Look, let's not mince words here. We all know that it's the fault of Democrats & Republicans. The People are trying their best but their opposition refuses to compromise.
Sounds to me like they could use a few dozen Russian engineers.
The way the Russkis used to do things was, design and build a prototype with all the bells and whistles and kitchen sink. Get it working. Then re-engineer it back to something a goat herder in Kazikstan could use with 5 minutes' training. Case in point? The MiG-23. They could crank them out for a cost of about 3.3 mil per, when the nearest Western equivilent was the Kfir C2 coming in at 4.5 mil and the F16 at 14. They used aircraft grade aluminum and stainless steel where Western aircraft were using titanium. They couldn't engage as many targets, but you could have 90%+ of them available to fly at a moment's notice where maintanance cycles grounded up to 2/3rds of the F16s at a time.
Either that, or the DOJ has nobody with any skills whatsoever.
Or they'd like criminals to believethat they can't pull data from an iPhone.
Or, they're cops and they don't want to have to go through the bother of getting a warrant when the phone is 'obviously in plain sight and thus immune to the regular rules of search and siezure'.
Zathros: Time is infinite. You are finite. I am finite. This... Is wrong tool. Never use this. No no no nono.
For backups, tape isn't too awful bad. The more data you need to store, the better tape looks. But as online storage? Forget the cost for a moment and look at the technology. Tapes wear out with heavy useage, then you need a new tape and the time to put the data back on it. Where you going to stash the data temporarily til you can put it back on the tape when the old tape is worn out and unreadable? Those of us who grew up using casette-based storage for their Apple II/Color Computer/Atari machines know that tape storage takes awhile to load. There is no random seek on a linear tape. And what if you loaded the wrong tape?
For NAS, get a drive box and set them up for the appropriate RAID configuration, just remember:
RAID is NOT a backup solution. That's where your tapes come in.
Personally, I'd rather have campaign finance reform. Get rid of those massive corporate campaign contributions that create meatpuppet politicians only interested in keeping their seats on the gravy train. Require full disclosure for every fucking dime they take in as a contribution, stipend, whatever. No 'honorariums' for speaking in public.
Great in theory, not so great in reality. We're not looking at a true 'free market'. Too many corporations have taken over writing the regulations and legislation for their 'industries'. That's not laisse faire capitalism, that's economic royalism. That's wonderful for the handful of corporations that can afford to fund their pet politicians, but not so much for the rest of us.
That might have been the intent of minimum wage, but it sure wasn't the effect. When it was enacted, there were a lot of people who were making less than the mandated minimum wage. For them, it was a step up. We're still talking about the 60's here, where employers would pay different ethnic groups different rates for the same kind and quantity of work. So, yeah, it helped make a few razor cuts into discrimination.
And the though of being on minimum wage and somehow 'bettering' yourself by buying your way out is laughable. If you work more than 20 hours a week on minimum wage, you make too much money per month to qualify for food stamps in Ohio, for instance, even though you don't make enough to pay your rent. Likewise, you're ineligible for most educational grants to get you above a high school diploma. And of course you won't be able to get a student loan at anything resembling a reasonable rate because you don't make enough to make the payments.
So Obama's getting a second term. Whats the phrase, something like "gonna win unless they find a live boy or dead girl in his bed" or something like that? Whats the tech effect of a second term, if any?
Minimal funding for cool science-y stuff like NASA, which is a damned sight better than zero funding if the corporado party wins. Hey, us science-y types keep trying to 'prove' evolution, and we just can't have that cause Jebus says so.
Add in a terrorrorrorrist subplot, a hot blonde PhD who drips when she sees the studly military man assigned to the lab, and you got an idea. Write up a treatment on this & let's pitch it to SyFy, should be able to get a 5 mil budget outta this...
Again, the relative humidity is higher in India than it is in the Sahara. In my part of Arizona, a muggy day is like 30 percent humidity, when we get 'evaporain' during our 'monsoon season', 2 or 3 weeks every 6 months when the rain actually evaporates before it hits the ground. Most of the time it's under 20. A standing joke is our infamous '12 inch rain', where you get 1 drop every 12 inches. Needless to say, you'll still get something from the condenser, just not as much as you would in a wetter climate, all for about the same energy expenditure. Question is, would it support irrigation as well as drinking water for humans and animals? And if so, how many per unit?
I guess I was more pointing out that you can hear them say "call 911" as opposed to, i don't know, "code blue" or something. My line of reasoning was that preserving the craft to determine it's mode of failure could warrant a dedicated team with special training and/or equipment, and that budgetary concerns might have led to the lack of such.
Of course I'm not super familiar with NASA's internal workings and especially not this project specifically. It could be that they figure out it's cheaper to just add enough sensors to determine any likely failure modes from the telemetry and just let the thing self destruct if it goes down.
No need to save the craft unless it's something the telemetry doesn't watch and report. And with a test flight, it watches and reports on damned near everything practically up to the hat size of the range safety officer. The debris will tell them what happened after they lost telemetry.
