I could argue that, since only one mission used the Salyut 1, it was not a *true* space station - unlike Skylab..
And the same could be argued about Skylab. There was only a total of 3 missions for the ill-fated station. The entireity of the first being solely a repair mission. While the final mission did last 84 days, the crew were plagued by malfunctions in the station. Skylab was then put into a parking orbit which deterorated very early, resulting in an unplanned re-entry.
Arguably, it still could be said that Mir is the first truly successful space station in the terms of the amount of missions it hosted and time spent on the station.
Streetlights, Security Lights, Dusk til Dawn Lights, Flourescent Lights.
Take your pick, its one of them, and can very well be coming from your house, any of your neighbors or utilities nearby.
I've see these also used in Auto-shops and Machine/Tooling Shops for years. They need durable keyboards on alot of the now computerized equipment and can't have the keyboards getting disgustingly grimey.
There are a few small transistors, some found on video cards, that are very susceptable to being burnt out from exposure to regular tap-water with the computer off. Some components can also still have a small electrical charge stored in them for awhile after a computer is shut off as well.
If you are going to wash computer components down, and yes, all computer components are washed before they leave the factory, it's best to do it with de-ionized purified water.
Man, I can't believe all the luddites chiming in on this discussion.
Hey you're absolutely correct.
In fact, all those people commuting from their homes to the cities in the morning could, in the future, be replaced with robots and there would be no more massive amounts of morning/afternoon casualties from those long commutes.
Man, stupid luddites, they're all dying just to make money.
"There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce." -Samuel Longhorne Clemens
A simple concrete poured house (single-story on pre-poured slab), or poured wall foundations can be done in a weeks time easy. The most time consuming part is laying the forms, and having all outside wall pipes, conduit, etc. in place before the pouring. The actual pouring takes about a day. takes 48-72 hours to set depending on weather, and will take a lifetime to cure. Insides are still stick framed, and roofing are engineered trusses.
Brick walls?? A brick house these days is just brick siding covering up the stick frame. Theres actually an airgap in between the bricks and framing, the bricks don't even help in the support of the house, and the house doesn't help in the support of the bricks. Brick siding can take up to a week to complete and is usually close to one of the last things done on a home during the finish phase. BTW in hurricane areas, there are usually reinforcing straps worked into the brick walls for obivious reasons.
A stick frame house, or wooden as you call it, can go from a slab/already set basement to finish rough in about a week or less. The point the grandparent poster was trying to make, and that you missed, is that "the roughing in period" when the frame of a structure goes up is usually the quickest part of the build. The final phase of the building or finishing out part is the MOST time consuming part of the build, period.
Well the current problem of the whole space elevator is with the strength/workable size of such a cable. SO if you were to want to build a station at the end you just may want to attach it back to the Earth with alot more than just one cable. If I'm not just tired and making stuff up i do believe the more mass that gets added at the end the more cabling and attachment points you will possibly need.
They won most cases, not all. They lost a final key licensing case which said they could still offer their most current version of the software for sale but were required to get a license from Sony to sell any future versions/upgrades. As you said, at that point they were burning on fumes financially, so they pretty much folded.
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Their Adsense is watchin' your ev-very move..
Google-Eyes,(KA-CHOW)are watchin' YOU.
Their Adsense is watchin' your ev-very move..
Hey kids, that was Google-Eyes by the Police! Next up is The Culture Club with "Wiki-Pedia" right here on KNRD, sounds of the NET.
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Wiki-Pedia.
Info comes and goes..
It comes and goes..
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Every day.. Night and dayyy.
Funny, how I now use a mouse is elbow resting, wrist slightly resting, and using my elbow as the pivot point for sweeping movements, and wrist as a pivot point for fine movements. In all actuality my elbow never actually moves from its pivot point, 'cept when it wallows out a spot in the cushioning in the armrest and i reposition it.
