And in some of those places this would work, and in others it wouldn't. This isn't a miracle invention to end all our energy woes. It's just a little boost to help increase the efficiency of certain processes that generate a lot of heat. The cost-benefit analysis and design constraints for each proposed application are up to the person proposing that application.
It's being circulated already in the power plant's existing cooling tower.
And if the thermocell is installed somewhere else?
Then...that'd be bad engineering?
The entire point of the design is to use it in situations where you have waste heat. You're cooling your equipment anyway, because the laws of thermodynamics are a bitch. But now you're pulling a little bit more energy out before it heads to the cooler. So it's not a free lunch. You've already paid for the lunch; this is just grabbing an extra french fry on your way out the door.
. 'The mature verdict on Steve Ballmer is that he has made only one major strategic error: not combining his own brilliance for sales and detail with a visionary product leader who has the authority to create bold new revenue streams for the company.'
I don't know a thing about Ballmer - I don't follow corporate politics. But if you dig through all the marketing-speak there, didn't that just say "Ballmer's one major error as a CEO was not doing that thing that CEOs should be doing"?
I can't speak to electrical, but I had a similar experience with my Mechanical degree. I graduated in 2011 and found a job within a month. None of my buddies from college had trouble gettting jobs either (except the bioengineers - they're all struggling). They're all oil industry jobs, though, so you do have to sell a bit of your soul as an entry deposit.
What country? What part of the country? What university? What specialization?
USA, Texas (and associated oil states), Rice. Specialization matters less than the actual degree, as in-house training is common and extensive. My specialization was aero/astro and somehow I ended up building cranes.
You're thrown into a gladiatorial ring. An audience of thousands watches your every move, eager for blood. Across the ring, Richard Stallman advances toward you, katana poised to attack. To your left you see a rack full of medieval weapons.
What weapon do you choose? Whose blood will be spilled upon the sand?
I'm confused by this explanation. An upside-down angular velocity sensor would definitely pitch the rocket out of control the way it did. But what about the brown plume that was clearly visible before the rocket lost it? The consensus seemed to be that that was unburned rocket fuel, implying an engine shutdown.
I don't build rockets, but I can't see how an upside-down rotation sensor could cause an engine shutdown, especially since the shutdown occurred before the rocket began pitching.. Could there have been more than one problem on the rocket?
The US Departments of Commerce, Education and the -- what's the third one there? Let's see.... OK. So Commerce, Education and the --... The third worst department I think -- I would have to say it's the Education, the... Commerce and -- let's see -- I can't. The third one, I can't. Sorry. Oops.
Historically assassinations have had little effect on the policy course of the nation.
Which nation are you talking about? Certainly not the USA.
The assassination of Lincoln ushered in the era of Radical Reconstruction, the most polarized, partisan era in American governmental history. Lincoln had favored a moderate approach to reintegrating the South into the Union, while the radical Republicans in Congress wanted immediate legislative action both to give civil liberties to Southern blacks and to punish the South for the war. Though Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, tried to follow Lincoln's path, he didn't have the political clout. Southern-born and a Democrat, Johnson was seen as a collaborator and was overridden at every turn. While might-have-beens are always suspect, the saint-like status Lincoln had achieved before his death almost assures that such political chaos could never have started under his watch.
The assassination of James Garfield did rather the opposite. As Reconstruction ended, the Republican party was splintering into factions: the radical Stalwarts and the moderate Half-Breeds, divided over issues of patronage, political machines, and governmental power. Garfield was a Half-Breed, and his attempts at political reform (at the expense of the Stalwarts) were met with mass protest, stonewalling, and finally a bullet. After his death, his successor Arthur, a Stalwart, was expected to reverse course, but he didn't. Arthur continued Garfield's reforms, using the symbol of a Stalwart standing for Half-Breed values to mend political divides left and right, North and South. He reunited the Republicans, eased some tensions with the Bourbon Democrats in the South, and renewed trust in government during a time when anarchism was rising in popularity.
Anarchism got another shock after the assassination of William McKinley. At the end of the Gilded Age, with executive power minimal and corporate power booming, the laissez-faire-minded McKinley was killed by an anarchist and replaced by famed trust-buster and Progressive hero Teddy Roosevelt. TR's economic reforms and expansion of Presidential power still resonate today.
And this post is rather too long already to discuss JFK. Suffice it to say, the assassination of a US president is generally followed by an abrupt shift in national direction and outlook, not by "little effect on the policy course of the nation".
In fact, nearly one-fifth of all jobs gained since the recession ended have been temporary.'
What in the what? I'd REALLY like to see a source on that, given that it's directly contradicted by the BLS. http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpsatab9.htm
Since the job market bottomed, we've created 5.4 million full-time jobs and 600,000 part-time jobs. How is that "nearly one-fifth"?
and the people who have been elected into positions to provide that oversight did.
Did they? I'd be interested to hear how you know that, given that the court opinions are secret. Is there actually oversight, or are the information requests simply rubber-stamped? We don't know, and that's the problem.
