And what does the keyboard do with the data? It still needs a compromised system to relay it anywhere useful. Or you need to have repeated physical access to the keyboard.
Comparing two locations in Hawaii for temperature doesn't give you much. Those two locations are in different climate zones. It can pour rain for a week on one part of Oahu without a drop falling on another. In Hawaii weather is extremely dependent on location. Your assumption that they actually have the same temperature is just plain wrong.
Your behavior just hi-lights the fact that you don't understand the economics. A portion of that monthly service payment to the carrier either goes to pay off the cost of the phone subsidy or directly to the carriers profit line. At the very least get one of the free phones with it to keep as a back-up. If you don't want it then donate it to charity. But I'm sure the AT&T stockholders appreciate your contribution to their dividend checks.
Frankly I have to wonder why marriage is a legal institution. It's a religious ceremony! It's obviously not for reproduction, look how many people manage that without marriage and that's the only reason I can see the state getting involved.
A court should just ban marriage on account of its being a state recognized religious event and make everyone get civil unions. Keep there 'traditional' marriages in the churches where they belong.
Frankly they should just start paying attention to an 8 bit priority flag and then set up a sliding fee schedule. The higher the priority the more it costs to send. I think that's the fairest way to do things.
Apple has already done this once with some of the last 68x00 series. They placed a custom DSP for speeding up some AV functions. That plus the CoreVideo and similar components shows they are quite comfortable with ASMP.
Same video specs but Blu-Ray has a higher bandwidth capability. As you said the studios only bother to produce one compressed version so they use the least common denominator, HD-DVD bandwidth limits in this case. Now that they only have Blu-Ray to release for they can utilize the higher bandwidth. Since the final target is the same this means less compression and associated artifacts.
Sun burns and skin cancer aren't a result of the ionizing radiation properties of UV. In fact UV isn't energetic enough to be called ionizing radiation in tissue, it merely drives energetic photochemical reactions. The damage mechanisms are very different than that from ionizing radiation such as x-rays, gammas, and high energy particles. So while x-rays can give you a skin burn you're never going to see an x-ray tan. Melanin production, tanning, is triggered by the photochemical reactions that UV photons power, not ionization events.
It pretty much is. You just need to send people someplace to get a certificate. Take Thawte Personal Freemail, they'll have your computer run an ActiveX app that generates a certificate request, has their system sign it and then installs it into Window's certificate store. Works like a charm, doesn't cost anything for personnel use.
What's viable about an aborted fetus removed from the mother's womb in the first trimester or even much earlier? At best its a dead body where some cells can be harvested for huge potential gains for mankind. Has it even been proven that a fetus can be grown to term outside the womb? We still don't know enough about how much the womb contributes to development. If we did we'd have artificial wombs by now.
I see very little difference between sperm cells and a mass of a couple hundred undifferentiated cells. And how many of those has the average teenager doomed to oblivion?
Actually, it seems pretty reasonable to me that waste disposal should be considered as part of the operating costs, maybe not as an up-front charge, but as something you reserve for. Otherwise we just hide the real costs of the energy behind a giant subsidy. Somebody still pays Already is for nuclear. Each plant pays into a fund for waste disposal, naturally factoring it into the cost charged to customers. In fact the industry sued the Government since it agreed to accept the waste in the late 90's but it just took the money and not the waste. The argument is ongoing as to having CO2 emissions charged to power plants. In fact charge for all waste products, vaporized mercury, urnaium and thorium all released in coal burning. Might even things up a bit more with reality.
I'd also ask any nuclear power operator to buy insurance to cover any damage caused by the plant due to negligent operation or accident. The industry keeps saying it's really, really safe, but can they find someone to sell them such an insurance policy, or afford to pay for it? That's a measure of how safe it really is. They do have insurance. It's gotten a bit more expensive since 9/11 devastated the secondary insurance markets where most of it is really bought. But they do have it.
Considering that both costs are already factored in and have been for a long time now its interesting that nuclear is the cheapest electricity to generate in the current US market.
Burn it in a reactor. Pu burns very well. The true waste products that don't recycle well in the fuel process have half-lives around 30 years. Strontium and Cesium the biggest ones. After 300 years you have 1000 times less, in the meantime the Strontium can be packaged into RTG's for the ultimate in dependable power backup. Frankly I'm shocked they don't have a couple of these at the South Pole. As for Cesium you'll probably have a surplus even after incorporation into medical therapy devices. But it only is around for a half life of 30 years. I'm sure we can build something that will last at least 300 years.
