Look, the job market out there is tough. You want your kid to get ahead, right? Assembly programming is clearly the way to go. That way when you introduce C at 4, C++ at 6, they'll be ready for the workplace while his would-be classmates are failing sandbox.
You are assuming constant linear acceleration. I think it is safe to say that the acceleration when the rocket motor is turned on will be somewhat more dramatic than that. Even if you use your figure, bear in mind that gravity will still be there, and the combined force will be sqrt(1.19g + 1g) = 1.55g, so the pilot would feel 55% heavier than normal.
There are highlands in the polar areas that receive 100% sunlight that would make excellent solar outposts. That obviously limits the surface area being used, and may involve large power lines, but odds are that lunar outposts would be up near the poles anyway, because there are also areas there that are in 100% darkness that may be attractive for mining water.
Realistically, the neutrino flux idea has already been tested by accident -- there is quite a bit of radioactive material in a nuclear reactor -- it's a nuclear reactor!
I suspect heads would have been scratched quite a bit if the decay of material in a nuclear reactor varied with the neutrino flux, i.e. with the reaction level.
Similarly, several deep space probes like Pioneer and Voyager have had RTG power and their power levels have been tracked for long periods of time -- decades. It wouldn't be hard to back track and see if something unusual was happening, and try to correlate it to the distance from the Sun.
Clearly it is to cover up the fact that they are working on time travel technology to go back to alter PC Mark 2005 years before the VIA chip was released.
Oh, atheists shouldn't be troubled by Hell because modern Catholics say so? What about the 1900 years of other Catholics, or the many other varieties of Christianity, or the many religions of the world?
Hey, does Purgatory exist this week?:-)
But our materials and systems will be a lot more vulnerable than theirs. We have to get the nuke close enough to even have a chance to try it. Our current missile tech will probably be quite a joke to anyone capable of FTL. And ICBM launches are easily detected by satellite with current technology.
Actually, we do our best to smugly mock all religions without prejudice whenever we get the chance. That's because most fundamentalists of any stripe think all unbelievers will burn equally well in hell, so we return the favour as best we can.
Certainly we have warning signs in Toronto for the red light cameras. In fact, only a subset of the intersections that are equipped for the cameras actually have them. They rotate the cameras around between intersections so no one can find out which intersections really have the cameras and which don't.
Currently the phase change RAM can only store 1 bit per element, in two possible states -- 0 or 1. They are changing this four possible states, which corresponds to two bits -- 00, 01, 10, 11. Hence, the amount of data that can be stored is doubled. The number of bits held per element increases by one every time the number of possible states is doubled.
No, processor caches are made out of SRAM, which is very fast but takes a lot of silicon space. Flash and phase-change RAM are totally different technologies. They aren't intended to be as fast as SRAM, but they are non-volatile, storing their contents without power. Phase-change or a similar technology may end up giving DRAM a run for its money if it gets fast enough, but I've never heard of an alternative to SRAM for internal processor caches.
The main problem here is that a picocell is so small it is really intended for use inside a single building. A campus is going to need something much more like a full blown cell.
This is an ion drive. It works by using an electric field to accelerate small amounts of propellant to very high speeds. It is not useful for launching a rocket from Earth at all. But it is a very efficient way to travel in space. Acceleration is very slow, but adds up over time when there is no friction. The article is about tweaks to improve the efficiency of this type of engine.
Star Control: good first game, fantastic second game, AWFUL third game by different developers, then Accolade dies and we're done. More than TEN YEARS LATER, the source code for the 3DO version of Star Control 2 is released and turned into a great open source game for multiple platforms. That's love.
Actually, Intel will have chipsets supporting it out next quarter (Q2). The preliminary spec has been pretty stable, so most companies should be well on their way to having the chips ready. I don't know how long before companies like nVidia sell cards for it, mind you -- but since it's backwards compatible, having the slots on your next motherboard has no downside.
When I was in high school, I built some parts for the temperature regulation system of the AMSAT Phase 3D satellite. 288 tiny aluminum parts, each about 2cm long, and 0.1mm tolerance on all measurements. We used the school's CNC milling machine, but I had to hand-write the CNC code to do the parts in four passes, because the CAD/CAM software wasn't up to it. We then we hand-polished the parts to get them within tolerance where possible. The satellite is still in orbit, it shows up in J-Track as Oscar 40, but apparently it doesn't work anymore.
Okay, who thought it was a good idea to put solar arrays so fragile that they can't withstand small rockets firing on a station that is equipped with those rockets?
