This is so awesome. Imagine if all governments did this. Since they all use the same applications (like LibreOffice) there will be tons of development $$$ per application!!
"He also wants them to reinvest between 5 percent and 10 percent of the money they save through not paying for proprietary software licenses, spending it instead on contributing to the development of the free software."
Here is a radical solution. I would be less against advertisements being shown but the advertisers not knowing who is seeing the ads. The only way to do so is for the ads to not be served by advertisers directly, but to be stored either at the publisher, the isp or on the user's computer. This would be technically feasible, allows publishers like slashdot to pay for costs via advertising, and is desirable because the advertisers have been shown to be untrustworthy.
Another good reason to stay away from Facebook. I have an account that I idiotically once made to join a group to get notifications. That group is gone but then an idiot from my school 30 years ago put connected me to people from then. I almost never log in, and I tell people I don't like Facebook when they ask me if I'm on it. For some reason even intelligent people seem mindless on FB. I recently saw a publicly available discussion thread on the well, an interview with charles stross and cory doctorow iirc and others. It was a really refreshing and considered dialogue over a week, it was great and after reading that it makes me almost physically ill to think of FB and the way it analyzes you and your friends and then hooks this spying apparatus into a targeted advertising engine. A typical asshole idea by another psychopath billionaire. I have sometimes found it useful to get more insight into the activities of a person or company but I do not contribute to FB.
This is dumb. Way dumb. But if the braindead judge is requiring a recall, why don't they just issue an OS patch via their own network or at shops? It doesn't make any sense in the world even for no-brains (oops zombies ate my brain) judge to order a physical recall for what is just a visual effect. That the effect is actually just a portrayal of how a spring works, which is why the whole physical gadget must be scrapped for what could be hundreds of millions of dollars is like really, really dumb. DUMB!
Interesting but then depends on measurement of c and timing of a second.. whereas the standard length of measure is a meter. Still, you could call 1AU == 150 gm == 500 lightsecs
p.s. That is of course Robin Des Bois, not Robin Hood. Interesting report on Space Waste. Des Bois also interviewed ESA members:
Following a request from Robin des Bois, an interview took place on January 14, 2011 at the ESA offices in Paris between the three members of the NGO and seven members of ESA. Three were physically present and four attended via videoconference from the Kourou launch center in French Guiana - including the ATv2 program director - and the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) headquarters in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
Had some fun looking up and finding some more information about the project and why it is being done. Seems that ONERA, the French aerospace research institute, builds military radar among other things, and their bistatic experiment worked so well it is practically a finished product, so they are expanding it already. The OP project is probably based on this. So these things are dual-use though the OP's ESA project says it is to protect satellites and European citizens. Overview of ONERA radar products: http://www.onera.fr/demr-en/references.php
Details about the French GRAVES experimental bistatic radar facility and how it works with Germany's TIRA. So successful they are being upgraded now. France, Australia and Canada cooperate with the USAF. GRAVES was built in 2004 and is owned by the French arms procurement agency. GRAVES is for objects in Low Earth Orbit, up to 1000km altitude. The upgrade will allow it to broaden the swath of sky and to eliminate errors in trajectory position to more precisely determine on its own whether or not two objects are destined to collide. TIRA belongs to the German military. Though the new system is for all Germany not just the military they say. "... Space situational awareness [is seen] as an important element in Germany’s national sovereignty." From 2012, TIRA personnel will be trained by French and Americans. http://www.spacenews.com/military/110531-france-germany-anchor-europe-ssa.html
A bit more info on the OP article (French so use Google translate) http://www.smartplanet.fr/smart-technology/un-futur-radar-europeen-contre-les-debris-de-lespace-17211/ It adds: - work begins Sept. 2012 - The goal is to help European satellite operators to exclude collision risk and improve safety in Earth orbit, an area in which France has recognized expertise, says ESA. - "The two demonstrators radar will be part of an initial network of sensors that will also include optical telescopes and data processing centers to ensure observation of space debris on all types of orbits. ' - In the case of new experimental radar, the transmitter will be on the influence of the former airbase Crucey-Villages (Eure-et-Loir), about 100 km west of Paris, and the receiver will near Palaiseau (Essonne), south of Paris. - The SSA... first phase, the preparatory program, [was] authorized... in November 2008. As part of this program, the ESA is to acquire the ability to monitor any danger to the area, since the risk of collisions between satellites and space debris to the impact of a celestial body through natural by space weather related to solar activity. - The SSA program exposes the ESA will provide the final of Europe's ability to detect, predict and evaluate the potential risks to life and property represented by space debris, atmospheric reentry, explosions in orbit launches , collisions, disruption of missions and services using satellites, the potential impacts of NEOs, and the effects of intense space weather events on infrastructure both space and on the ground. - In summer 2011, a U.S. report had alerted the critical level of waste in orbit . This amount has become so important that it may trigger a snowball e
Not that I am going to bother trying it, but I figure it would also work if I run Windows in VmWare on my Mac and use the very useful Mac utility Grab, or even just the standard Cmd-# screenshot command. In which case this is just a masochistic way for Windows users to hurt themselves while feeling superior?
