I suggest a Faro Laser ScanArm or possibly a Faro Laser Scanner. Both can turn a hand-made model into a 3d drawing. The equipment is fairly expensive (~$100k), but you can hire firms that have the equipment to scan your stuff. The company we use charges about $200 an hour, but depending on what you're scanning, this might be really cheap.
The Faro technology is fantastic, but since the market is not so large, the prices are high. The equipment is also precision-made and durable enough to survive industrial environments, both of which probably increase the cost dramatically.
I work for a Japanese company, in the power division (but not the nuke division). We are currently trying to sell nuke reactors in the US. The big, 1000MW+ units, biggest in the world, which require some fairly large machinery.
It's true that we have very strong relationship with our forging suppliers. A US manufacturer would have a difficult time trying to beat our lead time and price, since they would have to beg with our suppliers to do so. But, it is a little misleading to say that because of this, the US will never build any more nuke plants. The design and major manufacture will just take place overseas.
I hear the Right of Way complaint every time rail projects come up. I don't think its a big problem, just people aren't serious about rail.
We have thousands of miles of interstate highway in this country. Most of those highways have a big strip of median in between the two directions. Most of those highways go somewhere interesting (eventually), otherwise they wouldn't have been built/maintained. The right of way is there, waiting. Nobody needs to be moved at great expense, the noise argument is minimized (since highways are already noisy), and the land is currently unused.
Chicago has figured this out. Lots of highways in the Chicago area have a pair of tracks in the median. I'm not saying their train system is great, just that they have solved the right of way / NIMBY problem. That's the first hurdle for rail, the others are not insignificant, but can be solved also.
For a very good reason- It turns out that the Southern border is not all that popular. It's hot, you're mostly working outside, always busy, and you have to deal with people at the bottom of the economic ladder all day long. So, generally, border agents are required to spend some time there before moving on to their permanent assignment. When all the agents were required to learn spanish, this was good. Now, I wonder how they are properly screening people.
Could an executive order from the President knock the congressmen off their healthcare and onto the "average american's" health plan? I think they would pass a bill pretty quick if they had high premiums, high co-pays, and had to deal with the insurance companies themselves. The whole idea that they can legislate plans for everyone, when they are on super 100% everything covered gold plans FOR LIFE, is ridiculous to me.
My father has been on the Maine border for the past 20 years.
From my memories as crossing 10 years ago, things have definitely changed- and there are many reasons why. One of the biggest is that since 2001, the number of border gaurds has increased by a factor of 4. There used to be high standards, with lengthy training. You had to learn spanish, and generally become reasonably educated in detecting lies, noticing suspicious people, etc. The handgun training weeded out a lot of people, and my father had to practice every 3 weeks, because if he didn't, he might not pass the handgun qualification test, which seemed to be at least 4 times a year. A lot of that went away when some politicians decided they needed to stack the border in the name of "Homeland Security". Immigration and Customs (2 separate groups 10 years ago) were rolled into Homeland Security after 2001. Instead of ambitious folk who didn't mind learning spanish, passing rigorous handgun tests, remaining current in their education, etc, you got the bottom of the barrel uneducated Joe. The kind who saw a cushy government job for little effort and took it.
Joe is not a fun guy. Joe does the bare minimum and nothing extra, collects his paycheck, and sits in the booth following his script.
There are many problems with using steam to power automobiles.
One of the biggest is maintenance. Steam turbines are very maintenance-intensive, and the maintenance is expensive. If you use a piston engine, the weight is excessive and it is more complicated. The boiler is also a problem. It doesn't take much to overheat a tube. Overheated tubes fail and are expensive to replace.
No instant-on. It takes time to build up steam. I think this is the biggest deal-breaker.
Plus then there's the fuel problem. Natural gas is cleanest and less likely to give your boiler problems. But it's not readily available for auto use and is usually more expensive than gasoline. You could use Coal or biomass, but that takes a lot of time to build a fire and make steam. If you use gasoline, your efficiency is less than a gasoline engine so why bother?
My company builds steam turbines in the range of 50MW to over 1000MW. At some point I would love to build a steam turbine car for fun, but the technology just doesn't make sense for everyone to have one.
To be fair, that's a problem with their game design, not their bot-detection mechanism. Many times when I played the game I felt like I myself was a bot. They don't use the term "healbot" for nothing. If a bot can play your game really well (excepting aimbots), then your game probably isn't very fun.
