The inherent flimsiness of USB ports is entirely due to the presence of an freestanding connector covered plastic post in the center that is easily snapped off. It is usb's main failing, whatever the model as I have seen hundreds of devices rendered unusable due to one of these center posts snapping off, from micro USB all the way to type 1.
Given that socialism and communism and indeed just about every ism that exists explicitly do the same thing, I think that all you attempting to channel Candide and blame capitalism for this ill need to get over yourselves.
Looks to me that much of the tor traffic to fb is from the asses that clone accounts unde a new misspelled name, ask to be friended and then send messages asking for money. Their scam only works when tracking back to the IP is difficult.
Thank you for that YouTube link, greatness indeed.
Prince was bored with being a pop star and was determined to push his and our boundaries. It didn't always make for the most popular songs and I find much of it not to my taste but when he wanted to be a pop star, boy oh boy, could he.
He trademarked his "love symbol", refused to be addressed by anything else and thus forced the vampiric over controlling record label to pay him royalties for using it on his albums. The man was brilliant and in my opinion just as much if not more of a cultural influence (through his producing & songwriting) than Michael Jackson was.
Never had the opportunity to see him live. Adding him to the list of lifelong regrets alongside Queen, the Eagles, Amy Winehouse and others
Nope, the problem only exists in the mind of the people who like to hate on Apple and jump to false conclusions on unsubstantiated reports. There is no fixing these people.
From what I have read, yes, the diminution of drag from the re-energized boundary flow and smaller main engines does indeed make enough of a difference that the added weight and drag from the hybrid propulsion system should bring efficiency up by low 2 digit numbers.
The changes to the turbines were claimed to be minor and given how common turbine-electric is in power plants, locomotives and ships, well mastered.
Do note that while there are other studies on going much further and replacing the turbine's direct role in propulsion with electric motors much more, that wasn't what I was referring to here. This should give big gains for relatively minor tweaks in current platforms.
Losing a turbine/generator on liftoff would still be very bad news because you'd lose both the engine's thrust and all power from that side - diminishing thrust from the electric motor in the tail too. Pushing the remaining engine to make up for the loss in power still makes for asymmetric thrust. You would have to move the engines closer to the centerline as is being mooted for blended wing-body designs but those are massively different designs from what is flying today.
Do you start all your posts with a stupid question?
Can you point out where I stated that airplanes do not have "separately powered generators"?
Did you attempt to understand what I said and the URL I gave that make it clear that I was referring to hybrid turbine-electric propulsion & not just housekeeping/emergency power for control surfaces?
From where I am standing the answers to these questions are maybe, hell no and clearly no.
The next time you sit down in front of a keyboard, like you probably are as you are reading this, you might want to engage your brain so that you understand what I said before posting a reply in which you attempt to put words in my mouth and end up invalidating a theory that's only in your mind.
Aircraft are only now beginning to use turbines to generate electricity which is then used in electric motors but is is a very widely used technology in many ships -- especially large warships.
A first application for adding an electric engine to the tail end of an airliner to re-energize the fuselage boundary layer airflow. As the plane flies through the air it slows down some of the air which ends up as drag. By putting a ring around the end of the fuselage directing the boundary layer airflow to an electric engine powered from the main turbines, drag goes down to the point that smaller diameter engines are needed (also diminishing drag). The major design change needed is that with the ring and engine, the horizontal stabilizers must be moved to a T tail.
Both NASA & Airbus are studying this for future designs: see here.
It's a HTC phone which means that if they haven't already abandoned updates for it, it's certainly going to happen within months. I've had 2 HTC work phones and spent way too much time asking their support why they removed upgrades for phones less than 6 months old from their web site instead of leaving the outdated but still most recent firmware up.
_Never_again_.
Some of you may appreciate spending hours and days fiddling with your phones to replace this or that (whether it's hardware or software). I've found more enjoyable/rewarding outlets for my free time.
I jumped ship to a rMBP+Fusion in the Win8 timeframe after decades of Win+Cygwin+Workstation and a few aborted moves to Linux+VMWare/Xen/KVM.
