Makes me wonder about the economics of producing these things. Apparently something related to the OS choices makes it worth Intel's while to develop separate models and the infrastructure to build each one, rather than just building the higher spec model and slapping either OS onto it.
It's things like this that hearken back to the glory days of the Evil Empire, and why people find it difficult to trust MS now.
Well, I can't speak for the Ubuntu one, but I have a Yoga 2 10" tablet with Windows 8 with nearly identical specs, only the Z3745 processor instead of this stick's Z3735. The difference in CPU is not significant.
2GB of RAM is not enough for web pages with endless scrolling, such as Tumblr, or bloated pages such as Vice.com. Chrome sucks up the RAM, and when there is none left, things aren't pretty. I use "The Great Suspender" addon which saves unused tabs to disk and frees up memory, but even that isn't enough. We are past the point where 2GB of RAM is enough for even simple web browsing. Maybe Ubuntu manages the limited memory better, but based on how much Chrome is using, the OS choice may be irrelevent and these devices really need 4GB of RAM.
BT sync? I sync my most important files to all computers in the house, 2 phones, and a work computer. If all of them get wrecked I'm probably dead anyway.
The BBC is a public broadcaster, funded and owned by mandatory license fees in the UK.Clarkson was on contract to the BBC. Once the organization confirmed that unprovoked verbal and physical abuse had occurred, they had to take action or leave the corporation open to an indefensible lawsuit from the victim. They can't exactly say, "Yeah, get stuffed. We have extensive policies promoting equality and prohibiting harassment and violence in the workplace, but we're ignoring them because the presenter is popular and profitable."
No doubt Clarkson and pals will make a profitable jump to Netflix or Sky to make a similar motoring comedy show. Meanwhile, the BBC has a chance to reinvent Top Gear with younger presenters and a reinvigorated format (there are only so many new Lamborghinis, Ferraris and Aston Martins that can be driven around a track in a cloud of smoke every week and only so many routes for contrived road trips through war zones in ancient sports cars).
If I wanted to see everyday cars that real people drive, I would go to a car dealership. Top Gear is the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous of cars. I will never buy a Lambo but that doesn't mean that watching them isn't fun.
No. You are trying to explain a mechanical failure of a door right at the moment when the aircraft suddenly starts descending into mountains all the while during which the copilot also does nothing to try to correct this unscheduled descent and also ignores air traffic control. Seriously if it has wings and floats on the water and looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck. Your version requires many, many things to go wrong at once. The simple answer is, of course, only one thing went wrong - the co-pilot locked the door and set the plane to descend. Occam's razor, and all that.
Adding fuel to this theory is that the co-pilot was detatched and monosyllabic when receiving the briefing about landing in Dusseldorf - he had already made up his mind that he wasn't going to reach Dusseldorf. If the pilot wasn't going to go to the bathroom he probably was planning on killing the pilot anyway.
Give yourself the quick "MYSTERY SOLVED" pat on the back if you want, we're about 48 hours into an investigation which will probably last months. I'll wait for the final report.
Anyone who is designing such systems around "accurate time" hasn't got a freaking clue how to build such systems.
For example, when dealing with spacing on self-driving vehicles, you rely on radar or laser tracking to maintain the separation between vehicles, not some wildly inaccurate network message about the velocity and position sent by other vehicles.
Why not both? I deal with industrial controls somewhat frequently, and it is a common approach to take multiple inputs, align them into comparable units, then weight them according to their importance and add them together. Typically this is done in such a way that if the usual governing input fails, the remaining inputs, combined with the control logic, will guide the system into a safe state.
If you have retail experience you will see that many people will come to the shop to try and then buy online. One counter is to sell your own products but that does not work in every sector.
Which reinforces the OP's point that shops need to offer more than aisles of product and a cash register. I went into a hobby store yesterday to look at, and possibly buy, an RC truck. I'm completely new to the hobby so I had many questions, such as "what would you use 5 channels for in an RC truck", "can the model with the brush motor be upgraded to brushless, and how much would that cost", "Can the 2WD models be upgraded to 4WD", etc etc. I needed a sales person who knew how to help me find what would be best for me. Instead, the shop was staffed by a 10 year old kid (not kidding) and a couple of older kids whose ages were a bit ambiguous but definitely under 16. I'm sure they are good kids but they don't know how to be a good salesperson.
This is kind of an extreme case but you can't sell product if you put no effort into selling product! In this case Amazon prices are the same as hobby shop prices (probably due to strict MSRP rules) so I would have been happy buying locally. And it doesn't help that nowhere are there comparison charts between some of the different RC models. Traxxas has about 8 different versions of the 1/10 Slash truck, but no table of differences. I expected a 30 minute education and buying experience, but now I have to research all over the internet, through countless forums, to answer all my newbie questions. Give me a decent salesperson any day of the week.
