Often on the weekends my sons friends will be at out place to use the wii. They spend more time jumping around in front of the TV than they would spend with a different console but I usually take them out to the school oval to kick a soccer ball around as well. I am sure they get more health benefit from being outside then from being in front of the wii.
How about AHA's logos on normal sporting equipment. Footballs, etc?
This is the substance that can't be patented, is free for most of the year, cures cancer, prevents the flu, etc etc. Vitamin D single-handedly makes high-priced medicine as archaic as bloodletting and quicksilver.
What about the other 10 million things you can have go wrong with you which have nothing to do with Vitamin-D?
They are an acquired taste, I know. In Ipoh last month my son bought an ice cream and asked for mango flavour. He took one bite and uncharacteristically offered it to me. So I took a taste and realised his mistake. Apparently they were out of mango...
That takes me back, I think, to The roads must roll and Let there be light. A great story about patenting, that one. But I had to google it to be sure, its been a long time.
We are about 40% of the way to the efficiency Heinlein gave those panels, which is pretty good. My wife is an architect and our house if full of catalogues for cladding products for buildings. I would love to see those catalogues include materials which can generate power.
Since we are talking about transmissions, not cars I want to point out that my bike has 27 ratios and I need all of them. But maintaining a chain drive is a whole second career. Its not really for people who are not mechanically minded. It pretty much needs stripping down every 500 to 1000km. A transmission which can improve on that would be a significant improvement.
The classic in my last job was when we had a security contractor in on the weekend hooking something up and he looped off a hot breaker in the computer room, slipped, and shorted the white phase to ground. This blew the 100A fuses both before and after the UPS and somehow caused the generator set to fault so that while we had power from the batteries, that was all we had.
To be perfectly frank, I'm a bit scared of what sort of security system your datacenter has when the system can cause a blowout of that magnitude.
I don't know what they were up too. Probably just installing a new proximity card reader or something and they wanted to use UPS power.
The facilities department where had their own rules. Once they installed partitions in the computer room and they had a guy grinding aluminium so little particles sprayed on our monitors and fell into the ventilation slots.
Parts of the security system would not let you out of the building or into the working areas without operator intervention. You could be stuck in the stairwell over the weekend and go thirsty.
What about your power supply? Is that not allowed to go along a road? I am all for underground power BTW but I know that if you operate a digger and you want to find the owner of a cable the easiest way is to break it and wait for the complaints.
That's also the fastest way to get rescued off a desert island or out in the woods, and why you should always carry a piece of fiber in your pocket. Should you get stranded, you simply bury the fiber, and some asshole with a backhoe will be along in about five minutes to cut it. Ask him to rescue you.
In that same job we had a bunch of CCTV cameras on St Kilda road in Melbourne right outside the arts center. Its a mess of tram gear and traffic signals the there is a lot of fibre under the road.
Ever stuck your fork into a plate of spaghetti, then spun it around? This guy had to bore a hole straight down right in the middle of the road. There is a number where you can "dial before your dig" but he omitted that. He wound up with ~50 metres of fibre wrapped around his borer. Quite a mess.
What the hell is the "white phase"? Unless I am missing some newfangled data-center lingo, you are talking about the neutral, which is not a "phase" at all, and could never produce such a fault current when "shorted" to ground since it is already tied to ground at the panel. Am I missing something?
You have three actives (red, white, dark blue here in.AU), a neutral and an earth. The wikipedia page says different countries have different color codes so maybe that is the confusion.
Fortunately 100A fuses are just strips of steel with two holes drilled in them and he had a file, and a drill, etc.
Strips of steel with holes in them? You're kidding, right?
No. It would be 50*15*5 mm steel with a 10mm hole drilled in each end. A bolt goes through each hole into a threaded attachment point.
Now that you mention it I recall that a four inch nail is good for 100A slow blow but thats cylindrical so it conducts nicely. You'd think the rectangular cross section would not conduct quite as well (sharp corners, etc) but maybe it is also tuned for the desired current. A little saw cut half way between the holes would do that.
Stop building those things so fucking close to the roads, maybe?
