The possibility that I could get something like a 10Mb metro ethernet line to my house for the same price I'm paying for shitass DSL makes me shiver in delight.
Of course, this means that it won't happen until the entrenched telcos figure out a way to oversell it by 50% and charge you like it was a T1 from the mid-90s.
Any slashdotters familiar enough with FPGAs to know if they could be used to create digital camera sensors?
One thing that's been lacking from digital photography is an "affordable" large format digital camera that is good for anything other than still life. Currently, if you are going to do large format digital, you have to use a back that takes an optical scan of your ground glass, and that can take up to 30 seconds.
The best part about living where I live is that they are building VASMIR engines down the street. It would be a long walk, but I could still walk to a freaking starship drive factory.
This is pretty much turning traffic from a civil engineering problem to a packet switching problem. The only thing that changes is that your packet collision domain has a threshold of zero. Of course, for full automation, all of the packets would have to follow the input at the interface, which requires all autonomous cars.
After that, it is a simple matter to apply some QoS to emergency traffic and perhaps paid packets.
Even more fun when someone gets some access lists going and we start having the Road Neutrality arguments.
The first three volumes were Lord of the Rings without hobbits. The volumes after that were a meandering sequence of events punctuated with braid-tugging, skirt-smoothing, sniffing, and the most voluminous descriptions of regional fashion.
C'mon, it's HP! Of course they have to hire yet another incompetent with no real knowledge of the business. Meg will really jump the shark when she sells all of HP's current corporate aircraft, gets a loan to buy a whole new batch, then fires a huge portion of the technical staff because the company is just so short on funds!
I think most bands are too concerned with their image to have a musician who can be referred to as a "Heavy Metal Flautist." The only thing worse is having a tromboner.
Hold on there Cowboy. The music industry just isn't interested in people who can't afford music. Sharing? That's communism. Setting up an online store where teenagers can run their parent's credit cards without any hassle? That friend, is capitalism, and that's what this award is celebrating.
Come on, have you ever heard Tull in concert? When they do Beltaine it rocks. So, maybe it isn't exactly Master of Puppets but who can understand those Metallica boys anyway. No sir, real metal has lyrics you can understand and relate to, not the barking of dogs followed by shrill high pitched warbling about driving silver stakes through tongues to keep them from blaspheme.
I don't know. It was just a guess. Though, I do seem to remember the DoD funding Atlas and Delta development while still flying payloads on the Shuttle.
Spy satellites and orbital weapons come to mind. Most likely not the type you'd attack the ground with, but perhaps other satellites, perhaps Chinese satellites.
Lightsaber builders usually piss me off. Not because of their wonton nerdishness, that I can deal with, and not really this guy in particular because the handle looks to be custom lathed, but the ones who scour eBay for perfectly good Speed Graphic strobes and destroy them by turning them in to props.
Yeah, I get that the original was made from Speed Graphic parts, but god damn kids, those are rare enough today without every Gishlain, Dick, and Harry trying to snap them up for re-purposing. Leave the originals for us Speed Graphic owners!
The iPads wouldn't be left in the aircraft, they go with the pilots. Operating temps below what they suggest can be sustained, but you have to take precautions. I've got some friends at McMurdo and the South Pole station right now, and they are reporting that their iPads are working just fine, just with reduced battery life from the cold.
If you do have an aircraft parked for any reason in the arctic or a hot desert environment, you're usually going to have a ground power cart and maybe a blower cart to help run the environmentals for a bit before you board.
Also, pressurized aircraft don't let the cabin go much over 4000 feet, pressure-wise.
I just had a talk about this with my dad over the weekend. He's considering ditching his flight bag because he found out that Jeppesen had a charts app for the iPad.
The pro argument is exactly what is presented in the article. Instead of having to lug around the four or five bags that it now takes to hold all the charts, you've got this nice, tight little package with access to everything. There are clip adapters to attach the iPad to just about any yoke where the charts would normally get clipped, and you avoid having to unfold, spread, smooth, refold, unfold, refold, stow, etc.
On the con side, it is an electronic device, which means it is going to crash and the battery will run out, which is something you never have to worry about with paper. If you're on approach and you're at somewhere even mildly complex (not to mention spaghetti bowls like Midway or LAX) there is no lag getting the data off the paper chart. You don't have to touch the screen to wake it up and you can glance over at your co-pilot's chart to make sure you're both looking at the same thing. With the iPad, you could both have different views and that could cause issues. It is also possible to write directly on the paper charts, which can come in handy when there are temporary approach changes.
