If you have enough water, it can absorb enough heat to prevent the reaction. Tesla's guide for first responders says, essentially, if you have a large supply of water (hydrant, not truck tank) you can cool the fire down enough to go out. If you don't have a large supply, just protect the surroundings while the car burns.
sounds more like "If LE gets here with a warrant before we delete it, we have to give it to them. If they give us proper legal notice that they're working on getting a warrant, we have to keep it around until they get one. In absence of any notice from LE, it goes poof once the recipient has gotten it."
Keep in mind, Square's been doing "sender of money hands over card info, recipient of money hands over bank account info" for years. It's just that the recipient set up the account first and then met the sender face to face.
whups, I misread your comment. I was thinking you were asking just about this plant. If we do the scaleup, 4.2 percent of the state converting 2.3 percent of the heat to electricity would average out (assuming they were spread around a lot) to 0.01% of the state's heat becoming electricity. If we don't spread it around, we're back to 2.3% of the heat in a 70x70 mile square, which would likely tend to be a cool zone and so wind would tend to move towards it at altitude and away at ground level, but I suspect the wind pattern changes would be confined mostly to the state and since AZ is (afaik) light on rain/cloud patterns to be affected, I'm not sure how much practical effect it would cause.
That's an interesting point. Let's see... they're putting out 280MW from 3100 acres, or 12 million square meters, each of which gets about 1kW of power, so out of 12 billion watts of incoming sun they're turning 2.3 percent into electricity (the rest is turning back into heat whether it hits the ground or the plant, so let's call that a wash).
2.3 percent could make a difference, but that's also 2.3 percent in a 3 square mile area. Unless it's isolated from the surrounding airspace, I think we have to consider the larger air mass, at which point it drops fast (adding a 5 mile radius brings the area to 78 square miles, and the reduction in heat to 0.01 percent, and it's quite probable that we should really look at a bigger area). So while it's something we probably ought to keep in mind when scaling up, this plant by itself seems unlikely to have a large impact.
properly done (ideally, part of the initial design) they're not bad (in my individual opinion, of course). What I find more jarring is when the solar array does not cover the entire roof and you have part-panel, part-shingle as a view.
well, we could get pretty close once we have the dyson sphere finished; gobs of solar power, both photoelectric and (solar) wind. But I have doubts that's what he meant.
Nothing can be unique to OOP; there are non-OOP languages that are computationally complete.
That said, in my experience, objects in Java (and to a lesser extent C++) make it easier to do some useful/"good" things than to not do them (internals hiding, collecting functionality in fewer places, coding to an interface which can then be implemented by whatever real data type you want), and that's a useful trait.
The fear now seems to be that the new jobs are not as people-intensive and won't be able to absorb the unemployed population. (A different fear is that the jobs that do get created will get created somewhere with cheaper labor, because the new jobs created by the internet and web are indifferent to physical location... which is the whole point of the internet and web, after all.)
I think there will always be something for people to do, but I think it's quite possible that for a lot of people it's going to wind up being "come up with something that you think other folks will like enough to buy and see if you're right". It seems like a logical progression from both the "you're responsible for all your own issues (retirement, health care) that your employer used to hire folks to handle for you" and from the etsy/kickstarter/indie musician directions. The problem with that, of course, is that most of the folks trying that are going to fail...
I dunno. Like I said, the state boundaries are oddly shaped, but you can tile a plane with hexagons, and those are all convex. Getting each hexagon to hold (about) the same number of people would require some distortion.
I've heard this before, but I don't think I'm understanding it. Capital gains is on the profit from selling stock, right? How does that profit get taxed before you sell it?
I don't know how well it would work out in practice, but 'except where limited by existing political borders (i.e. state boundaries) districts for federal officials shall be convex' seems like it would make it a lot harder to get tricky.
I was thinking more of cleaning up the road, on the theory that if the extinguisher triggers, a fire has probably wrecked the car, but you make a good point about it happening early enough that fire damage is minor...
"...large amounts of water" is the recommended approach for a battery fire. "Large" is important here; the cooling effect will overcome the metal-water reaction, if there's enough. If there's not enough, the recommended approach is to protect anything nearby while the battery burns.
I wonder how hard it is to clean that stuff up afterwards? I had to use a powder extinguisher on a grease fire as a teenager, and it took a professional cleaning crew to get the stuff back up; the grains were so fine they'd go through a regular vacuum bag. (This was around 30 years ago, so we didn't have HEPA bags; it might be simpler now.)
actually, "cool battery with _large_ amounts of water" is the prescribed method (according to Tesla's first responder docs) of dealing with a battery fire. They do note that if all you have is a small amount of water you shouldn't try, but if you have enough water, cooling the battery will win out over water-lithium reaction.
What they really want is to stop having to redo flash to cope with changing interfaces. Given a fixed standardized interface they can just put it out there and not have to annoy people with update requests. Except for bugs. And certificate revocations. And changing the hardcoded address of the RIAA system that gets the reports.
Actually, the 4th amendment does not say "unlawful", it says "unreasonable". Which opens a different can of worms, but does mean that the whole "it's a law, so it's lawful" discussion can go away.
