When I first moved to the states from the the UK I too was shocked at how frequently the power went out. It seemed like there was at least one outage a day for the first few months I was here. A UPS for the home machine was an absolute necessity.
The last couple of years have been pretty stable though, apart from a couple of occasions when storms damaged the lines. Voltage and frequency are certainly more variable than the UK if my "kill-a-watt" is to be believed.
The American grid can cope with small scale home generation OK, it is the large scale wind farms with their unpredictable output that are harder to fit in.
Totally agree, but there are areas where CCDs still cannot compete with photographic methods. Namely wide field imaging. Specifically I am thinking of schmidt cameras. Until they can grow a silicon wafer that big CCDs aren't going to compete. Think of the size of the UK Scmidt camera for instance, IIRC the film size is way beyond anything that can be made from a single silicon wafer. And it needs to be curved to conform to the focal plane.
Even on a smaller scale a 6 inch square photographic plate packs more information than any CCD can particlarly for astrographic applications. Yes, a mosaic can be be generated but telescope tracking accuracy becomes a factor, a single exposure is always going to be superior to multiple images stitched together.
For people with large refractors where chromatic abberation is also an issue you simply cannot get a well focussed image on a CCD detector without narrow band filters, preferably stromgren. The added sensitivity really helps in that case. Just picking your IIIaj or IIao emulsion was much easier. But things move on and how many people use big refractors anymore
Having worked for a number of years in the optical astronomy field during the transition from photographic plates to CCD imaging I for one truly appreciate the CCD. No more baking plates in nitrogen and choosing the right emulsion for the wavelength of interest.
Now, the IR sensitivity was a different matter, played hob with the spectrograph we retrofitted with a CCD camera. First order IR overlapping second order blue.....
Quite! This is something the wind power people regularly overlook. The American grid seems to be predicated on predictable generation. Generator resource A will supply N Mw of power to the grid from x o'clock to y'oclock, resource B will provide power from n o'clock to m o'clock.
Wind generation simply isn't predictable enough to fit into these strictures. Currently the grid cannot cope with the stochastic nature of wind power on a large scale.
Maybe this is a good argument for micro generation at the point of demand.
And need I remind you guys, Google does censor U.S. searches, although I'm sure they aren't happy about it....
Maybe they do, maybe they don't but the specific censorship you claim is occuring simply ain't true.
Your link is to a page of article complaining of googles supposed cenorship of anti scientology sites. The first such articles complains of the censorship of operation clambake but googling on "clambake": first result: "Operation Clambake - The Inner Secrets of Scientology" with a URL pointing directly at www.xenu.net which your link also claims is censored.
Afraid I'd need to see more compelling evidence than this.
Reading the article it seems to me that they are talking about a TPM/TCPA/palladium type application. If running on a TPM equipped machine then debugging is no help nor is a decompiler. The OS either won't let you run the debugger or decompiler while this programme is running or will refuse access to the secure memory area where it is running. Cracking the "secure box" where the data is stored is simply a case of breaking whichever type of strong encryption is used. The same goes for trying to decrypt the code itself. Good luck with that:(
As to mathemtaical proof? If they are really referring to the mathematical difficulty of decrypting the code in order to decompile it I would hardly call it proof but I'll leave that argument to philosophers and those more knowledgeable in the field.
When I RTFA'ed I almost burst out laughing. ".... but that technology is accepted and is viewed as net value add." I view it as a damn good reason NOT to purchase a vehicle. It's no different from spyware and should be treated in the same manner.
Better keep your colour printouts well hidden. The machine identification code will tell them when it was printed and on what printer. See http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/
No need for fancy experiments. My wife detected a gravity wave using our car recently. One minute she was driving along minding her own business, next minute she was in a ditch after a rogue wave shifted the entire road out from under her.
Anyway, that's her story and she's sticking to it.
likewise am an H1-B worker from the UK. For me money is not as much an issue, it is the improved lifestyle, cleaner air, more freedom (I bought a handgun just beacause I could:) and so on. Having said that I am earning considerably more than I did in the UK and am pleased to do so.
I do not feel that I am being abused in any way by my employer. My salary has gone up considerably since I came here in 2002 and is I believe comparable to that of my colleagues.
My only gripe is not being able to vote here. Wasn't there some war about taxation without representation a while back?
Put me in mind of the 4 Yorkshiremen..
"I used to get up a 10 o'clock at night, 2 hours before I went to bed. Ate 2 pieces of cold gravel, drank a cup of sulphuric acid and paid mill owner for privilege of going to work........ Tell that to the kids today...."
Don't be so sure gas prices will make nuclear power more acceptable. Petrol just hit the 1 pound per litre mark in parts of the UK (At todays rates thats $6.89 per US gallon).
The only change I notice is that people seem to be less nimby'ish about wind generators.
