Good question. It doesn't seem to be available anywhere in Colorado (at least not along the Front Range). You can't get any Verizon DSL at all here it seems. You can get Verizon DSL in Florida, Boston and California it seems but I couldn't find anyone that could get Fios (I just went through a dozen or so numbers in my contact list).
I checked the add which claimed it is $49.95. However, I have Qwest naked DSL which theoretically costs about $35. But after ever increasing fees, taxes, and service charges it now costs about $54 per month. I bet that Verizon Fios is similar and probably adds up to near or even more than $70 per month. (I'd love to be corrected if I'm wrong. I know broadband cable doesn't tack on such huge fees.)
You can build your app expecting them to be there.
No more than in Windows expecting to find a certain dll (Windows dynamically linked library). Your app doesn't have to use a certain lib. Instead, it can be programmed to use whichever lib is available using intrinsic Linux commands which in turn use the ld (Linux linker) tool to find the library and try loading it. At run time the app can pick and choose which libs to load just like Windows apps can pick and choose which dlls to load.
She never knew his password, she simply reset it for the e-grade system. She may have been able to change his e-grade account settings though so that the e-mail notifications were sent to was bogus, make the grade changes, and then reset the feedback e-mail address again. It still probably wouldn't have worked since the professor would not be able to login with his old password and would find it suspicious that he would have to reset the password (unless he's so old that he tends to forget passwords anyway).
I can't believe the guys in charge of the system act like there's nothing wrong with it. Security by SSN and DOB alone should be illegal at public institutions IMO.
I don't see why point 4 is necessary. If the kid is able to maintain a 2.5 gpa, stay out of trouble on their own and become fluent in English, why would he/she need their parents to come with them to the US?
Just playing devil's advocate here: I'm pretty sure Bush really was against nation building at the time but later changed his mind for some reason... The other post about 'uniting not dividing' was right on the money though. Never at any point in time did he truly believe that (or if he did he's dilusional).
The device wouldn't be in orbit, although it could easily be geosynchronous (it could hold its position in the sky relative to the surface below). It would be in shadow roughly half the time, but almost anything (everything except for sun-synchronous orbits) in orbit is in shadow during part of each orbit (less than half though).
Getting the power to the surface from a floating platform would be a pain. Also, refilling its helium supply would be a major issue. If the device could fly with an electric motor then it could theoretically stay aloft for very long periods of time.
That's odd. I've used Netflix for quite a while (~2 years) and have never seen a DVD go missing. I've received a couple of unplayable ones but otherwise haven't had any problems.
Just pointing out that hybrid owners aren't specifically being 'punished.' I don't use the road hardly at all because I live close to where I work. Should I pay the same as you for road maintenance/upgrades? If most people ultimately transfer to hybrid cars they'll simply increase gas tax rates to compensate, at which point people driving farther will still be paying more than people who don't. (so you'll still be 'punished' for commuting to work)
I don't see how this is specifically punishing hybrid car owners. Everyone would pay this tax depending on how much they drive, so the ones being punished are the ones that take long commutes to work regardless of vehicle type. SUV owners are still paying more in gas taxes than hybrid owners. If they factor weight/number of axles of the vehicle into account I can't hardly imagine a fairer tax system (the more you damage/use the road, the more you pay).
Not suse 9.1 personal. It seems to detect many cards, but not my ATI Radeon 9800 pro. They have a page on their ftp site with instructions on downloading a newer driver and installing a kernel patch, but what a pain. Even now I can't use SAX2 without having to hand edit the XFree86 file afterwards to re-enable hardware 3D acceleration. Also, text isn't rendering correctly in a couple of the 3D games either (ie, not visible).
It is *possible* to write C that runs as fast as Fortran for heavy math. However, it involves hand-optimizing your C until this happens.
With libraries like SPOOLES I don't need to. One of the primary advantages of C is the availability of many libraries out there that have been developed over the years. Of course, this is in general. In specific domains (like particle physics) the great deal of Fortran code out there ensures that the language won't go away any time soon.
Do you have any suggestions on what employers should do? There is a significant cost incured by the employer when an employee takes off for payed leave for a significant amount of time, especially if that person is a key member of a group or ongoing project. If the project can't be postponed, then a temp must be hired to fill in or the person's coworkers must work additional hours to make up for it.
Who should pay for this? If it is the employer solely (which it usually is) then they have quite an incentive to hire someone who is less likely to take a maternity leave of absence and I don't blame them. Heck, if the business is rather small (say two employees) they'd be crazy to do otherwise, unless if they don't care to stay in business.
And it is 200' wide. Its area is over twice as large as a typical 10000' runway that is 150' wide. The other five runways at DIA are 12000' (2.25 mi) long although I don't believe they ever have all of them operational at the same time (not enough traffic to make it necessary).
