legos... stay away from the technical... sets, as they tend to be more problematic and less re-usable;
Nonsense. The Technic range is mostly standard parts, plus a few specialty parts in each kit. They're fantastically reusable, only limited by the kid's imagination and (for larger creations) your budget.
This craft is also capable of bombing missions, according to the Military Channel's own documentaries on experimental craft. It DOES have a bomb bay and missile mounts.
It's unlikely that the Military Channel knows anything more than we do. Documentaries on current projects, especially black ones like this, are more speculation than fact.
But e-readers don't always make research easy. Mr. Finder said that many books he has read on the Kindle lacked a real index compiled by a human, adding that the ability to search for keywords was hardly an adequate replacement.
Mr. Finder has a real issue, however it's got nothing to do with ebooks. Human-compiled indices are more expensive to create than automatically-generated ones, so not that many books include one. That goes for dead-tree books just as much as for ebooks.
Granted, if you're going to publish a book only in electronic format, it may be tempting to forego the index altogether and rely on the search function, but that's merely the next step.
...The gold is plated and only a couple or angstroms thick, in other words it is worthless.
Overly expensive cables make no sense, but goldplated connectors have an actual, measurable non-bullshit effect. 1. no oxidation means low contact resistance even after prolonged use (nickel-plated connectors degrade visibly over a decade or so). 2. because gold is relatively soft, it can mold itself to the surface imperfections of the connector, increasing contact area and decreasing resistance.
For carrying the output of the main amplifier to the speakers, ANY cable that can handle the power load without overheating and starting your house on fire will work fine. We are talking high voltage and current levels.
Signal cables... We are talking millivolts here. They need to be well shielded and well built that is about it and the mechanical connection needs to fit securely.
For speaker cable, selecting a thicker cable than strictly needed to not start fires will have benefits (lower resistance means better performance).
Signal cables benefit from having low capacitance, otherwise they'll work as a filter.
The Amplifier. If it produces and undistorted wave form from it's minimum to it's maximum power ( measured in watts ) output with a flat frequency response in it's specified spectrum rating then it will introduce nothing to alter the sound.
The Speakers. If the speakers produce the same wave form, without distortio then it will not alter the sound.
The biggest problem with almost EVERY music system being built today is the fact that the power supply is inadequate
You're stating the desired effect (what hifi equipment manufacturer Quad used to call the 'straight wire with gain'). However, this goal is not attainable. Every electrical or mechanical construct will introduce some distortion. Cheap or badly made equipment produces more distortion. Your recommendation is sound though.;-)
the RN Submarine Museum in Gosport, near Portsmouth, UK. Has a WW2-era sub and the Holland I, from 1901. the Royal Netherlands Navy museum in den Helder, NL. Has a 1960's sub. the German maritime museum in Bremerhaven, D. Has a Type XXI (end of WW2, considered to be the first modern submarine)
4x HD may be new for video imaging, but other medical imaging techniques have used higher resolutions forever. >HD monitors are quite common in medical applications, too.
There are several comments along these lines, but TFA has a point. Broadband access means access to business opportunities and information, both essential to get a developing nation out of the hole they're in. Forget universal access, if even a fraction of the population can get broadband at decent prices it'll have a huge knock-on effect.
Also, the parent suggests everyone in developing nations lives without security, stability, access to medical care, and clean drinking water, which is simply not true. The hellholes are the places we keep hearing about, but mostly, developing nations are just that: developing.
What's needed for Napsterization to happen, is a file format that's universal (or close enough). I don't think PDF is that format. With its fixed page and font sizes it's not suited for the varying screen sizes found in ebook readers. Piracy in the form of scanned or OCR'ed PDFs won't take off on a huge scale for the same reason.
HTML would be a better choice, but converting a scanned book to HTML (especially if the book layout uses multiple columns) is nontrivial.
When we talk about 'open source' I expect the source code to be available. For a book, this would be not just a PDF, but the files used to create that PDF: the formatted text and graphics. But then we arrive at the next problem: how open are those? If the publisher chooses to publish it in a proprietary format (Word, Quark XPress, FrameMaker) it still isn't truly 'open source' IMO.
