To answer the inevitable question, "why wake it up now when the flyby is 6 months from now",
- the team needs time to check the spacecraft - it needs to upload new software for the encounter, at speeds in the region of 1 kbit/s - the spacecraft needs to do some observations to help in navigation. The targeted KBO is called 2014 MU69 because it was discovered in 2014, meaning we have very little data to derive its orbit from. Pre-flyby observations help finetune the flyby distance (has to be as close as possible to get good photos).
Over the next three days, the mission team will collect navigation tracking data (using signals from the Deep Space Network) and send the first of many commands to New Horizons' onboard computers to begin preparations for the Ultima flyby; lasting about two months, those flyby preparations include memory updates, Kuiper Belt science data retrieval, and a series of subsystem and science-instrument checkouts. In August, the team will command New Horizons to begin making distant observations of Ultima, images that will help the team refine the spacecraft's course to fly by the object.
What makes you think other manufacturers aren't already doing this? Dimension scanning and torque figure records are SOP. Don't know about audio recordings of the test drive. Those are going to be pretty hard to match to a specific defect, though.
Windows 10 is a huge resource hog. On a new (supposedly fast) HP laptop, I see CPU usage spike to 25% with no user applications running. It also needs 3 GB of RAM for the OS alone (while offering no advantage that I can see over Windows 7).
W10 on a machine that has to emulate x86 is going to stink.
Cooking, laundry, housekeeping, lawn care, child care, etc.. are not able to be automated at all
Laundry has already been automated: washing machine and dryer have cut down the time we need to spend on laundry by 95%.
Lawn care and vacuum cleaning: you can buy robots for that today. And their cost is not that much higher than the cost of a manual lawnmower/vacuum cleaner.
There's nothing about mil-spec components that says civilians can't buy them. In practice almost nobody does because mil-spec components tend to be much more expensive and overspecified for most civilian uses.
There is, however, separate legislation that says you can't buy various military weapons (tanks, missiles). And those laws have the occasional exception (you can buy old tanks as long as the guns have been rendered unusable).
Very few companies use my data to provide better consumer experiences. Amazon used to be one with its book recommendations. The majority just sell my data to the highest bidder instead.
A wallet, being ungrounded, is never a perfect Faraday cage. You just have to turn up the gain a bit to defeat it. This NFC jammer sounds like a solution for that problem.
There is an off position on many ignition locks that doesn't lock the steering.
Even if there isn't, nothing stops you from turning the key all the way to the Lock position (stopping the engine) and then immediately back to the On position (freeing the steering lock before it becomes an issue). That's probably faster than carefully counting the key positions, too.
Last year, I visited a small vineyard. They sort of did that: they had a robotic lawnmower on constant patrol. Of course that only works if your crop is tall enough not to be harmed by the lawnmower.
England and France didn't go to war against Germany in 1939 because that would have been suicide: both were desperately behind on the acquisition of military equipment, and were at that moment still looking at diplomatic solutions. With hindsight it's easy to see those didn't work, but that's hindsight for you. France was well-prepared to fight a repeat of WW1 but not to fight a highly mobile war.
Holland and Belgium were categorically NOT okay with the Germans invading them, but had the same problems as the UK and France (crap materiel, unprepared for Blitzkrieg). In 5 days, Dutch forces downed 300 German aircraft despite being outnumbered 10:1. Then the Germans carpetbombed Rotterdam and the Dutch government chose occupation over annihilation. Can't blame them for that.
Fascists in Europe aren't being censored. Their drivel is openly available. Neo-nazis in Germany are being censored, maybe.
In an Office 365 update last month, Microsoft removed EPS image support. The EPS filter had been defaulting to 'off' since last year (could only be enabled via the Registry), but now they've removed support altogether. Without warning, and without indicating to the user what has happened (the user just gets a red cross instead of an image). This has bitten us in the ass bigtime, as we have libraries containing thousands of EPS files, which are used for publishing to Word files. Needless to say, we're migrating all accounts that use EPS files away from Word as we speak. We also regret migrating from on-premises installations to bloody Office 365 subscriptions.
But the variability of everyday driving is far more than 0.2 l/100 km. I've seen as much as 2 l/100 km variation on the same stretch of road due to weather (temp, wind) and traffic.
The "slow down older phones" brouhaha was way overblown in the media. Apple had a choice between slowing down phones with a marginal battery or having them randomly crash at times of high workload. They made the right choice, one that resulted in a much longer device life and higher customer satisfaction. All they did wrong was failing to communicate why the phone slowed down.
Those 2" decks recorded 24 tracks onto the 2" wide tape. The widest 2-track tapes were 1/2" (Studer A80) IIRC, which would have been used for the downmix that became the source for vinyl and tape reproduction.
1/4" 2-track recorders were common in e.g. radio studios, and available in the high-end consumer market.
An RTG uses Pu-238 which is an ideal fit because of its half-life (long enough to provide power for decades, short enough to provide usable amounts of power), and because it emits pretty much alpha radiation only, which is really easy to shield. It also needs no liquid cooling, making it fairly easy to stick the Pu in a launch-failure-survivable container.
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That's been quoted here so often I now recognize it by number. (mod guideline: -1, painful truth)
They've made it difficult to search for text encoding issues in this release of Devuan.
To answer the inevitable question, "why wake it up now when the flyby is 6 months from now",
- the team needs time to check the spacecraft
- it needs to upload new software for the encounter, at speeds in the region of 1 kbit/s
- the spacecraft needs to do some observations to help in navigation. The targeted KBO is called 2014 MU69 because it was discovered in 2014, meaning we have very little data to derive its orbit from. Pre-flyby observations help finetune the flyby distance (has to be as close as possible to get good photos).