The rMBP was better/faster/lighter hardware that my colleagues are only now catching up to and OSX's Unix integration has been more than I have ever needed.
Open bash and use commands mostly works with cygwin.
Putty barfs when you attempt to use it to paste a large config file and still doesn't grock command lines like ssh://user@host.
The cygwin X server was more than fast enough for me to run the odd X utility, but then I wasn't doing major work in X.
No, he's said that changing a major characteristic of the game after the fact to make it necessary to buy more stuff to continue playing changes the game to the point that one would no longer wish to have purchased it. Funny that you were unable to understand that.
No, it's the ravings of someone who thinks that the Impala/JATO urban legend is plausible. SLS is too different from anything else for anyone to be able to easily/cheaply reuse anyone else's LCS. That you didn't make that point & instead ad-hominimed Elon Musk makes you no better.
Triple redundancies in all NASA launch processes? That has never existed.
Where were the triple redundancies that prevented Challenger or Columbia?
Sorry, but while there were some at NASA that did indeed approach Space-X telling them that their redundancy methodology MUST be implemented for Falcon-9 to become Man-Rated it wasn't to preserve a global culture of redundancy that some claim is present at NASA. No NASA launcher has ever had the level of redundancy they were attempting to require from Space-X. It isn't even present in SLS - an early O-Ring Burn through towards the main body or some other unthought of weakness (as Space-X experienced during CRS-7) is potentially inescapable.
No, the triple/quadruple redundancies were just an attempt to tie down Space-X's resources that were correctly recognized and refused. Falcon-9 at least has a 1 engine out capability that has already allowed it to maintain delivery of it's primary cargo (and would have delivered it's secondary cargo as well were it not for NASA strictures).
Extensible and re-configurable Launch Control Software for launchers as diverse as Falcon-9 and SLS does not exist no matter what any Anonymous Coward claims to think or say. Space-X / Boeing /... will certainly have families of LCS for similar families of Launchers but the infrastructure to just grab a.deb and apt-get or configure/make/... to port components for launchers as dissimilar as STS & Falcon is nonexistent at present.
Launch control software is NOT commercially available for STS! Each launcher has it's own LCS because even more so that with PCs the software needs to be adapted to the launch Hardware. Ponder the hardware differences between homogeneous Falcon-9 and STS's heterogeneous mix of solid boosters and cryogenic engines. Yes, one could adapt one LCS from one launcher to another but the undertaking is more a general rewrite due to differing hardware than it is a simple recompile.
I'm not even sure that if Nasa were to ask Space-X if they could purchase a copy of their LCS that Space-X would agree. Space-X is selling a launch service to orbit, not Joe's Space junkyard and spare parts.
Most playstation games would map poorly to a tablet experience due to the absence of a controller but this isn't true for the new Apple TV now that Apple has opened the APIs up and that supports Bluetooth controllers (though Apple also forces the game to be "playable" using the remote). I wonder if Sony foresees Apple TVs & similar Android devices as being a market large enough to make PS games profitable.
Tridge has very publicly stated that the hard part in making Samba work was not in following Microsoft's specifications but identifying and replicating the bugs in Microsoft's implementations.
(I only noticed that you replied when seeing that my comment had been modded) Thank you for noting that the sentence was irrelevant, removing it & then replying to inform me. These are all things that/. hadn't been doing much of recently and are much appreciated.
Anyone displaying the intellectual dishonesty you have, spamming us with summaries that are flat out contradicted by TFA itself shouldn't have any of his submissions accepted.
So Timothy/Freshly_exhumed, what exactly is it that excludes the Thunderbolt 3 USB Type C equipped Google Chomebooks ad Retina MacBooks from being "consumer platforms"? Personal prejudice?
Timmay has been proven to skip over informative submissions in the firehose until a clickbait written submission comes along and also rewrites titles and summaries that are insufficiently provocative.
I'm far from the only one commenting on how he effects/.
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The inherent flimsiness of USB ports is entirely due to the presence of an freestanding connector covered plastic post in the center that is easily snapped off. It is usb's main failing, whatever the model as I have seen hundreds of devices rendered unusable due to one of these center posts snapping off, from micro USB all the way to type 1.
