If the power is generated closer to where it is used you decrease this lose due to shorter lines. How far away from your house is the plant that generates your power? Not like trucking coal to from the mine to New York City because people use power in the city because that's worse than ohm's law. But a modern version of the reason there's so many aluminum smelters close the big hydro plants in the US. For example the German's have a nuke that employs ceramic spheres...the stack heats up, the spheres expand, the reaction goes below critical, it's mostly self regulating, much safer than the ancient plants operational today and is perfect for creating hot water for heating in a smallish city like mine...
Oh and yes I'd take superconductors at ambient
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And too the pro consumption, pro nuke people: I am a Still a member of Greenpeace so I can shag the Greenpeace chicks and the recuiter in my town is HOT!
I thought about this sort of thing ever since I read that between 40~60% of the energy generated in America is used in the distribution of energy being that Austria is smaller I guess we use less energy that way... but still if smaller energy stations were more abundant we would less energy pushing it around and huge accidents like this would be even more less likely.
Unfortunately more stations means more opportunity for smaller incidents... Tut mir leid.
Yep, it's called COD "Cash on Delivery" and generally it's cheaper and less annoying, though not as socially acceptable and fulfilling as having a real GF (tm).
Advantages:Provides visual cuing to conceptual relationships, works in way that non-technical people identify with.
Disadvantages: Windows only, I think the data store is proprietary or maybe just obfuscated, memory hog in a "longhorn" sort of way, did I say windows only. This sort of aggravates me I uses lots of OSes and none of the ones I use at home are supported.
Haystackhttp://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/ Maybe more our speed, honestly it's been a while since I've looked at it, but because we're talking about it, time to go check it out again and see if it's out of beta.
Bottom line Brain Mapping software is very, very cool because it leverages how I think (very disjointly) and helps me overcome my weaknesses (AHADA, Dyslexia, gnat attention span syndrome, and having a job (as in getting paid for) using way more of brain than I generally am willing to give up BUT I don't think Brain Mapping will come into it's prime until I'm senile. But still it's getter than what I use now: A word document titled "stupid ways to develop medical instruments and what I will do in the future to avoid them" and "How to look stupid in clincial trials" which I suppose is like Beta for software developers.
So this would be like an offline copy of an existing wiki along with material you find interesting but don't believe would survive the wiki editing process?
Hmmm sort of the brain mapping software out there, only except wikis work.
Cute aliens in Star Wars IV? In the bar scene? Or are you talking the fuzzy midgets in Star Wars VI, The Return of the Jedi. Which to my unending misery are the obsession of a new hire who is a wiz at Pro-E but I can't take the dolls in her office and her desktops!
But yeah you're right Episode I really showed me that as it was geared to grade schoolers.
I had the impression that it was a group of hackers (albeit they've got one with decent communication / web design skills) but they are either still trying to make it happen or they are still trying to figure out how to make a buck on this without hordes of angry FSF fanatics (which I suppose I qualify) accuse them of heinous GPL violations.
Oh the hell with it... They are violating the GPL!
Hey man, don't post as an "Anonymous Coward"! I almost missed it. The moderating system combined with the prefences system means most (and I really do mean most) people won't see the post! Worse, as I have already ranted on this topic I can't moderate your comment up either.
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Oh and I am still dissappointed I don't live there!
I actually liked the series in a wierd goofy way, enough to download all of them (they did not show on Austrian Cable). I have no idea how I found it, but maybe because they're up front enough to have horses it's OK... or it could be the mechanic...
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Interesting opinion, sounds exactly like some useless ancient professor who has read the same lecture at the same point for thirty years. Makes me glad I'm out of school. Also makes me realize that my teachers in high school were not as clueless as I thought then but damn close and significantly more cynical than I gave them credit for. I suppose I should be even more appreciative to my thesis adviser who did NOT have his head in the sand in this way.
I'm not sure how required reading list worked were you went the school but where I went it was a general list list used for any English class so, for example for an exercise to teach how to for grammatically correct paragraphs or how to create and use references the assign included reading one or part of these books.In this case only stodgy decrepit arrogant people think it matters if the student uses "great" literature or Star Wars, Star Trek & 'N'Sync. Because the point is reading, understanding and proper writing Not knowing what the previous generation bandied about as great literature or even realizing that good authors have been cribbing of each other for countless geenerations. Realizing that all of this shit has been more or less plagiarized comes later in classes where it perfectly acceptable to specify books or more preferably the topic of books. (as I said in an earlier post)The way you suggest is correct is no different than if no one involved had read any of the books, student or teacher, and they were all in some weird twilight zone episode where the cliff notes actually were the classics.