In this context I think it's better to talk about public domain than open source.
Could it be we're seeing the end of the regular replacement of interfaces? At least cabling-wise, I can't see us going to need more than optical + power for a long time. This would be a nice change from the craziness that has infested the industry for too long: e.g. monochrome-CGA-EGA-VGA-Apple DB15-ADC-DVI-HDMI-DisplayPort, FireWire 400-800 and the bazillion flavors of SCSI before that.
In the 1940s, the British were no further along in designing codes than the Germans. Both used ingenious versions of the old letter substitution algorithm. Shannon's paper and the advent of digital computers were a watershed in code design. That the British used electronic computers to break German codes is entirely beside the point. It's not a coincidence the headline talks about 'cryptography' and not the art of reading or breaking codes, i.e. cryptanalysis.
This raises some questions: 1. why design the ATV for the smaller hatch, when a larger one is apparently available and would afford greater flexibility? 2. had the larger hatch been used, there would have been no need for HTV. IMO it's ridiculous to have 2 designs to do basically the same mission. 3. what were they thinking, using 2 different hatch designs on one space station?
Wind turbines should have a more or less predictable (and hence, recognizable) radar signature. IIRC the US military use turbine signatures (of aircraft engines) as part of non-cooperative target recognition (NCTR), i.e. the ability to recognize the aircraft type from a radar return, without having to rely on IFF transponders. But this probably requires better radars and processing than Nexrad can provide.
Chief among this year's actions were five separate law enforcement raids against game pirates in California, resulting in the seizure of several thousand games and dozens of modded consoles, and the arrests of five individuals.
Did the PR flack reading the press release sound like John Cleese at all?
UPC is renowned over here for their crappy customer 'service' (endless billing issues, impossible to end a contract, lousy support etc.), it's one of the most customer-hostile ISPs here.
So a blog post gets a/. mention. Then the blogger summarizes the/. comments into a top-ten list (and a quick perusal suggests it's just a copy-and-paste job of the +5 comments, no new information added) and submits this summary as another/. story and gets those recycled comments accepted? A rather cheap way to drive up page hits, IMO.
At $1e6 apiece, your supply of missiles is going to be constrained. A single warship, for instance, easily has $100 million worth of missiles on board; ISTR stories of a few years ago when the US Navy had problems buying enough missiles for all their ships. The same goes for anti-ICBM missiles. Production is also a problem: when you expend your entire production run of missiles (iirc this happened in Gulf War 1) you'd have to wait months for new ones to be manufactured. A laser can easily be recharged.
Actually, this is one of the reasons laser weapons are being developed. It's much cheaper to shoot lasers at a bunch of decoys instead of missiles costing >1e6$ apiece.
Also, weapons like the ABL can be used to shoot at missiles during the boost phase, before decoys can be deployed.
And, the best defence against a full scale nuclear attack by the Russians is deterrence. The ABL is meant more for use against tinpot dictators firing Scuds.
But I wouldnt trust them to write a document I'm going to hand to fresh recruits. Thats work best left for the officers.
Um, no. Officers aren't much better equipped to write a comprehensible manual than are enlisted men. Writing a manual is best left to a technical writer, someone trained to extricate information from the experts and convert this into a format readable by a novice.
That said, the second most valuable resource for a technical writer is feedback from the field (the most valuable is actual field experience, but that's not always feasible). This wiki would be a real boon in that area.
several one-of-a-kind exhibits, including a German submarine, a simulated coal mine,
One of a kind? There are several German WW2 submarines in museums. A simulated coal mine sounds fun, but not as impressive as visiting a real mine (I've been in several mines-turned-museums in the UK).
I've long been looking for a browser plugin that will convert any numbers and units it finds on a Webpage and replaces them with SI equivalents. Come to think of it, you wouldn't need tagging for that: convertible numbers will invariably have a relevant unit symbol next to them.
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legos ... stay away from the technical ... sets, as they tend to be more problematic and less re-usable;
Nonsense. The Technic range is mostly standard parts, plus a few specialty parts in each kit. They're fantastically reusable, only limited by the kid's imagination and (for larger creations) your budget.
