That will work with the IR, but Bluetooth is still outside the realm of TV tech (to my knowledge). But I guess I could build an IR xmitter with a bluetooth connection so I can bluetooth the xmitter that IRs the TV.
>Probably even cheaper than buying it from third world countries in the long run.
Largest uranium exporter to the US market is Canada. Largest uranium deposit currently being mined in Olympic Dam in Australia. Doubt that either of these qualify as 3rd world since both provide free, modern health care to their citizens.
Canada also needs to protect the revenue of the thousands of artists who contribute to society's well being by improving the outdoor environment in cities - buskers. The traditional model of people voluntarily paying buskers has been damaged due to the proliferation of rapid transit making people less likely to compensate the rain soaked guitar player at the bus station.
These people are also artists, so Canada should enact a tax on rapid transit to replace their diminishing revenue.
I wonder what would happen to men's lifespans if they went back to using slide rules instead of calculators? Your comment on the abacus leads me to think that the most advanced calculation tool may act as a proxy for how 'advanced' the civilization is. The China & Japan were, IMO the most advanced civs of the 1AD time period and the abacus was a manifestation of that. What were the lifespans like versus, for example, the Roman and Persian empires of the same age?
Don't bother spending resources on people unless they are productive. Society needs productive people, not hedonists, otherwise "we" go the way of the Roman Empire. Remember them, lots of fun games and drinking, but this minor problem of the Huns spoiling the party.
If only they'd paid more attention to the not-fun stuff.
Remember if it wasn't for scientists trying to be great, there would be no nuclear weapons, little chemical weapons... if scientists had put their knowledge to true good they would have developed polution friendly methods of power, chemical weapons what made the enemy fall pass out instead of die...
Why didn't they develop these?
They did:
no nuclear weapons: All the world except about a dozen countries is free of nuclear weapons. Canada has a very advanced nuclear power program and not a single nuclear weapon.
Polution[sic] friendly methods of power: hydroelectric, geothermal, solar. They all exist and are used where they are practical. Note the word practical excludes stupidity like Oregon's wind farms that require 2c/kWh subsidies and a coal fired power plant to balance the grid power factor.
chemical weapons where people pass out: pepper spray, tear gas, puke gas, and whatever that crap was the Russians used in to free several hundred people from the Chechen theatre hostage-takers a couple of years back (yes, there were fatalities from the gas, but some people did survive).
So if you really feal that humanity is going down the sewer in a hurry, please do us a favour and flush yourself now.
The School of Conservation Sciences at Bournemouth University offers highly successful postgraduate courses in Forensic Archaeology and Forensic and Biological Anthropology, as well as an undergraduate programme in Archaeology. The Forensic Archaeology course provides valuable expertise in the search, location and recovery of buried victims and materials, and shows how archaeological principles and methods may be applied and adapted within the constraints of the criminal justice system. Forensic anthropology involves the analysis of human skeletal remains using methods developed within biological anthropology and adapting these for application within a judicial context.
The power factor correction is the one that works against distributed power generation - a large number of small operations is difficult to regulate to match the grid demand. This is one reason why BC hydro, who generates most of its electricity with hydro, operates a natural gas thermal plant in the middle of Vancouver. They need both a source of power and a turbine that they can dial in phase shifts to respond to the back-emf from the users on the grid. Try that with your solar panel!
journalistic skill and integrity journalistic skill and integrity,
Why is it necessary to post this AC? At least/. is willing to announce their identity and withstand the flames. First step in integrity is allowing people associate your idea with you.
It is if it bankrupts you, in spite of the minor fact that you won. What is needed is a clear signal that the loser will pay the winner's costs. I wonder if the litigants are going to forego an award of costs due to the charge of 'fraud' (see 2.b) in their action?
In spite of me being a metallurgical engineer, don't consider this to be a professional recommendation.
Titanium is extremely difficult to work with-- just ask the Australians who were lining high temperature autoclaves with them. Titanium is brittle and burns at high temp and high O2 overpressures (think Sodium fires). Welding it is an art and must be done under an inert atmosphere making it very succeptible to something known as 'human error'. Zirconium is in the same family as Titanium and likely suffers the same firey fate.
