The problem is that the capital investment, once approved, counts as directly project related work. Maintenance on the other hand comes out of your overhead budget. At a typical university, every dollar you get to spend on a project has to come with $1.40 in overhead money, to pay for everything from janitor to university president to computer maintenance.
Often these overhead rates are already at the cap grant-giving institutions allow (it's actually a part of the grant evaluation), so you can't just "budget" maintenance if you don't have a way to pay for it.
Well, try being from Albuquerque, New Mexico. About one in ten US companies tries to connect you to their international shipping department when you call in an order...
So, what does the question of "did a person named Jesus exist" have to do with true or false god. That's a historical question, not a religious one.
Compared to most known "facts" from that time the new testament is actually a rather well documented piece of history, not much writing of that time was copied that much and that early. I think the oldest existing fragments date from 100 CE. As for cross-references with other writers from the relevant time period, other then the events of the last week in Jerusalem we mainly seem to deal with a guy who runs through the countryside with maybe a dozen followers. Not something that would come to notice of the typical historian of the time. And anything written later is naturally suspect due to the religious connections of the writers.
My class on material science has been a while too, but if I remember correctly, the small grains of the metal is what allows ductile deformation. Fatigue happens when you start depositing energy into the material (via stress cycles) and the grains start growing. At some point the grains are so large, they don't slide past one another anymore. That's when the material become brittle, you get crack growth, and ultimately failure.
The glass doesn't have that ductile movement to begin with, it's "naturally brittle". So yes, it's stable against fatigue in the classic sense as long as it doesn't form crystals; but if you keep dumping energy into it it will start doing just that.
Hmm, I usually see that as a typical case of kinetic over thermodynamic control. The material hardens faster in the higher energy state instead of slowly rearranging to the lower minimum.
The article has a serious flaw so in claiming that glass formation helps with fatigue; the main reason that you get metal fatigues is loss of ductility. Most glasses are brittle to begin with, and even if not, the same forces that allow crystal growth leading to embrittlement are active in the glass too.
Worst case? A black hole is created, and starts accrediting mass at the speed of light. 40 ms later, the earth is gone.
The good news - you won't notice a thing (it just gets dark in your basement).
Bad case - the black hole is created, and slowly drifts to the center of the earth (or the center of gravity of the earth-solar system). There is starts growing, confusing generations of scientists by changing the earth's magnetic field. Now, I have no idea if we fry first because the lack of magnetic field allows cosmic radiation to hit the earth surface or if the synchrotron radiation of mass spiraling into the black hole starts leaking out of the core, but yes, you will notice, and worse, internet connectivity will go to hell. No more slashdot.
And there I thought the Pac Man reference was enough to mark this as "humorous statement".
But joke aside, theory IS currently missing an explanation for most of the "galaxy size and larger" gravitational phenomenons, needing dark matter and dark energy to make it stick together and expand at the same time. So a very large number of very small black holes would be about as good an explanation as any, so we still couldn't explain where they're coming from either.
I'd be more worried that the astrophysicists haven't accounted for 96% of the energy and mass of the universe in their current model. I see billions of golf ball size black holes crossing the galaxy, playing Pac-Man "the milky way edition".
In the 1980s, you saw a lot of bumper stickers in Germany
"why nuclear power? We get our electricity from the outlet."
The bad part was, half the people carrying the sticker didn't realize it was meant to be sarcastic.
The point isn't that 400 lbs is that much per se, the point is that 400 lbs of ADDITIONAL cargo could be a big deal if it requires zero man power to get it there and arrives quickly.
Your zero manpower is like the zero pollution vehicle. It's not counting the pilot (this is a remotely controlled vehicle, not an autonomous robot), the maintenance guy, the fuel handler, the cargo loaders, the guards at the air field that's set up for it etc. I'd be surprised if a unit handling these would have less than 10 man per flying vehicle.
My guess would be, they assumed that not that many people out there would actually be watching Tiger Woods, but that some botnet was running a new form of DDoS - suck up all the bandwidth by requesting multiple streams of a very bandwidth intensive application. Don't bring down the servers, bring down the pipes themselves.
Unlike the Iraqi insurgents of course, who are regularly denounced by the local populace....
