Job training seems to me one federal policy that gets considerable support from both of the major parties. There are disputes about how best to do it and how much should be spent, but it is pretty popular in Washington. That the money spent is largely wasted cannot be factually disputed. In fact, even many congresscritters admit that the programs are not efficient.
Actually watts/hr does have a very useful meaning. It it used to specify how quickly your can "ramp up" an energy producing device. Hydro electric plants have a very high rating, nuclear plants are quite low. Original poster clearly misused this (unfortunately all too common). Natural gas generation is often chosen in part because they perform well in terms of ramp up speed. You only have so much hydro power storage so in many areas, the available hydro is dedicated to peak load situations.
I have an idea, how about if doctors simply stop providing medical care in any form to any DEA agent until this policy is publicly reversed and apologized for and the culprits behind it fired.
One this I have seen is that MS is willing to deploy technology that is just not there yet and allow the hardware to catch up to MS hardware requirements. Could this strategy apply to MS current offerings in tablets / smartphones?
So this Fox News story was idiotic. Solar only works in Germany because it is heavily subsidized. German consumers pay a great deal more for electricity than they would without the solar subsidies. Solar will always be expensive until you figure out a way to create a much less expensive solar infrastructure, such as nano-tech based solar that you paint on a road or a roof. You have to maintain solar arrays and the low power density means large areas are needed for solar capture, and the sun does not shine at night, so you have to solve the energy storage problem too.
This make shock you, but once insurance companies determines the automatic cars have lower and/and less serious accidents that manual cars, they will be glad to insure the cars at lower rates too.
Except for one factor, the fear the tort lawyers will be able to win disproportionate damages based on the automatic feature failing to protect their clients. So, its not the actuaries that will screw you, its the lawyers.
ID may or may not accept macro-evolution. ID may or may not accept natural selection. ID merely insists that at least some of the biology is so complex that it could not have arisen from naturalistic causes.
Rats, flipped a number, about 5 feet in 24 hours at max flooding rate if you assume the minimum 400 sq. miles -- 5 feet is too high (really more than 400 sq miles), but the margin for error in pumping is not what I thought it was.
Given that the bay is 400-1600 sq. miles (depends what you count as part of the bay). 400 sq mile is 11,151,360,000 sq ft. So 650,000 cu ft/sec corresponds to a rise of 5.83e-6 ft/sec -- about 2 inches for a 24 hours period. Maybe they won't have an immediate emergency if they fall behind just a little in their rate of pumping.
The real market is for sado-masochists that are addicted to farmville (or is that redundant). If you just want to stop wasting your life, give up or moderate your FB (and slashdot) usage.
I was just hoping we could adapt this research and use it on politicians. Bedbugs don't have nearly the negative impact on my life as those bloodsuckers do.
Theoretically, it is supposed to be impossible to get a judge to sign a warrant without probable cause. You know, that Fourth Amendment thing. Seems to me that searching for backpack and pressure cooker hardly qualifies as probable cause. Then again, at least the polizei did not just storm in with a knockless search warrant or shoot their dog for barking.
Isn't it past time to restore a little sanity in our fear-mongering quest for zero-risk from terrorists?
If you can stamp the disk in the press and have 300 GB of data, its a very useful for a distribution media (downloading 300 GB is still a slow process). I only get about 3 MBit/sec on my cable service, so 300 GByte is very slow download (over 9 days).
The ability for consumer level recording is much less important to the promoters of large optical formats.
Don't own a windows tablet, but the hardlware looks ok to me. The real problems are price, few apps, lmited memory and the confusion with regular windows as well as being uncool (MS is not nearly as cool as Apple or Google). The limited memory is not even a hardware problem, it is the decision to waste most of of by the installed O/S. The keyboard is sweet, the camera is solid. AFAIC, The weakest hardware aspects are being a bit light on battery life and the being a bit heavy / thick for a tablet.
For efficient conversion of heat to you MUST have high temps. Modern pressurized water nuclear reactors run at about 150 atmospheres -- corresponding temperature of 315 C / 600 F. There is no way to avoid this with liquid water as the working fluid. Contain 150 atmosphere of pressure at all times dominates the design of the reactor. Some newer designs use different working fluid. E.g. a LFTR reactors (drawing board only) using a Brayton cycle based on helium or nitrogen gas and a 700 C temperature source -- no high pressure used in the the nuclear vessel.
Also look at the design of the power generation cycle in a power plant. There is a relatively small high-temperature turbine that generate 2/3 of the electricity and a much larger secondary turbine that generates 1/3 of the electricity. The lower-temp output of the first turbine is the input for the 2nd turbine.
Well, if the electricity is gone, you could always cancel your "service" -- if you could actually contact them somehow, and their computers were working...
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Job training seems to me one federal policy that gets considerable support from both of the major parties. There are disputes about how best to do it and how much should be spent, but it is pretty popular in Washington. That the money spent is largely wasted cannot be factually disputed. In fact, even many congresscritters admit that the programs are not efficient.
