Technical Review MiddleEast
A Job Well Done
"It is estimated that Kuwait was losing six million barrels of oil per day immediately after the liberation.
The basic piece of firefighting equipment is the "flare stack" which is a 30-40 ft high steel chimney connected to a crane. Once the area has been cooled down by high-pressure water monitors, the flare stack is put in position over the blazing well. Resulting in the flame being "kicked" 40 ft into the air thereby allowing the drilling engineers to work on the well head, again after being cooled off.
Once the blaze has been extinguished and the area cleared of coke. the drilling engineers can place the blow out preventer (BOP) and cut off the oil flow, thus successfully killing the well.
Another approach was taken by the Hungarians and Romanians. who used ex MIG jet engines, reversed and fitted onto T54 tanks, thereby sucking all the oxygen from the blazing blow out. Therefore, no oxygen, no fire! This proved very simple and effective, much to the amazement of the other teams in Kuwait."
I think it would be wrong to suggest that enough water will put any fire out. Depends on whats driving it. Six million barrels of oil per day would boil alot of water.
It would appear to be very true, as a generalization, to suggest to online newbies that the ones to chat with are canadians and australlians. The level of discourse tends to be much more polite and well reasoned. It is possible to agree to disagree, and then discuss the points of disagreement. I've given this advice but never went so far as to consider the implications in terms of cultural viability.
There is no such thing as an unlawful order. A president could state: "This is an order. Go do such and such." If the behavior directed is illegal then his statement is not an order.
This is not unlike the fact that a piece of paper that looks like a contract is *not*, if it relates to illegal activities or contraband.
The armed services are also sworn to uphold the constitution. If they decide to ignore the constitution they won't need a President to make noises that aren't lawful orders to strike.
"if I were a company trying to do business in china, I better comply with china law.. "
Is it really just a form of blackmail? I hadn't considered that...If I want to do business in china, i'd better apply china's laws to the rest of the world...hmmm...
Yahoo is well within their rights to prohibit or allow whatever they want Well apparently not...thats the point. Yahoo can't auction legal goods. That is the point.
It was a French law, and French courts have every right to try and make Yahoo comply when people from France access their service Wrong! Get your jusidiction right. The French have every right to limit their citizens to access yahoo.com, but they don't have jusidiction over what yahoo offers outside of France.
As long as you insist on basing progress in terms of effects that the common man feels then once basic needs are meet there is no measurable progress. What about progress in terms of meeting specialists needs? Medical diagnosis as an example: will you live alot longer due to NMR and CAT scans? The average person might not see the effect of these tools because they don't use them in their daily life. Does this mean there is no progress? Only if you presume that the only measure is the effect felt by the "common man". Rather than transporting Ozzie and Harriet consider transporting Einstein, Bohr, etc...Their worlds are less common, and have changed radically.
Silicon has peaked? Not so sure...but for sure nothing else is in the race yet. Biotech engineering is the future (compare solar panels to photosynthesis)but its complexity is such that it hasn't really achieved critical mass. When genetic engineering and nanotech converge, silicon will at last be in a race.
I agree and would suggest that in terms of baselines: if you move from zero to one you have an infinite percentage increase. Moving from 1 to 100 is much less, yet the difference is large (99 compared to 1). Since we are basing our "progress" on "common man impact", when basic needs are met we've finished. If we redefine progress we have barely begun: weather control, genetic enhancements, spreading life offworld. Perhaps one could consider progress in terms of impact on the species rather than in terms of the impact on meeting individual needs.
Ok, but what if I give you the URL to a research database of Journals? They usually charge decent money for the right to access their databases. Having merely given you the URL I haven't violated their database, just exercised free speech. Ah but if you choose to make use of the information I gave you then you are, and haven't I just aided and abetted your crime? Isn't aiding and abetting still a crime in and of itself?
I have to disagree with you both. To directly quote I would open the page in Netscape composer and cut and paste their material. With borders indicating where there stuff starts and mine starts, of course. That would be a direct quote. A hyperlink is different from the text...but not by damn much. It isn't a quote because the content changes in time. If I quote david letterman its static. If i train a parabolic mike on his ass while he is in public then thats not a "quote" thats "live".
So Wired couldn't touch them. But fifteen seconds into their Slashdotting, they're off the web and probably going to be sucessfully sued by the people whose webpages they are no longer able to serve. Interesting.
Indeed. Very interesting. Almost makes you stop and think...
I think the point being made was that the judicial system is useless if people lose faith in it. The best laws and the best judges are useless if everyone thinks: "I'm right, but I've been screwed, and if I don't smile and say thank you then they might sue me, too...and I can't afford that!"
