Right. And I'll venture a guess that its a high efficiency gas furnace. Those attain their high efficiency by removing so much heat from the combustion gas that the water produced by combustion condenses out. There's also quite a bit of energy released by that condensation itself (latent heat of vaporization). So that water isn't extracted from the conditioned (room) air. It's from the combustion gas.
Relative humidity. The ability of air to absorb water goes up with its temperature. So, for a fixed amount of moisture in a quantity of air, when you heat it, its capacity to absorb more goes up.
But then if I want more bandwidth (unthrottled) and I'm willing to pay for it, can I do so? If so, we're right back to the fee for bandwidth model. If I can't, then it rapidly becomes an example of the tragedy of the commons.
Spitfires were never crated and shipped to Germany. Its too easy to fly them over. And fly them back, when they are finished with their mission. Burma was different. The logistics to return the crates to a port, locate an available ship, load them and haul them back wasn't worth the effort. So it was either abandon them (leaving them to fall into the hands of some unknown military) or disable them.
I'm actually surprised that they would have buried them to keep them from falling into 'enemy' hands. Digging them back up would have been easy. A few explosive charges would have rendered them useless and been cheaper than digging big holes.
Another way of saying that is, "If your team meets the goals and commitments that you have made, then we (corporate) will commit to funding your project".
I've worked for a few outfits that did this, and it works well. For those that didn't, it invariably was traced back to someone in management who had some conflicting side deal. Either they were marketing our technology to a competitor, who didn't want us building our own. Or in a few cases, some manager who was just taking stock options from the competition to kill projects.
Philips (as an example) suffered from the former problem. They make quite a few chip sets and license their technology. I wouldn't be surprised if the VP of semiconductors called the head of an internally developed consumer product and said, "Kill it. The people who we sell chips to don't want our competition."
For a CEO, its worse not being able to keep up appearances at the local country club than having a few dozen technicians' testicles wired to a Tazer.
I used to work for a utility that, thanks to the incompetence of a few managers, killed a number of linemen. The managers were never removed, it being an issue of them having to maintain appearances in the community. The company eventually lost their construction department, thanks to pressure from the state disability insurance program. And as a result, they failed as a viable investor owned company. They are being kept on life support by a private equity group. But still, they have the managing clowns sitting in comfort (more so since they built themselves a new HQ building).
So I'd say that a comfy office on mahogany row is worth quite a few technician's lives even here in the good old USA.
... its almost the same as the USA. Except in the USA, the FBI leans on the telecoms upper management for warrantless data requests. In Africa, the government goes after the workers.
So management at US mobile operators should be asking, "How can we become more like Africa?"
I don't know about that. Someone like Richard Feynman, who's specialty in quantum mechanics was built upon a pretty broad background in physics would do well. He had a knack for understanding varied disciplines and being able to communicate the basics to laypersons.
Trouble is, I don't think many people like Feynman and his ilk would want to deal with the manipulation and power games necessary for a career in politics.
You're trying to match up two parties with divergent interests, both of whom resent you. And yet, somehow the parties haven't figured out how to get rid of you.
Because when it comes down to the basics, the only important relationship is between the developer and the customer. All the agencies and HR departments do is to handle the contract overhead. Some of that overhead has value; marketing, for example (but that's where guru.com undercuts the brick and mortar companies). Other overhead is regulatory B.S. Companies like Verizon need a middle man to handle all the labor compliance laws. But in an ideal free market, I'd do the work, Verizon would pay me and I'd be responsible for paying state and federal taxes and other fees. If I didn't, it wouldn't be Verizon's problem. The tax man would come after me.
But that's not the way it works. Hiring someone as a contractor doesn't insulate deep pockets like Verizon from my liabilities. And the government has an interest in keeping me and everyone else as employees of some corporation rather than working as independent contractors. Can't have too many free slaves running around, getting ideas.
I thought there was a potential nuclear fuel cycle under development that uses Thorium. So, while it may require some special handling, it has value and isn't a waste product to be dealt with.
Yep. They work. I have the 1kG size balls and I use them during 'down time' sitting in front of TV. (No jokes about watching porn, playing with my balls, please!)
ProTip: If you have hardwood floors, sit or stand over a well padded rug when you start out with them.
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They fed an entire horse to a rat. The rat died. So California figured it must cause cancer or something.
Right. And I'll venture a guess that its a high efficiency gas furnace. Those attain their high efficiency by removing so much heat from the combustion gas that the water produced by combustion condenses out. There's also quite a bit of energy released by that condensation itself (latent heat of vaporization). So that water isn't extracted from the conditioned (room) air. It's from the combustion gas.
