So, get a precise measurement of the mass of your container before you go, and then get another precise measurement of the mass of your container after you put gas in it. The mass of the fuel doesn't change with temperature, pressure, or other environmental factors.
So I have a question here. What good is all of this technology they are getting if they don't know how to use it? India is a prime example of technology for technology's sake, without a hint of knowledge to go along with it.
Case and point. I work for large multinational corporation with offices in India, which also happens to own a large percentage of India's largest manufacturing company. I work in a relatively small office of about 100 hardware and software engineers developing niche hardware. Right after the recession dug its heels into the economy, our management decided it would be a good idea to offshore a lot of the work we were doing. We started importing (on L-1 visas, of course) dozens of Indians to be trained how to do our jobs. Here's what we found: Indians are very boastful of their capabilities and are very eager to prove themselves, but they don't know squat. They have a particular arrogance about them that is not only annoying, but completely unprofessional - even going so far as to telling us we're doing our jobs wrong, but then failing miserably when they try to do things their own way.
The rest of the world is shoving all of this technology down India's throat before they're ready, and as a result, they are going to end up being slaves in their own country to those countries that put that technology there. It's a technological coup, so to speak.
Indians have a lot to learn if they want to catch up to today in terms of technology. They need to pay particular attention to business and engineering practice and process if they're going ot have any hope of succeeding. They could also stand to learn some people skills.
The 2005 Canyonero will come with the COLT cell as standard equipment on the XXL and as an option on the XL. Now Lisa can get that damn cell tower out of her room...
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At least Ethanol has some combustive properties - i.e. it is an energy source. MTBE is not only bad for the environment (much worse than the byproducts of gasoline combustion), but it does not really do anything to clean up emissions. Current emission control technology, with all of the computing horsepower put behind it, is sufficient to meet all federal standards. I had a 1992 Ford Probe that did not even register on either CO or HC emissions - no detectable CO and no detectable unburned fuel. What good does it do to spend more money on reformulated fuel to try to reduce nothing to something less?
There is a movement in many areas to ban the use of MTBE in motor fuel because of its detrimental effects on the environment. Most notably, it has been turning up in ground water. I, for one, would be all for a ban. Let's use ethanol so we have a use for all of this excess corn we have laying around, or at least create a market for all the corn that the gov't is currently paying farmers NOT to grow. We'd save the tax money on unnecessary farm subsidies while at the same time coming up with a clean, renewable energy source..
You're close here, but this design would utilize a diesel engine, not a gasoline engine. Diesel engines are EXTREMELY efficient when running at constant speed and constant load. That's why freight locomotives use this exact design. They use huge diesel generators to generate electricity for electric induction motors.
However, this design is much more expensive both to build and to maintain. Current hybrid technology is a good compromise. Vehicles are alraedy pretty efficient at highway speeds. Most of the fuel that a vehicle uses is burned during acceleration, because this is when a gasoline engine is LEAST efficient. By helping the gas engine along with an electric motor, these huge losses can be largely mitigated - and quite cheaply.
In general, it's not worth it to spend 5 times as much for only an incremental increase in efficiency. It's quite sufficient to simply go after 90% of the waste for 1/5th the cost..
That still doesn't make any sense. Yes, the ground wire is there for lightning protection, but not for the power distribution system. They use 3-phase Delta transmission, which only requires three wires. There is a Delta-Wye transformation done at some point to give you a neutral wire for use in buildings. There is no neutral wire in the main grid at all. Furthermore, to string critical communications fiber in a lightning cable is, well, suicide.
I have a 2003 Nissan Pathfinder that is rated at 15/19... I typically get just about 1 mpg higher than that..
My 2000 Mitsu Eclipse (GT, V6) got WAY over the sticker estimate. It is rated at 20/27, but I always get about 23 around town and 31-33 on the highway. Then again, I don't drive like a typical eclipse owner.
I can take my cell phone number, so why not my IP address? For that matter, I want to take my street address with me when I move, too!
