Would you blow up a plane while you were on it? Or leave the bomb hidden onboard to go off with the next flight. There are a certain class of bombers that will blow themselves up, but most of them will rather watch the results of their work from a distance.
As for clearing security on the far end of the flight, I'l wager each branch of the TSA thinks all the others are lax and will let stuff through. Or something might have been slipped aboard by the ground crew.
The "holes" gain you resolution at the expense of longer exposure time requirements. That's the whole meaning behind long baseline interferometry. True a single solid mirror is the best for resolution and exposure, but gaining resolution by using interferometry is an acceptable compromise in astronomy.
I wouldn't trust an open-source hacker to program my artificial arm. Documentation would be limited to object member descriptions and the damned thing would probably integrate a webcam so it could give Steve Ballmer the finger every time it saw him.
This isn't a rumour, it is a sub-recommendation feeding into the main decision. The recommendation that the physical site and associated costs are better for the South African bid is fact.
I remember someone doing that a few years back, but given the doors are several yards up a 8x8 inch opening, they could see through the first doors, only to see the second set inside. They had a robot to go up the small tunnel, but was too big to get through the doors without breaking them. This robot is designed to get through the doors and navigate beyond if possible.
The only highly-unstable country in Southern Africa is Zimbabwe and that idiot will die one day and hopefully peace will result. Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia and Angola are all peaceful and stable. Above that, there are issues. At least we're not building nukes and toying with the world's trigger-fingers.
Cheaper construction costs due to the site being less remote.
Lower fiber-optic and power grid installation costs for the same reason.
Better government support, SA government is paying some infrastructure costs like the fiber optics and is legally guaranteeing radio-quiet.
Currently better back-haul undersea cables. 5 cables in two geographically redundant sets (west and east coasts) with multi-terabit capacity with 40Gbps lambda capability will be in place.
Innovative telescope and equipment design being done by the South Africans is lowering the per-telescope cost significantly as well.
In most areas of South Africa, I would agree with you, but the Carnarvon site is so remote and inhospitable that it is regarded as one of the most radio-quiet places in the world. That combined with a law passed guaranteeing radio quiet in any designated area, such as the site, was part of the attraction.
Also, the engineers and scientists on our MeerKAT project team have come up with some very interesting technology to keep the farmers connected via cellular phones while keeping the site free from spillage. I get a sense that our chaps are "immature" who like to fiddle and innovate. And without the IP issues that plagues the West at the moment.
I wish them luck and hope the technology is ready before I'm too old to ride the thing.
Forecast for this thread. 56% never gonna happen. 10% certain it will happen. 18% about how impossible it is. and the rest finding a way to blame MS for the failure.
It's a useful starting point. Even if he isn't a terrible parent with felonious kids, there's probably many on Slashdot that are and can benefit from the debate.
And if he isn't, teenagers shouldn't be completely independent until well after 21. Give the kid a car, gas and no rules and he'll wrap it around a pole before too long.
Start phasing the dependency out by all means, but keep a weather eye on them and intervene if they starting doing something stupid like laying rubber out the drive or shooting guns in the air or signing up for Facebook.
Strawman argument. You can copy an artwork, you just can't make a profit from copying if the original is still in copyright without the owners permission.
As many times as we have to tell you that they are being deprived of sales and income. Probably nowhere near 1 to 1, but they are being deprived.
Like it or not, protection of a work is needed to keep the creative process going. 70 years after the death of the artist is too long and corporations should hold no copyright, only real people named as the artist.
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Or South Africa, or Australia, or New Zealand, or India....
Dude, you the chap who made this video? I shake your hand. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs
Yep, runs Office 2000 and 2003 happily from my own usage on a 64bit installation. Same reason as you, hate the damned ribbons.
Possibly to prevent someone from getting to a remote detonator or cell phone to trigger the bomb?
Would you blow up a plane while you were on it? Or leave the bomb hidden onboard to go off with the next flight. There are a certain class of bombers that will blow themselves up, but most of them will rather watch the results of their work from a distance.
As for clearing security on the far end of the flight, I'l wager each branch of the TSA thinks all the others are lax and will let stuff through. Or something might have been slipped aboard by the ground crew.
The "holes" gain you resolution at the expense of longer exposure time requirements. That's the whole meaning behind long baseline interferometry. True a single solid mirror is the best for resolution and exposure, but gaining resolution by using interferometry is an acceptable compromise in astronomy.
I wouldn't trust an open-source hacker to program my artificial arm. Documentation would be limited to object member descriptions and the damned thing would probably integrate a webcam so it could give Steve Ballmer the finger every time it saw him.
Precisely.
Halfway between Tampa and Ocala would put him 20-odd miles from the border with the Gulf?
Chekov says "VOOOOSH"
This isn't a rumour, it is a sub-recommendation feeding into the main decision. The recommendation that the physical site and associated costs are better for the South African bid is fact.
I remember someone doing that a few years back, but given the doors are several yards up a 8x8 inch opening, they could see through the first doors, only to see the second set inside. They had a robot to go up the small tunnel, but was too big to get through the doors without breaking them. This robot is designed to get through the doors and navigate beyond if possible.
The only highly-unstable country in Southern Africa is Zimbabwe and that idiot will die one day and hopefully peace will result. Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia and Angola are all peaceful and stable. Above that, there are issues. At least we're not building nukes and toying with the world's trigger-fingers.
Think that covers it.
In most areas of South Africa, I would agree with you, but the Carnarvon site is so remote and inhospitable that it is regarded as one of the most radio-quiet places in the world. That combined with a law passed guaranteeing radio quiet in any designated area, such as the site, was part of the attraction.
Also, the engineers and scientists on our MeerKAT project team have come up with some very interesting technology to keep the farmers connected via cellular phones while keeping the site free from spillage. I get a sense that our chaps are "immature" who like to fiddle and innovate. And without the IP issues that plagues the West at the moment.
As a South African, I'll reply with -
"Bring it on Warnie-boy"
Such short memories.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/07/215239/fracture-putty-can-heal-a-broken-bone-in-days
I wish them luck and hope the technology is ready before I'm too old to ride the thing.
Forecast for this thread. 56% never gonna happen. 10% certain it will happen. 18% about how impossible it is. and the rest finding a way to blame MS for the failure.
It's a useful starting point. Even if he isn't a terrible parent with felonious kids, there's probably many on Slashdot that are and can benefit from the debate.
And if he isn't, teenagers shouldn't be completely independent until well after 21. Give the kid a car, gas and no rules and he'll wrap it around a pole before too long.
Start phasing the dependency out by all means, but keep a weather eye on them and intervene if they starting doing something stupid like laying rubber out the drive or shooting guns in the air or signing up for Facebook.
But.....but.....They have a hot, successful racing chick as their mascot. *Drools*
No problem with the citation. I heard it on several shuttle documentaries, but the official source is http://history.nasa.gov/spacesuits.pdf.
Their reason is the same you give, a large number of people demands a need for flexibility.
The shuttle era suits were generic and a set was pulled from stock to fit each astronaut prior to the mission.
Strawman argument. You can copy an artwork, you just can't make a profit from copying if the original is still in copyright without the owners permission.
Yes, same as shutting down a suspected drug den until the case is decided.
As many times as we have to tell you that they are being deprived of sales and income. Probably nowhere near 1 to 1, but they are being deprived.
Like it or not, protection of a work is needed to keep the creative process going. 70 years after the death of the artist is too long and corporations should hold no copyright, only real people named as the artist.