When I was at UBC in 1980 we had 2 Chinese grad students holed in a basement lab. In their spare time they were taking a Tektronix graphics terminal apart chip by chip, component by component, and sending the info home.
20 years ago I had a buddy who's older brother owned one of those 1 hr foto places. He had 2 big albums full of hardcore porn pictures, all of which had been culled from film his customers had brought in. Truly there is nothing new under the sun.
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"Only the Sith deal in absolutes" or something like that. You are of course right. Provided what you start with is beer, adding things to make it taste better is not always bad. I love cherry Kriek, winter pudding ale is good too and I once tried a fantastic apricot beer from Edmonton. What is bad is taking out things from beer like barley malt and replacing it with fructose syrup so the beer can be made faster and cheaper.
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Barley Malt - Hops - Yeast - Water
If it contains these things and only these things it's beer. If it contains anything else its _not_ beer. Under the heading of anything else we would find the corn and rice sugar used in great amounts by most of big American beer brands. I'm not saying I'd turn down a cold Coors on a hot day, but I'd much sooner have a Fat Tire or a nice Red Hook ESB. I guess I like a beer with more...well...beer in it.
Which is why we use low frequencies for power transmission. There should be a mod for "true but completely irrelevant".
At normal distribution frequency 60 Hz North Am., 50 Hz Europe and elsewhere skin effect has no meaningful effect on resistance. From the wiki you thoughtfully linked to, skin depth in copper at 60hz is 8.57 mm. In other words, until the wire diameter hits 17.14 mm (about 3/4") skin effect is negligible. As a point of comparisom, standard house wire is 14 gauge with a diameter of about 1.6 mm.
Of course the cron job on the server that ran 10 days later and found that you hadn't touched a certain file in a week deleted your managers account. It wasn't you.
Your dad thinks "video games"=for kids. His brain cannot cope with the concept that he might be wrong and that in fact games=fun at any age. Or, maybe he's bitter and secretly jealous because he works 40 + hours a week and never sees you do anything but "play". I bet he watches (pick one or more) baseball, football, b-ball, golf or whatever and considers them to be worthwile manly type pursuits. It never would occur to him that these are also "games". Or, maybe he's just pissed because you keep fragging his ass whenever you play conterstrike.
Give us a break. The cops get a big stack of electrical bills, all the bills for a neighborhood. If every house on a street consumed between 2500 and 3500 kWh except for one house that consumed 9000 kWh well then they know what door to knock on don't they. Cops around here do it so often the (marijuana) growers now as a matter of course bypass electric meters at their grow ops.
Exactly correct. The don't make clutches that can couple a 4500 horsepower engine to a 16,000 ton load. However, an electric motor can produce torque at zero RPM, which is something no internal combustion engine can do.
Whenever a new virus or worm makes the news, we always here someone say "OMFG its a good thing this virus didn't do any real harm to infected systems".
So how about this for a cyber terrorist scenario. Osama bin L. hires himself a room full of the finest Soviet hackers. They build a bunch of the most destructive virus payloads imaginable. The next time a new IE or windows vulnerability is announced they attach said evil payloads and launch them on day zero, before anybody has a chance to patch. Besides trying to infect as many other systems as possible, the virus payloads do as much damage as possible. Format C:,Format $all_network_drives, flash BIOS with random junk etc. This doesn't come close to knocking down buildings for emotional impact, but the dollar cost of a widespread and determined attack could be huge.
Very big difference! (Or have I been trolled?) Asteroid impact velocity for the one that near missed in 2002 was estimated 28000 m/s; the asteroid was after all orbiting the sun. If we take the elevator and drop it from geosynchronous orbit height, about 36000 m, we get roughly an impact velocity of 840 m/s. Impact energy of elevator = 1/1000 of impact energy of asteroid.
I'm not usually inclined to call names, but here goes...
Dumbass!
Race engines don't produce more horsepower because they are more "efficient" than stock engines. What they do is burn larger amounts of fuel/air mixture at a greater rate than stock engines by various means, such as increased displacement, higher compression ratio, turbocharging or supercharging, operating at much higher rpms and, yes, some of the things mentioned in your post in order to produce a lot more horsepower. All of which cause race engines to consume a lot more fuel than stock engines.
