The shuttle should have been an evolution from Apollo. Make the orbiter a stretched, winged service module. Install a hatch in the command module heat shield (this was trialled for the Gemini wet lab). For launch and landing pack the crew into the CM using the rescue mode layout. During launch use a launch escape system. This will get you past the Challenger failure mode. During reentry the LES won't be there but you can use the reaction control system to achieve separation.
it is unlikely that the sensor will be able to map the complex ideas of the mind, instead it would reduce it to basic commands, so they can be mapped to the computer.
I wonder if it could pick up the OhFuckGetmeOutOfHere signal in the brain when things go really bad and bind it to generic backout/escape/undo actions. Handy for ejector seats in military aircraft too.
I work with ATC user interfaces and I wonder if something like this could be used to sense cognitive overload when the controllers job gets busy.
The best way to start would be to work for one of the private firms developing launchers and orbital habitats. In the medium term try to establish habitats on near Earth asteroids. I think that is a reasonable goal for our generation.
We don't need to go into space, apart from re-living the plots in old Heinlein books. I want to go, you may want to go, but neither of us can afford to go. Some people have paid to go to orbit and in 20 or 30 years it may be possible to pay to go to the moon.
By the standards of history, that is pretty fast progress. Consider how long it took to colonise America and Australia after it became clear that there was land out there somewhere.
It will happen. In a hundred years or so I expect some people will live on the moon. Two or three hundred, asteroids and possibly Mars.
Crocodile-skin print on the case, nothing. When Sony makes a machine with a case of recycled aluminum cans, and a keyboard using material from old piano keys and bakelite telephones, then I'll be impressed.
But the Sandbenders make Sandbenders, using the internals of Sony computers. The eeePC is, of course, cheap enough to risk hacking with.
For me, the eee is a bit like my first 6502 system. It is light, quiet and starts up quickly.
but not so much so that I would sacrifice that beautiful screen or better performance to get an Eee PC.
My eeePC feels much faster than my HP laptop with three times the CPU clock rate. The difference is the solid state disk which never bogs down, and the eee has more RAM.
The eeePC is only in a "laptop" form factor because it's what's familiar and is what was useful for what Asustek intended for the device.
I am very happy with my eeePC. Last night I installed a build toolchain using this howto.
At work I connect it to an external monitor, keyboard and mouse and it occured to me that Asus could probably sell a version without screen, keyboard and touchpad for a third the price.
Thats how you do it. Build a solar powered mass driver on the moon then fly it out of Earth orbit and position it ahead of the Earth so that the thrust from the mass driver offsets gravitational pull from Earth. Over millions of years the two planets accelerate away from the sun. Problem solved.
Larry Niven had something similar in A World out of Time, but using Uranus or Neptune as a hydrogen fueled tug to reorganise the solar system. But I think the other gas giant had been dropped into the sun using the same technique which caused a bit of premature ageing.
As a clueless kid it would have been next to impossible for you to commercialise your games on your own. But slapping a copyright header on your files and releasing them under the GPL is actually feasable, and it leaves open a way for you to make money off them later on.
Around 1995 it was possible to buy starter kits for internet service providers. The kit came with a month or so of access and software which would configure your system to dial the ISP. I gave one to my dad for his birthday. For me, this qualifies as prior art.
And what about AOL CD's. You might have been given it with a magazine. Sounds pretty obvious to me.
About 15 years ago when the internet was young and free a bunch of geeks here in Melbourne started an internet cafe near my house. They had great coffee, a games league and ran everything off OS/2. The funny thing was that buying coffee took such a long time. They had a workstation on the counter and ordering a drink seemed to require about a hundred keystrokes for every item you ordered, complete with mouse actions, cut and paste, the works. I had this vision of them coding the thing up as they used it.
Any chance the some of the remaining fuel can be used to change the trajectory to go closer to the sun, perhaps extending the life a bit more?
No because (a) the only remaining fuel is used for attitude control. It can't do anything significant about the trajectory and (b) Ulysses is not solar powered. It uses a Radioisotope Thermal Generator which is just running out of power.
Don't a lot of old-timers say that the keyboards of old, where you actually got some resistence from the keys, were more comfortable to type with than the yielding keyboards of today?
At 42 I am not really an old timer, but I started out using VT100 terminals which had a heavy keyboard. My hands get so sore now that I need a very light touch when typing so I don't buy into the heavy keyboard theory.
