In the US, circuits commonly called 110 V or 120 V (etc) are actually a nominal 117 V. 1750/117 is 14.96 A, within spec for a 15 A circuit.
Wiring usually has pretty good safety margins. Undamaged wires are unlikely to be a fire cause. Outlets can be damaged and the connection of the wire to the outlet can weaken or fail through corrosion. If you feel a power cord after using a heavy load, you're unlikely to feel much warmth. But if you feel the connector, the outlet, or the wall switch controlling the load, warmth is not uncommon and should be considered a warning.
House circuit breakers are designed to trip in the region of many amps. Trip time is dependent upon the degree of overload; 100 A trhu a 10 A breaker will trip in a few milliseconds. Where the current is flowing through your body determines how much current is requires to kill you quickly (by heart failure). I've read that currents of an amp or more won't stop your heart from beating if the current is removed promptly. (It'll be painful as hell, may do some sort of permanent damage, and there's no guarantee the heart won't stop in particular instances.) Current figures like 5 mA, 50 mA are generally quite dangerous if they take a route through your body that includes your heart. These low currents can set your heart into fibrillation. Ground Fault Interrupters can trip at 5 mA in 25 ms, which should be quick enough.
Wireless is broken on kubuntu 9.10, this appears to be an acknowledged bug. Alas, I was unable to revert, having deleted old packages, and on this netbook I was no longer able to access the internet. With this and other problems with kubuntu, I gave up. I loaded Fedora 11 on a usb flashdrive, repartitioned the drive, and loaded Fedora. I like it a lot better, even if it is harder to get some software.
Many early printed circuit board substrates weren't much more than an appropriate grade of paper with a good binder (especially outside the US. In the US, fiberglass-epoxy was economical enough for most purposes because heavy use by the military drove down prices.)
If you're using CO2 generation as some sort of cost or a bad thing, you're too screwy to warrant further discussion.
Remember that mining is (among other things) a way that people earn a living, and an essential basis for advanced civilization.
Design for repairability adds to design expense, manufacturing expense, increased parts cost (screws and tapped holes cost more than snap-together) and results in a bigger, clunkier product. It's not appropriate for point-and-shoot cameras, which are usually obsolete by the time they fail. I'd like easily repairable products, but I can recognize when it's not the best approach.
My price comparisons between photo-inkjet and home-darkroom color photography have always indicated that the home-darkroom was cheaper only if I used the cheapest available materials (Besseler and Mitsubishi, no Kodak or Fujifilm) and if I made no mistakes requiring reprints. It also required that I count my labor as worthless, because color darkroom printing is much slower than most inkjet photoprinters. In any case, the price difference is not large and you're doing something wrong if it exceds 2:1 in either direction.
Copper and silver electrically conductive paints have been available for decades. One of the keys to their success is to keep them from forming oxides and suphides, which don't conduct very well. Another is to get the small pieces of metal to touch each other. Neither requirement involves melting the conductors or forming a low melting point alloy. As you mention, it sounds like Xerox has invented a formulation that allows the particles to align in an optimum manner (and that this is compatible with some form of inkjet printing.)
I routinely use 1600x1200 and I miss the days when I routinely used 1920x1440. Even then I wanted at least double that amount in both dimensions. Having several pages open at a time and being able to glance quickly from one to another can be an immense advantage. My understanding is that about 7000x4000 is the limit for human vision. This is for static images; there's less need for high resolution in video.
Let's try 4000x2500 video, 60 images a second, for 2.5 hours, uncompressed, 3 bytes per pixel. 4000x2500x60x3600x2.5x3 = 16.2x10^12. Video compression might be good for 100:1, so that's 162 GB. 250 GB is not far off.
Yes. I used "wubi" to load kubuntu and install it. I can't recommend it, my guess is that straight Ubuntu would be better. My efforts to install a Linux from a USB stick were unsuccessful; the image wouldn't boot.
Selfish means acting in your own self interest. How is "put any chemical or object in their body they want" a description of self interest?
Vice is a personal matter as long as it does not harm others, and if it doesn't harm others it's NONE OF THE GOVERNMENT'S DAMN BUSINESS. To "sell your kid crack" does not fall into the category of not harming others: a child is not an adult, he is his parents' responsibility and in some respects it is as if he were their property. Selling crack to someone's child causes damage to a legally irresponsible party (like poisoning your neighbor's dog, only much worse), and in so doing harms the responsible party, the parents, who must pay for the physical damage to their child and pay for any harm their child does while "under the influence."
That is because most Libertarians association freedom with greed rather than freedom with responsibility.
That's one of the most misleading, ungrammatical, and silly sentences I've ever read. There is no direct association between freedom and responsibility, any more than between slavery and responsibility, freedom and irresponsibilty, etc.. Freedom allows a person to follow his best interests, and to use the word "greed" for that is to use a loaded term that not libertarians, but the opponents of libertarians, would use.
