I used to be a lab monkey at a coal-fired power plant in Baltimore.
They pulverized the coal before feeding the furnace, both for ease of handling and for more complete combustion. We used to run tests on the lubrication of the pulverizer units. You think the oil in your '88 Olds gets dirty? Try using it to lubiricate a coal pulverizer.
For gaming, they're the only ones with hardware EAX processing. Other soundcards incur performance hits. For an idea of the size of this hit, take a look at page 6 of the Techreport review of the Philips' Ultimate Edge. http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2004q3/ph ilips-u ltimateedge/index.x?pg=6
For consumer music and movies, CPU usage is much less of an issue. For these uses I would recommend a M-Audio Revolution. It uses the VIA EnvyHT chip and supports for 192/24 resolution throughout the signal path. The sound quality is excellent and the bass management is vastly superior to that of the Audigy 2.
For strictly 2-channel listening, I'd recommend the Chaintech AV-710.
Here's a review on a headphone forum. http://www4.head-fi.org/forums/showthread. php?t=75 454
Here's a setup guide on that same forum. http://www4.head-fi.org/forums/showthread. php?t=75 655
The nutrients in manure that make it useful as a fertilizer are largely nitrogen and phosphorus. Methane, aka CH4, does not contain these chemicals. While the bacteria that are producing the methane are probably using the nitrogen and phosphous for growth, they can be reclaimed, and still be bioavailible after the sludge spread on the fields. Only if there is signifigant output of N2 will the manure be degraded as fertilizer. N2 with its high strength triple covalent bond is not bioavailible. Unless you're a nitrogen-fixing bacteria, that is...
All biomass sources have the advantage of being renewable, and being carbon neutral. Any carbon that goes inot making manure was taken from the atmosphere by the plant(s) grown for the feed. There is no net increazse in carbon. The carbon from fossil fuels was buried and sequestered from the atmosphere long ago and is being released through combustion. So there is a net carbon increase when they are burned.
There are Mobile Athlon XP chip availible with the feature. It is branded as PowerNow. It has to be implememneted in the BIOS as well, however. This sort of BIOS feature is only really availible on notebooks. On the Ath64, it is branded Cool and Quiet, and has much more widespread BIOS support for desktop motherboards.
1.33 athlons are like... 2 major core revisions older than the present Athlon XP procs. You likely have a Thunderbird core. Thoroughbred-b cores run much cooler. Some of the latest Athlon XP procs are even rated to run at 1.35v, and being binned as mobile chips. This low voltage operation, combined with on-the-fly underclocking during low CPU usage can make them for some very cool running indeed. While I do not doubt that your proc is hot, but it's old(er) hardware. As we've seen with Prescott, the core version can make a big difference.
The limit is exactly the same as that imposed on the Pathfinder rover. Dust settles on the solar arrays and reduces thier generation capacity. A few wipes with a damp sponge would do the trick, but the nearest kitchen sink is quite some distance.
Shoot. Kentucky makes more money off grass of the Cheech and Chong variety than it does off the Bill Monroe variety. You know all those hidden valleys with ample water that allowed for illicit whisky production? It's also the just the sort of stuff you need to grow marijuana.
Havn't you heard? Win XP has raw sockets enabled. That's what's got Steve Gibson of GRC.com fame all hot and bothered. Take a look at http://grc.com/dos/intro.htm for a little healthy paranoia.
This dynamic only works if there is an adequate choice of ISPs from which to choose. I have the broadband choice of Comcast Cable and... nothing. I'm too far from my central switch (or whatever) for DSL. So, to whom shall I turn if Comcast starts to be a bully and charge me for my home lan connectivity? Tell Micheal Powell that he can bite me.
Take a look at the M-audio Revolution. M-audio has been making professional audio soundcards for many years, and they are now branching out into the consumer arena. The Revolution sports 7.1 connections, 24/192 DACS, channel independent bass management, and SRS Labs Circle Surround II processing. I've not listened to it yet, but will install mine tonight. Additionally, I've heard talk of a DVD-audio player to be availible for it as well.
Use this link: http://dealnews.com/articles/47191.html and you can get it for about $90.
