This has been around for a while (at least 3 weeks) and so far the ONLY Android phones it supports are on Verizon. If you access their page with anything else they tell you to get a Verizon phone.
If they are setting off earthquakes they would be releasing tension which would have only amounted to a larger earthquake at a later date.
Yes some energy will be dissipated in the process of fracturing the rock but it breaks the equilibrium and creates a new stress point elsewhere which could trigger the "main" fault (discovered or not).
Besides, if you want Congress to (e.g.) redesign the health care system, do you think they would actually do a better job if doctors, hospitals, and drug companies weren't consulted at all? I don't. I think they'd end up with legislation that was even more clueless. Just because lobbyists are arguing for a particular group doesn't mean they're always wrong.
No I don't expect them to write it themselves because as you noted they do not have the expertise in the subject to come up with anything that makes sense. However I do expect them to consult with well known experts in the field being legislated and develop something with them. This does not include a lobbyist at all because all you get with them is a mish mash of opposing ideas from both sides that get pushed into the same bill and do nothing but muddle the works. Just like when they are reviewing a new net neutrality law, who do we want providing guidance? We don't want the big corporations overwhelming everybody because they can afford to. We want people from the field the everyday foot soldiers like you and me providing the guidance. Why? Because we know what the reality is and what is possible without respect to what is best for Mr. CEO's purse.
You can also check out MAKE Magazine for BYO projects. I also highly recommend going to one of the Make Faires if you can. I just went to one in September and it was amazing to see all the people and projects there.
I attended the Make Faire in NYC last weekend and there was a dune buggy that was turbine powered on display. It was basically a stock frame where he had removed the engine and drive train. The engine was replaced with a small turbine from a military power generator and in this particular case he used a PTO to go to a hydraulic pump and the 4 wheels were hydraulically driven. The thing was pretty sweet and was definitely something a good mechanical person could build at home. Glad to see a major manufacturer going the same route and doing it up as electric instead. This is the way to go in the future, more power, more efficient.
As a firefighter as well, I totally agree with you that there are significant challenges associated with extrication from hybrid vehicles. But most of them can be mitigated with the right training and resources. Check out some of the stuff published by Holmatro, they have tech sheets with locations of cables and sensors etc. and at least in my area they offer training courses where we can spend a night reviewing the locations and techniques on actual cars. The cables shouldn't move too far from the original locations in a crash.
Also agreed about the difference in speed. But what really scares me about these cars is the turbine. Most of the time the engine is no longer running when we show up but a turbine could still be spinning at a high rate of speed and securing the battery could get a whole lot more interesting. Not to mention what happens if the turbine fractures and exits the housing.
You know how to create more land where people need that land to be? I have not seen many cities that have large amounts of land available to build on.
Yup as a matter of fact I do know how to create more land. Check out what they have done in Japan with Kansai airport as an example or Mexico City as another. Additionally there are numerous ways to develop vertically instead of horizontally (Burj Khalifa). The only things that stop most cities from expanding is restrictive zoning and cost. If you can dream it and then pay for it, you can build anything anywhere.
Also the cost of homes/apartments near their work is often out of their affordability range. They have to live further away. Whether or not public transportation is available is another matter.
This is a common problem with new developments, the builders want to minimize the return period for their investment. What is the easiest way to do that? Sell the structures for a boat load of money. In the event that they are not being sold but are rented, a high cost would indicate a greater demand for housing in that area and a lack of supply. The supply could be due to poor planning or restrictive zoning. One of the most common methods to combat this problem is to through the permitting and zoning process require that a portion of the units be sold as affordable housing. There are numerous cases across the country you can reference including several recently in NYC and Chicago. You are correct about the public transportation being a problem but any sufficiently large city worth a damn has at least a bus system (notable exception of Venice due to the canals).
There in lies the problem my anonymous counterpart, they are lawyers. They have an understanding of the law and the judicial process. In no way whatsoever does that alone qualify them to make decisions on what is better for the majority of the population. They have interests to protect and loyalties to pay for just the same as anybody else. When was the last time you saw a congresscritter actually put something in legislation that was good for the many and not the few, wasn't sneaked into something completely unrelated, and displayed that they have an understanding of the rights of the people and that they are working to strengthen those rights?
Wake me when the legislature actually checks executive power instead of enabling it. Wake me when the USA Patriot Act is repealed. Wake me when ALL PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF RACE, RELIGION, SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS have the same rights. Lastly wake me when an individual has more rights than a corporation again.
