This sounds to me like some on-board internal source of radiation, or induction, or simple overload, fried a chip somewhere in some un-specified circuitry, most probably in the engine controls. This seems far more likely than an external radiation source given the shielding the physical design would provide.
If you send the signal to start the engines, and they can't/won't start, does it matter if the computer crashes because there was no error code for that? I guess at that point we start running in to chicken-or-the-egg problems soon afterwards.
Isn't Honeywell a defense contractor as well? They're pretty well entrenched in the nuclear arms manufacturing industry. Or was the honeywell that makes thermostats spun off at some point and they are completely independent now?
I've been typing on a 4" android keyboard for just over a year now, and I still can't crank out a paragraph nearly as fast as I could on my blackberry. I tried the stock keyboard, then switched to swype (which cancels their beta version every 2 months, requiring you to re-teach it the custom dictionary) finally got sick of re-teaching the dictionary and currently I am working with swiftkey.
Finally some more android phones with physical keyboards are coming on the market, and I may dump my (otherwise beloved) Nexus S in favor of one.
I still keep around my 2001-era "TI-book" (G4 powerbook) simply because I never bought a desktop CD-R/RW drive and occasionally need to burn an ISO. It also makes a great backup computer if I need access to a FW400 port or IR port.
Not mentioned: Kansas City is a combined city-county government. That roughly halves the amount of city level and county level paperwork, only one board to brib^H^H^H^H inform, one set of telecommunication laws to study etc etc. Many other medium-sized cities have distinct city and county level governments (in addition to State government).
TL;DR Kansas City has one fewer governing body & sets of laws/jurisdiction (2 vs 3) than most cities it's size do.
India got the deal of the century - if you read the fine print, France is only selling India 18 fighters - India gets the CAD files and source code and will build the remaining 108 themselves - presumably for the cost of labor and materials. That means instead of paying $90 million for each jet, they're looking at final production costs of $5-20 million each. Who knows how the Rafale's technology will fuel their own defense industry over the next 20-30 years? It's a win-win-win for India, and France gets to stop propping up a failing industry for a few more years.
This sort of "buy some, build the rest" deal is rapidly becoming the standard for large BRIC contracts with the west.
Ahhh this explains so much. A previous boss had spent his entire career in sales and was now in charge of the IT department. Nobody could figure out why he started the day with an hour long inspirational speech, and often a second one after lunch. As far as I can guess, after being raised in that sort of sales environment, I can understand why he might think that would be effective with a different part of the company.
I think all legislation should be read aloud by the leading party member of whoever introduced it, and all legislators must be present the entire time before voting on it.
I mean, Elephants are f***ing awesome and all, big, giant things that knock over trees when they get mad, but goats are well proven to eat grass and other things (like briers) that most animals won't touch. They handle dry, arid climates well, and provide other useful things like, Milk, Cheese, Meat, and Pelts. If you pick angora goats you get fancy wool from them as well.
Granted, you don't have the cool factor of big-ass elephants running around loose Down Under, but goats reproduce a lot faster and (I'm pretty sure) eat a higher percentage of their body weight in plant matter than elephants do. Humans also have a couple thousand years more experience dealing with goats.
You can buy a slip-over "wide angle lens" for about $20 on ebay that's designed to work specifically with the existing 360 Kinect. I don't think the existing lenses handle 16" but it might be able to handle 36 or 40". A 16" desktop model slip over lens isn't too far off though, I suspect.
What's the difference between the US Department of Health and National Institute of Health (NIH)? I know the latter is part of the executive branch, but that'sit.
Yeah... in California. Washington State is a net-exporter of energey. Washington state exports most of their power generated to SF and LA. Its't true.
So don't worry, the spotted owls in Washington won't be hurt by the power plants in 1800 miles away in Los Angeles - the 15 million people in the LA metro area are doing their best to filter their dirty air using their ULEV Priuses and with their lungs.
If the people in LA want cleaner air, they're going to have to lobby their state legislature to provide more incentives for wind or nuclear energy. The fact that California is now having to compete with other entities and generate their own power isn't really Facebook's fault. That's just poor planing and a systemic failure on California's energy planning board's fault.
The FB datacenter already runs on hydro power (they're like, 30 miles from the columbia river, which generates something like 50% of the hydroelectric capacity in the US), with an average year round temp in the high 50s.
Isn't this datacenter powered from hydroelectric power? I think everyone is against burning fossil fuels for power (yay environment!), but whatever environmental damage damming the columbia river did happened 70 years ago. In terms of cleanest, cheapest power, there are few places better suited for a datacenter.
