I'm not an expert on flapping-wing aircraft, but you can also acheive low drag on upstroke by rotating the wing so it has the lowest angle-of-attack, and then turning it back so it blocks the most wind on the downstroke.
Birds, having been created by the blind idiot-god evolution, favored (in the appropriate non-intelligent sense) wings that didn't have to do such tricks -- like you say, with feathers, you need a relatively simple flapping motion because they automatically reduce profile on the upstroke and increase it on the downstroke.
Whether the rotating option is better depends on the specifics of the system, and the designers probably found that they could get a better overall structure by not having feathers and optimizing for the no-feather case by having more complicated wing motion (and more complicated software to handle it).
Well, GPGPU in the sense of "Bitcoin mining" which involves caculating huge numbers of SHA256 hashes. Check out the mining hardware comparison chart. AMD beats the hell out of the nVidia counterparts.
Incidentally, notice the comparison between the ATI Radeon HD5870 vs 5970. The 970 is a lot faster, sure, but they're selling for $920 now, while the 870s (which I put four of on my motherboard) are only $220 ($250 when I got them).
Sorry, lead-panty-making facilities were exhausted around the time of the porn-scanner TSA hype (justified hype, mind you, but I can't think of the neutrally-connotative term right now).
Yes, adoption of IPv6 is coming along VERY smoothly; large corporations are being EXTREMELY cooperative about converting to the new standard, thereby ensuring that we will NOT abruptly run out of internet addresses -- in keeping with their usual policy of extreme foresightedness.
Actually, it's an even bigger margin than I suggested before: the HD5870 can be had for $220 now, *and* it benchmarks higher than the 5970 (see link), *and* the 5970 is actually $910... *if* you can find it.
Yikes, who would actually get the 59 in this case?
HD5970s are being bought up by over-optimistic Bitcoin miners. They currently run for ~$700. Why not buy two HD5870s (each at ~$250) and use Crossfire. They're less than half the price and more than half the performance.
You do realise that for some jobs, networking is actually gosh...part of the job?
Heck, it's actually important for many jobs, but nerds just tend to overrate it, for obvious reasons.
You do realize I wasn't disputing that, and was actually relying on it to make my point, right? Yes, networking is part of everyone's job. Why are only journalists entitled to write it off/have it subsidized unlimitedly by employers?
Anyway, I'm no more bitter than anyone else who observes someone whining that they lost a privilege no one else has. I actually probably make more than the median journalist, and definitely the median from my cohort.
I'm not so much trying to bring others down as saying, "Um, join the club."
If I'm paying the CA to certify that public key X really is mine, and yet someone who's not me can get the same certification from the CA for being me... what was I paying for again?
Wow, a response with a personal attack. Good start.
Anyway, yes, they provide benefits... as compensation. Not out of a belief that e.g. employer-paid medical care is a "business expense".
And businesses that pay for your attire generally only do it if it's a specific employer-branded uniform, not general "businessy attire".
Paying to help me network is no different from paying for a computer I bring in from home to work on because I don't like the one they gave me.
The rest of us have reasons to network too, we just don't whine about how important it is to our job. It's a compensatory perk to be paid for networking, no different than if they bought me hookers to keep me productive.
And why do they get expense accounts? Why does anyone in any industry get an expense account? For one thing, it enables (in principle) the worker to perform their job better than they otherwise might. For a journalist, it's the opportunity to meet people over drinks and lunch, make connections, learn about things.
Aww... poor things. The problem I have with that is this: generally speaking, if something is necessary for your job, *but also* widely useful elsewhere, you generally don't get it comped by your employer and aren't allowed to deduct it on your taxes.
If I have business attire that I -- promise promise! -- only use for work, my employer doesn't pay for it and I can't deduct it. Ditto for gas for driving to work (or the fraction of my car's usage that's for going to/from work), or the supercomputing cluster I bought when my employer didn't approve it and which I pass some job-related scripts off to. Ditto for fashion accessories or cosmetic surgery to make me better-looking for clients.
