no, you are wrong. A scientist or engineer (I am engineering physicist, both) would say exactly what I did, there are no time units to add, watt-seconds per second = watt.
you're confused, 500 watt-seconds per second *IS* 500 watts. so is 500 watts-fortnights per fortnight (it's called dimensional analysis, you fail it)
I said 1 kilogram of pu-228 generates 500 watts. there is nothing more to add, no other units need be introduced, that's the *power* generated by 1 Kg of Pu-228. nuclear engineer here, been doing this shit for a long time.
should point out that 85% is by very nature of the "kinetic energy" of fission fragments you are talking about, they only travel a microscopic distance in a fuel pellet before being turned into heat. Most of the remaining 15% is gamma ray energy. you could convert all of that into electricity by unknown process, and still be mostly limited by heat engine efficiency for the 85%.
nuclear engineer here: nonsense, 85% of the energy of fission is released as heat energy. you are going to convert heat to electricity, without a heat engine?
that would be funny, if any place I ever contracted for would ask for feed to my webcam. I don't have one, and I would not let them attach one. if they stopped the contract, so be it, but my skills are very rare.
the company oDesk is doing it to its contractors, apparently their services have been used by the named companies (Google, HP, and NBC).
Different than those companies doing it directly, as likely most of their contractors have no such spy system in place. However, maybe you or others would refuse to work for a company that does any business with oDesk (and can find that out) .
but with light there is fundamental known truth. It always is quantized, made of discrete chunks of energy. there is no alternative possible view to that. It is the first known quantum phenomenon. Anything involving light must have quantum (discrete) creation, transmission, absorption of energy.
Sorry, but in this universe we have to obey the laws of thermodynamics. There are no 100% efficient electric power generation systems. The efficiency of a real world wind turbine can't be more than 30%. A heat engine (including steam turbine systems or using solar to heat working fluid) can't be more efficient than carnot efficiency limit, less than 42% for real world plants. Direct solar conversion to electricity can't be more than 34% efficient.
no. but the usual Pu-239 isn't very radioactive, just emits alphas slowly with a very long half life of 24,200 years. That radiation can't even penetrate your skin or go through a piece of paper. Pu-240 is artificial, usually decays by alpha but sometimes spontaneously fissions, it too has long half-life of more than 6500 years. Then there is Pu-238, emits huge amounts of alphas with its short half-life of 88 years, it's used in RTG batteries and also radioisotope heater units. A kilogram of the stuff gives off 500 watts.
actually, it by law has several mandated points of influence by the government. Appointments by president and reviews by Congress are two examples of those.
If proper expandable solution for the present situation, projected growth and strategic plan were purchased, later unexpected purchases would only be necessitated by something unforeseen, whether growth or changes to business methods or direction. Management just needs to be made aware. If they think most businesses future IT needs can be seen absolutely accurately 5 or 10 years later, they are fools. For example, in 2004, would certain major U.S. banks know that the Blackberry (or similar) and server infrastructure for it would be a core IT tool in their business five to ten years later?
The origin of the magnetic field of the Milky Way has been discovered. It is amazingly a very recent phenomenon that has arisen in the last fifteen years, due to geeks taking apart broken hard drives and separating their very powerful rare earth magnet pairs.
but I back up my emails and the database that indexes them by backing up the whole thunderbird directory, so I can search by topics or phrases. I think its better that way. Only takes up 2.5GB on the 10/20GB tapes I use for 12 years worth. I do regret not having my emails from the mid 80s to 1998 as they were on disparate vax/vms and Unix systems, but oh well.....
Microsoft exchange server is a reliable, secure and scalable solution? Bwhahahahaha, my employer uses that shit, it is none of the above. If it were, the internet's backbone would use it
plenty of plumbers and other tradesmen are over 50 and do manual labor, great way to keep in shape. All computer geeks who sit in a chair most of the time should also get into exercise as part of their "staying fit to employ" regimen. Whose going to get the job, if it comes down to two people with equal skills, but one looks like pile of blubber who flops down into chair and looks pained to move? who is going to display more energy and enthusiam? who is going to look like they won't be visiting the ER for stress/obsesity related emergency?
you're silly, old plumbers hire and teach younger people for the back breaking work, and get good exercise doing the rest. That's what my friend from high school does, he's 48 years old
you will be very sorry you deleted those pictures. don't do that. Even right now, you could make many people very happy by giving as gift one of those digital picture frames that display different stored photo every several seconds, with your pictures of those important to recipient.
I was joking, hence the smiley with glasses at bottom. Point is one can expand *hugely* in many directions from whatever one's tasks are in IT, and is good idea in this economy.
my knowledge general. I like all things IT, programming, database, networking, OS (Linux and Windows), and all the things those entail
That's way too narrow a focus. You only have one scope. You don't know anything about electronics including analog systems, embedded controllers and their OS, power distribution and backup systems, high performance computing and distributed systems. What about the important OS that move the worlds money, like z/VM, z/OS, OpenVMS, MP, besides the Unix HP/UX, AIX, Solaris? heck, you don't even know BSD? Lazy uninformed git.....
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A human would die in two minutes on mars. oh, you mean with TONS of supplies send humans? forget it, robots win.
