Posts by annodomini2

Re: Surprised that u r surprised?

"The aristocracy ceded power between the wars, a new elite run Britain."

Nope, they just rebranded.

And the rest, more like £44,000.

Re: Prior art

All Patent systems in the world are first to file.

It would be null and void if Coin PUBLISHED details before the filing.

Re: How many MFlops/W from a Raspberry Pi?

Raspberry Pi is theoretically 24GFlops.

@5w it would be ~4800MFlops/w

I'd be more interested in what some of the more modern Phone processors can do.

Re: Catch-22?

Nuclear sub crew, they are accustomed to cramped, radiation riddled, cut off from the world environment already.

Re: Neat.

@Alan Brown,

They use the VVT to keep the inlet/exhaust valves open for longer to reduce pumping losses.

Re: Thorne and others

@Bill Stewart, nope you drink Cerveza if it's that hot.

Not that US pisswater.

Re: My, my....

That would probably be classed as insider trading and illegal in a lot of countries.

Re: That's why we need a common hardware platform

True, but no standardised BIOS system.

Re: Just add hardware

Depends on the safety and reliability requirement.

Re: PCs now quite good

Depends on the segment of the market, with operating systems not consuming as much of the system as they used to and most performing relatively light tasks, going from an i3 to i5 will make little difference.

The bulk of the performance loss is in the disk acess (a machine is only as fast as it's slowest part).

Hence why SSD's offer such a boost.

However heavier duty users e.g. Gaming, Photoshop, CAD etc will observe a benefit.

Re: No chance in hell

"$15M/mile for loop

£200M/mile for HS2"

The excess pocketed by various party members when their land is sold to the government to pay for it.

Yup and when they conveniently exclude 'party sponsors' businesses for that convenient 'charitable' donation.

Re: *scratching head*

They tried reigniting the second stage as well, but stopped due to a problem.

They're looking at recovering both stages.

Re: Why maths is important

It's also latitude dependent.

Your connecting dish would need to move to track the satellite.

But the basic premise of your post is correct, you would not be able to get the full payload in one pass.

Re: MattEvansC3

Don't be too sure, 4k TV's will be about soon, ok still going to be at the pricier end of the scale, but demand will drop the price, if the supply is there.

But this is the advantage of the proposed 'upgrade' capability.

You'll end up with an Aerospace setup, 2 or 3 big players and a few smaller startups aiming to take a slice.

Simply because of the shared nature of the businesses.

Re: @bazza: He's right.

@Nigel 11,

1. Never underestimate the vagueness of Patents, especially in the US.

2. He is behaving like a spoilt toddler, throwing his teddy out of the pram when he doesn't get what he wants.

These things are possible, but in the low value/high volume world of ARM changes like this are a much more significant cost than can be estimated, especially given the current volume of ARM chips out there and being made.

Additionally, IF ARM or another supplier chose to add this functionality, while Linux still supports processors without these features, he and others will still have to do the work.

So it's a rant to nothing.

Re: Laughable

If there's a way in, you can get in.

If not, someone will make one.

Re: Actually looking like it will happen.

1. There is no pilot, it's automatic.

2. It's 30 passengers:

http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/space_skylon_tech.html

Re: Scramjets?

Beat me to it! :)

Re: A solar cell factory on the moon...

@WatAWorld,

You missed a key point, the solar array is only generating power 14-15 days out of every 28.

The micro-asteroid problem is an issue in GSO.

You don't technically need to relay power to one point on the earth.

Transmission does have major issues.

Re: So it comes ....

Or just not bother making desktops if the marketing garbage is to be believed.

Re: Had the UK only invested more generously in this earlier

Other than HS2 is a complete waste of money!

Re: Deck Chairs, Titanic

Your logic is fine, but logic has nothing to do with this, your suggestion would never occur for the plain and simple reason of power.

People go into these positions looking for power and what do they want, more power.

You are suggesting Ballmer give up the thing he wants the most!

Re: An obvious solution presents itself

Capturing methane from 360,000 square miles of sea could be an issue.

Re: Why not this night-generating 11MW Spanish plant

It's also more efficient.

Re: I am not trying to criticise the work, which I know nothing about...

The problem is we are a hybrid of autonomic and "intelligent" systems, the difficulty is our lack of understanding where one ends and the other begins.

Added to that exactly how each of them works.

Re: less than 64K in size

Dons thick Yorkshire accent "When I were a lad..."

Yadda, yadda, yadda.

The tilt of Mars' rotational axis changes over time as well (Jupiter + no large moon), so you would probably need more than one to compensate.

Re: An atmosphere?

It's a gas giant with 10% more mass than Jupiter, the article incorrectly describes it as a rock.

Re: So what the author is suggesting is...

"What's the cost of car insurance for teenagers these days?"

For a 17yo, iro £3k-4k

Re: Not just weapons the DoD will never use.

Falcon 9 Heavy.

Re: Bah

And subsequently sold to insurance companies.

Re: Cooling

@fix,

All you are doing is moving the corrosion somewhere else.

Then, as has been stated, creating the issue that the ship needs to be designed around the weapon and not the other way around, allowing installation on existing vessels.