As the other AC pointed out, the V-22 and the A400M engines work on the same principle - a turbine engine (basically a jet) drives a shaft which turns a rotor (V-22) or a propeller (A400M). In other words it's as much of a jet as the A400M.
The V-22 also not the first of it's kind, although it is the first to have been built in large numbers. It's direct ancestors were the Bell XV-3 and XV-15 (two of each built), and it has a civilian cousin, the Bell/Agusta/AgustaWestland BA609. There have been a number of other tiltrotor and tiltwing designs built and flown successfully, by Bell and other companies. The A400M is a known concept as far as the aircraft itself goes, but the engines (TP-400) are a completely new design built especially for it, partly because there was (until the TP-400) no western turboprop that powerful.
The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey crashed 4 times during testing killing 30 crew members. The previous Airbus crash in testing was in 1994, if you want to go that far back there was a fatal Antonov An-70 crash in 2001, also due to engine problems. New aircraft sometimes crash as the bugs are worked out, the 787 was just lucky that none of the incidents were fatal.
All modern planes except light GA aircraft have engines have fully computer-controlled engines, it's called FADEC and it's what makes them efficient, reliable and much safer (in general). Sometimes these have bugs, particularly on new engine designs.
Only in America. Go anywhere else and it will be "Keurig-what?". Thank goodness for the first sentence of the summary, the title would otherwise be incomprehensible in the rest of the world. Keurig wasn't even the first, Nestle (Nespresso) and Lavazza at least were there first.
Well, Intel did establish an R&D center in Moscow based around (some of) the group that designed the Elbrus, and the lead designer Boris Babayan is an Intel Fellow. Buying up Itanium itself, though, wouldn't be much of a win, it's not that much better than Elbrus and Elbrus can natively run x86 code, which is a big win. Add to that the Russians control the IP, why give that up for Itanium? Particularly as the architecture has been used in their military computers for years.
Yes, it's a server/workstation chip.. but as the comment below says, one man's PC is another man's server these days.
Architecturally the Itanium line is the closest western equivalent to the Elbrus (though without Elbrus' x68 translation), and the Itanium Tukwila from 2010 was 65nm. Hence the 5 years.
Just to add to my comment, really the modern Elbrus line and its use of VLIW/EPIC is most closely equivalent to the Itanium, indeed the Elbrus-2000 which implemented the Elbrus-3 architecture along with x86 dynamic translation was touted as a Merced competitor, but they (the Russians) couldn't really fund it at the time. Elbrus-4S is derived from that lineage.
No. The early (Elbrus-1 and -2) were mainframes with some architectural similarities to Burroughs mainframes (the Russians studied the western architectures, but the design itself was independent). The Elbrus-3 (which was the ancestor of the new chips as well as a parallel line implementing the SPARC ISA) was a new VLIW design, but again aimed at the mini/super/mainframe class and multiprocessing, and again independently designed.
Elbrus-family chips have been around since the 1970s and have their own (Elbrus) architecture. The Elbrus-2000 derivatives such as the Elbrus-4S (the article seems to have confused the Cyrillic C which is a Latin S) support the Elbrus native ISA and alongside that x86 via a Transmeta-like dynamic translation.
Putting an improperly secured table in the back of a pickup truck which may or may not be properly maintained with adequate brakes, may not have the load properly distributed, may be overloaded, and may not have a driver trained to deal with that, is dangerous. To the driver and, more importantly, to other road users. Now on ordinary person moving a friend's table will do that once a year, if that. Little aggregate risk. But someone doing it off-the-books commercially from the lot at Home Depot might make three or four such runs a day, every day. Much bigger aggregate risk, which is why there is different insurance for it and why there are safety, weight, size, loading and driver training regulations which are enforced by law enforcement (there is even a special unit that does it, alongside Highway Patrol).
Yes, it's "on you" (the driver/truck owner) but that doesn't help the little old lady when his non-commercial insurance refuses to pay because at the time of the accident he was engaged in commercial activity against the terms of his insurance policy. And that clause is there because a commercial driver does many more miles (also in a more loaded vehicle, with longer braking etc.) and thus has a much higher risk of accident in a given time period than a non-commercial one, thus the premium should be and is higher.
People doing regular commercial hauling without proper licensing and insurance are getting the benefits of commercial work while skirting the responsibilities (insurance, probably commercial vehicle maintenance and loading standards, likely taxes as well, much of it is probably off-the books), off-loading the costs on everyone else. These regulations didn't appear magically, they evolved for a reason.
It's to be built on what is essentially an arid volcanic desert on top of a mountain 4km up, above the cloud layer, alongside other telescopes which have been there for decades. No one films there, no one goes there (except for astronomers, and they have to acclimatise to the altitude). It's a moonscape.
I find it amazing (and not in a good way) that getting extra credit for protesting is even possible. It strikes me as deeply unethical, along the same lines as buying votes (which I'm quite sure the humanities professors involved would decry loudly).