There is also a principle that reads roughly: "there is no such thing as an illegal contract"...just as there is no such thing as a lawful order to commit an illegal act. One can mark words on a piece of paper, sure. But if said "contract" relates, say, to selling drugs at specified prices to certain pushers then it ain't no contract, its just a piece of paper with marks on it.
The CES program I am looking at has core classes and either photonics or a software/hardware track.
MS-CES Courses Core Courses
MATH 430: Linear Systems Theory (3)
Prerequisites: One semester of differential equations
CS 410: Computer Architecture (3)
Prerequisites: One semester of assembly language (such as SSU CS 250) and one semester of digital logic (such as SSU CS 251 or SSU PHYS 413).
CES 513: Analog and Digital Microelectronics (3)
Prerequisites: Two courses covering both introductory analog and digital electronics (such as SSU PHYS 313/313L and PHYS 413/413L
18 units from the following: Computer Hardware and Software
CS 450: Operating Systems (3)
Prerequisites: Data structures (such as CS 254), and Systems programming (such as SSU CS 310).
CS 465: Data Communications (3)
Prerequisites: A course on Computer Organization Software (such as SSU CS 250), and Data structures (such as SSU CS 254).
CS 470: Software Engineering (3)
Prerequisite: Data structures (such as SSU CS 254).
CES 512: Embedded Systems (3)
Prerequisites: Systems programming (such as SSU CS 310), and analog and digital microelectronics (CES 513).
CES 522: Intelligent Systems Design (3)
Prerequisite: Data structures (such as SSU CS 254), and linear systems (such as SSU MATH 430).
CES 532: Data Compression (3)
Prerequisites: two semesters of calculus (such as SSU MATH 161 and 211), and data structures (such as SSU CS 254).
CES 555: Selected Topics in Hardware and Software Systems (3)
From what I've seen, Chemistry will accept Computational Chemistry as being a form of chemistry. Computational Physics "isn't really physics" according to my dept chair...
Take a look at who is doing what with computational science. My web searches keep turning up chemists doing what used to be considered "molecular physics"...ab inito modeling of chem systems with quantum mechanics.
Slashdot Mirror
The wrong party has control of all three branches of goverenment for anything consumer-orientated to ever fly.
Give us time.
KUWAIT OIL FIRES
"In some cases, explosives were set to blow off the tubing head bonnet as shown here. "
Technical Review MiddleEast
A Job Well Done
"It is estimated that Kuwait was losing six million barrels of oil per day immediately after the liberation. The basic piece of firefighting equipment is the "flare stack" which is a 30-40 ft high steel chimney connected to a crane. Once the area has been cooled down by high-pressure water monitors, the flare stack is put in position over the blazing well. Resulting in the flame being "kicked" 40 ft into the air thereby allowing the drilling engineers to work on the well head, again after being cooled off. Once the blaze has been extinguished and the area cleared of coke. the drilling engineers can place the blow out preventer (BOP) and cut off the oil flow, thus successfully killing the well. Another approach was taken by the Hungarians and Romanians. who used ex MIG jet engines, reversed and fitted onto T54 tanks, thereby sucking all the oxygen from the blazing blow out. Therefore, no oxygen, no fire! This proved very simple and effective, much to the amazement of the other teams in Kuwait."
I think it would be wrong to suggest that enough water will put any fire out. Depends on whats driving it. Six million barrels of oil per day would boil alot of water.
I suspect the reason they discontinued the dual cpu systems is because the quantity of cpus is their bottleneck.
It would appear to be very true, as a generalization, to suggest to online newbies that the ones to chat with are canadians and australlians. The level of discourse tends to be much more polite and well reasoned. It is possible to agree to disagree, and then discuss the points of disagreement. I've given this advice but never went so far as to consider the implications in terms of cultural viability.
Hmmm...
This is silly, but:
There is no such thing as an unlawful order. A president could state: "This is an order. Go do such and such." If the behavior directed is illegal then his statement is not an order.
This is not unlike the fact that a piece of paper that looks like a contract is *not*, if it relates to illegal activities or contraband.
The armed services are also sworn to uphold the constitution. If they decide to ignore the constitution they won't need a President to make noises that aren't lawful orders to strike.
Again, this is silly...but i had to respond.
"if I were a company trying to do business in china, I better comply with china law.. "
Is it really just a form of blackmail? I hadn't considered that...If I want to do business in china, i'd better apply china's laws to the rest of the world...hmmm...
Yahoo is well within their rights to prohibit or allow whatever they want
Well apparently not...thats the point. Yahoo can't auction legal goods. That is the point.
So if my city passed an ordinance that said that your city has to pay our heating bills you'd "do the right thing"?
I'd like to see a breakdown on that...just how "costly" would it be?
It was a French law, and French courts have every right to try and make Yahoo comply when people from France access their service
Wrong! Get your jusidiction right. The French have every right to limit their citizens to access yahoo.com, but they don't have jusidiction over what yahoo offers outside of France.
