The houses are to be redesigned, so that there is a heated area and some internal, but open space. This is the question of innovation in architecture.
The same, probably, relates to nuclear energy. Certainly, in future humanity will not burn fossil fuel to get an energy. Research and development should continue.
But the energy should not be dirt cheap, including nuclear energy. The stations are to be well designed and maintained, the personnel well trained and motivated.
I am not against cars or trains. I fact I own a car. What I mean is that car can weigh 1500 kg and 3500 kg. Maximum speed can be 180 km/h and 360 km/h.
A car, which weigh 150 kg and has the maximum speed 180 km/h, is still quite comfortable, and still it consumes 3 - 4 times less fuel.
The same about architecture. Why all rooms should be air-conditioned or heated. A house or an apartment may include an open terrace or enlarged balcony.
There are ways to reduce energy consumption without sacrificing the comfort and convenience.
The problem with the fuel tax may be that there are people who will drive for fun in the city whatever the gas tax is.
A GPS device can be designed to measure only the distance, not the route itself.
But the progressive gas tax is not bad too. My point was that if catastrophes caused by an excessive energy consumption keep happening then people may start to think what to do about it.
I would rather limit the energy consumption than to end up in a situation of New Orleans or Sendai. Two - three more megalopolises gone and the political mood may start to change.
The planet Earth is not solid, it is liquid, but has a thin dry crust on its surface. The dry crust is thinner in relative terms than a skin of an apple. When we increase temperature in the atmosphere our liquid planet begins to behave differently.
Limit consumption? Say, a GPS unit on each car, which records distance, 200 km per month inside the city is free, then increasingly taxed. Limiting number of air-conditioned or heated rooms per person in an apartment. Say, 2 rooms free, then an increasing tax.
Investment in walls thermo-isolation, LED lamps technology. Compulsory usage of open-air driers in sunny weather, etc.
It seems to me to be a better deal then to sit in an radioactive country.
A tsunami resulting from the quake then washed over the site, knocking out backup generators that pumped water into the reactor containment unit to keep the nuclear fuel cool.
It was the water from the tsunami that damaged the generators. Probably the earthquake too, but the earthquake and tsunami together damaged them beyond realistic repair.
Cables can be repaired or replaced relatively easy.
The diesel generators on an inland hill could be damaged by the earthquake too, but damaged probably less than by the earthquake and tsunami together. This is exactly what happened.
It is much easier to transport electricity than water, that is why the plant itself still needs to be near the water.
True, however, that it would be more difficult to guard the generators and underground cables, when they are on a separate remote site. Probably it was the reason why they put them near the waterline too.
It would cost more due to transformers and an expensive cable. But without good electricity source they cannot do much now. By decentralizing the system they would make it much more resilient. It was not really a surprise that tsunamis happen in the region.
The spare diesel generators had to be placed 2 -3 kilometers inland, on a hill, not on the shore near the nuclear plant. And connected to the plant by 3 kilometers electrical cable. This way the generators would not be damaged by a tsunami.
Am I the only engineer who realizes it? Am I that talented?
Now it may look like a joke, because I read already in "LA Times" that tsunami at LA could be up to 3 feet high. But at first when I saw the map and video from Japan I thought otherwise. I am not a specialist in tsunamis.
I see the benefit in the fact that one can use SSL-https to upload a ZIP file. But how do you unzip it? Do you use a PHP class to unzip an archive?
Do you upload the ZIP archive in a specific folder and unzip it? Or do you delete several folders on the web-server and upload several corresponding folders together and unzip them?
I think the 9/11 type, or metro attacks threat threat can be realistically eliminated by the schools, universities, etc.
This billions could be invested in building something useful, that creates sustainable jobs, not only in one rich country, but in whole Eurasia, Africa and Americas. Say something like this: http://www.et3.com/
Certainly it is more complicated to organize and to build than a laser gun.
I do not see why should Microsoft make a convenient and fast browser? So that people can use online Office applications and stop buying the desktop MS Office?
It just does not make sense. Their best bet would be to use the monopoly of the pre-installed browser to make the Web unusable.
The web 2.0 as we know it was created by the Firefox. I can understand why Firefox team wants to move the Internet forward.
I apologize for being frank in expressing my doubts and probably groundless suspicions.
My point was that a growing demand for computing power can be saturated completely. Say, a PDA size device with an optical cable connection can cover the whole demand for computing of the planet for decades to come.
Software can also be a part of it. For example, when a human see a photo of another human, the brain can compute in a fraction of a second if this face is known or not. It is obvious that some sort of an undiscovered yet parallel computing is going on.
