All of the comments I've read about this battery refer to it as "the APU battery". While I'm sure the aircraft has scores of other batteries, none of them will be like this one. It is a specialized piece of equipment.
Would it be weird that they're within 30 serial numbers of each other when there are only 50 of these aircraft in service? I don't think this particular battery is a COTS product.
All they are really saying is that the chemistry and packaging on the batteries was within spec. Like most lithium battery problems though, the problem is in the control hardware. So really this press release is just telling us something that we already figured out: That the charging circuit for the battery is defective.
Yeah, the options typically are: Buy a phone on contract, pay a subsidy for 2 years until the phone is paid off, then continue paying the subsidy because you enjoy giving the phone company free money. Or you can buy your phone up front and get to pay the exact same subsidy anyway!
Media companies have been trying their hardest to make us think Fair Use doesn't exist for decades now. Sadly, from a legal perspective they're just about right. There is no rigorous definition of Fair Use, just a few examples and guidelines, so even if you are completely in the right you can still be sued and still have to defend yourself in court and hope that the East Texas jury understands Fair Use. Fair Use has already been chilled down to subzero temperatures by aggressive legal actions.
I wonder if this is what happened with Crysis too? I remember being bothered in that game that the opponent was a highly technological North Korean army who beat the rest of the world to full production on nanosuits. It would have been less jarring to just make up a country out of whole cloth than to to shoehorn North Korea into that role.
Not that running at.59c vs..99c matters in the least when your entire cable run is 50m. In this case, copper will be faster anyway because converting from copper to optical and back takes time, and nobody has a pure-optical machine yet.
The problem with that statement is that it doesn't take into account the time spent writing the data to tape, or reading it on the other side. Once you add those factors it's a lot harder to beat a good network connection.
Maybe, but then people are going to point out that services like Verzion FiOS are more reliable, faster, and cheaper. Municipal Broadband efforts tend to be even better than that. This is more about AT&T being greedy and incompetent.
Theoretically these chord keyboards would allow someone to work one-handed and use their other hand for something else, but in practice typing takes too much brainpower to really split your attention anyway and these chord keyboards just increase the load on your brain. In the end it seems that most people with a lot of practice can get 50-75% of their normal typing speed with these, which is just sort of annoying when you could just use a regular keyboard and get 100% and then shift both hands over to whatever other task you need to do.
There might be a few niche markets for these products, but historically they have never been able to sustain a product. It just takes too much training for mediocre results. There's too much compromise inherent in the product.
Or you could build an entire system yourself from scratch. If someone has unlimited time they could do whatever they want. Converting stuff between systems is extra work, sometimes quite a lot when the mechanics of one thing don't mesh well with the rules of a different system. There's nothing stopping you from running old systems and modules, they're perfectly fine, but you will be stuck in the past unless you're willing to do a lot of work to convert new modules over to the old system.
How much do you know about Asteroid Mining? Not much. And neither do these guys, because nobody has tried it before and there are still more unknowns than knowns. What I do know is that 2015, two years from now, is a totally and completely unrealistic goal. They would have to have surveys of potential candidates already done, launch windows nailed down, hardware completed and ready to go, support staff trained and ready, mineral recovery solution built, etc... You would be hard pressed to open a mine on Earth in just two years time, and Earth mining doesn't have astronomical launch costs. A 2015 timeline tells me that these guys are either insane or a scam.
Some people will always pirate the stuff. That's true. But by providing a legal route for the PDFs, you're giving an option to all of the people who were only turning to the torrents because you gave them no choice. Clearly a lot of people are buying the books (and killing the servers), so this was overdue. You won't need 15 minutes to find a torrent of the PDFs of those books. They've been around for years already.
I'm hoping that they're doing the OCR work on these. If you're charging $5 for material as old and obsolete as this you had better be putting at least the minimum amount of effort into it.
My guess is the originals are either lost or sitting in a box in a storeroom somewhere on ancient backup tapes in some unsupported format and it's easier to just find an old copy of the books and scan them in.
