I sincerely doubt it is more flexible than asphalt. It would be quite odd if it was. Asphalt is VERY flexible. Concrete on the other hand is not.
Roads built with cement (rigid pavements) are (structurally) considerably different from roads using asphalt (flexible pavements). They are more resistent than asphalt roads and will usually have less of a problem with the deformation of the soil for they have some tensile strength and are rigid enough to distribute the loads over a wider surface, thus diminishing the stress on the soil and its deformations. They are however more sensitive to the forst-defrost cycles.
Asphalt roads (flexible pavements) are by nature permeable. They are built in layers and at least the top layer you'll usually want it to be permeable, but down below you'll want the exact oposite, otherwise you'll have problems not only with the frost-defrost cycles, but also because the resistence of the underlying soil wich is supporting the pavement will decrease a great deal and affect the structure's resistence as a whole.
The joints themselves aren't doing any significant load-bearing.
Yes indeed. It is as you say.
Imagine if a column was made from this stuff, nothing could depend on it for structural support due to its inability to resist deformation
This however is not quite true. The article mentions the fact that this new cement is more flexible and resistent to bending. As it happens, cement is very very weak in such circumstances. The beams in a structure are made of Reinforced Concrete (RC) because of this.The concrete behaves well enough in compression, but has very little tensile strength and so it will crack very very soon. In fact, in a normal structure, there will always be some cracks. Calculations are made in order to keep these fairly small though ( below 0.3mm is what the EC2 recomends, but it depends on what the purpose of the structure is and its environment ).
Since they say this new composite cement weights 40% less and has alot more tensile strength, I imagine that it is less rigid and thus can more easily have some problems in columns under horizontal loads (e.g. earthquakes) but that is not serious prolem. You just need slightly bigger sections for your columns, and the 40% weight reduction will cetainly compensate for that. Besides, you will only really have to worry about such problems if your columns have a low height/column-width ratio. You should also expect a bit more problems with the deformations of beams, but that can be solved with a little more steel to compensate.
Worry not, the deformation of the columns under axial loads is NOT serious. Cement in such circumstances has a maximum deformation around 0.35%. It has hardly any significance for common applications.
Around these parts (Portugal, Europe), newspapers have in the last couple of years adopted the habit of "offering" DVDs for a few extra . Usually for around 9, sometimes less. These are movies that came out half a dozen years ago, though. But the point is: the distribution system ALREADY exists. You just need to (and they do) use the existing mechanisms. It doesn't cost'em that much to distribute. Their expenses do not justify their cost.
Someone along the chain is making alot of profit...
That used to happen alot around here as well. When I first joined college, I'd say that about 80% of the students had cellphones (keep in mind that this was back at the end of 2000). You'd usually hear one or two cellphones ringing during classes. It was annoying as hell, but very very frequent.
Nowadays its quite rare to see that happen. I imagine the habit of takin' off the sound has caught on. I'd say it took some time to happen, though... hehe
Worry not, that won't really be a problem for me. I'm not in the US.;)
Anyways, warez circles are pretty active. Alot of people don't care about such things outside of work. Almost no one really cares about getting caught illegally downloadin' music/movies/tv shows/etc from the web either.
Well, its not like that's really a problem. You can easily just publish the software online and claim to be from outside the US. US users will download and use it.
The fact that it'd be illegal to use the software would not bother anyone...
Damn... life as a female slashdot-reader sure sounds alot more interesting than the male counterpart. Jugding from your post, and my own short slashdot experience, that is.
Yes there is. But very little work is done in that filed. Most movies from asian origin end up translated sooner or later, and often quite soon.
An example of a fansubbed movie is Sex is Zero by Miyuki-fansubs.
There are, however, alot of fansubs for Japanese, Korean, Chinese and even Thai Dramas. These are series, often of 10~11 episodes (though sometimes +60 ) wich are very very popular. To mention a few titles:
Kimi wa Petto
Good Luck
Summer Snow
Beautiful Life
These are nothin' like the shows produced in the western world, so they're interesting to watch. Its like comparing Britcom with US-made sitcoms. Very very different.
http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/index.php
try searching there if you're interested in it.
