Assuming launch on a day with little cloud cover, could you not analyze the image of the ground as the balloon rises, watch known shapes determined by recognizable points, do a bit of spherical geometry and trigonometry, and calculate altitude? The kit would be quite light-weight, the mechanics fairly simple, but the programming would need to be somewhat sophisticated (but shouldn't be too hard for resources available to El Reg's boffinry).
"I'm from the govt and I'm here to help you. Bend over."
Regarding privatisation, The bureaucrat vs. contractor differentiation is to a large extent bogus in cases such as this. Yes, private contractors can be just as hideously incompetent as govt workers, but remember please that the govt workers write the specs, manage (hah!) the contract, evaluate results, and control the money. Even though this system is run by employees in the private sector I still blame the bureaucrats.
Lying's bad, mkay? But other than that, so what? A computer "science" degree is utterly irrelevant when it comes to running a company, even a high-tech company.
I agree that this is just a bogus excuse for Thompson bashing. He may or may not deserve bashing - I really don't care - but Third Point should properly focus on his performance as chief Yahoo! suit.
No, I don't want one of these myself but that's not the point. This is an initial introduction of a new technology and only those with the money and inclination should acquire a Terrafugia. Perhaps these things will take off (sorry, couldn't resist), perhaps not, but this is the way new things enter the marketplace.
I'm glad flight testing of an early production model has begun (and eight minutes is not out of line for early flight test), and I wish the company and its clients and investors the best of luck.
Put wings/stabilizers on the truss and a small rocket motor on one end, turning it into a flying launch platform. Lohan launch would consist of first lighting the truss-mounted motor and cutting loose from the balloon tether, followed some seconds later by launch of Lohan itself from the truss platform/aircraft.
I request that you cease using derogatory terms such as "hippies" when referring to the CAGW crowd, but kindly please wait until the CAGW watermelons stop referring to legitimate scientific critics as "deniers" and "enemies of humanity" and as being "funded by Big Oil."
I do hope this includes all data back to the raw files used to create enhanced views such as aggregates and other statistical analyses. Furthermore I hope that whenever possible this new plan is applied retroactively to data used in research already published. Finally, code (or at least the formal algorithms) used to manipulate the data and produce the reported results is essential to give the full picture.
With govts world-wide claiming and enforcing monopolies of money definition and creation (and using fiat currencies), the degree of indebtedness, led by those govt themselves, is the creation of the antithesis of a free market. Furthermore, the heavy-handed and expensive govt financial, environmental, labor, trade, etc., there is no such thing in the real world as a free market economic environment.
Blaming the economic crises (yes, plural) on the free market shows ignorance, ideological blindness, or stupidity (or some combination of those).
"Your client is being charged with security intellectual property – her email, accessing her intellectual property," judge Pat Donofrio said.
Judge Donofrio is confused, ignorant, stupid, or any combination of the three. "Intellectual property" legally refers to patents, trade secrets, trade marks, and copyrights. To include email is ludicrous.
Will I have to execute a non-disclosure agreement when my wife sends me out with a grocery list?
Tax and regulatory incentives from govt are an amplifying force in concentration. Such interventions are added incentive to locate in "friendly" regimes. Without such intervention, companies would still use the same economic and risk assessments to make their decisions but ceteris paribus they would be less likely to move to otherwise less profitable or riskier locations.
"Their intentions may have been good, but take-downs of illegal websites and sharing networks should be done by the authorities, not internet vigilantes," writes Graham Cluley of Sophos.
"When 'amateurs' attack there is always the risk that they are compromising an existing investigation, preventing the police from gathering the necessary evidence they require for a successful prosecution, or making it difficult to argue that evidence has not been corrupted by hackers."
My comment:
Mr. Cluly (interesting name, that) makes a common mistake in assuming that "the authorities" are more honest and more competent than "internet vigilantes." The sad truth is that the authorities are not a different breed of humans; they have the same fortes and foibles as we mere mundanes do, but when they screw up they have the power of govt at their disposal and very limited liability for the damage they may do. We mundanes, on the other hand, have no such virtually unlimited power and are completely vulnerable for undeserved damage to others.
I'll take the vigilantes over the authorities whenever possible, thank you.
The import duties should be "harmonized" to zero. Why is there a duty on garlic, FFS?
To answer my own question, there's a duty on garlic because the local garlic farmers bought off their politicians so as to avoid having to compete and so make local consumers pay more for what should be cheaper.
If you mean disk storage, doubling (or more) the linear density will double the transfer rate assuming the associated controllers and paths can handle it, and I think they can.
If you mean main memory storage, then see last week's article on memristor development with products coming in about a year.
