The dang thing was on my graduate ChE Thermo take-home final. The Alyeska Pipeline contributed to the ruination of some perfectly fine afternoons in June.
Not that I'm bitter...
Alyeska Pipeline is a very large heat pipe user
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Sandia's Smart Heat Pipe
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One of the largest applications of "heat pipes" is in the Alyeska Pipeline. The oil they're moving is hotter than the permafrost supporting the pipe. If the permafrost melts... well, we can guess what happens.
So if you look at the picture on the site, the heat pipe is actually built into the support structure of the pipe joints. The little vanes on the posts wick away heat that is absorbed from the ground. They use a substance that has a very low vapor pressure in order to capitalize on the energy released in the latent heat of vaporization and condensation of the anhydrous ammonia (caused by the cold Alaska air circling around the vanes). You can find the details of this huge heat-pipe installation on their Web site.
I dunno... it seems that/.'ers asking him these questions is an *exact* portrayal of life after Star Trek as shown in Galaxy Quest. That might explain his brevity.
Although I'll never forget CNN interviewing Bill Shatner after they thought there were "signs of life on Mars." He took the time to plug his Tek Wars books.
Indeed, if you have read through the different Folio and Quarto texts you will find a great many variations of the spellings of common words. You'll also find a great many variations of lines and scenes. Quartos are named such because the scribes would write on paper that was then folded in quaters into a book form. Folios have a similar naming origin that I can't remember off the top of my head (something like a collection of loose paper sheets).
Quarto 1 of Hamlet is many many lines / pages shorter and more visceral than what we consider Hamlet today. The Hamlet that Mel Gibson and Kenneth Brannagh put on is actually a conflation of the Quarto 1 text and the Folio. What's interesting about this is that the Q1 Hamlet is much more direct. Many famous lines are different in Q1. For example:
To be, or not to be, I there's the point, To Die, to sleepe, is that all? I all: No, to sleepe, to dreame, I mary there it goes, For in that dreame of death, when wee awake, And borne before an euerlasting Iudge, From whence no passenger euer retur'nd, The vndiscouered country, at whose sight The happy smile, and the accursed damn'd. [...]
You see it also scans as a regular iambic pentameter line. The usual first line we all think of:
To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer [...]
is 11 beats, or a feminine ending (the word "question" could be allided I guess to make it 10 beats), which is an interesting switch. See the usual version of Hamlet.
In Q1, this soliloquy also comes in much earlier in the play (plotwise, things are rearranged). This makes the Q1 Hamlet much more decisive, and only shows him wavering in his resolve for a moment in comparison to the ponderous Folio Hamlet we all know and love.
Also we misspell some of the "old letters" used in these texts. For example "ye olde shoppe" would really be "the olde shoppe" because what we take as a letter "y" is really something called a "thorn" and represented the "th" combination.
What's interesting about these texts to which I refer is that they were almost unilaterally NOT written by Shakespeare. Some were written from the cue scripts he wrote (or had written), some were written from people who remembered seeing the shows, and some were altered by the actors like Burbage. Anaphoratic constructions in Hamlet are often attributed to Burbage (I think). He liked to repeat what he considered powerful lines, over and over and over (3x). These appear mostly in the Folio version.
Take some time one day and pull out a Variorum edition of your favorite play and start reading the footnotes. You'll see scholars bickering about what's "more correct" etc. It's pretty fascinating.
Whenever I'm not turning up the results I'm looking for on a search engine, I start trying spelling variations. If I were looking for:
independent consultants
I would try: independant consultants independent consultents independant consultents etc.
Or statistical modeling, and statistical modelling (both modeling spellings are OK actually).
Especially on eBay, newsgroups, or when looking for obscure home-grown sites.
Anyone else try this? When will Google automagically try these permutations for me? It already corrects some search terms for me (sometimes incorrectly, like Word).
I have tried other ad blockers, not all of them, but a few of them and I think Guidescope is still the best. It doesn't block pop-ups, but it does block the content and the cookies.
It's nice because it is "community based" in that when you find an ad that it doesn't block, you click a checkbox and it will then block the ad for you, and everyone else. It also has point and click cookie management.
You can also review which sites have asked for cookies and ads in the last 15 minutes and choose which ones will be allowed.
This is the fruits of the JunkBuster proxy. I don't know if they are still developing GuideScope, but it still works very well.
Visit GuideScope to get it.
On Windows at least, it occupies less RAM than most other blockers. It also seems to be more accurate.
They are releasing the source to it once it hits v1.0.
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The dang thing was on my graduate ChE Thermo take-home final. The Alyeska Pipeline contributed to the ruination of some perfectly fine afternoons in June.
Not that I'm bitter...
One of the largest applications of "heat pipes" is in the Alyeska Pipeline. The oil they're moving is hotter than the permafrost supporting the pipe. If the permafrost melts... well, we can guess what happens.
