Seconded the recommendation for Gandi. Another good one is Loopia in Sweden, loopia.se. Loopia got acquired reasonably recently, so they may or may not stay that way but for now they have been very good and for a long time they were the best-priced.se and.nu registrar (and may still be.)
380 V is presumably because it is the phase-to-phase voltage in 220 V 3-phase wiring, so there is plenty of distribution products already rated for that voltage. Why 380 V and not 400 V (230 V 3-phase, which is the modern standard) is a good question; it might have been what they actually intended.
USB is designed to enable inexpensive devices. 5 V is so that when cable losses are counted in, you can use a LDO linear regulator to obtain 3.3 V (Vcc) without excessive losses. 12 V would require a switching regulator.
This wasn't done by Comcast, but the IPv6 architects. This is pretty much the consequence of having a fixed-size address space... people will mismanage it partly because of the way we think... we are mentally programmed to hoard.
In other words, if you want to subnet your home network, you have to hope everything you care about supports DHCPv6 as opposed to RA. Since DHCPv6 got standardized pretty late, cuts down on the compatibility tremendously.
The real reason is probably that the PS3 and Xbox360 were a bit ahead of their time -- they both cost too much (except for early adopters), and were HD at a time where the installed base of HDTV was pretty much limited to early adopters. As the consumer space has caught up, and the manufacturers have cut costs, they are now taking over the Wii-dominated market. In other words, the next generation is already here.
Iridium was more than just a way to market the technology... they use low-orbit satellites which can provide a stronger signal and less lag. Unfortunately they spend $7,000,000,000 developing the technology, and the market just wasn't big enough for it.
Quite. ITER follows in the steps of the Joint European Torus (JET), and other research reactor. It is not aimed at achieve power plant break even (that is slated for the followon project, DEMO) nor economical breakeven (that would come after DEMO).
Actually, that's not quite what Einstein's theories said. They said that every point in any inertial frame is equivalent to any other (and could thus be considered a "center of the universe".
In Einsteinian terms, the Earth isn't the center of the universe, because it's not an inertial frame. It's moving in an accelerated frame in its orbit around a much heavier object (the sun). Therefore, it's not a candidate for centerhood.
You have described the Specific Theory of Relativity accurately. However, the General Theory of Relativity expands the equivalency to any point in any reference frame, hence the "General".
Aftonbladet used to be a serious newspaper, but these days they're definitely a tabloid in every sense of the world, although not yet as far down the morass as the U.S. ones.
Actually, it's the combination of Freedom of The Press Act (which covers print media only), and the Fundamental Law of Freedom of Expression, which covers all other media. The reason for print media being treated separately is historical.
Indeed... I put my 2.4 GHz AP on channel 1, because *all* the APs I could see from my house was on channels 6 and higher. It turns out to be a reason for that -- something that *isn't* 802.11 is interfering with the lower channels. Bumping it to channel 11 and all the interference problems went away.
Wifi operates in the ISM bands - the scrap heaps of the radio spectrum. There is tons of crap, and 802.11 is just a small part of that.
The monopoly telephone companies have always been obsessed with getting users to pay by the usage unit, even when flat pricing made them more money. It does seem to reflect their thinking more than profit maximization; one possibility is that they have a vastly exaggerated notion of the inadequacies of their own plant, or alternatively they are suffering from lottery-style thinking -- the executives have happy dreams about the poor sucker who left their phone connected and got a $10,000 bill.
In the USA, at least, flat-rate long distance did not become common until it got to be way too easy to bypass the monopolists.
I did exactly this back in 1991 to deal with printing from a computer behind a two-way firewall with extremely restrictive permissions. The easiest protocol which was permitted through the firewall was email, and it automatically meant queueing was handled properly.
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Seconded the recommendation for Gandi. Another good one is Loopia in Sweden, loopia.se. Loopia got acquired reasonably recently, so they may or may not stay that way but for now they have been very good and for a long time they were the best-priced .se and .nu registrar (and may still be.)
