the equivalent of 30,000 songs, 250,000 pictures or 13 million emails in a month. [SNIP] " Maybe they could put that limit in terms other than 'email' or 'songs'?
3 megs/song suggests about 100GB/month. Which would give 0.4Mb/picture and 7.7kb/email. Don't sound too unrealistic to me. Still a strange use of the word "unlimited" to me though. But that's the Tweedledum-&-Tweedledee Dictionary of Advertising-Speak for you.
Unless maybe the sun is too low in the sky for solar panels to get enough power?
No idea, a lot would depend upon the time of year, of course. But when you're sending a multi-million-dollar aircraft over a few thousand square miles of ice, you would probably want a more reliable power system. I don't know how much power the radar equipment on the thing needs, but that alone would probably eliminate a solar-powered craft.
More importantly (for climate research) is that to get a full understanding of the behaviour of any areas local climate you need to take measurements at intervals all through the annual variation. (Probably you really need measurements through at least half of the longest cycle you think is going to affect your system - see Nyquist theorem - but since that's either 10,000 years or 60,000 years depending on which Milankovitch cycles you think are relevant to the climate changes you're studying...) So, even if your UAV is capable of taking the measurements under solar power in high summer, you still need to make comparable measurements in deep winter. And in research, you reduce the systematic changes between measurements as much as possible, which in this case would mean using the same transport platform in summer and winter.
I have a friend who did work experience at PC world. None of the staff had any idea what they were talking about, including those who were supposed to be fixing computers. In fact, the PC fixing unit was one of the worst. If they cannot solve the problem by putting a CD in, or opening it up and checking all the parts are there then they send it back to head office.
Un-disputed that there are some real brain-dead numptys working behind the counter at PC World. On the other hand, I know at least one guy who works there who can't get into the "Tech Centre", despite having run a PC-building/ fixing/ selling shop for most of the previous 5 years. The problem wasn't lack of ability, it was company policies over time spent diagnosing problems, over how much swapping of parts was allowed, and warranty agreements with manufacturers. In short, if you are building your own boxes (including at a shop) you have a lot more leeway about what you can do to the machine compared to what you can do with a machine that came out of a box from Brand-X. Brend-X have policies about what they'll consider a warranty repair, and if you (the "Tech Guy") go beyond that then PC World loses the opportunity to return the machine to their supplier. Net loss to the company of several hundred quid. That is why they do very little at the store. PC World are not trying to fix your computer ; they're trying to turn a profit on the computer they sold you. One major part of that is reducing to the minimum their costs (including risked costs) on the machine. Which dictates centralisation of any technical skills and risks as much as possible. (BTW, my friend who was not suitable for the "Tech Guys" is now rapidly working his way up through the ranks at their small-business support centre. It seems that the store manager can see a way of making more money out of my friend than he'd earn as a "Tech Guy". Again, PC World are not in the business of fixing your computer, they're in the business of turning a profit.
There is also a "Service" they offer called something like a PC health check. They charge £50 for it. This service involves putting a CD in the PC to check for viruses.
There's a girl up the hill from here who offers a service of unclogging your vasa deferens by sucking your dick and swallowing. She charges £30 for the service. Sounds like PC World are somewhat over-priced for the market. Which is not news. You can get better prices, but you do need to hunt around. Some people value not having to hunt around quite highly.
This is why, despite needing a job I am not applying to PC world.
Sounds to me like you've not got a very clear idea of the nature of PC World's business : they're not now and never have been a PC shop - they're a machine for turning cardboard boxes with "stuff" inside into profit. And if that makes them sound like any other part of Dixon's Group... ah, I see, you're getting the idea.
What? You believed their advertising? Including the name?
There is prime waterfront property to buy on the north shore of Canada, Alaska, and Russia. In fact, I predict the melting of the artic ice will lead to a resource gold rush by the nations bordering the artic
Not in any great hurry ; in theory, the opening of the Arctic Ocean could make development and/ or extraction of minerals somewhat cheaper in the immediate coastal regions. But once you're more than a few tens of miles from the coast, then you're going to find that the costs of building rail lines or pipelines (depending on if you're talking about minerals or oil) gets up to the level where it's just as cheap in the long run to go overland with rail. And that's not going to be a quick option. Then again, building port facilities isn't quick either, particularly if you've got no port to bring the building materials for building your port.
