This is standard fare at many engineering colleges. And inertial navigation is nothing special... less than $50 worth of hardware and an afternoon of programming can give you a cheap IMU (Inertial Maneuvering Unit).
There were so many duplicates of each they were hardly unique, that's why they went for so cheap. That's also why they were being auctioned, that their profits might preserve the more rare items (and the other lightsabres).
"...Why buy the cow when you can get the sex for free? Or something like that, she was all senile and sh*t" - Jason Mewes, Mallrats. Why pay for Opera when, on a modern system, Firefox or a properly configured IE is just as good?
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IMO everyone has the right to earn their living (even if already rich)
Of course. And he does have that right. He had a damn good job at Microsoft paying damn good money. But he quit that job of his own free will. He had the right to make good money - he shoulda kept his butt where he was at. But instead he took a gamble into working for Google. And so far he's losing. It's a chance you take.
The QC issues they used to (or maybe still do? I wouldn't know, I can't get myself to buy one of their chips) have coupled with their lack of response to it has branded them among people in the know. I think this more than anything is preventing their market penetration.
The premise of observing fluid flow in microgravity with a high speed camera is more than sufficient. Many liquid phenomena - like viscocity - are minor forces that are overwhelmed by gravity. Observing the media in freefall will give us better insights into the true workings of the fluid, workings we can't observe because of gravity.
And you don't know if our knowlege didn't increase. They hadn't released their findings (yet anyways). Those vibrational modes were pretty interesting and didn't seem to damp as quickly as one would think they should. There could be some good use for it. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean there isn't someone who does.
YAGNI may have relevance in the comp sci world but in engineering research it isn't the case. We don't know that we are going to need hypersonic ramjets in the near future, but we do the research anyways because it might prove useful. It might not. It's a risk you take. You have to explore in order to discover.
If the shuttle or space station is not in a perfectly circular orbit, then its potential energy DOES change. Most orbital objects are not in circular orbits.
The technical word for this type of experiment is microgravity research. The same term is used on the shuttle/space station. Space station and shuttle are better for the sole reason that they don't have as many vibrational modes. (although with people aboard the shuttle/station it isn't much better... experiments that need true zero-g conditions are often jettisoned from station and allowed to float along side the station while the experiment proceeds).
The biggest thing is, the good Dr. quit. That is pretty much an automatic victory for Microsoft. Had he been let go or fired, the non-compete would be difficult to enforce.
And to the person who said it should be between the employee and Microsoft - Yes, it should be. HOWEVER, Google had the ill wisdom to go ahead and issue a press release, and then go ahead and that Microsoft's case was "Unfounded" and that they would defend their employee. They shouldn't have announced his employment, and they shouldn't have weighed in on the situation. They were also privy to the fact that he had a non-compete.
Um. Have you ever signed a non-compete? Know anyone who has? I work in the defense sector and they are taken very seriously. Judges DO uphold them. People DO get in trouble over them.
Unless you were laid off or fired, in which case they are difficult to enforce, or you worked for a company in a state where non-compete is illegal.
It becomes google's problems when they make public statements like "Microsoft's claims are unfounfed." When they weigh in on the situation, and reveal they had prior knowlege of his non-compete, they become party to it.
2 of three (duration, scope) isn't bad. And considering the media (the internet) geographic area isn't as relevant. Not to mention he was hired by Google in California, and hasn't moved to China yet. The office isn't opening for a few more months. Microsoft has the upper ground at the moment.
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Dr. Lee had signed a Non Disclosure / Non Compete form in Washington. He helped Microsoft open an office in China and supposedly has knowlege of search technologies at Microsoft.
Dr. Lee is now opening a office for Google in China. Google happens to be a big player in the search world.
That violates a non-compete agreement which is binding in the state in which it was signed. It will also be difficult for him to operate in his current job without violating his non-disclosure.
The poster looks cool and all, but from a good look at it I'm not sure it preserves all the relationships you learned back in Chem 101. Remember... things like electronegativity? [on a periodic table, as you go up and right things get more electronegative] There is a general trend across the periodic table as we know it; by looking at the table you can observe that flourine is more electronegative than nitrogen, and so on. And s, p, d, f shells are logically laid out. It doesn't seem like a circular chart would be as intuitive.
It is called being a service provider. Google manages the clientele and the advertisers, writes the software to figure out which ads are relevant where, and implements it. That's what the money is for. If we all had to do it on our own, it would be very difficult to find advertisers. But google, being a big company, has an easier time finding big advertisers than Joe on the street.
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Wow. Someone on/. admitting they used IE.
(might wanna run... think I see some geeks with pitchforks and torches)
Looked fine in Firefox to me; had some interesting information on his site to boot.
