Either that, or they were concerned about the fact that Pakistani radar crews are most likely compromised by Al Qaeda, and are alerting them to our flight paths. Hard to get good intel when they know to go hide.
You mean the 800-1300 AD warming period seen in Europe due to changes in the gulf stream/jet stream, which was not warmer anywhere else on Earth?
Yea, god forbid they take into account European data that was warmer for a certain period of time due to known weather phenomenon by adjusting it out since the rest of the world showed no such warming during that same period. Are you saying that you want climate prediction models solely centered around geographically European data? Seems like a bad idea to me.
Eh, it's not so much the no nuclear war with Iran thing as the no nuclear war thing. The Nobel committee has always had a big thing about reducing/removing weapons/arms (ie the reason that Mr. nobel founded the committee).
So, there have been multiple cases of people winning the Nobel Peace Prize for just advocating a nuclear-free world, or removal of some other weapon. The fact that a US President, when he's under fire from most other places walks into office and says "I'd like to eliminate nuclear weapons", and then starts talks with the Russians in order to do so, and unilaterally starts removing spares from our inventory, the committee perked up a bit. I'm not saying that he absolutely deserved it, but rather that he did express beliefs, and act on beliefs that have been a long-standing Nobel committee soft-spot right after taking over the most powerful position in the world.
Seems exactly like what the 50-hot beds of democracy should be doing; backing up a federal decision when they support it.
California is just hedging it's bets against manufacturers lobbying Congress and buying enough of them to get the 2011 regulations pushed back to 2013. They did the same thing with car emissions. They'd sign on to the government plan, but the fed's would always move the goal posts at the last minute. So, California just started creating their own regulations in-line with the federal standards they agree with, and then holding tight to them. Doesn't seem like a big deal to me.
More tempest in a teapot so that certain self-righteous individuals can get all worked about nothing and feel good about themselves.
Even the recent tea party marches don't qualify, as Fox wasn't the organization that started them, they just helped get the word out about what other people were doing (eg, reporting the news).
Uh, when it's the newscasters sponsoring them (aka, Glen Beck's 9/12 rally), then yea it's a bit more than "getting the word out about what other people were doing." You get your "opinion" guys to make the news so that your "news" guys can just re-iterate what your opinion guys said, but masked as news.
Any reputable news organization would have either not had people on their payroll repeatedly creating events for them to cover, or they would have mainly covered other organization's response (or used it is a starting point) to the activity in order to try and show neutrality in the news room.
I absolutely love the awesome bar, and use it every time I am doing anything.
Instead of remembering the subdomain of some url, I can just type something in the title. It's great and wonderful. Seriously, stop typing "facebook" and then selecting Penny Arcade and it will work better for you:) Or clear its cache and try again.
Seriously, the awesomebar is the biggest browsing improvement that I've seen since tabbed browsing (yes, even bigger than adblock). It is just that useful to me. Sure, there was a bit of a learning curve, as with anything, but once I got the hang of how it works, it has really really improved my browsing experience.
It is good stimulus funding. You say that you can spend it RIGHT NOW to get more equipment time, etc. That provides an immediate economic benefit right now. It's "shovel ready".
More time on the equipment means that the owner pays it off faster, making it cheaper in the future, and making them more likely to invest in new machinery, both increasing the infrastructure in the field and increasing capability, as the newer scopes probably have better features.
I actually had a hard time thinking about a better use of stimulus funding: It can be spent right now, it will be utilized to create more infrastructure/capability in a growing/emerging field, it will increase our knowledge in that field, and have long term implications for the industrial base in that field thus serving as an excellent long-term investment also. Not to mention the new treatments, etc that can be created further stimulating the economy.
Blackberries are awesome about this with the bi-directional communication arrows. When I'm with friends in an area of low reception, they're all walking around randomly trying to call every two yards, and waiting 15 seconds before determining that its not going to work. I walk around until I see an incoming arrow. I freeze and then make a call. Works wonderously.
Well, that's because it is.....Why is that interesting? It's common knowledge, and has been for years. The Soyuz is a freakin' tank, and is about as simple of a system as you could design.
But here's why most people associate higher frequencies with higher bandwidths: typically RF devices scale as percentages.
You're dipole that covers 10% bandwidth at 2.4Ghz is going to cover up to 200MHz of spectrum. You're dipole at 300MHz is only going to cover 30MHz. You can shove more data through 200MHz than you can 30MHz. Now, of course, you have to get that amount allocated, but the lower frequencies are packed, so the FCC typically gives out bigger chunks as you go higher in frequency.
