It seems to me that fusion research in the US is never going to get decent levels of funding all the time that the Whitehouse is full of people with millions of dollars invested in oil companies.
I think it is rather naive to think that oil companies are so shortsighted as to not realize that the commodity they are pumping out of the ground has a finite quantity. They will run out eventually. Therefore, they need a long term strategy to adapt to this.
Providing gasoline and lubricating oils form a signifigant part of their business. The fusion power that would arrive in the next couple of decades will replace fossil fuel fired power plants, which are already predominantly coal or natural gas fired. Fusion power will not replace internal combustion engines, nor will it make all electric vehicles any more viable. If anything, oil companies should like fusion power, since it will stretch oil supplies out even longer and allow their core business to remain profitable for a longer period of time.
You obviously have no concept of AC and DC electricity. Its not just a matter of stepping voltages, its also a matter of line losses and safety.
High DC voltages are much more dangerous than similar AC voltages. On top of this, the line losses would make long-range transmission of DC power impractical.
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Ada and assembly using the Tartan Ada compiler on VAX.
Actually, that was the case for the first few months. Also, the airplanes available in those first few months vere not up to "turning and burning".
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"When the fsk did it become acceptable to fix problems in avionics by rebooting the airplane?"
When avionics became really fscking complicated. There are thousands of things that can go wrong, many not related to the software at all, that may require a subsystem to "reboot", if reboot is taken to mean cycling the power.
OK, I wasn't thinking of how a monorail system differs from a conventional system when I wrote that so no, a monorail wouldn't be effected (much) by high winds. However, a conventional train can still be tipped over by hurricane force winds.
As for the storm surge, it only reaches about 1 to 1.5 miles inland at the most, and it would have to be a strong storm for the surge to get that far. If it was a wet hurricane, the heavy rain could cause localized flooding as well. However, having lived in Hollywood, FL all my 22 years, I have never seen the tracks flood. The grade on all the track here is at least 10 feet above sea level and 2 feet above the surrounding area. I've seen some minor flooding on the tracks at passenger stations because the platforms trap water, but that's it. Anyway, no one would operate any train down here in hurricane conditions anyway.
As for the logistics of trying to evacuate people by train, it would be hell. Its bad enough with everyone driving themselves out or being bused out. Adding a train would only confuse matters. On top of that, this train, if built, would run north-south in this area. People need to be evacuated west (from here).
1) Ability to operate in a hurricane. H2o is not an issue.
Actually, the issue in a hurricane is not water, its wind. Hurricane force winds will blow a train over; the method of locomotion is irrelevant because they are all the same size. In addition, and having nothing to with the train itself, the crossing arms and other parts of the signals are removed when a hurricane warning is issued to prevent them from breaking free and becoming projectiles.
Can't comment on the other two. The only monorail I've ever seen was at Dizzy World.
The bullet train is not intended to relieve everyday commuter traffic. It is intended to link the major cities of Florida. The vast majority of the traffic on I-95 in Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach is going somewhere in one of those counties. Since this train would only have from one to three stops in these counties (I would guess Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach) it would do little for the traffic.
In fact, this train won't relieve traffic anywhere. This train will be for long hauls. Because of it's cost, short runs will not be profitable, most likely including the Orlando-Tampa run.
I know I'm jumping in a little late, but...
Not quite. It was Mao Zedong who developed the Third World Theory. In this theory, the First World was Europe and North America; the Second World was the Soviet Union, allies, and satellites; and the Third World were the Asian, Latin American, and African nations, including China. Mao wanted China to be the leader of the Third World.
and since the Assignments account for 65 percent of the grade, tests are put in the backseat
I gather from reading other posts that this kind of weighting is common in intro classes. Interestingly, in my intro class (which is only required for CS/CompE, but which I took as an elective) the programming assignments were only 15% of our grade (3% for each of 5), but if we turned in nothing we lost 10% of our grade. Neither my professor or the university has such a "no sharing" policy. In fact, the department didn't have a written honor code at all until this summer, and it explicitly states that consulting with fellow students is permitted and encouraged.
