> The compiler is expected to significantly reduce time-to-market of new software, because > lengthy manual optimization can now be carried out by the compiler.
I always thought that testing and debugging were the lengthy manual steps. Oh. Wait. "Time to market". They're talking about proprietary software. Never mind.
> As for the oven test, I would want to know how long it was left in. 150C is a pretty > high temperature
As long as the plastics don't melt (most have higher melting points than that) and the battery electrolytes don't boil (some use nonvolatile electrolytes) it should be ok at 150C.
> About the only way I can see to have a biological helicopter would be to have a pair of > symbiotes -- one being the body of the "helicopter" and the other being the rotor shaft > and rotor blades.
Clever!
> The two organisms nest together so the rotor organism spins on top of the body organism, > and the body organism continuously grabs, spins and releases the shaft of the rotor > organism.
The airframe could drive the rotor with a wavemotor mechanism and feed it predigested nutrients through the driveshaft the same way oil is fed through a crankshaft. The rotor would expel waste through its tips (messy!). The two could communicate acoustically.
Alternatively the rotating part could simply not be alive. It would develop like an antler and when mature dry into a hard structure. The connection to the body at the shaft would wither and the rotor would become free to spin when drive by the motor mechanism.
> But the remnants of the other pair have become... I think they call them halters... > which vibrate while the fly's flying to act as tiny gyroscopes. (I've never investigated > the physics, which sounds rather improbable, but that's what I was told.)
Vibrating rods can serve as gyroscopes of a sort. It's how MEMS gyros work.
Why are crashes caused by pilot error better than ones caused by software error? Yes, the computers screw up sometimes. If they screw up less often than the pilots would we are better off. Better yet, how about letting the computer fly the plane while the pilot supervises, ready to intervene if the computer goes wrong? Oh. Wait. That's exactly what they do!
By my calculations 1 m^3/sec of air can carry away 65kW at a 50 degK temperature rise. That's doable, though you don't want it exhausting into your office.
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> The compiler is expected to significantly reduce time-to-market of new software, because
> lengthy manual optimization can now be carried out by the compiler.
I always thought that testing and debugging were the lengthy manual steps. Oh. Wait. "Time to market". They're talking about proprietary software. Never mind.
> They got legal threats after the DMCA was passed.
The DMCA is utterly irrelevant to this issue.
> As for the oven test, I would want to know how long it was left in. 150C is a pretty
> high temperature
As long as the plastics don't melt (most have higher melting points than that) and the battery electrolytes don't boil (some use nonvolatile electrolytes) it should be ok at 150C.
> Asphalt is 100% thanks to automobiles.
The British started paving ("metaling") their roads in the late 19th century primarily for the benefit of bicycles.
And while the driver is staring at the pretty lights he runs over the cyclist.
> About the only way I can see to have a biological helicopter would be to have a pair of
> symbiotes -- one being the body of the "helicopter" and the other being the rotor shaft
> and rotor blades.
Clever!
> The two organisms nest together so the rotor organism spins on top of the body organism,
> and the body organism continuously grabs, spins and releases the shaft of the rotor
> organism.
The airframe could drive the rotor with a wavemotor mechanism and feed it predigested nutrients through the driveshaft the same way oil is fed through a crankshaft. The rotor would expel waste through its tips (messy!). The two could communicate acoustically.
Alternatively the rotating part could simply not be alive. It would develop like an antler and when mature dry into a hard structure. The connection to the body at the shaft would wither and the rotor would become free to spin when drive by the motor mechanism.
> But the remnants of the other pair have become ... I think they call them halters ...
> which vibrate while the fly's flying to act as tiny gyroscopes. (I've never investigated
> the physics, which sounds rather improbable, but that's what I was told.)
Vibrating rods can serve as gyroscopes of a sort. It's how MEMS gyros work.
The rotor would have to change shape as it turned to compensate for the effect you describe. Doable, but flapping seems more practical.
Quit. That job will kill you.
> but why is this here? seriously?
No. It isn't here seriously. Nothing is here seriously[1]. This is Slashdot.
[1] Except rants about the RIAA and bandwidth capping.
> All else being equal, Short DNA may logically be a defense against cancers and other
> genetic diseases.
And against useful mutations.
They *are* loading the "primary content" first. They just differ with you as to what constitutes "primary".
> How best to balance the content vs. performance tradeoffs?
Privoxy does the job for me.
> While it is a small change, it is fairly radical to tinker with an area of hardware
> which has been largely unchanged since the 19th century.
Amazing. All those years using whiteout on typewriters when I could have been using the delete key that I didn't know was there.
> ...attempt to use patent threats... ... ...unless they license the 'copyrighted' data...
>
>
Is this about patents or copyrights? BTW data is not protected by copyright in the USA.
Why are crashes caused by pilot error better than ones caused by software error? Yes, the computers screw up sometimes. If they screw up less often than the pilots would we are better off. Better yet, how about letting the computer fly the plane while the pilot supervises, ready to intervene if the computer goes wrong? Oh. Wait. That's exactly what they do!
> Also, i want a solid mechanical link between the controls I'm pushing on and the control
> surfaces on the wings...
You aren't strong enough to control an A330 with your muscles.
The clumping phenomemon was well known. The explanation for it was wrong.
Strobe lights only work for periodic phemonena.
It's heat signature will be no worse that that of a large internal combustion engine. The enemy already knows the location of division headquarters.
No need for such extreme measures.
> Incidentally, 960KW = about 909 btu's per second
Where did you get 960kW?
> ... run Linux?
It probably will.
By my calculations 1 m^3/sec of air can carry away 65kW at a 50 degK temperature rise. That's doable, though you don't want it exhausting into your office.
I think it is doable. The whole machine must be air-cooled but nothing in the RFP says that liquid cooling could not be used internally.