Oh I'm sorry, I thought that "Add a $20K equipment budget and $5K for my time" indicated that you weren't donating your time.
And opportunity cost works both ways. While you are working on a NASA funded research project, you could be assisting undergrads launch a career that could see them surpass anything you achieve, and that could enable them to provide far greater benefit to humanity. But then that might not earn for the organisation.
You seem to be focused on whether you would want to do this - and not whether the undergraduates would want to do this. For you it's a research grant - a way to earn for the Organisation. For students it's a chance to expose themselves to the industry and a way to make a name for themselves - so find students that are willing to do this as an extra curricular activity is probably easy.
Finding a professor who would put his hand in his pocket and donate his time (for the benefit of his students) is presumably not so easy.
Actually no, it is not 120x it is more like 24x. You'r 5ft square shield would produce a "bright spot" that is 5ft square, not 1ft square, so you would actually have 3000 spots that cover 5ft square (assuming the shield is almost perfectly flat). So your magnification actually becomes 3000/127 = ~24
Every shield I have ever seen is actually convex in shape, which would actually disperse the light being reflected. Granted, you could reverse the shield to make it concave, which would concentrate the light. However this would make the range at which the light could be concentrated in any significant amount very limited - so if you wanted to burn a ship, it would have to be at within a specific range to achieve any sort of concentration.
Add this statement of yours:
The 'freshmen' failed because there was no visual reference point for aiming. When 100 other 'bright spots' are aiming at the same target you, there is no way of telling which bright spot is yours so it's impossible to make the proper adjustments to focus your beam onto the target.
Plus the fact that even the best polished bronze would be less efficient than a modern mirror, and the death ray probably just made the Romans see alot of pink dots for a while (or gave them a good tan).
If there's any truth to the story, then what probably happened was they all lined up their shield, blinding the crew, and some archers got a couple of good shots in with flaming arrows.
disease and pest control (our single biggest export is primary industries),
We actually use AQIS for that (Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service).
The solution would have been to say "Well you quoted $80million - that's what we're paying - and if it's late we'll slug you with a fine". But heck, why break with tradition? Colin's class submarine anyone? Anzac Frigate? Olympics? etc.
The same OS they've been using for a while (WinXP)
What software do they use?
Is a custom built system - written by EDS I believe.
And how will their IT people and/or management continue to justify said choices in the wake of this?
"Their" IT people didn't make the choices - Customs IT is provided by EDS (which is why I believe EDS also developed the system). The choices would have been made by higher management - but ultimately it doesn't matter, if the system is failing then it's the design of the system or the hardware in use - which I would expect is top dollar equipment, charged for at higher than retail prices (it's a government contract). The IT experts in Customs are more for retrieving data of hard disks after they've been seized etc. Customs hasn't managed their own IT for years now.
This is the sort of thing that needs "big iron". Machines that have uptimes measured in decades. Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that they're running it all on a bunch of commodity PCs (or the like) with off-the-shelf software?
This is laughable at best. How many "off the shelf" packages have you seen for handling Customs? The new package (and the old I expect) is a custom built piece of software (heck even the summary pointed this out - A$80 million but has since blown out to A$250 million - that is not "off-the-shelf")
The system itself was written specifically for customs and has great features like it was too big to fit on all the monitors that customs was using (so naturally EDS upgraded all the machines - at a price - to have 19" LCD's).
I would like you to define how this exercise differs from Testing? Other than Microsoft don't actually have to employ the people they are using - not that that defines testing in any way?
Our DOC are a little short on Big Cat Traps at the moment. And besides, they wouldn't be involved. They are probably too busy trying to burn down the rest of Victoria...
Hey look - a feral, predatory, introduced species - feeding on the Rare and Magnificent Animals that BELONG in Australia.
The lack of the animals Head makes this seriously suspect (nevermind the remainder of the carcass). Everyone in Vic knows of the Panther myth - and even a dumb arse hunter would know to hang on to the animal (you could probably sell it).
Peugot make a variant of some of their models known as a HDI that gets mileage that rivals Hybrid. They're basically a Turbo Diesel. The 3door 307 gets about 4.3 Litres to 100km (~60 Miles to a gallon?) on the Highway. I haven't seen any "city" running figures though. They also have a 2Litre wagon with the same tech.
Yes - And do you notice how he seems to always state "You should charge more for..." rather than "You should charge less for...".
Record companies get a huge slice of the royalties generated from the sales of their artists work (in fact they get the majority of it). It's about time the artists got money and the record companies didn't.
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Because we are "downunder" you have to invert the soundwaves so that they'll play correctly on our equipment.
Oh I'm sorry, I thought that "Add a $20K equipment budget and $5K for my time" indicated that you weren't donating your time.
And opportunity cost works both ways. While you are working on a NASA funded research project, you could be assisting undergrads launch a career that could see them surpass anything you achieve, and that could enable them to provide far greater benefit to humanity. But then that might not earn for the organisation.