What about your power supply? Is that not allowed to go along a road? I am all for underground power BTW but I know that if you operate a digger and you want to find the owner of a cable the easiest way is to break it and wait for the complaints.
The classic in my last job was when we had a security contractor in on the weekend hooking something up and he looped off a hot breaker in the computer room, slipped, and shorted the white phase to ground. This blew the 100A fuses both before and after the UPS and somehow caused the generator set to fault so that while we had power from the batteries, that was all we had.
It also blew the power supply on an alphaserver and put a nice burn mark in the breaker panel. So the UPS guy comes out and he doesn't have two of the right sort of fuse. Fortunately 100A fuses are just strips of steel with two holes drilled in them and he had a file, and a drill, etc. So we got going in the end.
Heck, I can't even get parts for my 1&1/2 year old mountain bike. Fortunately I bought it at REI and they'll let me return it for a full refund and then I can buy a new bike. REI FTW.
Just curious. I have had problems sourcing pads for Hayes Sole brakes. Apart from that I am okay so far.
At 200KUSD per seat a flight on SS2 is worth about 1 million. Armadillo's vehicle may be half the price but its still in the same ballpark. The you have integration costs for instrumentation and customising the trajectory.
Well vertical launch and landing was done on the moon in the 1960's. Soyuz is a variant of that idea. One could argue that the more conservative Carmack design benefits from experience elsewhere.
The pneumatic variable geometry on Rutan's vehicle is pretty much untested. Sure, it has survived a few flights, but what happens if it fails during a launch. Will the vehicle break up on reentry?
And then if you want to go into orbit the Rutan design is pretty much a dead end. The vertical launch rocket plus capsule scales better and will get you further in the long run.
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Often on the weekends my sons friends will be at out place to use the wii. They spend more time jumping around in front of the TV than they would spend with a different console but I usually take them out to the school oval to kick a soccer ball around as well. I am sure they get more health benefit from being outside then from being in front of the wii.
How about AHA's logos on normal sporting equipment. Footballs, etc?
BAUDOT thanks.
chosen by God as a beacon to the world
Its true. The USA is the best source of entertainment for the rest of the world, by far. Keep it up guys.
This is the substance that can't be patented, is free for most of the year, cures cancer, prevents the flu, etc etc. Vitamin D single-handedly makes high-priced medicine as archaic as bloodletting and quicksilver.
What about the other 10 million things you can have go wrong with you which have nothing to do with Vitamin-D?
As long as I don't have to eat them...
They are an acquired taste, I know. In Ipoh last month my son bought an ice cream and asked for mango flavour. He took one bite and uncharacteristically offered it to me. So I took a taste and realised his mistake. Apparently they were out of mango...
Both BP and Reuters [...] are British countries.
News to me. Makes it easy to declare war though.
Douglas-Martin power cells?
That takes me back, I think, to The roads must roll and Let there be light. A great story about patenting, that one. But I had to google it to be sure, its been a long time.
We are about 40% of the way to the efficiency Heinlein gave those panels, which is pretty good. My wife is an architect and our house if full of catalogues for cladding products for buildings. I would love to see those catalogues include materials which can generate power.
Since we are talking about transmissions, not cars I want to point out that my bike has 27 ratios and I need all of them. But maintaining a chain drive is a whole second career. Its not really for people who are not mechanically minded. It pretty much needs stripping down every 500 to 1000km. A transmission which can improve on that would be a significant improvement.
Or is it NULL? Either way he should stay away from the Sacramento Credit Union's online banking service.
That doesn't destroy the devices themselves
Popping you in the microwave would.
How about an MRI?
I know Jews can't get tattoos if they want to be buried in a Jewish funeral or cemetery
I don't want to Godwin the thread but there must be one exception to that rule.
To be perfectly frank, I'm a bit scared of what sort of security system your datacenter has when the system can cause a blowout of that magnitude.
I don't know what they were up too. Probably just installing a new proximity card reader or something and they wanted to use UPS power.
The facilities department where had their own rules. Once they installed partitions in the computer room and they had a guy grinding aluminium so little particles sprayed on our monitors and fell into the ventilation slots.
