Posts by Chris 244 302 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Dec 2009
Because the Pelicano is to an RC helicopter as the Blackhawk is to a Pelicano or two.
Dry weights:
Intrepid Magnum 44 RC: 6 kg
Pelicano: ~120 kg (max takeoff wt 200kg less 52 l fuel and 30kg payload)
Blackhawk: 4800 kg
Oh, and apparently Indra doesn't so much make the Pelicano as modify a CybAero APID 60. Which is an unmanned helicopter capable of, you guessed it, autonomous takeoff and landing. Keep sucking at that teat, AC.
My response to the horribleness of iTunes on Windows: never buy another Apple product. My (under warranty) classic iPod died a slow horrible death from the constant onslaught of errors during syncing. Soon followed to the grave by the no-longer-under-warranty replacement.
Bought a Sansa Clip+ and never looked back.
FYI, the i7-3960X launched Q4'11 (http://ark.intel.com/products/63696). The current launch is in fact for the i7-3970X, specs are 3.5 GHz with "max turbo" 4.0 GHz and an increase in TDP to 150W (from the i7-3960X TDP of 130W).
Before you flame "haven't you seen the Send Corrections link at the bottom of the article" yes I have and yes I did and no the Reg hasn't issued a correction.
One was supported by the CIA and had thousands of Chilean civilians killed and tens of thousands imprisoned and tortured, the other faces questioning in Sweden over a broken condom or two (and possibly also secretly in the USA for "espionage" aka "embarrassing us on the international stage").
So yes, the two cases are not really comparable.
So there's this thing called the Olympics on right now. If you watch closely, some of the athletes can be seen rehearsing their, say, dive routines while waiting on deck to compete. This does not preclude the possibility that the athlete has previously done some small amount of preparation for the event.
Re: Hagan "isn't a crime outside the US". My understanding is that it is far from clear whether or not what Assange allegedly did is even a crime inside the US. The prosecution is going to great pains to try and paint a picture of Assange directing the alleged actions of Bradley rather than passively receiving information which he then published. First Amendment blah blah blah and all that.
"Since 1971, the USPS has been a self-supporting government agency that covers its operating
costs with revenues generated through the sales of postage and related products and services."
The only subsidy the USPS gets is $100 million/yr to offset costs associated with mandated mail-outs to overseas voters and the blind. Recent losses are largely due to the PAEA which requires the USPS to prefund retiree health benefits.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41024.pdf
Xenon lies above iron in the Periodic Table, so production comes from stars going boom or from the radioactive decay of heavier elements also produced in said explosions. We collect it by fractional distillation of our atmosphere.
Costs on par with beer, by volume (as a gas). And is an intoxicant!
Rock-solid, durable motherboards for sure. Prompted me to buy an Asus laptop (M50sv), which turns out to have a rubbish cooling system for the graphic chip. Put it under any significant graphics load and the GPU temp climbs to near-boiling followed by either crippling underclocking or a hard crash. Turns out the fan only cycles up if the CPU is warm, regardless of the heat load of the GPU.
So I'm one with mixed feelings regarding Asus kit.
Bought one cheap; solid, matte screen, does the job. Don't know what the netbook haters are going on about, was good for travel and now lives in my kitchen. Gets more use than any other computing device in the house.
Too bad Samsung is getting out, I liked their kit over the competition.
http://berkeleyearth.org/Resources/Berkeley_Earth_UHI
"(U)rban warming does not unduly bias estimates of recent global temperature change."
Nothing in the report says urban heat islands don't exist, just that they have not significantly impacted the study results.
iPhone #1234567 spends every* night at 890 Anon Street. Can't see how that unique number could possibly be connected to a unique individual.
*except when it receives a 3 a.m. SMS from iPhone #76543321, at which time it climbs out a back window and hops the fence across the lane to visit said uniquely anon iFriend for ~30 minutes.
The entire broadcast system is set up to deliver a standardized signal to a television reproducing a specific colour space (Rec 709). This colour space can be completely covered using only red blue and green pixels. A Quattron system has to invent a signal to give the yellow pixels something to do, and in the process displays colours that were never there in the original broadcast.
I'm guessing you can figure out how well that works in colourimeter testing.
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