But you don't need 3 MW of power to move a car. Half the reason it uses so much energy is that A. two-thirds to three-quarters of the energy input is wasted (mostly in the form of heat), and B. another huge chunk of it is wasted lugging around that insanely heavy engine block and all the crap that it requires.
Well we all know there there is no heat generated by electric motors, and they, as well as the batteries weigh next to nothing.
There are two particular PDFs on that site the sum up the case of each party. (Free registration required). Scroll to bottom, and read the last two memorandums, one from each party.
Nutshell:
Autocad insists it licensed its software, and never sold it, and sites several cases.
Verner says it was sold regardless of the words used in the EULA, and further claims that the very cases sited by Autocad proves its point.
Interesting reading.
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But I'm worried that cremation has destroyed his chance to be resurrected in body at the Rapture.
Don't worry, an all powerful god would have foreseen this development and made backup provisions. Like many old programmers, he just burned out, and went into hibernation mode.
He's one with the Father and the Sun. Who could ask for more?
Because after WWI, we learnt that the cost of not rebuilding a society in our image, is that someone else will rebuild it in theirs.
We learned no such thing.
There were a lot of things that happened wrong after WWI, but failing to rebuild was not one of them, because Belgium, Holland and France were far more damaged than was Germany by the first world war.
Scorched earth never happened at the end of WW1. It did happen in WW2, with dozens of cities totally destroyed, huge chunks of industrial understructure sent by rail to Russia along with significant numbers of the people.
What we learned was you can't sign an armistice and leave the same groups of people in charge and expect them to honor commitments when you turn your back.
Rather heat sensitive, in comparison to other technologies, but the critical temperature of GeTe grystals is around 446 Celcius.
At room temp this stuff is rhombohedral structure, at at 446C it changes to a cubic structure. The size of these tiny crystals is so small that this temperature is easily reached.
Note that no liquid phase is involved here, its simply changing from a glass structure to a crystal structure.
This 446C temperature is not likely to be reached in the absence of other heat related destructive events, regardless of how tight your jeans are.
Nuclear winter is a largely discredited concept. It never did have a great deal of science behind it.
Air-burst nukes simply do not throw up enough dust to cause any kind of reduction of solar gain. Burning cities are simply not large enough in total area.
And the introduction of huge amounts of radiation has proven far less deadly to plant and animal life around Chernobyl than anyone imagined.
Radiation sickness would kill hundreds of millions, but Nuclear winter is fiction.
The idea that Russia had a bigger conventional force was bad intelligence, as has been known for at least ten years now.
In neither conventional nor nuclear kind of war, right now, would the US need allies against China or Russia because they'd both be fighting a conventional war.
Wrong on both counts.
The USSR had vastly larger standing armies than the US. Ill equipped, poorly trained, and badly lead, perhaps. But larger none the less. And large enough for the purpose of rolling over Western Europe.
As for your second point, the Idea that the US could invade Either China or Russia in a conventional war and get more than 100 miles from the border is preposterous.
Just because it only took 35 days to roar into Baghdad doesn't mean that result could be repeated against a large industrialized country with a large population and a homeland to defend.
Historically this has never been done on any consistent scale. Even occupations rebuilt the concurred territories with slave labor of the concurred.
(Say what you will about Great Britain, she acquire or conquered vast areas, and with a few exceptions, most notably the US and India, they simply turned if all back over to the locals after installing good government models.)
Much of the world is made up of the shattered remnants of previous countries, and no one suggest for an instant that this be undone.
Countries formed during the 20th century, such as the Soviet Union, seem much more subject to losing captive states even without themselves being conquered. Very few state captive since prior to 1900 have been reborn as their former independent states.
The idea of reconstruction of defeated states by the victorious is also relatively new. The Marshall Plan being the single biggest example.
Previously, and in some cases still today, scorched earth was the polcy. A significant case can be made that this change was and is a bad policy. A nation attacked, but ultimately victorious still is expected to bear the burden of repairing the attacker as well as themselves.
The concurred peoples often come out with better facilities than they had before, but have learned that making war has no lasting consequences other than direct casualties.
Other than hard drive failures, most computer problems are software issues. You can always grab the system restore disk and get back to square one. This is well within the capabilities of the high-school educated housewife. And if you fail, nobody dies.
More of a problem is the degree to which computers need service.
Most non-technical people expect them to work about the same as their Television. Plug it in, use it till you want a better one, then give it to the kids.
