WHAT KIND OF DIGITAL TV RECEIVER WILL YOU NEED TO RECEIVE SKY'S HDTV SERVICE?
Sky is introducing a new HDTV receiver that will initially be manufactured by Thomson.
And you're right about the format:
Sky's HD service will also utilise the advanced compression technology MPEG4. MPEG4 is a more efficient means of compressing the data in a TV picture.
Listen kid, I've been a Fortran programmer since 1977. When you have to wait for an hour between punching your program onto cards and getting the line printer outpyt back you know the difference between 1e6 and 10e6.
So you have enough hydro to generate all your night-time needs and enough solar to handle all your day time needs + a bit more than all your night time needs (to run the hydro backwards).
Nuclear:
So all that's been missing all these years is standardization of plant design, eh? Genius. Let's see them do one without massive government subsidies. Let's see how far the safety claims go with the general public when you want to build one in anyone's back yard but YOUR OWN. Actually, your neighbors wouldn't let you do it either.
Been there. Done that. Currently generating 78.5% of electricity with nukes. (+11.5% hydroelectric, only 9.3% coal&oil).
(Hint: France).
Crean describes the device as a chip located "way in the machine, right near the laser" that embeds the dots when the document "is about 20 billionths of a second" from printing.
In this day and age something like that is done in hardware?
Cox also pointed out that the industry in general is moving toward standards-based processors from Intel and AMD and away from proprietary chip development from hardware vendors.
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If your website is hackable from China or Russia it's hackable from the US.
If your website is not hackable from the US it's not hackable from China or Russia.
So, why are you blocking China and Russia but not the US?
Apparentlty not:
And you're right about the format:Listen kid, I've been a Fortran programmer since 1977. When you have to wait for an hour between punching your program onto cards and getting the line printer outpyt back you know the difference between 1e6 and 10e6.
Oh lucky you.
Which of the approx 1e6 different logitec webcams are you using?
Yup, I only browse using Debian IceWeasel.
Try crossing the desert on a horse.
Pah, a horse is a camel designed by Rutan?
Financed by long term bonds; the "subsidy" is that they are risk free.
So you have enough hydro to generate all your night-time needs and enough solar to handle all your day time needs + a bit more than all your night time needs (to run the hydro backwards).
Sounds a pretty big system.
I'd go with the nukes if I were you.
Cloudy days? What are they planning to do? Plug it into a big lead-acid battery?
Ok Osama, I'll get right on to the marketing department to see what we can do.
It's not a matter of liquid vs solid. Do you know of any launcher that uses only O2/H2 as fuel?
(Also, isn't the metallic hydrogen on (in?) Jupiter liquid rather than solid?)
Oh, so you've got rid of the SRB's have you?
Or have you found a way to make solid hydrogen?
Well, the lack of a Starbucks is the reason.
Who the fuck would want to go to Atlanta?
Why not get the Soviet ones from http://www.omnimap.com?
Except that, until we start manufacturing in space, the Earths gravity well isn't a source of energy, it's just a storage mechanism.
To get your softball sized metallic mass into high orbit you'll have to expend more energy than a 2,000 lb bomb.
And to get from even the nearest of the lagrange points to the earths surface will take more than "a few minutes".
Oh you poor dear, facing terrorism for 20 years.
Let me know when you've had ~ 140 years of experience of terrorism.
(In 1867 Irish terrorists exploded a bomb in London, killing 12 people).
What makes you think you're not in the same situation?
(Do I bother to mention Iraq, presidential elections, "napalm", or would that be underestimating the inteligence of Slashdot readers?)
Ah, just like SCO OpenServer used to do it.
Oh fuck, he's found us out.
Send round the hit squads.
Or the men in white suits, whatever.