Old grain mills were always built by the side of a river and hill. A bit of water would be diverted from a stream, to slew gate. It would then flow to the top of a 30 foot paddle wheel with buckets to keep the water in. The wheel turned a shaft that was then geared down to turning the mill wheel. If you have seen the movie 'The Princess Bride', they have something similar in there where they are torturing the main hero. The buckets are important as they keep the water in until they are horizontal, getting the most out of gravity. Something similar should be possible if you have a hill near you. If you can get a picture of the mill at Appomatix Court House you should be set.
A-ATA cables are about 3/8 to 1/2 of an inch wide and about 1/8th thick. you can twist the round and round without losing much length, and they do 90 degree turns easily. I got a new computer back in october with SATA, this is how I know. And the regular length S-ATA DATA cables are about half that of the P-ATA cables. Only thing is they need a power adapter in most computers since the plugs are different. Best thing about the ATA cables? Impossible to put them in backwards. I still have the problem of P-ATA cables going in the wrong way.
They argue that many water shortages could simply be solved by better conservation of existing supplies.
I wonder what they would say if we had 1 gallon of watter per person per day? Say that we need to conserve more water? I meen, that is about the minimum amount of fluid needed to sustain a human.
HOW do Defense/Military Contractors get MONEY in all of this? Please tell. Were not shipping weapons, the only thing that we could use that they produce would be some high grade parts and rocket engines.
So we:
A) Put the base underground
B) Even if it is sharp, we can deal with that. Show me the last time dust or dirt that wasn't moving harmed steel.
C) It would be easier to use the Moon's materials to build the stations that Earth materials due to the gravity wells.
It's not testing equipment for Mars, but testing for getting to Mars and the whole infrastructure required to do it. Also, the Moon can be THE staging platform for going to Mars. Build everything on the Moon and the weaker gravity well makes it easier to get into orbit. Better yet, just ship up raw marterials from the Moon the Lagrange Point 5, and contstruct everything there. We could even use a catapult system based on railgun technology to send up the rawmaterials. No fuel, electromagnetic force only. Requires only plentiful electricity which can be supplied by solar power.
Interference from things on Earth:
Miles thick atmosphere
More RF than you would believe
City Lights - (only place unaffected is middle of the pacific)
Higher Gravity
Capability of linking Lunar and Earth radio telescopes to "build" one about 384kilometers in diameter Example
There's your examples of why the moon is better for astronomy.
Gradually work towards sending a person and bringing them back by sending lots of expendable things, and bringing them back with stuff for us to study here. Scale up as we go along instead of having one immediate big push. Isn't that sensible? br.
No. Just like there is a big difference between sending Spirit and Unity to Mars and sending a human. The support required for a human is vastly different and greater. You have food, heating (more, anyway), water, light, air, recycling and many other things. Also, there is the matter of scale. Sending a small robot to the Moon and bringing it back is orders of magnitude easier to sending a human into space, let alone setting up a colony. Compare sending a robotic probe to the bottom of the Marianas trench vs. a Manned one (the latter we haven't been able to do yet). We can build a machine to do the former, but to do the latter requires different construction. It would be like saying "Ok, we can send a waterproof camera down to the ocean floor, now lets build ourselves a Viriginia Class nuclear sub."
How about we just make the Moon Base entirely self sufficient so we don't have to supply it. More expensive upstart cost, but more sustainable and cheaper in the long run. Then, we can use the moon as a staging platforms for going other places. With it's smaller gravity well, it is a lot easier to get stuff off of it. Doubly so with no atmosphere to speak of. Plus, we should be able to get raw meaterial from the moon to build ships to get to build ships to get to Mars.
Scew the AK-47's (What's an RPG?)
I'll go out with a bleepin haksaw and muscle paralyzer darts and blow gun to hunt dear and other furries just to see that.
Standard household breakers are rated at 20 amps, but they would configure these to use less than that. Also, your ovens, old microwaves and driers (some washers as well) have their own ciruit from the amount of current they draw. In a company that has servers that draw a lot of current, they are running special thick wire that supports extra current.
