so you put in some visual poetry to make up for the missing verbal poetry
like the floating billboard ships lazily cruising the spaces between the skyscrapers in blade runner. toss some vangelis on top, and you've got cinematic gold
Atmosphere isn't just compression, it's reaction mass. The compression creates the conditions for acceleration when the fuel is burned, but it's heating of the compressed air that causes the high force that accelerates the air backwards, accelerating the vehicle forwards.
You can bring your own oxygen, but it's just going to make a pretty flame coming out both sides of the combustion chamber unless there's mass flowing into the inlet and being pushed out through the nozzle.
I said this above already, but what you do here is you use a first-stage rocket motor to get up to scram-jetting speeds. Then the second-stage motor gets you to a certain point in the atmosphere where it loses thrust. Then you light your third stage.
This makes sense only if the specific impulse (look it up) from the scramjet exceeds that from a rocket motor, or it's ridiculously cheap and still gets the job done. I'm guessing it's not ridiculously cheap. But given that you don't have to bring the reaction mass for the scramjet with you, it might be more efficient than a rocket of the same mass. Meaning you can omit a heavy rocket motor and use a lighter scramjet and put the saved mass into the payload.
You need a rocket to get up to scramjet speeds, then maybe you can use a scramjet as a second stage, but once you're in thin enough air, you need a rocket again.
You sound like one of those people who actually voted to reduce the safety and liability requirements on drillers.
You caused this.
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it's his license to drill, so it's his responsibility to control the project.
We sue him for failing to do so.
He gets to sue his subcontractor.
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No, responsible for the mishap, too.
He created a risky situation, and the negative outcome occurred.
Had he not opened the sea up to that risk, it could not have occurred.
He caused the conditions for it and failed to control against it.
Clear liabiltiy.
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That's the point of being CEO.
You design the policies of the company and approve major expenditures, and you take responsibility when the people you trained turn the Gulf of Mexico into a sewer.
Almost none of this has ever been done before at this depth. They fucked up with the dome because it was new to the application, too. But they tried the dome first because (a) it was cheaper, and (b) it allowed them to continue to collect oil from the pipe, which they can sell. In essence, because it paid for itself.
Never ascribe to engineering what can be explained by greed.
the profits from the relief well will pay for the cleanup, and then some.
they'll do only as much cleanup as we force them to do, though, so unless the terms are "every fucking molecule scrubbed from the ocean and the beaches" they'll stop spending as soon as they can.
It's probably a bunch of machines wired up for use in Grid computing. They're fricken' supercomputers when you cast your algorithms in the right form.
Which brings up an interesting point: maybe the military told Sony to push the linux-killer patch, so that _our_ military would be the only ones with griddable devices.
LCDs need a finite thickness of fluid (crystals in colloidal suspension) so that applying an electric field can create regions of polarization alignment and disalignment. The liquid has to be contained bewteen sandwiched layers and kept to a constant thickness. When you bend the panel, the thickness is no longer constant, and the alignments are no longer coherent across the panel. In parts the liquid may be totally squeezed to the sides, producing a totally dead spot.
OLED devices are essentially printed onto their substrate, along with their wires. In theory, if all of the materials are elastic, you should be able to roll it up tightly and not see damage. But theory is not reality. In reality, the printed wires stretch and crack and lose continuity.
The fact that these people are maintaining some continuity is interesting. But it's clear they have not solved the problem well enough to use the device in the ways they're demonstrating, as it's failing in this test.
You don't understand the difference between LCD and LED screens, do you?
Haha. Starting your response with an obviously false accusation makes you look like a clown.
First, yes, I know the difference between LCD and LED screens. I even know the difference between LCD and LED TV screens. I also know the difference between LED and OLED.
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I wish they would figure out that people want service everywhere, and implement it.
I drive the I-10 through West Texas, and see a huge (250-foot?) cell tower every mile or so.
But it's worth fuck-all to me if I can't get Google Maps to work because they refuse to put new equipment on those towers to handle data services.
And there are stretches with no apparent topographic issues where you can't even get voice.
industry and politics will conspire to do what's profitable, not what's good policy.
Then as a member of a democracy it's your job to make sure that such behavior is not profitable, and good policy is.
so you put in some visual poetry to make up for the missing verbal poetry
like the floating billboard ships lazily cruising the spaces between the skyscrapers in blade runner. toss some vangelis on top, and you've got cinematic gold
There are those who wonder how value can be created in a fantasy world.
I wonder if they then turn around and wonder how it's created in the real world.
I wonder if there aren't some ceramics that would laugh at 5,000F.
