I'm not sure how it's working in his schools up there, but for Florida, that $5000 needs to be used to actually PAY for the classes to be taught, not the teacher to teach it. Ask any High school teacher and I bet they would all take AP Classes over regular classes. The students are actually WILLING to learn, they do their work (home and class), they listen and don't talk while the teacher is. It may mean more grading for the teacher, but the headaches I bet are far, far less. Perhaps the US should stop trying to teach to the lowest common denominator and teach a subject for what it is, those who get it, get it. Those who don't... see you next year/semester. (It wouldn't be a popular decision, but tough ones rarely are). Stop giving hand outs, just offer a hand up, Humans achieve through adversity.
How does Eclipse really effect MS' sales for Visual Studio? If I'm developing in Java, I'm going to use Eclipse of course, but I wouldn't buy V.S. for Java development... there's no support. I'd use a Borland or a Sun product to do that.
And conversely, why would I use Eclipse for developing in a MS created Programming language (apart from the price break). IF I (or my company) have/has the cash to purchase V.S. and we're developing in C#, MFC, Visual C++ for a Windows program, then I will buy Visual Studio. I don't see how Eclipse is a direct competitor to MS at this point in time, they're hardly in the same market.
There's no other reason. No Sir. Nobody in the entire world looked at each browser and made a sound, logical choice to use the one that best met their needs. No, that would never happen.
Ok, while the parent should probably be modded "Troll" (or I'm missing his sarcastic tone). I'll bite at this one.
1) Underdog supporter
2) built in pop up blocker -- I'm forced to use IE at my current job, I'm tired of stupid popups.
3) Tabs -- enough said
4) Faster bug resolution
5) IE Should change their icon to a giant bullseye instead of the blue E
6) Choice to use it... not forced adoption
7) Standards support.. while neither browser supports them all fully, firefox does it better
8) Extension support
9) ActiveX -- do I really need to comment on this?
I was aiming for 10, but I think 9 will do to disprove your troll-ish statements.
And right there is where your logic is flawed. The issue is, they are opening attachments from people they DO know... because their 'friend' is also computer illiterate and said "Ooooo, pretty smileys!" and hit the worst button in an email client... "Forward"
Internal Emails shouldn't even have a need for attachments... use a public shared drive!! Block people from installing any programs... there are ways to do it... my company operates very effectively under these circumstances. The only IT calls we get... computer won't boot, phone doesn't work.
Here's what some (5 or 6) people do who live in a local area. They get a van pool. As it's 5 or more people using and assigned to the van, it's now considered public transportation and the $600/month for use of the van is then paid for by the State/Federal Government via reimbursement (I'm in S.Florida). They all take turns driving and split the cost of gas which amounts to about $5/week per person.
Get your HR/accounting teams to look into the local laws for communiting in a large van pool.
> Servo regulator, Throatless engines, Hold down test
Aug 4, 2005 notes
Despite not having time to do an update for a while, we have been steadily working...
Servo regulator
When we last worked with it, the setup showed what seemed to be a valve lash problem - flow would begin when the high pressure ball valve reached 15% open, but it wouldn't shut off until it was closed all the way back to 5%. Since we had fabricated our own actuator to valve adapter, we thought we might have allowed too much lash into the coupling. We built a new mount using helical beam couplers with zero lash, but that turned out not to help. The coupling seems tighter, with the valve following every little jitter of the actuator, but the flow behavior seems to be an aspect of the seals in the ball valve, not the linkage between the actuator and the valve.
This cracking problem is only really an issue at very low flow rates, so we were able to do some flow tests at roughly the performance levels that our single-man space shot vehicle will use. With a single large nitrogen bottle feeding the servo regulator, we did the following test:
2700 psi initial bottle pressure
60 gallons of water at 230 psi and 215 gpm flow rate
1800 psi final bottle pressure
2" plumbing, 1" valve
The small fittings at the bottle valve became the limiting factor as the pressure dropped below about 2200 psi, with the servo valve eventually going wide open and still not quite being able to keep up. Our flight vehicle pressurant tanks will manifold directly out of bottle necks with a -10 fitting, so they won't become flow limited at all. When our new 36" hemispheres arrive, we will be welding up the full tankage and pressurization system for the big vehicle and doing water flow tests in preparation for testing a 5,000 lbf class engine.
