Drag your eyes to the right and note that there is a separate product/service and award date. The nature of gov contracting means there is likely a base contract, and when a new job comes up (e.g. healthcare.gov) they mod the contract and issue a new award. These are 114 separate scopes of work, separate projects. ~113 of which have nothing to do with healthcare.gov.
I did see the right-hand-size description. Those different scopes of work can still be parts of the same big project. In most projects in government or/and private sector you bill for telecom services separately from software development and from system configuration and so on. Pardon for being somewhat cynical, but I am not surprised at all that they can milk the GOV for over 500 M$.
All these contracts are with the same "HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT". It seems like they itemized the whole work as a serious of smaller contracts. With the general governmental corruption and inefficiency it is quite believable that they could waste half a G$ on a single IT system.
Citibank offers "Virtual Credit Cards" that are generated for you on demand. Each card is valid for one merchant only (the first transaction locks the merchant), has configurable expiration date and maximum amount limit. Even if stolen such virtual cards are of little use to the bad guys.
From now on, your options are KDE if you want a qt-based setup or Xfce/LXDE if you want gtk.
Surprise, surprise. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXDE#Qt_port/ LXDE slowly but surely moves into Qt camp.
Shorter range is a significant advantage today because it reduces interference.
Interference is probably the main reason for lack of speed and reliability in modern city apartment WiFi.
RF propagation (and, thus, interference) is in no way dependent on the QAM modulation scheme and is the same for QPSK, QAM-16, QAM-64, QAM-256. Moreover, going to higher modulation constellations could force you to increase transmit power generating even more interference.
Just my two cents from real world RF engineering.
Without the Soviet Union, they're hovering around the 10th largest economy in the world (about even with Canada, depending on what source you look at), and the 8th largest by population.
Basically, the device is converting high-entropy thermal energy into even higher entropy incoherent electromagnetic radiation (light output). So, the second law of thermodynamics is not violated.
Nonsense. Imagine, that your higher entropy incoherent electromagnetic radiation is absorbed back by matter and becomes heat again. In your model entropy will go down. Besides, black body radiation is the EM incoherent light of maximum entropy which is in thermal equilibrium with matter. LED light spectrum is almost monochromatic and has lower entropy than black-body radiation at the same temperature.
I am sick and tired of this kind of "research" that late Richard Feynman used to call "cargo cult science". Surviving in the North generally required more cognitive processing due to variety of factors like cold temperatures (one needs to invent cloth), scarcity of food (better hunting techniques, advanced social skills). Less light might affect eye sight but I think it is a minor factor when it comes to brain size. To summarize, living in the North did affect brain size and cognitive development but it is all but impossible to attribute that to the amount of light. There are other more important factors at play here.
Common sense would suggest a moratorium on the old nuclear reactors of the type used in Fukushima and rapid construction of new safer alternatives which exist. But again, asking for common sense is demanding too much:-)
Can three turkeys make and eagle? I will not be surprised that in few months from now a triumvirate of Microsoft, Intel and Nokia emerge as a consortium to push Nokia made mobile devices with Intel mobile chips running MS software. Entirely possible...
When MeeGo comes in, say, in a year (and I'm being optimistic here), why would mobile developers care to divert resources from existing well-entrenched platforms?
I guess because of a cross-platform nature of the Qt-based MeeGo development tools. You develop for MeeGo and without much fuss cross compile to MS/Apple/Linux Desktops. Hopefully, Intel will port Qt to Android, then you can compile for it too.
My screen resolution is 128dpi and, therefore, I am using large test fonts. Left panel is too wide and crops off sizable part of the main central panel swallowing the beginning of each line. Please, fix it!! I am using Firefox 3.6.9 under Ubuntu Linux.
My screen is 128dpi. Therefore, I am using 20px fonts for text. The left panel crops off substantial portion of middle panel making reading slashdot virtually impossible. Please, stop cluttering pages with useless crap. Keep it simple, please!!
An ISP that cannot handle their customers getting 100MB/day is not worth being named an ISP imho. We are talking Wide Area Wireless Network here. You know, there are laws of physics that prevent you from achieving 100MB/day/user in a limited spectrum with cells covering 5 square kilometers. Comparing mobile wireless network with fixed fiber or cable is simply silly. Learn to use WiFi on top of a fast fiber/cable link.
And yes, I do wireless network engineering for living.
