Back in the 70's and 80's both sides had ASAT weapons available, or were in testing. The Soviet Union had their orbital satellite killer. Fired atop a Proton booster, it would make orbit and line up with it's target, close and detonate it's warhead, turning it into swiss cheese. The USAF had a more flexible ASAT missile that looked alot like a supersized Phoenix air to air missile. It was tested on one target with a spectacular skin-skin kill as a result before the politicals kicked in and put a moratorium in place to keep the peace. One upshot of the ASAT weapon is that it could hit targets on a moment's notice. The USSR killsat you could dodge, as long as you had the fuel to do it. Neither of these could hit the geosynchronous birds, they were tailored to go after recon and commsat snoopers.
USN's Standard SM-3 missiles are their new Black and Decker tools of fleet defense. They pulled a preproduction bird off the table, loaded a ASAT seeker on it and sent it on it's way.
They'll be cheering when the first hydroponic garden gets installed at the station, dispersing the metallic tang of recycled air with fresh air processed by plants.
These guys are killing me with their excuses as they do not want to scale up- or outward with their networks, instead staying oversold and overcapacity just to make their quarterlies.
For sheer PROFIT! They are willing to sacrifice QOS and customers just to make that little bar on their gross profit margins tick that much higher.
What kind of business are they in? One guess; SERVICE. In operating a customer service company, one always keeps in mind that you need to commit back into infrastructure and upgrades at least 3/4 of your monies and budgets to keep ahead of the curve. Comcast has not done so and now it's gotten them into hot water with both their custies and the fed, with this, Band-Aid they call "traffic management".
The legendary SR-71 Blackbird, her kid brother the YF-12A interceptor, and the flexible, quick-shooting ASAT weapon. Why go faster? Hypersonic aircraft would run into even tighter restrictions flying in domestic airspace, fuel constraints, not to mention the logistics if the aircraft's requirements are so exotic it requires highly trained crews to maintain it. "Kelly" Johnson, the father of the U-2/TR-1 and the Blackbirds, came up with a kinetic energy weapon that used no explosive in it. Dropped from 100,000 feet from a Blackbird bomber, the one ton device would have the kinetic energy of a large container freighter hitting at terminal velocity. No explosives whatsoever, just pure momentum. Couple that with a GPS guidance system and you'll have your own man-made meteorite that'll flatten whole city blocks from the impact alone, with pin-point accuracy.
You call Bears bombers? 40 years ago, yeah they were once. These days, they are ASW and reece birds.
There was a old bitter joke that cycled around Bear crews; "We have sighted the enemy. Goodbye Rodinia!" The turboprops have legs, but are bigger than whales on radars and just as slow. You see Ivan get really frisky, you'll see them start to putting airborne their Badgers, Backfires and Blackjacks bombers. Those are the "Get Serious Mode" birds.
They are putting words into their competition's mouths by stating that they shape traffic as well. That can be pretty much slammed as libel and slander in a court of law.
Comcast has been overreaching and overselling their trunk for a long time now. And they figure that they can wring a few cents more out of their bulging tracks by screwing with packets. I say BUNK!
...and go after the reference drivers for your components. Pull the make and model numbers off of your chips that you need drivers for and head after them via Google.
There seems to be some misconception or simply a confused journalist that put down that the gyros align with the MAGNETIC North. Gyros are set up to align with the physical Latitude and Longitude. Now unless they are using a differing process to calibrate the gyros, this would be the normal procedure.
Saturn V multi-engine pogo effects were solved by buffering the fuel supply with super-critical helium cells and adjusting the guidance system for smoother steering impulses.
A single solid propellant pogo on the other hand, is more complicated due to fact that you have variances in the solid, no matter how precise the mix is. The Japanese have been tangling with this for some time with success and failures, more failures are recorded though. Go with a clustered booster kit, then would be able to counter most of the pogo with each booster's own vibration frequency.
