So they drop support for the routers everyone has and want you to build your own router from a raspberry. Sounds like a plan for success.
The WRT54G and its derivatives are positively ancient in computer terms. They date to 2002- over 11 years ago. They can't really keep up with modern demands on routers. Gigabit ethernet is a really good thing if you have a file server in your LAN, and it is becoming increasingly worthwhile to have it on the WAN side also. The processor is slow and chokes on modern loads. There are a number of other routers out there that will run OpenWRT and have modern features and processing power. If you have one of the WRT54G series now, do you really need frequent updates on the firmware? The only computing equipment I even have from 2002 is my model M keyboard, some VGA cables, and some computer power cables- everything else from that era was obsolete a long time ago. Running a WRT54G nowadays is like using an Intel Pentium III with 256MB of RAM and a 30GB hard drive. Networking equipment generally has a longer lifetime than general computing equipment, but the WRT54G just doesn't cut it anymore.
The point is GPUs are fast doing the same operation on multiple data. (e.g. multiplying a vector with a scalar) The emphasize is on _same operation_, which might not be the case for every problem one can solve parallel. You will loose speed as soon your elements of a wavefront (e.g. 16 threads, executed in lockstep) diverge into multiple execution paths. This happens if you have something like an "if" in your code and one for one work item the condition is evaluated to true and for another it's evaluated to false. Your wavefront will only be executed one path at a time, so your code becomes kind of "sequential" at this point. You will loose speed, too, if the way you access your GPU memory does not fulfill some restrictions.
I'm not an expert on this subject, but with hundreds, or even thousands, of GPU cores, why not just run the calculation for all cases of an if/then and then toss out the ones that don't pan out? It's not a very efficient way to do things, but it could work.
I believe this is the principle of quantum computing. Process all possible answers simultaneously and then pick the right one(s).
A bit different. The rough rotor equivalent of the Harrier is a tiltrotor design, where the rotor rotates from a position where it generates vertical thrust (for takeoff) to one where it generates horizontal thrust (for flight).
You are thinking of the V-22 Osprey. The Harrier uses a jet engine and ducting to direct the jet blast downward. There are no tilting rotors.
Is this like the Harrier, where the motor switches from vertical to horizontal?
No, it is a helicopter where you stop the rotor and then use it as a wing for flying straight ahead with a traditional propellor. There is a typo in the summary.
This design would necessitate that the airfoil be symetrical along the long axis. Think VW Beatle shaped rather than teardrop-shaped like a typical NACA airfoil. This is probably a lot less efficient than a normal airfoil. Locking the airfoil would also be tricky- The rotor must come to a stop, so upwards lift is basically 0. At the same time, there is no wing for the front propeller to work on. Or worse, a wing oriented in the wrong direction. If they make a full-scale version, I hope the test pilot is single without any kids.
Waves have nothing to do with this. Only the temperature difference between the surface water and deeper water. The higher the difference, the better which is why this works the best in tropical regions.
They will "boil" the working fluid in heat exchangers near the surface, generate power with the vapor, then send the vapor down to deep cold water to get condensed. I suppose that they then pump the liquid back up to the surface to start over. Seems like it will work in theory, assuming the working fluid has the proper boiling point and high enough latent heat of vaporization so enough heat can be moved. I'm worried that in order to get the proper temperatures for the phase changes is going to require working pressures that are going to be difficult to maintain or it will require large quantities of some nasty chemicals.
It is more likely they will pump the seawater from the ocean to the plant, and have the working fluid remain on land. Whatever they use for the working fluid, it is almost certainly something that environmental groups will be upset about if it leaks into the ocean. This makes the system less efficient since pumping. The Navy has apparently determined twice that such a system isn't viable. When I see any branch of the service shutting down a Lockheed project, that is a red flag that the technology isn't there and can't get there anytime soon.
Well, lunch is a very subjective thing. When it comes to ignoring the best interests of the public and catering to corporations, I think they all could agree.
I actually once pumped in a lot of money, anticipating an arbitrage across the two largest exchanges, buying in USD and selling for EUR. At some point I got it, minus all fees it was nearly a 10% gain, which made me a few thousand. The gap took a few more days to completely close. With small exchanges it's still possible, but due to the small volumes it's hard to do it at a large scale.
