There are other commercial plants too, such as in Cape Coral, FL. Google gave me this (I'm sure there are more, this was the first site listed) article which says:
But the "technology of choice" these days is reverse osmosis, a process used in home water purification systems as well as in large commercial plants like the one serving Cape Coral, Florida, which produces 15 million gallons of desalinated ocean water a day.
The funny things is that the Tampa people should know better since Cape Coral is only an hour and half drive south of Tampa.
It would be hard to deny the source of inspiration for when I did research in antimatter storage. I didn't quite get warp drive, but at least I was able to store a little bit in a bucket sized container. FYI: The best antimatter storage technology today (small scale, not including particle accelerators...) contains enough antimatter to heat a drop of water by 1/20 degree centigrade, a little short of a city destroying explosion.
It doesn't necessarily combine with the hydrocarbons in the gasoline. Instead it is supposed to increase the temperature and flame/ignition speed of the gas so that it burns better before being removed from the cylinder.
If you read another post of mine a ways up, some experimental evidence indicates this doesn't make a difference though.
I used to not care much about music, only occasionally listening to the radio while in the car. I didn't own a single music CD. Then I went to college where I learned that the internet is useful if you have more than 4 kb/sec bandwidth. I downloaded music from bands that I heard on the radio, and even new ones. I have now purchased several CD's since its nice to actually own the CD's and because I think the artists deserve money for making good music. Now only if the money actually went to the musicians...
Anyways, Kazaa is the only reason that I've spent money on music. Heaven forbid the music industry has to make a quality product like every other industry in order to get sales.
The LHC reaches a peak energy of 14 TeV while I believe the SSC would have reached 20 TeV. Part of what made the LHC better was that it was built in existing tunnels at CERN, which saved a lot of money.
They are already looking into the creation of a Very Large Hadron Collider with possible energies as high as 100 TeV.
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The International Astronomical Union released a statement (a little dated) that they would not consider changing the status of Pluto. It can be found here.
The IAU is the body that would make such an official decision and it seems they don't want to change it.
This is one way to think of vacuum pressure. These particles, called virtual particles, appear out of nothing and disappear into nothing, but do it so quick enough that conservation of energy/matter (they are one and the same) is not broken. These virtual particles appear and disappear all over the place, even in a pure vacuum.
Vacuum pressure (I think zero point energy is another name for this) occurs when you place two flat metal plates together in this pure vacuum. Since particles act like waves, if a particle appears between the plates its wavelength has to be a multiple of the space between the plates. Basically some particles fit between the plates and others don't. So now some of these virtual particles dont appear between the plates. But this means there are more virtual particles outside the plates than inside, hence you get a force pushing the plates together. I believe this has been observed in experiment. The other interesting thing though, is that you have less energy between the plates than outside the plates. But the outside is a pure vacuum with zero (essentially) energy. So this is how you create negeative energy, which there are theories that if you have enough negative energy you can do wierd things like worm holes and warp drive, etc.
Researchers who added E. coli toxins to a dish containing rapidly dividing cancer cells could almost brought the cancerous growth to a halt.
I can think of a quite a few things you add to the dish that would bring the cancerous growth to a halt, like concentrated hydochloric acid, plutonium or lit thermite.
Caltech still has a nice working spud launcher. The tests of it I saw involved firing a potato or frozen orange (unfrozen ones disintegrate) through a cinder block. The cannon is made out of some large metal pipe and runs only off of compressed air, no explosives.
Take 32 bit integers and floating point numbers (sorry, I don't have info for 16 bit floating point numbers). A 32 integer is between 0 and 4,294,967,296. Instead, a 32 bit floating point goes from 1.175494351e-38 to 3.402823466e+38. The difference is that ints cover about 9 orders of magnitude (from 1 to max), while the floating point covers about 76 orders of magnitude. It is the same amount of information, but some of the information is used for the exponent, reducing the number of digits in the actual number.
Think of pong, in its basic form it has three polygons: the two paddles and a ball. They just have one 3D (this is suppose to be a fast system) game with ~10,000 polygons or 10 games with 1000 polygons, so its really the equivalent of 32K games.