For journalists to make these personal connections does have some job-related function, but you better damn well believe it has enormous utility beyond that. So yes, I do view it as a free perk for journalists not to have pay for these things out of pocket, and I do view it as whining when get slightly less gravy than they did 5 years ago. Boo fuckin hoo.
Yes, this seems like a textbook case of putting the cart before the horse (or rather, making sure you have the *best* anti-virus software for Windows on your voting machine). You should prioritize emergencies according to a pre-specified ranking of what's most urgent, and have the 911 operators learn this and dispatch based on it.
You certainly don't want to prioritize a woman *panicking* about how they served her a bad burger (see the "worst 911 calls" compilations sometimes), over a retired EMT who is able to calmly report the necessary information when someone is unconscious and not breathing.
And you sure as hell don't want people practicing their panic voices in an attempt to get the best response from emergency services.
*sigh* Can you *please* just play along with them on this? They came up with the theory to explain to their wives how porn mags got into their desks. ("Must have been some pranksters that sent them back in time!")
I didn't mean the rotor would press against the earth (like a moving gear). If you just attached it to a frame and had electricity flow in to power it, then the alternating magnet on the stator would apply a moment on the magnet, and a moment in the opposite direction on the frame. As long as the frame doesn't rotate relative to the ground, there is another opposite moment at its interface with the earth's surface.
Or did I just really doze off in my reasoning there?
Wow, he set two computation time expressions equal to each other and solved for the problem size! That is *so* difficult and deserving of a $100k prize!
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If http://xkcd.com/538/ [xkcd.com] I guess it didn't work.
Aha! That's it! The FBI did it, and they accidentally killed him trying to get the key during a rubber-hose (metal wrench?) attack!
Parts per million. "A reduction to 66% [660 parts per million] ought to be enough for anyone."
my joke = phail
Wow, that would almost be as big a catastrophe as if the entire UAV program decided to rely on security by obscurity! Oh, wait...
In fairness, he also said that 660 ppm ought to be enough for anyone.
This same old "silver bullet" for spam is yet another lame attempt to solve an intractable problem. Here we go...
Your post advocates a:
wait, one third you say??? Holy shit, never mind! Good work!
I remember a slashdot wag replying to that with, "I'm not dumping you; I'm just raising my standards to the point where you could never qualify."
I'm not an expert on flapping-wing aircraft, but you can also acheive low drag on upstroke by rotating the wing so it has the lowest angle-of-attack, and then turning it back so it blocks the most wind on the downstroke.
Birds, having been created by the blind idiot-god evolution, favored (in the appropriate non-intelligent sense) wings that didn't have to do such tricks -- like you say, with feathers, you need a relatively simple flapping motion because they automatically reduce profile on the upstroke and increase it on the downstroke.
Whether the rotating option is better depends on the specifics of the system, and the designers probably found that they could get a better overall structure by not having feathers and optimizing for the no-feather case by having more complicated wing motion (and more complicated software to handle it).
Counter-whoosh -- my reply was a reference to the famous exchange from Airplane!:
"Surely you can't be serious!"
"I am serious. And stop calling me Shirley."
I am serious. And stop using the fucking dollar sign for your s's.
Well, GPGPU in the sense of "Bitcoin mining" which involves caculating huge numbers of SHA256 hashes. Check out the mining hardware comparison chart. AMD beats the hell out of the nVidia counterparts.
Incidentally, notice the comparison between the ATI Radeon HD5870 vs 5970. The 970 is a lot faster, sure, but they're selling for $920 now, while the 870s (which I put four of on my motherboard) are only $220 ($250 when I got them).
Sorry, lead-panty-making facilities were exhausted around the time of the porn-scanner TSA hype (justified hype, mind you, but I can't think of the neutrally-connotative term right now).
Yes, adoption of IPv6 is coming along VERY smoothly; large corporations are being EXTREMELY cooperative about converting to the new standard, thereby ensuring that we will NOT abruptly run out of internet addresses -- in keeping with their usual policy of extreme foresightedness.
*rolls eyes, jerk-off gesture*
Fortunately, I bought my HD 5870s for GPGPU, and the drivers are good enough for that, so I'm happy.
