You should read the ALSJ. Astronauts who walked on the moon absolutely wrecked their fingers, mainly because the gloves had to be short and tight for better sensitivity which meant pressing their fingers hard into the end of the glove while doing heavy work.
The other factor is the difficulty of working against gas pressure to perform simple tasks like holding a tool.
A landing mission with the ability to do chemical analysis would answer a lot of questions. The problem is the high energy cost, but I think this is the idea opportunity to try a solar sail for the cruise stage and mercury orbit insertion.
I think the landers should be lightweight vehicles with only a few experiments. The bulk constitution of the surface should tell us a lot about the core.
One famous manager (I don't remember who exactly though) once said, that if the company's leader performs mere employee's duties then either he does not understand his role or there is something terribly wrong with the way the company operates.
Dunno about that. I lead a small team of engineers who do internal toolchain support for several of our sites. Most of my job involves allocating tasks and taking care of planing, etc. But every now and again I take a job off the queue and do it myself because (1) it keeps the guy who would otherwise have done it on their toes, to have me messing with "their" stuff and (2) I get a better picture of what is really happening out in the real world.
So I wouldn't be surprised if Steve Jobs occasionally takes charge of a fault call. Probably a healthy thing to do.
I also heard a story about the CEO of Virgin Atlantic (charles bronson?? or was he an actor, God I have bad memory for names) traveling with the public or playing the role of a flight attendent/steward and listen to customers. One Indian guy had ordered vegetarian meals and it was not available. Charles was playing steward on that flight. He made an unscheduled landing at a nearby airport and rented a limo to take the passenger to an expensive Indian joint and flew him first class to complete the journey.
Thats Richard Branson. He does that kind of thing because it gets in the news and it is much cheaper than paying for advertising. He is a similar kind of charismatic leader, though.
Why do I have the feeling that this study was funded by the Ira Howard foundation?
Offhand I can't think of an example of Lazarus Long passing on his longetivity trait to his decendents. There were his two clone sisters but both were heavily engineered. So IMHO the foundation failed, because few people directly lived long lives as a result of their efforts.
Note that I am really referring to TEFL, not Methuselas children.
Humanity is robbed. People live crazy lives because we are going to die too soon to live fully, so life is futile. Damn whatever you recognize as the determining factor of our longevity. The light is green to research like this.
Yes but the piecemeal approach of medicine won't get there fast enough to work for me. The only real possibility I can see is transhumanism.
That is correct because our head of state is required to be a member of the Church of England. Compare that with the USA, which does have a separation of church and state, and is the worlds most active Christian country. Consider the way that conservative politics in the USA manipulates the provision of contraceptives in the third world.
Well done to all who worked on this patch. Guess this means you've almost caught up with OpenVMS now, then?
In the sense that you had multiple versions of every file? Well yeah but it is on a per file basis rather than a per volume basis so you can't ask it to give you the entire volume (or even a directory) as it was at a particular time.
And I remember being caught by the 32000 version number limit, with a batch job which maintained a status file and purged the file after every run. The version number still incremented and when it hit the ceiling the job started crashing.
lights would inevitably go out in the middle of the conference and we'd all have to jump around in hopes of hitting the sweet spot that would cause the lights to come back on.
The offices used by senior management have PIR activated lights. Invariably they wind up sitting in the dark after a while so I make a point of dropping in on the boss from time to time and waving my arms around to put the light back on the subject.
So is this cable going to tie in to Kinakuta at any point? I want my data haven!
So do I but where are you going to put it? My interpretation was that Kinakuta would be somewhere like Yogyakarta, but in this decade places like that are moving away from moderate Muslim rule to a more conservative version and I don't think it will work the same way now.
When an hour of downtime costs you real money, it suddenly becomes a worthwhile thing to have someone who's contractually obliged to fix your system when it breaks
If that hour is important to you then the supplier of the hardware/OS isn't going to be of any help. Chances are that you will get a call back within 10 minutes of making a call, and some kind of support in half an hour, but solutions to a serious problem really are going to be hours away.
So the operator of the system is the person on the spot and if the problem is going to be fixed in an hour they will be the ones who fix it.
The difference is that with OSS there is greater opportunity for the first responder to have information about internals of the system.
In theory (and practice) you can run two X servers on different graphics cards. Plug in multiple mice and keyboards. Configure two xorg.conf files. You will have to do both manually.
