The worst part is definitely the little bio bits. Boring, and I just don't care. Reminds me of Olympic broadcasts here in the U.S. Twenty minutes of giving the life story of every American athlete, then thirty seconds of those athletes failing miserably. If there's time left between commercials, they might show the top three or four foreign competitors. Yuck. Drop the "human interest", just give me the goddamn events - as many as you can cram into however much time you have. I would much rather be watching the last place pole vaulter from New Guinea than some shitty story about how American Athlete #3 is bravely competing through the pain of a stubbed toe and their mother's recent diagnosis of a hang nail.
Same with Ninja Warrior - I enjoy the Japanese version from time to time, because 90% of the show is someone actually trying to complete the course. You know, the interesting part that got me to turn on the channel. Minimal time is spent on building up each individual competitor, and the brief sketches they do occasionally give are more than enough to establish who the person is. American version, approximately 60-70% seems to be build-up for athletes who end up eating it on the first obstacle.
Following the downing of an American drone in Iran the hypothesis was put forward that the Iranians spoofed the GPS signal and convinced the drone that it wasn't where it thought it was in order to get it to land in Iran (I'm not sure if this was ever confirmed). A recent issue of Aviation Week reported on a group I believe in the U.S. working on the same idea, spoofing the GPS signal in a transparent manner to convince an autonomous vehicle that is was somewhere other than its actual location. Would NAVSOP make it more difficult to accomplish this sort of spoofing?
Hell, they'll pay more even if it's not any better than the competition...Monster Cable stands as testament to that fact.
Speaking of Monster Cable... check out how much they want for 6' of speaker cables.
And how about the crappy, low-sensitivity, poor frequency-response speakers they are pairing with it (of course, with only 12.5 watts per channel to work with it's pretty tough to find a decent pair of bookshelf speakers that will work well)?
Nice that they are manufacturing in the U.S., but by the look of it the only reason they are doing so is that they realize this is a niche product with limited sales potential so they are doing very small manufacturing runs. For the relatively small runs they must be doing, it is doubtful that getting manufacturing set up in China would be significantly cheaper - the economics work out when you are doing hundreds of thousands or millions of units, not a handful of thousands that I would guess they are looking at for this. I'd suggest the reason they aren't pushing the "Made In USA" angle is because if the product does somehow take off, they probably plan to move manufacturing overseas.
That said, I really don't understand this device. It doesn't match the functionality of competing media streaming boxes (even Google's own). The amp adds complexity and cost, but it is so small that it is only ever going to be enough for a pretty small room - 12.5 watts/channel doesn't go very far even if you have very efficient speakers (speakers extra). The only market seems to be as a tech toy to show off to your buddies, maybe something an executive would stick in their private office to impress people - except it isn't even outrageously expensive enough for that (maybe if it was $3,000). I just don't get what they are trying to do with it, though the design does look kind of cool.
Have him watch Star Wars in the Machete Order and then get him started on the Timothy Zahn books, Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command. They are awesome! I loved them when I was a kid, and still do.
Interesting, I might have to try watching in that order one of these days. Though I suppose that would mean having to actually buy the prequels...
I agree with the Zahn books. I couldn't remember what age I read them, had to look it up on wikipedia to see that I was 12 when the first one came out - but I remember wondering for years why there were no Star Wars books to read aside from a few (young) children's storybooks. Judging by other books I read at the time, 8 is probably old enough assuming some familiarity with the original movies. Actually thinking about it, even this new and incredible Machete Order wouldn't fix the inconsistencies between Zahn's books and the prequel trilogy, so might be best to drop the prequels entirely, watch the original movies, and then read the better Star Wars books (Zahn and Stackpole would be my picks).
