I don't know, 256 megagrams sounds pretty heavy to me. That's about the same mass as a loaded and fueled 757. If this thing is supposed to fit on a key ring it has to be made out of neutron star material.
Being much smaller than Earth, it generates a lot less heat.
Europa is in a constant state of being squished and stretched by the tidal forces of Jupiter's gravity. Because of that, Europa's size has little bearing on how much internal heat it generates.
Why a new file system just for that? UDF already handles wear leveling for CD-RW and DVD-RW. And there is JFFS for flash memory. And, those are even necessary for Compact Flash, SD, Smart Media, or those USB flash drives as they incorporate hardware wear leveling. Those will last the same length no matter what file system you use.
This is a pointless reply, but you are in fact incorrect (You're the pope!). Rockwell-Collins did make a non-military GPS called the Trooper. It was marketed to civilian law enforcement agencies (hence the name). It may have been sold under the "Rockwell" trade-name, but that was before Rockwell Intl. and Rockwell-Collins were different companies. It was pretty much a product failure, and Rockwell-Collins had scads of them in surplus. So many that they gave them out employees in '97 - that's how I got mine.
It's hard to take a site like that seriously when they misspell 'magnetic' on the front page.
Misspellings aside, when you actually read the data they have up, you'll see that there is NOT an X-class flare happening right now, only a C-class, which has negligible effects. There is, however, a sunspot with the energy potential to release an X-class flare, but it has not done yet. (At least as I write this the data they have up is just 10 minutes old, and shows no serious solar flare. Don't know what the time lag from detection to web page is.)
They're blocking slashdot as a referer. If you cut&paste the link into a new browser it's fine.
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Battery life in GPSs has never been all that great, but it's gotten a lot better. I have a Rockwell-Collins Trooper GPS (manuf. circa 1992), and it will drain 8 fresh AAs in 20 minutes. If it's staring up cold, it will often not be able to get a position before the batteries die. Fortunately, it keeps almanac, ephemeris and last position in NVRAM, so it's good to go on the second set of batteries.
Any frame rate that exceeds the refresh rate of your display is effectively wasted. You just won't see the extra frames. A 23% improvement just means that many more frames you won't see.
That would only be true if the work required to draw a frame in a game was a constant. It's not. When these benchmarks show frame rates beyond a resonable display refresh rate it's a (crude) measure of the system's ability to hold a playable frame rate when there is a lot going on on-screen. It's also a measure of excess capacity that may not be used in the benchmark game, but might be used by, say, it's sequel.
Actually, whatever plane the President is on is called Air Force One, no matter if it's military or civilian. Even if it's just Uncle Jethro's Piper Cub, it's still called Air Force One while the President is aboard. The only exception is if the Pres. is on one of the US. Marine Corps helicopters assigned to White House duty, it's called Marine One. There is no "Navy One" for ships, or anything like that.
The whole Air Force One convention came about back in the '50s before there was a designated fleet for the President. There was close call when an air traffic controller confused the "AF-tail number" call sign of the president's Air Force transport plane and the "AA-tail number" call sign of an American Airlines flight.
I believe we are both right. The 64 used both 6502 and 6510 parts at different times. They are essentially identical CPUs, the only difference being how they treated the first 2 words of memory.
Also, one of the big concerns on aircraft is weight. I'd bet that all the Cat5 and the 200+ switch ports required for a 767-size airliner are going to weigh a heck of a lot more than 2 or 3 WAPs.
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The SR71 was designed long before the shuttle and flew routinely up until the 1990s without incident.
While the SR-71 is a remarkable craft, I'm not sure I'd characterize 20 crashes in 30 years as "without incident".
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I don't know, 256 megagrams sounds pretty heavy to me. That's about the same mass as a loaded and fueled 757. If this thing is supposed to fit on a key ring it has to be made out of neutron star material.
I do hope you're kidding. FTP.EXE (still) does not support passive mode. The rest of the world's had that since before Windows had a TCP/IP stack.
You honestly think that simply living in Italy is enough to protect him? Have we learned nothing from reading Slashdot?
Europa is in a constant state of being squished and stretched by the tidal forces of Jupiter's gravity. Because of that, Europa's size has little bearing on how much internal heat it generates.