I want to choose my own crap, ala carte. If I only want ONE piece of crap, then that's all I'm going to buy from you: ONE piece of crap. I want to be able to stream my crap anywhere, any time, to any crappy device (which by the way I probably bought at one of your crowded crappy crap stores in a crappy mall).
Oh, and since I am PAYING YOU to provide me with this service, I will not suffer through even one crappy advertisement while I watch my crap. NOT.EVEN.ONE.
I will gleefully ignore any/all crap services that do not perform to my exact specifications.
It's pretty much like that now with most shows. You can buy each episode for 2 or $3. Whatever the % of shows that distribute this way, it is only going to increase as time goes on. This isn't an assault on that, just further options for people who prefer the certainty of a fixed budget (rather than a variably one) and think 25 channels is just the right amount of channels.
19th century system to a 21st century world.
Science today is far more complex then it was a hundred years ago. Back then it was easy to get a superstar scientist. Experiment with a few hundred dollars of equipment you can find a new principal. Publish it and you are big news.
Most of the easy stuff had been found we get some rare finds such as the discovery of graphine, but most of today's work is with expensive equipment needing a larger teams of scientist. That publish or parish methodology is antiquated. The better approach would be open and accessable sharing of data and results in real time where more can work on you work of progress, and less trying to be Mr. Know it all scientist, who will get the Nobel prize for stumbling on the best answer.
There is plenty of easy science still yet to be done in taboo subjects. The possibilities for illegal drugs alone are huge. Can't get funding? Crowdfund it. There are plenty of people who will contribute to good science in these areas, like this one which essentially is just putting people on LSD in a fMRI machine and looking at the results. I donated some money and it looks like 1279 other people did too. They are currently at 177% of their funding goal with 34 days remaining.
Right now, there are obviously a lot of donors and too few studies using crowd funding. That will surely change in the near future but I still think that is a far easier task to find 1280 people willing to give you $50 instead of finding 1 person willing to write a check for $66,000 (44,500 British Pounds). There are plenty of people like me who want to see research into these areas and are willing to pay for it.
Why do you use watt per square meter of home? If you closed off half your home, would you use half the power? Hell no. So it's not a useful stat, is it?
Oh, it'll drop, but not a massive ammount.
One reason why you use a huge amount of electric is that in Europe drying clothes on a clothesline (or clothes horse indoors in winter) is normal, whereas when I've discussed it on slashdot et al, Americans seem to think this is some pre-historic cro-magnon regression, barely above living in caves and huddling around a single fire for warmth.
Air-con isn't popular either, we'll put up with temperature changes in the home, though with common central heating now, it's more likely our homes will be set to warm up more than it used to.
The USA has high AC use because we have cities in very warm climates. Cities where the temperature can stay above 90F (32C) for weeks at a time- day AND night. Plus keeping a livable temperature in an office building improves productivity. I have worked in Tokyo in August and Baden, Switzerland in June. The high office temperature meant I could not maintain concentration nearly as well as in a US office building. If the $$ spent on air conditioning didn't deliver better productivity, we wouldn't spend the money. As for clothes driers, my wife is from Japan where line drying is normal and she quickly converted to drier-only. It is a huge labor and time saver, and clothes are a lot softer. If you put them on the hanger while still hot, ironing is only rarely required.
Exactly this. I have done percussion, and the cowbell (you're right there) is similar but the hi-hat work is not the same at all. So even the percussion line is not even identical.
When you're learning percussion, you drill books of STANDARD PERCUSSION LINES! The rhythms are *standardized*. This is worse than copyrighting QuickSort!
Jesus, next time just copyright chord progressions and have a government judge kill off music once and for all! Guess what? All blocks of code flying by on a screen on a movie *look the same* to a non-programmer. But they're clearly not to an expert, which is all that actually matters.
First they came for the syncopation, but I did not care for I was not a drummer.
As someone who recently picked up an instrument for the first time in a decade, you have convinced me. Maybe you should have represented the defense in court.
"your rotor velocity is then limited to the gas velocity,"
Well duh. There's no combustion happening inside the turbine so of course its going to be limited by the velocity of gas flowing into it.
As you approach a 1:1 ratio of tangential velocity and gas velocity, the efficiency falls off dramatically. At a 1:1 velocity ratio, that turbine stage is 0% efficient and not helping at all- the gas is no longer pushing it. For the most efficient design the tangential rotor velocity should be limited to 50-75% of the gas velocity.