Scenario one: The Jury contains Christians. I walk in, they offer a bible. I decline. They fall back to non-biblical swearing. The Christians are thinking... what?
Scenario two: The Jury contains Christians. I walk in, there's a non-biblical swearing-in. That's all there is to it.
[SNIP]
That's why a non-religious swearing-in is inherently better than a fallback from a religious swearing in.
You're making an assumption here, which is that your non-adherence to the commonest ideology in your region isn't a matter of concern to the courts and does not indicate in any way your moral status. This is, of course, incorrect. By not adhering to the commonest ideology in your region you are marking yourself as someone different to the largest grouping of people, which obviously also means that you're a bad person, to be denied all civil rights.
I'll re-cycle an old Russian joke : Q- why do the American secret police go around in threes? A- one can read, one can write, and one is there to keep an eye on those two dangerous intellectuals.
anthropocentric views in general (religion is that in specific), and a host of others from phrenology to past lives.
I wouldn't class phrenology with the other forms of defective thinking (or absence of thinking) that you list ; phrenology was based on an incorrect premise, but this premise and it's implications was subjected to more-or less standard scientific study and analysis. Phrenology was a part of a system of thought ("physiognomy") that related the structure of the face and the head to traits of character and behaviour ; some people extended it in the direction of Lamarkian evolution too. It failed to make useful or correct predictions, and so was steadily (if slowly) rejected. What really killed it off around the turn of the last century was, surprisingly, the development of fingerprinting. Before then, the main practical use of the careful study of head shapes and other physiognomic features had been in the identification of criminals. Think of trying to make the traditional Western's "Wanted" poster a bit more scientific and a lot more accurate. Once fingerprinting had it's value and efficacy demonstrated, there was no reason to continue with other physiognomic measurements, and the "science" of physiognomy just died. The central thesis of physiognomy (and hence phrenology) isn't intrinsically silly, but in practice there's more signal than there is noise, so it's not a practically useful science. At the trivial level, you can say things about the character of people with gross developmental deformations of the skull and brain-case : if the brain is severely distorted or absent, then the victim is likely to have severe personality disorders up to being effectively non-sentient. Or even dead. But beyond that trivial level, there's very little practical signal in the noise of individual variations in head structure. Which is why it's a dead science.
Unless, of course, you know differently. Having just checked the Wikipedia article (I already knew most of this from sources such as Steven Jay Gould's "Mismeasure of Man"; recommended reading!), I see that some twit in America's DHS (Ministry of Truth) has fallen for it. Well, what would you expect from the spiritual home of Creationism. Don't you have pre-employment examinations for your civil servants over there? Or are they just elected, and approach the lowest common denominator?
I think you mean that the density of water is essentially invariant to pressure. It very much fluctuates with temperature.
It (the density of water) fluctuates noticeably under industrially-used pressures too. It's not as big a variation as other common variations (e.g. changes due to gas bubbles going into true solution instead of just shrinking), but the compressibility of water is something that you have to pay attention to when interpreting the results of pressure tests of anything much above 10,000 psi, so it's normally included in the interpretation of any non-trivial pressure tests. For example, you know:
the approximate volume of your pressure vessel, and
the pressure-volume relation for the whole system including flexible lines between pump and vessel.
So that you can calculate how much volume you expect to pump to test to $TEST-PRESSURE, you also need to correct for the compressibility of the water you use for the test. If you
pump much less before reaching $TEST-PRESSURE, then there's something wrong;
much more, then something somewhere is leaking, or over-stretching and you need to continue the test to find the problem;
pump the calculated volume to get to $TEST-PRESSURE but then need to continue pumping to maintain $TEST-PRESSURE, then you've got a leak;
and if the volume you bleed-off on returning from $TEST-PRESSURE to ambient is less than you pumped, then you've pushed something beyond it's elastic limit and need to investigate.
Pressure testing isn't as simple as pressing your tyre gauge to the tyre valve.
So as long as it's windy, and the wind is cooler than your body temperature, you won't die painfully? And this works on Dune?
