Only if you're a law firm trying to rack up billable hours.
Shareholders would think otherwise and if they pursue this, it'll cause pain elsewhere as they pour a lot more good money after the other good money that they poured into that black pit they've made with the first bad money spent STARTING this idiot litigation scheme of theirs.
It's only usable in the context of active cooling, however you accomplish it. If you don't actively cool well, low-e glass actually acts as a heat barrier.
Heh... They may not, but someone does for the drier climates, so it's conceivable that they've got something as well, just not in a nice, tidy, 3 ton capacity unit right at the moment.
If you're in AZ, NM, or Western TX, you can already get there without waiting.
Coolerado produces high performance indirect evaporative cooling systems for sale. Currently being mainly marketed to the business space, I'm sure you could conceivably get them to sell a 3-6 ton capacity system (as those were designed as residential/business units) to you since they work better overall than the NREL units. The NREL units have one thing over the Coolerado units in that they appear to work fairly well in areas like DFW, Houston, Miami, etc. where the humidity takes a good portion of the ability to cool anything by evaporative cooling. The DFW area is just at the edge of the region that evaporative cooling doesn't buy you nearly enough cooling.
What I'm wondering is whether one could apply the heat driven desiccant system as a dryer front-end to a Coolerado unit. As it stands, they've got this portable 6-ton capacity cooling system on a trailer with a set of solar panels that demo the efficiency of their systems. They're doing it with only about 600 watts of power with the demo system.
As for the desiccants, they're just something like Calcium Chloride in a concentrated solution (i.e. brine)- which means you'll have some periodic parts maintenance much like you would with a water treatment system. You might need to occasionally drain off the brine tank for maintenance, but you'll probably be able to simply capture it and put it back in the system. There's really little that can exist within a brine solution, so you won't have bacterial/algal buildup as a concern with that part of the system.
Unless Verizon does dividends on a regular basis, they're not concerned about "shareholder" value. Their motives are driven by the current going price for their stock- the "shareseller" value- which is a different thing, more akin to government sanctioned gambling than investment and business dealings.
And it's a way to commit corporate suicide, as it's been the cause of the demise and Chapter 11 filings of numerous companies over the last 10-15 years. Do your business right and that value or real shareholder value (if you do dividends...) will follow. There might be hiccups and down times, but in the long-run (as opposed to the day-trader timeframes of things we're doing these days...) it'll be a major positive.
Actually, all it'd take is a complaint to the PUC over that one and they'll back off on the spot in most cases. They operate with the permission of the State you reside in and the PUC enforces the common law provisions there- they don't want sanctions over even a single incident, which could be much more than the lawsuit would cost them (because it'd cost you 5K and THEM 5k...).
With all due respect isn't that the point of a business...making a profit?
Won't challange that supposition, because that much would be right.
However, there's aspects to this that most people pro-business don't seem to quite get because they've not been watching all this time.
There's legal, grey-area legal, and illegal (but it's only that if someone calls you out on it in a lawsuit or some government person does so...)
There's sustainable and unsustainable.
ANY time I hear "maximizing profits" stated by some idiot with an MBA or similar I want to just throttle them. Maximizing profits typically involves grey-area legal, illegal, or unsustainable practices. It's roughly analogous to strip mining a business space.
What Verizon and AT&T is playing up here to will help them in the short term, but not the long term because they HAD this sort of thing previously and then they moved to making unlimited services available for a high monthly fee that was fixed. Turning back that clock to an earlier time might mean more for profitability in the short term, but as people get BIT by their new scheme for making profits, the customers will either go elsewhere or use their service only inasmuch as they need to- which means not at all in some people's cases. They're going to eventually LOSE money on the deal doing this because the people providing their current profits will quit doing so. It's not some cash cow you can keep milking for more and more money- at some threshold you implode things.
First fatal mistake that can KILL a business is worrying so much about that bottom line you quit thinking in terms of your customers- because you're about the bottom line instead of about the customers that are supplying you with that business in the first place.
