Re: Sub-Orbital
Sub-orbital was good enough for Shepard, Grissom and Ham, I'd be good enough for me... Seriously though, if I had the money I'd do a sub-orbital first and deceide after that whether I'd save up for that ISS trip or not.
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Suck it, Elon – Jeff Bezos' New Shepard space rocket blasts off, lands in one piece
Tuesday 24th November 2015 20:05 GMT
Re: Its the wrong way to get off this planet / Project Orion
IIRC Orion was supposed to be assembled in orbit and launch from there. There was a proof-of-concept test with a model and chemical explosives, seemed to work quite well.
And there once was a spacecraft Orion that got its own TV series.
Taxi for NASA! SpaceX to fly astronauts to space station
Saturday 21st November 2015 12:28 GMT
"It's that latter sentence that's key. Currently NASA has to go cap in hand to the Russians to get crew into space after retiring the Space Shuttle and failing to develop an alternative rocket system. Now it has both SpaceX and Boeing to do the job and can thumb its noses at Putin and pals."
1. Better wait for that for a couple of years. Both SpaceX and Boeing have a long, long road ahead of them. As a fellow commentard pointed out, rocket engineering is the tricky bit.
2. In an endeavour that is as difficult, costly and, last but not least, important as the ISS (and space exploration in general) 'thumbing noses' and the such has no place.
Love your IoT gadget but could you keep the noise down?
Friday 20th November 2015 21:24 GMT
Re: TGIF
"Runaway's just a rip-off of 2000AD's Sam Slade, with all the jokes stripped out and a moustache pasted on."
Which just might have been itself inspired by Magnus Robot Fighter 4000 A.D., first published by Gold Key Comics in February 1963.
But then R.U.R. (Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti - Rossum’s Universal Robots) premiered on 25 January 1921.
Friday 20th November 2015 17:06 GMT
Re: before 1927 it was not even possible
AFAIK in 1922 a Ford Model T in Chicago was fitted with a radio (no idea what make), as was a Daimler in Britain (Marconiphone).
1927 marks the first industrial produced car radio, the 'Philco Transitone'. It was made by the Storage Battery Co., Philadelphia and Chevrolet offered it as an optional extra. Didn't sell that nuch, though.
Things got moving in 1930 with the Model 5T71 by the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation (GMC). The Model 5T71 was soon known as 'Motorola', from 'motor(car)' and 'Victrola', a popular Grammophone brand at the time.
In 1932 Bosch and the company that would later be known as Blaupunkt got in the game with the first car radio developed in Europe, the 'AutosuperAS 5'. The 5 stands for the 5 valves, and it was remote controlled via bowden cables attached to the steering wheel. Cost roughly 15% of what an average car would cost you at the time, so not really 'mass production either'.
Friday 20th November 2015 16:28 GMT
TGIF
Excellent choice of videos.
Also, "...like the Dalek Morse Code you get during a landline phone call when you leave your mobile on the desk..." is the best description of that phenomenom I've ever heard.
And, last but not least, it reminded me of Runaway. If Dabbsy is right, this may become a real thing.
Criminal are mostly hacking-by-numbers with exploit kits
Kids' tech skills go backwards thanks to tablets and smartmobes
Friday 20th November 2015 20:11 GMT
Re: Computers were supposed to work for us
"I think we're slowly losing what brought us here in the first place, the brilliant human mind."
Nah, at least not as such. There is always the Gaussian bell curve. True brilliance is rare, as is true idiocy. Everything else lies somewhere inbetween. There will always be those who ask why and why not and those who just shrug and say okay then. I think that the brilliant-to-idiot-ratio is more or less a constant, but in absolute numbers more people mean more idiots.
The other thing is that due to electronic media, modern communications, social networks, etc. the idiots are much more visible. A hundred years ago the village idiot just sat there and twiddled his thumbs, today he is on Facebook (or in extreme cases in a 'reality' show on TV).
It's come to this for IBM: Watson is now a gimmick app on the iPhone
From $6bn to $4.2bn to $2.9bn: Square's ever shrinking unicorn horn
Friday 20th November 2015 17:48 GMT
Re: Why don't people remember Bubble 1.0?
