My (engineer) father was axed from his company one year before retirement. No one wants to hire an aging engineer in this market, so he took up high-school teaching as a last resort. It was a huge pay cut, but at least he could maintain medical benefits. He has an 70 mile commute every morning, since entry-level teachers were not in high demand.
Which support the development of international standards for protocols that don't break over long distances with lossy data link layers. The point being that with a proper delay-tolerant protocol, reliability goes up and long-distance links become more efficient. No one intends to surf the internet from Mars, but it would be nice to reliably send commands to and receive data from a rover via a secure link on a computer with just a standard internet connection. On top of this, a good deep-space protocol would get the information from source to destination whether or not the rover has a line-of-sight link or must go through an orbiting probe, and it would not require the scientist to worry about the messy details of setting up the link.
All of this is missing from current space protocols. Interestingly enough, if you read through the delay-tolerant-networking research group's website ( http://www.dtnrg.org/ ), you'll see that these protocol standards have terrestrial applications with civilian, miltary and scientific projects.
Sierra took the same cartoonish approach in the later stages of the King's Quest series. While KQ VI was marketed for utilizing actors and realistic film sequences, KQ VII looked and played like a Saturday morning cartoon. (we won't talk about KQ VIII.)
Quite frankly, it changed the entire feel of the series. Of course, with KQ VII, designers wrote dialog, sound effects and score to match the cartoony feel of the game, so this is probably a somewhat apples-to-oranges comparison.
Sterling engines don't require the nasty manufacturing processes of photovoltaics. This is great because it takes some rather dangerous chemicals and a lot of electricity to manufacture the typical solar cell. I read somewhere that a solar cell will only pay for its manufacture ($$$ + enviro cost) after 20 years of operation. Can't remember where I saw it...
Photovoltaic cells have no moving parts. Anything with moving parts _will_ wear out faster than a solid-state solution. I wonder how competitive the industry will be in the future...
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If you could dig up a link for that van, it would be awesome.
They should simply place the patents in the public domain, effectively flipping the US Gov't a huge bird. But not before they emmigrate to Scotland.
He did move. Houses aren't exactly easy to come by, but the commute was cut in half.
And how to you pronounce the word seven?
Hey, he's the teacher, not me. :P
My (engineer) father was axed from his company one year before retirement. No one wants to hire an aging engineer in this market, so he took up high-school teaching as a last resort. It was a huge pay cut, but at least he could maintain medical benefits. He has an 70 mile commute every morning, since entry-level teachers were not in high demand.
Two or three consecutive low-level formats followed by a re-partioning with massive random data files would probably do the trick.
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Which support the development of international standards for protocols that don't break over long distances with lossy data link layers. The point being that with a proper delay-tolerant protocol, reliability goes up and long-distance links become more efficient. No one intends to surf the internet from Mars, but it would be nice to reliably send commands to and receive data from a rover via a secure link on a computer with just a standard internet connection. On top of this, a good deep-space protocol would get the information from source to destination whether or not the rover has a line-of-sight link or must go through an orbiting probe, and it would not require the scientist to worry about the messy details of setting up the link.
All of this is missing from current space protocols. Interestingly enough, if you read through the delay-tolerant-networking research group's website ( http://www.dtnrg.org/ ), you'll see that these protocol standards have terrestrial applications with civilian, miltary and scientific projects.
http://www.dtnrg.org/
http://www.ccsds.org/
Not a chance in the next decade. The space elevator has the best chance of meeting these goals, and it's still just an idea.
Quite frankly, it changed the entire feel of the series. Of course, with KQ VII, designers wrote dialog, sound effects and score to match the cartoony feel of the game, so this is probably a somewhat apples-to-oranges comparison.
Being in a car on the freeway in Southern California does not constitute driving. The technical term is 'idling'.
I don't know about you pal, but I'd take a hot date to my home theater over a public cinema any day.
This is nuts. Next thing you know, they'll be trying to get a fee for installed cabling and 802.11-capable routers because they too 'cause piracy'.
Photovoltaic cells have no moving parts. Anything with moving parts _will_ wear out faster than a solid-state solution. I wonder how competitive the industry will be in the future...
I'd love to see a virus that teaches the early adopters a lesson in consumer research!