They're not talking about the Core i3/i5/i7 mobile processors for laptops. Those are just the low power versions of the desktop processors. They're talking about atoms, quark and other processors targeting tablets and phones and small embedded applications, those designed to compete with ARM. Apple made a choice, there were options they could have used in the Mac Mini that they didn't offer.
No, if it's properly designed energy goes where the controller sends it. However, temperatures are low enough to freeze the battery, bringing it below the point where it will function. There are many electronic components that just won't work at -100C; or, will be damaged by deep cold. Heaters are critical to operation of most of the components on a deep space probes.
It's not quite that simple. It takes a certain amount of power to keep the computer running, even in low power standby mode. It also requires some energy to run the onboard heaters, which keep the battery and electronics from failing due to the extreme cold. The amount of energy they were receiving in the 90 minutes, before the attempt to turn the probe, was insufficient to supply the heaters, run the computer in low power standby and charge the battery. I don't know if they left the heaters running, because there was concern that the heaters alone were enough to prevent the battery from charging. If not, the battery may freeze solid before charging to a level that's able to restart the computer. It's hoped that that won't be the case... we'll have to wait and see.
Navy is having to consider what's going to happen as sea level inches upwards. At Norfolk (the largest naval base on the East Coast) and the surrounding communities, we're seeing a measurable increase in flooding, particularly in the past two decades. Most of the area is less than 20 feet above mean low tide. Storms like Isabel, which brought 12 feet of storm surge with it, show the area is at risk. It's possible that the base will be under water at some point, possibly within a century if IPCC estimates are correct (a long time, to be sure). That's a serious concern that they would be foolish not to begin planning for.
Seriously: who or what interest does the state imagine it is "protecting" with this license?
(1) protecting under-age women from working in the clubs (2) tracking who's working in the clubs as a means of controlling or limiting prostitution, (3) stamping out human trafficking for sex trade. (4) They may be working as "independent contractors" in which case licensing allows tracking for taxation purposes
cheap Chinese solar panels on the roof, with an inverter capable of islanding if you can get it past your building codes people. That way you'll have some power during the day when there's no power in the city. Do you own the land? If so, put in a geothermal heat pump. More efficient than traditional heat pumps; so, lower energy consumption and lower operating cost. You're in the city so wood heating might be out of the question... If it's not, put in a wood pellet stove for heat when the oil and gas supplies are cut. If the city infrastructure is down for any significant time, you're going to be out of luck (lack of basic supplies, facilities, water, sewer, etc....)
They did this for sewer hookup around parts of south-east Virginia when they decided one way to mitigate pollution in the Chesapeake Bay was to reduce runoff from septic systems. If electrical service and POTS service hadn't been regulated like they were, the same would have been true of them. I don't see the difference. -- you want the service, you're either paying for it up front or your taxes are paying off a municipal bond. Money has to come from somewhere...
Security and safety of my children came first, of course. Can the home(s) I'm looking at be connected to high-speed internet service was near the top of the list though. I have access to Cox and FiOS up to 150Mb, which meets my needs for the immediate future. Gigabit would be nice to have though...
Because Nerds need funding to do the thing that they do. Funding depends on the economy providing dollars for corporations to spend. It also depends on the Government either directly providing dollars for science and R&D or indirectly creating policy that helps the economy generate dollars. If your a nerd, you should be concerned about what the Government is doing -- it has a direct impact on your ability to do nerdy things.
By the time the weapons are 100 years old (at least by the 2050's) most of the required componentry will be child's play. A little textbook physics (because most of what you need is in the textbooks) and even a private citizen would be able to build one. Only thing stopping anyone would be access to the explosives to make the shaped charges and access to the fuel(s).
Even if only 1 star in 1,000,000 is like ours... that leaves 200 Sol like stars in the Milky Way (which I believe has at least of 200,000,000 stars). And the odds look considerably better than that, based on what we're finding. Fermi Paradox stands.
That definition applies only to our star in general. And there are plenty of reasonable arguments that it needs to be revised. Those planets not circling a star tend to be referred to as "rogue planet" anyway. Frankly, we really don't have a good definition for, or a good classification system for "planet".
