The containers they put them in are incredibly strong. This is why they go by land, not by air, because it's easy to make something that goes at 50-odd mph very strong just by adding more metal.
The British tested a nuclear flask by crashing a train into it at 100 mph, with the container angled such that it was struck at its most vulnerable point. The locomotive alone weighed on the order of 120 tonnes, and it had a few carriages behind it too. The nuclear container was not breached despite experiencing forces well in excess of what a road accident could produce.
That doesn't pass the sniff test of "why would that be necessary".
The amount of warheads available is already between 5 to 10 times more needed to completely put an end to industrial society in the entire northern hemisphere, why would you need to go through all these gyrations just to have a handful more?
I don't know where this meme of bad teeth comes from. I'm 40 this year and I don't have a single filling nor a single bad tooth. When I lived in the United States, I saw many people with awful teeth. In some parts of the US, the lack of dental care is so severe that there was an actual AOPA Pilot article on dentists who are pilots volunteering to do dental work for free in the Appalacians.
Why would you have to drop your internet connection to connect to another WiFi device? WiFi is a LAN, it's not a point-to-point network which can only connect one device to one other device.
Really? Britain's economy is in worse shape than any other European country?
Britain has the lowest unemployment rate in the EU, and a GDP per capita higher than the majority of EU countries. Britain still has a AAA rating on its sovereign debt, France is about to be downgraded, and let's not talk about Italy or even Greece. Manufacturing output of Britain increased last year despite a recession in the rest of the economy. Britain is having to bale out other EU countries like Ireland. Nobody is having to bale out Britain.
I'm almost 40, TVs with tubes are still easy to hear. At least in one ear (I tried out my ears kind of non-scientifically the other week with my signal generator set to sine wave and the 10kHz scale and a decent set of headphones, my left ear almost gets to 18kHz, my right ear struggles to get above 15 or so. I know some years ago both could get to almost 18)
Raspberry Pi news is *very much* news for nerds, it is very much the very core of what Slashdot is about. If you don't like it, then perhaps Slashdot isn't the site for you.
It's a fsck of a lot of energy to have in a *single subatomic particle*. The Planck energy, for example, you could say on the same token "is only the amount of chemical energy in a tank of gas in a typical car". But all that energy carried by a single subatomic particle... it's rather more concentrated.
There are plenty of wireless modems that are wireless (I have a 3 Mifi, basically some rebadged Huwei thing, which is a 3G wireless access point). There are probably bluetooth equivalents, too.
What is wrong with X.400? I presume like all other X.something standards, it's an unwieldy, unextensible "designed by committee" thing where you have to pay thousands to get access to the actual standards documentation. Am I right?
Spain did NOT bankrupt itself on the "green energy = jobs" wild goose chase. Spain was actaully one of the few countries actually complying with the sovering debt rules of the euro (France and Germany, the framers of these very rules was not).
Spain's problems stem mainly frmo the following:
- Eurozone interest rates during the boom were set to suit the French and German economies, and were far too low for the periphery. This resulted in an enormous construction bubble as well as enormous wage inflation. - When the bubble popped, construction almost instantly halted, meaning a lot of people ended up out of work. Exacerbating this was now that Spanish labour was uncompetitive because of the high wage inflation, leading to very high unemployment rates. - Spanish banks were pretty exposed to not only the thieving scum on Wall Street selling subprime mortgates as AAA-rated debt, but also exposed now to their own mortgage default problems as a result of the bubble popping, causing a credit crunch, driving more businesses out of business. - France and Germany still haven't learned: Eurozone interest rates are still set as to what the French and German economies need and are too high for the periphery. (Therefore I don't have any sympathy with the French and Germans when they whine about having to bail out other eurozone countries: they were a big part of the problem).
None of this had anything to do with "green energy".
Sharp braking is something a good driver will seldom have to do. An insurer using this data wants to remain competitive, so they won't just class the whole world as "Bad drivers" and hike the premium, rather, they will probably monitor the behaviours they get from these boxes against the claims rates from the drivers who have them to get some kind of statistical base over what kind of behaviour leads to drivers who make claims.
A "badly managed turn" would be, for example, one where the driver is braking during the turn, which is a pretty good clue that the driver wasn't anticipating the road ahead. Additionally braking during turns is more likely to result in a loss of control, since it transfers all the load onto the front wheel on the outside of the turn (instead of braking while going straight, where both front wheels see an equal increase in loading). Motorcyclists know especially not to brake during turns since it usually results in sliding down the road no longer in the company of your bike.
