Good thing I checked existing posts because I was going to write about M-M.
Maybe a great big null result would be a revolutionary thing. I think it would be very interesting to have a something that mainstream physics can't explain.
There would be no guarantee that this time around there would be a mind like Einstein around to explain it though. Even so it would break the monotony of living under the boring old standard model.
I completely misunderstood what you were doing. I thought you were saying the nuclear reactor on an aircraft carrier could only produce 1000 flights worth of fuel using the process. Like I said, never mind.
Just to be clear...you calculated the efficiency of the whole process from fission in the carrier's reactor to fuel in the aircraft's tank and multiplied that by the energy content of the reactor fuel and divided it by the energy content of a tank of kerosene? Really?
That doesn't quite sound like something you look up on google.
What part of "works with existing cars and existing refueling stations" is confusing you hippes?
The part where it doesn't exist, needs unknown catalysts to make it work, depends on electrolysis, and needs probably an order of magnitude increase in electrical generating capacity to make it worthwhile.
Once I was hired at a sub to do the structural analysis on an empennage. The finite element model was supplied by the OEM and just by chance I did a sanity check by importing the catia geometry into patran and overlaid it on the mesh. Turns out the mesh for the whole horizontal stabilizer was 2" too high.
I have a good one from testing too. The same OEM had this jet going through cert testing and one of the tests is a particularly nasty scenario where an entire fuselage is pressurized then this big dagger thing punches a big slit in it about 40" long. The hope is that the big gash doesn't propagate and cause the fuselage to, you know, explode. This is supposed to simulate an engine explosion. Sadly the fuse went boom. That cost a bit to fix.
Speaking of things that are the wrong length, that happened to the A380 wiring. Things like that aren't supposed to happen with catia and all that. I heard that various people blamed it on different contractors using different versions of catia which doesn't make much sense. Probably just a basic mistake some designer made that never got caught.
It's a manufacturing problem related to the connection between the fuselage stringers and skin. Alenia and Boeing have known about it for a while. Alenia can't make the stringers with a close enough tolerance on the landing (the "bottom" that bonds to the skin) to get a proper cure of the skin and Boeing refuses to relax the tolerances. Until they can agree on a manufacturing fix they have stopped work.
The fix for the parts already made is to put an exterior patch. That's usually a last resort but not unheard of. Customers don't like to get new airplanes with visible patches on them.
Alenia has scrapped two barrels and sectioned them to get a good look at the internals of the problem. The manufacturing fix will be pretty straightforward, probably a few extra plies in the skin to make up for some reduced thickness in the stringer landing.
Alenia likely did a facir (first article conformity inspection report) on the first barrel which is where they cut the first barrel up and look at sections to find wrinkles and other things. The problem is, they changed the mfg process on the stringers after the facir. Not unusual, but they blew it when they asserted that the new method would be equivalent to the original that passed the facir.
because it added a bit of functionality. Specifically in the way it treats DOM storage.
DOM storage is not flash cookies (LSOs), it is a separate way sites can store data on your computer I had not heard about. The old version could only disable DS, but now BP can now treat DS like LSOs so it stays on but the data gets deleted on FF shutdown. Some sites like cnn video need DS turned on.
Also I set it to delete the default LSO. That one stores a list of every flash site you visit. Even if you turn Flash local storage completely off using:
So, it's like yelling "Castro" in a Cuban restaurant in Miami?
Exactly. Except instead of "Castro" it would be "Trudeau" and instead of a Cuban restaurant it would be a butter tart shop, and instead of Miami it would be Moose Jaw.
While the FA has no mention of Canada, the Canadian zeitgeist right now is very sensitive to Arctic sovereignty and Russia is one of the (belligerent) protagonists. Any time a Canadian hears "Russia" and "arctic" and "melting" the next word that comes to mind is "sovereignty".
So while it may appear unrelated to non-Canucks, to us it's a natural train of thought and an apropos thing to say in the context of TFA.
Given the Manhattan experience the US deserves mention as well for similar reasons.
If you're in marketing you call it an invisibility cloak. If you're an engineer you call it a tuned resonator and ask yourself why oh why you didn't go to medical school.
