Given a few more years, we could have done some serious irreversible harm
Seeing how ozone is produced by a reaction with UV, the more UV that is allowed to pass the ozone layer causes an increase in natural ozone production. So in essence this becomes a self balancing system (as most of the earth's systems). So the hole would come to a natural equilibrium.
I'm more concerned with the irrational fear associated with such things as the hole in the ozone. You think that it is gone? We have not heard much about it in the last 10 years cause it was of little concern; also, ozone is easy to produce. It would not be a problem (just expensive) to produce ozone and cart it to the upper atmosphere.
I find it great human arrogance to assume that we can to any large degree upset the natural balance of the earth to a level that it will not recover itself. Besides the only thing to lose is our existence should such a calamity be triggered. Myself, I'm not to concerned about that. I live a decent life and have nothing to fear concerning death.
But to run tests on water and find that it is cleaner then "normal" municipal sources and not trust it is absurd.
I do agree that often we implement technologies without thinking of the consequences, but the tree huggers are even worst about create radical idea to "save the planet" without thinking of long term consequences.
As a graduating civil engineering student I find it funny the way people think about places or items which were formerly contaminated and now clean. The summary is a classic example of this mentality. Their building a data center on former nuclear facility site that has been cleaned. So what is the news?
I would get this same reaction in my environmental engineering class concerning waste water treatment (gray to white not sewage to gray). Even though the engineering of the treatment plant was explained most of the students would not be willing to drink the water that came out of the facility even though it used RO or other methods that are used to purify water from natural sources. This makes absolutely no sense. Engineers who understand that all water is recycled anyway, and that there is no difference if it is done mechanically vs. naturally.
If as educated individuals we cannot sell ourselves on the safety of the procedures how do we ever expect the uneducated masses to accept them?
Use WinRAR. For my backup needs (video) I take my project folder and RAR it to 4 gig chunks (working with DVD's not CD's) and add about 1 extra (redundant) chunk for every 5-10. Then break each chunk into 250 meg chunks w/ 2 redundant chunks. Burn to your discs and now you can lose quite a few chunks before losing data. You may also add some percentage of each archive to be redundant (I select between 5-10%).
This has worked well for me. I had a situation where a RAID 5 lost two drives and my backup had some corruption in a 100 gig video project. Pulled out my 3 year old DVD's and recovered the data fine (and yes there were one or two of chunks that had problems but recovered from the redundancy).
Diversifying my archives has helped me in the past. I run two servers, one with a RAID0 and another with a RAID6 array. The RAID0 is used for access and runs backups to the RAID6. While this is a fast, and reliable system I still go through drives regularly.
Once my projects (video, photo, documents, etc) are finalized they get archived to DVD's. Now DVD's are not overly reliable so I RAR the entire project into 4 gig chucks with a full archive of parity for every 36 gigs (min 1). Then each of those 4 gig archives get RARed into 250 meg chunks with 2 parity files; plus 5% recovery in each archive. This has proved very robust as I have had to recover a 100gig project in the past.
I can loose several discs and many individual files to corruption and not loose the project whereas if an HD goes everything is gone. The only concern becomes shelf life and with this kind of storage capacity making several copies becomes much more feasible. Just my 2 cents.
Was there something wrong with the way the lightcycles where implemented in TRON 2.0? I always thought it was a decent game and that the lightcycle portion was quite fun... Oh, this is a free version, nm.
I thought we used google as a game already. How about driving pages to the top of a search result, or crashing specific companies stock? The list goes on and on. Perhaps google search should have "shall we play a game" next to "I'm feeling lucky".
I have been frustrated that my Red Alert install would not work on anything but 95/98. About a year ago I bought a bunch of surplus hardware; among the boxes was a 98 machine. I promptly whipped out my cds and started plaining Red Alert. I currently have that machine hooked to a KVM at my desk and anytime I need to kill an hour flip over and start playing. The machine just stays onto the skirmish setup screen. Easily the best game of the C&C series.
Well, that just means as you scale members to take larger loads, it is shear strength that becomes your limiting factor, doesn't it?
No, two reasons: shear and bending are completely different beasts, and shear is linear while bending moment is squared.
The point of this thread is comparing ideal models and analysis tools; comparing scale models to larger structures becomes extremely complicated due to these difference and how section properties scale. This is why most structural analysis labs perform their tests with full sized components.
...the weight increases with the cube of the scaling factor as you scale up a model, yet the strength of the materials used only increases with the square of the scaling factor since it depends on the area of the cross section of the member.
This may be true with respect to shear (which is area dependent) but Section Modulus (for resolving bending moment) is a cubic function and moment of inertia (for deflection) is to the fourth power.
While for children it may be a cause for concern it seems to work fine on my X61 tablet and I have a 3 year old who is pretty rough with it when in tablet mode (though he does not rotate the screen yet). I must say that with this connection and a few other tablet function based components that my new X series is not nearly as ironclad as my old A31 was.