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The shuttle should have been an evolution from Apollo. Make the orbiter a stretched, winged service module. Install a hatch in the command module heat shield (this was trialled for the Gemini wet lab). For launch and landing pack the crew into the CM using the rescue mode layout. During launch use a launch escape system. This will get you past the Challenger failure mode. During reentry the LES won't be there but you can use the reaction control system to achieve separation.
I wonder if it could pick up the OhFuckGetmeOutOfHere signal in the brain when things go really bad and bind it to generic backout/escape/undo actions. Handy for ejector seats in military aircraft too.
I work with ATC user interfaces and I wonder if something like this could be used to sense cognitive overload when the controllers job gets busy.
The best way to start would be to work for one of the private firms developing launchers and orbital habitats. In the medium term try to establish habitats on near Earth asteroids. I think that is a reasonable goal for our generation.
Rant acknowledged.
We don't need to go into space, apart from re-living the plots in old Heinlein books. I want to go, you may want to go, but neither of us can afford to go. Some people have paid to go to orbit and in 20 or 30 years it may be possible to pay to go to the moon.
By the standards of history, that is pretty fast progress. Consider how long it took to colonise America and Australia after it became clear that there was land out there somewhere.
It will happen. In a hundred years or so I expect some people will live on the moon. Two or three hundred, asteroids and possibly Mars.
But the Sandbenders make Sandbenders, using the internals of Sony computers. The eeePC is, of course, cheap enough to risk hacking with.
For me, the eee is a bit like my first 6502 system. It is light, quiet and starts up quickly.
My eeePC feels much faster than my HP laptop with three times the CPU clock rate. The difference is the solid state disk which never bogs down, and the eee has more RAM.
I have found that it attracts girls as well.
I am very happy with my eeePC. Last night I installed a build toolchain using this howto.
At work I connect it to an external monitor, keyboard and mouse and it occured to me that Asus could probably sell a version without screen, keyboard and touchpad for a third the price.
I wouldn't run KDE on ubuntu either however I use it on my Asus eee and it is a great, well integrated desktop environment.
Overall the eee makes ubuntu look sloppy.
Thats how you do it. Build a solar powered mass driver on the moon then fly it out of Earth orbit and position it ahead of the Earth so that the thrust from the mass driver offsets gravitational pull from Earth. Over millions of years the two planets accelerate away from the sun. Problem solved.
Larry Niven had something similar in A World out of Time, but using Uranus or Neptune as a hydrogen fueled tug to reorganise the solar system. But I think the other gas giant had been dropped into the sun using the same technique which caused a bit of premature ageing.
I live in Australia you insensitive clod!
I seriously wonder if this battle over Captchas is going to give us real, somewhat psychopathic AI. Neuromancer is coming along nicely.
As a clueless kid it would have been next to impossible for you to commercialise your games on your own. But slapping a copyright header on your files and releasing them under the GPL is actually feasable, and it leaves open a way for you to make money off them later on.
Around 1995 it was possible to buy starter kits for internet service providers. The kit came with a month or so of access and software which would configure your system to dial the ISP. I gave one to my dad for his birthday. For me, this qualifies as prior art.
And what about AOL CD's. You might have been given it with a magazine. Sounds pretty obvious to me.
About 15 years ago when the internet was young and free a bunch of geeks here in Melbourne started an internet cafe near my house. They had great coffee, a games league and ran everything off OS/2.
The funny thing was that buying coffee took such a long time. They had a workstation on the counter and ordering a drink seemed to require about a hundred keystrokes for every item you ordered, complete with mouse actions, cut and paste, the works. I had this vision of them coding the thing up as they used it.
Let me guess: written entirely in Bendigo by the kid who packs shoeboxes and fixes the air conditioner.
His hands are notoriously sore from typing.
No because (a) the only remaining fuel is used for attitude control. It can't do anything significant about the trajectory and (b) Ulysses is not solar powered. It uses a Radioisotope Thermal Generator which is just running out of power.
Pathfinder lasted 83 days. Sojourner could still be operating as far as we know.
Not your car?
but the word is acceleration.
And yes. Guns could be great for this.
Maybe he means using the IE engine inside Netscape.
Yeah somebody up the page was talking about something called RainX. Making the outer layer hydrophobic seems to be the main trick here.
At 42 I am not really an old timer, but I started out using VT100 terminals which had a heavy keyboard. My hands get so sore now that I need a very light touch when typing so I don't buy into the heavy keyboard theory.
Not exactly. I am still waiting for the Apple Vacuum.