You're joking. Right? When Canada converted back in the 70's we used a hitherto undreamed of high-tech device called a "Sticker". We then "stuck" these "stickers" over the old numbers and units on the signs. Truly not a big deal.
There is no nanotech in these pants, no tiny machines at all. EB is using nano as a marketing buzzword. Kind of like me selling quadrophonic snowtires.
Next these MORONS will be protesting at the dog biscuit factory, because, hey, they're MAKING BISCUITS OUT OF DOGS in there.
Good Post but 1 small quibble. What does the lunar vacuum have to to with the "extreme" pressure differential. Earth atmosphere = 15 psi, moon = 0 psi. In other words the difference between running the furnace on the earth or the moon is 15 psi. This is a pretty insignificant difference. My bike tire can take 90 psi no problem.
We Canucks have been underfunding our armed forces for years. There is no actual civilian department of defense to oversee the army, but instead we have a wierd hybrid of bureaucrat/generals running the show. Our helicopters (Sea Kings) were obsolete 15 years ago, and are referred to as 10,000 parts flying in loose formation.
The Delaware National Guard could kick our army's ass.
If your tv fails during the first year the manufacturers warranty covers it. No need for the extended warranty there. If it fails after 4 years the extended warranty has no benefit either. Therefore the only time period where you gain by having the extended warranty is after 1 year and before 4 years - right?
Next point. Most electronic stuff either blows up when you first plug it in or runs forevever (google bathtub curve). Now what is the probability that your tv will fail during the time after the 1 year manufacturers warranty runs out but before the extended runs out. I'm guessing pretty low but lets say 1 chance in 10. So probabilty = 0.1. If you can repair or replace your tv (they do get cheaper over time) for less than $300/0.1 = $3000 the warranty is a scam. Use your own numbers and decide for yourself.
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Sounds great. I'm gonna switch right now. Just one quick question, how do I get AutoCad to run?
When I was at UBC in 1980 we had 2 Chinese grad students holed in a basement lab. In their spare time they were taking a Tektronix graphics terminal apart chip by chip, component by component, and sending the info home.
Why is that? As long as the encrypted audio fit into the same bandwidth as regular audio it should be fine, no?
We must ban anyone under 18 from playing there...
W.T.F.?
20 years ago I had a buddy who's older brother owned one of those 1 hr foto places. He had 2 big albums full of hardcore porn pictures, all of which had been culled from film his customers had brought in. Truly there is nothing new under the sun.
"Only the Sith deal in absolutes" or something like that. You are of course right. Provided what you start with is beer, adding things to make it taste better is not always bad. I love cherry Kriek, winter pudding ale is good too and I once tried a fantastic apricot beer from Edmonton. What is bad is taking out things from beer like barley malt and replacing it with fructose syrup so the beer can be made faster and cheaper.
Barley Malt - Hops - Yeast - Water
If it contains these things and only these things it's beer. If it contains anything else its _not_ beer. Under the heading of anything else we would find the corn and rice sugar used in great amounts by most of big American beer brands. I'm not saying I'd turn down a cold Coors on a hot day, but I'd much sooner have a Fat Tire or a nice Red Hook ESB. I guess I like a beer with more...well...beer in it.
Which is why we use low frequencies for power transmission. There should be a mod for "true but completely irrelevant".
At normal distribution frequency 60 Hz North Am., 50 Hz Europe and elsewhere skin effect has no meaningful effect on resistance. From the wiki you thoughtfully linked to, skin depth in copper at 60hz is 8.57 mm. In other words, until the wire diameter hits 17.14 mm (about 3/4") skin effect is negligible. As a point of comparisom, standard house wire is 14 gauge with a diameter of about 1.6 mm.
Apart from some specialised applications, every software area is covered just as well for Mac OS as for Windows.
Um....AutoCad. Or doesn't that count?
Of course the cron job on the server that ran 10 days later and found that you hadn't touched a certain file in a week deleted your managers account. It wasn't you.
Your dad thinks "video games"=for kids. His brain cannot cope with the concept that he might be wrong and that in fact games=fun at any age. Or, maybe he's bitter and secretly jealous because he works 40 + hours a week and never sees you do anything but "play". I bet he watches (pick one or more) baseball, football, b-ball, golf or whatever and considers them to be worthwile manly type pursuits. It never would occur to him that these are also "games". Or, maybe he's just pissed because you keep fragging his ass whenever you play conterstrike.