Given that socialism and communism and indeed just about every ism that exists explicitly do the same thing, I think that all you attempting to channel Candide and blame capitalism for this ill need to get over yourselves.
Looks to me that much of the tor traffic to fb is from the asses that clone accounts unde a new misspelled name, ask to be friended and then send messages asking for money. Their scam only works when tracking back to the IP is difficult.
I'll leave you Kanye / Bieber, coward. Enjoy, you coprophage.
Thank you for that YouTube link, greatness indeed.
Prince was bored with being a pop star and was determined to push his and our boundaries. It didn't always make for the most popular songs and I find much of it not to my taste but when he wanted to be a pop star, boy oh boy, could he.
He trademarked his "love symbol", refused to be addressed by anything else and thus forced the vampiric over controlling record label to pay him royalties for using it on his albums. The man was brilliant and in my opinion just as much if not more of a cultural influence (through his producing & songwriting) than Michael Jackson was.
Never had the opportunity to see him live. Adding him to the list of lifelong regrets alongside Queen, the Eagles, Amy Winehouse and others
Nope, the problem only exists in the mind of the people who like to hate on Apple and jump to false conclusions on unsubstantiated reports. There is no fixing these people.
It'd be nice if you could completely get rid of all the nigger/Republicans hate everyone spam that is showing up in EVERY subject.
From what I have read, yes, the diminution of drag from the re-energized boundary flow and smaller main engines does indeed make enough of a difference that the added weight and drag from the hybrid propulsion system should bring efficiency up by low 2 digit numbers.
The changes to the turbines were claimed to be minor and given how common turbine-electric is in power plants, locomotives and ships, well mastered.
Do note that while there are other studies on going much further and replacing the turbine's direct role in propulsion with electric motors much more, that wasn't what I was referring to here. This should give big gains for relatively minor tweaks in current platforms.
Losing a turbine/generator on liftoff would still be very bad news because you'd lose both the engine's thrust and all power from that side - diminishing thrust from the electric motor in the tail too. Pushing the remaining engine to make up for the loss in power still makes for asymmetric thrust. You would have to move the engines closer to the centerline as is being mooted for blended wing-body designs but those are massively different designs from what is flying today.
Do you start all your posts with a stupid question?
Can you point out where I stated that airplanes do not have "separately powered generators"?
Did you attempt to understand what I said and the URL I gave that make it clear that I was referring to hybrid turbine-electric propulsion & not just housekeeping/emergency power for control surfaces?
From where I am standing the answers to these questions are maybe, hell no and clearly no.
The next time you sit down in front of a keyboard, like you probably are as you are reading this, you might want to engage your brain so that you understand what I said before posting a reply in which you attempt to put words in my mouth and end up invalidating a theory that's only in your mind.
Aircraft are only now beginning to use turbines to generate electricity which is then used in electric motors but is is a very widely used technology in many ships -- especially large warships.
A first application for adding an electric engine to the tail end of an airliner to re-energize the fuselage boundary layer airflow. As the plane flies through the air it slows down some of the air which ends up as drag. By putting a ring around the end of the fuselage directing the boundary layer airflow to an electric engine powered from the main turbines, drag goes down to the point that smaller diameter engines are needed (also diminishing drag). The major design change needed is that with the ring and engine, the horizontal stabilizers must be moved to a T tail.
Both NASA & Airbus are studying this for future designs: see here.
Whoop dee doo...
It's a HTC phone which means that if they haven't already abandoned updates for it, it's certainly going to happen within months. I've had 2 HTC work phones and spent way too much time asking their support why they removed upgrades for phones less than 6 months old from their web site instead of leaving the outdated but still most recent firmware up.
_Never_again_.
Some of you may appreciate spending hours and days fiddling with your phones to replace this or that (whether it's hardware or software). I've found more enjoyable/rewarding outlets for my free time.
I jumped ship to a rMBP+Fusion in the Win8 timeframe after decades of Win+Cygwin+Workstation and a few aborted moves to Linux+VMWare/Xen/KVM.