Ah, I'm glad that we could get the redundant "what? the US isn't the ENTIRE WORLD, YOU KNOW" post out of the way. I bet you're eagerly awaiting your first "yeah but slashdot is a US-centric site" so you can counter with your well-planned "sure, but the internet spans the WHOLE WORLD so we deserve equal treatment" comment.
That and, oh, I don't know, the tsunami washed about 100,000 people's lives in to the sea? When you dump that much crap in to the ocean all at once of course it's going to seriously destabilize the ecosystem. All you need to do is knock out 2-3 trophic species (particularly photosynthesizing species) for a couple of weeks and the food scarcity travels up the food chain like a shockwave. It probably didn't help that the food scarcity event happened right as most species were coming out of hibernation mode and entering a feeding/reproduction cycle.
Pick a good theme. Generally people pick a hobby or activity they both enjoy. Picking technology is both overly broad and can limit you. This is like a coal miner sending invitations as portraits done in coal (fixed with hairspray), or a steel mill worker sending laser cut sheet metal invite. Do you want to have a clever theme, or do you want to be reminded of your job on your wedding day?
If you're going to do a tech thing, do a parody. Send your friends and relatives invitations using IP over Avian Carriers. Or send everyone iphone/android apps that are QR readers, but always send them to the same web address to RSVP. Basically what I'm trying to say here, is that in terms of difficulty, this is very high, as is the risk of failure. One of the many reasons people tend to stick with paper wedding invitations is that weddings are already (unnecessarily) incredibly stressful to plan and custom made invitations that you can't order through your wedding planner is master level difficulty. That said, good luck!
In theory you could create an ultra-low density structure that would reach escape velocity before it exits the atmosphere. Sort of like releasing a tennis ball from the bottom of a pool and watching it pop out of the water when it reaches the surface. We're going to need some serious advances in material sciences to scale that sort of thing up though. Also issues of aerodynamic drag, etc.
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If you send the signal to start the engines, and they can't/won't start, does it matter if the computer crashes because there was no error code for that? I guess at that point we start running in to chicken-or-the-egg problems soon afterwards.
Isn't Honeywell a defense contractor as well? They're pretty well entrenched in the nuclear arms manufacturing industry. Or was the honeywell that makes thermostats spun off at some point and they are completely independent now?
I've been typing on a 4" android keyboard for just over a year now, and I still can't crank out a paragraph nearly as fast as I could on my blackberry. I tried the stock keyboard, then switched to swype (which cancels their beta version every 2 months, requiring you to re-teach it the custom dictionary) finally got sick of re-teaching the dictionary and currently I am working with swiftkey.
Finally some more android phones with physical keyboards are coming on the market, and I may dump my (otherwise beloved) Nexus S in favor of one.
I still keep around my 2001-era "TI-book" (G4 powerbook) simply because I never bought a desktop CD-R/RW drive and occasionally need to burn an ISO. It also makes a great backup computer if I need access to a FW400 port or IR port.
Not mentioned: Kansas City is a combined city-county government. That roughly halves the amount of city level and county level paperwork, only one board to brib^H^H^H^H inform, one set of telecommunication laws to study etc etc. Many other medium-sized cities have distinct city and county level governments (in addition to State government).
TL;DR Kansas City has one fewer governing body & sets of laws/jurisdiction (2 vs 3) than most cities it's size do.
India got the deal of the century - if you read the fine print, France is only selling India 18 fighters - India gets the CAD files and source code and will build the remaining 108 themselves - presumably for the cost of labor and materials. That means instead of paying $90 million for each jet, they're looking at final production costs of $5-20 million each. Who knows how the Rafale's technology will fuel their own defense industry over the next 20-30 years? It's a win-win-win for India, and France gets to stop propping up a failing industry for a few more years.
This sort of "buy some, build the rest" deal is rapidly becoming the standard for large BRIC contracts with the west.
CDMA is voice only though, correct? Developers don't hardly touch the voice stuff. Even voice search goes over the data connection these days.
Err, uh,
Didn't D-Wave sell a commercial Quantum computer to Locheed Martin in 2010? Almost a year to the day?
Someone explain to me the difference between this quantum computer and the one they're trying to prove doesn't exist, please.
Ahhh this explains so much. A previous boss had spent his entire career in sales and was now in charge of the IT department. Nobody could figure out why he started the day with an hour long inspirational speech, and often a second one after lunch. As far as I can guess, after being raised in that sort of sales environment, I can understand why he might think that would be effective with a different part of the company.
I think all legislation should be read aloud by the leading party member of whoever introduced it, and all legislators must be present the entire time before voting on it.
