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nobody31415926
15y ago
That's not unreasonable - you don't own World of Warcraft you own a license to play it. If you owned it you could reuse the characters in your own game, produce your own movie of the game and so on - not bad for a $50 investment. Think of t
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That's because the Europeans have never had a problem with terrorism and so don't know how to respond. (It turns out that the IRA and ETA are just cultural groups misunderstood by the British and Spanish imperialist oppressors and Baader-Me
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15y ago
There is a huge difference in the dose even from properly certified medical X-rays, depending on how old the machine is, the maintenance, the settings and the method selected http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/ct-scan-radiation..
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15y ago
I installed Windows as dual boot on a friends Mac. It's far easier than installing it on a windows PC. Put in the windows disk and follow the Apple instructions - it includes all the drivers and even gave advice about sharing files .
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nobody31415926
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Board design is expensive for small units - but assembly costs for complex boards don't drop very much with large numbers. Especially if Apple have every super high-end pick and place robot booked for the next n years!
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nobody31415926
15y ago
You might like this then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanhenge
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Flight up = pro-programmed Soyuz module. Flying = ISS is in an orbit, very little aerobatic ability Flight down = Soyuz module pre-programmed to hit target But NASA will swap a graduate degree in something scientific for having buzzed arou
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No it's a conspiracy - I'm just not sure what kind
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nobody31415926
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Assuming you aren't a troll. Manhattan - like most US cities have streets/avenues based on a regular grid and numbered consecutively Streets East/West and Avenues North/South. So you can continue the numbering scheme across the entire world
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nobody31415926
15y ago
No it's really clean. load_bin("prop_screen_driver.bin"); load_bin("prop_touch_driver.bin"); load_bin("prop_3g_driver.bin"); fpga_main_loop();
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nobody31415926
15y ago
So does it matter if it was a ground control computer that was infected and took over/blocked control of the drone - rather than an attack on the onboard system that did the same?
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They downlink enough live that the monitoring center knows of a problem in time to have a service/inspection booked before the crew even notice anything. I don't know how much extra they store on board.
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nobody31415926
15y ago
Shipping real things for real money to real customers who themselves have real customers who are paying them money?
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nobody31415926
15y ago
Compared to your local big-city nuclear plant, no this thing doesn't compete. But if you are off-grid or have unreliable power it is better than a Honda gasoline generator, especially because they can pretty much burn anything - from wood c
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Rolls-Royce has a unique engine monitoring program - generally the airline leases the engines and they are owned, monitored and serviced by RR. When I worked on the ground based GRID computing system for their initial system 10years ago the
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No only nuclear submarines