Why on earth would a car or lorry need to use diesel electric transmission?
because you can then run your engine more efficiently. The problem with diesel engines is that they're only efficient in a small RPM range. Therefore having it run a generator at its most efficient RPM rate allows you to work more efficiently, thereby requiring a smaller engine. Of course, most of the efficiency goes down the drain as soon as you try to store the energy, but that's another matter altogether. It is a step in the right direction, because it will smoothen the transition from combustion engines to electrically powered cars (using fuel cells or whatnot.)
oh and another thing, the company formerly known as Amersham Health, where I used to work (now owned by GE I believe), did ship its radioactively labelled pharmaceuticals around the globe (half life 6 hours). The trick is to irradiate it to four times (or more) the desired activity, then you'll have a longer time in which it can be shipped.
and your time zone argument really doesn't cut wood. If it's 5 hours later somewhere else, it doesn't mean that it takes 5 hours to fly there.
While the cyclotron may not be radioactive, you do need an adequate set of shielding walls (say, about three meters of concrete) for any decently powered cyclotron. We have a few here on the university grounds, and a new one was installed a few years ago. The old one is currently inoperative, and still sits inside the building. The building itself has now been filled with offices, since they cannot tear the shielding down yet. They'll have to wait about 20 years for the radiation in the concrete chamber to get sufficiently small to have it demolished by standard means.
The chamber itself does get flooded with radiation though. Some diffracted by air, some leaking, so in general, it's not safe to stand around one of those in operation. As said before, the new one has three meter thick concrete walls around it. Still, not half as dangerous as a nuclear fission reactor though. different radiation energies too.
I would be killed by frustration alone were I the mission controller. But big kudo's to them, they keep surprising me with their determination and perseverance.
I bet they'll be trying another landing, otherwise there'd be no use in sending the probe home.
it'll be bad if you can, because everyone will now expect you to boot in ms os. With every professor comes a separate package of software here at university, all of which runs under windows. It is folly to have to run Statgraphics for one professor, and Origin for the other. Until now I had a simple excuse: "I'll just make it in Matlab because I don't have windows", end of discussion. Now you'll have to learn how to use every package under the sun according to the whims of the professors.
My take is: stick to the powerful, well programmed OS and keep the other OS as far away as possible.
Actually, even with superb headphones (Sennheiser HD600), a specialized custom built headphone amplifier and a Denon DA-500 DA convertor to convert the digital signal from my laptop, I cannot possibly complain even the slightest about the 128 kbps from the iTunes music store (Sara K. - Are we there yet (album title)). I know it is hard to believe and I myself am too scared to encode at anything less than 196 kbps AAC, but in all reality, their encoding is superb!
But I still think all of the xbox designs are missing a certain amount of aesthetics. Not to troll here, but I think Apple got it right, as well as NAD (although the green is hideous) and Bang and Olufsen. Those somehow "radiate" the idea of quality, sturdiness and coolness. Can anyone give an insight as to why this is? Are the maketing people at MS trying to push it too far? or did they intend to make it look like a run-of-the-mill pc? I for one would hide the xbox in another box or cupboard. It looks cheap. The PS3 design is much better IMHO.
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Do you see them forcing you to connect to anything? Perhaps, they are twisting your ISP's arms into downloading the one and only named.root? end quote.
Yes. They are forcing me to use the internet to access university resources and for other vital communication services. And yes, they are twisting arms to have us download the one and only named.root for if there would be more, there'd be confusion. All that is being asked is a say in the matter of filling named.root. We all benefit from a well functioning internet, and therefore want to create a democratic voice. Otherwise we'd be just like users of proprietary software, subject to every whim and fancy of the CEO. Come to think of it, it is all about open-source'ing named.root.
You speak in truths. However, picking nits, I could say that broken is an overly broad and indefinite term. I think we can in all fairness say that the governance of the DNS servers by the ICANN functions, but is expected to fail due to discontent members on the internet requesting a more fair and democratic governance method than the one currently in place, with the term "democratic" implying equal rights to non-US residents. It cannot be that people from China cannot have their say. Everyone should be allowed to speak and exert an equal influence on the decision making process. I think that that is the fear of the US government. They have some control over the media and thus over the people in their own country (c.q. agglomerate), but they have little to no control over that of different countries.
