You sir, and please pardon my language, are a dumbshit, and no, this is not a troll.
The post you reference to was not an insult, and none of the people expressing surprise that the arm worked flawlessly were not insulting Canada. If you had bothered to do any research, you would have noticed that the ISS Canadarm2 has been PLAGUED with problems over the last month, and any surprise about it performing well is NOT based in some sort of anti-canadian rhetoric, but instead actual surprise that none of the so-called 'showstopping problems' ever reared their ugly heads during an exteremely complicated assembly sequence.
Traditionally, a person objecting to an insult is supposed to at least RECOGNIZE whether or not an insult was actually given.
It seems that some of the points he makes could be applied towards programming as well. Lego is about putting components together using common interfaces, the Visual Basic way. Erector set is more about making those interfaces in the first place, the assembly way.
Have we reached a point in software development where instead of innovating genuinely new software, we just put together libraries other people have written and consider ourselves 'building on the shoulder of giants'?
Workers, throw down your common libaries, your DLLs, your open source! Innovate the way it was meant to happen, in PUTs and POPs! As your key to the revolution, please see the included copy of MASM. May the cpu tick be with you.
Don't confused concrete and cement. Concrete is a simple name for composite construction. A concrete highway is often made up of a composite of steel rebar, cement, gravel, etc.
Cement, on the other hand, is a specific name for a substance, often alumina, silica, lime, iron oxide, and magnesium oxide. Cement is often used in the construction of concrete as part of the composite.
Composite structures != carbon fiber/kevlar/etc exclusively. Composites have been used for hundreds of years to make lightweight, strong things. This is merely the latest example of exactly that.
You are correct, I misread his original post. The only thing I will stick to is my assertion that he was mistaken about suggesting solid fueled rockets are more efficient, but you (and he) is indeed correct about the density/thrust ratio.
..and yes, manned flight should at best be supplemented by SRBs (like the ullage rockets on the Saturn V), not commanded by them (like the SRBs on the shuttle).
Santa Monica, CA (PP)- MGM executives have unveiled a new ally in James Bond's fight against evil, Scruffy the Wonder Gerbil.
Scruffy, a new jersey spotted gerbil, will lead an effort to stop a band of terrorists from downing airliners. In a remarkable new cross-company marketing scheme, MGM officials have announced that Scruffy will be deployed using the patented Outpost.com Gerbil Cannon.
"Scruffy the Wonder Gerbil will join other crime fighting rodents of the silver screen," announced MGM CEO Michael Bootiepants. "Mighty Mouse, Stuart Little and, of course, those rascally critters from Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers."
Scruffy was unavailable for comment, he was training for the role in a new state of the art excercise wheel made entirely out of titanium.
You are absolutely incorrect. Most liquid fueled rockets have a much higher ISP then their solid equivalents. The SRBs on the shuttle have an ISP of 260 something, if I recall correctly, while the SSMEs onboard the shuttle (liquid) have an ISP of over 400.
ISP is, basically, a measure of how much a pound of propellent goes towards propelling something.
The SRBs are cheap heavy thrust rockets, but nowhere near as efficient as liquid fuel.
Well, the super magical telepathy identifier software for them identify you with is broken this week.
How, exactly, would you expect a credit bureau to figure out WHO was opting out if they didn't get your SS#? It is the primary key identifier in each of their databases.
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This is exciting stuff - producing miniature supernovae in a lab
That sounds like a pretty accurate description of what posting that article on Slashdot is doing in discover.com's server room...
While this is fascinating sounding technology, it sounds more like a solution in search of a problem. There are already software solutions for emulation (SoftPC, VMWare, etc). There are already cross platform language solutions (Java, etc) and so on. Despite this, the market for massively cross platform applications has not really developed. It isn't as if a 25% performance increase is whats holding back the 'rennaissance' the author speaks of.
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So... could I get 6 times the speed using the 5.1 channels in via SPDIF that my SBLive supports?