25 year old cars are hardly uncommon. That's a late 80s car at this point, and you see plenty of them on the roads. The bigger question is: why would a car computer care what the date is? Most don't even have dashboard clocks anymore.
Hopefully anybody working with 30 year mortgages solved this problem 5 years ago...
For the most part this isn't a big deal, except when it is. When you have to update every single database record because you encoded the time as a 32 bit integer instead of using the database's built-in timestamp format, well, you're hosed. Timestamps in protocols are also a problem, because changing the size of the timestamp means changing the protocol which means you'll have to retain backwards compatibility or update everybody at the same time. It's messy. Still, by the time 2038 rolls around, I will be surprised if this is still an issue.
From what I understand, if you have the cash and can keep yourself to a strict regime you can basically keep HIV in check for a long long time already, possibly until you grow old and die naturally. What we have not been able to find is a drug that finishes off the last remnants of HIV so you can finally stop taking it. This drug appears to be no different, and will probably end up as yet another pill for the cocktail while drug companies try yet again to find a better solution.
That's not a "hot slot processor" anymore, that's a blade server. We already have blade servers, lots of them. The ATCA demands to know why you want yet another blade server standard.
A PCIe x8 slot is pathetically slow compared to the memory channels used by CPUs today. These CPUs are going to have to be used like GPUs, sent specific workloads on specific datasets to be useful. Any kind of non-cached memory access is going to cause major thread stalls and probably kill any performance benefits.
A general purpose compute card is probably useful in cases where GPUs aren't a good fit but you want more cores per RU than you can normally get, but I see this as a niche application for the foreseeable future.
Also, the fact that these facilities shot up recently may also be a clue, as there has been a lot of concern lately about shortages in rare Earths and price jumps as a result. It makes sense that people would try to toss together a quick mining operation while the prices are high.
That audio stream only represents a single track though, a movie like this is going to have multiple tracks (music, effects, actor A dialog, actor A redubs, actor B...).
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All of the comments I've read about this battery refer to it as "the APU battery". While I'm sure the aircraft has scores of other batteries, none of them will be like this one. It is a specialized piece of equipment.
Would it be weird that they're within 30 serial numbers of each other when there are only 50 of these aircraft in service? I don't think this particular battery is a COTS product.
All they are really saying is that the chemistry and packaging on the batteries was within spec. Like most lithium battery problems though, the problem is in the control hardware. So really this press release is just telling us something that we already figured out: That the charging circuit for the battery is defective.
Yeah, the options typically are: Buy a phone on contract, pay a subsidy for 2 years until the phone is paid off, then continue paying the subsidy because you enjoy giving the phone company free money. Or you can buy your phone up front and get to pay the exact same subsidy anyway!
Media companies have been trying their hardest to make us think Fair Use doesn't exist for decades now. Sadly, from a legal perspective they're just about right. There is no rigorous definition of Fair Use, just a few examples and guidelines, so even if you are completely in the right you can still be sued and still have to defend yourself in court and hope that the East Texas jury understands Fair Use. Fair Use has already been chilled down to subzero temperatures by aggressive legal actions.
I wonder if this is what happened with Crysis too? I remember being bothered in that game that the opponent was a highly technological North Korean army who beat the rest of the world to full production on nanosuits. It would have been less jarring to just make up a country out of whole cloth than to to shoehorn North Korea into that role.
Not that running at .59c vs. .99c matters in the least when your entire cable run is 50m. In this case, copper will be faster anyway because converting from copper to optical and back takes time, and nobody has a pure-optical machine yet.
The problem with that statement is that it doesn't take into account the time spent writing the data to tape, or reading it on the other side. Once you add those factors it's a lot harder to beat a good network connection.
Maybe, but then people are going to point out that services like Verzion FiOS are more reliable, faster, and cheaper. Municipal Broadband efforts tend to be even better than that. This is more about AT&T being greedy and incompetent.
Theoretically these chord keyboards would allow someone to work one-handed and use their other hand for something else, but in practice typing takes too much brainpower to really split your attention anyway and these chord keyboards just increase the load on your brain. In the end it seems that most people with a lot of practice can get 50-75% of their normal typing speed with these, which is just sort of annoying when you could just use a regular keyboard and get 100% and then shift both hands over to whatever other task you need to do.