I discovered this when i got a computer chair that allows me to raise and lower the armrests. Meaning i used to suffer repetitive wrist strain before i was able to adjust the height of my elbow relative to my wrist and mouse. Keeping the elbow a breath higher than mousing surface has reduced my strain to nil.
It now causes me to cringe when i see others using chairs where the armrests are set lower to allow the seat of the chair to go fully under the desk, and they have their wrists cocked at a strange angle to compensate for their elbows being inches below their wrists.
Whatever chuckles. How about this, prove to me where there isn't any harm done. (I bet you can't) and you are just going to call me a troll.
See, i can play the game as well as you. Strawman argument from you at best. You bring no proof, mine is from the HBO documentary where children as young as 2 years old are being paraded around, other children, such as one girl, was never allowed outside to play. In one scene the child is begging her mother for something to drink, the mother responds, NO, you will just mess up your dress. Normal childhood ? I think not.
But still, enjoy looking at your prepubescent darlings in their makup and tell yourself the children are just fine. Heck, make yourself believe that they enjoy it immensely. Easier to sleep at night that way.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the Atari 2600 to be worth much more than its original MSRP in my lifetime.
As it stands, it was a system comprised of off the shelf parts. I would speculate that in the future just the empty shell alone would be fetch as much as a complete working unit, considering the shell was the only original part of the unit. Also with the two different shell types, Atari and the Sears "Telegames" with fake woodgrain, one might be worth a bit more than the other. Not including the 1990's 2600 re-issue.
BTW when was the last time you went to an old-school trashy flea-market? Last time I visited one, you could pick up a box full of (50 or so) Atari carts for around 5 dollars. Also saw boxes containing about 8-10 Atari 2600 units, in various disarray, with accessories spaghettied in the bottom, for 20 bucks. Even as recent as 1999 one vendor had unopened boxes of early 80's Atari units in his booth for 20 bucks a box.
Things that people find are worth so much now-a-days, were never mass produced items. I don't know what the actual numbers are regarding total amount of 2600's produced, it has to be in the 10's of millions, if not hundreds. As i said in the beginning, it will long after my life is over before the 2600 is worth much more than what it sold for brand new.
Gee, can I make inflammatory replies, while cursing and spewing trolling remarks and get modded insightful as well? Honestly the parent to all this has a point, but the counterpoint brought is borderline trolling. I didn't realize telling people to shove it up their ass and calling them morons was so insightful these days. And who are the mods that mod this drek up anyways ?
The main point being that these barely legal sites showing no-where near legal children done up like barbie dolls in their glamour shots/swimsuit shots are walking a fine line. Does it not make you wonder about the parents who put these children through this for their own desires? Is this not a form of child exploitation, or as said before, a form of soft-core child porn? Have you never seen the horrid HBO documentary that feature these goings on? Its bewildering that people do this to their children, and more so that you find it acceptable.
These child-glamour sites and sites featuring underage nudists are NOT your Sears catalogue or weekly Wal-Mart circular. Please save your thought-crime bs for a more appropriate and ontopic discussion.
As a polar opposite to you and your friends experience, check this shit out: A friend of mine had spent the last 10 years building a company up, from scratch, with its previous owner, and he had attained a pretty high position in the small company. Not VP or anything, but he was known in the company as the guy to goto to get things done. Several years back the ownership changed hands, previous owner had made a bundle and was approaching retirement age, so he sold the company. The new "owners" proceeded to run the company into the ground, and they went bankrupt early in the fall of 04. During the past year of "fucking the dog" as my friend says the new owners were doing, he took time out nearly every week to goto an interview, and no one was interested in hiring him. The day the company shut its doors, he threw a massive drunk, and was sitting at home around 6pm when he got a call, the call.
Someone wanted him to goto work for them bad. Being shitfaced, and planning on living on his severence for a bit, he lowballed the hell out of them, ended up nearly doubling his salary, getting a brand new company vehicle, and a sign-on bonus. The funny thing is, the next day he barely remembered getting the call, i had to remind him as i was there helping him celebrate his severence. The strange part, the call was from his previous "now defunct" companies biggest competitor. A company with whom he had never filled out one application with.
nothing to be proud of either.