There may still be arbitrage opportunities, but there is a risk that not all exchanges are trustworthy enough for you to put in a load of money. Especially considering that the largest EUR exchange, bitcoin-24.com was temporarily closed a few days ago, had a possibility of insolvency due to paying out for errors in their trading platform, and no one has been able to access their accounts so far. I consider myself lucky, and I am not yet planning to take another risk like that.
I hope you saved all the documentation. It occurred to me that large sums of money moving across international "borders" and suddenly appearing in bank accounts might attract the attention of various tax authorities.
....
Anyway, yeah, back to Bitcoin... if you want some entertainment, keep this tab open throughout the day. So many people are gaming Bitcoin right now that it makes for an excellent show! Behold, the completely unregulated market!
The thing I noticed a couple weeks ago when I first looked at bitcoin price graphs is that the different currencies are not trading at the level which would be indicated by the actual bank exchange rates. Doesn't this indicate that there is not enough volume or FX traders in the system?
It crossed my mind that the differences were due to fees which may apply when converting different currencies. But if this were true, then the graphs of different currencies would at least trend each other. They don't.
If I had the time and motivation, it would be worth investigating opening many international accounts and trading between the currencies using bitcoin as an intermediary.
Reporters use the units of energy, so that the total would look much bigger than it is. 982MWh/day - I only use 1.2MWh in a month wow that's a lot, but remember that this is for the entire mining network, not for an individual miner. On the other hand, 41MW - that's not a lot, a hydroelectric power plant in my city is 100MW - that single power plant could power two bitcoin mining networks - I bet Google's servers use more power than this...
Actually, it is a lot. 41MW is about enough electricity for 30,000 homes, give or take. Or it is about 55,000 horsepower. If you were burning coal, it would be about 1,600,000 lb (727,000kg) of coal a day. Every day.
No, Bing is better. At finding malicious sites.
I always knew it must be good for something...
I have found Bing maps to be far superior to Google maps in many locations. The airplane views especially are usually better, and Bing allows for multiple angles and rotating the view for the airplane photos. In many cases, the satellite photos are higher resolution also.
In fact, marriage is one of the fastest and easiest paths to a green card.
Not sure what decade you're living in, but that hasn't been true for years. Since every one 'thinks' thats the easy route... guess which one they had to clamp down on?
Does your statement have any basis in reality? My wife came to the US on the K-1 (fiance) visa 2 years ago. The paperwork is not that complicated and she had a green card within 1 year. There is no other way for a non-millionaire or non-celebrity to get a green card that fast.
This is despite waiting and processing times tripling in the last few years. The processing times are not exactly a secret. The paperwork we did ourselves without assistance from anybody- it is only slightly harder than a US tax return. Marriage is the easy route.
My sister-in-law has been living in the United States for the past six years. She has a pair of masters in Mathematics and Economics and after graduation 2 years ago a good job, making about 50k a year. Yet she stands a decent chance of deportation because she is now in a lotto for the H1B. Why exactly are we kicking out people with masters degrees and good jobs?
This is insanity. She had a good portion of her schooling supplemented by the US Government. She is now paying taxes and is a law-abiding citizen. So they kick her out. Insanity.
How about we start by giving every masters' degree candidate an H1B and go from there? Rather than the inane 20000 then 65000 pool that exists today. Utterly inane.
I'm not sure what you are arguing here. You imply that you are living legally in the US with the use of "we". I would imagine that you are a citizen even, since you did not mention otherwise. Therefore, your brother should also be in the US legally. Then, your sister-in-law has a legal path to a green card through marriage. In fact, marriage is one of the fastest and easiest paths to a green card. Much faster than any employment-based path to a green card.
If we gave everybody with a Masters degree an H1B or a green card, I can easily imagine lots of questionable "colleges" popping up and handing degrees out like candy for a fee. Arguably that is already happening to some extent. The rules in place are there for mostly good reasons. The US has some of the most lax immigration laws in the world, permitting all sorts of shenanigans including anchor babies, playing games with student visas, immigration of non-Canadians with Canadian permanent residency into the US with preferred status (since Canada is our buddy), etc etc. Few other countries allow such foolishness.
Back in 2008, WHOI was working with Lockheed and the American Bureau of Shipping in developing a replacement/successor to the Alvin submarine. What happened to that project and how will WHOI develop its underwater exploration capability in the future?
