Seems like a rotor sail could drive a generator collinear with the axis of rotation no matter what direction the wind comes from, then apply it directly to propulsion using electric drive.
Worst case, the wind comes from the front, but instead of just being a counter-force, it contributes to forward motion to some degree.
And of course, if there are lossy angles, you pull them down.
Heretic! The butter is to be solid, fresh from the churn, lightly salted, then lovingly applied to the pasta by the worshiper. The only exception to this allowed by the canon is when The Sauce is to be applied, and yea, verily, it is still holy to use the butter with the sauce. Cheese also is holy, very holy. And I'm not talking about the Swiss; for that, we have to go back to the vat again.
This is correct; the moon is full and it'll be up all night in the USA. This will reduce the visibility of any aurora to your eye by interfering with your night vision (your pupils won't dilate enough), and when there's any particulate matter in the air (smoke, as the AC mentions, but also water vapor, etc.) this creates illumination in the atmosphere that further reduces your ability to see anything by creating a "bright sky."
There are auroras intense enough to get past all of this, but the odds against them are very high.
Your best bet is a combination of very dry, very clear air and a camera set to high ISO, aimed north. The odds for a human-eye visible aurora are very low this evening because of the above factors.
In all seriousness, you can add "really bad looking" to those.
o Design evolution stopped o Low contrast text fad makes things difficult to read o Flat UI is difficult to navigate o Flat UI is really bad looking
Recently, I had occasion to bring up an OS X 10.6.8 virtual machine. The first thing that struck me about the desktop was the dock, which is decidedly 3D and had some very distinctive icons on it right out of the box was "this is really very good looking." Then I looked back at the dock on the 10.12.6 OS X (MacOS) host... ugh. All that flat crap looks terrible by comparison.
My S7 phone used to be the same. Flat as a pancake. Ugly. But for it, I found Nova Launcher, and now at least the desktop looks better with 3D folders (and my phone's desktop is all folders, so that's something, anyway. There are still a few 3D app icons, too.)
I really do wish this mania for flat would go the hell away. Flat is not better. At all. This merde was never more than "change for the sake of change."
The "cloud" is just some machine(s) somewhere that you have no security control over, that you have no reliability control over, that you have no maintenance control over, that you have no connectivity control over, that some marketing weasel somewhere (who you also have no control over) has convinced you is "better", when there's absolutely no concrete assurance of that.
You use "the cloud" for anything critical, you're a fool. It's a fad. A dangerous fad. Sure, you might save a few bucks up front over a proper server or servers and the people required to keep said hardware and software up, secure and running properly, but eventually, it'll very likely bite you because the model is inherently flawed: The interest in and concern for your work which only you have has been firmly separated from the control of your work, which only they have. The more critical your data / processes, the harder you're likely to get bitten. In the meantime, you're eroding the pool of qualified people who can actually keep your data and processes safe and operating. One tiny win followed by a series of avalanching losses.
Back when Google behaved well - text ads, "do no evil", non-commercial search result ranking - they were new, and essentially powerless.
However, Google acquired considerable power consequent to its abandonment of those good behaviors. Corruption breeds more corruption; corruption also breeds power.
It's no surprise that they have now decided to impose social engineering on the population at large. The only remaining question is if the current trend in their behavior will be impacted by any challengers. Doesn't really look like it.
anything larger that 8x8 isn't a chess board - problem solved, where's my money?
Not only that, but if an 8-queen solution works on an 8x8 board, it'll work just as well on a 1000x1000 or a 10k x 10k board, etc. board. Move it over, put it in the same relative location in the 8x8 group at the corner of the larger board, done. So solve for 8x8 and move.
So you'll need to split that money with me, pal.:)
Of course, it's just slightly possible that TFS is not an accurate summary of the actual article / problem, but...
Nah. Besides, everyone knows that reading TFA is un-American. Even reading the summary raises red flags with Homeland Security, and may result in a National Security Letter (which you can read, but can't discuss.)
what I've learned is mostly how much I don't know. And that I'm a shitty programmer.