380 V is presumably because it is the phase-to-phase voltage in 220 V 3-phase wiring, so there is plenty of distribution products already rated for that voltage. Why 380 V and not 400 V (230 V 3-phase, which is the modern standard) is a good question; it might have been what they actually intended.
USB is designed to enable inexpensive devices. 5 V is so that when cable losses are counted in, you can use a LDO linear regulator to obtain 3.3 V (Vcc) without excessive losses. 12 V would require a switching regulator.
Squeamish Ossifrage.
... biological warfare. Malware didn't evolve naturally, it was engineered.
Making old machines actually come to life... http://www.abc80.org/~hpa/fpga/
If TSA ignores the new Texas law Texas has grounds to go to the US Supreme Court and challenge TSA's authority.
No, they don't, as it'd pretty much be a crystal-clear application of Article VI of the United States Constitution. Sadly, in this case.
... at Cloud City.
The most common automatic configuration mechanism for IPv6, RA, doesn't support subnetting past /64.
This wasn't done by Comcast, but the IPv6 architects. This is pretty much the consequence of having a fixed-size address space... people will mismanage it partly because of the way we think... we are mentally programmed to hoard.
It's the class A/B/C problem all over again.
In other words, if you want to subnet your home network, you have to hope everything you care about supports DHCPv6 as opposed to RA. Since DHCPv6 got standardized pretty late, cuts down on the compatibility tremendously.
The real reason is probably that the PS3 and Xbox360 were a bit ahead of their time -- they both cost too much (except for early adopters), and were HD at a time where the installed base of HDTV was pretty much limited to early adopters. As the consumer space has caught up, and the manufacturers have cut costs, they are now taking over the Wii-dominated market. In other words, the next generation is already here.
Some are good, some are bad, but they're definitely always with us. Being able to control and shape them would definitely be beneficial.
Iridium was more than just a way to market the technology ... they use low-orbit satellites which can provide a stronger signal and less lag. Unfortunately they spend $7,000,000,000 developing the technology, and the market just wasn't big enough for it.
Quite. ITER follows in the steps of the Joint European Torus (JET), and other research reactor. It is not aimed at achieve power plant break even (that is slated for the followon project, DEMO) nor economical breakeven (that would come after DEMO).
Sorry, that is not right.
You have described the Specific Theory of Relativity accurately. However, the General Theory of Relativity expands the equivalency to any point in any reference frame, hence the "General".
Aftonbladet used to be a serious newspaper, but these days they're definitely a tabloid in every sense of the world, although not yet as far down the morass as the U.S. ones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enfn9PL5htQ
Actually, it's the combination of Freedom of The Press Act (which covers print media only), and the Fundamental Law of Freedom of Expression, which covers all other media. The reason for print media being treated separately is historical.
Indeed... I put my 2.4 GHz AP on channel 1, because *all* the APs I could see from my house was on channels 6 and higher. It turns out to be a reason for that -- something that *isn't* 802.11 is interfering with the lower channels. Bumping it to channel 11 and all the interference problems went away.
Wifi operates in the ISM bands - the scrap heaps of the radio spectrum. There is tons of crap, and 802.11 is just a small part of that.
The monopoly telephone companies have always been obsessed with getting users to pay by the usage unit, even when flat pricing made them more money. It does seem to reflect their thinking more than profit maximization; one possibility is that they have a vastly exaggerated notion of the inadequacies of their own plant, or alternatively they are suffering from lottery-style thinking -- the executives have happy dreams about the poor sucker who left their phone connected and got a $10,000 bill.
In the USA, at least, flat-rate long distance did not become common until it got to be way too easy to bypass the monopolists.
Yes, but the U.S. isn't trying to hide the fact that it happened to its citizens to this day.
I did exactly this back in 1991 to deal with printing from a computer behind a two-way firewall with extremely restrictive permissions. The easiest protocol which was permitted through the firewall was email, and it automatically meant queueing was handled properly.
The bigger issue is U.S. citizens, being detained for being suspect of being foreign.
1 U.S. gallon ~ 3.79 liter, so $1/L ~ $3.79/gal, not 6.7.