Talk about an ignorant judge. IP addresses are not cell phones. This needs to be appealed and overturned IMMEDIATELY - I can't even begin to imagine all the technical difficulties that are going to surface. Routing is going to break, or at least be made nearly impossible.. can you say static routing tables for everyone? That'd suck...
Rape and murder can also be tried in federal court, depending on jurisdictional issues. Then again, I got my law degree from watching "Law & Order," but I see it happen on that show all the time. Insider trading can also be a State crime, and I supposed this is especially so in New York and Illinois where the exchanges are. Again, just supposition, but I don't imagine it's that far off the mark.
The Linux General Store in Atlanta was the first Linux-only shop that I saw.. I know it was in business in 1999, but went out of business sometime in 2001 or 2002.
"I guarantee a *much* better result, for low costs. "
What you are describing is FAR from low cost. Offices are a very inefficient use of space, and should be reserved for managers because they usually are in posession of papers and information that must be held under lock and key from employees (HR stuff, etc...).
However, I have seen cubicles that have doors, so that might be an option for you. Most offices do have free water, at a water fountain, and you're never far from an LA Fitness center.
The huge desk, big bookshelf, and comfy chair, however, are perfectly reasonable requests. How can you NOT get a powerful PC these days?
Police still cannot just walk up to you and say "papers, please." This is not Soviet Russia. They are still required to have reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing before they can compel identification. Personally, I would feel more comfortable if the standard were probable cause, which is a much stronger condition to meet, but at least they do not have free reign. Now would be the time to actually write your representatives and senators instead of whining and bitching about 1984 and Soviet Russia. Congress can always pass a law explicitly requiring probable cause, but it would require lots of noise from their constituency. It's too bad people just don't give a shit. We whine and bitch all day, but are still to apathetic to do anything about it.
Promise SX-4000 with four Maxtor 120GB drives... nice 360GB array... only problem is closed source drivers, but they work reliably.... not nearly as expensive as 3ware stuff...
So the guy spends 8 years developing a SEEMINGLY new antenna technology... and what does he get? An INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY award for the patent!!! Not a technological award, but an IP award... how sad is that?
I'm sure someone has thought of a distributed load antenna before. Sure, you can get efficient radiators, but the problem with electrically short radiating elements is that you don't know in which direction the radiation is going. All he probably did here was distribute the matching mechanism throughout the antenna. Big f'ing deal. You can impedance-match just about any hunk of metal to the power source, but impedance matching isn't everything, and neither is power efficiency.
The fact that his antenna melted only goes to show that it is not efficient at all. All of that heat came from the power that was supposed to be radiated, but wasn't. Instead, it was dissipated in the antenna enclosure... that's not efficient. He was probably doing all of this testing during the recent sunspot cycle peak when all you need to talk to Chile is 500mW EIRP.
The only "invention" here is the illusion that this is innovation, when in reality all it is, is a cleverly timed experiment in tomfoolery design to patent something that is neither innovative nor even technologically sound.
I note the convenient absence of antenna plots, range data, or any substantiation that this even works... anecdotes are not evidence... under the right conditions, you can cut a hole in your coax and talk to Chile...
As technology develops, DSL will be available over longer and longer distances. Currently, you can manage a 192kb DSL line over about 21000 feet, if I am not mistaken (which I might be, but these numbers feel about right). I wouldn't be surprised to see that number double in the next few years. Also, as WiFi stuff gets so ridiculously cheap, all that would be necessary would be to put a repeater on every few power poles and voila, rural internet access.
