Enterprise just killed me when they would have this big long speech about the need for readiness and make Count Bakula say a line like: "We need some sort of alerting the crew about danger, maybe with light, a colored light, maybe we should make it red, so it could be known as a red alert."
Tactical alert was a security protocol instituted by Malcolm Reed under the influence of dangerous mind-affecting radiation aboard the Enterprise NX-01, in response to the perceived number of threats that were being encountered by the ship in their deep space exploration mission. The protocol was kept due to its usefulness. It was a precursor to the alert system used on later Starfleet vessels.
The alert was designed to automatically bring the ship to battle-ready status when a pre-programmed set of circumstances occurred (for instance, an impact to the hull, or an order from the captain). When a tactical alert was initiated, the hull plating would be polarized, the weapons were automatically charged, and critical systems such as the warp core were secured. In addition, all crewmembers would report to battle stations upon initiation of the alert.
While in the process of naming the new condition, the terms "Reed alert", security protocol and condition red were suggested. The term "Reed alert" was sarcastically suggested by Commander Tucker as the name for the new tactical alert system Reed was working on, but was later dismissed by Lieutenant Reed as being "a bit narcissistic," whereas security protocol was deemed "not very dynamic." (ENT: "Singularity")
By the 23rd century, tactical alert was replaced in Starfleet by the red alert, yellow alert and blue alert conditions. (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, et al.)
You sure about that? Corrupt - yes. Invasive? Unless you're counting neighbors minding your business looking for gossip fodder, nobody here pretty much gives a fuck.
You are obviously not here to have a conversation on the original topic nor are you looking for information.
Cause clearly, you're the only intelligent person on the planet and no one came up with those questions before, prior to starting to invest billions in that fad of a project they've been running for years and plan to continue running for decades to come. Clearly, all those people with their sciency engineerity and stuff are buffoons and morons, throwing all that money on a pie in the sky. Buffoons I say!
Or... It could be that your goal is to just keep being negative, bringing up one irrelevant argument after another.
Cause if it weren't so, you'd find both answers to your loaded questions and rebuttals to your foregone conclusions in the links I gave you previously. I actually COULD have spent this post answering to all your pointless questions and tearing down every single one of your nonsensical points (which is to say ALL of them) but I simply refuse to do it. Nope. I won't even let you know what are the HVDC losses. Let me check if I remember them correctly. Yup. I do. But I won't tell you. Look it up yourself. Clearly you are capable of hitting Ctrl+f.
I've wasted way too much time and patience on you as is. This conversation is over. Good night.
It wold be dark all the way to Japan even in summer.
That's why the plans include wind, geothermal, hydro, biomass and concentrated solar. Take a look at the map in the links above - PV is just a fraction of the whole thing.
And where does Texas get the power when it is dark during a storm?
You always put all your eggs in one basket like that?
"HVDC could allow Texas to supply all of the electricity". It COULD. I didn't say that it WILL or that it MUST supply all of the power. Relying on a single source or form of power would be stupid.
The point of that comment is in the fact that you CAN transport power all across the continent without much loss and from various locations where particular renewable source is readily available. Again - you don't need superconductors. It can be done TODAY.
A lot more needs to be done to power Europe.
It is a project planned out to 2050 with SuperSmart Grid covering EU by 2030 and 50% of EU's own electricity production being from renewable sources - only then the first power transfers from North Africa would start.
Until we get superconducting power lines resistance in the line will limit distance. There is no way electricity generated on North America will be used in Europe.
Well for one, that has nothing to do with the previous point of "shortages at dawn and dusk and massive surpluses at noon" which are mitigated either by time-zone shifting of electricity to the east or west OR by producing electricity closer to the equator and "pumping it" north and south.
Two... nobody really needs to move electricity across entire oceans. Which means that High-Voltage Direct Current transmission does just fine for most of the world. I.e. HVDC could allow Texas to supply all of the electricity to everything in the radius of 1500 miles. That's New York, San Francisco, Calgary and Guatemala powered by solar and wind power harvested in Texas deserts.
Same goes for any hydro, geothermal, wind, nuclear etc. source - no superconductor necessary. It would be nice to have it, but it is not necessary.
just because someone is trying does not mean they will succeed.