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The closer you are to the equator, the more velocity you get from the earth's spin. It's a function of your latitude, namely
delta-V-earth = velocity-at-equator*cos(latitude);
delta-V-earth is the amount of velocity the earth contributes to your launch. Also, a word about orbit inclinations. From a launch site like Kennedy which is 28-ish degrees, you can hit any orbital inclination from 28-180 degrees [90 degrees is polar, or heading straight up to the north pole: anything beyond 90 is retrograde, or orbiting opposite the rotation of the earth]. If you wanted to hit say 25 degrees you would have to make an inclination change in orbit which is VERY fuel inefficient.
So operating from as low an inclination as possible gives you the biggest energy boost you can get from the earth, and the widest range of orbital inclinations.
Slackware is simple, stable and functional. If you are happy with slackware I would stick with it. I definitely wouldn't go from Slackware to Gentoo. I tried Gentoo once on recommendation from a friend, it just didn't feel right. The simplicity of Slack has always meant more to me than the graphical installers or package management tools of the other distros.
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The only blame I cast was blocking *all* ports one night without warning. But then again it wasnt just me: the head of housing, SGA, even the president of the university condemned it as being bad.
I was on both sides of the fence, as both a student living on campus and a student employee on campus who relied on reliable internet to get his work done (I'm now graduated, but still work for UAH - I still rely on it). I think the ultimate solution is for the housing departments to run their own internet. All I am trying to suggest is that Dell might run into some problems pushing this solution, given the current state of many univerisities.
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They could easily make it work by rolling it into the semester's fees. Most colleges have a semester "Lab Fee" to cover comptuer labs on campus. Adding a few bucks to the lab fee wouldn't be that noticeable (they add a few bucks every year anyways, it seems). And then it would be "free" per see.
And when you complain that it's "not really free" you have to realise there is so much crap you pay for as a college student that you probably don't even use it's not even funny... the fitness center, the library, the student newspaper, all the events student government sponsors, the free condoms, any event that is subsidized (concerts, etc), comes out of your tuition. Like it or not. Adding a few bucks a month is nothing in comparison.
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This is standard fare at many engineering colleges. And inertial navigation is nothing special... less than $50 worth of hardware and an afternoon of programming can give you a cheap IMU (Inertial Maneuvering Unit).
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...being someone in the loop, I can tell you with 100% confidence that as of 10:45AM this morning they still weren't sure that a EVA was necessary.
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There were so many duplicates of each they were hardly unique, that's why they went for so cheap. That's also why they were being auctioned, that their profits might preserve the more rare items (and the other lightsabres).
-everphilski-
"...Why buy the cow when you can get the sex for free? Or something like that, she was all senile and sh*t" - Jason Mewes, Mallrats. Why pay for Opera when, on a modern system, Firefox or a properly configured IE is just as good?
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Job and his daughters are not mentioned in Genesis, RTFM.
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IMO everyone has the right to earn their living (even if already rich)
Of course. And he does have that right. He had a damn good job at Microsoft paying damn good money. But he quit that job of his own free will. He had the right to make good money - he shoulda kept his butt where he was at. But instead he took a gamble into working for Google. And so far he's losing. It's a chance you take.
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Mod parent up.
The QC issues they used to (or maybe still do? I wouldn't know, I can't get myself to buy one of their chips) have coupled with their lack of response to it has branded them among people in the know. I think this more than anything is preventing their market penetration.
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RealPlayer crapped out on me just as the shuttle cleared the tower... and I couldn't get the stream up again until just after SRM seperation. Damnit!
(I started with the Yahoo viewer but it crapped out on me multiple times during the countdown...)
I envy my wife... she's at home watching it on NasaTV (on Cable)
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They still haven't circularized the orbit yet: if they don't circularize they are ballistic (IE: they come down. hard.)
-everphilski-
The premise of observing fluid flow in microgravity with a high speed camera is more than sufficient. Many liquid phenomena - like viscocity - are minor forces that are overwhelmed by gravity. Observing the media in freefall will give us better insights into the true workings of the fluid, workings we can't observe because of gravity.
And you don't know if our knowlege didn't increase. They hadn't released their findings (yet anyways). Those vibrational modes were pretty interesting and didn't seem to damp as quickly as one would think they should. There could be some good use for it. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean there isn't someone who does.
YAGNI may have relevance in the comp sci world but in engineering research it isn't the case. We don't know that we are going to need hypersonic ramjets in the near future, but we do the research anyways because it might prove useful. It might not. It's a risk you take. You have to explore in order to discover.
-everphilski-
If the shuttle or space station is not in a perfectly circular orbit, then its potential energy DOES change. Most orbital objects are not in circular orbits.
The technical word for this type of experiment is microgravity research. The same term is used on the shuttle/space station. Space station and shuttle are better for the sole reason that they don't have as many vibrational modes. (although with people aboard the shuttle/station it isn't much better... experiments that need true zero-g conditions are often jettisoned from station and allowed to float along side the station while the experiment proceeds).
