That may not be entirely coincidental. I once read (in a book, hence no hyperlink) that an A-12 variant was designed, and 3 test aircraft modified, for use as a high-altitude interceptor. This was later scrapped in favour of increasingly effective SAMs, but if the program was continued an FB could potentially have followed the F.
A little known feature of the Canadarm is a set of explosive bolts, designed that in the event of the arm swinging an object towards the station in a manner that it cannot stop, the manipulator can be jettisoned.
If 1/30 of your units is irreparably faulty, you've got some serious problems with your manufacturing process that should preclude you selling anything in the first place (cure Red Ring of Death comments).
You're thinking of 'Tin whiskers', and I'm not sure they're an issue with Silicon chips (because, well, they're SILICON), and the amount of time it takes for whiskers to grow between SMT components shouldn't differ between SSDs and HDDs. Plus it's a very slow process anyway, especially in the atmosphere.
I've never, ever had anything like that (ignoring of muxed fonts, layering of subs) happen in MPC. Are you using an old version of MPC with it's internal font renderer, an external renderer (horrible memories of vsfilter resurface) or somehow have both enabled at the same time, which would explain the layering of subs. From the sounds of it, you've had codec packs installed in the past that have left some odd settings and filters handing around. Try using the CCCP Insurgent to clean out old codecs and reset the settings to their defaults.
Could you elaborate on this? The main reason I use MPC is that it has far and away better support for subs (via directvobsub) than VLC. Maybe you have something configured wrong?
As for mplayer: it comes pretty close, but the lack of a user interface (When I have to google for an appreciable amount of time and dig out the build number just to find out how to change the volume in increments you've got user interface issues), the occasionally out-of-whack subtitile support, and lack of support for.mkv Ordered Chapters, means it's just not an effective everyday player for me.
do squid (and whatever eats squid) and whales sink to the bottom when the die?
Yes. Yes they do. And the carcasses are eaten by bottom-feeding animals, which generally remain at the sea floor. It's a different path through the food chain than they were expecting, but the carbon ends up on the seabed in the end.
Then you lose any data that may be stored in the arrangement of those many redundant, redistributed and reencoded copies. Distributed steganography, if you will
ms is not an SI unit. Seconds (s) are an SI unit. Prefixing it with the abbreviation of 'milli' is not the standard usage. Rather, you should append x10^-3 to the value before the unit.
Because of its altitude it would be safe from surface-to-air missiles
The U2 went for this, and it didn't work for long. Though I'm guessing that for what is essentially a balloon with a sensor package, it's radar signature will be pretty low to start with, and extra stealth technology notwithstanding.
A similar problem exists with the SR-71's engines: some key documentation was destroyed in the interests of secrecy, which has greatly complicated maintenance work on the remaining aircraft.
"typical anaglyph method using half the pixels for each eye."
What the hell are you on about? Analglyph uses the standard 'flat' resolution along with colour-shifting and filtered lenses. Individual pixels are not 'right' or 'left', but both at the same time. You're thinking of polarized direct displays, which use half the pixels polarised one way and half the other (usually in alternating rows or columns). What is being used here is polarised projection, where two images are projected at the same (standard 'flat') resolution, one image polarised one way and the other at 90degrees (or in the opposite direction if using circular polarisation).
The 'twice the resolution' line probably comes from using two projectors overlaid. It's a pretty silly way to put it though (the visual fidelity would be barely increased).
Scientists who study the climate agree that the climate is changing. What is not yet agreed upon is if the specific 'why' this time is due solely, or even partly, to human-introduced CO2, or if it's business as usual like the last few millions of years of records indicate. Heck, the jury's still out on whether CO2 leads or lags temperature rises, whether the simulations of a chaotic system are accurate enough, etc.
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That may not be entirely coincidental. I once read (in a book, hence no hyperlink) that an A-12 variant was designed, and 3 test aircraft modified, for use as a high-altitude interceptor. This was later scrapped in favour of increasingly effective SAMs, but if the program was continued an FB could potentially have followed the F.
A little known feature of the Canadarm is a set of explosive bolts, designed that in the event of the arm swinging an object towards the station in a manner that it cannot stop, the manipulator can be jettisoned.
In essence, the ISS can rocket-punch.
