Re:Stratellite is the wave of the future...
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Broadband Bits
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Uh, you couldn't be so wrong.
You can't get around the latency problem with geostationary satellites. Speed of light isn't the issue, because it's faster through the air and vacuum of space than it is a coax or fiber optic cable anyways. It's the distances involved to geostationary satellites. Oh, and bandwidth to/from the satellites.
DirectTV is dropping their satellite broadband, because there's more $$$ in serving HDTV with those transponders...
And there is no way anyone will be putting stratellites (high altitude balloon/dirigible) in a good chunk of the US, including in Arizona, Nevada, N/S Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas, etc., except around large urban areas (Las Vegas, Albakerkie [sp], Dallas/Ft Worth, Denver/Colo. Springs, etc. The major telcos don't even serve the "big" cities in Montana, with POTS *or* cellular, except maybe Missoula or Helena (which are close enough to Spokane, WA. But it's 400 miles from them to Billings...)
Again, it comes down to customer density. It took the Rural Electrification Project (a federal project...) to get electricity and telephone to most of these areas in the 50's. Without that, there probably still would not be service to those areas wired up by the REP.
Or, even better, announced as being an essential feature, and that those trying to bring light to the issue are limiting the developers' abilities to supply such innovation.
I have been. It really is the consistency of crusty snow, with a light green palor to it. I took a chunk into my rollagon, and it tasted a bit like...well...chicken, which I thought was a bit odd.
Uh, you can't run the blower, though. It's probably hard on the heat exchanger as well, because there is a certain amount of cooling factor assumed by the air flow.
...having been without power last year for 3 days in the Great Willamette Valley Snowstorm of 2003, it's not that bad of a deal.
We happened to have a propane stove that looks like a wood stove in our living room. Lucky for us, it's got a pilot light. So the fan didn't help blow heat out.
We bought a couple of rolls of plastic, and sealed off the living room. Not air-tight seal, but just enough to stop the convectional airflow.
The rest of the house got down to ~40 degs F, but we could keep the living room at 70 degs F no problem. All 4 of us (wife, me, two kids) slept on the fold-out bed in the living room. Wel, we lived in that room for 3 days, actually.
The big problem would have been if the water association had lost power. Ya need water for the toilet, as well as to drink, and to keep a faucet or two dripping, to keep the pipes from freezing.
So we had to toss the contents of our refrigerator and freezers. That was a $200 bummer, but...
Why three days? We're on a spur of a spur that has about 8 houses on it. We're VERY low on the power company's fix-it priority list, probably at the bottom.
What did we do for food? Ate out for dinner, but we probably could have bought a camp stove or fired up the barby if we wanted to. But McMinnville is only 10 miles away, too.
Strange going to bed at 5pm, because there's nothing else to do, really.
How many civilians died in the Dresden raid in WWII compared to how many aviators were shot down in said raid? *THAT* would be a meaningful ratio.
The worst civilian:military ratios were Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Plus, with Iraq now, there is no truth coming out. The US does not say how many casualties there are when they drop some hot lead on some target in Fallujah. Then, pan to some poor Iraq hospital, where "hundreds of wounded have poured in, and scores were killed". OK, the truth is in the middle.
We're being out-propaganda'd again. And even our own propaganda is starting to look silly.
"There are WMD." "We think there are WMD" "Well, we honestly thought there were WMD" "Saddam had to go!" "John Kerry will sell you to the Chinese!"
Fear leads to Anger. Anger leads to Hatred. Hatred leads to...a job at Halliburton?
Perhaps if Putin were such a friend he would cut off Russian weapon sales to Iraq and the rest of the Arabic world. Do you think the asshats in Chechnya are using M-16's and M-248'? Nope. AK-47's and RPG-7's.
No. The structure of the military failed. If you read the article (like I did), the technology worked just fine for the far more decentralized and non-hierarchical Special Forces units, as well as the big headquarters units (i.e., Division, Corps), but it failed or was not really implemented or tested well with manouver units. The article very clearly says that those at the higher command echelons were very pleased.
As usual, it is the ground pounder who still gets stuck in the fire. It's almost cruel - higher ups get a clear view of the battle, but no need is felt to even inquire whether the lower levels are getting the information they need. The Generals (Division commanders are generals) have their view of the battle, and all is peachy, while the Colonels, Captains, Lieutenants and Sergeants are kept in the dark.
