Quick question... How do you institute that block? My quick 15 second Google search was mostly about admins trying to block hotlinking by checking HTTP_REFERER.
I figure it isn't exceedingly complex, but was just wondering if you could point me in the right direction. Thanks:)
I'm really curious as to how/why there is a much, much higher cost of designing the electronic edition.
I guess I just can't see why it is (or should be) complex. Especially given that you should be leaving all the presentation aspects to the devices themselves.
It just seems like spending a lot of time typesetting a document for viewing on an e-reader that may have a different height/width, and can be enlarged on that same screen, would be a losing battle that should not be dealt with by an author, but rather by the device manufacturer/format specification.
Again... not saying that you're wrong about it, just that there must be something that I'm missing.
I'm sure they will look at the water velocities in the suction area.
You can design the system such that the velocity at distance X (maybe they'll put a net at that distance) is less than Y m/s. Where Y is the velocity above which fish (large/small) will be unlikely to escape.
However, the alarm will be turned off when you use the key in the ignition (even if you set the alarm off by using the key in the door).
Not sure if that was what the other poster was trying to get at.
You probably shouldn't include Twilight and The Hunger Games in the same comparison.
While the writing in both is geared towards their target audience (young adults/teenagers), The Hunger Games doesn't read like it was written with a thesaurus.
The Hunger Games has a story that is more intricate than "I am a boring girl who loves a vampire that sparkles."
Most of the job descriptions in Silicon Valley that have 'engineer' in their title wouldn't be considered engineering outside of that small area of the world.
You can write buggy programs/games and drivers/firmaware and it doesn't make you an engineer. In fact, it makes you almost the exact opposite: A hack.
Yeah, companies never try to screw with "skilled labour". They would never dare lock out engineers (P.Eng. or the U.S. version of everyone is an engineer), or mechanics or technicians.
You, my good friend, are a complete twat, with very little appreciation for the position that most workers ("skilled" or "unskilled") operate in regardless of the general state of an economy.
and to the best of my knowledge have never lied about conditions at their plants or the scope of an event
That's not really true. Davis Besse was not very forthcoming, to put it lightly, about the conditions of the pressure vessel. A quick google should provide you with a reasonably good story about this one. I believe some people were actually prosecuted for it.
You know, debating semantics about how much of the core melted is a losing battle. And it should be.
Any severe core damage (define it however you want, but basically, once you start melting fuel, it is generally accepted that things have gone very wrong) is extremely serious. Not necessarily serious to public health (see: TMI and the low releases of radioactivity), but serious to the nuclear industry due to the incredible erosion of trust that results from any incident (even with no consequences, but increased risk, like Davis Besse).
and if not a coast, a major river (which faces essentially the same weird random shit happening problem).
Really? You think a river has the same random shit happening? How many tsunamis have wiped out inland rivers? I'm sure you could find *an* example, but it is hardly representative.
Your entire "argument" is that everything the Chinese build is crap. Entirely worthless crap. They couldn't possibly be responsible for constructing and assembling large swaths of infrastructure in the USA, because
the chinese are probably doing a shitty job of actually building the reactors
You really think that patent license fees might be the kicker for building an older generation reactor? You really think that the cost savings come may come from this area?
Generally, the company building the reactor would also own any and all patents associated with it.
The purpose of building an older model is that you know the physics are well understood (it will produce power without modifications to the core), and the parts are mostly available (there is almost always some problems with obsolescence).
I understand that countries have reconsidered some planned construction after Fukushima, but it really is a defense in depth issue. Make sure your emergency generators cannot be incapacitated by an event. If they can, make sure you have spares a couple of hundred miles away that can be airlifted you very quickly.
The problem with Fukushima was the lack of preparedness for a disaster beyond what their design basis. As a result of the accident, all plants have developed methods of dealing with this accidents. They may not be perfect, but will provide much more defense in depth in the event of a beyond design basis accident.
In Canada, at least, my one experience with an ISP that refused to provision my DSL connection to the 5 Mbps advertised. I made it very clear that if the line really could not support it, that I would be okay dropping it back down to 3 Mbps.
