So you Yanks do keep the odd clear thinker around?* Good job, that. Bloody good job. I just hope the judges read the end notes too - there's a lot of good content in there, may ultimately be as useful to the process of achieving fair treatment as your well-crafted suggestions.
I may be a wee bit out of your jurisdiction but I maintain the appeal to fairness and reason presented in your paper holds universal appeal.
(Shakes head, walks away whistling.)
*Yeah, deliberate troll, on the basis that you're allowed to insult your friends. Deal.
It's all about total delta V, or change in velocity, and how much warning you get.
Nukes are big lumps of dV, ion engines are small streams of dV. There's a range of options in between. Small, continuous thrust over time can equal large, impulse thrust over a few seconds.
It all depends on when you can identify and engage the celestial body under discussion. The less warning, the shorter the time you have to apply the necessary dV for the effect you want. The effect you want is a change in velocity vector, and how you need to change the moving body to go faster | slower | different direction depends entirely on the orbital mechanics of the individual event. Work the problem when you find out about it.
By that logic, every cold calling CCA is also a self centered bastard who's ready to pop any second.
And yes, they're annoying as hell (maybe more than even spammers), but that doesn't make them more likely to go on killing sprees than the average Joe.
That would make a very interesting statistical study. It's quite possibly a transitive relationship, too.
I think the problem with reusable code is "who is asking for reusable code". The idea that it's a sin something expensively built can only be used once. That's a meme embedded by an accountant somewhere, I think, not a programmer. If you didn't need creativity, you wouldn't hire creative people, would you? I'm in superid's coder demographic, and very firmly against attempts to force old code where new code belongs.
If you want reusable code, buy a package, or a library from somewhere but know that when you do, you're buying an interface with friction in it somewhere and it will show up in the quality and overall costs.
"Democracy" doesn't seem to sound right in this context -- Is it pure democracy when you have so much legislation to read that you tend to skim bits, and let representatives - proxies, as it were - handle the rest? Answer: Perhaps, I think. Maybe not.
And "Republic" doesn't seem to sound right either, when there is so much potential for this sort of system to take direct action. Is this right? Answer: Also "perhaps".
How about a "Liberacy"? (a) Maybe, but it evokes the wrong sort of popular pianist to appeal to everyone. YMMV. But I think we've blurred the boundaries so far it's really hard to use the original terms for this sort of political party.
Well, it could be used for versioning at least and backup in case you delete or screw up by mistake
Look for de-duplicator software to make it to the desktop, then, very soon. Think "PVCS" but for whole drive images. You save an image, then just the differences from then on. Used in large data centre SAN arrays now, usually in the low-cost SATA corner used for backup where tape has too high a TCO and the recovery time objective isn't too oenerous. Worth a look.
Cyou please describe the moment when you gained the insight that led you into the analysis of aging as a group of symptoms that can be mitigated? And has your original inspiration materially changed from this first moment of insight?
They're 17 and 21 and no, you don't get pictures. But I assure you they are both drop-dead gorgeous, and the eldest is a certified grade-A geek and her level 70 Druid has epic flight form. The youngest teaches ballet. I married a lady programmer. NEENER NEENER NEENER!
I think there's less energy lost from waste heat than you think during electricity production. Large stationary power generation plants have the economy of scale that permits downstream reclamation of large amounts of what would be otherwise wasted exhaust heat. It's not uncommon for several cycles of cogeneration equipment to be placed in the primary turbine's exhaust combustion process, until the exhaust is pretty much lukewarm at the end of the process. For lower levels of temperature differential you use a closed cycle with a more highly volatile or lower pressure working fluid system. This means less heat is required to turn the working fluid into vapor, which expansion turns the turbine or pushes the piston.
Don't lower your expectations of your kids; they might surprise you....
You could do what we did. A very prominent wall in our living room is solid-packed bookshelf of several hundred fantasy and SF novels. I told each of our daughters that they were absolutely forbidden to read any of them.
Naturally, they were soon sneaking novels off the shelf and reading them in their room, and I suspect they've gone through at least 3/4 of the library by now.
