I guess we are going to get this sort of treatment because let the media conglomerates and other corporate interests treat us this way. I wouldn't be surprised if the were just testing how far they could go this time around.
Later in his career Ken Thompson had corrective eye surgery, changed his name to Kim Thayil and was the lead guitarist of Soundgarden...What an amazing talent.
The reason is data centre floods don't occur very often but when they do the d.c can tolerate the data cable being in water but when the power gets in contact with water circuit breakers trip and they don't work again until they are dry.
I encountered it when the AC water feed burst and co-incidentally the drain for the data centre had been blocked. If your power and data are through the floor then I would suggest that you invest in a good wet and dry vacuum cleaner. I do have other suggestions but this seems such a basic thing to me.
No it isn't. It's about the impetus to do it. Once there was an impetus to go to the moon we got there in less than 10 years, not because it was easy - but because it was hard.
In addition, a moon space elevator will not have a number of the serious problems that an earth space elevator would have,
And a moonstalk can be built with conventional materials allowing us to practice solving the inevitable engineering problems, mass and shielding for space craft etc etc all outside of earths gravity well. So there are many reasons to build a moonstalk first.
Of course, producing enough of the stuff and making the belt out of it is still non-trivial...
What about a NASA competition to produce the stands long enough?
For that matter what about forcing the coal industry to do it, surely the carbon is required to be in a vapor state when manufacturing the CNTs. I guess the only question is would there be enough thermal energy remaining to make the CNTs after the turbines - I mean they *talk* about sequestering carbon. Why not sequester it into something useful?
That is from my virtually non-existent knowledge of making CNTs, btw, but just maybe the coal industry might be able to do something with the massive profits they make from burning coal.
And who knows, if they help build a S.E maybe they could continue to mine coal and use the S.E to throw it at Mars and thicken it's atmosphere, thus they could maintain their relevance. Just sayin...
That would at least lower the power requirement. The problem then is to see how much weight that adds to both units... can you make the addition of a second receiver panel plus the addition of a regenerative breaking system plus the addition of a laser assembly pass break-even? Even adding a single pound to the unit has got to have a severe affect on the total energy required to lift it.
I think in time the whole thing would be powered from space anyway eliminating the vagaries of terrestrial weather, probably keeping some ocean based power as a backup for cars climbing in heavy storms. Ideally the cars would be powered by multiple power sources that the cars aligned with a sighting/ranging/data laser from the car - responded by a power laser.
One thing is definitely interesting - people have stopped laughing at the idea, it might even happen in our lifetime - one can only hope.
Is there also an issue of having more than one climber on the cable at any one time - surely that means you'd want to be firing the power laser at a suitable angle anyway, to power a specific cable car.
If there is more than one car you should be able to beam power *from* cars that have escaped earths gravity and have begun to "fall". The same motors that were being used to climb could be used as a generator much the same way trains use regenerative braking to put power back into the grid when they are going downhill.
How can they advertise xx mbps when you can only use said speed for 15 minutes? Shouldn't it be advertised as a burst speed with a real speed of 70% of burst speed.
I wonder how they would react if you only paid 70% of the bill.
Former Defense policy advisor to President Obama, Peter Singer does a great interview for Hungry Beast on autonomous military robotics. Quite an interesting interview. It is a video but it won't start buffering until you hit play.
He raises a good point about us human doing things like this and then thinking 'maybe that wasn't such a good idea'. So much for Asimov's laws for robotics.
Apparently Arnie wanted to overdub the German version himself because he speaks German but the directors wouldn't let him because his Austrian accent would have made the Terminator sound like a German farmer.
Now that would have been a real good comedic twist.
Once upon a time movies were about creating a piece of art and the studios took a risk. Now that accountants are involved in eliminating the risk from the movie making business (now called franchises) they make perfectly polished pieces of shit.
Unions served their purpose a long time ago, but now merely exist to grab as much money as they can without giving a shit about the consequences as well as to pay exorbinant amounts to those running them.
