That's a new thing called multimedia over coax (MOCA). It's not the same thing as old thinnet/thicknet.
IMO, it's not worth it for most cases, much like powerline networking. It's a niche product. Despite claimed speeds of 270Mbps, real world transfer rates are less than 1/5th that (It doesn't even compete with fast ethernet, nevermind gigabit, though it can be competitive with wireless in some circumstances) and the equipment is expensive.
Unless you absolutely cannot run cat5/6 for some reason, forget about it.
The I/O backlog on vista/7 isn't very comparable to XP's. IIRC, vista/7 natively supports native command queuing, which queues and sorts disk accesses to make them as sequential as possible. This grows the apparent backlog, but increases throughput and average latency when doing lots of small random seeks, which is a very good thing IMO given how ludicrously slow hard drives are at this.
As usual, this is slightly non-optimal when the assumption (lots of random seeks) is not met and it can be beneficial to disable NCQ under workloads that use lots of huge sequential operations.
Yes, the navy has some nice nuclear powered ships, but their reactors are on a significantly smaller scale. Even the Nimitz-class supercarriers only use a pair of 100MW reactors. The reactors used for power generation are typically more than ten times that and you have more reactors per plant.
Chernobyl was not a perfectly good plant. Stupid people operating it was much of the problem, but the reactor itself had serious design flaws. For starters, it lacked a proper containment structure and the control rod system was absolutely stunning (Due to their construction, the initial insertion of the rods would cause a brief but massive spike in reactor output).
Though the reactor was not running at maximum power, it was running far below the safe minimum. In that state, it was possible for the reactor to enter a positive feedback loop and cause the output to increase rapidly. This was then capped off when they tried to shut it down by scramming the reactor, which caused the reactor output to spike due to the above mentioned control rod design. During that spike, the heat caused fuel rods to shatter, blocking the control rods from being inserted further, preventing a shutdown. With the control rods no longer controlling the reaction, the increasing heat caused all the water in the cooling system to flash to steam almost instantly, causing a sizable explosion. With the loss of all cooling and the neutron control from the water, the reactor power rose further to over 10 times the maximum design power, followed by a small (equivalent to about 10 tonnes of TNT) nuclear explosion.
Yes, Australia has the most uranium, but the US also has sizable known reserves (8th largest in the world) and that friendly country to your north has even more (3rd largest in the world behind Australia and Kazakhstan).
The US also has a fair lot of thorium. True, Australia and India have about 25% of the known world supply each, but the US has a good 12% and Canada nearly as much.
Yes, engines that are rebuilt every 1200 miles are a great testament to how friendly ethanol is on engines.
Engines can be designed to run great on ethanol, but you need to design them for it. That means no rubber hoses or plastic components anywhere in the fuel system (ethanol will turn these to jelly), no steel/iron engine blocks (ethanol will corrode these like nothing), no brass fittings (you'll get galvanic corrosion of anything aluminum in the fuel system, and since steel/iron is out, you pretty much have to use an aluminum block), use high compression and forced induction (ethanol has an incredible octane rating), etc. It's perfectly doable, but it is not cheap.
Higher concentrations of ethanol have bad effects on fiberglass, aluminum, and rubber. cite
It's perfectly possible to make an engine that works great on ethanol (It is wonderful (both in efficiency and power) with forced induction and high compression ratios thanks to the incredible octane rating.), but you need to design for it and that's not cheap.
They're German mines. Of course they'll still work!;)
But in seriousness, if they don't detonate after having 5 kilos of high explosive blow up on top of them, they're probably not going to detonate ever, and thus aren't a problem.
If you don't feel like following the reasonable regulations on foreign exchange transactions and submit the proper paperwork (a trivial one page form), yes.
This is basically India taking issue with paypal wanting to act like a bank without being regulated like one.
I mean lay down and take a break while its rebooting and you'll be fine.
then get up, shout a few obscenities, and spend the next several hours getting ahold of someone and figuring out why the system in a datacentre on the other side of the country didn't come back up.
This is like how your house is vulnerable because the lock on the front door can be picked by a lockpicking expert or locksmith. Yet - no one is complaining.
If you consider that someone could pick up your house and take it with them, then pick the lock at their leisure to get at the contents, sure.
Unrestricted physical access in a world of laptops is becoming easier and easier.
I remember them being shouted about with vista's release, being benchmarked with underwhelming results, resulting in the manufacturers playing a blame game with Microsoft over the poor results and who's responsibility it was to write good drivers for the drives, and the devices never actually appearing in stores, followed by the "vista sucks" brigade marching in and the entire concept getting buried as vista was the only thing that supported the drives.
I'll personally wait for the ATA-8 spec to be released and (hopefully) this implemented in a nice standard manner that plays nice with windows and linux.
Microsoft has a concept they call readydrive for this, mostly for laptops. It was released with vista (Not in XP and I never heard anything about Linux support) and seems to have kinda died. Last I heard anything about hardware was in 2007 with releases from the usual names (Samsung, Seagate, etc.), and I saw a few reviews (which appeared rather underwhelming (supposedly due to poor drivers), which resulted in a blame game between Microsoft and the manufactures over who's fault that was), but I don't think I ever saw the devices for sale.