I haven't toyed around with Bing search, but Live/Bing Maps has been comparable or superior to Google for a while. They often have higher-resolution satelite photos, and have photos taken from planes too so you can see a different perspective from "top-down". If I'm going to somewhere I've never been to on business, I usually check Bing to see the area from the air.
I might be convinced that the game has a story, but it is presented in such a tedious and boring way that I could never be bothered to pay any attention. All I ever saw was "NPC: blah blah blah kill 20 other NPC's blah blah blah". I can think of many games with poor storylines, and many games with great storylines, but WOW is one of the only games in which I didn't care at all about the storyline.
Those are *reported* rapes. I think the list is not all that great, actually. You will notice that most of the countries at the bottom of the list are countries where women are 2nd class citizens, the police are corrupt, speaking out against men is shameful, or some combination of this. Rape is an underreported crime everywhere, but if the police were going to rape me if I yelled "rape", then I would probably not report it.
The Zune hardware is actually pretty solid, and for a while they were really, really cheap. At one point the 30gb version was getting dumped on various internet sites for $80-$99. That's a terrific value, even now. So good, in fact, that I bought one myself. The hardware is solid; I've dropped mine more than once and it still keeps going. The battery life is good, and the interface, while not perfect, isn't bad.
The atrocious part about the Zune is the windows software. It was an abomination 2 years ago, and is still terrible. For a long period of time it wasn't available on Vista, Windows 64, or any version of Windows Media Center. Various hacks to the installer program proved it could be done- the limitation was an entirely unnecessary OS-check. The software is still a pig, but the hardware is good, and was cheap.
Even when you take into account the huge tanks for the diesel or low-quality fuel oil, the nuke plant takes up a collossal amount of space. Theres a good reason that diesels have taken over the shipping industry. Combined cycle plants haven't really made a dent yet, even considering the efficiency is much higher. It just takes up too much room.
As the driver of a Miata-sized car, I would rather not be carting around a battery appropriately-sized for a suburban. I'm sure the suburban driver would rather not have battery sized for a Miata either.
Businesses are in business to make money and put food on the table. Nobody does anything for free. If I build a widget and it costs me $10 in electricity, $5 in heating, and $3 in cooling, my widget is going to be $18 more expensive as a result. Now, I don't do things for free, so I'll just add $18 to the cost of my widget. Probably $20 because I want some more markup for my trouble.
Energy costs are always included in anything you buy. If the initial+electrical cost of buying Widget Z instead of Widget Y is better, then it is probably less energy intensive if you consider the whole system.
Cogeneration is pretty nice, but its a big headache for a large power plant. Their customer is the power grid and the regulatory bodies. Dealing with hundreds of residences, miles of piping outside of their fence, etc is too much of a pain in the ass. Plus the fact that most plants are built reasonably far away from people means that a lot of heat is lost on the way there. Construction costs are higher, and the plant has to have the capacity to cool 105% of their capacity anyway since nobody wants heat in summer.
Cogeneration really shines in smaller applications. A college campus could have a small power plant, use the electricity, heat the campus (even the pool in summertime), and create a power station operator/maintenance person (which are in very high demand) program. Cogeneration has always been used on ships. Waste heat is usually used for water treatment using an evaporative method on ships, and heating as necessary.
I don't see it happening for large power plants. Some, like Ecoelectrica's Ponce, PR do water treatment and other things with the heat. I spent a month at Ecoelectrica's plant and it is very efficient. Power stations rarely like to deal with things outside their fence and I don't think that will change.
Why have an addin card? The acceleration hardware isn't all that complicated. Hell, VIA put it into their proccessors- look at the huge difference it makes. Even if the graph is best-case scenario, that x86 compatable processor is dynamite with encryption.
To me, this is the same question as "Does marijuana make you unmotivated, or are unmotivated people more likely to enjoy marijuana?"
This is based on the unproven assumption that people who smoke marijuana tend to be unmotivated.
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I refer you to the landmark case of Keepers v. Weepers.
I suggest a Faro Laser ScanArm or possibly a Faro Laser Scanner. Both can turn a hand-made model into a 3d drawing. The equipment is fairly expensive (~$100k), but you can hire firms that have the equipment to scan your stuff. The company we use charges about $200 an hour, but depending on what you're scanning, this might be really cheap. The Faro technology is fantastic, but since the market is not so large, the prices are high. The equipment is also precision-made and durable enough to survive industrial environments, both of which probably increase the cost dramatically.