I think it is definitely easier to pick out fantasy books for kids. Here are a few that would probably be age appropriate and which are excellent books:
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien Prydain Chronicles (first one is The Book of Three), Lloyd Alexander Earthsea (A Wizard of Earthsea), Ursula K. LeGuin Narnia (The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe), C.S. Lewis The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper
For Sci-Fi, I think it is a bit harder to find good books for kids - most of the sci-fi geared towards children I utterly loathed growing up. But a few you might try:
A Wrinkle In Time, Madeleine L'Engle Thrawn Trilogy, Timothy Zahn (Star Wars books, so assuming familiarity with the original movies - basically fantasy in space) Robotech, Jack McKinney (not the greatest literature, but I loved these books at that age; might be hard to find today, though)
Some others, not too sure whether they are age-appropriate but books I enjoyed around that age (plus or minus a couple years): Gateway, Frederick Pohl Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Fahrenheit 451 wasn't about censorship. I know 100 people who know nothing else about the book except cliff notes or what they got off wikipedia are about to make that comment. So I'll save you the trouble. It was about TV and the mental wasteland that he thought it represented.
That's what Bradbury said his intention was. As with all literature, the author's intention is only a part of what readers get from the book; often, even usually, there is far more in the work than the author consciously put in. Even the very best of authors are notoriously poor at picking out what their audience will find in their own work.
Interesting, hadn't seen that. Sounds like it should get great mileage (and mediocre performance). But it kind of bears out my point - it is listed at £33,000 for the hybrid version (£23,000 in the article text refers to the base price of the DS5). Compare that to a Prius, which retails for about £22,000 according to Toyota.co.uk. Obviously the price difference isn't all up to diesel vs. gas, but it is a significant expense.
Others have mentioned the underwriter issue, but take a look at this article. Basically, the underwriters of the IPO stepped in every time it looked like the stock might hit $38 in order to avoid it going negative. So they end up with more stock than they planned on, which they will be hoping to offload in the next few weeks. The idea being that if the stock tanked out of the gates it would shatter confidence and they would lose money, but if they can maintain even or positive valuation for a little while it will increase investor confidence and they will be able to offload these extra shares bit by bit. Basically perfectly legal manipulation of the stock price in an attempt to assuage investor concerns. The fact that the stock didn't really pop does seem to suggest that they didn't undervalue it (which has been a favorite game of underwriters in the past, as it puts more money in their pockets), but you can't really tell from the trading results whether it was overvalued because, at least for now, there are major banks protecting the stock price.
Personally I think the stock is rather overvalued (I'd say by about 2-3 times based on potential for growth; I just don't think there is that much headroom for user growth, and thus far they haven't been terribly good at monetizing their vast user base), but then I'm not a trader and my talent for picking stocks has yet to make me rich (or even a significant profit).
Sounds somewhat like skyactiv but I think Mazda still uses spark. The only problem I see with this delphi engine is that it might require high octane gasoline or the lower octane gasoline might ignite too soon and not be so controllable with a lower octane.
I know the concern about octane is why Mazda lowered the compression ratio for U.S.-bound cars as Americans apparently shy away from cars that require premium unleaded (or so Mazda's market research suggests), but it seems silly at this point. The difference between 87 and 91 seems to be $0.20 per gallon regardless of price, so as gas prices go up this differential becomes less and less meaningful. If the performance difference is more than the 4.7% price difference at the pump then people will pay for it. Of course, I don't actually know what the performance difference between the European/Japanese-spec 14:1 compression ratio engine and the U.S.-spec 12:1 is (though I've tried to look this up in the past), so it may be that the performance improvement does not make up for the increased cost of fuel.
What keeps diesel engines from becoming a standard in the US? I know regulations nearly disappeared them from the market, but that was for environmental reasons, which are the very reasons why diesel cars are attractive. While in Europe it is not outside the norm, here it seems like you are committing a crime if you run a diesel engine.
Also - since diesel engines are so efficient and all - what stops them from making a hybrid car that benefits from the even greater efficiency of diesel? or this new type of diesel like gas engine for that matter?
Many reasons diesel hasn't been popular in the U.S. One reason is environmental concerns - at least in the north east U.S. and California, our emissions standards, particularly for particulates and sulfur compounds, are much stricter than Europe. A second reason is that people tend to buy cars based on horsepower, and diesels lag there. Third, lots of people have bad memories of noisy, smelly diesel engines from the 80's. Fourth, diesels cost more. All that said, they are making a comeback with the newer offerings from VW and BMW (and Mercedes?).