So if you look at the picture on the site, the heat pipe is actually built into the support structure of the pipe joints. The little vanes on the posts wick away heat that is absorbed from the ground. They use a substance that has a very low vapor pressure in order to capitalize on the energy released in the latent heat of vaporization and condensation of the anhydrous ammonia (caused by the cold Alaska air circling around the vanes). You can find the details of this huge heat-pipe installation on their Web site.
Pretty cool (literally)!
TTFN
I dunno... it seems that /.'ers asking him these questions is an *exact* portrayal of life after Star Trek as shown in Galaxy Quest. That might explain his brevity.
Although I'll never forget CNN interviewing Bill Shatner after they thought there were "signs of life on Mars." He took the time to plug his Tek Wars books.
How cosmic!
TTFN
I guess we'll see the powerful "Happy Cows from California" lobby get calfs.us, and maybe Elmer's Glue will get foals.us.
Animal rights my hoof. I didn't even know baby goats could use a mouse!
Yeah, I know. It's pretty funny!
I thought it was bad enough in usenet doing:
IMHO
AFAIK
TIA
OTOH
etc.
It never crept into my papers though, and I often found myself writing OTOH (on the other hand) to people so they'd get what I was saying...
TTFN...
Indeed, if you have read through the different Folio and Quarto texts you will find a great many variations of the spellings of common words. You'll also find a great many variations of lines and scenes. Quartos are named such because the scribes would write on paper that was then folded in quaters into a book form. Folios have a similar naming origin that I can't remember off the top of my head (something like a collection of loose paper sheets).
Quarto 1 of Hamlet is many many lines / pages shorter and more visceral than what we consider Hamlet today. The Hamlet that Mel Gibson and Kenneth Brannagh put on is actually a conflation of the Quarto 1 text and the Folio. What's interesting about this is that the Q1 Hamlet is much more direct. Many famous lines are different in Q1. For example:
To be, or not to be, I there's the point,
To Die, to sleepe, is that all? I all:
No, to sleepe, to dreame, I mary there it goes,
For in that dreame of death, when wee awake,
And borne before an euerlasting Iudge,
From whence no passenger euer retur'nd,
The vndiscouered country, at whose sight
The happy smile, and the accursed damn'd.
[...]
Recognize that one? Read more of it here: Quarto 1 of Hamlet.
You see it also scans as a regular iambic pentameter line. The usual first line we all think of:
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer [...]
is 11 beats, or a feminine ending (the word "question" could be allided I guess to make it 10 beats), which is an interesting switch.
See the usual version of Hamlet.
In Q1, this soliloquy also comes in much earlier in the play (plotwise, things are rearranged). This makes the Q1 Hamlet much more decisive, and only shows him wavering in his resolve for a moment in comparison to the ponderous Folio Hamlet we all know and love.
Also we misspell some of the "old letters" used in these texts. For example "ye olde shoppe" would really be "the olde shoppe" because what we take as a letter "y" is really something called a "thorn" and represented the "th" combination.
What's interesting about these texts to which I refer is that they were almost unilaterally NOT written by Shakespeare. Some were written from the cue scripts he wrote (or had written), some were written from people who remembered seeing the shows, and some were altered by the actors like Burbage. Anaphoratic constructions in Hamlet are often attributed to Burbage (I think). He liked to repeat what he considered powerful lines, over and over and over (3x). These appear mostly in the Folio version.
Take some time one day and pull out a Variorum edition of your favorite play and start reading the footnotes. You'll see scholars bickering about what's "more correct" etc. It's pretty fascinating.
TTFN...
Whenever I'm not turning up the results I'm looking for on a search engine, I start trying spelling variations. If I were looking for:
independent consultants
I would try:
independant consultants
independent consultents
independant consultents
etc.
Or statistical modeling, and statistical modelling (both modeling spellings are OK actually).
Especially on eBay, newsgroups, or when looking for obscure home-grown sites.
Anyone else try this? When will Google automagically try these permutations for me? It already corrects some search terms for me (sometimes incorrectly, like Word).
TTFN...
I have tried other ad blockers, not all of them, but a few of them and I think Guidescope is still the best. It doesn't block pop-ups, but it does block the content and the cookies.
It's nice because it is "community based" in that when you find an ad that it doesn't block, you click a checkbox and it will then block the ad for you, and everyone else. It also has point and click cookie management.
You can also review which sites have asked for cookies and ads in the last 15 minutes and choose which ones will be allowed.
This is the fruits of the JunkBuster proxy. I don't know if they are still developing GuideScope, but it still works very well.
Visit GuideScope to get it.
On Windows at least, it occupies less RAM than most other blockers. It also seems to be more accurate.
They are releasing the source to it once it hits v1.0.
It has versions for a few different systems.
TTFN
Gregg
How about:
.... Put it in 'H'!"
Crazy Vaclav: "She'll go three hundred hectares on a single tank of kerosene!"
Homer: "What country is this car from?"
Crazy Vaclav: "Ah, it no longer exists, but take her for a test drive and you'll agree -- zagreber dimslotik diev!
Just goes to show, there is ALWAYS an appropriate Simpsons quote for any occasion.
TTFN
It looks like if you did #1, you'd have a lot of #2 anyway...