Starman another Carpenter movie; super sickly but a nice storyline, beautiful score and Karen Allen's finest work (ok, I mean she's a girl-next-door-hottie).
Also The Man Who Fell to Earth because Bowie, of course, but also the idea that alien visitors might be fragile and vulnerable rather than powerful and destructive.
It's sort of perfect, and therefore boring. I always thought 2010 was a better film; there was a lot of hype over the accuracy of the weightlessness scenes.
GE, P&W and Rolls-Royce will sell engines to any company their government's sanctions will allow. RR sold RB211-535E4 engines to Tupolov for a B-757 competitor the Tu-204. It was 90% of the Boeing for half the price and sold well in non-western markets. It was a sweet plane; the Russians have a more academic approach to engineering and apply science where we in the west apply economics.
I'm not so sure. Firstly the price would have to increase significantly and then you'd have to find investors happy to wait 20 years for a return. The Russians can already build pretty good airliners, but they are a long way from being competitive with Boeing or Airbus. There is only one credible future competitor and that is China; they will keep throwing money at it until they get there.
There is a second problem, which is there aren't enough experienced aerospace engineers to deliver the industry's current programs.
You are the first poster I've read who understood the article. It doesn't matter if laptops are more powerful than phones or tablets. What matters is that the currently available PCs allow you and me to write code, compile and ship. And this we will lose because the PC will morph into another locked-down platform. Kudos AC friend.
Who has only one primary machine when you can buy a decent PC for a day's fee? Plus it has to bork pretty damned hard to kill your dual-boot OSs and backups.
Without wanting to pick a side in the sexism war, I had exactly the same impression regarding Andre Norton and whilst I have read thousands of SF books I cannot remember enjoying anything by female authors.
To put it bluntly, only male authors are likely to write something autistic enough with which I can identify. Female authors insist on including relationship crap.
That's fine in regular fiction, but in sci-fi I want spaceships and mayhem.
Whilst I'm on my soapbox, it bugs the hell out of me that when even one of my favourite authors, e.g. Iain M Banks introduces a main character who is female, she is invariably stunningly attractive. Why can't she be just someone ok looking, but a good laugh and handy in a space bar brawl?
Fury Road was lukewarm at best. It was good in that it was not quite so terrible as 'Thunderdome'. When one of the main characters is a peat bog, it cannot really compare with the truly dystopian 'Wasteland' (1) or the insanely violent 'Road Warrior' (2).
+1 for Foobar2000. I have 167GB of music and Foobar is pretty much instant. You could also set up a mini-server using Daphile which lets you control playback over a web interface or Logitech client. Both have options for bit-perfect playback. Nice toys.
Exactly this. You would not believe the crippling requirements we are now forced to meet for new commercial aircraft projects. We lost ONE Concorde and scrapped the fleet when it wasn't even due to a fault of the aircraft itself. I was saddened when we lost one shuttle, I was appalled when we lost a second one; that should have been impossible.
True, Python multithreading is only useful to avoid locked windows or the like, it has no speed benefit. Multiprocess works much better but although it is usually more beneficial on Linux than windows; the overhead of the spawn is so egregious in Windows that you need to have processes lasting several seconds to make it worthwhile, not to mention the horrors of getting a multiprocess logging system to work. The real beauty of python is to allow complex structures to be treated by high level commands yet to perform the heavy lifting in C or Fortran using either python's multiprocessing or openmp via f2py.
These devices will work more like a heat pipe as mentioned by the parent. The water evaporates from the chip surface and then condenses on the heatsink surface. You get the benefit of the high heat transfer rate without the temperature increase as you rightly say but the water remains inside the unit in a closed loop. They are very clever devices.
You have missed the point of the device, even though you identified the problem it is solving:
Everything else is just a matter of the efficiency or difficulty of how you get the heat to that point..
It reduces the thermal resistance between the chip and the heat sink, so for a given installation and heat rejection rate the chip itself will be cooler.
...bigger things like cars, planes, etc. don't really have a problem......a large bit of aluminium somewhere, and probably a cheap fan blowing over it.
You do not add any weight to an aircraft that isn't absolutely necessary and you do not add any kind of active device where a passive one could work because of reliability. Keeping electronics cool in an aircraft is a very complex and expensive problem. Keeping a chip even two or three degrees cooler will have a measurable effect on the reliability over the aircraft life.
You make a good point here about the beauty of maths.
When a friend of mine decided to take the Arbitur exam here in Germany (A kind of high school graduation level) as an adult I volunteered to help her with the maths and promised her I would show her the beauty of it and she would learn to love it.
I failed dismally because the maths she had to study was all the really dull stuff I had forgotten about: solving triangles, calculating probabilities, quadratic equations... I realised that maths only really becomes beautiful when you get to calculus; before this it's just drudgery.
security (the potential for terrorist damage is much smaller considering you can't fly one arbitrarily into a building)
I think you have this the wrong way around. The only drawback I can see with Elon's Hyperloop is it's susceptibility to terrorism; you need to keep airport-level vigilance over its entire track length, that's a lot of razor wire, dogs and operatives.
MS are playing a very long game because they can afford to. Despite it's well-publicized problems, I find Windows 10 is fast and rock-solid on a desktop and on a Lumia phone. They already have Windows compiled for ARM and they have Office desktop apps compiled for ARM. OK it's a kludged version on the RT platform, but most of the work is done. They are making it easy and attractive (at least in a 'hell, why not?' sense) for new app development to compile for both x86 and ARM. I think one of the reasons why Windows 10 Mobile ('Phone') still exists is because it keeps the ARM branch current and that has sufficient value for MS that they don't even care if the phones never sell.
