The rectification (AC->DC) and inversion (DC->AC) processes required at either end tend to eat up those gains rather quickly, although recent advances in solid state high voltage semiconductors has helped greatly over the old mercury arc rectifiers. If your goal is to be phase-independent, then HVDC rocks; otherwise, AC isn't that bad if you include all the losses.
It sounds like you've got bad RAM or your machine is over-overclocked. Wanna bet your supplier used substandard RAM or juiced the clocks to get a cheap MB to meet the specs?
As everyone else has been saying, a defendant is never "found innocent" - they are found to be "not guilty", which is not the same thing. The prosecutor in OJ's case was unable to convince the jury that he was guilty; the defense did NOT get the jury to declare him innocent. People are found not guilty due to the lack of evidence that they're guilty (they either didn't do it, or got away with it), not found innocent because they couldn't have done it.
CapTech (my employer) is actively seeking top-tier Java developers,.NET developers, architects, sharepoint experts, etc. We have offices in Richmond VA, Charlotte, Philly, and DC. We only hire the best of the best - if you're qualified, check us out at http://www.captechconsulting.com./ The current job listings are here: http://www.captechconsulting.com/careers/jobs.
...but that is not common here. Have you traveled to these areas recently?
TFA specifically mentions that the patient's family lives in Connecticut, which is where the town of Lyme is located and after which Lyme disease was named.
I was on my way to the grogery [sic] store to pick up a can of cat food for little "Miss Tuttles"... I ran into my long lost friend and we must have chatted for and hour.
IANAMD, but are there not sometimes clues in the the meaningless jabber? Although not necessarily apropos in this case, knowing that a patient has a cat might lead you to consider toxoplasmosis or other cat-related illnesses that are exceedingly rare. Knowing that she chatted with her friend for an hour might lead you to ask if she was standing the whole time, sitting in her car, etc in cases of leg pain, back pain, etc. Sometimes there is important information to be found in things other than the frank list of symptoms.
You don't need anti-atoms for weapons. Regular old anti-particles will do; they're much easier to confine, and they're made naturally all the time. See my recent post that points out some of the natural ways antiparticles are produced.
I think your logic gates are backwards. I used espresso and came up with (Inputs A-D, MSB to LSB and outputs X and Y, MSB to LSB, NOT has highest precedence):
X = A OR B Y = (NOT B AND D) OR (NOT B AND C)
I wrote out the truth table, and my version seems right.
I think the vast distances involved would mess that up. The lasers used to do the retroreflector experiment between Earth and the moon had a calculated divergence of about 1.04 x 10^-3 radians. Using a 1m laser at Uranus, the divergence would have to be 2.8 x 10^-4 radians just to make the beam the same diameter as the Earth. That's a factor of 4 or so. To get the beam into a circle that covers the same area as the state of Texas you'd need divergence on the order of 2 x 10^-5 radians. Suddenly you're looking at a factor of 50, and that doesn't take atmospheric effects into account. Add to that the complexities of precisely aiming such a laser, and I think you'd be hard-pressed to harvest must energy.
Article says each flywheel can provide 1 MW for up to 15 minutes. As I asked earlier, why do they need 200 of them if they're 0.25 MW*h each? Maybe they meant 20 MW*24min.
I _love_ hit-and-miss engines! Not only do they not fire if turning over a certain RPM, the exhaust valve is held open so that there are no compression forces - only crankshaft and piston drag. Those engines are designed to run weeks on a tank of gas (and cooling water - they usually use evaporative cooling, so you have to fill them up with water).
In this video you can hear the exhaust pipe 'gasping' as it freewheels and the engine firing with a 'pop'. The red tank toward the tongue of the trailer is the coolant tank. Note that the flywheels are turning - they look strange due to the video framerate.
The article says that each flywheel can "...absorb energy from the grid and discharge 1 megawatt for as much as 15 minutes." Therefore each flywheel is good for up to 0.25 MW*h, and 200 of them should be good for 50 MW*h, not 20 MW*h. I guess there are inefficiencies depending on how fast you extract power, much like batteries.
My first computer experience was in jr high - a dumb terminal dialed into an HP-3000, (or was it 2000)? Anyway, 110 baud, then 300 baud, both via acoustic coupler. I got to visit the Math/Science Center where the beast was housed, and used a teletype and paper tape to store my programs (and play adventure, where a ctrl-D sent in a message to another adventurer would turn off their teletype!).
I got a TRS-80 model I Level II when I was 15-16. Wow!!! The Perkin Elmer box was from my first job out of college. Am I still a young 'un?