There might be a few niche markets for these products, but historically they have never been able to sustain a product. It just takes too much training for mediocre results. There's too much compromise inherent in the product.
Or you could build an entire system yourself from scratch. If someone has unlimited time they could do whatever they want. Converting stuff between systems is extra work, sometimes quite a lot when the mechanics of one thing don't mesh well with the rules of a different system. There's nothing stopping you from running old systems and modules, they're perfectly fine, but you will be stuck in the past unless you're willing to do a lot of work to convert new modules over to the old system.
How much do you know about Asteroid Mining? Not much. And neither do these guys, because nobody has tried it before and there are still more unknowns than knowns. What I do know is that 2015, two years from now, is a totally and completely unrealistic goal. They would have to have surveys of potential candidates already done, launch windows nailed down, hardware completed and ready to go, support staff trained and ready, mineral recovery solution built, etc... You would be hard pressed to open a mine on Earth in just two years time, and Earth mining doesn't have astronomical launch costs. A 2015 timeline tells me that these guys are either insane or a scam.
Yes, but any new material (monster manuals, adventure packs, etc...) coming out will not be compatible. That's how gaming products become obsolete.
Some people will always pirate the stuff. That's true. But by providing a legal route for the PDFs, you're giving an option to all of the people who were only turning to the torrents because you gave them no choice. Clearly a lot of people are buying the books (and killing the servers), so this was overdue. You won't need 15 minutes to find a torrent of the PDFs of those books. They've been around for years already.
I'm hoping that they're doing the OCR work on these. If you're charging $5 for material as old and obsolete as this you had better be putting at least the minimum amount of effort into it.
My guess is the originals are either lost or sitting in a box in a storeroom somewhere on ancient backup tapes in some unsupported format and it's easier to just find an old copy of the books and scan them in.
It would take some serious runaway inflation for 64bit integers not to be usable as a currency value.
25 year old cars are hardly uncommon. That's a late 80s car at this point, and you see plenty of them on the roads. The bigger question is: why would a car computer care what the date is? Most don't even have dashboard clocks anymore.
How many embedded systems care what the date is though?
Hopefully anybody working with 30 year mortgages solved this problem 5 years ago...
For the most part this isn't a big deal, except when it is. When you have to update every single database record because you encoded the time as a 32 bit integer instead of using the database's built-in timestamp format, well, you're hosed. Timestamps in protocols are also a problem, because changing the size of the timestamp means changing the protocol which means you'll have to retain backwards compatibility or update everybody at the same time. It's messy. Still, by the time 2038 rolls around, I will be surprised if this is still an issue.
From what I understand, if you have the cash and can keep yourself to a strict regime you can basically keep HIV in check for a long long time already, possibly until you grow old and die naturally. What we have not been able to find is a drug that finishes off the last remnants of HIV so you can finally stop taking it. This drug appears to be no different, and will probably end up as yet another pill for the cocktail while drug companies try yet again to find a better solution.
That's not a "hot slot processor" anymore, that's a blade server. We already have blade servers, lots of them. The ATCA demands to know why you want yet another blade server standard.
A PCIe x8 slot is pathetically slow compared to the memory channels used by CPUs today. These CPUs are going to have to be used like GPUs, sent specific workloads on specific datasets to be useful. Any kind of non-cached memory access is going to cause major thread stalls and probably kill any performance benefits.
A general purpose compute card is probably useful in cases where GPUs aren't a good fit but you want more cores per RU than you can normally get, but I see this as a niche application for the foreseeable future.
Also, the fact that these facilities shot up recently may also be a clue, as there has been a lot of concern lately about shortages in rare Earths and price jumps as a result. It makes sense that people would try to toss together a quick mining operation while the prices are high.
Yes. Now if you were to ask if it measurably reduced global temperatures that is probably a different answer.
That audio stream only represents a single track though, a movie like this is going to have multiple tracks (music, effects, actor A dialog, actor A redubs, actor B...).