Epilepsy is traditionally analysed with an EEG. That makes it a neurological condition.
And yes, I do have epilepsy, but not the photosensitive kind. Back in the days when the only way to make a rapid strobe light was with xenon or neon there was a lot of attention paid to pulse rates, intensity and containment. You were not supposed to just set it up anywhere. You had to warn people.
Now that anybody can make a strobe with an array of cheap LED's the photosensitivity issue is being ignored. This is a problem because it goes beyond people with recognised seizure problems. We should not be feeding pulse trains into our eyes which mimic signals which always run inside our brains.
A guy I work with showed me a picture he took of a seat back system which had crashed with a kernel panic. That one definitely wasn't Linux. I thought it might have been something like SCO.
I use my HP laptop as a terminal when I work at customer sites. It has one serial port on a 9 pin D connector. A lot of people use windows/hyper terminal for that but I prefer pretty much any unix like OS (currently ubuntu) with UUCP installed.
cu -l/dev/ttyS0...is as close as I can go to set host/dte on VMS.
Though those legacy unix serial line applications are funny with all the stuff they have for sending AT commands and storing information about remote systems, not to mention queueing serial file transfers. All very quaint. The classic is minicom which will do practically everything except give me a raw connection to the serial port without a lot of configuration.
But saturn and its moons formed from the same basic stuff as comets, and the materials being found here would not necesssarily have been baked off during the formation of saturn. I actually don't see why Eceladus could not have substancial amounts of comet-like materials in its crust.
if they spin it the right way, that they literally found moons made of petrochemicals in the outer solar system their budget would triple overnight;)
Yeah thats an old joke. There is so much methane in the solar system that the real question is where would you find enough oxygen to be able to burn it?
Its right there, free for the taking, but too expensive to extract and transport.
The Internet. I don't think I've ever seen a prediction list that got that one
Also digital imaging and (before it) digital music.
SF generally got it right with high density solid state storage but it always seemed to be presented as some mystical application of holography rather then normal transistors encapsulated in plastic.
In general software (excluding AI) is progressing faster then most people 50 years ago would have predicted.
...was the biggest bang since the big one so this burst should be named after her.
OTH if a seven billion year old gamma ray burst could be used to debunk Christian mythology I think then maybe there is a case for naming it after Clarke.
Overall I think this is working in Senator Obama's favour. As long as he is publicly associated with a wacky Christian it is hard to accuse him of being a Muslim.
Even if we switch off of AM and FM and such to fancy digital encodings, every radio should have the ability to tune into old-fashioned AM signals built in
No, because medium wave is just too bulky. You can get small, cheap FM only radios for this reason.
And yeah, I grew up making crystal radios and small powered radios when I was eight or nine. Its hard to buy the nice open tuning gangs now. The old ways are going.
"Is there life on Titan? Probably not. It's cold down there! 94 Kelvin
Another way of putting it is that it is only twice as cold as the coldest place on Earth. Given nuclear power I think humans could live on Titan quite easily.
I wonder if it has fossil oxygen or nitrogen dioxide? If such a thing could be found it might be possible to survive without uranium.
The really strange thing is that for a while it appeared that the rotation of Mercury was locked on Earth. We were just unlucky that the same face was pointing to Earth on every close approach.
I think the Fountains of Paradise was his best. He certainly tried to make it his last great novel.
I once read an early story of his "Travel by Wire" which is about teleportation. He goes into gory detail about what can happen to the traveller transported at too low a resolution, or when noise got into the line "They looked like nothing on Earth and very little on Venus or Mars". It ends with an observation about engineering: that the people who build things like this sometimes seem reluctant to travel on them, knowing how badly they were put together.
At the other end of his career he wrote "Transit of Earth" which is a much better put together story but less fun to read.
It seems likely that such a mechanism would be used mostly later in life... after the reproductive years have passed. And so, evolution would not likely promote or demote this trait.
