You are misinformed. (about pipelines, not about golf balls.)
The pressure drop rate in a pipeline depends on velocity, the ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces (aka Reynolds number), and the ratio of the dimension of pipe surface roughness to pipe diameter (aka e/D). For relatively low velocity, low density, high viscosity flows the pipe surface roughness does not matter. For relatively high velocity, high density, low viscosity flows the pressure drop is a proportional to the square of the velocity times length divided by diameter and function of the log of e/D (greater pressures with higher roughness). Investigate the Darcy Weisbach equation and formulas for estimating friction factors Still, even if proven to be cheap, I imagine this might have limited application in pipelines, since age, corrosion, and erosion take their toll in actual service.
IRC, the original FAT filesystem is not covered by patents. The long filename hack to FAT that allowed it to be compatible with older 8.3 versions of FAT without losing long filenames in newer versions is what the FAT patent fuss is about.
Do not allow an offer to buy or sell to be rescinded before x minutes pass.
High frequency trading algorithms have included making offers just to see whether anyone bites, without any intention of buying or selling at that price.
Last time I was in prison (on work) was a long time ago, before digital controls became ubiquitous. Opening every door to every cell would have been a big problem where the worst criminals were. (Some were known to do fun things like throw shit (literally) on guards when they walked by.) However, to get out of a cell block, and again to get out of the inner yard, and again to get outside of the prison walls, one had to walk through 10 foot long vestibules with guards at each end. The doors of the vestibule were hard-wired so that one could not open unless the other was closed.
If the glaciers were melting, they wouldn't be pushing into the ocean to break off and form icebergs.
Actually, there is evidence that warming can cause meltwaters to get under glaciers and lubricate them, causing faster flow downhill. And for glaciers that end in ice shelves in the ocean, warming can cause the ice shelf to break up into icebergs faster. And when the ice shelf is reduced, it presents less resistance to the glacier flowing into the ocean, further increasing the extent of ocean ice. So, until the ice melts so much that the glaciers no longer flow into the ocean, warming will most likely cause more icebergs.
MS did purchase licenses from SCO. More important, MS helped finance BayStar shortly before BayStar helped finance SCO for the lawsuits, thus preserving plausible deniability.
See the Halloween documents indicated in another post above as well as
this
and
this.
Google's results have been crappy for a long time. Now they're trying to bring more up-to-date results with social interaction counted in too, from places like Twitter, Facebook and Google+.
So, since their results are crappy, they're going to make them crappier?
When I install or upgrade IE a popup asks me to choose my default search engine.
Never popped up for me. (note: in recent years, I've only use IE at work or when I've been forced to by IE specific web sites, and I'm in the good ol' USA, where the browser ballot was never required.)
In any case, I do agree with somersault that Bing's increase in usage has much more to do with MS Windows monopoly and its' default settings.
On another note, this change to the Google algorithms sounds like it will reduce the effectiveness of search for me. It may have some use if searching under "news", but for the most part I'm looking for the most relevant, informational links, not the newest information-free news spit out by the web.
So you are still a proponent even though:
1) Previously constructed plants will always seem outdated compared to more current ones (in the future, this will include plants now undergoing planning) - and the industry is lobbying to keep open plants that have outlived their originally intended lifetimes. And the earthquake and tsunami were at a level known to happen in the area in the past.
2) The specific company that owned a plant lied about things that might affect its' bottom line, as all companies are wont to do.
3) The past 30 years of advancements in nuclear power generation have not all been tested in large scale production and most operating plants include very few of those advancements, if any.
4) Negative coefficients of reactivity did not prevent a meltdown and breach of containment in the Fukushima plant, and they wouldn't in most other plants either.
Don't take my response the wrong way. I do feel that nuclear power can be done safely, but I don't think it always will be done safely. Being a proponent of nuclear power need include vociferous complaints about things that go wrong, and can go wrong, rather than complaints about those who feel it is dangerous - because it is inherently dangerous.
And guess what? The gas is down that deep because there is a non-permeable cap above the reservoir.
Not necessarily.
The reason fakking is done is because the gas (and oil) is trapped inside the rock layer being fractured. Fracturing the rock layer containing the gas may very well be fracturing the containment itself (although the idea would be that the gas should flow to the well pipe drilled into the rock for that purpose rather than fighting its' way through solid rock layers above). In deposits like shale the methane may not be a gas at all, but may be dissolved in the shale and oil, only to turn to gas when the frakking and extraction reduces the pressure enough.
That wouldn't be enough in any of the airports I've ever worked in. Typically you would need a badge with a forged RFID or magnetic stripe plus a fingerprint or PIN to match up within the security database.