It is the high-precision GPS that will be hammered, primary users are agriculture and surveying. This is not good, and there's more to this than is included in most news reports, even tech-oriented reports. Many high-precision GPS receivers use satellite-based correction services that also occupy adjacent frequency bands, and so the receivers' antennae are designed to work on both, with the LightSquared stuff whacking all of it.
LightSquared's proposal will likely have little effect on consumer-level GPS, but will seriously harm commercial high-precision GPS systems used for real work. The value of that work far outweighs the the apparent small size if you simply compare the number of high-precision receivers to the rest of them (reportedly it is "merely" 0.5%).
As for the politics, kindly note that George Soros is a significant LightSquared backer. Mr. Soros is also a big backer of president 0, who appointed Julius Genachowski, current chairman of the FCC and a LightSquared proponent.
In most circumstances I'd have no objection to skimpy clothing, for the obvious reason if the wearer were good looking, but even otherwise it would be a lively topic for conversation.
I might object, though, if I were recovering from a circumcision.
Net Neutrality = Govt Net Surveillance and Control
I don't much like some of the ISP/telco practices but I detest the very concept of swapping those practices for govt control. Shirley you know it won't stop here.
For the uninitiated, the Reg kilowrist unit is the bandwidth required to transmit 1,000 simultaneous uncompressed 720x480 video streams.
Hey, Sarah - Would you be so kind as to ask the El Reg PTB to consolidate the various articles containing your brilliant measurement units in one piece and link to it on the Odds and Sods page? TIA
(Thumb Up icon as it is the only upstanding extremity image offered, thank goodness.)
The amount of reflected light is determined by the planar area of the perimeter. If anything, a curved surface will reflect less of the incident light than a flat surface because no material is 100% reflective (not considering quantum materials and events) and so the larger curved surface results in greater loss of incoming light.
CRT screens are convex for strength as well. Don't forget the semi-vacuum inside. Flat CRT screens need to be thicker and are therefor heavier and more expensive to manufacture and transport.
Saying "'Marker Felt'...is not nearly as fugly as C***c Sans" is like saying that a 30 lb. rock dropped on your foot doesn't hurt as much as a 40 lb. rock.
Those who show disdain for private firearm ownership and carry either are ignorant of or choose to ignore the number of attempted crimes that fail because the intended victim possessed a gun. This kind of event rarely makes the news and almost never appears in police statistics because the gun rarely fired and many incidents are never reported. A good estimate in the US is that this happens from one to three million times per year, and the numbers come from academic statistical studies by people such as John Lott and Gary Kleck who are not part of any gun-oriented organization or movement, either pro or con.
"At least the world agrees that the slot screw is an abomination that deserves to go the same way as surgery without anaesthetic and public hangings."
I agree about the surgery, but there's something appealing about public hangings of company managers who decide to use special-tool fasteners in their products. I've paid my money, I own the article, now let me in!
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image analysis
Assuming launch on a day with little cloud cover, could you not analyze the image of the ground as the balloon rises, watch known shapes determined by recognizable points, do a bit of spherical geometry and trigonometry, and calculate altitude? The kit would be quite light-weight, the mechanics fairly simple, but the programming would need to be somewhat sophisticated (but shouldn't be too hard for resources available to El Reg's boffinry).
(Paris because you don't have a Lindsay icon)
Help!
"I'm from the govt and I'm here to help you. Bend over."
Regarding privatisation, The bureaucrat vs. contractor differentiation is to a large extent bogus in cases such as this. Yes, private contractors can be just as hideously incompetent as govt workers, but remember please that the govt workers write the specs, manage (hah!) the contract, evaluate results, and control the money. Even though this system is run by employees in the private sector I still blame the bureaucrats.
semi-meh
Lying's bad, mkay? But other than that, so what? A computer "science" degree is utterly irrelevant when it comes to running a company, even a high-tech company.
I agree that this is just a bogus excuse for Thompson bashing. He may or may not deserve bashing - I really don't care - but Third Point should properly focus on his performance as chief Yahoo! suit.
queue
Any bets on when the first fanbois set up camp outside Apple stores waiting for the iPhone 5?
...or am I already too late?
early adopters
No, I don't want one of these myself but that's not the point. This is an initial introduction of a new technology and only those with the money and inclination should acquire a Terrafugia. Perhaps these things will take off (sorry, couldn't resist), perhaps not, but this is the way new things enter the marketplace.
I'm glad flight testing of an early production model has begun (and eight minutes is not out of line for early flight test), and I wish the company and its clients and investors the best of luck.
"Waaaaaah!" chorused the spokespeople for Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, and WWF.
Abysmal
"She Freak" from 1967. Burn every copy. Before viewing.
I'd like to think some of the cast/crew paid the producer to be omitted from the credits.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062259/
crisis management
"Governments will be able to spot the economic makings of a crisis before they happen..."
We've had the technology to do that for a very long time. It's called a "mirror."
