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https://ksp.sarbian.com/jenkins/job/MechJeb2-Dev/ last dev build always available here
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not just people who moved their purchase to Steam aren't getting the DLC. Hadn't really expected Take2 to keep Squad's promises, but still disappointed.
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Got it working, seems someone in Mexico City put down the mescal bottle long enough to fix something
Still needed to play the login game to the store several times, but no more 403 errors
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Trying to download 1.4 from the store I keep getting generic "permission denied" errors from the webserver.
Makes downloading pretty impossible.
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The TOS and EULA cover not just the forums but the store, the main website, and the game itself.
The following section, if taken strict, makes streaming KSP on for example Twitch, a violation, as Twitch is a commercial service driven by advertising and donations, which is arguably commercial activity:
You agree not to, and not to provide guidance or instruction to any other individual or entity on how to:
- commercially exploit the Software;"
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17 hours ago, Diche Bach said:
Nice clickbait. the image does NOT show the aircraft mentioned in the title (A German/US X-31), it shows a Ukrainian Sukhoi 27.
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On 25-9-2016 at 4:55 PM, DDE said:
It's NASA's 2017 budget, it includes a strategic goal of a manned Mars mission within the quarter-century, and allocated $1.4 of the annual budget to that goal.
They're getting $1.40 to put a man on Mars? Either serious deflation or congress is getting to be an even bigger tightwad
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On 24-9-2016 at 2:36 PM, Jeb Jawkins said:
"Senate Launch System"
I like that!
Now if only they used it to launch the senate on a one way trip to Mars... Would no doubt get them enough crowd funding to build the things in no time
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On 24-9-2016 at 6:06 PM, steve_v said:
Indeed, complete with some standard crackpot argument markers. In no particular order:
You forgot the standard appeal to "big industry and government are suppressing this because they don't want people to have free energy/travel meme.
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47 minutes ago, Nibb31 said:
It can also be used to transport rocket stages or aircraft fuselages. MAKS is off the table.
ICBM stages. complete IRBMs, SLBMs...
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On 25-8-2016 at 7:28 AM, kerbiloid said:
Do the Earth traders have any breaks? Say, night or weekend?
Nope, trading goes on 24/7, 365 days a year. It's in large part automated, and traders work in shifts to monitor things.
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12 hours ago, magnemoe said:
Many heavy visited pages like major newspapers uses internal caching to lessen the load on the content servers.
Yes its not the same, they also often caches only part of the page so it can add stuff like adds or adjusted content in addition.
I know how it works, I write such systems for a living
And we also ALWAYS include no-cache directives to prevent proxies and clients from doing their own caching to prevent them getting out of date content...
But as I stated, most traffic isn't websites at all. It's data flowing between computers that drives other applications. Your VOIP calls are but one thing (and what most consumers would recognise), and your bank data. But if you're a stock trader you get data as well, lots of it, and having cached data isn't going to cut it. Of course inter-planetary stock trading isn't going to be very lucrative. Far better to hire an agent on the other planet to do your trading for you based on certain guidelines and rules.
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On 8/20/2016 at 2:42 PM, Scotius said:
Hmm, true that
Still, my own 10x50 monocular is not that much stronger, yet works quite well on the outskirts of my home town, with sodium streetlights and glow from nearby greenhouses polluting the sky.
Your 10x50s were a lot stronger. Not so much the magnification but the light gathering capability... 8x30s are extremely dim, and I'm not sure I'd trust Soviet glass...
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However good your thermal efficiency is in transferring heat to the propellant gas, it's not perfect so excess heat builds up and you need to get rid of it. Hence the requirement for additional cooling systems.
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problem with caching is that a lot of internet traffic (potentially the majority) isn't static content. It's dynamically generated as needed and on the fly based on user requests.
While you can cache wikipedia and all you get is a delay in updates equal to the cache refresh interval, your banking website (just one example) can't be cached because it changes on the fly and for every user who logs in.
While a lot of that data might not be relevant over interplanetary distances, a lot of it is (news services also work like that for example).
And a LOT of internet traffic isn't websites at all, it's business data flowing over the net between companies, government agencies, and individuals. Think emails, VOIP calls, teleconferencing, VNC sessions, web service calls.
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On 3/25/2016 at 10:23 PM, StrandedonEarth said:
For those who can't watch the video, for one reason or another...
1. RocketMan, by Nancy Conrad and Howard Klausner
2. How Apollo Flew to the Moon, by David Woods
3. This New Ocean by Swenson, Grimwood, and Alexander
4. Dyna-Soar, by Robert Godwin
5. The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut
6. Breaking the Chains of Gravity, by Amy Shira Teitel
Hmm, I saw 6 go by. I haven't read any of them, I'll have to give them a go
Yes, the 6th is her own book.
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5 hours ago, TheCardinal said:
There have been many incidents like that, including "The Damascus Accident" (Youtube video).