Gasses have no static shear strength (no shear stress without shear flow) and are compressible, liquids have no static shear strength and are incompressible, and solids have static shear strength and are incompressible.
The emphasis on shear comes from the Mohr's circle, in a non flowing fluid the shear is always zero and Mohrs circle is always a point.
Good enough for engineering, physicists, being physicists, make it 5 levels more complicated.
You also have thixotropic fluids that develop a bit of static shear strength (they "stick" before they flow) and viscoelastic solids that will flow very slowly (eg glass). So talking about "states" of matter is really just a colloquial convenience.
It seems you can use some tools and concepts form fluid analysis to model granular continua. I wouldn't call them states of matter.
It's just my opinion that casting this as a freedom issue is to diminish the concept.
The underlying reality is that millions of people are obtaining things they have no right to. Most are doing it because they want it for free. Some may do it as a principled statement or as a protest of civil disobedience against the draconian *AA's but most don't.
Freedom is the right to say what you want to say and do what you want to do so long as it has *some* ethical justification. Downloading stuff isn't that.
I don't know how representative/. is of general IT community opinion but the vibes around here say "downloading can't be stopped and anyone who doesn't like it is stupid." That has to change.
Let me get this straight...they have this giant ignition facility but they don't have the giant ignition key to start it.
Boy are they going to be embarrassed. I bet the president will be there and everything.
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Good thing I checked existing posts because I was going to write about M-M.
Maybe a great big null result would be a revolutionary thing. I think it would be very interesting to have a something that mainstream physics can't explain.
There would be no guarantee that this time around there would be a mind like Einstein around to explain it though. Even so it would break the monotony of living under the boring old standard model.
I completely misunderstood what you were doing. I thought you were saying the nuclear reactor on an aircraft carrier could only produce 1000 flights worth of fuel using the process. Like I said, never mind.
Nevermind.
Just to be clear...you calculated the efficiency of the whole process from fission in the carrier's reactor to fuel in the aircraft's tank and multiplied that by the energy content of the reactor fuel and divided it by the energy content of a tank of kerosene? Really?
That doesn't quite sound like something you look up on google.
What part of "works with existing cars and existing refueling stations" is confusing you hippes?
The part where it doesn't exist, needs unknown catalysts to make it work, depends on electrolysis, and needs probably an order of magnitude increase in electrical generating capacity to make it worthwhile.
And you're obsessing about a plug?
But thanks for calling me hip.
Since we're trading war stories...
Once I was hired at a sub to do the structural analysis on an empennage. The finite element model was supplied by the OEM and just by chance I did a sanity check by importing the catia geometry into patran and overlaid it on the mesh. Turns out the mesh for the whole horizontal stabilizer was 2" too high.
I have a good one from testing too. The same OEM had this jet going through cert testing and one of the tests is a particularly nasty scenario where an entire fuselage is pressurized then this big dagger thing punches a big slit in it about 40" long. The hope is that the big gash doesn't propagate and cause the fuselage to, you know, explode. This is supposed to simulate an engine explosion. Sadly the fuse went boom. That cost a bit to fix.
Speaking of things that are the wrong length, that happened to the A380 wiring. Things like that aren't supposed to happen with catia and all that. I heard that various people blamed it on different contractors using different versions of catia which doesn't make much sense. Probably just a basic mistake some designer made that never got caught.
It's a manufacturing problem related to the connection between the fuselage stringers and skin. Alenia and Boeing have known about it for a while. Alenia can't make the stringers with a close enough tolerance on the landing (the "bottom" that bonds to the skin) to get a proper cure of the skin and Boeing refuses to relax the tolerances. Until they can agree on a manufacturing fix they have stopped work.
The fix for the parts already made is to put an exterior patch. That's usually a last resort but not unheard of. Customers don't like to get new airplanes with visible patches on them.
Alenia has scrapped two barrels and sectioned them to get a good look at the internals of the problem. The manufacturing fix will be pretty straightforward, probably a few extra plies in the skin to make up for some reduced thickness in the stringer landing.
