The SA and Oz telescopes aren't directly linked, instead each local set is correlated with a local clock and then compared off line later. The data rates are only really scary at the high frequency end and there isn't much point in doing baselines that long at those frequencies (although resolution increases with baseline the filed of view and sensitivity drop)
Combining telescopes on different continents (VLBI) has been done for decades at lower frequencies - one of the interesting bits is that you need to know the position of the dishes relative to each other and the centre of the Earth accuratley - so it's the best way of measuring small changes in the Earth's crust.
We’ve just passed the 500 million licenses sold mark for Windows 7, which represents half a billion PCs that could be upgraded to Linux on the day it ships.
Making a laptop with a completely smooth flat surface but with all the connectors, lights, switches etc of a regular laptop is trickier.
Adding 'design' to a laptop by just putting bits of chrome plated plastic on the corners and having LEDs stick out of the case at random angles depending how the solder worked is easy.
I get the whole collapse wave-function action at a distance bit (went to physics, got the T-shirt)
But I don't see how this provides any security?
If Carol was in the middle with an identical model Quantum Communicator 3000 she could grab the first entangled photon. Then create and send a new uncollapsed one onto Bob with her own message.
The only way Alice knows that it was Bob that collapsed her photon and not Carol is the common time reference and it seems that this would be just as reliable (if not more so) for a regular communications packet going down a fibre.
If we use gas we don't need to spend 30bn on Trident.
After all it would be a bit silly to have an expensive nuclear weapon to protect us from Russia when they can shut us down by just turning a tap off - so savings all round.
Re: If you want some sort of consistency with Windows
Except the makers conspire with MSFT to stop you
Server will only run signed drivers and the HW makers only supply 'server' drivers for their 'server' HW - that's why the same PC from DELL costs 2x as much on the server page
In Canada there is a levy on all blank CDs to cover this.
In theory it goes to the artists based on all time record sales (so Bryan Adams and Celine Dion) - however the 25c/disk (!) doesn't cover the costs of the scheme so no money has been paid out.
But small local bands selling their own home made CDs do get to pay the levy on the blanks - so that's OK then.
Personally I'm ready to welcome the new smartphone metaphor
There area couple of 1000 commands in one of the 3D modeling programs I use - it takes forever to find a little used function in the menus or toolbars.
Now that there will be a single intuitive and obvious touch gesture to select between optimising hole placement by tool path as opposed to tool change time my life will be much easier
It's not necessarily a HTC prove it is compliant it's more a case of - these foreign phones are doing bad things to a great American company, we might just have to take a look at all of them, that might take a few weeks/months etc.
Back in the day when Japan actually made stuff we would often get this - if there was some sort of issue with a Japanese competitor - our kit would sit on the docks waiting for some paperwork.
I managed to get an operator somehow without putting in the credit card, then I get her to put the call on my ATT calling card (remember those!) without her knowing I was on a plane - then I couldn't think of anyone to call !
Re: Before anyone says "here comes big brother"...
It will mean more running red lights.
There was a trial scheme in one town on this side of t'pond. Since they don't have detailed maps of speed limit zones it just tracked how often you braked hard.
More breaking = bad driver = lost your discount insurance rate.
So if a little old lady walks out into the road or a cyclist cuts across you - you have a split second to decide if the dent in the bonnet will be cheaper than the insurance hike.
We used to use "active optics" for correcting mechanical effects and "adaptive" for correcting atmosphere - but now people use adaptive for both.
Adaptive optics doesn't really help for looking down into the atmosphere - but isn't as necessary. Standing at the bottom of the atmosphere looking up - any small change in refractive index turns into a big angle distance and so the image of a distant object moves a long way. Standing at the top of the atmosphere looking down - any movement of an atmosphere near the object has very little effect
In el'reg terms it's like putting your eye up close to a crinkled bathroom window and looking out vs pressing a body upto the glass and looking at it from a long way off.
