Sure, the resolution may be 2400 dpi, but what is the minimum dot size?
Resolution describes only the level of precision as to where the center of the dot can be placed, but the dot size might be much larger than 1/2400 inch.
It's like saying that an elephant can crap on a teacup.
Maybe desktop users are running 2.6, but there's a heck of a lot of production servers out there running 2.4 or even 2.2.
As many corporations have policies limiting upgrades to extensively tested packages, upgrading to 2.6 right away isn't necessarily an option -- but a bugfix to a minor revision is acceptable.
The least you could to is recreate the incident... I'll volunteer my Grandma to ride the Segway. Ever since her eyesight went bad and her reflexes went south, she's cut her driving back to only 30 miles a day.
Who do you think will be the first to register a.jobs domain? The sometimes esteemed, sometimes maligned figurehead of the Apple empire? Yes, that's right folks, you will soon be able to send email to steve.jobs@steve.jobs
An "emergency" used to be your-house-is-on-fire or your-kid-just-swallowed-drano. Now, it seems that pick-up-milk-on-your-way-home has been elevated to the status of "emergency."
One of my customers had the computer sitting in the corner, so as you face the computer, you're also facing the corner.
The trouble was, the wallpaper was vertical blue and white stripes, each about 1 inch (2,5 cm) wide, covering both walls.
Sitting at the computer, seeing the striped wallpaper in your peripheral vision, you would get the unnerving feeling the monitor was attacking you, slowly approaching you, menacingly. (It didn't help that the monitor was on an elevated platform, so you actually had to look up at it.)
After a few years, they covered the wallpaper with wood paneling.
If I inferred that pump/hydro power plants were environmentally friendly, I certainly didn't mean to. I didn't mean to infer that they weren't, either. (No wonder you post A/C.)
Still, it'll take 1362 of these 5MW generators to equal the capacity of Grand Coulee Dam, a whopping 6.8GW, and that's not the largest power plant in the world either.
Power storage can be accomplished by using "water gravity batteries" (I just made that term up) which are essentially hydroelectric facilities that are reversible, pumping water up into a reservior during off-peak hours, and releasing it thru turbine/generators during times of peak load.
The Stateline Wind Energy Center in SW Washington and NW Oregon has the capacity to produce 300MW of energy, one of the largest installations in the world to date.
Granted, each turbine is only 660kW -- far short of the 5MW of the turbine mentioned above -- but all put together, with 454 turbines, it makes for a sizeable facility. Plus with lease payments of $1500-2000US per turbine, it provides farmers with their biggest cash crop since marijuana.
The volcanocam is NOT turned off at night. It's on all the time.
If you can't see a picture at night (i.e., it's black), that's because it's dark. Duh. Even on a clear, moonlit night, the camera is not sensitive enough to see anything.
If the picture is grey (or maybe purply-gray), that's because it's foggy. This camera is at the Johnston Ridge Observatory, on a ridgetop staring laterally into the crater (JR was in the direct path of the lateral blast on May 18, 1980). This area is frequently covered by clouds & fog, obscuring the mountain.
Being I live in SW Washington, probably 20 miles from MSH, I can attest that at 6:30am there was a pretty heavy cloud cover that made things mighty dark.
The pressure didn't "blow the cap off" so to speak, but more precisely, the pressure caused the north face of the mountain to bulge, which became unstable and failed catastrophicaly. This released the pressure, allowing the trapped gases to forcibly eject volcanic matter both laterally and vertically, giving us the devastation of the Toutle River valley and choking the Cowlitz and Columbia Rivers, and the memorable ash cloud rising some eighteen miles into the sky.
As I see it, BPL (or BoP if you prefer) in its current incarnation is not a valid alternative to cable or DSL if those are available in your area. Where BPL will shine is in rural areas where cable and DSL don't reach; in these locales the BPL can take advantage of the already existing infrastructure. To install cable or DSL in these areas would require enormous expense; the cost-per-customer (that is, the cost to implement per customer served, not the cost the customer ultimately pays) is too prohibitive to warrant installation.
Even so, I see wireless IP as an up-and-coming alternative to BPL that promises greater bandwidth at lower cost. Such as what these guys are doing.
Slashdot Mirror
PDX just today rolled out free, public Wi-Fi access covering 70% of the terminal.
Sure, the resolution may be 2400 dpi, but what is the minimum dot size?
Resolution describes only the level of precision as to where the center of the dot can be placed, but the dot size might be much larger than 1/2400 inch.
It's like saying that an elephant can crap on a teacup.
It's like WinXP is more reliable than WinME. You still wouldn't stake your life on it.
Sadly, a lot of life-support equipment runs some embedded version of a Microsoft operating system. Or so I've heard.
Maybe desktop users are running 2.6, but there's a heck of a lot of production servers out there running 2.4 or even 2.2.