Atmosphere isn't just compression, it's reaction mass. The compression creates the conditions for acceleration when the fuel is burned, but it's heating of the compressed air that causes the high force that accelerates the air backwards, accelerating the vehicle forwards.
You can bring your own oxygen, but it's just going to make a pretty flame coming out both sides of the combustion chamber unless there's mass flowing into the inlet and being pushed out through the nozzle.
I said this above already, but what you do here is you use a first-stage rocket motor to get up to scram-jetting speeds. Then the second-stage motor gets you to a certain point in the atmosphere where it loses thrust. Then you light your third stage.
This makes sense only if the specific impulse (look it up) from the scramjet exceeds that from a rocket motor, or it's ridiculously cheap and still gets the job done. I'm guessing it's not ridiculously cheap. But given that you don't have to bring the reaction mass for the scramjet with you, it might be more efficient than a rocket of the same mass. Meaning you can omit a heavy rocket motor and use a lighter scramjet and put the saved mass into the payload.
Jets don't work in space.
You need a rocket to get up to scramjet speeds, then maybe you can use a scramjet as a second stage, but once you're in thin enough air, you need a rocket again.
Ohhh, so close. Here, try this:
If you're required to carry your own reaction mass, it's a rocket engine, not a jet engine.
You sound like one of those people who actually voted to reduce the safety and liability requirements on drillers.
You caused this.
it's his license to drill, so it's his responsibility to control the project.
We sue him for failing to do so.
He gets to sue his subcontractor.
No, responsible for the mishap, too.
He created a risky situation, and the negative outcome occurred.
Had he not opened the sea up to that risk, it could not have occurred.
He caused the conditions for it and failed to control against it.
Clear liabiltiy.
That's the point of being CEO.
You design the policies of the company and approve major expenditures, and you take responsibility when the people you trained turn the Gulf of Mexico into a sewer.
Almost none of this has ever been done before at this depth. They fucked up with the dome because it was new to the application, too. But they tried the dome first because (a) it was cheaper, and (b) it allowed them to continue to collect oil from the pipe, which they can sell. In essence, because it paid for itself.
Never ascribe to engineering what can be explained by greed.
the profits from the relief well will pay for the cleanup, and then some.
they'll do only as much cleanup as we force them to do, though, so unless the terms are "every fucking molecule scrubbed from the ocean and the beaches" they'll stop spending as soon as they can.
I'm glad you're on the other side.
Um, you have that almost entirely wrong.
Collusion and other anticompetitive behaviors are exactly what is meant when the "antitrust" investigators get involved.
Perhaps you'll enlighten us as to how you've misread the title.
Haha. Seen Avatar?
The hard part isn't faking it to look that way.
The hard part is getting anyone under the age of 20 to know what a dead channel looks like.
Unless maybe you render it in #0000FF, with a blinking "searching for signal" emblazoned across it...
Sweet!
...uh...
So set it in Shenzhen.
Where the sky is already the color of a television tuned to a dead channel. And falling bodies.
Yeah. I read it in 2001... on the back of my jewel case for Duke Nukem Forever...
It's probably a bunch of machines wired up for use in Grid computing. They're fricken' supercomputers when you cast your algorithms in the right form.
Which brings up an interesting point: maybe the military told Sony to push the linux-killer patch, so that _our_ military would be the only ones with griddable devices.
I didn't see the ads. But if they said "you can run Linux on it" and then defeatured that, it's class-action heaven.
What "this" is that? Damaging the image by bending it? I'm pretty sure an LCD can do that. Which is what I tried to say.
When they can bend it without losing coherence, I'll see it as non-lame.
Er, sorta.
LCDs need a finite thickness of fluid (crystals in colloidal suspension) so that applying an electric field can create regions of polarization alignment and disalignment. The liquid has to be contained bewteen sandwiched layers and kept to a constant thickness. When you bend the panel, the thickness is no longer constant, and the alignments are no longer coherent across the panel. In parts the liquid may be totally squeezed to the sides, producing a totally dead spot.
OLED devices are essentially printed onto their substrate, along with their wires. In theory, if all of the materials are elastic, you should be able to roll it up tightly and not see damage. But theory is not reality. In reality, the printed wires stretch and crack and lose continuity.
The fact that these people are maintaining some continuity is interesting. But it's clear they have not solved the problem well enough to use the device in the ways they're demonstrating, as it's failing in this test.
You don't understand the difference between LCD and LED screens, do you?
Haha. Starting your response with an obviously false accusation makes you look like a clown.
First, yes, I know the difference between LCD and LED screens. I even know the difference between LCD and LED TV screens. I also know the difference between LED and OLED.
Again, haha; we're laughing at you, not with you.