That 1GW transmission line will transfer the equivalent of 71 truckloads of energy in 24h. (assuming 10k gal per truck, gasoline). Obviously the fleet of trucks to do that will have high maintenance costs, costs to man them, etc. Fuel oil would be a little bit more efficient, it's more energy dense.
That's just the raw energy of the gasoline, if you want it to become electricity at the destination, you'd still need to burn more than double that. (good oil fired gets maybe 45% efficiency), more if it's a smaller less efficient plant... so make it 150+ trucks a day, and an additional generating station.
I can't see light in an old system being much slower, light is light right. If the fiber is fatter I guess it bounces more, taking a longer path.
Data speed has of course improved, though, but that isn't strictly related. (speed of light affects the latency across the cable, whereas the data speed is all about modulation of the light).
So light is 300,000km/s, I think they usually say speed in fiber is about 2/3rds.. so 200,000km/s... passing through 5km of cable in 25uS... which is fast, but ages in modern clock cycle terms. (A 3GHz CPU would blow through 75000 cycles in that time).
I keep hearing this line... but the US govn't has been rotten to the core for ages, and I still see no uprising.
When is this 'refreshing the tree of liberty' thing going to happen? Never?
They don't seem to be terribly afraid of your pea-shooters, either... letting people have guns is apparently less of a threat to power than losing votes due to further restricting them. They get to run roughshod over all the other rights, as long as folks are satisfied with having their arms.
You'll be fine. Just don't develop for OpenBSD until you've developed a thick skin... or ever.
I've helped out on a few different projects, things tend to be fairly civil for the most part. Stupid questions with no effort invested do tend to get fitting answers, show some effort and people are generally nice and helpful.
Often the later direction of a project leads to conflict though. Like all things in life...
This is why I have a Nexus 4 for 'mobile computing', and a circa 2008 Nokia for... using as a phone.
Close to a week of battery life on a single charge is what it's all about, along with legendary call quality, range, etc.
Whenever we need a phone, my girlfriend's S3 is *always* dead, near dead, or charging. The nokia is ready for action. Shame they don't make them anymore.
When we go camping for a long weekend, I don't even need to worry about bringing a charger for the Nokia!
Electromechanical typewriters, like the IBM selectric, have no solenoids. They are powered by an electric motor that drives a couple shafts with cams and clutches. The keys are hand powered, and engage the clutches / hit cams/ something along these lines, which in turn rotate and smack the type ball.
You could replace the motor with a gerbil or something, and it would be entirely mechanical.
I can't say I've ever seen a (c) on a Russian chip, ever.
Usually just a part number, date code, and almost always the manufacturer's symbol.
But all that is neither here nor there. Mechanical, and electromechanical typewriters... have no chips. Any chip would be out of place, russian made or not.
You could use standard SPI interfaced EEPROMs, they're generally rated >100 years longevity, 100k or more write/erase cycles.
Mind you they are fairly small, but certainly big enough to store account info, or keys, things like this. in DIP they only seem to come up to 1Mb (128kB), but SMT ones come in 64mbit (8MB).
Definitely an option for storing something like keys, etc, for long term, if you're a little handy with hardware (or if someone has made a handy EEPROM + USB-SPI adaptor on a stick).
There's a gazillion USB/SPI interfaces out there, the chips should work with any of them, pretty much... or you could use some computer with it in hardware - raspberry pi, beagle bone, etc.
Sometimes you need a thermoset, for heat tolerance. (generally phenol resins, like bakelite, excel here). Pretty common in cooking pot handles / barbeque handles, some automotive parts, etc.
They are one shot, they don't melt, but generally decompose into toxic stink, if you do get them hot enough. polyester resins and epoxies (like in fibreglass) are like this too.
Though for lower temperature stuff, nylon seems to be more popular now, and it is recyclable ( melts at ~200C, I think).
Hardness isn't really the right word you're using. For example polystyrene (as in CD cases, etc), polycarbonate (lexan) (the CDs themselves, safety glasses), and plexiglas/lucite/acyrlic (PMMA) are all quite hard/brittle, but melt fine, being thermoplastics.
First nations, aboriginals, natives, indians, etc, are all used in Canada.
Indian is in decline in official governmental things, but there is still department of indian affairs, and other legal bits under that name. Plenty of organisations use it as well, although I suppose that could be due to age, like NAACP.
Inuit are aboriginal, but not indian. (they'd be called eskimos in the US, but that term is deprecated in canada, for some reason or other).
It would take a large amount of space and organizing, but the carving itself should go quick, being automated with CNC... laser cutting I suppose, or abrasion.