You know the phrase... "keep me in the dark and feed me shit".
Yes, but you're assuming a bladed turbine wheel or impeller. I'm thinking you could do this with some variation of a Tesla pump, which uses a flat, solid impeller wheel.
Turbines are incredibly inefficient fuel suckers when idling. The car companies did in fact try a few turbine-powered cars in the 50's and 60's, but gave up on them. One of the locomotive companies (EMD? Alco? GE?) also tried a turbine-electric locomotive, same problem. Great when actually moving, but incredibly fuel-inefficient when idling.
Re:The potential problem with these things...
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How well could you scale down a tesla pump? Maybe it works this way? IN fact, now that I think about it, it very well could be based on a Tesla pump.
The impeller in a Tesla pump is not finned like in a turbocharger, but a flat, solid disc, with a thin space between it and the housing. It's an axial flow turbine.
It looks like a simple axial flow turbine (think: half of a turbocharger). I wonder if it would not be possible to set up a turbocharger sort of in this fashion, instead of having the turbocharger's compressor stage pump air into the turbine, instead just use tricky inlet design to optimize air flow at operating speed. Will be terribly inefficient at speed, but once it gets going...
There are people out there who do take turbochargers and run them like jet engines...
Mini RemoteControl doesn't, but another thing that is cool about it, compared at least to Terminal Services, is that you can paste from the Mini-RemoteControl's window.
Dameware NT Utilities also lets you open a remote command-line interface, just don't launch any interactive Windows apps with it, as it brings the remote machine to a crawl because it's trying to deal with opening app windows w/o having anything to open them on. This remote command line is great for doing command-line stuff that is too slow to do over network shares, especially over a WAN/dialup connection or with the File Manager.
The Services applet in Dameware NT Utilities is just a tad more powerful than Services.msc, also. Many things to like about Dameware NTUtilities. Of course, you can now do a lot of the same stuff with WMI...
My only gripe with Dameware is that it is predisposed for you having a Domain Controller. It's kind of dumb when in a workgroup environment.
MmmmmDameWare. It's cheaper than deploying Windows Terminal Server. Sure, there's Remote Desktop, but that's just for XP.
DameWare is pretty potent stuff for Windows boxes. DameWare is far more than the Mini-remotecontrol.
Re:If You Want a Serious Answer... Don't Get Cute
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Actually, the analogy isn't, in a business sense.
The goal of Microsoft, IBM, etc. (and a few smaller players and non-entities) is partly to gain as much IP control as possible, to not only avoid having to be beholden to some other IP-holding company, but also to use it to control competition, if required.
The end-game is different, but what ends up is a business equivalent of nuclear detente, where the major players have enough weapons to counter any attack in court.
Nuclear detente would have been the better analogy, not nuclear war.
The funny thing is, though, that MS really only messed with Java on Windows. It certainly didn't stop it from every other platform, especially on the enterprise (WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss/Tomcat) side of things.
...perhaps if it was phrased so that a native-born Mexican-American could go back to Mexico and be elected Mexico's president, then it would be good.
How many countries make you essentially give up your first citizinship to become a citizen of another country? The US doesn't, but Canada and Mexico do.
As far as I'm concerned, it's fair. It's what every other country in the world has in place.
Do you see a Brit running for France's PM? Or a Frog or Kraut doing the same in Britain? Nope.
So why all the hullabaloo if the US wants to ALLOW it? Do you think it will change the rest of the world?
The only country that would seem to have a leg to stand on this would be Peru, with Fujimoro.
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Uh, you couldn't be so wrong.
You can't get around the latency problem with geostationary satellites. Speed of light isn't the issue, because it's faster through the air and vacuum of space than it is a coax or fiber optic cable anyways. It's the distances involved to geostationary satellites. Oh, and bandwidth to/from the satellites.
DirectTV is dropping their satellite broadband, because there's more $$$ in serving HDTV with those transponders...
