The cooling technology has been around for decades. Take a look at old Cray supercomputers or IBM ECL mainframes. The problem is that it has to be designed into the system from the beginning, not tacked on to an existing design.
That's presuming a level of organization and technical sophistication that is not present in my county. The people who ran the polling place were local registered voters, mostly retired people, who volunteered for the job.
They used these machines in the last few elections that I voted in.
An election worker inserted the card in the machine, not the voter. There were enough people around, keeping an eye on things, that attempting to swap cards would be risky.
There were no reports of fraud or irregularities related to the new machines.
I used to overhaul military grade NiCD batteries when I was in the Army. These were used for applications like starting jet turbines on helicopters. Part of the overhaul process involved discharging all cells to zero voltage. This balanced and equalized the cell voltages. The trick was that the metal links between battery cells were removed before the cells were discharged to zero. This prevented reverse polarity from being applied to a cell, which can damage the cell. The individual cells were tested and repaired/replaced if they didn't meet the specifications. The cells were then reassembled into a battery and charged.
It encourages efficient and fair use of the system's resources. Rather than run just any program that will produce the desired result, it forces people to consider how their program will affect other users of the system. Maybe that bubble sort isn't such a great algorithm if it uses up your CPU quota for the month in one run.
The ARRL has not taken a position on the subject. I'm an amateur radio operator and life ARRL member who would like to see the morse code requirement deleted from the FCC rules. Morse code still has its advantages for HF communication with low power and simple/cheap equipment, although I expect it will slowly fade away as more efficient digital modes become widespread and standardized.
Maybe the wrestler is suing first so that he doesn't get sued later on by the software company, should he decide to return to the ring or some other public activity. Stranger things have happened.
Just because we're part of the Defense Department, that doesn't mean that we are developing translation technology for national security applications. No Sir! We've been dumping millions of dollars into translation research for decades, just so that we can read all those dirty novels published in foreign countries without having to wait for an English edition. We're addicted to pr0n.
The systems and software that measure usage, collect the data and generate bills are a substantial part of the cost of running a telephone network. That is one of the reasons that ISPs have avoided this business model.
A tariff is not a tax. It is a regulated price for a service. In this case, the long distance company pays a few cents a minute to the originating and terminating local carriers for access and use of their networks.
The long-term solution is to remove resolution dependencies from GUI software. The application shouldn't know or care about the resolution of the frame buffer or the user's display. Try running a Windows application at multiple resolutions, different display sizes, small/large fonts, and with different video cards. It is a real PITA to make the application's GUI look decent under all those combinations.
Many new LCD displays have hardware support for scaling non-native resolutions. You can run the display at 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, etc. without it looking horrible.
The long-term trend in displays is to decouple capture/creation resolution from storage/transport resolution from display resolution.
Seriously, I'm sure that a number of intelligence agencies have archives of this stuff. I believe the FBI used to get a USENET feed on 9-track 1/2" tape.
Congress passed the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which removed many of the restrictions on ownership of multiple media outlets, and requires the FCC to review and justify its regulations on media ownership every two years. Combine that with a series of court decisions that have slapped down the FCC when the courts felt that the FCC had not adequately provided supporting evidence to justify new regulations. The FCC operates within the parameters set by Congress and the courts.
I've written real-time software for systems with less MIPS (10 MHz 68010) and RAM (128KB) than the DCT-2000 (27 MHz 68332). I even used the same real-time kernel (VRTX) as the DCT-2000. My software had a guaranteed 10 mS response time to any event, incoming data packet or user command, and it supported multiple data streams at T1 rates. 99% of the software was written in C.
The current DCT software sucks. Every time you hit a button on the remote, you have to wait for the lousy software to (slowly) execute the command and refresh the screen before pressing another button. The vaunted EPG (electronic program guide) is a joke. It only shows half an hours worth of programs. They waste big chunks of screen space on ads. For a box that supposedly costs $750, they could have hired some real programmers to write the code.
I'm fairly certain if you asked your radiostation to play local bands they would.
Maybe on some other planet. The vast majority of commercial radio stations have rigidly defined playlists. If it isn't on the playlist, it will never be played on the air. Even the station's program director may not have any say over the contents of the playlist.
While I don't think regulations should be more intrusive than needed, there is a definite need for government regulation of space launches.
Range safety is an integral part of government and commercial launch vehicle operations in the United States. Range safety ensures that the launch vehicle, or its components, impact in a safe area if there is a problem with the launch vehicle. This involves redundant systems to monitor the velocity, position and health of the launch vehicle, impact prediction systems (where do the pieces land if it blows up), and thrust termination systems (the big red button). The operator of the launch vehicle has to provide a high degree of assurance that no failure mode will result in injury, death or property damage in areas outside the range. This is not a trivial task, and not something to be built from bubble gum and bailing wire.
