I have a feeling that Microsoft have been mistaken branding everything they do "Windows something". People generally run Windows not because they like Windows (they curse it, generally) but because they have to have it to run the apps they want.
If that driver isn't there, people run a mile from anything branded Windows, because they see Windows as dull and a source of discomfort from their experience on the PC. Android and iOS don't have that baggage. Also, there will be a lot of negative baggage from memories of the old Winmo devices. Non-technical people don't realise that Windows Phone 7 is actually a different platform, they see the name "Windows", and remember what WinMo and WinCE (pronounced wince) was like. Also you'll get the folks who see "Ah, Windows, therefore it'll run suchandsuch an app for my PC too", then find that Windows Phone is actually completely different to Windows on the PC and is incompatible, and get disapointed.
Note that Apple didn't call the iPhone OS "OSX", even though they share a codebase - it got called something completely different, thus avoiding confusion and avoid having disappointed nontechnical people who think their Mac software can run on their iPhone or iPad.
In short, I think Microsoft should have invented a different name that's not Windows for their phones to break all the negative associations people have with Windows (dull, something I use only for work, etc.). But then again, we've seen Microsoft try to be cool in the past and it was painful to watch (Zune).
If conservatives are so pro-liberty, why are they so against things like gay rights and gay marriage? Surely a fundamental part of liberty is being allowed to choose who you want to love and marry?
I worked for British Rail just before it was privatized, they had their own private national telephone system and computer network. I suspect it still exists and is probably run these days by Network Rail. The signalling system was completely independent of this network, too.
Of course you can get a pipeline in a CPU with ~22000 transistors, the original ARM had IIRC about ~28000 transistors, and has a pipeline. I'm guessing that this chip isn't x86. The x86 is far less economical with transistors, just the part that works out how long the next instruction is for x86 is larger than an entire ARM core. With simple fixed length instructions, and with a simple ALU you can get a chip that'll have pretty decent instruction throughput.
I somehow doubt this chip is designed to take over from x86, in reality it's likely targeted at special purposes where being on the same die as the DRAM is important.
The ship will roll wherever the water goes. It's called the free surface effect; if a ship has a hole on its port side but something is causing the entering water to slosh and collect on the starboard side, the ship will roll onto its starboard side because that's where all the weight is. (In fact I would guess it's more probable for a ship to roll onto the unholed side, just because while water can enter the holed side, it can also exit the holed side and not weigh that side down. The unholed side, though, prevents water that's sloshing over there from exiting, allowing a roll to that side to begin, which then acts as a positive feedback loop until the ship turns on its side).
I think there is also a timeout. I've had the same copy of XP since I bought it in 2002. Due to a hardware failure I had to reinstall it for the 3rd time in quick succession once, and that required a phone call. But after not reinstalling for some years (or indeed using Windows at all, it wasn't even installed anywhere between about 2005 and 2009), I installed it on a virtual machine because I had a need to test a Windows build of something - that time the activation was purely automatic. Now it's on a virtual machine, hopefully I should never need to reinstall it, I can just move the VM.
It's not actually that hard. I've hand soldered fine pitch SMD devices (0.4mm pitch LQFP, 0.5mm TQFP / TSSOP etc) with just a normal soldering iron with a normal pointy tip, and many people are hand soldering QFN (leadless). BGA is a bit more of a challenge, but the people who make the Schmartboard have tutorials on how to solder BGAs to their boards and it doesn't look all that hard. The real problem with BGA is re-work - you can't inspect them, and if there's a bad solder joint, you can't fix it without removing, reballing and resoldering the whole device (which is why I avoid doing BGA myself).
Yes, there was radioactive fallout, and no, not all the fuel was burned. I will agree with you if you had said the fallout wouldn't reach Australia (it wouldn't, at least not in quantities that would have been dangerous). But there was fallout. People in the vicinity and downwind did suffer radiation sickness, although many survived.
The Hiroshima bomb was ridiculously inefficient, it probably burned only 5% of its fuel. That's why it's the only nuclear weapon ever made of that design. It was easy to make, but very heavy and extremely inefficient. It was however an exceedingly simple design (gun-type weapon) which was pretty much guaranteed to work, so they didn't even bother testing the design. The Nagasaki bomb on the other hand was basically the precursor to the fission part of all modern nuclear weapons, an implosion design. This was a lot more efficient and a lot more complex (they tested it first to make sure it would work, see the Trinity test), but it still didn't burn all its fuel (probably about 40% efficient). Probably the biggest overall difference between the Nagasaki bomb and the fission part of a modern bomb is that the Nagasaki bomb had a polonium-210 initiator, and modern bombs have electronic initiators (Po210 has a very short half life).
