Initial tests show that the system in Bath emits approximately half as much energy as heat than the previous AC powered system while running much faster.
If you mean "much cooler", you already said that. If you mean "much faster", you should probably sign up for that physics (or electronics) course.
The new DC network also offers greater security. DC power supply units have a simpler design, with fewer parts that could fail and need replacing.
So you don't mean "security", you mean "reliability".
Decarbonisation will increase electricity consumption by 2030 and possibly more than double it by 2050.
I wonder how much carbon was released refining all the lead in all those batteries...
That might almost be a fair analogy - if Digital hadn't been bought out when the WWW was in its infancy. dec.com was gone before most people would have looked for it. Besides, Digital was really only a computer company for the computer industry - except for HUGE successes like the Rainbow. Sun at least has/had Java and Open Solaris driving traffic to sun.com.
NOVA ran an episode recently about the all manner of crazy coincidences piled on top of each other - one storm hiding behind another, supercooled water plugging all the pilot tubes, fly-by-wire software that wasn't quite ready for a "no airspeed" input, pilot tube upgrades scheduled but not yet performed...
Sometimes airplanes crash. Proving criminal (I'm assuming negligence) behavior is going to be tricky, at least until they find the black boxes and can prove what caused the crash.
The idea is that, for example, the device could confirm to the insurance company that the car wasn't being used in high risk situations, such as commute traffic. Safe driving situations would be rewarded with lower rates.
This is why we have auto commercials where a car is backing out of a parking space and the closed-captioned fine print says: Professional driver. Closed course. Do not attempt. - because people insist on engaging in high-risk behavior - like driving to work.
Before everybody jumps all over him for being wrong and off-topic and all that, I'm going to agree with him. As working programmers, not necessarily CS professors, we manipulate language(s) for living, both formal languages for programs, and natural language for (ick!) documentation and communicating with others on projects. These languages, formal and informal, have both syntactic requirements and expressive requirements. A statement (or function) may compile cleanly and yet read as complete gibberish to a human trying to understand what this piece of code actually does; similarly, an e-mail may read as though it says something useful, yet impart no actual information. We all see examples of these phenomena every day when we write code for a living.
I was just going to post the same. I'm not going to bother to continue reading any article that can't get such a forehead-whappingly obvious "everybody knows" fact straight.
I probably should have written that better. Discovery flew 39 missions in 27 years, which is less than 2 per year. A little short of the two week turnaround promised.
Much as I hate(d) Bush, you have to admit that the Shuttle is/was due to be EOL'd before more people got killed. Besides, the budget for it really was stifling any new projects. And Orion was more like the "successor" to Apollo than to Shuttle.
Of course it captured Hubble (several times - after an extra day and a half boosting to a higher orbit - yay lower LEO) - the question was - did it RETURN any satellites?
You're an idiot and a troll. You have no appreciation whatsoever for the engineering or contingency planning involved. If you want to bitch about government waste, take a look at the Defense Department, which gets more like 50% of the budget, rather than at NASA, which gets more like 1%.
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I didn't say you were paranoid, you must have imagined that.
Too bad they didn't think to bury him in a stator.
If you mean "much cooler", you already said that. If you mean "much faster", you should probably sign up for that physics (or electronics) course.
So you don't mean "security", you mean "reliability".
I wonder how much carbon was released refining all the lead in all those batteries...
Indeed! And how are his heirs and lawyers for his estate to survive? Harumph! Harumph!
Because the only format they could think of that was more obscure and cryptic than sheet music notation was XML?
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That was a typo. Oracle has already raped well over $10 Billion.
That's the Chicago Sun-Times. They NEVER call themselves just "The Sun", always "The Sun-Times".
That might almost be a fair analogy - if Digital hadn't been bought out when the WWW was in its infancy. dec.com was gone before most people would have looked for it. Besides, Digital was really only a computer company for the computer industry - except for HUGE successes like the Rainbow. Sun at least has/had Java and Open Solaris driving traffic to sun.com.
Indeed. I can't remember how many roomfuls of students I told to go to "java.sun.com" for all things Java.
Likely the final cause of the crash was a helmet fire.
NOVA ran an episode recently about the all manner of crazy coincidences piled on top of each other - one storm hiding behind another, supercooled water plugging all the pilot tubes, fly-by-wire software that wasn't quite ready for a "no airspeed" input, pilot tube upgrades scheduled but not yet performed...
Sometimes airplanes crash. Proving criminal (I'm assuming negligence) behavior is going to be tricky, at least until they find the black boxes and can prove what caused the crash.
This is why we have auto commercials where a car is backing out of a parking space and the closed-captioned fine print says: Professional driver. Closed course. Do not attempt. - because people insist on engaging in high-risk behavior - like driving to work.
So, all fiction has nothing to tell us, FFS?
and so on ad infinitum...
Let's just go ahead and call this the modern-day Calvinism it really is: dour, bleak, conformist and joyless.
Anybody else remember Richard Pryor and the "dollar and fifty cents worth of cocaine"?
I went to high school with a Roland Blackout...
SAY 'TWIBEL' AGAIN!
I DARE YOU!
I DOUBLE DARE YOU!
SAY 'TWIBEL' ONE MORE GODDAMN TIME!
stupid lameness filter, of course I'm yelling! that's the whole point!
Thanks a lot. Like there weren't already enough religious warriors at this party.
Before everybody jumps all over him for being wrong and off-topic and all that, I'm going to agree with him. As working programmers, not necessarily CS professors, we manipulate language(s) for living, both formal languages for programs, and natural language for (ick!) documentation and communicating with others on projects. These languages, formal and informal, have both syntactic requirements and expressive requirements. A statement (or function) may compile cleanly and yet read as complete gibberish to a human trying to understand what this piece of code actually does; similarly, an e-mail may read as though it says something useful, yet impart no actual information. We all see examples of these phenomena every day when we write code for a living.
I was just going to post the same. I'm not going to bother to continue reading any article that can't get such a forehead-whappingly obvious "everybody knows" fact straight.
I probably should have written that better. Discovery flew 39 missions in 27 years, which is less than 2 per year. A little short of the two week turnaround promised.
Much as I hate(d) Bush, you have to admit that the Shuttle is/was due to be EOL'd before more people got killed. Besides, the budget for it really was stifling any new projects. And Orion was more like the "successor" to Apollo than to Shuttle.
Of course it captured Hubble (several times - after an extra day and a half boosting to a higher orbit - yay lower LEO) - the question was - did it RETURN any satellites?
You're an idiot and a troll. You have no appreciation whatsoever for the engineering or contingency planning involved. If you want to bitch about government waste, take a look at the Defense Department, which gets more like 50% of the budget, rather than at NASA, which gets more like 1%.