Not that big of a problem. Remember Apple is primarily a hardware company. It could still sell the computers at -$100 and then sell OS X at $100, which would require an Apple computer to run on. The purchaser could install linux, windows, or OS X on it. Might even generate a few extra sales of the computers.
a) Is there any commercial insurance company which will insure a nuclear reactor? Here in Germany all reactors must be insured against meltdown, etc. Since no insurance company will write a police for a reactor, the government steps in and "insures" it. All of our reactors here are insured that way.
Ultimately, yes. See here for the whole process. Basically the industry is self insured as a whole up to a set limit. Little hard to determine what the limit should be since there's never been a significant release in the western world. So the act defined a limit of liability after which the government reevaluates the situation. As for the self-insurance the industry has bought several insurance policies in the reinsurance market. Given the saftey record and the risks its a pretty good buy compared to reinsuring flood insurance in coastal areas.
b) Is there a place in any western democracy (russia and china probably have less problems in that area) for finally depositing the resulting nuclear waste? A proper finaly resting place for the stuff?
Define finaly. Stick spent fuel in the ground for a thousand years and you end up with a bunch of low specific activity trans-uranics, most of which would make great fuel for a reactor with little processing. At that point the stuff will be worth more than Platinum. I don't expect it to stay in the ground at that point unless you have a really good guard sitting on top of the pile.
Just look at the long term core ice studies. Going back many thousands of years they reflect very well what was expected given on the three frequencies of orbital oscillation, until around 6000 years ago. At that point there are deviations from the cycle starting right about the time rice was first domestically farmed in Asia. Right around the period of one of the worst outbreaks of the Plague, right in the middle of the deforestation of Europe it returns to the expected trends for about a hundred years. Perhaps because the population pressures driving deforestation had stalled due to the massive die off? Then you see that last couple hundred years and the curve is nothing if not exponential.
Or look at the coral die-offs. No change found in their environment except temperature change.
Species migration patterns upslope in mountain ranges. Glaciers vanishing. Slowdown of the gulf stream.
The Earth is warming when the orbital oscillations indicate that it should be cooling. To claim otherwise with the mountain of evidence growing each day is just burying your head in the sand. Just watch out when those sea's start to rise.
Even better news is that after reprocessing many of the remaining waste isotopes have a relatively short half life (~30 years). So after a thousand years those are essentially gone with 33 half lives passing. Ideally we would just put the waste into storage for a few hundred years if not a thousand and then reprocess. It'll be a much easier and cleaner process at that point.
If the Universe started out in one place, and expanded at less than the speed of light, how can we only now be receiving light from its early days?
It's how the universe is currently expanding. Think of it as empty space being inserted between other bits of empty space everywhere. For example, you have three unmoving points in a line every 10m, say at 10m, 20m, 30m,.... trillion meters. The expansion comes along and inserts a centimeter between every point for each unit of time. As a result, even though each point never moves the distance between the 10m point and the trillion meter point, it can actually increase at a rate faster than the speed of light.
But there are points that a distance away that it's taken light the time since the beginning of the universe to travel to our point.
If object A is moving one direction at.6c, and object B is moving the opposite direction at.6c, does each object appear to be moving at >1c from the other object?
This is just a standard special relativity question so the answer is pretty easy to calculate. The thing to remember is there is no absolute speed other than that of light, everything else depends on the frame of reference. You have three of them here, object A, object B, and the observer. So for the observer between the two both are going at.6c. At either object the observer is moving away at.6c and the other object is moving at.88c. This is calculated from the velocity addition formula v = (v1 + v2)/(1 + v1*v2/c^2)
For the big documents just use LaTeX. It may have a steep learning curve but all the programs have a steep learning curve for large documents and LaTeX tends not to randomly corrupt portions of the source text.
You're kidding right? DT tubes have been on the market for a long time now and many run off a 120 V circuit to produce 10^10 neutron's per second. Just take a look at http://www.sciner.com/Neutron/index.htm for some you can buy right off the shelf. Size is more of a cosmetic issue than anything else.
