The really "fun" experience started for me when I found out NASA is using non-recognized certificates for their main "New Technology" server. The fun only stops when you realize you have to use it to upload, or you're not seeing any money from them.
Not really, your "cost" are highly controlled, and while you can theoretically try to get more money out of NASA to keep your facility busy in lean times, you're not going anywhere since you aren't getting additional profit, and have to deal with unallowed cost.
Plus usually there are follow on contracts you're interested in (to qualify for a new fee), so you have an incentive to finish in time, and even under cost since it's a FIXED fee. As for buying from subsidiaries or other subcontractors - they are subject to the same rules as the prime, so there's no hidden way of generating profit on that end either.
Our stable particles are made of triplets. There are all kinds of doublets in the particle zoo; the fact that they are unstable makes them observable (since we usually detect not the particle but its decay).
Making small scale bio diesel from waste fats is not scalable to an industrial process, mainly due to lack of feedstock. There is a limited amount of fryer oil, rendered fat and other organic based greases available, not enough to make a dent into our need for diesel from hydrocarbon sources.
Being able to use all the waste products from the agriculture would be extremely beneficial - you're having plenty of feedstock, the minerals in the biomass would be sequestered and could go back into fertilizer, and it's basically carbon neutral. Making it work so without putting so much energy in that you blow that "carbon neutral" all the way to hell is the trick.
On the economics, the shuttle was never the cheapest solution. Originally the idea was to be able to turn that thing around on the pad, and send it back up after fueling.
As it turned out, the refit of the shuttle after each flight is about as costly as a Saturn V launch. Now, the Saturn V could lift 100 tons into orbit, the shuttle 30. You can do the math on cost per pound.
You can buy a single photon counter optimized at 680 nm that works at RT. Unfortunately, they are $5k a pop. This way of using avalanche diodes for counting enables a lot of new technologies.
Years ago we played with detecting high energy particles in a grid of scintillating fibers, but for a high precision array you just couldn't afford the detectors. Now I guess I can revisit that if the technology pans out.
Nach einer Analyse der gewerkschaftsnahen Hans-BÃckler-Stiftung beim liegt alleine der Unterschied zwischen Marktpreis und Zwangsabnahmepreis fur eine 1,2 Megawatt Windenergieanlage bei ca. 130.000 Euro pro Jahr.
The maximum quota is there exactly for the reason you mentioned, to not give the guys on the coast all the advantages.
Sorry when the facts bother you, but solar only recently made it past the "break even" point in regards to energy produced over energy put in during production. It's like "clean" electric cars, they are pollution free on the road, the pollution has just been moved to power plant.
Now, a nuclear plant however...
Is anyone still building those? I know the French had a focused beam driven generator years ago, but it went belly up due to corrosion (they were using molten salt as primary liquid).
I guess you weren't in Germany more towards the end of the year, when all those windmills are turned off. The only reason they have windmills is that they have government subsidized guaranteed prizes for the electricity they produce. When they have generated their year's quota, they are turned off to save on maintenance cost. Was really funny the last time I went there; Dec. 30, and all was still. January 1st comes around, and what a view of spinning activity.
We're so lucky that the solar cells can now be grown on trees, and don't come out of some high energy use chemical process anymore. That's finally really clean energy.
I second Avast, it's free for home use, and has very reasonable commercial license terms. Plus it gives you one code for all machines, no need to chase 20 different keys like you do with Norton etc. And the key is good for the whole license period; before I used to loose at least 10 % of licenses to crashes or borked installs, and getting new ones from Norton was like pulling wisdom teeth on a grouchy alligator.
It's ironic that Outlook by now is the best selling point for upgrading off Office 97 - mainly because Outlook 97 is obsolete. I still support about 15 instances of 97 for people that need to write a page a month, but I had to switch them all to Thunderbird. What by now is so poorly supported that I might finally get permission to upgrade Office for everyone. And pray it gives me another 10 year upgrade cycle.
