Maybe it doesn't make as much sense as you think. The faculty voted on the use of the textbook, and the authors recused themselves from the vote. The comments in TFA include some from a math professor at the school:
No, the faculty (of which I am one) overwhelmingly voted to use the book.
It is not a problem to vote against our chair or vice chair. I have done it before. I will do it again. The only thing the chair has ever said about it was that he appreciates me contributing to the department dialogue and that he EXPECTS me to continue to do so.
The textbook proposed by Dr. Bourget is not of equal quality for that course. I am not trying to disparage the other textbook, but rather point out that the textbook needs to suit the course and the level of the audience. The other text is more appropriate for an advanced audience. In fact, Dr. Bourget's supporter, Dr. McMillan, is using the same textbook that Dr. Bourget would like to use but in our advanced linear algebra course this semester!
Technically the law is that the corporate execs must maximize profits for the shareholders, not hire the cheapest developers.
Technically, the law is that the corporate execs have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders within the confines of the corporate charter and applicable laws. That is not at all the same as a mandate to maximize profits at all costs. (There are such things as non-profit corporations, for an extreme example.) Fiduciary duty does mean they're not supposed to spend corporate money on things like corporate yachts used for personal recreation, or hookers and blow.
Also, courts give considerable leeway to executives to base business decisions on their judgements, as long as they meet the standard of reasonable care, even if they choose long-term potential over short-term profits, and even if the decisions were proved wrong in the end. (Though the shareholders might sell in disagreement, they almost never win in court.)
First, per capita is not per worker. There are children, retirees, and even spouses that do not work.
Second, the US economy is closely tied to consumer spending, so giving a raise would boost the GDP. (Figuring out what the ratio of increased wages to increased GDP would be is left as an exercise for the student.)
The tiny increases in wage rates since the recession is an important factor in explaining why the GDP is expanding so slowly now.
The two major rail lines are actually one major rail line that happens to split right at Evanston, so it is great if the place you want to go is Chicago. . . . I am not familiar with the bus service in Evanston, but I am familiar with bus service in other Chicago suburbs and I can tell you that it is a miserable experience that adds an hour to your commute.
The UP-N Metra Rail line goes through Evanston between downtown Chicago and Kenosha, Wisconsin, so you can get to a lot of north shore towns and Chicago neighborhoods on that line (though you will probably need to be picked up by someone in a car at the Metra station if you go north)
Also Evanston has three CTA "L" lines (the Skokie Swift Yellow Line, the Evanston Express Purple Line, and the Howard Street Red Line) that all go to Chicago. So, yes, other than Skokie, you can't get to many suburbs on those lines.
Evanston borders Chicago, so a lot of the buses are extensions of Chicago's CTA buses. Again, good for getting to places in Chicago, if slow. Pace buses to get to other suburbs are reliable, but, in my limited experience, exceedingly infrequent and slow.
I think they will find that by becoming more dense, they will substitute the upper middle class people and the high property (and property tax) values for a larger number of lower income people with low property values.
It is actually going the other way, with lower income residents complaining that they are getting pushed out by gentrification.
Refrigeration using gas compression - John Gorrie, before 1850 (first thermodynamic textbooks, 1959)
Boyle's Law and Charles' Law predate that by many decades, and the basic laws of thermodynamics were developed and published around 1850. (I can only assume that there's a typo in your claim that the first thermodynamic textbooks were published in 1959).
So speculating on theories and testing hypothesis helped lead to development of refrigeration machinery before 1850, it's not like there was no thermodynamic science going on at the time, and it's also not like refrigeration was well developed and made efficient before the theory was set.
I think you may have slipped a decimal place, based on emergency generators i've designed for lately, 153,000 gallons would be good for about 2,000 MWh.
Why would storage be above ground, though? In the USA, anyway, there's a lot more restrictions on above ground storage than on below ground because of fire hazards, unless you have a lot of open space.
And if noise is the issue, then that can be mitigated, even after the fact - unless they were stupid enough to put the chillers and generators right on the lot line in a residential neighborhood.
And, really, the "580,000 liters of diesel fuel" is a LOT.
To put it in perspective, TFA said that the data center is "rated" at 76 MW. So if 100% of that is backed up, 580,000 liters (153,000 gallons) of diesel fuel will last about a day. (YMMV)
I'm currently doing fueling design for emergency generators for an airport, 18 MW of capacity. They have 6,000 gallons of diesel (about 4 hours of fuel) in the "day tanks" in the generator building, and 160,000 gallons of fuel in the underground storage tanks. They do have to plan for using some of the stored fuel for emergency heating if they lose natural gas, but that still leaves multiple days worth of back-up before needing to refill the storage tanks.