While some may or may not like tabbed browsing atleast one may avoid using tabs. With the crappybar once you start typing the damn thing waste system resources (I know where I want to go) and there is no option to disable. I guess I'm old fashion, I still type the fully qualified 'http://www.domain.tld'. I would be happy to have my 1999 internet back.
I wonder if America would just be better off if we moved to a system like in Europe and Asia, where phones cost much more, and the plans are significantly reduced.
I long for the days when this was reality. I remember dropping $200 for a phone and then choosing my service plan and not being tied to a contract. I had the same phone number for almost 10 years. Every few months I would look to see if there was a better plan available from my provider. Never happened the rates I had were consistently lower then newer rates and I would be required to go back on contract. What finally broke me down was needing to switch from TDMA to the newer networks. Two years later and I'm finally off contract again.
I miss the days when few people had cell phones and it wasn't a commodity. I was treated great by my provider (since I was off contract and had been a customer for so long anytime I have an issue with my phone they would typically send me a new one free of charge).
I know because it is Lego it is a big deal, but on How it's Made, airing on Discovery Channel they have shown many injection molding processes including either Duplo or some other knock off Lego manufacturer. It is interesting (short), but not that "top secret"; nor super informative.
DeviceGuru is adding little needed comentary to the official VIA post. So why are we linking to DG instead of VIA's official site? (I know this is slashdot, gotta keep peoples views up and gain them ad revenue) There is even a video link on via's main page about mini-ITX 2.0 (no that it is worth watching).
Personally I like simple, bullet proof, and dedicated ports for universal devices (lets not discuss boxes that only have power and network connectivity) but I wish they would move to a lot more breakouts that attach modularly to the case and plug in to the motherboard (like extra usb ports)
Additionally this really looks more conceptual then already printing boards (no flashing links on via's website about this new format). The specs list min. 4 usb ports and 1 gig ethernet. So I see no guarantee that if it is actually fabbed that there will be PS/2 ports available.
Blogosphere theory is that it is the oil from the platter bearings that leaks and hardens.
That is a nice theory but there is no oil in the bearings of a Hitachi (formerly IBM) drive. They ride on an air bearing. I have heard of faulty temperature sensors being reset through the freezing method, but whatever the reason I have seen the freezing method suggested by several sources. For me I believe that it has to do with moving the drive. Shorts or binds will often be resolved by moving the drive around.
When I worked for IBM I did a fair share of data recovery. My favorite drive that I saved was a laptop drive with a stiction problem. It would get caught during spin-up. I put my ear to the drive and would listen to it and kept rebooting and shaking the drive until it finally got past the rough spot. Recovered all the engineers data who was extremely happy he didn't have to waste $500 bucks with Ontrack.
When I learned that the batteries used in the vehicle were the same as those in laptops the only thing I could think of was that you may get 200ish miles to start (depending on how you drive) and then after 6 months you are down to 175; after 2 years down to a 100 mile range. Then $$$$ to replace.
I fully agree that electronic copies that are available (legally) of textbooks are complete bunk. This semester I purchased a Thinkpad Tablet and went virtually paper free (only paper I produced was to turn assignments in). All handouts, homework, and graded assignments were either downloaded or scanned in. I looked at online textbooks to avoid carrying around excess materials; only two of my books were available in an electronic format and both were 80% the cost of the physical textbook and only came with 6-12 month licenses. Since these textbooks were for upper division CE classes I intend to have them around for refference. The electronic copies were simple a horrible alternative.
Since ethanol only contains 2/3 the energy that gasoline does the cost jumps to $1.33, plus the transportation cost, add 33-66 cents, plus you have markup, at least $1.00. Now we are up to around $3.00 a gallon. Doesn't sound as good as the summary suggests. Plus I would not want to fill up more often to go the equivalent distance.
So the X61 and "X61 Tablet are not standard 4:3 format?? They may be small (I felt a 14.1" screen was small compared to my old A31 15"), but they are 1024X768 displays. I now have the X61 tablet and it may be small but is by far the best laptop I have used.
From what I have seen (an being a rather large U2 fan) U2 typically seems to embrace technology and tries to reach as many people as possible. I find it interesting that McGuinness mentions Apple as one of the companies seeing how the Boss, during U2's induction to the music hall of fame, mentioned that U2 took no money and allowed Apple to use Vertigo in an ipod commercial free. That says to me that the manger and band are not communicating on the same level. Besides McGuinness really just handles the European side for the band.
Both of my parents remember (my dad fondly, my mother not so much) the several nights which followed my dad getting this new calculator. My dad stayed up all night playing with the calculator just because of how cool it was.
If I had an AT&T filtered connection to the internet I would claim that "I use AT&T because they filter that content and therefore I assumed everything I had access to was legal," why, because they said, "they filter it".
I love Winamp 1.90, only uses a couple megs of RAM, nice simple flat interface, no calls home, stand alone executable, and it fits on a floppy diskette. Nothing needs to be said about notepad.
I need a factor of time to know how much power is being saved. Watts by itself means nothing. A Kw/hr means something. I need to know how many hogsheads I might be able to save.