Better yet, hook up a line to one of the inputs on my stereo. Leave it on as white noise and figure out when the best time to download porn is by how quiet the other traffic is.
He didn't say it was boring. Too bad you couldn't be bothered to read the article.
His comments are that people aren't doing the research that Dan Goldin promised they would be doing. The reason? Because NASA has decided to cut funding to the CRV that would allow 7 people (enough to do science) to live on the station.
It's sad that there are so many people who believe this line NASA fed them. Dan Goldin threw tantrums about Tito and decided to sour the whole thing as much as possible when it became clear the Russians wouldn't let him dictate terms. Tito spent the whole time in the Russian segment of the station. He had two shepherd with him (the crew that launched him). The only alternative suggestion is that NASA is so incompetent it thinks that it needs 5 people to watch one person.
Three humans in a tin can in orbit is NOT the route to great science. Dan Goldin chose not to grow a backbone and demand something better then what we have now. As NASA administrator, it was his responsibillity to say 'look, if we are going to do this station, we need to do it right.' Instead, he let every budget cut come without any struggle. In fact, he actually THANKED congress for some of the budget cuts, suggesting that they would make NASA stronger.
Working backwards chronologically, these are some of the big mistakes made:
1. Goldin's public tantrums about Tito. He needs to do anything he can to attract US public support for space, even if it means whoring himself to celebrity. He's not a congressman who can operate on principle, he has a job: make space work.
2. The recent cancellation (oh, they say it's just on hold, but it's cancelled) of the X-38 derived CRV. Without this, there can never be more then 3 permanent crew on the station. WITH it, the crew increases to 7. 3 crew is just about what it takes to maintain the station. If there were 7, you could maintain the station AND do science.
3. Deleting the free-flying science module. You cannot do precision zero-g experiments on a rattling station that has to support a group of breathing, moving astro/cosmo-nauts. You need to be able to deploy a science platform and retrieve it as needed.
4. Not using the Russians enough. No matter how often clueless people rant about how inept the Russians are, the numbers are clear: They have cheaper, more reliable boosters with faster turn around times. We need to utilize this to its fullest, and if that means using some hard cash once in a while, so be it. Our relations are hamstrung by the need to 'barter' for everything.
5. The failure to push for developing our own heavy lift infrastructure. Cancelling the OMV and the Shuttle-C removed our ability to fly a true world class station.
These are not the sort of things that are only visible in 20/20 hindsight. This is all well known in the space community, and NASA leadership has shown an extraordinary skill for disregarding the obviously correct path at times.
It was absolutely NOT research. NASA has a program where all current and previous astronauts that have flown get a regular checkup (every few years) to monitor the later effects in life of space travel.
John Glenn is one of the only astronauts who refuses to participate in this program. There is no good data for any researchers to use because unlike the rest of the aging astronauts (including positively ancient Story Musgrave), there are no data points between 1961 and 1997 on Glenn.
Anyone who thinks that Glenn was doing anything other then collecting on a presidential political favor is delusional and does not understand the true story behind his return to space.
Hi slashdot! My boss has asked me to write an extension to our defect tracking system in Perl. Please e-mail me the code for this before 5 PM pst so I can make it home in time to catch The Simpsons.
Please, no confusing external libraries other than CGI.pm or Win32 ODBC. Oh, I heard that printf is gay, so please don't use them.
Does anyone else find it strange that the pictures of the 700c are all doctored to look better? It's obvious that all the photos of the color Clie have been modified to show it as having the same type of vivid colors and brightness that the Visor Prism and Palm IIIc have, but that's just not accurate.
Check it for yourself:
http://www.sonystyle.com/vaio/clie/
The 700c uses the same type of passive color display technology that the color gameboy uses. It's not active matrix, it's not self illuminating, it's very different from what they show on the website.
When you have an advertisement, simulated pictures are almost expected. But on the Sony website, they have a whole gallery where you can check out the 700c from each angle, and each one has the same type of manipulated photo.