. . . gasoline and diesel in emergencies is hard to come by.
Natural gas on the other had would take an asteroid strike to potentially wipe that out.
Or a small earthquake, which is often part of the reason diesel is chosen. Other reasons are cost and size. For a 125 kW generator that might not make that big a difference, but for large generators, it can be significant, though there's a trade-off with fuel storage. But that also depends on what length of time you are planning to use the generators - most outages last only hours, and if you're planning for one that lasts days, you should probably plan for switching to a back-up data center located elsewhere.
No one calculates that outside of the science world. And in the science world, everyone uses metric (even in the USA).
I'm in the engineering world, and I calculate those sorts of things all the time. And in the engineering world, everyone uses traditional US measures (almost everyone in the USA, anyway)
If you just ignore the SI prefixes then you're not really using the metric system, even if you happen to have an SI unit as your base.
That's not the big advantage of the SI system, anyway. The advantage is that compound measurements, like energy = force x distance or mass x velocity^2 don't need conversion factors.
You are incorrect. The length of the meter is currently based on the speed of light and a standard interval of time. The length of a US foot has been based on the meter for well over a hundred years - except for states that haven't converted their land survey data to standard feet. Those states have two "feet" in play: US standard feet for most commerce, and survey feet for land surveying. Before basing the yard on the length of a meter the yard was based on the length of a standard yard-long metal bar.
In the US system the goal is to make dealing with the physical objects easy -- to get from one size to the next larger one most of the time you double something.
If that were true, it'd be nice. But, no, I have to figure fractions of inches, 12 inches to the foot, 3 feet to the yard, and 1760 yards to the mile. Not to mention that the US survey foot is different than the standard foot in some states and not in others. And pressures get measured in pounds per square foot, pounds per square inch, feet of water, inches of water, inches of mercury, atmospheres, etc., none of which relate by multiples of two. And a gallon is the volume of a cylinder 6 inches high by 7 inches in diameter if you assume pi to be exactly 22/7 - no factors of 2 between cubic feet and gallons. Don't even get me started about viscosity, where we have wonderful measures like Saybolt Seconds Universal, which doesn't even relate linearly to the standard measures that you need if you're doing any calculations. (ASTM had to issue a standard - ASTM-D-2161 - for converting between useful measures of viscosity and SSU or SFU in order to minimize discrepancies between measures.)
In the metric systems the goal is to make the mathematics easy (and also the naming system).
The good thing about SI units is that they're mostly consistent. No need to convert pounds to slugs and miles per hour to feet per second before plugging the numbers into the formula. Fundamental measures relate directly to derived quantities.
I'm not sure why they bothered with superficial patents on things like the shape of the device's packaging, which was probably the least-important aspect of the product beyond initial marketing and making the device look 'cool' to prospective buyers.
Don't conflate design patents, which are explicitly about looks and marketing, with utility patents, which are about inventions and have a longer term.
IANAL, YMMV (especially outside the US)
VMware was a separate, publicly traded company, with EMC holding the majority of stock. They are still a separate, publicly traded company, but, with Dell holding the majority of stock.
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This, exactly. I clicked on the link and got a shiny splash page with almost no information in it, other than a pretty picture. I clicked on the next page, and got what appeared to be another shiny splash page without any information in it. I refuse to go any farther when I encounter that sort of useless garbage.
These cool water by evaporating a portion of it and circulating it through the refrigeration equipment, where the water picks up heat, and then recirculates back through the cooling tower. The cooling tower water is used as a heat sink for the refrigeration equipment, most often a Chiller, which chills a separate, closed circuit of water down to around 40 F to 45F, and that Chilled Water is circulated to the air handling units or other air conditioning systems to provide A/C to the building.
The cooling tower can also be used as a heat rejection device for other, non-A/C systems, like generators, refrigerators, etc.
If you try and reimplement a complex format you are very likely to end up writing very similar code to the original imlementation simply because there is only one sane way to imlement bits of it.
Then that block of code would be functional, rather than creative, and it wouldn't be covered by copyright (if the courts agree with you, assuming it comes to that)
IANAL, YMMV
The map you linked to doesn't show the total amount of hours in the sun or the number of sunburns. It does show that places where people have paler skin (the north) have a greater chance of getting skin cancer than places where people have darker skin (Africa) or where they tend to cover up (the deserts).
