Actualy a lot of work is being done on Stirling engines. One thing they would be good at is exhaust gas waste heat reclaimation, where a good amount of a gasoline or Diesel engine's losses occur, hot exhaust. Suck up the waste heat and run a generator with it. Stirlings would be interesting in private aviation, present engines use leaded gasoline which is getting scarcer and more expensive. Swithching to stirling's would alow the average person to own a plane that not only burned Jet A fuel, but also developed more power with altitude.
Urban legend, the oil companies died a long time ago and were replaced by energy companies. The potential profits converting the world from oil to hydrogen are staggering. Who is making the majority of hydrogen right now, your nefarious Oil Companies that's who. These guys have a woody that will not quit thinking about the money they'll make from hydrogen.
the Heisenberg method of project management is that the more I know about one risk driver the less I know about the others? How about the Schrödinger's Cat method, the project has an indetrminate state of successfullness until management interferes with it
Usualy I have to be careful because I'm so conservative that I have to wear asbestos underware with nomex shirt and pants, but the fact is that over the years I've seen the result in blood sweat and tears cause by short-sited policies. Being retired military, gives me a different perpective of things, as I and my comrads were the guys called on to fix things, that were basicaly FUBARed. One of those things was the policy of "anybody whose against the Soviets is our friend" which resulted in our support of the Shah of Iran which in turn gave us present day Iran; leading to "Anybody whose agaist Iran" which yeilded Hussain and the present Iraq mess. We basicaly used those countries and their peoples without making any return investments in them or commitments to them. All of these things have bit us in the ass and have put me, my son, and eventualy even a grandchild or two in harm's way. So when stallman said
I've recently come to the conclusion that frictionless international trade is inherently a harmful thing, because it makes it too easy for companies to move from one country to another.
it made me realise that coperations were falling into the same trap. Short term preditory policies are counter-productive. Companies that jump from country to country because a labor cost is cheaper in one and an environmental reg non-existant aren't operating on a sustainable model and are little better than the slash and burn agriculturist. The effort and cost repairing the damage will be far more then anything we save now.
Nah on second thought forget it, the world must be ending because I'm agreeing with RMS.
If you're in orbit with little (if any) resources available for course correction, your location is pretty much 100% predictable. There is a technology that is almost unlimited source of propulsion for satalites that has been patented by NASA. It uses non-symetrical electric fields to accellerate the gas atoms in near space to generate reaction force. You can make a device commonly called a "lifter" out of aluminum foil plastic straws and balsa wood which when connectectd to a 35KV power supply generates enough thurst to lift itself off a surface. I suspect that this is the same technology that is used in sharper images ionic breaze air cleaners. Little nudges at the right times can make damatic changes in orbits.
There are different classes of spy-satalites too, many say in highly eccentric polar orbits, when the appogee is over the target they get a long distance view with a long loiter time, shift the orbit so the paragee is over the target you get a quick close-up. Others are placed in 1/2 geosync so they pass the same time every day and night in an orbit so they have very long loiter times and are excelent at seeing long term large changes but not good at details. So essentialy to hide from satelite observation means you better be ready to hide on short notice for 6 hrs. at a time; stealth is more about being unnoticed than being unseen.
We've had over-the horizon radar for a long time, it's a matter of using the right frequency and enough transmitter power and exceptable resolotion. oth radar probally isn't goiing to tell you about how many or exactly where.
First, I don't think it is necessary for every kid in the world to know how to program. I agree if the kid has the drive to program, you can't stop him/her; if not he'll probably just go through the motions to please you and gain little from the experience other than companionship. Basic skills are probably more important, i.e.
literacy is more important than computer literacy, problem solving more than programing, logical thinking more import than program control. While the later somewhat teach the former, why not zero in on the real goal, allowing the child to develope a good solid basic set of skills that can be usefull in any profession?
shielded cat5e seems to help in my office where most of our cabling in in the drop ceiling and we can't all ways give the florescent lights a wide berth. Always try to keep the computer cable at least 1M from the Florescent lights; the ring signal on telephones can cause havoc too. Life is to short to pull cheap cable.
Opps, but I have seen them side-ways, lose engines in that current and your kung-fu gets real weak real fast. One frieghter, going down-bound tried to save some money and the captain was taking her down with out a river pilot one foggy morning, anyways he miss judged the first turn and follwed the navigation light into a glancing blow to the seawall taking out a $1/4 million worth and the concusion broke two of my windows. I was eating breakfast and all I could see out my window was fog and the ship's hull.
