As i said, for real world applications. Its a fucking wall clock in a house. Not a GPS sat. Oh and if you have ever done traditional navigation out at sea (i have), you would know that your never that accurate. Also a quartz movement is many times more accurate that a gimbaled mechanical chronometer. A temperature compensated quartz oscillator is down to parts per 100 million even a billion, cost a 100 bucks or so (i made some of my own GPS equipment in my masters). They don't give a shit about gravity and are far more robust. Get your anonymous coward head out of your shit hole, you have no idea what your talking about.
even without a sim card you should get wifi and use NTP. Also my phones have not been bad. Like "cheap quartz clocks" they are still pretty accurate. Seconds a month for cheap ones. Not really any real world case where it needs to be better.
I think one of the reasons is that powering up and down, even to standby power settings exposes a lot of different hardware quirks with specific chip sets. I know my own just plain AVR stuff is very specific and that is just one chip. Getting a CPU, buses and GPU and memory, DMAs, USB controllers etc to all go into the right mode correctly and then wake up in the correct sequence would not be easy.
Funny, I have no problems with either feature for years now. I however don't often hibernate. But i use suspend all the time without issues on 4 different laptop since about 2008 i guess. I assumed it wasn't a problem for others as well. These where 2 different IBM/Lenovo thinkpads, a few Acers a Dell and a HP laptop.
I guess i have a few things i do different from average. I always just leave the fast GPU on and turn off the power saving one, i find it makes little difference. I use slackware which i guess others tend not to. And i spend some time customizing and configuring things. After that i don't update outside security updates that affect me which are few and far between for slackware. So i will use the same system for a few years. So maybe i just got lucky.
What is the point of the spam in the can. They can test all the equipment they want without anyone in it. Also it is not really a test when you die if it fails. Testing is suppose to be more about well testing before using.
As a amateur rocket person myself. The best you can do with "off the self" would be a few miles range max for something weighing less than a few kilos, bigger stuff tends to be custom orders with proper licences and stuff. A RC plane would be far more effective. Or even better a Ultralight rigged as a RC plane.
To continue on with this line of thought, if a heater breaks down, your entire crew dies. If the air recycling fails, everybody dies. If the airlock fails, no more science and everyone outside dies. If a space suit has a fault, your shit out of luck. No it is not the movies and you can't just fix it with human ingenuity and duck tape. You just fucking die.
Now add the many metric tons of life support equipment, extra costs of the "failure is not an option", for a meatbag. And no humans to mars will not do better than a similar mass budget and raw budget robotic mission. Not even close. Manned missions are shit for science no matter how you slice it.
It doesn't work. For the simple reason that dead hosts don't transmit the viron, and not dead ones quickly create the antibodies to fight it off. Also virons that are air born have a host of constraints that make them fairly ineffective, are always sensitive to direct sunlight and will mutate away from being effective very very quickly. If they don't they are quickly dispatched by immune systems.
Also that book is pretty shitty as far as informative on the topic. It is typical sky failing bullshit. May as well subscribe to mdsolars newsletter on nuclear.
Err yea no. I worked on this stuff and with other groups on this stuff. It is much harder than people think. That is why evolution hasn't managed to already create the kill all humans virus. It is basically impossible to do.
Wow a thought out post on/. , who knew. Basically this. Yea every person that bemoaned the destruction of the world, use the oil from the oil rigs, the steel from the mines the Aluminum from the processing plants that leave large areas of red mud. The highly industrial life style we have is because of these activities.
And they are very small activities compared to the size of the earth. Very small. Should we be cleaner. Yep probably. But this "OMG they are mining the seas they will all be dead" is not helpful, rational or educated. The gulf of mexico as a case in point. There are a *lot* of people that live on those coasts. Life is just fine.
To be fair the Aloha case was one of "WTF, that shouldn't work". Really that much damage means the front is just not structurally connected to the aft sections. Of course we are leaving out all the cases where such events did in fact result in total loss of aircraft.
Sunshine won't affect any proper laser com system. Rain fading etc will be an issue. But not as much as you make think. Airliners do spend most of their time above the weather. And it is the long haul flights over the oceans that currently lack good options. Once over ground there are plenty of alternatives.
Why the hell do we need to be there to run a remote lab? Lab work is mostly pretty mechanical is terms of protocols. The rest is not going to be affected by the lag (up to 40mins iirc). We can do "human run experiments" without a human leaving earth.
Yes human spaceflight is costlier and more difficult but we also learn more from doing it.
No we don't. We learn less pound for pound. We learn less dollar for dollar and we learn much less mission for mission. And that is leaving out dead astronaut costs and just sheer minimum mission costs. Because meat bags keep dying without air, or water, or when it gets cold or they get a bunch of radiation on em. Then they can't even walk around without a +10M suit which gives them the fineness and mobility of the Michelin man.
Thing about bitcoin is that its shit. It is shit as a currency since far too many speculate with it (it is basically a low volume high risk stock with zero equity behind it). It is shit for transactions because it is sooo slow and getting slower! It is shit because not many people use it. It is shit because even the people in charge of the specification are not in charge and cant sort out their shit. It is shit because it can't handle much volume at all.
Yep the gulf of mexico is soo fucked up you can't swim there or even live on the shores. All life was extinguished. They are all dead jim. Oh wait, i was fishing and swimming there just last year....
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As i said, for real world applications. Its a fucking wall clock in a house. Not a GPS sat. Oh and if you have ever done traditional navigation out at sea (i have), you would know that your never that accurate. Also a quartz movement is many times more accurate that a gimbaled mechanical chronometer. A temperature compensated quartz oscillator is down to parts per 100 million even a billion, cost a 100 bucks or so (i made some of my own GPS equipment in my masters). They don't give a shit about gravity and are far more robust. Get your anonymous coward head out of your shit hole, you have no idea what your talking about.