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If you have enough water, it can absorb enough heat to prevent the reaction. Tesla's guide for first responders says, essentially, if you have a large supply of water (hydrant, not truck tank) you can cool the fire down enough to go out. If you don't have a large supply, just protect the surroundings while the car burns.
sounds more like "If LE gets here with a warrant before we delete it, we have to give it to them. If they give us proper legal notice that they're working on getting a warrant, we have to keep it around until they get one. In absence of any notice from LE, it goes poof once the recipient has gotten it."
Keep in mind, Square's been doing "sender of money hands over card info, recipient of money hands over bank account info" for years. It's just that the recipient set up the account first and then met the sender face to face.
anyone who can intercept the email from square to the recipient can use the link, unless there's a lot more validation than they're mentioning.
So I should be expecting 'Enter' here to press the Preview button?
What they are is not already trademarked. You know how hard it is to come up with a good and unencumbered name these days?
Not overlooked, just sidestepped. Pride in one's work is not a _financial_ motive.
You take that back! I am not a salesperson! :)
whups, I misread your comment. I was thinking you were asking just about this plant. If we do the scaleup, 4.2 percent of the state converting 2.3 percent of the heat to electricity would average out (assuming they were spread around a lot) to 0.01% of the state's heat becoming electricity. If we don't spread it around, we're back to 2.3% of the heat in a 70x70 mile square, which would likely tend to be a cool zone and so wind would tend to move towards it at altitude and away at ground level, but I suspect the wind pattern changes would be confined mostly to the state and since AZ is (afaik) light on rain/cloud patterns to be affected, I'm not sure how much practical effect it would cause.
That's an interesting point. Let's see... they're putting out 280MW from 3100 acres, or 12 million square meters, each of which gets about 1kW of power, so out of 12 billion watts of incoming sun they're turning 2.3 percent into electricity (the rest is turning back into heat whether it hits the ground or the plant, so let's call that a wash).
2.3 percent could make a difference, but that's also 2.3 percent in a 3 square mile area. Unless it's isolated from the surrounding airspace, I think we have to consider the larger air mass, at which point it drops fast (adding a 5 mile radius brings the area to 78 square miles, and the reduction in heat to 0.01 percent, and it's quite probable that we should really look at a bigger area). So while it's something we probably ought to keep in mind when scaling up, this plant by itself seems unlikely to have a large impact.
properly done (ideally, part of the initial design) they're not bad (in my individual opinion, of course). What I find more jarring is when the solar array does not cover the entire roof and you have part-panel, part-shingle as a view.
well, we could get pretty close once we have the dyson sphere finished; gobs of solar power, both photoelectric and (solar) wind. But I have doubts that's what he meant.
Nothing can be unique to OOP; there are non-OOP languages that are computationally complete.
That said, in my experience, objects in Java (and to a lesser extent C++) make it easier to do some useful/"good" things than to not do them (internals hiding, collecting functionality in fewer places, coding to an interface which can then be implemented by whatever real data type you want), and that's a useful trait.
The fear now seems to be that the new jobs are not as people-intensive and won't be able to absorb the unemployed population. (A different fear is that the jobs that do get created will get created somewhere with cheaper labor, because the new jobs created by the internet and web are indifferent to physical location... which is the whole point of the internet and web, after all.) I think there will always be something for people to do, but I think it's quite possible that for a lot of people it's going to wind up being "come up with something that you think other folks will like enough to buy and see if you're right". It seems like a logical progression from both the "you're responsible for all your own issues (retirement, health care) that your employer used to hire folks to handle for you" and from the etsy/kickstarter/indie musician directions. The problem with that, of course, is that most of the folks trying that are going to fail...
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I dunno. Like I said, the state boundaries are oddly shaped, but you can tile a plane with hexagons, and those are all convex. Getting each hexagon to hold (about) the same number of people would require some distortion.
I've heard this before, but I don't think I'm understanding it. Capital gains is on the profit from selling stock, right? How does that profit get taxed before you sell it?
I don't know how well it would work out in practice, but 'except where limited by existing political borders (i.e. state boundaries) districts for federal officials shall be convex' seems like it would make it a lot harder to get tricky.
I was thinking more of cleaning up the road, on the theory that if the extinguisher triggers, a fire has probably wrecked the car, but you make a good point about it happening early enough that fire damage is minor...
"...large amounts of water" is the recommended approach for a battery fire. "Large" is important here; the cooling effect will overcome the metal-water reaction, if there's enough. If there's not enough, the recommended approach is to protect anything nearby while the battery burns.
I wonder how hard it is to clean that stuff up afterwards? I had to use a powder extinguisher on a grease fire as a teenager, and it took a professional cleaning crew to get the stuff back up; the grains were so fine they'd go through a regular vacuum bag. (This was around 30 years ago, so we didn't have HEPA bags; it might be simpler now.)
actually, "cool battery with _large_ amounts of water" is the prescribed method (according to Tesla's first responder docs) of dealing with a battery fire. They do note that if all you have is a small amount of water you shouldn't try, but if you have enough water, cooling the battery will win out over water-lithium reaction.
What they really want is to stop having to redo flash to cope with changing interfaces. Given a fixed standardized interface they can just put it out there and not have to annoy people with update requests. Except for bugs. And certificate revocations. And changing the hardcoded address of the RIAA system that gets the reports.
Sturgeon's law.
Actually, the 4th amendment does not say "unlawful", it says "unreasonable". Which opens a different can of worms, but does mean that the whole "it's a law, so it's lawful" discussion can go away.