Inevitably, the fansubbing effort will depend on the amount of people interested. You need ALOT of fans, some able fans, and momentum. Its will inevitably have a slow start, but once it picks it'll grow fast as hell. Just look at the anime-fansubbing community, and more recently the dorama-fansubbing community. After 2000 they had an explosive growth...
Yes there is. But very little work is done in that filed. Most movies from asian origin end up translated sooner or later, and often quite soon.
An example of a fansubbed movie is Sex is Zero by Miyuki-fansubs.
There are, however, alot of fansubs for Japanese, Korean, Chinese and even Thai Dramas. These are series, often of 10~11 episodes (though sometimes +60 ) wich are very very popular. To mention a few titles:
Kimi wa Petto
Good Luck
Summer Snow
Beautiful Life
These are nothin' like the shows produced in the western world, so they're interesting to watch. Its like comparing Britcom with US-made sitcoms. Very very different.
http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/index.php
try searching there if you're interested in it.
Inevitably, the fansubbing effort will depend on the amount of people interested. You need ALOT of fans, some able fans, and momentum. Its will inevitably have a slow start, but once it picks it'll grow fast as hell. Just look at the anime-fansubbing community, and more recently the dorama-fansubbing community. After 2000 they had an explosive growth...
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I am so very sorry to disapoint you.
1. Alot of us are not too fond of some of the old stuff out there. Its not from our generation, and was not made for our generation. That said, I'll say that I do like some not-so-recent stuff, as well as some old works as well (Kodomo no Omocha, Kimagure Orange Road, to mention just two).
2. There ARE groups fansubbing some not-so-popular and old works. Lemme show you some.
Ashita no Joe by "Anime Suuxe-den"
3000 Leagues in Search of Mother
aka Haha wo Tazunete Sanzen Ri by "Live-eviL"
Magical Angel Creamy Mami by "Live-EviL"
Magical Fairy Persia by "Live-Evil"
Yawara by "Live-eviL"
Rokushin Gattai GodMars by "Anime-Classic"
Sekushi Commando Gaiden: Sugoiyo! Masaru-san (various groups)
Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin (aka Fang of the Sun Dougram) by "Anime Suuxe-den"
And yes... alot of people DO buy the stuff after watching them. I know quite a few people that do buy alot of stuff and curiously enough are major leechers of anime. Unfortunately, in my country very little ever gets licensed, and what is is usually very expensive so they end up importing from the US and some European countries...
I sincerely doubt some of the older shows out there that have recently been licensed would ever have been licensed if they had not proven their worth by their popularity as fansubs.
1. Groups like to get credit for their work. If you released a simple text file anyone could change it and say its their own. If its a video, stripping the subtitles and timing is enough to discourage most people.
2. Getting ahold of raws (non-subbed video) may prove to be difficult, and would surely be far more expensive than buyin' stuff released in your country (wich is often already expensive enough).
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Needs some more work to pass the Acid2 test
You can just admit that it has always existed. It is a perfectly valid explanation.
Its not cheaper. On the contrary, it has a higher initial cost. But it is said that it pays off in the long run.
I sincerely doubt it is more flexible than asphalt. It would be quite odd if it was. Asphalt is VERY flexible. Concrete on the other hand is not.
Roads built with cement (rigid pavements) are (structurally) considerably different from roads using asphalt (flexible pavements). They are more resistent than asphalt roads and will usually have less of a problem with the deformation of the soil for they have some tensile strength and are rigid enough to distribute the loads over a wider surface, thus diminishing the stress on the soil and its deformations. They are however more sensitive to the forst-defrost cycles.
