And to agree with the AC above me - THE reason I have not switched to Linux is Autodesk Land Desktop - period.
A good, OS, 3D CAD program would be a godsend. I do realize how many millions of man-hours must be incorporated in AutoCad 2005, much less Land/Architectural/Mechanical Desktop. It must be a high hill to climb, for any new project - not to mention all all the plug-ins/add-ons available for AutoCad...
I could be tempted to switch from Windows if there was something with only R14 or Microstation V7 capabilities.
Automotive windshields are not tempered glass because they are designed to keep passengers inside the car in case of an accident. Your chances of survival are greatly diminished if you are ejected from the vehicle. It is well known that designing windshields like this increases the skull trauma to an unrestrained vehicle occupant in a head on collision, and greatly increases facial lacerations, but survival w/scars is judged to be better than death.
Many attempts have been made over the years to create a non-shattering windshield out of plastic. DuPont had an entire team dedicated to this task in the late 80's and early 90's. The problem they encountered, though, was maintaining the optical properties of a glass windshield. All the various plastic and glass/plastic sandwiches they investigated led to optical distortion when not looking straight through the windshield.
Multipath propagation occurs when an RF signal takes different paths when propagating from a source (e.g., a radio NIC) to a destination node (e.g., access point). While the signal is en route, walls, chairs, desks, and other items get in the way and cause the signal to bounce in different directions. A portion of the signal may go directly to the destination, and another part may bounce from a chair to the ceiling, and then to the destination. As a result, some of the signal will encounter delay and travel longer paths to the receiver.
Multipath delay causes the information symbols represented in an 802.11 signal to overlap, which confuses the receiver. This is often referred to as intersymbol interference (ISI). Because the shape of the signal conveys the information being transmitted, the receiver will make mistakes when demodulating the signal's information. If the delays are great enough, bit errors in the packet will occur. The receiver won't be able to distinguish the symbols and interpret the corresponding bits correctly.
My point was that the efficiency numbers you were quoting are based upon using the heat, not simply dissipating it through "external cooling surface(s)"
Typical micro turbine efficiencies are 20 to 35 percent. When in a combined heat and power system, overall efficiencies of greater than 90 percent may be achieved.
I don't believe that a laptop, PDA, or most other consumer electronic item these would be so cool for would be an ideal candidate for a combined heat/power system. Laptops get hot enough running on batteries.
Why do you say that gas turbines are some of the most efficient fuel to energy converters known to man? Every link I can find in a google search says otherwise. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=45726 for example.
You can make more money working at a department store than a teacher. Wow that is news to me... of course you are not counting the fact that most teachers only work 9 months out of the year.
Most teachers only work 9 months out of the year, but most teachers also work more than 8 hours a day.
Also, understand that if you "can" make more money in another position then DO IT
Do you really believe that society is better with underpaid teachers?
Police - Do they get paid enough? I don't know. Are there people waiting in line to join the police force? In my area they are. So I would say the supply still does not meet demand.
Police forces can not afford to be as choosy with who they hire because of the limited salary they can offer. Your example of people waiting in line to join the police force only proves my point that people are attracted to the job despite the low pay. Unfortunately many are attracted to the power, and those are not the people I want policing me.
Federal deficit soaring - Yep. I would support a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. Would you?
Yes, as long as there were exceptions for times of war - and I mean DECLARED war, not the BS actions of the past few decades.
would also support a FLAT national sales tax. Would you?
Sales taxes are regressive, so no.
The FDA. Ah the great FDA. It's funny but I would bet that if it wasn't a government program and actually had to compete with other companies they would have more than enough money to do their job
This must be a fundamental difference in how we view the role of government. I believe that it is a good idea for the federal government to provide safeguards on food and medicine. The Jungle says it all.
FTC been gutted.... then you talk more about the FDA.
The issues I mentioned fall under the FTC's responsibility to enforce truth in advertising.
Some other issues that are hot buttons, that you and I would probably agree on.
1. Term limits for all politicians. 2. Term limits for judges
You propose this after saying
Wow I just got finished reading the consitution again (with the amendments) and didn't see anywhere in there about promised health insurance, cars, or computers
I don't see anything in the constitution about term limits.
...(18-25) year olds, that will have their eyes opened when they get their first "real" paycheck and see how much is taken out in federal and state taxes....
Obviously not enough here in the USA.
I can make more money working at a department store selling shoes than I can as a teacher.