There's also the issue of runway length, a problem that landing gear doesn't help. Due to the additional mass the plane almost certainly has a somewhat higher stall speed than a 747, requiring a higher takeoff speed and thus a longer runway (especially at higher altitudes like Denver, which is now ready thanks to a new runway that is 3 miles (4.87 km) long and 200 ft (61 m) wide ).
Exactly what I was going to say. A more fun (and perhaps accurate) test that is similar is to measure the height of trees using a yard stick, a protractor and a plumb line. All you do is measure the distance between the tree and some point an arbitrary distance away, stand at this point and measure the angle between the plumb line and the top of the tree, take the tanget of the angle (-90 degrees of course) multiply this by the distance between you and the tree and add the height from your eye to the ground.
So the equation would be: height_tree = distance * tan(theta-90) + height_person
Using a similar technique and a GPS receiver, you can find the height of objects without measuring the distance between you and the object by measuring the bearing to the object at two points, determening the range and then repeating the above procedure. Definitely one of the most nerdy things I've done on a hike.
The parent post was saying 'at best' whereas I was saying 'on average' in addition to him being off by a 2.5x factor. Besides, the poster was also misunderstanding the purpose of my post, which was to correct the person I was replying to who was off by several orders of magnitude.
That's not true. Where I live in Colorado, we get about 6kWh/m^2 per day on average during the year. (here's the source)
My point was that you wouldn't need to cover the whole earth with solar panels to meet today's energy needs. If you follow the discussion, we found that only about 5% of Arizona would need to be covered to meet the energy needs of the US (a huge area, but much smaller than the entire area of the country, much less the whole world).
Plastics are essentially "free" considering the amount of gasoline we require
Not if they are filled with a gallon of milk that must be transported in a refrigerated truck. Milk delivered directly to your home isn't stored at the store for days in a refrigerator saving a bit on energy there too.
Well, I didn't mean to suggest covering Arizona with mirrors. The guy I was replying to suggested that covering the entire world still wouldn't produce enough power which is absurd.
I presume that when they state that the plant is 30% efficient they are including all of those factors you mention. The mirrors most likely reflect >95% of the light they receive, so in the case of a central tower system the only energy losses would be cooling occuring between the time of collection and transfer, the efficiency of heat xfer to generate steam, the efficiency of the turbine and the losses that occure in stepping the power up for distribution. 70% losses there doesn't sound implausible to me.
They could always build the plant on some military base, like White Sands, NM where any life there was nuked some time ago.
On a side note, one of the sites I visited mentioned that solar farms would take less space than hydro. A solar farm could make as much power as Hoover Dam covering only about 5% of the area as the dam's lake. So at least it would be a better alternative than hydro to environmentalists.
In a ballot initiative just passed here in Colorado, roughly 0.2% of Colorado's energy will come from solar plants with another 0.2% coming from private residential and commercial PV setups by 2015. Not much, but better than nothing I guess.
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Good question. It doesn't seem to be available anywhere in Colorado (at least not along the Front Range). You can't get any Verizon DSL at all here it seems. You can get Verizon DSL in Florida, Boston and California it seems but I couldn't find anyone that could get Fios (I just went through a dozen or so numbers in my contact list).
I checked the add which claimed it is $49.95. However, I have Qwest naked DSL which theoretically costs about $35. But after ever increasing fees, taxes, and service charges it now costs about $54 per month. I bet that Verizon Fios is similar and probably adds up to near or even more than $70 per month. (I'd love to be corrected if I'm wrong. I know broadband cable doesn't tack on such huge fees.)
No more than in Windows expecting to find a certain dll (Windows dynamically linked library). Your app doesn't have to use a certain lib. Instead, it can be programmed to use whichever lib is available using intrinsic Linux commands which in turn use the ld (Linux linker) tool to find the library and try loading it. At run time the app can pick and choose which libs to load just like Windows apps can pick and choose which dlls to load.
Then I bet your group was pretty shell-shocked when they lost to these high school kids :).
I can't believe the guys in charge of the system act like there's nothing wrong with it. Security by SSN and DOB alone should be illegal at public institutions IMO.
I don't see why point 4 is necessary. If the kid is able to maintain a 2.5 gpa, stay out of trouble on their own and become fluent in English, why would he/she need their parents to come with them to the US?
Just playing devil's advocate here: I'm pretty sure Bush really was against nation building at the time but later changed his mind for some reason... The other post about 'uniting not dividing' was right on the money though. Never at any point in time did he truly believe that (or if he did he's dilusional).
The problem is that adding enough structure to keep the helium in (rather than boiling off) would keep the device from floating above the troposphere.
