First, when talking about stable orbits, the higher the orbit, the slower the actual speed.
Now it gets interesting. To move from a lower (faster) orbit to a higher (slower) orbit, you have to go faster. By going faster the vehicle will move away from the earth, thereby slowing down. When you get to the higher orbit you want, you will then have to adjust the speed accordingly (usually you will have to speed up in order to stableize the orbit).
When you are in a higher (slower) orbit and you want to move to a lower (faster) orbit, you first have to slow down. By slowing down you will start falling towards the earth. When you reach the lower orbit, you will then have to speed up in order to stableize the orbit.
If someone pushes themselves away from the spacestation, they will have changed their orbit very slightly. Instead of being in a circular orbit, they will then be in an oval orbit. The two orbits will meet two times each time around the earth. So if someone somehow got adrift, in about 45 minutes they would be in a position to do an orbital correction in order to get back to the station/shuttle.
Seat belts and motorcycle helmets save lives. This is a proven fact. And yes, most people ARE too stupid and irresponsible to make their own decisions about safety. But these laws also protect the rest of society from the stupidity of people. Even if injured, the injuries are far less than if people weren't wearing them, and this lessens the burdon on the hospitals and other emergency services.
Fireworks are safe? I'd like you to meet some of the people who have had hands blown off and other injuries from fireworks which were supposedly safe.
While having been a trekkie for years, I feel that I can spend my money in better ways elsewhere.
However, I predict that the auction will bring more than they expect, because there are lots of trekkies who feel differently than I do.
Ummmm, lets see. First, each service mission costs about 100 million dollars. The Hubble cost between 2 and 3 Billion dollars. It was designed to be serviced and maintained for over 20 years. To build something which wouldn't need servicing for 20 years would probably triple or quintuple the costs.
Before you speak (or write), think about what you are about to say or speak. You would look less foolish that way.
Why do you think that? The Tomcat (F-14) is still one of the foremost and versatile fighter ever made. With the upgrades done over the years, it still the the best carrier fighter we have. It has range, computer power, ability to lock onto six different targets at the same time and shoot them all down, and doesn't need to be pointed at the bogeys after the missles are fired. The F-18 Hornet is a short range fighter, and has to keep itself pointed in the general direction of the bogeys until the missles hit.
Starting your own consulting company only works if you want to be self employed, and be ready, willing, and able to deal with everything that goes along with that.
I've done that, and don't want to do it again.
It depends on what your company is doing, and how important you are to the company. Try to cultivate friendships with the management, and make yourself indispensable to the company by involving yourself with projects which are outside of IT.
After 25 years in IT, I was let go a few months ago because they "didn't need my position anymore", and was "replaced" by someone earning about half of what I was getting.
This, after helping the company grow from 10 people to 85, and from sales of $100K to over $20 million a year. After creating a serverfarm which increased the capacity of our systems from 5 trnasactoins/second to over 20,000 transactions a second.
I joined as Director of IT. In the beginning it was very hands-on. But management never listend to my requests for help, so I was stuck helping people via phone all over the world, maintaining and building the server farm, doing all the support on the PCs, etc.
When I finally got help, it was help intended to replace me, which it eventually did. They then hired someone to "assist" my replacement.
I've spent three months looking for a new job. So many of them have extremely specific requirements, so specific that there is no way I could even be considered.
So now I've left the field. I spent the last 20 years not really liking my jobs and not realizing it. Having left, I finally realized that I wasn't happy before, because of the non-recognition of IT by the rest of the company.
Many years ago, (probably before you were born:-) when cell phones were first introduced, batteries would only last from 1 - 6 days before being run down.
What you don't realize is that the phone is always transmitting a signal, just to let the cell phone network know where you are. Not as in your physical location, but which cell tower you are closest to. This takes power, and is one of the primary uses of the power.
Try going to a location where there is no cell phone service, and see how quickly your battery will run down. The weaker the signal from the cell tower(s), the more power the phone will put out in an attempt to contact a tower.
No. I had to stop because I was using my laptop. When I got in to work, I was unable to get through. The site came back up about an hour later, after Mandrake had abbreviated the site to allow for the large numbers of accesses.
Well, I was downloading since yesterday. Had to stop the download and go to work. Now the site is down, getting Apache Tomcat errors on almost all the pages.
I guess the/. effect is in progress
Still, I would have expected better from them. They should have anticipated the load from a release, and planned accordingly.
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First, when talking about stable orbits, the higher the orbit, the slower the actual speed.
