It's funny that John Carmack stated pretty much the exact opposite about ease of use and expense to develop with.
It was around DX5ish, and he has since recanted. They look forward to using DirectX, which has matured and makes cross-development with the XBOX much, much easier.
... then compartmentalize the print heads into, say, half-inch spans. When the streaks start coming, replace the appropriate head. I'm sure they have thought this through...
So what do they do? Shut down the people who dream up advanced concepts!
Not exactly. They feed $500M to SpaceX and Kistler to develop real-working rockets that can deliver to ISS. And yes, the money is contingent on success. Invoking private industry to develop the next generation of vehicles is the way to go.
It's sad enough that they are going to try and go back to the Moon using souped-up Apollo-era technology, which I predict is a prescription for disaster
As an aerospace engineer, I'm glad they are reverting to the apollo 'stack' concept. It is safer than the shuttle, in theory, and let's face it - the shuttle never reached its full potential as a 'space truck': dropping off and retrieving satellites. It only really efficiently used the payload bay during the construction (and continued construction) of ISS. All those missions where they just brought along a few pallets of experiments - think of all the wasted mass that was accelerated to orbit. The new system will compartmentalize equiptment from people, allowing for better scaling and efficiency. And better failure modes, using existing hardware with a proven track record (and failure modes that have been documented and corrected).
My 1997 saturn gets in excess of 30 mpg when doing short distance driving, and damn near 40 on the interstate (which I do a lot... my family lives nearly 1000 miles away). So you don't need a new car to get that kind of efficiency. I've had it for years now...
Very few people did. And hardly any of the gold-diggers did. Do you know who really made out? The guys selling shovels/picks and food to the guys digging for gold. They made out and became rich.
She says that we get hailstorms like that every year or so, and it's happened enough times before. A friend who still works at KSC, as a tech, verifies this.
Not to the same order of magnitude, however. There are more than dings in the foam, there are actual cracks in the foam. Which is a much bigger problem in high-speed high-temperature flow.
Then, of course, the GOP has *never* liked the space program
Do what now? GW Bush asked for a bigger budget next year than NASA proposed, guess who shot it down? (Confirmation: here:
WASHINGTON - The White House's $17.3 billion request for NASA in 2008 demonstrates U.S. President George W. Bush's commitment to replacing the space shuttle by 2014, but might not be enough to offset the impact of a lower-than-expected budget for this year, agency officials said.
"This increase demonstrates the President's commitment to NASA and to maintaining our nation's leadership in space and aeronautics research," NASA chief Michael Griffin said in a Monday briefing.
The request, which would give the space agency a raise of roughly $1 billion over this year's likely budget, keeps science and aeronautics spending relatively flat, but does include funds to begin purchasing a new series of data-relay spacecraft.
The annual budget request tracks very closely with the spending plan the White House sent to Congress this time last year, which sought 3 percent increases for NASA in both 2007 and 2008. However, NASA is unlikely to get a raise this year due to a plan by the Democratic-led Congress to fund most U.S. domestic federal agencies at their 2006 levels.
Who was it that came up with Star Wars? Reagan.
Plenty more examples, the GOP likes space access.
Don't believe that? Then why are we still flying Shuttles whose *intended* lifespan was 20 years, and we have *nothing* new even in test?
The new test article is the Ares, which is due to complete its first test flight in April 2009. The second launch will commence six months later. The launchpad at KSC (39B) is being handed over to the Ares team at the end of this month for modifications.
And the shuttles were never rated for a useful lifetime in years - they are rated in number of flights. Namely, 100.
Ever seen a (dell/HP/Compaq/etc) straight out of the box? There are like 50 programs installed... each vendor pays the computer manufacturer to put these things on their PC's. So the cost of windows gets paid for, mostly or even in excess, by these vendors.
Problem with Linux being, the computer manufacturer doesn't get any of these kickbacks or a % of the purchase price from a trial installation... less profit, gotta charge more for the box.