I still remember how I had to change lamps in the computer. I can quite well see how a device of a PDA size with a new generation 3d processor and SSHD inside can comprise a data center.
Would not these huge data centers get obsolete if hard disks grow in capacity and processors in power 1000 times once again?
I mean couldn't the whole data-center then be placed on one server? Imagine a hard disk of 1000 TB and in addition - solid state, no energy for spinning.
Employees certainly could use all the space for fancy offices and the real data center would be somewhere in a corner.
I do not appreciate fancy updates which pop up on my desktop from icons in the right lower corner. I had a virus attack from such an update. It was masqueraded as a Java update. I removed Java from my computer completely after that.
I am seriously considering removing the Adobe Reader and Flash too.
Why just not inform us that an update is available and give the clear URL link to an update file on the Adobe website? Or at least update when I open the Reader and asked for an update or confirmed an offer to update.
A spare Internet connection makes the Internet access practically uninterpretable. Egypt is rather an exception, but still one could use a satellite dish link, like they use nowadays on the ships.
Because, it is very difficult to go to a location and install a desktop application. I was there and did it. Thank you very much.
Then the PC breaks down and I had to drive to install again. DLL error - drive again. On 100 PCs it is OK, on 1 - an error. Then on thin clients I had to spend 4 hours to install one desktop application, because it was missing some file in the OS.
Nowadays, I do not care what OS or what PC is on a location. Browser, htpps connection, login, password, that is it. Change complicated password periodically.
A desktop application without a good reason is a nightmare. Yes, we do need some fundamental desktop applications: Firefox, GIMP, Notepadd++. But to build a desktop application for each business process is insane.
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Including small advertisements in songs according to the song's theme.
The houses are to be redesigned, so that there is a heated area and some internal, but open space. This is the question of innovation in architecture.
The same, probably, relates to nuclear energy. Certainly, in future humanity will not burn fossil fuel to get an energy. Research and development should continue.
But the energy should not be dirt cheap, including nuclear energy. The stations are to be well designed and maintained, the personnel well trained and motivated.
I am not against cars or trains. I fact I own a car. What I mean is that car can weigh 1500 kg and 3500 kg. Maximum speed can be 180 km/h and 360 km/h.
A car, which weigh 150 kg and has the maximum speed 180 km/h, is still quite comfortable, and still it consumes 3 - 4 times less fuel.
The same about architecture. Why all rooms should be air-conditioned or heated. A house or an apartment may include an open terrace or enlarged balcony.
There are ways to reduce energy consumption without sacrificing the comfort and convenience.
The problem with the fuel tax may be that there are people who will drive for fun in the city whatever the gas tax is.
A GPS device can be designed to measure only the distance, not the route itself.
But the progressive gas tax is not bad too. My point was that if catastrophes caused by an excessive energy consumption keep happening then people may start to think what to do about it.
I would rather limit the energy consumption than to end up in a situation of New Orleans or Sendai. Two - three more megalopolises gone and the political mood may start to change.
The planet Earth is not solid, it is liquid, but has a thin dry crust on its surface. The dry crust is thinner in relative terms than a skin of an apple. When we increase temperature in the atmosphere our liquid planet begins to behave differently.
Except what alternatives do we have?
Limit consumption? Say, a GPS unit on each car, which records distance, 200 km per month inside the city is free, then increasingly taxed. Limiting number of air-conditioned or heated rooms per person in an apartment. Say, 2 rooms free, then an increasing tax.
Investment in walls thermo-isolation, LED lamps technology. Compulsory usage of open-air driers in sunny weather, etc.
It seems to me to be a better deal then to sit in an radioactive country.
A tsunami resulting from the quake then washed over the site, knocking out backup generators that pumped water into the reactor containment unit to keep the nuclear fuel cool.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/japan.nuclear/?hpt=T1
It was the water from the tsunami that damaged the generators. Probably the earthquake too, but the earthquake and tsunami together damaged them beyond realistic repair.
Cables can be repaired or replaced relatively easy.
The diesel generators on an inland hill could be damaged by the earthquake too, but damaged probably less than by the earthquake and tsunami together. This is exactly what happened.
It is much easier to transport electricity than water, that is why the plant itself still needs to be near the water.
True, however, that it would be more difficult to guard the generators and underground cables, when they are on a separate remote site. Probably it was the reason why they put them near the waterline too.
It would cost more due to transformers and an expensive cable. But without good electricity source they cannot do much now. By decentralizing the system they would make it much more resilient. It was not really a surprise that tsunamis happen in the region.