Me too. g=c000:5 and all that. I remember interleave optimization. That's 1987-ish stuff. Back when I also had a Perkin Elmer 7350A system running MicroXelos SYS V in my living room dialing into UUCP at 2400 baud. I even found an old UUCP entry from 1991 (thanks, internet!).
#N gnd0 #S Concurrent Computer Series 7350A, Running MicroXelos System V #O Home of Mass Destruction and Woe (Ground Zero). #C David Tiller, n2kau #E gnd0!davet #T +1 201 222 6753 #P 35 Sternberger Ave. Apt. H, West End, NJ 07740 #L 40 16 52 n / 73 59 00 w #R Home of RF, Lasers, Computers, Dave-TV, suffering, pain and woe. #U tsdiag #W tsdiag!davet (David Tiller, n2kau) ; Mon Apr 22 16:00:00 GMT 1991 # gnd0 tsdiag(DAILY), ka2qhd(DAILY)
Kill It, Cook It, Eat It. The rabbit episode 'stars' the most ignorant, uninformed, assholic vegetarian I've ever seen: Francesca. Sadly, I can't find video of her on the show.
From the comments on their site:
Where in the world did you find that ignorant, ill-informed, small-minded twit Francesca? "Let the scientists figure something out [to solve the rabbit overpopulation problem] - I'm not a bloody scientist". On being anemic and malnourished - "Why can't I get a multivitamin from the chemist's shop - it's natural."
She's not only a typically clueless vegetarian but a sad example of a human being.
Some of us really do enjoy the taste of a decent cup of coffee (not the over-roasted, burnt, over-extracted-yet-weak-and-bodiless crap that's currently popular from your neck of the woods). Add a little half-and-half and you've got a lovely little emulsion. I can't take caffeine too late, but decaf with dessert can be just as tasty and satisfying.
actually, you should have a right to do anything so long as it doesn't trample those same rights afforded to your fellow citizens. eg: you have a right to go off trail while hiking...
I must disagree with that statement. Going 'off trail' damages the very landscape that you and your fellow hikers are there to enjoy! I couch statements like yours in logic like this: "What would happen if everyone did it?" If the outcome for everyone is bad, then it either can't be allowed at all, or there must be strict regulations. Examples:
1) Walking around on the sand at a beach - ok for all. All those footprints will not matter in sand. 2) Hunting - not ok for all. Must be regulations on number killed, etc.
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In Soviet Russia, maybe. "In Soviet Russia, laser sharks you!"
The rectification (AC->DC) and inversion (DC->AC) processes required at either end tend to eat up those gains rather quickly, although recent advances in solid state high voltage semiconductors has helped greatly over the old mercury arc rectifiers. If your goal is to be phase-independent, then HVDC rocks; otherwise, AC isn't that bad if you include all the losses.
Good example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_DC_Intertie
It sounds like you've got bad RAM or your machine is over-overclocked. Wanna bet your supplier used substandard RAM or juiced the clocks to get a cheap MB to meet the specs?
As everyone else has been saying, a defendant is never "found innocent" - they are found to be "not guilty", which is not the same thing. The prosecutor in OJ's case was unable to convince the jury that he was guilty; the defense did NOT get the jury to declare him innocent. People are found not guilty due to the lack of evidence that they're guilty (they either didn't do it, or got away with it), not found innocent because they couldn't have done it.
CapTech (my employer) is actively seeking top-tier Java developers, .NET developers, architects, sharepoint experts, etc. We have offices in Richmond VA, Charlotte, Philly, and DC. We only hire the best of the best - if you're qualified, check us out at http://www.captechconsulting.com./ The current job listings are here: http://www.captechconsulting.com/careers/jobs.
Good luck!
...but that is not common here. Have you traveled to these areas recently?
TFA specifically mentions that the patient's family lives in Connecticut, which is where the town of Lyme is located and after which Lyme disease was named.
I was on my way to the grogery [sic] store to pick up a can of cat food for little "Miss Tuttles" ... I ran into my long lost friend and we must have chatted for and hour.
IANAMD, but are there not sometimes clues in the the meaningless jabber? Although not necessarily apropos in this case, knowing that a patient has a cat might lead you to consider toxoplasmosis or other cat-related illnesses that are exceedingly rare. Knowing that she chatted with her friend for an hour might lead you to ask if she was standing the whole time, sitting in her car, etc in cases of leg pain, back pain, etc. Sometimes there is important information to be found in things other than the frank list of symptoms.
I have mod points but can't give one to you! Dang it!
You don't need anti-atoms for weapons. Regular old anti-particles will do; they're much easier to confine, and they're made naturally all the time. See my recent post that points out some of the natural ways antiparticles are produced.