Arrakis - desert planet. Having spent a number of months working in the Saudi peninsula deserts at 40deg C and hotter, there is a problem. The books don't go into sufficient detail ; there would have to be some active refrigeration. Which isn't (by the laws of physics) particularly implausible. They've sufficient technology to have either microscopic refrigeration coils built throughout the suit and a copmressor/ radiator unit in the back pack or belt. You'd need to make sure that the suit facing the panel is IR-reflective. Or use a directional IR emitter (which would reduce the thermal signature of the suit considerably, for camoflage). Designing more carefully, you'd need to ensure the the surface temperature of the suit sensed and maintained the temperature appropriate to incident heat in it's aspect, and use intelligent heat pumping to maintain that and skin temperature appropriately, then dump the excess heat somewhere. That would all take power (for heat pumping, sensors and computation), but there's plenty of sunlight and room for thin-form batteries. We've probebly trampled on 4 in-development technologies for the next generation of US soldiers in Iraq. Oh dear, what a pity, never mind.
Fighter escort, please shoot down Microsoft private aircraft in our flightpath... Gonna cost ya, Google One...
GOOGLE-ONE : We've already booked the advertising slot on Slashdot for the announcement. Will that do?
GROUND-CONTROL : That'll do nicely, sire! And would you like a small asteroid impactor on Redmond with that, sire? We're doing a BOGOF on regional destruction at the moment - got some in from military surplus just this week.
GOOGLE-ONE : Ah, we'll pass on that. For this week."
Every American should have a small ( I assume that this offer also applied to those red-blooded Americans who would prefer to be ruled by almost anyone apart from their neighbours, and so decide to get their retaliation in first. Sounds a good idea to me. Well, better than the average slashdot idea.
I use Adblock to get rid of "annoying" ads, like the ones screaming into my speakers that I won a free iPod Nano, or the ones who make huge flash overlays over half the page so I can't read the damn article. It's not immoral, it's pushback.
That's exactly the process I use. Most ads I don't bother with blocking, but when something particularly annoying comes up, I AdBlock it (and anything else coming from that server). So, the problem for web-designers (or more precisely, the database designers who track the downloads of the adverts, and possibly track their actual viewing ; I distinguish between these two, but I bet the advert-sellers don't) is actually to determine which adverts are being downloaded and which ones are not even being requested, then report back to (for example) DoublClick that "your series of adverts X, Y, and Z are literally turning the viewers off ; you'd better fix them".
I neither know nor care if AdBlock sends messages back to sites to the effect "this user has specified to see no content from [insert name of blocked site here] ; this is [blocked site]'s problem, not yours ; tell them about it if you want to improve your user's experience". I seem to remember that the old Internet Junkbuster had an option to send abusive or informative content back to sites that appeared in it's black-list, so I guess it's not impossible.
I do see, but not necessarily agree with, the "morality" issues over blocking adverts ; the technical issues of feeding information about user's requests/ preferences back to the website in question would lead effectively to a "survival of the most effective" selection war amongst advertisers, which is quite fine with me.
I suppose I should now go through my AdBlock list and clear it to give the likes of DoubleClick a chance to redeem themselves. Well, maybe not DoubleClick, but everyone else. Now, is there a way I can re-configure AdBlock to allow me to keep some note about when I want to start seeing adverts from [insert advertiser's name here]? Maybe variable timeouts for each blocking which AdBlock examines on startup, and if a listing is approaching expiry to flag it some way. That'd allow a way out of the black hole for advertisers who are trying to be effective as opposed to blocked. Ah, sod it. I'll give the fuckers a chance and clear my filters just now. I wonder how long it'll be until DoubleClick are back in there?
I work at IBM with some of the folks that designed IA2, so let me fill in what you're missing.
If not word from the horse's mouth, then at least a nod and a wink from someone working in the stables (hope you don't have too much shovelling to do >G<). Unfortunately, since this is SlashDot, then you're going to get flamed for not knowing what you're talking about. Someone fairly high in IBM obviously saw this set of tools ; saw a major plank in MS's anti-OO.org strategy ; saw that protecting Office is probably more important to MS than protecting Windows (in the long term) ; then put 2 and 8^(1/3) together to get a nice long-lasting undermine of MS's long-term strategy. Sweeeeeet.
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I built a telescope years ago, only to discover that I enjoyed building it a lot more than actually looking through it.
You're by no means alone in this, but there's nothing to be ashamed about in it. Build the scopes that you want and sell them at cost or give them away to educational institutions. Or hook up with a local astronomy club and set to on upgrading their communal pool of equipment.