That's because you always assume a 'bird' is going to explode and park the fire trucks far enough away that they don't get damaged in the explosion. That way, you don't have to wait for half an hour for their backups to arrive from the fire station.
It's NOT easy or cheap to desalinate water. If it was, everybody would be doing it. It's energy-intensive as hell (if you want it in enough quantities to actually be useful that is). Plus, water is a bitch to move back uphill. Pipelines are expensive in the large bore sizes you'd need. So are the pumps needed to mvoe that water through those large bore pipes. And those pumps take a lot of energy.
With these machines, the best water output is obtained at 50 to 70 per cent relative humidity and between 28-42 degrees Celsius. A lesser water output is produced even at 25 per cent relative humidity. Atmospheric water extractor units can be kept anywhere, but need access to fresh air, so they work best when placed by a window, or in the balcony or terrace.
Sounds to me like they'd be way expensive to run in a desert to me. Desert air rarely hits 50 percent humidity.
What does seem obvious to me is the lack of concern.
It is also a lack of sensible policies. Here in California, farmers receive subsidized water to grow rice and cotton, which need a lot of water. If we end the taxpayer funded subsidies, farmers will grow crops that actually make sense, and much of the problem will go away.
Check your history books. The first Spanish settlers in California damned near died before they could get irrigation up and running. There's not a lot that grows in California without irrigation.
What does seem obvious to me is the lack of concern.
So be it... may your children be dried husks cursing us until they die.
You seem to equate the matter with death.
Wouldn't most people just move from the region instead of dehydrating to a desiccated husk?
I mean, I guess people besides you since you seem so dead set on being a Water Martyr. We'll erect a statue to you before we leave. Or set up a stand for you to rest in as the end nears so you can make your own gruesome statue, somehow I think that your would prefer this option...
Depends on whether the Powers-That-Be in the region allow you to leave the area, and whether you have the resources to move. A lot of 'desert tribes' are desert tribes because they were pushed there and weren't strong enough to escape.
Plus, they tend to not have that annoying 'don't pirate this movie' warning and a 20 minute run of trailers for movies you don't intend to see and you can't break out to the main menu to actually, I dunno, watch the fucking movie you put in the player.
Jack L Chalker's short novel on what makes us human, the inside or the outside? He wrote later that he'd written this at a very depressed time of his life, and does NOT recommend reading this book if you're depressed and/or high.
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Look, let's not mince words here. We all know that it's the fault of Democrats & Republicans. The People are trying their best but their opposition refuses to compromise.
Expanded the variables for ya...
Any ideas on how to solve this equation?
Sounds to me like they could use a few dozen Russian engineers.
The way the Russkis used to do things was, design and build a prototype with all the bells and whistles and kitchen sink. Get it working. Then re-engineer it back to something a goat herder in Kazikstan could use with 5 minutes' training. Case in point? The MiG-23. They could crank them out for a cost of about 3.3 mil per, when the nearest Western equivilent was the Kfir C2 coming in at 4.5 mil and the F16 at 14. They used aircraft grade aluminum and stainless steel where Western aircraft were using titanium. They couldn't engage as many targets, but you could have 90%+ of them available to fly at a moment's notice where maintanance cycles grounded up to 2/3rds of the F16s at a time.
Or, they're cops and they don't want to have to go through the bother of getting a warrant when the phone is 'obviously in plain sight and thus immune to the regular rules of search and siezure'.
Using a tape drive for NAS? Um, no:
Zathros: Time is infinite. You are finite. I am finite. This... Is wrong tool. Never use this. No no no nono.
For backups, tape isn't too awful bad. The more data you need to store, the better tape looks. But as online storage? Forget the cost for a moment and look at the technology. Tapes wear out with heavy useage, then you need a new tape and the time to put the data back on it. Where you going to stash the data temporarily til you can put it back on the tape when the old tape is worn out and unreadable? Those of us who grew up using casette-based storage for their Apple II/Color Computer/Atari machines know that tape storage takes awhile to load. There is no random seek on a linear tape. And what if you loaded the wrong tape?
For NAS, get a drive box and set them up for the appropriate RAID configuration, just remember:
RAID is NOT a backup solution. That's where your tapes come in.
Personally, I'd rather have campaign finance reform. Get rid of those massive corporate campaign contributions that create meatpuppet politicians only interested in keeping their seats on the gravy train. Require full disclosure for every fucking dime they take in as a contribution, stipend, whatever. No 'honorariums' for speaking in public.
Great in theory, not so great in reality. We're not looking at a true 'free market'. Too many corporations have taken over writing the regulations and legislation for their 'industries'. That's not laisse faire capitalism, that's economic royalism. That's wonderful for the handful of corporations that can afford to fund their pet politicians, but not so much for the rest of us.
That might have been the intent of minimum wage, but it sure wasn't the effect. When it was enacted, there were a lot of people who were making less than the mandated minimum wage. For them, it was a step up. We're still talking about the 60's here, where employers would pay different ethnic groups different rates for the same kind and quantity of work. So, yeah, it helped make a few razor cuts into discrimination.