$70 a year is actually not too bad if it replaces a commercial AV/SW client too. Don't forget that a lot of "free" AV software costs money for commercial licenses. And yes, companies actually prefer to pay that over potential legal issues, the cost per year being less than a single hour of lawyer. It also eliminates the hassle of license activations etc every time someone gets a new machine. So I currently would calculate my cost at about $50 a year; $350/10 years for office and $15 for the AV/SW licenses. Maybe there's a small business volume discount...
I'm aware of my units, the error was actually in the number of atoms (should have been 10^25 in a kg).
The problem is that even if they have the size of the sphere down to the unit cell level, the size of the unit cell itself is in question. The known distortion of the cell from crystal to crystal is larger then the error in the surface measurements, hence the reason given in TFA for redoing the crystallography, despite the huge volume of work in that field.
The problem is, how to line up the silicon atoms(or whatever element you're using)for counting. A kg of silicon 28 contains some 2x10^22, give or take a few. And the few are the issue.
The second is defined as 9 192 631 770 swings per second. To be equally precise you need to get the mass of the kg right into the picogram scale. Or, if you do the math on the surface area of the ball, you need to be within 1 nm all around to be better than 1 nanogram in knowing the weight of your ball. And then you need to know the spacing of your silicon atoms to an equally high precision to start counting them.
A browser that overwrites its own cache file using some semi-resistant algorithm would be nice. Just so that you don't have to run eraser whenever a link gets you somewhere you didn't want to be.
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well, looks like 1 galactic credit = 1 Zimbabwe dollar
The really "fun" experience started for me when I found out NASA is using non-recognized certificates for their main "New Technology" server. The fun only stops when you realize you have to use it to upload, or you're not seeing any money from them.
Not really, your "cost" are highly controlled, and while you can theoretically try to get more money out of NASA to keep your facility busy in lean times, you're not going anywhere since you aren't getting additional profit, and have to deal with unallowed cost.
Plus usually there are follow on contracts you're interested in (to qualify for a new fee), so you have an incentive to finish in time, and even under cost since it's a FIXED fee. As for buying from subsidiaries or other subcontractors - they are subject to the same rules as the prime, so there's no hidden way of generating profit on that end either.
Our stable particles are made of triplets. There are all kinds of doublets in the particle zoo; the fact that they are unstable makes them observable (since we usually detect not the particle but its decay).
try
A Review of Carbon Nanotube Toxicity and Assessment of Potential Occupational and Environmental Health Risks
Lam, Chiu-wing; James, John; McCluskey, Richard; Arepalli, Sivaram; Hunter, Robert
Critical Reviews in Toxicology, Volume 36, Number 3, May-June 2006 , pp. 189-217(29)
Making small scale bio diesel from waste fats is not scalable to an industrial process, mainly due to lack of feedstock. There is a limited amount of fryer oil, rendered fat and other organic based greases available, not enough to make a dent into our need for diesel from hydrocarbon sources.
Being able to use all the waste products from the agriculture would be extremely beneficial - you're having plenty of feedstock, the minerals in the biomass would be sequestered and could go back into fertilizer, and it's basically carbon neutral. Making it work so without putting so much energy in that you blow that "carbon neutral" all the way to hell is the trick.
On the economics, the shuttle was never the cheapest solution. Originally the idea was to be able to turn that thing around on the pad, and send it back up after fueling.
As it turned out, the refit of the shuttle after each flight is about as costly as a Saturn V launch. Now, the Saturn V could lift 100 tons into orbit, the shuttle 30. You can do the math on cost per pound.
You can buy a single photon counter optimized at 680 nm that works at RT. Unfortunately, they are $5k a pop. This way of using avalanche diodes for counting enables a lot of new technologies.
Years ago we played with detecting high energy particles in a grid of scintillating fibers, but for a high precision array you just couldn't afford the detectors. Now I guess I can revisit that if the technology pans out.