Second one is letting the stock market dictate your business decisions- including what you're selling and how many people you retain employment on.
Third one is failing to listen to your customers' needs and not supplying them. This little discussion is about two of the main players doing that very thing.
It might be fast loading, etc. but it's usability diminishes with your social network growing (the news becomes NOISY...), coupled with the bulk of the content being mostly of the "and nothing of any import was lost" type stuff.
The same goes for Twitter, really.
What USE is it all other than being a participatory boob tube? Not much, that I can see. And, yes, I've got Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Because Interplay, as part of what it ended up doing to actually survive long enough to attempt the Phoenix play (rising from it's ashes, reborn...) that it's doing right now, sold the rights to everything Fallout, except for the right to make an MMO for the same and the right to possibly buy the rights to the franchise back at a later date.
As part of the stipulations ZeniMax put on things, they had until a given date to start production on the MMO or lose the right to do that. Right now ZeniMax is challenging Interplay that they didn't meet the deadline- which is actually up to some debate for a change.
You can rest assured that RIM, Palm, or MS would do much the same thing if they were in the position that Apple sits right now with the iPhone. It remains to be seen if Nokia will, but the others would step right on up and do the same things, given the opportunity.
I'm sure you can reflash the firmware a' la Cyanogen's stuff- just using an ARM Ubuntu build with the Tablet Remix overlay- and it wouldn't surprise me if they don't have a bit of that kind of thinking going on in their heads right now over in Round Rock.
Considering that the iPad's nothing really special there- it's just an iPhone with a bigger screen. A tablet computer, done right is probably always be an expansion of a MID. The article refers to MIDs- and the iPad's no different there. It's a MID, with a larger screen and 3G access, that's all.
I'd be careful of calling a "fail" there as it's not where you think it is.:-D
Actually, they're not me-tooing it. They've had this in the chips for about the last 3-4 years in some form or another. They've got hardware partners in the mix at this point, though those haven't been announced yet.
Heh... It's basically on high ground relative to the flood plain (Though not on the highest point...think the infamous Grassy Knoll area and you'd have a picture of where this place was at- it's right across the street from the records building). The flood happened because a water main broke on them- something unforseen and unplanned for. More to the point, it's not that they didn't believe they needed a backup system- they've been working on trying to get one up and running for a bit now; the effort to link up a backup facility elsewhere by fiber has been snarled up in bureaucratic red tape.
Houston has the most terrible sewers I've ever seen. Storm drains are located very far away from each other, and the amount of space underground for carrying water seems to be miniscule.
Heh...it drains better, mainly because the Trinity doesn't back up like the San Jacinto tends to. Consequence of a town being at Sea Level. Ask New Orleans about that- or perhaps Galveston proper.;-)
Uh, no... This is an IT thing. While the racks MIGHT be able to fit elsewhere, the power backups might exceed the load maximums for the building or cause you to spread things out to where you can't use a floor otherwise.
You can't just pile a bunch of gear into a building and call it done. You've got to account for the weight distribution on a floor- and sometimes you will only be able to really put the density into the basement because of this.
Consider the weight of the components in question and consider what loading the same will present to the flooring of an older building. Might've been a bad, bad idea, but it might've been the lesser of two evils.
SSD's would probably be better for this scenario because you can clean the contaminants off the boards and you'd be good to go. Galvanic corrosion would only occur after a much extended period of exposure to the flooding.
As for backups, they've got hardcopy records and I think they might have periodic tape backups- but that's not what they're talking about (nor was it a problem- only the power failed them; the center itself is above the flooded area, or it'd taken quite a bit longer to recover than it did...). They're talking to a fallback facility to handle capacity when the other facility is deader than a doornail for whatever reasons. One wonders if that's realistic or feasible in light of the overall expense involved.
Maybe... I don't think the effect that the people are describing right at the moment would be there if you went upwind. As the other poster indicated, you could reverse the prop, but I think you'd do only near the speed of the wind instead of more than with that configuration. It'd get you there, but I think you're wanting to stack the deck by going downwind with this design.