Firearm accidents barely made it onto the chart I was looking at with 22 unintentional firearm deaths for the 10-14 year old category. It was the only place it was in the top ten causes of death for any age group all the way up to the 65+ category.
vs.
1170 for being run over by cars
708 for drowning
1182 unintentional suffocation
408 being murdered by a parent/family member
58 dying from exposure (cold)
228 from burning to death
69 accidental death from beatings
116 bicycle accidents
Source 2012 statistics form the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
in 2012.
Firearm deaths are hardly the "low hanging" fruit on things killing children in the US, and it hardly happens "every single day" Hence why most "gun nuts" get more than a little agitated when it is used as a reason to take away their rights.
It isn't a low hanging fruit. It is part of a multipronged approach, tackling all of the ways people die needlessly.
Automakers spend billions of dollars making their cars more safe, going to great lengths to add features that increase survivability. The government sets standards that must be met if the car is allowed to be sold.
Local governments and state/national governments spend millions of dollars making lakes, rivers and beaches more safe, by adding signage, marking hazards and swimming areas, hiring lifeguards, building lighthouses, etc.
Just about every plastic bag is marked with warnings not to allow children to play with them. Lampcords and blinds have standards now that are supposed to make them safer and more difficult for young children to hang themselves.
"408 being murdered by a parent/family member" How many of those were by gun?
"58 dying from exposure (cold)" Governments all over the world, including the USA, have programs subsidizing fuel for the poor. Lots of effort and money is spent predicting the weather and issuing cold weather / winter storm warnings.
"228 from burning to death" - The government spends a huge amount of money on fire education and local municipalities subsidize smoke detectors, CO detectors, and other fire safety items. Etc.
So we do take action to try to prevent those causes of deaths. We spend billions of dollars a year on reducing them, and try to educate those in society about the dangers. The argument "accidental gun shootings are just another, of many common ways to die" only works if you are willing to treat it the same way as we treat other deaths. By education, regulation, and by using every other tool available. Gun advocates complaining about regulation and education is as absurd as a match or lighter manufacturer complaining about Smokey the Bear. The goal is to make the product more safe, and the public more educated, so it isn't as vilified.
And short-term speculative bidding is *good* for the American public. Remember, this radio spectrum is our public property, and it's worth serious money. If SpaceX convinces the FCC not to allow "paper satellites", and demonstrates that it's the only bidder that's for real, then it can bid $0.01, win the auction, deploy its constellation, and keep all the profit. Allowing speculative competitive bids forces SpaceX to raise its bid, meaning the FCC, and thus the American public, gets to take a share of SpaceX's profits.
If a company has to pay $2 billion for a slice of spectrum, they have to pass that cost on to their customers. The government gets $2 billion from the company and immediately spends it on something foolish. Everyone who uses that spectrum has to pay the tax since the company who bought the spectrum has to make back the $2 billion somehow. Plus interest. Plus a profit.
High-dollar spectrum sales are almost the same thing as the government taking out a loan. Quick cash for the government but the citizens will be paying it off for decades.
The "find a qualified user and charge them nothing" model is also a poor way to allocate radio spectrum. But that doesn't mean that the current system is a good system. Maybe we should be looking at a system where only Public Benefit corporations or B corporations are allowed to hold radio spectrum.
No kidding! It's been a real pain trying to find something reasonably priced with ECC and 8 SATA connectors. The whole industry should have moved to ECC by now.
If you dont need a lot of CPU power, you can get a MSI AM1I motherboard with the Athlon 5350 cpu and crucial ecc memory part CT51272BD160B (B, not the 'BJ' model). It isn't written on the box that this motherboard and CPU support ECC memory but there are forum threads full of people who built file servers using this combination. Only 6 SATA ports but that is plenty for most people.
Recycling exhaust is not new. BMW calls their system Turbosteamer,
They have never put it in a production machine. And as a steam turbine engineer, I can say they probably never will. The engineering problems are too difficult to solve in a cost-effective and worthwhile manner for small vehicles. Trains, large trucks, and busses? Maybe. But not in passenger vehicles.
I realize this "tech" is designed for electric vehicles but if you had the ability to convert heat into a meaningful electrical source you would start with the exhaust system of a standard car and do away with the alternator. If they can't do something with that rather significant and easily accessible temperature differential (+300F) I am pretty dubious about them utilizing the relatively minor temperature differential (~30F) of tires.
There are practical reasons why we don't use this energy. In large power stations the exhaust isn't allowed to drop below about 300-350F. There is a very small percentage of sulfur in all fuels. It passes through combustion without being chemically changed, but if it is allowed to cool, the sulfur vapor combines with water vapor, condenses, and forms sulfuric acid. It is only a small amount, but over time it causes huge problems. It is cost prohibitive to try to make an exhaust system that can handle one of the strongest and most corrosive acids known to man.
