Much of the east coast, especially the southeastern coast would be much colder without the warm waters of the gulf stream. This is something of a limited case but an example would be eastern North Carolina in the wintertime; Eastern NC south of Cape Hatteras trends warmer than would be accounted for by latitude alone. Here is an example of the way the Gulf Stream looks for much of the winter (though this image is from April) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gulf_Stream_water_temperature.jpg.
The main difficulty with using explosives to modify hurricanes is the amount of energy required. A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 20x10^13 watts and converts less than 10% of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind. The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes. According to the 1993 World Almanac, the entire human race used energy at a rate of 10^13 watts in 1990, a rate less than 20% of the power of a hurricane.
What I've heard on the radio so far (in Tallahassee, FL) is that the nuclear reactors have their coolant pumps connected to the grid so if the reactor ever had to be shut down the coolant would continue to flow, avoiding a meltdown. There was apparently a problem with the substation supplying (backup) power to the coolant pumps, and as a precaution the entire reactor shut down automatically.
This really is pretty relevant... from the article:
<i>U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerome Niedermeier ruled that a man charged with transporting child pornography on his laptop across the Canadian border has a Fifth Amendment right not to turn over the passphrase to prosecutors.</i>
I have similar problem, we inherited a class C that was used for consumer cable modems... After 6 months of fighting with just about every blacklist operator on the planet we have been removed from most of them except Earthlink. Earthlink has been completely unresponsive to every email and phone call I have made. The only reason we still have mail customers after that nightmare is our T1.
The point here is the micro vibrations created by the volume pots and knobs find their way into the delicate signal path and cause degradation (Bad vibrations equal bad sound). With the signature knobs micro vibrations from the C37 concept of wood, bronze and the lacquer itself compensate for the volume pots and provide (Good Vibrations) our ear/brain combination like to hear...way better sound!!
Hahahahahaha, at $485 the only knob is the one buying this kind of product.
So they figured out how to make them, but wouldn't you start running into problems with heat retention in the middle of the chip? Or are they still thin enough at this point that this isn't really an issue.... the article doesn't mention it at all.
Blocking dynamic IPs is wonderful... unless you are unlucky enough to inherit an old dynamic subnet. I've spent the last three weeks getting off of almost every blacklist on the planet.
My recommendation: Why doesn't everyone just use Microsoft Word format? It's available to everyone, and it's not like the internal format is going to change or anything!
Most of those systems will still understand a yes as 1 and a no as 2. Even the Microsoft product activation voice menus will let you use the number pad, even though it instructs you to tell it all those numbers.
Interesting... I reinstalled W2K Pro on a customer's box today and accidentally left it connected via dialup for about 15 minutes. By the time I came back to my workbench there were about 20 popups and AVG had found several viruses.
Once or twice a year shouldn't be any worse than going binge drinking a few times a year. However, I know people who have used MDMA on a frequent basis, and uh, they aren't them anymore. Heavy MDMA use really does make you stupid.
Another thing that helps with the brain fryage is to take some fluoxetine (prozac) when you are about halfway down. The fluoxetine acts on the same receptors and will drive out the MDMA before they can do any more damage. I'm not sure about the effects of the metabolites though.
Another thing I've heard to boost the experience and help with the burnout is to take 5HT a few hours before the roll. 5HT is a serotonin precursor, which will leave much more in reserve for when the MDMA opens the neurological floodgates.
Doesn't work on this xp (not mine) box. Windows update seems to be perfectly happy with that key there. Maybe it's looking for a sub-key or something, I didn't mess with it for too long.
I have no idea what kind of connection I have, but it's Cox cable in Greenville, NC (city of ~60k). I've seen it pull around 3 MB/s (megaBYTES) before, but uploads are definitely capped somewhere around 1 Mbit. Not bad for $40/mo.
I have been in quite a few emergency situations, and let me tell you: doing nothing is what comes naturally to most people.
Very true, but those are the people that drive my insurance rates up.