Ideally, they would just add another gyro to the December mission (which I imagine would cause the mission to be delayed for training at this late date), but apparently they don't currently have a spare. One of these gyros failed previously and the spare was installed. So someone felt that with FOUR of these gyros on the station, it was okay to have only ONE spare? Most of my customers would not accept that sparing ratio, and IANARS!
I guess the best case scenario is that perhaps they can change the manner in which they plan to rewire the station to avoid taking 2 out of the 3 working gyros offline at the same time. This brings up training and procedure issues again, of course -- it takes time and practice and well-written, simulation-testing procedures to get people to do complicated jobs like this correctly, the first time. If I reverse the order of two ethernet plugs, or two variables in my code, I might need some time to find the problem later, but no one is going to be electrocuted, and no rockets will fire.:-)
If we are talking about a serious system here, you aren't going to be able to do this yourself. Just for starters, think about how complicated this would be if you decide to have a shower. You will have to deactivate the whole shooting match and then get it all back up and running again afterwards. Of course, if you slip in the shower, you're screwed.
There are already solutions out there that you can sign up for. One that I have seen is a pendant you wear around your neck that has a button on it. One push, and your relatives are notified by phone. Or, fail to push the button on a regular basis and a phone call comes from the monitoring service, who can also dispatch 911, etc.
Finally, at the risk of being harsh, if you truly believe you may die suddenly with no notice at any time, you seriously need to reconsider your current care arrangements. You do not strike me as qualifying to care for some with the needs you imply in your question. Please take this as honest advice, not a flame.
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Look, the job market out there is tough. You want your kid to get ahead, right? Assembly programming is clearly the way to go. That way when you introduce C at 4, C++ at 6, they'll be ready for the workplace while his would-be classmates are failing sandbox.
You are assuming constant linear acceleration. I think it is safe to say that the acceleration when the rocket motor is turned on will be somewhat more dramatic than that. Even if you use your figure, bear in mind that gravity will still be there, and the combined force will be sqrt(1.19g + 1g) = 1.55g, so the pilot would feel 55% heavier than normal.
There are highlands in the polar areas that receive 100% sunlight that would make excellent solar outposts. That obviously limits the surface area being used, and may involve large power lines, but odds are that lunar outposts would be up near the poles anyway, because there are also areas there that are in 100% darkness that may be attractive for mining water.
lay awake in bed at night wondering the same thing, cold sweat running down my face as I count down the seconds until the release of Ubuntu 17.10
In English, there are more than 17 letters.
In Ubuntu, there are more than two releases per year.
Realistically, the neutrino flux idea has already been tested by accident -- there is quite a bit of radioactive material in a nuclear reactor -- it's a nuclear reactor! I suspect heads would have been scratched quite a bit if the decay of material in a nuclear reactor varied with the neutrino flux, i.e. with the reaction level. Similarly, several deep space probes like Pioneer and Voyager have had RTG power and their power levels have been tracked for long periods of time -- decades. It wouldn't be hard to back track and see if something unusual was happening, and try to correlate it to the distance from the Sun.
Clearly it is to cover up the fact that they are working on time travel technology to go back to alter PC Mark 2005 years before the VIA chip was released.
Oh, atheists shouldn't be troubled by Hell because modern Catholics say so? What about the 1900 years of other Catholics, or the many other varieties of Christianity, or the many religions of the world? Hey, does Purgatory exist this week? :-)
But our materials and systems will be a lot more vulnerable than theirs. We have to get the nuke close enough to even have a chance to try it. Our current missile tech will probably be quite a joke to anyone capable of FTL. And ICBM launches are easily detected by satellite with current technology.
Actually, we do our best to smugly mock all religions without prejudice whenever we get the chance. That's because most fundamentalists of any stripe think all unbelievers will burn equally well in hell, so we return the favour as best we can.
Certainly we have warning signs in Toronto for the red light cameras. In fact, only a subset of the intersections that are equipped for the cameras actually have them. They rotate the cameras around between intersections so no one can find out which intersections really have the cameras and which don't.
Currently the phase change RAM can only store 1 bit per element, in two possible states -- 0 or 1. They are changing this four possible states, which corresponds to two bits -- 00, 01, 10, 11. Hence, the amount of data that can be stored is doubled. The number of bits held per element increases by one every time the number of possible states is doubled.