You're assuming people who drive/clean with the radio on are suffering from A.D.D. as well ?
Previous home wife and I lived in was a studio type deal and we had a table setup in front of the T.V. with 2 computers on it. Normal livingroom with couch and chairs in front of the table. It was the best of both worlds and we could watch TV as well as do internet oriented things, or games, what have you. If guests came over we could entertain via computer or television. It worked out very well.
Now that we moved into a more modern home we set aside a computer room, and have both regret it. I find it to be very antisocial now to disappear to the computer room to work on some financial stuff while the wife prefers to spend the evening in the LV watching TV.
After making an informational video for a high school project one time, let me tell you, it's more difficult than you can imagine.
Anything that requires a good speil of dialogue all at once, can be intimidating, difficult, and required many many many takes.
We spent the whole week after school as the TFA says of trying various cue cards, card placments and cards with just key words. But on viewing the video, it ended up being totally fucked up when a person would pause, look away camera then continue or just looking off camera the whole entire time.
So back to doing it as you say "by rote" and spent the rest of an entire weekend getting everyones bit recorded just right and edited into place.
If we had had anything like this back 14 years ago now that could have been easily made, on the net, etc.. would have made the whole ordeal much better.
Well good luck on finding a 6800 chip at the moment. No, seriously, if you find one you will have every card maker pounding on your door to buy it. Why ? They are currently not, nor have been, available in quantity.
Speculation has it that is why this card has appeared. It is faster than a single 6800 series chip, the chips are very available, and its cheaper for the card maker to produce and sell than waiting for a few 6800 chips to arrive from IBM's Fishkill plant. Yields have been very very poor on the 6800 series chips.
*sigh* The SLI 3dfx had wasn't just 4 years ago with the V5 series, it started with the Voodoo2 series, which would make it almost 8 years ago now.
And the SLI that Nvidia is pimping NOW is NOT the SLI that 3dfx "licensed" to use years ago. A single person owns the patent to the old SLI tech, 3dfx never did. The old SLI that 3dfx used was called "Scan Line Interleaving" and each GPU was used to render every-other scan line appearing on your screen.
Nvidias NEW SLI is "Scalable Link Interface" and I believe 1 chip renders the top-half of the screen and the other chip renders the bottom half or some nonsense.
BTW, the patent pending refers to putting 2 GPUs on one single card using Nvidias NEW SLI. Nvidias current SLI design calls for using 2 single cards.
Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. The voodoo 4 and 5 series was NOT a last ditch effort.
The design that became the Voodoo4 & 5 series was in development from the moment the Voodoo 2 series was released. The SLI design on one card was the promise. But the design became a victim of feature creep and got held up in development for well over 3 years. (T-Buffer, first card to do usuable FSAA)
By the time it was released the 3D market (Nvidia) had already Leap-Frogged them (Transform and Lighting on chip), management had continually overspent on advertising (over $15 million in one year alone, which was big big money for a graphics company then) and basically run the company into the ground (buying their own graphics card production facilities in Mexico vs. being a chip maker).
They were quickly running out of money to continue development on anything else. Had nothing else they could hope to release in 6 months time as Nvidia was doing then with its refreshes. Also, Nvidia was looking at losing a big patent suit brought by 3dfx against them. So the obvious happened.
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Evolution is a theory, and not a fact. Much in the same way that 'gravity' is a theory and not a fact. It's true!
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The 171 days and 13 hours was the amount of time spent by Astronauts aboard Skylab.
From your Wiki Link;
"America's first space station, the 75 metric ton Skylab, was in Earth orbit from 1973-1979.."
I could argue that, since only one mission used the Salyut 1, it was not a *true* space station - unlike Skylab..
