It will kill you by heating and denaturing the proteins in your brain, but it will not give you cancer. Only ionizing radiation has sufficient power to damage DNA.
If you did not say no, nor did your actions indicate no, nor were you coerced through threat or incapacitated through drugs or illness... I would consider lack of any attempt at all to stop it to be consent. That is effectively what is happening here.
The density in a black hole is infinite. It exists at a single point, the singularity. Gravity has overcome the nuclear forces keeping the soup of sub-atomic particles apart, and it has become.... something else, no one really knows what. The idea here is that even within the black hole, basic conservation of momentum still holds true. Throw a bit of mass in tangent to the black hole, and it will retain that angular momentum even after being sucked in, at which point the lump of mass at the singularity has angular momentum. Your spinning singularity actually turns into a spinning ring or disk, and if it spins fast enough, the ring breaches the event horizon.
They still had pack radios. It's not like it was a new impossible technology. It just took them about 30 years worth of miniaturization to get them down to the size as was in Star Trek.
The FCC limits the power of transmission, yes, but the Bluetooth Rifle (range 1.1 miles) and even the Pringles Reflector show that you can massively boost range without boosting power.
No. The FCC limits the effective isotropic radiative power (EIRP) of transmissions, which takes into account the gain of the antenna. Multipoint links are limited to 4W, period. Point to point links are on a sliding scale, allowing higher power as your gain goes up (and your broadcast cone decreases). A PTP link using cantennas and consumer grade equipment will probably never achieve sufficient power to violate FCC limits.
Looking through the 'plain language' interpretation of that law on the wiki page, I don't see anything specifically disallowing Google from doing that in the EU. They just had to register themselves as a data collector, and make the captured content available for viewing by the party it was captured from.
Well, I don't think that would work. That's like saying that rape is allowed because of a lack of a chastity belt. Just because there are not security methods in place doesn't mean that you're authorized.
No. It's more like saying intercourse isn't rape if the accusing party did not fight back. If you didn't take any measures to prevent it from happening, and you were not otherwise coerced to prevent action, you were obviously OK with it at the time. You can't change your mind after the fact. As the saying goes, 'Ignorance of the law is not a defense.'
Parallel tasks are the whole point of using a supercomputer.
Well it is now. The original supercomputers were based around a single very fast processor, and had a number of co-processors whose sole purpose was to offload IO and memory prefetch, so the CPU could churn away without interruption. Modern out-of-order CPUs are effectively an old style supercomputer on a chip. Heavy use of parallel processing didn't really take off until the late 80s. This paradigm shift is what caused the supercomputer market crash in the 90s, as development devolved from custom CPUs, to throwing as many generic cores at the problem as you can and using custom interconnects to mitigate parallel overhead.
As an ardent quiet-computing aficionado, this was one of the first components that I purchased when I started building my XBMC rigs.
Why not just netboot and bypass the issue entirely? At least use a remote drive for all this metadata and fanart. Certainly you have a server or NAS box stuffed away in a closet or the basement, and aren't storing all your media on that same flash drive.
The cheapest Zotac ION over here goes for $100. Ones that come with a DC power supply start at $140. $25 for memory, $20 for an IR receiver, $40 for a cheap case, and $40 for a hard drive. If you want cheaper, you can run diskless, booting off the big server actually housing your content, you can build your own IR receiver to interface with the serial port or audio line in, and you can omit the case, just using a piece of plywood to mount the board directly to the VESA mounts on your TV.
Modern nVidia and ATI integrated graphics found in nettops are more powerful than the high end chip that powers the XBOX. They also offer hardware accelerated decoding to make up for the deficient CPUs they use (which are also more powerful than the stripped P3 in the XBOX).
For cargo, the blended wing body is a great design. You don't gain a whole lot in load capacity, but you get significantly larger internal volume. You can ship larger objects. you can have a much wider ramp, or multiple ramps to allow parallel loading and unloading.