I'm not aware of Molybdenum ever being used in its 'elemental' form. Most common uses are as sulphides and oxides as lubricants or in alloying with ferrous metals. There is likely a reason for nobody using it in elemental form - I don't know what it is. I'll check some of my reference books and get back to the group with the results. I suspect it is a promiscuous metal and will corrode easily.
Technetium, Ruthenium, Iridium, Scandium and Hafnium are so rare that I have never encountered them in my career. I suspect you would have a hard time a) finding enough of them, and b) finding anybody who knows how to weld them.
Tantalum is often used as a substitute for titanium in autoclave parts that are subjected to high O2 atmospheres. Unbelievably expensive... a solid Tantalum component is worth several times the costs of titanium in the same component.
Platinum, Rhodium and other PGMs (paladium, etc) are expensive and ductile. Need to alloy them with something to get the strength up (think 24 karat gold versus 10 karat gold). But what happens to the melting temp when you start alloying it?
Niobium is, to my knowledge, only mined in a single place in North America: Niobec. These guys don't make an elemental product, they make an alloy known as Ferroniobium that is sold to steel plants for use in alloying.
I guess getting to email and solitare quickly are more important than making sure all the personal data she has on it is safe.
Not to sound like a troll, but what is wrong with that? People weigh the results of decisions every day: do I drive to work (unsafe, fast, comfy) or take the bus (safe, slow, smells funny). Do I vote for the party that offers free this, free that, and offers to tax the rich to pay for it; or do I vote for the party that offers minimal government services and tax cuts.
She's a grown-up. She's capable of living with the results of her decision, so lay off.
Bang on! The problem is the C platform is not what the engineering profession calls 'intrinsically safe'. Less flexible platforms (Pascal, Java, etc) are designed with things like strong typing or a sandbox model in order to prevent silly things like buffer overflows and underruns. These are safer ways to build programs.
Would you want to work in a mine I design if I didn't put 'end of range' detectors on the skip that runs up and down the shaft?
Typical BBC (and CBC, ABC, SABC, PBS) drivel that only the almighty Government can make something happen, and those mindless voters must be made to see reason.
Want space colonization? Try a gold rush... it worked in California, Yukon/Alaska, Australia (Vic), South Africa, and is currently populating parts of Brazil. So what do we need to start this gold rush?
First of all, higher commodity prices for things we'll find in space (metals, diamonds, power, etc). All these things are presently better provided (==cheaper) from terrestrial sources.
Second we need a frontier mentality that ANYONE may go out there and play. If they hurt themselves or get killed adding a mod-chip to their nuclear reactor, well too bad. If somebody does something bad, organize a posse and hunt them down. Only when the population gets big enough do citizens organize permanent posses and call them "police". Then and only then will the colonists form their own government and start paying taxes.
So we have a long way to go before real people have any need to go into space. We haven't finished mining Earth yet:-) .
Yes, Canadians pay less on health care than Americans. But ours is the 2nd most expensive system in the world. Australia, Sweden and much of northern Europe operates "as good or better" systems much cheaper AND most allow people some level of choice in health care (like Australia's 2 insurance systems or Sweden's private hospitals who compete for your government voucher). England is going through some serious rethinking of their "national health system" right now with people considering a change to an Australian system.
But not all is doom & gloom, some cutting edge work is being done here.
There is more to it than that! The hospitals are run by the governments too and private clinics are strictly limited in the procedures they may perform. Note the horror that Eastern Canada greeted the BC plan to run private MRI clinics and the Alberta plan to let clinics do surgeries requiring overnight stays. "Medicare" is more than the name of the "insurance" program; it is the federal government's mechanism for userping much of a provincial responsibility: health care. It also keeps thousands of Union members happily overpaid.
Yes, there are other mechanisms for paying for health care in Canada: Workers Compensation and the Armed Forces for example. But ordinary citizens who want ordinary treatment have NO choice in this country.
Note, a payload suitable for lifting the HST needs to be developed, but that shouldn't cost more than $120M. (just keep the union shops away from the contract)
Hubble requires an absolutely still environment to work. Any attempt to connect it to the ISS would transmit too much vibration from various motors and the crew bumping around. Parking it in a nearby orbit would avoid the vibration but might gum up other systems, like the infra-red systems that don't like vented atmosphere or space junk.