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Greece's problems are considerably deeper than this.
In short, Greece lied to join the euro. Greece didn't meet the requirements to join the euro because of its debt, but with the active and knowing help of the likes of Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs, they actively concealed their debt. The Eurozone too shares some blame, in the breathless headlong rush to get the euro project going, they failed to do proper due diligence. If Greece had never been allowed to join the euro, their problems wouldn't be nearly as bad.
The problem with the way the eurozone is structured right now is that the euro is basically run to benefit the French and German economies, and bugger everyone else. Interest rates were far too low during the boom years for the periphery, which caused harmful asset bubbles in these countries. France and Germany still haven't learned, interest rates are now perfect for France and Germany, but harmfully high for peripheral countries like Ireland, Spain, Greece, Portugal etc. There also isn't any euro-wide sovereign borrowing nor routine transfer from rich countries to poorer countries (unlike the US dollar, where rich states subsidise poor states as a matter of course).
The end result is a bunch of dangerous positive feedback loops. Positive feedback loops in most things are not good, and economies aren't exceptional. For instance in Italy, where while the economy wasn't stellar they were managing to (slowly) reduce their debt, what has happened is investors are getting nervous so they are selling Italian debt and buying German debt instead. This is increasing the interest rate on Italian debt, which is causing Italy to be more likely to default, which is causing more investors to sell Italian debt and buy German debt, which is causing the interest rate to go up more, which is causing more investors... and so on, until it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Compare this with Britain, which has a debt as percentage of GDP pretty similar to Greece. Why is Britain AAA rated and Greece not? Basically, because Britain has its own currency. If investors start selling British debt, they are also selling pounds which will cause the currency to start to fall, which acts as a stabilizing negative feedback mechanism (it makes British goods and services more competitive, so keeping the country working and likely to be able to meet its debt obligation). So it means that this vicious circle that has happened with Greece and is happening with Italy is unlikely to happen.
But Greece's main problem is the lies they told to join the Euro and Wall Street's eager collaboration.
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Why is teaching Spanish (or any other language) "vacuous BS"?
What irritates me on a motorway though, is the slight differences in speed limiters. You get one truck doing 55.999999998 mph and another doing 56.00000001, and he decides to overtake and it takes him 10 miles to do so. In the process both lane 1 and 2 have a 56 mph rolling roadblock on them. Usually then a van doing 57 mph decides to overtake the two lorries and the whole motorway slows down by 20 mph. Happens on the M6 almost every time I'm on it (which is fortunately very seldom, given I live on a different island altogether)
Unlikely. But if the logger shows frequent sharp braking it might count against you. Every driver has to brake sharply occasionally. However, bad drivers are more likely to sharply brake more often because they were failing to anticipate traffic conditions or failing to make proper observation.
Well, unless you only want to fly in day time VFR (visual flight rules) conditions, in which case, getting around by airlines would be incredibly unreliable as it would depend totally on a nice sunny day the length of your route and at the start and destination. In other words, aviation as a means of transport would be more or less impractical.
In the real world we have to fly at night, in the clouds or both. Make a navigational error and you could end up piling into a mountainside instead of making a nice smooth approach into an airport.
In the clouds or at night with no visual reference, you can't even tell which way up you are without reference to instruments.
It's not just the variable instruction decode (incidentally, just the bit that works out the length of the next instruction is the size of an entire ARM execution core) but it also makes things like branch prediction and out-of-order execution much more complex to implement compared with a more straightfoward ISA encoding.
The predictions that RISC eat x86 for breakfast DID come to pass. ARM outsells all other CPU architectures *put together*.
4.5 times the Earth's mass only means a 4.5 G at the surface if this planet is the same size as the Earth (in other words, a lot more dense). If this planet is the same or less density, the gravitational pull at the surface will be less than 4.5G.
Why do the stories need to stop? It is actually "news for nerds". Just don't read the stories if you don't like them. The rest of us who DO like them and want to talk about them will not be upset if you aren't joining in.
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The containers they put them in are incredibly strong. This is why they go by land, not by air, because it's easy to make something that goes at 50-odd mph very strong just by adding more metal.
The British tested a nuclear flask by crashing a train into it at 100 mph, with the container angled such that it was struck at its most vulnerable point. The locomotive alone weighed on the order of 120 tonnes, and it had a few carriages behind it too. The nuclear container was not breached despite experiencing forces well in excess of what a road accident could produce.