The rMBP was better/faster/lighter hardware that my colleagues are only now catching up to and OSX's Unix integration has been more than I have ever needed.
Open bash and use commands mostly works with cygwin.
Putty barfs when you attempt to use it to paste a large config file and still doesn't grock command lines like ssh://user@host.
The cygwin X server was more than fast enough for me to run the odd X utility, but then I wasn't doing major work in X.
No, he's said that changing a major characteristic of the game after the fact to make it necessary to buy more stuff to continue playing changes the game to the point that one would no longer wish to have purchased it. Funny that you were unable to understand that.
No, it's the ravings of someone who thinks that the Impala/JATO urban legend is plausible. SLS is too different from anything else for anyone to be able to easily/cheaply reuse anyone else's LCS. That you didn't make that point & instead ad-hominimed Elon Musk makes you no better.
Triple redundancies in all NASA launch processes? That has never existed.
Where were the triple redundancies that prevented Challenger or Columbia?
Sorry, but while there were some at NASA that did indeed approach Space-X telling them that their redundancy methodology MUST be implemented for Falcon-9 to become Man-Rated it wasn't to preserve a global culture of redundancy that some claim is present at NASA. No NASA launcher has ever had the level of redundancy they were attempting to require from Space-X. It isn't even present in SLS - an early O-Ring Burn through towards the main body or some other unthought of weakness (as Space-X experienced during CRS-7) is potentially inescapable.
No, the triple/quadruple redundancies were just an attempt to tie down Space-X's resources that were correctly recognized and refused. Falcon-9 at least has a 1 engine out capability that has already allowed it to maintain delivery of it's primary cargo (and would have delivered it's secondary cargo as well were it not for NASA strictures).
Extensible and re-configurable Launch Control Software for launchers as diverse as Falcon-9 and SLS does not exist no matter what any Anonymous Coward claims to think or say. Space-X / Boeing / ... will certainly have families of LCS for similar families of Launchers but the infrastructure to just grab a .deb and apt-get or configure/make/... to port components for launchers as dissimilar as STS & Falcon is nonexistent at present.
Launch control software is NOT commercially available for STS! Each launcher has it's own LCS because even more so that with PCs the software needs to be adapted to the launch Hardware. Ponder the hardware differences between homogeneous Falcon-9 and STS's heterogeneous mix of solid boosters and cryogenic engines. Yes, one could adapt one LCS from one launcher to another but the undertaking is more a general rewrite due to differing hardware than it is a simple recompile.
I'm not even sure that if Nasa were to ask Space-X if they could purchase a copy of their LCS that Space-X would agree. Space-X is selling a launch service to orbit, not Joe's Space junkyard and spare parts.
Most playstation games would map poorly to a tablet experience due to the absence of a controller but this isn't true for the new Apple TV now that Apple has opened the APIs up and that supports Bluetooth controllers (though Apple also forces the game to be "playable" using the remote). I wonder if Sony foresees Apple TVs & similar Android devices as being a market large enough to make PS games profitable.
Tridge has very publicly stated that the hard part in making Samba work was not in following Microsoft's specifications but identifying and replicating the bugs in Microsoft's implementations.
(I only noticed that you replied when seeing that my comment had been modded) /. hadn't been doing much of recently and are much appreciated.
Thank you for noting that the sentence was irrelevant, removing it & then replying to inform me. These are all things that
There is absolutely no relation relation between the two. It's "High time" that /. admins edit submissions to remove editorial junk like this.
Anyone displaying the intellectual dishonesty you have, spamming us with summaries that are flat out contradicted by TFA itself shouldn't have any of his submissions accepted.
So Timothy/Freshly_exhumed, what exactly is it that excludes the Thunderbolt 3 USB Type C equipped Google Chomebooks ad Retina MacBooks from being "consumer platforms"? Personal prejudice?
Timmay has been proven to skip over informative submissions in the firehose until a clickbait written submission comes along and also rewrites titles and summaries that are insufficiently provocative.
I'm far from the only one commenting on how he effects /.