I was curious, so I looked up the output of the Shuttle's main engines compared to the Saturn V main engines. The shuttle's main engines produce a maximum of 488,000 pounds of thrust. The Saturn V main engines produced a total of 7.5 million pounds of thrust, or 1.5 million pounds per engine. So it looks like each engine on the Saturn V was about 3 times as powerful as each of the main engines on the shuttle. Oh, the solid rocket boosters on the shuttle each produce 3.3 million pounds of thrust.
Never mind - it seems they hide the information about the 10mbps residential service unless it is actually available in your area. I had to try a bunch of zip codes until I found one that was "likely to have service" before it showed up. That sounds like an awesome service - here is the description for anyone who is curious.
PS - Company I am getting fiber through is Surewest Broadband. They do have bandwidth caps, but they are not enforced very stricly, and they actually post what their monthly limits are. When you get 10Mbps both ways, you have to expect this. But with the Television service as well as Internet, Surewest so far has been great, and I am glad I made the switch from SBC Internet (and Comcast for television).
What service do you have from them? The only fiber service I could find on their website listed max speeds of 5 Mbps up and 5 Mbps down for $1,699 a month. Even assuming they actually meant MBps, their cheapest listed fiber offering is.5 up and.5 down for $169 a month. I'm just wondering what service you are actually getting, as I live in an area that they claim will be receiing service soon, and I'm looking for alternatives to my current SBC DSL.
I've got a Tamron 28-300 (effectively (or rather 35mm-equivalent) something like 45-480 I think - 1.6x magnification on the Rebel, right?) for my Digital Rebel. Don't remember what it cost, somewhere around $350 I think. Not too bulky, either, although I certainly don't carry it around all the time. So yeah, getting 10x zoom for the Digital Rebel can be done, and not too incredibly expensively, but it isn't as portable as some other options (but then outside of an Elph or equivalent that is really small, it doesn't make too much difference - If I have to carry a camera bag around, I might as well carry my DSLR).
Fuel Oil No. 4 is a Heavy Fuel Oil. Pour point is -10 degrees celsius. Boiling point ranges from 200 to 600 degrees celsius (or maybe 220-300 degrees fahrenheit; seems to depend on where you look. Probably the latter, since another place says its flashpoint is 140-240 fahrenheit, and autoignition is at 505 degrees fahrenheit). Viscosity at 20 celsius is 200-500 cSt (what the fuck is a cSt? Yeah, I had no idea either, so here you go.) Fuel oil no. 4 produces about 145,000 BTU's per gallon (but I don't know how dense it is, so I can't compare to the ~40,000 Btu's in a kilogram of gasoline). Fuel Oil No. 4 is mostly used in industrial burners and marine diesel engines.
There, now isn't that way more than you wanted to know about Fuel Oil No. 4? Only problem is, I'm not sure Fuel Oil No. 4 would be the same as Oil No. 4; I assume it is though, because if it was being compared to crude oils it should have a letter designation.
Maybe she just wanted to write a good story - which she succeeded in doing. Sure, she should have said something to that effect on the website, but it was still a good story. A lonely motorcycle ride through Chernobyl sure makes a better story than "a standard Chernobyl tourist ride".
Great. Now, instead of the whole company being held responsible for the actions of employees, the company will instead be able to throw a couple of those employees to the lions and go on with what they were doing. How much do you want to bet it will never be high-level management that takes the fall for this kind of thing? Personally, I think I kind of prefer it when the whole company takes a hit - at least it hits the managers (the ones ultimately responsible) in the pocketbook, if nowhere else. I guess employees just better become a lot more careful - get all directives in writing, and ignore anything your boss tells you to do that they don't write down. Employees are going to be held responsible for what they have most likely been directed to do, or at least have done with full knowledge of their bosses, so they better learn to protect themselves.
Basically, my point is (if I actually have one), while it is great that "those responsible" are being held responsible, somehow I doubt they are the ones that are really responsible.
Yeah surfing on lava isn't quite how I imagined the final showdown between Anakin and Obi-Wan,
How about the initial showdown between Anakin and Obi-Wan, then?
I agree though, if that is true, it sounds incredibly lame. Well, credibly lame, I guess. I think most people here agree that whether this is true or not, it sounds like something Lucas would do these days.
