For Turing, breaking Enigma was only one of his accomplishments. His contributions to the start of the computer age overshadow everything he's done during the war. Welchman's post-war work was more in the shadows.
The BBC did a hour-long documentary on Welchman recently.
With up to 9000 personnel, plus key suppliers like Tommy Flowers and his group at Post Office Research (who built Colossus), and Harold 'Doc' Keen of the British Tabulating Machine Company (who built the bombes), there's plenty of unsung heroes at Bletchley Park.
The Netherlands have taxi laws because every time we tried deregulating taxis, the deregulated taxi services cropping up were a bunch of criminals who wouldn't balk at overcharging and intimidating and/or assaulting their passengers and other drivers.
I count four, no, five version numbering schemes: - romantic - rebellious - traditional (major.minor.bugfix) - marketing (year.month) - irrational (a.k.a. Mine's Bigger: Firefox, Chrome)
The big drawback of year.month over major.minor is that year.month gives no indication of the magnitude of changes. Can I install 2015.09 and be certain all of the features I use daily are still there? What's the difference in file format between 2014.06 and this new version? Now I realize major.minor is not an ironclad guarantee either, but it gets me closer than year.month.
The Firefox problem I refer to had several components, one of them was a bug that was first reported on Bugzilla in April 2001, and remained unfixed for 14 years despite being in an open source project.
It will be the point of the LISA project, with 3 spacecraft and a million-km arm length. LISA Pathfinder is a test mission for the detector technology, this mission packs the experiments in a single spacecraft.
In addition to many methods that are still experimental today, the article lists pumped (water) storage, which is in widespread use today (127 GW capacity installed). Single facilities can store multiple GWh at 70% efficiency.
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"Hi Barbie, what should we do today?"
Same thing we do every day kiddo, try to take over the world!
After the 2000 crash, several Concordes were modified to prevent a recurrence, and were put back into service. They were grounded in 2003 due to reductions in passenger numbers (9/11/2001 plus a general recession) and due to a decision by Airbus to stop maintenance support.
The electric car revolution we're seeing now depended on the availability of batteries with a high-enough capacity-to-weight ratio to combine sportscar performance with decent range. That availability is pretty recent, and was driven by gigantic amount of research across the laptop and phone industry. A single car manufacturer wouldn't have been able to spend enough money to create usable batteries on its own, so an electric car built 30 years ago would have had sportscar performance and a range of 30 miles, or milk float performance at 100+ miles range.
Note that the years in that graph are 2007-2009. Guess what happened in that timeframe? A depression. In the US, mass layoffs followed. In the EU, with stronger labor protection (and/or companies that took the long view, retaining their labor force through the bad times to retain knowledge), layoffs would have been a bit slower/fewer. That alone can account for the productivity drop.
TFA seems to be talking about a possible end of production. After that, it'll take 25 years for first-rate airlines to write them off, and some operators may run them longer still. So I'd say we're decades away from retirement, but I guess that's par for the course for this article. What a load of drivel.
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For Turing, breaking Enigma was only one of his accomplishments. His contributions to the start of the computer age overshadow everything he's done during the war. Welchman's post-war work was more in the shadows.
The BBC did a hour-long documentary on Welchman recently.
With up to 9000 personnel, plus key suppliers like Tommy Flowers and his group at Post Office Research (who built Colossus), and Harold 'Doc' Keen of the British Tabulating Machine Company (who built the bombes), there's plenty of unsung heroes at Bletchley Park.
Did you account for all the leap years, and all the years that could be leap years but aren't (century years whose number is not divisible by 400)?
Rain/snow falling in through an open door is not unique to gullwing doors. I have the same problem in my ordinary hatchback.
You'd need to remove that 'foot of snow' anyway before setting off, why not do it before you open the door?
148 comments, and no "almost fanatical devotion to the Pope"? This place is really going downhill...
The Netherlands have taxi laws because every time we tried deregulating taxis, the deregulated taxi services cropping up were a bunch of criminals who wouldn't balk at overcharging and intimidating and/or assaulting their passengers and other drivers.
I count four, no, five version numbering schemes:
- romantic
- rebellious
- traditional (major.minor.bugfix)
- marketing (year.month)
- irrational (a.k.a. Mine's Bigger: Firefox, Chrome)
The big drawback of year.month over major.minor is that year.month gives no indication of the magnitude of changes. Can I install 2015.09 and be certain all of the features I use daily are still there? What's the difference in file format between 2014.06 and this new version?
Now I realize major.minor is not an ironclad guarantee either, but it gets me closer than year.month.
The Firefox problem I refer to had several components, one of them was a bug that was first reported on Bugzilla in April 2001, and remained unfixed for 14 years despite being in an open source project.
Didn't we have a recent story where a Firefox bug was fixed that dated back 14 years?
No. Front-side collisions generally happen on the driver's side.
There have been rumors of manufacturers cheating in exactly this way (detecting the patterns of an emissions test) for years.
It will be the point of the LISA project, with 3 spacecraft and a million-km arm length. LISA Pathfinder is a test mission for the detector technology, this mission packs the experiments in a single spacecraft.
In addition to many methods that are still experimental today, the article lists pumped (water) storage, which is in widespread use today (127 GW capacity installed). Single facilities can store multiple GWh at 70% efficiency.
"Hi Barbie, what should we do today?"
Same thing we do every day kiddo, try to take over the world!
After the 2000 crash, several Concordes were modified to prevent a recurrence, and were put back into service. They were grounded in 2003 due to reductions in passenger numbers (9/11/2001 plus a general recession) and due to a decision by Airbus to stop maintenance support.
a weak 8.3-Magnitude Earthquake...
The electric car revolution we're seeing now depended on the availability of batteries with a high-enough capacity-to-weight ratio to combine sportscar performance with decent range. That availability is pretty recent, and was driven by gigantic amount of research across the laptop and phone industry. A single car manufacturer wouldn't have been able to spend enough money to create usable batteries on its own, so an electric car built 30 years ago would have had sportscar performance and a range of 30 miles, or milk float performance at 100+ miles range.
Note that the years in that graph are 2007-2009. Guess what happened in that timeframe? A depression.
In the US, mass layoffs followed. In the EU, with stronger labor protection (and/or companies that took the long view, retaining their labor force through the bad times to retain knowledge), layoffs would have been a bit slower/fewer. That alone can account for the productivity drop.
There's one way I can see a movie being made that wouldn't suck: bringing D&D characters into this world a la Inkheart.
So I still can't use Whatsapp without a smartphone? That's annoying.
Last time I looked, The Airport could at least be configured from an OSX computer instead of just mobile devices.
Desmond Bagley's novel 'the Enemy' features a model railroad layout that should appeal to nerds.
First of all, you are wrong. The SR-71 flew at 1.5 times the speed of Concorde, not 3.
TFA seems to be talking about a possible end of production. After that, it'll take 25 years for first-rate airlines to write them off, and some operators may run them longer still.
So I'd say we're decades away from retirement, but I guess that's par for the course for this article. What a load of drivel.