I see Italian style pizza and American style pizza as beasts almost as different as ramen and macaroni. An Italian style pizza can be disappointing if you are expecting medium thickness puffy bread with a tower of toppings American style. That tower of toppings can be very nice even if it has very little resemblence to an Italian style pizza. Both have their place - unlike Arabica versus Robusta.
My pet hate as well. Especially when lazy developers take a signed integer at face value and then use it for things like allocating memory - some noisy data and next thing you've got a crash due to the application attempting to allocate negative amounts of memory and users have to waste more time individually editing their input data than the developer saved by not checking bounds before allocating memory, changing to an absolute value, or using an unsigned integer in the first place in situations where the value has no legitimate reason to be negative.
I'm busy attempting to kill SSDs by using them as temporary storage with some very disk intensive scientific software that stupidly sorts stuff on disk even when it has enough memory - thousands of writes per minute. I haven't killed any yet but performance does suck incredibly when they get close to full - a well known issue but still a shock when it goes from fast to glacial speeds with no gradual slowdown in between. To sum up, my anecdotal experience supports the reported tests that recent SSDs can survive orders of magnitude more writes than earlier models.
Which is why I wrote way above "Small temperature difference of the size that is normally seen with heat pumps used to generate electricity then". I never should have tried to point out that you can do both with the same heat sources since it appears to have produced a great deal of confusion. Serves me right for a poor choice of words late at night.
I attempted to dumb things down for a general audience so now I'm getting accused of being dumb. Why the obsession with correcting the use of the key word instead of understanding that it's being used for an analogy?
Simple example - refridgeration cycle. Make the working fluid spin a little generator in line as it moves between the compressor (cold water) and expansion (heat input). There's better ways but that's about the the most simple one to explain that is dual use. When you have megalitres of chilled water that trivial output per litre can add up to something viable.
However my comment was to try to convey that even low temperature differences such as would drive a heat pump can also do other work, but you seem to have got hung up on key words without grasping the meaning.
Yes, you can read a dictionary but don't seem to be able to grasp the concept of what is going on in this situation. There's a temperature difference of 50C+ between the solar hot water and the 12C mine water. Making sense yet? Heat flows from hot to cold and can be used to do work in the middle. That clear enough yet?
They really should make you coders at least do high school physics before you start to think that you are real engineers.
Those damned colonials/workers wanting some sort of say in their own affairs - the cheek of those damned fellows! They should just grovel to their betters like that chap Arnold who saw the light in the end. Is that the character you are playing? Looks like it to me.
My "argument" is that I think you are not as stupid as you appear and will you please stop playing this silly little game of "let's pretend it's a simply binary situation" and instead discuss issues on an adult level.
Yes and the beige box is the hard drive while the LCD thing on the desk is the computer. That's common usage but you can't really expect any respect for using it in some situations.
One of the biggest hurdles had been solved by Heddy Lamar and some US Navy radio technicians in the 1940s - that's why we don't have one phone tower per ten people.
True, but the point is the unions get blamed and not management by trust fund baby and their country club cronies. It took decades for VW and several Japanese car companies to take a big slice of the US car market yet it still managed to take the management of Ford, GM etc by surprise, that's how clueless they were, and I don't see any sign of improvement.
Looks like a fun game you are playing, but after seeing dozens of such posts it's boring for the rest of us reading your roleplaying efforts pretending to be an ignorant, two dimensional reactionary that hates everything that happened ever since the British got thrown out. Please just be yourself and write what you think instead of pretending to be that far too stupid to breathe character you write as.
The silly example looks like it is there to show that prediction is hard and that what initially looks like a good prediction can look silly after a while.
First they came for the scumbags... but I'd already done a Godwin so I didn't care. Nobody should be above or below the law, even scumbags. He doesn't belong in a jail cell until they charge him with something that could put you or me in a jail cell.
"Pump-like" should be the massive clue but it appears you just want to play some petty semantic game just because I'm trying to dumb things down for a general audience by comparing it to something they have heard of.
The temperature difference can be used to do work which could be used in one way to generate electricity or another way to move heat around. Is that more clear?
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I see Italian style pizza and American style pizza as beasts almost as different as ramen and macaroni. An Italian style pizza can be disappointing if you are expecting medium thickness puffy bread with a tower of toppings American style. That tower of toppings can be very nice even if it has very little resemblence to an Italian style pizza. Both have their place - unlike Arabica versus Robusta.