Does that sound to anyone else like something you would see on a pimp's business card? You know, pimpboy69@GMAIL.com or something (assuming they had business cards, or used email - I'm not exactly a gold mine of info on the pimping business - it just sounds sort of trashy).
Don't know if drivers was a typo, but what you said may be more true than you realize - the switch to writing to DL (dual layer) DVDs is looking like it might be accomplished with a simple firmware upgrade, at least for some drives. Check this out for a little more info (basically, a new DL writer appears to use exactly the same controller as a single layer writer, so it looks like the difference is largely a firmware thing).
Thus you could just deploy a new access point and get a boost from it to the computers. Similarly, you could install a new NIC in a particular PC and boost the transfer rate from it to the access point. For benefits in both directions you'll have to upgrade both ends.
According to the article, you can reap the benefits through a simple firmware upgrade (or even through an application). Since I don't know how the 802.11b standard works, I can't comment on whether you would need to upgrade firmware on both ends; however, since it sounds like variable packet sizes are already a part of the standard, it doesn't seem like it should be any problem to just implement it on the transmitting end - it would just get better at choosing the appropriate packet size as the receiver ostensibly already has a method of handling varying packet lenghts.
Now if we could only feed all those starving children in Africa... Well, if they use the resulting crops to feed the starving children in Africa, the problem should pretty much go away...
(Note - this post for entertainment purposes only. I do not support feeding poisonous foodstuffs to starving African children. However, I do see this as a good way of getting rid of some of those damn holier-than-thou vegetarians)
And for many millions of years all over the world before that. Organic concentration of metals is beginning to be seen as one of the major sources of ore deposits.
so where can get that chemical spray for the soil? I like to apply some to around here
Probably from your local pool supply store. Thought he article doesn't say anything about it, the chemical they use is most likely chlorine, or at least includes chlorine. Gold isn't water soluble (well, it has extremely low solubility), but when combined with chlorine the solubility increases greatly - this is how gold is usually transported naturally before being deposited in veins and such (though other chemicals also work, like H2S to some extent). As great as this whole thing sounds, I doubt that the chemicals they use are very environmentally friendly. Better than leaving heavy metals in the soil, perhaps, but still not nice stuff. I just worry that the crops would have a relatively high market value, and that some ethically and financially bankrupt ex-miner might go and sell the crops to other people to eat. I'm not making a general comment about miners here - just saying it seems likely to happen, depending on the value of the crops they would have to destroy. They are probably more valuable as crops than being smelted for the minute amounts of metal they contain.
I recently went through applying to graduate schools (yes, I was accepted). In conversations with several different chairs of departments at several different schools in California, I was told that many of the public universities, because of massive budget cuts, are accepting fewer and fewer foreign applicants simply because it is a way to reduce expenses. Generally in the field I am in (as with most scientific fields) the department a graduate student belongs to pays that students fees; in years past, when money wasn't quite such a hugely painful problem that it is currently, they were able to look for the best applicants regardless of where they were from. Now, under pressure from administrators trying to cut expenditures, many departments are trying to reduce the number of students they admit from foreign nations (or even out of state) because it can cost more than four times as much (and as much as ten times the amount) to support a foreign student as a domestic student (graduate fees are roughly $2200-$2700 per quarter at UCs for domestic students, while they can be up to ~$10000 or more per quarter for non-residents). While this isn't widely talked about, many prospective students have been informed informally that while they are free to apply, unless they are incredible applicants or come with their own funding source(like their government footing the bill, as is the case with several foreign graduate students I know - one of whom owes her country 3 years of service for every year they supported her here) the likelihood they will be accepted is very low, so many probably just decide applying isn't worth it (especially those for whom a $60 or higher application fee is a whole lot of money).
It WOULD motivate me to replace my Panasonic E80 set-top DVD recorder
Whats this with set-top dvd recorders and players? Do people actually put their component dvd players and recorders on top of their TVs? They aren't cable boxes, you (probably) don't put it on top of your TV set, so why not call it a component player/recorder/whatever?
Showing that it was an obvious cover-up. Why would a supermarket in the middle of Wyoming be stocked with fish? They eat bear and caribou and elk there. Obviously the fish were planted at the supermarkets in question - some of that "cultural interference" you see in the seismo data is probably the huge trucks they used to haul the dead fish around.