That's because the demand really isn't that high, except in India, China, and the Czech Republic. American (and Canadian) kids are smart enough to see this and avoid tech fields. The only professions that will survive post-offshoring north america are medicine and law (and the former will eventually collapse due to the latter). Everyone else will clean their homes, serve their food, and entertain them.
but then I realized it was not... the RIAA has repeatedly gotten away with crap like this for one reason and one reason only: 99% of Americans are clueless automatons that don't care what they have to do to get the latest Britney or Jessica or Christina album for their clueless automaton 10-year-old kid. Most of these clueless automatons wouldn't know what an acoustic guitar was if you smashed one over their heads, and certainly have no idea that non-RIAA bands exist. They only listen to what their friends listen to, which is, incidentally, what MTV tells them to listen to. They all drive the same SUV and all live in the same suburban McHouse (or McMansion for those who are too stupid not to get overextended to buy a house made of sawdust and glue). They all wear the same clothes and go to the same movies and eat the same food, because that's what the TV told them to wear, see, and eat. They don't have appreciation for things that are well-made, nor for culture (except pop-culture), talent, or charisma. They only know that their clueless automaton of a kid wants the next Britney album, so paying the water bill might have to wait. They all live paycheck to paycheck because they're too stupid to stick to a budget, and they are all too busy working overtime to keep their jobs for the same reason, which is why MTV is raising their children in loco parentis, and why children bring small arsenals to school and mow down 40 of their classmates. I personally know at least two clueless automatons, I'll call them cow-irkers for now, who live in these giant McMansions, but don't even have a mattress for their kids to sleep on. They get pissed off if anyone other than they get overtime hours, and are always selling something on the ad-board in the kitchen adjacent to cube-land because they were too eager with the credit card and realized they couldn't buy food unless they got rid of their new-fangled widget they saw an ad for on MTV. In the relentless pursuit of material nirvana, the clueless automatons will accept anything they must accept in order to stay one step ahead of their neighbors at 125 Fancy Subdivision Circle, including having to be fingerprinted in order to get permission to listen to music[sic] that the RIAA and MTV told them to listen to.
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So, get a precise measurement of the mass of your container before you go, and then get another precise measurement of the mass of your container after you put gas in it. The mass of the fuel doesn't change with temperature, pressure, or other environmental factors.
So I have a question here. What good is all of this technology they are getting if they don't know how to use it? India is a prime example of technology for technology's sake, without a hint of knowledge to go along with it.
Case and point. I work for large multinational corporation with offices in India, which also happens to own a large percentage of India's largest manufacturing company. I work in a relatively small office of about 100 hardware and software engineers developing niche hardware. Right after the recession dug its heels into the economy, our management decided it would be a good idea to offshore a lot of the work we were doing. We started importing (on L-1 visas, of course) dozens of Indians to be trained how to do our jobs. Here's what we found: Indians are very boastful of their capabilities and are very eager to prove themselves, but they don't know squat. They have a particular arrogance about them that is not only annoying, but completely unprofessional - even going so far as to telling us we're doing our jobs wrong, but then failing miserably when they try to do things their own way.
The rest of the world is shoving all of this technology down India's throat before they're ready, and as a result, they are going to end up being slaves in their own country to those countries that put that technology there. It's a technological coup, so to speak.
Indians have a lot to learn if they want to catch up to today in terms of technology. They need to pay particular attention to business and engineering practice and process if they're going ot have any hope of succeeding. They could also stand to learn some people skills.
The 2005 Canyonero will come with the COLT cell as standard equipment on the XXL and as an option on the XL. Now Lisa can get that damn cell tower out of her room...
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At least Ethanol has some combustive properties - i.e. it is an energy source. MTBE is not only bad for the environment (much worse than the byproducts of gasoline combustion), but it does not really do anything to clean up emissions. Current emission control technology, with all of the computing horsepower put behind it, is sufficient to meet all federal standards. I had a 1992 Ford Probe that did not even register on either CO or HC emissions - no detectable CO and no detectable unburned fuel. What good does it do to spend more money on reformulated fuel to try to reduce nothing to something less?