I have been in working now for about 14 years, in the same industry and I find that no one really uses it, my boss can't spell, his boss the VP of R&D completes 1 out 10 sentences as if he's writing a telegram where he's paying by the letter and I wind up writing in Part English, Part German, Part C (or Backus-Naur), and a LOT of math. We still engineer up new products, the FDA still OK's our submissions, we get audited an d then the audit passes, Marketing can still translate the language we use into what the lawyers use to make unintelligible which then is placed in the users manuals
The required reading list: Useless, absolutely Useless Not the books mind you, I've gone back over the years and re-read some of them ands even bought more of Hemingway, but list are so inflexible it's a waste. I had read the whole lot before I finished the first year of school and most of my reports were summarized "This Book Sucks". But I have always had my own taste and I read a lot and collect books (I even have that crap they made me read).
Sure a good teacher should be imparting wisdom, but they should also realize that teaching kids is not like making hamburgers at McDonald's.
P.S. What's wrong with doing a report on a Algebra or Chemistry book or for that matter a report on a book you know the teacher owns like A Hero with A Thousand Faces.
In 1992 Marshall T. Savage published the Millennial project.sub titled "Colonizing the Galaxy in eight easy steps"
A supposedly scientifically based proposal for near and far term large scale projects. His near term proposal was to make floating cites out this material (which he called "seacrete"). It was a wonderfully idea and I really like to live in such a place. But I must say the longer he goes on the more he falls on his face and just winds up being a total freak. Of course freaks are like gravity and attract other freaks so a foundation was formed and years later, circa 2000~1 I checked up on them again and the "foundation" was doing "research" in what looked to be a Florida trailer park. Naturally the Millennial Foundation faded away (although the fanatical remnants can still be found: http://www.millennial.org/see/) but spawned other groups like: The Living Universe Foundation-http://www.luf.org/. None of whom have figured out how to recover from the fact that the books foundational assumption does not fucking work: OTEC http://www.nrel.gov/otec/... yeah the NREL site sums the whole thing up quite nicely.
I think what makes this really amusing is the number of HP RPN Scientific or graphing calculators that you would find around our labs. To really appreciate this you have to picture a meeting with 8 guys 4 laptops and 8 PDA devices, where when faced with a requirement to do some math someone gets up and gets the nearest calculator. Because we ALL know how to use it and the calc thingy on the various palm size platforms just doesn't make it happen.
Or another time when my boss and I are figuring out the cost estimate of an upcoming project. He takes my numbers (which were in OOO Calc) put them into word then changes on parameter and recalculates on... his graphing calculator (what ever happened to alt-tab) I guess It's that old habits are hard to break so even simple math problems like how much projects will cost winds up being done on RPN calculators.
So in summary knowing how to program the thing well would go a lot further around here than 5 years of VB experience.
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Perhaps we are discussing the difference between civil and criminal law?
Oh and yes I'd take superconductors at ambient
.
And too the pro consumption, pro nuke people: I am a Still a member of Greenpeace so I can shag the Greenpeace chicks and the recuiter in my town is HOT!
Unfortunately more stations means more opportunity for smaller incidents... Tut mir leid.
Yep, it's called COD "Cash on Delivery" and generally it's cheaper and less annoying, though not as socially acceptable and fulfilling as having a real GF (tm).
hey man, I just dredged around the haystack page, it's dead...sorry
Advantages:Provides visual cuing to conceptual relationships, works in way that non-technical people identify with.
Disadvantages: Windows only, I think the data store is proprietary or maybe just obfuscated, memory hog in a "longhorn" sort of way, did I say windows only. This sort of aggravates me I uses lots of OSes and none of the ones I use at home are supported.
Haystack http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/ Maybe more our speed, honestly it's been a while since I've looked at it, but because we're talking about it, time to go check it out again and see if it's out of beta.
Bottom line Brain Mapping software is very, very cool because it leverages how I think (very disjointly) and helps me overcome my weaknesses (AHADA, Dyslexia, gnat attention span syndrome, and having a job (as in getting paid for) using way more of brain than I generally am willing to give up BUT I don't think Brain Mapping will come into it's prime until I'm senile. But still it's getter than what I use now: A word document titled "stupid ways to develop medical instruments and what I will do in the future to avoid them" and "How to look stupid in clincial trials" which I suppose is like Beta for software developers.
Wow, That's amazing after browsing the internet for so many years, I can still be stuned... at how lame some people can be.
Yeah, OK I get it now... sort of low tech text brain maping without some / most of the simbolic links. Ever try "the brain"?