Best shielding for: Gammas: DU or lead Betas: Plastic, water (avoid metal at all costs, especially heavy metals) Alpha: Basically anything Neutron: Parafin to slow them down and lithium to absorb them
An x-ray is made by slamming an electron into a heavy, dense metal, usually tungsten in machines. A beta is a very fast electron so shield them with metal and you have an x-ray source.
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And what does the keyboard do with the data? It still needs a compromised system to relay it anywhere useful. Or you need to have repeated physical access to the keyboard.
Comparing two locations in Hawaii for temperature doesn't give you much. Those two locations are in different climate zones. It can pour rain for a week on one part of Oahu without a drop falling on another. In Hawaii weather is extremely dependent on location. Your assumption that they actually have the same temperature is just plain wrong.
Your behavior just hi-lights the fact that you don't understand the economics. A portion of that monthly service payment to the carrier either goes to pay off the cost of the phone subsidy or directly to the carriers profit line. At the very least get one of the free phones with it to keep as a back-up. If you don't want it then donate it to charity. But I'm sure the AT&T stockholders appreciate your contribution to their dividend checks.
Frankly I have to wonder why marriage is a legal institution. It's a religious ceremony! It's obviously not for reproduction, look how many people manage that without marriage and that's the only reason I can see the state getting involved.
A court should just ban marriage on account of its being a state recognized religious event and make everyone get civil unions. Keep there 'traditional' marriages in the churches where they belong.
Some kind of basic compound like NaOH. Essentially and compound that splits off the OH group, except obviously HOH.
Salts can be used to stabilize or buffer the pH of a solution but by themselves don't vary pH.
Frankly they should just start paying attention to an 8 bit priority flag and then set up a sliding fee schedule. The higher the priority the more it costs to send. I think that's the fairest way to do things.
Apple has already done this once with some of the last 68x00 series. They placed a custom DSP for speeding up some AV functions. That plus the CoreVideo and similar components shows they are quite comfortable with ASMP.
Same video specs but Blu-Ray has a higher bandwidth capability. As you said the studios only bother to produce one compressed version so they use the least common denominator, HD-DVD bandwidth limits in this case. Now that they only have Blu-Ray to release for they can utilize the higher bandwidth. Since the final target is the same this means less compression and associated artifacts.
Sun burns and skin cancer aren't a result of the ionizing radiation properties of UV. In fact UV isn't energetic enough to be called ionizing radiation in tissue, it merely drives energetic photochemical reactions. The damage mechanisms are very different than that from ionizing radiation such as x-rays, gammas, and high energy particles. So while x-rays can give you a skin burn you're never going to see an x-ray tan. Melanin production, tanning, is triggered by the photochemical reactions that UV photons power, not ionization events.
It pretty much is. You just need to send people someplace to get a certificate. Take Thawte Personal Freemail, they'll have your computer run an ActiveX app that generates a certificate request, has their system sign it and then installs it into Window's certificate store. Works like a charm, doesn't cost anything for personnel use.
What's viable about an aborted fetus removed from the mother's womb in the first trimester or even much earlier? At best its a dead body where some cells can be harvested for huge potential gains for mankind. Has it even been proven that a fetus can be grown to term outside the womb? We still don't know enough about how much the womb contributes to development. If we did we'd have artificial wombs by now.
I see very little difference between sperm cells and a mass of a couple hundred undifferentiated cells. And how many of those has the average teenager doomed to oblivion?
Burn it in a reactor. Pu burns very well. The true waste products that don't recycle well in the fuel process have half-lives around 30 years. Strontium and Cesium the biggest ones. After 300 years you have 1000 times less, in the meantime the Strontium can be packaged into RTG's for the ultimate in dependable power backup. Frankly I'm shocked they don't have a couple of these at the South Pole. As for Cesium you'll probably have a surplus even after incorporation into medical therapy devices. But it only is around for a half life of 30 years. I'm sure we can build something that will last at least 300 years.
Not that big of a problem. Remember Apple is primarily a hardware company. It could still sell the computers at -$100 and then sell OS X at $100, which would require an Apple computer to run on. The purchaser could install linux, windows, or OS X on it. Might even generate a few extra sales of the computers.
