The DDT ban might have saved bald eagles, but it has killed millions of people from malaria that would have been otherwise prevented. This may seem strange to you, but some of us value human life more than bird life.
That's per weight. I said size--this means volume. That also makes it far more difficult to dissipate the heat generated, as you now have both increased the distance heat has to travel out of the coils, and decreased the thermal resistivity of the coils.
But it gets worse! Aluminum has serious longevity problems. From http://www.faqs.org/faqs/electrical-wiring/part2/section-16.html
"During the 1970's, aluminum (instead of copper) wiring became quite popular and was extensively used. Since that time, aluminum wiring has been implicated in a number of house fires, and most jurisdictions no longer permit it in new installations....The main problem with aluminum wiring is a phenomenon known as "cold creep". When aluminum wiring warms up, it expands. When it cools down, it contracts. Unlike copper, when aluminum goes through a number of warm/cool cycles it loses a bit of tightness each time. To make the problem worse, aluminum oxidises, or corrodes when in contact with certain types of metal, so the resistance of the connection goes up. Which causes it to heat up and corrode/oxidize still more."
Bullshit. Aluminum resistivity is too high and you would have to build motors much larger to accommodate the higher gauge wire needed to lower coil resistance to the point where the motor won't be overheating.
Electric cars? There is simply not enough copper to wind enough electric motors to replace all gasoline engines on the road; there is no reasonably inexpensive alternative with sufficiently low resistivity.
"sounds like notes to me"
Huh? It's actually a proper, precise description of the concept that people refer to as "lecture notes" than the actual term "lecture notes", because the latter could refer to various things such as the professor own notes, or notes you took during the lecture about your daydreams, etc. But saying "sounds like notes to me" means that you see their phrase as less clear, which is strange, to say the least.
Reat the fucking article! The suit is not to prevent anyone from taking notes, but to stop the commercial sale of notes derived from his lectures. Totally different. That your post, which addresses a fantastical situation having nothing to do with the case at hand simply shows that no one on this site bothers to read an article before commenting on it.
You should have backups regardless. I've been running this configuration myself for over two years without a hitch. Your comment is typical Slashdot troll fearmongering.
Get two 10000 RPM Raptor drives and run them in Raid 0. The difference over a regular, single 7200 rpm drive is immense and I've never seen as big one from any other upgrade. Sure, they're only 150 GB but I use slower drivers for video etc. I also found that getting faster RAM makes more difference than a faster CPU, which suggests that too many programs have poor cache behavior.
I'm a spindly nerd too, but the good thing about being a nerd is that you can use intelligence to compensate in areas you're lacking. Once you understand the alpha male, you can emulate him and, with practice, do it well to a sufficient degree to get results.
There are fairly reliable indicators, actually. I recommend books on body language and some time people watching. You'll be surprised there is in fact consistency to it and you'll learn to pick it up much better.
This is why now I always state my intentions at the beginning. There are cases where a direct approach will turn off potential mates who you could have possibly gotten by being initially indirect, but if you play this thing as a numbers game (as I do), then the latter method is not worth the time you waste pursuing those that will ultimately reject you regardless of the choice of approach.
This is a joke, right? Free versions of good anti-virus software such as AVG or Antivir provide excellent protection and don't nag you to buy the non-free version.
Regarding your link: the story has been taken off the source page, at Canada Free Press, casting doubt upon its authenticity. And this is saying something, considering CFP is known as not a very credible source in the first place. It also had an article claiming that the Amero was a plot for the United States to repudiate its debts. But this article also claimed that the Euro came about because the Vatican minted a coin with the Pope facing the wrong way: http://canadafreepress.com/2006/cover121406.htm
Apparently, because the coin was the size of a Euro coin, it was a signal from the Illuminati or people like that through the Pope. For the GCHQ to reveal details of intercepted communications is unlikely except in extreme situations. For the PLA to pretend to beat soldiers dressed as monks, when it has plenty of real monks peacefully protesting that it can run over with a tank - which is what I remember reading in the mainstream media as triggering the violence - also seems odd. Looks like you're the one that has hit an unreliable source, and I request that moderators to decrease the score of your post for posting an obviously unreliable reference.
I'd love to see how you'll find enough copper to replace every gasoline engine on the road with an electric motor. With a continuing worldwide continuing copper deficit and rising copper prices, this is but a pipe dream.
This is wrong, since many computations are not parallelizable. What is needed is simply a shift to a different technology. Instead, they're milking the silicon cow as long as possible, at the expense of slowed down progress, and mistakenly putting the burden on programmers.
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The DDT ban might have saved bald eagles, but it has killed millions of people from malaria that would have been otherwise prevented. This may seem strange to you, but some of us value human life more than bird life.
That's per weight. I said size--this means volume. That also makes it far more difficult to dissipate the heat generated, as you now have both increased the distance heat has to travel out of the coils, and decreased the thermal resistivity of the coils.