The GP's advice concerning binoculars is absolutely standard (well, it is here in the UK, where sky conditions are much less than predictably good) ; the only modification I'd make is to suggest looking at a similar-sized monocular (because they're lighter) and spending the difference on a decent camera tripod and a swinging-arm type of mount. This page has instructions for making one, if a supplier can't be found locally.
This is why things should actually be OFF when you turn them off. What if it interferes with hospital equipment like other cells, even if it's off?
I'd say hospital equipment shouldn't malfunction when presented with interference on a widely used spectrum, but that's just me.
If you're building an entire new hospital from scratch tomorrow, then you can try to specify equipment like this. If it exists for all desired measurements, which is a big if - someone else brings up the difficult problem of measuring and recording electrical signals from the body like EEG and ECG tests. Now, you can live without that, as long as your hospital has a good shredder for treating people who come in with nerve or heart problems. But if you do want to treat such patients then you're going to have to find a way of doing this without using sensor leads of several metres long in free air and attached to a very sensitive amplifier. A physicist would probably be able to present seven reasons why this is impossible, I just have a strong suspicion that it's impossible on the basis of experience of debugging electrical sensor problems in the real world.
Now, you've got your hospital full of equipment which is proof against today's RF-generating equipment. You're going to have to deal with three problems now - one is the car-repair shop that's just opened up across the street, whose welding equipment produces RF white-noise which still interferes with your brand-spanking new equipment. Then, once you've got them sorted out, you've got to shut down the central heating/ air conditioning plant because of the noisy brushes on one of the pumps which is also producing RF white-noise. Got that sorted? OK, because you've got another problem tomorrow, because there's a solar storm coming in.
And next year there's a new piece of EM spectrum which is going to be licensed for on-the-move HD porn transmissions to the next generation of mobile phones. Which will mean that all your elaborate precautions are irrelevant.
Signal processing problems are almost never easy. "designing the equipment right" is actually something that's already been done : the equipment has a certain level of tolerance for RF noise with certain characteristics which hopefully made sense at the time of design. But the amount (and type) of RF noise which is battering around the world is changing all the time.
BTW, in your mythical EM-safe hospital, which types of WiFi networking will you mandate, and what are you going to do when someone comes in with the wrong type?
You forgot the important characteristic cited above. They're totally without redeeming characteristics - they don't even publish any good recipes for deep-fried brat.
The Russians (read TFA) have lots and lots (technical term) of botnets
Actually, the technical term seems to be "customers". Viz - while the technical machinery for carrying out these attacks may have been designed and implemented by Russians, the motivation and the money would seem to be coming form Joe.Average.Spammer. Who is well-known and well-demonstrated to be American. (OK, being fair, there are significant others ; the small European contingent might move the centre-of-spammicity off the America east coast, but the counterbalance of Chinese- and Korean- spambots would pull the centre-of-spammicity back to central or western America.
Sow ; reap later. Doesn't some god-squad bullshit talk about that? Maybe Loki is on the throne currently and is enjoying pay-back time.
Well, they just claimed the arctic ocean -- or the floor of it -- or some nonsense, a few weeks ago.
Yes. And as the map attached to TFA very clearly indicated that the locus under consideration was in the middle of the Kola peninsula. Which is what - 2500 km away. That's like getting Los Angeles confused with Mexico City (assuming that you're an American) or Tokyo and Hong Kong (for rest-of-the-worlders). You did RTFA, didn't you?
If it sounds too good to be true - it probably is.
Sanity ? On Slashdot? You'll get your license revoked!
Of course - there is always the possibility that radioactive isotopes can be filtered out from water, but each isotope
"element" really ; that's the definition of "element"
has a different chemical signature so it's not easy to find a wonder-material that catches all.
Exactly what "red-flagged" to me as well.
And that without contaminating the water with other chemicals that may be poisonous instead.
That's likely to be less of an issue. A designed material to try to do this - a range of framework silicates with high affinities for the appropriate elements, or maybe ion-exchange resins - shouldn't have much itself to leach into the environment (until you've charged it up with radioactive nastiness). On that basis, I'd work from minerals - zeolites of some sort, perhaps.
Strange place to be finding natural zeolites - in the middle of an Archean gneiss shield. Not impossible, but not where I'd have started.
If it sounds too good to be true - it probably is.
Sanity ? On Slashdot? You'll get your license revoked!
Of course - there is always the possibility that radioactive isotopes can be filtered out from water, but each isotope
"element" really ; that's the definition of "element"
has a different chemical signature so it's not easy to find a wonder-material that catches all.
