Myself, I'm not glad he's dead. I'm kind of glad he will no longer be influencing us. I'm not glad that crap like this will continue to drag this all out.
I'm also not glad that you are still alive and posting.
A faraday cage does nothing to impede a signal coming in via coax or UTP, as anything being displayed on the TV these days would (unless they are using OTA, in which case they SHOULD be putting the antenna outside anyways if they want to enjoy watching it whatsoever)
This covers phones as well, (excepting mobiles, which MIGHT be effected but those steel beams are not gonna do it...)
Lets see... we'll go conservative in your favor and assume their mobiles are on the 800mhz band... That's a ~40cm wavelength. You'd have to space the beams 20cm apart to really start having success blocking that signal I believe.
True enough, I suppose a network of the 'killer' sharing detections could do it. - eg "yea, I couldn't hit that one, but it appears #31248761 can in about 187.17 seconds, so lets tell it"
That actually makes it worse - you can't detect them until they are close, and any (read: most) that does not share your orbital elements is only going to be in the vicinity for a very very short time (a second or two). Meanwhile, you have to detect it, aim the mirror, compensate for (apparent) motion, and keep the laser on target.
Keep in mind you have to damp the mirror, and since you just moved it so abruptly there is going to be some oscillation for a moment after the initial "acquisition" - by the time it's steady enough that you can actually warm the target, it's already gone.
Keep in mind you also have to counteract the motion of the mirror, because that will (subtly) rotate the body of the satellite as well. Newton's first and all that.
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The problem would be tracking the debris accurately enough... you have to hold the laser on-target continuously for long a long enough period to cause the desired effect, and unless you are in a similar orbit to the debris, you won't have very much time to do so at all.
The kinds of orbit changes required to line up with such debris is also very expensive (in regards to expended fuel) if you plan to do so to help mitigate that first problem.
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I couldn't tell you, the last time I interacted with a Mac was in the late 90s.
X11 is the windowing framework. It's very low level. GDM/KDM/XDM are session managers. The session manager handles your login (note, you can log into a remote X11 display!) and starts your specified Window Manager. These are also called "sessions" and GDM/KDM/XDM should have a dropdown on the login screen somewhere to select them.
The Window Manager tells X11 what to do. At that point, the *DM is out of the way.
The "Desktop Environment" is typically considered the whole stack excluding X11. Note it is entirely possible to use GDM with KDE for instance. It's also theoretically possible to run, say, Metacity within KDE... though in practice this is not so usable or easy.
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Same here, on an intel chipset. On my desktop (nvidia) it works without a hitch, same distro, same versions of everything.
I blame shitty "integrated" graphics (yet again...)
... and if he doesn't use them himself? You realize that's transfer of ownership, and you can't just disallow that?
If you do your job right, then you don't need to stretch to support them.
Use APIs that are common between them and 95% of the job is done.
2k out of 1M is hardly worth consideration.
Well, the bike ride wasn't. However, the walk to school was! (through the athletic fields, which were in a 'valley'.
Wait, so not enjoying shitty weather makes me soft? I didn't say I couldn't handle it. I just said it fucking sucks.
I used to ride my bike to my friends house, in the snow and sleet, at 3 in the morning. I think I can handle it. I just don't have to like it.
Lovely! I'd like to live somewhere with 8 freaking months of Winter (grew up in Maine, so yea, I do know how it is).
Yea, because things are so much better where people do the same for (R)s.
Hey now, you're the one who opened the wound, and dragged yourself across the Salt Flats. Not our fault.
Myself, I'm not glad he's dead. I'm kind of glad he will no longer be influencing us. I'm not glad that crap like this will continue to drag this all out.
I'm also not glad that you are still alive and posting.
... and down the memory hole we go!
A faraday cage does nothing to impede a signal coming in via coax or UTP, as anything being displayed on the TV these days would (unless they are using OTA, in which case they SHOULD be putting the antenna outside anyways if they want to enjoy watching it whatsoever)
This covers phones as well, (excepting mobiles, which MIGHT be effected but those steel beams are not gonna do it...)
Lets see... we'll go conservative in your favor and assume their mobiles are on the 800mhz band... That's a ~40cm wavelength. You'd have to space the beams 20cm apart to really start having success blocking that signal I believe.
America is the US by shorthand.
North America and South America are used when referring to the continents, and "The Americas" is used when referring to them as a whole.
Eat shit and deal with it.
True enough, I suppose a network of the 'killer' sharing detections could do it. - eg "yea, I couldn't hit that one, but it appears #31248761 can in about 187.17 seconds, so lets tell it"
No worries. We were going to wait to tell you, but we might as well do so now. You're a Cylon too!
I think I have a new sig...
.45? Pussy. /me fondles his .30 rifle...
That actually makes it worse - you can't detect them until they are close, and any (read: most) that does not share your orbital elements is only going to be in the vicinity for a very very short time (a second or two). Meanwhile, you have to detect it, aim the mirror, compensate for (apparent) motion, and keep the laser on target.
Keep in mind you have to damp the mirror, and since you just moved it so abruptly there is going to be some oscillation for a moment after the initial "acquisition" - by the time it's steady enough that you can actually warm the target, it's already gone.
Keep in mind you also have to counteract the motion of the mirror, because that will (subtly) rotate the body of the satellite as well. Newton's first and all that.
No worries, though I appreciate that thought!
The problem would be tracking the debris accurately enough... you have to hold the laser on-target continuously for long a long enough period to cause the desired effect, and unless you are in a similar orbit to the debris, you won't have very much time to do so at all.
The kinds of orbit changes required to line up with such debris is also very expensive (in regards to expended fuel) if you plan to do so to help mitigate that first problem.
I don't think you understand (perhaps respect is the better term) the relative velocities involved.
Helpful, but can you get us the Kepler elements?
I couldn't tell you, the last time I interacted with a Mac was in the late 90s.
X11 is the windowing framework. It's very low level. GDM/KDM/XDM are session managers. The session manager handles your login (note, you can log into a remote X11 display!) and starts your specified Window Manager. These are also called "sessions" and GDM/KDM/XDM should have a dropdown on the login screen somewhere to select them.
The Window Manager tells X11 what to do. At that point, the *DM is out of the way.
The "Desktop Environment" is typically considered the whole stack excluding X11. Note it is entirely possible to use GDM with KDE for instance. It's also theoretically possible to run, say, Metacity within KDE... though in practice this is not so usable or easy.
Try not to waterboard yourself with your own tears.
Anyway, we both agree that whatever energy the engines contribute falls well below any meaningful amount.