The roads sucked hard back then. A fast car would have been pointless. But there wasn't anything wrong with the propulsion technology. One of the cars mentioned in the linked article averaged 57 mph over a mile course, so it would have been rather more than that measured instantaneously at maximum speed.
So you're saying that all you "normal" people are really relationship experts? Lots of people have relationship problems, and a helpful tip or two might be the deciding factor in marginal cases. Even if your relationship is a happy one, who wouldn't want to grab some low hanging fruit (snickersnack!) and pump it up a notch?
Thumbing your nose at free (possibly useful) advice concerning as aspect of your life you presumably care about sounds like maladjusted behavior to me!
It's hard to see this being much of an impact, even for stressed sites with a lot of Chrome users; people don't usually sit there mashing the refresh button when their page won't load. Most folk will actually implement their own"back-off" feature, Sure, there are outliers, but this is a game of big numbers and average statistics.
Where this can help is with automated page loading. Your saved session has twenty tabs with pages from a single site? That's all loaded at once, in parallel in the browsers I know about. I imagine it can be a considerable load in some cases.
I don't see where hybrids help here. The whole point is to use a smaller, more efficient engine, then add extra juice from the batteries at peak demand. Aircraft don't vary in their power demand by much once they get to cruising altitude. I didn't see this explained, but I've just started reading the links.
Maybe they save up a little juice and use it to help with taking off with the next flight? Short on details.
Hydrogen can be stored and converted to electricity when you need it.
This is in fact, precisely one of the bigger challenges with Hydrogen as an energy storage/delivery medium. It's not so easy to store it, or pipe it over long distances. Its molecules are so tiny that they diffuse through almost anything, leaking out and embrittling the tank or pipe in the process.
Or this one from about the same time. They were trying to develop a consumer version. When they gave up, it was due to a lack of interest (the heyday of SUVs!), not technical problems, from everything I've read.
just the thing for those damn glossy laptops!
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It's so hard making a tent that works right. This'd be just the thing to keep the glare off!
In practice, discriminating torrent content is very difficult. And there's nothing stopping from going after all of it; the language is too vague. It might seem pointless, since such a fuss was made the first time around, but the next time, they'll have this nice bit of explicit policy to fall back on, and some of the voices raised before will not be as loud the next time, as fatigue and cynicism set in.
Speaking of cynics, why don't all you comment-posters invest that time you put into posting your rants into signing the petition linked to in the article, since we all know you didn't read it:)
That's the most extreme upper limit. Only a handful of these extremem events have been recorded. Furthermore, cosmic rays (like particles from solar wind) almost never impact you directly, unless you're in space. They interact with the atmosphere, creating showers of particles, which spread the energy over a large area. I'm not going to do the math now, but the useful figure for effecting electronics might be per square cm per year, at ground level. Most of the cross section of your computer wouldn't notice much if some ionizing radiation passed through it. The CPU and major chips are a pretty small portion of total area. The magnetic domains on your disk platters are probably large enough to be unaffected.
Geothermal is only practical when the hot rocks are a lot closer to the surface, like in Iceland. Sure, drilling wells that deep isn't impossible, but it is expensive, and you can only get so much power out of a single well.
nostalgia isn't what it used to be..
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When you remember those halcyon days in which the the state of the art of search was WAIS. I'll take today's internet, warts and all, thanks.
This wasn't a good test for cosmic censorship, and wasn't intended as such, from my reading of TFA. A better test would have been two counter rotating holes striking slightly off center.
Anyway, it says nothing about unrelated simulations that have shown that naked singularities are likely.
Sorry about the new scientist link, but all the other references I found were unhelpful journal articles.
Good luck with that. Not only a nuclear reactor, but a heat exchanger, a turbine, and a generator. That's a lot of complexity for a space mission. There are more direct ways to generate electricity with nuclear reactions, but none are really practical for this sort of power output, that I'm aware of. I'm thinking a more straightforward application of nuclear power would work better. Something like this.
then it should provide the features of one. Task management, niceness levels, ability to suspend tabs, etc. It really freaked me out how much CPU firefox could eat up while all the tabs are minimized! FF3 seems a lot better, thanks. It wasn't animated GIFs, either. But it might have been flash. When something is going to consume as much resources as web browsers are starting to, it makes sense to have a means to query and manage the resources.
A lot less preinstalled crapware. I'm ppretty sure they all have matte screens. Many of the extra rugged models are explicitly intended for outdoors use, rather than viewing DVDs (which seem to be the main motivation for glossy screens).
Nobody remembers the doubts that turned out to be justified. This is a logical fallacy of the same sort as the one that starts out with people laughing at somebody.. who could be a misunderstood genius waiting for the recognition of history, but more likely as not, really is just an idiot.
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The roads sucked hard back then. A fast car would have been pointless. But there wasn't anything wrong with the propulsion technology. One of the cars mentioned in the linked article averaged 57 mph over a mile course, so it would have been rather more than that measured instantaneously at maximum speed.
We call those things white dwarfs, and they are quite bright. Eventually, they'll become black dwarfs, but the Universe isn't nearly old enough yet.
