I don't have a cell phone, and I find most people really rude with them. For some reason people thing the phone takes priority over people who are right in front of you. (and some people just yell into their phone - Thats Annoying!) So, I want a jammer to carry around with me, so I don't have to put up with other people's phones. There is an Interesting Question? Do I not have the right to peace and quiet?
then we could start a company that tore the markers off the road then sold them back to the Company. We will be rich! Or maybe we will make Marks to Mark where the road markers end up... there is an Idea for you.
or maybe his vocabulary is just not as big as other poeples. It might be suffering from vocab-envy. That would leave him with a lose of words. I think I have some spam in in Inbox that might help him to get a bigger - vocab.
the robots will leak radioactive compounds into the water - hence mutating all of us into water elemental beings and we will become 90% water instead of 80% - hence causing a bigger problem then we started with. But! It will make an excellent movie 2 years after it happens.
does the chip stay or does your body slowly reject it and shoot it across the room? Maybe they could make disposible ones, that they can swallow and pass it a day or two later... that would be gross, but no implants...
Wireless Firewire... this reminds me of: If cats always land on their feet, what if you taped (duct tape) two cats back to back... what would happen then? If toast always lands butter side down, what if you buttered both sides and dropped it? If Firewire is cool wire, what if it was Wireless? Sounds to me like answers for another dimension...
but I found a Battle Axe, then a Rocket Luancher and a Shotgun, and I blew all those Creatures back to their motherplanet... or maybe that was a game I played.
I say we send all the "rotted" cds back to the Music Companies and demand a Refund. If I paid for Near Immortal Music... then I want New Immortal Music - 15 years is not Near Immortal.
I can trade in my 2 ata Raid drives and just get one of these "Mothers" Never have to wait for load, and just rip all my game CDs to my harddrive and no mo downtime... I will name my computer lighting 0 for it is fast!
Or... how many buttons it has... A few buttons - Male, easy to understand and work with. Lots of complicated buttons and everyone you press seems to be the wrong one - Definitly Female, just can't find the right button to get what you want.
I am Majoring in Math and people always ask: "What are you going to do with that? Teach?" I quickly reposond: "NO! I am going to become a computer programmer." Then they ask, "How does math relate to computers?" That is the point I role my eyes. Programming is just getting a computer to mimic something in Real Life. Math is Language of how stuff is done (It is hard to describe this to some people - think Physics). As a programmer you plug in the formula and the computer does it. Most computer Programmers get the formulas from books or elsewhere on the Internet (from what I have seen). Where I plan (hopefully) to have a better understanding of the formulas and how to manipulate them into giving us the data we desire. Now... In answer to the question... I would take Calculus 1 and 2, but if you want to go 3D take Calc 3 (at least that is where my College teaches 3D calculus). Number Theory is cool, it helps to show proofs of the basics - how to program division, mod, and other basic math functions. That is my suggestion. My theory - Math is the Interpeting Language between Man and Machine.
They will send me one of those machines if I offer to test Longhorn for them? - Please... I promise to keep Longhorn on the machine for at least a week.
I know how to decapitate with a: Axe, Crowbar, Knife, Glowing Hands, Machine Gun, Shotgun, Rocket Launcher, Sniper Rifle, and a bunch of alein weapons... Maybe I should open my own practice
If they are going to attack my Hotmail Account they are up for a fight! Pr0n and Viagra have a firm hold, and it is going to take a lot to beat them to my Inbox.
ENERGY
Building the energy internet
Mar 11th 2004
From The Economist print edition
Energy: More and bigger blackouts lie ahead, unless today's dumb electricity grid can be transformed into a smart, responsive and self-healing digital network--in short, an "energy internet"
"TREES or terrorists, the power grid will go down again!" That chilling forecast comes not from some ill-informed gloom-monger or armchair pundit, but from Robert Schainker, a leading expert on the matter. He and his colleagues at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the official research arm of America's power utilities, are convinced that the big grid failures of 2003--such as the one that plunged some 50m Americans and Canadians into darkness in August, and another a few weeks later that blacked out all of Italy--were not flukes. Rather, they and other experts argue, they are harbingers of worse to come.
The chief reason for concern is not what the industry calls "poor vegetation management", even though both of last year's big power cuts were precipitated by mischievous trees. It will never be possible to prevent natural forces from affecting power lines. The real test of any network's resilience is how quickly and intelligently it can handle such disruptions. Think, for example, of the internet's ability to re-route packets of data swiftly and efficiently when a network link fails.
The analogy is not lost on the energy industry. Of course, the power grid will never quite become the internet--it is impossible to packet-switch power. Even so, transforming today's centralised, dumb power grid into something closer to a smart, distributed network will be necessary to provide a reliable power supply--and to make possible innovative new energy services. Energy visionaries imagine a "self-healing" grid with real-time sensors and "plug and play" software that can allow scattered generators or energy-storage devices to attach to it. In other words, an energy internet.