Hubble doesn't need constant maintenance, so don't park it near the ISS. Humans will have cheap transport to orbit once the X-prize contest is over.
The Deep Space 1 spacecraft was propelled by a TINY amount of thrust over a long period. Mounting tiny low acceleration thrusters at a few structural strong points would do the job in a few months. Likely can't use the telescope during that time because even that low accel is likely to goof up the gyroscopes that hold it steady. But that is preferable to the alternative
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That will work with the IR, but Bluetooth is still outside the realm of TV tech (to my knowledge). But I guess I could build an IR xmitter with a bluetooth connection so I can bluetooth the xmitter that IRs the TV.
Hmm. Where is Rube Goldberg when you need him?
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So will this allow my Palm to replace my TV Remote control?
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>Probably even cheaper than buying it from third world countries in the long run.
Largest uranium exporter to the US market is Canada. Largest uranium deposit currently being mined in Olympic Dam in Australia. Doubt that either of these qualify as 3rd world since both provide free, modern health care to their citizens.
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ps. IMAME (I am a mining engineer)
These people are also artists, so Canada should enact a tax on rapid transit to replace their diminishing revenue.
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Romans: 41 to 50 yrs
Persians: ? yrs
Chinese: ? yrs
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Boo hoo, Life sucks...
He has every right to live his lifestyle and talk about it in an open forum, and if you don't like it then don't read his posts.
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Don't bother spending resources on people unless they are productive. Society needs productive people, not hedonists, otherwise "we" go the way of the Roman Empire. Remember them, lots of fun games and drinking, but this minor problem of the Huns spoiling the party.
If only they'd paid more attention to the not-fun stuff.
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These are awesome quotes but are they for real? Do you have the references for them?
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Why didn't they develop these?
They did:
So if you really feal that humanity is going down the sewer in a hurry, please do us a favour and flush yourself now.
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Here is a university short course offered by an archaeology dept on forensic investigation.
The School of Conservation Sciences at Bournemouth University offers highly successful postgraduate courses in Forensic Archaeology and Forensic and Biological Anthropology, as well as an undergraduate programme in Archaeology. The Forensic Archaeology course provides valuable expertise in the search, location and recovery of buried victims and materials, and shows how archaeological principles and methods may be applied and adapted within the constraints of the criminal justice system. Forensic anthropology involves the analysis of human skeletal remains using methods developed within biological anthropology and adapting these for application within a judicial context.
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This is a 'keyboard' projected on to a table top. Touch type into empty space...
Or how about an antique slide rule?
Power can't just be produced... it must be produced in a fashion that is useful to the overall grid. It must:
The power factor correction is the one that works against distributed power generation - a large number of small operations is difficult to regulate to match the grid demand. This is one reason why BC hydro, who generates most of its electricity with hydro, operates a natural gas thermal plant in the middle of Vancouver. They need both a source of power and a turbine that they can dial in phase shifts to respond to the back-emf from the users on the grid. Try that with your solar panel!
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Why is it necessary to post this AC? At least /. is willing to announce their identity and withstand the flames. First step in integrity is allowing people associate your idea with you.
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It is if it bankrupts you, in spite of the minor fact that you won. What is needed is a clear signal that the loser will pay the winner's costs. I wonder if the litigants are going to forego an award of costs due to the charge of 'fraud' (see 2.b) in their action?
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Titanium is extremely difficult to work with-- just ask the Australians who were lining high temperature autoclaves with them. Titanium is brittle and burns at high temp and high O2 overpressures (think Sodium fires). Welding it is an art and must be done under an inert atmosphere making it very succeptible to something known as 'human error'. Zirconium is in the same family as Titanium and likely suffers the same firey fate.
I'm not aware of Molybdenum ever being used in its 'elemental' form. Most common uses are as sulphides and oxides as lubricants or in alloying with ferrous metals. There is likely a reason for nobody using it in elemental form - I don't know what it is. I'll check some of my reference books and get back to the group with the results. I suspect it is a promiscuous metal and will corrode easily.
Technetium, Ruthenium, Iridium, Scandium and Hafnium are so rare that I have never encountered them in my career. I suspect you would have a hard time a) finding enough of them, and b) finding anybody who knows how to weld them.
