By and large, a change in mass shouldn't affect an orbit - speed and altitude (orbital radius) are interdependent. It would affect drag (atmospheric & from the 'solar wind' - less mass = less momentum so drag would slow it down faster), but that's about all.
The company got its start with a software product written by the owner in VisualBasic.... For the sake of discussion however, what tasks would VisualBasic not be suited for?
Um, maybe I've overlooked it, but what does this app DO? I see many discussing various programming environments but I don't think I've seen anyone try to 'relate function to method' ('end justifying means'?).
A particular environment isn't the be-all-and-end-all for EVERY application or discipline...
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My LG-3 (Cingular) always has the correct time on it and syncs like a bitch - it's on my desk, near the computer's external speakers, and I hear it send a bzzt-zzt-zzt-zzt every couple/three minutes to the tower.
I've also noticed it doing that on the rare occasions I've had it shut off - has anyone else noticed the same thing?
If they ever make a Mac-client, One could use AudioHijackPro (www.rogueamoeba.com) to rip it realtime - it inserts itself in the sound-generation chain inside the computer and rips it to files. Whatever it is, as long as it can play thru my speakers I can record it.
Wow, thanks for the link. So, it looks like they've got a little more than 35 sq.m. worth of collecting area and four correctors to get it flat in a 64cm diameter. An interesting and impressive design - I hope they can make the funding.
You know, it's a shame you posted that anonymously - it's worth 'way more than a zero-score.:)
Yes, 60 degrees is wide angle for refractive lenses but remember that you can do a LOT more with refractive elements to get wide angles than you can with reflective elements. Look at all the fisheye lenses out there - you can't do that stuff with mirrors.
Reflective optics win hands-down in small-FOV and no chromatic-abberation situations (unlike lenses which require different refractive indices (e.g. crowns & flints) to keep all the wavelengths "together").
I have to differ with you regarding edge-of-mirror image quality - like I said in the previous posting, the mirrors are not two-stepped (spheroidizing & parabolizing) like hand-ground ones. It's flat on a surface and the instrument traces the tool over the blank - unless there's something wrong with the instrument, there's no reason why the profile shouldn't be just as good at the bitter edge as it is in the center. And if there are edge chips, they mask the rim (I think even the Hubble mirror has a narrow mask around the rim).
If it was so hard to keep the same quality-of-figure in a machine-made mirror then how come the Keck-type telescope system functions so well? THEY use their mirrors right out to the edge of each tile...
Yah - you get that stuff when you hand-grind a spherical mirror and then parabolize it.
You _don't_ get those kinds of problems when a machine is doing it - it's taking the cut off the surface of a _stable_ blank; it's _not_ wobbling that blank around on a pitch-covered lap.
Yes... but he's talking about ~mirrors~, not ~lenses~.
If a mirror's figured well-enough at its center (and it is a good-quality substrate and properly supported) then there's no reason it shouldn't be just as good at its edge - they're doing these things by ~machine~, not by ~hand~.
My Swift 11x80 binocs cover about a 3.5 degree FOV so, yes, a 4 degree is rather wide-angle.
8.4m & 3.4m & 5.0m mirrors... WTF? Has anybody seen any optical diagrams for this beast?
"Primary/secondary/tertiary" suggests that there's ONE optical path; but does that make sense?
The "If it receives the required funding, the telescope is expected to begin operating in 2012."-part isn't very reassuring.
"Its three large mirrors are required so we don't get weird effects on the edges of the field,"
Well, sir, if you've got equipment to figure 11 to 27 foot mirrors and you're worrying about edge effects then that equipment must be kind of sh*tty...no? Should you even be attempting this project?
"Yah - you betcha: we're gonna have one HELL of a 'scope one of these days; if we can pay for it..."
Do you believe buildings collapse from fire at near free-fall velocity?
Does anyone believe that every time all that falling (increasing) mass hit another stationary floor it dead-stopped and started accelerating at 32 ft/sec/sec all over again?