Depending on how much you need to move your fingers for these to register a hit, it would seem it should reduce RSI. Instead of having to press down a key, you only need to move your finger a small amount. I imagine as the technology improves a little, that it could be better for your hands than normal keyboards. I seem to picture it not as tapping the hard surface (something that may be damaging as other comments mention) but as merely wiggling your fingers a little, since it should require no pressure. On the other hand, how well you can well you can type without any such pressure may be a bigger issue.
I would think there are bigger problems using VB for this. I used VB once (I know, I am ashamed of it) when I was adding some pretty graphics to an even older BASIC program that did number crunching. It ran extremely slow. I am not sure if this has changed recently. But I was actually able to take the time to rewrite it in c++ and run it before the VB finished running. It would seem that such problems would knock a distributive computing back to the stone ages in terms of speed.
I find it odd that they refer to this is the first. I could easily be wrong. But I thought Cape Coral, FL (a 2.5 hr south of tampa, 1.5 hr when I am driving) had a large reverse osmosis desalination plant. The second link even refers to how this is the more power efficient method. I'm pretty sure this place was in operation, since I remember several years back there was talk of taking a field trip from my high school to see it. We also mentioned how it differed from the system of wells that we used (in Fort Myers, the town across the river from Cape Coral)
I don't see what the problem is. My 386 requires only a cool 1 W of power with no needs for fans. I'm sure if it even made noise, the 40 lb case would block it.
I have a long hotmail email address, so I have probably avoided brute force spam. But what I find interesting is that I recieve a huge amount of spam on my university email, which I will only use for business and post on my website as a picture. I created my hotmail account just for contests and stuff (I'm too cheap to buy a new computer, so I try to win one instead). I must have signed that account up for quite a few contests, etc. The only junk mail I get are hotmail announcements and a newsletter that is halfway interesting. Not that I want the spam, but I would like it better if my junk email got more spam than my business one.
How appropriate of a name for the planet: Calypso. She put her efforts into distracting Odysseus from his real goal to go home. I don't think this game is going to distract me and keep me from my real life for seven years like Odysseus though.
I've seen several articles now on how to use Pringles or other food cans as an antenna. But the one question that I have not found an answer to is which flavor gets the strongest signal?
The most complete listing I have seen is in the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. My copy is a little out dated, but it lists a lot of mesons and baryons. Most of the are just different energies of the same particle, but it gives the decays, etc. of each. I always find the definition of a "type of particle" iffy. Physicists now just see a resonance or a bump on a graph and call it a particle so you end up with a huge list of particles that are just different excitations of others. Its not like the old days where you saw a funny looking track in some detector and called it a new particle.
There is a pattern to pi in Hex. There is a well known equation to calculate the digits of pie in hex (im sure google knows). Of course converting it to decimal requires you to add smaller and smaller fractions of 16^n, so it doesnt get you anywhere.
My watch is not radioactive, I've checked that before. I've been bored and checked various things around my house to see what was the most radioactive, and as expected it seems that dishes and plates are the most. Ceramics contain small amounts of radioactivity from when the materials were dug out of the ground. And no, they were not Fiesta-ware, the dishes that used uranium oxide as an orange pigment. I imagine if you were carrying a set of those dishes you would set detectors off from a long distance away. I got ahold of one once, and it pegged the meter. That was far more than when a friend who had her thyroid treated asked me to measure the radiation she was giving off. The plates were made up until 1989 when the company went under for reasons other than their use of uranium (don't know why, but maybe they died of cancer...) so it is hard to find them now.
Its a good thing I don't live in NYC, being a physicist I've gained a helathy glow over the years.
I might not actually glow as my friends claim, but after noticing some variations in background radiations once, I took some measurements. I found out that my right hand is more radioactive than the left and hence changed the background radiation depending on which hand I held the detector in. Could someone from NYC tell me where the detectors are, so if I ever use the subways I know which side to walk on?
This is why those of us really commited to music keep our hair short so we play our music louder than 165 dB. All of those "rock stars" and head bangers that have long hair just like quite, soothing music.
I found that some of this stuff applies real well to reality. After a term of hard work in a topology class, the most important and practical thing I have learned is that it is impossible to tie shoe laces in four dimensions. Thanks to the work of generations of mathematicians, we know not to use shoe laces if another dimension were ever discovered. If it were not for mathematicians, how else would you be prepared for hiking in the fourth dimension?
