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Hey, I'm looking at this simple assembly code: loop: beq r0,r0,loop Which keeps looping whilst the processor is idle. Will this code perform read operations on the memory, or does it simply involve loading from on-processor registers?

Evening. I took this photo of the ISS a few days ago: The ISS is visible clearly at the bottom of the image, but does anyone know what the other three lines could be? there's two at the top left and one half way up the right hand side. The ISS track confirms that the camera was still, so it's...

Afternoon all. I'm trying to compute the position around my orbit (in cartesian coordinates, but orbital elements is acceptable as I can convert) where I should perform the following orbital correction. Initial orbit and final orbit are the same in terms all but one of the orbital elements, they...

Right, I'm supposed to be teaching a class tomorrow, and one of the problems they have to do is: Show that specific orbital energy at perigee is equal to specific orbital energy at apogee using the knowledge that the radius and velocity vectors are perpendicular at these points and that H = R x...

Rather strange question I know, but do any of you chaps know where I can purchase a ballistic vest, either from a store in Europe or somewhere that ships to the EU? I have to go to a rather unsavoury part of the world in a few weeks and was shot at last time I was there: Would feel somewhat...

Afternoon all, in my somewhat hungover state of antipathy this morning I accidentally clicked the "upgrade firefox to 3" button and now I'm stuck looking at something drawing by someone whose age I would estimate as 3 years old. My question, is there any way to get firefox back to looking like...

Afternoon everyone, do any of you know about fixing corrupted files on a camera flash card? I have a 2gb xD card with a load of photos on it (all but the latest of which were backed up, luckily) and about 2-3% of them are now corrupted. On the disk the little preview image seems fine, but the...

Afternoon chaps. I've been examining the space-track catalogue for some of the EOS sats (EUMETSAT don't provide us with orbital elements, as they're pains in the ass). I have noticed that the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) sats have vbery similar orbits (of course) but completely different...

Surprised there's no thread on this already, one of the biggest sporting events of 2008! Anyway, just been watching Portugal-Turkey. Turkey look shockingly bad, while Portugal seem good. Even if Christiano Ronaldo has (as usual for an important game) gone missing. Who is your tip to win the...

Someone just emailed me this, and as there wasn't a prematch thread on the champions league I thought I'd start a postmatch one. Made me laugh, did this ;)

Just noticed this article linked through the CNN (yes, I know, CNN) website: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1739053,00.html?cnn=yes Anyone have opinions on that? Sounds like an absolutely terrible idea IMO

Just discovered that it's election day in London today. British politics fascinates me, and the BBC is running an online special.:speakcool: Anyway, who are the Brits on here supporting in the election? Ken, who seems to have some fairly solid ideas - but is a bit of an unpopular one with some...

I'm currently filling in my nonresident tax form for the USA, and as I'm a non-US person they've helpfully included a form entitled: "Form B: List of countries not considered to be part of the U.S" I'm happy to learn that Denmark isn't part of the USA. So if anyone else is worried that they...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7349610.stm Who is this dip****? "What actually makes the newspaper headlines are the marvellous pictures from the Hubble telescope and those of the surface of Mars and Jupiter and Titan, all obtained robotically." So he thinks we should only ever...

Hi, I just got myself a few Playstation style joypads (y'know, the ones with two little sticks on them and a bunch of buttons). Admittedly this is mainly for playing pro evo on a sunday afternoon, but it would be nice to get one of the things working for orbiter. Unfortunately my experience...

Hey all, is there any way to turn off the PA guy on NASA TV? As much as he says lots of useful things, it'd be quite nice to be able to hear what is actually gonig on (particularly at TSUP) without him talking over the top :)

Hey, I am busy fiddling around with my latest cunning plan, and it requires some kinda addon to make it work. What I am looking for is just a very simple model of, say, a missile along with a dead simple .dll (which, to be honest, is optional, I can probably remember almost enough of the...

Seeing as how M6 is in a semi-permanent state of broken-ness I thought I'd kick off youtube thread over here, even though I never posted in the other one I did enjoy quite a lot of gthe videos :) Heres one from me to kick it off, "How to dance at a rave" YouTube - How to dance at a rave It's an...