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The cooling technology has been around for decades. Take a look at old Cray supercomputers or IBM ECL mainframes. The problem is that it has to be designed into the system from the beginning, not tacked on to an existing design.
That's presuming a level of organization and technical sophistication that is not present in my county. The people who ran the polling place were local registered voters, mostly retired people, who volunteered for the job.
An election worker inserted the card in the machine, not the voter. There were enough people around, keeping an eye on things, that attempting to swap cards would be risky.
There were no reports of fraud or irregularities related to the new machines.
I used to overhaul military grade NiCD batteries when I was in the Army. These were used for applications like starting jet turbines on helicopters. Part of the overhaul process involved discharging all cells to zero voltage. This balanced and equalized the cell voltages. The trick was that the metal links between battery cells were removed before the cells were discharged to zero. This prevented reverse polarity from being applied to a cell, which can damage the cell. The individual cells were tested and repaired/replaced if they didn't meet the specifications. The cells were then reassembled into a battery and charged.
It encourages efficient and fair use of the system's resources. Rather than run just any program that will produce the desired result, it forces people to consider how their program will affect other users of the system. Maybe that bubble sort isn't such a great algorithm if it uses up your CPU quota for the month in one run.
The ARRL has not taken a position on the subject. I'm an amateur radio operator and life ARRL member who would like to see the morse code requirement deleted from the FCC rules. Morse code still has its advantages for HF communication with low power and simple/cheap equipment, although I expect it will slowly fade away as more efficient digital modes become widespread and standardized.
They forgot to mention the backpack that contains the fuel cell and cooling system.
Drug dealers and prostitutes provide valuable services to their customers, which is more than I can say for telemarketers.
It may have been their land, but it was our canal.
Maybe the wrestler is suing first so that he doesn't get sued later on by the software company, should he decide to return to the ring or some other public activity. Stranger things have happened.
Just because we're part of the Defense Department, that doesn't mean that we are developing translation technology for national security applications. No Sir! We've been dumping millions of dollars into translation research for decades, just so that we can read all those dirty novels published in foreign countries without having to wait for an English edition. We're addicted to pr0n.
The systems and software that measure usage, collect the data and generate bills are a substantial part of the cost of running a telephone network. That is one of the reasons that ISPs have avoided this business model.
A tariff is not a tax. It is a regulated price for a service. In this case, the long distance company pays a few cents a minute to the originating and terminating local carriers for access and use of their networks.
The long-term solution is to remove resolution dependencies from GUI software. The application shouldn't know or care about the resolution of the frame buffer or the user's display. Try running a Windows application at multiple resolutions, different display sizes, small/large fonts, and with different video cards. It is a real PITA to make the application's GUI look decent under all those combinations.
The long-term trend in displays is to decouple capture/creation resolution from storage/transport resolution from display resolution.
Seriously, I'm sure that a number of intelligence agencies have archives of this stuff. I believe the FBI used to get a USENET feed on 9-track 1/2" tape.
Congress passed the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which removed many of the restrictions on ownership of multiple media outlets, and requires the FCC to review and justify its regulations on media ownership every two years. Combine that with a series of court decisions that have slapped down the FCC when the courts felt that the FCC had not adequately provided supporting evidence to justify new regulations. The FCC operates within the parameters set by Congress and the courts.
The same people Hollywood is trying to put out of work by moving productions to Canada?
I think you mean beaucoup.
"That's nothing, my dad is as strong as Aleph One Neanderthals"
I read too many math books when I was a child.
I've written real-time software for systems with less MIPS (10 MHz 68010) and RAM (128KB) than the DCT-2000 (27 MHz 68332). I even used the same real-time kernel (VRTX) as the DCT-2000. My software had a guaranteed 10 mS response time to any event, incoming data packet or user command, and it supported multiple data streams at T1 rates. 99% of the software was written in C.
The current DCT software sucks. Every time you hit a button on the remote, you have to wait for the lousy software to (slowly) execute the command and refresh the screen before pressing another button. The vaunted EPG (electronic program guide) is a joke. It only shows half an hours worth of programs. They waste big chunks of screen space on ads. For a box that supposedly costs $750, they could have hired some real programmers to write the code.
Maybe on some other planet. The vast majority of commercial radio stations have rigidly defined playlists. If it isn't on the playlist, it will never be played on the air. Even the station's program director may not have any say over the contents of the playlist.
3COM has a series of network interface cards with encryption hardware. I don't know how well they work in practice.
Range safety is an integral part of government and commercial launch vehicle operations in the United States. Range safety ensures that the launch vehicle, or its components, impact in a safe area if there is a problem with the launch vehicle. This involves redundant systems to monitor the velocity, position and health of the launch vehicle, impact prediction systems (where do the pieces land if it blows up), and thrust termination systems (the big red button). The operator of the launch vehicle has to provide a high degree of assurance that no failure mode will result in injury, death or property damage in areas outside the range. This is not a trivial task, and not something to be built from bubble gum and bailing wire.