Only if you're paying for the electricity yourself.
If somebody else is paying... hey, why not?
There are better and more lucrative things to do with botnets. If you have a botnet and can't think of anything better to do with it, you can lease it out or sell it. The tiny amount of money bitcoin on commodity hardware would bring in pales in comparison to selling bank accounts, sending spam, renting out attacks, etc. Keep in mind that as a zombie computer becomes more "obvious"- computer is slower, fan runs at 100% all the time, etc, the more likely that the malware will be noticed and removed.
Dunno, but I've been waiting for this to happen. It's an obvious step for botnet owners.
It would be an obvious step a couple years ago. Bitcoin mining with CPUs is so pointless that they removed the function from the software. Most computers likely to be infected likely won't have a powerful GPU, and GPU mining will become pointless pretty soon regardless.
Unless there was a ballot option to prevent Mr Lane being reelected, he didn't need a majority; technically a single vote would get him reelected.
To win an election you don't need a majority of the votes, you just need more than anyone else.
That is for regular elections for politicians and such. It is not how this kind of corporate election is run. Usually in these cases, all shareholders are assumed to vote for the incumbent or candidate unless they actually cast a ballot. If you own stock they send you a ballot to return with your choice. Getting 42% of the votes against this guy was actually quite an achievement, and there are probably a lot of people who didn't bother to vote who were counted as voting for him by default. It indicates that he is very unpopular. That is probably why he has stepped down (by choice or by pressure).
the CPU vendors need to start stacking them onto their die.
In 5 years your systems will be sold with fixed memory sizes, and the only way to upgrade is to upgrade CPUs.
Stacked vias could also be used for other peripheral devices as well. (GPU?)
IBM tried this with the PS/2 line. It fell flat on its face.
This is news to me. I owned a PS/2 model 25 and model 80, and played around with a model 30. The model 80 used 72 pin SIMMs and even had a MCA expansion card for adding more SIMMs. The model 80 I bought (when their useful life was long over) was stuffed full of SIMMs. The model 25 used a strange (30 pin?) smaller SIMM, but it was upgradable. I forget what the model 30 had. Wikipedia seems to disagree with you also.
I have a question. Why don't they put these cables where ships don't anchor, rather than laying them right straight through the harbour?
They generally don't lay them in areas where ships anchor. Plus in a harbor ships are generally docked or moored at predetermined locations. There is not a lot or stopping wherever you like and dropping an anchor, that interferes with navigation in the harbor.
Moorings are also usually strategically placed in a harbor. When the tide turns around, boats will swing around 180 degrees. So each mooring should be clear in a 360 degree circle for a distance which corresponds to the length of the intended boat. An anchor has a much larger circle than a mooring, and when the tide turns, an anchor sometimes lets go or drags depending on the design. People dropping anchor anywhere they like in the harbor could cause a collision when the tide turned. So in many places there are rules that you can't anchor in the harbor anyways. I have seen plenty of cables in harbors for exactly these reasons.
Honestly, that's like asking if the boys at JPL want a bigger supersonic wind tunnel.
To be honest, the thing they probably need more of is funding for their current operations. Underwater subs for research are not really about having the "deepest"- at the very deepest points, there is not much interesting happening. The Alvin only came close to its deep diving rating a small percentage of the time. The focus when I worked on such a project was on faster decents/ascents, lower environmental impact, passenger comfort, lower cost operation, etc. Work was being done to improve drop weight systems. Dropping piles of lead weights all over the ocean floor is frowned upon in sensitive areas such as historical wreck sites. The endurance of the batteries dictates operating time so better batteries and faster ascents/descents were investigated to increase bottom-time. One idea Lockheed had was to have a sub pointing 30 degrees downward in order to improve aerodynamics during descents.
I know! It's like watching two school bullies argues start to argue over something, as you're secretly hoping they'll get into a fight and both be suspended.
I could see MasterCard taking more of the hit for this though, Paypal funds can be added without any fee from a bank account, or with some new MoneyPak thing I'm just reading about for the first time - I forsee more people using this option if they have hefty fees when transferring from a credit card (Because the whole reason you're using Paypal is because you can't use your credit card in the first place, the money will be transferred if it has to be).