Looks like he does RC. From http://www.blueflame.org/datasheets/humidity.html the average humidity for Phoenix, AZ is 44%.
A lot of blackholes will fit that definition. Also how round is something in 3D?
My suggestion is
- An object with enough gravity to shape itself into an ellipsoid with eccentricity less than ###
- Not massive enough to support continous thermnuclear fusion at its core
- Composed of chemical elements or compounds
Granted it probably rules out Jupiter, but I always thought calling Jupiter just a planet was wrong. Besides, 2010 isn't that far off.The biggest argument against this is probably the massive numbers of objects in the Solar System that meet this definition.
a) Is there any commercial insurance company which will insure a nuclear reactor? Here in Germany all reactors must be insured against meltdown, etc. Since no insurance company will write a police for a reactor, the government steps in and "insures" it. All of our reactors here are insured that way. Ultimately, yes. See here for the whole process. Basically the industry is self insured as a whole up to a set limit. Little hard to determine what the limit should be since there's never been a significant release in the western world. So the act defined a limit of liability after which the government reevaluates the situation. As for the self-insurance the industry has bought several insurance policies in the reinsurance market. Given the saftey record and the risks its a pretty good buy compared to reinsuring flood insurance in coastal areas. b) Is there a place in any western democracy (russia and china probably have less problems in that area) for finally depositing the resulting nuclear waste? A proper finaly resting place for the stuff? Define finaly. Stick spent fuel in the ground for a thousand years and you end up with a bunch of low specific activity trans-uranics, most of which would make great fuel for a reactor with little processing. At that point the stuff will be worth more than Platinum. I don't expect it to stay in the ground at that point unless you have a really good guard sitting on top of the pile.
Just look at the long term core ice studies. Going back many thousands of years they reflect very well what was expected given on the three frequencies of orbital oscillation, until around 6000 years ago. At that point there are deviations from the cycle starting right about the time rice was first domestically farmed in Asia. Right around the period of one of the worst outbreaks of the Plague, right in the middle of the deforestation of Europe it returns to the expected trends for about a hundred years. Perhaps because the population pressures driving deforestation had stalled due to the massive die off? Then you see that last couple hundred years and the curve is nothing if not exponential.
Or look at the coral die-offs. No change found in their environment except temperature change.
Species migration patterns upslope in mountain ranges. Glaciers vanishing. Slowdown of the gulf stream.
The Earth is warming when the orbital oscillations indicate that it should be cooling. To claim otherwise with the mountain of evidence growing each day is just burying your head in the sand. Just watch out when those sea's start to rise.
Even better news is that after reprocessing many of the remaining waste isotopes have a relatively short half life (~30 years). So after a thousand years those are essentially gone with 33 half lives passing. Ideally we would just put the waste into storage for a few hundred years if not a thousand and then reprocess. It'll be a much easier and cleaner process at that point.
It's how the universe is currently expanding. Think of it as empty space being inserted between other bits of empty space everywhere. For example, you have three unmoving points in a line every 10m, say at 10m, 20m, 30m,
But there are points that a distance away that it's taken light the time since the beginning of the universe to travel to our point.
This is just a standard special relativity question so the answer is pretty easy to calculate. The thing to remember is there is no absolute speed other than that of light, everything else depends on the frame of reference. You have three of them here, object A, object B, and the observer. So for the observer between the two both are going at
That's not a bug, its a feature
For the big documents just use LaTeX. It may have a steep learning curve but all the programs have a steep learning curve for large documents and LaTeX tends not to randomly corrupt portions of the source text.
You're kidding right? DT tubes have been on the market for a long time now and many run off a 120 V circuit to produce 10^10 neutron's per second. Just take a look at http://www.sciner.com/Neutron/index.htm for some you can buy right off the shelf. Size is more of a cosmetic issue than anything else.
What do you mean it doesn't exaggerate Greenland, its much smaller than the CONUS but in this image it takes up just about the same amound of space.
Best shielding for:
Gammas: DU or lead
Betas: Plastic, water (avoid metal at all costs, especially heavy metals)
Alpha: Basically anything
Neutron: Parafin to slow them down and lithium to absorb them
An x-ray is made by slamming an electron into a heavy, dense metal, usually tungsten in machines. A beta is a very fast electron so shield them with metal and you have an x-ray source.