Frankly, you're more likely to become a good programmer than the people who come out of such things thinking they're all that and a bag of chips.
I've been writing code for well ver 40 years and there's tons of stuff I still don't know about the craft. I did - and continue to do - well because I specialize narrowly enough that inside my boundaries, I know (relatively speaking) a lot. But it took a lot of time, and anyone serious about programming should expect it to take a lot of time. I'm also careful not to go officially / professionally stepping into areas where I know little when the expectations are... other.
There's nothing wrong with your perception in this matter. What will help is patience, perseverance, and a reasonable dose of humility. With those in hand, you can expect to at least approach your potential and do well in the craft.
It's less of a concern with higher-end DSLRs which use metal shutter blades (for a faster max shutter speed).
No. When live view is on, the shutter is open. DSLR's use the camera sensor for live view. Likewise, the lens aperture may be open and the camera simulating the exposure. The f-stop and shutter settings you have for the shot will only be applied when you trigger the shot.
You have to keep the time down to the absolute minimum. And you can't use the optical viewfinder to aim, so live view is the only option you have.
Having said that, this isn't hard to do at all, because the shutter speeds required allow you to move the camera through the exposed aim point very fast indeed.
I know why they say it, or at least, why the ones who know what they're talking about say it; and I know under what conditions what they say does not apply. It's pedantic nonsense unless carefully triaged with the various conditions that cause the problem, one of which is time. There were articles all over the place making blanket statements that were misleading.
Total aim time at the sun for the DSLR was a small fraction of a second. I swung the camera through the aim point, snapped as I passed. The camera was well off-axis to my eye, and I observed the LCD display from about 45 degrees (Slashdot's still so far in the dark ages it doesn't support a degree symbol, FFS) in order to know when to shoot. No damage, no problem.
As far as the phone went, I had the appropriate film over the sensor; it was no more at risk than anyone wearing a good pair of solar glasses. Less; exposure time, again, was minimal.
We were in the 90% zone for the recent solar eclipse and were entirely unwilling to make the drive to totality.
However, I was intrigued by the various articles that spoke to the idea that you couldn't shoot photos without filters, that cellphones couldn't be used, etc.
So, contrarian that I am, I shot DSLR photos without filters, and cellphone shots as well.
No corona shots (90% zone means the corona was never accessible) but I got some adequate shots, some of which are online here.
The American people lost. We only had two choices, Hillary or Trump. There was no way to win.
Yes, we lost, and Clinton has pretty much always been an obvious sycophant for the status quo - so yeah, it would have been some kind of loss either way.
But there was an obvious path to losing in a far, far worse way. And that worse way is exactly what we got.
Electronic payment systems would go a long way to solving that problem.
Problem? This isn't a bug, it's a feature. Look: it channels vast amounts of tax dollars into the pockets of US corporations, while also propping up the government of Afghanistan so as to channel even more tax dollars into the US military-industrial complex. The (cough) "problems" will simply result in more tax dollars flowing into the proper pockets (IOW, not yours, and not mine.)
Meanwhile, the average net worth of a US congress member is over a million dollars, the US education system is starved for funds and the ACA is deemed "too expensive."
Looks to me like the system is doing exactly what it's intended to be doing. The oligarchy gets richer, and most everyone else either treads water or gets poorer. Hurrah! How 'bout those Kardashians, eh?
My parents live about 10 miles outside of a medium sized city in Texas (Waco).
They have NO data over mobile.
...have you tried a high-gain antenna aimed directly at a high-speed cell tower, and a hotspot, for the computers in the house?
If you're ten miles from Waco, and if Waco has high speed cellular emanating from a tower that is local to the city, then you can definitely get it ten miles away.
You'll need a directional high-gain antenna, and perhaps a little height above ground, but you can certainly do it if those two ifs are true.
The antennas in cellphones are, in a word, hilariously poor performers. You can do considerably better fairly easily and inexpensively (plus, it's a one-time cost.)