You seem to be focused on whether you would want to do this - and not whether the undergraduates would want to do this. For you it's a research grant - a way to earn for the Organisation. For students it's a chance to expose themselves to the industry and a way to make a name for themselves - so find students that are willing to do this as an extra curricular activity is probably easy.
Finding a professor who would put his hand in his pocket and donate his time (for the benefit of his students) is presumably not so easy.
Or they could exercise on the way over there with resistance equipment (like big rubber bands or springs).
It's lots
Yes but you get oxygen depravation = dead brain cells = similar effect... :)
Actually no, it is not 120x it is more like 24x. You'r 5ft square shield would produce a "bright spot" that is 5ft square, not 1ft square, so you would actually have 3000 spots that cover 5ft square (assuming the shield is almost perfectly flat). So your magnification actually becomes 3000/127 = ~24
Every shield I have ever seen is actually convex in shape, which would actually disperse the light being reflected. Granted, you could reverse the shield to make it concave, which would concentrate the light. However this would make the range at which the light could be concentrated in any significant amount very limited - so if you wanted to burn a ship, it would have to be at within a specific range to achieve any sort of concentration.
Add this statement of yours:
The 'freshmen' failed because there was no visual reference point for aiming. When 100 other 'bright spots' are aiming at the same target you, there is no way of telling which bright spot is yours so it's impossible to make the proper adjustments to focus your beam onto the target.
Plus the fact that even the best polished bronze would be less efficient than a modern mirror, and the death ray probably just made the Romans see alot of pink dots for a while (or gave them a good tan).
If there's any truth to the story, then what probably happened was they all lined up their shield, blinding the crew, and some archers got a couple of good shots in with flaming arrows.
disease and pest control (our single biggest export is primary industries),
We actually use AQIS for that (Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service).
The solution would have been to say "Well you quoted $80million - that's what we're paying - and if it's late we'll slug you with a fine". But heck, why break with tradition? Colin's class submarine anyone? Anzac Frigate? Olympics? etc.
What OS do they run?
The same OS they've been using for a while (WinXP)
What software do they use?
Is a custom built system - written by EDS I believe.
And how will their IT people and/or management continue to justify said choices in the wake of this?
"Their" IT people didn't make the choices - Customs IT is provided by EDS (which is why I believe EDS also developed the system). The choices would have been made by higher management - but ultimately it doesn't matter, if the system is failing then it's the design of the system or the hardware in use - which I would expect is top dollar equipment, charged for at higher than retail prices (it's a government contract). The IT experts in Customs are more for retrieving data of hard disks after they've been seized etc. Customs hasn't managed their own IT for years now.
This is the sort of thing that needs "big iron". Machines that have uptimes measured in decades. Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that they're running it all on a bunch of commodity PCs (or the like) with off-the-shelf software?
This is laughable at best. How many "off the shelf" packages have you seen for handling Customs? The new package (and the old I expect) is a custom built piece of software (heck even the summary pointed this out - A$80 million but has since blown out to A$250 million - that is not "off-the-shelf")
The system itself was written specifically for customs and has great features like it was too big to fit on all the monitors that customs was using (so naturally EDS upgraded all the machines - at a price - to have 19" LCD's).
In the hills of afghanistan this episode becomes a training video...
I would like you to define how this exercise differs from Testing? Other than Microsoft don't actually have to employ the people they are using - not that that defines testing in any way?
I'm sure "(white|blue)-hat hacker" in this case is redefined to mean "anyone who cooperates with Microsoft when finding security vulnerabilities".
Yes, the rest of the world would call them Testers.
So it took them 30 years to get "serious" and "tired of the constant bad PR". More like this is a publicity stunt.
It, like, alters your mind! Wohoa!
Bonzai!!!!
Our DOC are a little short on Big Cat Traps at the moment. And besides, they wouldn't be involved. They are probably too busy trying to burn down the rest of Victoria...
Ah yes ne of my favourite bumper stickers is... "Is your opinion based on fact - or did you read it in the Herald Sun"
Hey look - a feral, predatory, introduced species - feeding on the Rare and Magnificent Animals that BELONG in Australia. The lack of the animals Head makes this seriously suspect (nevermind the remainder of the carcass). Everyone in Vic knows of the Panther myth - and even a dumb arse hunter would know to hang on to the animal (you could probably sell it).
Last time I checked the 777 wasn't VTOL.
Peugot make a variant of some of their models known as a HDI that gets mileage that rivals Hybrid. They're basically a Turbo Diesel. The 3door 307 gets about 4.3 Litres to 100km (~60 Miles to a gallon?) on the Highway. I haven't seen any "city" running figures though. They also have a 2Litre wagon with the same tech.
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Yes - lets put the Muppets in there...
I clicked through the whole 50 just to make sure that Lexx wasn't in the list.
Yes - And do you notice how he seems to always state "You should charge more for..." rather than "You should charge less for...".
Record companies get a huge slice of the royalties generated from the sales of their artists work (in fact they get the majority of it). It's about time the artists got money and the record companies didn't.
That's because the ACCC doesn't actually do anything. (Bought Petrol lately?)
Couldn't PROGRAMS work?
;)
Nah, use "FILES" - and then put everything in there.