The Triple-E is unusual in several aspects apart from its size. 1. It has 2 engines instead of one. This improves packaging (less volume lost to the engine room), mainly because the engines are shorter (8 cylinders in line instead of 14). Earlier ships had one engine to reduce complexity. 2. It's slower, with an operational speed of 35 km/h (down from 45 km/h of its predecessor). This saves fuel.
Discovery Channel aired a series of programmes on this project last year. IIRC the main shipyard can house 2 or 3 of these in parallel, not 13. Each ship spends only a few months in this yard (final assembly only). Delivery tempo is one a month. Modules are built at various other shipyards.
You can thank Microsoft for that moronic decision. It's also in e.g. Outlook. Why you would want to map a key that's universally used to delete stuff, to act as "go to the previous view" (and worse, swap between the two behaviors depending on focus) is beyond me.
Over the past few years, the Mozilla foundation hasn't given the impression it'll listen to user feedback at all. If the rivers of vitriol over the Australis UI changes haven't had any effect, why would I bother giving them one more data point?
I used Firefox with Classic Theme Restorer before moving to Pale Moon. CTR helps, but it wasn't able to undo all of the crappiness that Australis brought. For example, the new tab design in Australis meant that very narrow tabs (anything below ~60 px) didn't work well anymore. I used the Custom Tab Width extension to adjust the minimum tab width. After Australis, there would be a ghost region around each tab, making the tabs overlap each other. CTR also didn't bring back the Status bar. Having status text overlap the main window is annoying.
After the Australis debacle I decided to move my Windows machines to Pale Moon. The change has been surprisingly painless, I could pretty much copy my Firefox profile wholesale without a hitch. All of the extensions work too and the interface is such a relief. Now to find something similar for my Mac...
I wonder if the Finns can unilaterally decide that the 200/500 Euro notes are no longer legal tender in their country. Then again, maybe they don't have to. Many stores over here (.nl) already don't accept large denominations.
I don't get it. Why the downplaying of Jobs' achievements? Yes, yes, asshole, RDF, marketing, design, blah blah blah. Whatever. 1. Jobs led the team that developed the Macintosh: the first GUI-driven computer that had more than niche appeal. He changed the face of computing and everyone in the field furiously struggled to badly copy the Mac for the next decade or so. This made computing accessible to the masses, where previously the CLI had been a pretty big barrier for consumers. 2. He introduced the first MP3 player that actually worked well. Billions sold, total market domination etc. 3. He introduced the first smartphone that worked well. Billions sold, total market domination etc. Do you get the pattern yet? Innovation is not just about designing hardware. Designing a comprehensible interface is a major achievement in its own right.
Jobs made computing accessible to the average man. If I were to exaggerate as much as the parent: Musk just makes cheap rockets and expensive cars.
First, it's not a return, and second, how do you arrive at 73%?
You pay no BPM. This is a tax on cars, which used to be 20-30% of the before-tax purchase price, now it's calculated based on a car's CO2 emissions, you pay something like â70 per gram of CO2. For typical cars, this still adds up to 20-30% of the purchase price.
I'd say being able to spread the knowledge of your discovery is an important part of that discovery. After the Vikings reached America, one tribe knew about the discovery and it was subsequently forgotten. After Columbus discovered America, this knowledge spread throughout Europe.
The ability to accurately control an electric motor is probably a big reason why this took so long. Electric trains from that era have really crude systems for selecting a speed: the motor had several windings which you could switch on or off, or place them in series or parallel. Then there were resistor banks for intermediate settings. So instead of a smooth "analogue" throttle, you had maybe 10 speed/power settings to choose from. This sort of works for a train: there's enough inertia that you can switch settings without jerking the passengers around.
For a vehicle, this lack of control was/is unacceptable, so widespread adoption had to wait until high-power electronics became available.
Cartoon movies have shown us a world doesn't need to be photorealistic to be immersive. Worlds that stay away from the uncanny valley by being obvious cartoons do better than worlds that try to be, but aren't quite photorealistic.
That tweeter is a numbskull. There are and were plenty of female scientists involved with (and celebrating) space missions, going back all the way to Voyager at least (e.g. Carolyn Porco was on the Voyager team, and now leads the Cassini imaging science team). NASA has on at least one occasion planned a day where all of the staff on duty for a science mission (e.g. for Spirit and Opportunity) was female. Just because photos don't make it to mainstream news outlets doesn't mean it's not happening.
