Wrong deductions. Year 0!
"After that, things get nasty: in year three a surviving disk has an 11.8 per cent AFR." WRONG!
The graph clearly shows that bottom of the trough is year THREE. it is AFTER year THREE things start to get nasty
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Ironic given that Intel's first CPU the 4004 is regularly reported as being a washing machine controller!
4004 begat the 8008 which begat the 8086....
I do agree that a PIC would normally suffice, though being able to monitor it could be useful:
Fault finding.
Control to use off peak electricity etc
Logging usage (various uses)
I'm sure there must be more
Can anyone quote the efficiency reduction in using wireless charging?
I'd find it difficult to believe that it isn't significant!
Also won't the extra/replacement components weigh more?
It would be very convenient if it could done efficiently, power and weight but I doubt it is possible.
"Ye cannae change the laws of physics, captain"
On the one hand I like many find these sort of patents either absurd or obvious and don't think they should be granted a patent.
On the other hand one of the Sunday papers was reporting yesterday how Trevor Baylis has had to do an equity release from his house as many companies have circumvented his many patents.
I buy services 10-20 times a month from websites that offer PayPal or Credit card.
if I use PayPal then I enter email address (Normally offered by browser so no typing) and then PayPal password. So easy and quick.
If I use the credit card option I need to enter a 16 digit number, xp date, CV2 then go through Verified By Visa or Master-cards equivalent.
Guess which option I choose?
I'd actually be willing to put a bit of effort in to not use PayPal as I know their fees are much higher than Card Merchant service providers but the time and effort required is too much.
I wonder how does it does the inversion, with only passives?
If it was digital it could A to D the shape of the phase change and then D to A in reverse order.
As it has to start outputting the end form of the wave how does it store the middle and start information so it can then output them? All with passives!
Not my field but I'm intrigued
Sorry my excuse is I wasn't paying attention and I'd looked up 'Lagrangian points' which the Herschel uses and ended up at NASA:
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission/observatory_l2.html
Very interesting and understandable article. I'm in the UK so don't blame our American cousins this time!
Anyway congratulations ESA.
"Kaspersky Lab would like to apologise for any inconvenience" Statements like this really annoy me!
It should be
"Kaspersky Lab would like to apologise for THE inconvenience"
My wife nearly threw her laptop out of the Window it was so infuriating!
Can I request again more relevant links please. Things have improved a bit on what it was like a year or more ago. But I still often have to track down the relevant website / webpages myself!
I understand you have to use technical jargon on the site but an unexplained jargon word is often the main point of an article. Readers are often expert in their own area but total novices in other areas covered by your site, so a little help would be very useful.
Priorities
Try to find who's behind it [1]
Get the servers DNS entries removed
Hacking the server will only temporarily cover up the real problem.
If Hacking the servers can be done without compromising the higher aims, then yes do so, but don't publicize it!
[1] Follow the money! Most/Many such servers have a traceable financial motive
We often get dodgy looking orders to our online shop and almost always spot them I've tried reporting some of these attempted fraud when they are using a UK delivery address and think there is enough evidence for the Police do something. But they are not interested, often telling me no crime has been committed which I find hard to see is true!
"hopefully they go bankrupt." ... and thousands of innocents would suffer, workers, shareholders etc (and you may be a shareholder indirectly via any pension or investment you have.) The government would also probably be left out of pocket in many ways. Senior managers heads should and will roll.
With the A310 only having 1MB people were soon crying out for more RAM. We (CJE Micro's) designed a memory upgrade that could take them to 2MB or 4MB. To fit it, eight memory chips and one decoder needed unsoldered, sockets put in their place and the removed chips fitted to our daughter board. Because of the work involved we used to arrange collection by courier, fitting and return. IIRC 1 to 2 MB was about £300 and going to a full 4MB a mere £450. I've still got a few in stock, I'm prepared to discount them!
We're now doing Raspberry Pi addons and Accessories. We won't be doing a memory upgrade though!
They did think of it but as the plan was to sell a small quantity to a bunch of developers, it wasn't needed ahead of the Educational' launch, but then the massive reaction moved the goalposts, and RS/Farnell havn't helped by agreeing to distribute it without CE certification then backtracking when the penpushers got involved.
A week or two's delay isn't in the same league as the 1980's home micro fiasco.
The foundation would have to delay things for four months to come close.
Acorn started accepting orders in September 1981 there were unconfirmed reports of a handfull of BBC Model A's being received the week before Christmas but it was well into January for confirmed deliveries.. I'd ordered a BB Model B in September and recieved it on Saturday April 10th 1982 SEVEN MONTHS later
The Sinclair computers took even longer to ship and nearly a year to clear the backlog.