First, ducted fans are inefficient compared to rotors. You get a lot more force out of a large diameter and small exit velocity. Its why props are more efficient than turbofans, which are in turn more efficient than turbojets. The ONLY advantage is that the fan is out of the airstream, so high velocities are achievable.
Second, it has very low wing area, meaning you have very high wing loading (bad for fuel economy). Alternatively, they could be using a lifting body (also bad for fuel economy). Considering they have the big fan duct running through the center of the body, the body cannot provide much lift anyway, leaving the fan (even worse fuel economy).
Third, they chose a joined box wing. Box wings can considerably reduce losses from the tip vorticity, but there is so little lift coming off those wings, there's no purpose. The only purpose to joined wings is that they provide structural rigidity to large, light, high aspect ratio wings for high altitude, long endurance craft. This is obviously not the case here.
Back in the early days of broadband, I had an anonymous ftp with upload access set up on a home server. I would not infrequently end up with a directory a dozen levels deep, with some random file, as some bot tested my server for what it was capable of.
My DSL line is rated at (up to) 5M/768k. My modem is currently trained at 5120Kbps/952Kbps. Speedtest just gave me 4481Kbps/777Kbps at 8ms. I've seen as high as 4500Kbps/815Kbps (as reported by MRTG).
These planets are in no way Earth-like, the 'super Earth' designation is just one of planet size. They are rather small in comparison to other extra-solar planets we have discovered.
We only know of these planets from watching oscillations of the star they are around, so there is no way to determine any sort of chemical makeup of the planet. That said, at 20days for an orbit, those planets are baked dry.
Alternatively, if you're playing Hang 'em High in Halo, the Blue team typically wins. We usually make the blue team play a man down, or we move the new/worse players over there, to even things out.
The drives alone will consume close to 1000W. It's probably another 1000W for the equipment to run them, plus whatever the hardware costs are. When you add in A/C costs, thats going to come to around $8-10/day, and depending on the average drive size, you're going to end up with less than 10TB of redundant data.
Now the alternative is 12x1TB RAID6. It will consume around 250W, and cost around $4000. That's around two years before before the power budget catches up assuming you already have all the necessary hardware. Since you have to buy all the hardware, you'll catch up in under a year.
This isn't at all considering the limited lifespan of the already used equipment.
let the programmers watch the replays and all reliable information to create an accurate "Ghost" representation of the professional racer I think doing time trials against a professional ghost would be interesting, but actually racing against them is worthless. Once you reach them (or they reach you), and the AI kicks in, you're no longer racing the professional, but against the AI.
onboard video with a dual-core CPU The original Intel Mac Mini is the only single core Intel Mac. Since it did not have sufficient graphics to run this game, there are no single core Macs capable of running spore.
Fortunately, we had Interbank Data Recovery Services. And Interbank does more than just acquire the decryption key.
That's because Interbank vows to find out who sent you the ransom and hunt them down like animals. Like filthy, dirty animals. That's the Interbank difference. See, I don't care how Interbank's secret police get things done. I just care that they get things done. For us.
Plus, because we'd enrolled in their Premiere Membership program, Interbank also hunted down friends and relatives of the guy who had encrypted our data, dragged them from their beds in the middle of the night, and set fire to their homes.
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I was going to make a comment about Chrysler being a German automaker, but they got spun back into a US-based company last year.
The entire design of this craft baffles me.
First, ducted fans are inefficient compared to rotors. You get a lot more force out of a large diameter and small exit velocity. Its why props are more efficient than turbofans, which are in turn more efficient than turbojets. The ONLY advantage is that the fan is out of the airstream, so high velocities are achievable.
Second, it has very low wing area, meaning you have very high wing loading (bad for fuel economy). Alternatively, they could be using a lifting body (also bad for fuel economy). Considering they have the big fan duct running through the center of the body, the body cannot provide much lift anyway, leaving the fan (even worse fuel economy).
Third, they chose a joined box wing. Box wings can considerably reduce losses from the tip vorticity, but there is so little lift coming off those wings, there's no purpose. The only purpose to joined wings is that they provide structural rigidity to large, light, high aspect ratio wings for high altitude, long endurance craft. This is obviously not the case here.
Back in the early days of broadband, I had an anonymous ftp with upload access set up on a home server. I would not infrequently end up with a directory a dozen levels deep, with some random file, as some bot tested my server for what it was capable of.
My DSL line is rated at (up to) 5M/768k. My modem is currently trained at 5120Kbps/952Kbps. Speedtest just gave me 4481Kbps/777Kbps at 8ms. I've seen as high as 4500Kbps/815Kbps (as reported by MRTG).
These planets are in no way Earth-like, the 'super Earth' designation is just one of planet size. They are rather small in comparison to other extra-solar planets we have discovered.
We only know of these planets from watching oscillations of the star they are around, so there is no way to determine any sort of chemical makeup of the planet. That said, at 20days for an orbit, those planets are baked dry.
My old 6800GS already had this feature. It idles at 350MHz on the desktop, but ramps up to 485MHz when you open a 3D application.
Alternatively, if you're playing Hang 'em High in Halo, the Blue team typically wins. We usually make the blue team play a man down, or we move the new/worse players over there, to even things out.
One sided just means the magnetic field on one side is nearly completely canceled out. Check out the wikipedia link in my original post.
Ok, wrong choice of words. Rather those are one-sided magnets.
The drives alone will consume close to 1000W. It's probably another 1000W for the equipment to run them, plus whatever the hardware costs are. When you add in A/C costs, thats going to come to around $8-10/day, and depending on the average drive size, you're going to end up with less than 10TB of redundant data.
Now the alternative is 12x1TB RAID6. It will consume around 250W, and cost around $4000. That's around two years before before the power budget catches up assuming you already have all the necessary hardware. Since you have to buy all the hardware, you'll catch up in under a year.
This isn't at all considering the limited lifespan of the already used equipment.
Even better, they're monopoles (Halbach Arrays). Build your own maglev toys.
Sadly... you fail.
Fortunately, we had Interbank Data Recovery Services. And Interbank does more than just acquire the decryption key.
That's because Interbank vows to find out who sent you the ransom and hunt them down like animals. Like filthy, dirty animals. That's the Interbank difference. See, I don't care how Interbank's secret police get things done. I just care that they get things done. For us.
Plus, because we'd enrolled in their Premiere Membership program, Interbank also hunted down friends and relatives of the guy who had encrypted our data, dragged them from their beds in the middle of the night, and set fire to their homes.