If you're that worried just work on a remote machine in a secure location via an encrypted remote desktop session. Nothing in local ram or disk. Anyway, since when does "kill" equal "shutdown nicely"? *sigh*
The issue is that all of those places are somewhere something else happened or is. The summit of Mauna Kea is a barren desert, with no relics and very little (if any) wildlife, for the same reason that makes it so attractive for astronomy (high altitude and very low humidity or rainfall). The natural and ancient sites (including a quarry, clearly mining was ok) are lower down and protected by reserves.
The governenet cares because they sell spectrum allocations, and can re-sell the ones taken back from analog. Furthermore because the digital broadcasts use less bandwidth per station and are less susceptible to crosstalk they can sell more of them per Mhz of spectrum.
I was looking for a comment along these lines.. exactly. Over the years I've found that good code is that which can be opened up months or years after it was written and changed or repurposed easily. Good programmers seem to write this instinctively.
The light source is more blue than daylight, which some people find uncomfortable. Use more red-balanced LEDs and something like f.lux or refshift to change the monitor's color balance.
"London" invariably refers to Greater London which, for all practical purposes, is a city, i.e. continuous urban landscape. Nobody ever refers to the City of London as London, it's just "the City".
redshift-gtk on Linux and f.lux on Windows (although nowadays there is an f.lux version for Linux, but I'm used to redshift). Both use geolocation/entered geographical coordinates to match the changing color balance to your local day night cycle, and have adjustable day and night color temperature. Both work very well and considerably reduce eyestrain when working at night, and are set-up once and forget. I recommend them to everyone who spends hours in front of a screen.
(for Android I have Screen Filter, it doesn't do the reddening but it does darken the screen beyond what the usual bright control can do.)
Saying "they tried a Foscam but the quality was too poor" is like saying "they tried food but didn't like it". Which one? Foscam make dozens of models up to at least 960p (I haven't checked their range recently), I find it hard to believe they won't work for this (or at least any worse than the other manufacturers' cameras).
Which is $800 more than the existing chalkboard, requires power, and will fail/have to be replaced within a few years. And chalkboards can be quite high up, all you need is a stepladder or a chair once a day.
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As the other AC pointed out, the V-22 and the A400M engines work on the same principle - a turbine engine (basically a jet) drives a shaft which turns a rotor (V-22) or a propeller (A400M). In other words it's as much of a jet as the A400M.
The V-22 also not the first of it's kind, although it is the first to have been built in large numbers. It's direct ancestors were the Bell XV-3 and XV-15 (two of each built), and it has a civilian cousin, the Bell/Agusta/AgustaWestland BA609. There have been a number of other tiltrotor and tiltwing designs built and flown successfully, by Bell and other companies. The A400M is a known concept as far as the aircraft itself goes, but the engines (TP-400) are a completely new design built especially for it, partly because there was (until the TP-400) no western turboprop that powerful.
The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey crashed 4 times during testing killing 30 crew members. The previous Airbus crash in testing was in 1994, if you want to go that far back there was a fatal Antonov An-70 crash in 2001, also due to engine problems. New aircraft sometimes crash as the bugs are worked out, the 787 was just lucky that none of the incidents were fatal.
All modern planes except light GA aircraft have engines have fully computer-controlled engines, it's called FADEC and it's what makes them efficient, reliable and much safer (in general). Sometimes these have bugs, particularly on new engine designs.
Only in America. Go anywhere else and it will be "Keurig-what?". Thank goodness for the first sentence of the summary, the title would otherwise be incomprehensible in the rest of the world. Keurig wasn't even the first, Nestle (Nespresso) and Lavazza at least were there first.
Well, Intel did establish an R&D center in Moscow based around (some of) the group that designed the Elbrus, and the lead designer Boris Babayan is an Intel Fellow. Buying up Itanium itself, though, wouldn't be much of a win, it's not that much better than Elbrus and Elbrus can natively run x86 code, which is a big win. Add to that the Russians control the IP, why give that up for Itanium? Particularly as the architecture has been used in their military computers for years.
Yes, it's a server/workstation chip .. but as the comment below says, one man's PC is another man's server these days.
Intel shipped 65nm Itanium Tukwila in 2010, Elbrus is most similar to that (VLIW/EPIC).
Architecturally the Itanium line is the closest western equivalent to the Elbrus (though without Elbrus' x68 translation), and the Itanium Tukwila from 2010 was 65nm. Hence the 5 years.
Just to add to my comment, really the modern Elbrus line and its use of VLIW/EPIC is most closely equivalent to the Itanium, indeed the Elbrus-2000 which implemented the Elbrus-3 architecture along with x86 dynamic translation was touted as a Merced competitor, but they (the Russians) couldn't really fund it at the time. Elbrus-4S is derived from that lineage.