Alenia likely did a facir (first article conformity inspection report) on the first barrel which is where they cut the first barrel up and look at sections to find wrinkles and other things. The problem is, they changed the mfg process on the stringers after the facir. Not unusual, but they blew it when they asserted that the new method would be equivalent to the original that passed the facir.
Wow, this is an unexpected pleasure. Your addon has really simplified my life (online at least). Thanks!
I just started using bp last week and here is something important. The version on the Firefox addon site is not the latest. I got 1.41 at
http://netticat.ath.cx/BetterPrivacy/BetterPrivacy.htm
because it added a bit of functionality. Specifically in the way it treats DOM storage.
DOM storage is not flash cookies (LSOs), it is a separate way sites can store data on your computer I had not heard about. The old version could only disable DS, but now BP can now treat DS like LSOs so it stays on but the data gets deleted on FF shutdown. Some sites like cnn video need DS turned on.
Also I set it to delete the default LSO. That one stores a list of every flash site you visit. Even if you turn Flash local storage completely off using:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html
you will see a list of visited sites on the last tab on that control. Deleting the default cookie gets rid of that list.
That animation reminds me of a job interview I had once...
I don't get it. It just prints out *Click* over and ov
Come to Canada, I'd be happy to sponsor you.
Um, random question here...how do you feel about indentured servitude?
So, it's like yelling "Castro" in a Cuban restaurant in Miami?
Exactly. Except instead of "Castro" it would be "Trudeau" and instead of a Cuban restaurant it would be a butter tart shop, and instead of Miami it would be Moose Jaw.
While the FA has no mention of Canada, the Canadian zeitgeist right now is very sensitive to Arctic sovereignty and Russia is one of the (belligerent) protagonists. Any time a Canadian hears "Russia" and "arctic" and "melting" the next word that comes to mind is "sovereignty".
So while it may appear unrelated to non-Canucks, to us it's a natural train of thought and an apropos thing to say in the context of TFA.
Given the Manhattan experience the US deserves mention as well for similar reasons.
Google "ss manhattan northwest passage".
Punko apparently made the mistake of assuming that Americans know as much about American policy as Canadians.
If you have ever looked at the springs and shock absorbers on a car then you have seen a tuned resonator.
If you're in marketing you call it an invisibility cloak. If you're an engineer you call it a tuned resonator and ask yourself why oh why you didn't go to medical school.
How about being an antisocial knob? Does that make me special?
Gasses have no static shear strength (no shear stress without shear flow) and are compressible, liquids have no static shear strength and are incompressible, and solids have static shear strength and are incompressible.
The emphasis on shear comes from the Mohr's circle, in a non flowing fluid the shear is always zero and Mohrs circle is always a point.
Good enough for engineering, physicists, being physicists, make it 5 levels more complicated.
You also have thixotropic fluids that develop a bit of static shear strength (they "stick" before they flow) and viscoelastic solids that will flow very slowly (eg glass). So talking about "states" of matter is really just a colloquial convenience.
It seems you can use some tools and concepts form fluid analysis to model granular continua. I wouldn't call them states of matter.
Could also be a picture of what happens when I try to talk to a woman in a bar.
Trying to silence the masses is impossible.
It's just my opinion that casting this as a freedom issue is to diminish the concept.
The underlying reality is that millions of people are obtaining things they have no right to. Most are doing it because they want it for free. Some may do it as a principled statement or as a protest of civil disobedience against the draconian *AA's but most don't.
Freedom is the right to say what you want to say and do what you want to do so long as it has *some* ethical justification. Downloading stuff isn't that.
I don't know how representative /. is of general IT community opinion but the vibes around here say "downloading can't be stopped and anyone who doesn't like it is stupid." That has to change.
The thing about fishing with nets is that they put regulations on them. For example you can't use gill nets. Some places they ban them altogether.
No no no, this isn't an editor this is kdawson. kdawson is to $COMPETENTEDITOR as Ed Wood is to $COMPETENTDIRECTOR.
One day he'll pass into internets mythology like Biff.
Let me get this straight...they have this giant ignition facility but they don't have the giant ignition key to start it. Boy are they going to be embarrassed. I bet the president will be there and everything.
So...if something is not digitalish does that make it analogy?