A Delta-Style cluster kit would resolve this problem and give a higher delta-v impulse to the stack as a whole. The ticklish part would be man-rating the stack with the added solids. One solution would be to stagger the cluster's firing as to maximize the dampening effects. This would add a safety factor in case there's a failure in the cluster at any stage, the opposing elements would be jettisoned along with the failed unit. Then the second stage would simply burn longer to make the orbit, or a contingency plan would kick in, with maximum of life safety.
Is where is it going to be ABLE to work at? According to my guesstimates, the weight per square inch that will be applied with even 50% of the nominal working load would be roughly triple the amount a 4 wheel cart. We're talking two footpads, roughly 250% larger than the human foot. You know that we exert a lot of pounds/square inch on our feet so that is why they are so articulate. The feet on this monster would probably be semi flexible pads that would not be as flexible, therefore be rougher than hell on any terrain. If you put one of those units onto unprepared ground (a field, dry or wet soil) it'll churn up the grasses and make bare ground. When it becomes wet, you get mud. Finally the lifter would sink up to it's knees because of its high load footprint. Take a Mule or a similarly tracked vehicle and it'll just dance across the terrain on either tracks of balloon tires. I can see lifters at work on concrete or similarly prepared ground, but not out the boondocks where it'll get hung in the mud or swamp.
Instead of attempting to make hydrocarbon based fuels the article toots about, crack CO down even further using an Old School catalytic cracker containing platinum, breaking CO into the base components of ultra-pure carbon (graphite) and high levels of oxygen. Now I'd release the oxygen since atomic oxygen is the most corrosive element on the table, recover the graphite and sell it off.' This would give the high polluting coke refineries something to grieve about since this would put a ding in their profits.
Liquid Sodium heating systems require two things: First is a heat source that keeps the working fluid, fluid. If it solidifies in the lines, it would damage vital components. The Sovs learned this lesson the hard way with a production reactor. The second, extreme corrosiveness equals extreme cost to prevent the plumbing from falling apart. Iconel, Hastelloy-N and similar "super" alloys are used to contain sodium in the primary heating loop, certain grades of stainless steel would need to be used in fabrication of this type of setup.
Bottom line it would take a very long time for a plant like this to pay itself off. It would be one of those pork barrel projects that the gov't would be feeding megamillions into.
Good for you. Then watch as the asshats on the board want to use something completely different that some salesjerk snowed them on saying that SQL is old and obsolete, selling the company an old version of FOXpro wrapped up in a eye candy shell. I pray that this does not happen to you and your company, fighting it tooth and nail until they email you a pink slip, or worse.
Companies selling the systems make a killing from the converting of the old, proprietary database to the new, proprietary database that does not look that much different than the old one.
Somehow I get this mental image of one of the rovers watching that fat rock come whistling down and flattening it, all the while transmitting images of its own impending demise. And to top it off, seeing Slim Pickens on top of that bastard, whooping it up and waving his cowboy hat around.
I gotta quit chugging those cans of Amp if I am to keep what is left of my sanity...
A couple of Alaskan villages are trying to eliminate their diesel gen sets and replace them with alternate power sources. This news is about 5 yro. Toshiba offered their 4S reactors (the one in the article) for free, in turn for data gleaned as the reactor operates in a hostile production environment. Not to mention the boost from the PR.
Gov't has good reason as to why they want to cap their growth; Comcast has over tasked their customer support and public relations in their zeal to expand their horizons. All they have done was make a public spectacle of themselves with lessons as to what NOT to do as a public service company. They need to slow down their expansion efforts and make themselves accountable in customer/client service, tech support (then again, almost all tech support departments need a ton of help) and field support services. Infrastructure cannot be neglected in the face of progress. It's rather like building a bridge without a solid foundation or budgeting for upkeep. It'll fail within a year or two. EECB (Executive Email Carpet Bombing) has brought results for a few of the miffed clients that have problems, but for the majority of the masses that are having problems, they have little recourse but to keep struggling with their customer support.
Let them be punished for their poor decision making processes, I say. The bottom line is that they will have poor ratings and the wrath of the government on their neck, ruining their p/l margins.
We're going to rely on tech that's been developed by a company that's primary specialty is WASTEWATER?! Oh, sure they have a defense systems department, but their main headline is fluids management.
