Better batteries? Pure electric? Look, I'm not just trying to be an argumentative jerk, but we're back to: HOW do you generate that electricity? The most environmentally friendly, and VIABLE, is nuclear. But the media and TMI killed that off - and the crisis in Japan ain't gone make it viable any time soon. Do you know how many people have been killed in the US by nukes? THREE - all army contractors that made some really STOOPID mistakes out in the Idaho desert. TMI didn't hurt a soul, and, just like the Army contractors, the operators pretty much did everything they could to break that plant over about a 3 day period. The US and western allies operate a BOATLOAD (no pun intendeed) of reactors, (SSNs, SSBNs, CVNs) NONE with a containment building. Chernobyl? HORRIBLE Russky RBMK design, the miracle(s) with Chernobyl are 1) only one has gone BOOM, and 2) some Eastern bloc countries are STILL operating those stupid things. Look up "positive coefficient of reactivity" and "negative coefficient of reactivity" - long story short: western designs tend to power down the hotter they get, RBMK and like get HOTTER as they increase in power, making them tend to run away. PLWR, CANDU pebble beds, those are the way to go.
Hydrogen is NOT green - not until they find a "green" way to produce it. It is NOT an energy SOURCE (like fossil fuels, and nuclear), it is an energy CONVEYOR. I wanna save the planet as much as anyone, but as long as fossile fuels are used to generate the hydrogen, it actually makes more sense to just burn the stuff in an internal cumbustion engine./me waits to get modded down:-/
Before he died, Wyatt Earp was interviewed where he admitted he was no where near the fastest draw - but he pointed out that being accurate with your first shot was by far the most important criteria
it's called life cycle analysis. "a gas burning electric plant is FAR more efficient than a 3 liter V6" may be, but then when you take transmission losses, and all the other losses (conversion, etc etc) you end up with less efficiancy overall. pure electric cars simply move the pollution from the urban areas out to wherever the power is generated.
"Apparently some of the neighbors are concerned about having a large tank of hydrogen near their homes." not very well thought out concern, anyone? and they don't give a 2nd thought to that huge tank of combustile gasoline at regular gas stations? also, h2 has a nice habit of dissipating once released from storage, whilst gasoline has this nasty habit of pooling...
when it comes to b/w calcs, it is NOT 8 per, it is closer to 10 per. layer 2 overhead kills the 8 per. 13-14 would be at least more accurate than 8, although i think that's overestimating l2 overhead.
anyone even remotely clued on nuke stuff (i was a nuke engineer in my previous life) would know that chernobyl simply *cannot* happen in a western light water reactor design. chernobyl was the result of the russkies making insane design decision after insane design decision in order to make a NON enriched core work. just enrich the core beyond a certain LOW percentage (i'm not telling!!! don't want know black helicopters landing HERE:P) and chernobyl are IMPOSSIBLE.
whilst it is entirely true that they're FRAGILE (ie: you can shoot most down with a pistol), they are FAR from "flaky". aside from the fragility issue, they are no different from fixed wing aircraft in their "flakiness". they simply trade high speed for the ability to hover, that is ALL. and, incidentally, there is no fix for the speed issue in a conventional chopper, at some "N" speed, the retreating rotor blade stalls and the bird flops over. most people don't realize that helicopters share EVERY flight characteristic (sans high speed) with a fixed wing aircraft, including the ability to "glide" (they call it autorotation in choppers, the air rushing up through the rotor keeps it spinning, and you flair at the last moment. every helo pilot can do it, and you land without a scratch as long as the surface is apporpriate)
but this surprises, WHO, exactly? i work for a large telco (I won't mention AT&T by name) and i can assure you that even if YOU were up, THEY were down. which effectively made YOU down as well. those few days SUCKED to work for a carrier, lemm tell you...
BUT, anyone's who's worked on ISP conected full BGP peers has known this for a while. I configured the BGP ISP boxes for the one of the top ten largest ecomm site on the planet (no, really), and we finally just quit logging this shit. It was pointless, the volume was so high. So, we dropped what we could at the edge with static packet filtering (you be surprised how much RFC reserved space we'd see, why are people even ROUTING that shit!?!?), and do layered firewalls the deeper in you went.
glad to here you're making ends meet:) 7 months was just too much for us:/ so we pretty much "popped" financially. starting over ain't all bad, though. finally got another decent paying job, had to move from houston to phoenix to get it, but phoenix doth kick much ass-age compared to houston - so we're enjoying it:P
dude, that SUCKS. still looking for a job? how long were you out of work, if not? i got axed by HP (i was a cpq'er) back in january and it took me 7 fucking months to find a job. very bad time indeed to be a propeller head:-/
Uhhh, sorry - no. The US has around 100 antimatter manufacturing facilities literally online right now. Those would be "Fission Reactors". A natural part of the fission reaction is electron/positron production.
they canned the entire audio group the day before the merger was official - is this to get stagnant inventory out the door? how can component prices drop enough to drop the price by over %50 and still make money? there's no revenue stream after the sale like with consoles games. i wonder if they were faced with tossing a boat load of now-unsellable components or moving them out at a loss...