Speaking of spheres, here are a couple pictures of the tear area on the burst one:
I was recently looking at the table in Sutton regarding losses due to small chamber to throat contraction ratios, and they weren't as significant as I had remembered them. A chamber with no contraction ratio at all will lose 20% of its thrust due to pressure losses from accelerating gasses in the straight section, but the Isp loss is only 1.5%. The text mentions "throatless rockets" being used in some missile applications to minimize chamber length and dry mass at the expense of Isp. The text doesn't say if these were liquids or solids, but I assume they were solids.
However, this does open up the question of building liquid engines like that. If L* remained constant, you would have an extremely long engine that would probably be impossible to cool, but I could imagine the accelerating, high speed flow could reduce required combustion stay times significantly. A 1.5% Isp loss is utterly meaningless for our purposes, so a configuration that traded that for fabrication benefits could be quite useful.
We fired a few crude throatless lox / ethanol chambers, and the results were surprisingly encouraging. With a very crude injector (a spray nozzle for the lox and four straight horizontal jets for the ethanol), we measured a 190 Isp from a 12" long straight pipe combustion chamber. It melted in a couple seconds, but this was still very impressive. With a 3:1 expansion cone added, performance should increase about 15% to around 220 Isp. That would be right at theoretical va
The FCC has finally reclassified broadband service, giving the baby bells and the cable companies what they've wanted for so long, equal footing with the ISPs
The existing model was equal footing. This gives them total control now; the ability to pull a Microsoft to drive the competition out.
The reason they don't throw it into the atmosphere is for a variety of reasons.
They catalog everything that comes back. They weigh and measure each piece that is returned. They check it for radiation contamination (something that would spread the radiation if it was sent into the atmosphere to burn up). They do tests and experiments to see how the items faired during a long duration such as 2.5 years in space without the protection of the Earth's atmosphere from all the X-Rays, Gamma Rays, etc...
It's more than just garbage when it comes back, it turns into a science experiment in of itself. I'm sure they collect just as much data on items in space from the garbage that is brought back as they do from the experiments that used those items in the first place.
His entry, extolling a subject that has engaged poets for millennia, may have been inspired by Roxie Hart of the musical "Chicago." Complaining of her husband's ineptitude in the boudoir, Roxie laments, "Amos was . . . zero. I mean, he made love to me like he was fixing a carburetor or something."
I always thought Eclipse was open source... I could be wrong on that. I do however hope they plan on making the Java Doc inside the code better than Eclipse's piss poor attempt(was there even an attempt?). There wouldn't be a need to write tutorials on how to use the SWT/JFace APIs if the Java Doc was complete... or even there in some cases.
This would happen even if the jobs stayed in the original host country. The only difference is it would happen without anyone knowing because the public attention that these jobs received because of the outcry of outsourcing would never have been given. Noone cared about call centers until it made front line news.
I'm sure the Indian government will make a big example out of this guy and put him in a Federal-pound-me-in-the-ass-prison for a very long time to prevent this from happening again. Which in the end will hopefully make the information even more secure than even if the jobs had stayed in their host country.
Slashdot Mirror
I'll repost this, since the AC got pushed down into the threshold basement.
Travel to http://www.bugmenot.com/ and you'll find that registration is never required again!
(Also comes complete with a firefox plugin)
Is it bad that this article outlines our company development practices???
I'm not sure how it's working in his schools up there, but for Florida, that $5000 needs to be used to actually PAY for the classes to be taught, not the teacher to teach it. Ask any High school teacher and I bet they would all take AP Classes over regular classes. The students are actually WILLING to learn, they do their work (home and class), they listen and don't talk while the teacher is. It may mean more grading for the teacher, but the headaches I bet are far, far less. Perhaps the US should stop trying to teach to the lowest common denominator and teach a subject for what it is, those who get it, get it. Those who don't... see you next year/semester. (It wouldn't be a popular decision, but tough ones rarely are). Stop giving hand outs, just offer a hand up, Humans achieve through adversity.
