"If you want more engineers, make the field more attractive. If the industry sucks people are going to avoid it no matter how badly we need it.
And I took exception with the statement "This is the talent that our country has invested so much resource in producing." That makes it sound like we gave them loads of valuable training for free and then they wandered off and left us holding the bag."
Well said. All that needs to be done is raise pay in the industries you think are important. This notion of forcing people to work for less because you think some job is more important than another is nonsense.
Actually, given the results, I would cut the department of education completely. It never worked.
However, you are correct, there is nothing big enough to make a difference without committing electoral suicide. Not even the Pentagon is big enough, especially since the Democrats and Republicans are equal opportunity war mongers.
The emergency pumps would not have to be full sized, say only 10% full size to hand the decay heat, which is about 6% of full power. Assuming the main steam stops shut on scram, which I'm sure they do, they should have been able to open one of them to get all the steam they needed to the emergency feed pump. Or even just open the bypass valves you have to open to warm the header. You are not talking about that much steam.
If cooling is working, steam pressure will drop off, or at least it will once cooling exceeds decay heat, but as the steam pressure drops, so does the pressure your pump has to overcome. So you should be able to run it down to 50 psi or so, so long as you have water to push feed the reactor.
(Pardon my English Engineering units) Let's see, 2.3 feet per psi, 1000 psi steam pressure (According to wikipedia, sounds a bit high to me) so we are looking at a 2300 foot high hill. If it's 600 psi steam, at least after shutdown, then it's only about 1700 feet of hill.
And the big tank has to still be there after the 9.0 earthquake. There is more complication in "All they needed" than you think.
The basic design is supposed to have a steam powered feed pump with a source of makeup water. Whether it broke, was never there, or the source of makeup water was a condenser that was mudded out by the tsunami, I don't know. And I would like to know. I used to serve on an SSN, so I have a certain professional curiosity.
"buying land around Carson City, NV and all along the Nevada and California border. With the next earthquake, our analysts expect California to drop into the Pacific making all of our land BEACHFRONT!"
You might want to check out the location of the Walker Lane first. The future beach may not be where you think it will be. But in the long run you should have beaches on both sides of the rift, which would give you double the profit, minus anything lost at the bottom of the graben.
The short version is draw a line from the Gulf of California through Death Valley to Pyramid Lake. then draw a dotted line from there to Susanville, CA. Dotted because that is a "not sure WTF is happening here" zone. Then draw a line from Susanville due west to the Mendocino Fault zone.
"By that, I mean there are still places they don't cheaply fill in for incadescents"
Outdoors. (Do not use in locations where moisture may be present. Do not use at temperatures less than 10 deg F, says the box.)
That said, that is all of four bulbs, all of which are used a few hours a week, if that. The front door light has been replaced twice in 10 years, so a couple of four packs will keep that going a long time. The LED lights are the logical replacement there, and their price should come down by 2020.
"How much music in the iTunes store has passages so soft you can barely hear them?"
Hergest Ridge. But you are right, not much else.
Also, since I've just had the annual lecture at work, the OSHA limit for sound level is 85 db. The 96 dB range on 16 bit sound is already more than you are legally allowed to be exposed to unless your hearing is good to -11.
Now I have to go and deprogram myself. Goofy safety cults.
"So do we conclude pure user error or should we be considering a user interface design fault as well?"
I would. Given there is no clutch, and no direct mechanical link between the transmission "lever" and the actual transmission, I won't be buying one unless there is a BRB. (Big Red Button, otherwise known as an Emergency Shutdown.)
And no, holding in the shutdown button for five seconds does not count. I want it like my table saw. Whop, power off.
That's just "drive motor off" too, leave steering and power brakes live if they are not driven off the engine.
I'm glad this all happened. Now I've had a chance to think about it. So if the second generation Leaf has enough real world range to use as a commuter, I'll know what I want.
"And how about all the people who don't update their registration when they move? Rental cars?
And what do you do if the bill isn't paid? Suspend the registration?
Rental cars will get the toll added to the bill. People who move leave forwarding addresses. As for the rest, that is such a small percentage of the total traffic it isn't worth it to hunt them down.