All economic crises I can think of have been the unintended consequences of govt laws and regulations.
Re: SOS Button
Give her a couple of 2-foot strips of duct tape to play with.
Re: Sir
In criminal matters, leniency, if any, should affect sentencing. Calling for leniency in charging, trying, and convicting is premature.
2-stage, sort of
Put wings/stabilizers on the truss and a small rocket motor on one end, turning it into a flying launch platform. Lohan launch would consist of first lighting the truss-mounted motor and cutting loose from the balloon tether, followed some seconds later by launch of Lohan itself from the truss platform/aircraft.
Dang
Thanks, Mr. Brandt, for providing the Scroogle service. I was a long-term satisfied user and will greatly miss the search site.
Comments here regarding satisfactory alternatives (non-Bing, non-Google, please) would be welcome.
not mutually exclusive
Best is of course both prevention AND mitigation.
Dear Mr. Page,
I request that you cease using derogatory terms such as "hippies" when referring to the CAGW crowd, but kindly please wait until the CAGW watermelons stop referring to legitimate scientific critics as "deniers" and "enemies of humanity" and as being "funded by Big Oil."
Thank you.
Raw data, too?
I do hope this includes all data back to the raw files used to create enhanced views such as aggregates and other statistical analyses. Furthermore I hope that whenever possible this new plan is applied retroactively to data used in research already published. Finally, code (or at least the formal algorithms) used to manipulate the data and produce the reported results is essential to give the full picture.
Suck on THAT, Phil Jones!
Security?
You've mistakenly posted this article in the Security section. It should be in Politics or Govt.
FAIL
With govts world-wide claiming and enforcing monopolies of money definition and creation (and using fiat currencies), the degree of indebtedness, led by those govt themselves, is the creation of the antithesis of a free market. Furthermore, the heavy-handed and expensive govt financial, environmental, labor, trade, etc., there is no such thing in the real world as a free market economic environment.
Blaming the economic crises (yes, plural) on the free market shows ignorance, ideological blindness, or stupidity (or some combination of those).
Meh
Whether it's "caca" or "ca.ca" it's still crap.
what next, grocery lists?
From the article:
"Your client is being charged with security intellectual property – her email, accessing her intellectual property," judge Pat Donofrio said.
Judge Donofrio is confused, ignorant, stupid, or any combination of the three. "Intellectual property" legally refers to patents, trade secrets, trade marks, and copyrights. To include email is ludicrous.
Will I have to execute a non-disclosure agreement when my wife sends me out with a grocery list?
how about...
...adding the suffix "_myob" instead?
Yum!
"The substitution of an actual puddle of rainwater would, clearly, completely destroy the integrity of the work."
Delicious.
Eek
Eek
Govt intervention
Second what Philip Clarke said in post #1.
Tax and regulatory incentives from govt are an amplifying force in concentration. Such interventions are added incentive to locate in "friendly" regimes. Without such intervention, companies would still use the same economic and risk assessments to make their decisions but ceteris paribus they would be less likely to move to otherwise less profitable or riskier locations.
examine your assumptions
From the article:
"Their intentions may have been good, but take-downs of illegal websites and sharing networks should be done by the authorities, not internet vigilantes," writes Graham Cluley of Sophos.
"When 'amateurs' attack there is always the risk that they are compromising an existing investigation, preventing the police from gathering the necessary evidence they require for a successful prosecution, or making it difficult to argue that evidence has not been corrupted by hackers."
My comment:
Mr. Cluly (interesting name, that) makes a common mistake in assuming that "the authorities" are more honest and more competent than "internet vigilantes." The sad truth is that the authorities are not a different breed of humans; they have the same fortes and foibles as we mere mundanes do, but when they screw up they have the power of govt at their disposal and very limited liability for the damage they may do. We mundanes, on the other hand, have no such virtually unlimited power and are completely vulnerable for undeserved damage to others.
I'll take the vigilantes over the authorities whenever possible, thank you.
Yes, after a fashion
The import duties should be "harmonized" to zero. Why is there a duty on garlic, FFS?
To answer my own question, there's a duty on garlic because the local garlic farmers bought off their politicians so as to avoid having to compete and so make local consumers pay more for what should be cheaper.
you got it
If you mean disk storage, doubling (or more) the linear density will double the transfer rate assuming the associated controllers and paths can handle it, and I think they can.
If you mean main memory storage, then see last week's article on memristor development with products coming in about a year.
Uh-oh
I find the prospect of being under constant govt surveillance highly stressful. And this tech essentially detects and measures stress, right?
I'm fucked.
A phonetic alphabet is useful at times...
...such as when I found my surname spelled ESUUORTHY.
