Assuming they had 32 GiB of storage (very much, agreed) couldn't they just send out the data while flying to some Kuiper belt object? Which brings us to an interesting question... How much storage _do_ they have on board?
I'm pretty sure the Voyager probes are the exception to that, since they're aimed to actually exit the solar system rather than eventually returning.
Our solar system still the center of our galaxy. Which, in turn, might or might not orbit something else; etc pp.
Google puts the velocity of Voyager I & II at around 14-16 km/s relative to us (no idea if that is along their paths or away from us, at that distance, this would make quite some difference. I assume it's along their trajectories). The Sun apparently has a radial velocity of 220 km/s around the center of our galaxy.
This all depends on starting point and angle(drag by clouds, chance of hitting crap) relative to the center and galaxy's disk, respectively. I found the figure of 319 km/s, and assume they mean "from earth, on the galactic disk", but I don't know. As it's more than 220 km/s, this makes sense.
More than that they also knew the formats of the messages so they would have a good idea of this bit is probably going to be a 1 or a 0 in particular spots.
That's how WiFi works. The signals are weak by design due to interference with other use etc. I would be amazing if the already did this on purpose, back then. But then, every time I read about early space exploration, I am like "whooooaaahh", anyway:)
It is absolutely amazing they have been able to keep in contact as long as they have.
No shit. That is some serious engineering. And proof that atomic decay batteries have their very very valid uses.
Actually, you'd hope they don't do that, but use other, more fault tolerant means of error correction. A fixed string is a huge waste of bits that you can use for longer checksums to detect/correct errors.
Also, there will _always_ be some part that, when it breaks, will make the resulting signals useless (other than for triangulation once we have a listening station somewhere else or other indirect measurements). No idea if that is what happened here, mind.
I had a Game Boy and a SNES. Blowing worked; reseating did not.
Of course, it might have been that I automatically shook the cartridge while pulling it out, turning, blowing, etc. Correlation is not causation and all that.
Well, it's not as clear-cut at he makes it sound..
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While I have been longing for _years_ for Flash to go away, the issue is not that people think they have a god-given right to use Flash.
The issue is that Apple is, once again, showing people that they are among the least moral and most agressive companies on earth. It just so happens that, this time, a lot of people that usually don't care are hurt. While one can argue that anyone commiting themselves to Apple must know about Apple's tactics beforehand, most people did not notice, or care, up to now.
Who cares if you can not use an iPhone, iPad or iPod without activating it via iTunes? Who cares if you can not get content onto those devices without iTunes or the App store? Who cares if for years, Apple gave back only tarballs to KHTML & KJs from which WebKit stems, making meaningful backporting of code near to impossible? Who cares if Apple does its best to lock you into their complete ecosystem of devices & software? Who cares if people can not use Flash? Ah, OK!
So while I would tend to agree that Flash needs to go away _and_ while I agree that people should have known beforehand, I can understand the indignation of the people who are bitten, now. They are now unable to use something they have become comfortable with. The way Steve Jobs tells them to go eat a shovel and the fact that they can do nothing is somewhere between sad & amusing.
PS: This is not only about Flash. The _much_ more important issue is that people are now unable to use independent frameworks for their work.
I don't have much time to play games. Matter of fact, my monthly budget is pretty much zero hours.
Yet, _if_ I sit down and play a game, I want to do it right. When I still had time, barring Doom 1 & 2, I played through every single FPS which I ever played on hardest mode without losing a single health point (notable exception: in Doom 3, you exit an escalator and breathe some kind of gas. You need to switch off the gas outlet and do not have a hazmat suit at that point. Sucks. -- Also, I never made it through Half Life proper as there is one section where a squad of enemies is outside a warehouse and I could never kill _all_ enemies without losing health. I lost the savegame and as I spent more than a week on that one part where you fall trough the ground (not the large pipe; later), I never could get myself to start from scratch).
In Secret of Mana, I have several perfect savegames. In Chrono Trigger, I have 1 1/2 perfect save games. In Zelda 3, I have countless perfect savegames.
But take any random new-ish Zelda title. In Twilight Princess, to get all heart containers, you need to fish. I suck at that, but I made myself go through it. I even walked around looking for golden bugs for ages.
But the newest Zelda on DS, Spirit Tracks? You need to play for ages _after_ you beat the game, trying to get treasures so you can get all train parts. Same for ship parts in the Zelda before that.
And _that_ is what annoys me. If you create a way to collect all of X, do not make collecting X a goal in and as of itself. At least not if you force your paying customers to sit through hours and hours of monotonous, braindead _work_ to truly finish a game. I would rather play a good game twice than slave away at finishing it once.
It's their clients that are assholes and legislators that are idiots.
And the lawyers are forced at gunpoint to act the way they do. Every single one of them.
I am not disagreeing with what you said about laws etc, but some lawyers are part of the problem, others are not. Claiming that your profession, as a whole, is not to blame... Well...:)
Afaik, NASA is required to use metric on all new stuff, anyway. Thus, this particular error is not likely to be made again. Also, ESA is not involved, which means that even if NASA is still using imperial on new things, it should not be a problem per se.