Tantalum is often used as a substitute for titanium in autoclave parts that are subjected to high O2 atmospheres. Unbelievably expensive... a solid Tantalum component is worth several times the costs of titanium in the same component.
Platinum, Rhodium and other PGMs (paladium, etc) are expensive and ductile. Need to alloy them with something to get the strength up (think 24 karat gold versus 10 karat gold). But what happens to the melting temp when you start alloying it?
Niobium is, to my knowledge, only mined in a single place in North America: Niobec. These guys don't make an elemental product, they make an alloy known as Ferroniobium that is sold to steel plants for use in alloying.
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Not to sound like a troll, but what is wrong with that? People weigh the results of decisions every day: do I drive to work (unsafe, fast, comfy) or take the bus (safe, slow, smells funny). Do I vote for the party that offers free this, free that, and offers to tax the rich to pay for it; or do I vote for the party that offers minimal government services and tax cuts.
She's a grown-up. She's capable of living with the results of her decision, so lay off.
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hehehe good point. I wanna record this.
"Linux programmers will doubtless keep reinventing the wheel, thereby ensuring system heterogenity"
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Bang on! The problem is the C platform is not what the engineering profession calls 'intrinsically safe'. Less flexible platforms (Pascal, Java, etc) are designed with things like strong typing or a sandbox model in order to prevent silly things like buffer overflows and underruns. These are safer ways to build programs.
Would you want to work in a mine I design if I didn't put 'end of range' detectors on the skip that runs up and down the shaft?
-Alex Doll, P.Eng (Alberta)
Typical BBC (and CBC, ABC, SABC, PBS) drivel that only the almighty Government can make something happen, and those mindless voters must be made to see reason.
Want space colonization? Try a gold rush... it worked in California, Yukon/Alaska, Australia (Vic), South Africa, and is currently populating parts of Brazil. So what do we need to start this gold rush?
First of all, higher commodity prices for things we'll find in space (metals, diamonds, power, etc). All these things are presently better provided (==cheaper) from terrestrial sources.
Second we need a frontier mentality that ANYONE may go out there and play. If they hurt themselves or get killed adding a mod-chip to their nuclear reactor, well too bad. If somebody does something bad, organize a posse and hunt them down. Only when the population gets big enough do citizens organize permanent posses and call them "police". Then and only then will the colonists form their own government and start paying taxes.
So we have a long way to go before real people have any need to go into space. We haven't finished mining Earth yet :-) .
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Yes, Canadians pay less on health care than Americans. But ours is the 2nd most expensive system in the world. Australia, Sweden and much of northern Europe operates "as good or better" systems much cheaper AND most allow people some level of choice in health care (like Australia's 2 insurance systems or Sweden's private hospitals who compete for your government voucher). England is going through some serious rethinking of their "national health system" right now with people considering a change to an Australian system.
But not all is doom & gloom, some cutting edge work is being done here.
There is more to it than that! The hospitals are run by the governments too and private clinics are strictly limited in the procedures they may perform. Note the horror that Eastern Canada greeted the BC plan to run private MRI clinics and the Alberta plan to let clinics do surgeries requiring overnight stays. "Medicare" is more than the name of the "insurance" program; it is the federal government's mechanism for userping much of a provincial responsibility: health care. It also keeps thousands of Union members happily overpaid.
Yes, there are other mechanisms for paying for health care in Canada: Workers Compensation and the Armed Forces for example. But ordinary citizens who want ordinary treatment have NO choice in this country.
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Edmonton
(sorry, I used the "p" word)
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Cost of one space shuttle launch: $600 million
Cost of one Proton launch: $120 million
Note, a payload suitable for lifting the HST needs to be developed, but that shouldn't cost more than $120M. (just keep the union shops away from the contract)
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Hubble requires an absolutely still environment to work. Any attempt to connect it to the ISS would transmit too much vibration from various motors and the crew bumping around. Parking it in a nearby orbit would avoid the vibration but might gum up other systems, like the infra-red systems that don't like vented atmosphere or space junk.
Hubble doesn't need constant maintenance, so don't park it near the ISS. Humans will have cheap transport to orbit once the X-prize contest is over.
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