No matter how ingenious a heat engine design is, an old Carnot theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot's_theorem_(thermodynamics) limits its efficiency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_Engine#Efficiency In practical terms the wiggle room to improve heat engines is small and will only provide incremental gains not sufficient to solve our energy problem. It will simply postpone it by few years. The real inefficiency is a massive use of personal transport where a mass transit is much more economical.
According to Abdulaziz Alhaidari's calculations, if one were to roll up graphene into a nanotube, this could compactify dimensions (from the sheet's two down to the tube's one),... The sentence above conveys a wrong impression that tube is one dimensional. Dimensionality of a tube is still the same as of the plane and it is still two. What is different is its topology. Tube has one one dimension with a topology of a line (infinite in both directions) and another one which is a circle and is compact. And it, indeed, could cause some strange effects like pseudo-mass.
Russia, as a country with minimal rule of law and an average IQ of 96, qualifies as third-world...
Are you seriously suggesting that a country with an average IQ of 96 can win a World War II in Europe, sent first satellite (sputnik) into space followed by a first man in space, develop nuke and thermo-nuke weapons, keep the whole world on its toes for about half a century and all that with an average IQ of just 96. I do not want to be rude or disrespectful but I wonder what is your IQ?
American tanks had better radios, higher speed and better engines. Better engines... You must be kidding. Sherman tank was gasoline powered and was nicknamed "torch on wheels" for bursting in flames much more easily compared to its diesel counterparts.
I do not think that $ by $ comparison is valid here. Actually, GSM networking equipment for AT&T's network is cheaper to buy that similar CDMA equipment that Verizon and Sprint uses. GSM market is sooo much larger than CDMA so that the economy of scale plays nicely here. You might get further with 21B$ upgrading your GSM network than with 25B$ for CDMA.
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Drag your eyes to the right and note that there is a separate product/service and award date. The nature of gov contracting means there is likely a base contract, and when a new job comes up (e.g. healthcare.gov) they mod the contract and issue a new award. These are 114 separate scopes of work, separate projects. ~113 of which have nothing to do with healthcare.gov.
I did see the right-hand-size description. Those different scopes of work can still be parts of the same big project. In most projects in government or/and private sector you bill for telecom services separately from software development and from system configuration and so on. Pardon for being somewhat cynical, but I am not surprised at all that they can milk the GOV for over 500 M$.
That figure covers 114 separate contracts (see http://usaspending.gov/explore?tab=By+Prime+Awardee&fiscal_year=all&idvpiid=HHSM500200700015I&typeofview=transactions )
All these contracts are with the same "HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT". It seems like they itemized the whole work as a serious of smaller contracts. With the general governmental corruption and inefficiency it is quite believable that they could waste half a G$ on a single IT system.
Citibank offers "Virtual Credit Cards" that are generated for you on demand. Each card is valid for one merchant only (the first transaction locks the merchant), has configurable expiration date and maximum amount limit. Even if stolen such virtual cards are of little use to the bad guys.
From now on, your options are KDE if you want a qt-based setup or Xfce/LXDE if you want gtk.
Surprise, surprise. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXDE#Qt_port/ LXDE slowly but surely moves into Qt camp.
Shorter range is a significant advantage today because it reduces interference. Interference is probably the main reason for lack of speed and reliability in modern city apartment WiFi.
RF propagation (and, thus, interference) is in no way dependent on the QAM modulation scheme and is the same for QPSK, QAM-16, QAM-64, QAM-256. Moreover, going to higher modulation constellations could force you to increase transmit power generating even more interference. Just my two cents from real world RF engineering.
Without the Soviet Union, they're hovering around the 10th largest economy in the world (about even with Canada, depending on what source you look at), and the 8th largest by population.
Not quite correct. According to the Purchasing-Power-Parity GDP measure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP) Russia is #6 right ahead of the United Kingdom.
Nonsense. Imagine, that your higher entropy incoherent electromagnetic radiation is absorbed back by matter and becomes heat again. In your model entropy will go down. Besides, black body radiation is the EM incoherent light of maximum entropy which is in thermal equilibrium with matter. LED light spectrum is almost monochromatic and has lower entropy than black-body radiation at the same temperature.
It was Russian parliament elections. Presidential elections are in March 2012.