That's not true... I'm constantly at war with myself.
Fighting with yourself and beating yourself up about something is definitely not the same as beating yourself off about something. Be careful to separate the actions.
But this doesn't work so well for news or sports, which are worth much less if they are not live
Not having cable doesn't mean a thing when you can have cable and still not get your local sports broadcast because the rights are owned by a rival company. Comcast owns the rights to both the NBA and NHL team in Philadelphia and you can't watch either during the regular season (normally) without having Comcast. [diety] help you if you have FIOS and are a Flyers or Sixers fan.
Well, the site's EXAMPLE failed on my box. That's NoScript at work. If you use BetterPrivacy (another FF extension), it removes the LSO at browser shutdown.
So NoScript blocks this?
It also says on the page that clearing the LSO will no matter so I don't think that BetterPrivacy will help with this.
If recycling pays, as the slogan claims, you would expect some trickle back to the consumer. You would expect some waste-bill reduction. Instead we see punitive measures designed to enforce feel good regulations.
It doesn't pay, its almost always tax payer funded, and the separation process could be automated at dump sites for less money than duplicate pickup runs and enforcement actions.
If ever anything needed a good coat of technology this is it.
Well there is a trickle back to the consumer, just not directly (i.e. no bill reduction or rebate). That rebate prevents the tax rate levied for sanitation from increasing absurdly every year or so. Imagine if every year your taxes went up 5% or more because of wage increases due to the folks who regardless of weather are out there collecting the waste. (I understand that a lot of areas are considering tax increases to compensate for lost revenue due to the economic situation but I can assure you that it could be worse.) I do have to give you a "yeah well duh" for this nonsense about it being tax payer funded. You really have three options, 1 pay now to the local govt and let them pick it up and deal with it (easiest solution), 2 pay a private company to come pick up your trash instead (most expensive), or 3 drive it to the landfill yourself (you can pay directly and enjoy spending your day in line or on the road (ex. NYC garbage goes to Virginia), oh don't want to drive well, have fun living with the stink). All three options require you to spend money no matter what, there is no freebie to be had here.
As far as automating the process, this is exceedingly difficult. They try to automate it as much as possible because after all who wants to be sorting through trash all day anyway. The different kinds of plastics are hard to separate as it is yet alone with tons more trash to accompany it. It is usually separated by density with water and this would not be possible with regular MSW (for starters, it's in a bag). The extra trash would also contaminate the products making them much less appealing or impossible to use for the recycling business as well. A second run is usually the most efficient way to accomplish the collection without creating more work (money spent on manpower/man-hours).
A high speed rail network should be targeting air travel. There are many short haul air routes (e.g. New York to Washington) where high speed rail could provide an comparable door-to-door journey time (especially once you take check-in, security and all the other things into account). High speed rail has none of the big downsides of air travel like the need to get to the airport 2 hours before the flight to check in, the need to pass through 3 layers of security, bans on liquids and other things, cramped seats etc.
Now obviously trains cant compete with long-haul air travel such as New York to LA but for short haul, it could really work. (but only if its given proper high speed track and doesn't have to share that track with slow freight trains)
I absolutely agree with you, the NE corridor (DC to Boston) should be the perfect place to run high speed trains with several big cities over a fair distance. But when you start to factor in the logistics of it things don't look so good. Firstly, you would need to buy a whole new right of way and construct a track that has much larger radius turns than what is currently available (Sharing the track with freight is only part of why Amtrak Acela only tops out around 130mph, the rest is due to alignment). The land purchase alone would be astronomical because you are talking about the densely packed NE. Secondly, you need to choose your station locations, say DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, NYC, New Haven, and Boston (I think this is the route now actually). While these are the most important stops, they are not very far apart, so your proposed train needs to have tremendous acceleration and deceleration bordering on the uncomfortable otherwise the train will barely hit top speed before it needs to start slowing down again (How long does it take to go 80 miles at 200mph or more? Take off 10miles on each end or acceleration/deceleration and it's even less).
The NIMBYs are not peculiar to California. Indeed, the aforementioned tactics and their assorted variations work just as well in many other states.
Case in point, the Cape Wind project off of Cape Cod has been delayed time and again because of the NIMBY movement. They don't want something that will appear to be about 50mm or less tall on the horizon "spoiling" their views. Oh and lets add Yucca Mtn. storage area and pretty much and nuclear plant to the list as well.