Anyway, that doesn't apply to the post you replied to
How so? I was referring to his implementation idea. Specificially: "have a car that is normally trying to be still, unless you put it in drive and press on the accelerator. Let go of the accelerator and the car stops safely."
the correct response to an emergency situation would be to take your foot off the pedal, not "do nothing". It's the same first step as in the current "take your foot off the pedal and press it on the other pedal"
I do not believe you understood what I was attempting to say, maybe it was worded badly. I was referring to the fact that under such a system maximum braking pressure would be applied when the pedal is not being touched. Therefore you are not actively causing the car to stop, hence, doing nothing. I see your point that lifting your foot is an active mode of control, but having a seperate pedal I can stand on in an emergency makes me feel better. Just my opinion.
Besides, you ever tried to stop a car with power brake assist without the assist? It takes a LOT of pressure on the pedal; where would the pressure be reliably generated in the case of brake control failure (read: belts snapping)? I'm sure there's a way to do it, but I like the fact that as long as the brakes themselves are good, the lines are good, the cylinder is good, brake fluid is there, and the pedal is actually connected, the brakes WILL work at least to some degree. Also, what're you going to do if the pedal gets stuck? All cars designed and built today have more than ample braking power to overcome the engine at full rev. Kinda hard to do if there's only one control to push on and it's stuck to the floor.
the robot car of the not-so-distant future takes care of step #2 for you. Just make sure you wait until they release version 1.1 of the car's software before you ever get back on the road once such a system is deployed though...
Why just control the braking pressure automaticially? The robot car of the not-so-distant future will take care of all steps for you. I'd wait until a little after 1.1 for that though.
I think someone tried this before. I can see several problems with such a setup:
1: Mostly a perception problem, doing nothing instead of stomping on a pedal in an emergency is counter-intuitive. Not taking an active role in stopping the vehicle would bother me greatly.
2: Again, in an emergency situation it would take much more control of the one pedal to achieve the proper braking pressure. This is debatable and is more of a design issue.
3: What happens when your foot accidentally slips off the pedal? Does the car automaticially max out the brakes? The car has no way of knowing what the context of the situation is. Just imagine you just took a pit-stop in the rain and your shoes are slick. I know it's happened to me before.
4: The pedal sensitivity or the travel distance would have to be doubled to accomidate multiple functions.
Besides, any car without three pedals is for wussies.;)
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Much of the east coast, especially the southeastern coast would be much colder without the warm waters of the gulf stream. This is something of a limited case but an example would be eastern North Carolina in the wintertime; Eastern NC south of Cape Hatteras trends warmer than would be accounted for by latitude alone. Here is an example of the way the Gulf Stream looks for much of the winter (though this image is from April) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gulf_Stream_water_temperature.jpg.
The main difficulty with using explosives to modify hurricanes is the amount of energy required. A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 20x10^13 watts and converts less than 10% of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind. The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes. According to the 1993 World Almanac, the entire human race used energy at a rate of 10^13 watts in 1990, a rate less than 20% of the power of a hurricane.
eh?
The democrats don't want to have to deal with that right before an election.
Easy: it is much more feasible to lug around huge banks of batteries in a locomotive.
What I've heard on the radio so far (in Tallahassee, FL) is that the nuclear reactors have their coolant pumps connected to the grid so if the reactor ever had to be shut down the coolant would continue to flow, avoiding a meltdown. There was apparently a problem with the substation supplying (backup) power to the coolant pumps, and as a precaution the entire reactor shut down automatically.
This really is pretty relevant... from the article:
<i>U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerome Niedermeier ruled that a man charged with transporting child pornography on his laptop across the Canadian border has a Fifth Amendment right not to turn over the passphrase to prosecutors.</i>
I have similar problem, we inherited a class C that was used for consumer cable modems... After 6 months of fighting with just about every blacklist operator on the planet we have been removed from most of them except Earthlink. Earthlink has been completely unresponsive to every email and phone call I have made. The only reason we still have mail customers after that nightmare is our T1.
Hahahahahaha, at $485 the only knob is the one buying this kind of product.
So they figured out how to make them, but wouldn't you start running into problems with heat retention in the middle of the chip? Or are they still thin enough at this point that this isn't really an issue.... the article doesn't mention it at all.
Blocking dynamic IPs is wonderful... unless you are unlucky enough to inherit an old dynamic subnet. I've spent the last three weeks getting off of almost every blacklist on the planet.
