CSI is so out. Bones has a magic life-sized 3-D holographic victim reconstructor. and the *graphic artist* who runs it is also lightning fast computer programmer as well somehow.
The only problem that I see with your argument is that once the hindsight was applied, and we realized, "Hey, maybe this wasn't such a brilliant idea after all," The program continued. The only real change was that instead of lots of launches a year during which more problems could be shaken out, the launch frequency was reduced to only a few per year.
Instead of scrapping the program once hindsight revealed it to be an albatross, they played the statistics game to appear to be safer. (one boom every 50 launches sounds bad, but how about one boom ever 15 years instead..)
The real question is, if you short the battery, could you cook an egg. If you can't do it with a piece of copper, there's no way in hell you're going to do it with "mysterious radio waves"
it's a "power absorbed" issue. interference nodes might influence (except, as we're not dealing with monochromatic radiation, the won't) where the power is absorbed, but the issue is total amount of power absorbed by the egg.
While I agree that GIMP should support greater depth of colors, and possibly even abstract the colordepth to the point that it's arbitrary (and thus infinitly expandible), you must realize that GIMP is probably never going to be able to support your RAW photos, for the simple fact that RAW isn't a consistant format. Some companies aren't even consistant across all their camera lines. And of course, the formats or algorithms are in varying states of copyright, patent, or trade secret.
You can hardly turn the wheel when you *aren't moving*. At highway speeds it's much much easier to turn the wheel without assistance. So easy in fact that some systems ADD resistance to make the steering experience more consistant. A system with ABS breaks in which the ABS has failed becomes a system with regular hydraulic brakes. Which on a dry day is no different from the ABS system anyway. If there are traction issues, you're simply going to have to learn to pump, and learn fast.
Cars are not like fighter jets. They are designed to fail gracefully.
Ok, if you have a complete fly-by-wire system, I can see how you'd get into trouble, but even electric steering is actually electric-assisted-steering. We should resist attempts to put full drive-by-wire systems in cars though.
AFAIK, there isn't an HF analogue to packet radio. PSK31 for instance is really more like CW than like TCP/IP in its design. Minimal error correction, and definately no routing information. The problem is bandwidth. To get anything like TCP requires a lot of overhead in routing information, packet description, checksums, and is generally 2-way as well. All of which requires bandwidth, which HF bands don't exactly have in abundance.
That said, I'm also a bit non-current in HF, so there could be some new modes in the band plan I'm not aware of. It certainly stands to reason that even an inefficient digital packet system will be more thrifty with the available bandwidth than voice and that's certainly used. I would prefer a packet mode to voice for purposes of communicating with shelters too. The computers on each end can keep a record of all messages, and it wouldn't exactly be difficult to enter names into a comma-separated list in a PDA before transmission.
Although, by definition, an ICBM is going to be somewhat limited in its ability to zigzag, particularly since its main engine will have long since burned out when it reaches its apex.
#1, patriots weren't designed to be anti-missile missiles. #2, afaik, they weren't even designed to be DEfensive weapons at all #3, the method used to destroy the scuds was never to hit them. The strategy was to explode a patriot NEAR a scud and allow the shockwave to rattle the scuds to death.
To be fair though, they were on the cutting edge because radio itself was cutting edge. There's still some work to be done, but mostly in various algorithms and band sharing techniques. Just talking on a radio isn't special anymore. But it's like camping. Just because the whole field isn't cutting edge doesn't mean that there aren't specialties to explore and lessons to be learned. And both skills come in quite handy when disaster strikes.
What was interesting to me was that the links were for lawyers that are relatively local to me. I realize that that information is somewhat extractable from the IPs, but I wouldn't have thought people were actually bidding on it.
Yes, but the long hops are usually HF, so you're back to keying code. A big problem with packet during emergencies though is that there mignt not be a path to a powered area, so you could get stuck in a bubble without HF. Satellite only marginally improves this, to the size of the footprint, but I'd hate to have to track a satellite manually using a pda and a handheld yagi for any length of time.
Interestingly, some of the radiogram traffic gets routed through the internet as well. Hams have been linking repeaters over IP for a bit longer than the telephone VoIP has been around.
Slashdot Mirror
So, should we replace TLAs with FLLAs
-2.7? so it's logarithmic scale?
http://www.moller.com/skycar/
What do I win?
CSI is so out. Bones has a magic life-sized 3-D holographic victim reconstructor. and the *graphic artist* who runs it is also lightning fast computer programmer as well somehow.
The only problem that I see with your argument is that once the hindsight was applied, and we realized, "Hey, maybe this wasn't such a brilliant idea after all," The program continued. The only real change was that instead of lots of launches a year during which more problems could be shaken out, the launch frequency was reduced to only a few per year.