Not interested in taking surveys all the time. And, 1500 for $150 sounds like a lot but is just 10 cents per person. What might work is to be a low-margin middleman, their customer being individual content creators. Could be a writer, a lone musician, a film-making project, a kickstarter project, a reddit-savvy game creator, a Public Lab spectroscope project, etc. Someone who is putting content on the web, for sale, but with a large or 100% free component. A band could host their music video as a torrent thus incurring no storage fees. A company making a game (with free demo) for the OUYA. A team making a crowd-funded TV series. These creators can get a limited time free boost when the initial news story comes out on some major blog, but to get a long-running buzz they can pay a small amount to put up ads. Not just the kind of ads you want to ad-block, but the kind that deliver to you immediately the actual media you want. Payment could be handled on an honor system, full payment required each time, or some kind of token based system. Something like a wallet.. if only someone invented one of those.. Actually it could be more interesting to Google to just to make the platform, take a small cut and make a real instant global micropayment system. Could be the next VISA.
Anyway I cannot be of much help but you should get something that doesn't rely on a touchscreen, and also take care about the adapter cable.
There are a lot of sites selling adapter cables for helicopter intercom to mp3 players. But one had a comment that popped my ears up. This is about recording audio from the intercom, so maybe it is not related to your use case but thought I would mention it. http://www.mypilotstore.com/mypilotstore/sep/3335
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Caused radio communication problems when in use
by william from newark CA USA
Cons: May not work for all camcorders!
Review: The problem was when I plugged the audio tap wire into a Contour HD video camera it cause so much interference with the radio transmission the control tower could not understand what I was saying. It also made my voice sound like it was in an echo chamber on my headset. Maybe the camcorder I was using was being over driven by the helicopters audio output (robbinson R22). Either way, it didn't work and I had to land and remove the cable from my system. Probably too late to return it.
This. I originally switched my desktop Linux to Windows because in the business world, when you write a contract with someone you send them a copy of the Word file, and they modify it and send it back. However OpenOffice at the time would ruin the document.
I still have a linux server, but my desktop is now Mac OS X which gives me unixness too. I have an old copy of MS Word (very slow) and LibreOffice which I prefer to use. But even now, I am worried since I am both using Mac not Windows and Libre not Word. In particular sending documents with layouts using photos, letters that have to be in certain fonts or even unicode, bulletted outlines, embedded spreadsheets, etc. always make me wonder if it will come through okay. Since it doesn't always.
If it had a real keyboard and focused on being secure, didn't send my info everywhere, and was completely open, and lets me manage memory, disk space, processes and battery life. And lets me back it up easily to a Mac, and add patches.. In other words has everything I wish android had. I love my HTC Evo 4G but also it provides frustration. My biggest gripes are that it makes it impossible to do maintenance by hiding files or not providing simple utilities. It doesn't let me delete old attachments from main memory and hides the folder it is in (not rooted) so it is always only a few percent free, so sometimes it refuses to download email or even display camera photos. While there is plenty of memory on the sd card.
