Gizmodo probably has it right, with respect to Blu-Ray, but their article is so incredibly biased that it is difficult to lend it any credibility. It's not an objective article at all. They follow a high-school writing class "compare and contrast" format. However, for each feature that they discuss, they trash it for HD-DVD and then argue valiantly and gushingly for Blu-Ray. I would rather read an article written by a dispassionate science writer. They should stick to regurgitating press releases rather than trying to take on serious analysis. I like Gizmodo as a great place to make one stop to learn about new gadgets but I don't go there for any sort of analysis or good editorial content.
They give you a very long antenna cable with the home kit that would allow most folks to set the antenna on a window ledge and still have the radio on a table or night stand.
I have a Roady with a home kit and I does have buffering. If you tune to a channel you haven't listened to for a while you will get a message "...loading" before it begins. I listen to ESPN on it and I have also had the very same ESPN up on the computer and the audio coming out of the XM is 15 to 20 seconds delayed.
I have XM radio right now and I would sign up for a portable receiver to augment the "fixed" one sitting on my nightstand. I am curious though, if I lean over the antenna I can lose the signal, where is this antenna going to be put on your body to maintain a good skyward orientation?
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To run the test they would have had to dismantle part of the craft and then go through an expensive recertification process to put it back together. Apparently the cost for all of this was very, very high. Probably not as high as the fix for this problem, though.
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The article says he is a 26-year EASA veteran, it does not say that he is 26 years old. Though, I thought the same thing on my first pass and had to re-read it.
To be fair, it was not just NASA, according to the article this was
a collaboration with the European Space Agency, Cassini, in addition to its own suite of scientific instruments designed to scan Saturn and its moons, carries a hitchhiker--a lander probe called Huygens.
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They were supposed to run a simulation, as one of three safety nets to catch such problems, but decided not to because of the cost.
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It is amazing that the problem with the reciever was detected. It was more amazing to read what they went through to document and present the problem. It also says something about the relationship between NASA and it's subcontractors when they can accept a receiver design and not sign a standard non-disclosure agreement so that they can see the specific design elements. If they had done so, they would have been able to see the problem before launch. However, having read the article, the complexity of the mission is such that I am possibly more amazed that more didn't go wrong.
Good point. And, here is what the water goes through before it is available for drinking:
Effluent is collected and pumped into three "factories" where it is forced through two sets of tube-like membranes. Holes about a millionth of a metre wide in the membranes trap particles, bacteria, protozoa and even viruses.
In a second treatment stage, called reverse osmosis, the water is pushed under pressure back through another membrane.
Bacteria and viruses that survive the first two processes are then killed by a burst of ultraviolet light. The bulk of the treated water is piped to industry.
I would drink it. I wouldn't linger too long on where it came from, but I would drink it.
Well, the article linked directly from google news without requiring registering but if you go again from my link, above, you will be presented with a registration screen. Sorry.
Try this FREE article from the Syney Morning Herald. or pay Salon to read it (or Salon will allow you to sit through a commercial and then you get a free one day pass).
This is how they at least try to do an endrun around the current Payola laws:
Broadcasters are prohibited from taking cash or anything of value in exchange for playing a specific song, unless they disclose the transaction to listeners. But in a practice that is common in the industry, independent promoters pay radio stations annual fees - often exceeding $100,000 - not, they say, to play specific songs, but to obtain advance copies of the stations' playlists. The promoters then bill record labels for each new song that is played; the total tab costs the record industry tens of millions of dollars each year.
Why wasn't this loophole simply closed up when it began?
After reading the 2nd article referenced in the topic, I think this chip "package" was more than they could pull off in a reasonable amount time and expect some kind of decent ROI. Why they wanted to go into this entirely different market and have to build plants just to make this chip is beyond me. That same money can now be used to move forward with their core business (no pun intended) of processors for computers.
I don't know...it may be that once it is rolled up and folded up into discs that you can wear as earrings you may have made one of the highest density capacitors known to man. I don't know if you want that near your ear when it decides to discharge....:-)
Does your company have to divulge any proprietary secrets in order to leave everything open for this card? If so, is that okay or does that do them harm?
Yes, a competitor who made unsubstantiated statements that do not reflect well on Google. It's a cheap shot and tells me they are afraid of Google and not confident of their own stable. But, hell, it worked. It fooled you.
The Google privacy issues are not issues if people use it on their home machine with a single user accessing the machine as Google instructs. The software was never intended to be deployed in a business or other multi-user environment.
Gateway didn't succeed because you went to their store to configure and order a machine. You then waited several weeks or longer for it to arrive. When they had these in my area they did zilch. People could go to any number of stores and walk out with a computer and when people are ready to buy, most didn't want to drive to a store just to place an order. I think that towards the end they started keeping a few preconfigured machines in stock but not many. They also had an awful compensation plan for their sales people.
Their online stores have done very while. I am surprised that people shop online and pay retail prices when I am used to shopping online in order to get a discount. They have great brand recognition and people, by and large, believe Sony to be a high quality electronics provider. I think they have a good shot at being successful.