I am sick and tired of this kind of "research" that late Richard Feynman used to call "cargo cult science". Surviving in the North generally required more cognitive processing due to variety of factors like cold temperatures (one needs to invent cloth), scarcity of food (better hunting techniques, advanced social skills). Less light might affect eye sight but I think it is a minor factor when it comes to brain size. To summarize, living in the North did affect brain size and cognitive development but it is all but impossible to attribute that to the amount of light. There are other more important factors at play here.
Common sense would suggest a moratorium on the old nuclear reactors of the type used in Fukushima and rapid construction of new safer alternatives which exist. But again, asking for common sense is demanding too much:-)
The processor family is called Loongson and not "LongSoon" as summary says. But the typo is funny in its own way.
NYC department of education found an ultimate solution. All electronic gadgets sans HP calculators are banned in the public schools.
Can three turkeys make and eagle?
I will not be surprised that in few months from now a triumvirate of Microsoft, Intel and Nokia emerge as a consortium to push Nokia made mobile devices with Intel mobile chips running MS software. Entirely possible...
When MeeGo comes in, say, in a year (and I'm being optimistic here), why would mobile developers care to divert resources from existing well-entrenched platforms?
I guess because of a cross-platform nature of the Qt-based MeeGo development tools. You develop for MeeGo and without much fuss cross compile to MS/Apple/Linux Desktops. Hopefully, Intel will port Qt to Android, then you can compile for it too.
My screen resolution is 128dpi and, therefore, I am using large test fonts. Left panel is too wide and crops off sizable part of the main central panel swallowing the beginning of each line. Please, fix it!!
I am using Firefox 3.6.9 under Ubuntu Linux.
My screen is 128dpi. Therefore, I am using 20px fonts for text.
The left panel crops off substantial portion of middle panel making reading slashdot virtually impossible. Please, stop cluttering pages with useless crap. Keep it simple, please!!
Browsing with larger fonts the left panel crops portions of the central panel. Impossible to use. Please, give an option of using old design.
An ISP that cannot handle their customers getting 100MB/day is not worth being named an ISP imho.
We are talking Wide Area Wireless Network here. You know, there are laws of physics that prevent you from achieving 100MB/day/user in a limited spectrum with cells covering 5 square kilometers.
Comparing mobile wireless network with fixed fiber or cable is simply silly.
Learn to use WiFi on top of a fast fiber/cable link.
And yes, I do wireless network engineering for living.
No matter how ingenious a heat engine design is, an old Carnot theorem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot's_theorem_(thermodynamics)
limits its efficiency
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_Engine#Efficiency
In practical terms the wiggle room to improve heat engines is small and will only provide incremental gains not sufficient to solve our energy problem. It will simply postpone it by few years.
The real inefficiency is a massive use of personal transport where a mass transit is much more economical.
According to Abdulaziz Alhaidari's calculations, if one were to roll up graphene into a nanotube, this could compactify dimensions (from the sheet's two down to the tube's one),...
The sentence above conveys a wrong impression that tube is one dimensional. Dimensionality of a tube is still the same as of the plane and it is still two. What is different is its topology. Tube has one one dimension with a topology of a line (infinite in both directions) and another one which is a circle and is compact. And it, indeed, could cause some strange effects like pseudo-mass.
Russia, as a country with minimal rule of law and an average IQ of 96, qualifies as third-world...
Are you seriously suggesting that a country with an average IQ of 96 can win a World War II in Europe, sent first satellite (sputnik) into space followed by a first man in space, develop nuke and thermo-nuke weapons, keep the whole world on its toes for about half a century and all that with an average IQ of just 96. I do not want to be rude or disrespectful but I wonder what is your IQ?
It reminds me of a very insightful German movie "The Wave" (original German title "Die Welle") http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1063669/
A history teacher proposes to his students an experiment about dictatorship. See what comes out of it.
American tanks had better radios, higher speed and better engines.
Better engines... You must be kidding. Sherman tank was gasoline powered and was nicknamed "torch on wheels" for bursting in flames much more easily compared to its diesel counterparts.
and another who managed to call him on his mobile, 'You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms.'
Just check the weather in St.Petersburg, Russia. It is still too cold there for any mushrooms to grow. So much for journalist's integrity.
I do not think that $ by $ comparison is valid here.
Actually, GSM networking equipment for AT&T's network is cheaper to buy that similar CDMA equipment that Verizon and Sprint uses. GSM market is sooo much larger than CDMA so that the economy of scale plays nicely here. You might get further with 21B$ upgrading your GSM network than with 25B$ for CDMA.