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Quite correct but nothing spectacularly heavy gets launched from VAFB.
As for the heavy lifting Russians did from their more northerly pads,
they paid for it: they had to design monster booster stages.
Thank [whatever teh godless skeptics pray to] for Lindsay Bayerstein or that bit of news would have badly damaged my faith in Canadians as the clean-and-sane people from North America.
Canaveral was a logical space port choice for two reasons. The built in kinetic energy of an object on the earths surface is due to its tangential velocity WRT the earths CG. That decreases as cos(latitude) when you move from equator to pole. As far south in the continental us as you can find a chunk of govt-owned eastern shore is ideal because at 28 north latitude, it has 88% of the KE of an object launched from equator, providing you pitch it into an eastward revolving orbit. That second reason? Since you have to tilt east, your boost trajectory goes safely over unpopulated ocean. Nova Scotia, at an average latitude of 45n only has 70% of the maximum possible KE...you need more fuel to orbit an equal weight of payload than they do in FL. NS only has the shore going for it.
Did someone sell the Province the brooklyn bridge too?
The world-shrinking communications tech that has made so many languages a hindrance to commerce and cooperation is also the cheapest most effective way to preserve for future use, the spoken and written forms of these languages we are pushing aside. If comms and internet have truly gotten us to the point that you cannot find two people on the planet who are more than 6 degrees of separation apart then WTF do you need 7000 languages for?
the "problem" of only being able to be logged into one Gmail account at at time [and all the googledocs and blogging features bound to the google identity cookie] becomes a lame and slight advantage:
Give yourself a junk google Identity...that is easy these days since no priming based on a prior email acct is needed. Do your business with trusted sites using your "good" identity...the one with 8000 emails containing your life story and your companies proprietary info. For general surfing [you don't do both goofing off and quality connecting in the same session, get it?] you log into your junk identity. It should be the last identity used if you tend not to scrub the cache/history/cookies when you close a browser.
There is no such thing as a "trusted" PC or workstation...get over it.
The point of the art in NYTimes was that computer systems [in which we embed algorithms] have turned out, after enough years of cost reducing hardware, speeding up communications and harnessing that power to consumer-friendly uses, to be more potent and capable of symbiotic intelligence than even Turing might have expected. By themselves, the computers are only peer-level players in human activities when you see them in Sci-Fi.
And thank you to the commenters who have done the math: the pay back period is a fairly tricky thing to calculate even if you assume linear functions of time for efficiency decay and money costs and the KWH cost of competing sources like the power co.s
yeah, that was kind of a stretch. what I mean is that once you know how to write on the registry, you can slip your DLLs in to the system. It is of course much more than a list of "what stuff can we execute" but it has an aspect of such a list: it confers trusted status on executable things.
And what makes it a bad kind of white list [and why I agreed with the root comment] was that it is not adequately protected for the job it has to do...a job the OS should not have left open to the programming hoards.
I mean objective #4, the problem of generating code that operates as an evil agent, a wily enemy loose in yer gamz and wastin yer avatarz. It will have to involve some learning and some capability to evolve. About 1 year after it finishes off all the opponents in whatever MMOG world it inhabits, some idiot at DoD will, just fer kicks, drop it into a networked C4I system and we will all be toast.
I agree. In a way, the Windows registry was the grandpa of all badly implemented whitelists...look where that put the windows OS family in the rankings of secure operating systems.
there is such a thing as a grad student TA. People who are young enough to have essentially never been without internet, TM, cell phones and chatware and don't seem much troubled by using anything that is downloadable are now facing the students as well as sitting among them. The senior who got wireless and could google the answer to the prof's question using his laptop is going to know what's going on when, just a year later, he is handling a recitation section as a TA. It is probably a real relief to the stereotyped generation of superannuated "professors" Scott may be trying to conjure up in his choice of words
Or from another vantage point: profs who kept stingy office hours are just sticking to formula if they update that behavior by ignoring email...nothing new here, move along.
OK, now to go RTFA;)
fight liar with liar and start counter myths... oh, whoops, HOW to myths get started in the first place?
my proposed "myth": anyone who thinks a secular despot and absolute dictator would welcome a bunch of fundamentalists in his country is a drooling idiot.
if movies that lie about physics mess up a person's ability to understand physics, then I should definitely never have gotten my BS in physics...but I did. And I watched enough Bugs Bunny and Road Runner cartoons to retard a roomful of Nobel laureates. Its more likely that being stupid impairs your ability to do physics.
Fatuous acceptance of shallow study results impairs you ability to do damn near anything.
why dont they just admit they can catch, jail, sue or even identify all the people who have now copied the number? Unlike other usese of the phrase, I would say the poster can claim "mission accomplished". Being a subversive myself,I of course followed the link and cached the number where is safe behind a fire wall. [and no, log readers,, its NOT the firewall from which I am posting this comment!]