"debeers" - diamonds aren't overly rare, they are expensive due to their monopoly. i've had a problem with this for some time and in fact have boycotted diamonds for my entire 34 year life - i bought my wife her current diamond only after 6 years of marriage cuz i found one at a jewelry store that was going out of business so i got a "relatively" good deal
but i work at the "mergee" - and while at first it REALLY bugged me, now that it's over and me whining does no more good - i can look at it a bit more objectively. hp may have great people, but they lost money in all of their business divisions except printers (sorry, the calculators are gone). how can you be a big computer/services company if you only make money on printers? (and then a lot of it was on the cartridges and paper) compaq made money (albeit not much lately, but then NOONE is right now) in all of their business divisions, and had no printer division. if you line the 2 product lines up, they actually mesh VERY well. excepting the jornada and netserver, everything else meshes. hp has nothing to match a himilaya, for instance - and compaq has nothing to match an hp9000 (you can pretend big alpha's do, but businesses don't think so). on the software side the only "overlap" is tru64/hpux, and hpux is WAY more accepted by the market. the new hp has announced the new product line, but i don't see it on the web page so i'm not going to list it, but anyone knowledgable looking from the outside can see they mesh very well with a few exceptions.
i work for a large computer/IT shop and i can get literally all of this and help config it - however i bet there a lot of folks like me in other companies thinking the same thing. is there someone acting as point here? i'd hate for 10 teams of helpful folks to show up and only be in the way. the above message said that guy's email was hammered....
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Had a few myself whilst in Iraq. Pretty good eats.
Better batteries? Pure electric? Look, I'm not just trying to be an argumentative jerk, but we're back to: HOW do you generate that electricity? The most environmentally friendly, and VIABLE, is nuclear. But the media and TMI killed that off - and the crisis in Japan ain't gone make it viable any time soon. Do you know how many people have been killed in the US by nukes? THREE - all army contractors that made some really STOOPID mistakes out in the Idaho desert. TMI didn't hurt a soul, and, just like the Army contractors, the operators pretty much did everything they could to break that plant over about a 3 day period. The US and western allies operate a BOATLOAD (no pun intendeed) of reactors, (SSNs, SSBNs, CVNs) NONE with a containment building. Chernobyl? HORRIBLE Russky RBMK design, the miracle(s) with Chernobyl are 1) only one has gone BOOM, and 2) some Eastern bloc countries are STILL operating those stupid things. Look up "positive coefficient of reactivity" and "negative coefficient of reactivity" - long story short: western designs tend to power down the hotter they get, RBMK and like get HOTTER as they increase in power, making them tend to run away. PLWR, CANDU pebble beds, those are the way to go.
Hydrogen is NOT green - not until they find a "green" way to produce it. It is NOT an energy SOURCE (like fossil fuels, and nuclear), it is an energy CONVEYOR. I wanna save the planet as much as anyone, but as long as fossile fuels are used to generate the hydrogen, it actually makes more sense to just burn the stuff in an internal cumbustion engine. /me waits to get modded down :-/
Before he died, Wyatt Earp was interviewed where he admitted he was no where near the fastest draw - but he pointed out that being accurate with your first shot was by far the most important criteria
it's called life cycle analysis. "a gas burning electric plant is FAR more efficient than a 3 liter V6" may be, but then when you take transmission losses, and all the other losses (conversion, etc etc) you end up with less efficiancy overall. pure electric cars simply move the pollution from the urban areas out to wherever the power is generated.
"Apparently some of the neighbors are concerned about having a large tank of hydrogen near their homes."
not very well thought out concern, anyone? and they don't give a 2nd thought to that huge tank of combustile gasoline at regular gas stations?
also, h2 has a nice habit of dissipating once released from storage, whilst gasoline has this nasty habit of pooling...
