+1. The flac version makes you really believe that the piano is right in your living room. She is no Glenn Gould (we have to wait for a few more centuries) but her play makes me think that she has been listening a lot to the 1981 version by the master.
As an engineer I am truly impressed by the clever material breakthrough. However, I can't imagine how they can manage the mechanical precision on the positionning on the read/write locations of the HDD. Having a 1 nm wide bit size is not helpful if you are not in the same range for the relative head/disk position? Or I am missing something?
Several of the best early SF stories I've read are from the French author JH Rosny Aine. Some are now available in English : http://sfscope.com/2012/02/wesleyan-bringing-jh-rosny-ain.html
The narrative and topics are amazingly modern for a book almost one century old.
This books features several stories :
-The Death of the Earth : an apocalyptic last-man story in a agonizing Earth
-"The Xipehuz" is a prehistoric tale in which the human species battles strange geometric alien life forms.
Definitely wirth a try.
Along the history of the Roman Empire, the amount of gold in the Aureus coin consistently decreased as the need for more (cheap) money increased, to fund the military campaigns and buy peace from the barbarians. It could only last so long.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aureus
We have all read those reports about a so-called "environment change" that would be caused by high level of oxygen released in the atmosphere by archean activity. I can tell you that there is no strong evidence that this oxugen level is rising, nor that it is due to us, and that it is dangerous at all !
The groups that try to refrain us from consuming fossil compounds are trying to hinder archean economy! We do not want to hide in caves!
Evolution will provide us with new solutions to cope with this hypothetical change.
God bless Gaia.
Peugeot (which was one of the early adopter of the Diesel engine in Europe, and has still a good market share of these engine is currently developing a Cross-Over with a Diesel - electric engine : http://www.greencarsite.co.uk/econews/new-peugeot-3008.htm
The idea is to have a Diesel engine for the front axle and an electric engine on the rear axle. It gives both a mileage gain and a 4x4 ability to the vehicle. It should be out in 2011 according to TFA.
Nobody gets the horror of this news !
Obviously it's Cthugha, the evil deity from Fomalhaut, akin to Cthulhu !
He's coming for us !
We are doomed to be engulfed in flames in less than 4,5 Bn years !
I have an explanation : you are using an alpha browser on a beta OS...
I switched back to 32bit Ubuntu six months ago because I was fed up with the crashes in Firefox. I spent a few happy nights trying to get Flash to work, without success.
I work as a safety engineer in the automotive industry and I must say I'm quite surprised at TFA and the above comments.
Some of the mentioned uses look like safety-critical to me. No automotive engineer in his right mind would do that, first reason being product liability : if something bad happens to a customer in the field due to a Windows crash, I strongly doubt that Microsoft would back you up if you explain to the jury that you thought their OS was fit for safety purposes...
And it would be also difficult to take credit from the reliability history of this OS, not if the judge ever used a Windows PC...
My worst Microsoft experience is a car radio based on Windows CE that I had a chance to try in the early 2000s. It featured a 2x8 inches screen for the navigation, with a bird-view of your car and the surroundings...
It is VERY useful to have a view of 30km each side of your car and 10 km of the road ahead...
It only crashed four times during my trip, it had to reboot completely (30s) to give you back the radio broadcast...
Utterly broken mess.
I must admit I'm 37... And I know I've been playing too much Half-Life 2 when my eldest daughter (9) bangs and trashes around the house with a stick and says "Just like Dad"...
Seriously, I work as an engineer for a big automotive company and smashing zombies in Half-Life 2 is the only means to avoid smashing them in real life during pointless meetings and ending in jail.
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+1. The flac version makes you really believe that the piano is right in your living room. She is no Glenn Gould (we have to wait for a few more centuries) but her play makes me think that she has been listening a lot to the 1981 version by the master.
As an engineer I am truly impressed by the clever material breakthrough. However, I can't imagine how they can manage the mechanical precision on the positionning on the read/write locations of the HDD. Having a 1 nm wide bit size is not helpful if you are not in the same range for the relative head/disk position? Or I am missing something?
Several of the best early SF stories I've read are from the French author JH Rosny Aine. Some are now available in English : http://sfscope.com/2012/02/wesleyan-bringing-jh-rosny-ain.html The narrative and topics are amazingly modern for a book almost one century old. This books features several stories : -The Death of the Earth : an apocalyptic last-man story in a agonizing Earth -"The Xipehuz" is a prehistoric tale in which the human species battles strange geometric alien life forms. Definitely wirth a try.
They should have used that : http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Unmanned_version_of_A-10_on_way_999.html Much more robust, and the GAU-8 would come in handy if the hunters start shooting...
Along the history of the Roman Empire, the amount of gold in the Aureus coin consistently decreased as the need for more (cheap) money increased, to fund the military campaigns and buy peace from the barbarians. It could only last so long. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aureus
My touchscreen is sticky, but I guess it has more to do with reading the news while eating honey toasts at brekfast.
Reading TFA to get modded up informative sounds really like cheating to me. We are on Slashdot, for FSM's sake!
We have all read those reports about a so-called "environment change" that would be caused by high level of oxygen released in the atmosphere by archean activity. I can tell you that there is no strong evidence that this oxugen level is rising, nor that it is due to us, and that it is dangerous at all ! The groups that try to refrain us from consuming fossil compounds are trying to hinder archean economy! We do not want to hide in caves! Evolution will provide us with new solutions to cope with this hypothetical change. God bless Gaia.
On Soviet Xen, Gordon Freeman kills YOU!
Peugeot (which was one of the early adopter of the Diesel engine in Europe, and has still a good market share of these engine is currently developing a Cross-Over with a Diesel - electric engine : http://www.greencarsite.co.uk/econews/new-peugeot-3008.htm The idea is to have a Diesel engine for the front axle and an electric engine on the rear axle. It gives both a mileage gain and a 4x4 ability to the vehicle. It should be out in 2011 according to TFA.
Nobody gets the horror of this news ! Obviously it's Cthugha, the evil deity from Fomalhaut, akin to Cthulhu ! He's coming for us ! We are doomed to be engulfed in flames in less than 4,5 Bn years !
I have an explanation : you are using an alpha browser on a beta OS... I switched back to 32bit Ubuntu six months ago because I was fed up with the crashes in Firefox. I spent a few happy nights trying to get Flash to work, without success.
I work as a safety engineer in the automotive industry and I must say I'm quite surprised at TFA and the above comments. Some of the mentioned uses look like safety-critical to me. No automotive engineer in his right mind would do that, first reason being product liability : if something bad happens to a customer in the field due to a Windows crash, I strongly doubt that Microsoft would back you up if you explain to the jury that you thought their OS was fit for safety purposes... And it would be also difficult to take credit from the reliability history of this OS, not if the judge ever used a Windows PC... My worst Microsoft experience is a car radio based on Windows CE that I had a chance to try in the early 2000s. It featured a 2x8 inches screen for the navigation, with a bird-view of your car and the surroundings... It is VERY useful to have a view of 30km each side of your car and 10 km of the road ahead... It only crashed four times during my trip, it had to reboot completely (30s) to give you back the radio broadcast... Utterly broken mess.
I must admit I'm 37... And I know I've been playing too much Half-Life 2 when my eldest daughter (9) bangs and trashes around the house with a stick and says "Just like Dad"... Seriously, I work as an engineer for a big automotive company and smashing zombies in Half-Life 2 is the only means to avoid smashing them in real life during pointless meetings and ending in jail.