If you use USB you can easily plug in as many keyboards and mice as you want, but how will you know in advance which is which?
Looking at older hardware you could use PS/2 for the keyboards but I don't know if you can use two of them.
Another way might be to use a really old machine as an X terminal, and use a more powerful machine as the server. Personally I would use NetBSD on the terminal, and a good linux distro as the server because you want to have a nicely integrated desktop. Which is not to say BSD can't do that. I run BSD on my servers and ubuntu on my workstations.
At the end of the day, if saving a bit of cheap hardware means spending a lot on labour, then its probably not worth it.
As long as you think you understand Quantum Mechanics, you don't.
The other day I had a conversation with a science historian who told me that he had a good understanding of quantum mechanics but found relativity to be counter intuitive. He went on to say that if you understand the statistics of it, then quantum mechanics is easy.
For me, quantum mechanics almost makes sense if we are running in some highly optimised simulation inside a universe which obeys normal (Newtonian) laws. But in a universe without quantum mechanics computers could never be made to work.
Here in France, a "Catastrophe" is something which is mildly irritating
Tell me about it. I work for Thales in Australia. Words which are close enough to the English meaning get used enough to create all kinds of confusion. Normally is a good one. In English this refers to something which happens every morning, or every time I start my car, etc. In French it means something which should happen, regardless of if it did or not.
It's gotta be said that Xerox is responsible for most of the GUI's we see nowadays, and if anyone has a right to tabs or anything else in that area, they do, they did a hell of a lot of innovation. But the terms for patents in IT are far too long, and it is kinda unfair that Apple is singled out as well.
But Apple licensed the X GUI from Xerox, so maybe they got the right to use the contents of this patent in the process. Then Microsoft paid Apple for the right to build a Windows GUI without overlapping windows, and that could have used tabs as well, because that is a technique you use when you stack your components. X windows should be covered because it is derived from the Xerox GUI. Perhaps GTK and QT are covered in the same way. Sun may be in trouble though, because Java was completely new.
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I hope they did it anonymously. Puts me in mind of the episode where Homer Simpson donated $10 MUSD to a telethon.
Also celestial navigation relies on a unubstructed horizon and clear weather obviously
But I wonder what you could accomplish today with a PDA equipped with a camera and an accurate clock? If it could resolve stars and (say) the Moon and/or Venus and the horizon in one or two images could it work out your location on the ground?
Might be hard in the city but if you have some kind of disaster where city lights are lost celestial navigation might become possible again.
ATC could gather all the TCAS negotiation information via the s-mode datalinks and use that to make a more accurate picture of the traffic than the survaillance radar alone can provide and
Thats effectively what ADSB does. Works a treat in Australia
broadcast that back to the planes.
Why? TCAS already got that information the first time around. Why create a dependency on ground hardware when you don't need it?
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You should read the ALSJ. Astronauts who walked on the moon absolutely wrecked their fingers, mainly because the gloves had to be short and tight for better sensitivity which meant pressing their fingers hard into the end of the glove while doing heavy work.
The other factor is the difficulty of working against gas pressure to perform simple tasks like holding a tool.
A landing mission with the ability to do chemical analysis would answer a lot of questions. The problem is the high energy cost, but I think this is the idea opportunity to try a solar sail for the cruise stage and mercury orbit insertion.
I think the landers should be lightweight vehicles with only a few experiments. The bulk constitution of the surface should tell us a lot about the core.
Dunno about that. I lead a small team of engineers who do internal toolchain support for several of our sites. Most of my job involves allocating tasks and taking care of planing, etc. But every now and again I take a job off the queue and do it myself because (1) it keeps the guy who would otherwise have done it on their toes, to have me messing with "their" stuff and (2) I get a better picture of what is really happening out in the real world.
So I wouldn't be surprised if Steve Jobs occasionally takes charge of a fault call. Probably a healthy thing to do.
Thats Richard Branson. He does that kind of thing because it gets in the news and it is much cheaper than paying for advertising. He is a similar kind of charismatic leader, though.
Offhand I can't think of an example of Lazarus Long passing on his longetivity trait to his decendents. There were his two clone sisters but both were heavily engineered. So IMHO the foundation failed, because few people directly lived long lives as a result of their efforts.
Note that I am really referring to TEFL, not Methuselas children.
Yes but the piecemeal approach of medicine won't get there fast enough to work for me. The only real possibility I can see is transhumanism.