Accountants crying:
As long as the power isn't off for too long, the demand won't shoot up much. If the power is off for a second, it will take a milisecond or less to recharge. So it will NOT drive up the electricity bills any more than they were. Where this might be a problem is in tripping the local area power grid from too much load. We need a Power EE to answere that one.
Where this also might be a problem is what happens when you have these things in a UPS and a generator for extended power and a few aren't fully charged. The generator will crap out pretty quickly.
As to heat created, The amount of heat created will be equal to Volts*current-(Amount absorbed into the battery). Efficiency will be (Amount Abosorbed)/(Volts*Current). So if it has a high efficiency, there will be very little heat released.
He may be over 200, but due to the spice treatments (NOT DUNE SPICE, this spice mearly reverses/stops the aging process) he looks about 25-35. He is also very good at solving problems.
What I really want to know, is how they are going to portray the Kzin "Speaker to Animals" (I can't remember his original title). I hope they have the Jim Henson company make him a giant mupet or something similar. A CG Kzin wouldn't look very good at all.
As to what a Pierson's Puppeter would look like. A ball with two leggs, two heads and two long necks. each with it's own mouth and eye. The mouths dubble as hands and the necks as arms.
Now the really big question is, who is going to play the 25 (i think) year old univers's luckiest girl? (and yes, i do know what happens to her later on.) It's the chick that is going to make this flick popular.
And today on the Crocidile Hunter, we have guest food er, i mean guest STAR Darl McBride!
Crocodile Hunter: Now Darl, what I want you to do is take this steak, walk right up to charlie (big croc) over there, and put it in his mouth when he opens up. OK?
What if the next version of WMA encryption were as secure as AES?
Umm.... Currently AES comes in 192 and 256 bit flavors and supports higher. But remember, they have to be sufficiently week such that a computer or (DVD-type) player can decode them on the fly. (That's the reason DVD's only have 40 bit encryption.) Given that they will have to have a single master key for everything. (DVD's have many master keys, knocking the 40bit down to something a few bits less. 36 maybe?) It would be possible for a group to simply brute force the key. Given that Distributed.net Has been doing this with RC5 implementations on many computers (i know how long it would take them in comparison, but computing power will catch up.) They could crack the master key in a couple years. Less if more people got involved, or if they made special hardware for it. Therefor, if they used that and enough people helped out, they could make it infeasable to use any encryption at all. Hell, it would probably take them a week at most to find every single DVD master key by brute force.
It's affected sales to me. I stopped buying cd's when napster first came out, and haven't since. I bought two songs on itunes, but eventually uninstalled it because it is so pathetically slow in windows.
The only CD's I own are either movie soundtracks or from the 80's and earlier. That's because everything else is CRAP! I refuse to listen to anything younger than that simply because it sucks. I grew up on clasical and clasic rock. There aint nothin today that even comes close, and the musicians know it. Including...Especially the ones that are winning the awards nowadays.
Why are the people who call Bush a dictator the same ones who want to take away our guns?
Defense are actively pursuing an agenda calling for the unprecedented weaponization of space.
This guy must not have been alive during the cold way. I don't care what the nuclear space ban treay says, I am positive both the USA AND USSR put nukes in space during the cold war. That also includes ani-satelite satelites.
"Weapons in space are not inevitable. If it were, it would have happened already"
I get the feeling I have heard this before. Mainly from people who believe something to be impossible right before someone else goes and does it. Besides, at some point someone will put some form of weapon in space, I just don't know what kind. The question I have is, who is going to be the police?
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Ummm.... Last I checked without Electricity, or something akin to it, People would freeze to death. And in this day and age, wood doesn't cut it.
Old grain mills were always built by the side of a river and hill. A bit of water would be diverted from a stream, to slew gate. It would then flow to the top of a 30 foot paddle wheel with buckets to keep the water in. The wheel turned a shaft that was then geared down to turning the mill wheel. If you have seen the movie 'The Princess Bride', they have something similar in there where they are torturing the main hero. The buckets are important as they keep the water in until they are horizontal, getting the most out of gravity. Something similar should be possible if you have a hill near you. If you can get a picture of the mill at Appomatix Court House you should be set.