I hope you are Christian, because I am about to point out that a _lot_ more people were killed in Jesus' name than in Mohamed's. I also hope you are part of any random ethnic group, because _all_ of them have killed others at some point.
What, that was not _your_ fault? So what, I still blame you:D
Economy of scale tells me that high-DPI screens would become cheaper if more people bought them.
I, and everyone else I know, would love to shell out a few euros more for more DPI. Alas, now that netbooks, 720p & 1080p set the standard, manufacturers just stopped trying.
This means that the truly high-res stuff is so expensive that they only make sense for professional use.
Isn't everybody gay-friendly? I mean, except for the very few homophobes out there
Now it makes sense, I guess.
By gay-friendly, I mean people who _literally_ have no problem with gay people. In my experience, most people who say they don't have any problem with gays actually _do_ have some reservations.
At least, I have been brought up to consider homosexuality just another sexuality
You and I both. Neither of us seems to have any problem with the existence of porn. Coincidence?;)
If you look at institutionalized Christians, Hindi or Muslims, all are generally against porn and gays. Same for countries like USA, most middle-eastern countries and India. Contrast Germany where you can have same-sex marriages in most states and porn is not nearly as censored as in the countries above. You will find adult magazines in a normal super market, if on the top shelves. In the many modern stores, "top shelf" means "reachable by young children".
However, one of the points made were, that children have access to the App Store, and that Apple does not want to give them access to porn.
Other media companies seem to be happy with age restrictions built into their platforms.
But I do not agree with the statement, that if you are a gay-friendly company it has to mean, that you are more in favor of pornography. It could (and should) just mean, that you support everybody's right to their personal sexuality.
It does not _have_ to mean that, correct. Still, taking a random test in two groups, which is more likely to be OK with porn? The gay-friendly or gay-hating one? Even when watered down to gay-friendly vs simply all people, I think you would see a clear trend thanks to the pre-selection of the group on a somewhat related topic.
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Assuming they had 32 GiB of storage (very much, agreed) couldn't they just send out the data while flying to some Kuiper belt object? Which brings us to an interesting question... How much storage _do_ they have on board?
I'm pretty sure the Voyager probes are the exception to that, since they're aimed to actually exit the solar system rather than eventually returning.
Our solar system still the center of our galaxy. Which, in turn, might or might not orbit something else; etc pp.
Google puts the velocity of Voyager I & II at around 14-16 km/s relative to us (no idea if that is along their paths or away from us, at that distance, this would make quite some difference. I assume it's along their trajectories). The Sun apparently has a radial velocity of 220 km/s around the center of our galaxy.
This all depends on starting point and angle(drag by clouds, chance of hitting crap) relative to the center and galaxy's disk, respectively. I found the figure of 319 km/s, and assume they mean "from earth, on the galactic disk", but I don't know. As it's more than 220 km/s, this makes sense.
I should have added that WiFi overlays specific patterns so detection in (almost) white noise is easier. GPS and others do this, as well.
More than that they also knew the formats of the messages so they would have a good idea of this bit is probably going to be a 1 or a 0 in particular spots.
That's how WiFi works. The signals are weak by design due to interference with other use etc. I would be amazing if the already did this on purpose, back then. But then, every time I read about early space exploration, I am like "whooooaaahh", anyway :)
It is absolutely amazing they have been able to keep in contact as long as they have.
No shit. That is some serious engineering. And proof that atomic decay batteries have their very very valid uses.
Actually, you'd hope they don't do that, but use other, more fault tolerant means of error correction. A fixed string is a huge waste of bits that you can use for longer checksums to detect/correct errors.
Also, there will _always_ be some part that, when it breaks, will make the resulting signals useless (other than for triangulation once we have a listening station somewhere else or other indirect measurements). No idea if that is what happened here, mind.
I had a Game Boy and a SNES. Blowing worked; reseating did not.
Of course, it might have been that I automatically shook the cartridge while pulling it out, turning, blowing, etc. Correlation is not causation and all that.
While I have been longing for _years_ for Flash to go away, the issue is not that people think they have a god-given right to use Flash.
The issue is that Apple is, once again, showing people that they are among the least moral and most agressive companies on earth. It just so happens that, this time, a lot of people that usually don't care are hurt. While one can argue that anyone commiting themselves to Apple must know about Apple's tactics beforehand, most people did not notice, or care, up to now.
Who cares if you can not use an iPhone, iPad or iPod without activating it via iTunes?
Who cares if you can not get content onto those devices without iTunes or the App store?
Who cares if for years, Apple gave back only tarballs to KHTML & KJs from which WebKit stems, making meaningful backporting of code near to impossible?
Who cares if Apple does its best to lock you into their complete ecosystem of devices & software?
Who cares if people can not use Flash? Ah, OK!
So while I would tend to agree that Flash needs to go away _and_ while I agree that people should have known beforehand, I can understand the indignation of the people who are bitten, now. They are now unable to use something they have become comfortable with.
The way Steve Jobs tells them to go eat a shovel and the fact that they can do nothing is somewhere between sad & amusing.