How is that any different from political parties, corporations or any other entity with lots of people and lots of money? Corruption exists in every organisation that it can exist. It's not right, it's just how it is. Kind of reminds me of how the Soviet Union was before it collapsed. I hope that doesn't happen to America, but the nice America is gone - now it's the America that shits on it's own people (at least from an outsiders perspective). People died for your rights and now corporatism has got America running right into the arms of fascism whilst waving the flag. Somewhere the pursuit of happiness turned into the pursuit of extreme wealth, now the spirit of your nation is in tears.
Unions for a long time now stopped being a good thing and are now just a money grabbing operation that exist to increase wages far higher than they SHOULD be, especially for people who don't deserve a job in the first place.
Well thats really a shame for America because functioning unions are a healthy expression of a functioning democracy and an effective counter balance to corporate power. Your First Amendment provides the right of the people to peaceably assemble as well as freedom of speech, press & religion so if you don't have adequate participation in those organisations to make them function effectively you can hardly be surprised when they don't.
I think one of the larger questions should be, why the fuck aren't we manufacturing these things in the US??
Globalisation. When you export the jobs to China you import their unemployment. Because you don't export the working conditions and laws for workers built up through decades of union activities they will work for a bowl of rice. American workers will not work for a bowl of rice, and why should they? So how do they compete with that?
Strong union presence helped balance the financial impetus that created a strong manufacturing sector in the US keeping US manufacturing in the US, keeping that money in the American economy. What do you think that one day the owners of the factories who used child labor in US factories one day just woke up and said "forget about our profits - using child labor is bad"?...hahahaha. Do you think they mind using child labor in the countries who you are trying to compete with?
Except the joke is on every western country and it's a race to the bottom because few people value the rights that are taken for granted in many western countries. That's the cost of apathy. For some reason people think Unions are a left wing commie type thing, if that's the case why aren't the Chinese unions protecting communist Chinese workers?
You don't value the freedoms won for you and Americans are so easily deceived by their own out of what they fought so hard for. Your enemy is within. Capitalism, like Communism has always been the enemy of Democracy. But because all 300 million of you think your gonna be the next tycoon you're all happy to maintain scope for everyone to be exploited while the rest of the world looks on with dis-belief kinda half laughing because we all realise that it's happening to us to.
You got your wish to spread capitalism around the world, now it's become Corporatism and now it is devouring the democracy where it began.
Slashdot Mirror
So no-one recognised the Janeway reference, eh?
All this messing with the time lines gives me a headache.
The fundamental *ists with their *isms all tell us the path to salvation.
I guess we are going to get this sort of treatment because let the media conglomerates and other corporate interests treat us this way. I wouldn't be surprised if the were just testing how far they could go this time around.
Later in his career Ken Thompson had corrective eye surgery, changed his name to Kim Thayil and was the lead guitarist of Soundgarden...What an amazing talent.
Exactly, mine was on the fifth floor!!!
Power from the ceiling, data under the floor.
The reason is data centre floods don't occur very often but when they do the d.c can tolerate the data cable being in water but when the power gets in contact with water circuit breakers trip and they don't work again until they are dry.
I encountered it when the AC water feed burst and co-incidentally the drain for the data centre had been blocked. If your power and data are through the floor then I would suggest that you invest in a good wet and dry vacuum cleaner. I do have other suggestions but this seems such a basic thing to me.
Exactly.
Isn't that what U.S citizen do to Canada now? and wasn't America built on immigrant labor?
Seems to me insurance company profits would be better spent on just providing health care.
What happened to the nice America that looked after all her children?
Theres an app for that
No it isn't. It's about the impetus to do it. Once there was an impetus to go to the moon we got there in less than 10 years, not because it was easy - but because it was hard.
And a moonstalk can be built with conventional materials allowing us to practice solving the inevitable engineering problems, mass and shielding for space craft etc etc all outside of earths gravity well. So there are many reasons to build a moonstalk first.
What about a NASA competition to produce the stands long enough?
For that matter what about forcing the coal industry to do it, surely the carbon is required to be in a vapor state when manufacturing the CNTs. I guess the only question is would there be enough thermal energy remaining to make the CNTs after the turbines - I mean they *talk* about sequestering carbon. Why not sequester it into something useful?
