A shame you're not in Australia. I've been looking for a 5 1/4" floppy drive to resurrect some material I have on 5 1/4" discs. Or at least to see if they can be resurrected, which, I admit is not a given after 10+ years.
That is true about fixed speed AC motors, but a fixed speed motor is not much use in a rail car application. The rail network in Sydney is DC, and until very recently the speed was controlled by switching banks of resistors in or out.
Speed control of any kind for AC motors has only been around for the last 30 years or so and the early ones were very inefficient and somewhat unreliable. Plus they splattered nasty harmonics all over the supply for everyone nearby.
Proper affordable modern 12 pole Variable Frequency drives are a big imoprovement but they still lose about 10% in efficiency over the fixed speed equivalent.
Hearsay and anecdotes is all there is, because none of the public information surrounding the exercises discusses outcomes.
Mind you it's not unexpected for the US Navy (or any other navy - let's be fair) to prefer that a weakness they have had for some time not be made too public. I suspect one of the reasons Australia and other friendly diesel sub users are invited to these exercises is the ongoing search for a countermeasure. When they find it (if they haven't found it yet), you can bet there won't be any information made public about what it is or how well it works.
The historical examples of encounters between diesel subs and US warships are quite relevant I would have thought.
There was an episode of JAG where something like this happened. A US Navy ship with a state of the art electronic control system taken over by North Korean crackers and diverted into North Korean waters, disabling all its weapons and controls, and giving the North Koreans a pretext for boarding the ship and stealing it.
Actually if slow, robust, non picky for landing conditions and fuel were the only criteria, you'd want one of these or one of these for an anti shipping role.
In Shanghai at least (the only bit of China I've seen) there don't seem to be many fat people. Most workplaces have cafeterias. I ate in one once and the food consisted mainly of cabbage and minced pork. They also mostly ride bicycles. When they can all afford cars and more food, watch the obesity epidemic begin!...right after the asthma and lung disease.
Strongly agree with this. Timothy Zahn's novels are the best in the set bar none. If George Lucas had used him to write Episodes 1-3 they would have been far better.
You're assuming there even is an internal wi-fi network. In a high security environment, there would be no wi-fi fitted, and they should be plugging the USB ports with superglue.
just see Rwanda, Somalia, Congo, or just about anywhere else in Central Africa for a picture of what happens when you take an unpopular, corrupt and oppressive regime and add weapons.
Bonus points for describing how access to weapons helps people in Afganistan.
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A shame you're not in Australia. I've been looking for a 5 1/4" floppy drive to resurrect some material I have on 5 1/4" discs. Or at least to see if they can be resurrected, which, I admit is not a given after 10+ years.
That is true about fixed speed AC motors, but a fixed speed motor is not much use in a rail car application. The rail network in Sydney is DC, and until very recently the speed was controlled by switching banks of resistors in or out.
Speed control of any kind for AC motors has only been around for the last 30 years or so and the early ones were very inefficient and somewhat unreliable. Plus they splattered nasty harmonics all over the supply for everyone nearby.
Proper affordable modern 12 pole Variable Frequency drives are a big imoprovement but they still lose about 10% in efficiency over the fixed speed equivalent.
Yes, but does the robot cockroach know it's a robot cockroach? And is the cockroach sent to kill it really a cockroach, or just another robot?
Like all european vehicles - it's all about the badge
It shows how much they need this tech if they forgot they already covered it.
Works for mice too. I found they stopped nesting in my compost bin after I started emptying the cat litter contents in there.
You need one of these.
Hearsay and anecdotes is all there is, because none of the public information surrounding the exercises discusses outcomes.
Mind you it's not unexpected for the US Navy (or any other navy - let's be fair) to prefer that a weakness they have had for some time not be made too public. I suspect one of the reasons Australia and other friendly diesel sub users are invited to these exercises is the ongoing search for a countermeasure. When they find it (if they haven't found it yet), you can bet there won't be any information made public about what it is or how well it works.
The historical examples of encounters between diesel subs and US warships are quite relevant I would have thought.
There was an episode of JAG where something like this happened. A US Navy ship with a state of the art electronic control system taken over by North Korean crackers and diverted into North Korean waters, disabling all its weapons and controls, and giving the North Koreans a pretext for boarding the ship and stealing it.
This is why the Australian Collins Class Subs, and diesel subs used by the Canadians and the Dutch regularly kick US carrier group butt in exercises.
The Chinese are not the first to do this at all. Difference is of course that it wasn't an exercise this time.
Actually if slow, robust, non picky for landing conditions and fuel were the only criteria, you'd want one of these or one of these for an anti shipping role.
Would suck to have Liberian citizenship just because you were born on an oil tanker.
In Shanghai at least (the only bit of China I've seen) there don't seem to be many fat people. Most workplaces have cafeterias. I ate in one once and the food consisted mainly of cabbage and minced pork. They also mostly ride bicycles. When they can all afford cars and more food, watch the obesity epidemic begin! ...right after the asthma and lung disease.
Does it run linux in a Beowulf cluster using a battery running on hot grits?
in Soviet Russia?
Hard core?
In Jindabyne and Adaminaby they have fire days AND snow days (but usually not at the same time)
Don't think anyone would expect wireless broadband though, except maybe skiers from Sydney.
Strongly agree with this. Timothy Zahn's novels are the best in the set bar none. If George Lucas had used him to write Episodes 1-3 they would have been far better.
if the stores are all closed, with a click she can get what she came for.
Amazon patents notwithstanding
But only if you can produce an inverse phase tachyon pulse and feed it back into the warp drive via the phaser array.
I guess that's what's known as Gumby astrophysics.
best. Doctor. Who. Story. ever!
Problem is, a lot of the time the human translators aren't much better (although they too are improving)
You're assuming there even is an internal wi-fi network. In a high security environment, there would be no wi-fi fitted, and they should be plugging the USB ports with superglue.
Does this mean that the aeronautical market will be flooded with surplus black helicopters?
Great,
just see Rwanda, Somalia, Congo, or just about anywhere else in Central Africa for a picture of what happens when you take an unpopular, corrupt and oppressive regime and add weapons.
Bonus points for describing how access to weapons helps people in Afganistan.
Maybe, but that's not why it fell down.