The skincancer.org site does say that having more than 5 sunburns is more important for melanoma than the total hours in the sun, but it says the opposite for other forms of skin cancer. My experience (based on discussions with my wife's doctor) is that being a redhead is probably more predictive of melanoma than the number of sunburns. (Anyway, what redhead hasn't gotten more than 5 sunburns?)
End result is someone with a natural tan who spends every day in the sun is less likely to be affected than a pale geek who goes out once a week and gets roasted.
What about a pale geek like me, who can't get much of a tan no matter how much sun I get?
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No, the faculty (of which I am one) overwhelmingly voted to use the book.
It is not a problem to vote against our chair or vice chair. I have done it before. I will do it again. The only thing the chair has ever said about it was that he appreciates me contributing to the department dialogue and that he EXPECTS me to continue to do so.
The textbook proposed by Dr. Bourget is not of equal quality for that course. I am not trying to disparage the other textbook, but rather point out that the textbook needs to suit the course and the level of the audience. The other text is more appropriate for an advanced audience. In fact, Dr. Bourget's supporter, Dr. McMillan, is using the same textbook that Dr. Bourget would like to use but in our advanced linear algebra course this semester!
Technically, the law is that the corporate execs have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders within the confines of the corporate charter and applicable laws. That is not at all the same as a mandate to maximize profits at all costs. (There are such things as non-profit corporations, for an extreme example.) Fiduciary duty does mean they're not supposed to spend corporate money on things like corporate yachts used for personal recreation, or hookers and blow.
Also, courts give considerable leeway to executives to base business decisions on their judgements, as long as they meet the standard of reasonable care, even if they choose long-term potential over short-term profits, and even if the decisions were proved wrong in the end. (Though the shareholders might sell in disagreement, they almost never win in court.)
First, per capita is not per worker. There are children, retirees, and even spouses that do not work.
Second, the US economy is closely tied to consumer spending, so giving a raise would boost the GDP. (Figuring out what the ratio of increased wages to increased GDP would be is left as an exercise for the student.)
The tiny increases in wage rates since the recession is an important factor in explaining why the GDP is expanding so slowly now.
The UP-N Metra Rail line goes through Evanston between downtown Chicago and Kenosha, Wisconsin, so you can get to a lot of north shore towns and Chicago neighborhoods on that line (though you will probably need to be picked up by someone in a car at the Metra station if you go north)
Also Evanston has three CTA "L" lines (the Skokie Swift Yellow Line, the Evanston Express Purple Line, and the Howard Street Red Line) that all go to Chicago. So, yes, other than Skokie, you can't get to many suburbs on those lines.
Evanston borders Chicago, so a lot of the buses are extensions of Chicago's CTA buses. Again, good for getting to places in Chicago, if slow. Pace buses to get to other suburbs are reliable, but, in my limited experience, exceedingly infrequent and slow.
It is actually going the other way, with lower income residents complaining that they are getting pushed out by gentrification.
At least Bernie Sanders was against CISA.
Boyle's Law and Charles' Law predate that by many decades, and the basic laws of thermodynamics were developed and published around 1850. (I can only assume that there's a typo in your claim that the first thermodynamic textbooks were published in 1959).
So speculating on theories and testing hypothesis helped lead to development of refrigeration machinery before 1850, it's not like there was no thermodynamic science going on at the time, and it's also not like refrigeration was well developed and made efficient before the theory was set.
I believe AC was responding to TFA, not the GP.
I think you may have slipped a decimal place, based on emergency generators i've designed for lately, 153,000 gallons would be good for about 2,000 MWh.
Why would storage be above ground, though? In the USA, anyway, there's a lot more restrictions on above ground storage than on below ground because of fire hazards, unless you have a lot of open space.
And if noise is the issue, then that can be mitigated, even after the fact - unless they were stupid enough to put the chillers and generators right on the lot line in a residential neighborhood.
To put it in perspective, TFA said that the data center is "rated" at 76 MW. So if 100% of that is backed up, 580,000 liters (153,000 gallons) of diesel fuel will last about a day. (YMMV)
I'm currently doing fueling design for emergency generators for an airport, 18 MW of capacity. They have 6,000 gallons of diesel (about 4 hours of fuel) in the "day tanks" in the generator building, and 160,000 gallons of fuel in the underground storage tanks. They do have to plan for using some of the stored fuel for emergency heating if they lose natural gas, but that still leaves multiple days worth of back-up before needing to refill the storage tanks.