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There are other commercial plants too, such as in Cape Coral, FL. Google gave me this (I'm sure there are more, this was the first site listed) article which says:
The funny things is that the Tampa people should know better since Cape Coral is only an hour and half drive south of Tampa.
It would be hard to deny the source of inspiration for when I did research in antimatter storage. I didn't quite get warp drive, but at least I was able to store a little bit in a bucket sized container. FYI: The best antimatter storage technology today (small scale, not including particle accelerators...) contains enough antimatter to heat a drop of water by 1/20 degree centigrade, a little short of a city destroying explosion.
It doesn't necessarily combine with the hydrocarbons in the gasoline. Instead it is supposed to increase the temperature and flame/ignition speed of the gas so that it burns better before being removed from the cylinder.
If you read another post of mine a ways up, some experimental evidence indicates this doesn't make a difference though.
I used to not care much about music, only occasionally listening to the radio while in the car. I didn't own a single music CD. Then I went to college where I learned that the internet is useful if you have more than 4 kb/sec bandwidth. I downloaded music from bands that I heard on the radio, and even new ones. I have now purchased several CD's since its nice to actually own the CD's and because I think the artists deserve money for making good music. Now only if the money actually went to the musicians...
Anyways, Kazaa is the only reason that I've spent money on music. Heaven forbid the music industry has to make a quality product like every other industry in order to get sales.
The LHC reaches a peak energy of 14 TeV while I believe the SSC would have reached 20 TeV. Part of what made the LHC better was that it was built in existing tunnels at CERN, which saved a lot of money.
They are already looking into the creation of a Very Large Hadron Collider with possible energies as high as 100 TeV.
The International Astronomical Union released a statement (a little dated) that they would not consider changing the status of Pluto. It can be found here.
The IAU is the body that would make such an official decision and it seems they don't want to change it.
They say physicists can predict the universe 5 billion years from now better than meteorologists can predict the weather five days from now.
This is one way to think of vacuum pressure. These particles, called virtual particles, appear out of nothing and disappear into nothing, but do it so quick enough that conservation of energy/matter (they are one and the same) is not broken. These virtual particles appear and disappear all over the place, even in a pure vacuum.
Vacuum pressure (I think zero point energy is another name for this) occurs when you place two flat metal plates together in this pure vacuum. Since particles act like waves, if a particle appears between the plates its wavelength has to be a multiple of the space between the plates. Basically some particles fit between the plates and others don't. So now some of these virtual particles dont appear between the plates. But this means there are more virtual particles outside the plates than inside, hence you get a force pushing the plates together. I believe this has been observed in experiment. The other interesting thing though, is that you have less energy between the plates than outside the plates. But the outside is a pure vacuum with zero (essentially) energy. So this is how you create negeative energy, which there are theories that if you have enough negative energy you can do wierd things like worm holes and warp drive, etc.
Researchers who added E. coli toxins to a dish containing rapidly dividing cancer cells could almost brought the cancerous growth to a halt.
I can think of a quite a few things you add to the dish that would bring the cancerous growth to a halt, like concentrated hydochloric acid, plutonium or lit thermite.
Caltech still has a nice working spud launcher. The tests of it I saw involved firing a potato or frozen orange (unfrozen ones disintegrate) through a cinder block. The cannon is made out of some large metal pipe and runs only off of compressed air, no explosives.
Take 32 bit integers and floating point numbers (sorry, I don't have info for 16 bit floating point numbers). A 32 integer is between 0 and 4,294,967,296. Instead, a 32 bit floating point goes from 1.175494351e-38 to 3.402823466e+38. The difference is that ints cover about 9 orders of magnitude (from 1 to max), while the floating point covers about 76 orders of magnitude. It is the same amount of information, but some of the information is used for the exponent, reducing the number of digits in the actual number.
Think of pong, in its basic form it has three polygons: the two paddles and a ball. They just have one 3D (this is suppose to be a fast system) game with ~10,000 polygons or 10 games with 1000 polygons, so its really the equivalent of 32K games.
