Ironically, the guy who asked that question is me. Luckily the site hasn't gone down in flames, but I fail to see the ironic angle to the question. Or this one as well...
When did ironically become a synonym for "by coincidence"?
Oh, didn't know that. I looked it up and you might be able to do as little as 3 diameters, but your point stands.
Taking advantage of the manouverability, it would be possible to position the turbines so they interfere with each other least. However...
However, you'd have other options besides just making the rectangular platform bigger. You could use smaller turbines. You could change the shape of the platform (long and narrow so the turbines are in a line instead of a square). You could mount a single turbine on a much smaller platform and run cables between the platforms so that only one platform would need the battery and hydrogen generation stuff.
You got the point. Smaller turbines is not the right way to go, but humoungously large turbines placed on individual platforms would be just the ticket. A large (by todays standards) wind turbin is close to the 10 MW limit. With turbines this size, I think the H2 generating plant could be cost-effectively distributed.
There's still no new technology required to do any of those things. The engineering work would be straight-forward (although non-trivial).
In fact, there is an engineering challenge: How to make longer wings. Currently, a single wing weighs around 20-30 metric tonnes for a length of 60 meters. Given that the rotational speed is chosen so the the wing tip moves just below the speed of sound, the current bottlenec is to make a wing that doesn't disintegrate under the centrifugal forces imposed on them. From a price/kWh point of view, you want your WTG to have as large a rotor diameter as possible. The increased cost of gearing and generator is a decade lower than the increase in power output. So the main reason WTG's have the size they have now is stress on the wings and for land based turbines, also the logistical problem of getting the wings moved around on the roads.
Have you ever seen how big oil platforms are? BP's Thunder Horse is 112m wide, 136m long, and 130m high. It weighs 60,000 tons. GE's biggest turbines are 75m tall at the hub and weigh 300 tons. You could easily place one of these turbines at each of the four corners of Thunder Horse.
Not really. Wind turbines need to be spaced at least 5 times the rotordiameter to be cost efficient. Primarily because of the wind shadow behind each turbine, but also because of the increased stress on rotor and tower from turbulent air. So a platform that could acommodate 4 turbines af the size you mention would have to be half a kilometer along each side.
I think it's more than just sour grapes. Sour grapes might be the major drive behind this kind of revisionism, but it also seem to me that Larry is trying to retroactively change horses, after it has become clear that more people know about Wikipedia than know about Nupedia. In the past Larry has been quite insistent that Wikipedia is anti-elitist, anti-autoritarian as if that made Wikepedia a bad idea. Now, when it has become evident that the project is a success, he probably feel the need to distance himself from that.
Althoug the comparision (0 == ptr) might for some twisted reason com out as a non-zero value, you are not guaranteed that (!ptr) will have the same value. In other words, the C standard does not guarantee that (0 == 0) yields the same result as (!0), (0 == NULL) or (!NULL).
To repeat the cascade:
Don't give advice not to give advice not to give advice to not give advice when you don't know C when you don't know C when you don't know C when you don't know C.
I once made an experiment with some long forgotten version of gcc. I tried two pieces of code against each other:
(while *to++ = *from++);
vs.
while (1) {
to[i] = from[i];
if (0 == from[i]) {
break;
}
i = i + 1; }
For some strange reason the second version came out ahead by a very slight margin. The generated code looked more or less identical to me at the time, so I expect it was a caching issue. Nevertheless, unless you have proven that > 90% of execution time is spent in a very localized part of your program, don't bother optimizing.
Yeah... and by comparison, you also have almost no e-commerce.
No, and so... I can still shop with Amazon, Dell or who else has something to sell that I want. Even popo's slightly suspicious frech bum store. I'm still guaranteed that I'm not scammed.
In Denmark we have very good consumer protection on online trades. Whenever the card holder challenges a withdrawal, the issuing bank shall reverse the transfer immediatly. Afterwards, the burden of proof for actual goods delivery lies with the bank. The banks of course passes the burden on to the online merchants, so we have very few fradulent online traders here in denmark.
I'm not sure how it works for foreign trades, but as the banks must make the refund, no matter what, the general confidence in denmark is pretty high.
Beyond that... I'm also from Ohio. I wouldn't expect anyone outside the US to know where it is:)
Where is Ohio exactly. I'm not going to cheat and look at a map before i make my guess, but somewhere in the headwaters of the Missisippi? North of Tennesee to hazard a more specific guess.
Does anyone have an idea why the the links to the CNN website gives different variations of the classic 404 theme? Even if the trailing slash is stripped from the http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/08/05/ol ympics.online.ap link, a plain object not found message is displayed.
I've always had the impression that the policy from Remond was to find the "sweet spot" for their back office applications. In this case, the best target is probably a notch or two down from the customers who are willing to bay a SAP solution.