Police - the ones we give guns to - the ones we trust with power above and beyond the average citizen - the ones we pay less than grocery store managers (http://www.apbweb.com/articles-z45.htm). When the pay is so low, and the power is so great - what kind of person do you think gets attracted to the police force?
Federal deficit soaring - let's not even mention the total national debt.
Millions of uninsured Americans.
A FDA whose budget has been so gutted in recent years they rely on the drug companies paying for studies.
A FTC whose budget has been so gutted in recent years they can't even put a dent in the snake-oil sold on television. Not to mention all these "dietary supplements" whose claims go unchecked, and whose ads get more and more sophisticated to the point it's getting harder to tell them from "legitimate" drugs.
If you want, I can continue going down the list...
They likely would take a bigger loss in the future if they were to back down now and prove themselves weak. They are doing this to show that they play hardball with their developers. Lord only knows that any sign of weakness now might be exploited by any developer VU works with who wants to renegotiate their SPA. There is no better way to prove that you mean business than to take one on the chin and shrug it off.
The DPI of a monochrome laser printer does indeed mean the same thing as the DPI/PPI (pixels per inch) of a monitor. They can not be directly compared when it comes to color printers and their need to mix multiple ink dots to represent most colors.
I can run win 2k on a P-133 with 96 megs of ram better than you are describing. I run it everyday on multiple sub 500mhz machines, most of them with 256 megs or less. If a modern machine isn't running Win2k properly - 128 megs of ram or not - there is an issue with the machine.
From Imaging Notes @ http://www.imagingnotes.com/novdec01/day.htm
The ability to read license plates is a common myth associated with reconnaissance satellites. In reality, they're not nearly that good. The best American spy satellites could reputedly see objects about the size of a baseball. License plate numbers are, therefore, too small, and they don't face up toward space. And, because of insufficient bandwidth, imagery satellites shoot still images, not moving ones.
The best of the USA's spy satellites, the late generations of the keyhole series, max out at 4-6 inches resolution in ideal conditions, and at the low point of their egg shaped polar orbits. This is with 60 inch camera lenses. Their IR capabilities maxed out at 2-3 ft. resolution. This is with the best diffraction correction money can buy. Not distortion, diffraction. Despite all the fancy techno words you and that anon. coward later in this thread throw at it - there is a physical limit to imaging.
From the physics department at Behrend College @ http://shahrazad.bd.psu.edu/classes/phys203/203mar ch031997.html
...the resolution of these images is now limited primarily by the physics of diffraction.
Redeeming all but a few dollars on a card is a good idea I hadn't thought about but (if Wal Mart is smart) it isn't going to be enough to save the theives' asses.
IANAWME but I do know that the cleaner American big-box discount retailer (think red) video captures every credit card transaction and I don't think it's going very far out on a limb to assume they do the same with gift cards. If Wally World does the same it will be only a matter of days before the crooks are caught...unless they are running this like the old cloned-cellphone game where the crooks sell the cloned goods, but don't actually use them personally.
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As a musician I resent being in the same sentence as an audiophile.
Not having enough cash for an Ipod - I'm going to use this idea with my 35mm slide projector.
Amen!
And to agree with the AC above me - THE reason I have not switched to Linux is Autodesk Land Desktop - period.
A good, OS, 3D CAD program would be a godsend.
I do realize how many millions of man-hours must be incorporated in AutoCad 2005, much less Land/Architectural/Mechanical Desktop. It must be a high hill to climb, for any new project - not to mention all all the plug-ins/add-ons available for AutoCad...
I could be tempted to switch from Windows if there was something with only R14 or Microstation V7 capabilities.
Automotive windshields are not tempered glass because they are designed to keep passengers inside the car in case of an accident. Your chances of survival are greatly diminished if you are ejected from the vehicle. It is well known that designing windshields like this increases the skull trauma to an unrestrained vehicle occupant in a head on collision, and greatly increases facial lacerations, but survival w/scars is judged to be better than death.
Many attempts have been made over the years to create a non-shattering windshield out of plastic. DuPont had an entire team dedicated to this task in the late 80's and early 90's. The problem they encountered, though, was maintaining the optical properties of a glass windshield. All the various plastic and glass/plastic sandwiches they investigated led to optical distortion when not looking straight through the windshield.
My point was that the efficiency numbers you were quoting are based upon using the heat, not simply dissipating it through "external cooling surface(s)"
I don't believe that a laptop, PDA, or most other consumer electronic item these would be so cool for would be an ideal candidate for a combined heat/power system. Laptops get hot enough running on batteries.
