Yeah... I never realized they had just one person doing all of those logos!
Google have a couple of Australian specific logos for special days like anzac day. They have always looked spot on to me and I wonder if the same (presumably american) guy does those ones as well, or if they contract them out.
What if you make the source control system available using cvsweb or a similar system. People can still download the current version easily, and they can use a tag to get a specific version if they really want that.
All we have now is re-filmed qvga-res shit: tv-grabs, literally.
We have the ALSJ and I don't believe there was a writer in the world (let alone in the US) in the 1960's and '70s who could have written it from scratch.
The LR^3 retroreflector featured here was part of the ALSEP station on several of the apollo missions. In the years since these missions the ALSEP stations have been shut down. The reflectors are passive devices and don't have an off switch, which is why they are still working.
In particular the seismonitors which were a part of each system could still be operating today, and delivering new scientific results.
I think this article is an example of why experiments should not be shut down before they really stop working.
A bigger worry would probably be blinding people who are staring at the target. Reflected infrared radiation could be intense (especially a chance specular reflection), and since infrared is invisible there's no blink reflex.
Especially if you mount cheap and simple reflective surfaces on your missile.
I had to ask because I am not a windows person myself. The windows admins where I work have a fairly kludgy tool which they run to remotely install stuff on the windows boxen. It occasionally raises dialogs on our screens asking questions like "do you want to continue?", etc. I wondered if the update mechanism could be used to cleanly feed config and binary changes to the workstations and based on your reply this seems to be the case. Its a pity it doesn't get used.
I'm pretty sure the viruses are getting on there while she's using the machine, not when she's away from it.
You know that, I know that, at the least her statement tells us something about how non-technical people think about computer security. Her car or house is more likely to be broken into when she is away. So she extends this idea to her pc, not knowing how much is happening inside the system which she can't see.
The machines still running Win98/ME are probably all older machines that keep on chugging
My dad's GF's daughter mentioned to me in passing the other day that she turns her cable modem off when she goes out because her windows 98 system has 128 viruses on it or some number like that. I ran off a copy of unbuntu for her to take home. A similar thing happened with my sisters machine in the share house where she lives.
The only real problem is that gnome, et al, won't run well on an older machine. I think the popularity of broadband is making people more security concious.
I don't have any use for Windows... why should I be forced to buy it when I get a new notebook?
Can't you still send in for a refund? Should be worth it for the satisfaction if not the money. Personally I kept my copy of windows in case I need it (and sometimes I do) but the space it takes up is annoying me.
SAFER can provide an adrift astronaut with about 10m/s Delta-V
I thought the dV was less than 1 m/s. 10 m/s is a hell of a lot of velocity in this context. I would expect that 10 cm/s would be considered reasonable.
could disconnect the tube, hold their breath and aim carefully.
The apollo suit had a purge valve in the chest which you could open to increase the rate of oxygen flow in an emergency. It also enabled you to equalise pressure with the spacecraft after repressurising. I would be surprised if the shuttle suit does not have a similar mechanism. You might have to pulse it open when pointing away from your target and you would probably pick up some rotation but it should be possible.
I'm fairly sure that if you were drifting away at 2km/hr, the rest of the crew could unhook the shuttle quickly enough to pick you up before your air ran out.
If the suit has a purge valve like the apollo suit you could use it as a cold gas thruster. In theory, anyway.
notes is the BPOBC (biggest piece of bloated crap) i've seen,
I don't like it either but the alternative where I work now is SMB, email, word, visio and explorer. Notes has the right idea of delivering a unified environment for documents. Its a shame that the UI is pretty bad and poor reliability tends to give it a bad name.
OTH the OS it ran on (OS/2 then window98 back when I used it) gave it a really bad name. Perhaps deployments on Linux will be a genuine exchange killer.
During the 1990's I knew somebody working for HP here in Australia. Almost every week she would be heading off for meetings in different parts of the world, usually places where the US and Australian parts of the business would agree to meet. They didn't appear to make any use of video conferencing or just simple phone calls. After a couple of years of that she told me she was praying for the money to run out so she could spend a weekend at home.
Not sure if it is still there... anyone know? Anyone remember this?
I can remember going along to Luna park as a kid. It was much better then (or seemed that way, I actually enjoyed the royal show as well in those days).
My wife and I went along about four years ago, right before our son was born. It was at night after a company christmas party up the road. The Gravitron was still running then so we had a ride. I was most interested in D4MO's post. I must try to get my wife to go back, in summer.
If virtualisation succeeds, it could spell the end for DRM and Treacherous Computing initiatives... since these need collective collusion by all parties involved.
Isn't that the case with python, perl/parrot, java, ksh, tcl, etc? Any kind of virtual machine will have to have its own DRM, if DRM is to work at all.
Its funny. Our capital city Canberra is notoriously boring. At one point my wife and I had to go there to renew her malaysian passport, so we flew to Canberra on the sunday intending to take in the museums first and do the passport thing on the monday.
We got a room in a hotel in the CBD. The funny bit was a sign above the reception desk: Due to problems with previous groups we do not accept bookings from Canberra residents. I can't imagine what they were up to but I was a bit pissed about not knowing about it in advance.