They refused, because they don't try to fix anything unless it is below 40% of the advertised "up to" speed. I told them, well, if I gave you 40% of the amount you charged for my services, without even trying to pay for the whole month, you wouldn't find that very acceptable. That got me, unsurprisingly, nowhere.
I wrote a letter (submitted online) to the Better Business Bureau, for false advertising. It took about three business days for someone at the ISP (a supervisor or manager) to call me and say that they put me up to 5 Mbps, and apologized for the inconvenience.
I thanked them, and said that my issue was entirely that they would not attempt it. After all, it can't really cost them that much to make the switch twice. Though it could have cost them a customer to not make it.
The highway chase was one of my least favourite scenes of all time.
I found it to be incredibly long and repetitive. I enjoyed the special effects and the fight scenes from the first movie, but they weren't the only thing the movie had going for it. I found the second and third movies were just glorified Michael Bay movies (which I can enjoy, just wasn't what I wanted from the Matrix trilogy). It really cemented why I did not enjoy the sequels to The Matrix.
Say what you will about Lotus 123, but WordPerfect was a damn near perfect word processor. Only about a million times better than Word (not much of an accomplishment, I know).
In fact, I think Word Perfect in the late 90s is still more useful than Word 2007/2010.
If you are thinking about the 'worst possible earthquake,' for any nuclear plant/building, you're going to overspend by orders of magnitude.
In fact, given that the earthquake itself wasn't the biggest issue, but the tsunami... you need to think about all methods of tsunami creation. Landslides, volcanic eruptions, etc. If you look into the largest tsunamis historically, they top out at hundreds of meters in height. Not common, but they happen.
There are lots of lessons to be learned from Fukushima. At a certain point though, you have to decide on your design basis accidents, and analyze them. You naturally build in conservatism into the analysis, but sometimes you just get boned. Imagine if a meteorite fell into the Pacific near Japan? You may end up with a *much* larger wave!
Is it reasonable to design to that situation? Probably not. Should you have some procedures in place to mitigate beyond design basis accidents? Most definitely.
That is probably where the lessons from the clusterfuck that was Fukushima will be applied. Utilities will invest in better contingencies (spare generators, located in a remote location but available via helicopter within a timeframe) and procedures to guide plant staff and public relations staff in dealing with the crisis. Timely release of good information (i.e., information supported by validated data (or high confidence data)) is almost as important as controlling the situation on site.
Thankfully, it wasn't as bad as it could have been given all that happened. The industry *will* (it will be imposed) be in a better position to deal with a similar situation in the future.
At least in Canada, nuclear operators are required to put a portion of their revenue into a fund to pay for decommissioning. It's something like 0.5 cents per kWh.
OPG stated (in the Darlington New Nuclear Joint Review Panel) that they have between 11 and 12 billion in the fund at this time.
As it is a segregated fund required by the regulator, it will only continue to grow prior to the shutting down of any reactor.
I absolutely loved my Dreamcast. I tend to play sports games, and the fact that EA didn't make any games for the Dreamcast originally bothered me a great deal... but I soon got over it, as the 2k Sports games were excellent (and were surprisingly realistic in difficulty, even on the lower settings. What, you mean you can't just abuse the exact same scoring trick that has been in the EA NHL games for 5+ years at that point?).
And of course, there was Powerstone! Most people agreed that it was a fun little game! Heck, even House of the Dead 2 was pretty good if you had the guns.
Not only that, I loved the VGA adapter. The DC games looked phenomenal on a monitor.
I guess I just never saw the appeal of the PS2/N64. Their exclusive titles didn't (and still don't) appeal to me.
There is a section to meet the minimum academic requirements. You don't necessarily need a Bachelor in Engineering, but you do need to meet some minimum requirements.
As a general rule, they aren't keeping the numbers down. They're just making sure there is a minimum standard.
If you have a better way of providing reasonable assurances that designs conform to standards/best practices and persons stamping them are professionally liable for them, I'd love to hear it.
Otherwise, it would be like hiring a handyman from the classifieds to do some renovations. Some are awesome, some are terrible. The ceiling to their talents is pretty high, but the floor is really low.
