By contrast, while my health and body have gotten worse under Trump, I only feel like his Presidency has aged me two years. That's quite a contrast from the Obama legacy!
Much of the evidence was burned, and Infinis and Vestas disagree on which was the key initial cause of the destructive fire: Infinis believes it was the loss of yaw control, while Vestas thinks brake drag more the root cause. While Vestas has produced its own report, an expert was not available to discuss its findings with New Scientist.
Vestas has since fixed the brake problem. In future, the feathered rotor will not have the brake applied in high winds; it will be free to turn if it needs to. “Vestas no longer do this and have modified all turbines at Ardrossan to prevent application of the parking brake, which is now only applied during maintenance,” says Infinis spokesman Andrew Dowler."
Guess what? The article also says: When wind speeds reach 88 km/h turbine blades of wind turbines are usually twisted, or “feathered”...
I stand by my assertion. I will agree that airframes are susceptible to failure at airspeeds that are only modestly higher than normal operating airspeeds, however propellers (l.e. turbine blades) are much more robust - again, like propellers on aircraft.
For grins, I tried calculating tangential velocity of propeller tips on a Cessna 172, given a prop diameter of 76" and an RPM of 2800. My math may not be correct, but I've checked it in Excel and I think it works out to 622 MPH. By your reasoning, you wouldn't even make it off the runway before the propeller self-destructed.
Airframes and propellers have totally different strength characteristics, no?
If only someone could invent the idea of two modes of operation!
I guess nobody has ever heard of variable pitch turbines or "prop feathering" (which works as well for wind turbines as it does for propellor driven aircraft).
I read the headline, just skim-reading, and what I got was "The doctor who won't return until 2020". Huh? Is this some famous doctor who is protesting the Trump presidency by suspending his practice until the end of Trump's term?
That got my curiosity up, so I read a little more, then I understood (facepalm).
Song by George Strait released in 1986. It was supposedly a sappy love song, but I always equated it to the plot of Superman (the one with Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder), referred to by parent post.
This whole "destruction of waterfront property" thing reminds me of these rules of thumb:
1) Those who do not have, want things to change
2) Those that have, want things to stay as they are
and finally,
3) Eventually, things change. Trying to hold back change is like (snicker) trying to hold back the tide...
They used to. Decades ago you had to pay a monthly fee to have an account, unless you had very large constant deposits in them. I would offer that fees are a type of negative interest. I think we can credit competition for wiping this out (but not really sure).
Three times over a 20 year period I chose to do my banking with a regional bank, only to have them bought by Wells Fargo. I finally broke the cycle by going to a credit union. I think (but am not sure) that there are laws preventing commercial banks from acquiring credit unions. So far it's worked, but laws get changed all the time...
Banks hate cash. It requires physical handling. It can be stolen. It wears out. It "isn't working for us" as it sits in a vault, an ATM, or an armored car. Electronic money can be working all the time - earning interest, being leveraged, being arbitraged, whatever. Cash is so "static" compared to electronic funds.
The Brave New World is almost here. Add an implant and the process will be complete. Can you imagine being arrested on suspicion of a serious crime because 30 minutes prior to the crime, in the "walking distance" proximity, you bought a pack of gum with your implant (or your debit card, or your smartphone)?
I'm rather old, my friends, and as you revel in your youth (assuming you are there), marvel at how anyone could be happy to be older. This world is yours. I'll be in it for a little longer, but not nearly as long as so many of you. I suppose cashless is your future - not so much mine.
I know I'm replying to score 0 AC, but misinformation should not be suffered to live.
Power loss protection is more than just extra charge in a capacitor. The important feature is that the SSD controller NOTICES when external power is lost and uses the on-board storage capacitor to keep it running long enough to flush the controller's RAM cache to flash in the SSD. On re-power, the controller can restore this dumped cache and return to operation with no lost data.
Just having a capacitor, without the controller feature of sensing unexpected power loss and dumping cache to flash IS bullshit. But this is not what Intel provides with their "power loss protection" feature
Since we're throwing brand names around, it is my understanding that Crucial MX300 SSDs also include this feature, but I really don't know as much about them as I do the Intels. Also Samsung enterprise SSDs (e.g. SM863a, PM863a) offer the same power loss protection feature. They *are* enterprise grade drives. They are white labeled by Dell, by the way.