Over the next three days, the mission team will collect navigation tracking data (using signals from the Deep Space Network) and send the first of many commands to New Horizons' onboard computers to begin preparations for the Ultima flyby; lasting about two months, those flyby preparations include memory updates, Kuiper Belt science data retrieval, and a series of subsystem and science-instrument checkouts. In August, the team will command New Horizons to begin making distant observations of Ultima, images that will help the team refine the spacecraft's course to fly by the object.
What makes you think other manufacturers aren't already doing this? Dimension scanning and torque figure records are SOP. Don't know about audio recordings of the test drive. Those are going to be pretty hard to match to a specific defect, though.
Windows 10 is a huge resource hog. On a new (supposedly fast) HP laptop, I see CPU usage spike to 25% with no user applications running. It also needs 3 GB of RAM for the OS alone (while offering no advantage that I can see over Windows 7).
W10 on a machine that has to emulate x86 is going to stink.
Cooking, laundry, housekeeping, lawn care, child care, etc.. are not able to be automated at all
Laundry has already been automated: washing machine and dryer have cut down the time we need to spend on laundry by 95%.
Lawn care and vacuum cleaning: you can buy robots for that today. And their cost is not that much higher than the cost of a manual lawnmower/vacuum cleaner.
There's nothing about mil-spec components that says civilians can't buy them. In practice almost nobody does because mil-spec components tend to be much more expensive and overspecified for most civilian uses.
There is, however, separate legislation that says you can't buy various military weapons (tanks, missiles).
And those laws have the occasional exception (you can buy old tanks as long as the guns have been rendered unusable).
Pu RTG's put out everything from alphas to heavy fission gammas and neutrons
What? The Pu-238 decay chain is almost perfect because it's mostly alpha particles which are easier to shield against than betas.
Edge case? Have you ever driven in mountainous terrain?
Very few companies use my data to provide better consumer experiences. Amazon used to be one with its book recommendations. The majority just sell my data to the highest bidder instead.
A wallet, being ungrounded, is never a perfect Faraday cage. You just have to turn up the gain a bit to defeat it.
This NFC jammer sounds like a solution for that problem.
The Kickstarter campaign raised about $2M.
Fair point. I was thinking of occasions where I'd stalled the car, but that's usually when taking off, not at highway speeds.
There is an off position on many ignition locks that doesn't lock the steering.
Even if there isn't, nothing stops you from turning the key all the way to the Lock position (stopping the engine) and then immediately back to the On position (freeing the steering lock before it becomes an issue). That's probably faster than carefully counting the key positions, too.
Last year, I visited a small vineyard. They sort of did that: they had a robotic lawnmower on constant patrol.
Of course that only works if your crop is tall enough not to be harmed by the lawnmower.
The advantage of working remotely is that you don't have to sit in a fucking open-plan office.
This load of nonsense has been modded up?
England and France didn't go to war against Germany in 1939 because that would have been suicide: both were desperately behind on the acquisition of military equipment, and were at that moment still looking at diplomatic solutions. With hindsight it's easy to see those didn't work, but that's hindsight for you. France was well-prepared to fight a repeat of WW1 but not to fight a highly mobile war.
Holland and Belgium were categorically NOT okay with the Germans invading them, but had the same problems as the UK and France (crap materiel, unprepared for Blitzkrieg). In 5 days, Dutch forces downed 300 German aircraft despite being outnumbered 10:1. Then the Germans carpetbombed Rotterdam and the Dutch government chose occupation over annihilation. Can't blame them for that.
Fascists in Europe aren't being censored. Their drivel is openly available. Neo-nazis in Germany are being censored, maybe.
In an Office 365 update last month, Microsoft removed EPS image support. The EPS filter had been defaulting to 'off' since last year (could only be enabled via the Registry), but now they've removed support altogether. Without warning, and without indicating to the user what has happened (the user just gets a red cross instead of an image).
This has bitten us in the ass bigtime, as we have libraries containing thousands of EPS files, which are used for publishing to Word files. Needless to say, we're migrating all accounts that use EPS files away from Word as we speak.
We also regret migrating from on-premises installations to bloody Office 365 subscriptions.
Asteroid driver D. Duck was heard to say, "Oopf! Put the silly thing in reverse!"
But the variability of everyday driving is far more than 0.2 l/100 km. I've seen as much as 2 l/100 km variation on the same stretch of road due to weather (temp, wind) and traffic.
The "slow down older phones" brouhaha was way overblown in the media. Apple had a choice between slowing down phones with a marginal battery or having them randomly crash at times of high workload. They made the right choice, one that resulted in a much longer device life and higher customer satisfaction. All they did wrong was failing to communicate why the phone slowed down.
Don't bother, they'll still be able to recognize you by your exhaust sound. From 3 blocks away.
Those 2" decks recorded 24 tracks onto the 2" wide tape. The widest 2-track tapes were 1/2" (Studer A80) IIRC, which would have been used for the downmix that became the source for vinyl and tape reproduction.
1/4" 2-track recorders were common in e.g. radio studios, and available in the high-end consumer market.
An RTG uses Pu-238 which is an ideal fit because of its half-life (long enough to provide power for decades, short enough to provide usable amounts of power), and because it emits pretty much alpha radiation only, which is really easy to shield. It also needs no liquid cooling, making it fairly easy to stick the Pu in a launch-failure-survivable container.
A medical device company spokesperson was heard to say he's thunderstruck at such an unmitigated misrepresentation.