Wherever you see a user name "benson" the password will be "hedges", and vice versa.
That is correct because our head of state is required to be a member of the Church of England. Compare that with the USA, which does have a separation of church and state, and is the worlds most active Christian country. Consider the way that conservative politics in the USA manipulates the provision of contraceptives in the third world.
In the sense that you had multiple versions of every file? Well yeah but it is on a per file basis rather than a per volume basis so you can't ask it to give you the entire volume (or even a directory) as it was at a particular time.
And I remember being caught by the 32000 version number limit, with a batch job which maintained a status file and purged the file after every run. The version number still incremented and when it hit the ceiling the job started crashing.
The offices used by senior management have PIR activated lights. Invariably they wind up sitting in the dark after a while so I make a point of dropping in on the boss from time to time and waving my arms around to put the light back on the subject.
So do I but where are you going to put it? My interpretation was that Kinakuta would be somewhere like Yogyakarta, but in this decade places like that are moving away from moderate Muslim rule to a more conservative version and I don't think it will work the same way now.
Iceland might be the go.
If that hour is important to you then the supplier of the hardware/OS isn't going to be of any help. Chances are that you will get a call back within 10 minutes of making a call, and some kind of support in half an hour, but solutions to a serious problem really are going to be hours away.
So the operator of the system is the person on the spot and if the problem is going to be fixed in an hour they will be the ones who fix it.
The difference is that with OSS there is greater opportunity for the first responder to have information about internals of the system.
In theory (and practice) you can run two X servers on different graphics cards. Plug in multiple mice and keyboards. Configure two xorg.conf files. You will have to do both manually.
If you use USB you can easily plug in as many keyboards and mice as you want, but how will you know in advance which is which?
Looking at older hardware you could use PS/2 for the keyboards but I don't know if you can use two of them.
Another way might be to use a really old machine as an X terminal, and use a more powerful machine as the server. Personally I would use NetBSD on the terminal, and a good linux distro as the server because you want to have a nicely integrated desktop. Which is not to say BSD can't do that. I run BSD on my servers and ubuntu on my workstations.
At the end of the day, if saving a bit of cheap hardware means spending a lot on labour, then its probably not worth it.
The other day I had a conversation with a science historian who told me that he had a good understanding of quantum mechanics but found relativity to be counter intuitive. He went on to say that if you understand the statistics of it, then quantum mechanics is easy.
For me, quantum mechanics almost makes sense if we are running in some highly optimised simulation inside a universe which obeys normal (Newtonian) laws. But in a universe without quantum mechanics computers could never be made to work.
Tell me about it. I work for Thales in Australia. Words which are close enough to the English meaning get used enough to create all kinds of confusion. Normally is a good one. In English this refers to something which happens every morning, or every time I start my car, etc. In French it means something which should happen, regardless of if it did or not.
But Apple licensed the X GUI from Xerox, so maybe they got the right to use the contents of this patent in the process. Then Microsoft paid Apple for the right to build a Windows GUI without overlapping windows, and that could have used tabs as well, because that is a technique you use when you stack your components. X windows should be covered because it is derived from the Xerox GUI. Perhaps GTK and QT are covered in the same way. Sun may be in trouble though, because Java was completely new.
I hope they did it anonymously. Puts me in mind of the episode where Homer Simpson donated $10 MUSD to a telethon.
No. If it was done that way there would be 6000 articles in the queue like on digg and it would be impossible to get anything decent posted.
I bet you have been waiting years for a chance to post those links.
$30000050...even the number is funny. 30000000 to get attention, 50 being what it is actually worth. Probably somebody from around here :)
You could put google adds on it but I shudder to think what it would advertise. Probably make a lot of money, though.
Yeah, but its the lusers they go after, just like with child porn.
But I wonder what you could accomplish today with a PDA equipped with a camera and an accurate clock? If it could resolve stars and (say) the Moon and/or Venus and the horizon in one or two images could it work out your location on the ground?
Might be hard in the city but if you have some kind of disaster where city lights are lost celestial navigation might become possible again.
Thats effectively what ADSB does. Works a treat in Australia
Why? TCAS already got that information the first time around. Why create a dependency on ground hardware when you don't need it?
Funny you should say that. One time I was in Malaysia I noticed that 7/11 stores have a sign on the front Buka 24 Jam literally: open 24 hours.
I am sure it is the same wherever Malay is spoken.