Basically, the blades of the prop act like tacking sails; once you get your head around that it becomes easy to see that it works.
Yeah, but the big problem is that it doesn't correlate to that analogy- you can't go faster than the wind you're tacking against with a sail. You can get close to that speed, but not to it or faster. It doesn't correlate with anything they've taught us in high-school or college physics classes and it's where the "perpetual motion" and "impossible" remarks are coming from.
It's not perpetual motion and it's apparently not "impossible" if they've not had a measurement error (don't presume that yet either)- which means that our understanding of things is in error and it's time to analyze just precisely WHY this does what it does to adjust our understanding of the model we have or the very model itself as needed.
Because you're drawing the box around the system wrong- you're modeling a closed system and seeing perpetual motion where there is not. Without the wind, it couldn't move at all for starters. I'm not sure where the anomaly with what we "know" and what we're seeing with this is coming from, mind, but if there's no measurement error with things here you've got one that needs to be looked into.
For instance, trust busting wouldn't be legal. Or any number of needed restrictions on corporations that take a rather wide interpretation of the Interstate commerce clause.
Ah, but therein lies the rub. If they do business across state lines, they're subject to being controlled to some extent by the Federal government- so says the Constitution.
What remains is an interpretation of just how much meddling in things it allows, but that's not the subject we're discussing. As for trust busting being illegal, I'd hesitate to say either way- there's certainly a lot going for the Interstate Commerce Clause having something to say that your statement is inaccurate. If it doesn't cross state lines, I'd say yeah, it's not their authority. However, if it doesn't cross state lines it has limits to it's scope in varying ways so that you don't need trust busting. To be sure, if it's not coverable in the scope of the Clause, it might be very debatable as to whether the regulation is actually NEEDED like you claim it is.
Until you can get it to work RIGHT on things like my Nokia N800 and my Motorola Droid (or, hey, the iPhone, hm?) it's not going to be write once run everywhere.
Besides, I thought that was Java's claim to fame and it's definitely not there yet either.
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Only if you're a law firm trying to rack up billable hours.
Shareholders would think otherwise and if they pursue this, it'll cause pain elsewhere as they pour a lot more good money after the
other good money that they poured into that black pit they've made with the first bad money spent STARTING this idiot litigation
scheme of theirs.
"Suing our customers, hey, that'll work, right?"
It's only usable in the context of active cooling, however you accomplish it. If you don't actively cool well, low-e glass actually acts as a heat barrier.
Heh... They may not, but someone does for the drier climates, so it's conceivable that they've got something as well, just not in a nice, tidy, 3 ton capacity unit right at the moment.
If you're in AZ, NM, or Western TX, you can already get there without waiting.
Coolerado produces high performance indirect evaporative cooling systems for sale. Currently being mainly marketed to the business space, I'm sure you could conceivably get them to sell a 3-6 ton capacity system (as those were designed as residential/business units) to you since they work better overall than the NREL units. The NREL units have one thing over the Coolerado units in that they appear to work fairly well in areas like DFW, Houston, Miami, etc. where the humidity takes a good portion of the ability to cool anything by evaporative cooling. The DFW area is just at the edge of the region that evaporative cooling doesn't buy you nearly enough cooling.
What I'm wondering is whether one could apply the heat driven desiccant system as a dryer front-end to a Coolerado unit. As it stands, they've got this portable 6-ton capacity cooling system on a trailer with a set of solar panels that demo the efficiency of their systems. They're doing it with only about 600 watts of power with the demo system.
As for the desiccants, they're just something like Calcium Chloride in a concentrated solution (i.e. brine)- which means you'll have some periodic parts maintenance much like you would with a water treatment system. You might need to occasionally drain off the brine tank for maintenance, but you'll probably be able to simply capture it and put it back in the system. There's really little that can exist within a brine solution, so you won't have bacterial/algal buildup as a concern with that part of the system.