There is no way on this earth I am giving Paypal my bank account number. They have a long an continuing history of tomfoolery regarding people's money. I need a way to dispute their withdrawals if needed, and with ACH, once the money is gone, it's gone. With a Visa or Mastercard, generally you can dispute it.
It ran on a full TTL +5V. So it sucked down power. Lots of power. I've disassembled first generation Pentium chips, removing the golden cover that protects the die beneath. The die is HUGE! Much bigger than any current production CPU.
These old chips have a non-insignificant amount of gold in them. according to this page, the original Pentiums have about $20 worth of gold in them.
The fashion also used to be to dress baby boys in pink and baby girls in blue. Pink was considered too harsh a color for girls. So I think we can all agree you cannot predict what the masses will want next.
It could be a racket created by a mid-to-upper level manager. I worked for a a division of a Japanese company in the USA. Parts were made in the US and sold to our Australian counterparts (USA had lower labor costs than Japan). There was an agreement between the US and Australian divisions that we would keep our markup to the Australian division low. Then they could add their own markup and be at basically the same price as the US. Splitting the margin between divisions basically.
Then a new VP came in and began driving the business into the ground. The only way he could keep things looking good was to rape the Australian business with a 200% markup. The Australian division's customers weren't his customers so he thought he could get away with it. Naturally, the Australians were not too happy about this since their margin had to be cut dramatically, and even then, the prices were laughable.
The problem with antibiotics, rather, is that you have to finish the entire run lest you'll end up merely training your infection to become resistant. So it's not strictly a problem of prescribing the stuff too often; it's that plus far too many people starting to feel fine then not finishing the cure.
Moreover, recent studies show that antibiotics kill a lot of the "good" bacteria in the gut, and it takes some time to recover, if at all. During that time, the patient is vulnerable to various other diseases. Some might even be caused by a lack of the right bacteria.
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So they drop support for the routers everyone has and want you to build your own router from a raspberry. Sounds like a plan for success.
The WRT54G and its derivatives are positively ancient in computer terms. They date to 2002- over 11 years ago. They can't really keep up with modern demands on routers. Gigabit ethernet is a really good thing if you have a file server in your LAN, and it is becoming increasingly worthwhile to have it on the WAN side also. The processor is slow and chokes on modern loads. There are a number of other routers out there that will run OpenWRT and have modern features and processing power. If you have one of the WRT54G series now, do you really need frequent updates on the firmware? The only computing equipment I even have from 2002 is my model M keyboard, some VGA cables, and some computer power cables- everything else from that era was obsolete a long time ago. Running a WRT54G nowadays is like using an Intel Pentium III with 256MB of RAM and a 30GB hard drive. Networking equipment generally has a longer lifetime than general computing equipment, but the WRT54G just doesn't cut it anymore.
Close, but not quite correct.
The point is GPUs are fast doing the same operation on multiple data. (e.g. multiplying a vector with a scalar) The emphasize is on _same operation_, which might not be the case for every problem one can solve parallel. You will loose speed as soon your elements of a wavefront (e.g. 16 threads, executed in lockstep) diverge into multiple execution paths. This happens if you have something like an "if" in your code and one for one work item the condition is evaluated to true and for another it's evaluated to false. Your wavefront will only be executed one path at a time, so your code becomes kind of "sequential" at this point. You will loose speed, too, if the way you access your GPU memory does not fulfill some restrictions.
I'm not an expert on this subject, but with hundreds, or even thousands, of GPU cores, why not just run the calculation for all cases of an if/then and then toss out the ones that don't pan out? It's not a very efficient way to do things, but it could work.
I believe this is the principle of quantum computing. Process all possible answers simultaneously and then pick the right one(s).
A bit different. The rough rotor equivalent of the Harrier is a tiltrotor design, where the rotor rotates from a position where it generates vertical thrust (for takeoff) to one where it generates horizontal thrust (for flight).
You are thinking of the V-22 Osprey. The Harrier uses a jet engine and ducting to direct the jet blast downward. There are no tilting rotors.
Is this like the Harrier, where the motor switches from vertical to horizontal?
No, it is a helicopter where you stop the rotor and then use it as a wing for flying straight ahead with a traditional propellor. There is a typo in the summary.
