The US Civil War was fought to decide this issue. States cannot secede from the US. Investors aren't stupid, so what are they trying to show? That they think we must be? That they'll throw money at anything drawing attention to their displeasure with the president-elect?
That making a hyperbolic proposition as an opening is just part of the art of the deal?
Heck, if i had been prosecuted for my cracking in HS, I would've been just another hard case in juvie instead of the valedictorian. I graduated from MIT, and now I understand that the HS and Uni years are periods of ACTIVE learning. If a pupil with exceptional aptitude is suspected of some illicit activity, "I just wanted to see whether it would work," should be grounds for exoneration. Or for sentencing to MIT.
Try looking at something... that's not published in DNC propaganda machines like the Times, and the Globe. Try getting your facts from objective sources
Could you please recommend some objective sources?
Many hours spent playing Oregon Trail. And there was another, Saipan? Where you sail around trading silk and opium and fighting pirates. Taught me everything I know.
I wrote "sample rate to record FMV" when I meant average data density to store watchable video.
I got 733kbps by dividing 700MB by 120 minutes (actually the quotient is 778kbps; oops.) I have fit four 30 minute episodes of Red Dwarf on one CD-R. Playback quality on my laptop is fine, in my opinion. Obviously, higher quality video requires more storage space. Home camcorders save 2 hours of video on a 4.7GB DVD-R. At this density, a 750,000 hour lifetime requires 1.7PB.
Anyway, we've bracketed the storage capacity required for a remarkable feat. I wonder what the barriers are to making hundred-TB hard drives at consumer prices.
CNN: "Power grids in the northern United States and Canada felt the effects of the first storm. Utilities endured power surges and closely monitored their systems to prevent surges, according to NOAA."
Check out this article for more details on how solar flares cause these surges.
Excerpt: "If (when) this flow of charged particles and embedded magnetic field collides with the Earth, it dramatically disrupts Earth's geomagnetic field and ionosphere, changing the terrestrial magnetic fields... This magnetic field change, which occurs fairly rapidly, then induces currents in nearby conductors.... In those areas that do not have high conductivity, such as those areas that contain igneous rock, the induced current flows through any available current path-typically, the long utility system lines for power, gas, oil, water, and telecommunications."
"If (when) this flow of charged particles and embedded magnetic field collides with the Earth, it dramatically disrupts Earth's geomagnetic field and ionosphere, changing the terrestrial magnetic fields, and therefore causing currents to flow in the upper ionosphere,...in the earth itself, and in long distance conductors. The interaction of the [Coronal Mass Ejection] with the Earth is referred to as a geomagnetic storm."
"This current can cause saturation of the large power transformers at either end of the transmission line, creating a host of undesirable effects.... Typical undesirable effects range from voltage regulation difficulties, to highly nonlinear sinusoidal primary and secondary currents, resulting in circuit breaker tripping; to creation of local hot spots within the transformer, resulting in transformer failure.... The effects of [Geomagnetically Induced Currents] were dramatically demonstrated during March 1989, when GIC caused a cascading failure in the Quebec Power system, putting nearly nine million customers in the dark, in less than 90 seconds."
(Note that this first page is a direct link to a frame, the second through sixth frames are accessible by the "next" tags in the right-hand corners.)
The above article references the 1989 geomagnetic storm. During that storm, large blackouts occurred in Quebec due to induced currents circulating in the power grid. Transformers are built to transmit AC current and do not like it when large quasi-DC currents appear out of the sky. The transformers tend to overheat and fail, and in a fragile power grid, this can lead to cascading failures and blackouts.
More information about this phenomenon (and an engineered solution to it) is available on my company's website.
You seem to be able to speak authoritatively about broadcasting issues. Since so many slashdot articles deal with this topic, I wish you would post under a username so your posts would be easy to find. Unfortunately, most AC posts get lost in the noise.
>Marge: Now I know you haven't liked some of my past suggestions, like switching to the metric system. >Grampa: The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
Let's see.... 40 rods/Hogshead x 1 mile/320 rods x 1 Hogshead/63 gallons = 0.00198 miles/gallon or 504 gallons/mile
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All due respect to the General.
Does this particular divination state assumptions about cashwidth? (Netola? Information toll highway?)
"Sorry, I don't know the answer to that."
They're not all la migra
The US Civil War was fought to decide this issue. States cannot secede from the US. Investors aren't stupid, so what are they trying to show? That they think we must be? That they'll throw money at anything drawing attention to their displeasure with the president-elect?
That making a hyperbolic proposition as an opening is just part of the art of the deal?
We got two months to teach Toonces to drive before we're all getting in the car.
