The Chinese are actually good people. Their leaders have made some bad decisions but whose hasn't.
The Chinese people don't have their finger on the button, their leaders do, making their leaders (and therefore all of China) a very large potential military threat to the rest of the world.
Not true. There are plenty of satellites in retrograde orbits that are visible - Seasat-1 will be passing overhead at my house tonight from azimuth SSE to NNW. Its orbit is inclined at 108 degrees, so it appears to cross the sky 'backwards'.
Fission doesn't have to be the wasteful, inefficient, and proliferation-prone mess that it is today. There are more efficient, less proliferation-prone ways to provide fission-based power than wasting 98%+ of the energy in the fuel rods and storing the 'waste' in the open.
Most estimates place the reserves of usable fuel for breeders at 600,000+ years at current consumption. That's not bad!
I agree that fusion may well be the best answer, but do we have the luxury of waiting for it to be ready for prime time? I think we should invest in breeder technology until we can get fusion up and running reliably.
While Sunday marked the end of the retail stores, those of us in Richmond, VA can take advantage of the liquidation sale that is going on right now (and will continue for some weeks) at Corporate Headquarters. The corporate office sale is taking place in the DR3 building located at 9954 Mayland Drive, Richmond VA. The currently have lots of IBM and HP Laser printers, decent desk chairs, etc. They will have more PCs in a week or so.
Ok, so they go a little overboard. I should've read it a little further. Their statement, however, is correct - every single item on their list is ICE-only. Even with today's cars, the parts that would remain after electrification are basically maintenance-free. I offer the following:
CV joints - nope. Not needed with motors in the wheel, and even if they're present they're a 100k mile service item.
Shock absorbers - currently a rare maintenance item.
Brake pads/rotors - _much_ less wear due to regenerative braking.
The motors and bearings are factory sealed - no lubing them up.
Transaxle grease - nope, and even if they did, they're basically sealed now.
The main items are the same ones as on a conventional car - headlights and other bulbs, tires, wiper blades, and front-end alignments.
OT question: As an anesthesiologist, are there extra steps or precautions you take for patients with sleep apnea? Does it depend on how much pressure their CPAP delivers? Thanks!
Ouch! I'm sure that it happened to many people, hence the sequence number field. His was a FOAF-style story, so it smelled a little urban legend-y to me.
For what it's worth, I missed out on punched cards, but did use punched paper tape. In fact, I still have the bootloader for a Concurrent 32xx series computer on punched tape somewhere - I saw it while packing to move. What was cool was the part number was punched in the leader like you would see from a dot matrix printer. Clever!
I'm not saying it didn't happen to him (it is a good urban myth), but there were tools and procedures available to prevent it. Punched cards (for Fortran programs at least) had a sequence field in the last 8 columns for sorting decks, and usually you'd draw a diagonal line across the top of the card stack with a marker so that you could manually resort them if a sorter wasn't available.
If you look at the layout for a fortran program, you'll see that it was heavily influenced by the punched card layout, or vice-versa.
My karma's excellent, I post regularly, and metamod. I was fair and didn't abuse the mod points when I had them. I haven't had mod points in over two years, and I'm not happy about it. What's the deal?
Fuel cell buses are already prowling the streets of several cities.
Buses, prowling. Interesting juxtaposition. I imagine an animated bus like a giant Herbie sneaking along the street, trying in vain to hide behind street signs.
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In a way, dog breeding is all about performance. Dogs in AKC-recognized shows are _not_ judged on how pretty they are. Each dog is judged against the official, written physical standard for that particular breed, not how well they're groomed or how cute they are. If you've ever wondered how a judge can compare dogs of different breeds in the group competition, that's how; the dog that best meets its standard wins.
Of course since the judges are human, grooming or cuteness sometimes plays a part, but not usually.
Just because you think your second puppy was "...not at all trained or bred for racing" doesn't mean it wasn't a perfect specimen according to the breed standard - if it met the standard, it had all of the traits needed to _be_ trained and excel at pulling a sled. The rest was a matter of training, not breeding.
...artificial selection for a specific desired result - basically, de-facto breeding of shy crocs. This is interesting, though likely illegal and unworkable.
Illegality aside, these scientists artificially selected 'shy' foxes for breeding and ended up with tame, dog-like foxes. Fascinating read, BTW.
Agreed, but it wouldn't be as good a conspiracy theory without it!
I wish that blur wasn't there - there seems to be a continental shelf mudslide under the blurred part, and that is one of the more active regions wrt currents and shifting sandbars. They don't call it "The Graveyard of the Atlantic" for nothing.
I didn't see the Diamond Shoals Light on the map. Too bad; I've caught a bunch of tuna, blues, and mackerel around that thing, and fallen to sleep watching it's blink, blink out my bedroom window.
It seems that there's a buoy in the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary.
PS - The Monitor Marine Sanctuary is in the blurred area. It "...consists of a vertical water column in the Atlantic ocean one mile in diameter extending from the surface to the seabed, the center of which is at 35 00' 23" north latitude and 75 24' 32 west longitude." [From this Federal Regulation].
I noticed that same area when the day this story broke. What was so interesting that someone bothered to go searching?
I also wonder about these mini-seamounts off the coast of Nags Head - are they wrecks, or actual features?
Also, what's with the blurring here? It's probably where data was stitched, but it might be intentional blurring of the wreck of the Monitor. I like a good conspiracy theory.
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I'd be pissed if the feds came knocking because my AV software 'clicked' on a link to kiddie porn, hate-speech, or some other UnRightThinking site.