How about actually ADVANCING this discussion instead of mindlessly shouting that which has been said over and over just to be modded "insightful", shall we? Now, everyone please lay off the "if it ain't broke don't fix it argument". The fact that people complain means that it's broken. QED.
Yes, we should have them, because there are a lot of people in favor of it. And isn't the Internet supposed to be a democracy? As in: even non-US residents get to vote? I am reminded of the lyrics from Pink Floyd: "Share it fairly, but don't take a slice of my pie!" They seem eerily approopriate. I mean, it's not like you actually maintain the infrastructure. I don't see people from the US laying down the fiber in our country, replacing switches or providing broadband to our homes. Yes, some people thought up components of the internet over there, but they also did that over here, at CERN, for instance. It's not yours, it is not mine.
On the other hand, you can be arrested for opposing the current US government publicly. That kind of speech is only allowed in "free speech zones" google it and see. Where is your free speech now? in "ZONES" ??
Well, like any commercially oriented government, maybe they'll permit advertisement companies to read the information on the fly and provide the passer-by on the street with personalized ads a la minority report. Meanwhile, the feds can track the movement of everyone through the registration of this..
and it will become illegal to microwave one's password or otherwise prevent the reading of data. mmw.
Quoted: Why Homeland Defense is so eager to pursue the "criminals, terrorists and spies" lurking in this country, and so afraid to pursue them in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and other nations where they obviously exist in great abundance? end quote.
Have you ever been to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and other nations? Have you seen Obvious criminals and terrorists? I assume the answer would be no, since if you'd actually have taken the time to meet and greet people in those countries, most of them are not yet ripe for an all-american purge (i.e. bombing the country). And if spies exist in their country of origin, they're not really spies, are they? What are they doing in their own country? Using a telescope to spy on poor Americans? Binoculars perhaps?
With the swift turnaround of Jobs to support video iPods (but where's the content?) it is uncomfortable to see companies search for more money in such a way. What will be next? I think this will make companies reconsider, that are looking to develop software or hardware for the mac.
If it's only money for analysis and approval of the item though, it wouldn't bother me that much though.
Well, I was more or less joking, but there's also a serious side to it.
Who decides what countries should have a say and what countries shouldn't? Where to draw the line of freedom? Many countries have different versions of freedom and who is going to take responsibility of choosing the countries that are or are not free?
Right now, the only one with a say is the US. The US considers itself a 'freedom forerunner' and also thinks it can be judge, jury and executioner to enforce their thoughts on freedom on other countries such as Iraq, vietnam, etc.
In the end our discussion is moot anyway, because what the EU is trying to do (and what has been pointed out by others in this discussion) is to set up a multilateral body to control the root to prevent the countries with an arguably lesser amount of freedom for its citizens to create their own, censored root servers.
And yes, in your case it was a poor choice of words, but the way I understand it, many americans do believe those particular sets of speech.
"The internet is the greatest vehicle for free thoughts and free ideas." and yet: "Why on earth would you want to give countries like Iran, China and South Korea a say?"
Now observe therein the answer to your own (and those of many others) question.
But if the child admitted guilt in the first case, and the case was dismissed, is that a judgement or not? because AFAIK, a person cannot be judged twice for the same crime, thus the girl walks free.
time to read up on Stephen King's "The Stand", to catch up on those survival techniques.... now here's hoping I'm one of that particulat fraction of society..
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Why on earth would a car or lorry need to use diesel electric transmission?
because you can then run your engine more efficiently. The problem with diesel engines is that they're only efficient in a small RPM range. Therefore having it run a generator at its most efficient RPM rate allows you to work more efficiently, thereby requiring a smaller engine. Of course, most of the efficiency goes down the drain as soon as you try to store the energy, but that's another matter altogether.
It is a step in the right direction, because it will smoothen the transition from combustion engines to electrically powered cars (using fuel cells or whatnot.)