Parts of the security system would not let you out of the building or into the working areas without operator intervention. You could be stuck in the stairwell over the weekend and go thirsty.
What about your power supply? Is that not allowed to go along a road? I am all for underground power BTW but I know that if you operate a digger and you want to find the owner of a cable the easiest way is to break it and wait for the complaints.
That's also the fastest way to get rescued off a desert island or out in the woods, and why you should always carry a piece of fiber in your pocket. Should you get stranded, you simply bury the fiber, and some asshole with a backhoe will be along in about five minutes to cut it. Ask him to rescue you.
In that same job we had a bunch of CCTV cameras on St Kilda road in Melbourne right outside the arts center. Its a mess of tram gear and traffic signals the there is a lot of fibre under the road.
Ever stuck your fork into a plate of spaghetti, then spun it around? This guy had to bore a hole straight down right in the middle of the road. There is a number where you can "dial before your dig" but he omitted that. He wound up with ~50 metres of fibre wrapped around his borer. Quite a mess.
control+alt+delete is a classic multitouch gesture.
What the hell is the "white phase"? Unless I am missing some newfangled data-center lingo, you are talking about the neutral, which is not a "phase" at all, and could never produce such a fault current when "shorted" to ground since it is already tied to ground at the panel. Am I missing something?
You have three actives (red, white, dark blue here in .AU), a neutral and an earth. The wikipedia page says different countries have different color codes so maybe that is the confusion.
Civilized countries bury their cables underground.
Only the US seems to use poles anymore.
You need to get out more.
The cloud should have a faxing service so I can get free paper from my fax machine.
Strips of steel with holes in them? You're kidding, right?
No. It would be 50*15*5 mm steel with a 10mm hole drilled in each end. A bolt goes through each hole into a threaded attachment point.
Now that you mention it I recall that a four inch nail is good for 100A slow blow but thats cylindrical so it conducts nicely. You'd think the rectangular cross section would not conduct quite as well (sharp corners, etc) but maybe it is also tuned for the desired current. A little saw cut half way between the holes would do that.
Stop building those things so fucking close to the roads, maybe?
What about your power supply? Is that not allowed to go along a road? I am all for underground power BTW but I know that if you operate a digger and you want to find the owner of a cable the easiest way is to break it and wait for the complaints.
The classic in my last job was when we had a security contractor in on the weekend hooking something up and he looped off a hot breaker in the computer room, slipped, and shorted the white phase to ground. This blew the 100A fuses both before and after the UPS and somehow caused the generator set to fault so that while we had power from the batteries, that was all we had.
It also blew the power supply on an alphaserver and put a nice burn mark in the breaker panel. So the UPS guy comes out and he doesn't have two of the right sort of fuse. Fortunately 100A fuses are just strips of steel with two holes drilled in them and he had a file, and a drill, etc. So we got going in the end.
Heck, I can't even get parts for my 1&1/2 year old mountain bike. Fortunately I bought it at REI and they'll let me return it for a full refund and then I can buy a new bike. REI FTW.
Just curious. I have had problems sourcing pads for Hayes Sole brakes. Apart from that I am okay so far.
At 200KUSD per seat a flight on SS2 is worth about 1 million. Armadillo's vehicle may be half the price but its still in the same ballpark. The you have integration costs for instrumentation and customising the trajectory.
I don't see huge cost savings yet.
I've got my own fusion reactor. I recover energy from it with photovoltaic cells on the top of my house.
Well vertical launch and landing was done on the moon in the 1960's. Soyuz is a variant of that idea. One could argue that the more conservative Carmack design benefits from experience elsewhere.
The pneumatic variable geometry on Rutan's vehicle is pretty much untested. Sure, it has survived a few flights, but what happens if it fails during a launch. Will the vehicle break up on reentry?
And then if you want to go into orbit the Rutan design is pretty much a dead end. The vertical launch rocket plus capsule scales better and will get you further in the long run.
it makes you wonder about nasa prices for each missions... and also wonder why this has not happened before
NASA don't fly these missions at all unless you count unmanned sounding rockets.