My understanding is countries have a 200Mi. zone of economic interest, and the system has a 100Mi zone. Also all comercial aircraft are required to file a flight plan, and have transponders that integrate both into Air-Traffic control radars and military IFF, Interegator Friend or Foe, systems and nobody gets hissy over that.. I used to live right on the St Lawerence sea way ( 100ft South of the navigation light at the enterence to the St.Clair River from Lake Huron), and the rivers pilots were stationed 50 Ft. from my house and their radio trafic with river trafic control sounded almost identical to air control. When your pushing ships ranging in beam from 750 ft sea goer's to 1250 ft lakers you don't screw arround. A 100,000 tones of ship don't turn or stop on a dime and they don't share the same space any more than an a Airliner will so with both timing is critical.
nukes detonated underground or underwater yield disapionting results. The Blast of a nuke isn't generated by converting a mass explosives to a superheated gas like conventional explosives are, but is the result of the surrounding medium absorbing and re-radiating the initial gamma ray burst. Gamma rays have a color-temperature of about 35*10^7 degrees, each re-radiation reduces the color-temperature, the point where the color-temp is down to about 1200 is called the fire-ball.
So while, Water and Earth simply don't have enough gammma tranperency to generate a decent fireball or blast by nuclear standards, you wouldn't want to be next to one either. My guess is to attempt to generate a nuclear tsunami, I'd air-burst about 400M above the water and try for a strike-slip wave tsunami by used the shockwave to depres the water surface rather than going under water and attempting to lift the water.
Hard to imagine that too many people living in tin-roofed cardboard shacks, and worrying about where their next meals is going to come from, are going to have property insurance. Now I understand why they are teaching critical thinking in public schools.
no one can predict mother nature. See The Tsunami Warning System to understand what can be predicted. What's realy sad is Thailand is a Member State of the International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System.
Does no one teach social responsability anymore? Doesn't your version of moral responsibility include taking heed of warnings designed to reduce damage and suffering due to nature disasters? There is a tsunami warning system in place and the effected countries did not opt in to the system. As a result the death toll is going to be about 10 times what it would have been if people had simply evacuated low-lying costal areas.
Never been in the Military have you; you are not only paid 24-7, but you are expected to work a 24hr shift occasionaly. In combat, you often have to eat on the run, and are lucky to get a cat-nap during an opperation which often run 48 hrs. until a relief occures.
Seems to me if the Employer's conditions of employment require an employee be available 24-7 then knowing where the employee is 24-7 isn't outragious. If the employee is salaried, then he/she is paid 24-7 and being monitored is appropriate. While I'll admit the probability of abuse is high; A friend of the family had a heart attack while driving a trash truck out in the boonies, and the vehicle monitor may have very well saved his life.
You have made a serious error in not seeing assumptions made by the articles authors, my Anonymous Troll and that is that the Author assumed that a Harvard audience, would realise the a summary of a Shit-for-Brains Whacko's work would not be confused for an endorsement of his shit-for-brains ideas.
Fortunately the work of Dr Jack Kervorkian, has rendered Dr. John Sarno's work irrelivent as in most places the Medical profession is actualy required by law to relieve pain as much as possible.
Don't judge yesteryear's programs by today's standards. Back then 4MB RAM cost more than $200 Might have been more than that considering the back-end could very easily have been developed for a legacy big-iron system that had a wire-wrapped CPU and ferrite core memory.
I bet *now* they'll upgrade Probably not unless the software is purchased by Delta and they run an instance of the parent companies' software because the christmas rush was critical for the airlines who had to taken in max revenues and min expenses to save their asses this year. My magic eight-ball says this is the beginning of a death spiral for Comair, and the PHB's will see little benifit in purcahsing software to cover a once-in-a-decade event in a company thats unlikely to live 3 more years. If the upgrade is pretty much contractualy bound, the articles
The computer software that crashed and grounded Comair's entire fleet on Christmas Day was an antiquated system due to be replaced in the coming months.
will be in the too little, too late catagory rather than the Knight in shining armour catagory.
I would submit that slashdot should limit publishing Roland Piquepaille submitions simply because they are competitors. Both are publishing a distilation of more authorative articles in the hopes of generating advertising revenues why feed the mouth that bites you?
No the personalities can directly communicate ruling out Dissociative personality disorder. The ring allways struck me as parasitic in nature, feeding of the current owner's normalicy and promoting it's own agenda; but I'll admit a certain symbiotic element in that it prolong it's host's lifespan. So it would seem more like a possesion rather than an illness.