Although the world includes masochists, for sane people the idea that the purpose of freedom is to give you more opportunities to hurt yourself is wrong. The purpose of freedom is to give individuals the opportunity to better themselves, and to say "Libertarians association freedom with greed" is to attempt to slur both libertarians and freedom.
There are other reasons for poverty. Some people have no wish to rise from poverty; look at Walden by Thoreau. Some people are destructive: put them in a nice house and they'll leave wet garbage decaying on the floor, break mirrors and sinks, and when the place is too awful to live in or they get bored, they'll set fire to it. Never underestimate the levels of depravity that some people can reach.
Courts are also a form of government regulation. Without them, you couldn't have contracts.
There are several falacies in your statement. You assume that courts are necessarily part of government. You assume that contracts require an official government organization to help enforce them. You assume that there has to be some mechanism to enforce contracts so that contracts can exist. (Granted, contracts would not have a lot of value without an enforcement mechanism, but that would not prevent their existence.)
I don't know the current prices, but about 1990 a one-way flight from LA to San Diego cost $75. This was in part because a 14 passenger plane required both pilot and copilot and an expensive timeslot at LAX.
In contrast, the round trip train fare was about $40. And I could get off at Disneyland if I wanted to.
All human activity has costs. When we are required to pay for those costs, we help ensure that resources are not being wasted, because people don't like to throw away their own money.
That said, the per-unit costs of operating a major superhighway like I-5 or I-95 are quite low. In Connecticut, moderate tolls were removed from I-95 and Route 15 because (among other reasons) the roads had been paid for many times over. Fuel taxes easily cover the costs of operating the road.
With regard to airlines, subsidies are more or less irrelevant. Just as taxes are passed through to the consumer, so are subsidies. The long-term unprofitability of the industry as a whole is more an issue of fools supporting losing enterprises than any inherent property of airlines that makes them money-lowers.
People used roads more as automobiles became more popular. Government was the logical entity to improve roads, and people were (relatively) happy to pay the government to improve the roads. Government was not the necessary entity; the roads would have been improved by private owners in the absence of government, because roads and automobiles are a far more versatile and effective means of moving people and most freight.
Unless you live on a rail line or your destination is on a rail line, you have to change transportation modes at least twice on one-way trip, three times on a round trip: Mode 1 from your door to the train station, mode 2 is the train, mode 3 from train station to destination.
Don't give me any guff about "people should walk more". A large portion of the population is sick/elderly/frail/disabled, and from among those the ones who can drive derive great advantage from the automobile.
Take a look at commuter rail into NYC. Long distance rail has lower usage than commuter lines. A bullet train running along the West Coast from Mexico to Canada would be unlikely to serve 100,000 a day for people travelling over 100 miles. Only regular users are economically meaningful; people who only use the train twice a year may be "benefitted" but not in a manner justified by the sysem cost.
Thanks for the reference. It's interesting that New Jersey is screwed the worst at about 67 cents on the dollar, while #1 New Mexico gets off like a bandit at $2.03 on the dollar. Surprise, surprise, Washington DC gets just short of $6 for every dollar taxed, almost 3 times more than any state.
I'd guess that some of these numbers will shift a little with the Democrats back in power, each party does try to reward its supporters.
Ever won a game of Solitaire on an Acer Aspire One (1.5 GHz Atom)? The celebration display takes over two minutes. On a 500 MHz PIII, it's just a few seconds. This may be a graphics accelerator problem, but what a difference!
Use of bad models was just a link in the chain of problems that caused the meltdown. The basic problem was defective philosophy that led to legislation which had as its inevitable result financial disaster. The beliefs that people aren't responsible for their wellbeing and that all people deserve to own nice houses led to legislation divorcing financial responsibility from home ownership. Similar errors led to failure of security ratings and the creation of bundled, highly leveraged mortgages. Bad philosophy causes bad laws. People seek advantage from the bad laws, and some fall into the trap the laws create.
The best lenses in the world are telescope mirrors at major observatories. I haven't seen how they mount to their sensors, but I bet the mount isn't standard.
OEM inks are generally high quality and made to produce colors accurately. Aftermarket inks frequently have some flaws in lifetime, color accuracy, chemical reactivity (damaging the printhead), etc.. If you have a cheap printer, you don't lose much experimenting; but I won't try cheap inks on a top-of-the-line printer again.
Containing pain-free cows just requires better fences. A 2.5 meter wall of rock and concrete should be completely effective. New England has plenty of rocks we'd be happy to sell to Texas.
OK, killing I can see, but burning? How are they going to light the matches or activate the Zippo? You can't rub two sticks together if all you have are hooves.