I believe the reason diesels haven't been seen in hybrids is a combination of several factors. One, they are heavier than gasoline engines which in a hybrid already facing weight issues due to batteries could be a problem. Second, they are more expensive than gasoline engines, and again hybrids already face a cost problem. Third, the efficiency gains using gasoline engines have been sufficient to set them significantly apart from most non-hybrid cars, so the additional mileage you might get from using a diesel instead isn't worth the additional cost and weight.
Oh, it was a poem? I think you need to preface it by saying something like, "Yes, Fat Mike is literate - this is just a poem, which is why it has only the most tenuous connection with English grammar." Otherwise it just looks like any other idiot on the internet who can't put more than two words together coherently. It would be especially helpful for those of us who have no idea who Fat Mike is, what NOFX is, or what The Idiots Are Taking Over is (nearly everyone).
WTF ? Water tables are at most 1k feet deep. Oil wells are well over 5k feet deep with a LOT of non permeable rock in between how can this fracking fluid get into the water table ?
What do you base this on? There are supply wells in my immediate area that are well over 1000 feet deep, and groundwater reaches down much much farther than that, albeit in decreasing quantities - pore space/storativity tends to decrease as pressure/depth increases. Natural gas wells are at a wide variety of depths; hydraulic fracturing is breaking up those non-permeable rocks that act as traps for oil and natural gas in order to more easily extract the oil and/or gas. Natural gas and oil wells are often cased off from relatively shallow groundwater, but these casings rarely if ever reach all the way down to bedrock (which is often naturally fractured to some extent anyway).
The dangers of fracking have been blown somewhat out of proportion, but anyone familiar with it should recognize the very real risks. If the exploration companies came to the table and tried to work out some rules there probably wouldn't be an issue; instead they insist that they shouldn't have to reveal what they are injecting, and continue to pretend that there are no risks when all the evidence (and basic understanding of the process) says otherwise.
The article doesn't go into much detail on what specifically is banned. We sometimes use hydraulic and/or pneumatic fracturing for environmental cleanups; of course, only water (or air/nitrogen) are used - generally pretty shallow and only trying to increase transmissivity of sediments, not break up rock. Just wondering if they actually put some thought into it, or just knee-jerk banned all hydraulic fracturing. The technology does have uses besides breaking up shale to extract natural gas.
Sadly it seems like places that would most benefit from Bittorrent are the least likely to use it. My favorite example was a big document that was fairly recently released publicly, I don't recall what it was on. But there was major press interest, major public interest, and you just knew that the Library of Congress website (or whatever agency it was that was hosting it) was just going to implode under the strain. Impressively the website didn't completely go down, it just sat there serving a 100+ MB pdf at about 100 bytes per second. With all that interest, all those people trying to download the same public document at the same time it would have been perfect for Bittorrent. Sadly I think it is too closely entangled with piracy in the minds of politicians, so it is very unlikely that it will ever be put to such a use.
The interesting thing to note (if this study is correct) is that they observed a difference between an acute dose and a chronic one. Our radiation health data is mostly based on acute doses - the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, mainly. The low dose risk estimates are basically based on that, extrapolated downwards linearly.
If acute dosing behaves differently to chronic, that model wouldn't be appropriate.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki radiation victims are some of the few human models that have been studied, but the DOE (and probably other government agencies around the world) did extensive testing on the effects of radiation at various doses using animal models. In one large-scale study I know of they used two exposure groups of beagles, one using the radioactive isotopes the bomb victims were exposed to in order to establish a baseline model correlation (human effects vs. effects observed in laboratory animals) and the other group exposed to isotopes expected to result from nuclear accidents and the new generation hydrogen bombs (different fallout characteristics than the original atomic bombs). Quite a bit of research was done on this, especially during the 1960s and 1970s. They also experimented with direct gamma exposure at various levels; rumor has it (I've never seen published results on the experiments) that there was a sweet spot in the gamma ray exposure scenario that actually lead to significantly longer lifespan than the control group, with many theories as to the cause.
Ahh the good old Habsheim Crash, wondered when that would get trotted out.
