The power generation plants use purpose built gas turbines designed specifically for electrical generation with methane fuel. they're large, heavy, and designed for longer duty than aircraft engines.
Don't send a replacement robot... Just send the guilty hacker to undo the damage they did. New firmware and the hardware needed to bring it back to life and instructions for doing the install.
Did I say anything about supplying a Earth-return vehicle? I didn't think so.
Yeah, OK, I'll put that 230 foot dish on my 60 foot by 120 foot property, somewhere in the back yard perhaps, and transmit with 400kW into the skyline. Oh, I'm only 15 miles from a major naval base and around 6 miles from an Air Force base. I'm sure no one will notice...
I think I'd have better luck hacking the Chinese who hack NASA's system.
It's vs kerosene... Methane maintains the highest ratio of hydrogen to carbon, is a readily available hydrocarbon, and is safer and easier to store and transfer than LH2. If you're looking to do refueling in space, CH4 is easier to maintain for long periods of time than LH2, which has to be maintained at much lower temperatures.
I remember them being terribly slow (895 kHz), glitchy, having poor video quality and the storage being very unreliable. The Apple ][ was vastly superior. But that's just my memory...
VIC-20? And you claim they're young... I remember when the PET came out. Programming Apple ]['s. The very first IBM PC's. PDP's and Pr1me's. Medusa CAD on Pr1me, that was cutting edge. When I interned we were using Honeywell computers. Take your VIC-20 and get off my lawn.
If, during that time, several companies that didn't effectively didn't exist in your market appear and then exceed your revenue, while your company misses opportunities time and time again... Then yes, it was their decade to lose and they lost it.
You're forgetting that one of those OEM's making stuff with Intel CPU's is Apple itself. If the market collapses to the point where Intel, with it's war-chest, and all it's R&D muscle, can't survive... Then Apple is probably hurting as well and would not be in a position to "rescue" Intel.
In all honesty, the best thing for hunting game would be a bow of some sort, because it's silent. It may not have a mushrooming head[emphasis mine], but at least you won't scare away all other game within a kilometer radius.
Clearly not a hunter. In most states, you are legally required to use a broadhead arrow point which is at least 7/8 inch across. Some of these DO expand on impact, opening up to be a couple inches across.
An appropriate handgun can be quite effective as a hunting tool. In some part of the country it's a necessity to carry some kind of gun for defense against wild game -- you may not be the highest animal on the food chain.
2kW average may do the job for the most part... You can argue that the heating system, stove and hot water heater should run on gas... but in the South, we like our air conditioning. 2kW won't even kick over the compressor in my home's system. I recently did the calculation for what I need, in terms of a backup generator. It was on the order of 10-12 kW to handle the peak load (HVAC startup).
And they are, as long as you understand that they are not trying to compete at the level of a core i7. If you need that kind of x86 performance you have one choice, Intel, and you will pay their premium tier pricing to get it... AMD stumbled with the release of the FX series, hopefully as they move forward they will remain competitive.
A lot of items made for sale in the U.S. can not be economically repaired. Welded plastic components that can't be dis-assembled to gain access to the interior. Components that press together with an impossible to separate interference fit or spring retainer that is not designed to be removed. Cheap parts designed to be disposable. They're everywhere.
Should have purged the machine and made a final pass with conductive resin loaded in the machine. Then the machine could have printed the circuit traces on the surface of the part.
For what it's worth, this is reminiscent of old Radio Shack kits.
Just to re-iterate the dozen or so replies so far...
Don't fuck with the companies laptop. It doesn't belong to you. It's not your property. The companies disk image may be configured a specific way for security reasons; you can't just make changes to it without asking permission. As for tracking and keylogging, some companies use keylogging software to measure productivity. If you bypass the software, then you're productivity will appear to be ZERO.
For personal use on trips buy a tablet or netbook -- something light and thin that you can slip in along side the company laptop in your baggage.
Why buy Nasa? Just hire all the engineers; a lot of them are looking for jobs right now anyway. If you want to get a jump start on the hardware, buy SpaceX and/or Orbital Sciences. You could theoretically go for broke and buy Boeing and Lockheed -- $100 Billion might be just enough to grab them both; but, they probably would not be a good fit for the Apple corporate culture.
Actually, they do want you to use less energy. The energy producer's short-term outlook is difficult, as they shut down old plants where mandated by new EPA rules and look to build very expensive, highly efficient and clean(-er) burning plants to replace those. In he near-term there is an assumption that short falls in capacity will be made up for through increasing energy efficiency at the energy consumer.
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The power generation plants use purpose built gas turbines designed specifically for electrical generation with methane fuel. they're large, heavy, and designed for longer duty than aircraft engines.
As they're dumping data from Curiosity, downwloaded via DSN, how do you think it gets to the JPL and various university computers? Hmmm?
Don't send a replacement robot... Just send the guilty hacker to undo the damage they did. New firmware and the hardware needed to bring it back to life and instructions for doing the install.