Why there are a lot of dupes...
Oh, wait...
How does Eclipse really effect MS' sales for Visual Studio? If I'm developing in Java, I'm going to use Eclipse of course, but I wouldn't buy V.S. for Java development... there's no support. I'd use a Borland or a Sun product to do that.
And conversely, why would I use Eclipse for developing in a MS created Programming language (apart from the price break). IF I (or my company) have/has the cash to purchase V.S. and we're developing in C#, MFC, Visual C++ for a Windows program, then I will buy Visual Studio. I don't see how Eclipse is a direct competitor to MS at this point in time, they're hardly in the same market.
I don't know what everyone is so concerned about... I don't see any bugs... they're "Features"
Of the 17.5 million new sites, 17.3 million are blogs about the sad life of a suburban middle-class teenager.
Don't you mean Dupes?
*pets his floppy*
My precious...
We get sarcasm, you just suck (suck) at expressing it.
There's no other reason. No Sir. Nobody in the entire world looked at each browser and made a sound, logical choice to use the one that best met their needs. No, that would never happen.
.. while neither browser supports them all fully, firefox does it better
Ok, while the parent should probably be modded "Troll" (or I'm missing his sarcastic tone). I'll bite at this one.
1) Underdog supporter
2) built in pop up blocker -- I'm forced to use IE at my current job, I'm tired of stupid popups.
3) Tabs -- enough said
4) Faster bug resolution
5) IE Should change their icon to a giant bullseye instead of the blue E
6) Choice to use it... not forced adoption
7) Standards support
8) Extension support
9) ActiveX -- do I really need to comment on this?
I was aiming for 10, but I think 9 will do to disprove your troll-ish statements.
And right there is where your logic is flawed. The issue is, they are opening attachments from people they DO know... because their 'friend' is also computer illiterate and said "Ooooo, pretty smileys!" and hit the worst button in an email client... "Forward"
Internal Emails shouldn't even have a need for attachments... use a public shared drive!! Block people from installing any programs... there are ways to do it... my company operates very effectively under these circumstances. The only IT calls we get... computer won't boot, phone doesn't work.
Yeah, all 27 variations of them!
Vista Porn Edition with AOL Popup Blocker!
Although, that could make a great new slogan.
"Welcome! You've got porn!"
Here's what some (5 or 6) people do who live in a local area. They get a van pool. As it's 5 or more people using and assigned to the van, it's now considered public transportation and the $600/month for use of the van is then paid for by the State/Federal Government via reimbursement (I'm in S.Florida). They all take turns driving and split the cost of gas which amounts to about $5/week per person.
Get your HR/accounting teams to look into the local laws for communiting in a large van pool.
Okay, from there we go to Microsoft Vista for Desperate Housewives.
/. profile of the week.
Where everyone's homepage is linked to a different
From Mirror:
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/8f5373b24e35f5c45 3edf914cc953eff/index.html
Armadillo Aerospace News Archive
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Servo regulator, Throatless engines, Hold down test
Aug 4, 2005 notes
Despite not having time to do an update for a while, we have been steadily working...
Servo regulator
When we last worked with it, the setup showed what seemed to be a valve lash problem - flow would begin when the high pressure ball valve reached 15% open, but it wouldn't shut off until it was closed all the way back to 5%. Since we had fabricated our own actuator to valve adapter, we thought we might have allowed too much lash into the coupling. We built a new mount using helical beam couplers with zero lash, but that turned out not to help. The coupling seems tighter, with the valve following every little jitter of the actuator, but the flow behavior seems to be an aspect of the seals in the ball valve, not the linkage between the actuator and the valve.