Yes, there were several accidental releases (almost all related to aircraft breaking up in mid air, either from structural failure or after collisions). But none got as close to detonation as that one. In fact most fell harmlessly and were either recovered without problems or broke apart and the contaminated soil was carted off.
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1 hour ago, Kryten said:
There was a live nuclear warhead involved, so 'hairy' is a bit of an understatement.
That's why warheads aren't typically armed until near the intended target.
Though that sometimes can go wrong as well. As with a lost US bomber over New England, where a bomb was shaken loose from the crashing airframe, and the flight profile of the accidental drop was such that all but one of the (6 I think, was a while since I read the account) triggers had done their job by the time it burrowed itself into a deep hole in the ground of its own creation.
This accident got so close to an accidental nuclear explosion over US territory that the AEC and USAF went into overdrive to develop new safeguards and operational procedures. -
3 hours ago, Frozen_Heart said:
Why is this thread still going?
Also isn't talking conspiracy theories against the rules?
exposing them as such isn't... And the "SpaceX doesn't actually launch anything" hoax is just that, even if not everyone who falls for it recognises it as such.
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On 8/12/2016 at 0:31 PM, Elthy said:
Lol, who would pay for that? All the flat earth guys and those saying mankind never traveled to space are just insane, something is wrong in their heads. Simply ignore them, except they somehow get power, then fight them at any means...
some powerful groups want the general population to remain stupid and clueless, so paying conspiracy theorists to create these hoaxes works great for them. Don't even have to pay them much, far cheaper than setting up your own propaganda machine with paid employees, studios, props departments, etc. (though they have Hollywood to fill that role of course, "ancient aliens" anyone?).
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12 hours ago, magnemoe said:
So if missile derivative significant from course if on an fixed trajectory, I also guess this happen if it misses an lock on and is unable to reacquire it it will blow up.
For missiles this is simple just set off the warhead. And no missile is not armed at launch, even dumb rpg warheads has to travel 50 or some meter to arm. This is longer for heavier weapons,
An self destruct system is to increase safety not make it less safe, main problem would probably be that the missile engine might fire, it was set to fire but did not, however its still set to fire.
Which is why self destruct mechanisms aren't triggered by the launch signal + a timer, but by other things like accellerometers, pressure sensors (altitude), and things like that, often in combination with a timer.
So for example a self destruct system might only trigger if the weapon has reached a certain speed + been over and then dropped under a specific altitude, all no sooner than a set number of seconds after launch and no later than another set number of seconds (to avoid it triggering during the terminal flight profile over the intended target).
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even worse, those same environmentalists were until recently promoting those same plastic bags as a green and hygienic alternative to paper bags, and had been successful in getting those banned from grocery stores years ago on that premise...
So now stores have no way at all to ship customers fresh produce in a way that's convenient and hygienic, unless they get it shipped from the wholesale channel prepackaged in plastic boxes and shrinkwrapped, which causes a lot more plastic waste than the plastic bags used to do before.
Of course in a few years those same environmentalists will start calling for a ban on that way of packaging as well, leaving stores and consumers with no way to get their fresh produce to their homes at all that's clean and convenient. Maybe people should revert to the old way of taking a bunch of old newspapers with them to the supermarket and wrap the fish, meat, and vegetables in that, having the nice toxic ink soak into tomorrow's dinner...
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6 hours ago, daniel l. said:
Dont forget how cheaply things can be made, A basic circuit board with about as much processing power as a late 80's laptop could alone cost about $1 or less with current technology, Then consider a super simple monochrome display, Followed by a 3D printed keyboard, And a basic trackpoint mouse. It could all with a little bit of tweaking be fit into that range.
if you think you can do it, show us. but don't expect me to invest in your venture, because I don't share your belief.
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"It should be more than possible to produce a computer that can handle most aspects of daily online life and cost $5 or less "
uh, no. Just no.
Just the raw materials cost more than that. Add manufacturing cost (wear and tear on the machinery), failure rates (especially on screens you lose a good percentage due to manufacturing defects even today and probably always), wages for everyone involved, shipping and stocking cost, and you're looking at way more than that.
As someone said, your $5 might buy you a Raspberry Pi in the most basic model, and THAT's sold at cost+, there's barely a profit margin on it.
The current range of low end machines from no-brand names sold in supermarkets and other off-channel sources are about as low as you can go in price. The profit margin on those across the board is only a few percent.
If you want to go cheaper, the only way is to go for unpaid (thus slave) labour, and don't bother to provide those slaves with things like food and medical care (basically work them to death like the Germans and Japanese did in WW2, even the prisoners in the Soviet gulags had some food and medical care).
Still, my own 10x50 monocular is not that much stronger, yet works quite well on the outskirts of my home town, with sodium streetlights and glow from nearby greenhouses polluting the sky.
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turned off KSP spying on my computer and sending all kind of data to Unity for marketing purposes. Will keep monitoring to see if it actually did turn it off or just told me it has.
Severely disappointed by this development.