Grandparents help in the raising of their childrens children. I don't think being too old to reproduce isolates you from evolution. And how old would a man have to be to not become a parent?
I remember when I had a Commodore 64, about 24 years ago, and solid state drives were 'just around the corner'. They have been lurking there for a VERY long time, but finally they arrived! I can't wait to get my hands on one. The next thing to emerge is Linux for the masses, which has been around the corner for about 12 years, if not longer. I'm very optimistic about that since the Eee PC turned out to be such a huge success last year. The future looks bright!
Because it is quiet, my eee feels like a return to my very first 6502 basic-in-rom system. Until I started using an SSD I didn't realise how much time I spent waiting for my application to get a turn at the disk. The lack of a bottleneck is amazing.
Something like this would be awesome on battle bots. Swarm robots, or robots that work cooperatively to complete a challenge against another single or swarm of robots would be really fascinating to watch. It would be truly interesting to watch the evolution of different techniques and methods every week.
You don't need the actual robots to do that. Just the software.
Once you click it, there's no way to take it back.
Unless you post a reply. Though admittedly the last time I moderated I was using illicit wifi in a holiday unit in Adelaide and the connection died before I was able to reverse the incorrect mod. Sorry about that whoever it was.
I think using a touch pad makes using the moderation popup less reliable.
Something specific has to be holding them back. Or the aviation industry and the government that controls it are as immensely stupid at everything as they always appear to be.
For a start it is an international system. Aircraft made in Pakistan have to interoperate with ground systems in the US, Canada, Russia, etc. Systems like mode-s and ADS/CPDLC go part of the way to what you want, but their adoption has been slowed by the fact the VHF voice comms are free everywhere and satellite communication costs a lot of money, particularly when you want an aviation grade connection and it has to be on all the time.
Why don't these black boxes stream their data live to satellites during the entire trip? Why is the technology limited to making a recording crash-proof?
One reason is that the lead time for new communication protocols and applications in aviation is measured in decades. Remember that all aircraft still report 12 bit mode 3a identifiers which have to be allocated before use because there aren't enough to go around, and use totally spoofable VHF AM radio transceivers.
If something goes wrong, the astronauts don't have to go anywhere; the bolts holding the capsule onto the main Ares launch vehicle blow, and the escape rocket fires, lifting the entire Orion capsule off the Ares rocket and high enough into the air to get clear of the launch pad and any unpleasant explosions.
Most of the thrust from the LES is needed to get the capsule high enough to land by parachute. Normal RCS thrusters could do the job with less mass overhead if you assume that the capsule will normally land by rocket power.
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Epilepsy is traditionally analysed with an EEG. That makes it a neurological condition.
And yes, I do have epilepsy, but not the photosensitive kind. Back in the days when the only way to make a rapid strobe light was with xenon or neon there was a lot of attention paid to pulse rates, intensity and containment. You were not supposed to just set it up anywhere. You had to warn people.
Now that anybody can make a strobe with an array of cheap LED's the photosensitivity issue is being ignored. This is a problem because it goes beyond people with recognised seizure problems. We should not be feeding pulse trains into our eyes which mimic signals which always run inside our brains.
A guy I work with showed me a picture he took of a seat back system which had crashed with a kernel panic. That one definitely wasn't Linux. I thought it might have been something like SCO.
I use my HP laptop as a terminal when I work at customer sites. It has one serial port on a 9 pin D connector. A lot of people use windows/hyper terminal for that but I prefer pretty much any unix like OS (currently ubuntu) with UUCP installed.
/dev/ttyS0 ...is as close as I can go to set host/dte on VMS.
cu -l
Though those legacy unix serial line applications are funny with all the stuff they have for sending AT commands and storing information about remote systems, not to mention queueing serial file transfers. All very quaint. The classic is minicom which will do practically everything except give me a raw connection to the serial port without a lot of configuration.
But saturn and its moons formed from the same basic stuff as comets, and the materials being found here would not necesssarily have been baked off during the formation of saturn. I actually don't see why Eceladus could not have substancial amounts of comet-like materials in its crust.
