Hey, Regan was the best most recent republicrat president. IMHO better than either Bush or Clinton. And, while I have my serious doubts about Obamma I genuinely hope I get to eat crow on them...
to be fair there would be virtually no waste to worry about if reprocessing were allowed. Our current problem is that spent fuel still contains much fissle material, and reprocessing fuel rods to get the material out is disallowed by the DOE.
If you reprocessed the fuel to make new fuel, and were left with only the low level waste then the radiation hazard would be fairly comparable with coal ash. -nB
speaking of which... Anyone know if the gamepads (thinking of the logitech) can be programmed with custom key sequences for the likes of Adobe CS3? -nB
don't know about Intel's fabs... but our ultrares lab (AFM, TEM, SEM, and a couple FIBs) "never loses power"*. The site has two feeds to separate legs of the grid, a rather beefy UPS, and a diesel generator. -nB
for loose definitions of lose. We had the one single point of failure that simply couldn't go wrong prove that murphy was an optimist when our failover switch failed to make before break once. The little flicker of the lights spelled doom and about 16 hours of recovery time in total for the lab.
Put the flywheel in a permanently-sealed vacuum chamber.
no such thing. Not that it's a big deal. Commercial vac dewars and such have ports for pulling out excess atmosphere that seeps in anyway. you would use the same thing here. Wrap the outside of the chamber with LN2 pipes to cool the air inside so that is is less energetic and "falls" to the bottom of the chamber, then with the help of a turbo pump suck the chamber of all air present that is reasonable to get out. -nB
mount them on a magnetic bearing, using a sapphire point for contact when the unit spins down. Works pretty well for my 65Krpm turbo in my cryopump (which you will need to keep the chamber free of atmosphere to reduce drag to nominal anyway). -nB
I would think that aerogel caps would be better than batteries simply from the charge/discharge fatigue aspect. Now whether or not that overcomes the cost difference I don't know. -nB
just go to any drugstore. AAAA's for my stylus? Those are a bitch to find (thank you duracell for making your 9 volts out of 6 of them with proper studs for the anode). -nB
Answer: Yes. It is called a stated value insurance policy.
Note about answer: you're not going to like the premiums (methinks).
Incidentally I have one on my car, rather than the standard PL/PD/Comp/Col/UI. The reasoning for this is that I can state the value of the car, knowing that if I state low the settlement dollars won't cover the car, but I'll pay less or, as in my case, that the blue book value is grossly off from the actual market value of the vehicle (blue is ~$3K, market for a beater is ~$8K, stated value on mine is at $12K). -nB
BTW: I'll insure your drive (in value or replacement of like drive with proper contents), the cost is 4% of the stated market value/month as is, with the requisite itemized list of contents to be insured against. That policy price can drop to only 1%/month if you allow my appraiser to closely inspect the bit patterns to be insured prior to issuance of the policy;) -nB
hire them on contract. I'll give you X dollars for Y functionality and documentation. If I change the scope I'll pay Z "penalty" for the scope change. At the end of the year you give them a 1099 (and file one with the IRS). Done. It becomes their responsibility to manage disability, taxes, etc. not yours.
As someone who's been robbed (thrice) and detained/arrested twice I tend to agree with you. My innocence came out both times fairly quickly, once prior to Miranda the other shortly after. While I do think our penal system is hopelessly broken, I also firmly think that mosquito in car and a so-so story as to how he got there (lets face it, if he had been able to give an excellent description of the driver && || not already been known to the police he likely would not have been convicted). As it stands this guy couldn't point them to the "other perp", had a history with the cops, and had some statistically convincing circumstantial evidence against him. Good enough for me. -nB
only flat if the total addressable memory is >= Data pins ** Address pins. These memories are going to be small enough that they won't be used in SSDs. -nB
the address space is much larger than the space you can directly address with the available pins. you load an upper address then a lower address (2 transactions). Now if you are going to read/write sequentially you can not load the upper address space and simple walk the lower address space to get at your data, even to the point that each read/write can auto-increment the address in the flash for you so all you do is: Upper Add, Lower Add, Read, Read, Read, Read for random access you must: Upper Add, Lower Add, Read, Upper Add, Lower Add, Read, etc. -nB
sadly that is not an option. block size is fairly fundamental in determining flash capacity / efficiency.
Unless you can get the flash manufacturers to make devices with smaller block sizes (which will increase layout complexity*, thus price), this is something the SSD manufacturer can not control.
-nB
*The block system used for erasure and partitioning of the array for addressing and is determined basically by (total array size)/data*address pins if you want to make the block size smaller then there will be a substantial increase in layout complexity to handle "sub block" erasure and thus to accommodate the increase in circuit count, the die size will grow. Growing the die size decreases yield in two ways: 1) since the die is bigger it has a higher % chance of a fab defect making it bad. 2) the wafer size is constant, bigger die size == less die per wafer.
or you go for relatively high flow (I use a squirrel cage blower in the PC for exhaust) puss the exhaust air through a muffler, and dynamat the inside of the PC for noise abatement. Works a treat. All intake is passive, no fans, air comes in via the PSU and a vent in front of the HDDs. The air is then routed through the case and over components via ductwork made from plexi and terminates at the blower intake. overall the machine runs at a fairly substantial negative pressure, and very quiet. -nB
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Hey,
Regan was the best most recent republicrat president. IMHO better than either Bush or Clinton. And, while I have my serious doubts about Obamma I genuinely hope I get to eat crow on them...
grid = solar to complete the circular reasoning.
-nB
to be fair there would be virtually no waste to worry about if reprocessing were allowed.
Our current problem is that spent fuel still contains much fissle material, and reprocessing fuel rods to get the material out is disallowed by the DOE.