Having said that, likely you can also put up a high-gain wifi antenna as well and catch some decent wifi from... somewhere within line of sight. So higher is, as always with this kind of thing, better. This approach is questionable, ethically, unless you make an agreement with the wifi owner, and may be illegal as well. Technically, however, it's not a big deal. Hams do this kind of longish distance wifi with old cans and a wire probe connected to the wifi modem. Works great.
Covfefe lake processors have only the best cores. Believe me, it's true. And they're fast. They'll drain the process pool for you so quick, you've never seen so quick. No CPU respects threads like Covfefe processors do, it's unpresidented: it grabs them by the stack frame, programs let you do that, you know, when you're a Covfefe multicore CPU. Howe many cores? I'll keep you in suspense. Do Covfefe CPUs support hyperthreading? Yeah, I guess so.
the overall cost of producing the electricity, in terms of pollution aren't that far apart [for fossil fuel ICEV and charging current for EV].
Yeah, actually the absolute pollution levels for these are quite far apart, and getting further apart every day. That's without even counting systems specifically designed to supply short-ride vehicles locally via solar. The efficiency of power production for vehicle charging at a fossil-fuel power plant, even after transmission losses to the charging point, is far better than an ICE can do on a per-vehicle basis. But don't let the facts stop you from spreading your fud. It seems to be the new normal anyway.
This reporter is delighted to deliver the scoop that finally, buggy whips will now be available with carbon fiber handles and artificial spider-silk lashes. Order early to be sure to get yours in time for school!
Your capacities, path, opportunities, drives, and circumstances are not universal constants.
So your "I've been there" is bound to be inaccurate for others, and any general conclusions you draw about those other people from such a presumption are bound to be flawed.
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Not what I was thinking, then. This is.
Wind comes from any angle, it turns the shaft. The shaft turns a generator or alternator, and the resulting power gets fed to the screw(s.)
A ship's mass gives a wind turbine a relatively fixed reference. So as long as there's wind, there's power generation.
The process I describe turns wind energy in any direction into motive power in the desired direction.
Seems like a rotor sail could drive a generator collinear with the axis of rotation no matter what direction the wind comes from, then apply it directly to propulsion using electric drive.
Worst case, the wind comes from the front, but instead of just being a counter-force, it contributes to forward motion to some degree.
And of course, if there are lossy angles, you pull them down.
Just speculating.
Melted butter?!?!?
Heretic! The butter is to be solid, fresh from the churn, lightly salted, then lovingly applied to the pasta by the worshiper. The only exception to this allowed by the canon is when The Sauce is to be applied, and yea, verily, it is still holy to use the butter with the sauce. Cheese also is holy, very holy. And I'm not talking about the Swiss; for that, we have to go back to the vat again.
Ramen
From what I've read, they have an idea, but they haven't actually built one of these yet.
So this is - at present anyway - just handwaving.
This is correct; the moon is full and it'll be up all night in the USA. This will reduce the visibility of any aurora to your eye by interfering with your night vision (your pupils won't dilate enough), and when there's any particulate matter in the air (smoke, as the AC mentions, but also water vapor, etc.) this creates illumination in the atmosphere that further reduces your ability to see anything by creating a "bright sky."
There are auroras intense enough to get past all of this, but the odds against them are very high.
Your best bet is a combination of very dry, very clear air and a camera set to high ISO, aimed north. The odds for a human-eye visible aurora are very low this evening because of the above factors.
In all seriousness, you can add "really bad looking" to those.
o Design evolution stopped
o Low contrast text fad makes things difficult to read
o Flat UI is difficult to navigate
o Flat UI is really bad looking
Recently, I had occasion to bring up an OS X 10.6.8 virtual machine. The first thing that struck me about the desktop was the dock, which is decidedly 3D and had some very distinctive icons on it right out of the box was "this is really very good looking." Then I looked back at the dock on the 10.12.6 OS X (MacOS) host... ugh. All that flat crap looks terrible by comparison.