Flying blind
It sounds great. But in reality, most power grids are based on 1950s technology, with sketchy communications and antiquated control systems. The investigation into last year's North American blackout revealed that during the precious minutes following the first outages in Ohio, when action might have been taken to prevent the blackout spreading, the local utility's managers had to ask the regional system operator by phone what was happening on their own wires. Meanwhile, the failure cascaded to neighbouring regions. "They simply can't see the grid!" laments Clark Gelling of the EPRI.
Even if operators had smart sensors throughout the system, they could do little to halt problems from spreading, because they lack suitable control systems. Instead, essential bits of energy infrastructure are built to shut down at the first sign of trouble, spreading blackouts and increasing their economic impact. The North American blackout, for example, cost power users around $7 billion. Engineers have to spend hours or even days restarting power plants.
The good news is that technologies are now being developed in four areas that point the way towards the smart grid of the future. First, utilities are experimenting with ways to measure the behaviour of the grid in real time. Second, they are looking for ways to use that information to control the flow of power fast enough to avoid blackouts. Third, they are upgrading their networks in order to pump more juice through the grid safely. Finally, they are looking for ways to produce and store power close to consumers, to reduce the need to send so much power down those ageing transmission lines in the first place.
First, to the eyes and ears. With the exception of some simple sensors located at a minority of substations, there is little "intelligence" embedded in today's grid. But in America's Pacific north-west, the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), a regional utility run by the federal government, has been experimenting with a wide-area monitoring system. Carson Taylor, BPA's chief transmission expert, explains that the impetus
When bullets fly at Superman, He sticks out his chest and takes it like a man...
But, when the henchman is out of bullets, what is he to do? well... Throw the gun at Superman what else... Now what I don't get is why Superman Ducks from this?! wouldn't want to get hit by an unloaded gun now would we?!
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(and some say I don't) but this article looks like Alphabet Soup! with all the acronyms and all. Very Interesting topic - not for the Noob.
I don't have a cell phone, and I find most people really rude with them. For some reason people thing the phone takes priority over people who are right in front of you. (and some people just yell into their phone - Thats Annoying!) So, I want a jammer to carry around with me, so I don't have to put up with other people's phones. There is an Interesting Question? Do I not have the right to peace and quiet?
then we could start a company that tore the markers off the road then sold them back to the Company. We will be rich! Or maybe we will make Marks to Mark where the road markers end up... there is an Idea for you.
or maybe his vocabulary is just not as big as other poeples. It might be suffering from vocab-envy. That would leave him with a lose of words. I think I have some spam in in Inbox that might help him to get a bigger - vocab.
the robots will leak radioactive compounds into the water - hence mutating all of us into water elemental beings and we will become 90% water instead of 80% - hence causing a bigger problem then we started with. But! It will make an excellent movie 2 years after it happens.
That should run most of the older emulators just fine. From console to PC back to console, go figure. Now if it would only butter my toast for me.
it does take a little more then one vote to become a winner - I hope?!
does the chip stay or does your body slowly reject it and shoot it across the room? Maybe they could make disposible ones, that they can swallow and pass it a day or two later... that would be gross, but no implants...
Wireless Firewire... this reminds me of: If cats always land on their feet, what if you taped (duct tape) two cats back to back... what would happen then? If toast always lands butter side down, what if you buttered both sides and dropped it? If Firewire is cool wire, what if it was Wireless? Sounds to me like answers for another dimension...
but I found a Battle Axe, then a Rocket Luancher and a Shotgun, and I blew all those Creatures back to their motherplanet... or maybe that was a game I played.
If they were both: they would make them Patriot Pirate People - PPP, so we just call them Protocols
I say we send all the "rotted" cds back to the Music Companies and demand a Refund. If I paid for Near Immortal Music... then I want New Immortal Music - 15 years is not Near Immortal.
I can trade in my 2 ata Raid drives and just get one of these "Mothers" Never have to wait for load, and just rip all my game CDs to my harddrive and no mo downtime... I will name my computer lighting 0 for it is fast!
Or... how many buttons it has... A few buttons - Male, easy to understand and work with. Lots of complicated buttons and everyone you press seems to be the wrong one - Definitly Female, just can't find the right button to get what you want.
If a Wimp is about a thousand times more massive than a proton - what does that make a proton? a Wuss? or a Nerd?