If you're comparing UE4 with Source 1, I'd like to point out that while Source has been updated over the years, its core technology is still a decade behind UE4's.
Well, at least it is exciting since maybe we will get a good Valve game out of it. Valve games tend to be defined by their physics puzzles and/or new gameplay innovations. When the technology for having portals in the engine was invented/developed (by others), BAM, we got 2 portal games. A new engine may just bring enough new possibilities that they make some interesting games themselves.
Although the Iowa class's speed allowing it to keep up with the Carrier Task Forces was certainly useful, that wasn't the dividing line between relevance and obsolescence. If anything, I would argue that Battleships are not completely obsolete even today, it's just that they're economically inefficient at the tasks and role they perform.
Only on slashdot does someone split hairs between economic obsolescence and functional obsolescence. I suppose the military does too since they have lost all perspective on $ per outcome and only focus on the outcome.
To be fair, I have worked with some of these Westinghouse guys and they are fairly universally not up to the task of playing in this industry. I'm not surprised they have tripped over their own dicks.
The contract includes fines for delays, and the Finns (no pun intended) have now charged Billions worth of 'late fees' to Areva. Areva promised the moon and can't deliver. It would be great if public projects in the US would include the same sort of strong rules as what the Finns did here. No more overtime and over budget as the norm when building roads and bridges. A project being late would mean that tax payer money would increase instead of dwindling.
Most large utility contracts do have such clauses. They are called liquidated damages or "LDs". In new gas turbine , steam turbine, and wind turbine contracts, there are late fees for drawing and documentation, usually around $500-2,000 per day per document. Then there are late delivery LDs, which vary depending on the equipment but $50,000-100,000 per day for a gas or steam turbine isn't uncommon. Lastly, there are startup LDs, which are late fees for if the equipment isn't functionally complete and operating by a certain date. Startup LDs are a lot more of a headache because one vendor's delay often causes a delay with other vendors. Proving what is a "delay" and who caused it can be a major hassle. I'm glad I am not involved in this particular project because it sounds like a disaster.
Right. Having the government cover all of your major liabilities, getting to write off massive debts, pass all of your cost overruns onto local consumers without them having a say in the manner, and so on, that's all "paying their own way", right? In nuclear power, the gains have always been privatized while the costs and risks socialized. And it's *still* been very difficult to find investors. Nuclear has always been more popular on K-Street than Wall Street.
Here's a paper going into the various massive ways nuclear has been subsidies. And they still can't bloody manage to stay afloat. It's one of the few industries with a negative growth curve - where technology gets more expensive with time, not cheaper.
The US government collects about $750 million in fees each year for nuclear waste disposal. Utilities have paid these fees for decades. The fund has 25 billion dollars in it. "Actions by both Congress and the Executive Branch have made the money in the fund effectively inaccessible to serving its original purpose." When it comes time to retire plants, utilities are forced to store the waste on their sites at their cost.
And consumers do have a choice in the matter. They are welcome to go off the grid. Electricity in the US is among the cheapest in the world, while also being one of the safest for workers and the environment. There is always room for improvement but electricity in Japan and Europe costs 2-4 times as much, and electricity production in poorer countries is often very unsafe for workers and the environment. The US does a fairly decent job at providing safe, reliable electricity at a low cost.
And i will say it again : nuclear power is prohibitively expensive.
And all the other ways of making electricity are prohibitively expensive too. In 2003, Calpine had a multi billion dollar lawsuit against Siemens and GE for a large number of gas turbines. GE and Siemens' F-series gas turbines were laughably defective at launch and the Siemens units, in particular, had a tendency to completely self-destruct under rather easy to achieve conditions.
Heavy industrial equipment is expensive. Fuel for power plants is expensive too. It just happens that the machines are so large and powerful that the cost is divided hundreds of thousands, or even millions of ways among all the customers.
Right, where's the American spirit? The General Asshole did it for vanity, fame and money, in short, the American dream. And that idiot Snowden for "love of his country" and "moral values". Fuck that, you gotta monetize that shit! Giving away state secrets for free is so Un-American, you commie bastard!
I wish that were an exaggeration. A couple days ago, South Korea legalized adultery. While the rest of the world discussed the history and the merits of the law, the US media asked only if someone had made a buck off it
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Makes me wonder about the economics of producing these things. Apparently something related to the OS choices makes it worth Intel's while to develop separate models and the infrastructure to build each one, rather than just building the higher spec model and slapping either OS onto it.
