You mean I could've been in the middle of reading one of these books, go to bed one night, go to work the next day, then the next nite when I've got horrible, crippling insomnia, have completely deprived of book I was mentally engaged in with absolutely no notice? I'd be really, really pissed.
If you did have the moon on a stick, and a sextant, and an almanac, and knew how to use them, you'd never be lost. Not so sure about the traffic updates...
Can't IBM, or IBM+Novell+Redhat+maybe Oracle up the bid for the "assets" and then just shut it all down?
Not that I'm sure I trust any of these companies with this sort of thing.
Why not repurpose existing HVAC corridors as HVDC? You'd have to either do it on off-peak season, or build a small temp power plant at the load end of the line, but it should be pretty doable. What's needed is an HVDC station that drops into a substation easily. Sadly, all work (at least when I was involved in the industry) seems to be separately engineered, over and over again, for each substation or plant.
Really? If this is true, it makes me pretty uncomfortable. Can't they make a rough judge airspeed from throttle position and flight attitude from the artificial horizon? (this would be more difficult getting thrown around in a thunderstorm of course.) Or get a rough idea from GPS speed-over-ground?
Is the safe airspeed envelope on an airliner really so narrow as to crash from a pilot judging airspeed w/o the primary instrument?? That's scary.
Altimeter comes from a static port, they should have at least two. Of course, if the instruments are wonky, you may have to take several guesses as to why. If they're on autopilot when it freezes, someone will have to wake up and start thinking quickly, especially if the autopilot has done something bad with the throttle based on erroneous information.
Do they typically let the autopilot fly in bad weather?
You'd think that throttle position (or fuel consumption) + altitude + experience would've given them an idea.. Or, actual speed over ground from GPS. Or rate of climb + control surfaces position.
If I'm on an airplane in IFR, I want the pilot to be able to roughly judge airspeed from secondary instruments.
A frozen pitot tube shouldn't crash an airliner.
I wonder if the financial meltdown... large part triggered by banks writing bad mortgages and selling them to each other, wasn't in part due to many people in the financial industry being on high end happy pills.
For some reason, I wasted my time wallowing in the pages of schedenfreud. What I want to know is about the authors of these sorts of articles... Have they ever worked on a useful project? Sure, Lisa or the Zune didn't save the world, but what did the authors do for humanity?
They do go down for months for refueling. Also, downtime in a nuke is supposed to be predictable, but not always. For example, Trojan here in Oregon was plagued by problems, both socio-political and real.. (cracked steam tubes.) PGE had to mount a massive political fight to keep it open, then closed it when they couldn't economically fix the cracks. They won't have the political issues in China, but don't think they can't have expensive problems.
With the incredible $/watt for nuclear, I wonder if it'd be cheaper to engineer a worldwide transmission grid (HVDC transmission) and use wind or solar wherever the wind is blowing or sun is shining. Local pumped-storage would also work, and that's a known quantity.
If Nuclear costs more than "Alternative Energy", Nuclear is the new "Alternative Energy." It made sense in the past because the civilian nuke industry produced material for the defense industry. There's now enough bombs to kill us and kill them back, so IMO, there's use in that anymore.
If the Nuclear industry wants to stay relevant, they're going to have to come in a lot cheaper than 6 billion/1100MW.. in China!
Using waste heat is a great idea, and I'm glad it's starting to be done.
In an ideal world, (high up/down bandwidth to residences and commercial buildings, servers could be distributed out to locations that need heat. Modulate the load on the servers to provide more or less heat as needed.
If we had the northern and southern hemispheres well connected, our server use could always heat people in the winter hemisphere.
Office mates have an important document they want printed. This was done in the "new excel" They could not print to their Xerox Phaser.
They emailed me a PDF, and I printed it to the Phaser. I'd installed the drivers on my desktop Ubuntu system a couple weeks ago, using 15 minutes and directions googled off the net.
I'd like to listen in on the phonecall where someone explains to Bill Gates that they had to email a PDF to a friend with Linux becuase they couldn't get it to print from their Vista machine.
It would seem much more effective to find 3 deserts, spaced approximately 120 degrees around the globe, then run and HVDC power transmission link connecting everything.
Or, you could combine solar power plants (either solar thermal or direct PV) with pumped storage systems. All realizable with present technology.
There are many reasons we need to be in space. Solar power is not one of them. The sun shines all the way down here with only a 30% reduction in power.
You do know it's legal to put low dose antibiotics in animal feed? Actually, I think it's harder to get processed feed w/o antibiotics than with them!
On the human side of things, check out what our local teaching hospital is asking for volunteers for.
I think this is crazy and should be illegal. But if somebody can make money off of it, who is the government to regulate it in general society's interest?