Whatever the reasons might be, MS in fact went ahead and bought Navision Financials instead, which probably was better for the overall backoffice strategy.
While I understand Microsoft is a well known brand name that people trust, I must ask the inevitable question: "Why do they trust Microsoft?"
A good guess is that this pilot project was started between Kim's and Navision (also a Danish company). Navision was the biggest (European) provider of ERP systems for midsize enterprises. Microsoft aquired Navision a few years back, so now of course the pilot project gets slapped the MS label all over it.
Besides that, this project is aimed at Supply-chain managment, where each pallet in the warehouse is tagged. Not the individual products, so you can, for the time being at least, forget your worries about exploding cach registers.
In Scandinavia (and I expect that holds for the rest of europe as well), you're elegible for compensation for wrongfull arrests and/or accusation from the police. They have no ways of countersuing.
At least in Denmark, the losers payment is calculated by a fixed price table, so if you spend extraordinary amounts on legal defence, you're still going to bear quite a lot of the expenses. The same of course goes for civil suits.
Wow, either that's a bad translation, or Peter talked himself in circles like 8 times.
As a native Danish speaker, I can confirm that he did. Furthermore, it is clear from the wording of what is said, and also from the evasive answers to the questions asked, that at best Peter Wilmar Christensen does not know wheter or not the code in the Kiss DVD player had actually benne copied or not. And when I say at best, I mean it. The most likely explanation is that tomorrow some poor sod is going to get the pink slip, not for copying code from someone else, but for not changing it enough that the public wouldn't notice.
I get the impression that more and more spam is sent from a highjacked home user PC, going through that users normal SMTP server. In this case, I cannot see how SPF should be of much use?
Back in the late part of the eighties, my company got started by making (almost) real-time control systems based on IBM PS-2 machines running Xenix, with the CPU-intensive stuff on Artic RIC cards.
Although the RIC card was meant to be an intelligent serial communications gizmo, a lot of the higher level processing was delegated to those as well.
It seems to me that we are about to get to the other side of the everchanging wheel of "lots of chips" vs "One huge CPU". Again.
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Ironically, the guy who asked that question is me. Luckily the site hasn't gone down in flames, but I fail to see the ironic angle to the question. Or this one as well...
When did ironically become a synonym for "by coincidence"?
Oh, didn't know that. I looked it up and you might be able to do as little as 3 diameters, but your point stands.
...
Taking advantage of the manouverability, it would be possible to position the turbines so they interfere with each other least. However
However, you'd have other options besides just making the rectangular platform bigger. You could use smaller turbines. You could change the shape of the platform (long and narrow so the turbines are in a line instead of a square). You could mount a single turbine on a much smaller platform and run cables between the platforms so that only one platform would need the battery and hydrogen generation stuff.
You got the point. Smaller turbines is not the right way to go, but humoungously large turbines placed on individual platforms would be just the ticket. A large (by todays standards) wind turbin is close to the 10 MW limit. With turbines this size, I think the H2 generating plant could be cost-effectively distributed.
There's still no new technology required to do any of those things. The engineering work would be straight-forward (although non-trivial).
In fact, there is an engineering challenge: How to make longer wings. Currently, a single wing weighs around 20-30 metric tonnes for a length of 60 meters. Given that the rotational speed is chosen so the the wing tip moves just below the speed of sound, the current bottlenec is to make a wing that doesn't disintegrate under the centrifugal forces imposed on them. From a price/kWh point of view, you want your WTG to have as large a rotor diameter as possible. The increased cost of gearing and generator is a decade lower than the increase in power output. So the main reason WTG's have the size they have now is stress on the wings and for land based turbines, also the logistical problem of getting the wings moved around on the roads.
Have you ever seen how big oil platforms are? BP's Thunder Horse is 112m wide, 136m long, and 130m high. It weighs 60,000 tons. GE's biggest turbines are 75m tall at the hub and weigh 300 tons. You could easily place one of these turbines at each of the four corners of Thunder Horse.
Not really. Wind turbines need to be spaced at least 5 times the rotordiameter to be cost efficient. Primarily because of the wind shadow behind each turbine, but also because of the increased stress on rotor and tower from turbulent air. So a platform that could acommodate 4 turbines af the size you mention would have to be half a kilometer along each side.
I think it's more than just sour grapes. Sour grapes might be the major drive behind this kind of revisionism, but it also seem to me that Larry is trying to retroactively change horses, after it has become clear that more people know about Wikipedia than know about Nupedia. In the past Larry has been quite insistent that Wikipedia is anti-elitist, anti-autoritarian as if that made Wikepedia a bad idea. Now, when it has become evident that the project is a success, he probably feel the need to distance himself from that.