It's things like this that hearken back to the glory days of the Evil Empire, and why people find it difficult to trust MS now.
Well, I can't speak for the Ubuntu one, but I have a Yoga 2 10" tablet with Windows 8 with nearly identical specs, only the Z3745 processor instead of this stick's Z3735. The difference in CPU is not significant.
2GB of RAM is not enough for web pages with endless scrolling, such as Tumblr, or bloated pages such as Vice.com. Chrome sucks up the RAM, and when there is none left, things aren't pretty. I use "The Great Suspender" addon which saves unused tabs to disk and frees up memory, but even that isn't enough. We are past the point where 2GB of RAM is enough for even simple web browsing. Maybe Ubuntu manages the limited memory better, but based on how much Chrome is using, the OS choice may be irrelevent and these devices really need 4GB of RAM.
is the only safe solution.
BT sync? I sync my most important files to all computers in the house, 2 phones, and a work computer. If all of them get wrecked I'm probably dead anyway.
The BBC is a public broadcaster, funded and owned by mandatory license fees in the UK.Clarkson was on contract to the BBC. Once the organization confirmed that unprovoked verbal and physical abuse had occurred, they had to take action or leave the corporation open to an indefensible lawsuit from the victim. They can't exactly say, "Yeah, get stuffed. We have extensive policies promoting equality and prohibiting harassment and violence in the workplace, but we're ignoring them because the presenter is popular and profitable."
No doubt Clarkson and pals will make a profitable jump to Netflix or Sky to make a similar motoring comedy show. Meanwhile, the BBC has a chance to reinvent Top Gear with younger presenters and a reinvigorated format (there are only so many new Lamborghinis, Ferraris and Aston Martins that can be driven around a track in a cloud of smoke every week and only so many routes for contrived road trips through war zones in ancient sports cars).
If I wanted to see everyday cars that real people drive, I would go to a car dealership. Top Gear is the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous of cars. I will never buy a Lambo but that doesn't mean that watching them isn't fun.
No. You are trying to explain a mechanical failure of a door right at the moment when the aircraft suddenly starts descending into mountains all the while during which the copilot also does nothing to try to correct this unscheduled descent and also ignores air traffic control. Seriously if it has wings and floats on the water and looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck. Your version requires many, many things to go wrong at once. The simple answer is, of course, only one thing went wrong - the co-pilot locked the door and set the plane to descend. Occam's razor, and all that.
Adding fuel to this theory is that the co-pilot was detatched and monosyllabic when receiving the briefing about landing in Dusseldorf - he had already made up his mind that he wasn't going to reach Dusseldorf. If the pilot wasn't going to go to the bathroom he probably was planning on killing the pilot anyway.
Give yourself the quick "MYSTERY SOLVED" pat on the back if you want, we're about 48 hours into an investigation which will probably last months. I'll wait for the final report.
Anyone who is designing such systems around "accurate time" hasn't got a freaking clue how to build such systems.
For example, when dealing with spacing on self-driving vehicles, you rely on radar or laser tracking to maintain the separation between vehicles, not some wildly inaccurate network message about the velocity and position sent by other vehicles.
Why not both? I deal with industrial controls somewhat frequently, and it is a common approach to take multiple inputs, align them into comparable units, then weight them according to their importance and add them together. Typically this is done in such a way that if the usual governing input fails, the remaining inputs, combined with the control logic, will guide the system into a safe state.
If you have retail experience you will see that many people will come to the shop to try and then buy online. One counter is to sell your own products but that does not work in every sector.
Which reinforces the OP's point that shops need to offer more than aisles of product and a cash register. I went into a hobby store yesterday to look at, and possibly buy, an RC truck. I'm completely new to the hobby so I had many questions, such as "what would you use 5 channels for in an RC truck", "can the model with the brush motor be upgraded to brushless, and how much would that cost", "Can the 2WD models be upgraded to 4WD", etc etc. I needed a sales person who knew how to help me find what would be best for me. Instead, the shop was staffed by a 10 year old kid (not kidding) and a couple of older kids whose ages were a bit ambiguous but definitely under 16. I'm sure they are good kids but they don't know how to be a good salesperson.
This is kind of an extreme case but you can't sell product if you put no effort into selling product! In this case Amazon prices are the same as hobby shop prices (probably due to strict MSRP rules) so I would have been happy buying locally. And it doesn't help that nowhere are there comparison charts between some of the different RC models. Traxxas has about 8 different versions of the 1/10 Slash truck, but no table of differences. I expected a 30 minute education and buying experience, but now I have to research all over the internet, through countless forums, to answer all my newbie questions. Give me a decent salesperson any day of the week.
When, o Lord, when, will they finally understand.