I somehow get the feeling that you haven't bothered to read the links I gave you. Cause if you did you wouldn't confuse "trying" with doing.
You want your anti-age shots? They come with a free sterilization treatment. You still get to have one kid per parent to continue the line if you don't already have one or two. Three kids? Sorry... should have thought about it earlier.
Hey! Your genes get to live for you. Couple of generations down the road and there may be millions of your offspring roaming the Earth and the Universe.
Which is why all boys will be made to deposit their sperm in the Arctic sperm banks when they reach puberty during the festival of The Great Northern Wanking (that's The Great Southern Wanking for those living in the southern hemisphere), upon which they will be sterilized.
It's not the tools or their robustness that make a world "first" or "third" - you know, just like a modern axe user does not live in the stone age.
It's more of a function of availability, infrastructure and all that jazz.
Regarding HP Deskjet 500, that one was just before I could afford a printer. It was 640c for me. And boy was that a workhorse.
It could pull off about 1000 pages of text from a single ink cartridge. Only issues I ever had with it was breaking of it's calibration/gauge tape that it used for determining the position of the printhead (fixed that with some sticky tape on the broken end) and that after a time it would need some oil/grease (in a pinch even spit would do if you had no cooking oil close by) for the printhead to move smoothly or the whole printer would start to shake.
They also tend to be rated for "up to 500 pages per month". Which is sort of a perfect number in theory - it comes out to ~16 pages per day, or one page per patient every 30 minutes during an 8-hour shift. In reality, it's probably (at least) either double the pages or patients or both.
There ARE very low power consumption printers out there like PIXMA iP100 (9 Watts operational) but those are still, like all mobile printers, first and foremost "first world" toys instead of "third world" work horses.
He's probably going to have to go with a dot matrix solution (durability, price, moderate power consumption) or with a dot matrix and mobile inkjet mix of some kind. Real life solutions tend to be like that. Many "acceptable" solutions for the problem instead of a single perfect answer to the question.
Epson LQ-2190 - Power consumption: Approx. 46W (ISO/IEC 10561 letter pattern)
There is a possibility of some issues with operating conditions, in case of "out in the field" units, in certain areas of Zambia, during certain months - dot matrix and inkjet printers (these go out of the window on account of ink and nozzle issues, and for being produced like they are consumables) being rated for 5-35 degree Celsius operating temperature and 10 to 80% relative humidity.
Cost per page is practically zero. Unless you fry the electronics any maintenance is strictly mechanical in nature - no surprise issues with drums or fuser-kits needing replacement or anything ink related (from leaking to clogged nozzles).
Ribbons can be refurbished and re-inked OR you can use carbon paper like back in the typewriter days - and depending on the printer and acceptable quality of the printout you can use carbon paper to print several copies at once.
Perforated paper is not a "must" - sheets work just as fine. Only issue being that if your sheet feeder does not work you have to put them in manually one at a time.
But yeah, the cellular shutdown mechanism had something to do with the mitochondria, and it did release visible light in the brain cells as it was propagating through that area of the nematodes they were studying. So the bright light at the end of the tunnel is probably just the mitochondria of nearby cells in your optical cortex exploding.
Did you perhaps link the wrong study there? Cause I can't find anything like "mitochondria and/or brain cells releasing visible light during apoptosis" mentioned in the link above.
You basically need a jeweler's scale (pocket-sized ones go for under 7$ on ebay, shipping included), a set of rechargeable AAA batteries (those cheap scales drain them relatively quickly) and a spreadsheet that you can carry around on, say, your mobile communication device.
There. Now, you know how much of a certain food you're taking in as it is now rather simple to weigh your food. On a plus side, if you end up being frisked by police for any reason, you can break the ice by explaining that you're not a drug dealer and that the white substance on your pocket scale is powdered sugar and not some narcotic substance.
Looking up said food in your spreadsheet lets you know how many calories per gram said food contains. Like you stated above, you already know how to find that for the ingredients. How much of each ingredient is in actual food you end up eating? Easy. You got the recipe - you got the ratio of ingredients in the dish. You only need to calculate the amount of calories per gram ONCE per dish. You don't got the recipe, cause you're eating at a restaurant or you don't want to bother your friends for the recipe - guesstimate. It's not like one "imprecise meal" will ruin your diet. Or your data.