Different story for air conditioners, of course.
Relative humidity. The ability of air to absorb water goes up with its temperature. So, for a fixed amount of moisture in a quantity of air, when you heat it, its capacity to absorb more goes up.
Will there be an interactive map for mental evaluation results?
But then if I want more bandwidth (unthrottled) and I'm willing to pay for it, can I do so? If so, we're right back to the fee for bandwidth model. If I can't, then it rapidly becomes an example of the tragedy of the commons.
Spitfires were never crated and shipped to Germany. Its too easy to fly them over. And fly them back, when they are finished with their mission. Burma was different. The logistics to return the crates to a port, locate an available ship, load them and haul them back wasn't worth the effort. So it was either abandon them (leaving them to fall into the hands of some unknown military) or disable them.
I'm actually surprised that they would have buried them to keep them from falling into 'enemy' hands. Digging them back up would have been easy. A few explosive charges would have rendered them useless and been cheaper than digging big holes.
Quoting one spokeswiccan, "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!"
Is that you, Monica?
Another way of saying that is, "If your team meets the goals and commitments that you have made, then we (corporate) will commit to funding your project".
I've worked for a few outfits that did this, and it works well. For those that didn't, it invariably was traced back to someone in management who had some conflicting side deal. Either they were marketing our technology to a competitor, who didn't want us building our own. Or in a few cases, some manager who was just taking stock options from the competition to kill projects.
Philips (as an example) suffered from the former problem. They make quite a few chip sets and license their technology. I wouldn't be surprised if the VP of semiconductors called the head of an internally developed consumer product and said, "Kill it. The people who we sell chips to don't want our competition."
When they got into trouble, they could eject the warp core.
Define torture.
For a CEO, its worse not being able to keep up appearances at the local country club than having a few dozen technicians' testicles wired to a Tazer.
I used to work for a utility that, thanks to the incompetence of a few managers, killed a number of linemen. The managers were never removed, it being an issue of them having to maintain appearances in the community. The company eventually lost their construction department, thanks to pressure from the state disability insurance program. And as a result, they failed as a viable investor owned company. They are being kept on life support by a private equity group. But still, they have the managing clowns sitting in comfort (more so since they built themselves a new HQ building).
So I'd say that a comfy office on mahogany row is worth quite a few technician's lives even here in the good old USA.
So management at US mobile operators should be asking, "How can we become more like Africa?"
It could get as ugly as when the WWE tried to ban the flying dropkick.
I don't know about that. Someone like Richard Feynman, who's specialty in quantum mechanics was built upon a pretty broad background in physics would do well. He had a knack for understanding varied disciplines and being able to communicate the basics to laypersons.
Trouble is, I don't think many people like Feynman and his ilk would want to deal with the manipulation and power games necessary for a career in politics.
You're trying to match up two parties with divergent interests, both of whom resent you. And yet, somehow the parties haven't figured out how to get rid of you.
Because when it comes down to the basics, the only important relationship is between the developer and the customer. All the agencies and HR departments do is to handle the contract overhead. Some of that overhead has value; marketing, for example (but that's where guru.com undercuts the brick and mortar companies). Other overhead is regulatory B.S. Companies like Verizon need a middle man to handle all the labor compliance laws. But in an ideal free market, I'd do the work, Verizon would pay me and I'd be responsible for paying state and federal taxes and other fees. If I didn't, it wouldn't be Verizon's problem. The tax man would come after me.
But that's not the way it works. Hiring someone as a contractor doesn't insulate deep pockets like Verizon from my liabilities. And the government has an interest in keeping me and everyone else as employees of some corporation rather than working as independent contractors. Can't have too many free slaves running around, getting ideas.
Thorium? Problem?
I thought there was a potential nuclear fuel cycle under development that uses Thorium. So, while it may require some special handling, it has value and isn't a waste product to be dealt with.
The top had been unscrewed from the inside and it was empty by the time scientists found it.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Yep. They work. I have the 1kG size balls and I use them during 'down time' sitting in front of TV. (No jokes about watching porn, playing with my balls, please!)
ProTip: If you have hardwood floors, sit or stand over a well padded rug when you start out with them.
I've never suffered from RSI. I also have a pair of the large size Chinese therapy balls (chrome plated iron balls, 1 kG each).
One side effect: I can almost tighten a spark plug by hand (no socket).
Open an Apple store there. Sell iPhones. The people showing up are inevitably short a phone.
I'm surprised Apple hasn't patented this yet.