My S7 phone used to be the same. Flat as a pancake. Ugly. But for it, I found Nova Launcher, and now at least the desktop looks better with 3D folders (and my phone's desktop is all folders, so that's something, anyway. There are still a few 3D app icons, too.)
I really do wish this mania for flat would go the hell away. Flat is not better. At all. This merde was never more than "change for the sake of change."
There's a public square in most conventional towns. Doesn't mean anyone with a lick of common sense goes out there dragging bags of money with them.
If your stuff needs security, you don't put it somewhere that has no security.
If your stuff needs security, and you hire someone who knows nothing about security to manage it, it's your fault.
Live by the cloud, die by the cloud.
The "cloud" is just some machine(s) somewhere that you have no security control over, that you have no reliability control over, that you have no maintenance control over, that you have no connectivity control over, that some marketing weasel somewhere (who you also have no control over) has convinced you is "better", when there's absolutely no concrete assurance of that.
You use "the cloud" for anything critical, you're a fool. It's a fad. A dangerous fad. Sure, you might save a few bucks up front over a proper server or servers and the people required to keep said hardware and software up, secure and running properly, but eventually, it'll very likely bite you because the model is inherently flawed: The interest in and concern for your work which only you have has been firmly separated from the control of your work, which only they have. The more critical your data / processes, the harder you're likely to get bitten. In the meantime, you're eroding the pool of qualified people who can actually keep your data and processes safe and operating. One tiny win followed by a series of avalanching losses.
I take offense at your use of "micro." You are impugning my manhood. My aggressions are a "good size." She told me so and that's why I know it's true.
Power corrupts.
Back when Google behaved well - text ads, "do no evil", non-commercial search result ranking - they were new, and essentially powerless.
However, Google acquired considerable power consequent to its abandonment of those good behaviors. Corruption breeds more corruption; corruption also breeds power.
It's no surprise that they have now decided to impose social engineering on the population at large. The only remaining question is if the current trend in their behavior will be impacted by any challengers. Doesn't really look like it.
Not only that, but if an 8-queen solution works on an 8x8 board, it'll work just as well on a 1000x1000 or a 10k x 10k board, etc. board. Move it over, put it in the same relative location in the 8x8 group at the corner of the larger board, done. So solve for 8x8 and move.
So you'll need to split that money with me, pal. :)
Of course, it's just slightly possible that TFS is not an accurate summary of the actual article / problem, but...
Nah. Besides, everyone knows that reading TFA is un-American. Even reading the summary raises red flags with Homeland Security, and may result in a National Security Letter (which you can read, but can't discuss.)
Frankly, you're more likely to become a good programmer than the people who come out of such things thinking they're all that and a bag of chips.
I've been writing code for well ver 40 years and there's tons of stuff I still don't know about the craft. I did - and continue to do - well because I specialize narrowly enough that inside my boundaries, I know (relatively speaking) a lot. But it took a lot of time, and anyone serious about programming should expect it to take a lot of time. I'm also careful not to go officially / professionally stepping into areas where I know little when the expectations are... other.
There's nothing wrong with your perception in this matter. What will help is patience, perseverance, and a reasonable dose of humility. With those in hand, you can expect to at least approach your potential and do well in the craft.
No. When live view is on, the shutter is open. DSLR's use the camera sensor for live view. Likewise, the lens aperture may be open and the camera simulating the exposure. The f-stop and shutter settings you have for the shot will only be applied when you trigger the shot.
You have to keep the time down to the absolute minimum. And you can't use the optical viewfinder to aim, so live view is the only option you have.
Having said that, this isn't hard to do at all, because the shutter speeds required allow you to move the camera through the exposed aim point very fast indeed.
I know why they say it, or at least, why the ones who know what they're talking about say it; and I know under what conditions what they say does not apply. It's pedantic nonsense unless carefully triaged with the various conditions that cause the problem, one of which is time. There were articles all over the place making blanket statements that were misleading.
