I'd like to hear someone explain why a turbine which allows 98% of the air to escape between the blades is a good idea?
Are you referring to the fact that there are just three blades on this machine? If so, there were studies done in the 1970's as to what configuration was most efficient. Three blades turned out to be the most efficient. The old fashioned areromotor designs that were on early 20th century farms were not very efficient. Much less efficient than the modern three blade designs.
I think the 2 party system breeds corruption (Bush and Kerry are both deceitful to the US public) and I will cast my vote for a 3rd party just to try and help get the ball rolling for political reform.
Good point. The DFL and Repblican parties sure took notice when Jesse Venture was elected governor of Minnesota.
There's two different types of republicans. There are the big corporate buffoons, like the ones in the White House, then there are the more independent ones. Don't confuse or label Bush as a representative for the whole party.
I agree with you on there being two types of repbulicans. The problem is, however, is that the bufoons are using the independents pretty much just to get elected. Once in office, the repbulican polititians tend to be pawns of Giant corporations, and the extremely wealty. They do nothing to really help the american citizen. Their goal is to eliminate taxes for the wealthy, and put the tax burden on the middle class wageearner. They want also to ensure that the weath and power they now enjoy is passed down in perpetuity to their descendants, tax free. They pander to the populace on abortion and gay issues just to get elected
Quite frankly, if you're an independant republican, then why aren't you independent of these pompous buffoons? Why do many of you take what is told to you from the pulpit without one bit of questioning or independent thought? Why do you vote for whomever the pastor says to vote for and not really look into all the issues that really affect you and decide which issues are important to YOU and vote accordingly? From my perspective, many of your type of republicans seem to be more dependent( mind controlled) than independent.
The Republican party generates tens of millions of dollars in campaign contributions in Texas.
The problem here, as I see it, is that millions of dollars of Texas generated campaign funds are being spent in other states. This is quite likely true, as last week one local reporter had said that over 2 million dollars was spent in August on television commercials for candidates in my state. My state happens to be one of those battleground states, and it's not particularly large.
I offer you a solution. Encourage everyone in your state to randomly pick one of the candidates when asked by any polling agency as to what candidate you support.
If all of the voters in your state do this, the polls will show that the presidential race in your state is a toss up, with all candidates receiving the same amount of votes, within the poll's margin of error.
The net effect of this random selection of candidates on polls will make your state a battleground state. The major party campaigns will notice that your state may be the swing state whose electorial vote they need for victory and get their candidate into office
The campaign managers of those candidates will then strive to gain your votes and spend truckloads of money in your state on commercials, billboards, bumper stickers, and whatnot. All of those hard earned Texas dollars will once again be spent in Texas. This will keep those funds from flowing to nondeserving states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. You will once again have the opportunity of seeing democracy in action. Just don't forget to vote for your true candidate when the election comes around.
This is a political problem, the technology to safely transport spent nuclear fuel via rail and truck has existed for over 20 years.
What would happen if even one of the trucks got into and accident, you ask. Well, the containers used in transporting these are built reasonably well. Their integrity is not comprimised even if hit directly by a train locomotive at 60 mph. Want to take a guess at what your car would look like after the same hit? Like the guy said, it's a political problem.
It's so cold because you get no sunlight to heat things up, yet you are so far from the centre of earth that the molten lava can't warm you either.
That is almost certainly not the correct explanation. The temperature would be close to the annual mean temperature of the location. The temperature, 3 C, given the latitude of the cave at something like 42 N, seems much too cold to be the annual mean temperature. For it to be that cold, I'ld expect the cave would need to be situated much further north, not too far from permafrost lands.
Are you shure that its the longest cave penetration, or just the longest underwater cave penetration? There are caves that go on for miles and miles, 18000 feet doesn't seem very long. A pair of caves in the Black Hills of South Dakota each have over 100 miles of passageways.
I was wondering about that myself. Near the surface (within several hundered feet), the temperature of a cave is the mean temperature of the location, the average temperature over the course of years. As you go down, the temperatures should gradually increase, little by little. It may be, however, that since cold air sinks, and the shaft of the cave is by and large vertical, that what you get at the bottom of the shaft is the coldest temperatures, as all that cold air during the cold Georgian winters sinks to the bottom, and over the eons cools the surrounding rock to the 3 C temperatures.
I've been in caves in Wyoming where the temperatures are around 50 F year around. That may seem cool, but it was a nice temperature when you're actively crawling around in the cave.
They really don't have to redevelop the applications software for IA 64, just recompile and relink.
That's not a big deal most of the time, especially for the type of software that the Itanium was meant to run.
I suppose it would be a problem, however, if your're company want's to run packages from a dozen different software companies on the machine. Then each of those companies would need to obtain an Itanium system in order to rebuild their software.
And it's another platform that needs supporting. Some of the software vendors may be reluctant expend the resources necessary to port and maintain the software on the Itanium.
I'ld expect that the big issue was the cost of these systems. Why by 1 Itanium when you can network xx Pentium systems for lower cost, and better overall performance? With low sales, efficiencies of scale aren't realized, so the Itanium remains highly priced (as would software packages which run on it).