A few things I have learned from the hitcounters on one of my blogs:
Google has a list of no-nos on there help pages. I once set fontcolor==bgcolor for some text that held a lot of keywords that I wanted on every post. my blog disappeared from google. I went to their problems and solutions FAQ and eventually found out that was an offense to the gods of pageranking. I just deleted teh keywordz...bingo, my pages show up.
If you are selling via a blog or are using a blog to augment your web presencce and customer communication, use Blogger even though it is lame and has few and unimaginative canned layouts. why? I swear google crawls the busier blogger blogs daily. [why not, they own it]
Do as I do, pour over your hit counters. Sitemeter, for instance, reports the search strings by which a hit was placed to your page..if it clicked through and came to you via search, look for patterns in the search string...it may tell you subtle (and very inexepensive) things to change to improve traffic. And as mentioned in earlier comments, you don't need some consultant to do that. Just download the hitcounter log into a spreadsheet.
funny but insightful too. the temptation to mock this project because of its optimistic name is shortchanging a lot of other good hopes. In the time elapsed since this was first proposed, the dollar has fallen drastically against most other currencies. The full inflation effects of that will be a while catching up to us but most of the parts in that computer are not made in countries where workers are paid dollars.
much to this point about print media taking every chance it gets to knock blogging. another example of it was the way Time/CNN wrote up Edwards blogger's spat
"But bottling the lightning of blogger authenticity is not easy. Many blogosphere activists suspect anyone signing on with a campaign of selling out. And in the era of drum-tight message control, campaigns are not inclined to tolerate the independence bloggers need to maintain their credibility."
...as if print media had that much discipline, as if it mattered much.
look at the very thin "contrails" that trail behind the wingtips of a jet pulling a high-G manueuver.
This is a wingtip vortex and the pressure drop in the core of the vortex is so strong that moisture in the air condenses out, like a string of fog. But pay attention: the strength of this vortex was achieved under very unusual conditinons in free air and by the application of perhaps a thousand horsepower engine....where on earth is a little breeze, however amplified by mechanical advantage, going to achieve such conditions. Also, if you stick your soda straw in such a vortex, how much horse power does it take for you to pull out the condensate?
[yes, you COULD create such a vortex in a wind tunnel, its done all the time in aeronautical reseach. but again you could drive to the store in your Hummer to bring back bottles of perrier and get more water for the fuel expended.]
writing in ungrammatical english but not uninformed, Russian lawyer Czarkoff says in OSNEWS that indeed this deal signals that linux sysems dev is selling out to the dark side. Once it looses its soul, its marketshare won't matter.
does this mean I can get at their X.509 and other security related code? I think it would be possible to start building backdoors into key pieces of security infrastructure and slip your hack, trojan style, into assorted projects and products if controls were not in place to validate carefully new versions of stuff we once trusted entirely to Sun.
gawd! how could I forget DG? My second professional programming job was writing the "zero Car Availability" module [in assembler] for the Boston Police dept 911 dispatching system: on DG hardware, in 1976.
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Quite correct but nothing spectacularly heavy gets launched from VAFB. As for the heavy lifting Russians did from their more northerly pads, they paid for it: they had to design monster booster stages.
Thank [whatever teh godless skeptics pray to] for Lindsay Bayerstein or that bit of news would have badly damaged my faith in Canadians as the clean-and-sane people from North America.
Canaveral was a logical space port choice for two reasons. The built in kinetic energy of an object on the earths surface is due to its tangential velocity WRT the earths CG. That decreases as cos(latitude) when you move from equator to pole. As far south in the continental us as you can find a chunk of govt-owned eastern shore is ideal because at 28 north latitude, it has 88% of the KE of an object launched from equator, providing you pitch it into an eastward revolving orbit. That second reason? Since you have to tilt east, your boost trajectory goes safely over unpopulated ocean. Nova Scotia, at an average latitude of 45n only has 70% of the maximum possible KE...you need more fuel to orbit an equal weight of payload than they do in FL. NS only has the shore going for it. Did someone sell the Province the brooklyn bridge too?
The world-shrinking communications tech that has made so many languages a hindrance to commerce and cooperation is also the cheapest most effective way to preserve for future use, the spoken and written forms of these languages we are pushing aside. If comms and internet have truly gotten us to the point that you cannot find two people on the planet who are more than 6 degrees of separation apart then WTF do you need 7000 languages for?
the "problem" of only being able to be logged into one Gmail account at at time [and all the googledocs and blogging features bound to the google identity cookie] becomes a lame and slight advantage: Give yourself a junk google Identity...that is easy these days since no priming based on a prior email acct is needed. Do your business with trusted sites using your "good" identity...the one with 8000 emails containing your life story and your companies proprietary info. For general surfing [you don't do both goofing off and quality connecting in the same session, get it?] you log into your junk identity. It should be the last identity used if you tend not to scrub the cache/history/cookies when you close a browser. There is no such thing as a "trusted" PC or workstation...get over it.
