By the same token, Almonds are not nuts, they're drupes (or, perhaps more precisely, the fruit of the almond is a drupe, the "almond" you eat is is the seed from that fruit.)
In general, certain power plants, like coal, are hard to ramp up and down in capacity and consistently run at nearly full capacity to take care of the base load. Sometimes this can be very inefficient, if the capacity is greater than the transient load. However, the system as a whole does not run anywhere near capacity except during peak load, which is generally hot summer afternoons. There are incentives built into the rate structures that reflect these facts - commercial/industrial customers will pay more for electricity during the air conditioning season vs the heating season and during the day vs the night, and will usually pay a large amount based, not on amount of energy consumed, but on the maximum rate of consumption during a month, year, or season.
Even during peak consumption, better long-range transport could help spread the load (as your example shows).
Only the ones made by GM really sucked then. . . The sad thing is Americans learned Diesel sucks from that period, what they should have learned is GM sucks.
I bought a VW diesel in the 80s, and I learned that it sucked. (Though I still miss the 55 mpg highway, 42 mpg city that it gave me)
I concluded that Chicago is too cold for diesel autos, since it was unreliable whenever the temperature got down much below 10F (-12C). And it really was dirty for the first few minutes of operation until it warmed up sufficiently, which was embarrassing when the neighbors complained. Driving on a road trip in the Rockies was also kind of embarrassing when I had to pull over into the truck lane to let the semis pass me by going uphill.
Really, it depends. If you live and work in a large city center and only need the car occasionally to run an errand or go on a weekend trip, but end up paying $300 a month to park in a garage in addition to an auto loan and insurance, then taxis, zip cars, and rentals may be far cheaper.
We do have stressed-out grids, but that is not because of an insufficient output from the power plants; rather, it is because of insufficient infrastructure to transport the power from the concentrated power generation to the dispersed consumption.
I do not believe that that is related to range check. I believe Noser had to do with the test files that were unnecessarily included in the distribution of Android and are no longer present.
You don't need to register copyright. But you do need to register before you sue, or you can't win things like "infringer's profits".
Also, IIRC, the range check code was contributed to Java with Sun receiving an irrevocable license to use it and the contributor retaining his copyright. (It's possible, though, that that could be wrong; I read it on the internet and am too lazy/busy to look it up again at work)
I could be wrong, but what you described is your dog making intelligent decisions about the current course of action. This is not planning ahead in the same sense as the chimp hiding stones for later use or the elephant hiding dung for later use. (You will note from TFA that the researchers have not yet proven to the satisfaction of some colleagues that even that behaviour is planning ahead in the sense that people do plan ahead.)
A chimp's prefrontal cortex is not nearly as large or developed as a man's, as is a dog's prefrontal cortex to a chimp's. This may be one of the main reasons that humans are superior at plannnig ahead and dogs are not able to do long range planning.
On a more personal note, it sounded like you were calling my (really, my wife's) dogs stupid, and I resent that ; ) they are actually quite smart. (well, the oldest is exceptionally smart, the youngest doesn't seem much of a thinker, more of a doer).
Dogs always know what time it is. If they could speak they would tell you: "It's now" - that is, they can't really plan ahead. They can plan for the moment, within the limits of their working (short -term) memory. And they can internalize lessons from long-term experience and modify their behavior, such as not stealing food off the table after getting punished several times for it. But they have no capacity to reason about what might happen in the more-than-immediate future and decide what to do based on that. For example, the dog that won't steal food in front of you, may very well steal it when you are out of sight, never realizing that you will know what took place and get mad at it, but acting very guilty when you return to the room because it will only then realize it is in trouble.
