No, HP developed this over 3 years ago and is just now releasing it in quantity. The hardware was finished 2 years ago. The software needed to be polished for a while, considering the target market.
Tet 68 was a case of The NV Army egging on the Viet Cong to be shock troops. The VC were ground to pieces, (no more VC) and the NVA had a convenient vacuum to fill.
So, yes we DID win against the Viet Cong. NVA promised to start playing nice at the Paris Peace talks and we left.
Well, what do you know, they had their fingers crossed.
That IS the way it was done in Nam. The point guy concentrated on the immediate environment, usually outdoors, for booby traps and tripwires. The second guy look past the first guy and to the sides (and to be able to report just what got the point when he screwed up:(
I've been in both positions.
The Silly String is shot into hallways and rooms. Great for dimly lit areas. And, most of the "bad guys" right now don't come at you. They lurk, outside of the blast radius of the IED.
Thanks for the kudos. I had a job that had me ride as an observer for one day as a truck was being wrung out on the rougher sections of the test track. Each test mile was supposed to be the equivalent of 50 road miles. I don't think my kidneys would have lasted a week.
One of the design factors for the original engine was to function as a backhoe counterweight. This made the engine block and other components so robust that the engine could easily survive the 2-stage turbocharging.
They used 200 liters of ice for cooling, had diesel particulate filters on the exhaust, and got 4 miles to the gallon. The car had only 2 gallons of fuel to start. They used a tractor with the same engine, untweaked, as a push vehicle.
"It wasn't until Compaq clean-room reverse-engineered the BIOS that the PC revolution really got started."
I'll hold out for Phoenix/AMI reverse-engineering the IBM BIOS. It allowed inexpensive clones to be manufactured. That, plus FedEx/UPS/etc shipping created a vast market for the garage shops.
I purchased a Kaypro AT clone back in the day with Phoenix BIOS. It was such a close PC clone, I had to purchase PC-DOS, not MS-DOS to run on it. It beat the Compaq AT equivalent to market by several weeks.
Powder: The DOD wanted the powder to be made from recycled artillery propellant from stocks left over from WW II. And so it was. Literally a cheap and dirty solution
Spin: The twist was increased after Arctic testing showed the colder, denser air caused the bullet to tumble too early. Some potential combatants in the 60s did have Arctic winters.
I thank my stars that I left Nam 2 months before my infantry company (Charlie, 1st Marines) had to trade in their M-14s.
"US Congress looking at cancelation(sic) of plans for a Rolls-Royce engine equiped(sic) version"
Not quite. There are two engine versions right now. The primary version, F135, is by Pratt-Whitney. It uses Rolls-Royce LiftFan (c) components for the F-35B STOVL. After the first several dozen engine/fan sets, GE was supposed to be able to bid with its F136, which has slightly greater RR partnership with the core turbojet and still uses RR LiftFan components. In other words ALL F-35B aircraft will use the LiftFan components.
RR gets a large slice of the engine pie regardless. It is just slightly larger with the possible GE participation. One of the ideas here is with a competitor's version as an option, there can be a bidding war in the taxpayers' favor.
And, until they mount bayonet lugs on the F-35B pitot tube, it won't really be a close ground support aircraft.
The loop is a self-supporting magnetically accelerated iron "bicycle chain". At 30 kps or so it gets deflected up, while encased in an evacuated magnetically-suspended tube.
The upper deflector to mak it roughly in the orbital plan must be lashed down to the ground. (Think of a pie pan levitated by a water stream from a hose.)
Vehicles ride an elevator to this upper defelector and straddle the loop. Small venier rocket handle the fine tuning after disengaging.
A similar deflector setup is at the far end. the loop returns to the beginning at a 1 km or so lower level.
Fox, Alaska, home of the northernmost brewery in North America, http://www.ptialaska.net/~gbrady/pages/about.htm (obligatory beer reference), is just 10 miles NE of downtown Fairbanks and a few hundred miles SOUTH of the Arctic circle.
This makes it SUBarctic. You don't need a refrigerator, though, just a shovel/dynamite to get down to the permafrost. This may be the origin of a beer blast.
Maybe they should try pitching the bacteria in some beer wort and see what happens. It would probably taste better than what comes via the Clydesdales.
There is no problem that cannot be solved as long as you have sufficient quantities of beer or dynamite or both.
Sorry, I live in PDX too and Intel isn't headquartered here. It DOES have more employees than anywhere else west of here in a suburb (Hillsboro). No real presence in PDX itself.