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I was curious, so I looked up the output of the Shuttle's main engines compared to the Saturn V main engines.
The shuttle's main engines produce a maximum of 488,000 pounds of thrust. The Saturn V main engines produced a total of 7.5 million pounds of thrust, or 1.5 million pounds per engine. So it looks like each engine on the Saturn V was about 3 times as powerful as each of the main engines on the shuttle.
Oh, the solid rocket boosters on the shuttle each produce 3.3 million pounds of thrust.
Never mind - it seems they hide the information about the 10mbps residential service unless it is actually available in your area. I had to try a bunch of zip codes until I found one that was "likely to have service" before it showed up.
That sounds like an awesome service - here is the description for anyone who is curious.
What service do you have from them? The only fiber service I could find on their website listed max speeds of 5 Mbps up and 5 Mbps down for $1,699 a month. Even assuming they actually meant MBps, their cheapest listed fiber offering is
I've got a Tamron 28-300 (effectively (or rather 35mm-equivalent) something like 45-480 I think - 1.6x magnification on the Rebel, right?) for my Digital Rebel. Don't remember what it cost, somewhere around $350 I think. Not too bulky, either, although I certainly don't carry it around all the time. So yeah, getting 10x zoom for the Digital Rebel can be done, and not too incredibly expensively, but it isn't as portable as some other options (but then outside of an Elph or equivalent that is really small, it doesn't make too much difference - If I have to carry a camera bag around, I might as well carry my DSLR).
Fuel Oil No. 4 is a Heavy Fuel Oil. Pour point is -10 degrees celsius. Boiling point ranges from 200 to 600 degrees celsius (or maybe 220-300 degrees fahrenheit; seems to depend on where you look. Probably the latter, since another place says its flashpoint is 140-240 fahrenheit, and autoignition is at 505 degrees fahrenheit). Viscosity at 20 celsius is 200-500 cSt (what the fuck is a cSt? Yeah, I had no idea either, so here you go.)
Fuel oil no. 4 produces about 145,000 BTU's per gallon (but I don't know how dense it is, so I can't compare to the ~40,000 Btu's in a kilogram of gasoline). Fuel Oil No. 4 is mostly used in industrial burners and marine diesel engines.
There, now isn't that way more than you wanted to know about Fuel Oil No. 4? Only problem is, I'm not sure Fuel Oil No. 4 would be the same as Oil No. 4; I assume it is though, because if it was being compared to crude oils it should have a letter designation.
Maybe she just wanted to write a good story - which she succeeded in doing. Sure, she should have said something to that effect on the website, but it was still a good story.
A lonely motorcycle ride through Chernobyl sure makes a better story than "a standard Chernobyl tourist ride".
Great. Now, instead of the whole company being held responsible for the actions of employees, the company will instead be able to throw a couple of those employees to the lions and go on with what they were doing. How much do you want to bet it will never be high-level management that takes the fall for this kind of thing? Personally, I think I kind of prefer it when the whole company takes a hit - at least it hits the managers (the ones ultimately responsible) in the pocketbook, if nowhere else.
I guess employees just better become a lot more careful - get all directives in writing, and ignore anything your boss tells you to do that they don't write down. Employees are going to be held responsible for what they have most likely been directed to do, or at least have done with full knowledge of their bosses, so they better learn to protect themselves.
Basically, my point is (if I actually have one), while it is great that "those responsible" are being held responsible, somehow I doubt they are the ones that are really responsible.
How about the initial showdown between Anakin and Obi-Wan, then?
I agree though, if that is true, it sounds incredibly lame. Well, credibly lame, I guess. I think most people here agree that whether this is true or not, it sounds like something Lucas would do these days.
I have a gun that fires more than a million rounds per minute.
Unfortunately, the photons coming out of my flashlight don't pack a whole lot of punch.
I don't care.
Does that sound to anyone else like something you would see on a pimp's business card? You know, pimpboy69@GMAIL.com or something (assuming they had business cards, or used email - I'm not exactly a gold mine of info on the pimping business - it just sounds sort of trashy).
Wait, are you sure that isn't a mockup of Mickey's Toontown?