Depending on how much you need to move your fingers for these to register a hit, it would seem it should reduce RSI. Instead of having to press down a key, you only need to move your finger a small amount. I imagine as the technology improves a little, that it could be better for your hands than normal keyboards. I seem to picture it not as tapping the hard surface (something that may be damaging as other comments mention) but as merely wiggling your fingers a little, since it should require no pressure. On the other hand, how well you can well you can type without any such pressure may be a bigger issue.
I would think there are bigger problems using VB for this. I used VB once (I know, I am ashamed of it) when I was adding some pretty graphics to an even older BASIC program that did number crunching. It ran extremely slow. I am not sure if this has changed recently. But I was actually able to take the time to rewrite it in c++ and run it before the VB finished running. It would seem that such problems would knock a distributive computing back to the stone ages in terms of speed.
I find it odd that they refer to this is the first. I could easily be wrong. But I thought Cape Coral, FL (a 2.5 hr south of tampa, 1.5 hr when I am driving) had a large reverse osmosis desalination plant. The second link even refers to how this is the more power efficient method. I'm pretty sure this place was in operation, since I remember several years back there was talk of taking a field trip from my high school to see it. We also mentioned how it differed from the system of wells that we used (in Fort Myers, the town across the river from Cape Coral)
I don't see what the problem is. My 386 requires only a cool 1 W of power with no needs for fans. I'm sure if it even made noise, the 40 lb case would block it.
I have a long hotmail email address, so I have probably avoided brute force spam. But what I find interesting is that I recieve a huge amount of spam on my university email, which I will only use for business and post on my website as a picture. I created my hotmail account just for contests and stuff (I'm too cheap to buy a new computer, so I try to win one instead). I must have signed that account up for quite a few contests, etc. The only junk mail I get are hotmail announcements and a newsletter that is halfway interesting. Not that I want the spam, but I would like it better if my junk email got more spam than my business one.
How appropriate of a name for the planet: Calypso. She put her efforts into distracting Odysseus from his real goal to go home. I don't think this game is going to distract me and keep me from my real life for seven years like Odysseus though.
I've seen several articles now on how to use Pringles or other food cans as an antenna. But the one question that I have not found an answer to is which flavor gets the strongest signal?
The most complete listing I have seen is in the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. My copy is a little out dated, but it lists a lot of mesons and baryons. Most of the are just different energies of the same particle, but it gives the decays, etc. of each. I always find the definition of a "type of particle" iffy. Physicists now just see a resonance or a bump on a graph and call it a particle so you end up with a huge list of particles that are just different excitations of others. Its not like the old days where you saw a funny looking track in some detector and called it a new particle.
There is a pattern to pi in Hex. There is a well known equation to calculate the digits of pie in hex (im sure google knows). Of course converting it to decimal requires you to add smaller and smaller fractions of 16^n, so it doesnt get you anywhere.
My watch is not radioactive, I've checked that before. I've been bored and checked various things around my house to see what was the most radioactive, and as expected it seems that dishes and plates are the most. Ceramics contain small amounts of radioactivity from when the materials were dug out of the ground. And no, they were not Fiesta-ware, the dishes that used uranium oxide as an orange pigment. I imagine if you were carrying a set of those dishes you would set detectors off from a long distance away. I got ahold of one once, and it pegged the meter. That was far more than when a friend who had her thyroid treated asked me to measure the radiation she was giving off. The plates were made up until 1989 when the company went under for reasons other than their use of uranium (don't know why, but maybe they died of cancer...) so it is hard to find them now.
Its a good thing I don't live in NYC, being a physicist I've gained a helathy glow over the years.
I might not actually glow as my friends claim, but after noticing some variations in background radiations once, I took some measurements. I found out that my right hand is more radioactive than the left and hence changed the background radiation depending on which hand I held the detector in. Could someone from NYC tell me where the detectors are, so if I ever use the subways I know which side to walk on?
This is why those of us really commited to music keep our hair short so we play our music louder than 165 dB. All of those "rock stars" and head bangers that have long hair just like quite, soothing music.
I found that some of this stuff applies real well to reality. After a term of hard work in a topology class, the most important and practical thing I have learned is that it is impossible to tie shoe laces in four dimensions. Thanks to the work of generations of mathematicians, we know not to use shoe laces if another dimension were ever discovered. If it were not for mathematicians, how else would you be prepared for hiking in the fourth dimension?