There's also plans to include this type of functionality in the ATA-8 spec.
The unethical conduct is just the last nail in the coffin.
1. The original supposition, based on 12 patients, was that MMR vaccine may have been the possible cause of bowel problems which led to a decreased absorption of essential vitamins and nutrients which resulted in developmental disorders like autism. No analysis was provided to substantiate this, it was pure unfounded supposition.
2. Subsequent laboratory assays on the patients in question found no evidence of measles virus DNA, indicating that the vaccine was not responsible for the cases of inflammatory bowel disease.
3. Clinical evidence doesn't support a link between IBD and autism.
4. Twelve subsequent studies have failed to find any evidence of a link between MMR and autism.
Calling the possibility of a link "laughably remote" is an understatement.
I'm sick of hearing the "All of the Rare Earths are in China so we shouldn't invest in new technologies" line, particularly when the people spouting it have no idea what rare earths are required for what products, as well as the the actual domestic abundance of these elements.
I wasn't saying any such thing. I was simply making a point that if one stated (not necessarily the actual) reason for war is invalidated, the next in a near-infinite series will be used, be it water, lebensraum, oil, protection of the world status quo/balance of power, REEs, or anything else seen as valuable or desirable by a sufficient number of people to be seen as credible.
Merge? I have a feeling we're talking about different implementations of yield signs.
I have personally seen 4 way yields, which function exactly like 4 way stops, aside from the stopping part. They're common in smallish towns and outlying developments around here.
As far as your second point, I would argue 2 is almost always true in urban areas, either downtown or residential. Unless you've got nothing but buildings with glass corners or treeless yards, you cannot see far enough to tell if anyone else is coming.
As far as I see it, if you're already coming to a crawl, it's not that much of a problem to come to a stop and spend a moment checking.
A stop sign means to come to a complete STOP. The concept you are referring to is known as yielding and there is a separate sign (an upside-down red and white triangle here) for it.
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That's a new thing called multimedia over coax (MOCA). It's not the same thing as old thinnet/thicknet.
IMO, it's not worth it for most cases, much like powerline networking. It's a niche product. Despite claimed speeds of 270Mbps, real world transfer rates are less than 1/5th that (It doesn't even compete with fast ethernet, nevermind gigabit, though it can be competitive with wireless in some circumstances) and the equipment is expensive.
Unless you absolutely cannot run cat5/6 for some reason, forget about it.
The I/O backlog on vista/7 isn't very comparable to XP's. IIRC, vista/7 natively supports native command queuing, which queues and sorts disk accesses to make them as sequential as possible. This grows the apparent backlog, but increases throughput and average latency when doing lots of small random seeks, which is a very good thing IMO given how ludicrously slow hard drives are at this.
As usual, this is slightly non-optimal when the assumption (lots of random seeks) is not met and it can be beneficial to disable NCQ under workloads that use lots of huge sequential operations.
its just that microsoft will be more than happy to trust the chinese ca
If I am reading correctly, internet explorer has included CNNIC's cert since 2007.
Yes, the navy has some nice nuclear powered ships, but their reactors are on a significantly smaller scale. Even the Nimitz-class supercarriers only use a pair of 100MW reactors. The reactors used for power generation are typically more than ten times that and you have more reactors per plant.
Chernobyl was not a perfectly good plant. Stupid people operating it was much of the problem, but the reactor itself had serious design flaws. For starters, it lacked a proper containment structure and the control rod system was absolutely stunning (Due to their construction, the initial insertion of the rods would cause a brief but massive spike in reactor output).
Though the reactor was not running at maximum power, it was running far below the safe minimum. In that state, it was possible for the reactor to enter a positive feedback loop and cause the output to increase rapidly. This was then capped off when they tried to shut it down by scramming the reactor, which caused the reactor output to spike due to the above mentioned control rod design. During that spike, the heat caused fuel rods to shatter, blocking the control rods from being inserted further, preventing a shutdown. With the control rods no longer controlling the reaction, the increasing heat caused all the water in the cooling system to flash to steam almost instantly, causing a sizable explosion. With the loss of all cooling and the neutron control from the water, the reactor power rose further to over 10 times the maximum design power, followed by a small (equivalent to about 10 tonnes of TNT) nuclear explosion.
Yes, Australia has the most uranium, but the US also has sizable known reserves (8th largest in the world) and that friendly country to your north has even more (3rd largest in the world behind Australia and Kazakhstan).
The US also has a fair lot of thorium. True, Australia and India have about 25% of the known world supply each, but the US has a good 12% and Canada nearly as much.
Yes, engines that are rebuilt every 1200 miles are a great testament to how friendly ethanol is on engines.
Engines can be designed to run great on ethanol, but you need to design them for it. That means no rubber hoses or plastic components anywhere in the fuel system (ethanol will turn these to jelly), no steel/iron engine blocks (ethanol will corrode these like nothing), no brass fittings (you'll get galvanic corrosion of anything aluminum in the fuel system, and since steel/iron is out, you pretty much have to use an aluminum block), use high compression and forced induction (ethanol has an incredible octane rating), etc. It's perfectly doable, but it is not cheap.