The Air France pilot of that particular aircraft was too low, too slow and untrained for such a stunt. He flew below the height of surrounding obstacles with his engines at or near idle, and then blamed the spool up time as the engines being "unresponsive". He put the aircraft into a dangerous situation and other people paid for his mistakes with their lives.
The pilot was an idiot, there was nothing wrong with the aircraft that caused that crash. Sure there was irregularities with the handling of the flight recorders afterward, but nothing has ever been proven in that particular conspiracy theory.
All of that is true, but beside the point. Whatever the cause, it still put a stain on the program - no one is excited to buy an aircraft that just crashed, whatever the cause. Eventually the program did recover, though, which may give some hope to Sukhoi - assuming it is determined that this was pilot error/controlled flight into terrain rather than a failure of the aircraft.
13 clock cycles according to the all-knowing Wikipedia, so similar to the latency increas going from DDR2->DDR3; theoretically it will be made up for by increasing clock frequency, I guess, with DDR4 starting at 2133 MT/s (unfortunately I'm not clear on how transfers/s translates to MHz for DDR4 - is it the same two transfers per quad-pumped cycle?).
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The worst part is definitely the little bio bits. Boring, and I just don't care. Reminds me of Olympic broadcasts here in the U.S. Twenty minutes of giving the life story of every American athlete, then thirty seconds of those athletes failing miserably. If there's time left between commercials, they might show the top three or four foreign competitors. Yuck. Drop the "human interest", just give me the goddamn events - as many as you can cram into however much time you have. I would much rather be watching the last place pole vaulter from New Guinea than some shitty story about how American Athlete #3 is bravely competing through the pain of a stubbed toe and their mother's recent diagnosis of a hang nail.
Same with Ninja Warrior - I enjoy the Japanese version from time to time, because 90% of the show is someone actually trying to complete the course. You know, the interesting part that got me to turn on the channel. Minimal time is spent on building up each individual competitor, and the brief sketches they do occasionally give are more than enough to establish who the person is. American version, approximately 60-70% seems to be build-up for athletes who end up eating it on the first obstacle.
Gandhi's threats of NUCLEAR WEAPONS never kept me from going to war with him, so clearly this premise is false.
Following the downing of an American drone in Iran the hypothesis was put forward that the Iranians spoofed the GPS signal and convinced the drone that it wasn't where it thought it was in order to get it to land in Iran (I'm not sure if this was ever confirmed). A recent issue of Aviation Week reported on a group I believe in the U.S. working on the same idea, spoofing the GPS signal in a transparent manner to convince an autonomous vehicle that is was somewhere other than its actual location. Would NAVSOP make it more difficult to accomplish this sort of spoofing?
"It's an emergency as these phones make the 4S look quite out of date."
The apple fanbois wouldn't care - they'd buy a week old turd if it had an apple logo stamped on it.
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Now that's just sad.
No kidding. What half-witted mods don't realize that everybody already knows this. Hardly informative ;)
Hell, they'll pay more even if it's not any better than the competition...Monster Cable stands as testament to that fact.
Speaking of Monster Cable... check out how much they want for 6' of speaker cables.
And how about the crappy, low-sensitivity, poor frequency-response speakers they are pairing with it (of course, with only 12.5 watts per channel to work with it's pretty tough to find a decent pair of bookshelf speakers that will work well)?
Nice that they are manufacturing in the U.S., but by the look of it the only reason they are doing so is that they realize this is a niche product with limited sales potential so they are doing very small manufacturing runs. For the relatively small runs they must be doing, it is doubtful that getting manufacturing set up in China would be significantly cheaper - the economics work out when you are doing hundreds of thousands or millions of units, not a handful of thousands that I would guess they are looking at for this. I'd suggest the reason they aren't pushing the "Made In USA" angle is because if the product does somehow take off, they probably plan to move manufacturing overseas.
That said, I really don't understand this device. It doesn't match the functionality of competing media streaming boxes (even Google's own). The amp adds complexity and cost, but it is so small that it is only ever going to be enough for a pretty small room - 12.5 watts/channel doesn't go very far even if you have very efficient speakers (speakers extra). The only market seems to be as a tech toy to show off to your buddies, maybe something an executive would stick in their private office to impress people - except it isn't even outrageously expensive enough for that (maybe if it was $3,000). I just don't get what they are trying to do with it, though the design does look kind of cool.
