Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 21365 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
What's even worse is when you don't need to read the standard, because either the technical work is being done by a supplier, or more often the standard is so vague that it doesn't tell you anything.
but you are required to buy all the standards that refer to your product and keep buying updated version.
Of course you don't have to read them, but you do have to have a paid for copy of each standard filed in your quality management system somewhere - the ISO standard says so.
And every couple of years they change a comma, update the year suffix and you have to buy it again.
That's the idea.
ISO 9001 - quality standards in manufacturing
ISO 9002 - quality standard sin services
Now adding
ISO 9003 - quality standards in monopolies
ISO 9004 - quality standards in ripping off customers
ISO 9005 - quality standards in Ponzi schemes
Yes but that still only works for long trips.
There will still only be one flight/day, limited by market size, take-off/landing limits and timezone.
So if I still have to spend 2days on a trip to China it's not clear that waiting in the hotel for tomorrow's 5hour flight is better than having a choice of hourly departures on a 8hour flight sleeping in a business class seat.
A supersonic business jet, where it is on your timetable, assuming it doesn't need a NASA style runway that could turn a trip to China into a single day, or visit 10 places in Asia in a 3day trip - I could see a small market for.
Depends on your definition of 'beyond'
We could have developed 200mph steam trains on special super-straight TGV style tracks.
But arguably our local automated light rail system is better - in transporting more people into the city center at lower cost with less disruption
>either use the private jet and take 8 hours or for a fraction of the cost take the Boom and be there in half the time.
Or use a slow-subsonic private jet, leave from a small airport exactly when you want, arrive near your destination and return when you want.
Or travel for an hour to major airport, arrive 3 hours before departure to do security, travel supersonically, spend 1 hour getting from the airport to your destination. Have a choice of 1-2 flights/day
It probably needs to be a trans-pacific trip to be worth the flight-time saving.
There might be a small billionaire market for a supersonic trans-pacific capable business jet.
You worry about complicate unfolding mechanisms that are impossible to test on Earth?
When have they ever failed , except both Hubble and Skylab's solar arrays and pretty much every other time they've been used.
The radiation is mixed, there are more high energy = single particle blowing a big hole in some electronics - type radiation. But the smaller more vulnerable electronics allows for more redundancy.
Hubble's low orbit gave it a whole bunch of other radiation problems. To be reachable from the Shuttle it flew into a very nasty place where the radiation belts dip down and so it flew through a charged particle cloud every 90 mins.
Yes and no,
Many of the objects don't need observing at the same time - if we have Hubble data in the UV/Visible on file then observing it in the IR in the future with JWST.
The real mission for JWST is to observe things that are only IR. The early universe with stuff that is now redshifted to being IR, and are too faint for Hubble anyway.
There might be boring nearby, low energy, objects (like planets) that people might want to observe multi-wavelength at the same time, but nobody cares about a bunch of non-cosmologist stamp collectors
Yes, at least in the early days of Hubble in normal mode that I'm more familiar with.
The campaigns are planned well in advance in long cycles to minimize maneuvering, which wastes time and fuel, instrument changes, and to fit around all the constraints of a Hubble observation.
If the observation (or observer) is important enough it could bump somebody else out of a slot in the next cycle if the telescope is pointing in the right direction and the right instrument is online - this mostly happened if some country/group had lost some guaranteed time and politics was an issue.
I suspect that it is now in a degraded mode where things are more limited
>I'm not sure what limits the life of JWST: it may be the cryogenics but I think it's the fuel.
It's fuel, there are no consumable cryogenics everything is cooled by fridges.
The limit is orbit keeping fuel. The orbit is far enough away that although it isn't absolutely stable you don't need to maintain a very precise position or boost the orbit.
I suspect it will have a much longer mission life than advertised, guessing that some smart scheduling algorithms will let you use much smaller movements / fuel burns and eek out the fuel.
>I'm very curious to know what she expects the tech companies to actually do here?
Use the $Bn spent in AI research to detect nude pictures of women on a toilet and stop them being posted to Twitter.
If you want to post 'legitimate' pictures of a women urinating then it can be accompanied by a model release form.
>So people are happy to buy substandard electrical items provided they're 50% off?
Would like to see what the actual question was.
Hey kids, would you buy a fake branded T-shirt, handbag, headphones for 50% off ?
Headline - children would buy killer sub-standard electronics = wont somebody think of the children, ban Chinese cell phones now.
>in 2005 the difference between the wage for a UK or North American techie and their Indian equivalent was $92,000. By 2019 that gap had narrowed to around $40,000
Some of that was "statistics" - in 2005 a big proportion of the Indian "engineers" were call center tech-support handling your Windows activation code phone calls.
The difference between regular Office Space / Tata cube dwellers has always been closer to the $30-40K and a lot of that is weighted by how any US developers are in SF/NY. Salary differences between an ordinary programmer in Arkansas and Bangalore is a lot smaller than you would think
The Chinese station is small and wont be continually manned - so less than the USA/USSR were doing in the 70s.
The only point in having people in LEO is to learn how to have people in LEO, so not having any people currently there doesn't really cost you anything or give control to China. Not having a person continually on the peak of Everest doesn't take away your ability to climb Everest.
Continuing to support a LEO space station - initially intended to keep cold war rocket scientists gainfully employed when the cold war ended - as opposed to manned Mars mission seems short sighted.
It doesn't re-enter because it doesn't get to orbit. There is a big difference between getting 100km up and falling back and getting 100km up AND doing 10km/s horizontally.
This rocket is doing the same as a 1945 V2, although with a payload that does more damage to the workers of London
Also for non-tangible assets.
I can own an original frame of Snow White, framed and certified by Walt Disney corp.
What if I wanted to buy an original .tiff of a frame of Toy Story?
Do they have to print it onto film, do they have to print out the hex file and frame it?
NFTs are a way of autographing digital assets - the assets might be worthless but that's not the NFTs fault.
>A paper (or vellum) document, certified by accredited witnesses
Who gets to do the accrediting?
The UK court system, CERN's IT dept , the NEXT corporation shareholders?
In this case the signed by witnesses in a British lawyers office is reasonable but what about a Banksy style artist, working in Russia or China ? Would you accept a certificate from the CCP giving you ownership of an online video protesting the policing in Hong Kong
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