HavenCo claims that they're perfect for this stuff because they're in Sealand, but despite legios on Cryptnomicon fans slavering at the potential of this data haven, the simple fact of the matter is that HavenCo simply does not have enough bandwidth.
The articles are about thwarting media companies. By virtue of the nature of the media, you must have thick, fat pipes to run your data through, and HavenCo simply cannot do this with their current or prospective future systems.
Their only economical way to become a player would be to load up on satellite transmitters, and even that could be ambushed by mega-companies simply cutting off access upstream. All it takes is one TimeWarnerMcdonaldsSony conglomerate to stop accepting packets from electronic 'disputed zones' to trample this business model.
I'm not saying these companies should stop trying, but using hype to sell abilities you don't have is harmful to your credibility and reduces data havens to science fiction staple.
Wow, you sure are clueless. I've been flying R/C airplanes for years, and I regularilly buzz the tarmac, even with my low speed human reflexes. If I used a closed loop feedback system coupled with a Sonar and a dampener to avoid wild oscillation, unattended flying at 10 feet above the ground is very achievable.
The obvious project this inspires is equipping a model airplane with a digital camera, gps, nav computer, and sending it to Area 51 to get some recon shots. Using sonar, you could have the plane fly right on the deck, maybe less then 10 feet high for the final approach and during the evasion afterwards. If your model plane makes a lot of turns and stays at low altitude, there's no way Area 51 security could follow it reliably, and they probably couldn't scramble a helicopter fast enough. Plus, if it's not transmitting, they can't track that either.
You could launch this baby from Vegas or out in the desert a couple hundred miles away from anything interesting so there would be no way for them to track you...
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You sir, and please pardon my language, are a dumbshit, and no, this is not a troll.
The post you reference to was not an insult, and none of the people expressing surprise that the arm worked flawlessly were not insulting Canada. If you had bothered to do any research, you would have noticed that the ISS Canadarm2 has been PLAGUED with problems over the last month, and any surprise about it performing well is NOT based in some sort of anti-canadian rhetoric, but instead actual surprise that none of the so-called 'showstopping problems' ever reared their ugly heads during an exteremely complicated assembly sequence.
Traditionally, a person objecting to an insult is supposed to at least RECOGNIZE whether or not an insult was actually given.
I'm no prima donna, I'm just better then all of you. Why can't you people just get that through your heads?
It seems that some of the points he makes could be applied towards programming as well. Lego is about putting components together using common interfaces, the Visual Basic way. Erector set is more about making those interfaces in the first place, the assembly way.
Have we reached a point in software development where instead of innovating genuinely new software, we just put together libraries other people have written and consider ourselves 'building on the shoulder of giants'?
Workers, throw down your common libaries, your DLLs, your open source! Innovate the way it was meant to happen, in PUTs and POPs! As your key to the revolution, please see the included copy of MASM. May the cpu tick be with you.
Sadly, there is also an embedded sound file. Perhaps this web faux pas offended the Wired team so greatly they were forced to exclude the link.
Well, that's where I'm putting MY quarter.....
Don't confused concrete and cement. Concrete is a simple name for composite construction. A concrete highway is often made up of a composite of steel rebar, cement, gravel, etc.
Cement, on the other hand, is a specific name for a substance, often alumina, silica, lime, iron oxide, and magnesium oxide. Cement is often used in the construction of concrete as part of the composite.
Composite structures != carbon fiber/kevlar/etc exclusively. Composites have been used for hundreds of years to make lightweight, strong things. This is merely the latest example of exactly that.
You are correct, I misread his original post. The only thing I will stick to is my assertion that he was mistaken about suggesting solid fueled rockets are more efficient, but you (and he) is indeed correct about the density/thrust ratio.
..and yes, manned flight should at best be supplemented by SRBs (like the ullage rockets on the Saturn V), not commanded by them (like the SRBs on the shuttle).