I just got an email from corporate HR stating that my cost for health insurance is going up over the next two years because of this ruling.
1. Government makes decision.
2. Money leaves my pocket.
How is this not a tax? We can nit pick the details about what level it comes out of, but a tax is a tax is a tax. Nothing's free!
As opposed to going up every year for no particular reason, like it has been...
Somehow I think your insurance rates would continue to climb no matter what, now they just have a convenient excuse. "Not our fault, blame Obama!"
Island in question.
After all, I'm pretty sure those Indonesians are violating his copyright.
Have him watch Star Wars in the Machete Order and then get him started on the Timothy Zahn books, Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command. They are awesome! I loved them when I was a kid, and still do.
Interesting, I might have to try watching in that order one of these days. Though I suppose that would mean having to actually buy the prequels...
I agree with the Zahn books. I couldn't remember what age I read them, had to look it up on wikipedia to see that I was 12 when the first one came out - but I remember wondering for years why there were no Star Wars books to read aside from a few (young) children's storybooks. Judging by other books I read at the time, 8 is probably old enough assuming some familiarity with the original movies. Actually thinking about it, even this new and incredible Machete Order wouldn't fix the inconsistencies between Zahn's books and the prequel trilogy, so might be best to drop the prequels entirely, watch the original movies, and then read the better Star Wars books (Zahn and Stackpole would be my picks).
I think it is definitely easier to pick out fantasy books for kids. Here are a few that would probably be age appropriate and which are excellent books:
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Prydain Chronicles (first one is The Book of Three), Lloyd Alexander
Earthsea (A Wizard of Earthsea), Ursula K. LeGuin
Narnia (The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe), C.S. Lewis
The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper
For Sci-Fi, I think it is a bit harder to find good books for kids - most of the sci-fi geared towards children I utterly loathed growing up. But a few you might try:
A Wrinkle In Time, Madeleine L'Engle
Thrawn Trilogy, Timothy Zahn (Star Wars books, so assuming familiarity with the original movies - basically fantasy in space)
Robotech, Jack McKinney (not the greatest literature, but I loved these books at that age; might be hard to find today, though)
Some others, not too sure whether they are age-appropriate but books I enjoyed around that age (plus or minus a couple years):
Gateway, Frederick Pohl
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Fahrenheit 451 wasn't about censorship. I know 100 people who know nothing else about the book except cliff notes or what they got off wikipedia are about to make that comment. So I'll save you the trouble. It was about TV and the mental wasteland that he thought it represented.
That's what Bradbury said his intention was. As with all literature, the author's intention is only a part of what readers get from the book; often, even usually, there is far more in the work than the author consciously put in. Even the very best of authors are notoriously poor at picking out what their audience will find in their own work.
I don't see any tell-tale creeper scars in there. I bet he wasn't even mapping in survival mode; cheater.
Hybrid Diesel:
Interesting, hadn't seen that. Sounds like it should get great mileage (and mediocre performance). But it kind of bears out my point - it is listed at £33,000 for the hybrid version (£23,000 in the article text refers to the base price of the DS5). Compare that to a Prius, which retails for about £22,000 according to Toyota.co.uk. Obviously the price difference isn't all up to diesel vs. gas, but it is a significant expense.
Others have mentioned the underwriter issue, but take a look at this article. Basically, the underwriters of the IPO stepped in every time it looked like the stock might hit $38 in order to avoid it going negative. So they end up with more stock than they planned on, which they will be hoping to offload in the next few weeks. The idea being that if the stock tanked out of the gates it would shatter confidence and they would lose money, but if they can maintain even or positive valuation for a little while it will increase investor confidence and they will be able to offload these extra shares bit by bit. Basically perfectly legal manipulation of the stock price in an attempt to assuage investor concerns. The fact that the stock didn't really pop does seem to suggest that they didn't undervalue it (which has been a favorite game of underwriters in the past, as it puts more money in their pockets), but you can't really tell from the trading results whether it was overvalued because, at least for now, there are major banks protecting the stock price.