"that dude who created Frankenstein"
Frankenstein (Baron von Frankenstein to you buddy) was the dude who created the monster. The monster had no name.
"the signature of plant incubator lights"
Give us a break. The cops get a big stack of electrical bills, all the bills for a neighborhood. If every house on a street consumed between 2500 and 3500 kWh except for one house that consumed 9000 kWh well then they know what door to knock on don't they. Cops around here do it so often the (marijuana) growers now as a matter of course bypass electric meters at their grow ops.
Exactly correct. The don't make clutches that can couple a 4500 horsepower engine to a 16,000 ton load. However, an electric motor can produce torque at zero RPM, which is something no internal combustion engine can do.
Whenever a new virus or worm makes the news, we always here someone say "OMFG its a good thing this virus didn't do any real harm to infected systems".
,Format $all_network_drives, flash BIOS with random junk etc. This doesn't come close to knocking down buildings for emotional impact, but the dollar cost of a widespread and determined attack could be huge.
So how about this for a cyber terrorist scenario. Osama bin L. hires himself a room full of the finest Soviet hackers. They build a bunch of the most destructive virus payloads imaginable. The next time a new IE or windows vulnerability is announced they attach said evil payloads and launch them on day zero, before anybody has a chance to patch. Besides trying to infect as many other systems as possible, the virus payloads do as much damage as possible. Format C:
It makes you cough, stink and die. What's not to like?
Very big difference! (Or have I been trolled?) Asteroid impact velocity for the one that near missed in 2002 was estimated 28000 m/s; the asteroid was after all orbiting the sun. If we take the elevator and drop it from geosynchronous orbit height, about 36000 m, we get roughly an impact velocity of 840 m/s. Impact energy of elevator = 1/1000 of impact energy of asteroid.
I'm not usually inclined to call names, but here goes...
Dumbass!
Race engines don't produce more horsepower because they are more "efficient" than stock engines. What they do is burn larger amounts of fuel/air mixture at a greater rate than stock engines by various means, such as increased displacement, higher compression ratio, turbocharging or supercharging, operating at much higher rpms and, yes, some of the things mentioned in your post in order to produce a lot more horsepower. All of which cause race engines to consume a lot more fuel than stock engines.
You're joking. Right? When Canada converted back in the 70's we used a hitherto undreamed of high-tech device called a "Sticker". We then "stuck" these "stickers" over the old numbers and units on the signs. Truly not a big deal.
See Snopes.com
What really happened is that Fischer developed the space skylight at its own expense and gave it to NASA for free.
There is no nanotech in these pants, no tiny machines at all. EB is using nano as a marketing buzzword. Kind of like me selling quadrophonic snowtires.
Next these MORONS will be protesting at the dog biscuit factory, because, hey, they're MAKING BISCUITS OUT OF DOGS in there.
Good Post but 1 small quibble. What does the lunar vacuum have to to with the "extreme" pressure differential. Earth atmosphere = 15 psi, moon = 0 psi. In other words the difference between running the furnace on the earth or the moon is 15 psi. This is a pretty insignificant difference. My bike tire can take 90 psi no problem.
We Canucks have been underfunding our armed forces for years. There is no actual civilian department of defense to oversee the army, but instead we have a wierd hybrid of bureaucrat/generals running the show. Our helicopters (Sea Kings) were obsolete 15 years ago, and are referred to as 10,000 parts flying in loose formation.
The Delaware National Guard could kick our army's ass.
Think of it this way.
If your tv fails during the first year the manufacturers warranty covers it. No need for the extended warranty there. If it fails after 4 years the extended warranty has no benefit either. Therefore the only time period where you gain by having the extended warranty is after 1 year and before 4 years - right?
Next point. Most electronic stuff either blows up when you first plug it in or runs forevever (google bathtub curve). Now what is the probability that your tv will fail during the time after the 1 year manufacturers warranty runs out but before the extended runs out. I'm guessing pretty low but lets say 1 chance in 10. So probabilty = 0.1. If you can repair or replace your tv (they do get cheaper over time) for less than $300/0.1 = $3000 the warranty is a scam. Use your own numbers and decide for yourself.
Right you are lad. A transmission that will let you move a 16,000 ton unit train from a dead stop is way beyond infeasible.
To put it another way, electric motors can produce torque at zero RPM, internal combustion engines can not.