Since I live in Eastern WA, and visit Quincy now and again (the local Honda motorcycle dealer is there) I have to mention that the summer peak temperatures can reach 105 to 110 F. These usually only last a few hours. My criteria is that if it's 90 F by 9 AM it's going to be a hot day, probably over 100. By sundown it will be under 90, and an hour after that about 70. And it should be down to about 55 by morning.
Humidity is about 15% at mid day, so a swamp cooler would work fine for cooling the hardware.
Wintertime has freezing fogs, lows not usually below -10 F, usual highs around freezing. We are just finishing a cold snap where the days went from 5 to 20. It's 28 now, as it is warming up to snow.
Local power is hydro, wind, the nuclear plant at Hanford, and some imported from the coal plant at Boardman, Oregon.
Read 5.25" disk (AppleDos 3.3) in an apple IIgs. Connect via Localtalk to a beige G3 running Macos 9, then transfer from there to Quicksilver running MacOs 10.4. Then to my snow leopard mini. I might be able to go directly from the beige G3 to my mini, but I have not tried it.
Although I don't have an AppleDos 3.2 disk (from the late '70s), I do have an Apple IIe and the little proms to make the disk controller card read those 13 sector disks. So I should be able to read them. I think there was a program that did that too, (demuffin?) but it was read-only. )
" Even with the moderate La Nina we're still having near record warmth for the globe."
My section of the globe is having record cold, not record warmth. All that cold air that should be in the Arctic is flowing south through here. So there should be a southern wind somewhere, and apparently it's over Greenland.
The Dalton, Sporer, and Maunder minima all existed, AGW has no explanation for them. CO2 levels say the temperature should have been constant. It was not. Something else is going on. Exactly what is the great question.
you might also look at the less than stable temperature history of the Eemian interglacial. Apparently, "stable temperatures" and "interglacial" do not go together.
" 1) Never, ever, EVER allow time travel. Every single timeline can be undone. Nothing is believable."
That goes too far. Time travel is fine, but since everything you did in the past has already happened before you left, nothing you did had any effect. Or it was already accounted for.
Connie Willis did it right in Blackout and All Clear. And in To Say Nothing of the Dog as well. You think you are changing the past, but the past is undoing your changes just as fast. And if you get too far out of line a wall falls on you. Stupid time traveler.
(No that's not a spoiler, but that's the way it works.)
Also having grown up on a farm, I'm more optimistic than you.
Robots to work in the cold is not a problem because there are no berries to pick, or anything else to harvest at 20 below zero. Too much heat for people is little trouble for electronics. Almost any chip will take 120 F. The rest is just fans. If we can cool a Pentium 4, we can keep the harvester circuits cool enough.
You do have a point with human supervision required for some cases, but again you can air condition a cab (or a supervisor's trailer) easily. It's a lot easier to be in a tractor with an enclosed cab than sitting on the "M" on a hot July day covered in the chaff from the oats combine. (We had a tow-behind model.)
GPS on a berry farm seems like overkill. Install a two or three local RF beacons. Triangulate off of them.
Now, how much armor plate does it take to get it to survive the blackberry patch?
And how long until it can do cucumbers? Those were the bane of my childhood, as picking them was the only solution to my cash shortage.
And how long until it can distinguish weeds from crops?
The usual electrical service is 200 A where I live. The 3.3 kw is only 15 amps at 240 V, in other words a #12 wire with a 20A breaker. I've got 4 circuits like that in the house already for heat, plus the hot water heater, plus the dryer, and a 50 A circuit to the stove. And when it's 10 below (F) outside like the other day, most of the heat is on most of the time.
Another 15 A circuit is not a big deal, especially if I can set a timer to start charging at 10 PM, since I'm in bed by then, and have the car charged by 6:30 when I head off for work.
I do note that CA was mentioned, and I remember seeing some old houses down there with whimsical electrical panels, so those 60 A panels would need an upgrade. But if you don't need 12 KW of heaters, even a 100 A panel should have enough capacity to charge the car.
(PS, natural gas service is not available here, so don't tell me I should convert the house over. The choice is electricity or propane.)
11 counts of negligent homicide (or manslaughter in other jurisdictions) should be adequate cause for a long jail time.
The question is who is the corporate designated felon. I vote for all the C-level executives in charge at the time, but then I'm ex-Navy, so I have archaic notions about the chain of command.
The goddess of discord is certainly living up to her reputation.