Oh and I forgot it completely erased all my contacts, twice! I don't understand why it gives me an option to save a new contact to the phone or to Google either. I don't use gmail though I have an account. If used as a backup does it mean it can be restored? etc. There are many people who have similar issues who end up creating clueless birds of a feather clubs on the net.
After you get past the bells and whistles I would prefer a less advertisercentric, more ownercentric. I would like a secure system that offers the ability to easily manage main memory and SD card, encrypt email / phone / voice calls, and transparently integrate with my Mac and Kindle. It should be easy to make a daily backup (like superduper or carbon copy cloner) instead of wrestling with adb once in a while and wondering if it will really restore if something happens. Some way to manage the constant issue of files getting added to the phone until it overflows, since there isn't a time you usually delete things.
Wow. TFA says 8.9 million American households that have RVs, about a half-million live full-time on the road. And the National Multi Housing Council site I found says there are a total of 118M households in all. So 7.5% of all households own RVs? And 0.4% live on the road? I had no idea such a huge percentage was doing this.
I always have so much trouble finding half the books that win these awards. Here is a copy of Kij Johnson's novella on her website and it is awesome that she is posting it, especially since Asimov's requires you buy their bag to read the conclusion! Congratulations to all. Full story in.doc format Kij Johnson
Not that I will hold my breath but it would be nice if someone legislated a requirement that an open API be provided that lets the user specify a repository for this data on a server of his or her choice. Would make mining me less valuable for google but the alternative would be for different countries to all pester google for their own versions. It would be interesting if there was a way to secure the OS for the user like this so-called milspec unit (I suppose it uses a repository in the Russian military whereas the civilian one puts backdoors in everything) so as not to make using my phone a daily experience of sending information to twenty companies. Of course not so worried that I have rooted my phone yet..
I'm just wondering about length of time needed to build spacecraft. Is there a possibility of trying to develop full-on robot automated manufacturing of spacecraft to try and reduce cost and increase speed of manufacture? Or is it just that the current combination of no money up front, pushing the envelope, and needing human brainpower for testing and imagining failure modes? Are there any parts of spacecraft these days that are assembled robotically or is it 100% bespoke? Which is still cool but not space operaish yet. You see automated manufacturing attached to automated mining and supply lines means we can set up a remote site on the Moon or Mars.
- Real estate covered in solar flux = energy - Temperature differences = energy - A shallow gravity well = easy to ship things out - Low gravity may = easier life for those weak due to medical conditions = retirement - Dark side = potential astronomy sites - As closest planetary body from which vacuum based engineering such as asteroid mining and space habitats could be tested and based. - Close enough that robotic operations can be monitored and directed in real time - Far enough that it is a good place for dangerous things like reactors, super particle accelerators and self-assembling nanolife construction bots.
This is wierd. Not the concept, after all this has been around for a while. The idea that to make a windows version costs $50K but a mac version costs $1,750K according to their kickstarter.
All I want is to get a copy of recent Windows to run on VmWare Fusion on my 2009 MacBook Pro / Snow Leopard. 1. How much? I just need to download a disk image. I don't need frills but do need windowsupdate style security updates. 2. Will it run at a usable speed on 1 cpu or will it make me want to kill myself and/or give it both cpus? Would Win7 be faster? 3. How much disk space does it want? 4. Do I have to have some kind of account at MS like someone mentioned (which I would not like)? 5. Can I make interface show up in a language besides English?
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This is so awesome. Imagine if all governments did this. Since they all use the same applications (like LibreOffice) there will be tons of development $$$ per application!!
"He also wants them to reinvest between 5 percent and 10 percent of the money they save through not paying for proprietary software licenses, spending it instead on contributing to the development of the free software."
Here is a radical solution.