I think your logic gates are backwards. I used espresso and came up with (Inputs A-D, MSB to LSB and outputs X and Y, MSB to LSB, NOT has highest precedence):
X = A OR B
Y = (NOT B AND D) OR (NOT B AND C)
I wrote out the truth table, and my version seems right.
...beamed back to Earth via lasers or microwaves?
I think the vast distances involved would mess that up. The lasers used to do the retroreflector experiment between Earth and the moon had a calculated divergence of about 1.04 x 10^-3 radians. Using a 1m laser at Uranus, the divergence would have to be 2.8 x 10^-4 radians just to make the beam the same diameter as the Earth. That's a factor of 4 or so. To get the beam into a circle that covers the same area as the state of Texas you'd need divergence on the order of 2 x 10^-5 radians. Suddenly you're looking at a factor of 50, and that doesn't take atmospheric effects into account. Add to that the complexities of precisely aiming such a laser, and I think you'd be hard-pressed to harvest must energy.
There's already a Project Prometheus, and somehow it's quite fitting - nuclear-powered spacecraft for long duration missions.
Article says each flywheel can provide 1 MW for up to 15 minutes. As I asked earlier, why do they need 200 of them if they're 0.25 MW*h each? Maybe they meant 20 MW*24min.
I _love_ hit-and-miss engines! Not only do they not fire if turning over a certain RPM, the exhaust valve is held open so that there are no compression forces - only crankshaft and piston drag. Those engines are designed to run weeks on a tank of gas (and cooling water - they usually use evaporative cooling, so you have to fill them up with water).
In this video you can hear the exhaust pipe 'gasping' as it freewheels and the engine firing with a 'pop'. The red tank toward the tongue of the trailer is the coolant tank. Note that the flywheels are turning - they look strange due to the video framerate.
The article says that each flywheel can "...absorb energy from the grid and discharge 1 megawatt for as much as 15 minutes." Therefore each flywheel is good for up to 0.25 MW*h, and 200 of them should be good for 50 MW*h, not 20 MW*h. I guess there are inefficiencies depending on how fast you extract power, much like batteries.
My first computer experience was in jr high - a dumb terminal dialed into an HP-3000, (or was it 2000)? Anyway, 110 baud, then 300 baud, both via acoustic coupler. I got to visit the Math/Science Center where the beast was housed, and used a teletype and paper tape to store my programs (and play adventure, where a ctrl-D sent in a message to another adventurer would turn off their teletype!).
I got a TRS-80 model I Level II when I was 15-16. Wow!!! The Perkin Elmer box was from my first job out of college. Am I still a young 'un?
Me too. g=c000:5 and all that. I remember interleave optimization. That's 1987-ish stuff. Back when I also had a Perkin Elmer 7350A system running MicroXelos SYS V in my living room dialing into UUCP at 2400 baud. I even found an old UUCP entry from 1991 (thanks, internet!).
Kill It, Cook It, Eat It. The rabbit episode 'stars' the most ignorant, uninformed, assholic vegetarian I've ever seen: Francesca. Sadly, I can't find video of her on the show.
From the comments on their site:
Where in the world did you find that ignorant, ill-informed, small-minded twit Francesca?
"Let the scientists figure something out [to solve the rabbit overpopulation problem] - I'm not a bloody scientist".
On being anemic and malnourished - "Why can't I get a multivitamin from the chemist's shop - it's natural."
She's not only a typically clueless vegetarian but a sad example of a human being.
You're not kidding. Teratomas are strange and creepy, particularly the fetiform ones.
It's about 618715 Planck lengths, actually. I had the same thought.
Some of us really do enjoy the taste of a decent cup of coffee (not the over-roasted, burnt, over-extracted-yet-weak-and-bodiless crap that's currently popular from your neck of the woods). Add a little half-and-half and you've got a lovely little emulsion. I can't take caffeine too late, but decaf with dessert can be just as tasty and satisfying.
You know that insurance company with the big-haired woman named 'Flo'? They already have this as a teaser to get better rates. Here's what data they collect.
actually, you should have a right to do anything so long as it doesn't trample those same rights afforded to your fellow citizens. eg: you have a right to go off trail while hiking...
I must disagree with that statement. Going 'off trail' damages the very landscape that you and your fellow hikers are there to enjoy! I couch statements like yours in logic like this: "What would happen if everyone did it?" If the outcome for everyone is bad, then it either can't be allowed at all, or there must be strict regulations. Examples:
1) Walking around on the sand at a beach - ok for all. All those footprints will not matter in sand.
2) Hunting - not ok for all. Must be regulations on number killed, etc.
One thing that makes the Therac situation different from an auto-driven car - you can _see_ when the car messes up; radiation is invisible.
Or a nice tropical Hell.