The 54Mbps refers to the signalling rate of the transmitter not the data rate that is acheiveable - bascially a maketing tools like MB MiB in hard drives. The actual transfer rate is reduced from the optimum by the packetising of the data, obtaining the wireless spectrum before transmission and that an inter-packet gap is inserted between every transmitted packet to allow other AP users to transmit data.
1. Your grammar needs improvement: you should have written "their" and "jobs".
Hmm... this is/. not a customer report, I think a bit of slack can be given
2. Anyone that wins the Nobel prize in physics is an awful lot smarter and has done an awful lot more work than "just doing his job".
I never said anything about them not being smart and not putting in extra hours but fundamentally they were getting paid to do that work, hence they were doing their job. Some people actually work because they enjoy it, not just to get paid. I was just saying that it's nice to get a monetary prize as well as the recognition.
3. You imply that a prizewinner would deserve a larger sum if he was an amateur working in his shed. Can you justify yourself?
Now were the hell did I say that the prize money should be different? They won the Nobel Prize and that takes some doing.
I hadn't realised that the Nobel Prize actually had a cash prize. Considering these guys were just doing there job, the payout is not bad. 10M swedish krona (763K GBP or 1.36M USD).
I can't quite envision how an inflatable object would behave in zero-G (perhaps just like any other object?), but in a vacuum, presumably explosion would be quite a difficult problem.
Zero-G doesn't matter in this case. Think about when you blow up a ballon, this air pressure inside is greater than outside, it's same in space just the pressure can be much lower to maintian the shape. They probably keep it around normal atmospheric pressure the comfort of the astronauts.
Make you wonder though, when you pop a ballon with a pin it goes bang...
My group here at JSC finished a Backup Oxygen Candle System (aka the BOCS)
The point about the Elektron is that it basically recycles water from the atmosphere and other water sources to provide oxgen. BOCS is not replacement for Elektron, its a band-aid until a new primary system can be put in place.
NASA gets a lot of flack around here...
It does and I'm sure the Russians should take the blame too. But the fact is there are people in a spacecraft with a limited oxygen supply, all the primary oxygen generation systems have failed and that shouldn't happen, ever.
It seems to me that the actual process is pretty simple to actually produce the oxygen (Battery across two metal plates dipped in water, oxygen bubbles from one, hydrogen from the other - more info). Granted you have to ensure the quality of the supply and get rid of the hydrogen but surely this isn't beyond the expertise of NASA. They have known for years that there no expertise in fixing these units. Why have they not been designing and building replacements?
Now it's reasonable to remember IP address like 192.168.x.x but when we go to IPv6 how are you going to remember 43FB:2222:4232:1234:1234:BB3F:A0A0:1234?
But yah to getting rid NAT and the nasty hacks all that involves. Contary to popular belief there is very little added security, if you want security get a firewall.
Exactly, all research should be published whether it be good or bad and let the reviewers decide whether the results are valid and the methdology is good and is worth publishing. In that way the researchers will probably gain from the positive critism allowing them to do even better research the next time around.
If they don't know why things are failing, how can they improve?
Big deal, Europe MISSED MARS two times out of four.
Technically, the last time the landing craft (Beagle-2) actually landed on Mars...just a little quicker than planned. If fact almost exactly the same as the Genesis payload except there was no-one to dig it out.
Not to mention that many companies process information that's considered sensitive (by that I mean goverment) and being able to walk out with that data on something the size of USB key must be an absolute security nightmare!
On a related note, I wonder how this will interact with the logon using USB key?
Is it just me, or does everyone else have like 50% failure rate on floppies?
Its probably the fact the drive is only used once in a blue moon. So when you do, it dumps a whole load of dust and dirt on the floppy.
But in answer to your question: yes, but I get more like 75% (or maybe I'm just unlucky).
Slashdot Mirror
Running the command:
$ history | grep ssh
would likely give a good list...
The 54Mbps refers to the signalling rate of the transmitter not the data rate that is acheiveable - bascially a maketing tools like MB MiB in hard drives.