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When I first moved to the states from the the UK I too was shocked at how frequently the power went out. It seemed like there was at least one outage a day for the first few months I was here. A UPS for the home machine was an absolute necessity.
The last couple of years have been pretty stable though, apart from a couple of occasions when storms damaged the lines. Voltage and frequency are certainly more variable than the UK if my "kill-a-watt" is to be believed.
The American grid can cope with small scale home generation OK, it is the large scale wind farms with their unpredictable output that are harder to fit in.
Totally agree, but there are areas where CCDs still cannot compete with photographic methods. Namely wide field imaging. Specifically I am thinking of schmidt cameras. Until they can grow a silicon wafer that big CCDs aren't going to compete. Think of the size of the UK Scmidt camera for instance, IIRC the film size is way beyond anything that can be made from a single silicon wafer. And it needs to be curved to conform to the focal plane.
Even on a smaller scale a 6 inch square photographic plate packs more information than any CCD can particlarly for astrographic applications. Yes, a mosaic can be be generated but telescope tracking accuracy becomes a factor, a single exposure is always going to be superior to multiple images stitched together.
For people with large refractors where chromatic abberation is also an issue you simply cannot get a well focussed image on a CCD detector without narrow band filters, preferably stromgren. The added sensitivity really helps in that case. Just picking your IIIaj or IIao emulsion was much easier. But things move on and how many people use big refractors anymore
Marbles are a lot denser than bread. At least to start with.
Having worked for a number of years in the optical astronomy field during the transition from photographic plates to CCD imaging I for one truly appreciate the CCD. No more baking plates in nitrogen and choosing the right emulsion for the wavelength of interest.
Now, the IR sensitivity was a different matter, played hob with the spectrograph we retrofitted with a CCD camera. First order IR overlapping second order blue.....
Quite! This is something the wind power people regularly overlook. The American grid seems to be predicated on predictable generation. Generator resource A will supply N Mw of power to the grid from x o'clock to y'oclock, resource B will provide power from n o'clock to m o'clock.
Wind generation simply isn't predictable enough to fit into these strictures. Currently the grid cannot cope with the stochastic nature of wind power on a large scale.
Maybe this is a good argument for micro generation at the point of demand.
Your link is to a page of article complaining of googles supposed cenorship of anti scientology sites. The first such articles complains of the censorship of operation clambake but googling on "clambake": first result: "Operation Clambake - The Inner Secrets of Scientology" with a URL pointing directly at www.xenu.net which your link also claims is censored.
Afraid I'd need to see more compelling evidence than this.
Reading the article it seems to me that they are talking about a TPM/TCPA/palladium type application. If running on a TPM equipped machine then debugging is no help nor is a decompiler. The OS either won't let you run the debugger or decompiler while this programme is running or will refuse access to the secure memory area where it is running. Cracking the "secure box" where the data is stored is simply a case of breaking whichever type of strong encryption is used. The same goes for trying to decrypt the code itself. Good luck with that :(
As to mathemtaical proof? If they are really referring to the mathematical difficulty of decrypting the code in order to decompile it I would hardly call it proof but I'll leave that argument to philosophers and those more knowledgeable in the field.
How about the Lord Kitchener poster campaign for WWI "Your country needs you".
I don't doubt other countries had/have similar.
When I RTFA'ed I almost burst out laughing. ".... but that technology is accepted and is viewed as net value add." I view it as a damn good reason NOT to purchase a vehicle. It's no different from spyware and should be treated in the same manner.
Better keep your colour printouts well hidden. The machine identification code will tell them when it was printed and on what printer. See http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/
Now, where's my sister gone, hey y'all, watch this.....
This guy built his whole machine from lego: http://home.hawaii.rr.com/chowfamily/lego/
No need for fancy experiments. My wife detected a gravity wave using our car recently. One minute she was driving along minding her own business, next minute she was in a ditch after a rogue wave shifted the entire road out from under her.
Anyway, that's her story and she's sticking to it.
likewise am an H1-B worker from the UK. For me money is not as much an issue, it is the improved lifestyle, cleaner air, more freedom (I bought a handgun just beacause I could :) and so on. Having said that I am earning considerably more than I did in the UK and am pleased to do so.
I do not feel that I am being abused in any way by my employer. My salary has gone up considerably since I came here in 2002 and is I believe comparable to that of my colleagues.
My only gripe is not being able to vote here. Wasn't there some war about taxation without representation a while back?
Put me in mind of the 4 Yorkshiremen.. "I used to get up a 10 o'clock at night, 2 hours before I went to bed. Ate 2 pieces of cold gravel, drank a cup of sulphuric acid and paid mill owner for privilege of going to work........ Tell that to the kids today...."
Don't be so sure gas prices will make nuclear power more acceptable. Petrol just hit the 1 pound per litre mark in parts of the UK (At todays rates thats $6.89 per US gallon). The only change I notice is that people seem to be less nimby'ish about wind generators.