Exactly what "red-flagged" to me as well.
And that without contaminating the water with other chemicals that may be poisonous instead.
That's likely to be less of an issue. A designed material to try to do this - a range of framework silicates with high affinities for the appropriate elements, or maybe ion-exchange resins - shouldn't have much itself to leach into the environment (until you've charged it up with radioactive nastiness). On that basis, I'd work from minerals - zeolites of some sort, perhaps.
Strange place to be finding natural zeolites - in the middle of an Archean gneiss shield. Not impossible, but not where I'd have started.
The article says, "After coming into contact with the mineral, radioactive water becomes completely safe." What does it mean by "radioactive water"? Is that D2O or T2O, or water that's contains other radionuclides?
Deuterium is stable, so unless you're using radioactive oxygen, D2O is stable.
1. Claim the Arctic for the Motherland. 2. Discover Magical Radiation-Absorbing Mineral there.
You missed step 1a (in your numbering):
1a. wait around a century or so for The Land of The Free and Home of The Brave to be trademarked and patented, then another couple of centuries to allow educational standards to drop in TLoTFaHoTB to fall to present levels.
(Actually, it's just possible that Russia didn't claim this region until after Ameica was established. Perhaps you'd like to check up about the purchase of Alaska from Russia by America as an indication of when Russia's arctic expansionism was active.)
...once you take land out of agricultural use, it is never used for agriculture again. By that I mean the growing of crops. Once a building is there, that's it.
I believe that it is time to put some pressure of competition on ISO
ISO stands for "International Standards Organisation".
Which part of "Standards" did you misunderstand?
You want to fork a standards organisation, which means that at some point your "standard" and the "standard" standard are going to come into conflict. And guess which one an established engineering organisation is going to go for.
In cases like this, you've really got a choice of working from within or going out into the world to promote your own metre.
"Establishment" in this context is the "establishment" in Dr Johnson's favourite word "antidisestablishmentarianistically" , which is the settling of a particular religion as being the particular religion of the state, in which religion all business of the state would be carried out (the recent founding of the Scottish Parliament was accompanied by upset over prayers being held before each session of the parliament, implying an "established" religion). Other consequences of "establishment" are that the monarch is head of the church (and hence the furore over Edward VIII wanting to marry a divorcee, which marriage wouldn't have been legal under the laws of the "established" church at that time, so he abdicated ; hence also some of the Diana-Princess-of-Whales conspiracy theories) ; that people who aren't members of the "established" religion may not be officers or members of government. Daily prayers (in the form dictated by the "established" religion) in schools and official buildings and religious instruction as a compulsory schooling subject are other aspects of "establishment". Around the time of Charlie-Prince-of-Whales-and-plant-talker-in-chief wanting to marry a divorcee, the question of disestablishment (the removal of a particular church from being established) arose again, and estimates of the requirement for parliamentary time to rescind the appropriate legislation and modify what couldn't/ shouldn't be rescinded was between one and two years with no time allowed for debate. Which is one of the major reasons for the continuing establishment of the church in the UK. It'd be quicker and easier to introduce a full-fledged constitution.
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3 megs/song suggests about 100GB/month. Which would give 0.4Mb/picture and 7.7kb/email.
Don't sound too unrealistic to me.
Still a strange use of the word "unlimited" to me though. But that's the Tweedledum-&-Tweedledee Dictionary of Advertising-Speak for you.
More importantly (for climate research) is that to get a full understanding of the behaviour of any areas local climate you need to take measurements at intervals all through the annual variation. (Probably you really need measurements through at least half of the longest cycle you think is going to affect your system - see Nyquist theorem - but since that's either 10,000 years or 60,000 years depending on which Milankovitch cycles you think are relevant to the climate changes you're studying
So, even if your UAV is capable of taking the measurements under solar power in high summer, you still need to make comparable measurements in deep winter. And in research, you reduce the systematic changes between measurements as much as possible, which in this case would mean using the same transport platform in summer and winter.