That is from my virtually non-existent knowledge of making CNTs, btw, but just maybe the coal industry might be able to do something with the massive profits they make from burning coal.
And who knows, if they help build a S.E maybe they could continue to mine coal and use the S.E to throw it at Mars and thicken it's atmosphere, thus they could maintain their relevance. Just sayin...
indeed, could also be an interesting slashdot effect experiment.
Archimedes, the oceans are the earth's bathtub you insensitive clod.
A Latin grammar Nazi - I guess there's one in every language.
I think in time the whole thing would be powered from space anyway eliminating the vagaries of terrestrial weather, probably keeping some ocean based power as a backup for cars climbing in heavy storms. Ideally the cars would be powered by multiple power sources that the cars aligned with a sighting/ranging/data laser from the car - responded by a power laser.
One thing is definitely interesting - people have stopped laughing at the idea, it might even happen in our lifetime - one can only hope.
your sig has always cracked me up btw
If there is more than one car you should be able to beam power *from* cars that have escaped earths gravity and have begun to "fall". The same motors that were being used to climb could be used as a generator much the same way trains use regenerative braking to put power back into the grid when they are going downhill.
I wonder how they would react if you only paid 70% of the bill.
Turn the phone off.
Former Defense policy advisor to President Obama, Peter Singer does a great interview for Hungry Beast on autonomous military robotics. Quite an interesting interview. It is a video but it won't start buffering until you hit play.
He raises a good point about us human doing things like this and then thinking 'maybe that wasn't such a good idea'. So much for Asimov's laws for robotics.
Apparently Arnie wanted to overdub the German version himself because he speaks German but the directors wouldn't let him because his Austrian accent would have made the Terminator sound like a German farmer.
Now that would have been a real good comedic twist.
Once upon a time movies were about creating a piece of art and the studios took a risk. Now that accountants are involved in eliminating the risk from the movie making business (now called franchises) they make perfectly polished pieces of shit.
How is that any different from political parties, corporations or any other entity with lots of people and lots of money? Corruption exists in every organisation that it can exist. It's not right, it's just how it is. Kind of reminds me of how the Soviet Union was before it collapsed. I hope that doesn't happen to America, but the nice America is gone - now it's the America that shits on it's own people (at least from an outsiders perspective). People died for your rights and now corporatism has got America running right into the arms of fascism whilst waving the flag. Somewhere the pursuit of happiness turned into the pursuit of extreme wealth, now the spirit of your nation is in tears.
Well thats really a shame for America because functioning unions are a healthy expression of a functioning democracy and an effective counter balance to corporate power. Your First Amendment provides the right of the people to peaceably assemble as well as freedom of speech, press & religion so if you don't have adequate participation in those organisations to make them function effectively you can hardly be surprised when they don't.
Globalisation. When you export the jobs to China you import their unemployment. Because you don't export the working conditions and laws for workers built up through decades of union activities they will work for a bowl of rice. American workers will not work for a bowl of rice, and why should they? So how do they compete with that?
Strong union presence helped balance the financial impetus that created a strong manufacturing sector in the US keeping US manufacturing in the US, keeping that money in the American economy. What do you think that one day the owners of the factories who used child labor in US factories one day just woke up and said "forget about our profits - using child labor is bad"?...hahahaha. Do you think they mind using child labor in the countries who you are trying to compete with?
Except the joke is on every western country and it's a race to the bottom because few people value the rights that are taken for granted in many western countries. That's the cost of apathy. For some reason people think Unions are a left wing commie type thing, if that's the case why aren't the Chinese unions protecting communist Chinese workers?
You don't value the freedoms won for you and Americans are so easily deceived by their own out of what they fought so hard for. Your enemy is within. Capitalism, like Communism has always been the enemy of Democracy. But because all 300 million of you think your gonna be the next tycoon you're all happy to maintain scope for everyone to be exploited while the rest of the world looks on with dis-belief kinda half laughing because we all realise that it's happening to us to.
You got your wish to spread capitalism around the world, now it's become Corporatism and now it is devouring the democracy where it began.