I sent 3 letters when the Dmitry S. arrest first occurred - 1 to each of my senators and 1 to my representative (I live in California). I received automated responses almost immediately from all three. Eventually, I received a "real" response via email from Senator Feinstein (which basically told me to shut up since the DMCA was vital to California's entertainment industry) and an actual phone call from an aide of my Representative.
That blew me away.
Senator Boxer never bothered to reply beyond the 'bot.
Senator Feinstein's email web page includes a drop down selection for various topics, so I take that to mean they get routed to the topic specialist in her office who then fires off a more tailored auto-response.
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They bought the network. The "techs" are employed by Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Telespazio SpA (in Rome, Italy) and lots of other companies. Iridium was/is a company formed by Motorola and other investors to be a service provider, not to actually build the satellites/ground stations.
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But, I was assuming it was Jude Law (one of the presenters) commenting on the titles of the films. He mentioned as a part of his remarks that one of the nominated films had an "interesting" title. So... the other presenter rattles off the names of the films and he is murmuring "Not this one, not this one, not this one, not this one, thi is the one" since it had the long title (the film about the Grandma who wants to hang out with the biker guys in NYC.
The US government spent $44.4 billion dollars over about 15 years to get 20 aircraft. If you do a simple division you get a price of $2.2 billion per aircraft. But there are lots of costs that are included in that $44.4 billion that have nothing to do with the airframe; support equipment, facilities and up-front technology development costs.
That's why people have more than one "legitimate" price tag for this (or any other) government-developed airplane (or anything else). The $500 million price quoted by Northrop management whenever the US Congress debated buying more B-2s was most likely a "time and materials" price to get an airframe built, tested and delivered to the USAF.
So, pick your initial conditions and get the price you want, I suppose.
The "enthusiast's page" referenced by someone else on this thread is a poor source of information. I read it and was very unimpressed.
By the way, I spent 10 years on the B-2 program (1986 to 1996) and was the lead engineer for the weapon control, targeting and release software.
Currently, Lockheed Martin, Telespazio SpA and TRW are combining their resources (financial and technical) to create a system called Astrolink that is a global, GEO-sat ATM-based bandwidth on demand system.
The original design had phase array antennae and intra-satellite optical links; the current desing has a more conventional antenna design and ground-based intra-satellite links. It uses VSAT type terminals and larger 3 meter dishes for network access.
The processing on the ground required to control data traffic is quite hefty, but the system is viable and will be online soon (I hope).
The envisioned use of the system is not for distributed computing but for busines applications such as video conferencing and data exchange.
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ObL wasn't in Afghanistan in 1993. the Taliban weren't runing the show there until 1996, which is when he was invited in to the party.
Apparently it's a buffered stream, so, no it won't.
Yes, I agree. They DO respond.
I sent 3 letters when the Dmitry S. arrest first occurred - 1 to each of my senators and 1 to my representative (I live in California). I received automated responses almost immediately from all three. Eventually, I received a "real" response via email from Senator Feinstein (which basically told me to shut up since the DMCA was vital to California's entertainment industry) and an actual phone call from an aide of my Representative.
That blew me away.
Senator Boxer never bothered to reply beyond the 'bot.
Senator Feinstein's email web page includes a drop down selection for various topics, so I take that to mean they get routed to the topic specialist in her office who then fires off a more tailored auto-response.
They bought the network. The "techs" are employed by Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Telespazio SpA (in Rome, Italy) and lots of other companies. Iridium was/is a company formed by Motorola and other investors to be a service provider, not to actually build the satellites/ground stations.
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Yes, I heard those comments, too.
But, I was assuming it was Jude Law (one of the presenters) commenting on the titles of the films. He mentioned as a part of his remarks that one of the nominated films had an "interesting" title. So... the other presenter rattles off the names of the films and he is murmuring "Not this one, not this one, not this one, not this one, thi is the one" since it had the long title (the film about the Grandma who wants to hang out with the biker guys in NYC.
That was my interpretation, anyway.
A B-2's price depends on how you want to count.
The US government spent $44.4 billion dollars over about 15 years to get 20 aircraft. If you do a simple division you get a price of $2.2 billion per aircraft. But there are lots of costs that are included in that $44.4 billion that have nothing to do with the airframe; support equipment, facilities and up-front technology development costs.
That's why people have more than one "legitimate" price tag for this (or any other) government-developed airplane (or anything else). The $500 million price quoted by Northrop management whenever the US Congress debated buying more B-2s was most likely a "time and materials" price to get an airframe built, tested and delivered to the USAF.
So, pick your initial conditions and get the price you want, I suppose.
The "enthusiast's page" referenced by someone else on this thread is a poor source of information. I read it and was very unimpressed.
By the way, I spent 10 years on the B-2 program (1986 to 1996) and was the lead engineer for the weapon control, targeting and release software.
Currently, Lockheed Martin, Telespazio SpA and TRW are combining their resources (financial and technical) to create a system called Astrolink that is a global, GEO-sat ATM-based bandwidth on demand system.
The original design had phase array antennae and intra-satellite optical links; the current desing has a more conventional antenna design and ground-based intra-satellite links. It uses VSAT type terminals and larger 3 meter dishes for network access.
The processing on the ground required to control data traffic is quite hefty, but the system is viable and will be online soon (I hope).
The envisioned use of the system is not for distributed computing but for busines applications such as video conferencing and data exchange.