Of course, you can use other antenna types, design you're traces and splitters, etc to cover more bandwidth, etc but it takes more money to build, making all the devices more expensive, and thus you're less likely to take off in the market because all of your equipment is so expensive.
So, yea, as a general public rule, higher frequencies = higher bandwidth, because that's typically how the dice roll for various cost and political reasons, but for us RF guys we want to know the allocated bandwidth, and what type of modulation they're using to cram that data in there!
Yea, I read the article before posting my other comment in this thread.
Thea article mentions waveguide inputs and outputs. I'm not sure what the big deal with that is. It's a traveling wave tube, and typically you have waveguides on the end. Maybe there's something special about their particular setup, but it doesn't seem novel. I understand that lots of TWT's have other interfaces, but I'm pretty sure that I've worked with TWT's in the past that are direct waveguide interfaces.
Then they also made it more light weight and a bit more efficient. That's great, but not ground-breaking. They used some new material, and some more modern components which shrank the size, and made it more efficient. Something that happens in most industries every day.
There are no numbers in the article, so I can't say that their efficiencies aren't "groundbreaking" but I haven't seen this particular piece of technology make waves in any of the standard EE publications, so my initial thought is that it is just technology marching along getting better every day.
Exactly. Why the hell does the summary go into depth on TWT's? They've been around since WWII, and have been extensively forever.
I mean, TWT's were used on the VERY FIRST COMMUNICATION SATELLITE, and they have been used on virtually every single communication satellite since!
Gah! This is like saying that a space-based computer might use what is known as "RAM", and then explaining RAM.
I understand that a lot of/.'ers might not know what a TWT is, but spending the entire summary talking about it makes it seem like something special, when it's not.
The Air Force just finished a program to open source Falcon View, which is about the coolest, most comprehensive mapping/GIS program out there.
The Alpha is still pretty rough, and a lot of the cool aerial refueling/bombing run tools are obviously not in there anymore, but it is a tool utilized widely in all the branches that just came open source. Big accomplishment if you ask me!
Not affiliated. I had utilized it extensively in the past, and was missing having it at my new contractor job....then they open sourced it!
Well, that whole human rated thing, and the fact that SpaceX launched from Kwaj atoll in the Pacific where the storm that's over Florida isn't.
NO ONE launches satellites into known lightning storms, and if there had been a storm over Kwaj they would have scrubbed also. In fact, they did have to wait for rain showers to pass.
They had an informal agreement that benefited all, some one goes and pisses in the pool. Responsible General kicks him out of the pool, and quickly creates new rules that allow everyone to benefit again and share while keeping jack-asses out.
Actually sounds like responsible governing/program management to me...
So maybe that's what you're doing wrong? You have a high degree of urban sprawl and hence you have to drive too much to get your daily routine done?
Either that, or we're just a huge country. I don't drive into work more than a couple of miles (some of my coworkers differ vastly), but I did end up driving nearly 1,000 miles over the weekend this last 4th just because I had to stop in a couple of places (drive to city to pick up person, drive them to a major surgery center, back to their place, then back home), and our cities are just so f-in far apart (SouthWest US).
You don't think that one of the most technically advanced and mind-blowing weapons every created is geeky?
Now this article might not be geek-a-riffic, but the fact remains that nuclear warheads, the science behind them, and all of the crazy software/hardware that goes into them is extremely geeky.
You really think that we can hire a bunch of independent 1099's to build the next F-35 or KC-X tanker?!?
Consider my mind blown. To compete on either of those contract's you have to have a ton of internal corporate knowledge, and have a proven track record. I like your idea for pushing out small projects, but then to jump straight to that therefore meaning that Boeing et al would lose a bunch of contracts is just mind-boggling. Lots of government programs have Small Business set-asides in their contracts that keeps anyone but indepenedent and small companies from building.
But I think that the biggest thing is that the government does need to hire/train more competent, technical program managers. There is no reason why the government can't be the integrators, or the ones driving the bus. Right now it's just the government writing the check with little to no real direction; they can ask, but contractors often don't budge.
OSHA now regulates coal dust, etc. When OSHA tried to regulate amounts of second hand smoke that workers were allowed to be exposed to, they got bitch-slapped into next year.