Has anyone tried to run Code Composer and Signums JTAGjet for TI DSPs? I'm asking because this is really the only reason I keep a windows system around.
The funny thing is, I run mingw/msys in Windows, and run the TI code gen tools (dos command line based) out of a makefile.. but the initial jtagging is dependant on drivers.
Drop the kids and wifey at Disneyland. Take a day trip to Vegas!
Perhaps by having it levitated, they can claim that it's not subject to the laws of CA, and run a gambling and sex racket on board the train itself.. the thing wouldn't have to even stop.. There's a financial argument for maglev over TGV!
I've heard this. I'm not sure I 100% believe in it anymore. I don't see the point of tertiary markets on top of tertiary markets, all so speculators can play different games.
What do you think about this Chrysler "refuel America" program... gaurenteeing their customers an allocation of $3/gallon gas for 3 years. They're going to be hedging that by buying gasoline futures... or someone is. That's going to drive UP the price of fuel if you're driving a chevy or toyota! They put in 1x money, get 1x incentive for their customers and 0.xx disincentive for buying a different company's car!
Good soil 60-80% organic material? Check your numbers.. that sounds like a peat bog.
You can produce like crazy in the organic garden because you're concentrating nitrogen from farm sources.
I've got a garden too.. I've never used any chemical fertilizers or pesticides. I have bought chicken manure.. those chickens have been eating grain that may have been grown with "artificialy" produced nitrogen. How many steps away from the Haber process does nitrogen need to be to be considered "organic?" I also buy limestone and phosphate rock. I think we've got limestone here, but most of the phosphate... rock or processed... comes mostly from mines in Florida.. (that's scary.) I've also picked up loads of horse manure, and bought bagged peatmoss from canada.. my garden is a hobby, with external financial inputs.. I'd have an extremely difficult time trying to do subsistance farming here in the Willamette valley.. perhaps if I had grazing animals and chickens.. and about 40 acres.
I don't think we can make a blanket statement that organic=good, industrially derived fertilizers=bad.
I also believe that we'd have a hard time feeding this many people in the world w/o any industrial inputs.
I agree we should be recycling sewage.. they do here for ornamentals... you can buy dried sludge here but you're only supposed to use it on ornamentals becuase of possible heavy metal contamination in the sewers. Sad.
The funny thing is with this whole-foods/chinese organic scandal, probably a lot of that produce is being grown on human manure... "night soil" they've been doing that forever there. They have to.
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You mean I could've been in the middle of reading one of these books, go to bed one night, go to work the next day, then the next nite when I've got horrible, crippling insomnia, have completely deprived of book I was mentally engaged in with absolutely no notice? I'd be really, really pissed.
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2. Song of Songs, brought to you by Trojan... (cue Trojan Man)
If you did have the moon on a stick, and a sextant, and an almanac, and knew how to use them, you'd never be lost. Not so sure about the traffic updates...
Can't IBM, or IBM+Novell+Redhat+maybe Oracle up the bid for the "assets" and then just shut it all down? Not that I'm sure I trust any of these companies with this sort of thing.
Hey, sounds great! Throw in a couple DC-8's and you'll have a religion there!
Why not repurpose existing HVAC corridors as HVDC? You'd have to either do it on off-peak season, or build a small temp power plant at the load end of the line, but it should be pretty doable. What's needed is an HVDC station that drops into a substation easily. Sadly, all work (at least when I was involved in the industry) seems to be separately engineered, over and over again, for each substation or plant.
2. cat > /dev/null
3. type notes.
Just don't close the terminal window.
Shouldn't that be: It's nice to see Macs and Windows keeping Linux honest??
Is the safe airspeed envelope on an airliner really so narrow as to crash from a pilot judging airspeed w/o the primary instrument?? That's scary.
Altimeter comes from a static port, they should have at least two. Of course, if the instruments are wonky, you may have to take several guesses as to why. If they're on autopilot when it freezes, someone will have to wake up and start thinking quickly, especially if the autopilot has done something bad with the throttle based on erroneous information.
Do they typically let the autopilot fly in bad weather?
You'd think that throttle position (or fuel consumption) + altitude + experience would've given them an idea.. Or, actual speed over ground from GPS. Or rate of climb + control surfaces position. If I'm on an airplane in IFR, I want the pilot to be able to roughly judge airspeed from secondary instruments. A frozen pitot tube shouldn't crash an airliner.
I wonder if the financial meltdown... large part triggered by banks writing bad mortgages and selling them to each other, wasn't in part due to many people in the financial industry being on high end happy pills.
