Armed guards on all flights - Not wise. Whilst bullets and planes don't have the hollywood crash and burn effect, there's still a lot of people in a small area.
Planes are designed to fly with windows missing. It does not cause a catastrophic loss of stability, all it does is depressurise the cabin. Wear your nice yellow mask and everything is fine.
Come on, these things fly with engines missing. One window isn't a major problem. The size is determined as one which can be shot out and the plane can still fly.
There's hundreds of different possibilites. My point about the ISS is that we still have no way of working sustainably in space, and since ISS is the only vaguely permanent presence in space it seems like a damn good place to start trying. However, real tests of sustainability can only be performed with more room, hence expansion of the ISS.
The space stations in geosync orbit you're referring to are Space Elevators, basically a cable from here to there with a big counterweight, so things can be hauled up or down. Link two together and you've effectively got a free lift to orbit (one going down provides the force to lift the other).
It's not the regular supplies which worried me, just send a regular chain of them out after the colony ship until the base has a hydroponics lab working. What I was more worried about would be medical supplies, emergency food and the like. The colony would need to carry emergency supplies for at least 18 months, not including travel time.
The obvious solution would be to send out supply ships before your manned vessel, and park those in orbit (possibly dock them for easier handling). If you effectively have a space station full of supplies in orbit before you get there, then you have a staging area for descent to the surface in addition to all the supplies waiting for you.
From this staging point it should be far easier to land modules for a colony on the ground within a few hundred meters of each other, then all it takes is a manned landing to fit them together and you're off. Keep the orbiting station to provide emergency support (easier to park regular supplies onto that than accurately land them without flattening the colony), and make sure that in the event of a major failure you can get people off the ground and into orbit.
Now all you need is a sensible reusable orbiter with landing capability and the ability to fly for 36 months (there and back) with a crew of 5 (Minimum for long times alone). Instant colony, you could change the crew every 4 years.
The trouble is, although I can see your point: Voyager went, took some pictures, and kept going. No requirement to collect samples, move people around, or land.
You can't create a reusable vehicle to land on a planet with current technology (Well okay, you can, but the cost would far outweigh the benefits).
What we *should* be doing is finding a way to make the ISS sustainable so we can use it as a staging point for further exploration. Once we can prove that we can sustain something in our own orbit, then we can contemplate sustaining life on the moon. Perhaps then Mars would be a target for sustainability.
Landing a man on Mars is far easier than sustaining life on Mars. We can't even grow a decent cabbage in orbit yet, and I'm not too keen on waiting 18 months for a supply vehicle to reach me just to bring some food.
Strangely enough, I have a PDA *because* i can write on it, the fact it keeps tabs on what i'm meant to be doing is a handy side effect.
My recommendation is to get a cheap PDA and use Graffiti or something similar to transcribe your handwriting. Just check if the input is touchscreen or styluspoint, because touchscreens can't be leant on.
I use a rather nice piece of kit which goes by the name of KeePass ( http://keepass.sf.net/ ), and a 78-bit master password for that. Works wonders, and can use external drives as keys or parts of keys (So you have the traditional something you know, something you have).
Actually, it would work fine for mySQL. Note that the quotes are ` and not '. This is an important differentiation, and helps mySQL when it gets confused by table names also being constants.
That piece of SQL selects the value of the column entitled 'karma' in the table 'users' for the row in which 'userid' is equal to '138474'.
Sadly this is Europe, and whilst Microsoft may be able to buy out various organisations in the USA to get what it wants, over here we have something known as tradition, and a hell of a lot of it.
Changing how Europe deals with issues takes a lot more time, effort, money and public support than Microsoft has at its disposal. One person may be able to be bought out (See Ireland), but it takes a lot of effort to change the opinion of the entire system.
Don't forget, Europe held most of the world at their disposal for quite a large chunk of human history. You can't do that if you're easily swayed by money and opinion.
I thought it was always defined as a download is data heading towards the machine, upload is data going away so in the case of an FTP PUT, the machine with the original data is uploading and the machine which is being sent the data is downloading.
Podcasts have their 'tuning' information distributed over RSS, so instead of having to look up the appropriate times, hook up Winamp, keep your system online, start/stop Streamripper at appropriate times and then move the whole thing to the MP3 player of your choice you just point your Podcast Aggregator (iPodder for a prime example) at the feed and it grabs the latest ones automatically.
Actually, SPAM (the food) stands for Spiced Pork and Ham. Spam (the email) became associated with SPAM after a Monty Python sketch with a load of Vikings chanting SPAM repeatedly. Lots of SPAM = pointless and unwanted = spam.
For applications it's doubtlessly far superior to Mac Minis, but for a desktop I would take a Mac or an XP box over RISC OS (Or even 99% of Linux distros for that matter).
The thing that helps avoid this is that IP was designed to be bulletproof, i.e. you could remove half the network and the system would function.
All it takes is one uncontrolled connection and the whole thing works again. This is possible through tunneling without major headaches, there will always be an underground.
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Locking flight deck - I'm in favour.
Armed guards on all flights - Not wise. Whilst bullets and planes don't have the hollywood crash and burn effect, there's still a lot of people in a small area.
Bigger Seats - Nice idea. Go first class.
Planes are designed to fly with windows missing. It does not cause a catastrophic loss of stability, all it does is depressurise the cabin. Wear your nice yellow mask and everything is fine.