So you're saying that all you "normal" people are really relationship experts? Lots of people have relationship
problems, and a helpful tip or two might be the deciding factor in marginal cases. Even if your relationship is a happy one, who wouldn't want to grab some low hanging fruit (snickersnack!) and pump it up a notch?
Thumbing your nose at free (possibly useful) advice concerning as aspect of your life you presumably care about sounds like maladjusted behavior to me!
It's hard to see this being much of an impact, even for stressed sites with a lot of Chrome users; people don't usually sit there mashing the refresh button when their page won't load. Most folk will actually implement their own"back-off" feature, Sure, there are outliers, but this is a game of big numbers and average statistics.
Where this can help is with automated page loading. Your saved session has twenty tabs with pages from a single site? That's all loaded at once, in parallel in the browsers I know about. I imagine it can be a considerable load in some cases.
Yes, but Reagan rescinded that order. There was a rather nice breeder reactor that ran until Clinton defunded it, the Integral Fast Reactor.
You guys do read Slashdot, right?
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Amen, brother! But you missed one. I long for the days when the kernel fit on a 3.5 inch floppy. A 720k one.
In Soviet Russia, the gov't wants YOU to use free/libre software!
I don't see where hybrids help here. The whole point is to use a smaller, more efficient engine, then add extra juice from the batteries at peak demand. Aircraft don't vary in their power demand by much once they get to cruising altitude. I didn't see this explained, but I've just started reading the links.
Maybe they save up a little juice and use it to help with taking off with the next flight? Short on details.
This is in fact, precisely one of the bigger challenges with Hydrogen as an energy storage/delivery medium. It's not so easy to store it, or pipe it over long distances. Its molecules are so tiny that they diffuse through almost anything, leaking out and embrittling the tank or pipe in the process.
Or this one from about the same time. They were trying to develop a consumer version. When they gave up, it was due to a lack of interest (the heyday of SUVs!), not technical problems, from everything I've read.
It's so hard making a tent that works right. This'd be just the thing to keep the glare off!
In practice, discriminating torrent content is very difficult. And there's nothing stopping from going after all of it; the language is too vague. It might seem pointless, since such a fuss was made the first time around, but the next time, they'll have this nice bit of explicit policy to fall back on, and some of the voices raised before will not be as loud the next time, as fatigue and cynicism set in.
:)
Speaking of cynics, why don't all you comment-posters invest that time you put into posting your rants into signing the petition linked to in the article, since we all know you didn't read it
That's the most extreme upper limit. Only a handful of these extremem events have been recorded. Furthermore, cosmic rays (like particles from solar wind) almost never impact you directly, unless you're in space. They interact with the atmosphere, creating showers of particles, which spread the energy over a large area. I'm not going to do the math now, but the useful figure for effecting electronics might be per square cm per year, at ground level. Most of the cross section of your computer wouldn't notice much if some ionizing radiation passed through it. The CPU and major chips are a pretty small portion of total area. The magnetic domains on your disk platters are probably large enough to be unaffected.
Postdiction, as it is called, isn't always valueless. One of the strongest arguments for Genereal Relativity was that it explained Mercury's orbit.
Geothermal is only practical when the hot rocks are a lot closer to the surface, like in Iceland. Sure, drilling wells that deep isn't impossible, but it is expensive, and you can only get so much power out of a single well.
When you remember those halcyon days in which the the state of the art of search was WAIS. I'll take today's internet, warts and all, thanks.
This wasn't a good test for cosmic censorship, and wasn't intended as such, from my reading of TFA. A better test would have been two counter rotating holes striking slightly off center.
Anyway, it says nothing about unrelated simulations that have shown that naked singularities are likely.
Sorry about the new scientist link, but all the other references I found were unhelpful journal articles.
a better link.
Good luck with that. Not only a nuclear reactor, but a heat exchanger, a turbine, and a generator. That's a lot of complexity for a space mission. There are more direct ways to generate electricity with nuclear reactions, but none are really practical for this sort of power output, that I'm aware of. I'm thinking a more straightforward application of nuclear power would work better. Something like this.
then it should provide the features of one. Task management, niceness levels, ability to suspend tabs, etc. It really freaked me out how much CPU firefox could eat up while all the tabs are minimized! FF3 seems a lot better, thanks. It wasn't animated GIFs, either. But it might have been flash. When something is going to consume as much resources as web browsers are starting to, it makes sense to have a means to query and manage the resources.
Oh, and cue the emacs/operating system jokes.
Praise the maker for the NoScript extension!
By Edward Lee of the EECS department at Berkeley: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-1.html. Worth reading if you work with threads.
http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/products.asp
A lot less preinstalled crapware. I'm ppretty sure they all have matte screens. Many of the extra rugged models are explicitly intended for outdoors use, rather than viewing DVDs (which seem to be the main motivation for glossy screens).
Nobody remembers the doubts that turned out to be justified. This is a logical fallacy of the same sort as the one that starts out with people laughing at somebody.. who could be a misunderstood genius waiting for the recognition of history, but more likely as not, really is just an idiot.