This seldom works in actual practice. You make a commitment to the computer, trusting it with way more stuff than you could possibly recreate, only to have it fail, taking with it your entire family history. (How many families will never have the shoe box of family photos to stir warm memories because of Dad's hard drive failure in 2007?)
Why should this be the case? Why should computers need so much attention?
The iconic Razr cell phone was at least as complex than your average computer, yet you turned it on as you walked out of the store and that was the last maintenance it ever got or ever needed.
Why after all these years are computers still in need of a constant attention of upgrades, service, defragging, re-installing and disk drive replacements?
I've been messing around with computers for 30 years and have been constantly amazed that every increase in performance is gobbled up by look-and-feel, and reliability improvements are marginal at best.
Ironically, the best way to destabilize a ponderous, oppressive government such as Iran's is to ensure the growth of a strong middle class in the target country with an educated and politically active youth.
That theory has been pretty well debunked in China. The oppressive communists are still in control generations after they became irrelevant elsewhere.
It hasn't been given a chance in North Korea.
Iran is starting to show some destabilization, but unless or until they throw off Islam as a governing principal, and the basis for their entire existence, it will never lead to anything like western freedoms.
You might more successfully argue that that Sanctions have never been effective.
Telling Iran we don't want them to have nuclear weaponry is pretty much proof positive of our intent to attack them if we don't get our way at some point.
Really?
The US told a lot of countries that they don't want them to have nuclear weapons.
Of those that ignored the US and acquired Nukes anyway, how many have been attacked? How many were attacked specifically to prevent them from getting nukes?
When your premise is so fundamentally wrong, why would anyone lend any credence to rest of your post?
Of course the larger correlation was also observed, but apparently ignored in the summary:
The same pattern kept turning up: The percentage of children born to unwed mothers, teenage mothers and mothers who hadn't completed high school kept peaking in January every year. Over the 13-year period, for example, 13.2% of January births were to teen mothers, compared with 12% in May -- a small but statistically significant difference, they say.
Spring break, and Back to school seem to correlate as well as anything, and both seem to correlate to higher instance of teen mothers. The numbers of teen mothers probably swamp any other significance.
The two economists examined birth-certificate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 52 million children born between 1989 and 2001, which represents virtually all of the births in the U.S. during those years. The same pattern kept turning up: The percentage of children born to unwed mothers, teenage mothers and mothers who hadn't completed high school kept peaking in January every year. Over the 13-year period, for example, 13.2% of January births were to teen mothers, compared with 12% in May -- a small but statistically significant difference, they say. --end-quote
So problem is more than adequately explained by being born to a teen mother, and winter birth need not be related at all.
Winter birth is probably attributable to spring break, and the re-emergence of summer fashions (read: skimpy) and horny young guys after a hard winter.
The real story is births to teen mothers burdens not only the mother, but also the baby. Winter has nothing to do with it.
"It is feared the sounds emitted are loud enough to damage eardrums and even cause fatal aneurysms." "
The professional protesters who travel from place to place to riot every time this (or similar) meetings are held seem to exhibit little fear. Look at the video on the first link. Several photographers didn't even bother to put down their cameras.
If you stand within 30 feet and remain stationary it might damage your ear drums, but because the beam is very focused its and vary directional its easy to get out of the way. ALL of the citations of "fatal aneurysms" point back to a single reporter named "Kim Dvorac" who cited un-named sources from the department of defense.
The protesters will simply show up with earplugs next time, and continue to smash store fronts, and torch cars, as usual. Apparently thats ok.
But lets not cause them any discomfort. After all, if this device is used on terrorists, it must be a terrorist weapon. It shouldn't be uses on people who merely show up and trash your city. Can't have that.
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But you don't need 3 MW of power to move a car. Half the reason it uses so much energy is that A. two-thirds to three-quarters of the energy input is wasted (mostly in the form of heat), and B. another huge chunk of it is wasted lugging around that insanely heavy engine block and all the crap that it requires.
Well we all know there there is no heat generated by electric motors, and they, as well as the batteries weigh next to nothing.
> In fact, the poster should have read the article.
Slippery slope.
Next you'll be asking slashdoters to read the whole post instead of just the title.
There are two particular PDFs on that site the sum up the case of each party. (Free registration required).
Scroll to bottom, and read the last two memorandums, one from each party.
Nutshell:
Autocad insists it licensed its software, and never sold it, and sites several cases.
Verner says it was sold regardless of the words used in the EULA, and further claims that the very cases sited by Autocad proves its point.