I do not want a "bundle" of preselected crap.
I want to choose my own crap, ala carte. If I only want ONE piece of crap, then that's all I'm going to buy from you: ONE piece of crap. I want to be able to stream my crap anywhere, any time, to any crappy device (which by the way I probably bought at one of your crowded crappy crap stores in a crappy mall).
Oh, and since I am PAYING YOU to provide me with this service, I will not suffer through even one crappy advertisement while I watch my crap. NOT.EVEN.ONE.
I will gleefully ignore any/all crap services that do not perform to my exact specifications.
It's pretty much like that now with most shows. You can buy each episode for 2 or $3. Whatever the % of shows that distribute this way, it is only going to increase as time goes on. This isn't an assault on that, just further options for people who prefer the certainty of a fixed budget (rather than a variably one) and think 25 channels is just the right amount of channels.
19th century system to a 21st century world. Science today is far more complex then it was a hundred years ago. Back then it was easy to get a superstar scientist. Experiment with a few hundred dollars of equipment you can find a new principal. Publish it and you are big news. Most of the easy stuff had been found we get some rare finds such as the discovery of graphine, but most of today's work is with expensive equipment needing a larger teams of scientist. That publish or parish methodology is antiquated. The better approach would be open and accessable sharing of data and results in real time where more can work on you work of progress, and less trying to be Mr. Know it all scientist, who will get the Nobel prize for stumbling on the best answer.
There is plenty of easy science still yet to be done in taboo subjects. The possibilities for illegal drugs alone are huge. Can't get funding? Crowdfund it. There are plenty of people who will contribute to good science in these areas, like this one which essentially is just putting people on LSD in a fMRI machine and looking at the results. I donated some money and it looks like 1279 other people did too. They are currently at 177% of their funding goal with 34 days remaining.
Right now, there are obviously a lot of donors and too few studies using crowd funding. That will surely change in the near future but I still think that is a far easier task to find 1280 people willing to give you $50 instead of finding 1 person willing to write a check for $66,000 (44,500 British Pounds). There are plenty of people like me who want to see research into these areas and are willing to pay for it.
Why do you use watt per square meter of home? If you closed off half your home, would you use half the power? Hell no. So it's not a useful stat, is it?
Oh, it'll drop, but not a massive ammount.
One reason why you use a huge amount of electric is that in Europe drying clothes on a clothesline (or clothes horse indoors in winter) is normal, whereas when I've discussed it on slashdot et al, Americans seem to think this is some pre-historic cro-magnon regression, barely above living in caves and huddling around a single fire for warmth.
Air-con isn't popular either, we'll put up with temperature changes in the home, though with common central heating now, it's more likely our homes will be set to warm up more than it used to.
The USA has high AC use because we have cities in very warm climates. Cities where the temperature can stay above 90F (32C) for weeks at a time- day AND night. Plus keeping a livable temperature in an office building improves productivity. I have worked in Tokyo in August and Baden, Switzerland in June. The high office temperature meant I could not maintain concentration nearly as well as in a US office building. If the $$ spent on air conditioning didn't deliver better productivity, we wouldn't spend the money. As for clothes driers, my wife is from Japan where line drying is normal and she quickly converted to drier-only. It is a huge labor and time saver, and clothes are a lot softer. If you put them on the hanger while still hot, ironing is only rarely required.
Exactly this. I have done percussion, and the cowbell (you're right there) is similar but the hi-hat work is not the same at all. So even the percussion line is not even identical.
When you're learning percussion, you drill books of STANDARD PERCUSSION LINES! The rhythms are *standardized*. This is worse than copyrighting QuickSort!
Jesus, next time just copyright chord progressions and have a government judge kill off music once and for all! Guess what? All blocks of code flying by on a screen on a movie *look the same* to a non-programmer. But they're clearly not to an expert, which is all that actually matters.
As someone who recently picked up an instrument for the first time in a decade, you have convinced me. Maybe you should have represented the defense in court.
"your rotor velocity is then limited to the gas velocity,"
Well duh. There's no combustion happening inside the turbine so of course its going to be limited by the velocity of gas flowing into it.
As you approach a 1:1 ratio of tangential velocity and gas velocity, the efficiency falls off dramatically. At a 1:1 velocity ratio, that turbine stage is 0% efficient and not helping at all- the gas is no longer pushing it. For the most efficient design the tangential rotor velocity should be limited to 50-75% of the gas velocity.
Firearm accidents barely made it onto the chart I was looking at with 22 unintentional firearm deaths for the 10-14 year old category. It was the only place it was in the top ten causes of death for any age group all the way up to the 65+ category. vs. 1170 for being run over by cars 708 for drowning 1182 unintentional suffocation 408 being murdered by a parent/family member 58 dying from exposure (cold) 228 from burning to death 69 accidental death from beatings 116 bicycle accidents Source 2012 statistics form the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. in 2012.