For passengers, there are other problems. The internal floorplan would have to be partitioned with bulkheads for structural reasons. Many passengers will not be happy with not even being able to see a window, not to mention problems with claustrophobia. With the flattened body, there is no fuselage to roll on a crash (plus). However with the passenger compartment being several dozen seats wide and contained within internal bulkheads, evacuation procedures will be very complex. It's no longer just 'walk X number of rows forward/aft'.
I had a mechanics professor who graded that way. You always wanted to time finishing your test to be in the middle of the stack. At the top of the stack, he was pissed off that he was grading tests. Halfway through the stack, and halfway through the bottle of Jack, he was drunk and happy. By the bottom of the stack, he was pissed off that he was out of Jack, and was still grading tests.
I had a mechanics professor who graded that way. You always wanted to time finishing your test to be in the middle of the stack. At the top of the stack, he was pissed off that he was grading tests. Halfway through the stack, and halfway through the bottle of Jack, he was drunk and happy. By the bottom of the stack, he was pissed off that he was out of Jack, and was still grading tests.
Interestingly, TFA mentions that NASA was also soliciting new designs for a supersonic transport aircraft; given the reluctance of nations to allow those in their airspace and the resulting eventual demise of the Concorde (which, IIRC, never made a profit anyway), one has to wonder why.
The Concorde never made a profit because it used expensive turbojets with afterburners. Modern low bypass turbofans capable of supercruise can achieve supersonic velocities with significantly less fuel consumption.
Technically, there are no restrictions on supersonic flight over populated areas, merely SPL limits. All you have to do is fly high enough or quiet enough that the peak intensity of the boom at ground level is below some limit. The work mentioned below about mitigating these issues was done by spreading the boom over the length of the aircraft, rather than peaks at the tip and tail.
Once you start filtering out what quotes, letters, etc... are sufficiently important to put in the textbook, you are already biasing it towards your opinion of what is important to learn. As maxume indicated, even the very selection of what people, dates, and events to include introduces bias.
Bias is something that is unavoidable, and you shouldn't try to anyway. In order to make history meaningful, you have to compare multiple differing views of the events.
Here's the problem. If you write a history book without any bias, the entire curriculum will consist of rote memorization of names and dates. That kind of data is completely worthless. The purpose of history is to learn from the past. Learn why people behaved in such a manner; what they believed that influenced the events; how we can improve ourselves from others' experience. Without bias, you get none of that insight.
With bias... well, then you get a biased view of history, so you need to have several different texts from several different authors, and you need to teach the students critical thinking skills so they can formulate their own conclusions. We don't have enough teachers that can think for themselves to hope they would be able to teach the students to do so.
Gearboxes serve three purposes. They provide high torque at low rpm, provide high top end while staying under an engine's peak rpm, and maintain within the efficient rpm range for cruise. Electric motors remove the first two needs by providing high torque from a stop, and a wide efficiency band. The second need still exists. Tesla sidestepped the issue by providing a motor that would rev to 14krpm, and deciding its customers had no need to exceed 125mph. Other companies may want a faster car, or a cheaper, lower RPM engine. They can either lower the ratio, and reduce low end performance, or add a multi-speed gearbox.
Right, that's called 'gas-electric', or 'diesel-electric', or 'turbo-electric', or if you want to associate a good design like that with an abomination, 'series hybrid'. It has been used in production for decades on locomotives, and is becoming more common on ocean vessels. There are even a couple vehicles using such a configuration.
The problem is that the speed of induction motors is relative to the frequency they are being driven at. It requires some complex circuitry to provide high power at a variable AC frequency. That said, it is still probably cheaper, lighter, and more efficient to do that electronically in the speed controller, rather than mechanically in a variable gear box.
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Sure, Antarctica wouldn't be very good for solar power, but the rest of Australia is in the same exact region as the Sahara desert.
It will kill you by heating and denaturing the proteins in your brain, but it will not give you cancer. Only ionizing radiation has sufficient power to damage DNA.