Un-disputed that there are some real brain-dead numptys working behind the counter at PC World. On the other hand, I know at least one guy who works there who can't get into the "Tech Centre", despite having run a PC-building/ fixing/ selling shop for most of the previous 5 years. The problem wasn't lack of ability, it was company policies over time spent diagnosing problems, over how much swapping of parts was allowed, and warranty agreements with manufacturers. In short, if you are building your own boxes (including at a shop) you have a lot more leeway about what you can do to the machine compared to what you can do with a machine that came out of a box from Brand-X. Brend-X have policies about what they'll consider a warranty repair, and if you (the "Tech Guy") go beyond that then PC World loses the opportunity to return the machine to their supplier. Net loss to the company of several hundred quid.
That is why they do very little at the store.
PC World are not trying to fix your computer ; they're trying to turn a profit on the computer they sold you. One major part of that is reducing to the minimum their costs (including risked costs) on the machine. Which dictates centralisation of any technical skills and risks as much as possible.
(BTW, my friend who was not suitable for the "Tech Guys" is now rapidly working his way up through the ranks at their small-business support centre. It seems that the store manager can see a way of making more money out of my friend than he'd earn as a "Tech Guy". Again, PC World are not in the business of fixing your computer, they're in the business of turning a profit.
There's a girl up the hill from here who offers a service of unclogging your vasa deferens by sucking your dick and swallowing. She charges £30 for the service. Sounds like PC World are somewhat over-priced for the market. Which is not news. You can get better prices, but you do need to hunt around. Some people value not having to hunt around quite highly.
Sounds to me like you've not got a very clear idea of the nature of PC World's business : they're not now and never have been a PC shop - they're a machine for turning cardboard boxes with "stuff" inside into profit. And if that makes them sound like any other part of Dixon's Group
What? You believed their advertising? Including the name?
In that case, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Not in any great hurry ; in theory, the opening of the Arctic Ocean could make development and/ or extraction of minerals somewhat cheaper in the immediate coastal regions. But once you're more than a few tens of miles from the coast, then you're going to find that the costs of building rail lines or pipelines (depending on if you're talking about minerals or oil) gets up to the level where it's just as cheap in the long run to go overland with rail. And that's not going to be a quick option. Then again, building port facilities isn't quick either, particularly if you've got no port to bring the building materials for building your port.
You're making an assumption here, which is that your non-adherence to the commonest ideology in your region isn't a matter of concern to the courts and does not indicate in any way your moral status. This is, of course, incorrect. By not adhering to the commonest ideology in your region you are marking yourself as someone different to the largest grouping of people, which obviously also means that you're a bad person, to be denied all civil rights.
I'll re-cycle an old Russian joke :
Q- why do the American secret police go around in threes?
A- one can read, one can write, and one is there to keep an eye on those two dangerous intellectuals.
The central thesis of physiognomy (and hence phrenology) isn't intrinsically silly, but in practice there's more signal than there is noise, so it's not a practically useful science. At the trivial level, you can say things about the character of people with gross developmental deformations of the skull and brain-case : if the brain is severely distorted or absent, then the victim is likely to have severe personality disorders up to being effectively non-sentient. Or even dead. But beyond that trivial level, there's very little practical signal in the noise of individual variations in head structure. Which is why it's a dead science.
Unless, of course, you know differently. Having just checked the Wikipedia article (I already knew most of this from sources such as Steven Jay Gould's "Mismeasure of Man"; recommended reading!), I see that some twit in America's DHS (Ministry of Truth) has fallen for it. Well, what would you expect from the spiritual home of Creationism. Don't you have pre-employment examinations for your civil servants over there? Or are they just elected, and approach the lowest common denominator?
It (the density of water) fluctuates noticeably under industrially-used pressures too. It's not as big a variation as other common variations (e.g. changes due to gas bubbles going into true solution instead of just shrinking), but the compressibility of water is something that you have to pay attention to when interpreting the results of pressure tests of anything much above 10,000 psi, so it's normally included in the interpretation of any non-trivial pressure tests.
For example, you know
- the approximate volume of your pressure vessel, and
- the pressure-volume relation for the whole system including flexible lines between pump and vessel.
So that you can calculate how much volume you expect to pump to test to $TEST-PRESSURE, you also need to correct for the compressibility of the water you use for the test.If you
Pressure testing isn't as simple as pressing your tyre gauge to the tyre valve.