Total aim time at the sun for the DSLR was a small fraction of a second. I swung the camera through the aim point, snapped as I passed. The camera was well off-axis to my eye, and I observed the LCD display from about 45 degrees (Slashdot's still so far in the dark ages it doesn't support a degree symbol, FFS) in order to know when to shoot. No damage, no problem.
As far as the phone went, I had the appropriate film over the sensor; it was no more at risk than anyone wearing a good pair of solar glasses. Less; exposure time, again, was minimal.
We were in the 90% zone for the recent solar eclipse and were entirely unwilling to make the drive to totality.
However, I was intrigued by the various articles that spoke to the idea that you couldn't shoot photos without filters, that cellphones couldn't be used, etc.
So, contrarian that I am, I shot DSLR photos without filters, and cellphone shots as well.
No corona shots (90% zone means the corona was never accessible) but I got some adequate shots, some of which are online here.
Yes, we lost, and Clinton has pretty much always been an obvious sycophant for the status quo - so yeah, it would have been some kind of loss either way.
But there was an obvious path to losing in a far, far worse way. And that worse way is exactly what we got.
Problem? This isn't a bug, it's a feature. Look: it channels vast amounts of tax dollars into the pockets of US corporations, while also propping up the government of Afghanistan so as to channel even more tax dollars into the US military-industrial complex. The (cough) "problems" will simply result in more tax dollars flowing into the proper pockets (IOW, not yours, and not mine.)
Meanwhile, the average net worth of a US congress member is over a million dollars, the US education system is starved for funds and the ACA is deemed "too expensive."
Looks to me like the system is doing exactly what it's intended to be doing. The oligarchy gets richer, and most everyone else either treads water or gets poorer. Hurrah! How 'bout those Kardashians, eh?
No one's going to catch that bit of drift unless you provide serious amounts of lube.
So, assuming you get that handled, what time do you want to come over?
If you're ten miles from Waco, and if Waco has high speed cellular emanating from a tower that is local to the city, then you can definitely get it ten miles away.
You'll need a directional high-gain antenna, and perhaps a little height above ground, but you can certainly do it if those two ifs are true.
The antennas in cellphones are, in a word, hilariously poor performers. You can do considerably better fairly easily and inexpensively (plus, it's a one-time cost.)
Having said that, likely you can also put up a high-gain wifi antenna as well and catch some decent wifi from... somewhere within line of sight. So higher is, as always with this kind of thing, better. This approach is questionable, ethically, unless you make an agreement with the wifi owner, and may be illegal as well. Technically, however, it's not a big deal. Hams do this kind of longish distance wifi with old cans and a wire probe connected to the wifi modem. Works great.
Covfefe lake processors have only the best cores. Believe me, it's true. And they're fast. They'll drain the process pool for you so quick, you've never seen so quick. No CPU respects threads like Covfefe processors do, it's unpresidented: it grabs them by the stack frame, programs let you do that, you know, when you're a Covfefe multicore CPU. Howe many cores? I'll keep you in suspense. Do Covfefe CPUs support hyperthreading? Yeah, I guess so.
Yeah, actually the absolute pollution levels for these are quite far apart, and getting further apart every day. That's without even counting systems specifically designed to supply short-ride vehicles locally via solar. The efficiency of power production for vehicle charging at a fossil-fuel power plant, even after transmission losses to the charging point, is far better than an ICE can do on a per-vehicle basis. But don't let the facts stop you from spreading your fud. It seems to be the new normal anyway.
Dateline Alabama, August 2017:
This reporter is delighted to deliver the scoop that finally, buggy whips will now be available with carbon fiber handles and artificial spider-silk lashes. Order early to be sure to get yours in time for school!
I didn't say a word about "justice." I simply observed that your presumptions about other people are invalid. Because they are.
Your capacities, path, opportunities, drives, and circumstances are not universal constants.
So your "I've been there" is bound to be inaccurate for others, and any general conclusions you draw about those other people from such a presumption are bound to be flawed.
Poor folk stay behind in Eritrea and Ethiopia where there is little food.
FTFY.
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