Of course, like most things new, about half of the pilots you talk to hate the idea, the other half love it. The younger ones tend to be more willing, while the older ones tend to be more resistant.
There is a place where they could go where there is a whole huge pool of workers who have had their rights trampled, their savings destroyed, and their ability to think dismantled in a systematic way for decades. It is called The United States and there are people there who will jump at the chance to get a job, no matter how terrible the conditions, how grueling the work, or how poorly compensated they are.
Of course, we're not talking Chinese slave wages, but close.
Yeah, you're right, us social and behavior scientists are just running a huge con on the world and we deserve your derision. Why stop here? Soft sciences like biology are pretty much bunk too. I mean, what the hell? When has a biologist ever been able to tell you, mathematically, how a giraffe is going to act or how a protein will interact with a peptide? Pure crap.
More to your point, when has anyone in social science done anything for the advancement of the species? Never.
So, good show sir. You have sussed our little game and I hope you're happy with what you've done. Of course, us social science types do get pretty involved with biochemists and the like, but I'm sure that won't put you off your morning coffee or cause you to question that aerosol slowly issuing from the air conditioning duct above your head.
If you'll pardon me, I'm going to go tent my fingers and stroke my long haired cat.
I had to deal with a PhD like that who always ended up being PI on the biggest, fattest, juiciest grants. If you wanted to get pay, you had to learn to play. At least, that's how he liked to phrase things.
It always bugged me that 90% of the PhDs I met were barely scraping by, living in shit-shacks or couch surfing, driving the nastiest junkers (if they could even afford such a thing), comparison shopping for clothes at the thrift store, and eating like beggars when they were pumping out their best research. Meanwhile, the PhDs who talked the best game or wrote the best grants were well in to six figure salaries.
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The possibility that I could get something like a 10Mb metro ethernet line to my house for the same price I'm paying for shitass DSL makes me shiver in delight.
Of course, this means that it won't happen until the entrenched telcos figure out a way to oversell it by 50% and charge you like it was a T1 from the mid-90s.
Ahh, good to know. Thank you!
Any slashdotters familiar enough with FPGAs to know if they could be used to create digital camera sensors?
One thing that's been lacking from digital photography is an "affordable" large format digital camera that is good for anything other than still life. Currently, if you are going to do large format digital, you have to use a back that takes an optical scan of your ground glass, and that can take up to 30 seconds.
The best part about living where I live is that they are building VASMIR engines down the street. It would be a long walk, but I could still walk to a freaking starship drive factory.
Packet switching with a non-collision domain only please!
This is pretty much turning traffic from a civil engineering problem to a packet switching problem. The only thing that changes is that your packet collision domain has a threshold of zero. Of course, for full automation, all of the packets would have to follow the input at the interface, which requires all autonomous cars.
After that, it is a simple matter to apply some QoS to emergency traffic and perhaps paid packets.
Even more fun when someone gets some access lists going and we start having the Road Neutrality arguments.
I read WoT all the way up to book 8, but just couldn't get past it. Not for lack of quality, just lack of pace.
Did you miss the part where I said I liked it? I thought they were really great books at the time, and I still do, I just hit my personal limit.
As for my LotR comment, I read LotR again right after I finished book 3 of WoT, and damn if the opening bits weren't exactly the same.
Here I will unashamedly admit, that's exactly what I was thinking about when I wrote the comment.
No. Nor does it have onions or mashed turnips.
The first three volumes were Lord of the Rings without hobbits. The volumes after that were a meandering sequence of events punctuated with braid-tugging, skirt-smoothing, sniffing, and the most voluminous descriptions of regional fashion.
And I liked the books.
C'mon, it's HP! Of course they have to hire yet another incompetent with no real knowledge of the business. Meg will really jump the shark when she sells all of HP's current corporate aircraft, gets a loan to buy a whole new batch, then fires a huge portion of the technical staff because the company is just so short on funds!
I think most bands are too concerned with their image to have a musician who can be referred to as a "Heavy Metal Flautist." The only thing worse is having a tromboner.
Hold on there Cowboy. The music industry just isn't interested in people who can't afford music. Sharing? That's communism. Setting up an online store where teenagers can run their parent's credit cards without any hassle? That friend, is capitalism, and that's what this award is celebrating.