...to oppose the inheritance/estate tax. Anyone who has a halfway decent job and saved money rather than spent money will most likely have to file. Remember, it isn't just cash holdings that go towards your estate, but property as well.
(There are a lot of financial advisors that will help to help you manage your estate so that you are below the legal limit before Uncle Sam comes in, by donating money to worthy causes you supported in life, etc.)
Well, up to a month ago I know for a fact WoW still had queues on the big servers - my wife sold her account, she wouldn't have it anymore. And it wasn't just queues and temporary problems that WoW had (I played for the first 2 months of WoW's existance...) they didn't have battlegrounds from day 1, or honor, or many of the instances that were supposed to come out of the box. My friends and I, being the relatively hardcore gamers that we are, hit 60 and had nothing to do. They stuck around and rolled more characters, I sold out for a tidy profit. There was nothing to do. They were supposed to have this content ready at launch. And don't forget about the nerfs and class unbalances that should have been fixed in beta (yes, I was in both betas too)
Having played all three, and the original Everquest for most of the eight years of its existance (I've been flaky the past couple... I'm now a married man with children) I will say that Vanguard has potential that none of these games have. It beats EQ2 (a lot of reviewers call Vanguard "EQ3"). Comparing it to WoW is a joke. Social interaction is much improved over any MMO I've ever played. Diplomacy is a great and interesting feature that is a game within itself. The crafting of homes and massive ships is beyond what most MMO's have promised, much less delivered.
Only reason I'm not playing it is I'm expecing my second son in a few weeks. I played the beta and enjoyed it thoroughly. I've let my other subscriptions lapse. When I have time again, I'll definitely pick up a copy.
There are a few reasons a $1.52 billion ruling might not scare investors away from a $287 billion company. Microsoft generates so much cash that in 2004 the company paid a $32 billion dividend. Analysts said $1.52 billion represents about six weeks of Microsoft's cash flow.
Goldman Sachs analyst Rick G. Sherlund wrote in a client note the damages are "not particularly meaningful" for Microsoft. Even if Microsoft pays the full amount, Sherlund said $1.52 billion equates to about 15 cents of Microsoft's stock.
And it's not clear whether Microsoft will have to pay the full amount, at least this year. Patent-infringement cases "typically go through prolonged appeal processes," said Bear Stearns analyst John DiFucci in a research report.
Deleting a character is a voluntary action, generally with a warning box.
In Diablo II, if you played hardcore, you died when your health reached zero - which could be because you f'd up, or because someone was hacking in a game you were in, or because of lag, or any number of reasons. Yes, you chose to play hardcore, but you died as a response of the game mechanics not because of an out-of-game action.
You validated my post. Most, not all, use CCSDS. And while you can do IP over CCSDS (or at least they have a redbook describing it) it hasn't been done, so far as I can tell. And layering a protocol within a protocol isn't the best solution out there, IMO, you might as well do it right and come up with an IP for space.
This would be a protocol that would bind in with TCP/IP. Former space missions used protocols invented by the companies that built the hardware, not necessarily a common framework. This should change all that...
I mean, how did we who are a generation older figure it out? My library didn't have internet... we snuck into the adult section and looked at anatomy/sex books before the girls let us into their pants.
Drag is proportional to the square of velocity and surface area. Greater surface area ( very large solar arrays ) , more drag. Versus small hunks of metal just cruising around with a very small frontal area relative to the same velocity.
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It's funny that John Carmack stated pretty much the exact opposite about ease of use and expense to develop with.
It was around DX5ish, and he has since recanted. They look forward to using DirectX, which has matured and makes cross-development with the XBOX much, much easier.
... then compartmentalize the print heads into, say, half-inch spans. When the streaks start coming, replace the appropriate head. I'm sure they have thought this through...
So what do they do? Shut down the people who dream up advanced concepts!