That doesn't pass the sniff test of "why would that be necessary".
The amount of warheads available is already between 5 to 10 times more needed to completely put an end to industrial society in the entire northern hemisphere, why would you need to go through all these gyrations just to have a handful more?
I don't know where this meme of bad teeth comes from. I'm 40 this year and I don't have a single filling nor a single bad tooth. When I lived in the United States, I saw many people with awful teeth. In some parts of the US, the lack of dental care is so severe that there was an actual AOPA Pilot article on dentists who are pilots volunteering to do dental work for free in the Appalacians.
Why would you have to drop your internet connection to connect to another WiFi device? WiFi is a LAN, it's not a point-to-point network which can only connect one device to one other device.
A tv can be detected from a van outside your house, the TV's local oscillator can be detected (you can determine what the TV is tuned to from it).
These days though, they just have a list of households with no TV license and send a man around to knock on the door.
Really? Britain's economy is in worse shape than any other European country?
Britain has the lowest unemployment rate in the EU, and a GDP per capita higher than the majority of EU countries.
Britain still has a AAA rating on its sovereign debt, France is about to be downgraded, and let's not talk about Italy or even Greece.
Manufacturing output of Britain increased last year despite a recession in the rest of the economy.
Britain is having to bale out other EU countries like Ireland. Nobody is having to bale out Britain.
Thanks for the insight. I guess we can all be grateful that *all* of the ISO-OSI stuff fell by the wayside and we got the internet instead.
I'm almost 40, TVs with tubes are still easy to hear. At least in one ear (I tried out my ears kind of non-scientifically the other week with my signal generator set to sine wave and the 10kHz scale and a decent set of headphones, my left ear almost gets to 18kHz, my right ear struggles to get above 15 or so. I know some years ago both could get to almost 18)
Raspberry Pi news is *very much* news for nerds, it is very much the very core of what Slashdot is about. If you don't like it, then perhaps Slashdot isn't the site for you.
You can always just not read the stories.
It's a fsck of a lot of energy to have in a *single subatomic particle*. The Planck energy, for example, you could say on the same token "is only the amount of chemical energy in a tank of gas in a typical car". But all that energy carried by a single subatomic particle... it's rather more concentrated.
There are plenty of wireless modems that are wireless (I have a 3 Mifi, basically some rebadged Huwei thing, which is a 3G wireless access point). There are probably bluetooth equivalents, too.
What is wrong with X.400? I presume like all other X.something standards, it's an unwieldy, unextensible "designed by committee" thing where you have to pay thousands to get access to the actual standards documentation. Am I right?
Spain did NOT bankrupt itself on the "green energy = jobs" wild goose chase. Spain was actaully one of the few countries actually complying with the sovering debt rules of the euro (France and Germany, the framers of these very rules was not).
Spain's problems stem mainly frmo the following:
- Eurozone interest rates during the boom were set to suit the French and German economies, and were far too low for the periphery. This resulted in an enormous construction bubble as well as enormous wage inflation.
- When the bubble popped, construction almost instantly halted, meaning a lot of people ended up out of work. Exacerbating this was now that Spanish labour was uncompetitive because of the high wage inflation, leading to very high unemployment rates.
- Spanish banks were pretty exposed to not only the thieving scum on Wall Street selling subprime mortgates as AAA-rated debt, but also exposed now to their own mortgage default problems as a result of the bubble popping, causing a credit crunch, driving more businesses out of business.
- France and Germany still haven't learned: Eurozone interest rates are still set as to what the French and German economies need and are too high for the periphery. (Therefore I don't have any sympathy with the French and Germans when they whine about having to bail out other eurozone countries: they were a big part of the problem).
None of this had anything to do with "green energy".
The car stereo can do the compression. There's a "loudness" button on mine that does just this. The source material doesn't need the "loudness wars".
Sharp braking is something a good driver will seldom have to do. An insurer using this data wants to remain competitive, so they won't just class the whole world as "Bad drivers" and hike the premium, rather, they will probably monitor the behaviours they get from these boxes against the claims rates from the drivers who have them to get some kind of statistical base over what kind of behaviour leads to drivers who make claims.