NIMBY - Keeping us safe from progress since the dawn of time
There is no mention of methods to attach the GOLD to the satellite while in orbit. Short of having individuals approach and grapple the satellites I only see a few ways to attach the balloon. Currently I'm picturing something like a harpoon gun that could fire a spike bundled to a small CO2 cylinder and the balloon. On impact the spike embeds in the satellite and the cylinder discharges inflating the balloon. The operation could be completed with one person (for target identification and fire control) and computerized target tracking; and it could take down multiple targets in one mission to be more cost effective.
Back in the 60's there was an advertising campaign by scientists working on the behalf of government to target heat loss in elderly people's properties. It encouraged old people to "keep the heat in". It didn't go down well and it took them years to discover why. Eventually it was changed to "keep the cold out" and more elderly people understood that. "Cold" doesn't actually exist, it's just the absence of heat, but old people didn't think that way as easily (and who can blame them? "Shut the door, you're letting the cold in" is a common cry in my family - despite the fact that you're neither letting cold in nor arranging for some mystical "cold" entity to enter your property rather than, say, air with slightly less heat).
*Emphasis mine*
So I have to ask where geographically that was. Chalk it up to nothing but curiosity, but it is the exact opposite of what I heard growing up in the northeast "Close the door, you're letting all the heat out. I'm not paying to heat the backyard".
Slashdot Mirror
I just want to be the first to say "Ow my sperm!"
Now try to read that without it sounding like Fry from Futurama in your head.
This has been around for a while (at least 3 weeks) and so far the ONLY Android phones it supports are on Verizon. If you access their page with anything else they tell you to get a Verizon phone.
If they are setting off earthquakes they would be releasing tension which would have only amounted to a larger earthquake at a later date.
Yes some energy will be dissipated in the process of fracturing the rock but it breaks the equilibrium and creates a new stress point elsewhere which could trigger the "main" fault (discovered or not).
Besides, if you want Congress to (e.g.) redesign the health care system, do you think they would actually do a better job if doctors, hospitals, and drug companies weren't consulted at all? I don't. I think they'd end up with legislation that was even more clueless. Just because lobbyists are arguing for a particular group doesn't mean they're always wrong.
No I don't expect them to write it themselves because as you noted they do not have the expertise in the subject to come up with anything that makes sense. However I do expect them to consult with well known experts in the field being legislated and develop something with them. This does not include a lobbyist at all because all you get with them is a mish mash of opposing ideas from both sides that get pushed into the same bill and do nothing but muddle the works. Just like when they are reviewing a new net neutrality law, who do we want providing guidance? We don't want the big corporations overwhelming everybody because they can afford to. We want people from the field the everyday foot soldiers like you and me providing the guidance. Why? Because we know what the reality is and what is possible without respect to what is best for Mr. CEO's purse.
You can also check out MAKE Magazine for BYO projects. I also highly recommend going to one of the Make Faires if you can. I just went to one in September and it was amazing to see all the people and projects there.
"c)You didn't repeat the word "website" 3 times in one sentence."
It's a word. Was it used correctly? If so, it's fine.
You mean like this?
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
I attended the Make Faire in NYC last weekend and there was a dune buggy that was turbine powered on display. It was basically a stock frame where he had removed the engine and drive train. The engine was replaced with a small turbine from a military power generator and in this particular case he used a PTO to go to a hydraulic pump and the 4 wheels were hydraulically driven. The thing was pretty sweet and was definitely something a good mechanical person could build at home. Glad to see a major manufacturer going the same route and doing it up as electric instead. This is the way to go in the future, more power, more efficient.
As a firefighter as well, I totally agree with you that there are significant challenges associated with extrication from hybrid vehicles. But most of them can be mitigated with the right training and resources. Check out some of the stuff published by Holmatro, they have tech sheets with locations of cables and sensors etc. and at least in my area they offer training courses where we can spend a night reviewing the locations and techniques on actual cars. The cables shouldn't move too far from the original locations in a crash.
Also agreed about the difference in speed. But what really scares me about these cars is the turbine. Most of the time the engine is no longer running when we show up but a turbine could still be spinning at a high rate of speed and securing the battery could get a whole lot more interesting. Not to mention what happens if the turbine fractures and exits the housing.