Getting the power to the surface from a floating platform would be a pain. Also, refilling its helium supply would be a major issue. If the device could fly with an electric motor then it could theoretically stay aloft for very long periods of time.
As my personal info states, I live near Boulder, CO (near Denver). I guess the postal works here don't pull those kind of shananigans.
That's odd. I've used Netflix for quite a while (~2 years) and have never seen a DVD go missing. I've received a couple of unplayable ones but otherwise haven't had any problems.
Just pointing out that hybrid owners aren't specifically being 'punished.' I don't use the road hardly at all because I live close to where I work. Should I pay the same as you for road maintenance/upgrades? If most people ultimately transfer to hybrid cars they'll simply increase gas tax rates to compensate, at which point people driving farther will still be paying more than people who don't. (so you'll still be 'punished' for commuting to work)
I don't see how this is specifically punishing hybrid car owners. Everyone would pay this tax depending on how much they drive, so the ones being punished are the ones that take long commutes to work regardless of vehicle type. SUV owners are still paying more in gas taxes than hybrid owners. If they factor weight/number of axles of the vehicle into account I can't hardly imagine a fairer tax system (the more you damage/use the road, the more you pay).
Not suse 9.1 personal. It seems to detect many cards, but not my ATI Radeon 9800 pro. They have a page on their ftp site with instructions on downloading a newer driver and installing a kernel patch, but what a pain. Even now I can't use SAX2 without having to hand edit the XFree86 file afterwards to re-enable hardware 3D acceleration. Also, text isn't rendering correctly in a couple of the 3D games either (ie, not visible).
In truth, I've only watched the movie. Considering the awards both the movie and the book won, I thought I'd toss it out there.
With libraries like SPOOLES I don't need to. One of the primary advantages of C is the availability of many libraries out there that have been developed over the years. Of course, this is in general. In specific domains (like particle physics) the great deal of Fortran code out there ensures that the language won't go away any time soon.
Who should pay for this? If it is the employer solely (which it usually is) then they have quite an incentive to hire someone who is less likely to take a maternity leave of absence and I don't blame them. Heck, if the business is rather small (say two employees) they'd be crazy to do otherwise, unless if they don't care to stay in business.
And it is 200' wide. Its area is over twice as large as a typical 10000' runway that is 150' wide. The other five runways at DIA are 12000' (2.25 mi) long although I don't believe they ever have all of them operational at the same time (not enough traffic to make it necessary).
There's also the issue of runway length, a problem that landing gear doesn't help. Due to the additional mass the plane almost certainly has a somewhat higher stall speed than a 747, requiring a higher takeoff speed and thus a longer runway (especially at higher altitudes like Denver, which is now ready thanks to a new runway that is 3 miles (4.87 km) long and 200 ft (61 m) wide ).
Wow. Flamebait, hypocritical, vacuous and false all in one sentence. Modded +5 insightful. Most impressive.
So the equation would be: height_tree = distance * tan(theta-90) + height_person
Using a similar technique and a GPS receiver, you can find the height of objects without measuring the distance between you and the object by measuring the bearing to the object at two points, determening the range and then repeating the above procedure. Definitely one of the most nerdy things I've done on a hike.
The parent post was saying 'at best' whereas I was saying 'on average' in addition to him being off by a 2.5x factor. Besides, the poster was also misunderstanding the purpose of my post, which was to correct the person I was replying to who was off by several orders of magnitude.
That's not true. Where I live in Colorado, we get about 6kWh/m^2 per day on average during the year. (here's the source)
My point was that you wouldn't need to cover the whole earth with solar panels to meet today's energy needs. If you follow the discussion, we found that only about 5% of Arizona would need to be covered to meet the energy needs of the US (a huge area, but much smaller than the entire area of the country, much less the whole world).
Not if they are filled with a gallon of milk that must be transported in a refrigerated truck. Milk delivered directly to your home isn't stored at the store for days in a refrigerator saving a bit on energy there too.
I presume that when they state that the plant is 30% efficient they are including all of those factors you mention. The mirrors most likely reflect >95% of the light they receive, so in the case of a central tower system the only energy losses would be cooling occuring between the time of collection and transfer, the efficiency of heat xfer to generate steam, the efficiency of the turbine and the losses that occure in stepping the power up for distribution. 70% losses there doesn't sound implausible to me.
They could always build the plant on some military base, like White Sands, NM where any life there was nuked some time ago.
On a side note, one of the sites I visited mentioned that solar farms would take less space than hydro. A solar farm could make as much power as Hoover Dam covering only about 5% of the area as the dam's lake. So at least it would be a better alternative than hydro to environmentalists.
In a ballot initiative just passed here in Colorado, roughly 0.2% of Colorado's energy will come from solar plants with another 0.2% coming from private residential and commercial PV setups by 2015. Not much, but better than nothing I guess.