I'm just wondering who the liberating army will be. So for their sake, lets hope they don't rely on it like the Poles did during WWII. In case you missed it, the Poles tried to liberate Warsaw when the Red Army was 20 miles away - and the Russian "had supply problems" and didn't enter Warsaw until the Germans had wiped out the Polish resistance (which just happened to be loyal to the Polish government in London, not the communists.)
sorry, the price of the airline ticket has to be included in the budget...
The sabot is just used to get the bullet accelerated in the barrel. Light crossectional weight is good for acceleration, but for reduced drag you want the projectile to be as heavy per crossectional area as possible as soon as you leave the barrel. You might gain a little bit of additional acceleration out of the system by "firing" the bullet out of the sabot, but don't forget that means you have to accelerate the HE, and your trigger mechanism, and the explosion is uncontained and not very effective.
You could probably machine a tungsten 6 mm bullet, with a high BC >1, and use a sabot type round in a.50 gun to accelerate it. Doesn't say anywhere that your satellite has to do anything. You need to launch from some type of weather balloon at high altitude, or the air resistance will kill you.
Even with all this, you need to get to better than 6 km/s to achieve orbital speed. That means you cannot use standard gun powder (the gas speed is too slow) but need to use high explosives. This means you need a very heavy gun construction, and your sabot is most likely to disintegrate before it can "ride" the gas front.
Even more worrying, when do we all get forcefully inoculated with a new E. Coli, helping us all to excrete oil.
Just imagine, your local sewage plant suddenly becomes a giant oil-water separator.
Just don't smoke in the bathroom.
The problem with VC capital is that you some need to get it AND maintain control of your company/process. Most VC offers read like "well, we're putting up all the capital, and all you bring is a bit IP/knowledge. 80% of the shares for us sounds good."
Your second problem is, if you don't go the VC route by try for classic loans, you might be first, but someone else might be willing to make the deal with the VCs. And suddenly that "second class operation down the road that's five years behind us" starts breaking ground on that crucial first commercial operation, and your fine superior technology becomes a/. anecdote.
and I'm sure you RTFA before you posted this, since clearly the kids in the Andes, without running water, eating guinea pigs, are just one OLPC away to move from underdeveloped to developing...
Sure, in your case that's how the GPL is intended. In my case the truck manufacturer has no intention to license his truck patent under the GPL for use in trucks. He is trying to license it for the use in cars under the GPL. Then someone is taking the car part to break the truck patent.
In software terms, as an engineer I might have a patent on a method to model the aging of engineered structures. Now some academic approaches me to use my program to look at erosion in Triassic fossil fields. Not seeing a conflict or commercial value, I give him a little GPLed program for his application. Now some other engineer modifies that code to compete in my field, claiming GPL protection from my patent since it's "derivative work" of a piece of GPL code.
This is not about me using GPL code and not passing it on, it's about me potentially NOT being able to give the code away fearing for my legitimate patent (which protects my work in a specialized application, not something a patent troll has coughed up to sue).
Thanks, so that only shifts the problem: Find the little card they gave me:)
Actually I went online to my provider's page, and while I didn't find a way to skip ahead, I found out that my digital voice actually lets me see the voicemail inbox. So if this gets to be a real problem I at least will be able to screen my voicemails just like my emails.
The issue is that such a license can badly backfire if it deals with software, since software is so nicely reusable.
Using so all so popular car allegory, lets say I make trucks, and I have a patent for a new suspension. Now, since I'm not interested in cars, I license the patent to car makers under GPL. And gosh, some clever truck manufacturer will find a way to claim the design out of a GPLed car to fit into his truck, and point to my GPLed patent.
So, is the truck axle a protected "derivative work" of the GPLed product or a clear violation of the patent? This will probably not be defined in this context other then by the courts. Until the details of this deal are known I think its too early to call the patent-GPLv3 issue solved.
That always requires the spammer to use a true caller ID. There's enough spoofing software out there, and since it's incoming VOIP there's no way to verify the sender like you'd have with an old fashioned incoming phone call via a fixed line.
I realize I have to find a way to "skip" messages in my voice inbox, right now my service only lets me delete stuff AFTER I fully listened to it. Highly annoying.
If this is Wikipedia data, Wikipedia needs to move to the 21st century.
To put the different tensile properties into context, the list has HDPE (high density polyethylene) at 37 MPa - but if you spin it into crystalline fibers you get 3250 MPa from the same chemical structure, a change of two orders of magnitude.
So the fact that you can do something similar to cellulose is not all that surprising.
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"what is Chutzpa"
Actually it took 5 days in most cases, the SS United States did it in under 4 days in 1952.