Google is not being helpful for me today. I have a recollection of some artist publishing an entire album consisting of silence, in an act of malicious compliance in order to fulfill a multiple album contract. Does anyone know what this might have been? I did find "Sleepify", but I don't think this was what I'm remembering.
Intel's schedule for Coffee Lake may have been moved up a bit due to Ryzen, but this is not a "rabbit out of a hat" move for Intel.
See here http://marketrealist.com/2017/... which says "There are rumors that Intel may launch its HEDT (high-end desktop) processors and chipsets and its Coffee Lake microarchitecture a few months earlier than anticipated in response to AMD’s Ryzen 5 and 7 processors. "
That web page is dated April 28, 2017.
Here's another article: https://www.pcworld.com/articl... which shows Coffee Lake in 2H17. This article is dated Feb 13, 2017.
So Intel is executing according to plan since first of this calendar year.
I was going to write a post nearly identical to yours. After about 3 generations of backup tape technology and not ONCE getting anything useful off a backup tape, I quit tape forever. Now I just try to keep my stuff under 1 TB (er, 2 TB, er, 3 TB) and image to a backup drive of the same capacity.
The Spanish language is loaded with masculine/feminine forms which are intrinsic to the grammar. Why doesn't anyone ever talk about the evils of gender in Spanish?
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OMG - Me too!!!
By contrast, while my health and body have gotten worse under Trump, I only feel like his Presidency has aged me two years. That's quite a contrast from the Obama legacy!
Too bad it's pointless to mod up AC's. I couldn't agree more :-)
At the risk of escalating this "debate":
...
Could wind turbines withstand Category 5 hurricanes"
This is one of many articles about wind turbines handling high winds. They actually have a "hurricane mode" into which they can be placed.
Article in NewScientist" on failure of wind turbine in the North Sea. And I quote:.
Much of the evidence was burned, and Infinis and Vestas disagree on which was the key initial cause of the destructive fire: Infinis believes it was the loss of yaw control, while Vestas thinks brake drag more the root cause. While Vestas has produced its own report, an expert was not available to discuss its findings with New Scientist. Vestas has since fixed the brake problem. In future, the feathered rotor will not have the brake applied in high winds; it will be free to turn if it needs to. “Vestas no longer do this and have modified all turbines at Ardrossan to prevent application of the parking brake, which is now only applied during maintenance,” says Infinis spokesman Andrew Dowler."
Guess what? The article also says: When wind speeds reach 88 km/h turbine blades of wind turbines are usually twisted, or “feathered”
I stand by my assertion. I will agree that airframes are susceptible to failure at airspeeds that are only modestly higher than normal operating airspeeds, however propellers (l.e. turbine blades) are much more robust - again, like propellers on aircraft.
For grins, I tried calculating tangential velocity of propeller tips on a Cessna 172, given a prop diameter of 76" and an RPM of 2800. My math may not be correct, but I've checked it in Excel and I think it works out to 622 MPH. By your reasoning, you wouldn't even make it off the runway before the propeller self-destructed.
Airframes and propellers have totally different strength characteristics, no?
Now I used to think that I was cool,
Runnin' around on fossil fuel,
Until I saw what I was doin'
Was driving down the road to ruin.
-James Taylor
If only someone could invent the idea of two modes of operation!
I guess nobody has ever heard of variable pitch turbines or "prop feathering" (which works as well for wind turbines as it does for propellor driven aircraft).
I read the headline, just skim-reading, and what I got was "The doctor who won't return until 2020". Huh? Is this some famous doctor who is protesting the Trump presidency by suspending his practice until the end of Trump's term?
:-(
That got my curiosity up, so I read a little more, then I understood (facepalm).
This happens to me all the time
Fair enough. Which would you say is the rule, and which is the exception?
Locust voters
Thank you for this new moniker - I think it is a brilliant metaphor!
So you are unfamiliar with photosynthesis?
Song by George Strait released in 1986. It was supposedly a sappy love song, but I always equated it to the plot of Superman (the one with Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder), referred to by parent post.