The net had already got a log scale for cat videos.
The numbers watched increased so much we had to go from Cat5 cable to Cat5e.
My pet hate as well. Especially when lazy developers take a signed integer at face value and then use it for things like allocating memory - some noisy data and next thing you've got a crash due to the application attempting to allocate negative amounts of memory and users have to waste more time individually editing their input data than the developer saved by not checking bounds before allocating memory, changing to an absolute value, or using an unsigned integer in the first place in situations where the value has no legitimate reason to be negative.
I'm busy attempting to kill SSDs by using them as temporary storage with some very disk intensive scientific software that stupidly sorts stuff on disk even when it has enough memory - thousands of writes per minute. I haven't killed any yet but performance does suck incredibly when they get close to full - a well known issue but still a shock when it goes from fast to glacial speeds with no gradual slowdown in between.
To sum up, my anecdotal experience supports the reported tests that recent SSDs can survive orders of magnitude more writes than earlier models.
Which is why I wrote way above "Small temperature difference of the size that is normally seen with heat pumps used to generate electricity then".
I never should have tried to point out that you can do both with the same heat sources since it appears to have produced a great deal of confusion. Serves me right for a poor choice of words late at night.
One of the examples here has the maximum temperature as low as 70C.
http://www.renewableenergyworl...
Why did you mention an electric motor?
No products? Here's an example of a small temperature difference being used to do work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine
Are you sure you are not just pretending to be ignorant to troll me?
I attempted to dumb things down for a general audience so now I'm getting accused of being dumb. Why the obsession with correcting the use of the key word instead of understanding that it's being used for an analogy?
Simple example - refridgeration cycle. Make the working fluid spin a little generator in line as it moves between the compressor (cold water) and expansion (heat input). There's better ways but that's about the the most simple one to explain that is dual use. When you have megalitres of chilled water that trivial output per litre can add up to something viable.
However my comment was to try to convey that even low temperature differences such as would drive a heat pump can also do other work, but you seem to have got hung up on key words without grasping the meaning.
Yes, you can read a dictionary but don't seem to be able to grasp the concept of what is going on in this situation.
There's a temperature difference of 50C+ between the solar hot water and the 12C mine water. Making sense yet?
Heat flows from hot to cold and can be used to do work in the middle. That clear enough yet?
They really should make you coders at least do high school physics before you start to think that you are real engineers.
Those damned colonials/workers wanting some sort of say in their own affairs - the cheek of those damned fellows! They should just grovel to their betters like that chap Arnold who saw the light in the end.
Is that the character you are playing? Looks like it to me.
My "argument" is that I think you are not as stupid as you appear and will you please stop playing this silly little game of "let's pretend it's a simply binary situation" and instead discuss issues on an adult level.
Yes and the beige box is the hard drive while the LCD thing on the desk is the computer. That's common usage but you can't really expect any respect for using it in some situations.
One of the biggest hurdles had been solved by Heddy Lamar and some US Navy radio technicians in the 1940s - that's why we don't have one phone tower per ten people.
We need a new movie. ...
A fly and a dinosaur go into a teleport device
True, but the point is the unions get blamed and not management by trust fund baby and their country club cronies.
It took decades for VW and several Japanese car companies to take a big slice of the US car market yet it still managed to take the management of Ford, GM etc by surprise, that's how clueless they were, and I don't see any sign of improvement.
Looks like a fun game you are playing, but after seeing dozens of such posts it's boring for the rest of us reading your roleplaying efforts pretending to be an ignorant, two dimensional reactionary that hates everything that happened ever since the British got thrown out.
Please just be yourself and write what you think instead of pretending to be that far too stupid to breathe character you write as.
From Imperial to S.I. and then back out again is sane units? Didn't you guys throw the British out so you didn't have to Chain yourselves in Knots?
The silly example looks like it is there to show that prediction is hard and that what initially looks like a good prediction can look silly after a while.
First they came for the scumbags ... but I'd already done a Godwin so I didn't care.
Nobody should be above or below the law, even scumbags. He doesn't belong in a jail cell until they charge him with something that could put you or me in a jail cell.
Passport should be enough - not many ways out of New Zealand.
"Pump-like" should be the massive clue but it appears you just want to play some petty semantic game just because I'm trying to dumb things down for a general audience by comparing it to something they have heard of.
The temperature difference can be used to do work which could be used in one way to generate electricity or another way to move heat around. Is that more clear?