And the same could be argued about Skylab. There was only a total of 3 missions for the ill-fated station. The entireity of the first being solely a repair mission. While the final mission did last 84 days, the crew were plagued by malfunctions in the station. Skylab was then put into a parking orbit which deterorated very early, resulting in an unplanned re-entry.
Arguably, it still could be said that Mir is the first truly successful space station in the terms of the amount of missions it hosted and time spent on the station.
Streetlights, Security Lights, Dusk til Dawn Lights, Flourescent Lights. Take your pick, its one of them, and can very well be coming from your house, any of your neighbors or utilities nearby.
I've see these also used in Auto-shops and Machine/Tooling Shops for years. They need durable keyboards on alot of the now computerized equipment and can't have the keyboards getting disgustingly grimey.
He was very lucky with that.
There are a few small transistors, some found on video cards, that are very susceptable to being burnt out from exposure to regular tap-water with the computer off. Some components can also still have a small electrical charge stored in them for awhile after a computer is shut off as well.
If you are going to wash computer components down, and yes, all computer components are washed before they leave the factory, it's best to do it with de-ionized purified water.
I heard he was going to show the audience what gave his buddy Spielburg the idea for E.T.
Which would be his set of extra-testicles, I mean the guy has got alot of balls to continue to do what he does.
Man, I can't believe all the luddites chiming in on this discussion.
Hey you're absolutely correct. In fact, all those people commuting from their homes to the cities in the morning could, in the future, be replaced with robots and there would be no more massive amounts of morning/afternoon casualties from those long commutes.
Man, stupid luddites, they're all dying just to make money.
"There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce." -Samuel Longhorne Clemens
A simple concrete poured house (single-story on pre-poured slab), or poured wall foundations can be done in a weeks time easy. The most time consuming part is laying the forms, and having all outside wall pipes, conduit, etc. in place before the pouring. The actual pouring takes about a day. takes 48-72 hours to set depending on weather, and will take a lifetime to cure. Insides are still stick framed, and roofing are engineered trusses.
Brick walls?? A brick house these days is just brick siding covering up the stick frame. Theres actually an airgap in between the bricks and framing, the bricks don't even help in the support of the house, and the house doesn't help in the support of the bricks. Brick siding can take up to a week to complete and is usually close to one of the last things done on a home during the finish phase. BTW in hurricane areas, there are usually reinforcing straps worked into the brick walls for obivious reasons.
A stick frame house, or wooden as you call it, can go from a slab/already set basement to finish rough in about a week or less. The point the grandparent poster was trying to make, and that you missed, is that "the roughing in period" when the frame of a structure goes up is usually the quickest part of the build. The final phase of the building or finishing out part is the MOST time consuming part of the build, period.
Well the current problem of the whole space elevator is with the strength/workable size of such a cable. SO if you were to want to build a station at the end you just may want to attach it back to the Earth with alot more than just one cable. If I'm not just tired and making stuff up i do believe the more mass that gets added at the end the more cabling and attachment points you will possibly need.
They won most cases, not all. They lost a final key licensing case which said they could still offer their most current version of the software for sale but were required to get a license from Sony to sell any future versions/upgrades. As you said, at that point they were burning on fumes financially, so they pretty much folded.
Google-Eyes, are watchin' YOU.
Their Adsense is watchin' your ev-very move..
Google-Eyes,(KA-CHOW)are watchin' YOU.
Their Adsense is watchin' your ev-very move..
Hey kids, that was Google-Eyes by the Police!
Next up is The Culture Club with "Wiki-Pedia"
right here on KNRD, sounds of the NET.
Wiki Wiki Wiki
Wiki-Pedia.
Info comes and goes..
It comes and goes..
Deleting others misinformation
and replacing it with my own..
Every day.. Night and dayyy.