If you did not say no, nor did your actions indicate no, nor were you coerced through threat or incapacitated through drugs or illness... I would consider lack of any attempt at all to stop it to be consent. That is effectively what is happening here.
The density in a black hole is infinite. It exists at a single point, the singularity. Gravity has overcome the nuclear forces keeping the soup of sub-atomic particles apart, and it has become.... something else, no one really knows what. The idea here is that even within the black hole, basic conservation of momentum still holds true. Throw a bit of mass in tangent to the black hole, and it will retain that angular momentum even after being sucked in, at which point the lump of mass at the singularity has angular momentum. Your spinning singularity actually turns into a spinning ring or disk, and if it spins fast enough, the ring breaches the event horizon.
They still had pack radios. It's not like it was a new impossible technology. It just took them about 30 years worth of miniaturization to get them down to the size as was in Star Trek.
The FCC limits the power of transmission, yes, but the Bluetooth Rifle (range 1.1 miles) and even the Pringles Reflector show that you can massively boost range without boosting power.
No. The FCC limits the effective isotropic radiative power (EIRP) of transmissions, which takes into account the gain of the antenna. Multipoint links are limited to 4W, period. Point to point links are on a sliding scale, allowing higher power as your gain goes up (and your broadcast cone decreases). A PTP link using cantennas and consumer grade equipment will probably never achieve sufficient power to violate FCC limits.
Looking through the 'plain language' interpretation of that law on the wiki page, I don't see anything specifically disallowing Google from doing that in the EU. They just had to register themselves as a data collector, and make the captured content available for viewing by the party it was captured from.
Well, I don't think that would work. That's like saying that rape is allowed because of a lack of a chastity belt. Just because there are not security methods in place doesn't mean that you're authorized.
No. It's more like saying intercourse isn't rape if the accusing party did not fight back. If you didn't take any measures to prevent it from happening, and you were not otherwise coerced to prevent action, you were obviously OK with it at the time. You can't change your mind after the fact. As the saying goes, 'Ignorance of the law is not a defense.'
Do you actually have to have it only 3" away to distinguish pixels, or is that how close you have to be to see the dark wireframe between them?
That was his brother, Exxon.
Parallel tasks are the whole point of using a supercomputer.
Well it is now. The original supercomputers were based around a single very fast processor, and had a number of co-processors whose sole purpose was to offload IO and memory prefetch, so the CPU could churn away without interruption. Modern out-of-order CPUs are effectively an old style supercomputer on a chip. Heavy use of parallel processing didn't really take off until the late 80s. This paradigm shift is what caused the supercomputer market crash in the 90s, as development devolved from custom CPUs, to throwing as many generic cores at the problem as you can and using custom interconnects to mitigate parallel overhead.
Moon rocks (regolth) contain a trace amount of He3
Fixed that for you. The actual quantities are somewhere around 10 parts per billion.
As an ardent quiet-computing aficionado, this was one of the first components that I purchased when I started building my XBMC rigs.
Why not just netboot and bypass the issue entirely? At least use a remote drive for all this metadata and fanart. Certainly you have a server or NAS box stuffed away in a closet or the basement, and aren't storing all your media on that same flash drive.
Telly. Television.
The cheapest Zotac ION over here goes for $100. Ones that come with a DC power supply start at $140. $25 for memory, $20 for an IR receiver, $40 for a cheap case, and $40 for a hard drive. If you want cheaper, you can run diskless, booting off the big server actually housing your content, you can build your own IR receiver to interface with the serial port or audio line in, and you can omit the case, just using a piece of plywood to mount the board directly to the VESA mounts on your TV.
Modern nVidia and ATI integrated graphics found in nettops are more powerful than the high end chip that powers the XBOX. They also offer hardware accelerated decoding to make up for the deficient CPUs they use (which are also more powerful than the stripped P3 in the XBOX).
