Agree. You could have individual air lines or hydraulic lines to each wheel actuator. Send the fluid one way for that wheel to spin forward, the other way for reverse. Then a minimum robot is just 2 drive cogs, then a fiber optic line for vision and a second fiber optic line for light. No reason it couldn't sit directly next to the molten fuel and work indefinitely. Have an internal chamber and a scintillator tube with a fiber optic line that can relay an image back. From the light intensity - how often the tube is getting stimulated - you'd be able to measure the radiation level. Probably have to use special tubes made just for this.
You can buy FTDI development boards that do come direct from FTDI from Mouser. As well as the chips themselves. Reason these things are pirated so often is they are the best. (or, I guess more accurately, everyone else's is crap).
? The upper limit to radiation? Well at a certain density of radiation flux, matter itself is spontaneously being created. Such as near the surface of a black hole.
Those numbers probably just mean new plants that produce power, not net capacity increases. It makes sense to shutter an older, less efficient (or more expensive to repair) fossil fuel plant and to replace it with newer natural gas combined cycle equipment.
We're talking about default behavior here. Obviously if the user wants to override that and install any (signed) driver they want, they can do it. If they want install an unsigned driver, these days they are forced to reboot into safe mode, which I don't disagree with, since drivers have the privileges to do almost anything and the user has no way to know what a driver will do from the binary.
Yeah that's what I don't get. Why doesn't version number take precedence over time stamp? Why isn't the time stamp the date the manufacturer driver got Windows Certified? If you think about it, the last windows certified driver is going to be the one you want, from the perspective of an OS updater you want the latest version from the most stable branch.
I'm doing embedded work. I've noticed (and done myself) that there is a way to dodge this issue. What you do is, you stick an FTDI chip at the front end. USB to serial is the easiest, but if you need more bandwidth, you can do USB to SPI. So FTDI manages the drivers, and most windows (and Linux) PCs are going to have valid FTDI drivers in them from OS install. You then either access the chip by having it map to a comm port or there is a way to link to FTDI's drivers.
Either way, you export the problem - FTDI worries about writing and maintaining the driver, which hundreds of millions of devices depend on, and you just piggy back on that driver for your gadget. Works great and you can be up and running in under a day. (just use their USB to serial one, and connect RX and TX, and use the scanf/printf which most any microcontroller has support for)
1. High fuel consumption. Fun fact : the type of batteries you need for this kind of range burn themselves up very quickly as providing this level of current is very stressful on them. It costs more to replace the aircraft's battery pack than the equivalent amount of jetfuel would cost for the same energy delivered.
2. High liability, thus very high aircraft manufacturing costs. You can't make a helicopter with any real cargo capacity for less than 10s of millions of dollars, why do you think you can make a flying bus any cheaper?
3. Highly skilled workers to operate them. Even if they fly themselves, you need highly paid mechanics to maintain them, well paid ATC operators to monitor them, an expensive place free of debris to launch them from, etc etc etc.
4. Low demand. These things only make sense for moderate distance trips. They save you about 90 minutes of driving time but now you gotta wait to board, wait to leave, and go through security. Nope.
Well said. I have to say, I had been looking in horror at some of the pending decisions by Trump, but the fact that he's taking action and actually doing the thing he said he was going to do is a huge, yuge point in his favor.
Actually, deal prices for HDDs have yet to drop below ~$30 a terrabyte. This is 2010 era pre-flood/pre-consolidation prices. I haven't seen a price for a new drive from a quality brand dip below that.
While I've seen SSDs hit $200/terrabyte. So the price delta is 6-10x at this point. It's rapidly shrinking.
The suits only matter in the very narrow case where :
a. The cabin loses pressure to a failure b. The failure is not so drastic it kills everyone anyway
The rest of the time, they are just excess bulk. Among other problems, they depend on the pressure manifold of the life support system in the spacecraft to remain pressurized. A micrometeorite impact in the right spot or cryogenic tank explosion will break that and the crew will die regardless.
So making the suits as light as possible to still hold pressure most of the time is the only goal.
Is it? Don't the big 4 charge around $20-$30 per line? That's not any cheaper. Project fi is really useful for people who heavily use wi-fi but occasionally need to do some remote web browsing or maps when away from home or work. I personally use a couple hundred megs a month on average as both home and work have wi fi and I do not use my phone as a primary media consumption device. (I don't watch movies on it, etc, I just use it like a tool and only when I need it to get somewhere or call someone)
Only a total moron would come to the US expecting a fair trial, after literally being called a traitor worthy of the firing squad or life imprisonment by major politicians on broadcast TV. And only a total moron would expect an after the fact pardon either. Heck, only a moron would expect the state to even honor a plea bargain made, if the bargain was made while the State did not actually have Snowden in custody. So I doubt it will come to this. Only way I see Snowden ever returning to US soil is if a very progressive set of politicians take power 20 years from now, and they pardon him before he ever tries to return.