The energy requirements alone of a human compared to the robot are fearsome.
no, you are wrong. A scientist or engineer (I am engineering physicist, both) would say exactly what I did, there are no time units to add, watt-seconds per second = watt.
you're confused, 500 watt-seconds per second *IS* 500 watts. so is 500 watts-fortnights per fortnight (it's called dimensional analysis, you fail it)
I said 1 kilogram of pu-228 generates 500 watts. there is nothing more to add, no other units need be introduced, that's the *power* generated by 1 Kg of Pu-228. nuclear engineer here, been doing this shit for a long time.
should point out that 85% is by very nature of the "kinetic energy" of fission fragments you are talking about, they only travel a microscopic distance in a fuel pellet before being turned into heat. Most of the remaining 15% is gamma ray energy. you could convert all of that into electricity by unknown process, and still be mostly limited by heat engine efficiency for the 85%.
nuclear engineer here: nonsense, 85% of the energy of fission is released as heat energy. you are going to convert heat to electricity, without a heat engine?
that would be funny, if any place I ever contracted for would ask for feed to my webcam. I don't have one, and I would not let them attach one. if they stopped the contract, so be it, but my skills are very rare.
the company oDesk is doing it to its contractors, apparently their services have been used by the named companies (Google, HP, and NBC).
Different than those companies doing it directly, as likely most of their contractors have no such spy system in place. However, maybe you or others would refuse to work for a company that does any business with oDesk (and can find that out) .
you didn't listen closely enough. he said you'd get screwed. the U.S. government has been doing that to you for decades.
but with light there is fundamental known truth. It always is quantized, made of discrete chunks of energy. there is no alternative possible view to that. It is the first known quantum phenomenon. Anything involving light must have quantum (discrete) creation, transmission, absorption of energy.
Sorry, but in this universe we have to obey the laws of thermodynamics. There are no 100% efficient electric power generation systems. The efficiency of a real world wind turbine can't be more than 30%. A heat engine (including steam turbine systems or using solar to heat working fluid) can't be more efficient than carnot efficiency limit, less than 42% for real world plants. Direct solar conversion to electricity can't be more than 34% efficient.
no. but the usual Pu-239 isn't very radioactive, just emits alphas slowly with a very long half life of 24,200 years. That radiation can't even penetrate your skin or go through a piece of paper. Pu-240 is artificial, usually decays by alpha but sometimes spontaneously fissions, it too has long half-life of more than 6500 years. Then there is Pu-238, emits huge amounts of alphas with its short half-life of 88 years, it's used in RTG batteries and also radioisotope heater units. A kilogram of the stuff gives off 500 watts.
Anything emitting or absorbing light has to be modeled using quantum mechanics.
actually, it by law has several mandated points of influence by the government. Appointments by president and reviews by Congress are two examples of those.
If proper expandable solution for the present situation, projected growth and strategic plan were purchased, later unexpected purchases would only be necessitated by something unforeseen, whether growth or changes to business methods or direction. Management just needs to be made aware. If they think most businesses future IT needs can be seen absolutely accurately 5 or 10 years later, they are fools. For example, in 2004, would certain major U.S. banks know that the Blackberry (or similar) and server infrastructure for it would be a core IT tool in their business five to ten years later?
The origin of the magnetic field of the Milky Way has been discovered. It is amazingly a very recent phenomenon that has arisen in the last fifteen years, due to geeks taking apart broken hard drives and separating their very powerful rare earth magnet pairs.
but I back up my emails and the database that indexes them by backing up the whole thunderbird directory, so I can search by topics or phrases. I think its better that way. Only takes up 2.5GB on the 10/20GB tapes I use for 12 years worth. I do regret not having my emails from the mid 80s to 1998 as they were on disparate vax/vms and Unix systems, but oh well.....
Microsoft exchange server is a reliable, secure and scalable solution? Bwhahahahaha, my employer uses that shit, it is none of the above. If it were, the internet's backbone would use it
oh man, good IT people are leaders, whether in management or not. They try to identify resource problems before they become issue, and have solutions.
no way, I work at a Value Added Reseller of hardware and the good sales guy would definitely use your fears to sell you some expandable solution
plenty of plumbers and other tradesmen are over 50 and do manual labor, great way to keep in shape. All computer geeks who sit in a chair most of the time should also get into exercise as part of their "staying fit to employ" regimen. Whose going to get the job, if it comes down to two people with equal skills, but one looks like pile of blubber who flops down into chair and looks pained to move? who is going to display more energy and enthusiam? who is going to look like they won't be visiting the ER for stress/obsesity related emergency?
you're silly, old plumbers hire and teach younger people for the back breaking work, and get good exercise doing the rest. That's what my friend from high school does, he's 48 years old
you will be very sorry you deleted those pictures. don't do that. Even right now, you could make many people very happy by giving as gift one of those digital picture frames that display different stored photo every several seconds, with your pictures of those important to recipient.
I was joking, hence the smiley with glasses at bottom. Point is one can expand *hugely* in many directions from whatever one's tasks are in IT, and is good idea in this economy.
my knowledge general. I like all things IT, programming, database, networking, OS (Linux and Windows), and all the things those entail
That's way too narrow a focus. You only have one scope. You don't know anything about electronics including analog systems, embedded controllers and their OS, power distribution and backup systems, high performance computing and distributed systems. What about the important OS that move the worlds money, like z/VM, z/OS, OpenVMS, MP, besides the Unix HP/UX, AIX, Solaris? heck, you don't even know BSD? Lazy uninformed git.....
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Not quite true, the Federal Reserve has both private and public components. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System