This cracking problem is only really an issue at very low flow rates, so we were able to do some flow tests at roughly the performance levels that our single-man space shot vehicle will use. With a single large nitrogen bottle feeding the servo regulator, we did the following test:
2700 psi initial bottle pressure
60 gallons of water at 230 psi and 215 gpm flow rate
1800 psi final bottle pressure
2" plumbing, 1" valve
The small fittings at the bottle valve became the limiting factor as the pressure dropped below about 2200 psi, with the servo valve eventually going wide open and still not quite being able to keep up. Our flight vehicle pressurant tanks will manifold directly out of bottle necks with a -10 fitting, so they won't become flow limited at all. When our new 36" hemispheres arrive, we will be welding up the full tankage and pressurization system for the big vehicle and doing water flow tests in preparation for testing a 5,000 lbf class engine.
Speaking of spheres, here are a couple pictures of the tear area on the burst one:
http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/2005_08_03/tor nSphere.jpg
http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/2005_08_03/tor nSphere2.jpg
Throatless engine
I was recently looking at the table in Sutton regarding losses due to small chamber to throat contraction ratios, and they weren't as significant as I had remembered them. A chamber with no contraction ratio at all will lose 20% of its thrust due to pressure losses from accelerating gasses in the straight section, but the Isp loss is only 1.5%. The text mentions "throatless rockets" being used in some missile applications to minimize chamber length and dry mass at the expense of Isp. The text doesn't say if these were liquids or solids, but I assume they were solids.
However, this does open up the question of building liquid engines like that. If L* remained constant, you would have an extremely long engine that would probably be impossible to cool, but I could imagine the accelerating, high speed flow could reduce required combustion stay times significantly. A 1.5% Isp loss is utterly meaningless for our purposes, so a configuration that traded that for fabrication benefits could be quite useful.
We fired a few crude throatless lox / ethanol chambers, and the results were surprisingly encouraging. With a very crude injector (a spray nozzle for the lox and four straight horizontal jets for the ethanol), we measured a 190 Isp from a 12" long straight pipe combustion chamber. It melted in a couple seconds, but this was still very impressive. With a 3:1 expansion cone added, performance should increase about 15% to around 220 Isp. That would be right at theoretical va
The FCC has finally reclassified broadband service, giving the baby bells and the cable companies what they've wanted for so long, equal footing with the ISPs
The existing model was equal footing. This gives them total control now; the ability to pull a Microsoft to drive the competition out.
The reason they don't throw it into the atmosphere is for a variety of reasons.
They catalog everything that comes back. They weigh and measure each piece that is returned. They check it for radiation contamination (something that would spread the radiation if it was sent into the atmosphere to burn up). They do tests and experiments to see how the items faired during a long duration such as 2.5 years in space without the protection of the Earth's atmosphere from all the X-Rays, Gamma Rays, etc...
It's more than just garbage when it comes back, it turns into a science experiment in of itself. I'm sure they collect just as much data on items in space from the garbage that is brought back as they do from the experiments that used those items in the first place.
I, for one, hope women will welcome me as their new remote-control-weilding overlord.
Yes, there is now hope for you having sex in your lifetime.
... for you to see here. Move along.
They maintained a full 11Mbit unamplified connection for 3 hours
That is until the were slashdot'd
His entry, extolling a subject that has engaged poets for millennia, may have been inspired by Roxie Hart of the musical "Chicago." Complaining of her husband's ineptitude in the boudoir, Roxie laments, "Amos was . . . zero. I mean, he made love to me like he was fixing a carburetor or something."
Nahh, he's just been speaking to my wife.
I always thought Eclipse was open source... I could be wrong on that. I do however hope they plan on making the Java Doc inside the code better than Eclipse's piss poor attempt(was there even an attempt?). There wouldn't be a need to write tutorials on how to use the SWT/JFace APIs if the Java Doc was complete... or even there in some cases.
Wait till it's your son or daughter on the battlefield being saved with this type of item. Lets see how much you complain about the price tag then.
This is the company who needs to change their motto to: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."
This would happen even if the jobs stayed in the original host country. The only difference is it would happen without anyone knowing because the public attention that these jobs received because of the outcry of outsourcing would never have been given. Noone cared about call centers until it made front line news.
I'm sure the Indian government will make a big example out of this guy and put him in a Federal-pound-me-in-the-ass-prison for a very long time to prevent this from happening again. Which in the end will hopefully make the information even more secure than even if the jobs had stayed in their host country.