Umm... You bought a Mac there buddy, not a computer. You have issues you are supposed to pay Apple their tithe to get it fixed, not fix it yourself.
I am not trying to be trollish, but iPhones, iPads, iPods are not supposed to be user serviceable items. Maybe this is just another step Apple is taking to movetheir computer business to a similar revenue stream model? Look at the MacBook Airs for example, i don't believe anything about them is supposed to be user serviceable. I am not sure about the standard MacBooks, I don't own one..
My daughter's 16th birthday party had more than 70 kids and 30 adults on the guest list - and these really are close friends who she has spent more quality time with growing up than anything you get out in the school yard between classes.
Wow, it sounds like you grew up on on a Big Love compound. Lots of diversity of opinion I am sure.
1.) The first sentence "NASA today said that its Dawn spacecraft snapped the first image of the giant asteroid Vesta it hopes to rendezvous with in July.", with an embedded hyperlink, seems to indicate that what I click on should bring me to a NASA web page. It doesn't. The link goes to a blog.
2.) The official NASA news release could have been easily embedded into the summary. It wasn't and that wasn't an accident. It is to force a click thru and generate the submitter revenue.
3.) The submitter is the writer of the blog, self pimpage if you will. This site used to be a community that posted links to interesting articles they have come across in their web surfing. This isn't a reader submitting an article, this is a blog writer trying to drive traffic to his site.
Slashdot used to be news for nerds, but lately it seems like it just pimps out either editor's friends blogs, or other sites that may be giving Slashdot kick backs.
If that is Slashdot's new business model, so be it. They should at least be upfront about it though.
The iPad is a really great media consumption device. Unless you are near a good wifi access point though, (like your house), you will get charged and arm and a leg for streaming that media over AT&T or Verizon.
Since slower read/write speed SD cards are pretty inexpensive (you don't need class 10 to watch a video), you can conceivably load up several cards once with lots of movies and shows and just pop them in and out as you wish.
Moving large videos off and on the iPad's internal storage takes time. And depending on your mood, you could end up moving stuff back and forth regularly. That gets old.
You don't need expensive, high quality internal storage for viewing videos.
And for more proof Apple does it to extract more money with the higher priced, larger storage models, look at the iPad camera connection kit. Its basically an external SD card reader. And they crippled it so you can't just watch videos off of it.
I think you need to include all of that area. Looking at a typical solar panel, not every square inch of it generates power. But the entire panel surface is used to calculate its efficiency. A 1 square meter panel still needs 1 square meter of your roof, even if only 0.95 square meters is generating power.
If the spacing between reflectors is required to make this plant run, as well as any other components taking up square meters of real estate, than that is the area you use for calculations to scale this design up and down. It factors into the cost.
I guess I was thinking that the 392 MW was peak power output, but that may not be the case.
A good simplification would be assuming the amount of daylight is 12 hours. Assume a linear ramp up to to full power over 6 hours, then a linear ramp down to 0 over the next 6 hours.
That would give a total power available of (0.5 * 14568 GW * 0.5 day) / (1 day) = 3642 GW of power averaged over the course of the day.
So if we assume they are providing 392 GW of power, all day, then 392 GW / 3642 GW = 10.7% Efficiency
BTW, how is that building of ships' hulls ignoring Archimedes' principle going along? It's over 2k years old, surely we should be able to ignore it by now, eh?
I've got an m1530 with the LG 1680x1050 screen. With the amount of grief I had to go thru to get the original Samsung 1680x1050 screen replaced with the LG (its an order of magnitude better screen), I really don't ever want to get rid of this thing.
Although 30 minute battery life at this point is pretty limiting. Already got one grey market replacement battery, and don't think another one will be much better.
It'll be even more impressive in 10 years when the same type of power is in my phone.
Your phone will not have terabytes of RAM in ten years. I promise.
The actual phone may not have 10 terabytes of RAM, but I bet it will be able to instantly access computers that do.
In fact, with Google, Bing, and other search engines, one could make a case that your phone already does contain
at least that amount of RAM.
We are also seeing this with services like OnLive. Once we get to a point with mobile phones that have very high bandwidth, very low latency and access to dedicated, powerfull remote computers, everything is going to go to dumb terminal renderers.
Why wouldn't have major news networks wanted to interview Harry Reid over the last half decade? He was the Senate Minority Leader in 2005, and has been the Senate Majority Leader since 2006. He is THE Democrat to interview.
The Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) are started at like T-6 seconds and ramp up to like 90% by T-3 seconds.
The stack at this point is held in place by the SRB bolts.
At T-0, the bolts are explosively severed and the SRBs are lit, at the same time. The bolts cannot withstand the thrust both the SSMEs and SRBs, by design. Imagine if the explosive bolts malfunction on one side only.
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Umm... You bought a Mac there buddy, not a computer. You have issues you are supposed to pay Apple their tithe to get it fixed, not fix it yourself.
I am not trying to be trollish, but iPhones, iPads, iPods are not supposed to be user serviceable items. Maybe this is just another step Apple is taking to movetheir computer business to a similar revenue stream model? Look at the MacBook Airs for example, i don't believe anything about them is supposed to be user serviceable. I am not sure about the standard MacBooks, I don't own one..
My daughter's 16th birthday party had more than 70 kids and 30 adults on the guest list - and these really are close friends who she has spent more quality time with growing up than anything you get out in the school yard between classes.
Wow, it sounds like you grew up on on a Big Love compound. Lots of diversity of opinion I am sure.
Well lets take a closer look at this submission.