Now it gets interesting. To move from a lower (faster) orbit to a higher (slower) orbit, you have to go faster. By going faster the vehicle will move away from the earth, thereby slowing down. When you get to the higher orbit you want, you will then have to adjust the speed accordingly (usually you will have to speed up in order to stableize the orbit).
When you are in a higher (slower) orbit and you want to move to a lower (faster) orbit, you first have to slow down. By slowing down you will start falling towards the earth. When you reach the lower orbit, you will then have to speed up in order to stableize the orbit. If someone pushes themselves away from the spacestation, they will have changed their orbit very slightly. Instead of being in a circular orbit, they will then be in an oval orbit. The two orbits will meet two times each time around the earth. So if someone somehow got adrift, in about 45 minutes they would be in a position to do an orbital correction in order to get back to the station/shuttle.
Seat belts and motorcycle helmets save lives. This is a proven fact. And yes, most people ARE too stupid and irresponsible to make their own decisions about safety. But these laws also protect the rest of society from the stupidity of people. Even if injured, the injuries are far less than if people weren't wearing them, and this lessens the burdon on the hospitals and other emergency services. Fireworks are safe? I'd like you to meet some of the people who have had hands blown off and other injuries from fireworks which were supposedly safe.
While having been a trekkie for years, I feel that I can spend my money in better ways elsewhere. However, I predict that the auction will bring more than they expect, because there are lots of trekkies who feel differently than I do.
Ummmm, lets see. First, each service mission costs about 100 million dollars. The Hubble cost between 2 and 3 Billion dollars. It was designed to be serviced and maintained for over 20 years. To build something which wouldn't need servicing for 20 years would probably triple or quintuple the costs. Before you speak (or write), think about what you are about to say or speak. You would look less foolish that way.
Why do you think that? The Tomcat (F-14) is still one of the foremost and versatile fighter ever made. With the upgrades done over the years, it still the the best carrier fighter we have. It has range, computer power, ability to lock onto six different targets at the same time and shoot them all down, and doesn't need to be pointed at the bogeys after the missles are fired. The F-18 Hornet is a short range fighter, and has to keep itself pointed in the general direction of the bogeys until the missles hit.
Starting your own consulting company only works if you want to be self employed, and be ready, willing, and able to deal with everything that goes along with that.
I've done that, and don't want to do it again.
It depends on what your company is doing, and how important you are to the company. Try to cultivate friendships with the management, and make yourself indispensable to the company by involving yourself with projects which are outside of IT.
After 25 years in IT, I was let go a few months ago because they "didn't need my position anymore", and was "replaced" by someone earning about half of what I was getting. This, after helping the company grow from 10 people to 85, and from sales of $100K to over $20 million a year. After creating a serverfarm which increased the capacity of our systems from 5 trnasactoins/second to over 20,000 transactions a second. I joined as Director of IT. In the beginning it was very hands-on. But management never listend to my requests for help, so I was stuck helping people via phone all over the world, maintaining and building the server farm, doing all the support on the PCs, etc. When I finally got help, it was help intended to replace me, which it eventually did. They then hired someone to "assist" my replacement. I've spent three months looking for a new job. So many of them have extremely specific requirements, so specific that there is no way I could even be considered. So now I've left the field. I spent the last 20 years not really liking my jobs and not realizing it. Having left, I finally realized that I wasn't happy before, because of the non-recognition of IT by the rest of the company.
Many years ago, (probably before you were born :-) when cell phones were first introduced, batteries would only last from 1 - 6 days before being run down.
What you don't realize is that the phone is always transmitting a signal, just to let the cell phone network know where you are. Not as in your physical location, but which cell tower you are closest to. This takes power, and is one of the primary uses of the power.
Try going to a location where there is no cell phone service, and see how quickly your battery will run down. The weaker the signal from the cell tower(s), the more power the phone will put out in an attempt to contact a tower.
No. I had to stop because I was using my laptop. When I got in to work, I was unable to get through. The site came back up about an hour later, after Mandrake had abbreviated the site to allow for the large numbers of accesses.
Well, I was downloading since yesterday. Had to stop the download and go to work. Now the site is down, getting Apache Tomcat errors on almost all the pages. I guess the /. effect is in progress
Still, I would have expected better from them. They should have anticipated the load from a release, and planned accordingly.
In the three months I've had my Treo 650, with a bunch of other software loaded, I have had exactly 2 lockups. Not bad IMHO