I would be less against advertisements being shown but the advertisers not knowing who is seeing the ads.
The only way to do so is for the ads to not be served by advertisers directly, but to be stored either at the publisher, the isp or on the user's computer.
This would be technically feasible, allows publishers like slashdot to pay for costs via advertising, and is desirable because the advertisers have been shown to be untrustworthy.
I wonder does Ubuntu get a cut on all purchases ever made by user through the Amazon thingy?
Another good reason to stay away from Facebook.
I have an account that I idiotically once made to join a group to get notifications.
That group is gone but then an idiot from my school 30 years ago put connected me to people from then.
I almost never log in, and I tell people I don't like Facebook when they ask me if I'm on it.
For some reason even intelligent people seem mindless on FB.
I recently saw a publicly available discussion thread on the well, an interview with charles stross and cory doctorow iirc and others.
It was a really refreshing and considered dialogue over a week, it was great and after reading that it makes me almost physically ill to think of FB and the way it analyzes you and your friends and then hooks this spying apparatus into a targeted advertising engine. A typical asshole idea by another psychopath billionaire.
I have sometimes found it useful to get more insight into the activities of a person or company but I do not contribute to FB.
Not happy now!
This is dumb. Way dumb. But if the braindead judge is requiring a recall, why don't they just issue an OS patch via their own network or at shops? It doesn't make any sense in the world even for no-brains (oops zombies ate my brain) judge to order a physical recall for what is just a visual effect. That the effect is actually just a portrayal of how a spring works, which is why the whole physical gadget must be scrapped for what could be hundreds of millions of dollars is like really, really dumb. DUMB!
Interesting but then depends on measurement of c and timing of a second.. whereas the standard length of measure is a meter.
Still, you could call 1AU == 150 gm == 500 lightsecs
p.s. That is of course Robin Des Bois, not Robin Hood. Interesting report on Space Waste. Des Bois also interviewed ESA members:
Had some fun looking up and finding some more information about the project and why it is being done.
Seems that ONERA, the French aerospace research institute, builds military radar among other things, and their bistatic experiment worked so well it is practically a finished product, so they are expanding it already. The OP project is probably based on this. So these things are dual-use though the OP's ESA project says it is to protect satellites and European citizens.
Overview of ONERA radar products: http://www.onera.fr/demr-en/references.php
Details about the French GRAVES experimental bistatic radar facility and how it works with Germany's TIRA.
So successful they are being upgraded now. France, Australia and Canada cooperate with the USAF.
GRAVES was built in 2004 and is owned by the French arms procurement agency.
GRAVES is for objects in Low Earth Orbit, up to 1000km altitude. The upgrade will allow it to broaden the swath of sky and to eliminate errors in trajectory position to more precisely determine on its own whether or not two objects are destined to collide.
TIRA belongs to the German military. Though the new system is for all Germany not just the military they say.
"... Space situational awareness [is seen] as an important element in Germany’s national sovereignty."
From 2012, TIRA personnel will be trained by French and Americans.
http://www.spacenews.com/military/110531-france-germany-anchor-europe-ssa.html
GRAVES, The French Space Surveillance System
http://www.onera.fr/dcps-en/graves-space-surveillance-system/index.php
Aerial views of GRAVES, apparently. Explains that it can make angular measurements and get radial velocity.
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/03files/GRAVES_French_Radar_Surveillance_Facility.html
A bit more info on the OP article (French so use Google translate) ... first phase, the preparatory program, [was] authorized ... in November 2008. As part of this program, the ESA is to acquire the ability to monitor any danger to the area, since the risk of collisions between satellites and space debris to the impact of a celestial body through natural by space weather related to solar activity.
http://www.smartplanet.fr/smart-technology/un-futur-radar-europeen-contre-les-debris-de-lespace-17211/
It adds:
- work begins Sept. 2012
- The goal is to help European satellite operators to exclude collision risk and improve safety in Earth orbit, an area in which France has recognized expertise, says ESA.