Personally I think the stock is rather overvalued (I'd say by about 2-3 times based on potential for growth; I just don't think there is that much headroom for user growth, and thus far they haven't been terribly good at monetizing their vast user base), but then I'm not a trader and my talent for picking stocks has yet to make me rich (or even a significant profit).
Sounds somewhat like skyactiv but I think Mazda still uses spark.
The only problem I see with this delphi engine is that it might require high octane gasoline or the lower octane gasoline might ignite too soon and not be so controllable with a lower octane.
I know the concern about octane is why Mazda lowered the compression ratio for U.S.-bound cars as Americans apparently shy away from cars that require premium unleaded (or so Mazda's market research suggests), but it seems silly at this point. The difference between 87 and 91 seems to be $0.20 per gallon regardless of price, so as gas prices go up this differential becomes less and less meaningful. If the performance difference is more than the 4.7% price difference at the pump then people will pay for it. Of course, I don't actually know what the performance difference between the European/Japanese-spec 14:1 compression ratio engine and the U.S.-spec 12:1 is (though I've tried to look this up in the past), so it may be that the performance improvement does not make up for the increased cost of fuel.
What keeps diesel engines from becoming a standard in the US? I know regulations nearly disappeared them from the market, but that was for environmental reasons, which are the very reasons why diesel cars are attractive. While in Europe it is not outside the norm, here it seems like you are committing a crime if you run a diesel engine.
Also - since diesel engines are so efficient and all - what stops them from making a hybrid car that benefits from the even greater efficiency of diesel? or this new type of diesel like gas engine for that matter?
Many reasons diesel hasn't been popular in the U.S. One reason is environmental concerns - at least in the north east U.S. and California, our emissions standards, particularly for particulates and sulfur compounds, are much stricter than Europe. A second reason is that people tend to buy cars based on horsepower, and diesels lag there. Third, lots of people have bad memories of noisy, smelly diesel engines from the 80's. Fourth, diesels cost more. All that said, they are making a comeback with the newer offerings from VW and BMW (and Mercedes?).
I believe the reason diesels haven't been seen in hybrids is a combination of several factors. One, they are heavier than gasoline engines which in a hybrid already facing weight issues due to batteries could be a problem. Second, they are more expensive than gasoline engines, and again hybrids already face a cost problem. Third, the efficiency gains using gasoline engines have been sufficient to set them significantly apart from most non-hybrid cars, so the additional mileage you might get from using a diesel instead isn't worth the additional cost and weight.
Did it bug anyone else that they kept using H.P. instead of HP?
Maybe it's just me...
They're just re-branding; they got tired of hiding the fact that they are run by a Lovecraftian Horror, so they're just going to run with it.
Need a new server? Why settle for the lesser of two evils? Just don't look too closely at the docs... that way lies insanity.
If Fat Mike would like to make statements decrying anti-intellectualism, he should first learn to compose a coherent sentence.
No argument against what the poet said, so you resort to lowest-common-denominator, ad hominem attacks on his sentence structure?
Ever hear of artistic license? Obviously not.
Oh, it was a poem? I think you need to preface it by saying something like, "Yes, Fat Mike is literate - this is just a poem, which is why it has only the most tenuous connection with English grammar." Otherwise it just looks like any other idiot on the internet who can't put more than two words together coherently. It would be especially helpful for those of us who have no idea who Fat Mike is, what NOFX is, or what The Idiots Are Taking Over is (nearly everyone).
WTF ? Water tables are at most 1k feet deep. Oil wells are well over 5k feet deep with a LOT of non permeable rock in between how can this fracking fluid get into the water table ?
What do you base this on? There are supply wells in my immediate area that are well over 1000 feet deep, and groundwater reaches down much much farther than that, albeit in decreasing quantities - pore space/storativity tends to decrease as pressure/depth increases. Natural gas wells are at a wide variety of depths; hydraulic fracturing is breaking up those non-permeable rocks that act as traps for oil and natural gas in order to more easily extract the oil and/or gas. Natural gas and oil wells are often cased off from relatively shallow groundwater, but these casings rarely if ever reach all the way down to bedrock (which is often naturally fractured to some extent anyway).