Funny, how I now use a mouse is elbow resting, wrist slightly resting, and using my elbow as the pivot point for sweeping movements, and wrist as a pivot point for fine movements. In all actuality my elbow never actually moves from its pivot point, 'cept when it wallows out a spot in the cushioning in the armrest and i reposition it.
I discovered this when i got a computer chair that allows me to raise and lower the armrests. Meaning i used to suffer repetitive wrist strain before i was able to adjust the height of my elbow relative to my wrist and mouse. Keeping the elbow a breath higher than mousing surface has reduced my strain to nil.
It now causes me to cringe when i see others using chairs where the armrests are set lower to allow the seat of the chair to go fully under the desk, and they have their wrists cocked at a strange angle to compensate for their elbows being inches below their wrists.
Whatever chuckles.
How about this, prove to me where there isn't any harm done. (I bet you can't) and you are just going to call me a troll.
See, i can play the game as well as you. Strawman argument from you at best. You bring no proof, mine is from the HBO documentary where children as young as 2 years old are being paraded around, other children, such as one girl, was never allowed outside to play. In one scene the child is begging her mother for something to drink, the mother responds, NO, you will just mess up your dress. Normal childhood ? I think not.
But still, enjoy looking at your prepubescent darlings in their makup and tell yourself the children are just fine. Heck, make yourself believe that they enjoy it immensely. Easier to sleep at night that way.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the Atari 2600 to be worth much more than its original MSRP in my lifetime.
As it stands, it was a system comprised of off the shelf parts. I would speculate that in the future just the empty shell alone would be fetch as much as a complete working unit, considering the shell was the only original part of the unit. Also with the two different shell types, Atari and the Sears "Telegames" with fake woodgrain, one might be worth a bit more than the other. Not including the 1990's 2600 re-issue.
BTW when was the last time you went to an old-school trashy flea-market? Last time I visited one, you could pick up a box full of (50 or so) Atari carts for around 5 dollars. Also saw boxes containing about 8-10 Atari 2600 units, in various disarray, with accessories spaghettied in the bottom, for 20 bucks. Even as recent as 1999 one vendor had unopened boxes of early 80's Atari units in his booth for 20 bucks a box.
Things that people find are worth so much now-a-days, were never mass produced items. I don't know what the actual numbers are regarding total amount of 2600's produced, it has to be in the 10's of millions, if not hundreds. As i said in the beginning, it will long after my life is over before the 2600 is worth much more than what it sold for brand new.
Gee, can I make inflammatory replies, while cursing and spewing trolling remarks and get modded insightful as well? Honestly the parent to all this has a point, but the counterpoint brought is borderline trolling. I didn't realize telling people to shove it up their ass and calling them morons was so insightful these days. And who are the mods that mod this drek up anyways ?
The main point being that these barely legal sites showing no-where near legal children done up like barbie dolls in their glamour shots/swimsuit shots are walking a fine line. Does it not make you wonder about the parents who put these children through this for their own desires? Is this not a form of child exploitation, or as said before, a form of soft-core child porn? Have you never seen the horrid HBO documentary that feature these goings on? Its bewildering that people do this to their children, and more so that you find it acceptable.
These child-glamour sites and sites featuring underage nudists are NOT your Sears catalogue or weekly Wal-Mart circular. Please save your thought-crime bs for a more appropriate and ontopic discussion.
Unfortunately Lazlo isn't Lazlo anymore, now he's Uncle Rico. Didn't anyone else here watch Napolean Dynomite?
Oh hush up digi, and go back to your hole over at B3D. There's no postcounts here. :o)
As a polar opposite to you and your friends experience, check this shit out:
A friend of mine had spent the last 10 years building a company up, from scratch, with its previous owner, and he had attained a pretty high position in the small company. Not VP or anything, but he was known in the company as the guy to goto to get things done. Several years back the ownership changed hands, previous owner had made a bundle and was approaching retirement age, so he sold the company. The new "owners" proceeded to run the company into the ground, and they went bankrupt early in the fall of 04. During the past year of "fucking the dog" as my friend says the new owners were doing, he took time out nearly every week to goto an interview, and no one was interested in hiring him. The day the company shut its doors, he threw a massive drunk, and was sitting at home around 6pm when he got a call, the call.