The problem is that the capital investment, once approved, counts as directly project related work. Maintenance on the other hand comes out of your overhead budget. At a typical university, every dollar you get to spend on a project has to come with $1.40 in overhead money, to pay for everything from janitor to university president to computer maintenance.
Often these overhead rates are already at the cap grant-giving institutions allow (it's actually a part of the grant evaluation), so you can't just "budget" maintenance if you don't have a way to pay for it.
Well, try being from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
About one in ten US companies tries to connect you to their international shipping department when you call in an order...
So, what does the question of "did a person named Jesus exist" have to do with true or false god. That's a historical question, not a religious one.
Compared to most known "facts" from that time the new testament is actually a rather well documented piece of history, not much writing of that time was copied that much and that early. I think the oldest existing fragments date from 100 CE. As for cross-references with other writers from the relevant time period, other then the events of the last week in Jerusalem we mainly seem to deal with a guy who runs through the countryside with maybe a dozen followers. Not something that would come to notice of the typical historian of the time. And anything written later is naturally suspect due to the religious connections of the writers.
My class on material science has been a while too, but if I remember correctly, the small grains of the metal is what allows ductile deformation. Fatigue happens when you start depositing energy into the material (via stress cycles) and the grains start growing. At some point the grains are so large, they don't slide past one another anymore. That's when the material become brittle, you get crack growth, and ultimately failure.
The glass doesn't have that ductile movement to begin with, it's "naturally brittle". So yes, it's stable against fatigue in the classic sense as long as it doesn't form crystals; but if you keep dumping energy into it it will start doing just that.
Hmm, I usually see that as a typical case of kinetic over thermodynamic control. The material hardens faster in the higher energy state instead of slowly rearranging to the lower minimum.
The article has a serious flaw so in claiming that glass formation helps with fatigue; the main reason that you get metal fatigues is loss of ductility. Most glasses are brittle to begin with, and even if not, the same forces that allow crystal growth leading to embrittlement are active in the glass too.
Worst case? A black hole is created, and starts accrediting mass at the speed of light. 40 ms later, the earth is gone.
The good news - you won't notice a thing (it just gets dark in your basement).
Bad case - the black hole is created, and slowly drifts to the center of the earth (or the center of gravity of the earth-solar system). There is starts growing, confusing generations of scientists by changing the earth's magnetic field. Now, I have no idea if we fry first because the lack of magnetic field allows cosmic radiation to hit the earth surface or if the synchrotron radiation of mass spiraling into the black hole starts leaking out of the core, but yes, you will notice, and worse, internet connectivity will go to hell. No more slashdot.
And there I thought the Pac Man reference was enough to mark this as "humorous statement".
But joke aside, theory IS currently missing an explanation for most of the "galaxy size and larger" gravitational phenomenons, needing dark matter and dark energy to make it stick together and expand at the same time. So a very large number of very small black holes would be about as good an explanation as any, so we still couldn't explain where they're coming from either.
So each being equally small in probability the two ways the LHC will get us is either by
1. Black Holes (like the article says)
or
2. Instantaneous conversion of all stuff on earth into exotic matter.
Personally #2 sounds more fun.
You're mixing exotic and erotic againI'd be more worried that the astrophysicists haven't accounted for 96% of the energy and mass of the universe in their current model.
I see billions of golf ball size black holes crossing the galaxy, playing Pac-Man "the milky way edition".
In the 1980s, you saw a lot of bumper stickers in Germany
"why nuclear power? We get our electricity from the outlet."
The bad part was, half the people carrying the sticker didn't realize it was meant to be sarcastic.
Your zero manpower is like the zero pollution vehicle. It's not counting the pilot (this is a remotely controlled vehicle, not an autonomous robot), the maintenance guy, the fuel handler, the cargo loaders, the guards at the air field that's set up for it etc. I'd be surprised if a unit handling these would have less than 10 man per flying vehicle.
My guess would be, they assumed that not that many people out there would actually be watching Tiger Woods, but that some botnet was running a new form of DDoS - suck up all the bandwidth by requesting multiple streams of a very bandwidth intensive application. Don't bring down the servers, bring down the pipes themselves.
Unlike the Iraqi insurgents of course, who are regularly denounced by the local populace ....