Don't forget the accelerometers that were installed upside-down on the Genesis Spacecraft causing it to auger into the desert on reentry.
The Chinese are actually good people. Their leaders have made some bad decisions but whose hasn't.
The Chinese people don't have their finger on the button, their leaders do, making their leaders (and therefore all of China) a very large potential military threat to the rest of the world.
IMHO, the last line needs to read "Ah crap, it's just a satellite" for the meter to flow.
Not true. There are plenty of satellites in retrograde orbits that are visible - Seasat-1 will be passing overhead at my house tonight from azimuth SSE to NNW. Its orbit is inclined at 108 degrees, so it appears to cross the sky 'backwards'.
PS - cool APRS gear.
Fission doesn't have to be the wasteful, inefficient, and proliferation-prone mess that it is today. There are more efficient, less proliferation-prone ways to provide fission-based power than wasting 98%+ of the energy in the fuel rods and storing the 'waste' in the open.
Most estimates place the reserves of usable fuel for breeders at 600,000+ years at current consumption. That's not bad!
I agree that fusion may well be the best answer, but do we have the luxury of waiting for it to be ready for prime time? I think we should invest in breeder technology until we can get fusion up and running reliably.
While Sunday marked the end of the retail stores, those of us in Richmond, VA can take advantage of the liquidation sale that is going on right now (and will continue for some weeks) at Corporate Headquarters. The corporate office sale is taking place in the DR3 building located at 9954 Mayland Drive, Richmond VA. The currently have lots of IBM and HP Laser printers, decent desk chairs, etc. They will have more PCs in a week or so.
The main items are the same ones as on a conventional car - headlights and other bulbs, tires, wiper blades, and front-end alignments.
This is why it matters.
OT question: As an anesthesiologist, are there extra steps or precautions you take for patients with sleep apnea? Does it depend on how much pressure their CPAP delivers? Thanks!
Ouch! I'm sure that it happened to many people, hence the sequence number field. His was a FOAF-style story, so it smelled a little urban legend-y to me.
For what it's worth, I missed out on punched cards, but did use punched paper tape. In fact, I still have the bootloader for a Concurrent 32xx series computer on punched tape somewhere - I saw it while packing to move. What was cool was the part number was punched in the leader like you would see from a dot matrix printer. Clever!
I'm not saying it didn't happen to him (it is a good urban myth), but there were tools and procedures available to prevent it. Punched cards (for Fortran programs at least) had a sequence field in the last 8 columns for sorting decks, and usually you'd draw a diagonal line across the top of the card stack with a marker so that you could manually resort them if a sorter wasn't available.
If you look at the layout for a fortran program, you'll see that it was heavily influenced by the punched card layout, or vice-versa.
I say we call it "Thong", after the Greek goddess of G-[St]ring underwear.
My karma's excellent, I post regularly, and metamod. I was fair and didn't abuse the mod points when I had them. I haven't had mod points in over two years, and I'm not happy about it. What's the deal?
Perhaps you meant Amy M a inzer?
My wife literally can't figure out a cell phone. ..can't answer the phone two times out of three....I suspect she's holding the phone upside down ...
Are you sure your wife isn't a bigfoot someone has shaved down and taught to speak?
My wife's a geek, thank $DEITY. She works in IT, thinks like a dude, and doesn't play typical girly mind games. She even _hates_ to shop.
No, you can't have her!
Availability? You can buy Coke in the jungles of Peru.
I think he meant the soda.
8-)
He ate all their bacon and peanut butter and banana sandwiches, too.
Fuel cell buses are already prowling the streets of several cities.
Buses, prowling. Interesting juxtaposition. I imagine an animated bus like a giant Herbie sneaking along the street, trying in vain to hide behind street signs.
In a way, dog breeding is all about performance. Dogs in AKC-recognized shows are _not_ judged on how pretty they are. Each dog is judged against the official, written physical standard for that particular breed, not how well they're groomed or how cute they are. If you've ever wondered how a judge can compare dogs of different breeds in the group competition, that's how; the dog that best meets its standard wins.
Of course since the judges are human, grooming or cuteness sometimes plays a part, but not usually.
Just because you think your second puppy was "...not at all trained or bred for racing" doesn't mean it wasn't a perfect specimen according to the breed standard - if it met the standard, it had all of the traits needed to _be_ trained and excel at pulling a sled. The rest was a matter of training, not breeding.
Illegality aside, these scientists artificially selected 'shy' foxes for breeding and ended up with tame, dog-like foxes. Fascinating read, BTW.
Agreed, but it wouldn't be as good a conspiracy theory without it!
I wish that blur wasn't there - there seems to be a continental shelf mudslide under the blurred part, and that is one of the more active regions wrt currents and shifting sandbars. They don't call it "The Graveyard of the Atlantic" for nothing.
I didn't see the Diamond Shoals Light on the map. Too bad; I've caught a bunch of tuna, blues, and mackerel around that thing, and fallen to sleep watching it's blink, blink out my bedroom window.
It seems that there's a buoy in the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary.
PS - The Monitor Marine Sanctuary is in the blurred area. It "...consists of a vertical water column in the Atlantic ocean one mile in diameter extending from the surface to the seabed, the center of which is at 35 00' 23" north latitude and 75 24' 32 west longitude." [From this Federal Regulation].
I noticed that same area when the day this story broke. What was so interesting that someone bothered to go searching?
I also wonder about these mini-seamounts off the coast of Nags Head - are they wrecks, or actual features?
Also, what's with the blurring here? It's probably where data was stitched, but it might be intentional blurring of the wreck of the Monitor. I like a good conspiracy theory.