PS: This is not only about Flash. The _much_ more important issue is that people are now unable to use independent frameworks for their work.
Mod me -1 nitpick, but you mean globbing, not "shell expansion".
I don't have much time to play games. Matter of fact, my monthly budget is pretty much zero hours.
Yet, _if_ I sit down and play a game, I want to do it right.
When I still had time, barring Doom 1 & 2, I played through every single FPS which I ever played on hardest mode without losing a single health point (notable exception: in Doom 3, you exit an escalator and breathe some kind of gas. You need to switch off the gas outlet and do not have a hazmat suit at that point. Sucks. -- Also, I never made it through Half Life proper as there is one section where a squad of enemies is outside a warehouse and I could never kill _all_ enemies without losing health. I lost the savegame and as I spent more than a week on that one part where you fall trough the ground (not the large pipe; later), I never could get myself to start from scratch).
In Secret of Mana, I have several perfect savegames. In Chrono Trigger, I have 1 1/2 perfect save games. In Zelda 3, I have countless perfect savegames.
But take any random new-ish Zelda title. In Twilight Princess, to get all heart containers, you need to fish. I suck at that, but I made myself go through it. I even walked around looking for golden bugs for ages.
But the newest Zelda on DS, Spirit Tracks? You need to play for ages _after_ you beat the game, trying to get treasures so you can get all train parts. Same for ship parts in the Zelda before that.
And _that_ is what annoys me. If you create a way to collect all of X, do not make collecting X a goal in and as of itself. At least not if you force your paying customers to sit through hours and hours of monotonous, braindead _work_ to truly finish a game.
I would rather play a good game twice than slave away at finishing it once.
Han Solo shot first!
It's their clients that are assholes and legislators that are idiots.
And the lawyers are forced at gunpoint to act the way they do. Every single one of them.
I am not disagreeing with what you said about laws etc, but some lawyers are part of the problem, others are not. Claiming that your profession, as a whole, is not to blame... Well... :)
Afaik, NASA is required to use metric on all new stuff, anyway. Thus, this particular error is not likely to be made again.
Also, ESA is not involved, which means that even if NASA is still using imperial on new things, it should not be a problem per se.
Easy to do in Perl.
Try it in Java!
Aliens (which I've never seen)
Get. Out. Of. My. Slashdot.. Now!
Somehow, I doubt this matters to the poor sod dying for the penis-wagging of a random religion.
The moral might be that people will pervert anything, given a motive and chance.
Medical companies sell high-DPI stuff.
FWIW, I _love_ my N810 and its incredibly crisp display.
Shocking as that might sound, I do that in every country I visit. My passport is in a safe at the hotel.
Swap is thrown away between reboots. Thus your scheme would not decrease start-up times.
I hope you are Christian, because I am about to point out that a _lot_ more people were killed in Jesus' name than in Mohamed's.
I also hope you are part of any random ethnic group, because _all_ of them have killed others at some point.
What, that was not _your_ fault? So what, I still blame you :D
Strong disagree.
Economy of scale tells me that high-DPI screens would become cheaper if more people bought them.
I, and everyone else I know, would love to shell out a few euros more for more DPI. Alas, now that netbooks, 720p & 1080p set the standard, manufacturers just stopped trying.
This means that the truly high-res stuff is so expensive that they only make sense for professional use.
I'm confused now, what was the question?
I am not sure either, but it involved kitten.
Isn't everybody gay-friendly? I mean, except for the very few homophobes out there
Now it makes sense, I guess.
By gay-friendly, I mean people who _literally_ have no problem with gay people. In my experience, most people who say they don't have any problem with gays actually _do_ have some reservations.
At least, I have been brought up to consider homosexuality just another sexuality
You and I both. Neither of us seems to have any problem with the existence of porn. Coincidence? ;)
If you look at institutionalized Christians, Hindi or Muslims, all are generally against porn and gays. Same for countries like USA, most middle-eastern countries and India.
Contrast Germany where you can have same-sex marriages in most states and porn is not nearly as censored as in the countries above. You will find adult magazines in a normal super market, if on the top shelves. In the many modern stores, "top shelf" means "reachable by young children".
Dunno, but I see correlation, here.
However, one of the points made were, that children have access to the App Store, and that Apple does not want to give them access to porn.
Other media companies seem to be happy with age restrictions built into their platforms.
But I do not agree with the statement, that if you are a gay-friendly company it has to mean, that you are more in favor of pornography. It could (and should) just mean, that you support everybody's right to their personal sexuality.
It does not _have_ to mean that, correct.
Still, taking a random test in two groups, which is more likely to be OK with porn? The gay-friendly or gay-hating one? Even when watered down to gay-friendly vs simply all people, I think you would see a clear trend thanks to the pre-selection of the group on a somewhat related topic.
"gay-friendly" implies more sexual freedom than gay-hating. This, in turn, implies being more liberal towards porn.
Correlation is not causation and all that, but I see at least the correlation, here.
Heh, just like pretending to take away a cats food when it refuses to eat :)