Actually, it's an even bigger margin than I suggested before: the HD5870 can be had for $220 now, *and* it benchmarks higher than the 5970 (see link), *and* the 5970 is actually $910 ... *if* you can find it.
Yikes, who would actually get the 59 in this case?
HD5970s are being bought up by over-optimistic Bitcoin miners. They currently run for ~$700. Why not buy two HD5870s (each at ~$250) and use Crossfire. They're less than half the price and more than half the performance.
Yeah, it's a good thing nobody shows off by, say, advertising how they only use Linux and only the best graphics cards they can put on it.
You do realise that for some jobs, networking is actually gosh...part of the job?
Heck, it's actually important for many jobs, but nerds just tend to overrate it, for obvious reasons.
You do realize I wasn't disputing that, and was actually relying on it to make my point, right? Yes, networking is part of everyone's job. Why are only journalists entitled to write it off/have it subsidized unlimitedly by employers?
Anyway, I'm no more bitter than anyone else who observes someone whining that they lost a privilege no one else has. I actually probably make more than the median journalist, and definitely the median from my cohort.
I'm not so much trying to bring others down as saying, "Um, join the club."
If I'm paying the CA to certify that public key X really is mine, and yet someone who's not me can get the same certification from the CA for being me ... what was I paying for again?
RSA =/= rubber stamp authority
Wow, a response with a personal attack. Good start.
Anyway, yes, they provide benefits ... as compensation. Not out of a belief that e.g. employer-paid medical care is a "business expense".
And businesses that pay for your attire generally only do it if it's a specific employer-branded uniform, not general "businessy attire".
Paying to help me network is no different from paying for a computer I bring in from home to work on because I don't like the one they gave me.
The rest of us have reasons to network too, we just don't whine about how important it is to our job. It's a compensatory perk to be paid for networking, no different than if they bought me hookers to keep me productive.
And why do they get expense accounts? Why does anyone in any industry get an expense account? For one thing, it enables (in principle) the worker to perform their job better than they otherwise might. For a journalist, it's the opportunity to meet people over drinks and lunch, make connections, learn about things.
Aww ... poor things. The problem I have with that is this: generally speaking, if something is necessary for your job, *but also* widely useful elsewhere, you generally don't get it comped by your employer and aren't allowed to deduct it on your taxes.
If I have business attire that I -- promise promise! -- only use for work, my employer doesn't pay for it and I can't deduct it. Ditto for gas for driving to work (or the fraction of my car's usage that's for going to/from work), or the supercomputing cluster I bought when my employer didn't approve it and which I pass some job-related scripts off to. Ditto for fashion accessories or cosmetic surgery to make me better-looking for clients.
For journalists to make these personal connections does have some job-related function, but you better damn well believe it has enormous utility beyond that. So yes, I do view it as a free perk for journalists not to have pay for these things out of pocket, and I do view it as whining when get slightly less gravy than they did 5 years ago. Boo fuckin hoo.
Yes, this seems like a textbook case of putting the cart before the horse (or rather, making sure you have the *best* anti-virus software for Windows on your voting machine). You should prioritize emergencies according to a pre-specified ranking of what's most urgent, and have the 911 operators learn this and dispatch based on it.
You certainly don't want to prioritize a woman *panicking* about how they served her a bad burger (see the "worst 911 calls" compilations sometimes), over a retired EMT who is able to calmly report the necessary information when someone is unconscious and not breathing.
And you sure as hell don't want people practicing their panic voices in an attempt to get the best response from emergency services.
*sigh* Can you *please* just play along with them on this? They came up with the theory to explain to their wives how porn mags got into their desks. ("Must have been some pranksters that sent them back in time!")
I didn't mean the rotor would press against the earth (like a moving gear). If you just attached it to a frame and had electricity flow in to power it, then the alternating magnet on the stator would apply a moment on the magnet, and a moment in the opposite direction on the frame. As long as the frame doesn't rotate relative to the ground, there is another opposite moment at its interface with the earth's surface.
Or did I just really doze off in my reasoning there?
And given yourself a very good reason not to hit anything while driving ...
Wow, he set two computation time expressions equal to each other and solved for the problem size! That is *so* difficult and deserving of a $100k prize!