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Given a few more years, we could have done some serious irreversible harm
Seeing how ozone is produced by a reaction with UV, the more UV that is allowed to pass the ozone layer causes an increase in natural ozone production. So in essence this becomes a self balancing system (as most of the earth's systems). So the hole would come to a natural equilibrium.
I'm more concerned with the irrational fear associated with such things as the hole in the ozone. You think that it is gone? We have not heard much about it in the last 10 years cause it was of little concern; also, ozone is easy to produce. It would not be a problem (just expensive) to produce ozone and cart it to the upper atmosphere.
I find it great human arrogance to assume that we can to any large degree upset the natural balance of the earth to a level that it will not recover itself. Besides the only thing to lose is our existence should such a calamity be triggered. Myself, I'm not to concerned about that. I live a decent life and have nothing to fear concerning death.
But to run tests on water and find that it is cleaner then "normal" municipal sources and not trust it is absurd.
I do agree that often we implement technologies without thinking of the consequences, but the tree huggers are even worst about create radical idea to "save the planet" without thinking of long term consequences.
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Who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
I would get this same reaction in my environmental engineering class concerning waste water treatment (gray to white not sewage to gray). Even though the engineering of the treatment plant was explained most of the students would not be willing to drink the water that came out of the facility even though it used RO or other methods that are used to purify water from natural sources. This makes absolutely no sense. Engineers who understand that all water is recycled anyway, and that there is no difference if it is done mechanically vs. naturally.
If as educated individuals we cannot sell ourselves on the safety of the procedures how do we ever expect the uneducated masses to accept them?
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
This has worked well for me. I had a situation where a RAID 5 lost two drives and my backup had some corruption in a 100 gig video project. Pulled out my 3 year old DVD's and recovered the data fine (and yes there were one or two of chunks that had problems but recovered from the redundancy).
Just my method and 2 cents.
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
Once my projects (video, photo, documents, etc) are finalized they get archived to DVD's. Now DVD's are not overly reliable so I RAR the entire project into 4 gig chucks with a full archive of parity for every 36 gigs (min 1). Then each of those 4 gig archives get RARed into 250 meg chunks with 2 parity files; plus 5% recovery in each archive. This has proved very robust as I have had to recover a 100gig project in the past.
I can loose several discs and many individual files to corruption and not loose the project whereas if an HD goes everything is gone. The only concern becomes shelf life and with this kind of storage capacity making several copies becomes much more feasible. Just my 2 cents.
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
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So who it hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
Well, that just means as you scale members to take larger loads, it is shear strength that becomes your limiting factor, doesn't it?
No, two reasons: shear and bending are completely different beasts, and shear is linear while bending moment is squared.
The point of this thread is comparing ideal models and analysis tools; comparing scale models to larger structures becomes extremely complicated due to these difference and how section properties scale. This is why most structural analysis labs perform their tests with full sized components.
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
...the weight increases with the cube of the scaling factor as you scale up a model, yet the strength of the materials used only increases with the square of the scaling factor since it depends on the area of the cross section of the member.
This may be true with respect to shear (which is area dependent) but Section Modulus (for resolving bending moment) is a cubic function and moment of inertia (for deflection) is to the fourth power.
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
Thank You!
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
I wonder if America would just be better off if we moved to a system like in Europe and Asia, where phones cost much more, and the plans are significantly reduced.
I long for the days when this was reality. I remember dropping $200 for a phone and then choosing my service plan and not being tied to a contract. I had the same phone number for almost 10 years. Every few months I would look to see if there was a better plan available from my provider. Never happened the rates I had were consistently lower then newer rates and I would be required to go back on contract. What finally broke me down was needing to switch from TDMA to the newer networks. Two years later and I'm finally off contract again.
I miss the days when few people had cell phones and it wasn't a commodity. I was treated great by my provider (since I was off contract and had been a customer for so long anytime I have an issue with my phone they would typically send me a new one free of charge).
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister.
Additionally this really looks more conceptual then already printing boards (no flashing links on via's website about this new format). The specs list min. 4 usb ports and 1 gig ethernet. So I see no guarantee that if it is actually fabbed that there will be PS/2 ports available.
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
That is a nice theory but there is no oil in the bearings of a Hitachi (formerly IBM) drive. They ride on an air bearing. I have heard of faulty temperature sensors being reset through the freezing method, but whatever the reason I have seen the freezing method suggested by several sources. For me I believe that it has to do with moving the drive. Shorts or binds will often be resolved by moving the drive around.
When I worked for IBM I did a fair share of data recovery. My favorite drive that I saved was a laptop drive with a stiction problem. It would get caught during spin-up. I put my ear to the drive and would listen to it and kept rebooting and shaking the drive until it finally got past the rough spot. Recovered all the engineers data who was extremely happy he didn't have to waste $500 bucks with Ontrack.
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's sister?
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's Sister?
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So who is hotte? Ali or Ali's sister?
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's sister?
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's sister?
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So who is hotter? Ali or Ali's sister?