The books don't go into sufficient detail ; there would have to be some active refrigeration. Which isn't (by the laws of physics) particularly implausible. They've sufficient technology to have either microscopic refrigeration coils built throughout the suit and a copmressor/ radiator unit in the back pack or belt. You'd need to make sure that the suit facing the panel is IR-reflective. Or use a directional IR emitter (which would reduce the thermal signature of the suit considerably, for camoflage). Designing more carefully, you'd need to ensure the the surface temperature of the suit sensed and maintained the temperature appropriate to incident heat in it's aspect, and use intelligent heat pumping to maintain that and skin temperature appropriately, then dump the excess heat somewhere. That would all take power (for heat pumping, sensors and computation), but there's plenty of sunlight and room for thin-form batteries.
We've probebly trampled on 4 in-development technologies for the next generation of US soldiers in Iraq.
Oh dear, what a pity, never mind.
GOOGLE-ONE : We've already booked the advertising slot on Slashdot for the announcement. Will that do?
GROUND-CONTROL : That'll do nicely, sire! And would you like a small asteroid impactor on Redmond with that, sire? We're doing a BOGOF on regional destruction at the moment - got some in from military surplus just this week.
GOOGLE-ONE : Ah, we'll pass on that. For this week."
That's exactly the process I use. Most ads I don't bother with blocking, but when something particularly annoying comes up, I AdBlock it (and anything else coming from that server). So, the problem for web-designers (or more precisely, the database designers who track the downloads of the adverts, and possibly track their actual viewing ; I distinguish between these two, but I bet the advert-sellers don't) is actually to determine which adverts are being downloaded and which ones are not even being requested, then report back to (for example) DoublClick that "your series of adverts X, Y, and Z are literally turning the viewers off ; you'd better fix them".
I neither know nor care if AdBlock sends messages back to sites to the effect "this user has specified to see no content from [insert name of blocked site here] ; this is [blocked site]'s problem, not yours ; tell them about it if you want to improve your user's experience". I seem to remember that the old Internet Junkbuster had an option to send abusive or informative content back to sites that appeared in it's black-list, so I guess it's not impossible.
I do see, but not necessarily agree with, the "morality" issues over blocking adverts ; the technical issues of feeding information about user's requests/ preferences back to the website in question would lead effectively to a "survival of the most effective" selection war amongst advertisers, which is quite fine with me.
I suppose I should now go through my AdBlock list and clear it to give the likes of DoubleClick a chance to redeem themselves. Well, maybe not DoubleClick, but everyone else. Now, is there a way I can re-configure AdBlock to allow me to keep some note about when I want to start seeing adverts from [insert advertiser's name here]? Maybe variable timeouts for each blocking which AdBlock examines on startup, and if a listing is approaching expiry to flag it some way. That'd allow a way out of the black hole for advertisers who are trying to be effective as opposed to blocked.
Ah, sod it. I'll give the fuckers a chance and clear my filters just now. I wonder how long it'll be until DoubleClick are back in there?
If not word from the horse's mouth, then at least a nod and a wink from someone working in the stables (hope you don't have too much shovelling to do >G<). Unfortunately, since this is SlashDot, then you're going to get flamed for not knowing what you're talking about.
Someone fairly high in IBM obviously saw this set of tools ; saw a major plank in MS's anti-OO.org strategy ; saw that protecting Office is probably more important to MS than protecting Windows (in the long term) ; then put 2 and 8^(1/3) together to get a nice long-lasting undermine of MS's long-term strategy. Sweeeeeet.
You're by no means alone in this, but there's nothing to be ashamed about in it. Build the scopes that you want and sell them at cost or give them away to educational institutions. Or hook up with a local astronomy club and set to on upgrading their communal pool of equipment.
The GP's advice concerning binoculars is absolutely standard (well, it is here in the UK, where sky conditions are much less than predictably good) ; the only modification I'd make is to suggest looking at a similar-sized monocular (because they're lighter) and spending the difference on a decent camera tripod and a swinging-arm type of mount. This page has instructions for making one, if a supplier can't be found locally.
If you're building an entire new hospital from scratch tomorrow, then you can try to specify equipment like this. If it exists for all desired measurements, which is a big if - someone else brings up the difficult problem of measuring and recording electrical signals from the body like EEG and ECG tests. Now, you can live without that, as long as your hospital has a good shredder for treating people who come in with nerve or heart problems. But if you do want to treat such patients then you're going to have to find a way of doing this without using sensor leads of several metres long in free air and attached to a very sensitive amplifier. A physicist would probably be able to present seven reasons why this is impossible, I just have a strong suspicion that it's impossible on the basis of experience of debugging electrical sensor problems in the real world.
