Posts by John Smith 19 16330 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
Granted that's a fairly small number of vehicles over a fairly short time but it does suggest a trend, doesn't it?
Trouble is with the USG it goes from "We'd like you to do this" to "This is now mandatory," although car safety seems to be a special case where riding without a seat belt on is deeded as protecting the American Way of Life (TM).
Screw that.
I'd guess the problem with the Sheffield was the use of Kapton for wiring insulation.
Kapton explodes on short circuits.
I'd say a piece of Kapton coated wiring with a high current flowing through it makes a pretty good exploding bridgewire detonator.
However that should have been eliminated from MoD Specs decades ago.
I wonder what their bid would have been? 2x,3x, 4x the price?
Then again not nearly enough weapons on it for them I suppose.
A bit too civilian for their liking.
Presumably the other (3?) will incorporate this changed wiring spec and come off the slipway faster.
Some would say the new President will do that all by himself.
BTW Wasn't the US (military or CIA) reputed to be looking at this in Viet Nam for deniable low intensity destruction of infrastructure. I think they were looking at training rats to gnaw on power line insulation in preference to other things.
Second order because bending is proportional to the square of the electric field strength rather than the Pockels effect where bending is proportional to the electric field strength.
Ionization causes an electric field although mirages are produced by local atmospheric heating effects. At a high enough light intensity ionization becomes probable, hence the idea of a "laser lightning rod" to improve the chances of safe rocket launches when thunder clouds were nearby.
Didn't everyone know this?
Given I've never seen a laser lightning rod system ever fielded I've got serious doubts about something that does something this tricky (from, if you believe the video, a multi Mach aircraft while in flight).
Blowfeld "I'm asking for some money in advance. $100million"
Chinese Agent "But that's extortion!"
Blowfeld "Extortion is my business."
Moral of story. If you hire an extortionist, expect at some point to get extorted.
So be very wary if a company who makes their money collecting personal data offers you a deal where they say they won't
I'm sort of amazed there isn't some little company that can supply a turn key verified package that can handle this. Accept update requests securely, process them, send them out and check they've been installed properly.
Who'd pay for something like that?
Who should pay for something like that is anyone too f**king incompetent to do it themselves.
but as has been noted is statistical in nature.
It's key ability is to take a load of data points and deduce the equation that most likely goes through them, IE the constant coefficients.
This does not telly you why they are so weighted, merely that that is what they are.
As for survival predication IIRC the Riyadah Intensive Program was doing this (in a more AI like way, being an expert system) in the 1980's.
Could be a great day for ARM.
I find it hard to believe that an ARM array at the same clock frequency and with appropriately sized caches on each processor, would not beat an Intel code museum.
The results should be very interesting, but I suspect not without dispute.
You wouldn't believe the UK actually has a minimum wage level that all staff have to be paid, would you?
What I think is more likely is that the DWP will become more pushy about requiring people to take such a job if they haven't found something for themselves.
My friends experience was not that the jobs did not exist, it's that white British people would not do them. He would not speculate on why that was.
And work the full shift.
A friend of mine worked for a UK temp agency in the West Midlands He sent 8 temps to a specialty bread factory one night. Most of the staff were a mix of Poles, Portugese, Romanians, Hungarians etc.
4 of the temps did not last a single 12 hour shift. The youngest and biggest Brit of the group was the first to walk off the job.
When Brits say they want "British jobs for British workers" they mean well paying, enjoyable, undemanding jobs that someone with no experience can do that pay about 2x the minimum wage at least.
I'm starting to suspect a large part of the leave vote was this group.
Sort of.
Each GPS satellite downloads an "almanac" of data that accelerates the process of finding other satellites. These include the orbital elements of those satellite. These drift slightly over quite a short period of time. That is why they have to be updated.
Except the top UK official resigned recently. :(
So not quite as cozy and all that.
Good Friday started with the UK getting NI Republicans to them and the UK talking to NI Unionists.
In the case of Art 50 the EU will nominate 2 countries to negotiate with the UK, which IIRC the UK has no say in choosing.
Then it starts to get difficult.
Not actually a fire extinguisher.
More like the special expanding foam fitted behind light fittings in modern buildings that expands to cut off air flow in crawlspaces.
Not tested but only good for 1 use.
Sounds like a pretty good idea as power density is (slowly) going up.
Electrospinning. Is there no end to what this technique can be used for?
And it's orbital velocity that this had to achieve.
BTW Japan has a history of launching small sats into orbit on small(ish) solid fuel rockets dating back to the 60's.
A few $m for a few cubesats to orbit is about the target of the NZ "Electron" LV as well.
The Japanese tend to take a long view of things and I think they will try again.
I wish them better luck next time.
The Google mindset really is infectious.
And note they are basically talking about a government "right to know" free of charge.
AFAIK only being able to charge for date trawls has stopped the UK police going on more fishing trips for suspects.
BTW When they say "Oh we go with BT/Cap Geminie/HP/Uncle Tom Cobley because they did project whatever" what they don't often realize is that in fact their "supplier" lined up a specialist company that did know WTF they were doing, had their people come in and do the job.
Big Suppliers role is basically.
Have the funds to survive a decision taking years to make.
Produce and maintain all the BS paperwork to "prove" they are compliant whatever they have to be compliant with (this will have nothing to do with actual useful information to assist in doing the project) but is vital to getting paid.
Find out who can actually do the work.
Explain to them that if they don't "partner" with us they don't have the necessary "credibility" with HMG to do the work.
Issue the ID badges with their company logo on it.
Take the money off the government.
BT/Cap Geminie/HP/Fujitsu are the Uber of the IT business.
Or has someone repealed THE PATRIOT Act without my knowledge?
But the figure I can't get my head around is 150 thousand members?? WTF.
That's 0.05% of the entire US population.
That said I hope the FBI learned from earlier large CP website raids and be very careful to verify the real ID of any member IE don't rely on stolen credit card details.
Difference is they results.
Back then they may have shown a mix of non functioning prototypes for (look and feel and) and a working unit might be running on much larger hardware.
But not faking the imagery and then asking the film company to fake the source.
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