This design would necessitate that the airfoil be symetrical along the long axis. Think VW Beatle shaped rather than teardrop-shaped like a typical NACA airfoil. This is probably a lot less efficient than a normal airfoil. Locking the airfoil would also be tricky- The rotor must come to a stop, so upwards lift is basically 0. At the same time, there is no wing for the front propeller to work on. Or worse, a wing oriented in the wrong direction. If they make a full-scale version, I hope the test pilot is single without any kids.
Waves have nothing to do with this. Only the temperature difference between the surface water and deeper water. The higher the difference, the better which is why this works the best in tropical regions.
They will "boil" the working fluid in heat exchangers near the surface, generate power with the vapor, then send the vapor down to deep cold water to get condensed. I suppose that they then pump the liquid back up to the surface to start over. Seems like it will work in theory, assuming the working fluid has the proper boiling point and high enough latent heat of vaporization so enough heat can be moved. I'm worried that in order to get the proper temperatures for the phase changes is going to require working pressures that are going to be difficult to maintain or it will require large quantities of some nasty chemicals.
It is more likely they will pump the seawater from the ocean to the plant, and have the working fluid remain on land. Whatever they use for the working fluid, it is almost certainly something that environmental groups will be upset about if it leaks into the ocean. This makes the system less efficient since pumping. The Navy has apparently determined twice that such a system isn't viable. When I see any branch of the service shutting down a Lockheed project, that is a red flag that the technology isn't there and can't get there anytime soon.
Well, lunch is a very subjective thing. When it comes to ignoring the best interests of the public and catering to corporations, I think they all could agree.
I see what you did there.
I actually once pumped in a lot of money, anticipating an arbitrage across the two largest exchanges, buying in USD and selling for EUR. At some point I got it, minus all fees it was nearly a 10% gain, which made me a few thousand. The gap took a few more days to completely close. With small exchanges it's still possible, but due to the small volumes it's hard to do it at a large scale.
There may still be arbitrage opportunities, but there is a risk that not all exchanges are trustworthy enough for you to put in a load of money. Especially considering that the largest EUR exchange, bitcoin-24.com was temporarily closed a few days ago, had a possibility of insolvency due to paying out for errors in their trading platform, and no one has been able to access their accounts so far. I consider myself lucky, and I am not yet planning to take another risk like that.
I hope you saved all the documentation. It occurred to me that large sums of money moving across international "borders" and suddenly appearing in bank accounts might attract the attention of various tax authorities.
.... Anyway, yeah, back to Bitcoin ... if you want some entertainment, keep this tab open throughout the day. So many people are gaming Bitcoin right now that it makes for an excellent show! Behold, the completely unregulated market!
The thing I noticed a couple weeks ago when I first looked at bitcoin price graphs is that the different currencies are not trading at the level which would be indicated by the actual bank exchange rates. Doesn't this indicate that there is not enough volume or FX traders in the system?
It crossed my mind that the differences were due to fees which may apply when converting different currencies. But if this were true, then the graphs of different currencies would at least trend each other. They don't.
If I had the time and motivation, it would be worth investigating opening many international accounts and trading between the currencies using bitcoin as an intermediary.
In my opinion, no.
Reporters use the units of energy, so that the total would look much bigger than it is. 982MWh/day - I only use 1.2MWh in a month wow that's a lot, but remember that this is for the entire mining network, not for an individual miner. On the other hand, 41MW - that's not a lot, a hydroelectric power plant in my city is 100MW - that single power plant could power two bitcoin mining networks - I bet Google's servers use more power than this...
Actually, it is a lot. 41MW is about enough electricity for 30,000 homes, give or take. Or it is about 55,000 horsepower. If you were burning coal, it would be about 1,600,000 lb (727,000kg) of coal a day. Every day.
Unfortunately, the Treaty of Algeron prohibits the Federation from researching certain technology, including cloaking devices and fuses.
More disclosure is needed here .. that treaty also forbids seat belts.
Seat Belts are a hazard when you need to get away from a console which will explode imminently.
So Google's better, right?
No, Bing is better. At finding malicious sites. I always knew it must be good for something...
I have found Bing maps to be far superior to Google maps in many locations. The airplane views especially are usually better, and Bing allows for multiple angles and rotating the view for the airplane photos. In many cases, the satellite photos are higher resolution also.