And the though of being on minimum wage and somehow 'bettering' yourself by buying your way out is laughable. If you work more than 20 hours a week on minimum wage, you make too much money per month to qualify for food stamps in Ohio, for instance, even though you don't make enough to pay your rent. Likewise, you're ineligible for most educational grants to get you above a high school diploma. And of course you won't be able to get a student loan at anything resembling a reasonable rate because you don't make enough to make the payments.
Depends. Do you include creation of 'Jersey Shore' to be better or worse than killing each other off? Or is it a dead heat?
Minimal funding for cool science-y stuff like NASA, which is a damned sight better than zero funding if the corporado party wins. Hey, us science-y types keep trying to 'prove' evolution, and we just can't have that cause Jebus says so.
Two words. Sarah Palin.
Your move.
Well, these maroons are liable to cut funding for any nifty science-y type stuff to zip zed zero, so I guess there's a geek hook in there someplace.
And yeah, I spelled 'morons' 'wrong', I'm channeling Bugs Bunny this morning. Need more coffee before these bozos make it illegal...
Great. Just great. An AI addicted to Jersey Shore. Just what we need.
Add in a terrorrorrorrist subplot, a hot blonde PhD who drips when she sees the studly military man assigned to the lab, and you got an idea. Write up a treatment on this & let's pitch it to SyFy, should be able to get a 5 mil budget outta this...
... and then catching something from an unsanitary phone will fix the rest.
Total failure on many levels? I see your point...
Again, the relative humidity is higher in India than it is in the Sahara. In my part of Arizona, a muggy day is like 30 percent humidity, when we get 'evaporain' during our 'monsoon season', 2 or 3 weeks every 6 months when the rain actually evaporates before it hits the ground. Most of the time it's under 20. A standing joke is our infamous '12 inch rain', where you get 1 drop every 12 inches. Needless to say, you'll still get something from the condenser, just not as much as you would in a wetter climate, all for about the same energy expenditure. Question is, would it support irrigation as well as drinking water for humans and animals? And if so, how many per unit?
I guess I was more pointing out that you can hear them say "call 911" as opposed to, i don't know, "code blue" or something. My line of reasoning was that preserving the craft to determine it's mode of failure could warrant a dedicated team with special training and/or equipment, and that budgetary concerns might have led to the lack of such.
Of course I'm not super familiar with NASA's internal workings and especially not this project specifically. It could be that they figure out it's cheaper to just add enough sensors to determine any likely failure modes from the telemetry and just let the thing self destruct if it goes down.
No need to save the craft unless it's something the telemetry doesn't watch and report. And with a test flight, it watches and reports on damned near everything practically up to the hat size of the range safety officer. The debris will tell them what happened after they lost telemetry.
Helium is a nobel gas, it doesn't combine with anything. Thus, it won't burn.
That's because you always assume a 'bird' is going to explode and park the fire trucks far enough away that they don't get damaged in the explosion. That way, you don't have to wait for half an hour for their backups to arrive from the fire station.
It's NOT easy or cheap to desalinate water. If it was, everybody would be doing it. It's energy-intensive as hell (if you want it in enough quantities to actually be useful that is). Plus, water is a bitch to move back uphill. Pipelines are expensive in the large bore sizes you'd need. So are the pumps needed to mvoe that water through those large bore pipes. And those pumps take a lot of energy.
With these machines, the best water output is obtained at 50 to 70 per cent relative humidity and between 28-42 degrees Celsius. A lesser water output is produced even at 25 per cent relative humidity. Atmospheric water extractor units can be kept anywhere, but need access to fresh air, so they work best when placed by a window, or in the balcony or terrace.
Sounds to me like they'd be way expensive to run in a desert to me. Desert air rarely hits 50 percent humidity.
What does seem obvious to me is the lack of concern.
It is also a lack of sensible policies. Here in California, farmers receive subsidized water to grow rice and cotton, which need a lot of water. If we end the taxpayer funded subsidies, farmers will grow crops that actually make sense, and much of the problem will go away.
Check your history books. The first Spanish settlers in California damned near died before they could get irrigation up and running. There's not a lot that grows in California without irrigation.
What does seem obvious to me is the lack of concern. So be it... may your children be dried husks cursing us until they die.
You seem to equate the matter with death.
Wouldn't most people just move from the region instead of dehydrating to a desiccated husk?
I mean, I guess people besides you since you seem so dead set on being a Water Martyr. We'll erect a statue to you before we leave. Or set up a stand for you to rest in as the end nears so you can make your own gruesome statue, somehow I think that your would prefer this option...
Depends on whether the Powers-That-Be in the region allow you to leave the area, and whether you have the resources to move. A lot of 'desert tribes' are desert tribes because they were pushed there and weren't strong enough to escape.
Plus, they tend to not have that annoying 'don't pirate this movie' warning and a 20 minute run of trailers for movies you don't intend to see and you can't break out to the main menu to actually, I dunno, watch the fucking movie you put in the player.
Jack L Chalker's short novel on what makes us human, the inside or the outside? He wrote later that he'd written this at a very depressed time of his life, and does NOT recommend reading this book if you're depressed and/or high.