I don't disagree in the slightest with Trump being overall bad, but the H1B thing is a scam. Certain large companies have entire wings that sound like Bombay. Are all these Indian employees the best of the best, worth importing from overseas? This has not been my personal experience.
I didn't vote for Trump, and I think many of the things he has proposed are bad, and worse, we don't even know what he really plans to do because it seems to change weekly. Nor do many of the things he does inspire much confidence in the man.
The $100k is not a minimum wage for Americans. The reason to impose it is because with the high costs of living in America, $60k isn't really enough to pay back the college loans needed- or be worth spending 4-6 years in school - to even be considered for the kind of jobs we are talking about here.
There already is such a minimum wage, $60k. Yes, there are American companies that are strongly against this change, but they contribute to a political party that is not in charge at the present time.
...This is precisely what this bill is meant to prevent. It's not like there aren't Americans - who paid into the system, or their parents paid into the system - who don't have master's degrees. They just cost more, not a paltry $65k for a minimum of 5-6 years of schooling in a difficult program. Truck drivers make about that much with 5-6 years experience.
If they genuinely are the only person in the world with the expertise and the research is that important...then cough up the 100k. A university with a billion dollar grant can afford that, and if they have a doctorate and a truly irreplaceable skill, they deserve north of 100k...
If the client pays $100k it's still a more viable option for them to consider hiring an American, except of course in California. This also fixes another loophole where nonprofits could bring in all the H1Bs they want with no cap - they still can, but needing to pay $100k, indexed for inflation, is a lot better than it is now.
Making the bill even sweeter, actual wages in America are NOT increasing with inflation. So in 10 or 20 years, that 100k will effectively be even higher.
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Agree. You could have individual air lines or hydraulic lines to each wheel actuator. Send the fluid one way for that wheel to spin forward, the other way for reverse. Then a minimum robot is just 2 drive cogs, then a fiber optic line for vision and a second fiber optic line for light. No reason it couldn't sit directly next to the molten fuel and work indefinitely. Have an internal chamber and a scintillator tube with a fiber optic line that can relay an image back. From the light intensity - how often the tube is getting stimulated - you'd be able to measure the radiation level. Probably have to use special tubes made just for this.
You can buy FTDI development boards that do come direct from FTDI from Mouser. As well as the chips themselves. Reason these things are pirated so often is they are the best. (or, I guess more accurately, everyone else's is crap).
And you think that rolling your own driver isn't going to carry the same risk?
? The upper limit to radiation? Well at a certain density of radiation flux, matter itself is spontaneously being created. Such as near the surface of a black hole.
Those numbers probably just mean new plants that produce power, not net capacity increases. It makes sense to shutter an older, less efficient (or more expensive to repair) fossil fuel plant and to replace it with newer natural gas combined cycle equipment.
We're talking about default behavior here. Obviously if the user wants to override that and install any (signed) driver they want, they can do it. If they want install an unsigned driver, these days they are forced to reboot into safe mode, which I don't disagree with, since drivers have the privileges to do almost anything and the user has no way to know what a driver will do from the binary.
Yeah that's what I don't get. Why doesn't version number take precedence over time stamp? Why isn't the time stamp the date the manufacturer driver got Windows Certified? If you think about it, the last windows certified driver is going to be the one you want, from the perspective of an OS updater you want the latest version from the most stable branch.
I'm doing embedded work. I've noticed (and done myself) that there is a way to dodge this issue. What you do is, you stick an FTDI chip at the front end. USB to serial is the easiest, but if you need more bandwidth, you can do USB to SPI. So FTDI manages the drivers, and most windows (and Linux) PCs are going to have valid FTDI drivers in them from OS install. You then either access the chip by having it map to a comm port or there is a way to link to FTDI's drivers.
Either way, you export the problem - FTDI worries about writing and maintaining the driver, which hundreds of millions of devices depend on, and you just piggy back on that driver for your gadget. Works great and you can be up and running in under a day. (just use their USB to serial one, and connect RX and TX, and use the scanf/printf which most any microcontroller has support for)
How are they going to solve the problems of :
1. High fuel consumption. Fun fact : the type of batteries you need for this kind of range burn themselves up very quickly as providing this level of current is very stressful on them. It costs more to replace the aircraft's battery pack than the equivalent amount of jetfuel would cost for the same energy delivered.
