I think they are more concerned about the data being used for terrain matching guidance systems such as those used in cruise missiles and ballistic missile warheads.
The standard insists on requiring broken behavior from new implementations to preserve compatibility with old software. Not a good idea when precision timing is becoming increasingly important.
Skin cells live in a much more variable and hostile environment than brain cells. They may have defenses and repair mechanisms that are not present in brain cells.
There is a difference between doing it, and doing it right. Doing it right tends to be expensive. Spread spectrum doesn't magically turn a POS radio into a great radio.
My guess, from reading the article, is diameter. I'd be interested in the highest mass stars, since there is an inverse relationship between mass and lifetime. What's the shortest time that a star can exist for?
Do they mean 'serviced', as in 'our cow was serviced by the bull'?
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I can't believe Pearl Harbor made their list. What a POS.
For less money, you can get a DVD version of Tora! Tora! Tora!, a far superior movie, and they did a great job of restoring the film and mastering the DVD.
Most IDE controllers are brain-dead. Even with DMA enabled, the CPU spends a lot of time servicing interrupts. With an intelligent I/O controller, you can give it a long linked list of I/O operations and it will only generate one interrupt when it has finished.
Don't forget the thousands of engineers and technicians in the ground crew that made it all happen for every launch. Plus all the people in the global spaceflight tracking networks and at JSC.
Then I'm sure you wont mind if your granny's pension check is permanently reduced by 25% because the pension fund's managers woke up one day and realized "Hey! We're a bunch of greedy Western bastards. Let's forgive all the debts of the developing world! Who needs the money more, an industrial concern in Indonesia or a widow in Ireland?".
If the criminals are that predictable, the police can setup armed stakeouts at likely targets. They did that here when there was a rash of liquor store robberies. After a number of robbers were shot and killed by the police, the word got around that robbing a liquor store was hazardous to your health.
I think it's mostly due to historical reasons. Before there were cellular phones, there was a mobile phone service that used VHF FM radio. The mobile phone subscriber paid the airtime charges on all calls, no matter who originated the call. It was an expensive service, so why should the wireline caller get stuck with the bill? The mobile phone subscriber had a normal telephone number. Instead of terminating at a telephone set, it terminated at a two-way radio base station. A radio operator at the base station would complete the call to the mobile subscriber and fill out a billing chit for the call.
What the hell is a tree higger? Some sort of insect?
People need to get some fucking perspective. Lead solder on printed circuit boards is not a "huge sleeping environmental problem". The coal burning power plant that is supplying your electricity is a major problem. The 5-ton Canyonero SUV that your 110 lb wife uses to commute to work is a major problem. A gazillion tons of nitrates washing into the watershed is a major problem.
I read Per Brinch Hansen's excellent book on Concurrent Pascal about 25 years ago. Where are the software tools for concurrent programming? (Insert sound of crickets chirping)
I've done a lot of real-time embedded system programming with multiple tasks, interrupt service routines, etc. I've yet to use a compiler/language that made any attempt at making concurrent programming easier for the programmer. If I need something, I have to do it myself. It's sort of like doing OOP in C.
I'd start filing some complaints with your state's public utility commission. They have the responsibility to monitor service quality and can bitch slap the power company if they aren't meeting their obligations to their customers. That's assuming that they haven't been coopted by the companies that they regulate, a real problem in some states.
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I think they are more concerned about the data being used for terrain matching guidance systems such as those used in cruise missiles and ballistic missile warheads.
There aren't any national security problems in providing high-resolution data for Mars.
The standard insists on requiring broken behavior from new implementations to preserve compatibility with old software. Not a good idea when precision timing is becoming increasingly important.
Yahoo dictated the terms of service to their subscribers. They did not negotiate a contract, or ask what their customers preferred.
Skin cells live in a much more variable and hostile environment than brain cells. They may have defenses and repair mechanisms that are not present in brain cells.
There is a difference between doing it, and doing it right. Doing it right tends to be expensive. Spread spectrum doesn't magically turn a POS radio into a great radio.
Thank you, that is a truly bizarre star.
A real astronomer considers it to be an ambiguous question.
Which is larger? 1 mole of O2 or 22.4 liters of O2? Note that I didn't specify the temperature and pressure.
Biggest?
Are we talking about diameter, magnitude or mass?
My guess, from reading the article, is diameter. I'd be interested in the highest mass stars, since there is an inverse relationship between mass and lifetime. What's the shortest time that a star can exist for?
The Earth's mass does affect it's orbit around the Sun. See Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
Mine is Charon. It seemed like an appropriate name.
Do they mean 'serviced', as in 'our cow was serviced by the bull'?
For less money, you can get a DVD version of Tora! Tora! Tora!, a far superior movie, and they did a great job of restoring the film and mastering the DVD.
I couldn't find it in any of the local stores. I ended up ordering it direct from Blizzard.
POTS is 64 kbps full-duplex once your call is digitized at the switch. It's quantized at 8000 samples per second, 8 bits per sample.
Most IDE controllers are brain-dead. Even with DMA enabled, the CPU spends a lot of time servicing interrupts. With an intelligent I/O controller, you can give it a long linked list of I/O operations and it will only generate one interrupt when it has finished.
Don't forget the thousands of engineers and technicians in the ground crew that made it all happen for every launch. Plus all the people in the global spaceflight tracking networks and at JSC.
Then I'm sure you wont mind if your granny's pension check is permanently reduced by 25% because the pension fund's managers woke up one day and realized "Hey! We're a bunch of greedy Western bastards. Let's forgive all the debts of the developing world! Who needs the money more, an industrial concern in Indonesia or a widow in Ireland?".
If the criminals are that predictable, the police can setup armed stakeouts at likely targets. They did that here when there was a rash of liquor store robberies. After a number of robbers were shot and killed by the police, the word got around that robbing a liquor store was hazardous to your health.
I think it's mostly due to historical reasons. Before there were cellular phones, there was a mobile phone service that used VHF FM radio. The mobile phone subscriber paid the airtime charges on all calls, no matter who originated the call. It was an expensive service, so why should the wireline caller get stuck with the bill? The mobile phone subscriber had a normal telephone number. Instead of terminating at a telephone set, it terminated at a two-way radio base station. A radio operator at the base station would complete the call to the mobile subscriber and fill out a billing chit for the call.
What the hell is a tree higger? Some sort of insect?
People need to get some fucking perspective. Lead solder on printed circuit boards is not a "huge sleeping environmental problem". The coal burning power plant that is supplying your electricity is a major problem. The 5-ton Canyonero SUV that your 110 lb wife uses to commute to work is a major problem. A gazillion tons of nitrates washing into the watershed is a major problem.
Similar problem, different story.
I've done a lot of real-time embedded system programming with multiple tasks, interrupt service routines, etc. I've yet to use a compiler/language that made any attempt at making concurrent programming easier for the programmer. If I need something, I have to do it myself. It's sort of like doing OOP in C.
I'd start filing some complaints with your state's public utility commission. They have the responsibility to monitor service quality and can bitch slap the power company if they aren't meeting their obligations to their customers. That's assuming that they haven't been coopted by the companies that they regulate, a real problem in some states.