Instead of scrapping the program once hindsight revealed it to be an albatross, they played the statistics game to appear to be safer. (one boom every 50 launches sounds bad, but how about one boom ever 15 years instead..)
In fact, forget the moon base.
Interesting. So the subscriber fee is just for the "tap" at one end. You can make all the calls you want, as long as they aren't to anybody?
ahhhh.
no they are called lasers. the laser you used in high school had a lens to collimate the beam, but otherwise it's a point source.
"how with the 200x microwave application aucustic concentration effect of"
It's even more if the radio rolls all 20s.
The real question is, if you short the battery, could you cook an egg. If you can't do it with a piece of copper, there's no way in hell you're going to do it with "mysterious radio waves"
it's a "power absorbed" issue. interference nodes might influence (except, as we're not dealing with monochromatic radiation, the won't) where the power is absorbed, but the issue is total amount of power absorbed by the egg.
you didn't see the irony of that statement immediately as it was being made? Jeez, it's self referential even.
cite. short for citation. he's asking for a reference not a webpage. slashdot indeed.
While I agree that GIMP should support greater depth of colors, and possibly even abstract the colordepth to the point that it's arbitrary (and thus infinitly expandible), you must realize that GIMP is probably never going to be able to support your RAW photos, for the simple fact that RAW isn't a consistant format.
Some companies aren't even consistant across all their camera lines. And of course, the formats or algorithms are in varying states of copyright, patent, or trade secret.
You can hardly turn the wheel when you *aren't moving*. At highway speeds it's much much easier to turn the wheel without assistance. So easy in fact that some systems ADD resistance to make the steering experience more consistant. A system with ABS breaks in which the ABS has failed becomes a system with regular hydraulic brakes. Which on a dry day is no different from the ABS system anyway. If there are traction issues, you're simply going to have to learn to pump, and learn fast.
Cars are not like fighter jets. They are designed to fail gracefully.
Ok, if you have a complete fly-by-wire system, I can see how you'd get into trouble, but even electric steering is actually electric-assisted-steering. We should resist attempts to put full drive-by-wire systems in cars though.
AFAIK, there isn't an HF analogue to packet radio. PSK31 for instance is really more like CW than like TCP/IP in its design. Minimal error correction, and definately no routing information. The problem is bandwidth. To get anything like TCP requires a lot of overhead in routing information, packet description, checksums, and is generally 2-way as well. All of which requires bandwidth, which HF bands don't exactly have in abundance.
That said, I'm also a bit non-current in HF, so there could be some new modes in the band plan I'm not aware of. It certainly stands to reason that even an inefficient digital packet system will be more thrifty with the available bandwidth than voice and that's certainly used. I would prefer a packet mode to voice for purposes of communicating with shelters too. The computers on each end can keep a record of all messages, and it wouldn't exactly be difficult to enter names into a comma-separated list in a PDA before transmission.
Are you talking about Hydric Acid, a highly corrosive industrial solvent? Accidental respiration of which "is the second leading cause of accidental death, averaging approximately 8000 deaths per year in the United States alone."
Although, by definition, an ICBM is going to be somewhat limited in its ability to zigzag, particularly since its main engine will have long since burned out when it reaches its apex.
#1, patriots weren't designed to be anti-missile missiles.
#2, afaik, they weren't even designed to be DEfensive weapons at all
#3, the method used to destroy the scuds was never to hit them. The strategy was to explode a patriot NEAR a scud and allow the shockwave to rattle the scuds to death.
wait.. so can we make gloves and boots outta this stuff and walk around on buildings like spiderman?
Wait.. How long as windows done bash scripts?
To be fair though, they were on the cutting edge because radio itself was cutting edge. There's still some work to be done, but mostly in various algorithms and band sharing techniques. Just talking on a radio isn't special anymore. But it's like camping. Just because the whole field isn't cutting edge doesn't mean that there aren't specialties to explore and lessons to be learned. And both skills come in quite handy when disaster strikes.
What was interesting to me was that the links were for lawyers that are relatively local to me. I realize that that information is somewhat extractable from the IPs, but I wouldn't have thought people were actually bidding on it.
Yes, but the long hops are usually HF, so you're back to keying code. A big problem with packet during emergencies though is that there mignt not be a path to a powered area, so you could get stuck in a bubble without HF. Satellite only marginally improves this, to the size of the footprint, but I'd hate to have to track a satellite manually using a pda and a handheld yagi for any length of time.
Interestingly, some of the radiogram traffic gets routed through the internet as well. Hams have been linking repeaters over IP for a bit longer than the telephone VoIP has been around.