2. High liability, thus very high aircraft manufacturing costs. You can't make a helicopter with any real cargo capacity for less than 10s of millions of dollars, why do you think you can make a flying bus any cheaper?
3. Highly skilled workers to operate them. Even if they fly themselves, you need highly paid mechanics to maintain them, well paid ATC operators to monitor them, an expensive place free of debris to launch them from, etc etc etc.
4. Low demand. These things only make sense for moderate distance trips. They save you about 90 minutes of driving time but now you gotta wait to board, wait to leave, and go through security. Nope.
Well said. I have to say, I had been looking in horror at some of the pending decisions by Trump, but the fact that he's taking action and actually doing the thing he said he was going to do is a huge, yuge point in his favor.
Sorry but I have the Newegg.com invoice to prove it? I paid $65 for 2 TB in 2010.
Actually, deal prices for HDDs have yet to drop below ~$30 a terrabyte. This is 2010 era pre-flood/pre-consolidation prices. I haven't seen a price for a new drive from a quality brand dip below that.
While I've seen SSDs hit $200/terrabyte. So the price delta is 6-10x at this point. It's rapidly shrinking.
The suits only matter in the very narrow case where :
a. The cabin loses pressure to a failure
b. The failure is not so drastic it kills everyone anyway
The rest of the time, they are just excess bulk. Among other problems, they depend on the pressure manifold of the life support system in the spacecraft to remain pressurized. A micrometeorite impact in the right spot or cryogenic tank explosion will break that and the crew will die regardless.
So making the suits as light as possible to still hold pressure most of the time is the only goal.
Is it? Don't the big 4 charge around $20-$30 per line? That's not any cheaper. Project fi is really useful for people who heavily use wi-fi but occasionally need to do some remote web browsing or maps when away from home or work. I personally use a couple hundred megs a month on average as both home and work have wi fi and I do not use my phone as a primary media consumption device. (I don't watch movies on it, etc, I just use it like a tool and only when I need it to get somewhere or call someone)
Only a total moron would come to the US expecting a fair trial, after literally being called a traitor worthy of the firing squad or life imprisonment by major politicians on broadcast TV. And only a total moron would expect an after the fact pardon either. Heck, only a moron would expect the state to even honor a plea bargain made, if the bargain was made while the State did not actually have Snowden in custody. So I doubt it will come to this. Only way I see Snowden ever returning to US soil is if a very progressive set of politicians take power 20 years from now, and they pardon him before he ever tries to return.
Stealth brag I guess, but I've had 32 gb since 2015, think it costs $150 total. You know, on a hand built PC desktop.
" invited in India to assist in force the shias to back off"
Did you mean someone else or did India really get involved?
It's more than 85,000, it's closer to 250k.
I don't disagree in the slightest with Trump being overall bad, but the H1B thing is a scam. Certain large companies have entire wings that sound like Bombay. Are all these Indian employees the best of the best, worth importing from overseas? This has not been my personal experience.
I didn't vote for Trump, and I think many of the things he has proposed are bad, and worse, we don't even know what he really plans to do because it seems to change weekly. Nor do many of the things he does inspire much confidence in the man.
The $100k is not a minimum wage for Americans. The reason to impose it is because with the high costs of living in America, $60k isn't really enough to pay back the college loans needed- or be worth spending 4-6 years in school - to even be considered for the kind of jobs we are talking about here.
Would be nice, but politics rather gives anyone exactly what they want. This compromise means that the program serves it's stated purpose.
Agree, so long as the H1B was a superstar talent, as proven by commanding a large salary.
There already is such a minimum wage, $60k. Yes, there are American companies that are strongly against this change, but they contribute to a political party that is not in charge at the present time.
...This is precisely what this bill is meant to prevent. It's not like there aren't Americans - who paid into the system, or their parents paid into the system - who don't have master's degrees. They just cost more, not a paltry $65k for a minimum of 5-6 years of schooling in a difficult program. Truck drivers make about that much with 5-6 years experience.
If they genuinely are the only person in the world with the expertise and the research is that important...then cough up the 100k. A university with a billion dollar grant can afford that, and if they have a doctorate and a truly irreplaceable skill, they deserve north of 100k...
If the client pays $100k it's still a more viable option for them to consider hiring an American, except of course in California. This also fixes another loophole where nonprofits could bring in all the H1Bs they want with no cap - they still can, but needing to pay $100k, indexed for inflation, is a lot better than it is now.
Making the bill even sweeter, actual wages in America are NOT increasing with inflation. So in 10 or 20 years, that 100k will effectively be even higher.