For cargo, the blended wing body is a great design. You don't gain a whole lot in load capacity, but you get significantly larger internal volume. You can ship larger objects. you can have a much wider ramp, or multiple ramps to allow parallel loading and unloading.
For passengers, there are other problems. The internal floorplan would have to be partitioned with bulkheads for structural reasons. Many passengers will not be happy with not even being able to see a window, not to mention problems with claustrophobia. With the flattened body, there is no fuselage to roll on a crash (plus). However with the passenger compartment being several dozen seats wide and contained within internal bulkheads, evacuation procedures will be very complex. It's no longer just 'walk X number of rows forward/aft'.
Whoops... meant to reply this under fuzzyfuzzyfungus's comment.
I had a mechanics professor who graded that way. You always wanted to time finishing your test to be in the middle of the stack. At the top of the stack, he was pissed off that he was grading tests. Halfway through the stack, and halfway through the bottle of Jack, he was drunk and happy. By the bottom of the stack, he was pissed off that he was out of Jack, and was still grading tests.
I had a mechanics professor who graded that way. You always wanted to time finishing your test to be in the middle of the stack. At the top of the stack, he was pissed off that he was grading tests. Halfway through the stack, and halfway through the bottle of Jack, he was drunk and happy. By the bottom of the stack, he was pissed off that he was out of Jack, and was still grading tests.
Interestingly, TFA mentions that NASA was also soliciting new designs for a supersonic transport aircraft; given the reluctance of nations to allow those in their airspace and the resulting eventual demise of the Concorde (which, IIRC, never made a profit anyway), one has to wonder why.
The Concorde never made a profit because it used expensive turbojets with afterburners. Modern low bypass turbofans capable of supercruise can achieve supersonic velocities with significantly less fuel consumption.
Technically, there are no restrictions on supersonic flight over populated areas, merely SPL limits. All you have to do is fly high enough or quiet enough that the peak intensity of the boom at ground level is below some limit. The work mentioned below about mitigating these issues was done by spreading the boom over the length of the aircraft, rather than peaks at the tip and tail.
Once you start filtering out what quotes, letters, etc... are sufficiently important to put in the textbook, you are already biasing it towards your opinion of what is important to learn. As maxume indicated, even the very selection of what people, dates, and events to include introduces bias.
Bias is something that is unavoidable, and you shouldn't try to anyway. In order to make history meaningful, you have to compare multiple differing views of the events.
Here's the problem. If you write a history book without any bias, the entire curriculum will consist of rote memorization of names and dates. That kind of data is completely worthless. The purpose of history is to learn from the past. Learn why people behaved in such a manner; what they believed that influenced the events; how we can improve ourselves from others' experience. Without bias, you get none of that insight.
With bias... well, then you get a biased view of history, so you need to have several different texts from several different authors, and you need to teach the students critical thinking skills so they can formulate their own conclusions. We don't have enough teachers that can think for themselves to hope they would be able to teach the students to do so.
Gearboxes serve three purposes. They provide high torque at low rpm, provide high top end while staying under an engine's peak rpm, and maintain within the efficient rpm range for cruise. Electric motors remove the first two needs by providing high torque from a stop, and a wide efficiency band. The second need still exists. Tesla sidestepped the issue by providing a motor that would rev to 14krpm, and deciding its customers had no need to exceed 125mph. Other companies may want a faster car, or a cheaper, lower RPM engine. They can either lower the ratio, and reduce low end performance, or add a multi-speed gearbox.
Right, that's called 'gas-electric', or 'diesel-electric', or 'turbo-electric', or if you want to associate a good design like that with an abomination, 'series hybrid'. It has been used in production for decades on locomotives, and is becoming more common on ocean vessels. There are even a couple vehicles using such a configuration.
The problem is that the speed of induction motors is relative to the frequency they are being driven at. It requires some complex circuitry to provide high power at a variable AC frequency. That said, it is still probably cheaper, lighter, and more efficient to do that electronically in the speed controller, rather than mechanically in a variable gear box.