Actually, a lot of power lines in Australia *are* aluminium. A tree pulled them down in my street a year ago and it was 7-strand twisted Al, about 1in in diameter. The line they replaced it with is 4 cable insulated twist (3 phase + neutral in the one fat cable, much less ugly than the old 4 cables, less dangerous too if they come down again), that, again, was made of the same 7 strand Al.
General relativity does however state that the star is losing KE to gravity waves, this effect is so small that it would probably take many billions of years for the orbit to decay close enough for the star to be destroyed but it's still a noteworthy effect. Such orbital decay is predicted to be responsible for neutron binary collisions though, the best candidates we have for actually *detecting* gravity waves directly with LIGO et. al.
Unfortunatly most of our dangerous animals are snakes or spiders and don't make good hunting. With the possible exception of the dingo x german sheperd we've got running wild around our rural property...
Yeah, I see what your saying. The way I view is is that any half decent engineer can get a "real" job and earn significantly more than they would teaching/researching at a uni. So uni's can become a place where engineers who can't get a real job end up, in my experience it's been those who know the work but don't know enough english to get by in the real world.
My experience in physics however has been that people who go into teaching at a uni are those who really love what they're doing. Subsequently they not only know their work really well but come across as enthusiastic lecturers as well. So much so in fact that at USYD they have a "physics quotes competition", where students are encouraged to submit the funniest things their lecturers say. I'm not sure where the current results are, but the 2002 results are up here.
I'm an engineering dropout from Sydney Uni and subsequently agree with the article wholeheartedly. Not only do they make engineering hard with excessive workload but what teaching you do get is, for the most part, quite incomprehensible. The engineering dept. must rank lowest in any form of English test, they are disorganised, have "lecture notes" that are better used as toilet paper and seem to believe that fudging up a pass for a mass of students that didn't understand shit is a good thing. Several admin staff that I've talked to in the science faculty also have said that the "don't follow university policy", that was in regared to an application for previous credit when I changed to science.
I would also like to add that while I have failed 4 of the 5 electrical engineering subjects attempted (the one I passed was on MATLAB and had little to do with elec. eng. stuff), I have repeatedly achieved distinction or better in every physics subject I have attempted (so far 3, but the list shall grow as I'm now enrolled in science).
Of course engineering should be "hard" enough to ensure that buildings don't collapse etc. It should actually be *tought*. I shall also add that for a time the engineering dept. at USYD were forced to increase the difficulty of their course by the institute of engineers, they kept making it easier because they were unable to pass enough students. As someone who's been there I can honestly say that they can't teach for shit.
Or how about the young one who's up to date with the latest medicine or the older one who's experienced but still believes that any half infected limb requires amputation.
Exactly, with all our advanced medicine mothers giving birth are no longer dieing and old people just seem to linger around. Eventually war will remain the *only* way for us to die, and hence will be required for us to avoid overpopulation. With each comming generation more efficient ways of killing each other must be invented.
I'm a consumer who doesn't want ebooks. Like basically every "e" thing it's removing the "feeling and soul" (for want of a more concrete concept) of owning a book. Why do people buy books when they can borrow them from a library for free already? Because there's a lot of emotion connected with actually owning and feeling a book that runs far beyond the information held within it.
I'd like to liken it to e-mail. When you recieve a hand written letter from someone you get a piece of paper that they have touched, with their smell on it, embodied with their character. The actual text is often very secondary from the piece of paper itself. Why do people keep love letters for example? Because the actually paper is more important, stores more emotion, than the information contained in the text.
All this reminds me of a story posted here long ago (I'm too lazy to look it up) that reffered to a study done about what happens when you lock engineers away in an office and only let them communicate with the outside world via electronic means. From memory depression and loss of productivity were high on the list of side effects.
Perhaps in the Mysterious Future we'll have solar power generation on a global scale which would allow half the Earth to power itself and the dark half through a high temp superconductor grid...Ahhh nerds can dream.
Get a private enterprise to start a highly restrictive and secret weapon project, and then millions upon millions of backyard inventors everywhere will start their own free-and-hippy-like weapons project just to spite them.
Exactly, even a bar 2400W radiator, which IMO are really crap heaters, will heat more efficiently than this guy. This is another example of western culture's wastefull nature. Reverse cycle air-con would beat the shit outta this product effeciency wise, but people will probably still buy it because of the ambiance. Just like SUV's designed marketed at the city, this thing makes me sick.
Hmm, true. But the glasses they give you seemed to have some form of light sensor+battery+feedback to the LCDs that compensated for brightness or something. From memory I tried putting my finger over the light sensor but it didn't do anything on my set but did on others so I suspect the battery in mine was just dead, they still worked fine though.
However, this was about 7 years ago and it's likely that by now the glasses have either 1) been upgraded or 2) I'm remembering facts wrong.
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Actually, a lot of power lines in Australia *are* aluminium. A tree pulled them down in my street a year ago and it was 7-strand twisted Al, about 1in in diameter. The line they replaced it with is 4 cable insulated twist (3 phase + neutral in the one fat cable, much less ugly than the old 4 cables, less dangerous too if they come down again), that, again, was made of the same 7 strand Al.
