Comment Yep it's hot there (Score 1) 175
Yep it's hot there, photo I took in 2009 there in August... in the shade.
Comment Double plus 1 (Score 1) 422
Plan for the future.You can never have too much cabling in the walls.
Every cable run double what you think you need and then add 1
For example a location that will get one computer, run 3 cat6 cables. A location that gets 2 computers run 5 cat6 cables.
Submission + - Warp Drive might be easier to achieve than thought. (discovery.com) 2
runner_one writes: Harold "Sonny" White of NASA's Johnson Space Center said Friday (Sept. 14) at the 100 Year Starship Symposium that warp drive might be easier to achieve than earlier thought.
The first concept for a real-life warp drive was suggested in 1994 by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre, however subsequent calculations found that such a device would require prohibitive amounts of energy, studies estimated the warp drive would require a minimum amount of energy about equal to the mass-energy of the planet Jupiter. But recent calculations showed that if the shape of the ring encircling the spacecraft was adjusted into more of a rounded donut, as opposed to a flat ring the warp drive could be powered by a mass as small as 500Kg. Furthermore, if the intensity of the space warps can be oscillated over time, the energy required is reduced even more.
The first concept for a real-life warp drive was suggested in 1994 by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre, however subsequent calculations found that such a device would require prohibitive amounts of energy, studies estimated the warp drive would require a minimum amount of energy about equal to the mass-energy of the planet Jupiter. But recent calculations showed that if the shape of the ring encircling the spacecraft was adjusted into more of a rounded donut, as opposed to a flat ring the warp drive could be powered by a mass as small as 500Kg. Furthermore, if the intensity of the space warps can be oscillated over time, the energy required is reduced even more.
Submission + - Curiosity rover and its parachute imaged by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (nasa.gov)
runner_one writes: In an incredible feat of timing the Curiosity rover and its parachute were photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as it descended to the surface of Mars.
Comment Verizon is the only choice. (Score 1) 134
I have traveled all over southern Nevada and California.
Verizon is the only choice.
I make it a habit to go to some strange and out of the way places, Verizon just works, even in large parts of death valley and the Mojave desert.
I even had service out in Rachel Nevada near area 51, while my friends who were with me and have T-mobile had none.
Buy a cheap device from E-bay and activate it on Verizon on the bring your own device plan.
Just make sure the device is a Verizon branded device.
Choose a high feedback seller with a good history with mobile devices.
Also Verizon does not use SIM cards.
Comment Re:Sissies (Score 1) 97
I wish I could take every mod point I ever had and put on this one post.
Comment Sunset on another world. (Score 1) 94
Does that mean we have to be on that other world to view it?
Comment Re:It makes you wonder... (Score 1) 119
Quantum Apostate strikes again.
Comment Re:I pitty sad people like you with no vision. (Score 1) 91
I am simply pointing out there there is some "connection" that bypasses the universal speed limit. Once we understand and exploit this who knows what doors will open.
Comment Re:I pitty sad people like you with no vision. (Score 1) 91
Religious? There was nothing religious in my post.
I am glad that people like you are in the minority or we would still be using stone knives.
People like you are a waste of the Earth's resources.
For you tomorrow will be like today, and the day after tomorrow will be like the day before yesterday. Your remaining days will be a tedious collection of hours full of useless actions. People like you think no new thoughts, and you forget what little you have known. Older you become, but not wiser. Stiffer, but not more dignified. Hopeless you are, and hopeless you will remain. Of that wisdom you once sought in your youth, of that quest for knowledge you once had, it neither endures, nor shall you recapture it.
Comment I pitty sad people like you with no vision. (Score 1) 91
There are new discoveries everyday. The day will come when we can cross stellar distances as easy as we now cross an ocean, Of that I have no doubt. Maybe not in my lifetime or my children's or even great grand children. But someday it will happen. How do I know this? All you have to do is look from where we have come. Each society in history has thought they knew all there is to know about the universe. We are not different I laugh in the face of any one who is pompous and arrogant enough to say It is impossible. What kind of hubris does it take to say "No, it’s impossible, the distances are too great”. Bullshit! We are only beginning to understand the physics of the universe, and we already know that there is at least one thing that is faster than light. Quantum entanglement is instantaneous no matter the distance. Although we have not yet figured a way to exploit this for FTL communications or travel, there is a some mechanism in the universe that underlies the observed results. There are many scientists working with Quantum entanglement, even as I write this. I even believe we will see FTL communications in my lifetime, and I am 48. But aside form communications, there are many other theories at the edge of our understanding that may open up space to easy travel someday. Warp Drive? No, we can't make it work yet, but what about in a hundred or a thousand years? Howe about Worm Holes? No, once again, not yet. But someday. And what other secrets are out there waiting to be discovered? We must keep trying. We must keep pushing, just as the great inventors before us did.
Comment Alien Life (Score 1) 412
What is your opinion on the existence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, and what if any, in your opinion, are the odds that we will ever make meaningful contact?
Comment I still see a lot of open Access Points. (Score 1) 176
I live in a RV and have commercial Wi-Fi client mounted in my RV with a Yagi antenna on the roof where my TV antenna used to be.
My best connection distance to date is 2.3 miles from a ridge top campground in a state park to a KOA campground in the valley below.
In my travels around the country I have only been parked in a few places where I can not find at least one open access point to connect to.
In fact in my experience the smaller the city the better the likelihood of an in range open access point. Open access points are my connection to the outside world now.
Comment You can plant trip bombs on players and enemies (Score 1) 344
This is reason enough alone to buy the game, I always wanted to do that.
Comment A little late in on this but my system; (Score 2) 680
Two separate computers in the same house with a photo directory on each set up with automatic two way sync between those computers every night.
Plus a remote computer about 10 miles away with one way backup every night.
Drop a pic or directory of pics into the synced directory on either of the home computers and boom next day photos are stored in 3 separate locations.
Fast simple and hands off.