The best part? You get to thumb your nose at Creative, and their driver bloatware, and fake 24/192 DACS
thanks. i could have gotten better sensational, catch-phrase-riddled, bullshit from any news station.
Yeah, but at Slashdot, it comes via Linux.
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The tropopause is the boundary level, between the troposphere and stratosphere, at which temperature no longer falls as you rise in altitude.
As you move beyond the tropopause, into the stratosphere, atmospheric temperature will rise because the stratosphere contains more ozone. Ozone absorbs a significant portion of the UV light from the sun, adding energy to warm the atmosphere. Because atmosphere at these altitudes is much less dense, it doesn't take nearly as much energy to make changes in temperature. Because temperature rises with altitude, the stratospheric air is stable, with little vertical mixing.
Um... Here are some differences just off the top of my head... Submarines are built to withstand crushing *positive* pressures. Spaceships are built to withstand crushing negative pressures. If a support system goes fruity, submarines can always surface. In space, if a system goes up, you're hosed. Plus, you have to worry about the long term effects of zero-g and radiation exposure on your crew's health. Oh, did I forget to mention that submarines tend to sink naturally after you fill up the ballast tanks? I don't know what it costs to send up a pound of stuff to earth orbit nowadays, but isn't it in the several thousand dollar range?
Yeah. Submarines are just like spaceships. Sheesh. I read Sci-Fi as much as the next guy, but this is just silly.
Read the article. They are making determinations of mass, not volume. Sheesh, e=mc^2, f=ma, f=gMm/(r^2)... All those Newtonian/relativistic formula thingys have mass in them, not volume.
Actually, no. Bacteria have a pretty easy time growing on stainless steel. It's brass and other copper containing alloys that they can't take.
http://www.fastinc.com/foodsafe_copper.htm
Copper shows antibacterial properties against E. Coli Originally published 9/14/2000
Source: www.foodservicecentral.com
A recent study, conducted by Bill Keevil, Ph.D., of the Porton Down, UK-based Center for Applied Microbiology & Research (CAMR), found E. coli O157:H7 bacteria survive for much shorter periods of time on copper and brass surfaces than on stainless steel. According to Keevil, this finding has wide-ranging implications for controlling the microorganism.
The work carried out by CAMR team member, Andrew Maule, revealed that at room temperatures it takes 34 days for E. coli O157:H7 bacteria to die on stainless steel tiles, 4 days to die on brass tiles, and just 4 hours to die on copper tiles. At chill temperatures typical of food storage, the study found that 10% of the bacteria were still alive on stainless steel tiles after 34 days, whereas bacteria were completely eradicated on brass tiles within 12 days and on copper tiles in just 14 hours.
The traditional answer to the question of species definition is that of reproduction. When two populations stop interbreeding they become a new species. The cause can be anything from differences in range, morphological differences, behavioral differences, to lots of other stuff. When Population A stops having sex with Population B, they're different species. For us non-biologists that's probably good enough.
If you don't believe the reporter about the count, perhaps you'll believe the guy with the PhD?
The simultaneous discovery of more than 100 species is...astonishing news," said David Skelly of Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in New Haven, Connecticut
Now, on to my *first* reaction to your post. Stop being such a freakin' humbug and engage your sense of wonder. These dudes out in Sri Lanka found 100 new species in a single study! You must give them major props for that. Read the article further and you will see that
Five of the new species are tree frogs that lay eggs in homespun foam baskets suspended above water--from whence the tadpoles take their first dip. The remainder are all species that produce young on the forest floor in robust eggs. These direct-developing young avoid being tadpoles and emerge as fully fledged, if tiny, versions of their parents.
This is very interesting stuff here. New reproduction stuff, cool new behavior... This is interesting! blah... I'm done.
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Grind the coal up? Been there, done that...
I used to be a lab monkey at a coal-fired power plant in Baltimore.
They pulverized the coal before feeding the furnace, both for ease of handling and for more complete combustion. We used to run tests on the lubrication of the pulverizer units. You think the oil in your '88 Olds gets dirty? Try using it to lubiricate a coal pulverizer.