If you reprocessed the fuel to make new fuel, and were left with only the low level waste then the radiation hazard would be fairly comparable with coal ash.
-nB
speaking of which...
Anyone know if the gamepads (thinking of the logitech) can be programmed with custom key sequences for the likes of Adobe CS3?
-nB
Glass houses...
hmmm...
Growing pot in Antarctica in the greenhouse?
Yes! that _must_ be it!
-nB
don't know about Intel's fabs... but our ultrares lab (AFM, TEM, SEM, and a couple FIBs) "never loses power"*. The site has two feeds to separate legs of the grid, a rather beefy UPS, and a diesel generator.
-nB
for loose definitions of lose. We had the one single point of failure that simply couldn't go wrong prove that murphy was an optimist when our failover switch failed to make before break once. The little flicker of the lights spelled doom and about 16 hours of recovery time in total for the lab.
Put the flywheel in a permanently-sealed vacuum chamber.
no such thing. Not that it's a big deal. Commercial vac dewars and such have ports for pulling out excess atmosphere that seeps in anyway. you would use the same thing here. Wrap the outside of the chamber with LN2 pipes to cool the air inside so that is is less energetic and "falls" to the bottom of the chamber, then with the help of a turbo pump suck the chamber of all air present that is reasonable to get out.
-nB
mount them on a magnetic bearing, using a sapphire point for contact when the unit spins down. Works pretty well for my 65Krpm turbo in my cryopump (which you will need to keep the chamber free of atmosphere to reduce drag to nominal anyway).
-nB
I would think that aerogel caps would be better than batteries simply from the charge/discharge fatigue aspect. Now whether or not that overcomes the cost difference I don't know.
-nB
just go to any drugstore.
AAAA's for my stylus? Those are a bitch to find (thank you duracell for making your 9 volts out of 6 of them with proper studs for the anode).
-nB
which county in california do you live in? I'm in Sac.
Answer: Yes.
It is called a stated value insurance policy.
Note about answer: you're not going to like the premiums (methinks).
Incidentally I have one on my car, rather than the standard PL/PD/Comp/Col/UI. The reasoning for this is that I can state the value of the car, knowing that if I state low the settlement dollars won't cover the car, but I'll pay less or, as in my case, that the blue book value is grossly off from the actual market value of the vehicle (blue is ~$3K, market for a beater is ~$8K, stated value on mine is at $12K).
-nB
BTW: I'll insure your drive (in value or replacement of like drive with proper contents), the cost is 4% of the stated market value/month as is, with the requisite itemized list of contents to be insured against. That policy price can drop to only 1%/month if you allow my appraiser to closely inspect the bit patterns to be insured prior to issuance of the policy ;)
-nB
hire them on contract.
I'll give you X dollars for Y functionality and documentation. If I change the scope I'll pay Z "penalty" for the scope change. At the end of the year you give them a 1099 (and file one with the IRS). Done.
It becomes their responsibility to manage disability, taxes, etc. not yours.
considering that Mythbusters successfully polished turds...
you have my sympathy.
my little girl's friend's mom thinks she's my second wife...
At least my wife thinks it's funny.
As someone who's been robbed (thrice) and detained/arrested twice I tend to agree with you. My innocence came out both times fairly quickly, once prior to Miranda the other shortly after. While I do think our penal system is hopelessly broken, I also firmly think that mosquito in car and a so-so story as to how he got there (lets face it, if he had been able to give an excellent description of the driver && || not already been known to the police he likely would not have been convicted). As it stands this guy couldn't point them to the "other perp", had a history with the cops, and had some statistically convincing circumstantial evidence against him. Good enough for me.
-nB
how does that work anyway?
If the patent is filed by a US Government Agency is it not funded by the taxpayer and thus public domain in the US?
-nB
based on your sig I would think that the 'w' would stand for wash(es|ing) thus thousands of washes per hour?
-nB
only flat if the total addressable memory is >= Data pins ** Address pins. These memories are going to be small enough that they won't be used in SSDs.
-nB
thus 8 data + 14 address = 4 gBit array
not true.
the address space is much larger than the space you can directly address with the available pins.
you load an upper address then a lower address (2 transactions).
Now if you are going to read/write sequentially you can not load the upper address space and simple walk the lower address space to get at your data, even to the point that each read/write can auto-increment the address in the flash for you so all you do is:
Upper Add, Lower Add, Read, Read, Read, Read
for random access you must:
Upper Add, Lower Add, Read, Upper Add, Lower Add, Read, etc.
-nB
sadly that is not an option.
block size is fairly fundamental in determining flash capacity / efficiency.
Unless you can get the flash manufacturers to make devices with smaller block sizes (which will increase layout complexity*, thus price), this is something the SSD manufacturer can not control.
-nB
*The block system used for erasure and partitioning of the array for addressing and is determined basically by (total array size)/data*address pins if you want to make the block size smaller then there will be a substantial increase in layout complexity to handle "sub block" erasure and thus to accommodate the increase in circuit count, the die size will grow. Growing the die size decreases yield in two ways:
1) since the die is bigger it has a higher % chance of a fab defect making it bad.
2) the wafer size is constant, bigger die size == less die per wafer.
use curses;
I saw it yellow with purple polka dots...
Am I ok?
or you go for relatively high flow (I use a squirrel cage blower in the PC for exhaust) puss the exhaust air through a muffler, and dynamat the inside of the PC for noise abatement. Works a treat. All intake is passive, no fans, air comes in via the PSU and a vent in front of the HDDs. The air is then routed through the case and over components via ductwork made from plexi and terminates at the blower intake. overall the machine runs at a fairly substantial negative pressure, and very quiet.
-nB
yes they can do that legally, but it is practicality speaking, impossible.*
-nB
*unless that what the ~rimshot~ tag was for, in which case I fail it.
-nB