But Google makes money from ads, and this sounds like what the Adblock extension already does. Does anyone think they got this patent is so they can remove that extension for violating it?
It's not just the speed. Maybe I should have said 16 megabytes *each* second. We will get 1.4 TB of data every day from this thing.
(I'm on a satellite connection, so I have that latency. Believe me, it does suck.)
I recommend the development version (1.7.x). It's a definite improvement, and I haven't seen a bug in a while. They have hit feature freeze with the current 1.7.6, so I expect 1.8 by the end of the year.
(I'm a contributer too. I drew or animated a couple units, and made a whole adventure campaign. That part is a lot of fun, too!)
That system is no longer there, and it didn't use a lens either: it used two mirrors. All the instruments currently on board were built after the flaw was known, so they correct for it internally.
There was a satellite (called Kepler) that could measure parallax out to about that far, but it takes too long. The baseline it used between the two angle measurements was 300 million kilometers--the diameter of Earth's orbit. It got that baseline by simply waiting six months! This thing wasn't there long enough. (Even if Kepler were still operational.)
I look at the keys once in a while because I am not touch typing all the time. Sometimes I'm using a tablet or mouse and need to hit one key. I use Dvorak stickers. I have them on my desktop and laptop. I got them from a company called Hooleon that also sells custom keyboards with any layout you want. I like my keyboard though, and stickers are cheaper. On either keyboard you have to look pretty closely to tell that there are stickers on the keys. Most people don't notice. (I learned that you do have to push down the corners of the stickers carefully. After about two years the "E" and "K" stickers peeled a little at the corners so it doesn't look as nice. I did a better job with the laptop and there are no problems.)
I can wait. The Webb scope won't be a replacement for HUBBLE, but for the SPITZER! The Webb scope is infrared only. It won't be giving us the same cool images. Look at the Spitzer scope images to see what we'll get.
But the hab module got cut! It may be big enough for six scientists to do research, but only big enough for three people to live there! LESS will get done if it gets bigger.
No. Really. They aren't even real names. They are just the code names the discoverers have been using. (2003UB313 doesn't really trip off the tongue.) For Sedna, they used the code name "Flying Dutchman", and nobody remembers that.
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But Google makes money from ads, and this sounds like what the Adblock extension already does. Does anyone think they got this patent is so they can remove that extension for violating it?
It's not just the speed. Maybe I should have said 16 megabytes *each* second. We will get 1.4 TB of data every day from this thing. (I'm on a satellite connection, so I have that latency. Believe me, it does suck.)
A "prodigious rush" is 16 megabytes per second! Now we know.
I recommend the development version (1.7.x). It's a definite improvement, and I haven't seen a bug in a while. They have hit feature freeze with the current 1.7.6, so I expect 1.8 by the end of the year. (I'm a contributer too. I drew or animated a couple units, and made a whole adventure campaign. That part is a lot of fun, too!)
That system is no longer there, and it didn't use a lens either: it used two mirrors. All the instruments currently on board were built after the flaw was known, so they correct for it internally.
There was a satellite (called Kepler) that could measure parallax out to about that far, but it takes too long. The baseline it used between the two angle measurements was 300 million kilometers--the diameter of Earth's orbit. It got that baseline by simply waiting six months! This thing wasn't there long enough. (Even if Kepler were still operational.)
It's a common misconception that the Hubble has a lens. But, like all large telescopes, it has a curved mirror instead.
I look at the keys once in a while because I am not touch typing all the time. Sometimes I'm using a tablet or mouse and need to hit one key. I use Dvorak stickers. I have them on my desktop and laptop. I got them from a company called Hooleon that also sells custom keyboards with any layout you want. I like my keyboard though, and stickers are cheaper. On either keyboard you have to look pretty closely to tell that there are stickers on the keys. Most people don't notice. (I learned that you do have to push down the corners of the stickers carefully. After about two years the "E" and "K" stickers peeled a little at the corners so it doesn't look as nice. I did a better job with the laptop and there are no problems.)
I can wait. The Webb scope won't be a replacement for HUBBLE, but for the SPITZER! The Webb scope is infrared only. It won't be giving us the same cool images. Look at the Spitzer scope images to see what we'll get.
But the hab module got cut! It may be big enough for six scientists to do research, but only big enough for three people to live there! LESS will get done if it gets bigger.
No. Really. They aren't even real names. They are just the code names the discoverers have been using. (2003UB313 doesn't really trip off the tongue.) For Sedna, they used the code name "Flying Dutchman", and nobody remembers that.