Well if Goats were already a disaster, why do they think Elephants would be any better?
How do you train a 12 ton animal to only eat what you want it to?
Waiting for some really good ex-wife jokes, slashdot, please don't dissapoint
I mean, Elephants are f***ing awesome and all, big, giant things that knock over trees when they get mad, but goats are well proven to eat grass and other things (like briers) that most animals won't touch. They handle dry, arid climates well, and provide other useful things like, Milk, Cheese, Meat, and Pelts. If you pick angora goats you get fancy wool from them as well.
Granted, you don't have the cool factor of big-ass elephants running around loose Down Under, but goats reproduce a lot faster and (I'm pretty sure) eat a higher percentage of their body weight in plant matter than elephants do. Humans also have a couple thousand years more experience dealing with goats.
Some links to persue:
You can buy a slip-over "wide angle lens" for about $20 on ebay that's designed to work specifically with the existing 360 Kinect. I don't think the existing lenses handle 16" but it might be able to handle 36 or 40". A 16" desktop model slip over lens isn't too far off though, I suspect.
What's the difference between the US Department of Health and National Institute of Health (NIH)? I know the latter is part of the executive branch, but that'sit.
I was going to let "buddy's" slide, but you followed it up immediately with "witch". I mean really, come on.
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You're right, it's 93 miles. Which is still a lot closer than SF or LA
Yeah... in California. Washington State is a net-exporter of energey. Washington state exports most of their power generated to SF and LA. Its't true.
So don't worry, the spotted owls in Washington won't be hurt by the power plants in 1800 miles away in Los Angeles - the 15 million people in the LA metro area are doing their best to filter their dirty air using their ULEV Priuses and with their lungs.
If the people in LA want cleaner air, they're going to have to lobby their state legislature to provide more incentives for wind or nuclear energy. The fact that California is now having to compete with other entities and generate their own power isn't really Facebook's fault. That's just poor planing and a systemic failure on California's energy planning board's fault.
The FB datacenter already runs on hydro power (they're like, 30 miles from the columbia river, which generates something like 50% of the hydroelectric capacity in the US), with an average year round temp in the high 50s.
Isn't this datacenter powered from hydroelectric power? I think everyone is against burning fossil fuels for power (yay environment!), but whatever environmental damage damming the columbia river did happened 70 years ago. In terms of cleanest, cheapest power, there are few places better suited for a datacenter.
You must really enjoy the pleasant wooshing noises as humor flies over your head
Ah, I'm glad that we could get the redundant "what? the US isn't the ENTIRE WORLD, YOU KNOW" post out of the way. I bet you're eagerly awaiting your first "yeah but slashdot is a US-centric site" so you can counter with your well-planned "sure, but the internet spans the WHOLE WORLD so we deserve equal treatment" comment.
-Eleventy Billion, Redundant
That and, oh, I don't know, the tsunami washed about 100,000 people's lives in to the sea? When you dump that much crap in to the ocean all at once of course it's going to seriously destabilize the ecosystem. All you need to do is knock out 2-3 trophic species (particularly photosynthesizing species) for a couple of weeks and the food scarcity travels up the food chain like a shockwave. It probably didn't help that the food scarcity event happened right as most species were coming out of hibernation mode and entering a feeding/reproduction cycle.
This kind of dead zone due to agricultural runoff has been well researched and described in the past, and there's no known radiation in those areas.
Stop scaremongering.
Pick a good theme. Generally people pick a hobby or activity they both enjoy. Picking technology is both overly broad and can limit you. This is like a coal miner sending invitations as portraits done in coal (fixed with hairspray), or a steel mill worker sending laser cut sheet metal invite. Do you want to have a clever theme, or do you want to be reminded of your job on your wedding day?
If you're going to do a tech thing, do a parody. Send your friends and relatives invitations using IP over Avian Carriers. Or send everyone iphone/android apps that are QR readers, but always send them to the same web address to RSVP. Basically what I'm trying to say here, is that in terms of difficulty, this is very high, as is the risk of failure. One of the many reasons people tend to stick with paper wedding invitations is that weddings are already (unnecessarily) incredibly stressful to plan and custom made invitations that you can't order through your wedding planner is master level difficulty. That said, good luck!
In theory you could create an ultra-low density structure that would reach escape velocity before it exits the atmosphere. Sort of like releasing a tennis ball from the bottom of a pool and watching it pop out of the water when it reaches the surface. We're going to need some serious advances in material sciences to scale that sort of thing up though. Also issues of aerodynamic drag, etc.