But it gets worse! Aluminum has serious longevity problems. From http://www.faqs.org/faqs/electrical-wiring/part2/section-16.html
"During the 1970's, aluminum (instead of copper) wiring became quite popular and was extensively used. Since that time, aluminum wiring has been implicated in a number of house fires, and most jurisdictions no longer permit it in new installations....The main problem with aluminum wiring is a phenomenon known as "cold creep". When aluminum wiring warms up, it expands. When it cools down, it contracts. Unlike copper, when aluminum goes through a number of warm/cool cycles it loses a bit of tightness each time. To make the problem worse, aluminum oxidises, or corrodes when in contact with certain types of metal, so the resistance of the connection goes up. Which causes it to heat up and corrode/oxidize still more."
If it wasn't, there wouldn't have been this much biomass generated to create the enormous amounts of oil deposits.
Bullshit. Aluminum resistivity is too high and you would have to build motors much larger to accommodate the higher gauge wire needed to lower coil resistance to the point where the motor won't be overheating.
Obviously it was very hospitable to animal life. That it would have been inhospitable to humans is unfounded conjecture on your part.
Spelling two letters of the words wrong, as in "calude" instead of "collude", indicates to me that it was not just a typo.
Cheers.
Electric cars? There is simply not enough copper to wind enough electric motors to replace all gasoline engines on the road; there is no reasonably inexpensive alternative with sufficiently low resistivity.
I don't get it.
The carbon in oil came from the atmosphere in the first place.
I don't get it.
"sounds like notes to me" Huh? It's actually a proper, precise description of the concept that people refer to as "lecture notes" than the actual term "lecture notes", because the latter could refer to various things such as the professor own notes, or notes you took during the lecture about your daydreams, etc. But saying "sounds like notes to me" means that you see their phrase as less clear, which is strange, to say the least.
Reat the fucking article! The suit is not to prevent anyone from taking notes, but to stop the commercial sale of notes derived from his lectures. Totally different. That your post, which addresses a fantastical situation having nothing to do with the case at hand simply shows that no one on this site bothers to read an article before commenting on it.
You should have backups regardless.
I've been running this configuration myself for over two years without a hitch.
Your comment is typical Slashdot troll fearmongering.
Get two 10000 RPM Raptor drives and run them in Raid 0. The difference over a regular, single 7200 rpm drive is immense and I've never seen as big one from any other upgrade. Sure, they're only 150 GB but I use slower drivers for video etc.
I also found that getting faster RAM makes more difference than a faster CPU, which suggests that too many programs have poor cache behavior.
I'm a spindly nerd too, but the good thing about being a nerd is that you can use intelligence to compensate in areas you're lacking. Once you understand the alpha male, you can emulate him and, with practice, do it well to a sufficient degree to get results.
There are fairly reliable indicators, actually. I recommend books on body language and some time people watching. You'll be surprised there is in fact consistency to it and you'll learn to pick it up much better.
This is why now I always state my intentions at the beginning. There are cases where a direct approach will turn off potential mates who you could have possibly gotten by being initially indirect, but if you play this thing as a numbers game (as I do), then the latter method is not worth the time you waste pursuing those that will ultimately reject you regardless of the choice of approach.
I still don't know WTF is this Gaia thing /Gaiafag
It would look like a slightly geekier version of 4chan's Random board
The dual of this is that it can be taken as evidence that he is a typical conspiracy theorist--albeit one with writing skill.
This is a joke, right? Free versions of good anti-virus software such as AVG or Antivir provide excellent protection and don't nag you to buy the non-free version.
Regarding your link: the story has been taken off the source page, at Canada Free Press, casting doubt upon its authenticity. And this is saying something, considering CFP is known as not a very credible source in the first place. It also had an article claiming that the Amero was a plot for the United States to repudiate its debts. But this article also claimed that the Euro came about because the Vatican minted a coin with the Pope facing the wrong way: http://canadafreepress.com/2006/cover121406.htm
Apparently, because the coin was the size of a Euro coin, it was a signal from the Illuminati or people like that through the Pope. For the GCHQ to reveal details of intercepted communications is unlikely except in extreme situations. For the PLA to pretend to beat soldiers dressed as monks, when it has plenty of real monks peacefully protesting that it can run over with a tank - which is what I remember reading in the mainstream media as triggering the violence - also seems odd. Looks like you're the one that has hit an unreliable source, and I request that moderators to decrease the score of your post for posting an obviously unreliable reference.
Funny you should quote a site engaging in seriously deceptive marketing.
Rebuttal: http://solux.net/ultraluxfalsedata.htm
I'd love to see how you'll find enough copper to replace every gasoline engine on the road with an electric motor. With a continuing worldwide continuing copper deficit and rising copper prices, this is but a pipe dream.
This is wrong, since many computations are not parallelizable. What is needed is simply a shift to a different technology. Instead, they're milking the silicon cow as long as possible, at the expense of slowed down progress, and mistakenly putting the burden on programmers.