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Its like the early days of HP and we all know what happened to that.
Google have a couple of Australian specific logos for special days like anzac day. They have always looked spot on to me and I wonder if the same (presumably american) guy does those ones as well, or if they contract them out.
Its got so bad now where I work that we have a powerpoint presentation (with a big screen and projector) at the annual christmas function.
Its not about work or anything its just that ppt seems embedded in the thought processes of our managers.
What if you make the source control system available using cvsweb or a similar system. People can still download the current version easily, and they can use a tag to get a specific version if they really want that.
An example of the syndrome which led to them tolerating foam strikes, right up to the point where they lost an orbiter.
I can't see in TFA what the primary indication is. It can't be a loss of pressure because this would tell them what is leaking.
We have the ALSJ and I don't believe there was a writer in the world (let alone in the US) in the 1960's and '70s who could have written it from scratch.
The Earth doesn't have enough angular momentum to do that. Eventually earth and moon will be tide locked to each other and recession will stop.
The LR^3 retroreflector featured here was part of the ALSEP station on several of the apollo missions. In the years since these missions the ALSEP stations have been shut down. The reflectors are passive devices and don't have an off switch, which is why they are still working.
In particular the seismonitors which were a part of each system could still be operating today, and delivering new scientific results.
I think this article is an example of why experiments should not be shut down before they really stop working.
Especially if you mount cheap and simple reflective surfaces on your missile.
I had to ask because I am not a windows person myself. The windows admins where I work have a fairly kludgy tool which they run to remotely install stuff on the windows boxen. It occasionally raises dialogs on our screens asking questions like "do you want to continue?", etc. I wondered if the update mechanism could be used to cleanly feed config and binary changes to the workstations and based on your reply this seems to be the case. Its a pity it doesn't get used.
Without direct access to microsoft servers the OS can't automatically update itself. Does this mean that airgapped systems are less secure?
You know that, I know that, at the least her statement tells us something about how non-technical people think about computer security. Her car or house is more likely to be broken into when she is away. So she extends this idea to her pc, not knowing how much is happening inside the system which she can't see.
My dad's GF's daughter mentioned to me in passing the other day that she turns her cable modem off when she goes out because her windows 98 system has 128 viruses on it or some number like that. I ran off a copy of unbuntu for her to take home. A similar thing happened with my sisters machine in the share house where she lives.
The only real problem is that gnome, et al, won't run well on an older machine. I think the popularity of broadband is making people more security concious.
Can't you still send in for a refund? Should be worth it for the satisfaction if not the money. Personally I kept my copy of windows in case I need it (and sometimes I do) but the space it takes up is annoying me.
I thought the dV was less than 1 m/s. 10 m/s is a hell of a lot of velocity in this context. I would expect that 10 cm/s would be considered reasonable.
Checking.....Oh right 10 ft/s (3 m/s).
The apollo suit had a purge valve in the chest which you could open to increase the rate of oxygen flow in an emergency. It also enabled you to equalise pressure with the spacecraft after repressurising. I would be surprised if the shuttle suit does not have a similar mechanism. You might have to pulse it open when pointing away from your target and you would probably pick up some rotation but it should be possible.
If the suit has a purge valve like the apollo suit you could use it as a cold gas thruster. In theory, anyway.
I think you would dry out too much in LEO. That and the fact that orbits below GSO are unstable.
I don't like it either but the alternative where I work now is SMB, email, word, visio and explorer. Notes has the right idea of delivering a unified environment for documents. Its a shame that the UI is pretty bad and poor reliability tends to give it a bad name.
OTH the OS it ran on (OS/2 then window98 back when I used it) gave it a really bad name. Perhaps deployments on Linux will be a genuine exchange killer.
From the summary:
I don't this will be a blocking issue for the people who choose to deploy notes. I am very glad I don't have to use it any more.
But they get the credit regardless of where their rockets land.
During the 1990's I knew somebody working for HP here in Australia. Almost every week she would be heading off for meetings in different parts of the world, usually places where the US and Australian parts of the business would agree to meet. They didn't appear to make any use of video conferencing or just simple phone calls. After a couple of years of that she told me she was praying for the money to run out so she could spend a weekend at home.
From what I hear she got her wish.
I can remember going along to Luna park as a kid. It was much better then (or seemed that way, I actually enjoyed the royal show as well in those days).
My wife and I went along about four years ago, right before our son was born. It was at night after a company christmas party up the road. The Gravitron was still running then so we had a ride. I was most interested in D4MO's post. I must try to get my wife to go back, in summer.
Isn't that the case with python, perl/parrot, java, ksh, tcl, etc? Any kind of virtual machine will have to have its own DRM, if DRM is to work at all.
Its funny. Our capital city Canberra is notoriously boring. At one point my wife and I had to go there to renew her malaysian passport, so we flew to Canberra on the sunday intending to take in the museums first and do the passport thing on the monday.
We got a room in a hotel in the CBD. The funny bit was a sign above the reception desk: Due to problems with previous groups we do not accept bookings from Canberra residents. I can't imagine what they were up to but I was a bit pissed about not knowing about it in advance.