- "The two demonstrators radar will be part of an initial network of sensors that will also include optical telescopes and data processing centers to ensure observation of space debris on all types of orbits. '
- In the case of new experimental radar, the transmitter will be on the influence of the former airbase Crucey-Villages (Eure-et-Loir), about 100 km west of Paris, and the receiver will near Palaiseau (Essonne), south of Paris.
- The SSA
- The SSA program exposes the ESA will provide the final of Europe's ability to detect, predict and evaluate the potential risks to life and property represented by space debris, atmospheric reentry, explosions in orbit launches , collisions, disruption of missions and services using satellites, the potential impacts of NEOs, and the effects of intense space weather events on infrastructure both space and on the ground.
- In summer 2011, a U.S. report had alerted the critical level of waste in orbit . This amount has become so important that it may trigger a snowball e
Not that I am going to bother trying it, but I figure it would also work if I run Windows in VmWare on my Mac and use the very useful Mac utility Grab, or even just the standard Cmd-# screenshot command. In which case this is just a masochistic way for Windows users to hurt themselves while feeling superior?
Not interested in taking surveys all the time. And, 1500 for $150 sounds like a lot but is just 10 cents per person.
What might work is to be a low-margin middleman, their customer being individual content creators.
Could be a writer, a lone musician, a film-making project, a kickstarter project, a reddit-savvy game creator, a Public Lab spectroscope project, etc. Someone who is putting content on the web, for sale, but with a large or 100% free component. A band could host their music video as a torrent thus incurring no storage fees. A company making a game (with free demo) for the OUYA. A team making a crowd-funded TV series. These creators can get a limited time free boost when the initial news story comes out on some major blog, but to get a long-running buzz they can pay a small amount to put up ads. Not just the kind of ads you want to ad-block, but the kind that deliver to you immediately the actual media you want. Payment could be handled on an honor system, full payment required each time, or some kind of token based system. Something like a wallet.. if only someone invented one of those.. Actually it could be more interesting to Google to just to make the platform, take a small cut and make a real instant global micropayment system. Could be the next VISA.
IANAP just googler but I guess the idea is that you don't buy a $1000-2500 unit like those from PS Engineering or Sarasota Avionics.
http://www.gulfcoastavionics.com/products/537-pcd-7100.aspx
http://www.ps-engineering.com/pav80.shtml
http://sarasotaavionics.com/category/entertainment/cd_mp3_dvd-players
http://sarasotaavionics.com/avionics/fdsdx6 (a $2800 unit that takes six 1GB sd cards, this is overkill but an example of what is out there.)
Anyway I cannot be of much help but you should get something that doesn't rely on a touchscreen, and also take care about the adapter cable.
There are a lot of sites selling adapter cables for helicopter intercom to mp3 players. But one had a comment that popped my ears up. This is about recording audio from the intercom, so maybe it is not related to your use case but thought I would mention it.
http://www.mypilotstore.com/mypilotstore/sep/3335
This. I originally switched my desktop Linux to Windows because in the business world, when you write a contract with someone you send them a copy of the Word file, and they modify it and send it back. However OpenOffice at the time would ruin the document.
I still have a linux server, but my desktop is now Mac OS X which gives me unixness too. I have an old copy of MS Word (very slow) and LibreOffice which I prefer to use. But even now, I am worried since I am both using Mac not Windows and Libre not Word. In particular sending documents with layouts using photos, letters that have to be in certain fonts or even unicode, bulletted outlines, embedded spreadsheets, etc. always make me wonder if it will come through okay. Since it doesn't always.
with razor-sharp leading edges..
patents tl;dr. I wonder if it conflicts with the Japanese cigarette vending machines that use facial recognition?
From 4 years ago..
http://pinktentacle.com/2008/06/magazine-photos-fool-age-verification-cameras/
Of course researcher is Japanese or Japanese American so that is unlikely but.
If it had a real keyboard and focused on being secure, didn't send my info everywhere, and was completely open, and lets me manage memory, disk space, processes and battery life. And lets me back it up easily to a Mac, and add patches..