A-ATA cables are about 3/8 to 1/2 of an inch wide and about 1/8th thick. you can twist the round and round without losing much length, and they do 90 degree turns easily. I got a new computer back in october with SATA, this is how I know. And the regular length S-ATA DATA cables are about half that of the P-ATA cables. Only thing is they need a power adapter in most computers since the plugs are different. Best thing about the ATA cables? Impossible to put them in backwards. I still have the problem of P-ATA cables going in the wrong way.
At 4 feet tall, how is it going to help get anything from a cabinet? My 5' tall mom has trouble doing that, With a step lader.
They argue that many water shortages could simply be solved by better conservation of existing supplies.
I wonder what they would say if we had 1 gallon of watter per person per day? Say that we need to conserve more water? I meen, that is about the minimum amount of fluid needed to sustain a human.
Top Gueses for User/Pass
The user/pass is:
Spook/Subpena
FBI/Agent
CIA/NSA
FBI/Snoop
Bill/Gates
(God or Sex or Love)/(God or Sex or Love)
Cisco/ocsiC
Anyone know what it is for sure? and why they put it in there?
HOW do Defense/Military Contractors get MONEY in all of this? Please tell. Were not shipping weapons, the only thing that we could use that they produce would be some high grade parts and rocket engines.
So we:
A) Put the base underground
B) Even if it is sharp, we can deal with that. Show me the last time dust or dirt that wasn't moving harmed steel.
C) It would be easier to use the Moon's materials to build the stations that Earth materials due to the gravity wells.
It's not testing equipment for Mars, but testing for getting to Mars and the whole infrastructure required to do it. Also, the Moon can be THE staging platform for going to Mars. Build everything on the Moon and the weaker gravity well makes it easier to get into orbit. Better yet, just ship up raw marterials from the Moon the Lagrange Point 5, and contstruct everything there. We could even use a catapult system based on railgun technology to send up the rawmaterials. No fuel, electromagnetic force only. Requires only plentiful electricity which can be supplied by solar power.
3) His friends in the defense contractor industry will see tens of billions of dollars.
Excuse me but, Exactly HOW will helping NASA do this?
Interference from things on Earth:
Miles thick atmosphere
More RF than you would believe
City Lights - (only place unaffected is middle of the pacific)
Higher Gravity
Capability of linking Lunar and Earth radio telescopes to "build" one about 384kilometers in diameter Example
There's your examples of why the moon is better for astronomy.
Better idea. How about going there in person? Personally, I wouldn't mind being the first permanent resident.
Gradually work towards sending a person and bringing them back by sending lots of expendable things, and bringing them back with stuff for us to study here. Scale up as we go along instead of having one immediate big push. Isn't that sensible?
br. No. Just like there is a big difference between sending Spirit and Unity to Mars and sending a human. The support required for a human is vastly different and greater. You have food, heating (more, anyway), water, light, air, recycling and many other things. Also, there is the matter of scale. Sending a small robot to the Moon and bringing it back is orders of magnitude easier to sending a human into space, let alone setting up a colony. Compare sending a robotic probe to the bottom of the Marianas trench vs. a Manned one (the latter we haven't been able to do yet). We can build a machine to do the former, but to do the latter requires different construction. It would be like saying "Ok, we can send a waterproof camera down to the ocean floor, now lets build ourselves a Viriginia Class nuclear sub."
How about we just make the Moon Base entirely self sufficient so we don't have to supply it. More expensive upstart cost, but more sustainable and cheaper in the long run. Then, we can use the moon as a staging platforms for going other places. With it's smaller gravity well, it is a lot easier to get stuff off of it. Doubly so with no atmosphere to speak of. Plus, we should be able to get raw meaterial from the moon to build ships to get to build ships to get to Mars.
Scew the AK-47's (What's an RPG?)
I'll go out with a bleepin haksaw and muscle paralyzer darts and blow gun to hunt dear and other furries just to see that.
Adobe also has the download in the haystack problem.
ok, a couple of things.
