For customers who are startups, investors, and large tech concerns, FDIC insurance of $250k may not cover the balance. Sure don't want the $2M you have left from your last funding round to evaporate, or even be frozen.
It's not very deep. You can buy a tethered underwater ROV rated for 300ft OTS for a few thousands of dollars. Not to mention a camera and an actuator on an anchor. Practically anybody could have done it. Even non-state actors. Hardest part would be getting the explosives in sufficient quantity.
Probably adds two low-pressure low-volume pumps. Which is more, but not a large increase in complexity for a car. The driver's seat probably has more moving parts.
Ukraine is already running a whole zoo of Western and Soviet artillery, MLRS, IFVs, APCs, trucks, anti-air, UAVs, air-to-ground, heavy and light infantry arms, and more. I'm sure it's less than ideal logistically, but it's being done and I don't see that managing a bunch of Leopards is impossible when they're already feeding a bunch of CAESARs and M113s and whatnot.
I don't know anything about your land or crop, but farming tends to be a regional activity so you probably have neighbors in the same business who know at least how the job is usually done. You need knowledge from them. How that shapes up, I dunno. Maybe you want to hire one of them to run your operations; maybe you want to lease it and watch what they do; maybe you want to work for them for a year or two to learn; maybe they'll just tell you what to do each month if you just stop by and chat.
I stand to inherit a farm (of a very different sort: dry plains, mostly growing wheat) and I plan to do the same thing my father does now: lease it to a local.
They bought DoubleClick with revenues from paid search. (Google's market share was about 50% at the time.) The acquisition certainly helped them establish display marketing, though.
Framers use a variety of temporary braces and download to make the building work before the sheathing. (In stick framed buildings pre plywood, those diagonals are permanent, and let into the studs.) It's one of the things newbies can miss, and makes a big difference.
The author was actually looking for "stick framing", of which balloon framing is a particular technique. (The term was originally derogatory, coming from the perspective of the timber framers.)
The image comparing balloon and platform techniques should probably have suggested the existence of a broader term.
In villages they probably managed to mostly keep the pigs under control, but in towns and cities there do seem to have been free-roaming pigs. They were known to eat babies on occasion, and the French, at least, liked to put them on trial for this (and execute them).
If you're interested in the US market you have to play by these rules. And almost everyone is.
If you're willing to forgo the US market you can jurisdiction shop... though I'd expect the Europeans won't be too far behind.
It's also not a really high bar. Most sats are in a regime where this happens naturally or already have propulsion. It's mostly going to bother SSO birds, and most of them are government owned anyway.
Not quite, but as mass increases relative to Earth, launch vehicles become increasingly ridiculous. Many "super-Earth"s would need something like a Saturn V to get to their equivalent of the ISS, or maybe even their equivalent of Sputnik, depending on exactly how "super".
When you start to get into gas giant mass, chemical launch starts to become really close to impossible instead of just wildly unaffordable.
Mirrors have low emissivity. While they accept a bit less heat, they will hold on to it more than something with white paint (which can have pretty good emissivity) and will thus get hotter.
One of the Wrights' enabling technologies was the powered fan that allowed them to make a wind tunnel to refine the airfoil from barely-functional to fairly-useful. They used a small gasoline engine, which enabled them to construct their wind tunnel on a small independent budget. I suppose you could have done that on an institutional level as early as 1750 with steam engines (or perhaps earlier with water power) but mines and mills and factories weren't particularly interested in the problem.
It is a bit suspicious looking, but there's a lot of very red objects that the Hubble image doesn't catch. Presuming that the red colors in the images are the deeper infrared wavelengths (and thus the most heavily-redshifted objects) I would guess that Hubble just didn't have the detectors to see those.
I went looking into it, but haven't found a good capsule reference. It's a pretty strong cultural practice (and an old one; references to Classical practices like "the cult of Dionysis" are well-worn) and isn't always specified.
Modern archaeology makes some odd-seeming linguistic choices to try to avoid implying more than they actually know; part of that is avoiding "religion" in favor of "ritual" and "cultic practices", because "religion" implies a whole lot of stuff that artifacts just can't see.
The common understanding of cult (which I would argue is probably "religion I don't like", but that doesn't matter) is not in use here. This is a technical usage in archaeology to refer to religious interaction with place and object... which is basically all prehistoric archaeology can see.
It's always sad to me to hear of people reading Shakespeare as "literature". Shakespeare's not meant for reading. (Most plays, indeed, don't read very well.)
Unfortunately, it's also a bit hard to find a well-performed production (even in professional companies), but that's the way to experience Will's works.
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