In other words has everything I wish android had. I love my HTC Evo 4G but also it provides frustration. My biggest gripes are that it makes it impossible to do maintenance by hiding files or not providing simple utilities. It doesn't let me delete old attachments from main memory and hides the folder it is in (not rooted) so it is always only a few percent free, so sometimes it refuses to download email or even display camera photos. While there is plenty of memory on the sd card.
Oh and I forgot it completely erased all my contacts, twice! I don't understand why it gives me an option to save a new contact to the phone or to Google either. I don't use gmail though I have an account. If used as a backup does it mean it can be restored? etc. There are many people who have similar issues who end up creating clueless birds of a feather clubs on the net.
After you get past the bells and whistles I would prefer a less advertisercentric, more ownercentric. I would like a secure system that offers the ability to easily manage main memory and SD card, encrypt email / phone / voice calls, and transparently integrate with my Mac and Kindle. It should be easy to make a daily backup (like superduper or carbon copy cloner) instead of wrestling with adb once in a while and wondering if it will really restore if something happens. Some way to manage the constant issue of files getting added to the phone until it overflows, since there isn't a time you usually delete things.
Real me use curl. Or ssh.
updated that for you
Check out the Tor page - more useful.
Wow. TFA says 8.9 million American households that have RVs, about a half-million live full-time on the road.
And the National Multi Housing Council site I found says there are a total of 118M households in all.
So 7.5% of all households own RVs? And 0.4% live on the road? I had no idea such a huge percentage was doing this.
Among Others was a good book indeed!
I always have so much trouble finding half the books that win these awards. .doc format
Here is a copy of Kij Johnson's novella on her website and it is awesome that she is posting it, especially since Asimov's requires you buy their bag to read the conclusion! Congratulations to all.
Full story in
Kij Johnson
Not that I will hold my breath but it would be nice if someone legislated a requirement that an open API be provided that lets the user specify a repository for this data on a server of his or her choice. Would make mining me less valuable for google but the alternative would be for different countries to all pester google for their own versions. It would be interesting if there was a way to secure the OS for the user like this so-called milspec unit (I suppose it uses a repository in the Russian military whereas the civilian one puts backdoors in everything) so as not to make using my phone a daily experience of sending information to twenty companies. Of course not so worried that I have rooted my phone yet..
I'm just wondering about length of time needed to build spacecraft. Is there a possibility of trying to develop full-on robot automated manufacturing of spacecraft to try and reduce cost and increase speed of manufacture? Or is it just that the current combination of no money up front, pushing the envelope, and needing human brainpower for testing and imagining failure modes? Are there any parts of spacecraft these days that are assembled robotically or is it 100% bespoke? Which is still cool but not space operaish yet. You see automated manufacturing attached to automated mining and supply lines means we can set up a remote site on the Moon or Mars.
- Real estate covered in solar flux = energy
- Temperature differences = energy
- A shallow gravity well = easy to ship things out
- Low gravity may = easier life for those weak due to medical conditions = retirement
- Dark side = potential astronomy sites
- As closest planetary body from which vacuum based engineering such as asteroid mining and space habitats could be tested and based.
- Close enough that robotic operations can be monitored and directed in real time
- Far enough that it is a good place for dangerous things like reactors, super particle accelerators and self-assembling nanolife construction bots.
This is wierd. Not the concept, after all this has been around for a while.
The idea that to make a windows version costs $50K but a mac version costs $1,750K according to their kickstarter.
All I want is to get a copy of recent Windows to run on VmWare Fusion on my 2009 MacBook Pro / Snow Leopard.
1. How much? I just need to download a disk image. I don't need frills but do need windowsupdate style security updates.
2. Will it run at a usable speed on 1 cpu or will it make me want to kill myself and/or give it both cpus? Would Win7 be faster?
3. How much disk space does it want?
4. Do I have to have some kind of account at MS like someone mentioned (which I would not like)?
5. Can I make interface show up in a language besides English?