Sixty to eighty frames per second? NTSC interlaced video runs at 30 FPS. These were security cameras - 1 frame per second is not unreasonable. MY camera at home (motion sensing) does that (unless something triggers it to run at 30FPS for several seconds).
What was the plane's speed? somebody said something like 500 MPH? That'd make it 733 feet/second, easily apparent - considering the apparent size of the building and scale of the images released - that the plane barely registers on two 1FPS frames. It's a shame it DIDN'T show up in the middle of a frame, but that's what happens.
I don't see why Microsoft has bothered to add new features to Office 2007 beyond the new shell.
Um, maybe because the coders decided it was time to create a new function that would open-up all KINDS of new vulnerabilities so that they'll be able to stay employed by fixing them?
Wow. I'd've modded you up if I hadn't just posted this...
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Felons have rights? News to me;) Commit a crime against society in general and you lose your right to claim rights, until such a time as you have redeemed yourself in the eyes of the law.
They get: meals, health care, exercise, media-entertainment, education, legal representation/aid, and a pretty-much tax-free existence - all without paying a dime or lifting a finger. If any one of those privileges get curtailed in the least little way: then the lawsuits start flying. and Citizens are paying for it all.
Lots of law-abiding Citizens are scraping for a living and don't have half of those privs. Have you ever had to work for a living, or are you still "sucking the family teat"?
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Interesting. What kind of speed can you get out of it, and at what maximum distance? I assume all lines are on the same side of the transformers?
I can see 'local' installations like yours being viable; but I think most individuals immediately assume 'centralized head-end to miles-away customers' - which could never work well.
Were you watching it this past Saturday night? "A.I. Assault" (particularly bad) had robots ("essentially invulnerable" - the best kind to run amok) walking around on legs/arms like these.
In a country of around 1.3 billion people, "almost noone" [sic] is still a hell of a lot of people; and it only takes that one 'wrong person' to totally screw up the rest of your life for you.
Very pretty. Quotes from EE Times and a zdnet blog - eminently authoritative sources. AND a website that doesn't look like it contains a single image that wasn't rendered.
Do these yooms actually have any kind of working prototype (even a proof-of-principle model) or is just this all on paper?
You'll probably still find "leaky coax" hanging on the streets of some universities - low-power FM broadcasting used to use it: as long as you didn't exceed a certain field strength at a certain distance from the wire you could run 'em as far as you could afford to cover an area/street/campus.
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By and large, a change in mass shouldn't affect an orbit - speed and altitude (orbital radius) are interdependent. It would affect drag (atmospheric & from the 'solar wind' - less mass = less momentum so drag would slow it down faster), but that's about all.
Um, maybe I've overlooked it, but what does this app DO? I see many discussing various programming environments but I don't think I've seen anyone try to 'relate function to method' ('end justifying means'?).
A particular environment isn't the be-all-and-end-all for EVERY application or discipline...
Kinda like the way pseudo-insiders sound...?
I've also noticed it doing that on the rare occasions I've had it shut off - has anyone else noticed the same thing?
I'm not sure if there's a similar windows app.
Wow, thanks for the link. So, it looks like they've got a little more than 35 sq.m. worth of collecting area and four correctors to get it flat in a 64cm diameter. An interesting and impressive design - I hope they can make the funding.
Yes, 60 degrees is wide angle for refractive lenses but remember that you can do a LOT more with refractive elements to get wide angles than you can with reflective elements. Look at all the fisheye lenses out there - you can't do that stuff with mirrors.
Reflective optics win hands-down in small-FOV and no chromatic-abberation situations (unlike lenses which require different refractive indices (e.g. crowns & flints) to keep all the wavelengths "together").
I have to differ with you regarding edge-of-mirror image quality - like I said in the previous posting, the mirrors are not two-stepped (spheroidizing & parabolizing) like hand-ground ones. It's flat on a surface and the instrument traces the tool over the blank - unless there's something wrong with the instrument, there's no reason why the profile shouldn't be just as good at the bitter edge as it is in the center. And if there are edge chips, they mask the rim (I think even the Hubble mirror has a narrow mask around the rim).