A "badly managed turn" would be, for example, one where the driver is braking during the turn, which is a pretty good clue that the driver wasn't anticipating the road ahead. Additionally braking during turns is more likely to result in a loss of control, since it transfers all the load onto the front wheel on the outside of the turn (instead of braking while going straight, where both front wheels see an equal increase in loading). Motorcyclists know especially not to brake during turns since it usually results in sliding down the road no longer in the company of your bike.
Greece's problems are considerably deeper than this.
In short, Greece lied to join the euro. Greece didn't meet the requirements to join the euro because of its debt, but with the active and knowing help of the likes of Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs, they actively concealed their debt. The Eurozone too shares some blame, in the breathless headlong rush to get the euro project going, they failed to do proper due diligence. If Greece had never been allowed to join the euro, their problems wouldn't be nearly as bad.
The problem with the way the eurozone is structured right now is that the euro is basically run to benefit the French and German economies, and bugger everyone else. Interest rates were far too low during the boom years for the periphery, which caused harmful asset bubbles in these countries. France and Germany still haven't learned, interest rates are now perfect for France and Germany, but harmfully high for peripheral countries like Ireland, Spain, Greece, Portugal etc. There also isn't any euro-wide sovereign borrowing nor routine transfer from rich countries to poorer countries (unlike the US dollar, where rich states subsidise poor states as a matter of course).
The end result is a bunch of dangerous positive feedback loops. Positive feedback loops in most things are not good, and economies aren't exceptional. For instance in Italy, where while the economy wasn't stellar they were managing to (slowly) reduce their debt, what has happened is investors are getting nervous so they are selling Italian debt and buying German debt instead. This is increasing the interest rate on Italian debt, which is causing Italy to be more likely to default, which is causing more investors to sell Italian debt and buy German debt, which is causing the interest rate to go up more, which is causing more investors... and so on, until it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Compare this with Britain, which has a debt as percentage of GDP pretty similar to Greece. Why is Britain AAA rated and Greece not? Basically, because Britain has its own currency. If investors start selling British debt, they are also selling pounds which will cause the currency to start to fall, which acts as a stabilizing negative feedback mechanism (it makes British goods and services more competitive, so keeping the country working and likely to be able to meet its debt obligation). So it means that this vicious circle that has happened with Greece and is happening with Italy is unlikely to happen.
But Greece's main problem is the lies they told to join the Euro and Wall Street's eager collaboration.
Why is teaching Spanish (or any other language) "vacuous BS"?
Truck drivers don't have a high accident rate.
What irritates me on a motorway though, is the slight differences in speed limiters. You get one truck doing 55.999999998 mph and another doing 56.00000001, and he decides to overtake and it takes him 10 miles to do so. In the process both lane 1 and 2 have a 56 mph rolling roadblock on them. Usually then a van doing 57 mph decides to overtake the two lorries and the whole motorway slows down by 20 mph. Happens on the M6 almost every time I'm on it (which is fortunately very seldom, given I live on a different island altogether)
Unlikely. But if the logger shows frequent sharp braking it might count against you. Every driver has to brake sharply occasionally. However, bad drivers are more likely to sharply brake more often because they were failing to anticipate traffic conditions or failing to make proper observation.
Well, unless you only want to fly in day time VFR (visual flight rules) conditions, in which case, getting around by airlines would be incredibly unreliable as it would depend totally on a nice sunny day the length of your route and at the start and destination. In other words, aviation as a means of transport would be more or less impractical.
In the real world we have to fly at night, in the clouds or both. Make a navigational error and you could end up piling into a mountainside instead of making a nice smooth approach into an airport.
In the clouds or at night with no visual reference, you can't even tell which way up you are without reference to instruments.
The British TSR.2 was also canceled due in part from pressure from the US.
It's not just the variable instruction decode (incidentally, just the bit that works out the length of the next instruction is the size of an entire ARM execution core) but it also makes things like branch prediction and out-of-order execution much more complex to implement compared with a more straightfoward ISA encoding.
The predictions that RISC eat x86 for breakfast DID come to pass. ARM outsells all other CPU architectures *put together*.
4.5 times the Earth's mass only means a 4.5 G at the surface if this planet is the same size as the Earth (in other words, a lot more dense). If this planet is the same or less density, the gravitational pull at the surface will be less than 4.5G.
I like the town's name, "Nitro". Even sounds toxic. Or a place where hot-rodders live.
Why do the stories need to stop? It is actually "news for nerds". Just don't read the stories if you don't like them. The rest of us who DO like them and want to talk about them will not be upset if you aren't joining in.