Ah yes, forestry by hearsay. Always a recipe for success. :)
I think the concern is more about the rate that mature trees are dying off than the rate replacements are germinating.
Maybe they're dying because people keep trying to strap boxes to them, measuring temperature, humidity and who knows what else.
Wouldn't that be ironic.
Corallary to rule 2: The truely malicious are seldom stupid.
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GPS satellites aren't in geosynchronous orbit. They are in roughly 12-hour orbits at about 13,000mi. </pedantic>
Why a new file system just for that? UDF already handles wear leveling for CD-RW and DVD-RW. And there is JFFS for flash memory. And, those are even necessary for Compact Flash, SD, Smart Media, or those USB flash drives as they incorporate hardware wear leveling. Those will last the same length no matter what file system you use.
This is a pointless reply, but you are in fact incorrect (You're the pope!). Rockwell-Collins did make a non-military GPS called the Trooper. It was marketed to civilian law enforcement agencies (hence the name). It may have been sold under the "Rockwell" trade-name, but that was before Rockwell Intl. and Rockwell-Collins were different companies. It was pretty much a product failure, and Rockwell-Collins had scads of them in surplus. So many that they gave them out employees in '97 - that's how I got mine.
Here a picture of the insides of one. (Halfway down, on the right hand side.)
It's hard to take a site like that seriously when they misspell 'magnetic' on the front page.
Misspellings aside, when you actually read the data they have up, you'll see that there is NOT an X-class flare happening right now, only a C-class, which has negligible effects. There is, however, a sunspot with the energy potential to release an X-class flare, but it has not done yet. (At least as I write this the data they have up is just 10 minutes old, and shows no serious solar flare. Don't know what the time lag from detection to web page is.)
Which raises the question - why didn't they use SVG?
They're blocking slashdot as a referer. If you cut&paste the link into a new browser it's fine.
Battery life in GPSs has never been all that great, but it's gotten a lot better. I have a Rockwell-Collins Trooper GPS (manuf. circa 1992), and it will drain 8 fresh AAs in 20 minutes. If it's staring up cold, it will often not be able to get a position before the batteries die. Fortunately, it keeps almanac, ephemeris and last position in NVRAM, so it's good to go on the second set of batteries.
That will work until their software includes its own DNS client that bypasses the hosts file completely.
Hmm, I pictured SCO as more of a Wile E. Coyote, blowing himself up with his ACME Instant Lawsuit kit.
Meep! Meep!
That would only be true if the work required to draw a frame in a game was a constant. It's not. When these benchmarks show frame rates beyond a resonable display refresh rate it's a (crude) measure of the system's ability to hold a playable frame rate when there is a lot going on on-screen. It's also a measure of excess capacity that may not be used in the benchmark game, but might be used by, say, it's sequel.
Actually, whatever plane the President is on is called Air Force One, no matter if it's military or civilian. Even if it's just Uncle Jethro's Piper Cub, it's still called Air Force One while the President is aboard. The only exception is if the Pres. is on one of the US. Marine Corps helicopters assigned to White House duty, it's called Marine One. There is no "Navy One" for ships, or anything like that.
The whole Air Force One convention came about back in the '50s before there was a designated fleet for the President. There was close call when an air traffic controller confused the "AF-tail number" call sign of the president's Air Force transport plane and the "AA-tail number" call sign of an American Airlines flight.
I believe we are both right. The 64 used both 6502 and 6510 parts at different times. They are essentially identical CPUs, the only difference being how they treated the first 2 words of memory.
<geek>Not a Z80. The C64 had a 6510. Maybe you're thinking of the C128, which had a 6510 and a Z80.</geek>
Who is this John Q Student and why must he issue "Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O" instructions so often?
Also, one of the big concerns on aircraft is weight. I'd bet that all the Cat5 and the 200+ switch ports required for a 767-size airliner are going to weigh a heck of a lot more than 2 or 3 WAPs.
While the SR-71 is a remarkable craft, I'm not sure I'd characterize 20 crashes in 30 years as "without incident".
Did you read your own post? The SDF from Robotech stood for "Super Dimensional Fortress." Does that sound familiar?