Professional licensing bodies (engineers/doctors) work to raise the floor.
There is nothing stopping a self-taught individual who has sufficient technical knowledge and experience from writing the P.Eng exams. I know someone who went to community college for a certificate as a Mechanical Technologist, and he's a licensed P.Eng right now.
Except that decay power is about 7% or so right after shutdown. I'm not entirely sure where you got the 10 MW thermal. Unit 1 is a 480 MWe reactor. If you generously assume a 50% efficiency (it wasn't)...
480/0.5*0.07 = 67.2 MW thermal
More likely it's in the mid 30s (or even low 30s) for efficiency, so you end up around 96 MW thermal immediately after shutdown.
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I figure it isn't exceedingly complex, but was just wondering if you could point me in the right direction. Thanks :)
I guess I just can't see why it is (or should be) complex. Especially given that you should be leaving all the presentation aspects to the devices themselves.
It just seems like spending a lot of time typesetting a document for viewing on an e-reader that may have a different height/width, and can be enlarged on that same screen, would be a losing battle that should not be dealt with by an author, but rather by the device manufacturer/format specification.
Again... not saying that you're wrong about it, just that there must be something that I'm missing.
You can design the system such that the velocity at distance X (maybe they'll put a net at that distance) is less than Y m/s. Where Y is the velocity above which fish (large/small) will be unlikely to escape.
However, the alarm will be turned off when you use the key in the ignition (even if you set the alarm off by using the key in the door). Not sure if that was what the other poster was trying to get at.
You probably shouldn't include Twilight and The Hunger Games in the same comparison. While the writing in both is geared towards their target audience (young adults/teenagers), The Hunger Games doesn't read like it was written with a thesaurus. The Hunger Games has a story that is more intricate than "I am a boring girl who loves a vampire that sparkles."
See: Heteronyms
Most of the job descriptions in Silicon Valley that have 'engineer' in their title wouldn't be considered engineering outside of that small area of the world.
You can write buggy programs/games and drivers/firmaware and it doesn't make you an engineer. In fact, it makes you almost the exact opposite: A hack.
You, my good friend, are a complete twat, with very little appreciation for the position that most workers ("skilled" or "unskilled") operate in regardless of the general state of an economy.
and to the best of my knowledge have never lied about conditions at their plants or the scope of an event
That's not really true. Davis Besse was not very forthcoming, to put it lightly, about the conditions of the pressure vessel. A quick google should provide you with a reasonably good story about this one. I believe some people were actually prosecuted for it.
Any severe core damage (define it however you want, but basically, once you start melting fuel, it is generally accepted that things have gone very wrong) is extremely serious. Not necessarily serious to public health (see: TMI and the low releases of radioactivity), but serious to the nuclear industry due to the incredible erosion of trust that results from any incident (even with no consequences, but increased risk, like Davis Besse).
Q: How do you know when someone doesn't watch TV?
A: Don't worry, they'll tell you.
Really? You think a river has the same random shit happening? How many tsunamis have wiped out inland rivers? I'm sure you could find *an* example, but it is hardly representative.
Your entire "argument" is that everything the Chinese build is crap. Entirely worthless crap. They couldn't possibly be responsible for constructing and assembling large swaths of infrastructure in the USA, because
Generally, the company building the reactor would also own any and all patents associated with it.
The purpose of building an older model is that you know the physics are well understood (it will produce power without modifications to the core), and the parts are mostly available (there is almost always some problems with obsolescence).
I understand that countries have reconsidered some planned construction after Fukushima, but it really is a defense in depth issue. Make sure your emergency generators cannot be incapacitated by an event. If they can, make sure you have spares a couple of hundred miles away that can be airlifted you very quickly.
The problem with Fukushima was the lack of preparedness for a disaster beyond what their design basis. As a result of the accident, all plants have developed methods of dealing with this accidents. They may not be perfect, but will provide much more defense in depth in the event of a beyond design basis accident.