There was absolutely no filtering other than that it reflects our taste in the genera. They're both Straight-A students (one in university now) and their conversation is consistently astute and challenging and full of fresh ideas, and they're both full of smiles and bounce. Mind you this could also because they told us to pull the plug on free-to-air/cable TV several years ago, so that source of brain Lanacaine was removed.
So to follow the thread, we have the full Pratchett at eye level, Asimov at the top left and Zelazny at the bottom right. The Heinlein juveniles were popular as were the Eddings Belgariad/Malloreon series.
Let 'em read it all; good minds will do the filtering themselves, and do a better job of it than second hand criticism.
A good way to find out is to go directly to the CERT web site and have a look at the vulnerability note they're talking about. Link here, if you trust me =) http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/484649/
2. Rocking out to the loudest concert in history without anyone outside the venue hearing a whisper of it (on second thought, the RIAA might require this, so maybe it's not so good)
Followed by a dead-black spaceship plummeting into a nearby sun.
I'd say that most likely, we're best off pursuing fusion power...
Hear hear. I doubt if we'll get the power density we need in the long run with anything less. Nothing like good ol' Mother Nature at her best.
In the mean time, there will be a large and diverse effort to lessen the dependency on imported sweet crude, most likely depending on what you have available -- wave power for the North Sea, perhaps, broad acreage solar here in Australia, manufactured fuels from coal, nuclear-manufactured ammonia chemistry and similar sources elsewhere. Stopgap solutions until then will need to match the local geography, physical and political climate. They'll probably all be represented.
In addition we'll need to exploit any energy differential we can tap as well, such as wave motion, any sort of temperature differential such as geothermal, oceanic wells, etc. Any place that's much colder or warmer than another place nearby is a candidate for a Stirling engine to tap into it.
On top of that, we'll simply need to throw less energy away, and we're all working on that.
By the time we run out of all the energy available to us, we'll all be somewhere else and the sun will be a brown dwarf surrounded by a photo opportunity.
The summary says 1MW will power 2000 homes -- is 500W/house a reasonable number? That's less than a single electric space heater. I hope they're not using that number in their scaling estimates!
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I may be a wee bit out of your jurisdiction but I maintain the appeal to fairness and reason presented in your paper holds universal appeal.
(Shakes head, walks away whistling.)
*Yeah, deliberate troll, on the basis that you're allowed to insult your friends. Deal.
Oh, wait...
Nukes are big lumps of dV, ion engines are small streams of dV. There's a range of options in between. Small, continuous thrust over time can equal large, impulse thrust over a few seconds.
It all depends on when you can identify and engage the celestial body under discussion. The less warning, the shorter the time you have to apply the necessary dV for the effect you want. The effect you want is a change in velocity vector, and how you need to change the moving body to go faster | slower | different direction depends entirely on the orbital mechanics of the individual event. Work the problem when you find out about it.
By that logic, every cold calling CCA is also a self centered bastard who's ready to pop any second.
And yes, they're annoying as hell (maybe more than even spammers), but that doesn't make them more likely to go on killing sprees than the average Joe.
That would make a very interesting statistical study. It's quite possibly a transitive relationship, too.
"Lux Aeterna" (find it and listen to it, and you'll understand.)
Often placed into the last track of an album of Holst's "The Planets" suite CD. Check the cover.
If you'd ever used it, you wouldn't ask that question.
Yours in Noodly Goodness,
FSM...
If you want reusable code, buy a package, or a library from somewhere but know that when you do, you're buying an interface with friction in it somewhere and it will show up in the quality and overall costs.
Society seems to have no tolerance for philatelists.
Indeed! We should stamp the movement philat!
You think you had it bad? We had to play Pong with wooden mallets!
92-95 is "ol' school?"
God, I feel old now...
I had a TRS-80 Model 1
I pre-date the integrated circuit, you insensitive clod!
Nobody will ever use more than 640 vacuum tubes on a single storage frame...
While I agree with you on principal, how do you prevent votes from being bought and sold as commodities?
Oh my, that one nearly cost me a keyboard. You're trying to infer that they aren't now?
And "Republic" doesn't seem to sound right either, when there is so much potential for this sort of system to take direct action. Is this right? Answer: Also "perhaps".