If second hand smoke is a potential workplace hazard, then why won't the anti-smoking activists let OSHA regulate it as one?!? I'll give ya a hint: It's because they're not worried about the worker's health. They just for whatever reason want everyone to stop. Period. Bar None. This workplace smoke problem is just a means to an end; don't take their arguments at face value.
Without any kind of business expenses, I would be taxed 89% on every dollar I made. eighty. nine. fucking. percent.
I call bullshit. Seriously. I've worked for a number of small companies, and I've never seen any loading or tax liability anywhere near that. What the hell are you doing wrong to get to 89% (my guess? He's calculating it horribly wrong).
Really, I would really like to know, because I would love to rally against it like nobody's business, but I just can't even come close to conjuring up a scenario where 89% is the actual tax liability.
Why should you be required to support the life of someone who openly hates your culture and is trying to get rid of it? Should a Jewish person be required to pay taxes and provide health care for someone who is a member of a Neo-Nazi organization? Should a black man be required to pay health insurance for someone who is a member of the Klan? Should a member of PETA be required to pay health insurance for a hunter of baby seals? You open up quite a can of worms, indeed, when you make health care a public issue.
Yes to all of those! That that is even a question to you makes me want to put you into the self-absorbed douche-bag category.
I don't know about you, but I actually subscribe to the American ideals of letting everyone else do what they want as long as its not illegal. It's not a can of worms; it's an American ideal to be able to do what you want in America and still reap all the benefits of being in America. I actually do support other people's rights and the inherent right in America to not have them infringed by someone else trying weasel out of their civic duty to pay their part for keeping this country great just because they don't like someone.
You are assuming that the health care market here looks anything like a free market anyways....I submit that putting in a government option priced at levels that would make the current market act more like a free market is actually something that could happen.
You have any bright ideas about whom else is going to fix it? Or are you just going to bitch and cherry pick things that the government doesn't do well while sitting on your couch with cheetos acting smug?
Provide something useful to the debate of GTFO. Please, I'm waiting for your suggestions...
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Either that, or they were concerned about the fact that Pakistani radar crews are most likely compromised by Al Qaeda, and are alerting them to our flight paths. Hard to get good intel when they know to go hide.
Best way around that is a stealth plane...
You mean the 800-1300 AD warming period seen in Europe due to changes in the gulf stream/jet stream, which was not warmer anywhere else on Earth?
Yea, god forbid they take into account European data that was warmer for a certain period of time due to known weather phenomenon by adjusting it out since the rest of the world showed no such warming during that same period. Are you saying that you want climate prediction models solely centered around geographically European data? Seems like a bad idea to me.
Eh, it's not so much the no nuclear war with Iran thing as the no nuclear war thing. The Nobel committee has always had a big thing about reducing/removing weapons/arms (ie the reason that Mr. nobel founded the committee).
So, there have been multiple cases of people winning the Nobel Peace Prize for just advocating a nuclear-free world, or removal of some other weapon. The fact that a US President, when he's under fire from most other places walks into office and says "I'd like to eliminate nuclear weapons", and then starts talks with the Russians in order to do so, and unilaterally starts removing spares from our inventory, the committee perked up a bit. I'm not saying that he absolutely deserved it, but rather that he did express beliefs, and act on beliefs that have been a long-standing Nobel committee soft-spot right after taking over the most powerful position in the world.
Seems exactly like what the 50-hot beds of democracy should be doing; backing up a federal decision when they support it.
California is just hedging it's bets against manufacturers lobbying Congress and buying enough of them to get the 2011 regulations pushed back to 2013. They did the same thing with car emissions. They'd sign on to the government plan, but the fed's would always move the goal posts at the last minute. So, California just started creating their own regulations in-line with the federal standards they agree with, and then holding tight to them. Doesn't seem like a big deal to me.
More tempest in a teapot so that certain self-righteous individuals can get all worked about nothing and feel good about themselves.
Even the recent tea party marches don't qualify, as Fox wasn't the organization that started them, they just helped get the word out about what other people were doing (eg, reporting the news).
Uh, when it's the newscasters sponsoring them (aka, Glen Beck's 9/12 rally), then yea it's a bit more than "getting the word out about what other people were doing." You get your "opinion" guys to make the news so that your "news" guys can just re-iterate what your opinion guys said, but masked as news.
Any reputable news organization would have either not had people on their payroll repeatedly creating events for them to cover, or they would have mainly covered other organization's response (or used it is a starting point) to the activity in order to try and show neutrality in the news room.