Someone get me an aspirin and kick the laugh track on.
ES&S apparently does not have a sufficient engineering and/or QA certification system in place or they would not have pulled this expensive stunt.
Simply relocating boards and wiring would constitute a simple modification submission to the right authorities with proof that it would NOT affect system performance in any way, shape or form. Sure, it's lot of paperwork, but consider the consequences.
This reeks of their marketing pulling a stunt to make more money for the company.
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Colossus ran as fast as the tape reader could scan and compare tapes. They estimated that the unit could do as much as 10,000 to 15,000 Characters Per Second (CPS). Material issues kept the machine running dependably at 5,000 CPS. As the story goes, the inventor cranked the tape scanner up to 10,000 CPS and the paper tape failed, sending ribbons flying across the room. At 60MPH, paper flies very fast!
All of the new AC units have compressor protectors built in at the factory. The commercial/industrial units have suction accumulators and liquid line receivers that prevent liquid refrigerant from entering the compressor, causing a "slugging". This event causes damage to the compressor which is costly. Solenoids are also implemented as well to meter the gases.
A well-designed system should not cycle excessively or run longer than it was designed for. One fine example is one operation was going through a 15,000 BTU window AC a year keeping their wireless equipment cool. The poor window-shaker simply could not stand up to that kind of stress of running 24/7 and it would burn its compressor out. Once we got a larger commercial grade cooling system put in, that is purpose-built for keeping datacenters cool and dry, their bills took a nice nosedive.
You always fudge and oversize your cooling systems to accommodate any further expansion of your data center. It's better to have excess (within reason) than to get shortchanged if it drops into the bucket.
I know of one central plant at a university that has two empty holes in their 6 fan condenser row to install more fans if they are needed. Plus a 100K gallon chill water tower to provide reserve and surge capacity.
I'll bet they did not have any reserve on hand when they went to candle power.
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They didn't fall for it very long. MSFT is down 2 points and still on a backslide.
Back in the 70's and 80's both sides had ASAT weapons available, or were in testing. The Soviet Union had their orbital satellite killer. Fired atop a Proton booster, it would make orbit and line up with it's target, close and detonate it's warhead, turning it into swiss cheese. The USAF had a more flexible ASAT missile that looked alot like a supersized Phoenix air to air missile. It was tested on one target with a spectacular skin-skin kill as a result before the politicals kicked in and put a moratorium in place to keep the peace. One upshot of the ASAT weapon is that it could hit targets on a moment's notice. The USSR killsat you could dodge, as long as you had the fuel to do it. Neither of these could hit the geosynchronous birds, they were tailored to go after recon and commsat snoopers.
USN's Standard SM-3 missiles are their new Black and Decker tools of fleet defense. They pulled a preproduction bird off the table, loaded a ASAT seeker on it and sent it on it's way.
A little bit more on the new theater missile interceptor;
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/sm3.htm
They'll be cheering when the first hydroponic garden gets installed at the station, dispersing the metallic tang of recycled air with fresh air processed by plants.
These guys are killing me with their excuses as they do not want to scale up- or outward with their networks, instead staying oversold and overcapacity just to make their quarterlies.
For sheer PROFIT! They are willing to sacrifice QOS and customers just to make that little bar on their gross profit margins tick that much higher.
What kind of business are they in? One guess; SERVICE. In operating a customer service company, one always keeps in mind that you need to commit back into infrastructure and upgrades at least 3/4 of your monies and budgets to keep ahead of the curve. Comcast has not done so and now it's gotten them into hot water with both their custies and the fed, with this, Band-Aid they call "traffic management".
The legendary SR-71 Blackbird, her kid brother the YF-12A interceptor, and the flexible, quick-shooting ASAT weapon. Why go faster? Hypersonic aircraft would run into even tighter restrictions flying in domestic airspace, fuel constraints, not to mention the logistics if the aircraft's requirements are so exotic it requires highly trained crews to maintain it.