Don't know if drivers was a typo, but what you said may be more true than you realize - the switch to writing to DL (dual layer) DVDs is looking like it might be accomplished with a simple firmware upgrade, at least for some drives. Check this out for a little more info (basically, a new DL writer appears to use exactly the same controller as a single layer writer, so it looks like the difference is largely a firmware thing).
I bet you could move a shopping cart at greater than 3 ft/min with that thing.
Now I'm going to have to start worrying about real rice rockets on the way home from work.
I just have to ask, is Eliza related to Dr. Sbaitso?
According to the article, you can reap the benefits through a simple firmware upgrade (or even through an application). Since I don't know how the 802.11b standard works, I can't comment on whether you would need to upgrade firmware on both ends; however, since it sounds like variable packet sizes are already a part of the standard, it doesn't seem like it should be any problem to just implement it on the transmitting end - it would just get better at choosing the appropriate packet size as the receiver ostensibly already has a method of handling varying packet lenghts.
You do realize that the U.S. is the 3rd largest nation in terms of population (and land area)? Hardly middling size.
Now if we could only feed all those starving children in Africa...
Well, if they use the resulting crops to feed the starving children in Africa, the problem should pretty much go away...
(Note - this post for entertainment purposes only. I do not support feeding poisonous foodstuffs to starving African children. However, I do see this as a good way of getting rid of some of those damn holier-than-thou vegetarians)
And for many millions of years all over the world before that. Organic concentration of metals is beginning to be seen as one of the major sources of ore deposits.
Probably from your local pool supply store. Thought he article doesn't say anything about it, the chemical they use is most likely chlorine, or at least includes chlorine. Gold isn't water soluble (well, it has extremely low solubility), but when combined with chlorine the solubility increases greatly - this is how gold is usually transported naturally before being deposited in veins and such (though other chemicals also work, like H2S to some extent).
As great as this whole thing sounds, I doubt that the chemicals they use are very environmentally friendly. Better than leaving heavy metals in the soil, perhaps, but still not nice stuff. I just worry that the crops would have a relatively high market value, and that some ethically and financially bankrupt ex-miner might go and sell the crops to other people to eat. I'm not making a general comment about miners here - just saying it seems likely to happen, depending on the value of the crops they would have to destroy. They are probably more valuable as crops than being smelted for the minute amounts of metal they contain.
I recently went through applying to graduate schools (yes, I was accepted). In conversations with several different chairs of departments at several different schools in California, I was told that many of the public universities, because of massive budget cuts, are accepting fewer and fewer foreign applicants simply because it is a way to reduce expenses. Generally in the field I am in (as with most scientific fields) the department a graduate student belongs to pays that students fees; in years past, when money wasn't quite such a hugely painful problem that it is currently, they were able to look for the best applicants regardless of where they were from. Now, under pressure from administrators trying to cut expenditures, many departments are trying to reduce the number of students they admit from foreign nations (or even out of state) because it can cost more than four times as much (and as much as ten times the amount) to support a foreign student as a domestic student (graduate fees are roughly $2200-$2700 per quarter at UCs for domestic students, while they can be up to ~$10000 or more per quarter for non-residents).
While this isn't widely talked about, many prospective students have been informed informally that while they are free to apply, unless they are incredible applicants or come with their own funding source(like their government footing the bill, as is the case with several foreign graduate students I know - one of whom owes her country 3 years of service for every year they supported her here) the likelihood they will be accepted is very low, so many probably just decide applying isn't worth it (especially those for whom a $60 or higher application fee is a whole lot of money).
Whats this with set-top dvd recorders and players? Do people actually put their component dvd players and recorders on top of their TVs? They aren't cable boxes, you (probably) don't put it on top of your TV set, so why not call it a component player/recorder/whatever?
Just an idle question.
Showing that it was an obvious cover-up. Why would a supermarket in the middle of Wyoming be stocked with fish? They eat bear and caribou and elk there. Obviously the fish were planted at the supermarkets in question - some of that "cultural interference" you see in the seismo data is probably the huge trucks they used to haul the dead fish around.
it's not just a niche - pair this with WETA and you've got real ammo.
I thought WETA used linux-based render farms, has this changed or am I just remembering inaccurately?