Actually, the true spirit of HP follows to Agilent. HP was originally in the scientific instrument business. That makes Agilent the true successor, not the current computer company HP. I'ld say what remains at HP are mostly the ruins of DEC, and Compaq. The best of those companies seems to have left for other opportunities.
But if you really want fundamental changes to the government, you should vote the candidate you feel best represents your ideals.
Otherwise the positions and ideals of the major parties will not change.
If a major party keeps loosing elections because there's a third party keeps taking away votes that the loosing major party would like to have, the major party changes it's platform on some issues to be closer to those of the third party.
Your vote for a third party candidate is not wasted, even if that candidate does not win. You waste your vote whenever you vote for a candidate that does not best reflect your positions on issues important to you.
While the digital logic is straightforward and easy, the actual design of a RAM chip is not. The engineers are effectively dealing with analog circuitry when designing these chips. The design of each memory cell is critical, as they need to be as small as possible. It takes a lot of experimentation and knowledge of semiconductor physics to design these things. These guys are definitely not slackers, they're the cream of the crop. The company's future depends critically on their knowledge and intelligence. If they can't devise ways of making the cells smaller, the chip becomes larger, the yields fall, forcing the company to charge higher prices for the memory. The company may quickly loose a competitive advantage and a downward spiral begins for the company. Engineers that design digital logic are much easier to find than those that understand the semiconductor physics and manufacturing processes well enough to design the circuit layouts of ram chip.
Correct, with the Libertarian philosophy, we'ld have situations like what was happening in the coal mines early last century. On average over 2000 coal miners died each year here in the U.S. in mining fires and explosions. That was the toll in the years from 1900 - 1910, before the government stepped in with safety regulations.
Oh, and by the way the companies would hire thugs to kill picketers and union organizers.
It looked like Samsung and Micron were also involved in this little scheme. The feds must have quite substantial evidence against them, otherwise the companies normally just agree to compensation without admitting any guilt. I recall noticing during those years that dram prices were abnormally high, as they hadn't been falling like they normally would be.
Well maybe they intend to sell the displays as components for other companies to integrate into their products. You don't think that Dell or Palm actually make the display portion of their devices do you? They buy them from other companies like Sharp, Samsung, and AU optronics.
8 Sockets may be correct. I'm not sure whether or not they have an actual dual processor chip manufactured, or have just implemented the equivalent logic that merges two existing single core opteron chips. Different articles on the web seem to indicate different things.
I was wondering about that. Somehow I think steering the thing would be pretty precarious, given the short wheelbase. Did that article say speeds up to 60 mph? Even with a minimal steering mechanism, that seems awfully dangerous. It probably would be a really rough ride as well - no suspension system, the thing would be bouncing all over the place.
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I'd like to hear someone explain why a turbine which allows 98% of the air to escape between the blades is a good idea?
Are you referring to the fact that there are just three blades on this machine? If so, there were studies done in the 1970's as to what configuration was most efficient. Three blades turned out to be the most efficient. The old fashioned areromotor designs that were on early 20th century farms were not very efficient. Much less efficient than the modern three blade designs.
Good point. The DFL and Repblican parties sure took notice when Jesse Venture was elected governor of Minnesota.
I agree with you on there being two types of repbulicans. The problem is, however, is that the bufoons are using the independents pretty much just to get elected. Once in office, the repbulican polititians tend to be pawns of Giant corporations, and the extremely wealty. They do nothing to really help the american citizen. Their goal is to eliminate taxes for the wealthy, and put the tax burden on the middle class wageearner. They want also to ensure that the weath and power they now enjoy is passed down in perpetuity to their descendants, tax free. They pander to the populace on abortion and gay issues just to get elected
Quite frankly, if you're an independant republican, then why aren't you independent of these pompous buffoons? Why do many of you take what is told to you from the pulpit without one bit of questioning or independent thought? Why do you vote for whomever the pastor says to vote for and not really look into all the issues that really affect you and decide which issues are important to YOU and vote accordingly? From my perspective, many of your type of republicans seem to be more dependent( mind controlled) than independent.
The problem here, as I see it, is that millions of dollars of Texas generated campaign funds are being spent in other states. This is quite likely true, as last week one local reporter had said that over 2 million dollars was spent in August on television commercials for candidates in my state. My state happens to be one of those battleground states, and it's not particularly large.
I offer you a solution. Encourage everyone in your state to randomly pick one of the candidates when asked by any polling agency as to what candidate you support. If all of the voters in your state do this, the polls will show that the presidential race in your state is a toss up, with all candidates receiving the same amount of votes, within the poll's margin of error.
The net effect of this random selection of candidates on polls will make your state a battleground state. The major party campaigns will notice that your state may be the swing state whose electorial vote they need for victory and get their candidate into office
The campaign managers of those candidates will then strive to gain your votes and spend truckloads of money in your state on commercials, billboards, bumper stickers, and whatnot. All of those hard earned Texas dollars will once again be spent in Texas. This will keep those funds from flowing to nondeserving states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. You will once again have the opportunity of seeing democracy in action. Just don't forget to vote for your true candidate when the election comes around.