JAMES BOND HAS A NEW ALLY
Santa Monica, CA (PP)- MGM executives have unveiled a new ally in James Bond's fight against evil, Scruffy the Wonder Gerbil.
Scruffy, a new jersey spotted gerbil, will lead an effort to stop a band of terrorists from downing airliners. In a remarkable new cross-company marketing scheme, MGM officials have announced that Scruffy will be deployed using the patented Outpost.com Gerbil Cannon.
"Scruffy the Wonder Gerbil will join other crime fighting rodents of the silver screen," announced MGM CEO Michael Bootiepants. "Mighty Mouse, Stuart Little and, of course, those rascally critters from Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers."
Scruffy was unavailable for comment, he was training for the role in a new state of the art excercise wheel made entirely out of titanium.
You are absolutely incorrect. Most liquid fueled rockets have a much higher ISP then their solid equivalents. The SRBs on the shuttle have an ISP of 260 something, if I recall correctly, while the SSMEs onboard the shuttle (liquid) have an ISP of over 400.
ISP is, basically, a measure of how much a pound of propellent goes towards propelling something.
The SRBs are cheap heavy thrust rockets, but nowhere near as efficient as liquid fuel.
Well, the super magical telepathy identifier software for them identify you with is broken this week.
How, exactly, would you expect a credit bureau to figure out WHO was opting out if they didn't get your SS#? It is the primary key identifier in each of their databases.
That sounds like a pretty accurate description of what posting that article on Slashdot is doing in discover.com's server room...
http://www.arthroscopydoc.com/helpful.html looks good. Please don't mod this up, I'm just trying to save people some time and I'm already maxed at 50.
While this is fascinating sounding technology, it sounds more like a solution in search of a problem. There are already software solutions for emulation (SoftPC, VMWare, etc). There are already cross platform language solutions (Java, etc) and so on. Despite this, the market for massively cross platform applications has not really developed. It isn't as if a 25% performance increase is whats holding back the 'rennaissance' the author speaks of.
So... could I get 6 times the speed using the 5.1 channels in via SPDIF that my SBLive supports?
Better yet, hook up a line to one of the inputs on my stereo. Leave it on as white noise and figure out when the best time to download porn is by how quiet the other traffic is.
He didn't say it was boring. Too bad you couldn't be bothered to read the article.
His comments are that people aren't doing the research that Dan Goldin promised they would be doing. The reason? Because NASA has decided to cut funding to the CRV that would allow 7 people (enough to do science) to live on the station.
It's sad that there are so many people who believe this line NASA fed them. Dan Goldin threw tantrums about Tito and decided to sour the whole thing as much as possible when it became clear the Russians wouldn't let him dictate terms. Tito spent the whole time in the Russian segment of the station. He had two shepherd with him (the crew that launched him). The only alternative suggestion is that NASA is so incompetent it thinks that it needs 5 people to watch one person.
Three humans in a tin can in orbit is NOT the route to great science. Dan Goldin chose not to grow a backbone and demand something better then what we have now. As NASA administrator, it was his responsibillity to say 'look, if we are going to do this station, we need to do it right.' Instead, he let every budget cut come without any struggle. In fact, he actually THANKED congress for some of the budget cuts, suggesting that they would make NASA stronger.
Working backwards chronologically, these are some of the big mistakes made:
1. Goldin's public tantrums about Tito. He needs to do anything he can to attract US public support for space, even if it means whoring himself to celebrity. He's not a congressman who can operate on principle, he has a job: make space work.
2. The recent cancellation (oh, they say it's just on hold, but it's cancelled) of the X-38 derived CRV. Without this, there can never be more then 3 permanent crew on the station. WITH it, the crew increases to 7. 3 crew is just about what it takes to maintain the station. If there were 7, you could maintain the station AND do science.
3. Deleting the free-flying science module. You cannot do precision zero-g experiments on a rattling station that has to support a group of breathing, moving astro/cosmo-nauts. You need to be able to deploy a science platform and retrieve it as needed.