For gaming, they're the only ones with hardware EAX processing. Other soundcards incur performance hits. For an idea of the size of this hit, take a look at page 6 of the Techreport review of the Philips' Ultimate Edge.h ilips-u ltimateedge/index.x?pg=6
. php?t=75 454
. php?t=75 655
http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2004q3/p
For consumer music and movies, CPU usage is much less of an issue. For these uses I would recommend a M-Audio Revolution. It uses the VIA EnvyHT chip and supports for 192/24 resolution throughout the signal path. The sound quality is excellent and the bass management is vastly superior to that of the Audigy 2.
For strictly 2-channel listening, I'd recommend the Chaintech AV-710.
Here's a review on a headphone forum.
http://www4.head-fi.org/forums/showthread
Here's a setup guide on that same forum.
http://www4.head-fi.org/forums/showthread
The nutrients in manure that make it useful as a fertilizer are largely nitrogen and phosphorus. Methane, aka CH4, does not contain these chemicals. While the bacteria that are producing the methane are probably using the nitrogen and phosphous for growth, they can be reclaimed, and still be bioavailible after the sludge spread on the fields. Only if there is signifigant output of N2 will the manure be degraded as fertilizer. N2 with its high strength triple covalent bond is not bioavailible. Unless you're a nitrogen-fixing bacteria, that is...
All biomass sources have the advantage of being renewable, and being carbon neutral. Any carbon that goes inot making manure was taken from the atmosphere by the plant(s) grown for the feed. There is no net increazse in carbon. The carbon from fossil fuels was buried and sequestered from the atmosphere long ago and is being released through combustion. So there is a net carbon increase when they are burned.
There are Mobile Athlon XP chip availible with the feature. It is branded as PowerNow. It has to be implememneted in the BIOS as well, however. This sort of BIOS feature is only really availible on notebooks. On the Ath64, it is branded Cool and Quiet, and has much more widespread BIOS support for desktop motherboards.
1.33 athlons are like... 2 major core revisions older than the present Athlon XP procs. You likely have a Thunderbird core. Thoroughbred-b cores run much cooler. Some of the latest Athlon XP procs are even rated to run at 1.35v, and being binned as mobile chips. This low voltage operation, combined with on-the-fly underclocking during low CPU usage can make them for some very cool running indeed. While I do not doubt that your proc is hot, but it's old(er) hardware. As we've seen with Prescott, the core version can make a big difference.
That's a quote from Vonnegut's _Cat's Cradle_. He got it right. As nihilist romps go, it's pretty funny.
Which is why we should use the term climate change, and not global warming. The latter is just confusing to laypeople.
The limit is exactly the same as that imposed on the Pathfinder rover. Dust settles on the solar arrays and reduces thier generation capacity. A few wipes with a damp sponge would do the trick, but the nearest kitchen sink is quite some distance.
Shoot. Kentucky makes more money off grass of the Cheech and Chong variety than it does off the Bill Monroe variety. You know all those hidden valleys with ample water that allowed for illicit whisky production? It's also the just the sort of stuff you need to grow marijuana.
Doesn't the E. stand for Enterobacter? Isn't entero some sort of Greek root for guts or bowels?
... Giving almost 20,000 watts. hehehe. Assume you loose half of that in mechanics, it's still 10,000 watts!...
Assuyming you lose half of that in mechanics, you'll melt whatever it is that's absorbing all that heat energy.
Havn't you heard? Win XP has raw sockets enabled. That's what's got Steve Gibson of GRC.com fame all hot and bothered. Take a look at http://grc.com/dos/intro.htm for a little healthy paranoia.
An in coincidence, here is the iblist.com entry for the series.
http://www.iblist.com/series.php?id=2
This dynamic only works if there is an adequate choice of ISPs from which to choose. I have the broadband choice of Comcast Cable and... nothing. I'm too far from my central switch (or whatever) for DSL. So, to whom shall I turn if Comcast starts to be a bully and charge me for my home lan connectivity? Tell Micheal Powell that he can bite me.
Mod parent up! AVSforums even has a Linux HTPC forum. AVS is an truely unique place in the internet.
Imagine your projectile disintegrating from the shear forces.