Interesting reading.
But I'm worried that cremation has destroyed his chance to be resurrected in body at the Rapture.
Don't worry, an all powerful god would have foreseen this development and made backup provisions. Like many old programmers, he just burned out, and went into hibernation mode.
He's one with the Father and the Sun. Who could ask for more?
That utility was there for far more than a few hours.
It was there last night, over 5 days after the initial upgrade to itunes was announced.
See up-thread. The "melting" is at or around 446C.
So, still safe to bake it into a cake....
Right, my physics is long ago. Thank you.
I meant liquid in the common usage.
You reinforce my point, some here were speculating that the change was from solid to liquid, (in the usual sense of the word), which is not the case.
Because after WWI, we learnt that the cost of not rebuilding a society in our image, is that someone else will rebuild it in theirs.
We learned no such thing.
There were a lot of things that happened wrong after WWI, but failing to rebuild was not one of them, because Belgium, Holland and France were far more damaged than was Germany by the first world war.
Scorched earth never happened at the end of WW1. It did happen in WW2, with dozens of cities totally destroyed, huge chunks of industrial understructure sent by rail to Russia along with significant numbers of the people.
What we learned was you can't sign an armistice and leave the same groups of people in charge and expect them to honor commitments when you turn your back.
Yes you are being paranoid. You already run a serious risk of losing all your data when you drop your Cell, so nothing changes here.
Other things will break first.
Rather heat sensitive, in comparison to other technologies, but the critical temperature of GeTe grystals is around 446 Celcius.
At room temp this stuff is rhombohedral structure, at at 446C it changes to a cubic structure. The size of these tiny crystals is so small that this temperature is easily reached.
Note that no liquid phase is involved here, its simply changing from a glass structure to a crystal structure.
This 446C temperature is not likely to be reached in the absence of other heat related destructive events, regardless of how tight your jeans are.
So they re-invented Alvin and the Chipmunks?
Gorgeous?
It barks.
Really. Who wants their home or office to look like a hold over from a 1920's industrial plant!?!
Nuclear winter is a largely discredited concept. It never did have a great deal of science behind it.
Air-burst nukes simply do not throw up enough dust to cause any kind of reduction of solar gain. Burning cities are simply not large enough in total area.
And the introduction of huge amounts of radiation has proven far less deadly to plant and animal life around Chernobyl than anyone imagined.
Radiation sickness would kill hundreds of millions, but Nuclear winter is fiction.
The idea that Russia had a bigger conventional force was bad intelligence, as has been known for at least ten years now.
In neither conventional nor nuclear kind of war, right now, would the US need allies against China or Russia because they'd both be fighting a conventional war.
Wrong on both counts.
The USSR had vastly larger standing armies than the US. Ill equipped, poorly trained, and badly lead, perhaps. But larger none the less. And large enough for the purpose of rolling over Western Europe.
As for your second point, the Idea that the US could invade Either China or Russia in a conventional war and get more than 100 miles from the border is preposterous.
Just because it only took 35 days to roar into Baghdad doesn't mean that result could be repeated against a large industrialized country with a large population and a homeland to defend.
By "new" I mean 20th century.
Historically this has never been done on any consistent scale. Even occupations rebuilt the concurred territories with slave labor of the concurred.
(Say what you will about Great Britain, she acquire or conquered vast areas, and with a few exceptions, most notably the US and India, they simply turned if all back over to the locals after installing good government models.)
Much of the world is made up of the shattered remnants of previous countries, and no one suggest for an instant that this be undone.
Countries formed during the 20th century, such as the Soviet Union, seem much more subject to losing captive states even without themselves being conquered. Very few state captive since prior to 1900 have been reborn as their former independent states.
The idea of reconstruction of defeated states by the victorious is also relatively new. The Marshall Plan being the single biggest example.
Previously, and in some cases still today, scorched earth was the polcy. A significant case can be made that this change was and is a bad policy. A nation attacked, but ultimately victorious still is expected to bear the burden of repairing the attacker as well as themselves.
The concurred peoples often come out with better facilities than they had before, but have learned that making war has no lasting consequences other than direct casualties.
Israel largely refuses to play this game.
There is a difference.
Other than hard drive failures, most computer problems are software issues. You can always grab the system restore disk and get back to square one. This is well within the capabilities of the high-school educated housewife. And if you fail, nobody dies.
More of a problem is the degree to which computers need service.