"So you think you have me all figured out, do you? Heh, heh, heh."
So how long will it take to get there, how big of a dish will it take to get a signal back, and how much plutonium to power the instrument package and radio to find out what is really going on out there?
AP classes usually consist of going to a class with the older kids. My 7th grader is taking 9th grade math, for instance.
Extra curricular activities are usually going home to do chores, but if you want to be on "the team" and can talk your parents into it, you will be.
College credits are distance learning. Washington State has a good program for that out here, your mileage may vary. And community colleges are quite common. There was even one in Winnemucca, NV, where I used to live.
"Can someone logically explain why both she and her mother still have careers?"
You would rather they were on welfare? You don't like them, so you want to pay them to stay home and watch TV?
The liberal mind always did confuse me. I want Bernanke and Krugman in a Harkonen slave pit, or at least Wally World, learning the value of hard labor, and how good that high inflation rate they favor really feels.
"Our standard at work is XP, and Office 2007. Right now XP simply handles all our needs. There is nothing offered with w7 that really justfies upgrading."
Our Information Services department has the exact same opinion. And the great SAP Migration is in full swing. That has sucked them dry for the last year, and probably another one to go. Then maybe they will look at Win7. (This assumes the VP doesn't cancel the SAP thing to make the old VP look bad.)
The only real PC issue we've had in the last couple of years was the McAfee auto-virus. Otherwise, XP keeps plodding along.
"This is where you hit your biggest resistance: they will have to re-learn things, which will take time, effort and money. People will get upset, they will hate the new system, and they will complain about it, loudly, and to anyone who will listen. And for good reason: they had a work flow that worked, and then management came and pulled the rug from under them and they had to re-learn things for no good reason. "
You just described the Office 2003 to 2007 transition perfectly.
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"If you want more engineers, make the field more attractive. If the industry sucks people are going to avoid it no matter how badly we need it.
And I took exception with the statement "This is the talent that our country has invested so much resource in producing." That makes it sound like we gave them loads of valuable training for free and then they wandered off and left us holding the bag."
Well said. All that needs to be done is raise pay in the industries you think are important. This notion of forcing people to work for less because you think some job is more important than another is nonsense.
Actually, given the results, I would cut the department of education completely. It never worked.
However, you are correct, there is nothing big enough to make a difference without committing electoral suicide. Not even the Pentagon is big enough, especially since the Democrats and Republicans are equal opportunity war mongers.
The emergency pumps would not have to be full sized, say only 10% full size to hand the decay heat, which is about 6% of full power. Assuming the main steam stops shut on scram, which I'm sure they do, they should have been able to open one of them to get all the steam they needed to the emergency feed pump. Or even just open the bypass valves you have to open to warm the header. You are not talking about that much steam.
If cooling is working, steam pressure will drop off, or at least it will once cooling exceeds decay heat, but as the steam pressure drops, so does the pressure your pump has to overcome. So you should be able to run it down to 50 psi or so, so long as you have water to push feed the reactor.
"One big tank on that big hill behind the plant,"
(Pardon my English Engineering units)
Let's see, 2.3 feet per psi, 1000 psi steam pressure (According to wikipedia, sounds a bit high to me) so we are looking at a 2300 foot high hill. If it's 600 psi steam, at least after shutdown, then it's only about 1700 feet of hill.
And the big tank has to still be there after the 9.0 earthquake. There is more complication in "All they needed" than you think.
The basic design is supposed to have a steam powered feed pump with a source of makeup water. Whether it broke, was never there, or the source of makeup water was a condenser that was mudded out by the tsunami, I don't know. And I would like to know. I used to serve on an SSN, so I have a certain professional curiosity.
"buying land around Carson City, NV and all along the Nevada and California border. With the next earthquake, our analysts expect California to drop into the Pacific making all of our land BEACHFRONT!"
You might want to check out the location of the Walker Lane first. The future beach may not be where you think it will be. But in the long run you should have beaches on both sides of the rift, which would give you double the profit, minus anything lost at the bottom of the graben.
The short version is draw a line from the Gulf of California through Death Valley to Pyramid Lake. then draw a dotted line from there to Susanville, CA. Dotted because that is a "not sure WTF is happening here" zone. Then draw a line from Susanville due west to the Mendocino Fault zone.