Or a small earthquake, which is often part of the reason diesel is chosen. Other reasons are cost and size. For a 125 kW generator that might not make that big a difference, but for large generators, it can be significant, though there's a trade-off with fuel storage. But that also depends on what length of time you are planning to use the generators - most outages last only hours, and if you're planning for one that lasts days, you should probably plan for switching to a back-up data center located elsewhere.
Plus demand charges per peak kW, which are often as important as the kWh charges.
Unless you want to figure the acceleration of the space vehicle you get for a given force from the engine.
I'm in the engineering world, and I calculate those sorts of things all the time. And in the engineering world, everyone uses traditional US measures (almost everyone in the USA, anyway)
That's why I do all my measurements in base 174,636,000 (2^5 * 3^4 * 5^3 * 7^2 * 11)
That's not the big advantage of the SI system, anyway. The advantage is that compound measurements, like energy = force x distance or mass x velocity^2 don't need conversion factors.
You are incorrect. The length of the meter is currently based on the speed of light and a standard interval of time. The length of a US foot has been based on the meter for well over a hundred years - except for states that haven't converted their land survey data to standard feet. Those states have two "feet" in play: US standard feet for most commerce, and survey feet for land surveying. Before basing the yard on the length of a meter the yard was based on the length of a standard yard-long metal bar.
If that were true, it'd be nice. But, no, I have to figure fractions of inches, 12 inches to the foot, 3 feet to the yard, and 1760 yards to the mile. Not to mention that the US survey foot is different than the standard foot in some states and not in others. And pressures get measured in pounds per square foot, pounds per square inch, feet of water, inches of water, inches of mercury, atmospheres, etc., none of which relate by multiples of two. And a gallon is the volume of a cylinder 6 inches high by 7 inches in diameter if you assume pi to be exactly 22/7 - no factors of 2 between cubic feet and gallons. Don't even get me started about viscosity, where we have wonderful measures like Saybolt Seconds Universal, which doesn't even relate linearly to the standard measures that you need if you're doing any calculations. (ASTM had to issue a standard - ASTM-D-2161 - for converting between useful measures of viscosity and SSU or SFU in order to minimize discrepancies between measures.)
The good thing about SI units is that they're mostly consistent. No need to convert pounds to slugs and miles per hour to feet per second before plugging the numbers into the formula. Fundamental measures relate directly to derived quantities.
Don't conflate design patents, which are explicitly about looks and marketing, with utility patents, which are about inventions and have a longer term.
IANAL, YMMV (especially outside the US)
VMware was a separate, publicly traded company, with EMC holding the majority of stock. They are still a separate, publicly traded company, but, with Dell holding the majority of stock.
This, exactly. I clicked on the link and got a shiny splash page with almost no information in it, other than a pretty picture. I clicked on the next page, and got what appeared to be another shiny splash page without any information in it. I refuse to go any farther when I encounter that sort of useless garbage.
These cool water by evaporating a portion of it and circulating it through the refrigeration equipment, where the water picks up heat, and then recirculates back through the cooling tower. The cooling tower water is used as a heat sink for the refrigeration equipment, most often a Chiller, which chills a separate, closed circuit of water down to around 40 F to 45F, and that Chilled Water is circulated to the air handling units or other air conditioning systems to provide A/C to the building.
The cooling tower can also be used as a heat rejection device for other, non-A/C systems, like generators, refrigerators, etc.
Then that block of code would be functional, rather than creative, and it wouldn't be covered by copyright (if the courts agree with you, assuming it comes to that)
IANAL, YMMV
The map you linked to doesn't show the total amount of hours in the sun or the number of sunburns. It does show that places where people have paler skin (the north) have a greater chance of getting skin cancer than places where people have darker skin (Africa) or where they tend to cover up (the deserts).
The skincancer.org site does say that having more than 5 sunburns is more important for melanoma than the total hours in the sun, but it says the opposite for other forms of skin cancer. My experience (based on discussions with my wife's doctor) is that being a redhead is probably more predictive of melanoma than the number of sunburns. (Anyway, what redhead hasn't gotten more than 5 sunburns?)
What about a pale geek like me, who can't get much of a tan no matter how much sun I get?