No. The early (Elbrus-1 and -2) were mainframes with some architectural similarities to Burroughs mainframes (the Russians studied the western architectures, but the design itself was independent). The Elbrus-3 (which was the ancestor of the new chips as well as a parallel line implementing the SPARC ISA) was a new VLIW design, but again aimed at the mini/super/mainframe class and multiprocessing, and again independently designed.
Elbrus-family chips have been around since the 1970s and have their own (Elbrus) architecture. The Elbrus-2000 derivatives such as the Elbrus-4S (the article seems to have confused the Cyrillic C which is a Latin S) support the Elbrus native ISA and alongside that x86 via a Transmeta-like dynamic translation.
Putting an improperly secured table in the back of a pickup truck which may or may not be properly maintained with adequate brakes, may not have the load properly distributed, may be overloaded, and may not have a driver trained to deal with that, is dangerous. To the driver and, more importantly, to other road users. Now on ordinary person moving a friend's table will do that once a year, if that. Little aggregate risk. But someone doing it off-the-books commercially from the lot at Home Depot might make three or four such runs a day, every day. Much bigger aggregate risk, which is why there is different insurance for it and why there are safety, weight, size, loading and driver training regulations which are enforced by law enforcement (there is even a special unit that does it, alongside Highway Patrol).
Yes, it's "on you" (the driver/truck owner) but that doesn't help the little old lady when his non-commercial insurance refuses to pay because at the time of the accident he was engaged in commercial activity against the terms of his insurance policy. And that clause is there because a commercial driver does many more miles (also in a more loaded vehicle, with longer braking etc.) and thus has a much higher risk of accident in a given time period than a non-commercial one, thus the premium should be and is higher.
People doing regular commercial hauling without proper licensing and insurance are getting the benefits of commercial work while skirting the responsibilities (insurance, probably commercial vehicle maintenance and loading standards, likely taxes as well, much of it is probably off-the books), off-loading the costs on everyone else. These regulations didn't appear magically, they evolved for a reason.
It's to be built on what is essentially an arid volcanic desert on top of a mountain 4km up, above the cloud layer, alongside other telescopes which have been there for decades. No one films there, no one goes there (except for astronomers, and they have to acclimatise to the altitude). It's a moonscape.
I find it amazing (and not in a good way) that getting extra credit for protesting is even possible. It strikes me as deeply unethical, along the same lines as buying votes (which I'm quite sure the humanities professors involved would decry loudly).
Ok, thanks for the explanation.
If you're that worried just work on a remote machine in a secure location via an encrypted remote desktop session. Nothing in local ram or disk. Anyway, since when does "kill" equal "shutdown nicely"? *sigh*
The issue is that all of those places are somewhere something else happened or is. The summit of Mauna Kea is a barren desert, with no relics and very little (if any) wildlife, for the same reason that makes it so attractive for astronomy (high altitude and very low humidity or rainfall). The natural and ancient sites (including a quarry, clearly mining was ok) are lower down and protected by reserves.
FlyHelicopters makes a good point, too ...
"curb" meaning a restraint or to restrain (as used by the OP) is spelled "curb" in both British and American usage.
"curb" meaning the raised edge of a roadway is spelled "kerb" in British usage.
The governenet cares because they sell spectrum allocations, and can re-sell the ones taken back from analog. Furthermore because the digital broadcasts use less bandwidth per station and are less susceptible to crosstalk they can sell more of them per Mhz of spectrum.
I was looking for a comment along these lines .. exactly. Over the years I've found that good code is that which can be opened up months or years after it was written and changed or repurposed easily. Good programmers seem to write this instinctively.
The light source is more blue than daylight, which some people find uncomfortable. Use more red-balanced LEDs and something like f.lux or refshift to change the monitor's color balance.
"London" invariably refers to Greater London which, for all practical purposes, is a city, i.e. continuous urban landscape. Nobody ever refers to the City of London as London, it's just "the City".
redshift-gtk on Linux and f.lux on Windows (although nowadays there is an f.lux version for Linux, but I'm used to redshift). Both use geolocation/entered geographical coordinates to match the changing color balance to your local day night cycle, and have adjustable day and night color temperature. Both work very well and considerably reduce eyestrain when working at night, and are set-up once and forget. I recommend them to everyone who spends hours in front of a screen.
(for Android I have Screen Filter, it doesn't do the reddening but it does darken the screen beyond what the usual bright control can do.)
Fair enough.
Saying "they tried a Foscam but the quality was too poor" is like saying "they tried food but didn't like it". Which one? Foscam make dozens of models up to at least 960p (I haven't checked their range recently), I find it hard to believe they won't work for this (or at least any worse than the other manufacturers' cameras).
Which is $800 more than the existing chalkboard, requires power, and will fail/have to be replaced within a few years. And chalkboards can be quite high up, all you need is a stepladder or a chair once a day.