The problem is both hard and simple at the same time: Hire Google-like problem solvers.
If you think the NSA hasn't come up with that idea, I'm afraid you sorely underestimate them.
This craft is also capable of bombing missions, according to the Military Channel's own documentaries on experimental craft. It DOES have a bomb bay and missile mounts.
It's unlikely that the Military Channel knows anything more than we do. Documentaries on current projects, especially black ones like this, are more speculation than fact.
But e-readers don't always make research easy. Mr. Finder said that many books he has read on the Kindle lacked a real index compiled by a human, adding that the ability to search for keywords was hardly an adequate replacement.
Mr. Finder has a real issue, however it's got nothing to do with ebooks. Human-compiled indices are more expensive to create than automatically-generated ones, so not that many books include one. That goes for dead-tree books just as much as for ebooks.
Granted, if you're going to publish a book only in electronic format, it may be tempting to forego the index altogether and rely on the search function, but that's merely the next step.
...The gold is plated and only a couple or angstroms thick, in other words it is worthless.
Overly expensive cables make no sense, but goldplated connectors have an actual, measurable non-bullshit effect.
1. no oxidation means low contact resistance even after prolonged use (nickel-plated connectors degrade visibly over a decade or so).
2. because gold is relatively soft, it can mold itself to the surface imperfections of the connector, increasing contact area and decreasing resistance.
For carrying the output of the main amplifier to the speakers, ANY cable that can handle the power load without overheating and starting your house on fire will work fine. We are talking high voltage and current levels.
Signal cables... We are talking millivolts here. They need to be well shielded and well built that is about it and the mechanical connection needs to fit securely.
For speaker cable, selecting a thicker cable than strictly needed to not start fires will have benefits (lower resistance means better performance).
Signal cables benefit from having low capacitance, otherwise they'll work as a filter.
The Amplifier. If it produces and undistorted wave form from it's minimum to it's maximum power ( measured in watts ) output with a flat frequency response in it's specified spectrum rating then it will introduce nothing to alter the sound.
The Speakers. If the speakers produce the same wave form, without distortio then it will not alter the sound.
The biggest problem with almost EVERY music system being built today is the fact that the power supply is inadequate
You're stating the desired effect (what hifi equipment manufacturer Quad used to call the 'straight wire with gain'). However, this goal is not attainable. Every electrical or mechanical construct will introduce some distortion. Cheap or badly made equipment produces more distortion. Your recommendation is sound though. ;-)
don't mention the wall?
the RN Submarine Museum in Gosport, near Portsmouth, UK. Has a WW2-era sub and the Holland I, from 1901.
the Royal Netherlands Navy museum in den Helder, NL. Has a 1960's sub.
the German maritime museum in Bremerhaven, D. Has a Type XXI (end of WW2, considered to be the first modern submarine)
4x HD may be new for video imaging, but other medical imaging techniques have used higher resolutions forever. >HD monitors are quite common in medical applications, too.
It's good to have a standard, pity it's 10 years late. Also, why the hell is this not mandatory?
There are several comments along these lines, but TFA has a point. Broadband access means access to business opportunities and information, both essential to get a developing nation out of the hole they're in. Forget universal access, if even a fraction of the population can get broadband at decent prices it'll have a huge knock-on effect.
Also, the parent suggests everyone in developing nations lives without security, stability, access to medical care, and clean drinking water, which is simply not true. The hellholes are the places we keep hearing about, but mostly, developing nations are just that: developing.
What's needed for Napsterization to happen, is a file format that's universal (or close enough). I don't think PDF is that format. With its fixed page and font sizes it's not suited for the varying screen sizes found in ebook readers. Piracy in the form of scanned or OCR'ed PDFs won't take off on a huge scale for the same reason.
HTML would be a better choice, but converting a scanned book to HTML (especially if the book layout uses multiple columns) is nontrivial.
When we talk about 'open source' I expect the source code to be available. For a book, this would be not just a PDF, but the files used to create that PDF: the formatted text and graphics. But then we arrive at the next problem: how open are those? If the publisher chooses to publish it in a proprietary format (Word, Quark XPress, FrameMaker) it still isn't truly 'open source' IMO.