No, processor caches are made out of SRAM, which is very fast but takes a lot of silicon space. Flash and phase-change RAM are totally different technologies. They aren't intended to be as fast as SRAM, but they are non-volatile, storing their contents without power. Phase-change or a similar technology may end up giving DRAM a run for its money if it gets fast enough, but I've never heard of an alternative to SRAM for internal processor caches.
The summary only mentions Demo 3. Here are the others:
Demo 1 is the lonely Demo of all.
Demo 2 is a brute force MD5 cracker, so Toshiba can screw up SquirrelMail for reals next time.
Demo 4 works the same as Demo 3, but replace "face" with "nipple".
Demo 5 scans your music collection for Paris Hilton and, if found, e-mails your entire address book to let them know how bad you suck.
We don't talk about Demo 6.
Demo 7 burns with the rage of a thousand suns.
Demo 8 performs MPEG2 compression in both little and big endian -- just 'cause.
Demo 9 remixes all your audio files with samples from the Captain Picard song.
Demo 10 indexes your porn by hair colour.
Do they actually call them the Nazgul? That would be soooo awesome! :-) Lawyers should get cool nicknames. Let's call Boies Schiller "the Black Sox".
Come on, man! It's Thundercats, Hooooooooo! Thunderbolts?!? Who let you on Slashdot? :-)
The main problem here is that a picocell is so small it is really intended for use inside a single building. A campus is going to need something much more like a full blown cell.
Yes, and the sheep will explode with *amazing* detail.
This is an ion drive. It works by using an electric field to accelerate small amounts of propellant to very high speeds. It is not useful for launching a rocket from Earth at all. But it is a very efficient way to travel in space. Acceleration is very slow, but adds up over time when there is no friction. The article is about tweaks to improve the efficiency of this type of engine.
Star Control: good first game, fantastic second game, AWFUL third game by different developers, then Accolade dies and we're done. More than TEN YEARS LATER, the source code for the 3DO version of Star Control 2 is released and turned into a great open source game for multiple platforms. That's love.
Actually, Intel will have chipsets supporting it out next quarter (Q2). The preliminary spec has been pretty stable, so most companies should be well on their way to having the chips ready. I don't know how long before companies like nVidia sell cards for it, mind you -- but since it's backwards compatible, having the slots on your next motherboard has no downside.
When I was in high school, I built some parts for the temperature regulation system of the AMSAT Phase 3D satellite. 288 tiny aluminum parts, each about 2cm long, and 0.1mm tolerance on all measurements. We used the school's CNC milling machine, but I had to hand-write the CNC code to do the parts in four passes, because the CAD/CAM software wasn't up to it. We then we hand-polished the parts to get them within tolerance where possible. The satellite is still in orbit, it shows up in J-Track as Oscar 40, but apparently it doesn't work anymore.
Okay, who thought it was a good idea to put solar arrays so fragile that they can't withstand small rockets firing on a station that is equipped with those rockets? Ideally, they would just add another gyro to the December mission (which I imagine would cause the mission to be delayed for training at this late date), but apparently they don't currently have a spare. One of these gyros failed previously and the spare was installed. So someone felt that with FOUR of these gyros on the station, it was okay to have only ONE spare? Most of my customers would not accept that sparing ratio, and IANARS! I guess the best case scenario is that perhaps they can change the manner in which they plan to rewire the station to avoid taking 2 out of the 3 working gyros offline at the same time. This brings up training and procedure issues again, of course -- it takes time and practice and well-written, simulation-testing procedures to get people to do complicated jobs like this correctly, the first time. If I reverse the order of two ethernet plugs, or two variables in my code, I might need some time to find the problem later, but no one is going to be electrocuted, and no rockets will fire. :-)
If we are talking about a serious system here, you aren't going to be able to do this yourself. Just for starters, think about how complicated this would be if you decide to have a shower. You will have to deactivate the whole shooting match and then get it all back up and running again afterwards. Of course, if you slip in the shower, you're screwed. There are already solutions out there that you can sign up for. One that I have seen is a pendant you wear around your neck that has a button on it. One push, and your relatives are notified by phone. Or, fail to push the button on a regular basis and a phone call comes from the monitoring service, who can also dispatch 911, etc. Finally, at the risk of being harsh, if you truly believe you may die suddenly with no notice at any time, you seriously need to reconsider your current care arrangements. You do not strike me as qualifying to care for some with the needs you imply in your question. Please take this as honest advice, not a flame.
I really hope you wanted to be modded 'Funny'.
For Christ's sake, someone just make a boot cannon and get it over with. This car part stuff is pathetic.