Systems composed of multiple stars (binaries, etc.) are more common than singular stars, like our Sun. A binary system is a risky place to be -- there is a strong probability that the gravitational interaction between the paired stars would, given enough time, eject any planetary body which forms there -- the "stable" regions depend on the orbital parameters of the two (or more) stars and can be limited to very narrow bands. So, if planetary formation is a typical process around stars and binaries are more common, then it's likely that the galaxy has a large population of planets ejected from unstable orbits around binaries.
For what it's worth, conjecture is that the Sun formed in a cluster and was, itself, ejected. Nearby stars with identical spectra (implying they formed from the same source material) have been identified.
It's also possible they just didn't fall into a good resonance with a neighboring gas giant. There's evidence that planetary bodies shifted around while Jupiter and Saturn came fell into their final orbital parameters.
So, how do you really feel? Sure, Apple was progressive, no one will argue that... The first decent version of DOS (3.x) came out in 1984. My memory might be faulty; but, I thought Desqview had some support for long file names (or long descriptions for files in a file manager). Windows 3 had some long description support. LFN showed up in 1994, VFAT in 1995, and FAT32 in 1996. I'm not sure what decades (plural) you're speaking of. CP/M was out in the mid 1970's. It had it's limitations, as you know; but, it served it's purpose. (Full Disclosure: I was introduced to computers on Commodore PET, Apple ][, CP/M, and VAX machines. My first DOS experience was 1986)
The NASA communications equipment probably includes crypto technology so they can send encrypted communications if necessary. I would swag that it's compatible with the DOD hardware. So, if they were carrying spares for the comm system...
NASA has always used commercial contractors to do the work and build the components. These contracts are structured somewhat differently; but, NASA is still in control of specs and verifying the contractor has met all the requirements.
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They're not talking about the Core i3/i5/i7 mobile processors for laptops. Those are just the low power versions of the desktop processors. They're talking about atoms, quark and other processors targeting tablets and phones and small embedded applications, those designed to compete with ARM. Apple made a choice, there were options they could have used in the Mac Mini that they didn't offer.
So, you want them to make replicators. That's a great idea. Who knew "grey goo" would look like Lego bricks up close.
No, if it's properly designed energy goes where the controller sends it. However, temperatures are low enough to freeze the battery, bringing it below the point where it will function. There are many electronic components that just won't work at -100C; or, will be damaged by deep cold. Heaters are critical to operation of most of the components on a deep space probes.
perhaps he will find himself waking up on a resurrection ship...
The risk to Rosetta would not make such a maneuver worth trying. Use of propellant would also shorten Rosetta's life.
It's not quite that simple. It takes a certain amount of power to keep the computer running, even in low power standby mode. It also requires some energy to run the onboard heaters, which keep the battery and electronics from failing due to the extreme cold. The amount of energy they were receiving in the 90 minutes, before the attempt to turn the probe, was insufficient to supply the heaters, run the computer in low power standby and charge the battery. I don't know if they left the heaters running, because there was concern that the heaters alone were enough to prevent the battery from charging. If not, the battery may freeze solid before charging to a level that's able to restart the computer. It's hoped that that won't be the case... we'll have to wait and see.
Navy is having to consider what's going to happen as sea level inches upwards. At Norfolk (the largest naval base on the East Coast) and the surrounding communities, we're seeing a measurable increase in flooding, particularly in the past two decades. Most of the area is less than 20 feet above mean low tide. Storms like Isabel, which brought 12 feet of storm surge with it, show the area is at risk. It's possible that the base will be under water at some point, possibly within a century if IPCC estimates are correct (a long time, to be sure). That's a serious concern that they would be foolish not to begin planning for.
Seriously: who or what interest does the state imagine it is "protecting" with this license?
(1) protecting under-age women from working in the clubs (2) tracking who's working in the clubs as a means of controlling or limiting prostitution, (3) stamping out human trafficking for sex trade. (4) They may be working as "independent contractors" in which case licensing allows tracking for taxation purposes
cheap Chinese solar panels on the roof, with an inverter capable of islanding if you can get it past your building codes people. That way you'll have some power during the day when there's no power in the city. Do you own the land? If so, put in a geothermal heat pump. More efficient than traditional heat pumps; so, lower energy consumption and lower operating cost. You're in the city so wood heating might be out of the question... If it's not, put in a wood pellet stove for heat when the oil and gas supplies are cut. If the city infrastructure is down for any significant time, you're going to be out of luck (lack of basic supplies, facilities, water, sewer, etc....)