I work for a Japanese company, in the power division (but not the nuke division). We are currently trying to sell nuke reactors in the US. The big, 1000MW+ units, biggest in the world, which require some fairly large machinery. It's true that we have very strong relationship with our forging suppliers. A US manufacturer would have a difficult time trying to beat our lead time and price, since they would have to beg with our suppliers to do so. But, it is a little misleading to say that because of this, the US will never build any more nuke plants. The design and major manufacture will just take place overseas.
I hear the Right of Way complaint every time rail projects come up. I don't think its a big problem, just people aren't serious about rail. We have thousands of miles of interstate highway in this country. Most of those highways have a big strip of median in between the two directions. Most of those highways go somewhere interesting (eventually), otherwise they wouldn't have been built/maintained. The right of way is there, waiting. Nobody needs to be moved at great expense, the noise argument is minimized (since highways are already noisy), and the land is currently unused. Chicago has figured this out. Lots of highways in the Chicago area have a pair of tracks in the median. I'm not saying their train system is great, just that they have solved the right of way / NIMBY problem. That's the first hurdle for rail, the others are not insignificant, but can be solved also.
For a very good reason- It turns out that the Southern border is not all that popular. It's hot, you're mostly working outside, always busy, and you have to deal with people at the bottom of the economic ladder all day long. So, generally, border agents are required to spend some time there before moving on to their permanent assignment. When all the agents were required to learn spanish, this was good. Now, I wonder how they are properly screening people.
Could an executive order from the President knock the congressmen off their healthcare and onto the "average american's" health plan? I think they would pass a bill pretty quick if they had high premiums, high co-pays, and had to deal with the insurance companies themselves. The whole idea that they can legislate plans for everyone, when they are on super 100% everything covered gold plans FOR LIFE, is ridiculous to me.
My father has been on the Maine border for the past 20 years.
From my memories as crossing 10 years ago, things have definitely changed- and there are many reasons why. One of the biggest is that since 2001, the number of border gaurds has increased by a factor of 4. There used to be high standards, with lengthy training. You had to learn spanish, and generally become reasonably educated in detecting lies, noticing suspicious people, etc. The handgun training weeded out a lot of people, and my father had to practice every 3 weeks, because if he didn't, he might not pass the handgun qualification test, which seemed to be at least 4 times a year. A lot of that went away when some politicians decided they needed to stack the border in the name of "Homeland Security". Immigration and Customs (2 separate groups 10 years ago) were rolled into Homeland Security after 2001. Instead of ambitious folk who didn't mind learning spanish, passing rigorous handgun tests, remaining current in their education, etc, you got the bottom of the barrel uneducated Joe. The kind who saw a cushy government job for little effort and took it.
Joe is not a fun guy. Joe does the bare minimum and nothing extra, collects his paycheck, and sits in the booth following his script.
There are many problems with using steam to power automobiles. One of the biggest is maintenance. Steam turbines are very maintenance-intensive, and the maintenance is expensive. If you use a piston engine, the weight is excessive and it is more complicated. The boiler is also a problem. It doesn't take much to overheat a tube. Overheated tubes fail and are expensive to replace. No instant-on. It takes time to build up steam. I think this is the biggest deal-breaker. Plus then there's the fuel problem. Natural gas is cleanest and less likely to give your boiler problems. But it's not readily available for auto use and is usually more expensive than gasoline. You could use Coal or biomass, but that takes a lot of time to build a fire and make steam. If you use gasoline, your efficiency is less than a gasoline engine so why bother? My company builds steam turbines in the range of 50MW to over 1000MW. At some point I would love to build a steam turbine car for fun, but the technology just doesn't make sense for everyone to have one.
It is regulated by the EPA. Just see . Excess NOx is a byproduct of incomplete combustion of a hydrocarbon.
To be fair, that's a problem with their game design, not their bot-detection mechanism. Many times when I played the game I felt like I myself was a bot. They don't use the term "healbot" for nothing. If a bot can play your game really well (excepting aimbots), then your game probably isn't very fun.
I haven't toyed around with Bing search, but Live/Bing Maps has been comparable or superior to Google for a while. They often have higher-resolution satelite photos, and have photos taken from planes too so you can see a different perspective from "top-down". If I'm going to somewhere I've never been to on business, I usually check Bing to see the area from the air.