There is a movement in many areas to ban the use of MTBE in motor fuel because of its detrimental effects on the environment. Most notably, it has been turning up in ground water. I, for one, would be all for a ban. Let's use ethanol so we have a use for all of this excess corn we have laying around, or at least create a market for all the corn that the gov't is currently paying farmers NOT to grow. We'd save the tax money on unnecessary farm subsidies while at the same time coming up with a clean, renewable energy source..
You're close here, but this design would utilize a diesel engine, not a gasoline engine. Diesel engines are EXTREMELY efficient when running at constant speed and constant load. That's why freight locomotives use this exact design. They use huge diesel generators to generate electricity for electric induction motors.
However, this design is much more expensive both to build and to maintain. Current hybrid technology is a good compromise. Vehicles are alraedy pretty efficient at highway speeds. Most of the fuel that a vehicle uses is burned during acceleration, because this is when a gasoline engine is LEAST efficient. By helping the gas engine along with an electric motor, these huge losses can be largely mitigated - and quite cheaply.
In general, it's not worth it to spend 5 times as much for only an incremental increase in efficiency. It's quite sufficient to simply go after 90% of the waste for 1/5th the cost..
Should have read 7.91 * ( 10 raised to the 111th power).. which is 7.91 * 10^11 Googles... ;p
That still doesn't make any sense. Yes, the ground wire is there for lightning protection, but not for the power distribution system. They use 3-phase Delta transmission, which only requires three wires. There is a Delta-Wye transformation done at some point to give you a neutral wire for use in buildings. There is no neutral wire in the main grid at all. Furthermore, to string critical communications fiber in a lightning cable is, well, suicide.
I have a 2003 Nissan Pathfinder that is rated at 15/19... I typically get just about 1 mpg higher than that..
My 2000 Mitsu Eclipse (GT, V6) got WAY over the sticker estimate. It is rated at 20/27, but I always get about 23 around town and 31-33 on the highway. Then again, I don't drive like a typical eclipse owner.
I can take my cell phone number, so why not my IP address? For that matter, I want to take my street address with me when I move, too!
Talk about an ignorant judge. IP addresses are not cell phones. This needs to be appealed and overturned IMMEDIATELY - I can't even begin to imagine all the technical difficulties that are going to surface. Routing is going to break, or at least be made nearly impossible.. can you say static routing tables for everyone? That'd suck...
Rape and murder can also be tried in federal court, depending on jurisdictional issues. Then again, I got my law degree from watching "Law & Order," but I see it happen on that show all the time. Insider trading can also be a State crime, and I supposed this is especially so in New York and Illinois where the exchanges are. Again, just supposition, but I don't imagine it's that far off the mark.
The Linux General Store in Atlanta was the first Linux-only shop that I saw.. I know it was in business in 1999, but went out of business sometime in 2001 or 2002.
A shining example... nice... now I will be able to save 250MB worth of SPAM in my hotmail account :)
"I guarantee a *much* better result, for low costs. "
What you are describing is FAR from low cost. Offices are a very inefficient use of space, and should be reserved for managers because they usually are in posession of papers and information that must be held under lock and key from employees (HR stuff, etc...).
However, I have seen cubicles that have doors, so that might be an option for you. Most offices do have free water, at a water fountain, and you're never far from an LA Fitness center.
The huge desk, big bookshelf, and comfy chair, however, are perfectly reasonable requests. How can you NOT get a powerful PC these days?
Police still cannot just walk up to you and say "papers, please." This is not Soviet Russia. They are still required to have reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing before they can compel identification. Personally, I would feel more comfortable if the standard were probable cause, which is a much stronger condition to meet, but at least they do not have free reign. Now would be the time to actually write your representatives and senators instead of whining and bitching about 1984 and Soviet Russia. Congress can always pass a law explicitly requiring probable cause, but it would require lots of noise from their constituency. It's too bad people just don't give a shit. We whine and bitch all day, but are still to apathetic to do anything about it.
There's always this guy... this was a nice piece of work.