It's because they have a very "manned mission" mindset - you can't upload a new crew if you kill them with a bug.
The reason Apollo worked - in spite of the technology at the time - was that everything was tested and rehearsed to a ludicrous degree. But this attitude has continued as religous doctrine in everything they do.
I was involved with one of the original instruments on Hubble. Everything on it had to be "man rated", that made sense as far as not using toxic or hazardous propellants that an astronaut could come into contact with, but it extended to everything. We were restricted in comms chips to very low bandwidth designs that were man rated (ie apollo era) that severely restricted the science data.
One report put the build cost of Hubble at 300% of what it would have cost if had been made to launch on a rocket rather than the shuttle.
Re: You are right, and not just X-rays but low gamma more than 20years ago
Not Fresnel lenses - they used a nested set of glancing incidence mirrors
The problem is that only a tiny region near the mirror has the correct angles for glancing incidence - so you make a mirror 1m diameter and you only get to use a few micron wide ring around it. So you have to stack lots of them like tubes and because the wavelength is so small they have to be polished to fantastic tolerances
They're called Wolter mirrors http://www.x-ray-optics.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=71&lang=en#Wolter_optics
SSL/https mail is the reason for the bill - they can simply order Goolge or whoever to hand over the details from their end. Otherwise they could just tap the cables as they do now and not require any public legislation.
Of course if you used encrypted mail to some server in Iran or Pakistan or Columbia then they wouldn't have any power to compel those organisations to hand over the data, But what kind of UK user would bother having an account on a server like that?
They have distracted all the news stories and reviewers with the crap colours and then announced a fix with nice colours - there have been no stories about whether the compiler is any good.
Or how much of C++11 it implements or why it still manages so little of C99 ?
...and this is the rock solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxy-wide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.
Nobody cares about a slightly different sized iPad/iPhone/iWTF that might or might not be launched at some time in the future.
Is the entire IT journalism 'profession' being taken over by the people who used to write stories about 'has Paul McCartney got a girlfriend' from 1960s editions of Jackie magazine?
That was roughly the quote from the Nevada DMV boss in the press conference - something like "Nevada is pretty empty, we take risks and can look after ourselves"
That's the first market that's been proposed in Germany.
A high speed HOV lane only for self drive cars with higher speed limits and much closer vehicle-vehicle distances. Idea is to get 4x as many cars on the same bit of tarmac without having to widen motorways
It was intended to have tech workers who couldn't get US residency close enough to be able to make face-face meetings in Ca.
Since the US can stop any of them visiting the US from the boat, and VCs who were interested can just as easily travel to Europe/S.America etc then it's not clear that it makes sense.
It could be used by US citizens to 'live' there 6months of the year to be non-resident for tax - like London bankers. But the US is a lot less forgiving on this 'arrangement' than the UK - US citizens pay tax in the USA on their worldwide income, wherever they live. So if you are just going to lie about where you live - you might aswell just lie about your income anyway
Personally I think it's all either a pipedream AND/OR a way of trying to show up how stupid US immigration is.
It wasn't that which was illegal - it was MS lying to the court saying that IE was such an integral part of the OS that no other browser choice was possible after somebody demonstrated you could just delete a couple of dlls. When you are a monopoly supplier you tend to be noticed pulling this sort of thing.
The case started when MSFT blocked O'Reilly's competing web server on NT and claimed it was a fundamental OS design difference that stopped the workstation version handling more than 10 connections - before it was shown to be a single registry switch.
So it's really more like a car maker claiming that their cars can only be used with their brand of MP3 player and having a device that detects using an iPod near the car.
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Re: Shhh, hear something?
S Africa is still pretty big and the site is on a desert mountain miles from anywhere.
Re: Bandwidth!