Did I say anything about supplying a Earth-return vehicle? I didn't think so.
Yeah, OK, I'll put that 230 foot dish on my 60 foot by 120 foot property, somewhere in the back yard perhaps, and transmit with 400kW into the skyline. Oh, I'm only 15 miles from a major naval base and around 6 miles from an Air Force base. I'm sure no one will notice...
I think I'd have better luck hacking the Chinese who hack NASA's system.
It's vs kerosene... Methane maintains the highest ratio of hydrogen to carbon, is a readily available hydrocarbon, and is safer and easier to store and transfer than LH2. If you're looking to do refueling in space, CH4 is easier to maintain for long periods of time than LH2, which has to be maintained at much lower temperatures.
I remember them being terribly slow (895 kHz), glitchy, having poor video quality and the storage being very unreliable. The Apple ][ was vastly superior. But that's just my memory...
Damn. I just realized I'm getting old... *grabs bottle of whiskey*
VIC-20? And you claim they're young... I remember when the PET came out. Programming Apple ]['s. The very first IBM PC's. PDP's and Pr1me's. Medusa CAD on Pr1me, that was cutting edge. When I interned we were using Honeywell computers. Take your VIC-20 and get off my lawn.
If, during that time, several companies that didn't effectively didn't exist in your market appear and then exceed your revenue, while your company misses opportunities time and time again... Then yes, it was their decade to lose and they lost it.
You're forgetting that one of those OEM's making stuff with Intel CPU's is Apple itself. If the market collapses to the point where Intel, with it's war-chest, and all it's R&D muscle, can't survive... Then Apple is probably hurting as well and would not be in a position to "rescue" Intel.
With a market cap of ~$130B, I don't think Apple will be buying intel any time soon.
In all honesty, the best thing for hunting game would be a bow of some sort, because it's silent. It may not have a mushrooming head[emphasis mine], but at least you won't scare away all other game within a kilometer radius.
Clearly not a hunter. In most states, you are legally required to use a broadhead arrow point which is at least 7/8 inch across. Some of these DO expand on impact, opening up to be a couple inches across.
An appropriate handgun can be quite effective as a hunting tool. In some part of the country it's a necessity to carry some kind of gun for defense against wild game -- you may not be the highest animal on the food chain.
Run a Windows XP VM on the Windows 7 machine and install the IDE in the VM. You have VMs set up to test your code in anyway, right?
2kW average may do the job for the most part... You can argue that the heating system, stove and hot water heater should run on gas... but in the South, we like our air conditioning. 2kW won't even kick over the compressor in my home's system. I recently did the calculation for what I need, in terms of a backup generator. It was on the order of 10-12 kW to handle the peak load (HVAC startup).
And they are, as long as you understand that they are not trying to compete at the level of a core i7. If you need that kind of x86 performance you have one choice, Intel, and you will pay their premium tier pricing to get it... AMD stumbled with the release of the FX series, hopefully as they move forward they will remain competitive.
A lot of items made for sale in the U.S. can not be economically repaired. Welded plastic components that can't be dis-assembled to gain access to the interior. Components that press together with an impossible to separate interference fit or spring retainer that is not designed to be removed. Cheap parts designed to be disposable. They're everywhere.
White shirt with coffee stain becomes a black shirt with a dye soak. Have one like that myself
Should have purged the machine and made a final pass with conductive resin loaded in the machine. Then the machine could have printed the circuit traces on the surface of the part. For what it's worth, this is reminiscent of old Radio Shack kits.
Because there are something like 200 billion stars in the Milky Way. Feeling insignificant yet?
Technically, yes. That massive gravitational anchor we circle which provides all of our heat and light is a smallish star.
Just to re-iterate the dozen or so replies so far...
Don't fuck with the companies laptop. It doesn't belong to you. It's not your property. The companies disk image may be configured a specific way for security reasons; you can't just make changes to it without asking permission. As for tracking and keylogging, some companies use keylogging software to measure productivity. If you bypass the software, then you're productivity will appear to be ZERO.
For personal use on trips buy a tablet or netbook -- something light and thin that you can slip in along side the company laptop in your baggage.
Wouldn't match the decor.
Why buy Nasa? Just hire all the engineers; a lot of them are looking for jobs right now anyway. If you want to get a jump start on the hardware, buy SpaceX and/or Orbital Sciences. You could theoretically go for broke and buy Boeing and Lockheed -- $100 Billion might be just enough to grab them both; but, they probably would not be a good fit for the Apple corporate culture.
Brain: We must prepare for tomorrow night
Pinky: Why, what are we doing tomorrow night?
Brain: We're going to go to Cupertino.
Pinky: What will we do when we get there?
Brain: The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world!
Actually, they do want you to use less energy. The energy producer's short-term outlook is difficult, as they shut down old plants where mandated by new EPA rules and look to build very expensive, highly efficient and clean(-er) burning plants to replace those. In he near-term there is an assumption that short falls in capacity will be made up for through increasing energy efficiency at the energy consumer.