But maybe you're right. Maybe they blew up a Progress re-supply ship and endangered the lives of not only the ISS crew, but all the ground crew at the launch site (not to mention the millions of dollars that a supply schedule slip brings about), just to make SpaceX look bad.
I'm not sure how you possibly got that idea from my post. My point was that at the scheduled launch time for COTS2, with Progress being unavailable, SpaceX would have the only resupply vehicle available (the next ESA ATV isn't scheduled for another 6 months). Like with the 'wheel of cheese' on COTS1, I wouldn't have put it past SpaceX to add a large quantity of unofficial resupply material as 'test mass'.
Musk also confirmed that the currently scheduled November or December flight of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule to the space station will likely be delayed due to the failure of a Soyuz rocket carrying a Progress re-supply ship to the ISS on August 24, 2011.
“It actually will likely result in a delay to our launch to the ISS,” Musk said, “and NASA rightly wants to have the appropriate level of astronauts with the right training when we arrive, so it looks like January for the launch to space station, and that is contingent upon the Russians meeting the schedule they’ve currently stating."
It sounds reasonable, but it also sounds like someone doesn't want SpaceX to have the enormous PR gain of launching a mission to the ISS when everyone else's pants are down.
Forget nuclear aircraft, the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA?useskin=monobook]NERVA[/url] engine was pretty well tested (at least one destructive test too).
No need even to waste time with DBAN. Just throw an ATA_SECURE_ERASE command to the drive controller, then sit back and relax (assuming the drives were made in the last decade or so the controller will support this). Better then DBAN, in fact, as it will wipe sectors listen in the G-list.
I'm less than 25 years old, and still use Firefox. Well, PaleMoon actually. And 3.6.x because I can't be having with this 'rapid release' nonsense and gratuitous UI reshuffling breaking my extensions every 5 minutes and generally getting in the way of actually doing anything.
I'm using over 1gb right now (1260mb). However, I also have about 260 tabs open due to a bad habit of using open tabs as bookmarks (they resume at the same scrolled location and state, unlike bookmarks).
The charger is that shape for a reason: There's a defined spacing between wall sockets in both dimensions. Those two dimensions determine the height and width of the charger such that it will always fit in between two other devices regardless of socket orientation. The depth is likely determined by how small you can make the SMPS. And as Apple, Samsung, and everyone else using a similarly shaped supply are likely all buying the guts from the same OEM and simply paying someone else to put them in a different coloured plastic case, there's not much to differentiate them.
Yes, there is hardware acceleration, but it depends on the chipset. The Tegra 2, for example, can play back h.264 1080p24 (/p30/i60) perfectly happily, but ONLY Main Profile. Throw CABAC and weighted p/b frames at it and it'll throw a wobbler, so no High Profile.
There are several existing free apps that provide a nice browsing interface and software decoding for any codecs not supported in hardware (usually pretty slow, think 480p30 max) and hardware decoding for unsupported containers (e.g. MKV. I think MoboPlayer can even handle Ordered Chapters). I can't see VLC doing anything different other than having the traffic cone logo and a hideous interface. And probably dodgy subtitle rendering.
A 64GB SSD is about £100 nowadays. 64GB of RAM (ignoring the price of a motherboard with enough slots in which to fit it) is closer to £320 (buying cheapest-of-the-cheap 2gb stocks).
Do they mean the neutrinos are breaking c (the speed of light in a vacuum) or the local speed of light? Even the latter would be extremely interesting. The ultimate test, of course, is to watch for many physicists start winning the lottery.
Hopefully Nvidia will deign to support h.264 High Profile this time. Sure, the Tegra2 can play back 1080p happily at unreasonably high bitrates (for something you'd watch on a phone), but only if you don't use weighted p/b frames or CABAC when encoding. Guess what the majority of video you'll find in h.264 uses? It's a real glaring omission.
Are there any pro-places that don't charge an arm and a leg to copy off VHS to DVD or bluray?
No. At least, not if they actually do it well. Recording the VHS output is the easy part, cleaning up the combing, noise, chroma nonsense, warping from tape distortion, etc takes a fair bit of skill to not muck up royally.
Any suggestions on this?
Download AviSynth and browse doom9/doom10 for tips.
Through-hole uses a ton of extra space, bot for the component itself and on the PCB, something you don't want in a small device. Plus, SMT is a LOT more resistant to repeated sudden G-loads (e.g. dropping your phone). If you shove your USB cable in like an ape or dangle your phone by it then yes, a through-hole component would probably hold up longer.
Hopefully, the lander being covered in highly reflective foil should raise it's albedo significantly compared to, say, a comet or asteroid, albeit possibly causing direct reflections to be intermittent.
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Century 21? What is Gerry Anderson doing selling properties in Australia?
I can't be the only one to wonder why Mozilla would be making a Gradius game.
Unfortunately, I DID watch the new Battlestar Galactica. We can only hope any actual malevolent AIs are as stunningly incompetent as the Cylons.
But maybe you're right. Maybe they blew up a Progress re-supply ship and endangered the lives of not only the ISS crew, but all the ground crew at the launch site (not to mention the millions of dollars that a supply schedule slip brings about), just to make SpaceX look bad.
I'm not sure how you possibly got that idea from my post.