Not exactly. They feed $500M to SpaceX and Kistler to develop real-working rockets that can deliver to ISS. And yes, the money is contingent on success. Invoking private industry to develop the next generation of vehicles is the way to go.
It's sad enough that they are going to try and go back to the Moon using souped-up Apollo-era technology, which I predict is a prescription for disaster
As an aerospace engineer, I'm glad they are reverting to the apollo 'stack' concept. It is safer than the shuttle, in theory, and let's face it - the shuttle never reached its full potential as a 'space truck': dropping off and retrieving satellites. It only really efficiently used the payload bay during the construction (and continued construction) of ISS. All those missions where they just brought along a few pallets of experiments - think of all the wasted mass that was accelerated to orbit. The new system will compartmentalize equiptment from people, allowing for better scaling and efficiency. And better failure modes, using existing hardware with a proven track record (and failure modes that have been documented and corrected).
My 1997 saturn gets in excess of 30 mpg when doing short distance driving, and damn near 40 on the interstate (which I do a lot ... my family lives nearly 1000 miles away). So you don't need a new car to get that kind of efficiency. I've had it for years now ...
People made a lot of money in the gold rush.
Very few people did. And hardly any of the gold-diggers did. Do you know who really made out? The guys selling shovels/picks and food to the guys digging for gold. They made out and became rich.
She says that we get hailstorms like that every year or so, and it's happened enough times before. A friend who still works at KSC, as a tech, verifies this.
Not to the same order of magnitude, however. There are more than dings in the foam, there are actual cracks in the foam. Which is a much bigger problem in high-speed high-temperature flow.
Then, of course, the GOP has *never* liked the space program
Do what now? GW Bush asked for a bigger budget next year than NASA proposed, guess who shot it down? (Confirmation: here:
WASHINGTON - The White House's $17.3 billion request for NASA in 2008 demonstrates U.S. President George W. Bush's commitment to replacing the space shuttle by 2014, but might not be enough to offset the impact of a lower-than-expected budget for this year, agency officials said.
"This increase demonstrates the President's commitment to NASA and to maintaining our nation's leadership in space and aeronautics research," NASA chief Michael Griffin said in a Monday briefing.
The request, which would give the space agency a raise of roughly $1 billion over this year's likely budget, keeps science and aeronautics spending relatively flat, but does include funds to begin purchasing a new series of data-relay spacecraft.
The annual budget request tracks very closely with the spending plan the White House sent to Congress this time last year, which sought 3 percent increases for NASA in both 2007 and 2008. However, NASA is unlikely to get a raise this year due to a plan by the Democratic-led Congress to fund most U.S. domestic federal agencies at their 2006 levels.
Who was it that came up with Star Wars? Reagan.
Plenty more examples, the GOP likes space access.
Don't believe that? Then why are we still flying Shuttles whose *intended* lifespan was 20 years, and we have *nothing* new even in test?
The new test article is the Ares, which is due to complete its first test flight in April 2009. The second launch will commence six months later. The launchpad at KSC (39B) is being handed over to the Ares team at the end of this month for modifications.
And the shuttles were never rated for a useful lifetime in years - they are rated in number of flights. Namely, 100.
Dropping SRB's over inhabited land, however, would be.
Funny - my computer is in my house, behind locks and blinds too.
But your search queries leave the house, unencrypted, with no guarantee of protection and travel to Google. That's where the analogy has fault.
it's all about the advertising. Google's knowlege of you lets them advertise to you more effectively.
Ever seen a (dell/HP/Compaq/etc) straight out of the box? There are like 50 programs installed ... each vendor pays the computer manufacturer to put these things on their PC's. So the cost of windows gets paid for, mostly or even in excess, by these vendors.
Problem with Linux being, the computer manufacturer doesn't get any of these kickbacks or a % of the purchase price from a trial installation... less profit, gotta charge more for the box.
No, that was JPL... california.