I'm just wondering who the liberating army will be. So for their sake, lets hope they don't rely on it like the Poles did during WWII. In case you missed it, the Poles tried to liberate Warsaw when the Red Army was 20 miles away - and the Russian "had supply problems" and didn't enter Warsaw until the Germans had wiped out the Polish resistance (which just happened to be loyal to the Polish government in London, not the communists.)
sorry, the price of the airline ticket has to be included in the budget...
The sabot is just used to get the bullet accelerated in the barrel. Light crossectional weight is good for acceleration, but for reduced drag you want the projectile to be as heavy per crossectional area as possible as soon as you leave the barrel. You might gain a little bit of additional acceleration out of the system by "firing" the bullet out of the sabot, but don't forget that means you have to accelerate the HE, and your trigger mechanism, and the explosion is uncontained and not very effective.
You could probably machine a tungsten 6 mm bullet, with a high BC >1, and use a sabot type round in a .50 gun to accelerate it. Doesn't say anywhere that your satellite has to do anything. You need to launch from some type of weather balloon at high altitude, or the air resistance will kill you.
Even with all this, you need to get to better than 6 km/s to achieve orbital speed. That means you cannot use standard gun powder (the gas speed is too slow) but need to use high explosives. This means you need a very heavy gun construction, and your sabot is most likely to disintegrate before it can "ride" the gas front.
Even more worrying, when do we all get forcefully inoculated with a new E. Coli, helping us all to excrete oil.
Just imagine, your local sewage plant suddenly becomes a giant oil-water separator.
Just don't smoke in the bathroom.
The problem with VC capital is that you some need to get it AND maintain control of your company/process. Most VC offers read like "well, we're putting up all the capital, and all you bring is a bit IP/knowledge. 80% of the shares for us sounds good." Your second problem is, if you don't go the VC route by try for classic loans, you might be first, but someone else might be willing to make the deal with the VCs. And suddenly that "second class operation down the road that's five years behind us" starts breaking ground on that crucial first commercial operation, and your fine superior technology becomes a /. anecdote.
and I'm sure you RTFA before you posted this, since clearly the kids in the Andes, without running water, eating guinea pigs, are just one OLPC away to move from underdeveloped to developing...
Sure, in your case that's how the GPL is intended. In my case the truck manufacturer has no intention to license his truck patent under the GPL for use in trucks. He is trying to license it for the use in cars under the GPL. Then someone is taking the car part to break the truck patent.
In software terms, as an engineer I might have a patent on a method to model the aging of engineered structures. Now some academic approaches me to use my program to look at erosion in Triassic fossil fields. Not seeing a conflict or commercial value, I give him a little GPLed program for his application. Now some other engineer modifies that code to compete in my field, claiming GPL protection from my patent since it's "derivative work" of a piece of GPL code.
This is not about me using GPL code and not passing it on, it's about me potentially NOT being able to give the code away fearing for my legitimate patent (which protects my work in a specialized application, not something a patent troll has coughed up to sue).
Thanks, so that only shifts the problem: Find the little card they gave me :)
Actually I went online to my provider's page, and while I didn't find a way to skip ahead, I found out that my digital voice actually lets me see the voicemail inbox. So if this gets to be a real problem I at least will be able to screen my voicemails just like my emails.
The issue is that such a license can badly backfire if it deals with software, since software is so nicely reusable.
Using so all so popular car allegory, lets say I make trucks, and I have a patent for a new suspension. Now, since I'm not interested in cars, I license the patent to car makers under GPL. And gosh, some clever truck manufacturer will find a way to claim the design out of a GPLed car to fit into his truck, and point to my GPLed patent.
So, is the truck axle a protected "derivative work" of the GPLed product or a clear violation of the patent? This will probably not be defined in this context other then by the courts.
Until the details of this deal are known I think its too early to call the patent-GPLv3 issue solved.
That always requires the spammer to use a true caller ID. There's enough spoofing software out there, and since it's incoming VOIP there's no way to verify the sender like you'd have with an old fashioned incoming phone call via a fixed line.
I realize I have to find a way to "skip" messages in my voice inbox, right now my service only lets me delete stuff AFTER I fully listened to it. Highly annoying.
If this is Wikipedia data, Wikipedia needs to move to the 21st century.
To put the different tensile properties into context, the list has HDPE (high density polyethylene) at 37 MPa - but if you spin it into crystalline fibers you get 3250 MPa from the same chemical structure, a change of two orders of magnitude.
So the fact that you can do something similar to cellulose is not all that surprising.