Why do you say that gas turbines are some of the most efficient fuel to energy converters known to man? Every link I can find in a google search says otherwise. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=45726 for example.
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Gas turbines seem to only become highly fuel efficient when the heat of their exhaust gas is captured by a secondary system, like a steam recovery boiler. http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/v33_1_00/turb
A moderated USENT group can have controls over whom is able to post. That makes it just as easy to snip spam from the source as RSS.
Do you really believe that society is better with underpaid teachers?
Police forces can not afford to be as choosy with who they hire because of the limited salary they can offer.
Your example of people waiting in line to join the police force only proves my point that people are attracted to the job despite the low pay. Unfortunately many are attracted to the power, and those are not the people I want policing me.
Yes, as long as there were exceptions for times of war - and I mean DECLARED war, not the BS actions of the past few decades.
Sales taxes are regressive, so no.
This must be a fundamental difference in how we view the role of government. I believe that it is a good idea for the federal government to provide safeguards on food and medicine.
The Jungle says it all.
The issues I mentioned fall under the FTC's responsibility to enforce truth in advertising.
You propose this after saying I don't see anything in the constitution about term limits.
I have a feeling that it would be dangerous to be within 50 yards of James Carville's ego should it ever be popped.
Obviously not enough here in the USA.
I can make more money working at a department store selling shoes than I can as a teacher.
Police - the ones we give guns to - the ones we trust with power above and beyond the average citizen - the ones we pay less than grocery store managers (http://www.apbweb.com/articles-z45.htm). When the pay is so low, and the power is so great - what kind of person do you think gets attracted to the police force?
Federal deficit soaring - let's not even mention the total national debt.
Millions of uninsured Americans.
A FDA whose budget has been so gutted in recent years they rely on the drug companies paying for studies.
A FTC whose budget has been so gutted in recent years they can't even put a dent in the snake-oil sold on television. Not to mention all these "dietary supplements" whose claims go unchecked, and whose ads get more and more sophisticated to the point it's getting harder to tell them from "legitimate" drugs.
If you want, I can continue going down the list...
I also have the i850, and hot glue works perfectly.
More likely he has a (reeeaally loooonng monitor cable)/2 and a (reeeaally loooonng mouse cable)/2.
They likely would take a bigger loss in the future if they were to back down now and prove themselves weak. They are doing this to show that they play hardball with their developers. Lord only knows that any sign of weakness now might be exploited by any developer VU works with who wants to renegotiate their SPA.
There is no better way to prove that you mean business than to take one on the chin and shrug it off.
The DPI of a monochrome laser printer does indeed mean the same thing as the DPI/PPI (pixels per inch) of a monitor.
They can not be directly compared when it comes to color printers and their need to mix multiple ink dots to represent most colors.
I can run win 2k on a P-133 with 96 megs of ram better than you are describing. I run it everyday on multiple sub 500mhz machines, most of them with 256 megs or less. If a modern machine isn't running Win2k properly - 128 megs of ram or not - there is an issue with the machine.
BS - I'm doing it right now on a P-III 400 w/ 128 megs RAM.
Runs SMOOTHLY!
The best of the USA's spy satellites, the late generations of the keyhole series, max out at 4-6 inches resolution in ideal conditions, and at the low point of their egg shaped polar orbits. This is with 60 inch camera lenses. Their IR capabilities maxed out at 2-3 ft. resolution.
This is with the best diffraction correction money can buy. Not distortion, diffraction. Despite all the fancy techno words you and that anon. coward later in this thread throw at it - there is a physical limit to imaging.
From the physics department at Behrend College @ http://shahrazad.bd.psu.edu/classes/phys203/203ma
Heaven forbid a private company make money from something sinful like gambling or porn.
Now if we could just get our government out of the gambling business...
I only use Mom's Old Fashioned Robot Oil you insensitive clod!
Redeeming all but a few dollars on a card is a good idea I hadn't thought about but (if Wal Mart is smart) it isn't going to be enough to save the theives' asses.
IANAWME but I do know that the cleaner American big-box discount retailer (think red) video captures every credit card transaction and I don't think it's going very far out on a limb to assume they do the same with gift cards. If Wally World does the same it will be only a matter of days before the crooks are caught...unless they are running this like the old cloned-cellphone game where the crooks sell the cloned goods, but don't actually use them personally.
Wake me up when it can sync with my Palm.
This poll was for the best SF movies, not the most scientifically accurate.