I don't know... at the air ports I've been to the eating area and shops are behind the scanners and such. Getting hired to work there probably requires more security checks than your average McDonalds or grocery store but I doubt it's THAT hard.
Well, to get my security badge I had to sign a form indicating whether I'd been convicted of various crimes like murder, arson, hijacking, etc, in the last 10 years. So, I guess, if one of the 9/11 hijackers had survived, they could honestly answer no to those questions.
(In all fairness, they also fingerprinted me and did a background check, so they maybe could prevent one from getting a badge regardless of that particular form.)
The problem is that they claim their book is the word of their god. If they can discard parts as allegory, but others as truth, then how do they decide? At whom's whim does the decision rest?
Allegory can be truth.
The decision has always rested on the "whims" of the authorities of the day: be it the Jewish priests and rabbis of 3,000 years ago, the Zealots or Essenes of Jesus' time, Constantine and the council of Nicene at the establishment of Christianity as a dogma, or the popes and pastors of the present era that hang on to the decisions of the past.
1) The article is dishonest by claiming that Muller is a Global Warming Skeptic.
2) I find it sad that if a scientist, even one environmentally conscious as Muller is labeled as a AGW denier . . .
Roughly 1 degree Fahrenheit of global warming has taken place; we're responsible for one quarter of it.
I believe that in the context of that quote he was stating that the US has been responsible for 1/4 of the anthropogenic global warming.
And 1F is not an order of magnitude lower than the mainstream view - he was talking about temperature increases that have taken place in recent years, not possible future increases.
Add in water vapor, and you get a little surprise--CO2 actually DECREASES the weighted heat capacity of the atmosphere.
Which, of course, matters little, since it is not the heat capacity of the atmosphere that is proposed as the cause of anthropogenic global warming, but the absorption of infrared radiation by greenhouse gases.
BRAKING ALWAYS WORKS. With the exception of some ultrapowerful cars like the Veyron, there is an order of magnitude difference between the maximum torque your brakes can generate, and the maximum torque your engine can.
If by always works, you mean that your stopping distance is greatly increased and some little old ladies may not have the reaction time or strength to stop the vehicle before crashing.
I have had the throttle pedal stick in cold snowy weather (mechanical problem due to freezing, not software or electronics) Going about 30 mph, I came to a red light with cars stopping in front of me. I pressed the brake but only slowed down and was not stopping. Thank goodness it dawned on me what was happening, because I would never have stopped in time without throwing the car into neutral.
subsidies for alternative energy in China = cash to the manufacturers
subsidies for alternative energy in US = loan guarantees to the manufacturers, tax or cash rebates to the consumers
Agriculture = subsidies for not overproducing, and government guaranteed minimum prices.
Textiles = who makes textiles in the US anymore?
. . . . this kept getting more and more ramped-up to the point now where I hear advocates claiming that the entire east coast of the U.S. is going to be underwater by 2050.
Hell, the entire east coast is underwater every high tide.
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Spending cuts are worse for a bad economy. The problem is, we didn't have anything saved up for a rainy day.
But Locke was a Liberal!
/sarcasm >
He was probably a secular humanist!
There is no place for a godless communist like that in our American Ideals!
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You are misinformed. (about pipelines, not about golf balls.)
The pressure drop rate in a pipeline depends on velocity, the ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces (aka Reynolds number), and the ratio of the dimension of pipe surface roughness to pipe diameter (aka e/D). For relatively low velocity, low density, high viscosity flows the pipe surface roughness does not matter. For relatively high velocity, high density, low viscosity flows the pressure drop is a proportional to the square of the velocity times length divided by diameter and function of the log of e/D (greater pressures with higher roughness). Investigate the Darcy Weisbach equation and formulas for estimating friction factors
Still, even if proven to be cheap, I imagine this might have limited application in pipelines, since age, corrosion, and erosion take their toll in actual service.
IRC, the original FAT filesystem is not covered by patents. The long filename hack to FAT that allowed it to be compatible with older 8.3 versions of FAT without losing long filenames in newer versions is what the FAT patent fuss is about.
Do not allow an offer to buy or sell to be rescinded before x minutes pass.
High frequency trading algorithms have included making offers just to see whether anyone bites, without any intention of buying or selling at that price.
Last time I was in prison (on work) was a long time ago, before digital controls became ubiquitous. Opening every door to every cell would have been a big problem where the worst criminals were. (Some were known to do fun things like throw shit (literally) on guards when they walked by.) However, to get out of a cell block, and again to get out of the inner yard, and again to get outside of the prison walls, one had to walk through 10 foot long vestibules with guards at each end. The doors of the vestibule were hard-wired so that one could not open unless the other was closed.
No I don't.