Higher concentrations of ethanol have bad effects on fiberglass, aluminum, and rubber. cite
It's perfectly possible to make an engine that works great on ethanol (It is wonderful (both in efficiency and power) with forced induction and high compression ratios thanks to the incredible octane rating.), but you need to design for it and that's not cheap.
A lot of ISPs already block port 25, what else do you want?
Wonder what kind of explosive is that reliable.
They're German mines. Of course they'll still work! ;)
But in seriousness, if they don't detonate after having 5 kilos of high explosive blow up on top of them, they're probably not going to detonate ever, and thus aren't a problem.
Yes, I am sure the botnet herders will be happy to send you a cheque.
The thing you are referring to is the "U3" system. It's a portable apps-ish thing.
It's easy to remove with their tool.
http://apac.sandisk.com/Retail/Default.aspx?CatID=1415
My number was using raw CD quality (16 bit 44.1KHz) PCM recorded in mono and a life expectancy of 81 years.
It would take about 200TB to record a lifetime of audio at CD quality.
So is it illegal to transfer money into India?
If you don't feel like following the reasonable regulations on foreign exchange transactions and submit the proper paperwork (a trivial one page form), yes.
This is basically India taking issue with paypal wanting to act like a bank without being regulated like one.
I mean lay down and take a break while its rebooting and you'll be fine.
then get up, shout a few obscenities, and spend the next several hours getting ahold of someone and figuring out why the system in a datacentre on the other side of the country didn't come back up.
I can see the value in this.
This is like how your house is vulnerable because the lock on the front door can be picked by a lockpicking expert or locksmith. Yet - no one is complaining.
If you consider that someone could pick up your house and take it with them, then pick the lock at their leisure to get at the contents, sure.
Unrestricted physical access in a world of laptops is becoming easier and easier.
I remember them being shouted about with vista's release, being benchmarked with underwhelming results, resulting in the manufacturers playing a blame game with Microsoft over the poor results and who's responsibility it was to write good drivers for the drives, and the devices never actually appearing in stores, followed by the "vista sucks" brigade marching in and the entire concept getting buried as vista was the only thing that supported the drives.
I'll personally wait for the ATA-8 spec to be released and (hopefully) this implemented in a nice standard manner that plays nice with windows and linux.
Microsoft has a concept they call readydrive for this, mostly for laptops. It was released with vista (Not in XP and I never heard anything about Linux support) and seems to have kinda died. Last I heard anything about hardware was in 2007 with releases from the usual names (Samsung, Seagate, etc.), and I saw a few reviews (which appeared rather underwhelming (supposedly due to poor drivers), which resulted in a blame game between Microsoft and the manufactures over who's fault that was), but I don't think I ever saw the devices for sale.
There's also plans to include this type of functionality in the ATA-8 spec.
The unethical conduct is just the last nail in the coffin.
1. The original supposition, based on 12 patients, was that MMR vaccine may have been the possible cause of bowel problems which led to a decreased absorption of essential vitamins and nutrients which resulted in developmental disorders like autism. No analysis was provided to substantiate this, it was pure unfounded supposition.
2. Subsequent laboratory assays on the patients in question found no evidence of measles virus DNA, indicating that the vaccine was not responsible for the cases of inflammatory bowel disease.
3. Clinical evidence doesn't support a link between IBD and autism.
4. Twelve subsequent studies have failed to find any evidence of a link between MMR and autism.
Calling the possibility of a link "laughably remote" is an understatement.
I'm sick of hearing the "All of the Rare Earths are in China so we shouldn't invest in new technologies" line, particularly when the people spouting it have no idea what rare earths are required for what products, as well as the the actual domestic abundance of these elements.
I wasn't saying any such thing. I was simply making a point that if one stated (not necessarily the actual) reason for war is invalidated, the next in a near-infinite series will be used, be it water, lebensraum, oil, protection of the world status quo/balance of power, REEs, or anything else seen as valuable or desirable by a sufficient number of people to be seen as credible.
Merge? I have a feeling we're talking about different implementations of yield signs.
I have personally seen 4 way yields, which function exactly like 4 way stops, aside from the stopping part. They're common in smallish towns and outlying developments around here.
As far as your second point, I would argue 2 is almost always true in urban areas, either downtown or residential. Unless you've got nothing but buildings with glass corners or treeless yards, you cannot see far enough to tell if anyone else is coming.
As far as I see it, if you're already coming to a crawl, it's not that much of a problem to come to a stop and spend a moment checking.
A stop sign means to come to a complete STOP. The concept you are referring to is known as yielding and there is a separate sign (an upside-down red and white triangle here) for it.
CPU is important for the AI and physics. The "send 'em flying" biotic tricks aren't cheap.
I'm using a below-spec videocard (ATI HD3200 in my laptop) and it runs good at 800x600.
I would imagine the major cost would be people and equipment to get said vaccines and nets over there and distributed.