They were one of the first. They were selling Kodak Digital Science cameras in the mid-90s. But they never really developed it much (and the optics weren't much good in those cameras either)
A jet flying in a straight line *does NOT* subject a pilot to G forces (well, except the normal 1G pointing straight down). G forces are only felt when an acceleration of some sort occurs (change in pitch, turning, accelerating, braking). Flying straight and level, you feel the same G force as sitting in a chair in an office.
When the Iranians were asked this: "Well, Russia has offered you the fuel, why not just use it instead of doing your own (controversial) enrichment?" To which they responded, "Well, would you want to be dependent on Russia for your energy needs?"
This is a very good point. Russia has demonstrated time and time again that it has absolutely no qualms about cutting off energy to a region for political reasons. Russia didn't care that it was *also* cutting off western European countries with whom it did not have an issue to punish an eastern European country that didn't want to pay a huge increase in price for gas. Russia simply is not a reliable supplier.
I have to wonder what kind of jobs in the civil service the study group did, whether they were primarily civil service jobs which had more or less the same thing day in, day out - or whether they were civil service jobs that required frequent learning and active problem solving.
The funny thing about these people who go on about "death panels" is they fail to mention that the US healthcare has death panels. Except the US healthcare death panel members are employed by private insurance companies, motivated by profit.
Depends on the aircraft. A Boeing 737 for instance has hydraulically boosted controls. There are steel cables from the flight deck controls to the ailerons and elevators (the rudder is purely hydraulic), so the B737 system is sort of like "power steering". With a complete hydraulic failure, you can still muscle a Boeing 737 around (although I suspect it will take both crew members hauling back on the controls at the same time to flare for landing). Some airliners of similar size to a B737 do not have hydraulic controls at all, it's purely done with steel cables. Instead the crew are controlling servo tabs, and the servo tabs move the ailerons and elevators.
Larger aircraft like a DC-10, MD-11, Boeing 747 are pure hydraulic. If the hydraulic system fails, you have no control over the flight controls. The only control you do have is differential engine thrust. This has happened a small number of occasions (look up Sioux City DC10 crash).
Hold on - you say the US supplying Britain was never appreciated, then in the very next sentence say that Britain is the only country that steps up to help the US is the UK? Seems like Britain appreciates it. Indeed you'll find a significant number of Brits would like to be the 51st state.
In any case, the US did gain a lot out of Europe, it stopped the USSR controlling Europe. This was done out of self-interest; had the US not done this they would have faced (probably with the exception of Britain, given that the US was already committed to supporting Britain) the entire of continental Europe being communist soviet satellite states, and it was in the US's interest that this did not happen.
I wonder if this can be prosecuted under the wireless telegraphy act?
In Britain you're not free to receive any radio signals you want, you need authorization to do so. (That's how they get radar detectors - the radar detectors are not illegal, but receiving the radar signal without a license is). Some parts of the WT act are course a stupid and illiberal law, but it could be used for good in this instance.
If piracy had disappeared altogether, though, Spanish album sales would still be at an all-time low. Unemployment is over 20% and salaries for everyone else have gone down, so it's hardly surprising that spending on non-essentials is at an all time low. In particuar, unemployment amongst the young (who are probably the people who buy the most albums) is around 40%. Piracy has very little to do with it.
A tonne and a ton are different things. A tonne is a metric measure, 1000kg, a ton may be a short or long ton, and is some odd number of lbs (in the order of 2000 lbs or so).
There was a radio play on BBC Radio 4 a few years ago on exactly this subject, a woman who had teleported and the "old her" hadn't been removed due to a malfunction. They come to kill the "old her", and she's of course not really happy about this.
The reason is because North Korea is not particularly strategic, it has no oil and can't exert control over routes trading oil. Iran has oil and can exert control over important routes where oil is moved.
It's very unlikely the US will unwrap ICBMs (I suspect you meant nuclear tipped ones, I doubt there are conventional bombs on an ICBM). The political fall-out would not be tolerable, even if no one retaliated for having the cloud of radioactive fallout blow over their country.
We can look to the past: the US didn't unwrap any nukes despite their ass being handed to them in Vietnam.
Wiring homes with DC wouldn't work. Nearly every device requires a different DC voltage. You would still need a DC-DC converter in every device.
Also things with synchronous AC motors (washing machines, vacuum cleaners etc.) would all need less efficient DC motors with brushes that wear out. It would be retarded to wire a house with DC.
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I have a feeling that Microsoft have been mistaken branding everything they do "Windows something". People generally run Windows not because they like Windows (they curse it, generally) but because they have to have it to run the apps they want.