Anyway, to get back to my point, the next level programming class, Data Structures and Algorithms, had similar weighting. I don't remember the precise number, but a small part of the grade was actually derived from the programming assignments. Apparently the attitude of the CSE department here is that the assignments are graded practice and that the tests are a better gauge of learning. Is anyone else's program like this or just mine?
Last I heard, the USPS was prohibited from turning a profit; it is only supposed to make enough to cover its operating expenses. I don't know how out of date I am; the USPS has changed radically in the past few years.
Where do you live? In Florida, the public universities are heavily subsidized by the state legislature. I go to Florida Atlantic University, where the actual cost per credit hour is $352.88. Being a Florida resident, though, I only pay $89.96 per hour because the state pays the rest. Multiply an average of 12 hours per student by about 15,000 Florida residents at the school, and thats a state subsidy of over $47 million. The school's total budget is about $180 million. The school gets additional state funding for a few other things, but this is the larget chunk. In fact, we're so tied to state funding that an $8 million dollar reduction in the subsidy has caused serious money problems.
1. If you work corp to corp, yes, you do have to start a corporation and pay taxes. Typically, you get bilked, because your corporation must hire you, and pay you a salary. Not only will you have to pay taxes on the income you are paid by your own corporation, but your corporation will have to pay taxes on the money they pay you. Any additional income is subject to taxation as well - and unlike an independent contractor, you cannot just seize any excess cash in the corporation and claim it as your own.
Its only that difficult if you form a Chapter C corporation. A Subchapter S is simpler (and avoids the double taxation), and an LLC is downright easy (at least in Florida, where all you have to do to maintain it is to register it for about $100 and pay the $50 renewal fee every year). You also don't have to go through the hassle of hiring yourself and paying yourself a salary, since all the profits from the LLC not reinvested in the company are distributed between the owners, and that distribution is only taxed in the owner's personal income tax (under Florida law). The best way to go is probably LLC (or LLP), but not all states allow LLC/LLPs.
I am not an electrician, but I've done my own electrical work, so here's my opinion:
The way I understand it, according to the National Electric Code, any box with wires running into it (even if it is just a pass-through) needs to be accessable. The thing to do in this case would be to cut the holes in the plasterboard and cover the box with a blank plate.
The bonus with this method is that the placement of the boxes is obvious and the plasterboard doesn't need to be cut later. Therefore a map is unnecessary. Also, if the walls are concrete block and plaster, not plasterboard, this is the only practical way to go (unless you want to start cutting holes in the block for new boxes).
I agree. I don't see how making the case out of aluminum makes its cooling effect any better. As a previous poster said, only the convection currents ever touch it. Even if it does, is it worth $600?
Does anyone know of any tests that have been done to rate the cooling efficeny of cases based on their metal composition?
This was exactly part of my point. Why, if it is illegal according to Geneva convention, is it legal for use in civillian markets?
Actually, for hunting, it is illegal to use fully jacketed bullets. Hollow point and mushrooming rounds are illegal under the Geneva Convention because they are more lethal than fully jacketed bullets, which is the same reason they are required for use in hunting. Fully jacketed bullets are less likely to cause fatal wounds. Its an interesting contradiction; as far as animals are concerned, its more humane to kill them in one shot, but for humans, its more humane to only wound them two or three times and let them bleed to death on the battlefield.
It is in their best interest for their licenses to mean something. However, their licenses and the GPL are fundamentally two different things. The GPL is a distribution license, framed in accordance with the appropriate section of US copyright law (I don't remember the section number). "[A]ss-disgusting proprietary licenses" are usage licenses, and have no basis in current US law that I can find. Therefore, a yes or no on the enforcability of the GPL won't have much effect on the proprietary licenses. On the other hand, since the GPL is grounded in copyright law, it is more likely to be upheld.
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In southeast Florida, the average starting salary for an engineer is about $50,000.
The average starting salary for a public school teacher, who only need a bachelor's degree (if that in these currently desperate times), is $35,000.
It seems to me that fusion research in the US is never going to get decent levels of funding all the time that the Whitehouse is full of people with millions of dollars invested in oil companies.
