A very important stage in a story of formation of any new science is the shift from discussion of situation which are possible but do not occur in practice due to some reason to recognition of real phenomena of interest. ... We suggest to consider computer viruses as this new specific form of life which is coming in the contact with our form of life. ... Computer life has been created by human being, the role of independent evolution of computer viruses seems to be still negligible. ...

The original files with the data were in different formats. ... Such files were named "standard data files" and linked to the database. They can be easily transformed to any desirable format by a code. Here we present two simple computer programs of this kind. ... When running the code, you can specify columns in the output file: wavelength, energy (eV) or wavenumber (cm -1 ) as the first column, and complex refractive index or dielectric function as the second and third columns. ...

Command Line Usage ================== A separate command line user interface became unnecessary when INDI was introduced to XmCCD with Version 3.0. INDI offers a versatile solution which will be easier for us to maintain. ... Start the indiserver from the directory in which you want to save image files on the computer connected to the camera cd image_directory indiserver ccd where indiserver and ccd are in the path (usually /usr/local/bin) 2. ...

... Chapman, R. and Brandt, J.: The Comet Book: A Guide for the Return of Halleys Comet (1984, Jones and Bartlett) ? ... Branley, F.: Comets (1984, T.Y. Crowell) ? good picture book for students in grades K-3. ... Schatz, D.: The Comet Cometh: An Activity Book for the Return of Comet Halley ? ... Glenn, W.: "Halley's Comet Makes a Comeback'' in The Science Teacher Jan. 1984, p. 38. ... To construct a model of an Alien Being that could exist on another planet or satellite in our solar system. ...

Eyepieces Forum Message . ... Post . ... Re The Computer For Dob . ... Post Message | ... Yes, it is possible to put the optical tube on an equatorial mount, but I'm betting you won't. Buying a scope made for its mount will probably appeal to you more, especially because a photography-worthy mount can cost more than the optics it carries! ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

Gliese . Our next planet is Gliese we landed on it 3 days ago and launch robots to investigate area around our ship. Although our central computer didn't find any signs of life we still hope to find some creatures. ... Our robots copied text and try to decipher it. But unfortunately they can't. So we send it to our central computer and it translated a headline. ... But it still can't translate whole text, so YOUR TASCK is to decipher the ancient text and send it to our central computer. ...

... The tracking system works in micro-step regime with a computer step of correction = 0.003 arcsec per second of time and a maximum speed of correction up to 4.6 arcsec per second of time. ... The APD module was constructed for performing experiments of receiving of 2 Mbps signals from “ARTEMIS” using the Cassegrain focus of 0.7m telescope. ... GaAs PIN photo diode. ... Laser module with thermoelectric stabilisation of laser diode. ... Electronic module for turbulence compensation system . ...

Comedi Documentation . ... I assume that your hardware device is in your computer, and that you know the relevant details about it, i.e., what kind of card it is, the I/O base, the IRQ, jumper settings related to input ranges, etc. To tell the comedi kernel module that you have a particular device, and some information about it, you will be running the comedi_config command. ... The overall info gives information about the device -- basically the same information as /proc/comedi. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Movies . ... Mad Science . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Why are computers not displayed accurately in movies. In most movies I have seen, computers are not displayed accurately. ... Another thing is the sounds that a computer makes. Even in movies today, each keystroke corresponds with a beep or blip sound made by the computer. ... This isn't so much a question about computers as it is about movies. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... There are two stars in the binary system: a donor star on the right and a black hole on the left (an infinitely small point in the center of a complex figure). ... The wind is ejected as a hollow cone; it has a funnel (the funnel opening angle in the figure) and thick walls (wall opening angle in the figure). The observer looks at the whole system and the supercritical disk from the right, and sees everything up to the wind photosphere (the red color in the figure). ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . America's Nerve Center for Mission Operations . ... An overall view from the rear shows activity in the new Mission Control Center, opened for operation and dedicated during the STS-70 space shuttle mission. ... Shuttle design and construction involved close support from the mission operations team. ... The Spaceflight Control Center in Korolev is where the Russian flight controllers support operations of the Russian elements of the space station. ...

. In this computer artist's rendering, the Cassini spacecraft fires its engine in a maneuver that will place the spacecraft in orbit around Saturn. Dave Seal/JPL/NASA

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... Ground support equipment for aircraft electronics. ... Avionic electrical interface adapters (SABI) are used for interfacing the GSE control computer with onboard equipment of SU-30MKM aircraft. Data recorder system (SRP) is designed for readout, processing and monitoring of information, transmitted in onboard data transfer lines. Set of equipment USI-TM and USI-TM/SNI for non-contact readout from onboard data registers. ... OAO Sukhoi, OAO NIIP V. Tikhomirov. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... ISS Russian Segment . Steps of ISS Assembly . ... Five new devices of the total mass of ~42 kg (instead of 6 devices of the total mass of ~101 kg) are installed in the guidance, navigation and control system of the new series vehicle. ... liquid thermostatting of GN OC devices is provided by installation of three cold plates in the vehicle instrument module (IM); . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

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Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... StelTextureNew Class Reference . ... Get a human-readable message describing the error that happened during loading (if any). ... A texture can be in one of 4 states, depending on how it is loaded. These are Uninitialized, Loading, Loaded, Error. ... If load mode specified with createTextureBackend is Normal, it is immediately loaded (internally, it's in Loading state), and one createTextureBackend is done, its state changes to Loaded on success or Error if loading failed. ...

... It is generally accepted that the mechanism, widely known as the Antikythera mechanism, was made in Rhodes at the height of the Roman Republic, as the island was known as the source of interesting mechanical automata. You can tell just by looking at it that the device is part of a larger object, and it is also obvious that there are geared wheels and other rotational elements within it. The device undoubtedly is an early computer and could be seen as the first planetarium. ...

Institute of Electronics and Computer Sciences Riga, LATVIA "Eventech" Ltd, Riga, LATVIA Y. Artyukh, V.Vedin, E. Boole, V. Bespalko, G. Ozolinsh Presentation is supported by: European Regional Structural Fund WPLTN-2012 TECHNICAL WORKSHOP St. Petersburg, Russia, 24-28 September 2012 OUR SPECIALIZATION As known, Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) provides observation data sets to satisfy the objectives of a wide range of scientific, engineering, and operational applications. ...

Below is a list of additional documentation pages that apply to the Apache web server development project. ... Description of Apache's Application Programming Interface. ... Reading Client Input in Apache 1.2 . Describes differences between Apache 1.1 and 1.2 in how modules read information from the client. ... Notes about Apache's compatibility with the NCSA server. ... Performance Notes (BSD 4.4) . Some notes about ways to improve/optimize Apache performance on BSD 4.4 systems. ...