The USA really needs a "Strengthening The Fair Use" -act.
Nach einer Analyse der gewerkschaftsnahen Hans-BÃckler-Stiftung beim liegt alleine der Unterschied zwischen Marktpreis und Zwangsabnahmepreis fur eine 1,2 Megawatt Windenergieanlage bei ca. 130.000 Euro pro Jahr.
The maximum quota is there exactly for the reason you mentioned, to not give the guys on the coast all the advantages.
Sorry when the facts bother you, but solar only recently made it past the "break even" point in regards to energy produced over energy put in during production. It's like "clean" electric cars, they are pollution free on the road, the pollution has just been moved to power plant. ...
Now, a nuclear plant however
Is anyone still building those? I know the French had a focused beam driven generator years ago, but it went belly up due to corrosion (they were using molten salt as primary liquid).
I guess you weren't in Germany more towards the end of the year, when all those windmills are turned off. The only reason they have windmills is that they have government subsidized guaranteed prizes for the electricity they produce. When they have generated their year's quota, they are turned off to save on maintenance cost. Was really funny the last time I went there; Dec. 30, and all was still. January 1st comes around, and what a view of spinning activity.
We're so lucky that the solar cells can now be grown on trees, and don't come out of some high energy use chemical process anymore. That's finally really clean energy.
I second Avast, it's free for home use, and has very reasonable commercial license terms. Plus it gives you one code for all machines, no need to chase 20 different keys like you do with Norton etc. And the key is good for the whole license period; before I used to loose at least 10 % of licenses to crashes or borked installs, and getting new ones from Norton was like pulling wisdom teeth on a grouchy alligator.
It's ironic that Outlook by now is the best selling point for upgrading off Office 97 - mainly because Outlook 97 is obsolete. I still support about 15 instances of 97 for people that need to write a page a month, but I had to switch them all to Thunderbird. What by now is so poorly supported that I might finally get permission to upgrade Office for everyone. And pray it gives me another 10 year upgrade cycle. ...
$70 a year is actually not too bad if it replaces a commercial AV/SW client too. Don't forget that a lot of "free" AV software costs money for commercial licenses. And yes, companies actually prefer to pay that over potential legal issues, the cost per year being less than a single hour of lawyer. It also eliminates the hassle of license activations etc every time someone gets a new machine. So I currently would calculate my cost at about $50 a year; $350/10 years for office and $15 for the AV/SW licenses. Maybe there's a small business volume discount
Depend; if it scales, what benchmark scores can you get with a 386sx at 16 GHz?
of course: infinity^2infinity^3
yes, but does it have a +i or -i spin?
Using Trillian here too, and it doesn't seem to have the issue described.
Not quite, 2x10^25 atoms lining up at .5x10^-9m spacing gives you a line 10^16 m long - roughly 4 Million light years.
as the GP pointed out, it's the frequency of a cesium 133 transition ...
I'm aware of my units, the error was actually in the number of atoms (should have been 10^25 in a kg).
The problem is that even if they have the size of the sphere down to the unit cell level, the size of the unit cell itself is in question. The known distortion of the cell from crystal to crystal is larger then the error in the surface measurements, hence the reason given in TFA for redoing the crystallography, despite the huge volume of work in that field.
The problem is, how to line up the silicon atoms(or whatever element you're using)for counting. A kg of silicon 28 contains some 2x10^22, give or take a few. And the few are the issue.
The second is defined as 9 192 631 770 swings per second. To be equally precise you need to get the mass of the kg right into the picogram scale. Or, if you do the math on the surface area of the ball, you need to be within 1 nm all around to be better than 1 nanogram in knowing the weight of your ball. And then you need to know the spacing of your silicon atoms to an equally high precision to start counting them.
A browser that overwrites its own cache file using some semi-resistant algorithm would be nice. Just so that you don't have to run eraser whenever a link gets you somewhere you didn't want to be.