Come on, have you ever heard Tull in concert? When they do Beltaine it rocks. So, maybe it isn't exactly Master of Puppets but who can understand those Metallica boys anyway. No sir, real metal has lyrics you can understand and relate to, not the barking of dogs followed by shrill high pitched warbling about driving silver stakes through tongues to keep them from blaspheme.
I don't know. It was just a guess. Though, I do seem to remember the DoD funding Atlas and Delta development while still flying payloads on the Shuttle.
Spy satellites and orbital weapons come to mind. Most likely not the type you'd attack the ground with, but perhaps other satellites, perhaps Chinese satellites.
Yes it is.
Lightsaber builders usually piss me off. Not because of their wonton nerdishness, that I can deal with, and not really this guy in particular because the handle looks to be custom lathed, but the ones who scour eBay for perfectly good Speed Graphic strobes and destroy them by turning them in to props.
Yeah, I get that the original was made from Speed Graphic parts, but god damn kids, those are rare enough today without every Gishlain, Dick, and Harry trying to snap them up for re-purposing. Leave the originals for us Speed Graphic owners!
The iPads wouldn't be left in the aircraft, they go with the pilots. Operating temps below what they suggest can be sustained, but you have to take precautions. I've got some friends at McMurdo and the South Pole station right now, and they are reporting that their iPads are working just fine, just with reduced battery life from the cold.
If you do have an aircraft parked for any reason in the arctic or a hot desert environment, you're usually going to have a ground power cart and maybe a blower cart to help run the environmentals for a bit before you board.
Also, pressurized aircraft don't let the cabin go much over 4000 feet, pressure-wise.
I just had a talk about this with my dad over the weekend. He's considering ditching his flight bag because he found out that Jeppesen had a charts app for the iPad.
The pro argument is exactly what is presented in the article. Instead of having to lug around the four or five bags that it now takes to hold all the charts, you've got this nice, tight little package with access to everything. There are clip adapters to attach the iPad to just about any yoke where the charts would normally get clipped, and you avoid having to unfold, spread, smooth, refold, unfold, refold, stow, etc.
On the con side, it is an electronic device, which means it is going to crash and the battery will run out, which is something you never have to worry about with paper. If you're on approach and you're at somewhere even mildly complex (not to mention spaghetti bowls like Midway or LAX) there is no lag getting the data off the paper chart. You don't have to touch the screen to wake it up and you can glance over at your co-pilot's chart to make sure you're both looking at the same thing. With the iPad, you could both have different views and that could cause issues. It is also possible to write directly on the paper charts, which can come in handy when there are temporary approach changes.
Of course, like most things new, about half of the pilots you talk to hate the idea, the other half love it. The younger ones tend to be more willing, while the older ones tend to be more resistant.
There is a place where they could go where there is a whole huge pool of workers who have had their rights trampled, their savings destroyed, and their ability to think dismantled in a systematic way for decades. It is called The United States and there are people there who will jump at the chance to get a job, no matter how terrible the conditions, how grueling the work, or how poorly compensated they are.
Of course, we're not talking Chinese slave wages, but close.
A ding ding ding ding ding ding ding!
Of course a Chinese court found Apple to be in violation. Do you know how much justice $1.6 billion USD buys in China?
Yeah, you're right, us social and behavior scientists are just running a huge con on the world and we deserve your derision. Why stop here? Soft sciences like biology are pretty much bunk too. I mean, what the hell? When has a biologist ever been able to tell you, mathematically, how a giraffe is going to act or how a protein will interact with a peptide? Pure crap.
More to your point, when has anyone in social science done anything for the advancement of the species? Never.
So, good show sir. You have sussed our little game and I hope you're happy with what you've done. Of course, us social science types do get pretty involved with biochemists and the like, but I'm sure that won't put you off your morning coffee or cause you to question that aerosol slowly issuing from the air conditioning duct above your head.
If you'll pardon me, I'm going to go tent my fingers and stroke my long haired cat.
I had to deal with a PhD like that who always ended up being PI on the biggest, fattest, juiciest grants. If you wanted to get pay, you had to learn to play. At least, that's how he liked to phrase things.
It always bugged me that 90% of the PhDs I met were barely scraping by, living in shit-shacks or couch surfing, driving the nastiest junkers (if they could even afford such a thing), comparison shopping for clothes at the thrift store, and eating like beggars when they were pumping out their best research. Meanwhile, the PhDs who talked the best game or wrote the best grants were well in to six figure salaries.
Ahhh, academia.
The delay with radio is the exact same delay as with light or any other electromagnetic wave.