The real disadvantage Americans have is that we have no time portals which allow you to get 10 years of experience with a 5 year old technology.
Sometimes I wonder if they're simply looking for someone who was willing to put in in 5 years of 80hr weeks and expecting the same going forward.
$20M might be enough to get an HD video camera added to an already planned mission.
...can someone explain that post using a computer analogy?
It's like the original Office 2013 licensing.
If we had started transitioning seriously a few years ago
Some of us did. All the computers and network equipment at my house has been ready for IPv6 for years. I am just waiting for my ISP to get with the program.
I'm still waiting for my ISP too, but I'm working around that limitation by getting IPv6 from a tunnel broker. I've had dual stack IPv4 and IPV6 access for my home network for about 2 years now and I'm not experiencing any real problems. My IPv6 access is fully routed and suitably firewalled and IPv4 is through NAT.
With applications that support both IPv6 and IPv4 it isn't always apparent which protocol was used for a connection. Everything just seems to work.
It would seem to me that a better idea would be to put pumps inside the tanks, similar to the way it's done in cars. The technology for this is well tested and should not require highly trained personnel to operate it. This would avoid all the potential problems you highlight with pressurizing a tank to pushing fuel up to an elevated pump.
Or "New attack reduces 256 bit key strength by two bits"
So it's just a two bit hack.
Also a lot less EPA problems.
Well... maybe until the EPA classifies CO2 as a regulatable pollutant.
My 3 year old budget laptop has a 1280*800 screen
current laptops in the same price range are 1366*768
Those are the 'wide screen' adaptations of older standard sizes that are being pushed now.
You might not mind, or even think it's great if you watch movies all the time on your laptop, but that's not what I do with one.
RIP wsmr-simtel20.army.mil
I'll second that.
There's a second and very important limitation: Signal to Noise Ratio. Noise has a physical minimum, so to increase SNR more power is needed.
This.
See Shannon's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theorem
Shannon's Law contains nothing about current limits in technology.
Basically, for a given Signal to Noise ratio at the receiver (specifically at the detector), when the noise power approaches the power of the smallest bit division, you cannot reliably recover those bits and further subdivision is pointless.
Even in a lab, Signal to Noise is never infinite, and put a finite limit on the number of bits you can send in a channel. In the real world, the Signal to Noise at the receiver only gets worse the greater the distance between the transmitter and the receiver (inverse square), and this excludes other sources of 'noise' such as interference from other signals, multipath, propagation or other degradation effects such as holding your iPhone incorrectly.
IAARE (I Am A Radio Engineer)
Well, there are thousands of ways to really muck up a system.
Do NOT try these at home
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discontinued after employees experienced radiation burns from the constant exposure.
and sterility.
Not to mention that catapults are all but medieval.
I'd say that launching rotten tomatoes in a catapult would be mid-evil. Launching pillows would be low-evil, and launching nails and rocks hi-evil. But that's just me.
I guess then if you launch bad music it would be midi-evil?
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis
