You actually need to design the grid for much worse then the worst day of the year, ideally you design it for having significant outages on the worst day of the year. If you don't then you have things like the great northeast blackout occur. Also reverse flow hydro doesn't have to use a traditional hydro plant, any place where there is a hill big enough to hold a significant amount of water will do, well and it should be high enough to allow for a significant amount of potential energy. I would think the San Antonio and Austin areas would be good candidates.
Don't forget Illinois which also had a complete cluster of a deregulation attempt. Ohio isn't even at the point of flipping the switch (it looks like we never will due to the experiences elsewhere) but the utilities got an almost 40% hike for the last decade or so in "transition charges"
Well, since cycling an AC compressor is hugely inefficient I doubt they do that, more like turn off 10-20% for 30 minutes at a time. The cycling penalty is one reason you really want to size your AC unit for the load, getting too big a unit is just as bad, if not worse, than getting too small a unit.
Seriously, $400B to be completely energy independent would be the best deal of all time. The war in Iraq is estimated to have a final cost of well north of $1T, so if your source is right, for 40% of the cost of the war we could be energy independent. Of course by your numbers it looks like that would simply displace current electricity use, which is only about 40% of all US energy use, but for about the same $1T we could be truly energy independent.
Actually at grid scales storing electricity is easy. You just use a reverse flow hydro plant, during the day when excess energy is abundant you pump water up hill, at night you let it fall through turbines. You can even store more than one days worth of electricity for when there is a freak storm over multiple solar sites or for when you have such high peak demand that your solar farm can't deal with it. You will lose some water to evaporation if the plant is near the solar farm, but if it's near a less arid place you might even be able gain some electricity from local rainfall =)
Actually it's Gartner so your best bet is to buy stock in Logitech as it's more likely that there will be a great surge in demand for mice in the next 5 years =)
It's simple, the board of directors of most companies who are the ones setting things like CEO contracts are full of CxO's of other companies. It's felt that there is a major quid pro quo going on where the board of one company raises the pay for executives then the senior executives at company A talk to their friends who sit on the board of the companies B,C,D where the board members of company A are executives and increase the salary of the executives at B,C,D.
Sure the market has a way to include the need to reprocess fuel, at some point the cost of recovering new fuel from the soil will be high enough that it will be cheaper to reprocess existing fuel and burn it in a breeder reactor. The real problem is that it will probably be cheaper still to burn coal and oil shales, those have a MUCH higher externality attached the nuclear and yet we keep burning them.
Open webpage to display cover art, link to the bands tour page, etc. The problem is that it uses IE to open the page no matter what you have your default browser set to and we all know how secure IE is. It can also have an embedded link to a download for a new codec, if you don't have the codec then it will ask you if you want to install it. In this case the codec is a trojan.
Apparently they did, either that or Checkpoint's protection feature for the general class of DNS poisoning attacks just happened to protect against this one too. However, even if it did protect against it I doubt they could have release a same day press release stating it did if they hadn't been notified of the vulnerability ahead of time.
We already have that, but with FORTH, it's called OpenFirmware and I wish Intel would have adopted it instead of going with the slow to be adopted EFI.
They aren't old school common carriers, but the safe harbor provision of the DMCA is very similar in scope and spirit with the old common carrier regulations. So long as they are only transporting the content and not deciding what is and is not shown then they are afforded broad immunity. Of course the same law requires them to censor content when they receive a request, so I don't think that this type of blocking would strip them of their protection. If it becomes an issue then this is one area where I think it would be very legitimate for the ISP's to lobby Congress for some legislative immunity.
They also ignore anything after a + sign, so I use username+site@gmail.com to sign up for legit stuff where I think there's a chance of getting spammed in the future, if I do get spammed on that alias I write a rule to drop it to the floor and contact the company letting them know they now have zero chance of getting future business with me. The only problem is when a stupid validation script writer doesn't know how to read an RFC and claims the address is invalid. In that case they get my old excite address which is nothing but a spamhole. I guess I could use my google apps address, but it's too much of a pain to create a new user just for one site and I never read the catchall mailbox unless I know I'm missing an important email.
How can you use a BUD for long distance? Wind load at the heights needed to avoid fresnel zone problems would be freaking huge on a BUD! The biggest I've seen is a 30dBi 59" antenna and even that I don't think was usable on most towers as it had a loading factor of 100 lbs at 120mph.
Um, most people. I toss my keys and wallet onto the kitchen table or nightstand all the time. I also toss my laptop onto my bed all the time, of course it's a water bed and it's almost always powered off when I do it, but it would be nice to not have to worry about whether it was or not.
This isn't nearly the worst I've heard of though. The worst was a guy who locked all accounts, deleted files, and placed a high strength magnet in the tape drive so when they went to restore they screwed up the backups. That company went out of business AFAIK and the loser involved served jail time and worked for the rest of his life to try to repay the owner.
The Predator already runs most of its missions in semi-autonomous mode, it's not hard to believe that an attack could be formulated using some limited AI for target acquisition as they already use something similar to notify operators that an individual UAV has spotted their target, just switch from notification to attack.
So you can get 16 cores in a low end box but it still won't have enough I/O slots so you will have to buy a shelf at $obscene_amount, seriously why does IBM put such few I/O slots in the lower end P series boxes?
Cherry used to make the ultimate datacenter keyboard, it included a shrunk 104 key beyboard and trackball that was small enough to fit it a rackmount tray. Today that's pedestrian but back in the day it was a big deal.
Try the FTC, if you can provide enough information and they get enough complaints they can generally do an investigation and close them down. I had a scammer calling my work phone several times a week with an auto-dialer and when I was able to provide the FTC with the information including times called, people talked to, date when request to be removed from list, etc. After a couple months the calls stopped and I read in the online edition of the paper for that area of Florida that several people had been arrested for phone scams, made me feel good =)
Wait, 300% markup isn't a killing?!?! Uh, most industries are thrilled to see a 40% profit margin. Oh and that's comparing to retail costs, I'm sure MS is getting a little better deal than newegg is and newegg is already making a profit.
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You actually need to design the grid for much worse then the worst day of the year, ideally you design it for having significant outages on the worst day of the year. If you don't then you have things like the great northeast blackout occur. Also reverse flow hydro doesn't have to use a traditional hydro plant, any place where there is a hill big enough to hold a significant amount of water will do, well and it should be high enough to allow for a significant amount of potential energy. I would think the San Antonio and Austin areas would be good candidates.
Don't forget Illinois which also had a complete cluster of a deregulation attempt. Ohio isn't even at the point of flipping the switch (it looks like we never will due to the experiences elsewhere) but the utilities got an almost 40% hike for the last decade or so in "transition charges"
Well, since cycling an AC compressor is hugely inefficient I doubt they do that, more like turn off 10-20% for 30 minutes at a time. The cycling penalty is one reason you really want to size your AC unit for the load, getting too big a unit is just as bad, if not worse, than getting too small a unit.
Seriously, $400B to be completely energy independent would be the best deal of all time. The war in Iraq is estimated to have a final cost of well north of $1T, so if your source is right, for 40% of the cost of the war we could be energy independent. Of course by your numbers it looks like that would simply displace current electricity use, which is only about 40% of all US energy use, but for about the same $1T we could be truly energy independent.
Actually at grid scales storing electricity is easy. You just use a reverse flow hydro plant, during the day when excess energy is abundant you pump water up hill, at night you let it fall through turbines. You can even store more than one days worth of electricity for when there is a freak storm over multiple solar sites or for when you have such high peak demand that your solar farm can't deal with it. You will lose some water to evaporation if the plant is near the solar farm, but if it's near a less arid place you might even be able gain some electricity from local rainfall =)
Actually it's Gartner so your best bet is to buy stock in Logitech as it's more likely that there will be a great surge in demand for mice in the next 5 years =)
It's simple, the board of directors of most companies who are the ones setting things like CEO contracts are full of CxO's of other companies. It's felt that there is a major quid pro quo going on where the board of one company raises the pay for executives then the senior executives at company A talk to their friends who sit on the board of the companies B,C,D where the board members of company A are executives and increase the salary of the executives at B,C,D.