The funny thing about covert surveillance is that you can get a warrant for it. The process is not secret, and it happens all the time. The warrant is then shown in court along with the acquired evidence. That's completely public knowledge, and it hasn't seemed to "tip off" the criminals any. Do criminals not use cars because of license plate cameras, or not use phones because of wiretapping?
The "revealing its existence will compromise security" argument is so wrongheaded as to be laughable.
55,000 Carthaginians survived and were sold into slavery. Granted, that was only about 10% of the city's pre-battle population, but they weren't all killed.
Interesting points about openness and democratic oversight in government as opposed to the corporate world.
So shouldn't you be up in arms about the lack of both openness and democratic oversight shown in the NSA affair? You can't defend the virtues of one system over another, then turn a blind eye when it reneges on those virtues.
Unless the StarGate has a personified form and wasn't just a gate (never saw any of the series), then not really. Rivers in Greek and Roman mythology were minor gods who could take bodily form. Styx, in her goddess form, was a character of moderate importance in the war between the gods and the Titans.
Now you're getting into the legal niceties of "credible threat", which is sometimes a valid restriction on freedom of speech. But the statement "Freedom of speech, which protects one from arrest and jailing based on one's speech, may sometimes be revoked" is a very different statement from what you said, which was "Freedom of speech does not absolve one from responsibility for the consequences of the speech in question." One is an explanation that freedom does not apply in all circumstances, and the other is a blanket statement claiming freedom is not freedom.
Freedom of speech does not absolve one from responsibility for the consequences of the speech in question.
Depends on what consequences you're talking about. People around you thinking you're an asshole and never talking to you again? No, it doesn't protect you from that. Getting arrested and jailed? Yes, in fact, it does protect you from that; that's the entire meaning of the term.
Pshaw. We know all it's doing is changing color based on our body temperature! Chris Petrila fooled me with this in the first grade, and I won't let Microsoft fool me with it now!
Speaking of "out of place", they are very much NOT going away at oil industry trade shows. Skimpy bikinis, formal gowns, power suits, they're all there and they all want to sell you heavy machinery. It's almost comical.
People already have a publicly readable identifier called a "face". Since you can't really pick a car out of a lineup, they needed some sort of system.
Funnily enough, the "all you *insert minority* look the same to me" effect was what gave us modern fingerprinting. British in India couldn't reliably pick Indian criminals out of lineups, because all the faces looked the same to them. So they found a different system of identification.
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And in some of those places this would work, and in others it wouldn't. This isn't a miracle invention to end all our energy woes. It's just a little boost to help increase the efficiency of certain processes that generate a lot of heat. The cost-benefit analysis and design constraints for each proposed application are up to the person proposing that application.
It's being circulated already in the power plant's existing cooling tower.
And if the thermocell is installed somewhere else?
Then...that'd be bad engineering?
The entire point of the design is to use it in situations where you have waste heat. You're cooling your equipment anyway, because the laws of thermodynamics are a bitch. But now you're pulling a little bit more energy out before it heads to the cooler. So it's not a free lunch. You've already paid for the lunch; this is just grabbing an extra french fry on your way out the door.
It's being circulated already in the power plant's existing cooling tower.
OK, I read it. So he was talking about surrendering liberty to a wealthy family, rather than to a government entity. It's still a relevant quote.
. 'The mature verdict on Steve Ballmer is that he has made only one major strategic error: not combining his own brilliance for sales and detail with a visionary product leader who has the authority to create bold new revenue streams for the company.'
I don't know a thing about Ballmer - I don't follow corporate politics. But if you dig through all the marketing-speak there, didn't that just say "Ballmer's one major error as a CEO was not doing that thing that CEOs should be doing"?
I can't speak to electrical, but I had a similar experience with my Mechanical degree. I graduated in 2011 and found a job within a month. None of my buddies from college had trouble gettting jobs either (except the bioengineers - they're all struggling). They're all oil industry jobs, though, so you do have to sell a bit of your soul as an entry deposit.
What country? What part of the country? What university? What specialization?
USA, Texas (and associated oil states), Rice. Specialization matters less than the actual degree, as in-house training is common and extensive. My specialization was aero/astro and somehow I ended up building cranes.
You're thrown into a gladiatorial ring. An audience of thousands watches your every move, eager for blood. Across the ring, Richard Stallman advances toward you, katana poised to attack. To your left you see a rack full of medieval weapons.
What weapon do you choose? Whose blood will be spilled upon the sand?
I'm confused by this explanation. An upside-down angular velocity sensor would definitely pitch the rocket out of control the way it did. But what about the brown plume that was clearly visible before the rocket lost it? The consensus seemed to be that that was unburned rocket fuel, implying an engine shutdown.
I don't build rockets, but I can't see how an upside-down rotation sensor could cause an engine shutdown, especially since the shutdown occurred before the rocket began pitching.. Could there have been more than one problem on the rocket?
Good grief. The joke was explained to you in the post just above yours, and you still whooshed.
The US Departments of Commerce, Education and the -- what's the third one there? Let's see. ... OK. So Commerce, Education and the -- ... The third worst department I think -- I would have to say it's the Education, the ... Commerce and -- let's see -- I can't. The third one, I can't. Sorry. Oops.
Historically assassinations have had little effect on the policy course of the nation.