You know how to create more land where people need that land to be? I have not seen many cities that have large amounts of land available to build on.
Yup as a matter of fact I do know how to create more land. Check out what they have done in Japan with Kansai airport as an example or Mexico City as another. Additionally there are numerous ways to develop vertically instead of horizontally (Burj Khalifa). The only things that stop most cities from expanding is restrictive zoning and cost. If you can dream it and then pay for it, you can build anything anywhere.
Also the cost of homes/apartments near their work is often out of their affordability range. They have to live further away. Whether or not public transportation is available is another matter.
This is a common problem with new developments, the builders want to minimize the return period for their investment. What is the easiest way to do that? Sell the structures for a boat load of money. In the event that they are not being sold but are rented, a high cost would indicate a greater demand for housing in that area and a lack of supply. The supply could be due to poor planning or restrictive zoning. One of the most common methods to combat this problem is to through the permitting and zoning process require that a portion of the units be sold as affordable housing. There are numerous cases across the country you can reference including several recently in NYC and Chicago. You are correct about the public transportation being a problem but any sufficiently large city worth a damn has at least a bus system (notable exception of Venice due to the canals).
Wow. Must have been a hefty ordeal for them to go through.
And that just about saran wraps it up for the bag jokes
There in lies the problem my anonymous counterpart, they are lawyers. They have an understanding of the law and the judicial process. In no way whatsoever does that alone qualify them to make decisions on what is better for the majority of the population. They have interests to protect and loyalties to pay for just the same as anybody else. When was the last time you saw a congresscritter actually put something in legislation that was good for the many and not the few, wasn't sneaked into something completely unrelated, and displayed that they have an understanding of the rights of the people and that they are working to strengthen those rights?
Wake me when the legislature actually checks executive power instead of enabling it. Wake me when the USA Patriot Act is repealed. Wake me when ALL PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF RACE, RELIGION, SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS have the same rights. Lastly wake me when an individual has more rights than a corporation again.
That's not true... I'm constantly at war with myself.
Fighting with yourself and beating yourself up about something is definitely not the same as beating yourself off about something. Be careful to separate the actions.
But this doesn't work so well for news or sports, which are worth much less if they are not live
Not having cable doesn't mean a thing when you can have cable and still not get your local sports broadcast because the rights are owned by a rival company. Comcast owns the rights to both the NBA and NHL team in Philadelphia and you can't watch either during the regular season (normally) without having Comcast. [diety] help you if you have FIOS and are a Flyers or Sixers fan.
*Bender shines the F-Ray on Fry*
Fry: "Ow my sperm!"
Well, the site's EXAMPLE failed on my box. That's NoScript at work. If you use BetterPrivacy (another FF extension), it removes the LSO at browser shutdown.
So NoScript blocks this? It also says on the page that clearing the LSO will no matter so I don't think that BetterPrivacy will help with this.
It's made from tears and broken dreams.
Stripper Gin? I thought I noticed a distinct hint of desperation.
If recycling pays, as the slogan claims, you would expect some trickle back to the consumer. You would expect some waste-bill reduction. Instead we see punitive measures designed to enforce feel good regulations.
It doesn't pay, its almost always tax payer funded, and the separation process could be automated at dump sites for less money than duplicate pickup runs and enforcement actions.
If ever anything needed a good coat of technology this is it.
Well there is a trickle back to the consumer, just not directly (i.e. no bill reduction or rebate). That rebate prevents the tax rate levied for sanitation from increasing absurdly every year or so. Imagine if every year your taxes went up 5% or more because of wage increases due to the folks who regardless of weather are out there collecting the waste. (I understand that a lot of areas are considering tax increases to compensate for lost revenue due to the economic situation but I can assure you that it could be worse.) I do have to give you a "yeah well duh" for this nonsense about it being tax payer funded. You really have three options, 1 pay now to the local govt and let them pick it up and deal with it (easiest solution), 2 pay a private company to come pick up your trash instead (most expensive), or 3 drive it to the landfill yourself (you can pay directly and enjoy spending your day in line or on the road (ex. NYC garbage goes to Virginia), oh don't want to drive well, have fun living with the stink). All three options require you to spend money no matter what, there is no freebie to be had here.