This whole "destruction of waterfront property" thing reminds me of these rules of thumb:
1) Those who do not have, want things to change
2) Those that have, want things to stay as they are
and finally,
3) Eventually, things change. Trying to hold back change is like (snicker) trying to hold back the tide...
They used to. Decades ago you had to pay a monthly fee to have an account, unless you had very large constant deposits in them. I would offer that fees are a type of negative interest. I think we can credit competition for wiping this out (but not really sure).
Three times over a 20 year period I chose to do my banking with a regional bank, only to have them bought by Wells Fargo. I finally broke the cycle by going to a credit union. I think (but am not sure) that there are laws preventing commercial banks from acquiring credit unions. So far it's worked, but laws get changed all the time...
I hope you make sure to report that transaction as "income". Tax law requires that you do. The proceeds of barter are income to the IRS.
Banks hate cash. It requires physical handling. It can be stolen. It wears out. It "isn't working for us" as it sits in a vault, an ATM, or an armored car. Electronic money can be working all the time - earning interest, being leveraged, being arbitraged, whatever. Cash is so "static" compared to electronic funds.
The Brave New World is almost here. Add an implant and the process will be complete. Can you imagine being arrested on suspicion of a serious crime because 30 minutes prior to the crime, in the "walking distance" proximity, you bought a pack of gum with your implant (or your debit card, or your smartphone)?
I'm rather old, my friends, and as you revel in your youth (assuming you are there), marvel at how anyone could be happy to be older. This world is yours. I'll be in it for a little longer, but not nearly as long as so many of you. I suppose cashless is your future - not so much mine.
"Kill a few people, they call you a murderer. Kill a million, and you're a conqueror. Go figure." (Cliffhanger movie quote)
Different scenario but same principle.
I know I'm replying to score 0 AC, but misinformation should not be suffered to live.
Power loss protection is more than just extra charge in a capacitor. The important feature is that the SSD controller NOTICES when external power is lost and uses the on-board storage capacitor to keep it running long enough to flush the controller's RAM cache to flash in the SSD. On re-power, the controller can restore this dumped cache and return to operation with no lost data.
Just having a capacitor, without the controller feature of sensing unexpected power loss and dumping cache to flash IS bullshit. But this is not what Intel provides with their "power loss protection" feature
Since we're throwing brand names around, it is my understanding that Crucial MX300 SSDs also include this feature, but I really don't know as much about them as I do the Intels. Also Samsung enterprise SSDs (e.g. SM863a, PM863a) offer the same power loss protection feature. They *are* enterprise grade drives. They are white labeled by Dell, by the way.
Google is not being helpful for me today. I have a recollection of some artist publishing an entire album consisting of silence, in an act of malicious compliance in order to fulfill a multiple album contract. Does anyone know what this might have been? I did find "Sleepify", but I don't think this was what I'm remembering.
See Teledesic
If Office Space was the penultimate, what would you say was the ultimate?
(hint: You might want to look up the definition of penultimate)
See here http://marketrealist.com/2017/... which says "There are rumors that Intel may launch its HEDT (high-end desktop) processors and chipsets and its Coffee Lake microarchitecture a few months earlier than anticipated in response to AMD’s Ryzen 5 and 7 processors. "
That web page is dated April 28, 2017.
Here's another article: https://www.pcworld.com/articl... which shows Coffee Lake in 2H17. This article is dated Feb 13, 2017.
So Intel is executing according to plan since first of this calendar year.
I was going to write a post nearly identical to yours. After about 3 generations of backup tape technology and not ONCE getting anything useful off a backup tape, I quit tape forever. Now I just try to keep my stuff under 1 TB (er, 2 TB, er, 3 TB) and image to a backup drive of the same capacity.
"Rust" isn't a name that inspires confidence. Nor is "Corrosion," "Decay," or "Flatulence."
Hey - I resent your use of that last word!
Pecos huh? Nice gas station there. Nearly got bit by a rattlesnake near Pecos a couple of years ago. Enjoy your fame, friend!
The Spanish language is loaded with masculine/feminine forms which are intrinsic to the grammar. Why doesn't anyone ever talk about the evils of gender in Spanish?
Perhaps this will lead to a fix for stupid.