Standard household breakers are rated at 20 amps, but they would configure these to use less than that. Also, your ovens, old microwaves and driers (some washers as well) have their own ciruit from the amount of current they draw. In a company that has servers that draw a lot of current, they are running special thick wire that supports extra current.
Accountants crying:
As long as the power isn't off for too long, the demand won't shoot up much. If the power is off for a second, it will take a milisecond or less to recharge. So it will NOT drive up the electricity bills any more than they were. Where this might be a problem is in tripping the local area power grid from too much load. We need a Power EE to answere that one.
Where this also might be a problem is what happens when you have these things in a UPS and a generator for extended power and a few aren't fully charged. The generator will crap out pretty quickly.
As to heat created, The amount of heat created will be equal to Volts*current-(Amount absorbed into the battery). Efficiency will be (Amount Abosorbed)/(Volts*Current). So if it has a high efficiency, there will be very little heat released.
The Louis Wo character is over 200 years old.
He may be over 200, but due to the spice treatments (NOT DUNE SPICE, this spice mearly reverses/stops the aging process) he looks about 25-35. He is also very good at solving problems.
What I really want to know, is how they are going to portray the Kzin "Speaker to Animals" (I can't remember his original title). I hope they have the Jim Henson company make him a giant mupet or something similar. A CG Kzin wouldn't look very good at all.
As to what a Pierson's Puppeter would look like. A ball with two leggs, two heads and two long necks. each with it's own mouth and eye. The mouths dubble as hands and the necks as arms.
Now the really big question is, who is going to play the 25 (i think) year old univers's luckiest girl? (and yes, i do know what happens to her later on.) It's the chick that is going to make this flick popular.
And today on the Crocidile Hunter, we have guest food er, i mean guest STAR Darl McBride!
Crocodile Hunter: Now Darl, what I want you to do is take this steak, walk right up to charlie (big croc) over there, and put it in his mouth when he opens up. OK?
Darl: Ok. (walk walk walk, SNAP!)
Archos has stereo recorders, you just need to hook the line in up to something that supplies sterio.
Some of the mirrors are still up:
r /playfair-0.2.tar.gz
http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/playfai
What if the next version of WMA encryption were as secure as AES?
Umm.... Currently AES comes in 192 and 256 bit flavors and supports higher. But remember, they have to be sufficiently week such that a computer or (DVD-type) player can decode them on the fly. (That's the reason DVD's only have 40 bit encryption.) Given that they will have to have a single master key for everything. (DVD's have many master keys, knocking the 40bit down to something a few bits less. 36 maybe?) It would be possible for a group to simply brute force the key. Given that Distributed.net Has been doing this with RC5 implementations on many computers (i know how long it would take them in comparison, but computing power will catch up.) They could crack the master key in a couple years. Less if more people got involved, or if they made special hardware for it. Therefor, if they used that and enough people helped out, they could make it infeasable to use any encryption at all. Hell, it would probably take them a week at most to find every single DVD master key by brute force.
Downloading music does not affect sales.
It's affected sales to me. I stopped buying cd's when napster first came out, and haven't since. I bought two songs on itunes, but eventually uninstalled it because it is so pathetically slow in windows.
The only CD's I own are either movie soundtracks or from the 80's and earlier. That's because everything else is CRAP! I refuse to listen to anything younger than that simply because it sucks. I grew up on clasical and clasic rock. There aint nothin today that even comes close, and the musicians know it. Including...Especially the ones that are winning the awards nowadays.
Why are the people who call Bush a dictator the same ones who want to take away our guns?
Defense are actively pursuing an agenda calling for the unprecedented weaponization of space.
This guy must not have been alive during the cold way. I don't care what the nuclear space ban treay says, I am positive both the USA AND USSR put nukes in space during the cold war. That also includes ani-satelite satelites.
"Weapons in space are not inevitable. If it were, it would have happened already"
I get the feeling I have heard this before. Mainly from people who believe something to be impossible right before someone else goes and does it. Besides, at some point someone will put some form of weapon in space, I just don't know what kind. The question I have is, who is going to be the police?
a) some campuses are blocking slashdot.
b) the DoD has an OC-3 at the least. They don't pay by the gig or tera.