And there is no way anyone will be putting stratellites (high altitude balloon/dirigible) in a good chunk of the US, including in Arizona, Nevada, N/S Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas, etc., except around large urban areas (Las Vegas, Albakerkie [sp], Dallas/Ft Worth, Denver/Colo. Springs, etc. The major telcos don't even serve the "big" cities in Montana, with POTS *or* cellular, except maybe Missoula or Helena (which are close enough to Spokane, WA. But it's 400 miles from them to Billings...)
Again, it comes down to customer density. It took the Rural Electrification Project (a federal project...) to get electricity and telephone to most of these areas in the 50's. Without that, there probably still would not be service to those areas wired up by the REP.
Or, even better, announced as being an essential feature, and that those trying to bring light to the issue are limiting the developers' abilities to supply such innovation.
How do you lose 380 tons of high explosives?
I have been. It really is the consistency of crusty snow, with a light green palor to it. I took a chunk into my rollagon, and it tasted a bit like...well...chicken, which I thought was a bit odd.
Uh, you can't run the blower, though. It's probably hard on the heat exchanger as well, because there is a certain amount of cooling factor assumed by the air flow.
...having been without power last year for 3 days in the Great Willamette Valley Snowstorm of 2003, it's not that bad of a deal.
We happened to have a propane stove that looks like a wood stove in our living room. Lucky for us, it's got a pilot light. So the fan didn't help blow heat out.
We bought a couple of rolls of plastic, and sealed off the living room. Not air-tight seal, but just enough to stop the convectional airflow.
The rest of the house got down to ~40 degs F, but we could keep the living room at 70 degs F no problem. All 4 of us (wife, me, two kids) slept on the fold-out bed in the living room. Wel, we lived in that room for 3 days, actually.
The big problem would have been if the water association had lost power. Ya need water for the toilet, as well as to drink, and to keep a faucet or two dripping, to keep the pipes from freezing.
So we had to toss the contents of our refrigerator and freezers. That was a $200 bummer, but...
Why three days? We're on a spur of a spur that has about 8 houses on it. We're VERY low on the power company's fix-it priority list, probably at the bottom.
What did we do for food? Ate out for dinner, but we probably could have bought a camp stove or fired up the barby if we wanted to. But McMinnville is only 10 miles away, too.
Strange going to bed at 5pm, because there's nothing else to do, really.
Nah, the Aluminaut lives on, it's just called the NR-1.
How many civilians died in the Dresden raid in WWII compared to how many aviators were shot down in said raid? *THAT* would be a meaningful ratio.
The worst civilian:military ratios were Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Plus, with Iraq now, there is no truth coming out. The US does not say how many casualties there are when they drop some hot lead on some target in Fallujah. Then, pan to some poor Iraq hospital, where "hundreds of wounded have poured in, and scores were killed". OK, the truth is in the middle.
We're being out-propaganda'd again. And even our own propaganda is starting to look silly.
"There are WMD." "We think there are WMD" "Well, we honestly thought there were WMD" "Saddam had to go!" "John Kerry will sell you to the Chinese!"
Fear leads to Anger. Anger leads to Hatred. Hatred leads to...a job at Halliburton?
With the current administration, I imagine that if the price was $80-90/bbl, they would sell it.
But likely the price would be, "your oil for $15/bbl or we'll just have to take it". But China would probably want to buy Siberia from Russia first.
Perhaps if Putin were such a friend he would cut off Russian weapon sales to Iraq and the rest of the Arabic world. Do you think the asshats in Chechnya are using M-16's and M-248'? Nope. AK-47's and RPG-7's.
No. The structure of the military failed. If you read the article (like I did), the technology worked just fine for the far more decentralized and non-hierarchical Special Forces units, as well as the big headquarters units (i.e., Division, Corps), but it failed or was not really implemented or tested well with manouver units. The article very clearly says that those at the higher command echelons were very pleased.
As usual, it is the ground pounder who still gets stuck in the fire. It's almost cruel - higher ups get a clear view of the battle, but no need is felt to even inquire whether the lower levels are getting the information they need. The Generals (Division commanders are generals) have their view of the battle, and all is peachy, while the Colonels, Captains, Lieutenants and Sergeants are kept in the dark.
You know the phrase... "keep me in the dark and feed me shit".