My $0.02
Althoug the comparision (0 == ptr) might for some twisted reason com out as a non-zero value, you are not guaranteed that (!ptr) will have the same value. In other words, the C standard does not guarantee that (0 == 0) yields the same result as (!0), (0 == NULL) or (!NULL).
To repeat the cascade:
Don't give advice not to give advice not to give advice to not give advice when you don't know C when you don't know C when you don't know C when you don't know C.
I once made an experiment with some long forgotten version of gcc. I tried two pieces of code against each other:
(while *to++ = *from++);
vs.
while (1) {
to[i] = from[i];
if (0 == from[i]) {
break;
}
i = i + 1;
}
For some strange reason the second version came out ahead by a very slight margin. The generated code looked more or less identical to me at the time, so I expect it was a caching issue. Nevertheless, unless you have proven that > 90% of execution time is spent in a very localized part of your program, don't bother optimizing.
Yeah... and by comparison, you also have almost no e-commerce.
... I can still shop with Amazon, Dell or who else has something to sell that I want. Even popo's slightly suspicious frech bum store. I'm still guaranteed that I'm not scammed.
No, and so
In Denmark we have very good consumer protection on online trades. Whenever the card holder challenges a withdrawal, the issuing bank shall reverse the transfer immediatly. Afterwards, the burden of proof for actual goods delivery lies with the bank. The banks of course passes the burden on to the online merchants, so we have very few fradulent online traders here in denmark.
I'm not sure how it works for foreign trades, but as the banks must make the refund, no matter what, the general confidence in denmark is pretty high.
I see the following entries on the list:
40: What's Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
61: What's Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
Why? Is the sexuality of girls more quationable the that of boys, or is this list simply a list of sexual prejudice?
Beyond that
Where is Ohio exactly. I'm not going to cheat and look at a map before i make my guess, but somewhere in the headwaters of the Missisippi? North of Tennesee to hazard a more specific guess.
Anyone?
Bacause the first server www.cnn.com is more than likely configured differently than the edition.cnn.com server.
Of course. Blame on me for not looking at the first part of the URL.
Does anyone have an idea why the the links to the CNN website gives different variations of the classic 404 theme? Even if the trailing slash is stripped from the http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/08/05/ol ympics.online.ap link, a plain object not found message is displayed.
Of course, they're also giving you the news without asking for 50 cents, either...
.. not to mention that youre saving the newspaper the same 50 cents in production and distribution costs.
Most newspapers generate their operating profit from the ads, whereas the newsstand price only covers the base cost.
However, sarching for really+tired+of+unstable+VIA+chipsets gives 843 hits.
The current price is $51:
IPO on EBay
I've always had the impression that the policy from Remond was to find the "sweet spot" for their back office applications. In this case, the best target is probably a notch or two down from the customers who are willing to bay a SAP solution.
Whatever the reasons might be, MS in fact went ahead and bought Navision Financials instead, which probably was better for the overall backoffice strategy.
A good guess is that this pilot project was started between Kim's and Navision (also a Danish company). Navision was the biggest (European) provider of ERP systems for midsize enterprises. Microsoft aquired Navision a few years back, so now of course the pilot project gets slapped the MS label all over it.
Besides that, this project is aimed at Supply-chain managment, where each pallet in the warehouse is tagged. Not the individual products, so you can, for the time being at least, forget your worries about exploding cach registers.
Is that possible in your jurisdiction?
In Scandinavia (and I expect that holds for the rest of europe as well), you're elegible for compensation for wrongfull arrests and/or accusation from the police. They have no ways of countersuing.
At least in Denmark, the losers payment is calculated by a fixed price table, so if you spend extraordinary amounts on legal defence, you're still going to bear quite a lot of the expenses. The same of course goes for civil suits.
Bruce bonks Boston?
Aren't we coming pretty close to 1984?
At least the surveilliance part of that dystopian society.
As a native Danish speaker, I can confirm that he did. Furthermore, it is clear from the wording of what is said, and also from the evasive answers to the questions asked, that at best Peter Wilmar Christensen does not know wheter or not the code in the Kiss DVD player had actually benne copied or not. And when I say at best, I mean it. The most likely explanation is that tomorrow some poor sod is going to get the pink slip, not for copying code from someone else, but for not changing it enough that the public wouldn't notice.
I get the impression that more and more spam is sent from a highjacked home user PC, going through that users normal SMTP server. In this case, I cannot see how SPF should be of much use?
Back in the late part of the eighties, my company got started by making (almost) real-time control systems based on IBM PS-2 machines running Xenix, with the CPU-intensive stuff on Artic RIC cards.
Although the RIC card was meant to be an intelligent serial communications gizmo, a lot of the higher level processing was delegated to those as well.
It seems to me that we are about to get to the other side of the everchanging wheel of "lots of chips" vs "One huge CPU". Again.
Not at all. A typical dairy cow consumes upwards of 200l (45 gal?) of water per day.