In this context I think it's better to talk about public domain than open source.
Could it be we're seeing the end of the regular replacement of interfaces? At least cabling-wise, I can't see us going to need more than optical + power for a long time.
This would be a nice change from the craziness that has infested the industry for too long: e.g. monochrome-CGA-EGA-VGA-Apple DB15-ADC-DVI-HDMI-DisplayPort, FireWire 400-800 and the bazillion flavors of SCSI before that.
In the 1940s, the British were no further along in designing codes than the Germans. Both used ingenious versions of the old letter substitution algorithm. Shannon's paper and the advent of digital computers were a watershed in code design.
That the British used electronic computers to break German codes is entirely beside the point. It's not a coincidence the headline talks about 'cryptography' and not the art of reading or breaking codes, i.e. cryptanalysis.
This raises some questions:
1. why design the ATV for the smaller hatch, when a larger one is apparently available and would afford greater flexibility?
2. had the larger hatch been used, there would have been no need for HTV. IMO it's ridiculous to have 2 designs to do basically the same mission.
3. what were they thinking, using 2 different hatch designs on one space station?
Wind turbines should have a more or less predictable (and hence, recognizable) radar signature. IIRC the US military use turbine signatures (of aircraft engines) as part of non-cooperative target recognition (NCTR), i.e. the ability to recognize the aircraft type from a radar return, without having to rely on IFF transponders. But this probably requires better radars and processing than Nexrad can provide.
Chief among this year's actions were five separate law enforcement raids against game pirates in California, resulting in the seizure of several thousand games and dozens of modded consoles, and the arrests of five individuals.
Did the PR flack reading the press release sound like John Cleese at all?
UPC is renowned over here for their crappy customer 'service' (endless billing issues, impossible to end a contract, lousy support etc.), it's one of the most customer-hostile ISPs here.
So a blog post gets a /. mention. Then the blogger summarizes the /. comments into a top-ten list (and a quick perusal suggests it's just a copy-and-paste job of the +5 comments, no new information added) and submits this summary as another /. story and gets those recycled comments accepted?
A rather cheap way to drive up page hits, IMO.
At $1e6 apiece, your supply of missiles is going to be constrained. A single warship, for instance, easily has $100 million worth of missiles on board; ISTR stories of a few years ago when the US Navy had problems buying enough missiles for all their ships. The same goes for anti-ICBM missiles.
Production is also a problem: when you expend your entire production run of missiles (iirc this happened in Gulf War 1) you'd have to wait months for new ones to be manufactured. A laser can easily be recharged.
Actually, this is one of the reasons laser weapons are being developed. It's much cheaper to shoot lasers at a bunch of decoys instead of missiles costing >1e6$ apiece.
Also, weapons like the ABL can be used to shoot at missiles during the boost phase, before decoys can be deployed.
And, the best defence against a full scale nuclear attack by the Russians is deterrence. The ABL is meant more for use against tinpot dictators firing Scuds.
But I wouldnt trust them to write a document I'm going to hand to fresh recruits. Thats work best left for the officers.
Um, no. Officers aren't much better equipped to write a comprehensible manual than are enlisted men. Writing a manual is best left to a technical writer, someone trained to extricate information from the experts and convert this into a format readable by a novice.
That said, the second most valuable resource for a technical writer is feedback from the field (the most valuable is actual field experience, but that's not always feasible). This wiki would be a real boon in that area.
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(technical writer)
several one-of-a-kind exhibits, including a German submarine, a simulated coal mine,
One of a kind? There are several German WW2 submarines in museums. A simulated coal mine sounds fun, but not as impressive as visiting a real mine (I've been in several mines-turned-museums in the UK).
Can't the administrator use the same hack to change the password again, regaining access?
I've long been looking for a browser plugin that will convert any numbers and units it finds on a Webpage and replaces them with SI equivalents. Come to think of it, you wouldn't need tagging for that: convertible numbers will invariably have a relevant unit symbol next to them.