How about a "Liberacy"? (a) Maybe, but it evokes the wrong sort of popular pianist to appeal to everyone. YMMV. But I think we've blurred the boundaries so far it's really hard to use the original terms for this sort of political party.
But I think it's a great idea, myself.
Well, it could be used for versioning at least and backup in case you delete or screw up by mistake
Look for de-duplicator software to make it to the desktop, then, very soon. Think "PVCS" but for whole drive images. You save an image, then just the differences from then on. Used in large data centre SAN arrays now, usually in the low-cost SATA corner used for backup where tape has too high a TCO and the recovery time objective isn't too oenerous. Worth a look.
Cyou please describe the moment when you gained the insight that led you into the analysis of aging as a group of symptoms that can be mitigated? And has your original inspiration materially changed from this first moment of insight?
They're 17 and 21 and no, you don't get pictures. But I assure you they are both drop-dead gorgeous, and the eldest is a certified grade-A geek and her level 70 Druid has epic flight form. The youngest teaches ballet. I married a lady programmer. NEENER NEENER NEENER!
I think there's less energy lost from waste heat than you think during electricity production. Large stationary power generation plants have the economy of scale that permits downstream reclamation of large amounts of what would be otherwise wasted exhaust heat. It's not uncommon for several cycles of cogeneration equipment to be placed in the primary turbine's exhaust combustion process, until the exhaust is pretty much lukewarm at the end of the process. For lower levels of temperature differential you use a closed cycle with a more highly volatile or lower pressure working fluid system. This means less heat is required to turn the working fluid into vapor, which expansion turns the turbine or pushes the piston.
Don't lower your expectations of your kids; they might surprise you....
You could do what we did. A very prominent wall in our living room is solid-packed bookshelf of several hundred fantasy and SF novels. I told each of our daughters that they were absolutely forbidden to read any of them.
Naturally, they were soon sneaking novels off the shelf and reading them in their room, and I suspect they've gone through at least 3/4 of the library by now.
There was absolutely no filtering other than that it reflects our taste in the genera. They're both Straight-A students (one in university now) and their conversation is consistently astute and challenging and full of fresh ideas, and they're both full of smiles and bounce. Mind you this could also because they told us to pull the plug on free-to-air/cable TV several years ago, so that source of brain Lanacaine was removed.
So to follow the thread, we have the full Pratchett at eye level, Asimov at the top left and Zelazny at the bottom right. The Heinlein juveniles were popular as were the Eddings Belgariad/Malloreon series.
Let 'em read it all; good minds will do the filtering themselves, and do a better job of it than second hand criticism.
A good way to find out is to go directly to the CERT web site and have a look at the vulnerability note they're talking about. Link here, if you trust me =) http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/484649/
You discover that eBay prices are suddenly all in "Quatloos"
2. Rocking out to the loudest concert in history without anyone outside the venue hearing a whisper of it (on second thought, the RIAA might require this, so maybe it's not so good)
Followed by a dead-black spaceship plummeting into a nearby sun.
Somewhere there is a Linux mascot who is very confused by this thread.
what goes after Server0003?
Profit!!!
I'd say that most likely, we're best off pursuing fusion power...
Hear hear. I doubt if we'll get the power density we need in the long run with anything less. Nothing like good ol' Mother Nature at her best.
In the mean time, there will be a large and diverse effort to lessen the dependency on imported sweet crude, most likely depending on what you have available -- wave power for the North Sea, perhaps, broad acreage solar here in Australia, manufactured fuels from coal, nuclear-manufactured ammonia chemistry and similar sources elsewhere. Stopgap solutions until then will need to match the local geography, physical and political climate. They'll probably all be represented.
In addition we'll need to exploit any energy differential we can tap as well, such as wave motion, any sort of temperature differential such as geothermal, oceanic wells, etc. Any place that's much colder or warmer than another place nearby is a candidate for a Stirling engine to tap into it.
On top of that, we'll simply need to throw less energy away, and we're all working on that.
By the time we run out of all the energy available to us, we'll all be somewhere else and the sun will be a brown dwarf surrounded by a photo opportunity.
The summary says 1MW will power 2000 homes -- is 500W/house a reasonable number? That's less than a single electric space heater. I hope they're not using that number in their scaling estimates!