The reduced cooling should help in lowering the costs of the LED versus the CFL and the reduced energy consumption will be a help as well.

Red Fuming Nitric Acid, not Red Nitric Fuming Acid. FWIW, the Vanguard first stage used IRFNA - Inhibited Red Fuming Nitric Acid as an oxidizer.

My recollection is that the spontaneous fission rate for 232U or 233U is orders of magnitude less than for 240Pu. It's the 240Pu that makes making a gun type bomb from Plutonium impossible, though the spontaneous fission rate with 239Pu is at least a couple orders of magnitude larger than 235U and 233U. The critical mass for 233U is smaller than for 235U, which would make a gun type bomb easier.

I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one annoyed by "kilowatts per hour". Equally annoying is the use of "kilowatt hours per hour" when kilowatts would convey the same information.

The 2005 vintage GM (Chevy, GMC) hybrid pick-up tracks had a 120V/20A duplex receptacle n the and a 120V/20A duplex receptacle in the bed. GM had thought contractors might like it as they could run power tools on a remote job site. I was giving some thought to one of these trucks for camping, but ended up going the Duramax route.

Chapter 4 of the ARRL Handbook has a section on coupled resonant circuits. The critical coupling coefficient is equal to the inverse of the geometric mean of the loaded Q's of the two resonant circuits. With the coupling coefficient dropping with the 6th power of the spacing, once the spacing significantly exceeds the radius, the required Q's really quickly become unrealizable.

Fortran II (?) on a CDC-1700 using an IBM keypunch for punching the cards. Location was CDC's La Jolla office on what is now Eastgate Drive about a block east of Genessee.

The original version of "Blowups Happen" by R.A. Heinlein centered around an accelerator driven subcritical reactor, the only way that Heinlein thought that a reactor could be made controllable at the time the story was originally written - the story was written before the discovery of delayed neutrons from fission.

I've wondered the same as well. In the late 70's and early 80's, MS was actively supporting multiple computing platforms and weren't showing the arrogance of DRI. On the other hand, they shafted SCP twice in that time, first with the language card for the Apple II and secondly with 86-DOS.

Paul Allen's cashing out also took place about the time that work started on Windows 1.0 and not too long after Ballmer joined Microsoft.

According to Andro Linklater, Jefferson actually proposed a form of the metric system where the unit of length was something that could be determined in a well equipped laboratory - the rod with a period of one second at 45 degrees latitude. The French decided on the length of the Paris meridian, which effectively required the meter standard to be an artifact (i.e. the platinum iridium bar with two scratches on it. "Science" (metrology) didn't catch up with Jefferson until 1960, when the meter was redefined in terms on a laboratory measurement..

Too bad the speed of light was well enough defined at that time to make the unit of length the distance light travels in 1 nanosecond.

I was there and stopped by the Apple booth to pick up one of their brochures after hearing about the company from a friend. Still think it is stashed away somewhere in my collection. I was a bit more impressed by the Compucolor, but that machine unfortunately never took off.

One amusing note was finding out five years later that Trip Hawkins had also attended the Faire that year and that's what led him to join Apple.

Keep in mind that I'm probably older than her and she looks better than a good number of women my age. She does remind me a bit of a former girlfriend. OTOH, she's obviously not likely to be appearing in the SI swimsuit issue...

From some of the other posts, it looks like the OIG investigation may have had more of a reason for her leaving than she is letting on to.

She looks a bit older than when I saw her in person back around '98 or so... Still not too bad looking.

Interesting to see a reference in TFA about her having close ties with one the DARPA contractors. Heard a comment that suggested she had a close tie with one of the contractors from the late 1990's.

No Highway

There are more important things than wireless internet access. Instead of stomping on a valuable service such as GPS, total available bandwidth can be easily increased by decreasing spacing between towers and thus making more frequent re-use of the assigned frequencies.