They refused, because they don't try to fix anything unless it is below 40% of the advertised "up to" speed. I told them, well, if I gave you 40% of the amount you charged for my services, without even trying to pay for the whole month, you wouldn't find that very acceptable. That got me, unsurprisingly, nowhere.
I wrote a letter (submitted online) to the Better Business Bureau, for false advertising. It took about three business days for someone at the ISP (a supervisor or manager) to call me and say that they put me up to 5 Mbps, and apologized for the inconvenience.
I thanked them, and said that my issue was entirely that they would not attempt it. After all, it can't really cost them that much to make the switch twice. Though it could have cost them a customer to not make it.
The highway chase was one of my least favourite scenes of all time.
:)
I found it to be incredibly long and repetitive. I enjoyed the special effects and the fight scenes from the first movie, but they weren't the only thing the movie had going for it. I found the second and third movies were just glorified Michael Bay movies (which I can enjoy, just wasn't what I wanted from the Matrix trilogy). It really cemented why I did not enjoy the sequels to The Matrix.
In summary, I agree with your assessment.
foobar2000 is the only thing I miss from Windows land. There isn't a straight Linux port either, right? You have to run it in wine or a VM?
In fact, I think Word Perfect in the late 90s is still more useful than Word 2007/2010.
In fact, given that the earthquake itself wasn't the biggest issue, but the tsunami... you need to think about all methods of tsunami creation. Landslides, volcanic eruptions, etc. If you look into the largest tsunamis historically, they top out at hundreds of meters in height. Not common, but they happen.
There are lots of lessons to be learned from Fukushima. At a certain point though, you have to decide on your design basis accidents, and analyze them. You naturally build in conservatism into the analysis, but sometimes you just get boned. Imagine if a meteorite fell into the Pacific near Japan? You may end up with a *much* larger wave!
Is it reasonable to design to that situation? Probably not. Should you have some procedures in place to mitigate beyond design basis accidents? Most definitely.
That is probably where the lessons from the clusterfuck that was Fukushima will be applied. Utilities will invest in better contingencies (spare generators, located in a remote location but available via helicopter within a timeframe) and procedures to guide plant staff and public relations staff in dealing with the crisis. Timely release of good information (i.e., information supported by validated data (or high confidence data)) is almost as important as controlling the situation on site.
Thankfully, it wasn't as bad as it could have been given all that happened. The industry *will* (it will be imposed) be in a better position to deal with a similar situation in the future.
OPG stated (in the Darlington New Nuclear Joint Review Panel) that they have between 11 and 12 billion in the fund at this time.
As it is a segregated fund required by the regulator, it will only continue to grow prior to the shutting down of any reactor.
What? Like the back of a Volkswagen?
And of course, there was Powerstone! Most people agreed that it was a fun little game! Heck, even House of the Dead 2 was pretty good if you had the guns.
Not only that, I loved the VGA adapter. The DC games looked phenomenal on a monitor.
I guess I just never saw the appeal of the PS2/N64. Their exclusive titles didn't (and still don't) appeal to me.
http://www.peo.on.ca/registration/eit.html
http://www.peo.on.ca/Applications/LicensingGuide&Application2011.pdf
There is a section to meet the minimum academic requirements. You don't necessarily need a Bachelor in Engineering, but you do need to meet some minimum requirements.
If you have a better way of providing reasonable assurances that designs conform to standards/best practices and persons stamping them are professionally liable for them, I'd love to hear it.
Otherwise, it would be like hiring a handyman from the classifieds to do some renovations. Some are awesome, some are terrible. The ceiling to their talents is pretty high, but the floor is really low.
Professional licensing bodies (engineers/doctors) work to raise the floor.
There is nothing stopping a self-taught individual who has sufficient technical knowledge and experience from writing the P.Eng exams. I know someone who went to community college for a certificate as a Mechanical Technologist, and he's a licensed P.Eng right now.
480/0.5*0.07 = 67.2 MW thermal
More likely it's in the mid 30s (or even low 30s) for efficiency, so you end up around 96 MW thermal immediately after shutdown.
I tried to ignore it... But best practices should know the difference between "your" and "you're"