I absolutely love the awesome bar, and use it every time I am doing anything.
:) Or clear its cache and try again.
Instead of remembering the subdomain of some url, I can just type something in the title. It's great and wonderful. Seriously, stop typing "facebook" and then selecting Penny Arcade and it will work better for you
Seriously, the awesomebar is the biggest browsing improvement that I've seen since tabbed browsing (yes, even bigger than adblock). It is just that useful to me. Sure, there was a bit of a learning curve, as with anything, but once I got the hang of how it works, it has really really improved my browsing experience.
It is good stimulus funding. You say that you can spend it RIGHT NOW to get more equipment time, etc. That provides an immediate economic benefit right now. It's "shovel ready".
More time on the equipment means that the owner pays it off faster, making it cheaper in the future, and making them more likely to invest in new machinery, both increasing the infrastructure in the field and increasing capability, as the newer scopes probably have better features.
I actually had a hard time thinking about a better use of stimulus funding: It can be spent right now, it will be utilized to create more infrastructure/capability in a growing/emerging field, it will increase our knowledge in that field, and have long term implications for the industrial base in that field thus serving as an excellent long-term investment also. Not to mention the new treatments, etc that can be created further stimulating the economy.
Blackberries are awesome about this with the bi-directional communication arrows. When I'm with friends in an area of low reception, they're all walking around randomly trying to call every two yards, and waiting 15 seconds before determining that its not going to work. I walk around until I see an incoming arrow. I freeze and then make a call. Works wonderously.
Well, that's because it is.....Why is that interesting? It's common knowledge, and has been for years. The Soyuz is a freakin' tank, and is about as simple of a system as you could design.
You are correct.
But here's why most people associate higher frequencies with higher bandwidths: typically RF devices scale as percentages.
You're dipole that covers 10% bandwidth at 2.4Ghz is going to cover up to 200MHz of spectrum. You're dipole at 300MHz is only going to cover 30MHz. You can shove more data through 200MHz than you can 30MHz. Now, of course, you have to get that amount allocated, but the lower frequencies are packed, so the FCC typically gives out bigger chunks as you go higher in frequency.
Of course, you can use other antenna types, design you're traces and splitters, etc to cover more bandwidth, etc but it takes more money to build, making all the devices more expensive, and thus you're less likely to take off in the market because all of your equipment is so expensive.
So, yea, as a general public rule, higher frequencies = higher bandwidth, because that's typically how the dice roll for various cost and political reasons, but for us RF guys we want to know the allocated bandwidth, and what type of modulation they're using to cram that data in there!
Yea, I read the article before posting my other comment in this thread.
Thea article mentions waveguide inputs and outputs. I'm not sure what the big deal with that is. It's a traveling wave tube, and typically you have waveguides on the end. Maybe there's something special about their particular setup, but it doesn't seem novel. I understand that lots of TWT's have other interfaces, but I'm pretty sure that I've worked with TWT's in the past that are direct waveguide interfaces.
Then they also made it more light weight and a bit more efficient. That's great, but not ground-breaking. They used some new material, and some more modern components which shrank the size, and made it more efficient. Something that happens in most industries every day.
There are no numbers in the article, so I can't say that their efficiencies aren't "groundbreaking" but I haven't seen this particular piece of technology make waves in any of the standard EE publications, so my initial thought is that it is just technology marching along getting better every day.
Exactly. Why the hell does the summary go into depth on TWT's? They've been around since WWII, and have been extensively forever.
/.'ers might not know what a TWT is, but spending the entire summary talking about it makes it seem like something special, when it's not.
I mean, TWT's were used on the VERY FIRST COMMUNICATION SATELLITE, and they have been used on virtually every single communication satellite since!
Gah! This is like saying that a space-based computer might use what is known as "RAM", and then explaining RAM.
I understand that a lot of
The Air Force just finished a program to open source Falcon View, which is about the coolest, most comprehensive mapping/GIS program out there.
The Alpha is still pretty rough, and a lot of the cool aerial refueling/bombing run tools are obviously not in there anymore, but it is a tool utilized widely in all the branches that just came open source. Big accomplishment if you ask me!
Not affiliated. I had utilized it extensively in the past, and was missing having it at my new contractor job....then they open sourced it!