Some how a blizard durring the Christmas or Thankgiving rush would seem like a likely event rather than a bizzare event for an airline. The real impact is, 1. The customers will see this not as an unusual event but as they screwed up my annual vactaion and they will remember for life. How are they going to sell a customer after they screwed up the last christmas a loved relative was a live? 2. When the airlines beg for a bail-out the customers will remember when they had a chance to make some money they blew it
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Actualy a lot of work is being done on Stirling engines. One thing they would be good at is exhaust gas waste heat reclaimation, where a good amount of a gasoline or Diesel engine's losses occur, hot exhaust. Suck up the waste heat and run a generator with it.
Stirlings would be interesting in private aviation, present engines use leaded gasoline which is getting scarcer and more expensive. Swithching to stirling's would alow the average person to own a plane that not only burned Jet A fuel, but also developed more power with altitude.
Urban legend, the oil companies died a long time ago and were replaced by energy companies. The potential profits converting the world from oil to hydrogen are staggering. Who is making the majority of hydrogen right now, your nefarious Oil Companies that's who. These guys have a woody that will not quit thinking about the money they'll make from hydrogen.
the Heisenberg method of project management
is that the more I know about one risk driver the less I know about the others?
How about the Schrödinger's Cat method, the project has an indetrminate state of successfullness until management interferes with it
Nah on second thought forget it, the world must be ending because I'm agreeing with RMS.
If you're in orbit with little (if any) resources available for course correction, your location is pretty much 100% predictable.
There is a technology that is almost unlimited source of propulsion for satalites that has been patented by NASA. It uses non-symetrical electric fields to accellerate the gas atoms in near space to generate reaction force. You can make a device commonly called a "lifter" out of aluminum foil plastic straws and balsa wood which when connectectd to a 35KV power supply generates enough thurst to lift itself off a surface. I suspect that this is the same technology that is used in sharper images ionic breaze air cleaners. Little nudges at the right times can make damatic changes in orbits.
There are different classes of spy-satalites too, many say in highly eccentric polar orbits, when the appogee is over the target they get a long distance view with a long loiter time, shift the orbit so the paragee is over the target you get a quick close-up. Others are placed in 1/2 geosync so they pass the same time every day and night in an orbit so they have very long loiter times and are excelent at seeing long term large changes but not good at details. So essentialy to hide from satelite observation means you better be ready to hide on short notice for 6 hrs. at a time; stealth is more about being unnoticed than being unseen.
We've had over-the horizon radar for a long time, it's a matter of using the right frequency and enough transmitter power and exceptable resolotion. oth radar probally isn't goiing to tell you about how many or exactly where.
First, I don't think it is necessary for every kid in the world to know how to program.
I agree if the kid has the drive to program, you can't stop him/her; if not he'll probably just go through the motions to please you and gain little from the experience other than companionship.
Basic skills are probably more important, i.e.
literacy is more important than computer literacy,
problem solving more than programing,
logical thinking more import than program control.
While the later somewhat teach the former, why not zero in on the real goal, allowing the child to develope a good solid basic set of skills that can be usefull in any profession?
shielded cat5e seems to help in my office where most of our cabling in in the drop ceiling and we can't all ways give the florescent lights a wide berth. Always try to keep the computer cable at least 1M from the Florescent lights; the ring signal on telephones can cause havoc too. Life is to short to pull cheap cable.
Opps, but I have seen them side-ways, lose engines in that current and your kung-fu gets real weak real fast. One frieghter, going down-bound tried to save some money and the captain was taking her down with out a river pilot one foggy morning, anyways he miss judged the first turn and follwed the navigation light into a glancing blow to the seawall taking out a $1/4 million worth and the concusion broke two of my windows. I was eating breakfast and all I could see out my window was fog and the ship's hull.
My understanding is countries have a 200Mi. zone of economic interest, and the system has a 100Mi zone.
Also all comercial aircraft are required to file a flight plan, and have transponders that integrate both into Air-Traffic control radars and military IFF, Interegator Friend or Foe, systems and nobody gets hissy over that..