Probably because to get enough of it disolved in the diesel to be worth it you'll need a high pressure fuel tank.
What's up with the fine amount? $200k + GST?
Or volume? *shudder*
General relativity does however state that the star is losing KE to gravity waves, this effect is so small that it would probably take many billions of years for the orbit to decay close enough for the star to be destroyed but it's still a noteworthy effect. Such orbital decay is predicted to be responsible for neutron binary collisions though, the best candidates we have for actually *detecting* gravity waves directly with LIGO et. al.
Not to mention "Bacon up that sausage boy!"
Unfortunatly most of our dangerous animals are snakes or spiders and don't make good hunting. With the possible exception of the dingo x german sheperd we've got running wild around our rural property...
Or perhaps a few thousand km's away from the center of a supernova explosion.
Yeah, I see what your saying. The way I view is is that any half decent engineer can get a "real" job and earn significantly more than they would teaching/researching at a uni. So uni's can become a place where engineers who can't get a real job end up, in my experience it's been those who know the work but don't know enough english to get by in the real world.
My experience in physics however has been that people who go into teaching at a uni are those who really love what they're doing. Subsequently they not only know their work really well but come across as enthusiastic lecturers as well. So much so in fact that at USYD they have a "physics quotes competition", where students are encouraged to submit the funniest things their lecturers say. I'm not sure where the current results are, but the 2002 results are up here.
I'm an engineering dropout from Sydney Uni and subsequently agree with the article wholeheartedly. Not only do they make engineering hard with excessive workload but what teaching you do get is, for the most part, quite incomprehensible. The engineering dept. must rank lowest in any form of English test, they are disorganised, have "lecture notes" that are better used as toilet paper and seem to believe that fudging up a pass for a mass of students that didn't understand shit is a good thing. Several admin staff that I've talked to in the science faculty also have said that the "don't follow university policy", that was in regared to an application for previous credit when I changed to science.
I would also like to add that while I have failed 4 of the 5 electrical engineering subjects attempted (the one I passed was on MATLAB and had little to do with elec. eng. stuff), I have repeatedly achieved distinction or better in every physics subject I have attempted (so far 3, but the list shall grow as I'm now enrolled in science).
Of course engineering should be "hard" enough to ensure that buildings don't collapse etc. It should actually be *tought*. I shall also add that for a time the engineering dept. at USYD were forced to increase the difficulty of their course by the institute of engineers, they kept making it easier because they were unable to pass enough students. As someone who's been there I can honestly say that they can't teach for shit.
Or how about the young one who's up to date with the latest medicine or the older one who's experienced but still believes that any half infected limb requires amputation.
Exactly, with all our advanced medicine mothers giving birth are no longer dieing and old people just seem to linger around. Eventually war will remain the *only* way for us to die, and hence will be required for us to avoid overpopulation. With each comming generation more efficient ways of killing each other must be invented.
And cries of "WOOHOO!" could be heard from darwinists across the globe.
I'd like to liken it to e-mail. When you recieve a hand written letter from someone you get a piece of paper that they have touched, with their smell on it, embodied with their character. The actual text is often very secondary from the piece of paper itself. Why do people keep love letters for example? Because the actually paper is more important, stores more emotion, than the information contained in the text.
All this reminds me of a story posted here long ago (I'm too lazy to look it up) that reffered to a study done about what happens when you lock engineers away in an office and only let them communicate with the outside world via electronic means. From memory depression and loss of productivity were high on the list of side effects.
In other news it's been found out that the cost to the government of producing a $100 bill is less than $1!
I'd imagine it'd be like a snowball fight...Only with microscopes instead of snowballs
Or maybe they just want global warming to kick in and transform Finland to a tropical paradise with the added bonus of very long summer days.
Personaly, I'm just waiting for nuclear winter to cancel out global warming.
Oblig. Futurama:
The probe you have dialed has crashed into a planet. Please make a note of it.
They also don't need this "repair shop"...Whatever it may be.
1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime therefore all odd numbers are prime.
Perhaps in the Mysterious Future we'll have solar power generation on a global scale which would allow half the Earth to power itself and the dark half through a high temp superconductor grid...Ahhh nerds can dream.
Get a private enterprise to start a highly restrictive and secret weapon project, and then millions upon millions of backyard inventors everywhere will start their own free-and-hippy-like weapons project just to spite them.
Don't make them in the first place.
Exactly, even a bar 2400W radiator, which IMO are really crap heaters, will heat more efficiently than this guy. This is another example of western culture's wastefull nature. Reverse cycle air-con would beat the shit outta this product effeciency wise, but people will probably still buy it because of the ambiance. Just like SUV's designed marketed at the city, this thing makes me sick.
Hmm, true. But the glasses they give you seemed to have some form of light sensor+battery+feedback to the LCDs that compensated for brightness or something. From memory I tried putting my finger over the light sensor but it didn't do anything on my set but did on others so I suspect the battery in mine was just dead, they still worked fine though.
However, this was about 7 years ago and it's likely that by now the glasses have either 1) been upgraded or 2) I'm remembering facts wrong.