It is called have 30 other accounts and vote your own articles up in the firehouse.
even without a sim card you should get wifi and use NTP. Also my phones have not been bad. Like "cheap quartz clocks" they are still pretty accurate. Seconds a month for cheap ones. Not really any real world case where it needs to be better.
I think one of the reasons is that powering up and down, even to standby power settings exposes a lot of different hardware quirks with specific chip sets. I know my own just plain AVR stuff is very specific and that is just one chip. Getting a CPU, buses and GPU and memory, DMAs, USB controllers etc to all go into the right mode correctly and then wake up in the correct sequence would not be easy.
Funny, I have no problems with either feature for years now. I however don't often hibernate. But i use suspend all the time without issues on 4 different laptop since about 2008 i guess. I assumed it wasn't a problem for others as well. These where 2 different IBM/Lenovo thinkpads, a few Acers a Dell and a HP laptop.
I guess i have a few things i do different from average. I always just leave the fast GPU on and turn off the power saving one, i find it makes little difference. I use slackware which i guess others tend not to. And i spend some time customizing and configuring things. After that i don't update outside security updates that affect me which are few and far between for slackware. So i will use the same system for a few years. So maybe i just got lucky.
The difference is that bitcoin really can become worthless. Well you can at least use gold to make shinny teeth when no one whats it.
What is the point of the spam in the can. They can test all the equipment they want without anyone in it. Also it is not really a test when you die if it fails. Testing is suppose to be more about well testing before using.
As a amateur rocket person myself. The best you can do with "off the self" would be a few miles range max for something weighing less than a few kilos, bigger stuff tends to be custom orders with proper licences and stuff. A RC plane would be far more effective. Or even better a Ultralight rigged as a RC plane.
To continue on with this line of thought, if a heater breaks down, your entire crew dies. If the air recycling fails, everybody dies. If the airlock fails, no more science and everyone outside dies. If a space suit has a fault, your shit out of luck. No it is not the movies and you can't just fix it with human ingenuity and duck tape. You just fucking die.
Now add the many metric tons of life support equipment, extra costs of the "failure is not an option", for a meatbag. And no humans to mars will not do better than a similar mass budget and raw budget robotic mission. Not even close. Manned missions are shit for science no matter how you slice it.
Your in fucking space, your shit breaks down and your fucked no matter what. there is reason there is no grass on the moon or mars.
It doesn't work. For the simple reason that dead hosts don't transmit the viron, and not dead ones quickly create the antibodies to fight it off. Also virons that are air born have a host of constraints that make them fairly ineffective, are always sensitive to direct sunlight and will mutate away from being effective very very quickly. If they don't they are quickly dispatched by immune systems.
Also that book is pretty shitty as far as informative on the topic. It is typical sky failing bullshit. May as well subscribe to mdsolars newsletter on nuclear.
Err yea no. I worked on this stuff and with other groups on this stuff. It is much harder than people think. That is why evolution hasn't managed to already create the kill all humans virus. It is basically impossible to do.
Wow a thought out post on /. , who knew. Basically this. Yea every person that bemoaned the destruction of the world, use the oil from the oil rigs, the steel from the mines the Aluminum from the processing plants that leave large areas of red mud. The highly industrial life style we have is because of these activities.
And they are very small activities compared to the size of the earth. Very small. Should we be cleaner. Yep probably. But this "OMG they are mining the seas they will all be dead" is not helpful, rational or educated. The gulf of mexico as a case in point. There are a *lot* of people that live on those coasts. Life is just fine.
that is not fair to aged lesbians.
To be fair the Aloha case was one of "WTF, that shouldn't work". Really that much damage means the front is just not structurally connected to the aft sections. Of course we are leaving out all the cases where such events did in fact result in total loss of aircraft.
Sunshine won't affect any proper laser com system. Rain fading etc will be an issue. But not as much as you make think. Airliners do spend most of their time above the weather. And it is the long haul flights over the oceans that currently lack good options. Once over ground there are plenty of alternatives.
For a different set of problems it is more valuable to send people
Name a single one that is not "How to send people there and live for a few months".
Why the hell do we need to be there to run a remote lab? Lab work is mostly pretty mechanical is terms of protocols. The rest is not going to be affected by the lag (up to 40mins iirc). We can do "human run experiments" without a human leaving earth.
Yes human spaceflight is costlier and more difficult but we also learn more from doing it.
No we don't. We learn less pound for pound. We learn less dollar for dollar and we learn much less mission for mission. And that is leaving out dead astronaut costs and just sheer minimum mission costs. Because meat bags keep dying without air, or water, or when it gets cold or they get a bunch of radiation on em. Then they can't even walk around without a +10M suit which gives them the fineness and mobility of the Michelin man.
Don't send a man to do a machines job.
Why bother with soil. Use hydroponics or aeroponics!
That is why you want these things run by official regulated banks. Because without that you have no leg to stand on.
Thing about bitcoin is that its shit. It is shit as a currency since far too many speculate with it (it is basically a low volume high risk stock with zero equity behind it). It is shit for transactions because it is sooo slow and getting slower! It is shit because not many people use it. It is shit because even the people in charge of the specification are not in charge and cant sort out their shit. It is shit because it can't handle much volume at all.
Yep the gulf of mexico is soo fucked up you can't swim there or even live on the shores. All life was extinguished. They are all dead jim. Oh wait, i was fishing and swimming there just last year....
So how do you mine? By dumping a barrel of toxins overboard or something? You have been suckered by a mdsolar submission! BURN.
Go look up the largest mine in the world. Then zoom out a bit.