I used to live right on the St Lawerence sea way ( 100ft South of the navigation light at the enterence to the St.Clair River from Lake Huron), and the rivers pilots were stationed 50 Ft. from my house and their radio trafic with river trafic control sounded almost identical to air control. When your pushing ships ranging in beam from 750 ft sea goer's to 1250 ft lakers you don't screw arround. A 100,000 tones of ship don't turn or stop on a dime and they don't share the same space any more than an a Airliner will so with both timing is critical.
nukes detonated underground or underwater yield disapionting results. The Blast of a nuke isn't generated by converting a mass explosives to a superheated gas like conventional explosives are, but is the result of the surrounding medium absorbing and re-radiating the initial gamma ray burst. Gamma rays have a color-temperature of about 35*10^7 degrees, each re-radiation reduces the color-temperature, the point where the color-temp is down to about 1200 is called the fire-ball.
So while, Water and Earth simply don't have enough gammma tranperency to generate a decent fireball or blast by nuclear standards, you wouldn't want to be next to one either. My guess is to attempt to generate a nuclear tsunami, I'd air-burst about 400M above the water and try for a strike-slip wave tsunami by used the shockwave to depres the water surface rather than going under water and attempting to lift the water.
Hard to imagine that too many people living in tin-roofed cardboard shacks, and worrying about where their next meals is going to come from, are going to have property insurance. Now I understand why they are teaching critical thinking in public schools.
no one can predict mother nature.
See The Tsunami Warning System to understand what can be predicted. What's realy sad is Thailand is a Member State of the International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System.
Does no one teach social responsability anymore?
Doesn't your version of moral responsibility include taking heed of warnings designed to reduce damage and suffering due to nature disasters? There is a tsunami warning system in place and the effected countries did not opt in to the system. As a result the death toll is going to be about 10 times what it would have been if people had simply evacuated low-lying costal areas.
Never been in the Military have you; you are not only paid 24-7, but you are expected to work a 24hr shift occasionaly. In combat, you often have to eat on the run, and are lucky to get a cat-nap during an opperation which often run 48 hrs. until a relief occures.
Seems to me if the Employer's conditions of employment require an employee be available 24-7 then knowing where the employee is 24-7 isn't outragious. If the employee is salaried, then he/she is paid 24-7 and being monitored is appropriate. While I'll admit the probability of abuse is high; A friend of the family had a heart attack while driving a trash truck out in the boonies, and the vehicle monitor may have very well saved his life.
You have made a serious error in not seeing assumptions made by the articles authors, my Anonymous Troll and that is that the Author assumed that a Harvard audience, would realise the a summary of a Shit-for-Brains Whacko's work would not be confused for an endorsement of his shit-for-brains ideas.
Fortunately the work of Dr Jack Kervorkian, has rendered Dr. John Sarno's work irrelivent as in most places the Medical profession is actualy required by law to relieve pain as much as possible.
The Nobel prize has a praticality clause and photoelectric effect has obvious pratical applications where reletivity doesn't.
Don't judge yesteryear's programs by today's standards. Back then 4MB RAM cost more than $200
Might have been more than that considering the back-end could very easily have been developed for a legacy big-iron system that had a wire-wrapped CPU and ferrite core memory.
Probably not unless the software is purchased by Delta and they run an instance of the parent companies' software because the christmas rush was critical for the airlines who had to taken in max revenues and min expenses to save their asses this year. My magic eight-ball says this is the beginning of a death spiral for Comair, and the PHB's will see little benifit in purcahsing software to cover a once-in-a-decade event in a company thats unlikely to live 3 more years. If the upgrade is pretty much contractualy bound, the articles will be in the too little, too late catagory rather than the Knight in shining armour catagory.
hard to imagine a 0.05 micron track on anything flexible being readable.
I would submit that slashdot should limit publishing Roland Piquepaille submitions simply because they are competitors. Both are publishing a distilation of more authorative articles in the hopes of generating advertising revenues why feed the mouth that bites you?
No the personalities can directly communicate ruling out Dissociative personality disorder. The ring allways struck me as parasitic in nature, feeding of the current owner's normalicy and promoting it's own agenda; but I'll admit a certain symbiotic element in that it prolong it's host's lifespan. So it would seem more like a possesion rather than an illness.
One of the things that make your first psyc clinical so challenging is how normal the patients are, not how abnormal.
Some how a blizard durring the Christmas or Thankgiving rush would seem like a likely event rather than a bizzare event for an airline.
The real impact is,
1. The customers will see this not as an unusual event but as they screwed up my annual vactaion and they will remember for life. How are they going to sell a customer after they screwed up the last christmas a loved relative was a live?
2. When the airlines beg for a bail-out the customers will remember when they had a chance to make some money they blew it
Yes VIKI, your logic is inarguable, we'll just run windows update, and convert all the legacy systems to .NET.