Most non-technical people expect them to work about the same as their Television. Plug it in, use it till you want a better one, then give it to the kids.
This seldom works in actual practice. You make a commitment to the computer, trusting it with way more stuff than you could possibly recreate, only to have it fail, taking with it your entire family history. (How many families will never have the shoe box of family photos to stir warm memories because of Dad's hard drive failure in 2007?)
Why should this be the case? Why should computers need so much attention?
The iconic Razr cell phone was at least as complex than your average computer, yet you turned it on as you walked out of the store and that was the last maintenance it ever got or ever needed.
Why after all these years are computers still in need of a constant attention of upgrades, service, defragging, re-installing and disk drive replacements?
I've been messing around with computers for 30 years and have been constantly amazed that every increase in performance is gobbled up by look-and-feel, and reliability improvements are marginal at best.
Ironically, the best way to destabilize a ponderous, oppressive government such as Iran's is to ensure the growth of a strong middle class in the target country with an educated and politically active youth.
That theory has been pretty well debunked in China. The oppressive communists are still in control generations after they became irrelevant elsewhere.
It hasn't been given a chance in North Korea.
Iran is starting to show some destabilization, but unless or until they throw off Islam as a governing principal, and the basis for their entire existence, it will never lead to anything like western freedoms.
You might more successfully argue that that Sanctions have never been effective.
Telling Iran we don't want them to have nuclear weaponry is pretty much proof positive of our intent to attack them if we don't get our way at some point.
Really?
The US told a lot of countries that they don't want them to have nuclear weapons.
Of those that ignored the US and acquired Nukes anyway, how many have been attacked?
How many were attacked specifically to prevent them from getting nukes?
When your premise is so fundamentally wrong, why would anyone lend any credence to rest of your post?
Its clear.
After being attacked a few times, Israel conquered the area, and intends to keep it.
At one time or another, most countries have lost lands to conqueroring nations. Most ancient and modern states were constructed this way.
This idea that conquered lands should be "given back" is a relatively new idea. (And one that, oddly, does not apply to Arab states.)
"eliminate other countries" has nothing to do with "Golan Heights".
We have been warned for years on end that coastal inundation would be the direct effect of polar melting.
But inundation should not be a delayed effect. It should appear immediately, and in direct proportion to the melting.
So where is it?
Where is the massive coastal flooding that was promised to be caused by this?
I have beachfront property. Or I will have as soon as the much promised flooding arrives.
Of course the larger correlation was also observed, but apparently ignored in the summary:
The same pattern kept turning up: The percentage of children born to unwed mothers, teenage mothers and mothers who hadn't completed high school kept peaking in January every year. Over the 13-year period, for example, 13.2% of January births were to teen mothers, compared with 12% in May -- a small but statistically significant difference, they say.
Spring break, and Back to school seem to correlate as well as anything, and both seem to correlate to higher instance of teen mothers. The numbers of teen mothers probably swamp any other significance.
From TFA:
The two economists examined birth-certificate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 52 million children born between 1989 and 2001, which represents virtually all of the births in the U.S. during those years. The same pattern kept turning up: The percentage of children born to unwed mothers, teenage mothers and mothers who hadn't completed high school kept peaking in January every year. Over the 13-year period, for example, 13.2% of January births were to teen mothers, compared with 12% in May -- a small but statistically significant difference, they say.
--end-quote
So problem is more than adequately explained by being born to a teen mother, and winter birth need not be related at all.
Winter birth is probably attributable to spring break, and the re-emergence of summer fashions (read: skimpy) and horny young guys after a hard winter.
The real story is births to teen mothers burdens not only the mother, but also the baby. Winter has nothing to do with it.
"It is feared the sounds emitted are loud enough to damage eardrums and even cause fatal aneurysms." "
The professional protesters who travel from place to place to riot every time this (or similar) meetings are held seem to exhibit little fear. Look at the video on the first link. Several photographers didn't even bother to put down their cameras.
If you stand within 30 feet and remain stationary it might damage your ear drums, but because the beam is very focused its and vary directional its easy to get out of the way.
ALL of the citations of "fatal aneurysms" point back to a single reporter named "Kim Dvorac" who cited un-named sources from the department of defense.
The protesters will simply show up with earplugs next time, and continue to smash store fronts, and torch cars, as usual. Apparently thats ok.
But lets not cause them any discomfort. After all, if this device is used on terrorists, it must be a terrorist weapon. It shouldn't be uses on people who merely show up and trash your city. Can't have that.