The actual transfer rate is reduced from the optimum by the packetising of the data, obtaining the wireless spectrum before transmission and that an inter-packet gap is inserted between every transmitted packet to allow other AP users to transmit data.
I never said anything about them not being smart and not putting in extra hours but fundamentally they were getting paid to do that work, hence they were doing their job. Some people actually work because they enjoy it, not just to get paid. I was just saying that it's nice to get a monetary prize as well as the recognition.
Now were the hell did I say that the prize money should be different? They won the Nobel Prize and that takes some doing.
and posted as an AC as well...
I hadn't realised that the Nobel Prize actually had a cash prize. Considering these guys were just doing there job, the payout is not bad. 10M swedish krona (763K GBP or 1.36M USD).
Please, please, please, please make the amd64 JVM work on Intel EM64T boxes in Linux!
SUN claim support on AMD64 in Linux as noted on their website.
I can't quite envision how an inflatable object would behave in zero-G (perhaps just like any other object?), but in a vacuum, presumably explosion would be quite a difficult problem.
Zero-G doesn't matter in this case. Think about when you blow up a ballon, this air pressure inside is greater than outside, it's same in space just the pressure can be much lower to maintian the shape. They probably keep it around normal atmospheric pressure the comfort of the astronauts.
Make you wonder though, when you pop a ballon with a pin it goes bang...
I meant BOCS could keep the station going until the Shuttle returns to flight, giving us the upmass ability to replace the Elektron.
:-)
Cool, we good luck getting it in.
I would estimate that that server stayed up less than 2 minutes after the story was published. Mirrors anyone?
My group here at JSC finished a Backup Oxygen Candle System (aka the BOCS)
The point about the Elektron is that it basically recycles water from the atmosphere and other water sources to provide oxgen. BOCS is not replacement for Elektron, its a band-aid until a new primary system can be put in place.
NASA gets a lot of flack around here...
It does and I'm sure the Russians should take the blame too. But the fact is there are people in a spacecraft with a limited oxygen supply, all the primary oxygen generation systems have failed and that shouldn't happen, ever.
NASA doesn't know yet why they didn't go off;
BBC News is reporting that a faulty battery is the best likely cause.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3643346.stm
It seems to me that the actual process is pretty simple to actually produce the oxygen (Battery across two metal plates dipped in water, oxygen bubbles from one, hydrogen from the other - more info). Granted you have to ensure the quality of the supply and get rid of the hydrogen but surely this isn't beyond the expertise of NASA. They have known for years that there no expertise in fixing these units. Why have they not been designing and building replacements?
Now it's reasonable to remember IP address like 192.168.x.x but when we go to IPv6 how are you going to remember 43FB:2222:4232:1234:1234:BB3F:A0A0:1234?
But yah to getting rid NAT and the nasty hacks all that involves. Contary to popular belief there is very little added security, if you want security get a firewall.
Exactly, all research should be published whether it be good or bad and let the reviewers decide whether the results are valid and the methdology is good and is worth publishing. In that way the researchers will probably gain from the positive critism allowing them to do even better research the next time around.
If they don't know why things are failing, how can they improve?
Big deal, Europe MISSED MARS two times out of four.
Technically, the last time the landing craft (Beagle-2) actually landed on Mars...just a little quicker than planned. If fact almost exactly the same as the Genesis payload except there was no-one to dig it out.
Not to mention that many companies process information that's considered sensitive (by that I mean goverment) and being able to walk out with that data on something the size of USB key must be an absolute security nightmare!
On a related note, I wonder how this will interact with the logon using USB key?
Is it just me, or does everyone else have like 50% failure rate on floppies?
Its probably the fact the drive is only used once in a blue moon. So when you do, it dumps a whole load of dust and dirt on the floppy.
But in answer to your question: yes, but I get more like 75% (or maybe I'm just unlucky).
Here's hoping that this game will be better than the last couple of movies.
Doubtful. All the spin offs from Star Trek always seem to be a disappointment, especially the games.