The point of the art in NYTimes was that computer systems [in which we embed algorithms] have turned out, after enough years of cost reducing hardware, speeding up communications and harnessing that power to consumer-friendly uses, to be more potent and capable of symbiotic intelligence than even Turing might have expected. By themselves, the computers are only peer-level players in human activities when you see them in Sci-Fi.
Not in commercial production yet but there are several competing technologies
that do at least 40%:
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18910/page2/
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18415/
And thank you to the commenters who have done the math: the pay back period is a fairly tricky thing to calculate even if you assume linear functions of time for efficiency decay and money costs and the KWH cost of competing sources like the power co.s
yeah, that was kind of a stretch. what I mean is that once you know how to write on the registry, you can slip your DLLs in to the system. It is of course much more than a list of "what stuff can we execute" but it has an aspect of such a list: it confers trusted status on executable things. And what makes it a bad kind of white list [and why I agreed with the root comment] was that it is not adequately protected for the job it has to do...a job the OS should not have left open to the programming hoards.
I mean objective #4, the problem of generating code that operates as an evil agent, a wily enemy loose in yer gamz and wastin yer avatarz. It will have to involve some learning and some capability to evolve. About 1 year after it finishes off all the opponents in whatever MMOG world it inhabits, some idiot at DoD will, just fer kicks, drop it into a networked C4I system and we will all be toast.
I agree. In a way, the Windows registry was the grandpa of all badly implemented whitelists...look where that put the windows OS family in the rankings of secure operating systems.
there is such a thing as a grad student TA. People who are young enough to have essentially never been without internet, TM, cell phones and chatware and don't seem much troubled by using anything that is downloadable are now facing the students as well as sitting among them. The senior who got wireless and could google the answer to the prof's question using his laptop is going to know what's going on when, just a year later, he is handling a recitation section as a TA. It is probably a real relief to the stereotyped generation of superannuated "professors" Scott may be trying to conjure up in his choice of words
;)
Or from another vantage point: profs who kept stingy office hours are just sticking to formula if they update that behavior by ignoring email...nothing new here, move along. OK, now to go RTFA
fight liar with liar and start counter myths...
oh, whoops, HOW to myths get started in the first place?
my proposed "myth": anyone who thinks a secular despot and absolute dictator would welcome a bunch of fundamentalists in his country is a drooling idiot.
if movies that lie about physics mess up a person's ability to understand physics, then I should definitely never have gotten my BS in physics...but I did. And I watched enough Bugs Bunny and Road Runner cartoons to retard a roomful of Nobel laureates. Its more likely that being stupid impairs your ability to do physics.
Fatuous acceptance of shallow study results impairs you ability to do damn near anything.
why dont they just admit they can catch, jail, sue or even identify all the people who have now copied the number? Unlike other usese of the phrase, I would say the poster can claim "mission accomplished". Being a subversive myself,I of course followed the link and cached the number where is safe behind a fire wall. [and no, log readers,, its NOT the firewall from which I am posting this comment!]
funny but insightful too. the temptation to mock this project because of its optimistic name is shortchanging a lot of other good hopes. In the time elapsed since this was first proposed, the dollar has fallen drastically against most other currencies. The full inflation effects of that will be a while catching up to us but most of the parts in that computer are not made in countries where workers are paid dollars.
look at the very thin "contrails" that trail behind the wingtips of a jet pulling a high-G manueuver.
n 's_Gust_Water_Trap_Apparatus
This is a wingtip vortex and the pressure drop in the core of the vortex is so strong that moisture in the air condenses out, like a string of fog. But pay attention: the strength of this vortex was achieved under very unusual conditinons in free air and by the application of perhaps a thousand horsepower engine....where on earth is a little breeze, however amplified by mechanical advantage, going to achieve such conditions. Also, if you stick your soda straw in such a vortex, how much horse power does it take for you to pull out the condensate?
[yes, you COULD create such a vortex in a wind tunnel, its done all the time in aeronautical reseach. but again you could drive to the store in your Hummer to bring back bottles of perrier and get more water for the fuel expended.]
there is now a wiki page up on the patent inolved...it won't produce more than you could sweat.
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Max_Whisso
writing in ungrammatical english but not uninformed, Russian lawyer Czarkoff says in OSNEWS that indeed this deal signals that linux sysems dev is selling out to the dark side. Once it looses its soul, its marketshare won't matter.
there's no internet in NKorea to download your iTunes from and the only mp3 available is of Kim's speeches.
thats it, a nice sloppy wet kiss.
does this mean I can get at their X.509 and other security related code? I think it would be possible to start building backdoors into key pieces of security infrastructure and slip your hack, trojan style, into assorted projects and products if controls were not in place to validate carefully new versions of stuff we once trusted entirely to Sun.
Finally! something a tinfoil hat will protect against!
gawd! how could I forget DG? My second professional programming job was writing the "zero Car Availability" module [in assembler] for the Boston Police dept 911 dispatching system: on DG hardware, in 1976.