If that driver isn't there, people run a mile from anything branded Windows, because they see Windows as dull and a source of discomfort from their experience on the PC. Android and iOS don't have that baggage. Also, there will be a lot of negative baggage from memories of the old Winmo devices. Non-technical people don't realise that Windows Phone 7 is actually a different platform, they see the name "Windows", and remember what WinMo and WinCE (pronounced wince) was like. Also you'll get the folks who see "Ah, Windows, therefore it'll run suchandsuch an app for my PC too", then find that Windows Phone is actually completely different to Windows on the PC and is incompatible, and get disapointed.
Note that Apple didn't call the iPhone OS "OSX", even though they share a codebase - it got called something completely different, thus avoiding confusion and avoid having disappointed nontechnical people who think their Mac software can run on their iPhone or iPad.
In short, I think Microsoft should have invented a different name that's not Windows for their phones to break all the negative associations people have with Windows (dull, something I use only for work, etc.). But then again, we've seen Microsoft try to be cool in the past and it was painful to watch (Zune).
If conservatives are so pro-liberty, why are they so against things like gay rights and gay marriage? Surely a fundamental part of liberty is being allowed to choose who you want to love and marry?
I worked for British Rail just before it was privatized, they had their own private national telephone system and computer network. I suspect it still exists and is probably run these days by Network Rail. The signalling system was completely independent of this network, too.
Of course you can get a pipeline in a CPU with ~22000 transistors, the original ARM had IIRC about ~28000 transistors, and has a pipeline. I'm guessing that this chip isn't x86. The x86 is far less economical with transistors, just the part that works out how long the next instruction is for x86 is larger than an entire ARM core. With simple fixed length instructions, and with a simple ALU you can get a chip that'll have pretty decent instruction throughput.
I somehow doubt this chip is designed to take over from x86, in reality it's likely targeted at special purposes where being on the same die as the DRAM is important.
The ship will roll wherever the water goes. It's called the free surface effect; if a ship has a hole on its port side but something is causing the entering water to slosh and collect on the starboard side, the ship will roll onto its starboard side because that's where all the weight is. (In fact I would guess it's more probable for a ship to roll onto the unholed side, just because while water can enter the holed side, it can also exit the holed side and not weigh that side down. The unholed side, though, prevents water that's sloshing over there from exiting, allowing a roll to that side to begin, which then acts as a positive feedback loop until the ship turns on its side).
I think there is also a timeout. I've had the same copy of XP since I bought it in 2002. Due to a hardware failure I had to reinstall it for the 3rd time in quick succession once, and that required a phone call. But after not reinstalling for some years (or indeed using Windows at all, it wasn't even installed anywhere between about 2005 and 2009), I installed it on a virtual machine because I had a need to test a Windows build of something - that time the activation was purely automatic. Now it's on a virtual machine, hopefully I should never need to reinstall it, I can just move the VM.
It's not actually that hard. I've hand soldered fine pitch SMD devices (0.4mm pitch LQFP, 0.5mm TQFP / TSSOP etc) with just a normal soldering iron with a normal pointy tip, and many people are hand soldering QFN (leadless). BGA is a bit more of a challenge, but the people who make the Schmartboard have tutorials on how to solder BGAs to their boards and it doesn't look all that hard. The real problem with BGA is re-work - you can't inspect them, and if there's a bad solder joint, you can't fix it without removing, reballing and resoldering the whole device (which is why I avoid doing BGA myself).
Yes, there was radioactive fallout, and no, not all the fuel was burned. I will agree with you if you had said the fallout wouldn't reach Australia (it wouldn't, at least not in quantities that would have been dangerous). But there was fallout. People in the vicinity and downwind did suffer radiation sickness, although many survived.
The Hiroshima bomb was ridiculously inefficient, it probably burned only 5% of its fuel. That's why it's the only nuclear weapon ever made of that design. It was easy to make, but very heavy and extremely inefficient. It was however an exceedingly simple design (gun-type weapon) which was pretty much guaranteed to work, so they didn't even bother testing the design. The Nagasaki bomb on the other hand was basically the precursor to the fission part of all modern nuclear weapons, an implosion design. This was a lot more efficient and a lot more complex (they tested it first to make sure it would work, see the Trinity test), but it still didn't burn all its fuel (probably about 40% efficient). Probably the biggest overall difference between the Nagasaki bomb and the fission part of a modern bomb is that the Nagasaki bomb had a polonium-210 initiator, and modern bombs have electronic initiators (Po210 has a very short half life).