Although there is surely something better than stone. Maybe thin stainless steel sheet would last reasonably well..?
Nah, the 10 millionth was the original design, as far as I understand it. There was a debate between that, or the length of a pendulum that has a one second stroke (which are pretty close, but pendulum varies with altitude).
It was later redefined to be equal to the distance light travels in 1/c of a second.
The computers could see through the fog, they aren't limited to human vision.
I see no reason why it wouldn't work on snow, gravel, wet, etc. It has feedback as to when traction is low and can respond accordingly. Due to this fine feedback and control, it can ride the line of traction much better than humans can, since our feedback is pretty coarse in comparison. So it should be able to go *faster* in poor conditions, as it needs less room for error.
Hmm, but American TV was already standardized to NTSC by 1940? or so... and had probably been electronic for at least 5 years before that, but not standardized yet.
From the mid 30's to the period through the war, there was massive progress in tube development. Miniaturization, cost reduction, and increased reliability, as well as multiple "tubes" in a single envelope (tube), more rugged, etc... at lower cost, too.
A sort of generic low power, decent gain triode, went from being something that was in a 1-3/4 x 6" bottle, to fitting two of them in a 1-1/8 x 3" bottle by the late 30s, to fitting two of them in a 5/8 x 1.5" bottle by the very early 40s... (though most miniature tubes weren't used in consumer equipment until after the war, total war and all that).
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That 1GW transmission line will transfer the equivalent of 71 truckloads of energy in 24h. (assuming 10k gal per truck, gasoline). Obviously the fleet of trucks to do that will have high maintenance costs, costs to man them, etc. Fuel oil would be a little bit more efficient, it's more energy dense.
That's just the raw energy of the gasoline, if you want it to become electricity at the destination, you'd still need to burn more than double that. (good oil fired gets maybe 45% efficiency), more if it's a smaller less efficient plant... so make it 150+ trucks a day, and an additional generating station.
I can't see light in an old system being much slower, light is light right. If the fiber is fatter I guess it bounces more, taking a longer path.
Data speed has of course improved, though, but that isn't strictly related. (speed of light affects the latency across the cable, whereas the data speed is all about modulation of the light).
So light is 300,000km/s, I think they usually say speed in fiber is about 2/3rds.. so 200,000km/s... passing through 5km of cable in 25uS... which is fast, but ages in modern clock cycle terms. (A 3GHz CPU would blow through 75000 cycles in that time).
The victim was a guy, for what it's worth.
I keep hearing this line... but the US govn't has been rotten to the core for ages, and I still see no uprising.
When is this 'refreshing the tree of liberty' thing going to happen? Never?
They don't seem to be terribly afraid of your pea-shooters, either... letting people have guns is apparently less of a threat to power than losing votes due to further restricting them. They get to run roughshod over all the other rights, as long as folks are satisfied with having their arms.
Yep. 90% of the 'hacks' are terrible, most of the write-ups are terrible, and 95% of the comments are clueless or trolling.
Still some interesting things on occasion, though.
You'll be fine. Just don't develop for OpenBSD until you've developed a thick skin... or ever.
I've helped out on a few different projects, things tend to be fairly civil for the most part. Stupid questions with no effort invested do tend to get fitting answers, show some effort and people are generally nice and helpful.
Often the later direction of a project leads to conflict though. Like all things in life...
And here I was, thinking Bayan.
Modem is a sort of 'syllabic abbreviation'. There aren't too many in english outside of the army/spooks (COINTELPRO for one, to be sort of on topic).
They're more popular in German, Russian, etc. Gestapo, Stasi, vopo, komsomol, spetsnaz, gazprom, etc
I kind of like them because you can infer slightly more of what the thing is/does than through an acronym.
Yep..
This is why I have a Nexus 4 for 'mobile computing', and a circa 2008 Nokia for... using as a phone.
Close to a week of battery life on a single charge is what it's all about, along with legendary call quality, range, etc.
Whenever we need a phone, my girlfriend's S3 is *always* dead, near dead, or charging. The nokia is ready for action. Shame they don't make them anymore.
When we go camping for a long weekend, I don't even need to worry about bringing a charger for the Nokia!
Electromechanical typewriters, like the IBM selectric, have no solenoids. They are powered by an electric motor that drives a couple shafts with cams and clutches. The keys are hand powered, and engage the clutches / hit cams/ something along these lines, which in turn rotate and smack the type ball.
You could replace the motor with a gerbil or something, and it would be entirely mechanical.
I can't say I've ever seen a (c) on a Russian chip, ever.
Usually just a part number, date code, and almost always the manufacturer's symbol.
