ESA replaced Ariane 4 with Ariane 5 -- the last A4 launch was 15 February 2003 -- for cost reasons. two satellites on an A5 for less that twice the cost of an A4 launch. Soyuz didn't start launching from French Guiana until 2011.
I've checked the data on my iPhone and it's crap. Zero hits on my apartment, zero hits on my office. Hundreds of hits on places I've never visited. During a trip to the UK, I seem to have visited locations arranged on a one-kilometre grid covering most of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire -- which is odd, because I just went to my sister's house. Good luck using that for anything worhwhile.
The monopoly has been removed here in the Netherlands, and the old monopolist -- now owned by TNT -- is going broke. States granted a monopoly on mail delivery in return for a commitment to deliver to every address -- the private companies only want the easy work, delivering in towns and cities. Once the former monopolist goes broke, mail delivery in rural areas will stop forever. To prevent this from happening, the Dutch government will eventually have to legislate -- tinkering with the business models of the competitors -- or accept that if you live in a village or on a farm, you have to drive to the nearest town to pick up your mail.
However, in my experience, I have seen very little correlation between raw ability to code and the success of projects. Zoho better have some kickass business analysts and project managers for these coders.
I was always taught that writing the code wasn't the difficult part of programming. The hard part was figuring out what code to write. That's where the "new Sanskrit" comes in.
Waddaya mean “commercial sales’? It’s paid by the taxpayer, and so everyone of us (writing as a German taxpayer) must have access to it. Or else I think it is pretty much illegal.
Dear Mr Taxpayer, Your raw data is ready -- 220,000 DVDs -- where do you want them?
The telescope was designed and built under the management of the German Aerospace Center with funding from the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie; BMWi).
The shitbags that we elect to supposedly represent us are once again bowing down before their corporate masters and sucking their dicks. However, we should celebrate this for the good news it undoubtedly is. Actions like this will ensure that our software wizards are truly motivated to design and implement a new system for file sharing that is proof against government interference.
This will work about as well as exaggerated drugs "education" has. Tell the kids "One puff of weed and you'll end up as a junkie, living in a cardboard box" - and the kids see the flaws in your argument, go - "Yeah, right," and smoke up anyway.
Media Markt are just box shifters - their shops are dumps and their staff are mostly morons - that's how they keep stuff cheap. Apple only lets them sell Macs so that they will take iPods as well. My MacBook Pro was only 90 euros more expensive at the Apple Centre round the corner from MM in The Hague, so Apple aren't giving them big discounts, either.
Remind me how tracking everyone everywhere is going to do anything whatsoever to prevent that happening again?
It's not intended to prevent it happening again. It's intended to give the impression that something is being done to prevent it happening again.
This reply is so ill-informed, it's incredible. (That's it's, not its - illiterate as well.)
1. GIOVE-A, the first Galileo test satellite, was launched on 28 December 2005 from Baikonur Cosmodrome. It transmitted its (not it's) first navigation signal on 12 January 2006 and began transmitting complete navigation messages (i.e. with ephemeris and clock performance data) on 2nd May this year. No Frigidaire (just a commercially available satellite bus), no amateur radio (although SSTL, who built GIOVE-A, got their start building amateur radio satellites at the University of Surrey), two rubidium frequency standards (but no metronome), no baling wire (or bailing wire, either) and definitely no Weird Al.
2. Nobody has hacked any Galileo encryption. They have deduced the previously unspecified content of the signals transmitted by GIOVE-A and made out like they had discovered some big secret. The Cornell GPS lab deduced the PRN codes used by GIOVE-A - which were not secret, just not widely distributed. When the time comes, the two Galileo Public Regulated Service navigation signals will have their ranging codes and data encrypted - and no teenagers will be able to hack them - just like nobody has ever hacked the P(Y)-codes on GPS. In any case, the encryption keys will be replaceable in-service.
3. The agreement doesn't call for the US to rely on Europe. It calls for the systems to be interoperable so that, when they are both functioning, user can get quicker and more accurate fixes by having more satellites visible. Galileo will offer better performance at higher latitudes - won't someone think of the Alaskans?
Europe didn't kill Concorde. British Airways and Air France killed Concorde because it became unprofitable after a modification programme made necessary mainly by an accident caused by a piece of metal that fell off of an American airliner.
Airbus may yet get to eat Boeing's lunch - let's wait for the outcome of the Dreamliner/AB380 death match.
Your only (partially) valid criticism: it turned out that the industrial consortium that was supposed to build Galileo couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery, let alone take responsibility for a major space infrastructure project. Most likely, the European Space Agency will act as procurement agent for the system, which will then be operated by someone sensible, like Inmarsat.
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Use a VPN. Don't let your ISP screw with your traffic.
If they meant lifeboat, they would have called it 'pelastusvene'.
So sue me. If the district court judges here can stop laughing long enough, they'll sanction your lawyer and award me costs.
ESA replaced Ariane 4 with Ariane 5 -- the last A4 launch was 15 February 2003 -- for cost reasons. two satellites on an A5 for less that twice the cost of an A4 launch. Soyuz didn't start launching from French Guiana until 2011.