In fact, marriage is one of the fastest and easiest paths to a green card.
Not sure what decade you're living in, but that hasn't been true for years. Since every one 'thinks' thats the easy route ... guess which one they had to clamp down on?
Does your statement have any basis in reality? My wife came to the US on the K-1 (fiance) visa 2 years ago. The paperwork is not that complicated and she had a green card within 1 year. There is no other way for a non-millionaire or non-celebrity to get a green card that fast.
This is despite waiting and processing times tripling in the last few years. The processing times are not exactly a secret. The paperwork we did ourselves without assistance from anybody- it is only slightly harder than a US tax return. Marriage is the easy route.
My sister-in-law has been living in the United States for the past six years. She has a pair of masters in Mathematics and Economics and after graduation 2 years ago a good job, making about 50k a year. Yet she stands a decent chance of deportation because she is now in a lotto for the H1B. Why exactly are we kicking out people with masters degrees and good jobs?
This is insanity. She had a good portion of her schooling supplemented by the US Government. She is now paying taxes and is a law-abiding citizen. So they kick her out. Insanity.
How about we start by giving every masters' degree candidate an H1B and go from there? Rather than the inane 20000 then 65000 pool that exists today. Utterly inane.
I'm not sure what you are arguing here. You imply that you are living legally in the US with the use of "we". I would imagine that you are a citizen even, since you did not mention otherwise. Therefore, your brother should also be in the US legally. Then, your sister-in-law has a legal path to a green card through marriage. In fact, marriage is one of the fastest and easiest paths to a green card. Much faster than any employment-based path to a green card.
If we gave everybody with a Masters degree an H1B or a green card, I can easily imagine lots of questionable "colleges" popping up and handing degrees out like candy for a fee. Arguably that is already happening to some extent. The rules in place are there for mostly good reasons. The US has some of the most lax immigration laws in the world, permitting all sorts of shenanigans including anchor babies, playing games with student visas, immigration of non-Canadians with Canadian permanent residency into the US with preferred status (since Canada is our buddy), etc etc. Few other countries allow such foolishness.
Back in 2008, WHOI was working with Lockheed and the American Bureau of Shipping in developing a replacement/successor to the Alvin submarine. What happened to that project and how will WHOI develop its underwater exploration capability in the future?
Bitcoin mining with CPUs is pointless .
Only if you're paying for the electricity yourself.
If somebody else is paying ... hey, why not?
There are better and more lucrative things to do with botnets. If you have a botnet and can't think of anything better to do with it, you can lease it out or sell it. The tiny amount of money bitcoin on commodity hardware would bring in pales in comparison to selling bank accounts, sending spam, renting out attacks, etc. Keep in mind that as a zombie computer becomes more "obvious"- computer is slower, fan runs at 100% all the time, etc, the more likely that the malware will be noticed and removed.
Dunno, but I've been waiting for this to happen. It's an obvious step for botnet owners.
It would be an obvious step a couple years ago. Bitcoin mining with CPUs is so pointless that they removed the function from the software. Most computers likely to be infected likely won't have a powerful GPU, and GPU mining will become pointless pretty soon regardless.
Unless there was a ballot option to prevent Mr Lane being reelected, he didn't need a majority; technically a single vote would get him reelected.
To win an election you don't need a majority of the votes, you just need more than anyone else.
That is for regular elections for politicians and such. It is not how this kind of corporate election is run. Usually in these cases, all shareholders are assumed to vote for the incumbent or candidate unless they actually cast a ballot. If you own stock they send you a ballot to return with your choice. Getting 42% of the votes against this guy was actually quite an achievement, and there are probably a lot of people who didn't bother to vote who were counted as voting for him by default. It indicates that he is very unpopular. That is probably why he has stepped down (by choice or by pressure).
the CPU vendors need to start stacking them onto their die.
In 5 years your systems will be sold with fixed memory sizes, and the only way to upgrade is to upgrade CPUs.
Stacked vias could also be used for other peripheral devices as well. (GPU?)
IBM tried this with the PS/2 line. It fell flat on its face.