'They showed better performances in detecting illegal drugs during the training than other naturally-born sniffer dogs that we have.'"
I assume these cloned dogs were naturally born too. But they were not naturally concieved.
I might be convinced that the game has a story, but it is presented in such a tedious and boring way that I could never be bothered to pay any attention. All I ever saw was "NPC: blah blah blah kill 20 other NPC's blah blah blah". I can think of many games with poor storylines, and many games with great storylines, but WOW is one of the only games in which I didn't care at all about the storyline.
Those are *reported* rapes. I think the list is not all that great, actually. You will notice that most of the countries at the bottom of the list are countries where women are 2nd class citizens, the police are corrupt, speaking out against men is shameful, or some combination of this. Rape is an underreported crime everywhere, but if the police were going to rape me if I yelled "rape", then I would probably not report it.
Yes, I said rape twice. I like rape.
Perhaps you should develop such a device yourself with a target of $100, and when that becomes very difficult, settle on the price point of $200.
The Zune hardware is actually pretty solid, and for a while they were really, really cheap. At one point the 30gb version was getting dumped on various internet sites for $80-$99. That's a terrific value, even now. So good, in fact, that I bought one myself. The hardware is solid; I've dropped mine more than once and it still keeps going. The battery life is good, and the interface, while not perfect, isn't bad.
The atrocious part about the Zune is the windows software. It was an abomination 2 years ago, and is still terrible. For a long period of time it wasn't available on Vista, Windows 64, or any version of Windows Media Center. Various hacks to the installer program proved it could be done- the limitation was an entirely unnecessary OS-check. The software is still a pig, but the hardware is good, and was cheap.
Even when you take into account the huge tanks for the diesel or low-quality fuel oil, the nuke plant takes up a collossal amount of space. Theres a good reason that diesels have taken over the shipping industry. Combined cycle plants haven't really made a dent yet, even considering the efficiency is much higher. It just takes up too much room.
As the driver of a Miata-sized car, I would rather not be carting around a battery appropriately-sized for a suburban. I'm sure the suburban driver would rather not have battery sized for a Miata either.
With purchase of Tibet of equal or lesser value.
This argument is misinformed.
Businesses are in business to make money and put food on the table. Nobody does anything for free. If I build a widget and it costs me $10 in electricity, $5 in heating, and $3 in cooling, my widget is going to be $18 more expensive as a result. Now, I don't do things for free, so I'll just add $18 to the cost of my widget. Probably $20 because I want some more markup for my trouble.
Energy costs are always included in anything you buy. If the initial+electrical cost of buying Widget Z instead of Widget Y is better, then it is probably less energy intensive if you consider the whole system.
Cogeneration is pretty nice, but its a big headache for a large power plant. Their customer is the power grid and the regulatory bodies. Dealing with hundreds of residences, miles of piping outside of their fence, etc is too much of a pain in the ass. Plus the fact that most plants are built reasonably far away from people means that a lot of heat is lost on the way there. Construction costs are higher, and the plant has to have the capacity to cool 105% of their capacity anyway since nobody wants heat in summer.
Cogeneration really shines in smaller applications. A college campus could have a small power plant, use the electricity, heat the campus (even the pool in summertime), and create a power station operator/maintenance person (which are in very high demand) program. Cogeneration has always been used on ships. Waste heat is usually used for water treatment using an evaporative method on ships, and heating as necessary.
I don't see it happening for large power plants. Some, like Ecoelectrica's Ponce, PR do water treatment and other things with the heat. I spent a month at Ecoelectrica's plant and it is very efficient. Power stations rarely like to deal with things outside their fence and I don't think that will change.
Why have an addin card? The acceleration hardware isn't all that complicated. Hell, VIA put it into their proccessors- look at the huge difference it makes. Even if the graph is best-case scenario, that x86 compatable processor is dynamite with encryption.
JBOD support lets you concatenate disks rather than stripe them into a redundant array.'
Both of these options seem like terrible ideas to me if you care at all about your data.
To me, this is the same question as "Does marijuana make you unmotivated, or are unmotivated people more likely to enjoy marijuana?" This is based on the unproven assumption that people who smoke marijuana tend to be unmotivated.
"It could translate into one of the largest money grab opportunities in history."'"