I know you're being snarky with the SAN you refer to, but in all seriousness Synology makes some VERY righteous SANs at decent prices. A have a (now discontinued) 1010+, and it rocks. I run a VMWare farm off it's iSCSI system as well as use it for iTunes and other streaming services.
Thorium molten salt reactors are quite capable of load-following. In fact, load-following happens as an intrinsic feature of their design and can be optimized for as described in the linked paper which specifically investigates TMSR's as solar fill-in power sources.
You know, to this day I still hear ads on radio and TV mention something like, "Go to our website and enter keyword XYZ" - keyword? REALLY? In 2014????
I think we're all forgetting that in five years, HDDs may be more expensive due to SDDs taking over the bulk of storage duties and the inevitable redirection of production away from HDDs. HDDs might become 'boutique' or 'retro' items like record players.
Also, you are assuming the replacement price of a new HDD five years from now would be the same as now. This is almost certainly not true. HDD prices have historically fallen much faster than Moore's Law. So in five years, you may be able to get 20GB for what a 4GB HDD costs today. Historically, optical disc prices have fallen much more slowly.
I think we're all forgetting that in five years, HDDs may be more expensive due to SDDs taking over the bulk of storage duties and the inevitable redirection of production away from HDDs. HDDs might become 'boutique' or 'retro' items like record players.
What's the difference between chip & signature and chip & PIN? Does my card have a PIN? Chip & PIN is a very similar technology, except that you use a PIN to complete a purchase instead of a signature. Both chip & PIN and chip & signature offer enhanced security against counterfeiting compared to traditional magnetic stripe-only cards. Bank of America does not currently offer chip & PIN technology.
... a bunch of formerly independent cells deciding which 90% get to die in order to form the support structure and who gets to be the reproductive structure.
I'm certainly no expert, but doesn't something like that happen during human gestation? Don't our 'tail' cells die or get resorbed, as well as the webbing between our fingers and toes?
I read all of the original six when I was in junior high/high school. I have not read the final 4. Would you suggest I give them a go?
As for the Dune series, I liked the first book, but they went downhill fast after that. The final one(s) was/were nearly incomprehensible. The only funny thing I got from them is that with Duncan Idaho being a ghola, everyone could have their "own private Idaho".
How about having anti-kill 'locations' that the phone has to be near every so often to keep working? In other words, if my phone hasn't been near locations I secretly choose for over a week/month/quarter, the phone stops working. That helps with the theft issue without allowing third parties to externally brick your phone.
This posting serves as proof that I thought of this first! I might just file a patent.
... it would be better if people learned how hard it is to shoot well on distances over 100 meters.
The corollary to this is "don't shoot beyond your abilities." If you know you're inexperienced or a poor shot while under the influence of 'buck fever', don't try the long shots in the first place. These days there are plenty of does* that will basically walk right up to you for a clean, humane kill.
*Where I live, they've basically declared open season on deer - 6 a year, three of which must be anterless, the whole 1.5 month firearms season is either-sex, plus all the bonus deer tags you can buy.
Some designs provide automatic load-following - from this MSR PDF:
... as the reactor temperature rises, the reactivity decreases. The reactor thus automatically reduces its activity if it overheats. Conversely, if more power is required of the reactor, more heat is drawn out. The returning colder salt increases reactivity and power levels resulting in automatic load following.
MSRs can also be manually throttled quickly due to the absence of the neutron poison problem.
There are QRP versions of the regular DXCC/VUCC awards for working 100 countries on HF or 100 grid squares on VHF+. I usually run 100W or so, so the vast majority of my QSOs don't count. It's been hard enough getting 200 DXCC entities using 100W and a multiband dipole.
I absolutely agree - that's why I opined that harvesting power form other, higher power external sources might be more effective.
I've done a fair bit of weak signal work on the 30m band. I once transmitted with 100mW of power using the WSPR mode from Richmond Va and a station in New Zealand received and correctly decoded it. That's a lot of km/W ! Here's a map of current activity.
I never said it was efficient, just not novel. I understand the RFID technology pretty well - we did have tags that would read from 10m or so with about 4W EIRP (1W power + 6dBi antenna). The other thing that you run into is that no one wants a tag with an antenna anywhere near the length required to be efficient. A 1/2 wavelength dipole at 915MHz is still 16cm overall.
If this were developed years ago and if you were to rely on transmitters outside the home, they'd use the pager transmitters at 450/460 MHz to power things. These were beastly strong and transmitted 24x7. Today cell signals would be a good choice. I haven't done the 1/r^2 math, but I bet the proximity of the WiFi will beat the power density of just about any external-to-the-home transmitter.
I can't fathom how you can call a successful run of a brand-spanking-new technology a failure. The technology WORKED. It ran as expected with no issues. I counter that the existing PWR designs are dangerously flawed, and should never have seen the light of day in power-generating reactors. Thanks, Rickover!
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I know you're being snarky with the SAN you refer to, but in all seriousness Synology makes some VERY righteous SANs at decent prices. A have a (now discontinued) 1010+, and it rocks. I run a VMWare farm off it's iSCSI system as well as use it for iTunes and other streaming services.
No financial interest, just a happy customer.
That has been done and abandoned. HPT (head-per-track) drives were popular way back, but were a bear to keep aligned.
Thorium molten salt reactors are quite capable of load-following. In fact, load-following happens as an intrinsic feature of their design and can be optimized for as described in the linked paper which specifically investigates TMSR's as solar fill-in power sources.
You know, to this day I still hear ads on radio and TV mention something like, "Go to our website and enter keyword XYZ" - keyword? REALLY? In 2014????