It was more likely a European thing. When we started exporting cars to you, we had no idea that your coffee was so bad that you would chug it down whilst driving rather than enjoying it properly in a street café with a beautiful $PARTNER.
Sadly, you started exporting the same coffee back to us and now they put cup holders in our cars too.:-D
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Starman another Carpenter movie; super sickly but a nice storyline, beautiful score and Karen Allen's finest work (ok, I mean she's a girl-next-door-hottie).
Also The Man Who Fell to Earth because Bowie, of course, but also the idea that alien visitors might be fragile and vulnerable rather than powerful and destructive.
It's sort of perfect, and therefore boring. I always thought 2010 was a better film; there was a lot of hype over the accuracy of the weightlessness scenes.
GE, P&W and Rolls-Royce will sell engines to any company their government's sanctions will allow. RR sold RB211-535E4 engines to Tupolov for a B-757 competitor the Tu-204. It was 90% of the Boeing for half the price and sold well in non-western markets. It was a sweet plane; the Russians have a more academic approach to engineering and apply science where we in the west apply economics.
There is a second problem, which is there aren't enough experienced aerospace engineers to deliver the industry's current programs.
Disclaimer: 30 years working in aerospace...
You are the first poster I've read who understood the article. It doesn't matter if laptops are more powerful than phones or tablets. What matters is that the currently available PCs allow you and me to write code, compile and ship. And this we will lose because the PC will morph into another locked-down platform. Kudos AC friend.
Who has only one primary machine when you can buy a decent PC for a day's fee? Plus it has to bork pretty damned hard to kill your dual-boot OSs and backups.
Settings -> Start -> 'Occasionally show suggestions in Start' -> OFF.
To put it bluntly, only male authors are likely to write something autistic enough with which I can identify. Female authors insist on including relationship crap.
That's fine in regular fiction, but in sci-fi I want spaceships and mayhem.
Whilst I'm on my soapbox, it bugs the hell out of me that when even one of my favourite authors, e.g. Iain M Banks introduces a main character who is female, she is invariably stunningly attractive. Why can't she be just someone ok looking, but a good laugh and handy in a space bar brawl?
Fury Road was lukewarm at best. It was good in that it was not quite so terrible as 'Thunderdome'. When one of the main characters is a peat bog, it cannot really compare with the truly dystopian 'Wasteland' (1) or the insanely violent 'Road Warrior' (2).
The Martian had a lot of women in strong roles, even if not the main character.
+1 for Foobar2000. I have 167GB of music and Foobar is pretty much instant. You could also set up a mini-server using Daphile which lets you control playback over a web interface or Logitech client. Both have options for bit-perfect playback. Nice toys.
You just won a virtual mod point (funny) :-)
Exactly this. You would not believe the crippling requirements we are now forced to meet for new commercial aircraft projects. We lost ONE Concorde and scrapped the fleet when it wasn't even due to a fault of the aircraft itself. I was saddened when we lost one shuttle, I was appalled when we lost a second one; that should have been impossible.
Oh for modpoints....
True, Python multithreading is only useful to avoid locked windows or the like, it has no speed benefit. Multiprocess works much better but although it is usually more beneficial on Linux than windows; the overhead of the spawn is so egregious in Windows that you need to have processes lasting several seconds to make it worthwhile, not to mention the horrors of getting a multiprocess logging system to work. The real beauty of python is to allow complex structures to be treated by high level commands yet to perform the heavy lifting in C or Fortran using either python's multiprocessing or openmp via f2py.
I have an old HP netbook running Daphile Fantastic audiophile quality music player from basically landfill junk.
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These devices will work more like a heat pipe as mentioned by the parent. The water evaporates from the chip surface and then condenses on the heatsink surface. You get the benefit of the high heat transfer rate without the temperature increase as you rightly say but the water remains inside the unit in a closed loop. They are very clever devices.
Everything else is just a matter of the efficiency or difficulty of how you get the heat to that point..
It reduces the thermal resistance between the chip and the heat sink, so for a given installation and heat rejection rate the chip itself will be cooler.
You do not add any weight to an aircraft that isn't absolutely necessary and you do not add any kind of active device where a passive one could work because of reliability. Keeping electronics cool in an aircraft is a very complex and expensive problem. Keeping a chip even two or three degrees cooler will have a measurable effect on the reliability over the aircraft life.
When a friend of mine decided to take the Arbitur exam here in Germany (A kind of high school graduation level) as an adult I volunteered to help her with the maths and promised her I would show her the beauty of it and she would learn to love it.
I failed dismally because the maths she had to study was all the really dull stuff I had forgotten about: solving triangles, calculating probabilities, quadratic equations... I realised that maths only really becomes beautiful when you get to calculus; before this it's just drudgery.
Why was this modded Troll? This is the best post on the thread.
For once the moocow AC has this right...
security (the potential for terrorist damage is much smaller considering you can't fly one arbitrarily into a building)
I think you have this the wrong way around. The only drawback I can see with Elon's Hyperloop is it's susceptibility to terrorism; you need to keep airport-level vigilance over its entire track length, that's a lot of razor wire, dogs and operatives.
MS are playing a very long game because they can afford to. Despite it's well-publicized problems, I find Windows 10 is fast and rock-solid on a desktop and on a Lumia phone. They already have Windows compiled for ARM and they have Office desktop apps compiled for ARM. OK it's a kludged version on the RT platform, but most of the work is done. They are making it easy and attractive (at least in a 'hell, why not?' sense) for new app development to compile for both x86 and ARM. I think one of the reasons why Windows 10 Mobile ('Phone') still exists is because it keeps the ARM branch current and that has sufficient value for MS that they don't even care if the phones never sell.
Sadly, you started exporting the same coffee back to us and now they put cup holders in our cars too. :-D