What we DO have is more breweries than any city/town in the world - over thirty inside the city limits.
"Every aircraft has an optimum speed for maximum fuel effeciency. This speed is below the speed of sound on every aircraft"
Actually, the SR-71 was most efficient at Mach 3. If the crew was loafing along at Mach 2.5, to stay over an area longer for phots, and the low fuel warning light came on, they had two options:
1. Run out of fuel. You don't want to do this since the hydraulics for the controls used fuel for working fluid. Also, if you fly too slow, the aircraft cools off and starts to leak.
2. Increase their speed to Mach 3 (or better) so they can stretch their fuel (pounds consumed per mile) and reach the tanker for another fillup.
It's counter-intuitive, but that is the way the aerodynamics and semi-ramjet combination worked for that aircraft. Designed in the fifties, with slide rules, and drawn by hand, with pens and vellum.
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No, HP developed this over 3 years ago and is just now releasing it in quantity. The hardware was finished 2 years ago. The software needed to be polished for a while, considering the target market.
Here is a 4 passenger vehicle (http://www.loremo.com/) that goes 0-100 km/h in 9 seconds and consumes 2.7 L/100km for the GT version.
:-(
The economy LS version is a pokey 20 seconds for 0-100 km/h, but sips only 1.5 L/100km
Comes with airbags, particle filter and radio.
Options: dashboard computer, air condition, MP3 player, navigation system
Not available until 2009
I read an article about a similar scenario that is happening in Colorado. Some species of beatle is eating the redwoods.
Redwoods? In Colorado? Redwoods in California/Oregon I would believe. Reddish somethings in Colorado I would believe, but not redwoods.
And let's not forget, also the home of http://freegeek.org/ "Helping the needy get nerdy since the beginning of the 3rd millenium"
Tet 68 was a case of The NV Army egging on the Viet Cong to be shock troops. The VC were ground to pieces, (no more VC) and the NVA had a convenient vacuum to fill.
So, yes we DID win against the Viet Cong. NVA promised to start playing nice at the Paris Peace talks and we left.
Well, what do you know, they had their fingers crossed.
That IS the way it was done in Nam. The point guy concentrated on the immediate environment, usually outdoors, for booby traps and tripwires. The second guy look past the first guy and to the sides (and to be able to report just what got the point when he screwed up :(
I've been in both positions.
The Silly String is shot into hallways and rooms. Great for dimly lit areas. And, most of the "bad guys" right now don't come at you. They lurk, outside of the blast radius of the IED.
And to make sure the mix is correctly sanctified, they will take the precaution of filtering the beer through their own kidneys.
What a sacrifice by band of dedicated workers!
(And never before was my sig more apropos)
Thanks for the kudos. I had a job that had me ride as an observer for one day as a truck was being wrung out on the rougher sections of the test track. Each test mile was supposed to be the equivalent of 50 road miles. I don't think my kidneys would have lasted a week.
-86.49187 Longitude
41.66944 Latitude
It is on the Bendix Proving Grounds, just West of South Bend, Indiana.
Those are 20-30 meter tall trees. And the word 'Studebaker'(original owner) is about 550 meters long.
10.1 YaST was unstable and couldn't update itself to the stable version very well.
I recently used the 10.1 Remastered DVD and YaST has been stable in this version ever since.
One of the design factors for the original engine was to function as a backhoe counterweight. This made the engine block and other components so robust that the engine could easily survive the 2-stage turbocharging.
They used 200 liters of ice for cooling, had diesel particulate filters on the exhaust, and got 4 miles to the gallon. The car had only 2 gallons of fuel to start. They used a tractor with the same engine, untweaked, as a push vehicle.
"plummetting down like bags of wet cement."
No, no. They will plummet down SCREAMING. They will SPLASH like bags of wet cement.
"It wasn't until Compaq clean-room reverse-engineered the BIOS that the PC revolution really got started."
I'll hold out for Phoenix/AMI reverse-engineering the IBM BIOS. It allowed inexpensive clones to be manufactured. That, plus FedEx/UPS/etc shipping created a vast market for the garage shops.
I purchased a Kaypro AT clone back in the day with Phoenix BIOS. It was such a close PC clone, I had to purchase PC-DOS, not MS-DOS to run on it. It beat the Compaq AT equivalent to market by several weeks.
Zapphod could eat his own head if he could just make up his minds which one goes first.
