Due to the huge time distortion of such a massive black hole, PBS NOVA aired a show on the same subject 3 months ago http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blackhole/ Seems the German research got sucked back in time and used to show the orbits of the stars around the black hole.
With my luck, I'd get halfway up the space escalator and drop my luggage. It would thump its way down to with me running after it. It was embarrassing enough at the Aukland airport having everyone watch me put on a show, but to have it happen in front of half a continent, argh!
Watch them still miss the asteroid because it was never detected due to a dead pixel. If Hollywood has taught me anything, the impossible will always happen. I'm not worried though, because it also taught me that the problem will only last a few hours and everything will be solved in the last few minutes.
I wondered that too. Aren't most engines tested sideways or upside down? If nothing else, you don't have to worry as much about your test stand holding up.
just a thought, but my lights are "digital" in a sense. power is on is 1, power is off is 0. At least for the 0, there is no carrier. What really warps my brain is trying to decide if 0 power/voltage/carrier/whatever is analog or digital. Doesn't really matter, does it.
Ultimately it was luck. Cargo space is at a premium, so spares are determined by a game of chance. It's ironic that the extra toilet being sent up was determined by a game of craps.
But the new retail purchase price is higher due to the potential of the game being resold. The publisher gets a cut of the used sale before it even occurs.
Haven't you ever seen car ads touting "highest resale value in class?" They are trying to boost sales and prices of new cars by letting potential buyers know that this car is "cheaper" than just the sticker price because you can get some of that money back some day.
Ah crud! You're right. I missed that skimming just the first part. Looks like they just electronically switch different or more generators in and out of they stack as needed. But if I read it correctly, it's able to both adjust resistance and switch in different parts of the stack for different wind speeds and rpm's. 2 "new" variables to adjust efficiency.
Ever read summaries? Most power generation is able to work with reasonably constant RPM's. Windmills don't have that luxury, so often are working at RPM's that are not optimum. This method (if it works) widens the optimum range.
Since you know you can sell your old games, you don't mind paying a few bucks more with the knowledge you'll get some money back. Since you'll pay a few bucks more, the publisher can get a few extra bucks, indirectly, from the used game buyer.
You know, this is sounding like market segmentation. Marketing companies pay millions to figure out how to sell the same product at different price points to different people, extracting the max cash each segment is willing to pay. And here the used game market is doing that for software publishers. Publishers would be silly to try to outright kill the used market.
Which begs the question: Does Australia need a government run space agency, or just a space agency in Australia? Since the main motivation for a space agency seems to be the money paid to other agencies, why not charter and pay a private space agency? You get all the benefits of keeping the payments in the country and avoid creating another government agency. Maybe save money. Maybe even attract business from other countries.
My first estimate was likely more crude than yours. A straight line curve fit x vs y ( x=log base 2 of bits , y = delta years). I ended up playing some more and a power curve fit predicts just about 30 years to get to 128 bit too. The fit is good enough to make me wonder if there's a grain of truth in there somewhere.
4 bit - 1971 8 bit - 1972 (1 year) 16 bit - 1978 (6 years) 32 bit - 1985 (7 years) 64 bit - 2004 (19 years) 128 bit - 2026 (22 years by my VERY crude estimate)
Sorry, no dirty jokes. And the jokes he told tend to fall flat today, which is why people misinterpret them. For example, there's the phrase something like "a rich man getting into heaven is like a camel going through the eye of the needle." The eye of the needle was an actual passageway in Jerusalem. Camels could go through, but only on their knees. So by analogy, that's the way for rich men to get into heaven.
Not very funny today, but he made his point a humorous way back then.
One of the more interesting sermons I ever heard in church was around humor in the bible. Our preacher had a PhD in archeology, knew several dead languages, etc. So he was able to provide context for jokes that people people treat as dry and serious today. Apparently Jesus had a better sense of humor than people give him credit for.
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Due to the huge time distortion of such a massive black hole, PBS NOVA aired a show on the same subject 3 months ago http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blackhole/ Seems the German research got sucked back in time and used to show the orbits of the stars around the black hole.
With my luck, I'd get halfway up the space escalator and drop my luggage. It would thump its way down to with me running after it. It was embarrassing enough at the Aukland airport having everyone watch me put on a show, but to have it happen in front of half a continent, argh!