"By that, I mean there are still places they don't cheaply fill in for incadescents"
Outdoors. (Do not use in locations where moisture may be present. Do not use at temperatures less than 10 deg F, says the box.)
That said, that is all of four bulbs, all of which are used a few hours a week, if that. The front door light has been replaced twice in 10 years, so a couple of four packs will keep that going a long time. The LED lights are the logical replacement there, and their price should come down by 2020.
"How much music in the iTunes store has passages so soft you can barely hear them?"
Hergest Ridge. But you are right, not much else.
Also, since I've just had the annual lecture at work, the OSHA limit for sound level is 85 db. The 96 dB range on 16 bit sound is already more than you are legally allowed to be exposed to unless your hearing is good to -11.
Now I have to go and deprogram myself. Goofy safety cults.
"So do we conclude pure user error or should we be considering a user interface design fault as well?"
I would. Given there is no clutch, and no direct mechanical link between the transmission "lever" and the actual transmission, I won't be buying one unless there is a BRB. (Big Red Button, otherwise known as an Emergency Shutdown.)
And no, holding in the shutdown button for five seconds does not count. I want it like my table saw. Whop, power off.
That's just "drive motor off" too, leave steering and power brakes live if they are not driven off the engine.
I'm glad this all happened. Now I've had a chance to think about it. So if the second generation Leaf has enough real world range to use as a commuter, I'll know what I want.
"And how about all the people who don't update their registration when they move? Rental cars?
And what do you do if the bill isn't paid? Suspend the registration?
Rental cars will get the toll added to the bill. People who move leave forwarding addresses. As for the rest, that is such a small percentage of the total traffic it isn't worth it to hunt them down.
Since I live in Eastern WA, and visit Quincy now and again (the local Honda motorcycle dealer is there) I have to mention that the summer peak temperatures can reach 105 to 110 F. These usually only last a few hours. My criteria is that if it's 90 F by 9 AM it's going to be a hot day, probably over 100. By sundown it will be under 90, and an hour after that about 70. And it should be down to about 55 by morning.
Humidity is about 15% at mid day, so a swamp cooler would work fine for cooling the hardware.
Wintertime has freezing fogs, lows not usually below -10 F, usual highs around freezing. We are just finishing a cold snap where the days went from 5 to 20. It's 28 now, as it is warming up to snow.
Local power is hydro, wind, the nuclear plant at Hanford, and some imported from the coal plant at Boardman, Oregon.
Read 5.25" disk (AppleDos 3.3) in an apple IIgs. Connect via Localtalk to a beige G3 running Macos 9, then transfer from there to Quicksilver running MacOs 10.4. Then to my snow leopard mini. I might be able to go directly from the beige G3 to my mini, but I have not tried it.
Although I don't have an AppleDos 3.2 disk (from the late '70s), I do have an Apple IIe and the little proms to make the disk controller card read those 13 sector disks. So I should be able to read them. I think there was a program that did that too, (demuffin?) but it was read-only. )
" Even with the moderate La Nina we're still having near record warmth for the globe."
My section of the globe is having record cold, not record warmth. All that cold air that should be in the Arctic is flowing south through here. So there should be a southern wind somewhere, and apparently it's over Greenland.
The Dalton, Sporer, and Maunder minima all existed, AGW has no explanation for them. CO2 levels say the temperature should have been constant. It was not. Something else is going on. Exactly what is the great question.
you might also look at the less than stable temperature history of the Eemian interglacial. Apparently, "stable temperatures" and "interglacial" do not go together.
"But organic is the way to go! If it's natural, it's good for you"
This always gives me a chuckle.
google amantin, alpha variant is fine. 100% organic in both senses of the word.
Not good for you.
" 1) Never, ever, EVER allow time travel. Every single timeline can be undone. Nothing is believable."
That goes too far. Time travel is fine, but since everything you did in the past has already happened before you left, nothing you did had any effect. Or it was already accounted for.
Connie Willis did it right in Blackout and All Clear. And in To Say Nothing of the Dog as well. You think you are changing the past, but the past is undoing your changes just as fast. And if you get too far out of line a wall falls on you. Stupid time traveler.
(No that's not a spoiler, but that's the way it works.)
Aaaaaaaaa!
Aunt Annie's ardent aqua alligator? I'm still short a few letters though.