They were one of the first. They were selling Kodak Digital Science cameras in the mid-90s. But they never really developed it much (and the optics weren't much good in those cameras either)
They don't have autoland? The Hawker Siddeley Trident 3 airliner had fully automatic landing in the 1970s!
A jet flying in a straight line *does NOT* subject a pilot to G forces (well, except the normal 1G pointing straight down). G forces are only felt when an acceleration of some sort occurs (change in pitch, turning, accelerating, braking). Flying straight and level, you feel the same G force as sitting in a chair in an office.
When the Iranians were asked this: "Well, Russia has offered you the fuel, why not just use it instead of doing your own (controversial) enrichment?" To which they responded, "Well, would you want to be dependent on Russia for your energy needs?"
This is a very good point. Russia has demonstrated time and time again that it has absolutely no qualms about cutting off energy to a region for political reasons. Russia didn't care that it was *also* cutting off western European countries with whom it did not have an issue to punish an eastern European country that didn't want to pay a huge increase in price for gas. Russia simply is not a reliable supplier.
I have to wonder what kind of jobs in the civil service the study group did, whether they were primarily civil service jobs which had more or less the same thing day in, day out - or whether they were civil service jobs that required frequent learning and active problem solving.
The funny thing about these people who go on about "death panels" is they fail to mention that the US healthcare has death panels. Except the US healthcare death panel members are employed by private insurance companies, motivated by profit.
Depends on the aircraft. A Boeing 737 for instance has hydraulically boosted controls. There are steel cables from the flight deck controls to the ailerons and elevators (the rudder is purely hydraulic), so the B737 system is sort of like "power steering". With a complete hydraulic failure, you can still muscle a Boeing 737 around (although I suspect it will take both crew members hauling back on the controls at the same time to flare for landing). Some airliners of similar size to a B737 do not have hydraulic controls at all, it's purely done with steel cables. Instead the crew are controlling servo tabs, and the servo tabs move the ailerons and elevators.
Larger aircraft like a DC-10, MD-11, Boeing 747 are pure hydraulic. If the hydraulic system fails, you have no control over the flight controls. The only control you do have is differential engine thrust. This has happened a small number of occasions (look up Sioux City DC10 crash).
Hold on - you say the US supplying Britain was never appreciated, then in the very next sentence say that Britain is the only country that steps up to help the US is the UK? Seems like Britain appreciates it. Indeed you'll find a significant number of Brits would like to be the 51st state.
In any case, the US did gain a lot out of Europe, it stopped the USSR controlling Europe. This was done out of self-interest; had the US not done this they would have faced (probably with the exception of Britain, given that the US was already committed to supporting Britain) the entire of continental Europe being communist soviet satellite states, and it was in the US's interest that this did not happen.
I wonder if this can be prosecuted under the wireless telegraphy act?
In Britain you're not free to receive any radio signals you want, you need authorization to do so. (That's how they get radar detectors - the radar detectors are not illegal, but receiving the radar signal without a license is). Some parts of the WT act are course a stupid and illiberal law, but it could be used for good in this instance.
If piracy had disappeared altogether, though, Spanish album sales would still be at an all-time low. Unemployment is over 20% and salaries for everyone else have gone down, so it's hardly surprising that spending on non-essentials is at an all time low. In particuar, unemployment amongst the young (who are probably the people who buy the most albums) is around 40%. Piracy has very little to do with it.
You will weep and wail genuinely if the consequence of not doing so is to be punished.
A tonne and a ton are different things. A tonne is a metric measure, 1000kg, a ton may be a short or long ton, and is some odd number of lbs (in the order of 2000 lbs or so).
There was a radio play on BBC Radio 4 a few years ago on exactly this subject, a woman who had teleported and the "old her" hadn't been removed due to a malfunction. They come to kill the "old her", and she's of course not really happy about this.
The reason is because North Korea is not particularly strategic, it has no oil and can't exert control over routes trading oil. Iran has oil and can exert control over important routes where oil is moved.
It's very unlikely the US will unwrap ICBMs (I suspect you meant nuclear tipped ones, I doubt there are conventional bombs on an ICBM). The political fall-out would not be tolerable, even if no one retaliated for having the cloud of radioactive fallout blow over their country.
We can look to the past: the US didn't unwrap any nukes despite their ass being handed to them in Vietnam.
Wiring homes with DC wouldn't work.
Nearly every device requires a different DC voltage. You would still need a DC-DC converter in every device.
Also things with synchronous AC motors (washing machines, vacuum cleaners etc.) would all need less efficient DC motors with brushes that wear out. It would be retarded to wire a house with DC.
Speak for yourself. On a cloudy Saturday afternoon, I just go on a Starcraft binge. Easy.