You'd still effectively have time zones, though. Humans for the most part like to wake up with the sun and go to bed when it gets dark. Sure, you could say, "Let's have that meeting at 1300" because for you, that's right after lunch. But if you had international clients on the phone you would still need to convert 1300 to what it 'feels' like in maybe Japan. I don't know if I'm explaining this right.
Noon will always still be noon, whether you call it 1200 or 1800 or whatever, depending on where you are.
I was a perfectly good person before I went off to war. The people who didn't go off to war are still perfectly fine, yet every day is a waking nightmare for me. There are things that a person doesn't need to experience to be a good person. I daresay I'd be a *better* person without the effects of PTSD destroying my life and my relationships.
But I'm sure you've had a ton of traumatic experiences too, so we'll just cope our own separate ways.
I'd pay a year's salary to have this memory treatment. The argument that without bad memories of war, we will go to war more often is doubly ironic because it's coming from mostly pacifist nerds who've never BEEN to war in the first place. You guys don't have any memory of war, and yet you're against using it. And yet if I remove my memories, I'll turn into a warmonger? Please.
A more useful statistic would be the PERCENTAGE of users who died from using these substances. There are millions of smokers; however, I'm willing to bet that the mortality rate among heroin users (when adjusted for violent crime deaths*) will still be higher.
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*What I mean is that smokers don't typically die from secondary acts associated w/ tobacco use; e.g., mugging people to support their habit, overdosing on bad tobacco, etc.
Trains are mostly efficient because they have one or three massive powerplants pulling the entire train, instead of each car pulling itself (and the weight of its engine).
Also, trains benefit a great deal from vastly reduced rolling friction and infrequent stops/steady speed.
A train CARRYING cars would be more efficient than a train OF cars.
I'm going in to work tomorrow, and I'll try to track it down.
I added the gooseneck trailer part because (in addition to being constructed of high tensile-strength steel), the ones we use on base say explicitly on the data plates, "Apply NO solvents or alkali cleaners to steel components" or somesuch.
Of course, we have known for a long time that solvents caused hydrogen embrittlement.
I've seen staining (which by itself would be merely superficial) on titanium and bare/alodined aluminum- I haven't seen problems on anodized aluminum, but we don't see any of that on the exterior of aircraft.
Epoxy-based primer (mil-c-23377) doesn't seem affected, but again, we don't see that on a/c exteriors. The biggest problems we have is on our two-part polyurethane paint (mil-prf-85285). The SG leaves blanched/stained areas, especially where the solution dripped and ran. Other soaps can cause this, but they can usually be rinsed off. With the SG, your only option is to let the aircraft get dirty enough that you can't see the runs.
I really wish I could provide that USAF paper for you, but it's behind a secured site and I'm at home. However, based on your comment, I'd say stress corrosion cracking is probably not a huge concern for you. Keep it away from aircraft, bridges, gooseneck flatbed trailers, and other stressed components, and you'll be fine. If the stuff doesn't bother your paint, it's way better for the environment than most other cleaners.
I think that Apple's logic on pricing is that if their computers are only $100-$200 more than equivalent models, the same people who don't buy them now because of price would still not buy them because of price. So, if your prices have only a tiny affect on your sales, you might as well have healthy margins.
It would be interesting to see a really cheap Apple notebook just to see if the price people and the game people put their money where their mouths are and switched/didn't switch, respectively.
I see what you did there. If I don't say anything in response, the only responses will be from rabid fans and insane people (proving your point). And if I do reply, you'll just paint it as a rationalization of my purchase (again, "proving" your point). There's no room for valid and useful information wrt Apple computers vs others.
I found out that my insurance company (american family) defines a flood as water covering so many square miles (I want to say 26 square miles). Water in your basement isn't a flood, and therefore wouldn't be covered by flood insurance.
Insurance is a racket. I had CDs stolen from my car and the auto insurance policy wouldn't pay for it (this was about $2000 worth of cds). They claimed that any property in the car would be covered by homeowner's or renter's insurance (which ostensibly covers your possessions). Well, it turns out that the property insurance doesn't cover *CDs* in cars because, as she put it, "they are likely to be stolen."
I would caution against using simple green on ANY metals or painted surfaces. I've seen SG ruin the most chem resistant paint we have, and our main corrosion office has done studies that show not only that SG accelerates corrosion (it is an electrolyte, after all), but that it reduced the tensile strength of high strength steel by something like 40% after only a few hours of exposure. I'd look for the air force site but I'm not at a computer with a smartcard reader.
I work in corrosion control and I hate simple green. There's nothing it does well- the only reason we use it at all is because it's more environmentally sound.
Well, the part I left out was that it used your camera all the time (a la SETI, and unless you happened to be using it) and therefore all the time you might spend with it pressed to your head or laying on a flat surface would offer a view of at least part of the sky, part of the time. This would need to be a massive network to work the way I described. It would probably be cheaper and easier to do by widely placing hundreds of $5 'stickies' with cheap ccds and wireless. Have regional and central servers automatically calibrate ccds' view of the sky wrt the horizon, have the servers recommend new places for ccds for optimal imaging, etc.