Someone wanted him to goto work for them bad. Being shitfaced, and planning on living on his severence for a bit, he lowballed the hell out of them, ended up nearly doubling his salary, getting a brand new company vehicle, and a sign-on bonus. The funny thing is, the next day he barely remembered getting the call, i had to remind him as i was there helping him celebrate his severence. The strange part, the call was from his previous "now defunct" companies biggest competitor. A company with whom he had never filled out one application with.
nothing to be proud of either. You're assuming people who drive/clean with the radio on are suffering from A.D.D. as well ? Previous home wife and I lived in was a studio type deal and we had a table setup in front of the T.V. with 2 computers on it. Normal livingroom with couch and chairs in front of the table. It was the best of both worlds and we could watch TV as well as do internet oriented things, or games, what have you. If guests came over we could entertain via computer or television. It worked out very well. Now that we moved into a more modern home we set aside a computer room, and have both regret it. I find it to be very antisocial now to disappear to the computer room to work on some financial stuff while the wife prefers to spend the evening in the LV watching TV.
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After making an informational video for a high school project one time, let me tell you, it's more difficult than you can imagine. Anything that requires a good speil of dialogue all at once, can be intimidating, difficult, and required many many many takes. We spent the whole week after school as the TFA says of trying various cue cards, card placments and cards with just key words. But on viewing the video, it ended up being totally fucked up when a person would pause, look away camera then continue or just looking off camera the whole entire time. So back to doing it as you say "by rote" and spent the rest of an entire weekend getting everyones bit recorded just right and edited into place. If we had had anything like this back 14 years ago now that could have been easily made, on the net, etc.. would have made the whole ordeal much better.
Well good luck on finding a 6800 chip at the moment. No, seriously, if you find one you will have every card maker pounding on your door to buy it. Why ? They are currently not, nor have been, available in quantity.
Speculation has it that is why this card has appeared. It is faster than a single 6800 series chip, the chips are very available, and its cheaper for the card maker to produce and sell than waiting for a few 6800 chips to arrive from IBM's Fishkill plant. Yields have been very very poor on the 6800 series chips.
*sigh*
The SLI 3dfx had wasn't just 4 years ago with the V5 series, it started with the Voodoo2 series, which would make it almost 8 years ago now.
And the SLI that Nvidia is pimping NOW is NOT the SLI that 3dfx "licensed" to use years ago. A single person owns the patent to the old SLI tech, 3dfx never did. The old SLI that 3dfx used was called "Scan Line Interleaving" and each GPU was used to render every-other scan line appearing on your screen.
Nvidias NEW SLI is "Scalable Link Interface" and I believe 1 chip renders the top-half of the screen and the other chip renders the bottom half or some nonsense.
BTW, the patent pending refers to putting 2 GPUs on one single card using Nvidias NEW SLI. Nvidias current SLI design calls for using 2 single cards.
Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. The voodoo 4 and 5 series was NOT a last ditch effort.
The design that became the Voodoo4 & 5 series was in development from the moment the Voodoo 2 series was released. The SLI design on one card was the promise. But the design became a victim of feature creep and got held up in development for well over 3 years. (T-Buffer, first card to do usuable FSAA)
By the time it was released the 3D market (Nvidia) had already Leap-Frogged them (Transform and Lighting on chip), management had continually overspent on advertising (over $15 million in one year alone, which was big big money for a graphics company then) and basically run the company into the ground (buying their own graphics card production facilities in Mexico vs. being a chip maker).
They were quickly running out of money to continue development on anything else. Had nothing else they could hope to release in 6 months time as Nvidia was doing then with its refreshes. Also, Nvidia was looking at losing a big patent suit brought by 3dfx against them. So the obvious happened.