close to Dragon spacecraft (mostly a structural mockup which certainly doesn't have at least most of its crucial subsystems) - only as far as the rocket is concerned. The rocket met all its objectives in terms of launching Dragon. But not Dragon, because it wasn't present.
Funny thing is, you're basically saying this at the end - "the primary objectives were to test the launch vehicle itself rather than the thing on the top."...
Hm, interesting how the access to, especially, high speed internet might have a positive(*) influence on living density...
(*) let us not kid ourself, it's pretty much required; with greater efficiency that goes with it, plus the number of people and their resource usage.
Of course it has worse compression...but "a really huge bitrate for lousy quality" goes too far. DV is, in its essence, very similar to MJPEG (the latter probably slightly better usually) - is DV really "lousy quality"? And with a "really huge bitrate" MJPEG might be really fine for most stuff.
That's beside the point of curse how it is on its way out; perhaps except in Nikon cameras, so far.
Don't count on it too much. Don't be surprised if WebM will be, in some time, where VC-1 is - forced into submission.
"Nearly every consumer device outputs video in MPEG format" - not really, since there's a LOT of devices outputting in MJPEG. At least "still" - since this way of saving video seems to be, for some time now, on its way out in newer ones.
Not saying that the situation isn't suboptimal anyway, of course. And TBH I'm not sure if WebM can change much - Microsoft (yes, them out of all companies...) VC-1 codec was probably also meant to bypass MPEG-LA; didn't really work well.
It gets upgraded automatically anyway, no reason to encourage people there... (yes, I do hope, perhaps in vain, that it doesn't affect the decisions on the level of "I can't use this browser, it has too low number")
Since a helicopter landed on the Everest few years back, I imagine you can also basically just fly to the worst parts of the Himalayas, if you really want to.
...the reason Intel dominates is due to manufacturing capability. Nobody can touch them...
Except in low power scenarios, it seems.
"X-Boy" seems to be quite...scary name. And one that they could go with.
Unless it's a massively parallel array of ARM cores. An idea which some people are supposedly exploring. And for which ARM-like cores seem suited.
With control of single manufacturer over hardware, OS, libraries and...developers it might be even workable (unlike quickly shifting PCs to many-core model)
Intel probably still has something. Recent "Atom for smartphones" most likely includes an ARM core in its radio interface. And in the "southbridge" there's a part described as 32 bit host controller (or something like that) - would be surprising if not some ARM (why wouldn't it be one?)
What happens when the publishers demonstrate some e-book reader in the form of a book?
BP's safety procedures are based on industry standards, which were so good that there had never been a spill in the 40 years prior to the BP spill. 40 years without incident, think about that.
Heh, heh, heh...
http://kyon.pl/img/16258,oil,map,.html
Looking at the amounts (also diversity - each time you talk to them, there's something different) of gear in posession of local merchants, and the margins they keep (just compare the values when selling and buying), it seems more like you're just their productive labourer ;p
So "the many" could fund it.
"Certainly"? "Governments are not doing"?...
I don't think it's fair to say that Dragon met all of its objectives in terms of launch - large part of that would be its internal instrumentation, avionics, equipment, etc. surviving the conditions of launch. Which might sound like something which they shouldn't screw up, but since all that stuff was absent - we can't be sure yet.
Should be really fun on a mission to Titan - in many ways, worst of both worlds (just, when firmly in the atmosphere, with 100C lower temperature and possibly greater rate of heat loss due to higher density of the atmo...OTOH, that higher density and lower forces involved in buoyancy, might slightly help against convective heat loss? At least the temperatures are quite stable...)
But nevermind machines, this one will be relatively easy (one our probe survived already, before its batteries got exhausted) - I wonder, do you have anybody at hand there who is quite into survival gear and would find it entertaining to contemplate what would be needed for a human to survive in such environment? :)
I guess, apart from "scaled up" extreme cold weather outerwear (virtually hermetic & with full helmet?), active heating would be necessary? For example via a garment related to liquid cooling ones in spacesuits, but in this case routing the heat from some carried RTG (hell, even the visor would seem to need quite a lot of it, to avoid condensation in such temp differences). Plus some crafty footwear to isolate from the ground, if only because large part of it is composed of volatiles in "our" temperature ranges...
(??)
As long as it can its job, the specs don't matter much; other than "we must use something good enough."
$17, with not only the screen VASTLY cheaper...
I would take gladly B&W screen in the least expensive versions; why do we need color for most of the stuff we do on PCs/etc. anyway? (accidentally, the /. page on which I'm writing this reply is completelly greyscale except for yellow "DON'T FEAR THE PUNGUINS"...that's why we need color?)
Cheaper, saving battery, can be made very good even without backlight (saving the costs and even more the battery) - what's not to like?