Second. Deionized water next to charged metal surfaces= ionized water. DI water is only good in labwork where you are using glassware.
Solid helium. That's what would work best. Except, I suppose, for the explosion. Hey, you don't call yourself hardcore unless you're willing to have a smoking, -260C crater in your mom's basement.
I'm pretty sure the temperature difference between the room and the computer would look like the graph of y=-logx where y is the temp diff and x is time. You'd need to know the starting conditions.
But I've had some beer and I'm tired. Forget you read this.
I don't know. I thought the HFE family ate through the kinds of plastics one would likely find on a computer. Also, it evaporates relatively quickly (quicker than hydrocarbon oils, at least).
I suppose HFE would explain the better part of the price tag.
I was thinking about this thread for the last few minutes and something did occur to me- In the near-future, cell phones/smart phones will be smart enough to link up and provide high-res photos the same way the VLA and similar arrays do. The only part I can't figure out is how to decide what's worth taking a picture of and who is in control of the network. Something like the British surveillance network would be capable of this soon, but then we're back at square one where only the gov't spooks know about the stuff. If it's real, that is.
People who have tried using DI water found that after only a few minutes of water, the DI was no long- Metal ions were carried into the water very quickly (especially off charged surfaces) and then the resistance of the water dropped geometrically.
This was total immersion, not just a water-cooled cpu block. Hats off to them for risking their system. I looked but could not find the original source.
I did find this, and since this is slashdot I'll just go ahead and post the link:
An LP tank would be a great place to submerge a pc as long as you let off enough pressure to keep everything cool. However, your gas bill would be outrageous.
For extra credit, design a closed system that keeps the pc in the cold (expansion) side of a freon/refrigerant air conditioner. No condensation, no corrosion. Perfect.
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You'd still effectively have time zones, though. Humans for the most part like to wake up with the sun and go to bed when it gets dark. Sure, you could say, "Let's have that meeting at 1300" because for you, that's right after lunch. But if you had international clients on the phone you would still need to convert 1300 to what it 'feels' like in maybe Japan. I don't know if I'm explaining this right.
Noon will always still be noon, whether you call it 1200 or 1800 or whatever, depending on where you are.
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>>Would there be anything left to motivate us to make the world a better place?
If nothing hurt, what would be left to improve?
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I was a perfectly good person before I went off to war. The people who didn't go off to war are still perfectly fine, yet every day is a waking nightmare for me. There are things that a person doesn't need to experience to be a good person. I daresay I'd be a *better* person without the effects of PTSD destroying my life and my relationships.
But I'm sure you've had a ton of traumatic experiences too, so we'll just cope our own separate ways.
I'd pay a year's salary to have this memory treatment. The argument that without bad memories of war, we will go to war more often is doubly ironic because it's coming from mostly pacifist nerds who've never BEEN to war in the first place. You guys don't have any memory of war, and yet you're against using it. And yet if I remove my memories, I'll turn into a warmonger? Please.
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From what I've seen (and I've seen a lot), the only real casualty of marijuana is dignity.
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A more useful statistic would be the PERCENTAGE of users who died from using these substances. There are millions of smokers; however, I'm willing to bet that the mortality rate among heroin users (when adjusted for violent crime deaths*) will still be higher.
-b
*What I mean is that smokers don't typically die from secondary acts associated w/ tobacco use; e.g., mugging people to support their habit, overdosing on bad tobacco, etc.
Wrong solution, IMO.
Trains are mostly efficient because they have one or three massive powerplants pulling the entire train, instead of each car pulling itself (and the weight of its engine).
Also, trains benefit a great deal from vastly reduced rolling friction and infrequent stops/steady speed.
A train CARRYING cars would be more efficient than a train OF cars.
-b
I'm going in to work tomorrow, and I'll try to track it down.
I added the gooseneck trailer part because (in addition to being constructed of high tensile-strength steel), the ones we use on base say explicitly on the data plates, "Apply NO solvents or alkali cleaners to steel components" or somesuch.
Of course, we have known for a long time that solvents caused hydrogen embrittlement.
I'll get back to you if I can find some info.
-b
I've seen staining (which by itself would be merely superficial) on titanium and bare/alodined aluminum- I haven't seen problems on anodized aluminum, but we don't see any of that on the exterior of aircraft.
Epoxy-based primer (mil-c-23377) doesn't seem affected, but again, we don't see that on a/c exteriors. The biggest problems we have is on our two-part polyurethane paint (mil-prf-85285). The SG leaves blanched/stained areas, especially where the solution dripped and ran. Other soaps can cause this, but they can usually be rinsed off. With the SG, your only option is to let the aircraft get dirty enough that you can't see the runs.
I really wish I could provide that USAF paper for you, but it's behind a secured site and I'm at home. However, based on your comment, I'd say stress corrosion cracking is probably not a huge concern for you. Keep it away from aircraft, bridges, gooseneck flatbed trailers, and other stressed components, and you'll be fine. If the stuff doesn't bother your paint, it's way better for the environment than most other cleaners.