Asphalt roads (flexible pavements) are by nature permeable. They are built in layers and at least the top layer you'll usually want it to be permeable, but down below you'll want the exact oposite, otherwise you'll have problems not only with the frost-defrost cycles, but also because the resistence of the underlying soil wich is supporting the pavement will decrease a great deal and affect the structure's resistence as a whole.
The joints themselves aren't doing any significant load-bearing.
Yes indeed. It is as you say.
Imagine if a column was made from this stuff, nothing could depend on it for structural support due to its inability to resist deformation
This however is not quite true. The article mentions the fact that this new cement is more flexible and resistent to bending. As it happens, cement is very very weak in such circumstances. The beams in a structure are made of Reinforced Concrete (RC) because of this.The concrete behaves well enough in compression, but has very little tensile strength and so it will crack very very soon. In fact, in a normal structure, there will always be some cracks. Calculations are made in order to keep these fairly small though ( below 0.3mm is what the EC2 recomends, but it depends on what the purpose of the structure is and its environment ).
Since they say this new composite cement weights 40% less and has alot more tensile strength, I imagine that it is less rigid and thus can more easily have some problems in columns under horizontal loads (e.g. earthquakes) but that is not serious prolem. You just need slightly bigger sections for your columns, and the 40% weight reduction will cetainly compensate for that. Besides, you will only really have to worry about such problems if your columns have a low height/column-width ratio. You should also expect a bit more problems with the deformations of beams, but that can be solved with a little more steel to compensate.
Worry not, the deformation of the columns under axial loads is NOT serious. Cement in such circumstances has a maximum deformation around 0.35%. It has hardly any significance for common applications.
please note, I AM a Civil Eng. Student :)
Mirror at mirrordot ...
Well, in Portugal the phone lines cover the whole country, and yet people are still moving away from it.
Its simply a matter of convenience. Your cell can be with you all the time (if you want it to) while your landline isn't.
If you have a cellphone and use it 90% of the time, what's the point of having a landline? You're just paying for something you barely use...
Around here they progressively changed the time...
it used to start about 24h
but they did show the whole thing!! And I did get to watch it!!
It was quite troublesome sometimes as I had school the next day at 9h
Simple.
Around these parts (Portugal, Europe), newspapers have in the last couple of years adopted the habit of "offering" DVDs for a few extra . Usually for around 9, sometimes less. These are movies that came out half a dozen years ago, though. But the point is: the distribution system ALREADY exists. You just need to (and they do) use the existing mechanisms. It doesn't cost'em that much to distribute. Their expenses do not justify their cost.
Someone along the chain is making alot of profit...
That used to happen alot around here as well. When I first joined college, I'd say that about 80% of the students had cellphones (keep in mind that this was back at the end of 2000). You'd usually hear one or two cellphones ringing during classes. It was annoying as hell, but very very frequent.
Nowadays its quite rare to see that happen. I imagine the habit of takin' off the sound has caught on. I'd say it took some time to happen, though... hehe
I'll be anxiously awaiting them to publish the data on our own species' barcode. I'd be kewl to have one tatooded.
Actually, there is already alot of error correction in DVDs and CDs.
o r_co rrection
read up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed-Solomon_err
The par files of wich you speak of, actually use this.
Worry not, that won't really be a problem for me. I'm not in the US. ;)
Anyways, warez circles are pretty active. Alot of people don't care about such things outside of work. Almost no one really cares about getting caught illegally downloadin' music/movies/tv shows/etc from the web either.
Why would this be any different?
Well, its not like that's really a problem. You can easily just publish the software online and claim to be from outside the US. US users will download and use it.
The fact that it'd be illegal to use the software would not bother anyone...
Damn... life as a female slashdot-reader sure sounds alot more interesting than the male counterpart. Jugding from your post, and my own short slashdot experience, that is.
Heh...
Yes there is. But very little work is done in that filed. Most movies from asian origin end up translated sooner or later, and often quite soon.
An example of a fansubbed movie is Sex is Zero by Miyuki-fansubs.