I think it is rather naive to think that oil companies are so shortsighted as to not realize that the commodity they are pumping out of the ground has a finite quantity. They will run out eventually. Therefore, they need a long term strategy to adapt to this.
Providing gasoline and lubricating oils form a signifigant part of their business. The fusion power that would arrive in the next couple of decades will replace fossil fuel fired power plants, which are already predominantly coal or natural gas fired. Fusion power will not replace internal combustion engines, nor will it make all electric vehicles any more viable. If anything, oil companies should like fusion power, since it will stretch oil supplies out even longer and allow their core business to remain profitable for a longer period of time.
Actually no, the 5PM EST advisory downgraded it. Still, it was only 20 minutes after.
Generally good ideas, but taping windows is totally useless.
Would a nuclear blast have any effect on a hurricane?
No
You obviously have no concept of AC and DC electricity. Its not just a matter of stepping voltages, its also a matter of line losses and safety. High DC voltages are much more dangerous than similar AC voltages. On top of this, the line losses would make long-range transmission of DC power impractical.
Ada and assembly using the Tartan Ada compiler on VAX.
I know you're trolling, but vi is actually what we use on the VAX systems.
Actually, that was the case for the first few months. Also, the airplanes available in those first few months vere not up to "turning and burning".
"When the fsk did it become acceptable to fix problems in avionics by rebooting the airplane?" When avionics became really fscking complicated. There are thousands of things that can go wrong, many not related to the software at all, that may require a subsystem to "reboot", if reboot is taken to mean cycling the power.
With in-flight data links to AWACS and JSTARS, that is exactly what you get. :)
I believe that those are VAX terminals running the Tartan Ada compiler, since the aircraft's code is written in Ada.
If you're willing to do that, you're probably willing to activate Microsoft Windows Update, too.
OK, I wasn't thinking of how a monorail system differs from a conventional system when I wrote that so no, a monorail wouldn't be effected (much) by high winds. However, a conventional train can still be tipped over by hurricane force winds.
As for the storm surge, it only reaches about 1 to 1.5 miles inland at the most, and it would have to be a strong storm for the surge to get that far. If it was a wet hurricane, the heavy rain could cause localized flooding as well. However, having lived in Hollywood, FL all my 22 years, I have never seen the tracks flood. The grade on all the track here is at least 10 feet above sea level and 2 feet above the surrounding area. I've seen some minor flooding on the tracks at passenger stations because the platforms trap water, but that's it. Anyway, no one would operate any train down here in hurricane conditions anyway.
As for the logistics of trying to evacuate people by train, it would be hell. Its bad enough with everyone driving themselves out or being bused out. Adding a train would only confuse matters. On top of that, this train, if built, would run north-south in this area. People need to be evacuated west (from here).
1) Ability to operate in a hurricane. H2o is not an issue.
Actually, the issue in a hurricane is not water, its wind. Hurricane force winds will blow a train over; the method of locomotion is irrelevant because they are all the same size. In addition, and having nothing to with the train itself, the crossing arms and other parts of the signals are removed when a hurricane warning is issued to prevent them from breaking free and becoming projectiles.
Can't comment on the other two. The only monorail I've ever seen was at Dizzy World.
The bullet train is not intended to relieve everyday commuter traffic. It is intended to link the major cities of Florida. The vast majority of the traffic on I-95 in Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach is going somewhere in one of those counties. Since this train would only have from one to three stops in these counties (I would guess Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach) it would do little for the traffic.
In fact, this train won't relieve traffic anywhere. This train will be for long hauls. Because of it's cost, short runs will not be profitable, most likely including the Orlando-Tampa run.
I know I'm jumping in a little late, but... Not quite. It was Mao Zedong who developed the Third World Theory. In this theory, the First World was Europe and North America; the Second World was the Soviet Union, allies, and satellites; and the Third World were the Asian, Latin American, and African nations, including China. Mao wanted China to be the leader of the Third World.
and since the Assignments account for 65 percent of the grade, tests are put in the backseat
I gather from reading other posts that this kind of weighting is common in intro classes. Interestingly, in my intro class (which is only required for CS/CompE, but which I took as an elective) the programming assignments were only 15% of our grade (3% for each of 5), but if we turned in nothing we lost 10% of our grade. Neither my professor or the university has such a "no sharing" policy. In fact, the department didn't have a written honor code at all until this summer, and it explicitly states that consulting with fellow students is permitted and encouraged.