The SA and Oz telescopes aren't directly linked, instead each local set is correlated with a local clock and then compared off line later. The data rates are only really scary at the high frequency end and there isn't much point in doing baselines that long at those frequencies (although resolution increases with baseline the filed of view and sensitivity drop)
Combining telescopes on different continents (VLBI) has been done for decades at lower frequencies - one of the interesting bits is that you need to know the position of the dishes relative to each other and the centre of the Earth accuratley - so it's the best way of measuring small changes in the Earth's crust.
Good news for the UK
The pound must be booming since we are safe from all this foreign Euro business.
It must be up at a couple for US$ by now.
Odd that they didn't choose another OS
Infallible leader at the helm that fans think is God and opposition think is the anti-christ.
Copied the core stuff from a much older version and added some pretty fluff on top.
Users need to be approved to get in and then pay a tithe on everything
Can be kicked out at any time for not meeting some detail of a rule that is arbitrarily changed by a secret committee
Claims to be highly moral but relies on lots of poor people in 3rd world countries
Seems like there is some corporate synergy there that is a better fit than MSFT ?
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500million Linux users next year
We’ve just passed the 500 million licenses sold mark for Windows 7, which represents half a billion PCs that could be upgraded to Linux on the day it ships.
Re: Great but oversold?
When the commercial supply module leaves a card saying "we tried to deliver but you were out" before buggering off before you can answer the door.
Re: North America
A little tricky for a geostationary satellite to be centred over anything other than the equator.
That's the reason for the failure of Yorkshire's space program - you can't put a satellite in geostationary orbit over Barnsley
Re: Can do / can't do
All they have to do is invade Germany and kidnap a few scientists again
If only they had managed to pinch a few car designers and brewers as well......
Re: re Flat Earth
That's why they never show you the other side with the turtle
Re: What about my 3 year old?
Making a laptop with a completely smooth flat surface but with all the connectors, lights, switches etc of a regular laptop is trickier.
Adding 'design' to a laptop by just putting bits of chrome plated plastic on the corners and having LEDs stick out of the case at random angles depending how the solder worked is easy.
Not sure I see the point
I get the whole collapse wave-function action at a distance bit (went to physics, got the T-shirt)
But I don't see how this provides any security?
If Carol was in the middle with an identical model Quantum Communicator 3000 she could grab the first entangled photon. Then create and send a new uncollapsed one onto Bob with her own message.
The only way Alice knows that it was Bob that collapsed her photon and not Carol is the common time reference and it seems that this would be just as reliable (if not more so) for a regular communications packet going down a fibre.
Alternatively
You could teach captain Volvo not to deliberately crash into everything on 2wheels
Re: It's not the fuel but the source
That's the other economic advantage of gas.
If we use gas we don't need to spend 30bn on Trident.
After all it would be a bit silly to have an expensive nuclear weapon to protect us from Russia when they can shut us down by just turning a tap off - so savings all round.
Re: What about my 3 year old?
Did it have rounded corners? - the lawyers will be round to have words
A solution for Parcelforce
"...is willing to pay more for these services than they cost to provide. This is the very definition of adding value."
If only they charged 10quid for leaving you the note saying that they rang the bell and ran away - the post office would be profitable.
beerWi-FiRe: USA does free WiFi so much better
But look at the beer you have to drink!
Do you want Black Sheep and a login page or Miller and free wifi?
Re: If you want some sort of consistency with Windows
Except the makers conspire with MSFT to stop you
Server will only run signed drivers and the HW makers only supply 'server' drivers for their 'server' HW - that's why the same PC from DELL costs 2x as much on the server page
Re: Format shifiting levies
In Canada there is a levy on all blank CDs to cover this.
In theory it goes to the artists based on all time record sales (so Bryan Adams and Celine Dion) - however the 25c/disk (!) doesn't cover the costs of the scheme so no money has been paid out.
But small local bands selling their own home made CDs do get to pay the levy on the blanks - so that's OK then.
Re: No matter what happens to the stock
Yep - always a good idea to marry a doctor
New and intuitive
Personally I'm ready to welcome the new smartphone metaphor
There area couple of 1000 commands in one of the 3D modeling programs I use - it takes forever to find a little used function in the menus or toolbars.