Unless Verizon does dividends on a regular basis, they're not concerned about "shareholder" value. Their motives are driven by the current going price for their stock- the "shareseller" value- which is a different thing, more akin to government sanctioned gambling than investment and business dealings.
And it's a way to commit corporate suicide, as it's been the cause of the demise and Chapter 11 filings of numerous companies over the last 10-15 years. Do your business right and that value or real shareholder value (if you do dividends...) will follow. There might be hiccups and down times, but in the long-run (as opposed to the day-trader timeframes of things we're doing these days...) it'll be a major positive.
Actually, all it'd take is a complaint to the PUC over that one and they'll back off on the spot in most cases. They operate with the permission of the State you reside in and the PUC enforces the common law provisions there- they don't want sanctions over even a single incident, which could be much more than the lawsuit would cost them (because it'd cost you 5K and THEM 5k...).
Won't challange that supposition, because that much would be right.
However, there's aspects to this that most people pro-business don't seem to quite get because they've not been watching all this time.
There's legal, grey-area legal, and illegal (but it's only that if someone calls you out on it in a lawsuit or some government person does so...)
There's sustainable and unsustainable.
ANY time I hear "maximizing profits" stated by some idiot with an MBA or similar I want to just throttle them. Maximizing profits typically involves grey-area legal, illegal, or unsustainable practices. It's roughly analogous to strip mining a business space.
What Verizon and AT&T is playing up here to will help them in the short term, but not the long term because they HAD this sort of thing previously and then they moved to making unlimited services available for a high monthly fee that was fixed. Turning back that clock to an earlier time might mean more for profitability in the short term, but as people get BIT by their new scheme for making profits, the customers will either go elsewhere or use their service only inasmuch as they need to- which means not at all in some people's cases. They're going to eventually LOSE money on the deal doing this because the people providing their current profits will quit doing so. It's not some cash cow you can keep milking for more and more money- at some threshold you implode things.
First fatal mistake that can KILL a business is worrying so much about that bottom line you quit thinking in terms of your customers- because you're about the bottom line instead of about the customers that are supplying you with that business in the first place.
Second one is letting the stock market dictate your business decisions- including what you're selling and how many people you retain employment on.
Third one is failing to listen to your customers' needs and not supplying them. This little discussion is about two of the main players doing that very thing.
Facebook's a fad...
It might be fast loading, etc. but it's usability diminishes with your social network growing (the news becomes NOISY...), coupled with the bulk of the content being mostly of the "and nothing of any import was lost" type stuff.
The same goes for Twitter, really.
What USE is it all other than being a participatory boob tube? Not much, that I can see. And, yes, I've got Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Because Interplay, as part of what it ended up doing to actually survive long enough to attempt the Phoenix play (rising from it's ashes, reborn...) that it's doing right now, sold the rights to everything Fallout, except for the right to make an MMO for the same and the right to possibly buy the rights to the franchise back at a later date.
As part of the stipulations ZeniMax put on things, they had until a given date to start production on the MMO or lose the right to do that. Right now ZeniMax is challenging Interplay that they didn't meet the deadline- which is actually up to some debate for a change.
It's not a laser pointer, per se. It's a hand-held Class IV laser. You can assemble similar things all on your own if you know what you're doing.
You can rest assured that RIM, Palm, or MS would do much the same thing if they were in the position that Apple sits right now with the iPhone. It remains to be seen if Nokia will, but the others would step right on up and do the same things, given the opportunity.
I'm sure you can reflash the firmware a' la Cyanogen's stuff- just using an ARM Ubuntu build with the Tablet Remix overlay- and it wouldn't surprise me if they don't have a bit of that kind of thinking going on in their heads right now over in Round Rock.
Considering that the iPad's nothing really special there- it's just an iPhone with a bigger screen. A tablet computer, done right is probably always be an expansion of a MID. The article refers to MIDs- and the iPad's no different there. It's a MID, with a larger screen and 3G access, that's all.