If 1/30 of your units is irreparably faulty, you've got some serious problems with your manufacturing process that should preclude you selling anything in the first place (cure Red Ring of Death comments).
- Obligatory note that broadband in the UK is even worse.
You're thinking of 'Tin whiskers', and I'm not sure they're an issue with Silicon chips (because, well, they're SILICON), and the amount of time it takes for whiskers to grow between SMT components shouldn't differ between SSDs and HDDs. Plus it's a very slow process anyway, especially in the atmosphere.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7984254.stm It ditched in the ocean.
I've never, ever had anything like that (ignoring of muxed fonts, layering of subs) happen in MPC. Are you using an old version of MPC with it's internal font renderer, an external renderer (horrible memories of vsfilter resurface) or somehow have both enabled at the same time, which would explain the layering of subs. From the sounds of it, you've had codec packs installed in the past that have left some odd settings and filters handing around. Try using the CCCP Insurgent to clean out old codecs and reset the settings to their defaults.
"MPC has issues with subtitles.
Could you elaborate on this? The main reason I use MPC is that it has far and away better support for subs (via directvobsub) than VLC. Maybe you have something configured wrong?
As for mplayer: it comes pretty close, but the lack of a user interface (When I have to google for an appreciable amount of time and dig out the build number just to find out how to change the volume in increments you've got user interface issues), the occasionally out-of-whack subtitile support, and lack of support for .mkv Ordered Chapters, means it's just not an effective everyday player for me.
Remember the old adage about not explaining the joke?
Name the node Colbert, but pronounce it with a hard 't' (i.e. cohl-burt).
Those new code contributions by Mr Aznable made all the difference.
do squid (and whatever eats squid) and whales sink to the bottom when the die?
Yes. Yes they do. And the carcasses are eaten by bottom-feeding animals, which generally remain at the sea floor. It's a different path through the food chain than they were expecting, but the carbon ends up on the seabed in the end.
Then you lose any data that may be stored in the arrangement of those many redundant, redistributed and reencoded copies. Distributed steganography, if you will
bounce out of bed at the crack of dawn and show up in the office all bright and sunny with plenty of time to spare for some horrid 9 AM meeting
Ah, you're thinking of sadomasochists.
That water at 1ATM governs almost every process on the planet, including life?
ms is not an SI unit. Seconds (s) are an SI unit. Prefixing it with the abbreviation of 'milli' is not the standard usage. Rather, you should append x10^-3 to the value before the unit.
People rationalized the purchase of a PS3 by saying to themselves "well, I get a blu-ray player "free" with it"
Really? I rationalised my purchase with "Well, it has exclusive games I want to play". It is a games console after all, that's what it's for
MY first thought was "TETSUOOOOOO!!", but that may just be movie indoctrination.
Because of its altitude it would be safe from surface-to-air missiles
The U2 went for this, and it didn't work for long. Though I'm guessing that for what is essentially a balloon with a sensor package, it's radar signature will be pretty low to start with, and extra stealth technology notwithstanding.
A similar problem exists with the SR-71's engines: some key documentation was destroyed in the interests of secrecy, which has greatly complicated maintenance work on the remaining aircraft.
Hopefully, NASA will show a sense of humour and name it Colbert. But with the pronunciation 'coal-bert'.
Given the RIAA's usual complaints, a BAW filter seems appropriate.
What the hell are you on about? Analglyph uses the standard 'flat' resolution along with colour-shifting and filtered lenses. Individual pixels are not 'right' or 'left', but both at the same time. You're thinking of polarized direct displays, which use half the pixels polarised one way and half the other (usually in alternating rows or columns). What is being used here is polarised projection, where two images are projected at the same (standard 'flat') resolution, one image polarised one way and the other at 90degrees (or in the opposite direction if using circular polarisation).
The 'twice the resolution' line probably comes from using two projectors overlaid. It's a pretty silly way to put it though (the visual fidelity would be barely increased).
800x600? Pah, anything less than 1280x800 just isn't worth it for reading.
Scientists who study the climate agree that the climate is changing. What is not yet agreed upon is if the specific 'why' this time is due solely, or even partly, to human-introduced CO2, or if it's business as usual like the last few millions of years of records indicate. Heck, the jury's still out on whether CO2 leads or lags temperature rises, whether the simulations of a chaotic system are accurate enough, etc.