Elephants, on the other hand, based on my own anecdotal "evidence", anyway, appear to be able to plan ahead as well as the chimp in TFA. When I was involved in the gutting and remaking of the building housing elephants, giraffes, etc. at our local zoo, the architect pointed out to me the brown spots on the wall behind the visitor's gallery. It turns out that the poor, bored animal was throwing its' dung at the visitors. The interesting part, though, was that when the zookeepers realized this, and cleaned up the poop before the visitors arrived, the elephant started planning ahead and hiding their excrement on top of the barrier poles so it would be available to throw at the gawkers (the poles were more than 8 feet high and large enough to conceal the dung from the zookeepers). This apparently amused the elephant, as it was done to the squealing delight of all the visiting schoolchildren - those that weren't hit by the shit, anyway.
"#" was used as a symbol for pound (force and mass, but not money) before I ever heard of ASCII.
It has also been used as a symbol for "number" for as long as I can remember. (I can remember back to the '60s)
Those two are also the most popular names for "#" in my experience.
A "task" assumes a goal, which is a concept that only makes sense in the context of an intelligent agent.
A rather narrow definition. I would say that cell division includes the task of gene replication, e.i.making a copy, even if there is no intelligent agent directing the copying toward a purpose.
Here, the mechanism just is; an inexact copy is no less valid than an exact copy.
Tell that to the parents of a child with cystic fibrosis, Down syndrome, or muscular dystrophy.
As I understand it, they use heat and catalysts? to crack methane into hydrogen and carbon monoxide? use the hydrogen to produce electricity, like any fuel cell, and burn the carbon monoxide to discharge carbon dioxide and heat. I may have the details wrong, though, they don't tend to publish technical information in these types of stories.
Further, the cross sectional area of a blade that is 10 meters long is perhaps at most about 10 square meters, while the total swept area of a blade that long is over 300 square meters. Allowing for the fact that there are 3 blades per turbine, the turbine is only affecting (at most) 10% of the air that is passing through any given turbine.
No, the turbine will appreciably affect more than 100% of the air that is passing through the area of the blade sweep.
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Oxymoronically self-contradictory.
By the same token, Almonds are not nuts, they're drupes (or, perhaps more precisely, the fruit of the almond is a drupe, the "almond" you eat is is the seed from that fruit.)
"Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department" says Werner von Braun.
IIRC, case law has held that the right to anonymity is part of the right of free speech.
The VW Rabbit was for sale in the 40's?
Or did you think the VW Beetle was for sale in the US in the 80s? (it wasn't)
In general, certain power plants, like coal, are hard to ramp up and down in capacity and consistently run at nearly full capacity to take care of the base load. Sometimes this can be very inefficient, if the capacity is greater than the transient load.
However, the system as a whole does not run anywhere near capacity except during peak load, which is generally hot summer afternoons. There are incentives built into the rate structures that reflect these facts - commercial/industrial customers will pay more for electricity during the air conditioning season vs the heating season and during the day vs the night, and will usually pay a large amount based, not on amount of energy consumed, but on the maximum rate of consumption during a month, year, or season.
Even during peak consumption, better long-range transport could help spread the load (as your example shows).
I bought a VW diesel in the 80s, and I learned that it sucked. (Though I still miss the 55 mpg highway, 42 mpg city that it gave me)
I concluded that Chicago is too cold for diesel autos, since it was unreliable whenever the temperature got down much below 10F (-12C).
And it really was dirty for the first few minutes of operation until it warmed up sufficiently, which was embarrassing when the neighbors complained.
Driving on a road trip in the Rockies was also kind of embarrassing when I had to pull over into the truck lane to let the semis pass me by going uphill.
Really, it depends. If you live and work in a large city center and only need the car occasionally to run an errand or go on a weekend trip, but end up paying $300 a month to park in a garage in addition to an auto loan and insurance, then taxis, zip cars, and rentals may be far cheaper.
We do have stressed-out grids, but that is not because of an insufficient output from the power plants; rather, it is because of insufficient infrastructure to transport the power from the concentrated power generation to the dispersed consumption.
Considering that they've only tested a stationary one-cylinder prototype so far, I doubt they've gotten up to 60mph yet.