In the end it would save them billions.
The spare diesel generators had to be placed 2 -3 kilometers inland, on a hill, not on the shore near the nuclear plant. And connected to the plant by 3 kilometers electrical cable. This way the generators would not be damaged by a tsunami.
Am I the only engineer who realizes it? Am I that talented?
Now it may look like a joke, because I read already in "LA Times" that tsunami at LA could be up to 3 feet high. But at first when I saw the map and video from Japan I thought otherwise. I am not a specialist in tsunamis.
Oh my Gosh... I am flying to Los Angeles next week.
Will LA be affected? Santa Monica?
Me too. I like Firefox UI and I do not like Chrome and IE UIs.
I also do not like that I cannot add an SSL (https://) certificate exception at Chrome and IE.
How can I use a browser for local development, if I cannot add an SSL certificate exception? Even for https://localhost/ .
I hope Google dismiss Chrome UI designers and create a normal convenient browser, where I do not have to search for 20 minutes a menu item.
I guarantee that with the present UI Chrome will never get a considerable market share.
People have difficulty to jog in cold weather. So I suggest to make the meter 10 cm shorter for the winter.
Just some minor adjustments are to be made: separate summer and winter measuring sets, some changes in aircraft software, etc.
I see the benefit in the fact that one can use SSL-https to upload a ZIP file. But how do you unzip it? Do you use a PHP class to unzip an archive?
Do you upload the ZIP archive in a specific folder and unzip it? Or do you delete several folders on the web-server and upload several corresponding folders together and unzip them?
I can well use FTP functions from a PHP script, but not so with SSH FTP functions. I am still struggling to get SSH FTP work in my PHP scripts.
I think the 9/11 type, or metro attacks threat threat can be realistically eliminated by the schools, universities, etc.
This billions could be invested in building something useful, that creates sustainable jobs, not only in one rich country, but in whole Eurasia, Africa and Americas. Say something like this: http://www.et3.com/
Certainly it is more complicated to organize and to build than a laser gun.
Would this tool help to prevent an event similar to 9/11 or metro explosions?
Would not a co-development be a better choice?
I modern times the Internet access became the part of of freedom of speech, information and, even, movement.
I do not see why should Microsoft make a convenient and fast browser? So that people can use online Office applications and stop buying the desktop MS Office?
It just does not make sense. Their best bet would be to use the monopoly of the pre-installed browser to make the Web unusable.
The web 2.0 as we know it was created by the Firefox. I can understand why Firefox team wants to move the Internet forward.
I apologize for being frank in expressing my doubts and probably groundless suspicions.
My point was that a growing demand for computing power can be saturated completely. Say, a PDA size device with an optical cable connection can cover the whole demand for computing of the planet for decades to come.
Software can also be a part of it. For example, when a human see a photo of another human, the brain can compute in a fraction of a second if this face is known or not. It is obvious that some sort of an undiscovered yet parallel computing is going on.
I still remember how I had to change lamps in the computer. I can quite well see how a device of a PDA size with a new generation 3d processor and SSHD inside can comprise a data center.
Would not these huge data centers get obsolete if hard disks grow in capacity and processors in power 1000 times once again?
I mean couldn't the whole data-center then be placed on one server? Imagine a hard disk of 1000 TB and in addition - solid state, no energy for spinning.
Employees certainly could use all the space for fancy offices and the real data center would be somewhere in a corner.
I do not appreciate fancy updates which pop up on my desktop from icons in the right lower corner. I had a virus attack from such an update. It was masqueraded as a Java update. I removed Java from my computer completely after that.
I am seriously considering removing the Adobe Reader and Flash too.
Why just not inform us that an update is available and give the clear URL link to an update file on the Adobe website? Or at least update when I open the Reader and asked for an update or confirmed an offer to update.
A spare Internet connection makes the Internet access practically uninterpretable. Egypt is rather an exception, but still one could use a satellite dish link, like they use nowadays on the ships.
Because, it is very difficult to go to a location and install a desktop application. I was there and did it. Thank you very much.
Then the PC breaks down and I had to drive to install again. DLL error - drive again. On 100 PCs it is OK, on 1 - an error. Then on thin clients I had to spend 4 hours to install one desktop application, because it was missing some file in the OS.
Nowadays, I do not care what OS or what PC is on a location. Browser, htpps connection, login, password, that is it. Change complicated password periodically.
A desktop application without a good reason is a nightmare. Yes, we do need some fundamental desktop applications: Firefox, GIMP, Notepadd++. But to build a desktop application for each business process is insane.