They did this for sewer hookup around parts of south-east Virginia when they decided one way to mitigate pollution in the Chesapeake Bay was to reduce runoff from septic systems. If electrical service and POTS service hadn't been regulated like they were, the same would have been true of them. I don't see the difference. -- you want the service, you're either paying for it up front or your taxes are paying off a municipal bond. Money has to come from somewhere...
Security and safety of my children came first, of course. Can the home(s) I'm looking at be connected to high-speed internet service was near the top of the list though. I have access to Cox and FiOS up to 150Mb, which meets my needs for the immediate future. Gigabit would be nice to have though...
Because Nerds need funding to do the thing that they do. Funding depends on the economy providing dollars for corporations to spend. It also depends on the Government either directly providing dollars for science and R&D or indirectly creating policy that helps the economy generate dollars. If your a nerd, you should be concerned about what the Government is doing -- it has a direct impact on your ability to do nerdy things.
By the time the weapons are 100 years old (at least by the 2050's) most of the required componentry will be child's play. A little textbook physics (because most of what you need is in the textbooks) and even a private citizen would be able to build one. Only thing stopping anyone would be access to the explosives to make the shaped charges and access to the fuel(s).
Gallium alloys are used in fire suppression systems and thermal safety valve. Anywhere you want a metal plug to melt at a predefined temperature.
All these items have uses besides building a nuclear weapon.
yeah, oops.
Even if only 1 star in 1,000,000 is like ours... that leaves 200 Sol like stars in the Milky Way (which I believe has at least of 200,000,000 stars). And the odds look considerably better than that, based on what we're finding. Fermi Paradox stands.
That definition applies only to our star in general. And there are plenty of reasonable arguments that it needs to be revised. Those planets not circling a star tend to be referred to as "rogue planet" anyway. Frankly, we really don't have a good definition for, or a good classification system for "planet".
Systems composed of multiple stars (binaries, etc.) are more common than singular stars, like our Sun. A binary system is a risky place to be -- there is a strong probability that the gravitational interaction between the paired stars would, given enough time, eject any planetary body which forms there -- the "stable" regions depend on the orbital parameters of the two (or more) stars and can be limited to very narrow bands. So, if planetary formation is a typical process around stars and binaries are more common, then it's likely that the galaxy has a large population of planets ejected from unstable orbits around binaries.
For what it's worth, conjecture is that the Sun formed in a cluster and was, itself, ejected. Nearby stars with identical spectra (implying they formed from the same source material) have been identified.
We're out in the backwater. All the action is happening in the core.
It's also possible they just didn't fall into a good resonance with a neighboring gas giant. There's evidence that planetary bodies shifted around while Jupiter and Saturn came fell into their final orbital parameters.
So, how do you really feel? Sure, Apple was progressive, no one will argue that... The first decent version of DOS (3.x) came out in 1984. My memory might be faulty; but, I thought Desqview had some support for long file names (or long descriptions for files in a file manager). Windows 3 had some long description support. LFN showed up in 1994, VFAT in 1995, and FAT32 in 1996. I'm not sure what decades (plural) you're speaking of. CP/M was out in the mid 1970's. It had it's limitations, as you know; but, it served it's purpose. (Full Disclosure: I was introduced to computers on Commodore PET, Apple ][, CP/M, and VAX machines. My first DOS experience was 1986)
The NASA communications equipment probably includes crypto technology so they can send encrypted communications if necessary. I would swag that it's compatible with the DOD hardware. So, if they were carrying spares for the comm system...
It's going to be 6 months to a year before they'll launch again. It's going to be a long year for Orbital.
NASA has always used commercial contractors to do the work and build the components. These contracts are structured somewhat differently; but, NASA is still in control of specs and verifying the contractor has met all the requirements.