I am Majoring in Math and people always ask: "What are you going to do with that? Teach?" I quickly reposond: "NO! I am going to become a computer programmer." Then they ask, "How does math relate to computers?" That is the point I role my eyes. Programming is just getting a computer to mimic something in Real Life. Math is Language of how stuff is done (It is hard to describe this to some people - think Physics). As a programmer you plug in the formula and the computer does it. Most computer Programmers get the formulas from books or elsewhere on the Internet (from what I have seen). Where I plan (hopefully) to have a better understanding of the formulas and how to manipulate them into giving us the data we desire. Now... In answer to the question... I would take Calculus 1 and 2, but if you want to go 3D take Calc 3 (at least that is where my College teaches 3D calculus). Number Theory is cool, it helps to show proofs of the basics - how to program division, mod, and other basic math functions. That is my suggestion. My theory - Math is the Interpeting Language between Man and Machine.
They will send me one of those machines if I offer to test Longhorn for them? - Please... I promise to keep Longhorn on the machine for at least a week.
Is this going to set stuff off? The Ocean Tides? Car Alarms?
I know how to decapitate with a: Axe, Crowbar, Knife, Glowing Hands, Machine Gun, Shotgun, Rocket Launcher, Sniper Rifle, and a bunch of alein weapons... Maybe I should open my own practice
Would it take to fill up 1 Gig of space with spam. My Yahoo account only took 1 month to fill with spam... I know we can have a race!
If they are going to attack my Hotmail Account they are up for a fight! Pr0n and Viagra have a firm hold, and it is going to take a lot to beat them to my Inbox.
ENERGY Building the energy internet Mar 11th 2004 From The Economist print edition Energy: More and bigger blackouts lie ahead, unless today's dumb electricity grid can be transformed into a smart, responsive and self-healing digital network--in short, an "energy internet" "TREES or terrorists, the power grid will go down again!" That chilling forecast comes not from some ill-informed gloom-monger or armchair pundit, but from Robert Schainker, a leading expert on the matter. He and his colleagues at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the official research arm of America's power utilities, are convinced that the big grid failures of 2003--such as the one that plunged some 50m Americans and Canadians into darkness in August, and another a few weeks later that blacked out all of Italy--were not flukes. Rather, they and other experts argue, they are harbingers of worse to come. The chief reason for concern is not what the industry calls "poor vegetation management", even though both of last year's big power cuts were precipitated by mischievous trees. It will never be possible to prevent natural forces from affecting power lines. The real test of any network's resilience is how quickly and intelligently it can handle such disruptions. Think, for example, of the internet's ability to re-route packets of data swiftly and efficiently when a network link fails. The analogy is not lost on the energy industry. Of course, the power grid will never quite become the internet--it is impossible to packet-switch power. Even so, transforming today's centralised, dumb power grid into something closer to a smart, distributed network will be necessary to provide a reliable power supply--and to make possible innovative new energy services. Energy visionaries imagine a "self-healing" grid with real-time sensors and "plug and play" software that can allow scattered generators or energy-storage devices to attach to it. In other words, an energy internet. Flying blind It sounds great. But in reality, most power grids are based on 1950s technology, with sketchy communications and antiquated control systems. The investigation into last year's North American blackout revealed that during the precious minutes following the first outages in Ohio, when action might have been taken to prevent the blackout spreading, the local utility's managers had to ask the regional system operator by phone what was happening on their own wires. Meanwhile, the failure cascaded to neighbouring regions. "They simply can't see the grid!" laments Clark Gelling of the EPRI. Even if operators had smart sensors throughout the system, they could do little to halt problems from spreading, because they lack suitable control systems. Instead, essential bits of energy infrastructure are built to shut down at the first sign of trouble, spreading blackouts and increasing their economic impact. The North American blackout, for example, cost power users around $7 billion. Engineers have to spend hours or even days restarting power plants. The good news is that technologies are now being developed in four areas that point the way towards the smart grid of the future. First, utilities are experimenting with ways to measure the behaviour of the grid in real time. Second, they are looking for ways to use that information to control the flow of power fast enough to avoid blackouts. Third, they are upgrading their networks in order to pump more juice through the grid safely. Finally, they are looking for ways to produce and store power close to consumers, to reduce the need to send so much power down those ageing transmission lines in the first place. First, to the eyes and ears. With the exception of some simple sensors located at a minority of substations, there is little "intelligence" embedded in today's grid. But in America's Pacific north-west, the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), a regional utility run by the federal government, has been experimenting with a wide-area monitoring system. Carson Taylor, BPA's chief transmission expert, explains that the impetus
But I thought Chewbacca and Han had a Love Child... Anyone ever hear of Alf - I think he had his own TV show once...
When bullets fly at Superman, He sticks out his chest and takes it like a man... But, when the henchman is out of bullets, what is he to do? well... Throw the gun at Superman what else... Now what I don't get is why Superman Ducks from this?! wouldn't want to get hit by an unloaded gun now would we?!
Solitaire, Lots of it!