Stuff you're "adding to taste" can be ignored if it's less than a "significant amount of calories" per serving - i.e. if it's used as a SPICE. In other words, if you're adding a spoon of butter to an entire pot of "dish X" - it does not really matter. Though nothing stops you for weighing out the average amount you use (weight of spoon of butter minus the weight of spoon) and adding that to your spreadsheet too. On the other hand, if you're spreading butter on slices of bread and eating them - that's not a spice, that's FOOD, and you can easily check how many calories of butter you're spreading on average per an average slice of bread and write that down in your spreadsheet.
Stuff you can't find exact calories for - write them down and ROUND UP their calories to the closest thing you COULD find exact calories for. Considering it erring on the side of caution.
You could probably make a simple app for adding calorie counts of various ingredients in your spreadsheet (or an actual database at this point), subtracting the weight leftovers or packaging and/or empty plates after the meal (when eating outside your home). You could add shiny graphs to show what you've been eating and how often, personal weight counters, a pedometer option to show you how much of your meal you've just walked off, goals, medals for inputting X numbers of unique (one for each ingredient or dish) calorie counts for food (gotta catch them all)...
There. Now you can treat dieting as a programming task.
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Obligatory Penny Arcade reference.
Like a fruit basket or something.
He's like a crazy ass poster child for detractors of Musk's every move.
You can't buy that with money.
You tend to be a bit obsessive-compulsive. Right?
Enterprise just killed me when they would have this big long speech about the need for readiness and make Count Bakula say a line like: "We need some sort of alerting the crew about danger, maybe with light, a colored light, maybe we should make it red, so it could be known as a red alert."
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Tactical_alert
Tactical alert was a security protocol instituted by Malcolm Reed under the influence of dangerous mind-affecting radiation aboard the Enterprise NX-01, in response to the perceived number of threats that were being encountered by the ship in their deep space exploration mission. The protocol was kept due to its usefulness. It was a precursor to the alert system used on later Starfleet vessels.
The alert was designed to automatically bring the ship to battle-ready status when a pre-programmed set of circumstances occurred (for instance, an impact to the hull, or an order from the captain). When a tactical alert was initiated, the hull plating would be polarized, the weapons were automatically charged, and critical systems such as the warp core were secured. In addition, all crewmembers would report to battle stations upon initiation of the alert.
While in the process of naming the new condition, the terms "Reed alert", security protocol and condition red were suggested. The term "Reed alert" was sarcastically suggested by Commander Tucker as the name for the new tactical alert system Reed was working on, but was later dismissed by Lieutenant Reed as being "a bit narcissistic," whereas security protocol was deemed "not very dynamic." (ENT: "Singularity")
By the 23rd century, tactical alert was replaced in Starfleet by the red alert, yellow alert and blue alert conditions. (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, et al.)
Sure, but when your typical oldster starts talking about how optimistic TOS was he really means naive.
We're dealing with a Betazoid over here.
the most invasive country I visited was Bosnia
You sure about that?
Corrupt - yes. Invasive?
Unless you're counting neighbors minding your business looking for gossip fodder, nobody here pretty much gives a fuck.
You are obviously not here to have a conversation on the original topic nor are you looking for information.
Cause clearly, you're the only intelligent person on the planet and no one came up with those questions before, prior to starting to invest billions in that fad of a project they've been running for years and plan to continue running for decades to come.
Clearly, all those people with their sciency engineerity and stuff are buffoons and morons, throwing all that money on a pie in the sky. Buffoons I say!
Or... It could be that your goal is to just keep being negative, bringing up one irrelevant argument after another.
Cause if it weren't so, you'd find both answers to your loaded questions and rebuttals to your foregone conclusions in the links I gave you previously.
I actually COULD have spent this post answering to all your pointless questions and tearing down every single one of your nonsensical points (which is to say ALL of them) but I simply refuse to do it.
Nope. I won't even let you know what are the HVDC losses. Let me check if I remember them correctly. Yup. I do.
But I won't tell you. Look it up yourself. Clearly you are capable of hitting Ctrl+f.
I've wasted way too much time and patience on you as is. This conversation is over. Good night.