This article, published 5 weeks ago by the CalTech PR office, is slightly better-written than the yahoo version.
http://www.bblex.de/en/calc/navy.php
Heck, if i had been prosecuted for my cracking in HS, I would've been just another hard case in juvie instead of the valedictorian. I graduated from MIT, and now I understand that the HS and Uni years are periods of ACTIVE learning. If a pupil with exceptional aptitude is suspected of some illicit activity, "I just wanted to see whether it would work," should be grounds for exoneration. Or for sentencing to MIT.
You don't think Blair will get hammered over the war? Isn't the majority of the UK populace against it?
Try looking at something ... that's not published in DNC propaganda machines like the Times, and the Globe. Try getting your facts from objective sources
Could you please recommend some objective sources?
Thanks, man. I owe you a Riscky's for the trouble that saved me.
Nick-Berg video (No-one gave a url... 3 days later everyone had it)
And they say P2P has no legitimate uses...
Many hours spent playing Oregon Trail. And there was another, Saipan? Where you sail around trading silk and opium and fighting pirates. Taught me everything I know.
The Council on Foreign Relations has an FAQ about torture, especially in relation to the events at Abu Ghraib. It seems to be a solid, non-partisan source of information, with primary sources hyperlinked in-line.
Excuse me? Where the heck do you get that?
I wrote "sample rate to record FMV" when I meant average data density to store watchable video.
I got 733kbps by dividing 700MB by 120 minutes (actually the quotient is 778kbps; oops.) I have fit four 30 minute episodes of Red Dwarf on one CD-R. Playback quality on my laptop is fine, in my opinion. Obviously, higher quality video requires more storage space. Home camcorders save 2 hours of video on a 4.7GB DVD-R. At this density, a 750,000 hour lifetime requires 1.7PB.
Anyway, we've bracketed the storage capacity required for a remarkable feat. I wonder what the barriers are to making hundred-TB hard drives at consumer prices.
86400 sec/day x
365.25 day/year x
85 year/life (optimistic?) ~=
2.7 billion seconds/life
Assuming 733kb/s sample rate (700MB/120min)to record FMV w/sound
It would take about 246TB to save video of every second of someone's life.
That's about a quarter of a petabyte.
CNN: "Power grids in the northern United States and Canada felt the effects of the first storm. Utilities endured power surges and closely monitored their systems to prevent surges, according to NOAA."
... This magnetic field change, which occurs fairly rapidly, then induces currents in nearby conductors. ... In those areas that do not have high conductivity, such as those areas that contain igneous rock, the induced current flows through any available current path-typically, the long utility system lines for power, gas, oil, water, and telecommunications."
Check out this article for more details on how solar flares cause these surges.
Excerpt:
"If (when) this flow of charged particles and embedded magnetic field collides with the Earth, it dramatically disrupts Earth's geomagnetic field and ionosphere, changing the terrestrial magnetic fields
Sorry for the double, but I've posted a revision of the above comment under the other solar flare /. story.
Article on solar flares and power outages.
...in the earth itself, and in long distance conductors. The interaction of the [Coronal Mass Ejection] with the Earth is referred to as a geomagnetic storm."
... Typical undesirable effects range from voltage regulation difficulties, to highly nonlinear sinusoidal primary and secondary currents, resulting in circuit breaker tripping; to creation of local hot spots within the transformer, resulting in transformer failure. ... The effects of [Geomagnetically Induced Currents] were dramatically demonstrated during March 1989, when GIC caused a cascading failure in the Quebec Power system, putting nearly nine million customers in the dark, in less than 90 seconds."
"If (when) this flow of charged particles and embedded magnetic field collides with the Earth, it dramatically disrupts Earth's geomagnetic field and ionosphere, changing the terrestrial magnetic fields, and therefore causing currents to flow in the upper ionosphere,
"This current can cause saturation of the large power transformers at either end of the transmission line, creating a host of undesirable effects.
(Note that this first page is a direct link to a frame, the second through sixth frames are accessible by the "next" tags in the right-hand corners.)
The above article references the 1989 geomagnetic storm. During that storm, large blackouts occurred in Quebec due to induced currents circulating in the power grid. Transformers are built to transmit AC current and do not like it when large quasi-DC currents appear out of the sky. The transformers tend to overheat and fail, and in a fragile power grid, this can lead to cascading failures and blackouts.
More information about this phenomenon (and an engineered solution to it) is available on my company's website.
To KDLynch/AC,
You seem to be able to speak authoritatively about broadcasting issues. Since so many slashdot articles deal with this topic, I wish you would post under a username so your posts would be easy to find. Unfortunately, most AC posts get lost in the noise.
>Marge: Now I know you haven't liked some of my past suggestions, like switching to the metric system.
>Grampa: The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
Let's see....
40 rods/Hogshead x
1 mile/320 rods x
1 Hogshead/63 gallons =
0.00198 miles/gallon or
504 gallons/mile
Perhaps Grampa drives an SUV?