Firearm deaths are hardly the "low hanging" fruit on things killing children in the US, and it hardly happens "every single day" Hence why most "gun nuts" get more than a little agitated when it is used as a reason to take away their rights.
It isn't a low hanging fruit. It is part of a multipronged approach, tackling all of the ways people die needlessly.
Automakers spend billions of dollars making their cars more safe, going to great lengths to add features that increase survivability. The government sets standards that must be met if the car is allowed to be sold.
Local governments and state/national governments spend millions of dollars making lakes, rivers and beaches more safe, by adding signage, marking hazards and swimming areas, hiring lifeguards, building lighthouses, etc.
Just about every plastic bag is marked with warnings not to allow children to play with them. Lampcords and blinds have standards now that are supposed to make them safer and more difficult for young children to hang themselves.
"408 being murdered by a parent/family member" How many of those were by gun?
"58 dying from exposure (cold)" Governments all over the world, including the USA, have programs subsidizing fuel for the poor. Lots of effort and money is spent predicting the weather and issuing cold weather / winter storm warnings.
"228 from burning to death" - The government spends a huge amount of money on fire education and local municipalities subsidize smoke detectors, CO detectors, and other fire safety items. Etc.
So we do take action to try to prevent those causes of deaths. We spend billions of dollars a year on reducing them, and try to educate those in society about the dangers. The argument "accidental gun shootings are just another, of many common ways to die" only works if you are willing to treat it the same way as we treat other deaths. By education, regulation, and by using every other tool available. Gun advocates complaining about regulation and education is as absurd as a match or lighter manufacturer complaining about Smokey the Bear. The goal is to make the product more safe, and the public more educated, so it isn't as vilified.
And short-term speculative bidding is *good* for the American public. Remember, this radio spectrum is our public property, and it's worth serious money. If SpaceX convinces the FCC not to allow "paper satellites", and demonstrates that it's the only bidder that's for real, then it can bid $0.01, win the auction, deploy its constellation, and keep all the profit. Allowing speculative competitive bids forces SpaceX to raise its bid, meaning the FCC, and thus the American public, gets to take a share of SpaceX's profits.
If a company has to pay $2 billion for a slice of spectrum, they have to pass that cost on to their customers. The government gets $2 billion from the company and immediately spends it on something foolish. Everyone who uses that spectrum has to pay the tax since the company who bought the spectrum has to make back the $2 billion somehow. Plus interest. Plus a profit.
High-dollar spectrum sales are almost the same thing as the government taking out a loan. Quick cash for the government but the citizens will be paying it off for decades.
The "find a qualified user and charge them nothing" model is also a poor way to allocate radio spectrum. But that doesn't mean that the current system is a good system. Maybe we should be looking at a system where only Public Benefit corporations or B corporations are allowed to hold radio spectrum.
No kidding! It's been a real pain trying to find something reasonably priced with ECC and 8 SATA connectors. The whole industry should have moved to ECC by now.
If you dont need a lot of CPU power, you can get a MSI AM1I motherboard with the Athlon 5350 cpu and crucial ecc memory part CT51272BD160B (B, not the 'BJ' model). It isn't written on the box that this motherboard and CPU support ECC memory but there are forum threads full of people who built file servers using this combination. Only 6 SATA ports but that is plenty for most people.
-1, idiotic
Recycling exhaust is not new. BMW calls their system Turbosteamer,
They have never put it in a production machine. And as a steam turbine engineer, I can say they probably never will. The engineering problems are too difficult to solve in a cost-effective and worthwhile manner for small vehicles. Trains, large trucks, and busses? Maybe. But not in passenger vehicles.
I realize this "tech" is designed for electric vehicles but if you had the ability to convert heat into a meaningful electrical source you would start with the exhaust system of a standard car and do away with the alternator. If they can't do something with that rather significant and easily accessible temperature differential (+300F) I am pretty dubious about them utilizing the relatively minor temperature differential (~30F) of tires.
There are practical reasons why we don't use this energy. In large power stations the exhaust isn't allowed to drop below about 300-350F. There is a very small percentage of sulfur in all fuels. It passes through combustion without being chemically changed, but if it is allowed to cool, the sulfur vapor combines with water vapor, condenses, and forms sulfuric acid. It is only a small amount, but over time it causes huge problems. It is cost prohibitive to try to make an exhaust system that can handle one of the strongest and most corrosive acids known to man.
the "tactic" actually sounded pretty smart to me, and say what you will, the "older guy" definitely understood how to negotiate in the "real" world.