As far as automating the process, this is exceedingly difficult. They try to automate it as much as possible because after all who wants to be sorting through trash all day anyway. The different kinds of plastics are hard to separate as it is yet alone with tons more trash to accompany it. It is usually separated by density with water and this would not be possible with regular MSW (for starters, it's in a bag). The extra trash would also contaminate the products making them much less appealing or impossible to use for the recycling business as well. A second run is usually the most efficient way to accomplish the collection without creating more work (money spent on manpower/man-hours).
The fundamental problem is that most people are credulous morons.
I dunno... my studies show that only about 80% of people are credulous morons, while 50% of people are moronic intellectuals.
Recent survey show that 60% of statistics are made up right on the spot
A high speed rail network should be targeting air travel. There are many short haul air routes (e.g. New York to Washington) where high speed rail could provide an comparable door-to-door journey time (especially once you take check-in, security and all the other things into account). High speed rail has none of the big downsides of air travel like the need to get to the airport 2 hours before the flight to check in, the need to pass through 3 layers of security, bans on liquids and other things, cramped seats etc.
Now obviously trains cant compete with long-haul air travel such as New York to LA but for short haul, it could really work. (but only if its given proper high speed track and doesn't have to share that track with slow freight trains)
I absolutely agree with you, the NE corridor (DC to Boston) should be the perfect place to run high speed trains with several big cities over a fair distance. But when you start to factor in the logistics of it things don't look so good. Firstly, you would need to buy a whole new right of way and construct a track that has much larger radius turns than what is currently available (Sharing the track with freight is only part of why Amtrak Acela only tops out around 130mph, the rest is due to alignment). The land purchase alone would be astronomical because you are talking about the densely packed NE. Secondly, you need to choose your station locations, say DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, NYC, New Haven, and Boston (I think this is the route now actually). While these are the most important stops, they are not very far apart, so your proposed train needs to have tremendous acceleration and deceleration bordering on the uncomfortable otherwise the train will barely hit top speed before it needs to start slowing down again (How long does it take to go 80 miles at 200mph or more? Take off 10miles on each end or acceleration/deceleration and it's even less).
The NIMBYs are not peculiar to California. Indeed, the aforementioned tactics and their assorted variations work just as well in many other states.
Case in point, the Cape Wind project off of Cape Cod has been delayed time and again because of the NIMBY movement. They don't want something that will appear to be about 50mm or less tall on the horizon "spoiling" their views. Oh and lets add Yucca Mtn. storage area and pretty much and nuclear plant to the list as well.
NIMBY - Keeping us safe from progress since the dawn of time
There is no mention of methods to attach the GOLD to the satellite while in orbit. Short of having individuals approach and grapple the satellites I only see a few ways to attach the balloon. Currently I'm picturing something like a harpoon gun that could fire a spike bundled to a small CO2 cylinder and the balloon. On impact the spike embeds in the satellite and the cylinder discharges inflating the balloon. The operation could be completed with one person (for target identification and fire control) and computerized target tracking; and it could take down multiple targets in one mission to be more cost effective.
Thoughts from the greater community?
you're pulling the wings off butterflies to make your product the right shade of red.
And here I thought the recent rash of earthquakes around the world were completely unrelated. Now I know, chaos theory...
Fucking rubber bands, how do they work?
I don't know, like magnets we will probably never know.
Back in the 60's there was an advertising campaign by scientists working on the behalf of government to target heat loss in elderly people's properties. It encouraged old people to "keep the heat in". It didn't go down well and it took them years to discover why. Eventually it was changed to "keep the cold out" and more elderly people understood that. "Cold" doesn't actually exist, it's just the absence of heat, but old people didn't think that way as easily (and who can blame them? "Shut the door, you're letting the cold in" is a common cry in my family - despite the fact that you're neither letting cold in nor arranging for some mystical "cold" entity to enter your property rather than, say, air with slightly less heat).
*Emphasis mine*
So I have to ask where geographically that was. Chalk it up to nothing but curiosity, but it is the exact opposite of what I heard growing up in the northeast "Close the door, you're letting all the heat out. I'm not paying to heat the backyard".
Now you are redefining everything, and making B's and A's much less valuable.
Absolutely agree here. The honor behind earning an A has been perverted. I always grew up with this scale:
A - (100-90) Complete mastery of the subject
B - (89-80) Mastery of the main concepts
C - (79-70) Understands the material
D - (69-65) Barely understands the material
E - (64-40) Doesn't grasp the material yet, eligible for summer school to spend some extra time on it
F - (39-0) WTF did you do for the term? See you next year