-b
Repeat after me:
I am a grown man/woman. I can buy whatever the fuck I want. I WILL buy whatever the fuck I want. I don't care what you think.
Problem solved. This thread is like listening to truck drivers, race car drivers, and soccer moms arguing over the best kind of boat.
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I think that Apple's logic on pricing is that if their computers are only $100-$200 more than equivalent models, the same people who don't buy them now because of price would still not buy them because of price. So, if your prices have only a tiny affect on your sales, you might as well have healthy margins.
It would be interesting to see a really cheap Apple notebook just to see if the price people and the game people put their money where their mouths are and switched/didn't switch, respectively.
-b
I see what you did there. If I don't say anything in response, the only responses will be from rabid fans and insane people (proving your point). And if I do reply, you'll just paint it as a rationalization of my purchase (again, "proving" your point). There's no room for valid and useful information wrt Apple computers vs others.
Do you work for FOX news?
-b
I found out that my insurance company (american family) defines a flood as water covering so many square miles (I want to say 26 square miles). Water in your basement isn't a flood, and therefore wouldn't be covered by flood insurance.
Insurance is a racket. I had CDs stolen from my car and the auto insurance policy wouldn't pay for it (this was about $2000 worth of cds). They claimed that any property in the car would be covered by homeowner's or renter's insurance (which ostensibly covers your possessions). Well, it turns out that the property insurance doesn't cover *CDs* in cars because, as she put it, "they are likely to be stolen."
Good luck.
-b
I would caution against using simple green on ANY metals or painted surfaces. I've seen SG ruin the most chem resistant paint we have, and our main corrosion office has done studies that show not only that SG accelerates corrosion (it is an electrolyte, after all), but that it reduced the tensile strength of high strength steel by something like 40% after only a few hours of exposure. I'd look for the air force site but I'm not at a computer with a smartcard reader.
Here is one source that relates some army research.
http://www.autopia.org/forum/car-detailing-product-discussion/59319-simple-green-aluminum-embrittlement.html
I work in corrosion control and I hate simple green. There's nothing it does well- the only reason we use it at all is because it's more environmentally sound.
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I never knew about that. Thanks for the heads up.
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Solar power, my friend ;)
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http://store.sundancesolar.com/minsolpan45v.html
Did anyone else get a Black Mesa vibe from the wind sound effect at the end of the video?
Also, would wind sound like that in an atmosphere like mars'?
-b
Well, the part I left out was that it used your camera all the time (a la SETI, and unless you happened to be using it) and therefore all the time you might spend with it pressed to your head or laying on a flat surface would offer a view of at least part of the sky, part of the time. This would need to be a massive network to work the way I described. It would probably be cheaper and easier to do by widely placing hundreds of $5 'stickies' with cheap ccds and wireless. Have regional and central servers automatically calibrate ccds' view of the sky wrt the horizon, have the servers recommend new places for ccds for optimal imaging, etc.
Just daydreaming.
-b
Second. Deionized water next to charged metal surfaces= ionized water. DI water is only good in labwork where you are using glassware.
Solid helium. That's what would work best. Except, I suppose, for the explosion. Hey, you don't call yourself hardcore unless you're willing to have a smoking, -260C crater in your mom's basement.
-b
I'm pretty sure the temperature difference between the room and the computer would look like the graph of y=-logx where y is the temp diff and x is time.
You'd need to know the starting conditions.
But I've had some beer and I'm tired. Forget you read this.
-b
>>probably HFE-7500
I don't know. I thought the HFE family ate through the kinds of plastics one would likely find on a computer. Also, it evaporates relatively quickly (quicker than hydrocarbon oils, at least).
I suppose HFE would explain the better part of the price tag.
-b
I was thinking about this thread for the last few minutes and something did occur to me- In the near-future, cell phones/smart phones will be smart enough to link up and provide high-res photos the same way the VLA and similar arrays do. The only part I can't figure out is how to decide what's worth taking a picture of and who is in control of the network. Something like the British surveillance network would be capable of this soon, but then we're back at square one where only the gov't spooks know about the stuff. If it's real, that is.
-b
People who have tried using DI water found that after only a few minutes of water, the DI was no long- Metal ions were carried into the water very quickly (especially off charged surfaces) and then the resistance of the water dropped geometrically.
This was total immersion, not just a water-cooled cpu block. Hats off to them for risking their system. I looked but could not find the original source.
I did find this, and since this is slashdot I'll just go ahead and post the link:
THE COOLING POWER OF PIGEON LEGS
http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/136/1/193.pdf
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An LP tank would be a great place to submerge a pc as long as you let off enough pressure to keep everything cool. However, your gas bill would be outrageous.
For extra credit, design a closed system that keeps the pc in the cold (expansion) side of a freon/refrigerant air conditioner. No condensation, no corrosion. Perfect.
-b
>> Orgasm Queen of the SS
The PC is apparently submerged in Kroil- The oil that creeps (you out)
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Get this mothafuckin' snake oil off this mothafuckin' mothaboard!
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