You're kidding, right?
Most of those systems will still understand a yes as 1 and a no as 2. Even the Microsoft product activation voice menus will let you use the number pad, even though it instructs you to tell it all those numbers.
Interesting... I reinstalled W2K Pro on a customer's box today and accidentally left it connected via dialup for about 15 minutes. By the time I came back to my workbench there were about 20 popups and AVG had found several viruses.
You forgot about Bob.
Once or twice a year shouldn't be any worse than going binge drinking a few times a year. However, I know people who have used MDMA on a frequent basis, and uh, they aren't them anymore. Heavy MDMA use really does make you stupid.
Another thing that helps with the brain fryage is to take some fluoxetine (prozac) when you are about halfway down. The fluoxetine acts on the same receptors and will drive out the MDMA before they can do any more damage. I'm not sure about the effects of the metabolites though.
Another thing I've heard to boost the experience and help with the burnout is to take 5HT a few hours before the roll. 5HT is a serotonin precursor, which will leave much more in reserve for when the MDMA opens the neurological floodgates.
I plan to.
They already have phones that track you.
Actually, microsoft didn't even write their own, they bought a modified form of the BSD stack from another company. See here for more.
According to Wikipedia, one LoC is 20 terabytes, so the answer is 0.00625.
Doesn't work on this xp (not mine) box. Windows update seems to be perfectly happy with that key there. Maybe it's looking for a sub-key or something, I didn't mess with it for too long.
I have no idea what kind of connection I have, but it's Cox cable in Greenville, NC (city of ~60k). I've seen it pull around 3 MB/s (megaBYTES) before, but uploads are definitely capped somewhere around 1 Mbit. Not bad for $40/mo.
They also left out that we were searching for litigious bastards. Doesn't seem to work anymore though.
Very true, but those are the people that drive my insurance rates up.
Anyway, that doesn't apply to the post you replied to
How so? I was referring to his implementation idea. Specificially: "have a car that is normally trying to be still, unless you put it in drive and press on the accelerator. Let go of the accelerator and the car stops safely."
the correct response to an emergency situation would be to take your foot off the pedal, not "do nothing". It's the same first step as in the current "take your foot off the pedal and press it on the other pedal"
I do not believe you understood what I was attempting to say, maybe it was worded badly. I was referring to the fact that under such a system maximum braking pressure would be applied when the pedal is not being touched. Therefore you are not actively causing the car to stop, hence, doing nothing. I see your point that lifting your foot is an active mode of control, but having a seperate pedal I can stand on in an emergency makes me feel better. Just my opinion.
Besides, you ever tried to stop a car with power brake assist without the assist? It takes a LOT of pressure on the pedal; where would the pressure be reliably generated in the case of brake control failure (read: belts snapping)? I'm sure there's a way to do it, but I like the fact that as long as the brakes themselves are good, the lines are good, the cylinder is good, brake fluid is there, and the pedal is actually connected, the brakes WILL work at least to some degree. Also, what're you going to do if the pedal gets stuck? All cars designed and built today have more than ample braking power to overcome the engine at full rev. Kinda hard to do if there's only one control to push on and it's stuck to the floor.
the robot car of the not-so-distant future takes care of step #2 for you. Just make sure you wait until they release version 1.1 of the car's software before you ever get back on the road once such a system is deployed though...
Why just control the braking pressure automaticially? The robot car of the not-so-distant future will take care of all steps for you. I'd wait until a little after 1.1 for that though.
1: Mostly a perception problem, doing nothing instead of stomping on a pedal in an emergency is counter-intuitive. Not taking an active role in stopping the vehicle would bother me greatly.
2: Again, in an emergency situation it would take much more control of the one pedal to achieve the proper braking pressure. This is debatable and is more of a design issue.
3: What happens when your foot accidentally slips off the pedal? Does the car automaticially max out the brakes? The car has no way of knowing what the context of the situation is. Just imagine you just took a pit-stop in the rain and your shoes are slick. I know it's happened to me before.
4: The pedal sensitivity or the travel distance would have to be doubled to accomidate multiple functions.
Besides, any car without three pedals is for wussies. ;)