This is news to me. I owned a PS/2 model 25 and model 80, and played around with a model 30. The model 80 used 72 pin SIMMs and even had a MCA expansion card for adding more SIMMs. The model 80 I bought (when their useful life was long over) was stuffed full of SIMMs. The model 25 used a strange (30 pin?) smaller SIMM, but it was upgradable. I forget what the model 30 had. Wikipedia seems to disagree with you also.
I have a question. Why don't they put these cables where ships don't anchor, rather than laying them right straight through the harbour?
They generally don't lay them in areas where ships anchor. Plus in a harbor ships are generally docked or moored at predetermined locations. There is not a lot or stopping wherever you like and dropping an anchor, that interferes with navigation in the harbor.
Moorings are also usually strategically placed in a harbor. When the tide turns around, boats will swing around 180 degrees. So each mooring should be clear in a 360 degree circle for a distance which corresponds to the length of the intended boat. An anchor has a much larger circle than a mooring, and when the tide turns, an anchor sometimes lets go or drags depending on the design. People dropping anchor anywhere they like in the harbor could cause a collision when the tide turned. So in many places there are rules that you can't anchor in the harbor anyways. I have seen plenty of cables in harbors for exactly these reasons.
Honestly, that's like asking if the boys at JPL want a bigger supersonic wind tunnel.
To be honest, the thing they probably need more of is funding for their current operations. Underwater subs for research are not really about having the "deepest"- at the very deepest points, there is not much interesting happening. The Alvin only came close to its deep diving rating a small percentage of the time. The focus when I worked on such a project was on faster decents/ascents, lower environmental impact, passenger comfort, lower cost operation, etc. Work was being done to improve drop weight systems. Dropping piles of lead weights all over the ocean floor is frowned upon in sensitive areas such as historical wreck sites. The endurance of the batteries dictates operating time so better batteries and faster ascents/descents were investigated to increase bottom-time. One idea Lockheed had was to have a sub pointing 30 degrees downward in order to improve aerodynamics during descents.
I know! It's like watching two school bullies argues start to argue over something, as you're secretly hoping they'll get into a fight and both be suspended. I could see MasterCard taking more of the hit for this though, Paypal funds can be added without any fee from a bank account, or with some new MoneyPak thing I'm just reading about for the first time - I forsee more people using this option if they have hefty fees when transferring from a credit card (Because the whole reason you're using Paypal is because you can't use your credit card in the first place, the money will be transferred if it has to be).
There is no way on this earth I am giving Paypal my bank account number. They have a long an continuing history of tomfoolery regarding people's money. I need a way to dispute their withdrawals if needed, and with ACH, once the money is gone, it's gone. With a Visa or Mastercard, generally you can dispute it.
The 66MHz original Pentium. What a beast.
It ran on a full TTL +5V. So it sucked down power. Lots of power. I've disassembled first generation Pentium chips, removing the golden cover that protects the die beneath. The die is HUGE! Much bigger than any current production CPU.
These old chips have a non-insignificant amount of gold in them. according to this page, the original Pentiums have about $20 worth of gold in them.
The fashion also used to be to dress baby boys in pink and baby girls in blue. Pink was considered too harsh a color for girls. So I think we can all agree you cannot predict what the masses will want next.
It's not pink, it's salmon.
Adobe is just being greedy.. that's all.
It could be a racket created by a mid-to-upper level manager. I worked for a a division of a Japanese company in the USA. Parts were made in the US and sold to our Australian counterparts (USA had lower labor costs than Japan). There was an agreement between the US and Australian divisions that we would keep our markup to the Australian division low. Then they could add their own markup and be at basically the same price as the US. Splitting the margin between divisions basically.
Then a new VP came in and began driving the business into the ground. The only way he could keep things looking good was to rape the Australian business with a 200% markup. The Australian division's customers weren't his customers so he thought he could get away with it. Naturally, the Australians were not too happy about this since their margin had to be cut dramatically, and even then, the prices were laughable.
The problem with antibiotics, rather, is that you have to finish the entire run lest you'll end up merely training your infection to become resistant. So it's not strictly a problem of prescribing the stuff too often; it's that plus far too many people starting to feel fine then not finishing the cure.
Moreover, recent studies show that antibiotics kill a lot of the "good" bacteria in the gut, and it takes some time to recover, if at all. During that time, the patient is vulnerable to various other diseases. Some might even be caused by a lack of the right bacteria.
See poop transplants