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Yup.
The biggest thing is, the good Dr. quit. That is pretty much an automatic victory for Microsoft. Had he been let go or fired, the non-compete would be difficult to enforce.
And to the person who said it should be between the employee and Microsoft - Yes, it should be. HOWEVER, Google had the ill wisdom to go ahead and issue a press release, and then go ahead and that Microsoft's case was "Unfounded" and that they would defend their employee. They shouldn't have announced his employment, and they shouldn't have weighed in on the situation. They were also privy to the fact that he had a non-compete.
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Um. Have you ever signed a non-compete? Know anyone who has? I work in the defense sector and they are taken very seriously. Judges DO uphold them. People DO get in trouble over them.
Unless you were laid off or fired, in which case they are difficult to enforce, or you worked for a company in a state where non-compete is illegal.
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It becomes google's problems when they make public statements like "Microsoft's claims are unfounfed." When they weigh in on the situation, and reveal they had prior knowlege of his non-compete, they become party to it.
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2 of three (duration, scope) isn't bad. And considering the media (the internet) geographic area isn't as relevant. Not to mention he was hired by Google in California, and hasn't moved to China yet. The office isn't opening for a few more months. Microsoft has the upper ground at the moment.
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Dr. Lee had signed a Non Disclosure / Non Compete form in Washington. He helped Microsoft open an office in China and supposedly has knowlege of search technologies at Microsoft.
Dr. Lee is now opening a office for Google in China. Google happens to be a big player in the search world.
That violates a non-compete agreement which is binding in the state in which it was signed. It will also be difficult for him to operate in his current job without violating his non-disclosure.
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That bounty is for the Nintendo DS.
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The poster looks cool and all, but from a good look at it I'm not sure it preserves all the relationships you learned back in Chem 101. Remember... things like electronegativity? [on a periodic table, as you go up and right things get more electronegative] There is a general trend across the periodic table as we know it; by looking at the table you can observe that flourine is more electronegative than nitrogen, and so on. And s, p, d, f shells are logically laid out. It doesn't seem like a circular chart would be as intuitive.
-everphilski-
It is called being a service provider. Google manages the clientele and the advertisers, writes the software to figure out which ads are relevant where, and implements it. That's what the money is for. If we all had to do it on our own, it would be very difficult to find advertisers. But google, being a big company, has an easier time finding big advertisers than Joe on the street.
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Wow. Someone on /. admitting they used IE.
(might wanna run... think I see some geeks with pitchforks and torches)
Looked fine in Firefox to me; had some interesting information on his site to boot.
-everphilski-
The closer you are to the equator, the more velocity you get from the earth's spin. It's a function of your latitude, namely
delta-V-earth = velocity-at-equator*cos(latitude); delta-V-earth is the amount of velocity the earth contributes to your launch. Also, a word about orbit inclinations. From a launch site like Kennedy which is 28-ish degrees, you can hit any orbital inclination from 28-180 degrees [90 degrees is polar, or heading straight up to the north pole: anything beyond 90 is retrograde, or orbiting opposite the rotation of the earth]. If you wanted to hit say 25 degrees you would have to make an inclination change in orbit which is VERY fuel inefficient.
So operating from as low an inclination as possible gives you the biggest energy boost you can get from the earth, and the widest range of orbital inclinations.
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Slackware is simple, stable and functional. If you are happy with slackware I would stick with it. I definitely wouldn't go from Slackware to Gentoo. I tried Gentoo once on recommendation from a friend, it just didn't feel right. The simplicity of Slack has always meant more to me than the graphical installers or package management tools of the other distros.
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... dont take my mod:funny away from me, I earned it dammit! :)
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The only blame I cast was blocking *all* ports one night without warning. But then again it wasnt just me: the head of housing, SGA, even the president of the university condemned it as being bad.
I was on both sides of the fence, as both a student living on campus and a student employee on campus who relied on reliable internet to get his work done (I'm now graduated, but still work for UAH - I still rely on it). I think the ultimate solution is for the housing departments to run their own internet. All I am trying to suggest is that Dell might run into some problems pushing this solution, given the current state of many univerisities.
-everphilski-
They could easily make it work by rolling it into the semester's fees. Most colleges have a semester "Lab Fee" to cover comptuer labs on campus. Adding a few bucks to the lab fee wouldn't be that noticeable (they add a few bucks every year anyways, it seems). And then it would be "free" per see.
And when you complain that it's "not really free" you have to realise there is so much crap you pay for as a college student that you probably don't even use it's not even funny... the fitness center, the library, the student newspaper, all the events student government sponsors, the free condoms, any event that is subsidized (concerts, etc), comes out of your tuition. Like it or not. Adding a few bucks a month is nothing in comparison.
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