But all that is neither here nor there. Mechanical, and electromechanical typewriters... have no chips. Any chip would be out of place, russian made or not.
Cards are banned too.
So, the idea is sound. They just need to revise the limit down to 5 hours a week.
You could use standard SPI interfaced EEPROMs, they're generally rated >100 years longevity, 100k or more write/erase cycles.
Mind you they are fairly small, but certainly big enough to store account info, or keys, things like this. in DIP they only seem to come up to 1Mb (128kB), but SMT ones come in 64mbit (8MB).
Definitely an option for storing something like keys, etc, for long term, if you're a little handy with hardware (or if someone has made a handy EEPROM + USB-SPI adaptor on a stick).
There's a gazillion USB/SPI interfaces out there, the chips should work with any of them, pretty much... or you could use some computer with it in hardware - raspberry pi, beagle bone, etc.
Sometimes you need a thermoset, for heat tolerance. (generally phenol resins, like bakelite, excel here). Pretty common in cooking pot handles / barbeque handles, some automotive parts, etc.
They are one shot, they don't melt, but generally decompose into toxic stink, if you do get them hot enough. polyester resins and epoxies (like in fibreglass) are like this too.
Though for lower temperature stuff, nylon seems to be more popular now, and it is recyclable ( melts at ~200C, I think).
Hardness isn't really the right word you're using. For example polystyrene (as in CD cases, etc), polycarbonate (lexan) (the CDs themselves, safety glasses), and plexiglas/lucite/acyrlic (PMMA) are all quite hard/brittle, but melt fine, being thermoplastics.
Even with scrubbers, coal fired things are still pretty belchy.
Smelters are a lot cleaner than they used to be, but they still put out a lot of filth.
There's a big nickel smelter in Sudbury, Ontario:
Inco alone accounts for 20% of all of the arsenic emitted in North America, 13% of the lead and 30% of the nickel.
(This is after upgrades - they mostly reduced SO2 and NOx as I understand it... less acid rain now, at least).
In 1998, Inco emitted 146.7 metric tons of lead
Don't want your kids to eat the dirt if they live around there...
Acid rain had made the whole place barren by the 50's, so they built the tallest smokestack in the western hemishpere (1250 feet!) to disperse it over a larger area, in the 80's.
First nations, aboriginals, natives, indians, etc, are all used in Canada.
Indian is in decline in official governmental things, but there is still department of indian affairs, and other legal bits under that name. Plenty of organisations use it as well, although I suppose that could be due to age, like NAACP.
Inuit are aboriginal, but not indian. (they'd be called eskimos in the US, but that term is deprecated in canada, for some reason or other).
It would take a large amount of space and organizing, but the carving itself should go quick, being automated with CNC... laser cutting I suppose, or abrasion.
Although there is surely something better than stone. Maybe thin stainless steel sheet would last reasonably well..?
The American worker will always be 'priced out of the global labor market', unless you want to work for a dollar a day.
Luckily there are tools to correct for this, like tariffs. We just don't use them properly because business owns the govn't.
Buffer space, so the panels don't get damaged from stray bullets.
Soviets sent probes to mars and venus 40+ years ago.
Triple square gives more torque than torx. nothing wrong with it.
Pro tip for all the people here that seem to be unable to not strip socket cap screws - make sure the head is clean so you can fully seat the tool.
Nah, the 10 millionth was the original design, as far as I understand it. There was a debate between that, or the length of a pendulum that has a one second stroke (which are pretty close, but pendulum varies with altitude).
It was later redefined to be equal to the distance light travels in 1/c of a second.
The computers could see through the fog, they aren't limited to human vision.
I see no reason why it wouldn't work on snow, gravel, wet, etc. It has feedback as to when traction is low and can respond accordingly. Due to this fine feedback and control, it can ride the line of traction much better than humans can, since our feedback is pretty coarse in comparison. So it should be able to go *faster* in poor conditions, as it needs less room for error.
Hmm, but American TV was already standardized to NTSC by 1940? or so... and had probably been electronic for at least 5 years before that, but not standardized yet.
From the mid 30's to the period through the war, there was massive progress in tube development. Miniaturization, cost reduction, and increased reliability, as well as multiple "tubes" in a single envelope (tube), more rugged, etc... at lower cost, too.
A sort of generic low power, decent gain triode, went from being something that was in a 1-3/4 x 6" bottle, to fitting two of them in a 1-1/8 x 3" bottle by the late 30s, to fitting two of them in a 5/8 x 1.5" bottle by the very early 40s... (though most miniature tubes weren't used in consumer equipment until after the war, total war and all that).