Cisco has a history of buying small companies to increase their product lineup for as long as i can remember. Kalpana, Stratacom, etc etc etc - FYI
when it comes to b/w calcs, it is NOT 8 per, it is closer to 10 per. layer 2 overhead kills the 8 per. 13-14 would be at least more accurate than 8, although i think that's overestimating l2 overhead.
anyone even remotely clued on nuke stuff (i was a nuke engineer in my previous life) would know that chernobyl simply *cannot* happen in a western light water reactor design. chernobyl was the result of the russkies making insane design decision after insane design decision in order to make a NON enriched core work. just enrich the core beyond a certain LOW percentage (i'm not telling!!! don't want know black helicopters landing HERE :P) and chernobyl are IMPOSSIBLE.
do NOT run a linux derivative, they run ipso. a bsd derivative, supposedly a "hardened bsd" which is a bit bogus :/
whilst it is entirely true that they're FRAGILE (ie: you can shoot most down with a pistol), they are FAR from "flaky". aside from the fragility issue, they are no different from fixed wing aircraft in their "flakiness". they simply trade high speed for the ability to hover, that is ALL. and, incidentally, there is no fix for the speed issue in a conventional chopper, at some "N" speed, the retreating rotor blade stalls and the bird flops over.
most people don't realize that helicopters share EVERY flight characteristic (sans high speed) with a fixed wing aircraft, including the ability to "glide" (they call it autorotation in choppers, the air rushing up through the rotor keeps it spinning, and you flair at the last moment. every helo pilot can do it, and you land without a scratch as long as the surface is apporpriate)
but this surprises, WHO, exactly? i work for a large telco (I won't mention AT&T by name) and i can assure you that even if YOU were up, THEY were down. which effectively made YOU down as well. those few days SUCKED to work for a carrier, lemm tell you...
BUT, anyone's who's worked on ISP conected full BGP peers has known this for a while. I configured the BGP ISP boxes for the one of the top ten largest ecomm site on the planet (no, really), and we finally just quit logging this shit. It was pointless, the volume was so high. So, we dropped what we could at the edge with static packet filtering (you be surprised how much RFC reserved space we'd see, why are people even ROUTING that shit!?!?), and do layered firewalls the deeper in you went.
glad to here you're making ends meet :) 7 months was just too much for us :/ so we pretty much "popped" financially. starting over ain't all bad, though. finally got another decent paying job, had to move from houston to phoenix to get it, but phoenix doth kick much ass-age compared to houston - so we're enjoying it :P
dude, that SUCKS. still looking for a job? how long were you out of work, if not? i got axed by HP (i was a cpq'er) back in january and it took me 7 fucking months to find a job. very bad time indeed to be a propeller head :-/
i work for a large comm company (i won't mention at&t by name:-), and this was, um, A Bad Thing(tm)
i have a very good friend that worked there. it's chock full o' mormons. he's mormon, he worked there, he should know. just FYI
Uhhh, sorry - no. The US has around 100 antimatter manufacturing facilities literally online right now. Those would be "Fission Reactors". A natural part of the fission reaction is electron/positron production.
Destination 'net is 17 hops away? Oops, may as well be invisible...
they canned the entire audio group the day before the merger was official - is this to get stagnant inventory out the door? how can component prices drop enough to drop the price by over %50 and still make money? there's no revenue stream after the sale like with consoles games. i wonder if they were faced with tossing a boat load of now-unsellable components or moving them out at a loss...
"debeers" - diamonds aren't overly rare, they are expensive due to their monopoly. i've had a problem with this for some time and in fact have boycotted diamonds for my entire 34 year life - i bought my wife her current diamond only after 6 years of marriage cuz i found one at a jewelry store that was going out of business so i got a "relatively" good deal
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/07may02b.h tm
but i work at the "mergee" - and while at first it REALLY bugged me, now that it's over and me whining does no more good - i can look at it a bit more objectively. hp may have great people, but they lost money in all of their business divisions except printers (sorry, the calculators are gone). how can you be a big computer/services company if you only make money on printers? (and then a lot of it was on the cartridges and paper) compaq made money (albeit not much lately, but then NOONE is right now) in all of their business divisions, and had no printer division. if you line the 2 product lines up, they actually mesh VERY well. excepting the jornada and netserver, everything else meshes. hp has nothing to match a himilaya, for instance - and compaq has nothing to match an hp9000 (you can pretend big alpha's do, but businesses don't think so). on the software side the only "overlap" is tru64/hpux, and hpux is WAY more accepted by the market. the new hp has announced the new product line, but i don't see it on the web page so i'm not going to list it, but anyone knowledgable looking from the outside can see they mesh very well with a few exceptions.
from the memo: "we have to get our customers back" - with an implied "wherther they want us or not"
i work for a large computer/IT shop and i can get literally all of this and help config it - however i bet there a lot of folks like me in other companies thinking the same thing. is there someone acting as point here? i'd hate for 10 teams of helpful folks to show up and only be in the way. the above message said that guy's email was hammered....