Promise SX-4000 with four Maxtor 120GB drives... nice 360GB array... only problem is closed source drivers, but they work reliably.... not nearly as expensive as 3ware stuff...
may the Promise/3Ware flame war commence..
So the guy spends 8 years developing a SEEMINGLY new antenna technology... and what does he get? An INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY award for the patent!!! Not a technological award, but an IP award... how sad is that?
I'm sure someone has thought of a distributed load antenna before. Sure, you can get efficient radiators, but the problem with electrically short radiating elements is that you don't know in which direction the radiation is going. All he probably did here was distribute the matching mechanism throughout the antenna. Big f'ing deal. You can impedance-match just about any hunk of metal to the power source, but impedance matching isn't everything, and neither is power efficiency.
The fact that his antenna melted only goes to show that it is not efficient at all. All of that heat came from the power that was supposed to be radiated, but wasn't. Instead, it was dissipated in the antenna enclosure... that's not efficient. He was probably doing all of this testing during the recent sunspot cycle peak when all you need to talk to Chile is 500mW EIRP.
The only "invention" here is the illusion that this is innovation, when in reality all it is, is a cleverly timed experiment in tomfoolery design to patent something that is neither innovative nor even technologically sound.
I note the convenient absence of antenna plots, range data, or any substantiation that this even works... anecdotes are not evidence... under the right conditions, you can cut a hole in your coax and talk to Chile...
Yes they will, and it will be wireless..
As technology develops, DSL will be available over longer and longer distances. Currently, you can manage a 192kb DSL line over about 21000 feet, if I am not mistaken (which I might be, but these numbers feel about right). I wouldn't be surprised to see that number double in the next few years. Also, as WiFi stuff gets so ridiculously cheap, all that would be necessary would be to put a repeater on every few power poles and voila, rural internet access.
That would be the case if demand were high. However, it is not. This is a market-driven decrease in supply to meet the lower demand.
That's because the demand really isn't that high, except in India, China, and the Czech Republic. American (and Canadian) kids are smart enough to see this and avoid tech fields. The only professions that will survive post-offshoring north america are medicine and law (and the former will eventually collapse due to the latter). Everyone else will clean their homes, serve their food, and entertain them.
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but then I realized it was not... the RIAA has repeatedly gotten away with crap like this for one reason and one reason only: 99% of Americans are clueless automatons that don't care what they have to do to get the latest Britney or Jessica or Christina album for their clueless automaton 10-year-old kid. Most of these clueless automatons wouldn't know what an acoustic guitar was if you smashed one over their heads, and certainly have no idea that non-RIAA bands exist. They only listen to what their friends listen to, which is, incidentally, what MTV tells them to listen to. They all drive the same SUV and all live in the same suburban McHouse (or McMansion for those who are too stupid not to get overextended to buy a house made of sawdust and glue). They all wear the same clothes and go to the same movies and eat the same food, because that's what the TV told them to wear, see, and eat. They don't have appreciation for things that are well-made, nor for culture (except pop-culture), talent, or charisma. They only know that their clueless automaton of a kid wants the next Britney album, so paying the water bill might have to wait. They all live paycheck to paycheck because they're too stupid to stick to a budget, and they are all too busy working overtime to keep their jobs for the same reason, which is why MTV is raising their children in loco parentis, and why children bring small arsenals to school and mow down 40 of their classmates. I personally know at least two clueless automatons, I'll call them cow-irkers for now, who live in these giant McMansions, but don't even have a mattress for their kids to sleep on. They get pissed off if anyone other than they get overtime hours, and are always selling something on the ad-board in the kitchen adjacent to cube-land because they were too eager with the credit card and realized they couldn't buy food unless they got rid of their new-fangled widget they saw an ad for on MTV. In the relentless pursuit of material nirvana, the clueless automatons will accept anything they must accept in order to stay one step ahead of their neighbors at 125 Fancy Subdivision Circle, including having to be fingerprinted in order to get permission to listen to music[sic] that the RIAA and MTV told them to listen to.