Also having grown up on a farm, I'm more optimistic than you.
Robots to work in the cold is not a problem because there are no berries to pick, or anything else to harvest at 20 below zero. Too much heat for people is little trouble for electronics. Almost any chip will take 120 F. The rest is just fans. If we can cool a Pentium 4, we can keep the harvester circuits cool enough.
You do have a point with human supervision required for some cases, but again you can air condition a cab (or a supervisor's trailer) easily. It's a lot easier to be in a tractor with an enclosed cab than sitting on the "M" on a hot July day covered in the chaff from the oats combine. (We had a tow-behind model.)
GPS on a berry farm seems like overkill. Install a two or three local RF beacons. Triangulate off of them.
Now, how much armor plate does it take to get it to survive the blackberry patch?
And how long until it can do cucumbers? Those were the bane of my childhood, as picking them was the only solution to my cash shortage.
And how long until it can distinguish weeds from crops?
The usual electrical service is 200 A where I live. The 3.3 kw is only 15 amps at 240 V, in other words a #12 wire with a 20A breaker. I've got 4 circuits like that in the house already for heat, plus the hot water heater, plus the dryer, and a 50 A circuit to the stove. And when it's 10 below (F) outside like the other day, most of the heat is on most of the time.
Another 15 A circuit is not a big deal, especially if I can set a timer to start charging at 10 PM, since I'm in bed by then, and have the car charged by 6:30 when I head off for work.
I do note that CA was mentioned, and I remember seeing some old houses down there with whimsical electrical panels, so those 60 A panels would need an upgrade. But if you don't need 12 KW of heaters, even a 100 A panel should have enough capacity to charge the car.
(PS, natural gas service is not available here, so don't tell me I should convert the house over. The choice is electricity or propane.)
11 counts of negligent homicide (or manslaughter in other jurisdictions) should be adequate cause for a long jail time.
The question is who is the corporate designated felon. I vote for all the C-level executives in charge at the time, but then I'm ex-Navy, so I have archaic notions about the chain of command.
The goddess of discord is certainly living up to her reputation.
"So you think you have me all figured out, do you? Heh, heh, heh."
So how long will it take to get there, how big of a dish will it take to get a signal back, and how much plutonium to power the instrument package and radio to find out what is really going on out there?
"Where will these iron-cobalt magnets be made?"
Especially since the US has no cobalt mines. There was one once, near the Salmon river in Idaho. It's closed.
AP classes usually consist of going to a class with the older kids. My 7th grader is taking 9th grade math, for instance.
Extra curricular activities are usually going home to do chores, but if you want to be on "the team" and can talk your parents into it, you will be.
College credits are distance learning. Washington State has a good program for that out here, your mileage may vary. And community colleges are quite common. There was even one in Winnemucca, NV, where I used to live.
"Can someone logically explain why both she and her mother still have careers?"
You would rather they were on welfare? You don't like them, so you want to pay them to stay home and watch TV?
The liberal mind always did confuse me. I want Bernanke and Krugman in a Harkonen slave pit, or at least Wally World, learning the value of hard labor, and how good that high inflation rate they favor really feels.
"Our standard at work is XP, and Office 2007. Right now XP simply handles all our needs. There is nothing offered with w7 that really justfies upgrading."
Our Information Services department has the exact same opinion. And the great SAP Migration is in full swing. That has sucked them dry for the last year, and probably another one to go. Then maybe they will look at Win7. (This assumes the VP doesn't cancel the SAP thing to make the old VP look bad.)
The only real PC issue we've had in the last couple of years was the McAfee auto-virus. Otherwise, XP keeps plodding along.
"This is where you hit your biggest resistance: they will have to re-learn things, which will take time, effort and money. People will get upset, they will hate the new system, and they will complain about it, loudly, and to anyone who will listen. And for good reason: they had a work flow that worked, and then management came and pulled the rug from under them and they had to re-learn things for no good reason. "
You just described the Office 2003 to 2007 transition perfectly.
Thank you;
It sounds like a Boucher Daytripper communications relay, which played a small part in the book Single Combat by Dean Ing.
Published in 1983. I found my copy and looked. The fictional one reached 130,000 by the end of the day, and dropped to 60,000 ft at night.
Reality is catching up to fiction again.