Which nation are you talking about? Certainly not the USA.
The assassination of Lincoln ushered in the era of Radical Reconstruction, the most polarized, partisan era in American governmental history. Lincoln had favored a moderate approach to reintegrating the South into the Union, while the radical Republicans in Congress wanted immediate legislative action both to give civil liberties to Southern blacks and to punish the South for the war. Though Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, tried to follow Lincoln's path, he didn't have the political clout. Southern-born and a Democrat, Johnson was seen as a collaborator and was overridden at every turn. While might-have-beens are always suspect, the saint-like status Lincoln had achieved before his death almost assures that such political chaos could never have started under his watch.
The assassination of James Garfield did rather the opposite. As Reconstruction ended, the Republican party was splintering into factions: the radical Stalwarts and the moderate Half-Breeds, divided over issues of patronage, political machines, and governmental power. Garfield was a Half-Breed, and his attempts at political reform (at the expense of the Stalwarts) were met with mass protest, stonewalling, and finally a bullet. After his death, his successor Arthur, a Stalwart, was expected to reverse course, but he didn't. Arthur continued Garfield's reforms, using the symbol of a Stalwart standing for Half-Breed values to mend political divides left and right, North and South. He reunited the Republicans, eased some tensions with the Bourbon Democrats in the South, and renewed trust in government during a time when anarchism was rising in popularity.
Anarchism got another shock after the assassination of William McKinley. At the end of the Gilded Age, with executive power minimal and corporate power booming, the laissez-faire-minded McKinley was killed by an anarchist and replaced by famed trust-buster and Progressive hero Teddy Roosevelt. TR's economic reforms and expansion of Presidential power still resonate today.
And this post is rather too long already to discuss JFK. Suffice it to say, the assassination of a US president is generally followed by an abrupt shift in national direction and outlook, not by "little effect on the policy course of the nation".
In fact, nearly one-fifth of all jobs gained since the recession ended have been temporary.'
What in the what? I'd REALLY like to see a source on that, given that it's directly contradicted by the BLS.
http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpsatab9.htm
Since the job market bottomed, we've created 5.4 million full-time jobs and 600,000 part-time jobs. How is that "nearly one-fifth"?
and the people who have been elected into positions to provide that oversight did.
Did they? I'd be interested to hear how you know that, given that the court opinions are secret. Is there actually oversight, or are the information requests simply rubber-stamped? We don't know, and that's the problem.
The funny thing about covert surveillance is that you can get a warrant for it. The process is not secret, and it happens all the time. The warrant is then shown in court along with the acquired evidence. That's completely public knowledge, and it hasn't seemed to "tip off" the criminals any. Do criminals not use cars because of license plate cameras, or not use phones because of wiretapping?
The "revealing its existence will compromise security" argument is so wrongheaded as to be laughable.
55,000 Carthaginians survived and were sold into slavery. Granted, that was only about 10% of the city's pre-battle population, but they weren't all killed.
Interesting points about openness and democratic oversight in government as opposed to the corporate world.
So shouldn't you be up in arms about the lack of both openness and democratic oversight shown in the NSA affair? You can't defend the virtues of one system over another, then turn a blind eye when it reneges on those virtues.
> the physics behind waterslides
Shouldn't that be "The Engineering Behind..."?
Eh, the article still works as intended. Fill out a non-conformance report and call it a day.
You must not be looking very hard. Link
Unless the StarGate has a personified form and wasn't just a gate (never saw any of the series), then not really. Rivers in Greek and Roman mythology were minor gods who could take bodily form. Styx, in her goddess form, was a character of moderate importance in the war between the gods and the Titans.
There's already an asteroid called Cerberus.
Now you're getting into the legal niceties of "credible threat", which is sometimes a valid restriction on freedom of speech. But the statement "Freedom of speech, which protects one from arrest and jailing based on one's speech, may sometimes be revoked" is a very different statement from what you said, which was "Freedom of speech does not absolve one from responsibility for the consequences of the speech in question." One is an explanation that freedom does not apply in all circumstances, and the other is a blanket statement claiming freedom is not freedom.
Freedom of speech does not absolve one from responsibility for the consequences of the speech in question.
Depends on what consequences you're talking about.
People around you thinking you're an asshole and never talking to you again? No, it doesn't protect you from that.
Getting arrested and jailed? Yes, in fact, it does protect you from that; that's the entire meaning of the term.
Pshaw. We know all it's doing is changing color based on our body temperature! Chris Petrila fooled me with this in the first grade, and I won't let Microsoft fool me with it now!
Make sure you include "Destructive testing of competitors' products" as part of your skillset.
Speaking of "out of place", they are very much NOT going away at oil industry trade shows. Skimpy bikinis, formal gowns, power suits, they're all there and they all want to sell you heavy machinery. It's almost comical.
People already have a publicly readable identifier called a "face". Since you can't really pick a car out of a lineup, they needed some sort of system.
Funnily enough, the "all you *insert minority* look the same to me" effect was what gave us modern fingerprinting. British in India couldn't reliably pick Indian criminals out of lineups, because all the faces looked the same to them. So they found a different system of identification.