It is too close to Saturn and in too stable an orbit.
Yeah thats an old joke. There is so much methane in the solar system that the real question is where would you find enough oxygen to be able to burn it?
Its right there, free for the taking, but too expensive to extract and transport.
Also digital imaging and (before it) digital music.
SF generally got it right with high density solid state storage but it always seemed to be presented as some mystical application of holography rather then normal transistors encapsulated in plastic.
In general software (excluding AI) is progressing faster then most people 50 years ago would have predicted.
Thats OK. Large scale software projects never have conflicting requirements.
...was the biggest bang since the big one so this burst should be named after her.
OTH if a seven billion year old gamma ray burst could be used to debunk Christian mythology I think then maybe there is a case for naming it after Clarke.
Overall I think this is working in Senator Obama's favour. As long as he is publicly associated with a wacky Christian it is hard to accuse him of being a Muslim.
If she was also a whale she would have the full set of PC attributes.
Is there such a thing as a male lesbian BTW?
No, because medium wave is just too bulky. You can get small, cheap FM only radios for this reason.
And yeah, I grew up making crystal radios and small powered radios when I was eight or nine. Its hard to buy the nice open tuning gangs now. The old ways are going.
Another way of putting it is that it is only twice as cold as the coldest place on Earth. Given nuclear power I think humans could live on Titan quite easily.
I wonder if it has fossil oxygen or nitrogen dioxide? If such a thing could be found it might be possible to survive without uranium.
The really strange thing is that for a while it appeared that the rotation of Mercury was locked on Earth. We were just unlucky that the same face was pointing to Earth on every close approach.
Maybe we can get Barack Obama to do a speech about it.
I think the Fountains of Paradise was his best. He certainly tried to make it his last great novel.
I once read an early story of his "Travel by Wire" which is about teleportation. He goes into gory detail about what can happen to the traveller transported at too low a resolution, or when noise got into the line "They looked like nothing on Earth and very little on Venus or Mars". It ends with an observation about engineering: that the people who build things like this sometimes seem reluctant to travel on them, knowing how badly they were put together.
At the other end of his career he wrote "Transit of Earth" which is a much better put together story but less fun to read.
Grandparents help in the raising of their childrens children. I don't think being too old to reproduce isolates you from evolution. And how old would a man have to be to not become a parent?
And he needs a "fish dongle" to be able to communicate.
No idea. For once in my life I am running a 100% stock linux system, totally out of the box (which I still have). Everybody I show it to wants one.
I don't know about the disk scheduler. If you can tell me how to check I will take a look when I am back home later in the week and post the results.
Because it is quiet, my eee feels like a return to my very first 6502 basic-in-rom system. Until I started using an SSD I didn't realise how much time I spent waiting for my application to get a turn at the disk. The lack of a bottleneck is amazing.
You don't need the actual robots to do that. Just the software.
Unless you post a reply. Though admittedly the last time I moderated I was using illicit wifi in a holiday unit in Adelaide and the connection died before I was able to reverse the incorrect mod. Sorry about that whoever it was.
I think using a touch pad makes using the moderation popup less reliable.
For a start it is an international system. Aircraft made in Pakistan have to interoperate with ground systems in the US, Canada, Russia, etc. Systems like mode-s and ADS/CPDLC go part of the way to what you want, but their adoption has been slowed by the fact the VHF voice comms are free everywhere and satellite communication costs a lot of money, particularly when you want an aviation grade connection and it has to be on all the time.
You are right, just wait 20 years.
One reason is that the lead time for new communication protocols and applications in aviation is measured in decades. Remember that all aircraft still report 12 bit mode 3a identifiers which have to be allocated before use because there aren't enough to go around, and use totally spoofable VHF AM radio transceivers.
Most of the thrust from the LES is needed to get the capsule high enough to land by parachute. Normal RCS thrusters could do the job with less mass overhead if you assume that the capsule will normally land by rocket power.