I've checked the data on my iPhone and it's crap. Zero hits on my apartment, zero hits on my office. Hundreds of hits on places I've never visited. During a trip to the UK, I seem to have visited locations arranged on a one-kilometre grid covering most of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire -- which is odd, because I just went to my sister's house. Good luck using that for anything worhwhile.
The monopoly has been removed here in the Netherlands, and the old monopolist -- now owned by TNT -- is going broke. States granted a monopoly on mail delivery in return for a commitment to deliver to every address -- the private companies only want the easy work, delivering in towns and cities. Once the former monopolist goes broke, mail delivery in rural areas will stop forever. To prevent this from happening, the Dutch government will eventually have to legislate -- tinkering with the business models of the competitors -- or accept that if you live in a village or on a farm, you have to drive to the nearest town to pick up your mail.
What allocation? You may as well fill your boots. Run your intertube red hot 24/7.
However, in my experience, I have seen very little correlation between raw ability to code and the success of projects. Zoho better have some kickass business analysts and project managers for these coders.
I was always taught that writing the code wasn't the difficult part of programming. The hard part was figuring out what code to write. That's where the "new Sanskrit" comes in.
Waddaya mean “commercial sales’? It’s paid by the taxpayer, and so everyone of us (writing as a German taxpayer) must have access to it. Or else I think it is pretty much illegal.
Dear Mr Taxpayer, Your raw data is ready -- 220,000 DVDs -- where do you want them?
the correct term is topographic or relief map. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topographic_map
The correct term is digital elevation model.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model
My mistake. Got my maps and my models muddled.
The German Aerospace Center deal with the scientific utilization.
and paying a license fee
data sets will be provided under COFUR (Cost Of Fulfilling User Request) conditions
Poor rabbits...
Not, rabbits -- hares.
With stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain.
No idea what other advantages radar has
It works through cloud cover and at night.
Where can I complain if I don't want my private property mapped by the German government?
Don't worry. The reflection from your tinfoil hat will blind the radar over your house.
Infoterra GmbH will be responsible for commercial sales of the data. The German Aerospace Center deal with the scientific utilization.
The telescope was designed and built under the management of the German Aerospace Center with funding from the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie; BMWi).
The shitbags that we elect to supposedly represent us are once again bowing down before their corporate masters and sucking their dicks. However, we should celebrate this for the good news it undoubtedly is. Actions like this will ensure that our software wizards are truly motivated to design and implement a new system for file sharing that is proof against government interference.
At end-of-life, geostationary satellites are moved into a higher orbit to make way for new ones.
100 tonnes is the total mass - 20+ satellites each weighing less that 5 tonnes
This will work about as well as exaggerated drugs "education" has. Tell the kids "One puff of weed and you'll end up as a junkie, living in a cardboard box" - and the kids see the flaws in your argument, go - "Yeah, right," and smoke up anyway.
The Russians have been delivering supplies with the Progress spacecraft. Only people travel in Soyuz.
The Americans didn't elect George Bush either - the second time round.
Media Markt are just box shifters - their shops are dumps and their staff are mostly morons - that's how they keep stuff cheap. Apple only lets them sell Macs so that they will take iPods as well. My MacBook Pro was only 90 euros more expensive at the Apple Centre round the corner from MM in The Hague, so Apple aren't giving them big discounts, either.
It's not intended to prevent it happening again. It's intended to give the impression that something is being done to prevent it happening again.
This reply is so ill-informed, it's incredible. (That's it's, not its - illiterate as well.)
1. GIOVE-A, the first Galileo test satellite, was launched on 28 December 2005 from Baikonur Cosmodrome. It transmitted its (not it's) first navigation signal on 12 January 2006 and began transmitting complete navigation messages (i.e. with ephemeris and clock performance data) on 2nd May this year. No Frigidaire (just a commercially available satellite bus), no amateur radio (although SSTL, who built GIOVE-A, got their start building amateur radio satellites at the University of Surrey), two rubidium frequency standards (but no metronome), no baling wire (or bailing wire, either) and definitely no Weird Al.
2. Nobody has hacked any Galileo encryption. They have deduced the previously unspecified content of the signals transmitted by GIOVE-A and made out like they had discovered some big secret. The Cornell GPS lab deduced the PRN codes used by GIOVE-A - which were not secret, just not widely distributed. When the time comes, the two Galileo Public Regulated Service navigation signals will have their ranging codes and data encrypted - and no teenagers will be able to hack them - just like nobody has ever hacked the P(Y)-codes on GPS. In any case, the encryption keys will be replaceable in-service.
3. The agreement doesn't call for the US to rely on Europe. It calls for the systems to be interoperable so that, when they are both functioning, user can get quicker and more accurate fixes by having more satellites visible. Galileo will offer better performance at higher latitudes - won't someone think of the Alaskans?
Europe didn't kill Concorde. British Airways and Air France killed Concorde because it became unprofitable after a modification programme made necessary mainly by an accident caused by a piece of metal that fell off of an American airliner.
Airbus may yet get to eat Boeing's lunch - let's wait for the outcome of the Dreamliner/AB380 death match.
Your only (partially) valid criticism: it turned out that the industrial consortium that was supposed to build Galileo couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery, let alone take responsibility for a major space infrastructure project. Most likely, the European Space Agency will act as procurement agent for the system, which will then be operated by someone sensible, like Inmarsat.
Who's the tosser now?