Actually watts/hr does have a very useful meaning. It it used to specify how quickly your can "ramp up" an energy producing device. Hydro electric plants have a very high rating, nuclear plants are quite low. Original poster clearly misused this (unfortunately all too common). Natural gas generation is often chosen in part because they perform well in terms of ramp up speed. You only have so much hydro power storage so in many areas, the available hydro is dedicated to peak load situations.
Well maybe, but at least we have better consumer goods that we by from communist China.
Homer says it best, "Mmm, Insect Farmers"
I have an idea, how about if doctors simply stop providing medical care in any form to any DEA agent until this policy is publicly reversed and apologized for and the culprits behind it fired.
One this I have seen is that MS is willing to deploy technology that is just not there yet and allow the hardware to catch up to MS hardware requirements. Could this strategy apply to MS current offerings in tablets / smartphones?
So this Fox News story was idiotic. Solar only works in Germany because it is heavily subsidized. German consumers pay a great deal more for electricity than they would without the solar subsidies. Solar will always be expensive until you figure out a way to create a much less expensive solar infrastructure, such as nano-tech based solar that you paint on a road or a roof. You have to maintain solar arrays and the low power density means large areas are needed for solar capture, and the sun does not shine at night, so you have to solve the energy storage problem too.
This make shock you, but once insurance companies determines the automatic cars have lower and/and less serious accidents that manual cars, they will be glad to insure the cars at lower rates too.
Except for one factor, the fear the tort lawyers will be able to win disproportionate damages based on the automatic feature failing to protect their clients. So, its not the actuaries that will screw you, its the lawyers.
Dominant influence in a number of areas. movies, music, computers and Internet, science and technology, business, military.
UK and US influence have been strong for generations. Many of the areas of dominance are shifting toward non-English cultures in recent decades.
ID may or may not accept macro-evolution. ID may or may not accept natural selection. ID merely insists that at least some of the biology is so complex that it could not have arisen from naturalistic causes.
Rats, flipped a number, about 5 feet in 24 hours at max flooding rate if you assume the minimum 400 sq. miles -- 5 feet is too high (really more than 400 sq miles), but the margin for error in pumping is not what I thought it was.
Given that the bay is 400-1600 sq. miles (depends what you count as part of the bay). 400 sq mile is 11,151,360,000 sq ft. So 650,000 cu ft/sec corresponds to a rise of 5.83e-6 ft/sec -- about 2 inches for a 24 hours period. Maybe they won't have an immediate emergency if they fall behind just a little in their rate of pumping.
The real market is for sado-masochists that are addicted to farmville (or is that redundant). If you just want to stop wasting your life, give up or moderate your FB (and slashdot) usage.
Plus, Grace Hopper has been dead for 10 years. Not even affirmative action can cover for that job seeker fax paus.
Probably not, be we can dance away. But Carroll probably said it best.
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
I was just hoping we could adapt this research and use it on politicians. Bedbugs don't have nearly the negative impact on my life as those bloodsuckers do.
Also, you have to assume that if it is from NASA, it is overpriced.
I had to look up balaclava on Google -- hmm, someone banging on my door
Theoretically, it is supposed to be impossible to get a judge to sign a warrant without probable cause. You know, that Fourth Amendment thing. Seems to me that searching for backpack and pressure cooker hardly qualifies as probable cause. Then again, at least the polizei did not just storm in with a knockless search warrant or shoot their dog for barking.
Isn't it past time to restore a little sanity in our fear-mongering quest for zero-risk from terrorists?
Skynet anyone? What could possibly go wrong?
They probably won't eat cheese -- the Chinese are generally not fond of consuming spoiled milk.
If you can stamp the disk in the press and have 300 GB of data, its a very useful for a distribution media (downloading 300 GB is still a slow process). I only get about 3 MBit/sec on my cable service, so 300 GByte is very slow download (over 9 days).
The ability for consumer level recording is much less important to the promoters of large optical formats.
Don't own a windows tablet, but the hardlware looks ok to me. The real problems are price, few apps, lmited memory and the confusion with regular windows as well as being uncool (MS is not nearly as cool as Apple or Google). The limited memory is not even a hardware problem, it is the decision to waste most of of by the installed O/S. The keyboard is sweet, the camera is solid. AFAIC, The weakest hardware aspects are being a bit light on battery life and the being a bit heavy / thick for a tablet.
For efficient conversion of heat to you MUST have high temps. Modern pressurized water nuclear reactors run at about 150 atmospheres -- corresponding temperature of 315 C / 600 F. There is no way to avoid this with liquid water as the working fluid. Contain 150 atmosphere of pressure at all times dominates the design of the reactor. Some newer designs use different working fluid. E.g. a LFTR reactors (drawing board only) using a Brayton cycle based on helium or nitrogen gas and a 700 C temperature source -- no high pressure used in the the nuclear vessel.
Also look at the design of the power generation cycle in a power plant. There is a relatively small high-temperature turbine that generate 2/3 of the electricity and a much larger secondary turbine that generates 1/3 of the electricity. The lower-temp output of the first turbine is the input for the 2nd turbine.
Well, if the electricity is gone, you could always cancel your "service" -- if you could actually contact them somehow, and their computers were working ...