Because it was in 1637?
Or because they don't want to, no money in that. And of course it's all different now and it's a whole new ball game and naturally they are so much cleverer than the last lot. And that wasn't a bubble either, just bad management by others and a bit of bad luck.
Ofcom asks: Do kids believe anything they read on the internet?
Cat discovers GNOME desktop bug
Friday 20th November 2015 16:52 GMT
I have it on good authority that rats make good coders but bad PDAs.
The Register reveals SAP’s very own version of Black Friday
Short weekend break: Skegness or exoplanet HD 189733b?
Telecity fix nixed: Borked UK internet hub 'had no UPS protection'
Friday 20th November 2015 12:15 GMT
Re: A really poor place to have such infrastructure anyway
"Telecity could probably do more to their own premises in the area and the government should probably directly help them with that but the peninsula itself has various passive and active protections that you'll see if you're paying attention."
That somehow has the ring of 'private army' - possibly with enough armed personnel to occupy Paris? Okay, bad example...
France's 3-month state of emergency lets govt censor the web
Tech goliaths stand firm against demands for weaker encryption after Paris terror attacks
Uncle Sam's IT bods find 2,000 data centers they FORGOT about
Seven-year itch claims Splunk CEO
Don't flip your lid: The Internet of Helmets has arrived
Friday 20th November 2015 10:04 GMT
Re: Aerial
Yes, this needs some 'streamlining'. It also looks (hard to tell from just one photo) like the weight of the components isn't distributed evenly - if this makes the hat somewhat lopsided it would be uncomfortable to wear it all day. But I guess that's due to using off-the-shelf components for a first run.
All in all very impressive - a working solution for a real problem without re-inventing the wheel. But then that's what civil engineering is all about...
One-armed bandit steals four hours of engineer's busy day
Friday 20th November 2015 08:56 GMT
Fruit Machines
Vercotti: [...] Anyway I decided to open a high class night club for the gentry at Biggleswade with International cuisine and cooking and top line acts, and not a cheap clip joint for picking up tarts -- that was right out, I deny that completely --, and one evening in walks Dinsdale with a couple of big lads, one of whom was carrying a tactical nuclear missile. They said I had bought one of their fruit machines and would I pay for it.
2nd Interviewer: How much did they want?
Vercotti: They wanted three quarters of a million pounds.
2nd Interviewer: Why didn't you call the police?
Vercotti: Well I had noticed that the lad with the thermonuclear device was the chief constable for the area. So a week later they called again and told me the cheque had bounced and said... I had to see... Doug.
Remember Windows 1.0? It's been 30 years (and you're officially old)
George Osborne fires starting gun on £20m coding comp wheeze
Friday 20th November 2015 08:08 GMT
Re: George Osbourne, expert economist AND cyber security guru
I know, right? Is there, like, nothing the guy can't do? Amazing!
Upvote for the Peter Norton reference, triggering a lot of memories. Mostly good ones, as nostalgia tends to blot the bad ones.
On a related note: I'd kinda like it if all the cabinet menbers would wear hard hats all the time.
'Hacked by China? Hack them back!' rages US Congress report
Prudish Indian censors cut James Bond Spectre snogging scenes
eBay scammer steals identity of special agent investigating him
Thursday 19th November 2015 12:43 GMT
18 US Code § 912
Jack Walsh: I know my rights. You owe me phone calls.
Alonzo Mosely: What should be of paramount importance to you right now is not the phone calls, it's the fact that you're gonna spend ten years for impersonating a federal agent.
Jack Walsh: 10 years for impersonating a fed, uh?
Alonzo Mosely: 10 years.
Jack Walsh: How comes no one's after you?
Want to boost your payslip? Get DevOps on your business card
Rise of the handy machines: UK gears up for first Robotics Week
Google extends search tendrils to cover data in apps
Thursday 19th November 2015 12:23 GMT
Technically sweet - but then that's what Oppenheimer said about the hydrogen bomb.
Clever little boys, all of them.
FTC zaps more scammer loopholes with ban on wire transfers, cash cards
Uber Australia is broke: 'We don't pay tax because we don't generate revenue'
Red dwarf superflares batter formerly 'habitable' exoplanet
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