It wold be dark all the way to Japan even in summer.
That's why the plans include wind, geothermal, hydro, biomass and concentrated solar.
Take a look at the map in the links above - PV is just a fraction of the whole thing.
And where does Texas get the power when it is dark during a storm?
You always put all your eggs in one basket like that?
"HVDC could allow Texas to supply all of the electricity". It COULD.
I didn't say that it WILL or that it MUST supply all of the power.
Relying on a single source or form of power would be stupid.
The point of that comment is in the fact that you CAN transport power all across the continent without much loss and from various locations where particular renewable source is readily available.
Again - you don't need superconductors. It can be done TODAY.
A lot more needs to be done to power Europe.
It is a project planned out to 2050 with SuperSmart Grid covering EU by 2030 and 50% of EU's own electricity production being from renewable sources - only then the first power transfers from North Africa would start.
Until we get superconducting power lines resistance in the line will limit distance. There is no way electricity generated on North America will be used in Europe.
Well for one, that has nothing to do with the previous point of "shortages at dawn and dusk and massive surpluses at noon" which are mitigated either by time-zone shifting of electricity to the east or west OR by producing electricity closer to the equator and "pumping it" north and south.
Two... nobody really needs to move electricity across entire oceans.
Which means that High-Voltage Direct Current transmission does just fine for most of the world.
I.e. HVDC could allow Texas to supply all of the electricity to everything in the radius of 1500 miles.
That's New York, San Francisco, Calgary and Guatemala powered by solar and wind power harvested in Texas deserts.
Same goes for any hydro, geothermal, wind, nuclear etc. source - no superconductor necessary.
It would be nice to have it, but it is not necessary.
just because someone is trying does not mean they will succeed.
I somehow get the feeling that you haven't bothered to read the links I gave you. Cause if you did you wouldn't confuse "trying" with doing.
What if every country tried to do that? There would be shortages at dawn and dusk and massive surpluses at noon.
Good thing we live on a sphere then. Instead of, you know, on a flat two-dimensional surface.
And then there's this.
You want your anti-age shots? They come with a free sterilization treatment.
You still get to have one kid per parent to continue the line if you don't already have one or two.
Three kids? Sorry... should have thought about it earlier.
Hey! Your genes get to live for you.
Couple of generations down the road and there may be millions of your offspring roaming the Earth and the Universe.
Which is why all boys will be made to deposit their sperm in the Arctic sperm banks when they reach puberty during the festival of The Great Northern Wanking (that's The Great Southern Wanking for those living in the southern hemisphere), upon which they will be sterilized.
And I almost forgot this one.
You do realize that using big words doesn't actually make you smart right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
Prove that there are side effects? I haven't seen nor heard of any proof that there aren't.
You do realize that you're STILL talking in fallacies, and adding further fallacies to your "argument"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignoratio_elenchi
It's not the tools or their robustness that make a world "first" or "third" - you know, just like a modern axe user does not live in the stone age.
It's more of a function of availability, infrastructure and all that jazz.
Regarding HP Deskjet 500, that one was just before I could afford a printer.
It was 640c for me. And boy was that a workhorse.
It could pull off about 1000 pages of text from a single ink cartridge.
Only issues I ever had with it was breaking of it's calibration/gauge tape that it used for determining the position of the printhead (fixed that with some sticky tape on the broken end) and that after a time it would need some oil/grease (in a pinch even spit would do if you had no cooking oil close by) for the printhead to move smoothly or the whole printer would start to shake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onus_probandi
He's already been reincarnated as a celestial warrior-philosopher.
http://www.dmc.tv/pages/en/Where-is-Steve-Jobs/20120822-The-Hereafter-News:Steve-Jobs-where-is-he-now-Part-1.html
30 Watts is way too low.
Even battery operated inkjets like Brother PJ663 PocketJet 6 or HP Officejet 100 Mobile Printer suck up more than that.
They also tend to be rated for "up to 500 pages per month".
Which is sort of a perfect number in theory - it comes out to ~16 pages per day, or one page per patient every 30 minutes during an 8-hour shift.
In reality, it's probably (at least) either double the pages or patients or both.