Sure the market has a way to include the need to reprocess fuel, at some point the cost of recovering new fuel from the soil will be high enough that it will be cheaper to reprocess existing fuel and burn it in a breeder reactor. The real problem is that it will probably be cheaper still to burn coal and oil shales, those have a MUCH higher externality attached the nuclear and yet we keep burning them.
Open webpage to display cover art, link to the bands tour page, etc. The problem is that it uses IE to open the page no matter what you have your default browser set to and we all know how secure IE is. It can also have an embedded link to a download for a new codec, if you don't have the codec then it will ask you if you want to install it. In this case the codec is a trojan.
Technically WMA and WMV are a family of codecs and they use the ASF container format for metadata and DRM.
Yep, there are motherboards for Freescale that use it according to wikipedia.
Apparently they did, either that or Checkpoint's protection feature for the general class of DNS poisoning attacks just happened to protect against this one too. However, even if it did protect against it I doubt they could have release a same day press release stating it did if they hadn't been notified of the vulnerability ahead of time.
You're doing something very wrong. We have XPe based thinterms that boot almost instantly from cold power up.
We already have that, but with FORTH, it's called OpenFirmware and I wish Intel would have adopted it instead of going with the slow to be adopted EFI.
They aren't old school common carriers, but the safe harbor provision of the DMCA is very similar in scope and spirit with the old common carrier regulations. So long as they are only transporting the content and not deciding what is and is not shown then they are afforded broad immunity. Of course the same law requires them to censor content when they receive a request, so I don't think that this type of blocking would strip them of their protection. If it becomes an issue then this is one area where I think it would be very legitimate for the ISP's to lobby Congress for some legislative immunity.
They also ignore anything after a + sign, so I use username+site@gmail.com to sign up for legit stuff where I think there's a chance of getting spammed in the future, if I do get spammed on that alias I write a rule to drop it to the floor and contact the company letting them know they now have zero chance of getting future business with me. The only problem is when a stupid validation script writer doesn't know how to read an RFC and claims the address is invalid. In that case they get my old excite address which is nothing but a spamhole. I guess I could use my google apps address, but it's too much of a pain to create a new user just for one site and I never read the catchall mailbox unless I know I'm missing an important email.
How can you use a BUD for long distance? Wind load at the heights needed to avoid fresnel zone problems would be freaking huge on a BUD! The biggest I've seen is a 30dBi 59" antenna and even that I don't think was usable on most towers as it had a loading factor of 100 lbs at 120mph.
Um, most people. I toss my keys and wallet onto the kitchen table or nightstand all the time. I also toss my laptop onto my bed all the time, of course it's a water bed and it's almost always powered off when I do it, but it would be nice to not have to worry about whether it was or not.
This isn't nearly the worst I've heard of though. The worst was a guy who locked all accounts, deleted files, and placed a high strength magnet in the tape drive so when they went to restore they screwed up the backups. That company went out of business AFAIK and the loser involved served jail time and worked for the rest of his life to try to repay the owner.
The Predator already runs most of its missions in semi-autonomous mode, it's not hard to believe that an attack could be formulated using some limited AI for target acquisition as they already use something similar to notify operators that an individual UAV has spotted their target, just switch from notification to attack.
So you can get 16 cores in a low end box but it still won't have enough I/O slots so you will have to buy a shelf at $obscene_amount, seriously why does IBM put such few I/O slots in the lower end P series boxes?
Yeah because jammers work so well against things like 80's cruise missiles....
Cherry used to make the ultimate datacenter keyboard, it included a shrunk 104 key beyboard and trackball that was small enough to fit it a rackmount tray. Today that's pedestrian but back in the day it was a big deal.
Try the FTC, if you can provide enough information and they get enough complaints they can generally do an investigation and close them down. I had a scammer calling my work phone several times a week with an auto-dialer and when I was able to provide the FTC with the information including times called, people talked to, date when request to be removed from list, etc. After a couple months the calls stopped and I read in the online edition of the paper for that area of Florida that several people had been arrested for phone scams, made me feel good =)
Wait, 300% markup isn't a killing?!?! Uh, most industries are thrilled to see a 40% profit margin. Oh and that's comparing to retail costs, I'm sure MS is getting a little better deal than newegg is and newegg is already making a profit.