Now, you've got your hospital full of equipment which is proof against today's RF-generating equipment. You're going to have to deal with three problems now - one is the car-repair shop that's just opened up across the street, whose welding equipment produces RF white-noise which still interferes with your brand-spanking new equipment. Then, once you've got them sorted out, you've got to shut down the central heating/ air conditioning plant because of the noisy brushes on one of the pumps which is also producing RF white-noise. Got that sorted? OK, because you've got another problem tomorrow, because there's a solar storm coming in.
And next year there's a new piece of EM spectrum which is going to be licensed for on-the-move HD porn transmissions to the next generation of mobile phones. Which will mean that all your elaborate precautions are irrelevant.
Signal processing problems are almost never easy. "designing the equipment right" is actually something that's already been done : the equipment has a certain level of tolerance for RF noise with certain characteristics which hopefully made sense at the time of design. But the amount (and type) of RF noise which is battering around the world is changing all the time.
BTW, in your mythical EM-safe hospital, which types of WiFi networking will you mandate, and what are you going to do when someone comes in with the wrong type?
You forgot the important characteristic cited above.
They're totally without redeeming characteristics - they don't even publish any good recipes for deep-fried brat.
Ah, sarcasm. That's just what a geographically-challenged American needs, don't you think?
Actually, the technical term seems to be "customers". Viz - while the technical machinery for carrying out these attacks may have been designed and implemented by Russians, the motivation and the money would seem to be coming form Joe.Average.Spammer. Who is well-known and well-demonstrated to be American. (OK, being fair, there are significant others ; the small European contingent might move the centre-of-spammicity off the America east coast, but the counterbalance of Chinese- and Korean- spambots would pull the centre-of-spammicity back to central or western America.
Sow ; reap later. Doesn't some god-squad bullshit talk about that? Maybe Loki is on the throne currently and is enjoying pay-back time.
Yes.
And as the map attached to TFA very clearly indicated that the locus under consideration was in the middle of the Kola peninsula. Which is what - 2500 km away. That's like getting Los Angeles confused with Mexico City (assuming that you're an American) or Tokyo and Hong Kong (for rest-of-the-worlders).
You did RTFA, didn't you?
Sanity ? On Slashdot? You'll get your license revoked!
Deuterium is stable, so unless you're using radioactive oxygen, D2O is stable.
You missed step 1a (in your numbering):
1a. wait around a century or so for The Land of The Free and Home of The Brave to be trademarked and patented, then another couple of centuries to allow educational standards to drop in TLoTFaHoTB to fall to present levels.
(Actually, it's just possible that Russia didn't claim this region until after Ameica was established. Perhaps you'd like to check up about the purchase of Alaska from Russia by America as an indication of when Russia's arctic expansionism was active.)
Including glasshouses?
ISO stands for "International Standards Organisation".
Which part of "Standards" did you misunderstand?
You want to fork a standards organisation, which means that at some point your "standard" and the "standard" standard are going to come into conflict. And guess which one an established engineering organisation is going to go for.
In cases like this, you've really got a choice of working from within or going out into the world to promote your own metre.
"Establishment" in this context is the "establishment" in Dr Johnson's favourite word "antidisestablishmentarianistically" , which is the settling of a particular religion as being the particular religion of the state, in which religion all business of the state would be carried out (the recent founding of the Scottish Parliament was accompanied by upset over prayers being held before each session of the parliament, implying an "established" religion).f wanting to marry a divorcee, the question of disestablishment (the removal of a particular church from being established) arose again, and estimates of the requirement for parliamentary time to rescind the appropriate legislation and modify what couldn't/ shouldn't be rescinded was between one and two years with no time allowed for debate. Which is one of the major reasons for the continuing establishment of the church in the UK. It'd be quicker and easier to introduce a full-fledged constitution.
Other consequences of "establishment" are that the monarch is head of the church (and hence the furore over Edward VIII wanting to marry a divorcee, which marriage wouldn't have been legal under the laws of the "established" church at that time, so he abdicated ; hence also some of the Diana-Princess-of-Whales conspiracy theories) ; that people who aren't members of the "established" religion may not be officers or members of government. Daily prayers (in the form dictated by the "established" religion) in schools and official buildings and religious instruction as a compulsory schooling subject are other aspects of "establishment".
Around the time of Charlie-Prince-of-Whales-and-plant-talker-in-chie