OK, I'll trot out my foenetick alphabet
I put this together some years back and use it for amusement from time to time:
A as in Aeolian
B as in Bilirubin
C as in Cello
D as in Duh
E as in Eidetic
F as in Fungible
G as in Gila monster
H as in Herb
I as in Idiotic
J as in Junta
K as in Knit
L as in Llama
M as in Mneme
N as in Nit
O as in Oenophilia
P as in Pneumaturia
Q as in Quiche
R as in Ring
S as in Seamus
T as in Tsar
U as in Uilleann pipes
V as in Volkswagen
W as in Wring
X as in Xylophagous
Y as in Ypres
Z as in Zoon
BBBBBrilliant
I will visit their .xxx web site if - AND ONLY IF - it shows movies of the PETA board being buggered by bison.
I got your title right HERE
Sorry I didn't get in on the initial suggestions. I'd have offered
Ludicrously Overreaching but Heroic and Artful Nearspacecraft
Oh, waiter!
Mozo, traigame por favor huevos rancheros con frijoles refritos con salsa de ajo y Succinivibrionaceae
You don't get it
Modelling != science
There's a bigger story here
It is the high-precision GPS that will be hammered, primary users are agriculture and surveying. This is not good, and there's more to this than is included in most news reports, even tech-oriented reports. Many high-precision GPS receivers use satellite-based correction services that also occupy adjacent frequency bands, and so the receivers' antennae are designed to work on both, with the LightSquared stuff whacking all of it.
LightSquared's proposal will likely have little effect on consumer-level GPS, but will seriously harm commercial high-precision GPS systems used for real work. The value of that work far outweighs the the apparent small size if you simply compare the number of high-precision receivers to the rest of them (reportedly it is "merely" 0.5%).
As for the politics, kindly note that George Soros is a significant LightSquared backer. Mr. Soros is also a big backer of president 0, who appointed Julius Genachowski, current chairman of the FCC and a LightSquared proponent.
Not I
In most circumstances I'd have no objection to skimpy clothing, for the obvious reason if the wearer were good looking, but even otherwise it would be a lively topic for conversation.
I might object, though, if I were recovering from a circumcision.
Newspeak
Net Neutrality = Govt Net Surveillance and Control
I don't much like some of the ISP/telco practices but I detest the very concept of swapping those practices for govt control. Shirley you know it won't stop here.
[Where did the V/Guy Fawkes tag go?]
Henceforth
...she should be known as Belinda.
Reg units
For the uninitiated, the Reg kilowrist unit is the bandwidth required to transmit 1,000 simultaneous uncompressed 720x480 video streams.
Hey, Sarah - Would you be so kind as to ask the El Reg PTB to consolidate the various articles containing your brilliant measurement units in one piece and link to it on the Odds and Sods page? TIA
(Thumb Up icon as it is the only upstanding extremity image offered, thank goodness.)
faulty pedant!
Wrong.
The amount of reflected light is determined by the planar area of the perimeter. If anything, a curved surface will reflect less of the incident light than a flat surface because no material is 100% reflective (not considering quantum materials and events) and so the larger curved surface results in greater loss of incoming light.
CRT screen are convex for more than one reason
CRT screens are convex for strength as well. Don't forget the semi-vacuum inside. Flat CRT screens need to be thicker and are therefor heavier and more expensive to manufacture and transport.
Shoe condition?
Is it too much to hope that before the protester removed and threw the shoe he had stepped in, shall we say, used dog food?
Yes, indeed...
...and particularly nice that switching reduces resistance by 10**3.
a plot
Shirley this is the work of commie chickens - a conspiratorial cabal of Rhode Island Reds.
The only proper circumstance for a death penalty...
...is when it is carried out at the time of the intended crime by the intended victim.
Why stop with just one branch?
see Title.
usage
"Maybe the certainty of WD's dollars was stronger than the variable outcome of an IPO for Hitachi."
Variable? I think you mean uncertain.
/pedant
You also cannot overuse bacon.
eom
simile
Saying "'Marker Felt'...is not nearly as fugly as C***c Sans" is like saying that a 30 lb. rock dropped on your foot doesn't hurt as much as a 40 lb. rock.
Well done, Utah
Those who show disdain for private firearm ownership and carry either are ignorant of or choose to ignore the number of attempted crimes that fail because the intended victim possessed a gun. This kind of event rarely makes the news and almost never appears in police statistics because the gun rarely fired and many incidents are never reported. A good estimate in the US is that this happens from one to three million times per year, and the numbers come from academic statistical studies by people such as John Lott and Gary Kleck who are not part of any gun-oriented organization or movement, either pro or con.
Well done, Utah.
Swinging slowly in the breeze
"At least the world agrees that the slot screw is an abomination that deserves to go the same way as surgery without anaesthetic and public hangings."
I agree about the surgery, but there's something appealing about public hangings of company managers who decide to use special-tool fasteners in their products. I've paid my money, I own the article, now let me in!
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