Posts by Nik 2 93 posts • joined 29 Sep 2015
It's also not necessarily a final position, either. The data so far accumulated gives sufficient confidence to go to 5, further data may (or may not) give confidence to go beyond that.
The "As a result, NASA has determined they are comfortable with up to a five-time reuse for both the Falcon 9 and the Crew Dragon capsule," is very very different to the sub-headline of "NASA urged to reuse Musk hardware no more than five times"
Poor editing, el reg.
This stablecoin is an officially recognised form of currency without a relationship to any physical asset. Its face value is guaranteed because the government of Japan says it is.
How is this not a fiat currency?
If it is a fiat currency, what advantage does it offer over the existing currency, other than that it can be traded without the use of a clearing bank?
<quote>I don't see where is Intel innovation here?</quote>
<quote>This is important because liquid and immersion cooling requires completely different form factors than what's used in air cooled datacenters today. This unfamiliarity remains one of the technology's biggest inhibitors.</quote>
Is it that they have developed a totally different form factor specially for liquid cooled systems?
One question springs to mind - why didn't the Shysters sue TrustPilot? After all they were the ones who published the Libel.
TrustPilot are the distributor of the material, and will have covered their responsibilities by requiring the poster to confirm that the review was a true statement of his opinion (the judge ruled that it was not). There's probably also a full indemnity clause in the Ts & Cs box we all tick to say we've read.
The XKCD examples quoted above are close, but I think that this was first forseen by the most excellent William "Bill" S. Preston Esq.
and Ted "Theodore" Logan:
<quote>
Gates gave rock and roll to you, gave rock and roll to you
Put it in the veins of everyone
Do you know what you want? You don't know for sure
You don't feel right, you can't find a cure...
</quote>
With apologies to Russ Ballard
On the video he says "So I told him to F*** off"
That's never going to end well, especially if you've just annoyed said PC, even if doing so was entirely legitimate.
He also says that he had been told before he walked down the street that the camera was there, so if he'd been trying to hide he could have gone round a different way...
Icon: Stop, in the name of the (controversial and ethically somewhat dubious) law
The subtitle says "The snaps are the most distant images taken from the Sun since "Pale Blue Dot" and the text says " It's also the most distant image ever taken from the Sun, breaking the record set by Voyager 1 for its famous "Pale Blue Dot" image of Earth "
I think it's the latter, but it can't be both.
It's not quite fair to say that Predator is the state of the art in this field - BAE Systems have had some ptreety smart stuff doing self-flying for a few years now, (https://www.baesystems.com/en-uk/article/surrogate-uav-prepares-for-maiden-flight-in-uk-airspace) and there's a small company called Blue Bear that I know have done flying in formation using only on-board visual sensors on a drone. I can't imagine that this doesn't involve some fairly smart collision avoidance capabilities.
I'm sadly unsurprised that the regulation is harder to sort out than the technology...
It can apparently release 10 million trillion trillion joules of energy in less than a millisecond during a single pulse.
For the benefit of those of us who struggle to comprehend numbers as vast and abstract as this, I estimate that this is roughly the energy content of a doner kebab scaled up to be around 150 miles across.
1 FRB = 1.2 exa-Doners
HTH :-)
[Icon: Hold the chilli sauce]
Unless it's done at the buyer's expense, in which case it provides an additional boost to the local economy in Portsmouth.
In addition to any routine servicing of mechanical parts, there will be a lot of NATO-standard kit to remove, and Brazilian Navy gear to fit in its place.
True to a certain extent, I think. 90 days was the primary mission objective, and would have been achieved for the nearly-worst-case situation for panel dust collection. Everything else was massively overengineered against the 90-day objective because it was known that the level of dust collection might not be worst-case.
I doubt that anyone seriously thought they'd get away with it for this long, though.
icon: Go - and keep on going.
Bokeh is the effect seen on very out of focus items, particularly light sources. For cameras with mechanical shutters, the shape of this reflects the symmetry of the shutter - often hexagonal.
With software, you can change the shape of this in real time. From Android N you can use a pre-loaded range of animal silhouettes, including a gecko and a grasshopper. Hence, Live Bokeh.
Is that the language that Civil Service documents are written in?
On a more serious note [really? - ed], one only has to embed this into a SoC and miniaturise it to have a digital babelfish. Responsible for "more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation", IIRC. What could possibly go wrong?
Technically pretty impressive though.
UK-headquartered multinational BAE Systems builds about 15 per cent of the F-35, it is not clear whether this is done in the UK or through BAE's American subsidiary.
Both - there are very substantial bits of aeroplane built in the UK, but there are also BAE Systems Inc (as it's called) elements to the F35.
How likely am I to recommend this company to a friend?
0 - because I don't have any friends?
0 - Because this isn't the sort of thing my friends and I talk about?
0 - because I know my friends won't ever use this sort of company or service?
Even when I'm really pleased with a company, it's probably less than a 1 in 5 chance that I'll tell anyone, for at least one of the reasons above.
Hack me off enough and I'll go round reading every story on El Reg looking for an opportunity to mention how useless [redacted] are in the comments.
Not sure which Data Protection Commissioner, but the Effective Remedy argument, AIUI, is about whether or not a resident of the EU can lodge a complaint against the US if their data were to be illegally accessed.
It had been argued that the Ombudsman was a process whereby a complaint could be made, but Commissioner thought it might not be, and the judge agreed.
Hair of the Dog is the only effective remedy -->
In order to generate the capacity required to justify the new fabs and hence lower prices, NAND needs to offer enough of a benefit that a large part of the customer base will pay the higher prices, at least in the short term.
The benefit of HDD over tape was enormous, and the opening of the home PC market allowed HDD to replace FDD as well. I don't see that NAND offers the same level of additional benefit.
Not to say that we won't get there eventually...
<quote>Pleased to see some entirely good news based on intelligent, effective science and engineering. NASA ought to be hiding its face in shame considering (a) the serial failures of the ill-conceived, monstrously expensive Shuttle, and (b) how quickly SpaceX has got a working, vastly cheaper reusable system into operation. This is impressive stuff.</qoute>
Elon Musk is always very careful to put NASA on his thank-you list, and to say that SpaceX couldn't have done what they do without NASA's contribution. How much this is a political (small 'p') gesture I don't know, but do remember that space shuttle design work began before the Apollo 11 landing.
SpaceX's ability to take feedback from missions and get improved parts into operation is truly impressive.
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