I think there's one more criterium: the name has to avoid collisions. If you do an internet search for your program name and you need extra qualifiers to avoid unrelated stuff from ranking higher than the page you need, the name is bad.
Why go to the lengths of having a second official meter and a second address? That strikes me as more expensive than it needs to be, I'd have wired an unofficial meter in the circuit from the main breaker panel to the garage, that way you'd be able to monitor usage without all the overhead.
There were a lot of factors that made NS Savannah economically unviable. - it was built for individual cargo crates, just when crates were being replaced by ISO containers. - it was small and had a streamlined hull, which meant very limited cargo capacity. - it had a lot of space dedicated to passengers, just when passenger ships were being replaced by the jet airliner - it was built at a time when diesel was very cheap - the reactor personnel demanded similar wages to power station personnel, which worked out to a higher salary than the ship's officers. The labor dispute kept it out of service for a year.
Just a few years after the ship was decommissioned, increasing fuel prices meant conventional ships became as expensive to operate as Savannah.
It's peculiar that TFA labels the Boeing design the 'safe choice' when it hasn't flown yet, despite $0.5B of investment from NASA. And the Atlas V launch vehicle may have flown a lot of missions, but it isn't man-rated yet. The SpaceX Dragon has flown several times, and has spent months in orbit docked to the ISS. Now I realize the manned Dragon has many new systems, but it seems to me SpaceX is a lot closer to a man-rated capsule than Boeing.
The French gave the British potentially valuable information on the Exocet's capabilities and limitations, and details on how it operated (e.g. its radar frequency, which you need to know if you want to use jamming). Despite this, 4 of the 5 Exocets launched were hits, and damaged or sank British ships.
For sound, I've found the best venue is tractor pulling. All kinds of motive power in a single meet, from RR Griffons to high-strung V8 to helicopter turbines to methanol two-stage turbo engines. Because speeds are relatively low you can get really close to the track, it also means more immersion in the sound compared to having cars whizz by at 200+ km/h.
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that should have read "Okpo, instead of Opko"
That's because it's Okpo, on Opko.
DSME also takes you there.
The Triple-E is unusual in several aspects apart from its size.
1. It has 2 engines instead of one. This improves packaging (less volume lost to the engine room), mainly because the engines are shorter (8 cylinders in line instead of 14). Earlier ships had one engine to reduce complexity.
2. It's slower, with an operational speed of 35 km/h (down from 45 km/h of its predecessor). This saves fuel.
Discovery Channel aired a series of programmes on this project last year. IIRC the main shipyard can house 2 or 3 of these in parallel, not 13. Each ship spends only a few months in this yard (final assembly only). Delivery tempo is one a month.
Modules are built at various other shipyards.
You can thank Microsoft for that moronic decision. It's also in e.g. Outlook. Why you would want to map a key that's universally used to delete stuff, to act as "go to the previous view" (and worse, swap between the two behaviors depending on focus) is beyond me.
Are any of them able to use the Skype network?
Over the past few years, the Mozilla foundation hasn't given the impression it'll listen to user feedback at all. If the rivers of vitriol over the Australis UI changes haven't had any effect, why would I bother giving them one more data point?
I used Firefox with Classic Theme Restorer before moving to Pale Moon. CTR helps, but it wasn't able to undo all of the crappiness that Australis brought. For example, the new tab design in Australis meant that very narrow tabs (anything below ~60 px) didn't work well anymore. I used the Custom Tab Width extension to adjust the minimum tab width. After Australis, there would be a ghost region around each tab, making the tabs overlap each other.
CTR also didn't bring back the Status bar. Having status text overlap the main window is annoying.
After the Australis debacle I decided to move my Windows machines to Pale Moon. The change has been surprisingly painless, I could pretty much copy my Firefox profile wholesale without a hitch. All of the extensions work too and the interface is such a relief.
Now to find something similar for my Mac...
I wonder if the Finns can unilaterally decide that the 200/500 Euro notes are no longer legal tender in their country. Then again, maybe they don't have to. Many stores over here (.nl) already don't accept large denominations.
I don't get it. Why the downplaying of Jobs' achievements? Yes, yes, asshole, RDF, marketing, design, blah blah blah. Whatever.
1. Jobs led the team that developed the Macintosh: the first GUI-driven computer that had more than niche appeal. He changed the face of computing and everyone in the field furiously struggled to badly copy the Mac for the next decade or so. This made computing accessible to the masses, where previously the CLI had been a pretty big barrier for consumers.