4. Not using the Russians enough. No matter how often clueless people rant about how inept the Russians are, the numbers are clear: They have cheaper, more reliable boosters with faster turn around times. We need to utilize this to its fullest, and if that means using some hard cash once in a while, so be it. Our relations are hamstrung by the need to 'barter' for everything.
5. The failure to push for developing our own heavy lift infrastructure. Cancelling the OMV and the Shuttle-C removed our ability to fly a true world class station.
These are not the sort of things that are only visible in 20/20 hindsight. This is all well known in the space community, and NASA leadership has shown an extraordinary skill for disregarding the obviously correct path at times.
zdNet: "It is said that the ccTLDs are revolting."
ICANN: "You said it! They stink on ice!"
This wouldn't happen because Microsoft would take a revenue hit on each box sold.
Will the new slash fix the apparent 50 karma cap?
It was absolutely NOT research. NASA has a program where all current and previous astronauts that have flown get a regular checkup (every few years) to monitor the later effects in life of space travel.
John Glenn is one of the only astronauts who refuses to participate in this program. There is no good data for any researchers to use because unlike the rest of the aging astronauts (including positively ancient Story Musgrave), there are no data points between 1961 and 1997 on Glenn.
Anyone who thinks that Glenn was doing anything other then collecting on a presidential political favor is delusional and does not understand the true story behind his return to space.
Hi slashdot! My boss has asked me to write an extension to our defect tracking system in Perl. Please e-mail me the code for this before 5 PM pst so I can make it home in time to catch The Simpsons.
Please, no confusing external libraries other than CGI.pm or Win32 ODBC. Oh, I heard that printf is gay, so please don't use them.
Thank you!
Does anyone else find it strange that the pictures of the 700c are all doctored to look better? It's obvious that all the photos of the color Clie have been modified to show it as having the same type of vivid colors and brightness that the Visor Prism and Palm IIIc have, but that's just not accurate.
Check it for yourself:
http://www.sonystyle.com/vaio/clie/
The 700c uses the same type of passive color display technology that the color gameboy uses. It's not active matrix, it's not self illuminating, it's very different from what they show on the website.
When you have an advertisement, simulated pictures are almost expected. But on the Sony website, they have a whole gallery where you can check out the 700c from each angle, and each one has the same type of manipulated photo.
This is just bad chess.
HavenCo claims that they're perfect for this stuff because they're in Sealand, but despite legios on Cryptnomicon fans slavering at the potential of this data haven, the simple fact of the matter is that HavenCo simply does not have enough bandwidth.
The articles are about thwarting media companies. By virtue of the nature of the media, you must have thick, fat pipes to run your data through, and HavenCo simply cannot do this with their current or prospective future systems.
Their only economical way to become a player would be to load up on satellite transmitters, and even that could be ambushed by mega-companies simply cutting off access upstream. All it takes is one TimeWarnerMcdonaldsSony conglomerate to stop accepting packets from electronic 'disputed zones' to trample this business model.
I'm not saying these companies should stop trying, but using hype to sell abilities you don't have is harmful to your credibility and reduces data havens to science fiction staple.
Wow, you sure are clueless. I've been flying R/C airplanes for years, and I regularilly buzz the tarmac, even with my low speed human reflexes. If I used a closed loop feedback system coupled with a Sonar and a dampener to avoid wild oscillation, unattended flying at 10 feet above the ground is very achievable.
You are the weakest link, goodbye!
The obvious project this inspires is equipping a model airplane with a digital camera, gps, nav computer, and sending it to Area 51 to get some recon shots. Using sonar, you could have the plane fly right on the deck, maybe less then 10 feet high for the final approach and during the evasion afterwards. If your model plane makes a lot of turns and stays at low altitude, there's no way Area 51 security could follow it reliably, and they probably couldn't scramble a helicopter fast enough. Plus, if it's not transmitting, they can't track that either.
You could launch this baby from Vegas or out in the desert a couple hundred miles away from anything interesting so there would be no way for them to track you...