Come on, these things fly with engines missing. One window isn't a major problem. The size is determined as one which can be shot out and the plane can still fly.
My money is on the commie thugs for overall stability (throw more cabling at the problem), but the mafia for fragile elegance.
There's hundreds of different possibilites. My point about the ISS is that we still have no way of working sustainably in space, and since ISS is the only vaguely permanent presence in space it seems like a damn good place to start trying. However, real tests of sustainability can only be performed with more room, hence expansion of the ISS.
The space stations in geosync orbit you're referring to are Space Elevators, basically a cable from here to there with a big counterweight, so things can be hauled up or down. Link two together and you've effectively got a free lift to orbit (one going down provides the force to lift the other).
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It's not the regular supplies which worried me, just send a regular chain of them out after the colony ship until the base has a hydroponics lab working. What I was more worried about would be medical supplies, emergency food and the like. The colony would need to carry emergency supplies for at least 18 months, not including travel time.
The obvious solution would be to send out supply ships before your manned vessel, and park those in orbit (possibly dock them for easier handling). If you effectively have a space station full of supplies in orbit before you get there, then you have a staging area for descent to the surface in addition to all the supplies waiting for you.
From this staging point it should be far easier to land modules for a colony on the ground within a few hundred meters of each other, then all it takes is a manned landing to fit them together and you're off. Keep the orbiting station to provide emergency support (easier to park regular supplies onto that than accurately land them without flattening the colony), and make sure that in the event of a major failure you can get people off the ground and into orbit.
Now all you need is a sensible reusable orbiter with landing capability and the ability to fly for 36 months (there and back) with a crew of 5 (Minimum for long times alone). Instant colony, you could change the crew every 4 years.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. Now to deal with the moderators, hope I get to M2 some of the ones I've seen today.
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The trouble is, although I can see your point: Voyager went, took some pictures, and kept going. No requirement to collect samples, move people around, or land.
You can't create a reusable vehicle to land on a planet with current technology (Well okay, you can, but the cost would far outweigh the benefits).
What we *should* be doing is finding a way to make the ISS sustainable so we can use it as a staging point for further exploration. Once we can prove that we can sustain something in our own orbit, then we can contemplate sustaining life on the moon. Perhaps then Mars would be a target for sustainability.
Landing a man on Mars is far easier than sustaining life on Mars. We can't even grow a decent cabbage in orbit yet, and I'm not too keen on waiting 18 months for a supply vehicle to reach me just to bring some food.
Strangely enough, I have a PDA *because* i can write on it, the fact it keeps tabs on what i'm meant to be doing is a handy side effect.
My recommendation is to get a cheap PDA and use Graffiti or something similar to transcribe your handwriting. Just check if the input is touchscreen or styluspoint, because touchscreens can't be leant on.
Put another password in.
I use a rather nice piece of kit which goes by the name of KeePass ( http://keepass.sf.net/ ), and a 78-bit master password for that. Works wonders, and can use external drives as keys or parts of keys (So you have the traditional something you know, something you have).
Actually, it would work fine for mySQL. Note that the quotes are ` and not '. This is an important differentiation, and helps mySQL when it gets confused by table names also being constants.
That piece of SQL selects the value of the column entitled 'karma' in the table 'users' for the row in which 'userid' is equal to '138474'.
Argh, it's "spam" not "SPAM". SPAM is a foodstuff, spam is the email variety.
Sadly this is Europe, and whilst Microsoft may be able to buy out various organisations in the USA to get what it wants, over here we have something known as tradition, and a hell of a lot of it.
Changing how Europe deals with issues takes a lot more time, effort, money and public support than Microsoft has at its disposal. One person may be able to be bought out (See Ireland), but it takes a lot of effort to change the opinion of the entire system.
Don't forget, Europe held most of the world at their disposal for quite a large chunk of human history. You can't do that if you're easily swayed by money and opinion.
We don't pretend to be peaceful and war hating, I thought that was the USA's job.
No, Europe were the bloodiest set of warmongers on the planet. Britain happened to be rather good at it.
I thought it was always defined as a download is data heading towards the machine, upload is data going away so in the case of an FTP PUT, the machine with the original data is uploading and the machine which is being sent the data is downloading.
Podcasts have their 'tuning' information distributed over RSS, so instead of having to look up the appropriate times, hook up Winamp, keep your system online, start/stop Streamripper at appropriate times and then move the whole thing to the MP3 player of your choice you just point your Podcast Aggregator (iPodder for a prime example) at the feed and it grabs the latest ones automatically.
Mozilla - Firefox does it by default ;)
Exactly. Regardless of the fact it was a great OS, there is virtually nothing developed for it.
Actually, SPAM (the food) stands for Spiced Pork and Ham. Spam (the email) became associated with SPAM after a Monty Python sketch with a load of Vikings chanting SPAM repeatedly. Lots of SPAM = pointless and unwanted = spam.
Firefox also does this, and afaik Netscape, Mozilla and Safari do.
Look at browser.fixup.alternate.enabled in your about:config to turn it on/off.
http://burger.istheshit.net/ is even more extreme.
For applications it's doubtlessly far superior to Mac Minis, but for a desktop I would take a Mac or an XP box over RISC OS (Or even 99% of Linux distros for that matter).
The thing that helps avoid this is that IP was designed to be bulletproof, i.e. you could remove half the network and the system would function.
All it takes is one uncontrolled connection and the whole thing works again. This is possible through tunneling without major headaches, there will always be an underground.