2. He introduced the first MP3 player that actually worked well. Billions sold, total market domination etc.
3. He introduced the first smartphone that worked well. Billions sold, total market domination etc.
Do you get the pattern yet? Innovation is not just about designing hardware. Designing a comprehensible interface is a major achievement in its own right.
Jobs made computing accessible to the average man. If I were to exaggerate as much as the parent: Musk just makes cheap rockets and expensive cars.
First, it's not a return, and second, how do you arrive at 73%?
You pay no BPM. This is a tax on cars, which used to be 20-30% of the before-tax purchase price, now it's calculated based on a car's CO2 emissions, you pay something like â70 per gram of CO2. For typical cars, this still adds up to 20-30% of the purchase price.
Digital Editions is the PC app you use to download ebook files from the internet, and then upload them to your non-Wifi ebook reader.
I'd say being able to spread the knowledge of your discovery is an important part of that discovery. After the Vikings reached America, one tribe knew about the discovery and it was subsequently forgotten. After Columbus discovered America, this knowledge spread throughout Europe.
The ability to accurately control an electric motor is probably a big reason why this took so long. Electric trains from that era have really crude systems for selecting a speed: the motor had several windings which you could switch on or off, or place them in series or parallel. Then there were resistor banks for intermediate settings. So instead of a smooth "analogue" throttle, you had maybe 10 speed/power settings to choose from. This sort of works for a train: there's enough inertia that you can switch settings without jerking the passengers around.
For a vehicle, this lack of control was/is unacceptable, so widespread adoption had to wait until high-power electronics became available.
Cartoon movies have shown us a world doesn't need to be photorealistic to be immersive. Worlds that stay away from the uncanny valley by being obvious cartoons do better than worlds that try to be, but aren't quite photorealistic.
Who in their right mind puts 70 lbs of force on their $700 device?
That tweeter is a numbskull. There are and were plenty of female scientists involved with (and celebrating) space missions, going back all the way to Voyager at least (e.g. Carolyn Porco was on the Voyager team, and now leads the Cassini imaging science team).
NASA has on at least one occasion planned a day where all of the staff on duty for a science mission (e.g. for Spirit and Opportunity) was female.
Just because photos don't make it to mainstream news outlets doesn't mean it's not happening.
I think there's one more criterium: the name has to avoid collisions. If you do an internet search for your program name and you need extra qualifiers to avoid unrelated stuff from ranking higher than the page you need, the name is bad.
The idiocy of new TLDs is revealed for what it is: a way for ICANN to make money. None of this makes things better for website owners or consumers.
Why go to the lengths of having a second official meter and a second address? That strikes me as more expensive than it needs to be, I'd have wired an unofficial meter in the circuit from the main breaker panel to the garage, that way you'd be able to monitor usage without all the overhead.
There were a lot of factors that made NS Savannah economically unviable.
- it was built for individual cargo crates, just when crates were being replaced by ISO containers.
- it was small and had a streamlined hull, which meant very limited cargo capacity.
- it had a lot of space dedicated to passengers, just when passenger ships were being replaced by the jet airliner
- it was built at a time when diesel was very cheap
- the reactor personnel demanded similar wages to power station personnel, which worked out to a higher salary than the ship's officers. The labor dispute kept it out of service for a year.
Just a few years after the ship was decommissioned, increasing fuel prices meant conventional ships became as expensive to operate as Savannah.
It's peculiar that TFA labels the Boeing design the 'safe choice' when it hasn't flown yet, despite $0.5B of investment from NASA. And the Atlas V launch vehicle may have flown a lot of missions, but it isn't man-rated yet.
The SpaceX Dragon has flown several times, and has spent months in orbit docked to the ISS. Now I realize the manned Dragon has many new systems, but it seems to me SpaceX is a lot closer to a man-rated capsule than Boeing.
The French gave the British potentially valuable information on the Exocet's capabilities and limitations, and details on how it operated (e.g. its radar frequency, which you need to know if you want to use jamming).
Despite this, 4 of the 5 Exocets launched were hits, and damaged or sank British ships.
For sound, I've found the best venue is tractor pulling. All kinds of motive power in a single meet, from RR Griffons to high-strung V8 to helicopter turbines to methanol two-stage turbo engines. Because speeds are relatively low you can get really close to the track, it also means more immersion in the sound compared to having cars whizz by at 200+ km/h.