There are, however, alot of fansubs for Japanese, Korean, Chinese and even Thai Dramas. These are series, often of 10~11 episodes (though sometimes +60 ) wich are very very popular. To mention a few titles:
Kimi wa Petto
Good Luck
Summer Snow
Beautiful Life
These are nothin' like the shows produced in the western world, so they're interesting to watch. Its like comparing Britcom with US-made sitcoms. Very very different.
http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/index.php
try searching there if you're interested in it.
Inevitably, the fansubbing effort will depend on the amount of people interested. You need ALOT of fans, some able fans, and momentum. Its will inevitably have a slow start, but once it picks it'll grow fast as hell. Just look at the anime-fansubbing community, and more recently the dorama-fansubbing community. After 2000 they had an explosive growth...
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I am a speak english. Do you not? - Saroto
Yes there is. But very little work is done in that filed. Most movies from asian origin end up translated sooner or later, and often quite soon. An example of a fansubbed movie is Sex is Zero by Miyuki-fansubs. There are, however, alot of fansubs for Japanese, Korean, Chinese and even Thai Dramas. These are series, often of 10~11 episodes (though sometimes +60 ) wich are very very popular. To mention a few titles: Kimi wa Petto Good Luck Summer Snow Beautiful Life These are nothin' like the shows produced in the western world, so they're interesting to watch. Its like comparing Britcom with US-made sitcoms. Very very different. http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/index.php try searching there if you're interested in it. Inevitably, the fansubbing effort will depend on the amount of people interested. You need ALOT of fans, some able fans, and momentum. Its will inevitably have a slow start, but once it picks it'll grow fast as hell. Just look at the anime-fansubbing community, and more recently the dorama-fansubbing community. After 2000 they had an explosive growth...
I am so very sorry to disapoint you.
1. Alot of us are not too fond of some of the old stuff out there. Its not from our generation, and was not made for our generation. That said, I'll say that I do like some not-so-recent stuff, as well as some old works as well (Kodomo no Omocha, Kimagure Orange Road, to mention just two).
2. There ARE groups fansubbing some not-so-popular and old works. Lemme show you some.
Ashita no Joe by "Anime Suuxe-den"
3000 Leagues in Search of Mother
aka Haha wo Tazunete Sanzen Ri by "Live-eviL"
Magical Angel Creamy Mami by "Live-EviL"
Magical Fairy Persia by "Live-Evil"
Yawara by "Live-eviL"
Rokushin Gattai GodMars by "Anime-Classic"
Sekushi Commando Gaiden: Sugoiyo! Masaru-san (various groups)
Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin (aka Fang of the Sun Dougram) by "Anime Suuxe-den"
And yes... alot of people DO buy the stuff after watching them. I know quite a few people that do buy alot of stuff and curiously enough are major leechers of anime. Unfortunately, in my country very little ever gets licensed, and what is is usually very expensive so they end up importing from the US and some European countries...
I sincerely doubt some of the older shows out there that have recently been licensed would ever have been licensed if they had not proven their worth by their popularity as fansubs.
1. Groups like to get credit for their work. If you released a simple text file anyone could change it and say its their own. If its a video, stripping the subtitles and timing is enough to discourage most people.
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2. Getting ahold of raws (non-subbed video) may prove to be difficult, and would surely be far more expensive than buyin' stuff released in your country (wich is often already expensive enough)
Why is it wrong? Its like a sport. Nothing more. Why is it wrong?
Some people like to collect stamps, other people like to amass large amounts of money. Why is that wrong?
Now if Gates pledged to vaccinate 750million HIMSELF, now THAT would be interesting...
Have you never heard of a thing called "matches"?
My guess would be that they're referring to a Direct Connect hub... but I didnt really read the artile so I wouldn't know....
Well, the idea I believe is to reduce the value of comment-span, wich hopefully will eventually lead to less comment-span.
Why a PDA?
Its meant to attract tourists... would you be attracted by knowin' they'd hand you out a handful of flyers?!