Re: Out of curiosity ...
I regularly receive spam from .eu domains.
I think I have blacklisted all the top level
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Ok, I'll buy that. That's about what - 10 litres of diesel? 2.19 gallons?
700km? That's around 437.5 miles
200 miles per gallon equivalent.
OK even with a power train at 90% instead of 30% efficient that's still pushing 66mpg equivalent.
Especially lugging that much battery around
But how long wail a fast charged battery last?
50 charges?
Before it's lost half its capacity?
I really don't see it.
I think if you run the rather chaotic many body maths you will find that there are only a few attractors in the solar system and orbits that lie outside of these are unstable
I would be willing to bet that this particular asteroid will only last a few thousand or even million years in its current approximate orbit, before being perturbed [again?] by a close brush with Mercury or Venus
What an extraordinary comment.
Normal users simply don't go near the command line
In a supported environment like a large company users would never go there: they phone the support department and that is who goes there, if indeed it is necessary at all.
Once again a post from someone that simply repeats myths that haven't been true for decades.
Why?
How much skin have you got in the microsoft game?
..is now a cash cow.
Steady sales, not much innovation. Not much development.
Certainly not in the core CPU/RAM business.
From an ordinary users perspective, memory and CPUs not much different from 10 years ago.
GPUS have come along a bit as has FLASH RAM. And other custom chips for RF and the like interfacing...
But really its all a bit boring these days.
The new cleaner was cleaning and dusting the console keyboard on the PDP-11 development computer... In the Room We Were Not Allowed In. (We developed code on PCs, uploaded it via serial terminals and compiled it on the PDP using the PCs as consoles).
One morning, no PDP...when the sysadmin eventually came in and went to the console the cleaner had pressed some sort of break key that halted the enitire computer..
"Using patient information for funding decisions by policymakers is just toxic, and they know that."
So how else are they supposed to make funding decisions?
In response to minority moaning?
Virtue signalling for political motives?
I WANT someone to know that there is for example an excess of deaths from cholera in a given postcode.
It is fairly vital to know that, for example, those of 'certain ethnic backgrounds' are more susceptible to Thalassemia, and others to heart problems.
Blue sky research by private institutions is all very well, but the NHS has to be seen to be spending money rationally on a cost benefit analysed basis.
If it cannot see the results of spending, if it cannot see what money needs to be spent on, how can it do that?
Medical research is plagued by fads conjectures and outright fashion. It needs hard statistical data to prove its case.
did a bit of coding for a client who sold a business app on either Elonex or Apricot PCS. yep DOS days of course.
"Does anyone buy the Apricot" I said'
"Yep its ten times faster"
He proceeded to demonstrate with much whirring of floppy disks.
I was puzzled, Processors and speeds wer identical.. then I had a thought. Sho nuff the elonex had in config.sys :
FILES=2
BUFFERS=5
on the apricot they were much higher.
I edited the file rebooted and said 'now try it'
Nobody likes a smartass do they?
If the angle of attack was zero on the runway the aircraft would not be able to take off.
Wrong.
1. Airfoils are capable of generating lift at zero angle of attack.
2. That's what the elevators are for - to push the tail down and the nose up.
First of all spirfires were always tail heavy and always flew with down trim. In fact being on the edge of pitch stability makes for a very very sensitive set of controls. An advantage in a fighting machine which is why modern typhoons are trimmed that way, and use software to compensate
The addition of more weight to the back simply made matters worse.
Ultimately spin recovery depends on getting the nose DOWN. Opposite rudder may get rid of the turn but unless the aircraft left to itself at almost no airspeed will put its nose down then you will fall off into a spin in the other direction.
As I understand it, the fundamental change was more fuel efficient engines. However these if placed in the logical place would have scarped along the tarmac.
So they were moved forward and cranked up a bit.
Changing the CG and the on thrust/off thrust trim by such an extent they put some software in to correct for it.
So downtrim when the throttles are opened, giving a massive nose down if the throttles are chopped. Before the trim returns to 'glide'
This was bunged in the anti stall software I think.
As I understand it, its not a bug, it's the whole way the thing is implemented.
They bodged the engines in at an angle, for ground clearance, and that has ruined the planes inherent stability so they are trying to correct a serious fundamental hardware fault with software.
...Bias and prejudice are efficient.
See a snake? Kill it or run like heck. Who CARES that 80% of snakes are perfectly safe. Killing a safe one doesn't harm you. Cuddling a rattler does. Regarding all snakes - or indeed mushrooms - as poisonous saves you having to carry around a catalogue of the very few that are not.
Most [issues] are caused by [a few identifiable members of set x] is most easily encapsulated as
All members of [set x ] cause [issues]
What we are seeing in this is the prime example of 'its not fair' versus 'it doesn't work'
E.g. if you want to halt the spread of Islamic fundamentalism and radicalisation, ban the religion, beards. burkahs, niqabs, hajibs , imprison anyone who preaches it and shut down any mosque or website that carries any materials. etc.
Unfair, but effective,..
The human mind seeks to use pattern recognition to arrange the world into 'objects' that have 'generic properties' . So it can apply generically effective general rules without having to examine the particular.
There are those who are stupid enough to feel ashamed of their propensity to do this and project the negative aspects of this onto others.
Don't be one of them.
Wisdom comes from accepting and then making allowances for the fact that we are all prejudiced and biased, and if we were not we would have eaten the poisonous mushroom years ago.
Those who claim it is others who are bigoted, are usually the worst bigots themselves.
One thinks instantly of the jackboot mentality of self styled 'anti-fascist' organisations.
It would make perfect sense for Microsft to spend the time making an API that would run windows programs on Linux.
Then it could let OS development go to the linux community, who are better at it anyway, and concentrate on flashy guis and marketing bloatware and other excrement, which is its true Forte.,
Javascript is dense at times, but it does know the difference between strings and integers.
Well no, it doesn't.
Back in the days of XP I was trying to get some javascript working on firefox and IE.
They behaved completely differently.
In the end it turned out that if the numerical stuff was buried in a conditional firefox took it as a number but IE took it as a string.
It took me hours to find a way to get IE to treat it as a number.
I HATE weakly typed or non typed languages almost as much as I hate Pascal.
Or a probe to test security and response by....well your choice really.
Or an excuse to sell you high priced security kit you didn't know you needed?
Or just a spotty teenager and his mates having a laugh.
Until the type of drone is analysed we wont know what sort of person built it.
In short, American internet providers are determined to give its citizens the worst possible internet for the highest possible price and under industry-friendly chair Pai they are willing to state that publicly – while asking for taxpayers' money to do so.
Isn't that the goal of all commerce, to deliver the cheapest possible product at the highest possible price and get either taxpayer money to do that, or government legislation to mandate its adoption?
That is the EU model in a nutshell.