Posts by Bent Outta Shape 21 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jan 2012
Nah, poor Voyager will have to endure a further 34 hours of questions after finally being able to answer "We're here!".
I.e. 17 hours of questions whilst the answer flitters back to Earth; but of course *during* those hours NASA have still been asking more questions. So assuming NASA stop asking on receipt of "We're here" there is still a further 17 hours of questions in-flight towards Voyager.
That 'modern technology' quip was also true back when TV news allowed pictures to cross the world in seconds.
It was true as radio allowed events to be broadcast around countries in seconds
It was true as newspapers distributed popular and important stories to the public daily
It was true when the telegraph allowed news to be relayed to individuals over a short time
It was even true when the much-vaunted Roman legions and their roads allowed merchants and travellers to go much farther more often than before.
People are people. The tech gets faster, but the witchhunts remain the same.
There's no way your average human will be able to focus on something 1 inch from their eye (try it!).
So I suspect the HUD will do some lensy blurry magic (*) so that the image appears to be somewhat further back. Maybe not 8ft though...
(*) technical term, used by those of us who have no real idea about the optics.
I thought all the Nexus devices forced you into using MTP to write to the flash memory, and that good old "USB Mass Storage" mode was unavailable. So the file system on the flash is, presumably, completely irrelevant for Nexus.
Unfortunately, the file system does matter for any device that lets you take a flash card out to use elsewhere.
Or I've just missed something...
On "solar furnace and sintering" - see what Markus Kayser does with sand in a desert on earth. No liquids, though lots of dust/sand needed. It would obviously need scaled up...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsk-24UYFs0
(T'was posted in a comment on the phys.org link from the article)
"That concern may arise because the launch probably violated UN Security Council Resolution 1929, which bans “any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using ballistic missile technology""
So only *good people* are allowed to join the space race? Or is this a tacit acknowledgement that every other country that lobbed someone into space did so in conjunction with anywhere-on-the-planet range missiles?
Cynical minds need to know :-)
I have to agree - Firefox Beta(*), the kid's favourite "Plants vs Zombies", the Android clock/timer - all have crashed repeatedly and seemingly randomly since the 4.2 update. I don't recall them crashing at all in the two months or so prior to that. The kids still love the Nexus 7, most apps seem unaffected and it's still very smooth to use, but it's most definitely less stable overall than 4.1.2.
(*) Yeah, it's beta. But it worked remarkably well 'till the 4.2 update.
You have to see the chart to really appreciate what the graphic artists may have been smoking that day.
a) "I don't want to work on a tablet (paraphrased)" - coloured in 77% grey.
b) "Google Android" - coloured in 76% grey.
I needed the GIMP to tell them apart; to my eye they're completely identical. Direct link to chart, from the link in the article:-
http://blogs.forrester.com/f/b/users/dajohnson/tablet_os_preference.jpg
PS Android had the 11% rating.
I agree with you on the apparent inefficiency; "Implemented in hardware", meet "coded in software". But there's more to it than that.
The traffic is far, far more bursty than a nice "average over a day", and there are approx 100 quotes that get cancelled for every actual trade - think peaks of 500,000 msgs/sec averaged over 1 second.
The ISE will kit out enough servers to comfortably handle what they feel is the peak market rate, and then some headroom. Really rather a lot of headroom. Throw in the hot-standbys, test environments and so on. Lots of machines to configure, and a pain to upgrade and/or rollback - and so back to Puppet.
So if I read you correctly - and I have no figures here of my own you understand - human activity is emitting 30 billion tons of CO2 per yer, and the peatlands may extract up to *3700 billion* tons (3.7 giga tons) per year.
And you think the peatland will barely dent the CO2 increase? If those numbers are correct, they'll annihilate it...
Gobsmacked, even. And I'm not even drunk this Friday night.
So I checked the link from the second paragraph on the article, and no - the kid's website wasn't even hosted in the US.
So what frekkin right does the US have to try him? How can our judiciary in any way consider that there's a case to answer in the US for activity a UK citizen(*) carried out entirely outside the USA? When will we see the US extraditing it's citizens to the slew of countries that imprison people for hosting - just for example - porn?
Yes, I understand these are questions that aren't going to be answered from our government anytime soon, but it's an astoundingly bad precedent to set. Extradition treaty aside, and ignoring for now whether he broke UK law in hosting links - it's the thought that we'll send someone off to another country's legal system for acts anywhere on the 'net.
I remain stunned, and hoping a higher court slaps down this judge...</rant>
(*) an assumption based on the "never even left the North of England"
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