Well, that whole human rated thing, and the fact that SpaceX launched from Kwaj atoll in the Pacific where the storm that's over Florida isn't.
NO ONE launches satellites into known lightning storms, and if there had been a storm over Kwaj they would have scrubbed also. In fact, they did have to wait for rain showers to pass.
Exactly! Non-story!
They had an informal agreement that benefited all, some one goes and pisses in the pool. Responsible General kicks him out of the pool, and quickly creates new rules that allow everyone to benefit again and share while keeping jack-asses out.
Actually sounds like responsible governing/program management to me...
The fact that it's google? Seems like a pretty big key to me...
So maybe that's what you're doing wrong? You have a high degree of urban sprawl and hence you have to drive too much to get your daily routine done?
Either that, or we're just a huge country. I don't drive into work more than a couple of miles (some of my coworkers differ vastly), but I did end up driving nearly 1,000 miles over the weekend this last 4th just because I had to stop in a couple of places (drive to city to pick up person, drive them to a major surgery center, back to their place, then back home), and our cities are just so f-in far apart (SouthWest US).
You don't think that one of the most technically advanced and mind-blowing weapons every created is geeky?
Now this article might not be geek-a-riffic, but the fact remains that nuclear warheads, the science behind them, and all of the crazy software/hardware that goes into them is extremely geeky.
I don't see that problem here...neither do about a half dozen of my coworkers. Are you sure that your install wasn't boinked in some way?
Because for me at least, it's blazing fast and one tab does not bring the other tabs down like it did sometimes in the past...
You really think that we can hire a bunch of independent 1099's to build the next F-35 or KC-X tanker?!?
Consider my mind blown. To compete on either of those contract's you have to have a ton of internal corporate knowledge, and have a proven track record. I like your idea for pushing out small projects, but then to jump straight to that therefore meaning that Boeing et al would lose a bunch of contracts is just mind-boggling. Lots of government programs have Small Business set-asides in their contracts that keeps anyone but indepenedent and small companies from building.
But I think that the biggest thing is that the government does need to hire/train more competent, technical program managers. There is no reason why the government can't be the integrators, or the ones driving the bus. Right now it's just the government writing the check with little to no real direction; they can ask, but contractors often don't budge.
OSHA now regulates coal dust, etc. When OSHA tried to regulate amounts of second hand smoke that workers were allowed to be exposed to, they got bitch-slapped into next year.
If second hand smoke is a potential workplace hazard, then why won't the anti-smoking activists let OSHA regulate it as one?!? I'll give ya a hint: It's because they're not worried about the worker's health. They just for whatever reason want everyone to stop. Period. Bar None. This workplace smoke problem is just a means to an end; don't take their arguments at face value.
Without any kind of business expenses, I would be taxed 89% on every dollar I made. eighty. nine. fucking. percent.
I call bullshit. Seriously. I've worked for a number of small companies, and I've never seen any loading or tax liability anywhere near that. What the hell are you doing wrong to get to 89% (my guess? He's calculating it horribly wrong).
Really, I would really like to know, because I would love to rally against it like nobody's business, but I just can't even come close to conjuring up a scenario where 89% is the actual tax liability.
Although, you do bring up an interesting point...
Why should you be required to support the life of someone who openly hates your culture and is trying to get rid of it? Should a Jewish person be required to pay taxes and provide health care for someone who is a member of a Neo-Nazi organization? Should a black man be required to pay health insurance for someone who is a member of the Klan? Should a member of PETA be required to pay health insurance for a hunter of baby seals? You open up quite a can of worms, indeed, when you make health care a public issue.
Yes to all of those! That that is even a question to you makes me want to put you into the self-absorbed douche-bag category.
I don't know about you, but I actually subscribe to the American ideals of letting everyone else do what they want as long as its not illegal. It's not a can of worms; it's an American ideal to be able to do what you want in America and still reap all the benefits of being in America. I actually do support other people's rights and the inherent right in America to not have them infringed by someone else trying weasel out of their civic duty to pay their part for keeping this country great just because they don't like someone.
Sheesh!!!
You are assuming that the health care market here looks anything like a free market anyways....I submit that putting in a government option priced at levels that would make the current market act more like a free market is actually something that could happen.
You have any bright ideas about whom else is going to fix it? Or are you just going to bitch and cherry pick things that the government doesn't do well while sitting on your couch with cheetos acting smug?
Provide something useful to the debate of GTFO. Please, I'm waiting for your suggestions...