B.
"I guess no one needs to know what a rootkit is."
:)
aww, that's cute, do I see a little bit of envy in there?
B.
oh and another thing, the company formerly known as Amersham Health, where I used to work (now owned by GE I believe), did ship its radioactively labelled pharmaceuticals around the globe (half life 6 hours). The trick is to irradiate it to four times (or more) the desired activity, then you'll have a longer time in which it can be shipped.
and your time zone argument really doesn't cut wood. If it's 5 hours later somewhere else, it doesn't mean that it takes 5 hours to fly there.
B.
While the cyclotron may not be radioactive, you do need an adequate set of shielding walls (say, about three meters of concrete) for any decently powered cyclotron. We have a few here on the university grounds, and a new one was installed a few years ago. The old one is currently inoperative, and still sits inside the building. The building itself has now been filled with offices, since they cannot tear the shielding down yet. They'll have to wait about 20 years for the radiation in the concrete chamber to get sufficiently small to have it demolished by standard means.
The chamber itself does get flooded with radiation though. Some diffracted by air, some leaking, so in general, it's not safe to stand around one of those in operation. As said before, the new one has three meter thick concrete walls around it.
Still, not half as dangerous as a nuclear fission reactor though. different radiation energies too.
B.
I would be killed by frustration alone were I the mission controller. But big kudo's to them, they keep surprising me with their determination and perseverance.
I bet they'll be trying another landing, otherwise there'd be no use in sending the probe home.
B.
it'll be bad if you can, because everyone will now expect you to boot in ms os.
With every professor comes a separate package of software here at university, all of which runs under windows. It is folly to have to run Statgraphics for one professor, and Origin for the other. Until now I had a simple excuse: "I'll just make it in Matlab because I don't have windows", end of discussion. Now you'll have to learn how to use every package under the sun according to the whims of the professors.
My take is: stick to the powerful, well programmed OS and keep the other OS as far away as possible.
B.
consider it a micropayment to slashdot :)
B.
Actually, even with superb headphones (Sennheiser HD600), a specialized custom built headphone amplifier and a Denon DA-500 DA convertor to convert the digital signal from my laptop, I cannot possibly complain even the slightest about the 128 kbps from the iTunes music store (Sara K. - Are we there yet (album title)). I know it is hard to believe and I myself am too scared to encode at anything less than 196 kbps AAC, but in all reality, their encoding is superb!
B.
But I still think all of the xbox designs are missing a certain amount of aesthetics. Not to troll here, but I think Apple got it right, as well as NAD (although the green is hideous) and Bang and Olufsen. Those somehow "radiate" the idea of quality, sturdiness and coolness.
Can anyone give an insight as to why this is? Are the maketing people at MS trying to push it too far? or did they intend to make it look like a run-of-the-mill pc?
I for one would hide the xbox in another box or cupboard. It looks cheap. The PS3 design is much better IMHO.
just my 0.02 cents.
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Do you see them forcing you to connect to anything? Perhaps, they are twisting your ISP's arms into downloading the one and only named.root?
end quote.
Yes. They are forcing me to use the internet to access university resources and for other vital communication services. And yes, they are twisting arms to have us download the one and only named.root for if there would be more, there'd be confusion. All that is being asked is a say in the matter of filling named.root. We all benefit from a well functioning internet, and therefore want to create a democratic voice.
Otherwise we'd be just like users of proprietary software, subject to every whim and fancy of the CEO.
Come to think of it, it is all about open-source'ing named.root.
B.
You speak in truths. However, picking nits, I could say that broken is an overly broad and indefinite term.
I think we can in all fairness say that the governance of the DNS servers by the ICANN functions, but is expected to fail due to discontent members on the internet requesting a more fair and democratic governance method than the one currently in place, with the term "democratic" implying equal rights to non-US residents. It cannot be that people from China cannot have their say. Everyone should be allowed to speak and exert an equal influence on the decision making process. I think that that is the fear of the US government. They have some control over the media and thus over the people in their own country (c.q. agglomerate), but they have little to no control over that of different countries.