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I do not believe that that is related to range check. I believe Noser had to do with the test files that were unnecessarily included in the distribution of Android and are no longer present.
You don't need to register copyright. But you do need to register before you sue, or you can't win things like "infringer's profits".
Also, IIRC, the range check code was contributed to Java with Sun receiving an irrevocable license to use it and the contributor retaining his copyright. (It's possible, though, that that could be wrong; I read it on the internet and am too lazy/busy to look it up again at work)
SCO had the same lawyer.
Actually, in the US, the beef cattle are typically fattened up with corn, often with offal mixed in, along with antibiotics and hormones.
I could be wrong, but what you described is your dog making intelligent decisions about the current course of action. This is not planning ahead in the same sense as the chimp hiding stones for later use or the elephant hiding dung for later use. (You will note from TFA that the researchers have not yet proven to the satisfaction of some colleagues that even that behaviour is planning ahead in the sense that people do plan ahead.)
A chimp's prefrontal cortex is not nearly as large or developed as a man's, as is a dog's prefrontal cortex to a chimp's. This may be one of the main reasons that humans are superior at plannnig ahead and dogs are not able to do long range planning.
On a more personal note, it sounded like you were calling my (really, my wife's) dogs stupid, and I resent that ; ) they are actually quite smart. (well, the oldest is exceptionally smart, the youngest doesn't seem much of a thinker, more of a doer).
That is not reasoning ahead, that is internalizing lessons learned.
Dogs always know what time it is. If they could speak they would tell you: "It's now" - that is, they can't really plan ahead. They can plan for the moment, within the limits of their working (short -term) memory. And they can internalize lessons from long-term experience and modify their behavior, such as not stealing food off the table after getting punished several times for it. But they have no capacity to reason about what might happen in the more-than-immediate future and decide what to do based on that. For example, the dog that won't steal food in front of you, may very well steal it when you are out of sight, never realizing that you will know what took place and get mad at it, but acting very guilty when you return to the room because it will only then realize it is in trouble.
Elephants, on the other hand, based on my own anecdotal "evidence", anyway, appear to be able to plan ahead as well as the chimp in TFA. When I was involved in the gutting and remaking of the building housing elephants, giraffes, etc. at our local zoo, the architect pointed out to me the brown spots on the wall behind the visitor's gallery. It turns out that the poor, bored animal was throwing its' dung at the visitors. The interesting part, though, was that when the zookeepers realized this, and cleaned up the poop before the visitors arrived, the elephant started planning ahead and hiding their excrement on top of the barrier poles so it would be available to throw at the gawkers (the poles were more than 8 feet high and large enough to conceal the dung from the zookeepers). This apparently amused the elephant, as it was done to the squealing delight of all the visiting schoolchildren - those that weren't hit by the shit, anyway.
Your father of 87 remembers taxes before 1913?
"#" was used as a symbol for pound (force and mass, but not money) before I ever heard of ASCII.
It has also been used as a symbol for "number" for as long as I can remember. (I can remember back to the '60s)
Those two are also the most popular names for "#" in my experience.
A rather narrow definition. I would say that cell division includes the task of gene replication, e.i.making a copy, even if there is no intelligent agent directing the copying toward a purpose.
Tell that to the parents of a child with cystic fibrosis, Down syndrome, or muscular dystrophy.
As I understand it, they use heat and catalysts? to crack methane into hydrogen and carbon monoxide? use the hydrogen to produce electricity, like any fuel cell, and burn the carbon monoxide to discharge carbon dioxide and heat. I may have the details wrong, though, they don't tend to publish technical information in these types of stories.
No, the turbine will appreciably affect more than 100% of the air that is passing through the area of the blade sweep.
With that logic, there would be no departments at all in any university, except maybe law or MBA programs.
Let's do a simulation to check your hypothesis! We'll only need a few billion more DEUSs.