I'd be careful of calling a "fail" there as it's not where you think it is. :-D
Actually, they're not me-tooing it. They've had this in the chips for about the last 3-4 years in some form or another. They've got hardware partners in the mix at this point, though those haven't been announced yet.
Heh... It's basically on high ground relative to the flood plain (Though not on the highest point...think the infamous Grassy Knoll area and you'd have a picture of where this place was at- it's right across the street from the records building). The flood happened because a water main broke on them- something unforseen and unplanned for. More to the point, it's not that they didn't believe they needed a backup system- they've been working on trying to get one up and running for a bit now; the effort to link up a backup facility elsewhere by fiber has been snarled up in bureaucratic red tape.
No kidding. And, more to the point, they'd be more likely to have the same response sooner...
Heh...it drains better, mainly because the Trinity doesn't back up like the San Jacinto tends to. Consequence of a town being at Sea Level. Ask New Orleans about that- or perhaps Galveston proper. ;-)
Uh, no... This is an IT thing. While the racks MIGHT be able to fit elsewhere, the power backups might exceed the load maximums for the building or cause you to spread things out to where you can't use a floor otherwise.
You can't just pile a bunch of gear into a building and call it done. You've got to account for the weight distribution on a floor- and sometimes you will only be able to really put the density into the basement because of this.
Consider the weight of the components in question and consider what loading the same will present to the flooring of an older building. Might've been a bad, bad idea, but it might've been the lesser of two evils.
SSD's would probably be better for this scenario because you can clean the contaminants off the boards and you'd be good to go. Galvanic corrosion would only occur after a much extended period of exposure to the flooding.
As for backups, they've got hardcopy records and I think they might have periodic tape backups- but that's not what they're talking about (nor was it a problem- only the power failed them; the center itself is above the flooded area, or it'd taken quite a bit longer to recover than it did...). They're talking to a fallback facility to handle capacity when the other facility is deader than a doornail for whatever reasons. One wonders if that's realistic or feasible in light of the overall expense involved.
Maybe... I don't think the effect that the people are describing right at the moment would be there if you went upwind. As the other poster indicated, you could reverse the prop, but I think you'd do only near the speed of the wind instead of more than with that configuration. It'd get you there, but I think you're wanting to stack the deck by going downwind with this design.
Yeah, but the big problem is that it doesn't correlate to that analogy- you can't go faster than the wind you're tacking against with a sail. You can get close to that speed, but not to it or faster. It doesn't correlate with anything they've taught us in high-school or college physics classes and it's where the "perpetual motion" and "impossible" remarks are coming from.
It's not perpetual motion and it's apparently not "impossible" if they've not had a measurement error (don't presume that yet either)- which means that our understanding of things is in error and it's time to analyze just precisely WHY this does what it does to adjust our understanding of the model we have or the very model itself as needed.
Because you're drawing the box around the system wrong- you're modeling a closed system and seeing perpetual motion where there is not. Without the wind, it couldn't move at all for starters. I'm not sure where the anomaly with what we "know" and what we're seeing with this is coming from, mind, but if there's no measurement error with things here you've got one that needs to be looked into.
Ah, but therein lies the rub. If they do business across state lines, they're subject to being controlled to some extent by the Federal government- so says the Constitution.
What remains is an interpretation of just how much meddling in things it allows, but that's not the subject we're discussing. As for trust busting being illegal, I'd hesitate to say either way- there's certainly a lot going for the Interstate Commerce Clause having something to say that your statement is inaccurate. If it doesn't cross state lines, I'd say yeah, it's not their authority. However, if it doesn't cross state lines it has limits to it's scope in varying ways so that you don't need trust busting. To be sure, if it's not coverable in the scope of the Clause, it might be very debatable as to whether the regulation is actually NEEDED like you claim it is.
Until you can get it to work RIGHT on things like my Nokia N800 and my Motorola Droid (or, hey, the iPhone, hm?) it's not going to be write once run everywhere.
Besides, I thought that was Java's claim to fame and it's definitely not there yet either.