Now that there will be a single intuitive and obvious touch gesture to select between optimising hole placement by tool path as opposed to tool change time my life will be much easier
Re: litre of beer??
The litre isn't a proper MKS unit -you should ask for 1/1000 of a cubic metre of beer
Re: I said it before...
It's not necessarily a HTC prove it is compliant it's more a case of - these foreign phones are doing bad things to a great American company, we might just have to take a look at all of them, that might take a few weeks/months etc.
Back in the day when Japan actually made stuff we would often get this - if there was some sort of issue with a Japanese competitor - our kit would sit on the docks waiting for some paperwork.
I once used one of those back before mobiles.
I managed to get an operator somehow without putting in the credit card, then I get her to put the call on my ATT calling card (remember those!) without her knowing I was on a plane - then I couldn't think of anyone to call !
Re: Before anyone says "here comes big brother"...
It will mean more running red lights.
There was a trial scheme in one town on this side of t'pond. Since they don't have detailed maps of speed limit zones it just tracked how often you braked hard.
More breaking = bad driver = lost your discount insurance rate.
So if a little old lady walks out into the road or a cyclist cuts across you - you have a split second to decide if the dent in the bonnet will be cheaper than the insurance hike.
Re: Adapting adaptive optics
We used to use "active optics" for correcting mechanical effects and "adaptive" for correcting atmosphere - but now people use adaptive for both.
Adaptive optics doesn't really help for looking down into the atmosphere - but isn't as necessary. Standing at the bottom of the atmosphere looking up - any small change in refractive index turns into a big angle distance and so the image of a distant object moves a long way. Standing at the top of the atmosphere looking down - any movement of an atmosphere near the object has very little effect
In el'reg terms it's like putting your eye up close to a crinkled bathroom window and looking out vs pressing a body upto the glass and looking at it from a long way off.
Wrong kind of packets
on the line ?
Re: Did you program any other space projects?
It's because they have a very "manned mission" mindset - you can't upload a new crew if you kill them with a bug.
The reason Apollo worked - in spite of the technology at the time - was that everything was tested and rehearsed to a ludicrous degree. But this attitude has continued as religous doctrine in everything they do.
I was involved with one of the original instruments on Hubble. Everything on it had to be "man rated", that made sense as far as not using toxic or hazardous propellants that an astronaut could come into contact with, but it extended to everything. We were restricted in comms chips to very low bandwidth designs that were man rated (ie apollo era) that severely restricted the science data.
One report put the build cost of Hubble at 300% of what it would have cost if had been made to launch on a rocket rather than the shuttle.
lost their jobs or been in trouble with the law as a result of their addiction.
That's hardly the fault of the porn.
It's like saying that women earn less than men and black men are more likely to be arrested - and that's their fault for being female or black
No it doesn't - that was shot down by an El'reg story last week
It was based on a claim that 7.2% of goods were bought over the internet.
That's like saying Staples contributes 50% of GDP because people's payslips come in envelopes.
"accountable" for issuing "improper" takedown requests
But it seems accountable is just that the take down request has to be published.
So Microsoft will still send take-down requests for OpenOffice but they will be accountable - in that Reddit might get to find out !
Re: recycle
But if you put the recycled satellite in the wrong blue box the galactic space council can get very nasty.
Re: Why stop at phone boxes?
I'm guessing that the phone boxes have some sort of connection to a telecommunications infrastructure.
Of course they might be that they are using dialup.