Powder: The DOD wanted the powder to be made from recycled artillery propellant from stocks left over from WW II. And so it was. Literally a cheap and dirty solution
Spin: The twist was increased after Arctic testing showed the colder, denser air caused the bullet to tumble too early. Some potential combatants in the 60s did have Arctic winters.
I thank my stars that I left Nam 2 months before my infantry company (Charlie, 1st Marines) had to trade in their M-14s.
"US Congress looking at cancelation(sic) of plans for a Rolls-Royce engine equiped(sic) version"
Not quite. There are two engine versions right now. The primary version, F135, is by Pratt-Whitney. It uses Rolls-Royce LiftFan (c) components for the F-35B STOVL. After the first several dozen engine/fan sets, GE was supposed to be able to bid with its F136, which has slightly greater RR partnership with the core turbojet and still uses RR LiftFan components. In other words ALL F-35B aircraft will use the LiftFan components.
RR gets a large slice of the engine pie regardless. It is just slightly larger with the possible GE participation. One of the ideas here is with a competitor's version as an option, there can be a bidding war in the taxpayers' favor.
And, until they mount bayonet lugs on the F-35B pitot tube, it won't really be a close ground support aircraft.
The loop is a self-supporting magnetically accelerated iron "bicycle chain". At 30 kps or so it gets deflected up, while encased in an evacuated magnetically-suspended tube.
The upper deflector to mak it roughly in the orbital plan must be lashed down to the ground. (Think of a pie pan levitated by a water stream from a hose.)
Vehicles ride an elevator to this upper defelector and straddle the loop. Small venier rocket handle the fine tuning after disengaging.
A similar deflector setup is at the far end. the loop returns to the beginning at a 1 km or so lower level.
Sacrificial boosted maintenance bots repair worn loop segments "on the fly"
Actually, you can use more than one launch loop - one up to speed up and one to slow down. Just like regenerative braking.
Using the lower "return" line wouldn't work as well since the upper "go" line is in the way of easy approaches.
The "TS" of K12LTSP stands for Terminal Server. One Linux server feeding many dumb terminals/old recycled PCs.
No problem. And, cheap.
"in the Arctic"
Fox, Alaska, home of the northernmost brewery in North America, http://www.ptialaska.net/~gbrady/pages/about.htm (obligatory beer reference), is just 10 miles NE of downtown Fairbanks and a few hundred miles SOUTH of the Arctic circle.
This makes it SUBarctic. You don't need a refrigerator, though, just a shovel/dynamite to get down to the permafrost. This may be the origin of a beer blast.
Maybe they should try pitching the bacteria in some beer wort and see what happens. It would probably taste better than what comes via the Clydesdales.
There is no problem that cannot be solved as long as you have sufficient quantities of beer or dynamite or both.
Into every Oz, a little house must fall.
"I wonder how much simulation and testing you need before we feel safe about affecting an entire planet."
None, for sufficiently small values of "we"
That's like saying why would someone want base 360 of all things to circumscribe a circle?
Lets see, 180 (base-10) degrees longitude = 60 degrees (base-30)
and 90 (base-10) degrees latitude = 30 degrees (base-30)
Likewise, 60 minute/seconds (base-10) = 20 minutes/seconds (base-30)
All of a sudden, it makes a weird kind of sense.
They must have some non-patantable algorithm in mind the notation enables.
Sorry, I live in PDX too and Intel isn't headquartered here. It DOES have more employees than anywhere else west of here in a suburb (Hillsboro). No real presence in PDX itself.
What we DO have is more breweries than any city/town in the world - over thirty inside the city limits.
Linus lives here now, too.
Coincidence? I don't think so.
"Every aircraft has an optimum speed for maximum fuel effeciency. This speed is below the speed of sound on every aircraft"
Actually, the SR-71 was most efficient at Mach 3. If the crew was loafing along at Mach 2.5, to stay over an area longer for phots, and the low fuel warning light came on, they had two options:
1. Run out of fuel. You don't want to do this since the hydraulics for the controls used fuel for working fluid. Also, if you fly too slow, the aircraft cools off and starts to leak.
2. Increase their speed to Mach 3 (or better) so they can stretch their fuel (pounds consumed per mile) and reach the tanker for another fillup.
It's counter-intuitive, but that is the way the aerodynamics and semi-ramjet combination worked for that aircraft. Designed in the fifties, with slide rules, and drawn by hand, with pens and vellum.