Difficult and abusive negotiations are not the path to repeat business.
UE4 is the better engine
Really? Can you provide comparisons?
Actually, I'll answer that for you:
No, you can't, because Source 2 isn't out yet.
If you're comparing UE4 with Source 1, I'd like to point out that while Source has been updated over the years, its core technology is still a decade behind UE4's.
Well, at least it is exciting since maybe we will get a good Valve game out of it. Valve games tend to be defined by their physics puzzles and/or new gameplay innovations. When the technology for having portals in the engine was invented/developed (by others), BAM, we got 2 portal games. A new engine may just bring enough new possibilities that they make some interesting games themselves.
Although the Iowa class's speed allowing it to keep up with the Carrier Task Forces was certainly useful, that wasn't the dividing line between relevance and obsolescence. If anything, I would argue that Battleships are not completely obsolete even today, it's just that they're economically inefficient at the tasks and role they perform.
Only on slashdot does someone split hairs between economic obsolescence and functional obsolescence. I suppose the military does too since they have lost all perspective on $ per outcome and only focus on the outcome.
Westinghouse's AP1000 is facing delays in China and the US causing huge cost overruns. http://chronicle.augusta.com/n...
To be fair, I have worked with some of these Westinghouse guys and they are fairly universally not up to the task of playing in this industry. I'm not surprised they have tripped over their own dicks.
The contract includes fines for delays, and the Finns (no pun intended) have now charged Billions worth of 'late fees' to Areva. Areva promised the moon and can't deliver. It would be great if public projects in the US would include the same sort of strong rules as what the Finns did here. No more overtime and over budget as the norm when building roads and bridges. A project being late would mean that tax payer money would increase instead of dwindling.
Most large utility contracts do have such clauses. They are called liquidated damages or "LDs". In new gas turbine , steam turbine, and wind turbine contracts, there are late fees for drawing and documentation, usually around $500-2,000 per day per document. Then there are late delivery LDs, which vary depending on the equipment but $50,000-100,000 per day for a gas or steam turbine isn't uncommon. Lastly, there are startup LDs, which are late fees for if the equipment isn't functionally complete and operating by a certain date. Startup LDs are a lot more of a headache because one vendor's delay often causes a delay with other vendors. Proving what is a "delay" and who caused it can be a major hassle. I'm glad I am not involved in this particular project because it sounds like a disaster.
Right. Having the government cover all of your major liabilities, getting to write off massive debts, pass all of your cost overruns onto local consumers without them having a say in the manner, and so on, that's all "paying their own way", right? In nuclear power, the gains have always been privatized while the costs and risks socialized. And it's *still* been very difficult to find investors. Nuclear has always been more popular on K-Street than Wall Street.
Here's a paper going into the various massive ways nuclear has been subsidies. And they still can't bloody manage to stay afloat. It's one of the few industries with a negative growth curve - where technology gets more expensive with time, not cheaper.
The US government collects about $750 million in fees each year for nuclear waste disposal. Utilities have paid these fees for decades. The fund has 25 billion dollars in it. "Actions by both Congress and the Executive Branch have made the money in the fund effectively inaccessible to serving its original purpose." When it comes time to retire plants, utilities are forced to store the waste on their sites at their cost.
And consumers do have a choice in the matter. They are welcome to go off the grid. Electricity in the US is among the cheapest in the world, while also being one of the safest for workers and the environment. There is always room for improvement but electricity in Japan and Europe costs 2-4 times as much, and electricity production in poorer countries is often very unsafe for workers and the environment. The US does a fairly decent job at providing safe, reliable electricity at a low cost.
And i will say it again : nuclear power is prohibitively expensive.
And all the other ways of making electricity are prohibitively expensive too. In 2003, Calpine had a multi billion dollar lawsuit against Siemens and GE for a large number of gas turbines. GE and Siemens' F-series gas turbines were laughably defective at launch and the Siemens units, in particular, had a tendency to completely self-destruct under rather easy to achieve conditions.
Heavy industrial equipment is expensive. Fuel for power plants is expensive too. It just happens that the machines are so large and powerful that the cost is divided hundreds of thousands, or even millions of ways among all the customers.
Right, where's the American spirit? The General Asshole did it for vanity, fame and money, in short, the American dream. And that idiot Snowden for "love of his country" and "moral values". Fuck that, you gotta monetize that shit! Giving away state secrets for free is so Un-American, you commie bastard!
I wish that were an exaggeration. A couple days ago, South Korea legalized adultery. While the rest of the world discussed the history and the merits of the law, the US media asked only if someone had made a buck off it