The dangers of fracking have been blown somewhat out of proportion, but anyone familiar with it should recognize the very real risks. If the exploration companies came to the table and tried to work out some rules there probably wouldn't be an issue; instead they insist that they shouldn't have to reveal what they are injecting, and continue to pretend that there are no risks when all the evidence (and basic understanding of the process) says otherwise.
The article doesn't go into much detail on what specifically is banned. We sometimes use hydraulic and/or pneumatic fracturing for environmental cleanups; of course, only water (or air/nitrogen) are used - generally pretty shallow and only trying to increase transmissivity of sediments, not break up rock. Just wondering if they actually put some thought into it, or just knee-jerk banned all hydraulic fracturing. The technology does have uses besides breaking up shale to extract natural gas.
Sadly it seems like places that would most benefit from Bittorrent are the least likely to use it. My favorite example was a big document that was fairly recently released publicly, I don't recall what it was on. But there was major press interest, major public interest, and you just knew that the Library of Congress website (or whatever agency it was that was hosting it) was just going to implode under the strain. Impressively the website didn't completely go down, it just sat there serving a 100+ MB pdf at about 100 bytes per second. With all that interest, all those people trying to download the same public document at the same time it would have been perfect for Bittorrent. Sadly I think it is too closely entangled with piracy in the minds of politicians, so it is very unlikely that it will ever be put to such a use.
The interesting thing to note (if this study is correct) is that they observed a difference between an acute dose and a chronic one. Our radiation health data is mostly based on acute doses - the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, mainly. The low dose risk estimates are basically based on that, extrapolated downwards linearly.
If acute dosing behaves differently to chronic, that model wouldn't be appropriate.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki radiation victims are some of the few human models that have been studied, but the DOE (and probably other government agencies around the world) did extensive testing on the effects of radiation at various doses using animal models. In one large-scale study I know of they used two exposure groups of beagles, one using the radioactive isotopes the bomb victims were exposed to in order to establish a baseline model correlation (human effects vs. effects observed in laboratory animals) and the other group exposed to isotopes expected to result from nuclear accidents and the new generation hydrogen bombs (different fallout characteristics than the original atomic bombs). Quite a bit of research was done on this, especially during the 1960s and 1970s. They also experimented with direct gamma exposure at various levels; rumor has it (I've never seen published results on the experiments) that there was a sweet spot in the gamma ray exposure scenario that actually lead to significantly longer lifespan than the control group, with many theories as to the cause.
private static void rangeCheck(int arrayLen, int fromIndex, int toIndex) {
if (fromIndex > toIndex)
throw new IllegalArgumentException("fromIndex(" + fromIndex +
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Hopefully Oracle won't sue me for this...
Oh great, now you owe Oracle 6 billion karma. Nothing but Larry Ellison PR bits on Slashdot from here on out.
Ahh the good old Habsheim Crash, wondered when that would get trotted out.
The Air France pilot of that particular aircraft was too low, too slow and untrained for such a stunt. He flew below the height of surrounding obstacles with his engines at or near idle, and then blamed the spool up time as the engines being "unresponsive". He put the aircraft into a dangerous situation and other people paid for his mistakes with their lives.
The pilot was an idiot, there was nothing wrong with the aircraft that caused that crash. Sure there was irregularities with the handling of the flight recorders afterward, but nothing has ever been proven in that particular conspiracy theory.
All of that is true, but beside the point. Whatever the cause, it still put a stain on the program - no one is excited to buy an aircraft that just crashed, whatever the cause. Eventually the program did recover, though, which may give some hope to Sukhoi - assuming it is determined that this was pilot error/controlled flight into terrain rather than a failure of the aircraft.
13 clock cycles according to the all-knowing Wikipedia, so similar to the latency increas going from DDR2->DDR3; theoretically it will be made up for by increasing clock frequency, I guess, with DDR4 starting at 2133 MT/s (unfortunately I'm not clear on how transfers/s translates to MHz for DDR4 - is it the same two transfers per quad-pumped cycle?).