You're assuming the quote you pasted refers to chip and PIN - it does not. From the same FAQ I quoted:
Bank of America does not currently offer chip & PIN technology.
This site clearly shows that BofA ONLY offers Chip-and-signature cards - their chip-and-PIN section has NO MENTION of BofA.
Another ref: http://thepointsguy.com/2014/0...
Dang it, replied to the wrong comment.
I think we're all forgetting that in five years, HDDs may be more expensive due to SDDs taking over the bulk of storage duties and the inevitable redirection of production away from HDDs. HDDs might become 'boutique' or 'retro' items like record players.
Also, you are assuming the replacement price of a new HDD five years from now would be the same as now. This is almost certainly not true. HDD prices have historically fallen much faster than Moore's Law. So in five years, you may be able to get 20GB for what a 4GB HDD costs today. Historically, optical disc prices have fallen much more slowly.
I think we're all forgetting that in five years, HDDs may be more expensive due to SDDs taking over the bulk of storage duties and the inevitable redirection of production away from HDDs. HDDs might become 'boutique' or 'retro' items like record players.
Not all, and not even the largest. From the Bank of America site (emphasis mine):
What's the difference between chip & signature and chip & PIN? Does my card have a PIN?
Chip & PIN is a very similar technology, except that you use a PIN to complete a purchase instead of a signature. Both chip & PIN and chip & signature offer enhanced security against counterfeiting compared to traditional magnetic stripe-only cards. Bank of America does not currently offer chip & PIN technology.
... a bunch of formerly independent cells deciding which 90% get to die in order to form the support structure and who gets to be the reproductive structure.
I'm certainly no expert, but doesn't something like that happen during human gestation? Don't our 'tail' cells die or get resorbed, as well as the webbing between our fingers and toes?
I read all of the original six when I was in junior high/high school. I have not read the final 4. Would you suggest I give them a go?
As for the Dune series, I liked the first book, but they went downhill fast after that. The final one(s) was/were nearly incomprehensible. The only funny thing I got from them is that with Duncan Idaho being a ghola, everyone could have their "own private Idaho".
Call the feds @ the EPA. I don't see anything in Paulding County in GA listed on their superfund search site.
Here's a link to the EPA Superfund site search for 'tetrachloride'. There are 215 results, some of which (chosen at random) seem to have a pretty nasty mix of contaminants of concern.
How about having anti-kill 'locations' that the phone has to be near every so often to keep working? In other words, if my phone hasn't been near locations I secretly choose for over a week/month/quarter, the phone stops working. That helps with the theft issue without allowing third parties to externally brick your phone.
This posting serves as proof that I thought of this first! I might just file a patent.
Calcium-ion looks like it has potential. -3.8V E-sub0.
I liked the "Thomas Covenant" series, too.
They may just envi-inpakt review of the site. Side is a hole in ground near water. Modul will be delivered by a track...
Are you having a stroke?
You reap what you sow. You sew garments, you sow seed.
Let's move on up to the James ...
You forgot the kepone scare of the 70's that shut down the James from Richmond to the Chesapeake for 13 years.
... it would be better if people learned how hard it is to shoot well on distances over 100 meters.
The corollary to this is "don't shoot beyond your abilities." If you know you're inexperienced or a poor shot while under the influence of 'buck fever', don't try the long shots in the first place. These days there are plenty of does* that will basically walk right up to you for a clean, humane kill.
*Where I live, they've basically declared open season on deer - 6 a year, three of which must be anterless, the whole 1.5 month firearms season is either-sex, plus all the bonus deer tags you can buy.
Some nuclear plants can be ramped up and down ...
Some designs provide automatic load-following - from this MSR PDF:
... as the reactor temperature rises, the reactivity decreases. The reactor thus automatically reduces its activity if it overheats. Conversely, if more power is required of the reactor, more heat is drawn out. The returning colder salt increases reactivity and power levels resulting in automatic load following.
MSRs can also be manually throttled quickly due to the absence of the neutron poison problem.
Or a dinosaur-hunting, time travel movie.
There are QRP versions of the regular DXCC/VUCC awards for working 100 countries on HF or 100 grid squares on VHF+. I usually run 100W or so, so the vast majority of my QSOs don't count. It's been hard enough getting 200 DXCC entities using 100W and a multiband dipole.
I absolutely agree - that's why I opined that harvesting power form other, higher power external sources might be more effective.
I've done a fair bit of weak signal work on the 30m band. I once transmitted with 100mW of power using the WSPR mode from Richmond Va and a station in New Zealand received and correctly decoded it. That's a lot of km/W ! Here's a map of current activity.
I never said it was efficient, just not novel. I understand the RFID technology pretty well - we did have tags that would read from 10m or so with about 4W EIRP (1W power + 6dBi antenna). The other thing that you run into is that no one wants a tag with an antenna anywhere near the length required to be efficient. A 1/2 wavelength dipole at 915MHz is still 16cm overall.
If this were developed years ago and if you were to rely on transmitters outside the home, they'd use the pager transmitters at 450/460 MHz to power things. These were beastly strong and transmitted 24x7. Today cell signals would be a good choice. I haven't done the 1/r^2 math, but I bet the proximity of the WiFi will beat the power density of just about any external-to-the-home transmitter.
I can't fathom how you can call a successful run of a brand-spanking-new technology a failure. The technology WORKED. It ran as expected with no issues.
I counter that the existing PWR designs are dangerously flawed, and should never have seen the light of day in power-generating reactors. Thanks, Rickover!