...to oppose the inheritance/estate tax. Anyone who has a halfway decent job and saved money rather than spent money will most likely have to file. Remember, it isn't just cash holdings that go towards your estate, but property as well.
(There are a lot of financial advisors that will help to help you manage your estate so that you are below the legal limit before Uncle Sam comes in, by donating money to worthy causes you supported in life, etc.)
Well, up to a month ago I know for a fact WoW still had queues on the big servers - my wife sold her account, she wouldn't have it anymore. And it wasn't just queues and temporary problems that WoW had (I played for the first 2 months of WoW's existance...) they didn't have battlegrounds from day 1, or honor, or many of the instances that were supposed to come out of the box. My friends and I, being the relatively hardcore gamers that we are, hit 60 and had nothing to do. They stuck around and rolled more characters, I sold out for a tidy profit. There was nothing to do. They were supposed to have this content ready at launch. And don't forget about the nerfs and class unbalances that should have been fixed in beta (yes, I was in both betas too)
WoW, GW, or even EQII
Having played all three, and the original Everquest for most of the eight years of its existance (I've been flaky the past couple... I'm now a married man with children) I will say that Vanguard has potential that none of these games have. It beats EQ2 (a lot of reviewers call Vanguard "EQ3"). Comparing it to WoW is a joke. Social interaction is much improved over any MMO I've ever played. Diplomacy is a great and interesting feature that is a game within itself. The crafting of homes and massive ships is beyond what most MMO's have promised, much less delivered.
Only reason I'm not playing it is I'm expecing my second son in a few weeks. I played the beta and enjoyed it thoroughly. I've let my other subscriptions lapse. When I have time again, I'll definitely pick up a copy.
From BusinessWeek:
There are a few reasons a $1.52 billion ruling might not scare investors away from a $287 billion company. Microsoft generates so much cash that in 2004 the company paid a $32 billion dividend. Analysts said $1.52 billion represents about six weeks of Microsoft's cash flow.
Goldman Sachs analyst Rick G. Sherlund wrote in a client note the damages are "not particularly meaningful" for Microsoft. Even if Microsoft pays the full amount, Sherlund said $1.52 billion equates to about 15 cents of Microsoft's stock.
And it's not clear whether Microsoft will have to pay the full amount, at least this year. Patent-infringement cases "typically go through prolonged appeal processes," said Bear Stearns analyst John DiFucci in a research report.
Deleting a character is a voluntary action, generally with a warning box.
In Diablo II, if you played hardcore, you died when your health reached zero - which could be because you f'd up, or because someone was hacking in a game you were in, or because of lag, or any number of reasons. Yes, you chose to play hardcore, but you died as a response of the game mechanics not because of an out-of-game action.
You validated my post. Most, not all, use CCSDS. And while you can do IP over CCSDS (or at least they have a redbook describing it) it hasn't been done, so far as I can tell. And layering a protocol within a protocol isn't the best solution out there, IMO, you might as well do it right and come up with an IP for space.
This would be a protocol that would bind in with TCP/IP. Former space missions used protocols invented by the companies that built the hardware, not necessarily a common framework. This should change all that...
VB 8.0 is VB.NET ... unless RealBasic has a .NET stack built into it (which Mono does) it won't cut it.
He was the feature in Fast Company a few issues ago. It was a really good read.
here it is although there are a lot of pictures and sidebars that are missing from the original print article.
"Faith without works is dead" - James 2:20
Zero'th is the place to be :)
I mean, how did we who are a generation older figure it out? My library didn't have internet... we snuck into the adult section and looked at anatomy/sex books before the girls let us into their pants.
It also neglects performance bonuses / other payouts that arent directly on the paycheck, which may very well put that median up to $100,000.
Drag is proportional to the square of velocity and surface area. Greater surface area ( very large solar arrays ) , more drag. Versus small hunks of metal just cruising around with a very small frontal area relative to the same velocity.