Take a look at the M-audio Revolution. M-audio has been making professional audio soundcards for many years, and they are now branching out into the consumer arena. The Revolution sports 7.1 connections, 24/192 DACS, channel independent bass management, and SRS Labs Circle Surround II processing. I've not listened to it yet, but will install mine tonight. Additionally, I've heard talk of a DVD-audio player to be availible for it as well.
Use this link: http://dealnews.com/articles/47191.html
and you can get it for about $90.
The best part? You get to thumb your nose at Creative, and their driver bloatware, and fake 24/192 DACS
thanks. i could have gotten better sensational, catch-phrase-riddled, bullshit from any news station.
Yeah, but at Slashdot, it comes via Linux.
Free your mind with genuine music played by genuine people.
www.radioparadise.com
Point your MP3 player to http://205.188.209.193:80
The tropopause is the boundary level, between the troposphere and stratosphere, at which temperature no longer falls as you rise in altitude.
As you move beyond the tropopause, into the stratosphere, atmospheric temperature will rise because the stratosphere contains more ozone. Ozone absorbs a significant portion of the UV light from the sun, adding energy to warm the atmosphere. Because atmosphere at these altitudes is much less dense, it doesn't take nearly as much energy to make changes in temperature. Because temperature rises with altitude, the stratospheric air is stable, with little vertical mixing.
Um... Here are some differences just off the top of my head... Submarines are built to withstand crushing *positive* pressures. Spaceships are built to withstand crushing negative pressures. If a support system goes fruity, submarines can always surface. In space, if a system goes up, you're hosed. Plus, you have to worry about the long term effects of zero-g and radiation exposure on your crew's health. Oh, did I forget to mention that submarines tend to sink naturally after you fill up the ballast tanks? I don't know what it costs to send up a pound of stuff to earth orbit nowadays, but isn't it in the several thousand dollar range?
Yeah. Submarines are just like spaceships. Sheesh. I read Sci-Fi as much as the next guy, but this is just silly.
Read the article. They are making determinations of mass, not volume. Sheesh, e=mc^2, f=ma, f=gMm/(r^2)... All those Newtonian/relativistic formula thingys have mass in them, not volume.
Actually, no. Bacteria have a pretty easy time growing on stainless steel. It's brass and other copper containing alloys that they can't take.
http://www.fastinc.com/foodsafe_copper.htm
Copper shows antibacterial properties against E. Coli
Originally published 9/14/2000
Source: www.foodservicecentral.com
A recent study, conducted by Bill Keevil, Ph.D., of the Porton Down, UK-based Center for Applied Microbiology & Research (CAMR), found E. coli O157:H7 bacteria survive for much shorter periods of time on copper and brass surfaces than on stainless steel. According to Keevil, this finding has wide-ranging implications for controlling the microorganism.
The work carried out by CAMR team member, Andrew Maule, revealed that at room temperatures it takes 34 days for E. coli O157:H7 bacteria to die on stainless steel tiles, 4 days to die on brass tiles, and just 4 hours to die on copper tiles. At chill temperatures typical of food storage, the study found that 10% of the bacteria were still alive on stainless steel tiles after 34 days, whereas bacteria were completely eradicated on brass tiles within 12 days and on copper tiles in just 14 hours.
The traditional answer to the question of species definition is that of reproduction. When two populations stop interbreeding they become a new species. The cause can be anything from differences in range, morphological differences, behavioral differences, to lots of other stuff. When Population A stops having sex with Population B, they're different species. For us non-biologists that's probably good enough.
If you don't believe the reporter about the count, perhaps you'll believe the guy with the PhD?
The simultaneous discovery of more than 100 species is...astonishing news," said David Skelly of Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in New Haven, Connecticut
Now, on to my *first* reaction to your post.
Stop being such a freakin' humbug and engage your sense of wonder. These dudes out in Sri Lanka found 100 new species in a single study! You must give them major props for that. Read the article further and you will see that
Five of the new species are tree frogs that lay eggs in homespun foam baskets suspended above water--from whence the tadpoles take their first dip. The remainder are all species that produce young on the forest floor in robust eggs. These direct-developing young avoid being tadpoles and emerge as fully fledged, if tiny, versions of their parents.
This is very interesting stuff here. New reproduction stuff, cool new behavior... This is interesting! blah... I'm done.