As long as you insist on basing progress in terms of effects that the common man feels then once basic needs are meet there is no measurable progress. What about progress in terms of meeting specialists needs? Medical diagnosis as an example: will you live alot longer due to NMR and CAT scans? The average person might not see the effect of these tools because they don't use them in their daily life. Does this mean there is no progress? Only if you presume that the only measure is the effect felt by the "common man". Rather than transporting Ozzie and Harriet consider transporting Einstein, Bohr, etc...Their worlds are less common, and have changed radically.
Silicon has peaked? Not so sure...but for sure nothing else is in the race yet. Biotech engineering is the future (compare solar panels to photosynthesis)but its complexity is such that it hasn't really achieved critical mass. When genetic engineering and nanotech converge, silicon will at last be in a race.
I agree and would suggest that in terms of baselines: if you move from zero to one you have an infinite percentage increase. Moving from 1 to 100 is much less, yet the difference is large (99 compared to 1). Since we are basing our "progress" on "common man impact", when basic needs are met we've finished. If we redefine progress we have barely begun: weather control, genetic enhancements, spreading life offworld. Perhaps one could consider progress in terms of impact on the species rather than in terms of the impact on meeting individual needs.
Outlook express is *not* free. The opportunity cost is very high.
Ok, but what if I give you the URL to a research database of Journals? They usually charge decent money for the right to access their databases. Having merely given you the URL I haven't violated their database, just exercised free speech. Ah but if you choose to make use of the information I gave you then you are, and haven't I just aided and abetted your crime? Isn't aiding and abetting still a crime in and of itself?
I have to disagree with you both. To directly quote I would open the page in Netscape composer and cut and paste their material. With borders indicating where there stuff starts and mine starts, of course. That would be a direct quote. A hyperlink is different from the text...but not by damn much. It isn't a quote because the content changes in time. If I quote david letterman its static. If i train a parabolic mike on his ass while he is in public then thats not a "quote" thats "live".
The suits suck ass...what else is new?
How about Desktop Orientated GUI?
Really, no pun intended!
So Wired couldn't touch them. But fifteen seconds into their Slashdotting, they're off the web and probably going to be sucessfully sued by the people whose webpages they are no longer able to serve. Interesting.
Indeed. Very interesting. Almost makes you stop and think...
;=)
I think the point being made was that the judicial system is useless if people lose faith in it. The best laws and the best judges are useless if everyone thinks: "I'm right, but I've been screwed, and if I don't smile and say thank you then they might sue me, too...and I can't afford that!"
Perception *is* reality.
There is also a principle that reads roughly: "there is no such thing as an illegal contract"...just as there is no such thing as a lawful order to commit an illegal act. One can mark words on a piece of paper, sure. But if said "contract" relates, say, to selling drugs at specified prices to certain pushers then it ain't no contract, its just a piece of paper with marks on it.
The CES program I am looking at has core classes and either photonics or a software/hardware track.
MS-CES Courses
Core Courses
MATH 430: Linear Systems Theory (3)
Prerequisites: One semester of differential equations
CS 410: Computer Architecture (3)
Prerequisites: One semester of assembly language (such as SSU CS 250) and one semester of digital logic (such as SSU CS 251 or SSU PHYS 413).
CES 513: Analog and Digital Microelectronics (3)
Prerequisites: Two courses covering both introductory analog and digital electronics (such as SSU PHYS 313/313L and PHYS 413/413L
18 units from the following:
Computer Hardware and Software CS 450: Operating Systems (3)
Prerequisites: Data structures (such as CS 254), and Systems programming (such as SSU CS 310).
CS 465: Data Communications (3)
Prerequisites: A course on Computer Organization Software (such as SSU CS 250), and Data structures (such as SSU CS 254).
CS 470: Software Engineering (3)
Prerequisite: Data structures (such as SSU CS 254).
CES 512: Embedded Systems (3)
Prerequisites: Systems programming (such as SSU CS 310), and analog and digital microelectronics (CES 513).
CES 522: Intelligent Systems Design (3)
Prerequisite: Data structures (such as SSU CS 254), and linear systems (such as SSU MATH 430).
CES 532: Data Compression (3)
Prerequisites: two semesters of calculus (such as SSU MATH 161 and 211), and data structures (such as SSU CS 254).
CES 555: Selected Topics in Hardware and Software Systems (3)
From what I've seen, Chemistry will accept Computational Chemistry as being a form of chemistry. Computational Physics "isn't really physics" according to my dept chair...
Take a look at who is doing what with computational science. My web searches keep turning up chemists doing what used to be considered "molecular physics"...ab inito modeling of chem systems with quantum mechanics.