Dude comma why stop there questionmark
Forget CPU's. How many transistors has Intel shipped? It's probably on the order of billions per minute now days.
Watch them still miss the asteroid because it was never detected due to a dead pixel. If Hollywood has taught me anything, the impossible will always happen. I'm not worried though, because it also taught me that the problem will only last a few hours and everything will be solved in the last few minutes.
Does anyone know what size features the chip was etched at? um? nm? That might give a clue how close it is to being used in other products.
They did, which is why the zombie plague outbreak of 32,612 BC wiped them out but left a few humans.
Nevermind. a minute's worth of research would have shown me that vertical is common and upside down is rare.
I wondered that too. Aren't most engines tested sideways or upside down? If nothing else, you don't have to worry as much about your test stand holding up.
just a thought, but my lights are "digital" in a sense. power is on is 1, power is off is 0. At least for the 0, there is no carrier. What really warps my brain is trying to decide if 0 power/voltage/carrier/whatever is analog or digital. Doesn't really matter, does it.
Ultimately it was luck. Cargo space is at a premium, so spares are determined by a game of chance. It's ironic that the extra toilet being sent up was determined by a game of craps.
But the new retail purchase price is higher due to the potential of the game being resold. The publisher gets a cut of the used sale before it even occurs. Haven't you ever seen car ads touting "highest resale value in class?" They are trying to boost sales and prices of new cars by letting potential buyers know that this car is "cheaper" than just the sticker price because you can get some of that money back some day.
EAL9+ means it autonomously retaliates against the attacker's system.
EAL10+ means it autonomously retaliates against the attacker.
Ah crud! You're right. I missed that skimming just the first part. Looks like they just electronically switch different or more generators in and out of they stack as needed. But if I read it correctly, it's able to both adjust resistance and switch in different parts of the stack for different wind speeds and rpm's. 2 "new" variables to adjust efficiency.
Ever read summaries? Most power generation is able to work with reasonably constant RPM's. Windmills don't have that luxury, so often are working at RPM's that are not optimum. This method (if it works) widens the optimum range.
Since you know you can sell your old games, you don't mind paying a few bucks more with the knowledge you'll get some money back. Since you'll pay a few bucks more, the publisher can get a few extra bucks, indirectly, from the used game buyer.
You know, this is sounding like market segmentation. Marketing companies pay millions to figure out how to sell the same product at different price points to different people, extracting the max cash each segment is willing to pay. And here the used game market is doing that for software publishers. Publishers would be silly to try to outright kill the used market.
Which begs the question: Does Australia need a government run space agency, or just a space agency in Australia? Since the main motivation for a space agency seems to be the money paid to other agencies, why not charter and pay a private space agency? You get all the benefits of keeping the payments in the country and avoid creating another government agency. Maybe save money. Maybe even attract business from other countries.
My first estimate was likely more crude than yours. A straight line curve fit x vs y ( x=log base 2 of bits , y = delta years). I ended up playing some more and a power curve fit predicts just about 30 years to get to 128 bit too. The fit is good enough to make me wonder if there's a grain of truth in there somewhere.
using Intel processors as a baseline-
4 bit - 1971
8 bit - 1972 (1 year)
16 bit - 1978 (6 years)
32 bit - 1985 (7 years)
64 bit - 2004 (19 years)
128 bit - 2026 (22 years by my VERY crude estimate)
128 bit Flash some time after that.
There appears to be a conspiracy to cover up the answer: http://www.rateitall.com/i-976337-lightsaber-drop.aspx
Sorry, no dirty jokes. And the jokes he told tend to fall flat today, which is why people misinterpret them. For example, there's the phrase something like "a rich man getting into heaven is like a camel going through the eye of the needle." The eye of the needle was an actual passageway in Jerusalem. Camels could go through, but only on their knees. So by analogy, that's the way for rich men to get into heaven.
Not very funny today, but he made his point a humorous way back then.
One of the more interesting sermons I ever heard in church was around humor in the bible. Our preacher had a PhD in archeology, knew several dead languages, etc. So he was able to provide context for jokes that people people treat as dry and serious today. Apparently Jesus had a better sense of humor than people give him credit for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_and_planetary_systems_in_fiction#Fomalhaut_.28Alpha_Piscis_Austrini.29
No apology needed. It was intended to a funny comparison between a serious thruster and "hobby" rockets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_rocket_motor_classification