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Gizmodo probably has it right, with respect to Blu-Ray, but their article is so incredibly biased that it is difficult to lend it any credibility. It's not an objective article at all. They follow a high-school writing class "compare and contrast" format. However, for each feature that they discuss, they trash it for HD-DVD and then argue valiantly and gushingly for Blu-Ray. I would rather read an article written by a dispassionate science writer. They should stick to regurgitating press releases rather than trying to take on serious analysis. I like Gizmodo as a great place to make one stop to learn about new gadgets but I don't go there for any sort of analysis or good editorial content.
That is a picture of the Roady, mated with some sort of dock.
They give you a very long antenna cable with the home kit that would allow most folks to set the antenna on a window ledge and still have the radio on a table or night stand.
I have a Roady with a home kit and I does have buffering. If you tune to a channel you haven't listened to for a while you will get a message "...loading" before it begins. I listen to ESPN on it and I have also had the very same ESPN up on the computer and the audio coming out of the XM is 15 to 20 seconds delayed.
XM radio works fine indoors. Mine sits on my night stand and maintains great signal strength.
I have XM radio right now and I would sign up for a portable receiver to augment the "fixed" one sitting on my nightstand. I am curious though, if I lean over the antenna I can lose the signal, where is this antenna going to be put on your body to maintain a good skyward orientation?
To run the test they would have had to dismantle part of the craft and then go through an expensive recertification process to put it back together. Apparently the cost for all of this was very, very high. Probably not as high as the fix for this problem, though.
The article says he is a 26-year EASA veteran, it does not say that he is 26 years old. Though, I thought the same thing on my first pass and had to re-read it.
a collaboration with the European Space Agency, Cassini, in addition to its own suite of scientific instruments designed to scan Saturn and its moons, carries a hitchhiker--a lander probe called Huygens.
They were supposed to run a simulation, as one of three safety nets to catch such problems, but decided not to because of the cost.
It is amazing that the problem with the reciever was detected. It was more amazing to read what they went through to document and present the problem. It also says something about the relationship between NASA and it's subcontractors when they can accept a receiver design and not sign a standard non-disclosure agreement so that they can see the specific design elements. If they had done so, they would have been able to see the problem before launch. However, having read the article, the complexity of the mission is such that I am possibly more amazed that more didn't go wrong.
Effluent is collected and pumped into three "factories" where it is forced through two sets of tube-like membranes. Holes about a millionth of a metre wide in the membranes trap particles, bacteria, protozoa and even viruses. In a second treatment stage, called reverse osmosis, the water is pushed under pressure back through another membrane. Bacteria and viruses that survive the first two processes are then killed by a burst of ultraviolet light. The bulk of the treated water is piped to industry.
I would drink it. I wouldn't linger too long on where it came from, but I would drink it.
Well, the article linked directly from google news without requiring registering but if you go again from my link, above, you will be presented with a registration screen. Sorry.
Try this FREE article from the Syney Morning Herald. or pay Salon to read it (or Salon will allow you to sit through a commercial and then you get a free one day pass).
Broadcasters are prohibited from taking cash or anything of value in exchange for playing a specific song, unless they disclose the transaction to listeners. But in a practice that is common in the industry, independent promoters pay radio stations annual fees - often exceeding $100,000 - not, they say, to play specific songs, but to obtain advance copies of the stations' playlists. The promoters then bill record labels for each new song that is played; the total tab costs the record industry tens of millions of dollars each year.
Why wasn't this loophole simply closed up when it began?
After reading the 2nd article referenced in the topic, I think this chip "package" was more than they could pull off in a reasonable amount time and expect some kind of decent ROI. Why they wanted to go into this entirely different market and have to build plants just to make this chip is beyond me. That same money can now be used to move forward with their core business (no pun intended) of processors for computers.
A Scanning/Tunneling electron microscope could resolve a one atom thick sheet of carbon.
That sounds like the beginning of a very high density storage medium.....better hurry and patent it before Microsoft does....
I don't know...it may be that once it is rolled up and folded up into discs that you can wear as earrings you may have made one of the highest density capacitors known to man. I don't know if you want that near your ear when it decides to discharge.... :-)
And you would do, what, with it?
Does your company have to divulge any proprietary secrets in order to leave everything open for this card? If so, is that okay or does that do them harm?
Yes, a competitor who made unsubstantiated statements that do not reflect well on Google. It's a cheap shot and tells me they are afraid of Google and not confident of their own stable. But, hell, it worked. It fooled you.
The Google privacy issues are not issues if people use it on their home machine with a single user accessing the machine as Google instructs. The software was never intended to be deployed in a business or other multi-user environment.
Gateway didn't succeed because you went to their store to configure and order a machine. You then waited several weeks or longer for it to arrive. When they had these in my area they did zilch. People could go to any number of stores and walk out with a computer and when people are ready to buy, most didn't want to drive to a store just to place an order. I think that towards the end they started keeping a few preconfigured machines in stock but not many. They also had an awful compensation plan for their sales people.
Their online stores have done very while. I am surprised that people shop online and pay retail prices when I am used to shopping online in order to get a discount. They have great brand recognition and people, by and large, believe Sony to be a high quality electronics provider. I think they have a good shot at being successful.