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In the US, circuits commonly called 110 V or 120 V (etc) are actually a nominal 117 V. 1750/117 is 14.96 A, within spec for a 15 A circuit.
Wiring usually has pretty good safety margins. Undamaged wires are unlikely to be a fire cause. Outlets can be damaged and the connection of the wire to the outlet can weaken or fail through corrosion. If you feel a power cord after using a heavy load, you're unlikely to feel much warmth. But if you feel the connector, the outlet, or the wall switch controlling the load, warmth is not uncommon and should be considered a warning.
House circuit breakers are designed to trip in the region of many amps. Trip time is dependent upon the degree of overload; 100 A trhu a 10 A breaker will trip in a few milliseconds. Where the current is flowing through your body determines how much current is requires to kill you quickly (by heart failure). I've read that currents of an amp or more won't stop your heart from beating if the current is removed promptly. (It'll be painful as hell, may do some sort of permanent damage, and there's no guarantee the heart won't stop in particular instances.) Current figures like 5 mA, 50 mA are generally quite dangerous if they take a route through your body that includes your heart. These low currents can set your heart into fibrillation. Ground Fault Interrupters can trip at 5 mA in 25 ms, which should be quick enough.
Wireless is broken on kubuntu 9.10, this appears to be an acknowledged bug. Alas, I was unable to revert, having deleted old packages, and on this netbook I was no longer able to access the internet. With this and other problems with kubuntu, I gave up. I loaded Fedora 11 on a usb flashdrive, repartitioned the drive, and loaded Fedora. I like it a lot better, even if it is harder to get some software.
Many early printed circuit board substrates weren't much more than an appropriate grade of paper with a good binder (especially outside the US. In the US, fiberglass-epoxy was economical enough for most purposes because heavy use by the military drove down prices.)
If you're using CO2 generation as some sort of cost or a bad thing, you're too screwy to warrant further discussion.
Remember that mining is (among other things) a way that people earn a living, and an essential basis for advanced civilization.
Design for repairability adds to design expense, manufacturing expense, increased parts cost (screws and tapped holes cost more than snap-together) and results in a bigger, clunkier product. It's not appropriate for point-and-shoot cameras, which are usually obsolete by the time they fail. I'd like easily repairable products, but I can recognize when it's not the best approach.
My price comparisons between photo-inkjet and home-darkroom color photography have always indicated that the home-darkroom was cheaper only if I used the cheapest available materials (Besseler and Mitsubishi, no Kodak or Fujifilm) and if I made no mistakes requiring reprints. It also required that I count my labor as worthless, because color darkroom printing is much slower than most inkjet photoprinters. In any case, the price difference is not large and you're doing something wrong if it exceds 2:1 in either direction.
Copper and silver electrically conductive paints have been available for decades. One of the keys to their success is to keep them from forming oxides and suphides, which don't conduct very well. Another is to get the small pieces of metal to touch each other. Neither requirement involves melting the conductors or forming a low melting point alloy. As you mention, it sounds like Xerox has invented a formulation that allows the particles to align in an optimum manner (and that this is compatible with some form of inkjet printing.)
I routinely use 1600x1200 and I miss the days when I routinely used 1920x1440. Even then I wanted at least double that amount in both dimensions. Having several pages open at a time and being able to glance quickly from one to another can be an immense advantage. My understanding is that about 7000x4000 is the limit for human vision. This is for static images; there's less need for high resolution in video.
Let's try 4000x2500 video, 60 images a second, for 2.5 hours, uncompressed, 3 bytes per pixel. 4000x2500x60x3600x2.5x3 = 16.2x10^12. Video compression might be good for 100:1, so that's 162 GB. 250 GB is not far off.
Yes. I used "wubi" to load kubuntu and install it. I can't recommend it, my guess is that straight Ubuntu would be better. My efforts to install a Linux from a USB stick were unsuccessful; the image wouldn't boot.
Did you read and understand your own post?
Selfish means acting in your own self interest. How is "put any chemical or object in their body they want" a description of self interest?
Vice is a personal matter as long as it does not harm others, and if it doesn't harm others it's NONE OF THE GOVERNMENT'S DAMN BUSINESS. To "sell your kid crack" does not fall into the category of not harming others: a child is not an adult, he is his parents' responsibility and in some respects it is as if he were their property. Selling crack to someone's child causes damage to a legally irresponsible party (like poisoning your neighbor's dog, only much worse), and in so doing harms the responsible party, the parents, who must pay for the physical damage to their child and pay for any harm their child does while "under the influence."
That's one of the most misleading, ungrammatical, and silly sentences I've ever read. There is no direct association between freedom and responsibility, any more than between slavery and responsibility, freedom and irresponsibilty, etc.. Freedom allows a person to follow his best interests, and to use the word "greed" for that is to use a loaded term that not libertarians, but the opponents of libertarians, would use.