There ARE very low power consumption printers out there like PIXMA iP100 (9 Watts operational) but those are still, like all mobile printers, first and foremost "first world" toys instead of "third world" work horses.
He's probably going to have to go with a dot matrix solution (durability, price, moderate power consumption) or with a dot matrix and mobile inkjet mix of some kind.
Real life solutions tend to be like that.
Many "acceptable" solutions for the problem instead of a single perfect answer to the question.
Dot Matrix Impact is out due to excessive power.
Five-minute search, top of the list.
Epson LQ-2190 - Power consumption: Approx. 46W (ISO/IEC 10561 letter pattern)
There is a possibility of some issues with operating conditions, in case of "out in the field" units, in certain areas of Zambia, during certain months - dot matrix and inkjet printers (these go out of the window on account of ink and nozzle issues, and for being produced like they are consumables) being rated for 5-35 degree Celsius operating temperature and 10 to 80% relative humidity.
Cost per page is practically zero.
Unless you fry the electronics any maintenance is strictly mechanical in nature - no surprise issues with drums or fuser-kits needing replacement or anything ink related (from leaking to clogged nozzles).
Ribbons can be refurbished and re-inked OR you can use carbon paper like back in the typewriter days - and depending on the printer and acceptable quality of the printout you can use carbon paper to print several copies at once.
Perforated paper is not a "must" - sheets work just as fine.
Only issue being that if your sheet feeder does not work you have to put them in manually one at a time.
But yeah, the cellular shutdown mechanism had something to do with the mitochondria, and it did release visible light in the brain cells as it was propagating through that area of the nematodes they were studying. So the bright light at the end of the tunnel is probably just the mitochondria of nearby cells in your optical cortex exploding.
Did you perhaps link the wrong study there?
Cause I can't find anything like "mitochondria and/or brain cells releasing visible light during apoptosis" mentioned in the link above.
You basically need a jeweler's scale (pocket-sized ones go for under 7$ on ebay, shipping included), a set of rechargeable AAA batteries (those cheap scales drain them relatively quickly) and a spreadsheet that you can carry around on, say, your mobile communication device.
There. Now, you know how much of a certain food you're taking in as it is now rather simple to weigh your food.
On a plus side, if you end up being frisked by police for any reason, you can break the ice by explaining that you're not a drug dealer and that the white substance on your pocket scale is powdered sugar and not some narcotic substance.
Looking up said food in your spreadsheet lets you know how many calories per gram said food contains.
Like you stated above, you already know how to find that for the ingredients.
How much of each ingredient is in actual food you end up eating? Easy.
You got the recipe - you got the ratio of ingredients in the dish. You only need to calculate the amount of calories per gram ONCE per dish.
You don't got the recipe, cause you're eating at a restaurant or you don't want to bother your friends for the recipe - guesstimate.
It's not like one "imprecise meal" will ruin your diet. Or your data.
Stuff you're "adding to taste" can be ignored if it's less than a "significant amount of calories" per serving - i.e. if it's used as a SPICE.
In other words, if you're adding a spoon of butter to an entire pot of "dish X" - it does not really matter.
Though nothing stops you for weighing out the average amount you use (weight of spoon of butter minus the weight of spoon) and adding that to your spreadsheet too.
On the other hand, if you're spreading butter on slices of bread and eating them - that's not a spice, that's FOOD, and you can easily check how many calories of butter you're spreading on average per an average slice of bread and write that down in your spreadsheet.
Stuff you can't find exact calories for - write them down and ROUND UP their calories to the closest thing you COULD find exact calories for.
Considering it erring on the side of caution.
You could probably make a simple app for adding calorie counts of various ingredients in your spreadsheet (or an actual database at this point), subtracting the weight leftovers or packaging and/or empty plates after the meal (when eating outside your home).
You could add shiny graphs to show what you've been eating and how often, personal weight counters, a pedometer option to show you how much of your meal you've just walked off, goals, medals for inputting X numbers of unique (one for each ingredient or dish) calorie counts for food (gotta catch them all)...
There. Now you can treat dieting as a programming task.
Nothing of value was lost.
Well, for you, me, many others...
* A more florid description was actually used.
Pink?
It's the one that paid for this "news" to appear on Slashdot.
By $ I mean money. And by how many I mean "how much".