"Kelly" Johnson, the father of the U-2/TR-1 and the Blackbirds, came up with a kinetic energy weapon that used no explosive in it. Dropped from 100,000 feet from a Blackbird bomber, the one ton device would have the kinetic energy of a large container freighter hitting at terminal velocity. No explosives whatsoever, just pure momentum. Couple that with a GPS guidance system and you'll have your own man-made meteorite that'll flatten whole city blocks from the impact alone, with pin-point accuracy.
You call Bears bombers? 40 years ago, yeah they were once. These days, they are ASW and reece birds.
There was a old bitter joke that cycled around Bear crews; "We have sighted the enemy. Goodbye Rodinia!" The turboprops have legs, but are bigger than whales on radars and just as slow. You see Ivan get really frisky, you'll see them start to putting airborne their Badgers, Backfires and Blackjacks bombers. Those are the "Get Serious Mode" birds.
They are putting words into their competition's mouths by stating that they shape traffic as well. That can be pretty much slammed as libel and slander in a court of law.
Comcast has been overreaching and overselling their trunk for a long time now. And they figure that they can wring a few cents more out of their bulging tracks by screwing with packets. I say BUNK!
...and go after the reference drivers for your components. Pull the make and model numbers off of your chips that you need drivers for and head after them via Google.
There seems to be some misconception or simply a confused journalist that put down that the gyros align with the MAGNETIC North. Gyros are set up to align with the physical Latitude and Longitude. Now unless they are using a differing process to calibrate the gyros, this would be the normal procedure.
They put a set of Delta fans in there. More specific, the fastest turning, loudest model that Delta has on the market for that size.
That is how bad the heat issue is with the 360. If they put anything slower or less CFM, their little 360 would cook at 360 degress, and then some.
Saturn V multi-engine pogo effects were solved by buffering the fuel supply with super-critical helium cells and adjusting the guidance system for smoother steering impulses.
A single solid propellant pogo on the other hand, is more complicated due to fact that you have variances in the solid, no matter how precise the mix is. The Japanese have been tangling with this for some time with success and failures, more failures are recorded though. Go with a clustered booster kit, then would be able to counter most of the pogo with each booster's own vibration frequency.
A Delta-Style cluster kit would resolve this problem and give a higher delta-v impulse to the stack as a whole. The ticklish part would be man-rating the stack with the added solids. One solution would be to stagger the cluster's firing as to maximize the dampening effects. This would add a safety factor in case there's a failure in the cluster at any stage, the opposing elements would be jettisoned along with the failed unit. Then the second stage would simply burn longer to make the orbit, or a contingency plan would kick in, with maximum of life safety.
Is where is it going to be ABLE to work at? According to my guesstimates, the weight per square inch that will be applied with even 50% of the nominal working load would be roughly triple the amount a 4 wheel cart. We're talking two footpads, roughly 250% larger than the human foot. You know that we exert a lot of pounds/square inch on our feet so that is why they are so articulate. The feet on this monster would probably be semi flexible pads that would not be as flexible, therefore be rougher than hell on any terrain.
If you put one of those units onto unprepared ground (a field, dry or wet soil) it'll churn up the grasses and make bare ground. When it becomes wet, you get mud. Finally the lifter would sink up to it's knees because of its high load footprint. Take a Mule or a similarly tracked vehicle and it'll just dance across the terrain on either tracks of balloon tires.
I can see lifters at work on concrete or similarly prepared ground, but not out the boondocks where it'll get hung in the mud or swamp.
Instead of attempting to make hydrocarbon based fuels the article toots about, crack CO down even further using an Old School catalytic cracker containing platinum, breaking CO into the base components of ultra-pure carbon (graphite) and high levels of oxygen.
Now I'd release the oxygen since atomic oxygen is the most corrosive element on the table, recover the graphite and sell it off.'
This would give the high polluting coke refineries something to grieve about since this would put a ding in their profits.
Liquid Sodium heating systems require two things: First is a heat source that keeps the working fluid, fluid. If it solidifies in the lines, it would damage vital components. The Sovs learned this lesson the hard way with a production reactor. The second, extreme corrosiveness equals extreme cost to prevent the plumbing from falling apart. Iconel, Hastelloy-N and similar "super" alloys are used to contain sodium in the primary heating loop, certain grades of stainless steel would need to be used in fabrication of this type of setup.