If it was so hard to keep the same quality-of-figure in a machine-made mirror then how come the Keck-type telescope system functions so well? THEY use their mirrors right out to the edge of each tile...
You _don't_ get those kinds of problems when a machine is doing it - it's taking the cut off the surface of a _stable_ blank; it's _not_ wobbling that blank around on a pitch-covered lap.
If a mirror's figured well-enough at its center (and it is a good-quality substrate and properly supported) then there's no reason it shouldn't be just as good at its edge - they're doing these things by ~machine~, not by ~hand~.
My Swift 11x80 binocs cover about a 3.5 degree FOV so, yes, a 4 degree is rather wide-angle.
"Primary/secondary/tertiary" suggests that there's ONE optical path; but does that make sense?
The "If it receives the required funding, the telescope is expected to begin operating in 2012."-part isn't very reassuring.
"Its three large mirrors are required so we don't get weird effects on the edges of the field,"
Well, sir, if you've got equipment to figure 11 to 27 foot mirrors and you're worrying about edge effects then that equipment must be kind of sh*tty...no? Should you even be attempting this project?
"Yah - you betcha: we're gonna have one HELL of a 'scope one of these days; if we can pay for it..."
Does anyone believe that every time all that falling (increasing) mass hit another stationary floor it dead-stopped and started accelerating at 32 ft/sec/sec all over again?
Sixty to eighty frames per second? NTSC interlaced video runs at 30 FPS. These were security cameras - 1 frame per second is not unreasonable. MY camera at home (motion sensing) does that (unless something triggers it to run at 30FPS for several seconds). What was the plane's speed? somebody said something like 500 MPH? That'd make it 733 feet/second, easily apparent - considering the apparent size of the building and scale of the images released - that the plane barely registers on two 1FPS frames. It's a shame it DIDN'T show up in the middle of a frame, but that's what happens.
Um, maybe because the coders decided it was time to create a new function that would open-up all KINDS of new vulnerabilities so that they'll be able to stay employed by fixing them?
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"Any huge OS/app/whatever is bound to have inconsistencies in it - it's only a matter how badly developers lose track of what's-really-going-on-everywhere-at-once." (JLP 1998)
They get: meals, health care, exercise, media-entertainment, education, legal representation/aid, and a pretty-much tax-free existence - all without paying a dime or lifting a finger. If any one of those privileges get curtailed in the least little way: then the lawsuits start flying. and Citizens are paying for it all.
Lots of law-abiding Citizens are scraping for a living and don't have half of those privs. Have you ever had to work for a living, or are you still "sucking the family teat"?
__________________________________________________ ___________
Good breeding shows, bad breeding illustrates; age instructs.
Interesting. What kind of speed can you get out of it, and at what maximum distance? I assume all lines are on the same side of the transformers? I can see 'local' installations like yours being viable; but I think most individuals immediately assume 'centralized head-end to miles-away customers' - which could never work well.
And carries volunteers - they all know what they may be in for when they sign up.
Were you watching it this past Saturday night? "A.I. Assault" (particularly bad) had robots ("essentially invulnerable" - the best kind to run amok) walking around on legs/arms like these.
In a country of around 1.3 billion people, "almost noone" [sic] is still a hell of a lot of people; and it only takes that one 'wrong person' to totally screw up the rest of your life for you.
Nonononono - they don't die; the government just publicly says that "they cannot be found" (after the government has privately gotten to them).
Very pretty. Quotes from EE Times and a zdnet blog - eminently authoritative sources. AND a website that doesn't look like it contains a single image that wasn't rendered.
Do these yooms actually have any kind of working prototype (even a proof-of-principle model) or is just this all on paper?
You'll probably still find "leaky coax" hanging on the streets of some universities - low-power FM broadcasting used to use it: as long as you didn't exceed a certain field strength at a certain distance from the wire you could run 'em as far as you could afford to cover an area/street/campus.
Yeah, but it was all the rage before then.
Okay, well, I wasn't thinking video - just audio like live365 and iTunes.