As many corporations have policies limiting upgrades to extensively tested packages, upgrading to 2.6 right away isn't necessarily an option -- but a bugfix to a minor revision is acceptable.
So what you're saying is...
If we ignore it, it won't go away. If we all click on it and try to download it... it will.
Looks like it's already left the building.
What? Not pictures? No video?
The least you could to is recreate the incident... I'll volunteer my Grandma to ride the Segway. Ever since her eyesight went bad and her reflexes went south, she's cut her driving back to only 30 miles a day.
Who do you think will be the first to register a .jobs domain? The sometimes esteemed, sometimes maligned figurehead of the Apple empire? Yes, that's right folks, you will soon be able to send email to steve.jobs@steve.jobs
don't forget bigasa.post for the spam emailers...
I'd think dumbasa.post would be more apropos
An "emergency" used to be your-house-is-on-fire or your-kid-just-swallowed-drano. Now, it seems that pick-up-milk-on-your-way-home has been elevated to the status of "emergency."
One of my customers had the computer sitting in the corner, so as you face the computer, you're also facing the corner.
The trouble was, the wallpaper was vertical blue and white stripes, each about 1 inch (2,5 cm) wide, covering both walls.
Sitting at the computer, seeing the striped wallpaper in your peripheral vision, you would get the unnerving feeling the monitor was attacking you, slowly approaching you, menacingly. (It didn't help that the monitor was on an elevated platform, so you actually had to look up at it.)
After a few years, they covered the wallpaper with wood paneling.
If I inferred that pump/hydro power plants were environmentally friendly, I certainly didn't mean to. I didn't mean to infer that they weren't, either. (No wonder you post A/C.)
Still, it'll take 1362 of these 5MW generators to equal the capacity of Grand Coulee Dam, a whopping 6.8GW, and that's not the largest power plant in the world either.
Exactly how do you clean a vacuum, as a vacuum, by definition, is a complete lack of matter?
Power storage can be accomplished by using "water gravity batteries" (I just made that term up) which are essentially hydroelectric facilities that are reversible, pumping water up into a reservior during off-peak hours, and releasing it thru turbine/generators during times of peak load.
One such facility is at Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state.
The Stateline Wind Energy Center in SW Washington and NW Oregon has the capacity to produce 300MW of energy, one of the largest installations in the world to date.
Granted, each turbine is only 660kW -- far short of the 5MW of the turbine mentioned above -- but all put together, with 454 turbines, it makes for a sizeable facility. Plus with lease payments of $1500-2000US per turbine, it provides farmers with their biggest cash crop since marijuana.
Yes, there's photos.
The invasion has begun!
This is an actual image from the volcanocam, captured 30 Sep 2004 at 9:59:01 PDT.
Yeah, those vials of ash were filled from the backyard of the tourist trap where it was bought for at least $5.00.
You could have had five gallons for free from the side of the road.
(-1, Redundant)
The volcanocam is NOT turned off at night. It's on all the time.
If you can't see a picture at night (i.e., it's black), that's because it's dark. Duh. Even on a clear, moonlit night, the camera is not sensitive enough to see anything.
If the picture is grey (or maybe purply-gray), that's because it's foggy. This camera is at the Johnston Ridge Observatory, on a ridgetop staring laterally into the crater (JR was in the direct path of the lateral blast on May 18, 1980). This area is frequently covered by clouds & fog, obscuring the mountain.
When it clears up, the pic is impressive.
See the following link to see various pictures of Mt. St. Helens, before and after the May 18, 1980 eruption.
y 18_images.html (Courtesy of USGS)
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/Images/ma
Being I live in SW Washington, probably 20 miles from MSH, I can attest that at 6:30am there was a pretty heavy cloud cover that made things mighty dark.
If the picture is gray, that means it's foggy.
The pressure didn't "blow the cap off" so to speak, but more precisely, the pressure caused the north face of the mountain to bulge, which became unstable and failed catastrophicaly. This released the pressure, allowing the trapped gases to forcibly eject volcanic matter both laterally and vertically, giving us the devastation of the Toutle River valley and choking the Cowlitz and Columbia Rivers, and the memorable ash cloud rising some eighteen miles into the sky.
You're suggesting that MSH is really M$H, running WindowsNT?
Nononononoooooo.
In Soviet Russia, they Voice-over-YOU!
He'll have to do one better than this guy, who only rated an honorable mention.
As I see it, BPL (or BoP if you prefer) in its current incarnation is not a valid alternative to cable or DSL if those are available in your area. Where BPL will shine is in rural areas where cable and DSL don't reach; in these locales the BPL can take advantage of the already existing infrastructure. To install cable or DSL in these areas would require enormous expense; the cost-per-customer (that is, the cost to implement per customer served, not the cost the customer ultimately pays) is too prohibitive to warrant installation.
Even so, I see wireless IP as an up-and-coming alternative to BPL that promises greater bandwidth at lower cost. Such as what these guys are doing.
I think you mean FAA, not FCC.