Yes, nearly half of American voters are really stupid, namely those that vote for the other party's candidate.
Getting the waste there:
This is a political problem, the technology to safely transport spent nuclear fuel via rail and truck has existed for over 20 years.
What would happen if even one of the trucks got into and accident, you ask. Well, the containers used in transporting these are built reasonably well. Their integrity is not comprimised even if hit directly by a train locomotive at 60 mph. Want to take a guess at what your car would look like after the same hit? Like the guy said, it's a political problem.
That is almost certainly not the correct explanation. The temperature would be close to the annual mean temperature of the location. The temperature, 3 C, given the latitude of the cave at something like 42 N, seems much too cold to be the annual mean temperature. For it to be that cold, I'ld expect the cave would need to be situated much further north, not too far from permafrost lands.
Are you shure that its the longest cave penetration, or just the longest underwater cave penetration? There are caves that go on for miles and miles, 18000 feet doesn't seem very long. A pair of caves in the Black Hills of South Dakota each have over 100 miles of passageways.
I've been in caves in Wyoming where the temperatures are around 50 F year around. That may seem cool, but it was a nice temperature when you're actively crawling around in the cave.
I suppose it would be a problem, however, if your're company want's to run packages from a dozen different software companies on the machine. Then each of those companies would need to obtain an Itanium system in order to rebuild their software. And it's another platform that needs supporting. Some of the software vendors may be reluctant expend the resources necessary to port and maintain the software on the Itanium.
I'ld expect that the big issue was the cost of these systems. Why by 1 Itanium when you can network xx Pentium systems for lower cost, and better overall performance? With low sales, efficiencies of scale aren't realized, so the Itanium remains highly priced (as would software packages which run on it).
Actually, the true spirit of HP follows to Agilent.
HP was originally in the scientific instrument business. That makes Agilent the true successor, not the current computer company HP. I'ld say what remains at HP are mostly the ruins of DEC, and Compaq. The best of those companies seems to have left for other opportunities.
Otherwise the positions and ideals of the major parties will not change. If a major party keeps loosing elections because there's a third party keeps taking away votes that the loosing major party would like to have, the major party changes it's platform on some issues to be closer to those of the third party.
Your vote for a third party candidate is not wasted, even if that candidate does not win. You waste your vote whenever you vote for a candidate that does not best reflect your positions on issues important to you.
I was addressing your 'easy to design' statement, not your 'intricate' statement.
While the digital logic is straightforward and easy, the actual design of a RAM chip is not. The engineers are effectively dealing with analog circuitry when designing these chips. The design of each memory cell is critical, as they need to be as small as possible. It takes a lot of experimentation and knowledge of semiconductor physics to design these things. These guys are definitely not slackers, they're the cream of the crop. The company's future depends critically on their knowledge and intelligence. If they can't devise ways of making the cells smaller, the chip becomes larger, the yields fall, forcing the company to charge higher prices for the memory. The company may quickly loose a competitive advantage and a downward spiral begins for the company. Engineers that design digital logic are much easier to find than those that understand the semiconductor physics and manufacturing processes well enough to design the circuit layouts of ram chip.
Micron Technology was mentioned. It is an American company based in Boise, Idaho.
AMD has been selling '86 clones since the 8086. They didn't just happen on the scene, they've been around for nearly the same time as Intel.
Correct, with the Libertarian philosophy, we'ld have situations like what was happening in the coal mines early last century. On average over 2000 coal miners died each year here in the U.S. in mining fires and explosions. That was the toll in the years from 1900 - 1910, before the government stepped in with safety regulations. Oh, and by the way the companies would hire thugs to kill picketers and union organizers.
It looked like Samsung and Micron were also involved in this little scheme. The feds must have quite substantial evidence against them, otherwise the companies normally just agree to compensation without admitting any guilt. I recall noticing during those years that dram prices were abnormally high, as they hadn't been falling like they normally would be.
Well maybe they intend to sell the displays as components for other companies to integrate into their products. You don't think that Dell or Palm actually make the display portion of their devices do you? They buy them from other companies like Sharp, Samsung, and AU optronics.
Yep, canisters containing photographic film were routinely dropped from satellites and snagged in the air by aircraft during the cold war.
So where do you plan on getting ahold of a copy of RSX-11M? My understanding is that it is still only obtainable under license.
8 Sockets may be correct. I'm not sure whether or not they have an actual dual processor chip manufactured, or have just implemented the equivalent logic that merges two existing single
core opteron chips. Different articles on the web
seem to indicate different things.
I was wondering about that. Somehow I think steering the thing would be pretty precarious, given the short wheelbase. Did that article say speeds up to 60 mph? Even with a minimal steering mechanism, that seems awfully dangerous. It probably would be a really rough ride as well - no suspension system, the thing would be bouncing all over the place.
And if the semiconductor industry doesn't work out for them, they can always make drill bits.