Astronomers say that it may be the weakest supernova ever seen
With no clear boundary between nova and supernova, this could also be the strongest nova. Just like Australia being the biggest island : if it were bigger, it would be a continent....
I hereby declare that I have the biggest weenie on earth. Anything bigger should be called a penis!
It's a small Ruby on Rails app (~1kLOC), uses either Ferret or Sphinx and implements full text search for.pdf,.doc,.docx,.odt,.xls,.ods,.ppt,.pptx,.odp,.rtf,.html, and metadata from music, pictures and videos. It also includes language recognition, files thumbnailing and cache à la google.
We use it in our research center to index ~100 000 documents from 50 users on a Samba share, and we get relevant results in ~0.1s Users don't need to learn any convention, they find what they want fast, and can use it as easily as Google.
If you're interested, drop me an email from Github.
As you said, we do need to learn stuff from older buildings. But let me please tell you that LEED is a crappy rating system, and doesn't compare well to any European standard (Passivhaus, Minergie, Effinergie...). It doesn't mean that the building you're talking about isn't well designed, though.
I never heard about "The First LEED Platinum Skyscraper", and will investigate further. Thanks for the link!
Well, your argument only holds for heating buildings. Try to put two air conditioning cooling towers in front of the other, and see if you can get any benefit (hint : you don't). Try to eat food that only comes from the neighborhood, and hasn't been frozen or kept in heated greenhouses.
Sure, living in cities have some benefits from an energetic point of view, but those are soon overwhelmed by all the problems that come when the city grows to have more than half a million inhabitants (need to import everything from far away, lots of people commuting every day...)
Paris, London, Shanghai, Tokyo and many US cities are bad examples for sustainability, and just don't represent a "much greener choice". Germany and Scandinavian countries do have greener urbanization, though.
As a fun aside, with methane being the number one greenhouse gas, the biggest difference we can make (in the medium term - pause for fart gags) as individuals is to go veggie:-)
WRONG.
Methane is the 3rd greenhouse gas, after water vapor and CO2.
We falsely consider CO2 as being the 1st greenhouse gas while it only is the 1st *anthropogenic* greenhouse gas.
Still, you're right when saying that going veggie is a good solution to reduce our CH4 emissions : I tried it, but I just love good meat, so I just reduced my consumption and eat good ol' organic meat once in a week.
PV in Italy should reach economical break-even real soon : nothing too risky or innovative here, especially in comparison to the thousand other ways one could invest & lose money nowadays.
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As much as we may not like it, we don't have a right to dictate what other countries should be doing.
What about saying that there's a direct link between Al-Qaeda and the Swedish government, and that King Carl XVI Gustaf is hiding WMD's in his castle? Forget it, those lies are far too big to be taken seriously by any western country...
One part of my job is to optimize HVAC systems. That involves a lot of engineering, but sometimes, I just feel like telling customers "So what? You sweat a bit in summer and you need a jumper in winter. Big deal! You really don't need 18 C when it's 35 C outside, now get off my lawn!"
Well, it's just a compromise between water & electricity costs.
If you let some water evaporate, your cooling towers are more efficient and what's left from cooling water comes back at a lower temperature than in a closed cooling tower, thus allowing your chiller to work with a better coefficient of performance : you need more water but less electricity for a given cooling power.
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And by the way, Europe is not a country.
With no clear boundary between nova and supernova, this could also be the strongest nova.
Just like Australia being the biggest island : if it were bigger, it would be a continent....
I hereby declare that I have the biggest weenie on earth. Anything bigger should be called a penis!
I might come a bit late to the party, but I'd like to say that I developed a free alternative to Google Search Appliance :
http://github.com/EricDuminil/picolena/tree/master
It's a small Ruby on Rails app (~1kLOC), uses either Ferret or Sphinx and implements full text search for .pdf, .doc, .docx, .odt, .xls, .ods, .ppt, .pptx, .odp, .rtf, .html, and metadata from music, pictures and videos.
It also includes language recognition, files thumbnailing and cache à la google.
We use it in our research center to index ~100 000 documents from 50 users on a Samba share, and we get relevant results in ~0.1s
Users don't need to learn any convention, they find what they want fast, and can use it as easily as Google.
If you're interested, drop me an email from Github.
As you said, we do need to learn stuff from older buildings.
But let me please tell you that LEED is a crappy rating system, and doesn't compare well to any European standard (Passivhaus, Minergie, Effinergie...).
It doesn't mean that the building you're talking about isn't well designed, though.
I never heard about "The First LEED Platinum Skyscraper", and will investigate further.
Thanks for the link!
Well, your argument only holds for heating buildings.
Try to put two air conditioning cooling towers in front of the other, and see if you can get any benefit (hint : you don't).
Try to eat food that only comes from the neighborhood, and hasn't been frozen or kept in heated greenhouses.
Sure, living in cities have some benefits from an energetic point of view, but those are soon overwhelmed by all the problems that come when the city grows to have more than half a million inhabitants (need to import everything from far away, lots of people commuting every day...)
Paris, London, Shanghai, Tokyo and many US cities are bad examples for sustainability, and just don't represent a "much greener choice".
Germany and Scandinavian countries do have greener urbanization, though.
I happen to be running my 4.10 Warty install just fi
Look, my comment has 5 dimensions. Wait a moment... "words"
WRONG.
Methane is the 3rd greenhouse gas, after water vapor and CO2.
We falsely consider CO2 as being the 1st greenhouse gas while it only is the 1st *anthropogenic* greenhouse gas.
Still, you're right when saying that going veggie is a good solution to reduce our CH4 emissions : I tried it, but I just love good meat, so I just reduced my consumption and eat good ol' organic meat once in a week.
Obviously it's a good thing.
At least always better than letting Halliburton, Enron and Total decide what our future looks like.
Well, maybe he just needed some electrical heater. :)
It's not really "too early".
PV in Italy should reach economical break-even real soon : nothing too risky or innovative here, especially in comparison to the thousand other ways one could invest & lose money nowadays.
http://xkcd.com/541/
What about saying that there's a direct link between Al-Qaeda and the Swedish government, and that King Carl XVI Gustaf is hiding WMD's in his castle?
Forget it, those lies are far too big to be taken seriously by any western country...
Oh, wait!
Thanks.
One part of my job is to optimize HVAC systems.
That involves a lot of engineering, but sometimes, I just feel like telling customers "So what? You sweat a bit in summer and you need a jumper in winter. Big deal! You really don't need 18 C when it's 35 C outside, now get off my lawn!"
Since the Bush era?
"Sieg Heil", asshole.
Interesting. Any hint as to how you achieve this?
Please???
Well, it's just a compromise between water & electricity costs.
If you let some water evaporate, your cooling towers are more efficient and what's left from cooling water comes back at a lower temperature than in a closed cooling tower, thus allowing your chiller to work with a better coefficient of performance : you need more water but less electricity for a given cooling power.
BTW, steam is invisible ;)
Oh mon Dieu, des poneys!
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Oh mon Dieu, des petits chevaux!
There, fixed that for you.
Ironically, most big jars are just flasks, so you weren't actually putting your "aspirin" in a jar.
Nevermind!
Funny, but doesn't the mass decrease due to relativistic effects?
Thanks for the link.
One more example to give to anti-nuclear people that wouldn't see any problem heavily relying on coal!
Will do, aussie!
Thanks for the tip, aussie!
PS: You can call me "cheese eating surrender monkey", BTW
Hey, thanks!
I'm more a Ruby guy, but I must admit that python.com might make me consider switching!