Anyway, to get back to my point, the next level programming class, Data Structures and Algorithms, had similar weighting. I don't remember the precise number, but a small part of the grade was actually derived from the programming assignments. Apparently the attitude of the CSE department here is that the assignments are graded practice and that the tests are a better gauge of learning. Is anyone else's program like this or just mine?
Last I heard, the USPS was prohibited from turning a profit; it is only supposed to make enough to cover its operating expenses. I don't know how out of date I am; the USPS has changed radically in the past few years.
Where do you live? In Florida, the public universities are heavily subsidized by the state legislature. I go to Florida Atlantic University, where the actual cost per credit hour is $352.88. Being a Florida resident, though, I only pay $89.96 per hour because the state pays the rest. Multiply an average of 12 hours per student by about 15,000 Florida residents at the school, and thats a state subsidy of over $47 million. The school's total budget is about $180 million. The school gets additional state funding for a few other things, but this is the larget chunk. In fact, we're so tied to state funding that an $8 million dollar reduction in the subsidy has caused serious money problems.
1. If you work corp to corp, yes, you do have to start a corporation and pay taxes. Typically, you get bilked, because your corporation must hire you, and pay you a salary. Not only will you have to pay taxes on the income you are paid by your own corporation, but your corporation will have to pay taxes on the money they pay you. Any additional income is subject to taxation as well - and unlike an independent contractor, you cannot just seize any excess cash in the corporation and claim it as your own.
Its only that difficult if you form a Chapter C corporation. A Subchapter S is simpler (and avoids the double taxation), and an LLC is downright easy (at least in Florida, where all you have to do to maintain it is to register it for about $100 and pay the $50 renewal fee every year). You also don't have to go through the hassle of hiring yourself and paying yourself a salary, since all the profits from the LLC not reinvested in the company are distributed between the owners, and that distribution is only taxed in the owner's personal income tax (under Florida law). The best way to go is probably LLC (or LLP), but not all states allow LLC/LLPs.
I am not an electrician, but I've done my own electrical work, so here's my opinion:
The way I understand it, according to the National Electric Code, any box with wires running into it (even if it is just a pass-through) needs to be accessable. The thing to do in this case would be to cut the holes in the plasterboard and cover the box with a blank plate.
The bonus with this method is that the placement of the boxes is obvious and the plasterboard doesn't need to be cut later. Therefore a map is unnecessary. Also, if the walls are concrete block and plaster, not plasterboard, this is the only practical way to go (unless you want to start cutting holes in the block for new boxes).
I agree. I don't see how making the case out of aluminum makes its cooling effect any better. As a previous poster said, only the convection currents ever touch it. Even if it does, is it worth $600?
Does anyone know of any tests that have been done to rate the cooling efficeny of cases based on their metal composition?
This was exactly part of my point. Why, if it is illegal according to Geneva convention, is it legal for use in civillian markets?
Actually, for hunting, it is illegal to use fully jacketed bullets. Hollow point and mushrooming rounds are illegal under the Geneva Convention because they are more lethal than fully jacketed bullets, which is the same reason they are required for use in hunting. Fully jacketed bullets are less likely to cause fatal wounds. Its an interesting contradiction; as far as animals are concerned, its more humane to kill them in one shot, but for humans, its more humane to only wound them two or three times and let them bleed to death on the battlefield.
It is in their best interest for their licenses to mean something. However, their licenses and the GPL are fundamentally two different things. The GPL is a distribution license, framed in accordance with the appropriate section of US copyright law (I don't remember the section number). "[A]ss-disgusting proprietary licenses" are usage licenses, and have no basis in current US law that I can find. Therefore, a yes or no on the enforcability of the GPL won't have much effect on the proprietary licenses. On the other hand, since the GPL is grounded in copyright law, it is more likely to be upheld.