For some reason, I wasted my time wallowing in the pages of schedenfreud. What I want to know is about the authors of these sorts of articles... Have they ever worked on a useful project? Sure, Lisa or the Zune didn't save the world, but what did the authors do for humanity?
With the incredible $/watt for nuclear, I wonder if it'd be cheaper to engineer a worldwide transmission grid (HVDC transmission) and use wind or solar wherever the wind is blowing or sun is shining. Local pumped-storage would also work, and that's a known quantity.
If Nuclear costs more than "Alternative Energy", Nuclear is the new "Alternative Energy." It made sense in the past because the civilian nuke industry produced material for the defense industry. There's now enough bombs to kill us and kill them back, so IMO, there's use in that anymore.
If the Nuclear industry wants to stay relevant, they're going to have to come in a lot cheaper than 6 billion/1100MW.. in China!
The astounding thing to me is just how expensive this is... 6 billion for 1100MW is almost $6/nameplate watt.
$6 billion will buy a lot of Honda generators..
You think they'd actually bother to build it?
In an ideal world, (high up/down bandwidth to residences and commercial buildings, servers could be distributed out to locations that need heat. Modulate the load on the servers to provide more or less heat as needed.
If we had the northern and southern hemispheres well connected, our server use could always heat people in the winter hemisphere.
Code can fork. Licenses can generate lawsuits and intimidation forever.
Office mates have an important document they want printed. This was done in the "new excel" They could not print to their Xerox Phaser.
They emailed me a PDF, and I printed it to the Phaser. I'd installed the drivers on my desktop Ubuntu system a couple weeks ago, using 15 minutes and directions googled off the net.
I'd like to listen in on the phonecall where someone explains to Bill Gates that they had to email a PDF to a friend with Linux becuase they couldn't get it to print from their Vista machine.
It would seem much more effective to find 3 deserts, spaced approximately 120 degrees around the globe, then run and HVDC power transmission link connecting everything.
Or, you could combine solar power plants (either solar thermal or direct PV) with pumped storage systems. All realizable with present technology. There are many reasons we need to be in space. Solar power is not one of them. The sun shines all the way down here with only a 30% reduction in power.
Getting it into the Ubuntu repos probably wouldn't hurt, either. (Sad that a single distro can have that much influence)
Wow. The Economy must be bad! People are getting their Ubuntus repossessed!
You do know it's legal to put low dose antibiotics in animal feed? Actually, I think it's harder to get processed feed w/o antibiotics than with them! On the human side of things, check out what our local teaching hospital is asking for volunteers for. I think this is crazy and should be illegal. But if somebody can make money off of it, who is the government to regulate it in general society's interest?
The funny thing is, I run mingw/msys in Windows, and run the TI code gen tools (dos command line based) out of a makefile.. but the initial jtagging is dependant on drivers.
Drop the kids and wifey at Disneyland. Take a day trip to Vegas!
Perhaps by having it levitated, they can claim that it's not subject to the laws of CA, and run a gambling and sex racket on board the train itself.. the thing wouldn't have to even stop.. There's a financial argument for maglev over TGV!
What happens on the train, stays on the train!
What do you think about this Chrysler "refuel America" program... gaurenteeing their customers an allocation of $3/gallon gas for 3 years. They're going to be hedging that by buying gasoline futures... or someone is. That's going to drive UP the price of fuel if you're driving a chevy or toyota! They put in 1x money, get 1x incentive for their customers and 0.xx disincentive for buying a different company's car!
You can produce like crazy in the organic garden because you're concentrating nitrogen from farm sources.
I've got a garden too.. I've never used any chemical fertilizers or pesticides. I have bought chicken manure.. those chickens have been eating grain that may have been grown with "artificialy" produced nitrogen. How many steps away from the Haber process does nitrogen need to be to be considered "organic?" I also buy limestone and phosphate rock. I think we've got limestone here, but most of the phosphate... rock or processed... comes mostly from mines in Florida.. (that's scary.) I've also picked up loads of horse manure, and bought bagged peatmoss from canada.. my garden is a hobby, with external financial inputs.. I'd have an extremely difficult time trying to do subsistance farming here in the Willamette valley.. perhaps if I had grazing animals and chickens.. and about 40 acres.
I don't think we can make a blanket statement that organic=good, industrially derived fertilizers=bad.
I also believe that we'd have a hard time feeding this many people in the world w/o any industrial inputs. I agree we should be recycling sewage.. they do here for ornamentals... you can buy dried sludge here but you're only supposed to use it on ornamentals becuase of possible heavy metal contamination in the sewers. Sad. The funny thing is with this whole-foods/chinese organic scandal, probably a lot of that produce is being grown on human manure... "night soil" they've been doing that forever there. They have to.