1.) The first sentence "NASA today said that its Dawn spacecraft snapped the first image of the giant asteroid Vesta it hopes to rendezvous with in July.", with an embedded hyperlink, seems to indicate that what I click on should bring me to a NASA web page. It doesn't. The link goes to a blog.
2.) The official NASA news release could have been easily embedded into the summary. It wasn't and that wasn't an accident. It is to force a click thru and generate the submitter revenue.
3.) The submitter is the writer of the blog, self pimpage if you will. This site used to be a community that posted links to interesting articles they have come across in their web surfing. This isn't a reader submitting an article, this is a blog writer trying to drive traffic to his site.
Slashdot used to be news for nerds, but lately it seems like it just pimps out either editor's friends blogs, or other sites that may be giving Slashdot kick backs.
If that is Slashdot's new business model, so be it. They should at least be upfront about it though.
Come on, Network World for a NASA news release? Ridiculous.
Here is the actual NASA press release.
Last time I checked, Amazon launched this service first. If you want to give credit, give it to Amazon.
Another similar story would be Pandorum. Good flick.
The iPad is a really great media consumption device. Unless you are near a good wifi access point though, (like your house), you will get charged and arm and a leg for streaming that media over AT&T or Verizon.
Since slower read/write speed SD cards are pretty inexpensive (you don't need class 10 to watch a video), you can conceivably load up several cards once with lots of movies and shows and just pop them in and out as you wish.
Moving large videos off and on the iPad's internal storage takes time. And depending on your mood, you could end up moving stuff back and forth regularly. That gets old.
You don't need expensive, high quality internal storage for viewing videos.
And for more proof Apple does it to extract more money with the higher priced, larger storage models, look at the iPad camera connection kit. Its basically an external SD card reader. And they crippled it so you can't just watch videos off of it.
If you look at my other post above, it looks like an averaged power output of 392 GW is around a 10% efficiency. So it isn't too bad.
I think you need to include all of that area. Looking at a typical solar panel, not every square inch of it generates power. But the entire panel surface is used to calculate its efficiency. A 1 square meter panel still needs 1 square meter of your roof, even if only 0.95 square meters is generating power.
If the spacing between reflectors is required to make this plant run, as well as any other components taking up square meters of real estate, than that is the area you use for calculations to scale this design up and down. It factors into the cost.
Its 1.4 kW to satellites in space. At lower latitudes, approximately 1 kW makes it to the surface. Its obviously less at higher latitudes.
Reading other posts it sounds like it isn't storing energy in a large molten salt battery, so that 392 GW may be peak production.
I guess I was thinking that the 392 MW was peak power output, but that may not be the case.
A good simplification would be assuming the amount of daylight is 12 hours. Assume a linear ramp up to to full power over 6 hours, then a linear ramp down to 0 over the next 6 hours.
That would give a total power available of (0.5 * 14568 GW * 0.5 day) / (1 day) = 3642 GW of power averaged over the course of the day.
So if we assume they are providing 392 GW of power, all day, then 392 GW / 3642 GW = 10.7% Efficiency
That is a much better number.
That seems a bit low.
3,600 acres = 14,568,683 m^2
~1,000 w / m^2 incident solar energy in the Mojave
That would give an total solar energy input of 14,568 MW of power to this installation.
392MW / 14,568 MW = 2.7%
BTW, how is that building of ships' hulls ignoring Archimedes' principle going along? It's over 2k years old, surely we should be able to ignore it by now, eh?
What about Hydrofoils?
Congress loves to pass authorization bills. They don't enjoy passing the corresponding appropriation bills.
Seriously.
Here is the link to the NASA press release.
And here is the link to the image.
I've got an m1530 with the LG 1680x1050 screen. With the amount of grief I had to go thru to get the original Samsung 1680x1050 screen replaced with the LG (its an order of magnitude better screen), I really don't ever want to get rid of this thing.
Although 30 minute battery life at this point is pretty limiting. Already got one grey market replacement battery, and don't think another one will be much better.
I don't think he was stating that Microsoft makes more secure products than everyone else.
I believe he was stating that the more secure Microsoft makes their products, the better off everyone will be.
Deodorant? Acne medication? Basement furnishings?
It'll be even more impressive in 10 years when the same type of power is in my phone.
Your phone will not have terabytes of RAM in ten years. I promise.
The actual phone may not have 10 terabytes of RAM, but I bet it will be able to instantly access computers that do.
In fact, with Google, Bing, and other search engines, one could make a case that your phone already does contain at least that amount of RAM.
We are also seeing this with services like OnLive. Once we get to a point with mobile phones that have very high bandwidth, very low latency and access to dedicated, powerfull remote computers, everything is going to go to dumb terminal renderers.
...with an aquarium net. Good luck with that.
What about modular systems?
Directv, GPS, Iridium? Are you going to say those don't count because they aren't physically connected?
Why wouldn't have major news networks wanted to interview Harry Reid over the last half decade? He was the Senate Minority Leader in 2005, and has been the Senate Majority Leader since 2006. He is THE Democrat to interview.
You might want to pick a better counter point.
Prove it? Its banned in most of Europe.
Unless your Hindi or ancient Egyption, you have nothing to stand on for using that symbol.
It was bastardized by the Nazis well before anyone currently bitching about it was born. So for all intents and purposes, its a Nazi symbol.
The Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) are started at like T-6 seconds and ramp up to like 90% by T-3 seconds.
The stack at this point is held in place by the SRB bolts.
At T-0, the bolts are explosively severed and the SRBs are lit, at the same time. The bolts cannot withstand the thrust both the SSMEs and SRBs, by design. Imagine if the explosive bolts malfunction on one side only.