Hmmm sort of the brain mapping software out there, only except wikis work.
Having some perv read my E-mail would also be bad.
But to have all of that and naked pictures of me and the GF show up on the internet would prove to be fatal.
Other that what I would I would with something like the online wikipedia.
One more: MIT's OpenCourseWare
Often it's the professors writing the new edition!
Where I work that is grounds for instant dismissal so of course I use my iPaq.
Civil Disobedience, GPL and The Creative Commons
But yeah you're right Episode I really showed me that as it was geared to grade schoolers.
Oh the hell with it... They are violating the GPL!
Sorry that was just the Polish Wodka talking...
A: I have a cover on my iSight from a riflescope.
B: Wasn't this already done, by the cult of the dead cow?
Or is it that we are just that old and the /. crowd is that young?
Hey man, don't post as an "Anonymous Coward"! I almost missed it. The moderating system combined with the prefences system means most (and I really do mean most) people won't see the post! Worse, as I have already ranted on this topic I can't moderate your comment up either.
Your Friend: A Reality Sculptures Subscriber.
Oh and I am still dissappointed I don't live there!
I actually liked the series in a wierd goofy way, enough to download all of them (they did not show on Austrian Cable). I have no idea how I found it, but maybe because they're up front enough to have horses it's OK... or it could be the mechanic...
I'm not sure how required reading list worked were you went the school but where I went it was a general list list used for any English class so, for example for an exercise to teach how to for grammatically correct paragraphs or how to create and use references the assign included reading one or part of these books.In this case only stodgy decrepit arrogant people think it matters if the student uses "great" literature or Star Wars, Star Trek & 'N'Sync. Because the point is reading, understanding and proper writing Not knowing what the previous generation bandied about as great literature or even realizing that good authors have been cribbing of each other for countless geenerations. Realizing that all of this shit has been more or less plagiarized comes later in classes where it perfectly acceptable to specify books or more preferably the topic of books. (as I said in an earlier post)The way you suggest is correct is no different than if no one involved had read any of the books, student or teacher, and they were all in some weird twilight zone episode where the cliff notes actually were the classics.
I have been in working now for about 14 years, in the same industry and I find that no one really uses it, my boss can't spell, his boss the VP of R&D completes 1 out 10 sentences as if he's writing a telegram where he's paying by the letter and I wind up writing in Part English, Part German, Part C (or Backus-Naur), and a LOT of math. We still engineer up new products, the FDA still OK's our submissions, we get audited an d then the audit passes, Marketing can still translate the language we use into what the lawyers use to make unintelligible which then is placed in the users manuals
The required reading list: Useless, absolutely Useless Not the books mind you, I've gone back over the years and re-read some of them ands even bought more of Hemingway, but list are so inflexible it's a waste. I had read the whole lot before I finished the first year of school and most of my reports were summarized "This Book Sucks". But I have always had my own taste and I read a lot and collect books (I even have that crap they made me read).
Sure a good teacher should be imparting wisdom, but they should also realize that teaching kids is not like making hamburgers at McDonald's.
P.S. What's wrong with doing a report on a Algebra or Chemistry book or for that matter a report on a book you know the teacher owns like A Hero with A Thousand Faces.
Can't we have a cool Sci-Fi movie that is not a warmed over western!!
I wonder who is worse the English speakers or the German speakers?
A supposedly scientifically based proposal for near and far term large scale projects. His near term proposal was to make floating cites out this material (which he called "seacrete"). It was a wonderfully idea and I really like to live in such a place. But I must say the longer he goes on the more he falls on his face and just winds up being a total freak. Of course freaks are like gravity and attract other freaks so a foundation was formed and years later, circa 2000~1 I checked up on them again and the "foundation" was doing "research" in what looked to be a Florida trailer park. Naturally the Millennial Foundation faded away (although the fanatical remnants can still be found: http://www.millennial.org/see/) but spawned other groups like: The Living Universe Foundation-http://www.luf.org/. None of whom have figured out how to recover from the fact that the books foundational assumption does not fucking work: OTEC http://www.nrel.gov/otec/... yeah the NREL site sums the whole thing up quite nicely.
Still I'm only bitter because I can't live there.
Or another time when my boss and I are figuring out the cost estimate of an upcoming project. He takes my numbers (which were in OOO Calc) put them into word then changes on parameter and recalculates on... his graphing calculator (what ever happened to alt-tab) I guess It's that old habits are hard to break so even simple math problems like how much projects will cost winds up being done on RPN calculators.
So in summary knowing how to program the thing well would go a lot further around here than 5 years of VB experience.