Although the world includes masochists, for sane people the idea that the purpose of freedom is to give you more opportunities to hurt yourself is wrong. The purpose of freedom is to give individuals the opportunity to better themselves, and to say "Libertarians association freedom with greed" is to attempt to slur both libertarians and freedom.
There are other reasons for poverty. Some people have no wish to rise from poverty; look at Walden by Thoreau. Some people are destructive: put them in a nice house and they'll leave wet garbage decaying on the floor, break mirrors and sinks, and when the place is too awful to live in or they get bored, they'll set fire to it. Never underestimate the levels of depravity that some people can reach.
There are several falacies in your statement. You assume that courts are necessarily part of government. You assume that contracts require an official government organization to help enforce them. You assume that there has to be some mechanism to enforce contracts so that contracts can exist. (Granted, contracts would not have a lot of value without an enforcement mechanism, but that would not prevent their existence.)
I don't know the current prices, but about 1990 a one-way flight from LA to San Diego cost $75. This was in part because a 14 passenger plane required both pilot and copilot and an expensive timeslot at LAX.
In contrast, the round trip train fare was about $40. And I could get off at Disneyland if I wanted to.
Ooh, sarcasm.
All human activity has costs. When we are required to pay for those costs, we help ensure that resources are not being wasted, because people don't like to throw away their own money.
That said, the per-unit costs of operating a major superhighway like I-5 or I-95 are quite low. In Connecticut, moderate tolls were removed from I-95 and Route 15 because (among other reasons) the roads had been paid for many times over. Fuel taxes easily cover the costs of operating the road.
With regard to airlines, subsidies are more or less irrelevant. Just as taxes are passed through to the consumer, so are subsidies. The long-term unprofitability of the industry as a whole is more an issue of fools supporting losing enterprises than any inherent property of airlines that makes them money-lowers.
People used roads more as automobiles became more popular. Government was the logical entity to improve roads, and people were (relatively) happy to pay the government to improve the roads. Government was not the necessary entity; the roads would have been improved by private owners in the absence of government, because roads and automobiles are a far more versatile and effective means of moving people and most freight.
Unless you live on a rail line or your destination is on a rail line, you have to change transportation modes at least twice on one-way trip, three times on a round trip: Mode 1 from your door to the train station, mode 2 is the train, mode 3 from train station to destination.
Don't give me any guff about "people should walk more". A large portion of the population is sick/elderly/frail/disabled, and from among those the ones who can drive derive great advantage from the automobile.
"Benefit millions of people" ???
Take a look at commuter rail into NYC. Long distance rail has lower usage than commuter lines. A bullet train running along the West Coast from Mexico to Canada would be unlikely to serve 100,000 a day for people travelling over 100 miles. Only regular users are economically meaningful; people who only use the train twice a year may be "benefitted" but not in a manner justified by the sysem cost.
Thanks for the reference. It's interesting that New Jersey is screwed the worst at about 67 cents on the dollar, while #1 New Mexico gets off like a bandit at $2.03 on the dollar. Surprise, surprise, Washington DC gets just short of $6 for every dollar taxed, almost 3 times more than any state.
I'd guess that some of these numbers will shift a little with the Democrats back in power, each party does try to reward its supporters.
Ever won a game of Solitaire on an Acer Aspire One (1.5 GHz Atom)? The celebration display takes over two minutes. On a 500 MHz PIII, it's just a few seconds. This may be a graphics accelerator problem, but what a difference!
Use of bad models was just a link in the chain of problems that caused the meltdown. The basic problem was defective philosophy that led to legislation which had as its inevitable result financial disaster. The beliefs that people aren't responsible for their wellbeing and that all people deserve to own nice houses led to legislation divorcing financial responsibility from home ownership. Similar errors led to failure of security ratings and the creation of bundled, highly leveraged mortgages. Bad philosophy causes bad laws. People seek advantage from the bad laws, and some fall into the trap the laws create.
The best lenses in the world are telescope mirrors at major observatories. I haven't seen how they mount to their sensors, but I bet the mount isn't standard.
OEM inks are generally high quality and made to produce colors accurately. Aftermarket inks frequently have some flaws in lifetime, color accuracy, chemical reactivity (damaging the printhead), etc.. If you have a cheap printer, you don't lose much experimenting; but I won't try cheap inks on a top-of-the-line printer again.
"Living creature" (in the widet sense) includes all living things, from man to cactus to bacteria. "Ethical vegetarians" are just irrational, at best.
Containing pain-free cows just requires better fences. A 2.5 meter wall of rock and concrete should be completely effective. New England has plenty of rocks we'd be happy to sell to Texas.
OK, killing I can see, but burning? How are they going to light the matches or activate the Zippo? You can't rub two sticks together if all you have are hooves.