September 30, 2004

September 30, 2004 by yorksranter 0 comments

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | SpaceShipOne rolls to first mark

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | SpaceShipOne rolls to first mark Rutan’s space ship has another successful trip to space.

September 30, 2004 by yorksranter 0 comments

Not at all surprising

An Iraqi National Guard commander, an ex-general in the ex-evil forces of the ex-regime, has been caught working for the other side. “Lieutenant General Talib Abd Ghayib al-Lahibi led three Iraqi National Guard battalions in Diyala province, the volatile region north of Baghdad that includes the insurgent strongholds of Baquba and Samarra. The US military…

September 30, 2004 by yorksranter 1 comment

Hartlepool: Ordinary People Don’t Care

….about Iraq. They care about being nasty to asylum seekers, and dog dirt. Everyone knows that, especially Labour’s candidate for the Hartlepool by-election, Iain Wright. ““I’ve met more than 4,000 people by now, and do you know?” Wright said. “Only two have even mentioned it. It’s local issues people care about; that’s why they want…

A simple theory of cancel culture - by Joseph Heath
As the institution of the charivari makes clear, people in medieval European societies took a keen interest in one another’s domestic affairs. Private life, as most of us understand it, is an 18th century innovation. The important point is not that society is reverting to an older set of norms, but that the scale of […]
Intel 2Q24 guidance disappoints, Gaudi 3 sales expected to reach US$500 million in 2024
Intel said that it expects a meaningful Gaudi ramp in the second half of the year and forecasts more than US$500 million in revenue from the accelerator.
As capital expenditures become focus for CSPs, Taiwan-based server suppliers eye opportunities
In terms of Nvidia's upcoming Blackwell-powered chips, CEO and founder Jensen Huang hinted at a price point of US$30,000–40,000 during the recent GTC 2024. Based upon this figure, industry analysts predict a price tag of US$300,000–400,000 for the GB200 NVL72 rack system, more than double the price of current H100-based systems.
David Keynes Hill - Wikipedia
yes, Keynes like *that* Keynes - AV Hill's son and Maynard's nephew.
GL Mk. I radar - Wikipedia
Blackett formed a study group known as the Anti-Aircraft Command Research Group, but universally referred to as "Blackett's Circus". Blackett deliberately chose members from different backgrounds, including physiologists David Keynes Hill, Andrew Huxley and L. Bayliss, mathematical physicists A. Porter and F. Nabarro, astrophysicist H. Butler, surveyor G. Raybould, physicist I. Evans and mathematicians A.J. […]
GL Mk. III radar - Wikipedia
The Mk. 2/1 version added automatic tracking that allowed the operator to lock onto to a target and then have the electronics automatically follow it with no further manual intervention
AI Mark VIII radar - Wikipedia
Although the precise origins of the concept are unknown, on 8 March 1941 Bernard Lovell recorded the concept of lock-follow in his notes for the first time...The system worked by having two dipole antennas instead of one, slightly offset on either side of the mounting mast projecting through the middle of the parabolic dish. Being […]
Radar, Anti-Aircraft No. 3 Mk. 7 - Wikipedia
In 1941, an engineer at BTH, L.C. Ludbrook, began development of a lock-follow system for the SLC. This used simple electronics that were fed the paired signals and output a current whose magnitude depended on the amount of difference between the two. This signal was then sent into amplidynes that amplified the signal and drove […]
Bird flu virus has been spreading among US cows for months, RNA reveals
Gangavarapu says that dates and geographic information for 152 of the 239 samples have been extracted from a USDA presentation posted on YouTube on 26 April.
Patriot air defenses to be mothballed after decades of mostly gathering dust | The Times of Israel
give them to Ukraine!