Bottom line it would take a very long time for a plant like this to pay itself off. It would be one of those pork barrel projects that the gov't would be feeding megamillions into.
Good for you. Then watch as the asshats on the board want to use something completely different that some salesjerk snowed them on saying that SQL is old and obsolete, selling the company an old version of FOXpro wrapped up in a eye candy shell. I pray that this does not happen to you and your company, fighting it tooth and nail until they email you a pink slip, or worse.
Companies selling the systems make a killing from the converting of the old, proprietary database to the new, proprietary database that does not look that much different than the old one.
Somehow I get this mental image of one of the rovers watching that fat rock come whistling down and flattening it, all the while transmitting images of its own impending demise. And to top it off, seeing Slim Pickens on top of that bastard, whooping it up and waving his cowboy hat around.
I gotta quit chugging those cans of Amp if I am to keep what is left of my sanity...
A couple of Alaskan villages are trying to eliminate their diesel gen sets and replace them with alternate power sources. This news is about 5 yro. Toshiba offered their 4S reactors (the one in the article) for free, in turn for data gleaned as the reactor operates in a hostile production environment.
Not to mention the boost from the PR.
Sniping, anyone?
Gov't has good reason as to why they want to cap their growth; Comcast has over tasked their customer support and public relations in their zeal to expand their horizons. All they have done was make a public spectacle of themselves with lessons as to what NOT to do as a public service company. They need to slow down their expansion efforts and make themselves accountable in customer/client service, tech support (then again, almost all tech support departments need a ton of help) and field support services. Infrastructure cannot be neglected in the face of progress. It's rather like building a bridge without a solid foundation or budgeting for upkeep. It'll fail within a year or two. EECB (Executive Email Carpet Bombing) has brought results for a few of the miffed clients that have problems, but for the majority of the masses that are having problems, they have little recourse but to keep struggling with their customer support.
Let them be punished for their poor decision making processes, I say. The bottom line is that they will have poor ratings and the wrath of the government on their neck, ruining their p/l margins.
We're going to rely on tech that's been developed by a company that's primary specialty is WASTEWATER?! Oh, sure they have a defense systems department, but their main headline is fluids management.
Someone get me an aspirin and kick the laugh track on.
ES&S apparently does not have a sufficient engineering and/or QA certification system in place or they would not have pulled this expensive stunt.
Simply relocating boards and wiring would constitute a simple modification submission to the right authorities with proof that it would NOT affect system performance in any way, shape or form. Sure, it's lot of paperwork, but consider the consequences.
This reeks of their marketing pulling a stunt to make more money for the company.
Colossus ran as fast as the tape reader could scan and compare tapes. They estimated that the unit could do as much as 10,000 to 15,000 Characters Per Second (CPS). Material issues kept the machine running dependably at 5,000 CPS. As the story goes, the inventor cranked the tape scanner up to 10,000 CPS and the paper tape failed, sending ribbons flying across the room. At 60MPH, paper flies very fast!
All of the new AC units have compressor protectors built in at the factory. The commercial/industrial units have suction accumulators and liquid line receivers that prevent liquid refrigerant from entering the compressor, causing a "slugging". This event causes damage to the compressor which is costly.
Solenoids are also implemented as well to meter the gases.
A well-designed system should not cycle excessively or run longer than it was designed for. One fine example is one operation was going through a 15,000 BTU window AC a year keeping their wireless equipment cool. The poor window-shaker simply could not stand up to that kind of stress of running 24/7 and it would burn its compressor out. Once we got a larger commercial grade cooling system put in, that is purpose-built for keeping datacenters cool and dry, their bills took a nice nosedive.
You always fudge and oversize your cooling systems to accommodate any further expansion of your data center. It's better to have excess (within reason) than to get shortchanged if it drops into the bucket.
I know of one central plant at a university that has two empty holes in their 6 fan condenser row to install more fans if they are needed. Plus a 100K gallon chill water tower to provide reserve and surge capacity.
I'll bet they did not have any reserve on hand when they went to candle power.