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(p.s. see, now we're TALKING!)
Right.
How about actually ADVANCING this discussion instead of mindlessly shouting that which has been said over and over just to be modded "insightful", shall we?
Now, everyone please lay off the "if it ain't broke don't fix it argument". The fact that people complain means that it's broken. QED.
B.
Yes, we should have them, because there are a lot of people in favor of it. And isn't the Internet supposed to be a democracy? As in: even non-US residents get to vote?
I am reminded of the lyrics from Pink Floyd: "Share it fairly, but don't take a slice of my pie!" They seem eerily approopriate.
I mean, it's not like you actually maintain the infrastructure. I don't see people from the US laying down the fiber in our country, replacing switches or providing broadband to our homes. Yes, some people thought up components of the internet over there, but they also did that over here, at CERN, for instance. It's not yours, it is not mine.
B.
On the other hand, you can be arrested for opposing the current US government publicly. That kind of speech is only allowed in "free speech zones" google it and see. Where is your free speech now? in "ZONES" ??
B.
Why are you talking like you are part of a group? Where is your group? Rally up the troops dear. Please provide a reference to "we".
B.
He's dead jim, but not as we know it. not as we know it. not as we know it. He's dead jim, but not as we know it. not as we know it, cap'n.
(cue refrain)
Well, like any commercially oriented government, maybe they'll permit advertisement companies to read the information on the fly and provide the passer-by on the street with personalized ads a la minority report. Meanwhile, the feds can track the movement of everyone through the registration of this..
and it will become illegal to microwave one's password or otherwise prevent the reading of data. mmw.
B.
Why can I not have a fold-out second screen? that would add another 15" widescreen, which could be connected to my dvi port!
B.
Quoted:
Why Homeland Defense is so eager to pursue the "criminals, terrorists and spies" lurking in this country, and so afraid to pursue them in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and other nations where they obviously exist in great abundance?
end quote.
Have you ever been to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and other nations? Have you seen Obvious criminals and terrorists? I assume the answer would be no, since if you'd actually have taken the time to meet and greet people in those countries, most of them are not yet ripe for an all-american purge (i.e. bombing the country).
And if spies exist in their country of origin, they're not really spies, are they? What are they doing in their own country? Using a telescope to spy on poor Americans? Binoculars perhaps?
Get clue. Please.
With the swift turnaround of Jobs to support video iPods (but where's the content?) it is uncomfortable to see companies search for more money in such a way. What will be next?
I think this will make companies reconsider, that are looking to develop software or hardware for the mac.
If it's only money for analysis and approval of the item though, it wouldn't bother me that much though.
B.
Well, I was more or less joking, but there's also a serious side to it.
Who decides what countries should have a say and what countries shouldn't? Where to draw the line of freedom? Many countries have different versions of freedom and who is going to take responsibility of choosing the countries that are or are not free?
Right now, the only one with a say is the US. The US considers itself a 'freedom forerunner' and also thinks it can be judge, jury and executioner to enforce their thoughts on freedom on other countries such as Iraq, vietnam, etc.
In the end our discussion is moot anyway, because what the EU is trying to do (and what has been pointed out by others in this discussion) is to set up a multilateral body to control the root to prevent the countries with an arguably lesser amount of freedom for its citizens to create their own, censored root servers.
And yes, in your case it was a poor choice of words, but the way I understand it, many americans do believe those particular sets of speech.
B.
Oh, this is rich, lemme quote you here:
"The internet is the greatest vehicle for free thoughts and free ideas."
and yet:
"Why on earth would you want to give countries like Iran, China and South Korea a say?"
Now observe therein the answer to your own (and those of many others) question.
But if the child admitted guilt in the first case, and the case was dismissed, is that a judgement or not?
because AFAIK, a person cannot be judged twice for the same crime, thus the girl walks free.
B.
time to read up on Stephen King's "The Stand", to catch up on those survival techniques.... now here's hoping I'm one of that particulat fraction of society..
B.
methinks it may be a bit late to enter the browser market at this stage with so many well-established and user-tested browsers on the "free" market.