My point was that at the scheduled launch time for COTS2, with Progress being unavailable, SpaceX would have the only resupply vehicle available (the next ESA ATV isn't scheduled for another 6 months). Like with the 'wheel of cheese' on COTS1, I wouldn't have put it past SpaceX to add a large quantity of unofficial resupply material as 'test mass'.
Musk also confirmed that the currently scheduled November or December flight of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule to the space station will likely be delayed due to the failure of a Soyuz rocket carrying a Progress re-supply ship to the ISS on August 24, 2011.
“It actually will likely result in a delay to our launch to the ISS,” Musk said, “and NASA rightly wants to have the appropriate level of astronauts with the right training when we arrive, so it looks like January for the launch to space station, and that is contingent upon the Russians meeting the schedule they’ve currently stating."
It sounds reasonable, but it also sounds like someone doesn't want SpaceX to have the enormous PR gain of launching a mission to the ISS when everyone else's pants are down.
Forget nuclear aircraft, the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA?useskin=monobook]NERVA[/url] engine was pretty well tested (at least one destructive test too).
No need even to waste time with DBAN. Just throw an ATA_SECURE_ERASE command to the drive controller, then sit back and relax (assuming the drives were made in the last decade or so the controller will support this). Better then DBAN, in fact, as it will wipe sectors listen in the G-list.
80% of IOS (and android) games/apps are rubbish and nobody wants to waste money on them.
In other news, the sky is blue and water is wet.
I'm less than 25 years old, and still use Firefox. Well, PaleMoon actually. And 3.6.x because I can't be having with this 'rapid release' nonsense and gratuitous UI reshuffling breaking my extensions every 5 minutes and generally getting in the way of actually doing anything.
We don't have the technology yet to handle Simex erasures. I'm sorry.
I'm using over 1gb right now (1260mb). However, I also have about 260 tabs open due to a bad habit of using open tabs as bookmarks (they resume at the same scrolled location and state, unlike bookmarks).
The charger is that shape for a reason: There's a defined spacing between wall sockets in both dimensions. Those two dimensions determine the height and width of the charger such that it will always fit in between two other devices regardless of socket orientation. The depth is likely determined by how small you can make the SMPS. And as Apple, Samsung, and everyone else using a similarly shaped supply are likely all buying the guts from the same OEM and simply paying someone else to put them in a different coloured plastic case, there's not much to differentiate them.
Yeah, I'm wondering how adding a few hundred thousand links between the public network and SIPRnet is meant to be a good idea..
Yes, there is hardware acceleration, but it depends on the chipset. The Tegra 2, for example, can play back h.264 1080p24 (/p30/i60) perfectly happily, but ONLY Main Profile. Throw CABAC and weighted p/b frames at it and it'll throw a wobbler, so no High Profile.
There are several existing free apps that provide a nice browsing interface and software decoding for any codecs not supported in hardware (usually pretty slow, think 480p30 max) and hardware decoding for unsupported containers (e.g. MKV. I think MoboPlayer can even handle Ordered Chapters). I can't see VLC doing anything different other than having the traffic cone logo and a hideous interface. And probably dodgy subtitle rendering.
These are the only OTC rescue inhalers on the market. People will die from this bullshit.
In the US, maybe. In the UK, I've never even seen an epinephrine inhaler, salbutamol (albuterol) is the standard.
a standard that requires licensing fees
Only in the US. In places where software patents are a load of hogwash (e.g. europe) h.264 and VP8 are equally open.
A 64GB SSD is about £100 nowadays. 64GB of RAM (ignoring the price of a motherboard with enough slots in which to fit it) is closer to £320 (buying cheapest-of-the-cheap 2gb stocks).
You mean, how it was explicitly stated in the summary? And in the linked article? And in the paper itself? How much more explanation do you need?!
Do they mean the neutrinos are breaking c (the speed of light in a vacuum) or the local speed of light? Even the latter would be extremely interesting.
The ultimate test, of course, is to watch for many physicists start winning the lottery.
Well duh, Positronic Brains are for robots, not people!
For cheap streaming duties, the RaspberryPi looks pretty neat. Level 4.1 (yes, really!) HiP. Yep, it should be happy blu-ray without transcoding.
Hopefully Nvidia will deign to support h.264 High Profile this time. Sure, the Tegra2 can play back 1080p happily at unreasonably high bitrates (for something you'd watch on a phone), but only if you don't use weighted p/b frames or CABAC when encoding. Guess what the majority of video you'll find in h.264 uses? It's a real glaring omission.
Are there any pro-places that don't charge an arm and a leg to copy off VHS to DVD or bluray?
No. At least, not if they actually do it well. Recording the VHS output is the easy part, cleaning up the combing, noise, chroma nonsense, warping from tape distortion, etc takes a fair bit of skill to not muck up royally.
Any suggestions on this?
Download AviSynth and browse doom9/doom10 for tips.
Through-hole uses a ton of extra space, bot for the component itself and on the PCB, something you don't want in a small device. Plus, SMT is a LOT more resistant to repeated sudden G-loads (e.g. dropping your phone). If you shove your USB cable in like an ape or dangle your phone by it then yes, a through-hole component would probably hold up longer.
Hopefully, the lander being covered in highly reflective foil should raise it's albedo significantly compared to, say, a comet or asteroid, albeit possibly causing direct reflections to be intermittent.