Re: You are right, and not just X-rays but low gamma more than 20years ago
Not Fresnel lenses - they used a nested set of glancing incidence mirrors
The problem is that only a tiny region near the mirror has the correct angles for glancing incidence - so you make a mirror 1m diameter and you only get to use a few micron wide ring around it. So you have to stack lots of them like tubes and because the wavelength is so small they have to be polished to fantastic tolerances
They're called Wolter mirrors http://www.x-ray-optics.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=71&lang=en#Wolter_optics
Re: our favourite fruit themed supplier
I need to work in some Yorkshire Rhubarb computer joke
SSL/https mail is the reason for the bill - they can simply order Goolge or whoever to hand over the details from their end. Otherwise they could just tap the cables as they do now and not require any public legislation.
Of course if you used encrypted mail to some server in Iran or Pakistan or Columbia then they wouldn't have any power to compel those organisations to hand over the data, But what kind of UK user would bother having an account on a server like that?
A cunning and subtle plan
They have distracted all the news stories and reviewers with the crap colours and then announced a fix with nice colours - there have been no stories about whether the compiler is any good.
Or how much of C++11 it implements or why it still manages so little of C99 ?
...and this is the rock solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxy-wide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.
SIRIUS CYBERNETICS CORPORATION
ob HHGTTG quote
"When you press this black button on a black background a black sign lights up black to tell you that you pressed it"
Must have been built by a species whose eyes responded to different wavelengths - or they jsut didn't have any imagination.
Repeat after me
Nobody cares about a slightly different sized iPad/iPhone/iWTF that might or might not be launched at some time in the future.
Is the entire IT journalism 'profession' being taken over by the people who used to write stories about 'has Paul McCartney got a girlfriend' from 1960s editions of Jackie magazine?
Although if you want your MP to act on your letter - it's best to include a cheque for a couple of million quid as a 'loan' to the party.
Re: Only in Nevada
That was roughly the quote from the Nevada DMV boss in the press conference - something like "Nevada is pretty empty, we take risks and can look after ourselves"
That's the first market that's been proposed in Germany.
A high speed HOV lane only for self drive cars with higher speed limits and much closer vehicle-vehicle distances. Idea is to get 4x as many cars on the same bit of tarmac without having to widen motorways
I'm amazed
Nevada let them license a Prius !!!
It would never happen in Texas
Re: tax
It was intended to have tech workers who couldn't get US residency close enough to be able to make face-face meetings in Ca.
Since the US can stop any of them visiting the US from the boat, and VCs who were interested can just as easily travel to Europe/S.America etc then it's not clear that it makes sense.
It could be used by US citizens to 'live' there 6months of the year to be non-resident for tax - like London bankers. But the US is a lot less forgiving on this 'arrangement' than the UK - US citizens pay tax in the USA on their worldwide income, wherever they live. So if you are just going to lie about where you live - you might aswell just lie about your income anyway
Personally I think it's all either a pipedream AND/OR a way of trying to show up how stupid US immigration is.
Exactly how do you get onboard?
Without going through US immigration?
It's a hell of a long helicopter flight from HK!
Re: Science fiction? Or reapplication of old news?
No it's been 'achieved' about every 10years since the invention of the laser.
The last lot was a nutty German prof who played a Mozart CD over the link.
Re: Ah yes.
SO just your basic politician then ?
Re: removing IE would also help
It wasn't that which was illegal - it was MS lying to the court saying that IE was such an integral part of the OS that no other browser choice was possible after somebody demonstrated you could just delete a couple of dlls. When you are a monopoly supplier you tend to be noticed pulling this sort of thing.
The case started when MSFT blocked O'Reilly's competing web server on NT and claimed it was a fundamental OS design difference that stopped the workstation version handling more than 10 connections - before it was shown to be a single registry switch.
So it's really more like a car maker claiming that their cars can only be used with their brand of MP3 player and having a device that detects using an iPod near the car.
Re: Border Agency!
There are plans to open a second desk for the olympics - once Sharon gets back from her tea break.
Simple solution
He shot a bunch of blue-eyed blonde scandanavians - right?
So all we have to do is to ensure that the victims are never portraide like this in violent video games.
Perhaps we could suggest that the baddies are always shown as darker skinned, bearded headress wearing foreign types?
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