Yes, but you're assuming a bladed turbine wheel or impeller. I'm thinking you could do this with some variation of a Tesla pump, which uses a flat, solid impeller wheel.
Turbines are incredibly inefficient fuel suckers when idling. The car companies did in fact try a few turbine-powered cars in the 50's and 60's, but gave up on them. One of the locomotive companies (EMD? Alco? GE?) also tried a turbine-electric locomotive, same problem. Great when actually moving, but incredibly fuel-inefficient when idling.
How well could you scale down a tesla pump? Maybe it works this way? IN fact, now that I think about it, it very well could be based on a Tesla pump.
The impeller in a Tesla pump is not finned like in a turbocharger, but a flat, solid disc, with a thin space between it and the housing. It's an axial flow turbine.
It looks like a simple axial flow turbine (think: half of a turbocharger). I wonder if it would not be possible to set up a turbocharger sort of in this fashion, instead of having the turbocharger's compressor stage pump air into the turbine, instead just use tricky inlet design to optimize air flow at operating speed. Will be terribly inefficient at speed, but once it gets going...
There are people out there who do take turbochargers and run them like jet engines...
Mini RemoteControl doesn't, but another thing that is cool about it, compared at least to Terminal Services, is that you can paste from the Mini-RemoteControl's window.
Dameware NT Utilities also lets you open a remote command-line interface, just don't launch any interactive Windows apps with it, as it brings the remote machine to a crawl because it's trying to deal with opening app windows w/o having anything to open them on. This remote command line is great for doing command-line stuff that is too slow to do over network shares, especially over a WAN/dialup connection or with the File Manager.
The Services applet in Dameware NT Utilities is just a tad more powerful than Services.msc, also.
Many things to like about Dameware NTUtilities. Of course, you can now do a lot of the same stuff with WMI...
My only gripe with Dameware is that it is predisposed for you having a Domain Controller. It's kind of dumb when in a workgroup environment.
MmmmmDameWare. It's cheaper than deploying Windows Terminal Server. Sure, there's Remote Desktop, but that's just for XP.
DameWare is pretty potent stuff for Windows boxes. DameWare is far more than the Mini-remotecontrol.
Actually, the analogy isn't, in a business sense.
The goal of Microsoft, IBM, etc. (and a few smaller players and non-entities) is partly to gain as much IP control as possible, to not only avoid having to be beholden to some other IP-holding company, but also to use it to control competition, if required.
The end-game is different, but what ends up is a business equivalent of nuclear detente, where the major players have enough weapons to counter any attack in court.
Nuclear detente would have been the better analogy, not nuclear war.
The POSIX stuff is still there, it's just in the Resource Kit. You can download most of it from MS' website.
Cygwin or U/Win is still the way to go.
Don't forget, they released a version or two of IE for Slowaris in the late '90's, too...
The funny thing is, though, that MS really only messed with Java on Windows. It certainly didn't stop it from every other platform, especially on the enterprise (WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss/Tomcat) side of things.
No, not if the things that only the Hubble will still be able to do are really where the useful science is at.
Webb and the big ground-based scopes will be great at producing prettier optical images than Hubble.
Hubble will still get all that useful spectrographic information that only it can get that tells so much.
The real Fighertown USA was at Miramar NAS, but now it's at Fallon NAS.
...they're USian, but the reality is that the US' privacy rules are nothing compared to the EU's.
But, of course, it'll go over big with the Fortune 1000 types. Now it'll be even harder to get a job.
"I'm sorry. We don't hire jaywalkers."
wrongful deaths of 13,000 Iraqi civilians
What about the wrongful deaths of Iraqis under Saddam Hussain's thumb, should that not be forcefully stopped?
...perhaps if it was phrased so that a native-born Mexican-American could go back to Mexico and be elected Mexico's president, then it would be good.
How many countries make you essentially give up your first citizinship to become a citizen of another country? The US doesn't, but Canada and Mexico do.
As far as I'm concerned, it's fair. It's what every other country in the world has in place.
Do you see a Brit running for France's PM? Or a Frog or Kraut doing the same in Britain? Nope.
So why all the hullabaloo if the US wants to ALLOW it? Do you think it will change the rest of the world?
The only country that would seem to have a leg to stand on this would be Peru, with Fujimoro.