Can you please point me to a direct quote that substantiates your assertion.
Actually, there is evidence that warming can cause meltwaters to get under glaciers and lubricate them, causing faster flow downhill. And for glaciers that end in ice shelves in the ocean, warming can cause the ice shelf to break up into icebergs faster. And when the ice shelf is reduced, it presents less resistance to the glacier flowing into the ocean, further increasing the extent of ocean ice. So, until the ice melts so much that the glaciers no longer flow into the ocean, warming will most likely cause more icebergs.
MS did purchase licenses from SCO. More important, MS helped finance BayStar shortly before BayStar helped finance SCO for the lawsuits, thus preserving plausible deniability.
See the Halloween documents indicated in another post above as well as this and this.
So, since their results are crappy, they're going to make them crappier?
Never popped up for me. (note: in recent years, I've only use IE at work or when I've been forced to by IE specific web sites, and I'm in the good ol' USA, where the browser ballot was never required.)
In any case, I do agree with somersault that Bing's increase in usage has much more to do with MS Windows monopoly and its' default settings.
On another note, this change to the Google algorithms sounds like it will reduce the effectiveness of search for me. It may have some use if searching under "news", but for the most part I'm looking for the most relevant, informational links, not the newest information-free news spit out by the web.
So you are still a proponent even though:
1) Previously constructed plants will always seem outdated compared to more current ones (in the future, this will include plants now undergoing planning) - and the industry is lobbying to keep open plants that have outlived their originally intended lifetimes. And the earthquake and tsunami were at a level known to happen in the area in the past.
2) The specific company that owned a plant lied about things that might affect its' bottom line, as all companies are wont to do. 3) The past 30 years of advancements in nuclear power generation have not all been tested in large scale production and most operating plants include very few of those advancements, if any. 4) Negative coefficients of reactivity did not prevent a meltdown and breach of containment in the Fukushima plant, and they wouldn't in most other plants either.
Don't take my response the wrong way. I do feel that nuclear power can be done safely, but I don't think it always will be done safely. Being a proponent of nuclear power need include vociferous complaints about things that go wrong, and can go wrong, rather than complaints about those who feel it is dangerous - because it is inherently dangerous.
Not necessarily.
The reason fakking is done is because the gas (and oil) is trapped inside the rock layer being fractured. Fracturing the rock layer containing the gas may very well be fracturing the containment itself (although the idea would be that the gas should flow to the well pipe drilled into the rock for that purpose rather than fighting its' way through solid rock layers above). In deposits like shale the methane may not be a gas at all, but may be dissolved in the shale and oil, only to turn to gas when the frakking and extraction reduces the pressure enough.
That wouldn't be enough in any of the airports I've ever worked in. Typically you would need a badge with a forged RFID or magnetic stripe plus a fingerprint or PIN to match up within the security database.
Well, to get my security badge I had to sign a form indicating whether I'd been convicted of various crimes like murder, arson, hijacking, etc, in the last 10 years. So, I guess, if one of the 9/11 hijackers had survived, they could honestly answer no to those questions.
(In all fairness, they also fingerprinted me and did a background check, so they maybe could prevent one from getting a badge regardless of that particular form.)
Allegory can be truth.
The decision has always rested on the "whims" of the authorities of the day: be it the Jewish priests and rabbis of 3,000 years ago, the Zealots or Essenes of Jesus' time, Constantine and the council of Nicene at the establishment of Christianity as a dogma, or the popes and pastors of the present era that hang on to the decisions of the past.
Skeptic != Denier
I believe that in the context of that quote he was stating that the US has been responsible for 1/4 of the anthropogenic global warming.
And 1F is not an order of magnitude lower than the mainstream view - he was talking about temperature increases that have taken place in recent years, not possible future increases.
Which, of course, matters little, since it is not the heat capacity of the atmosphere that is proposed as the cause of anthropogenic global warming, but the absorption of infrared radiation by greenhouse gases.
If by always works, you mean that your stopping distance is greatly increased and some little old ladies may not have the reaction time or strength to stop the vehicle before crashing.
I have had the throttle pedal stick in cold snowy weather (mechanical problem due to freezing, not software or electronics) Going about 30 mph, I came to a red light with cars stopping in front of me. I pressed the brake but only slowed down and was not stopping. Thank goodness it dawned on me what was happening, because I would never have stopped in time without throwing the car into neutral.
subsidies for alternative energy in China = cash to the manufacturers
subsidies for alternative energy in US = loan guarantees to the manufacturers, tax or cash rebates to the consumers
Agriculture = subsidies for not overproducing, and government guaranteed minimum prices.
Textiles = who makes textiles in the US anymore?
The US did not give money to Solyndra. They gave a loan guarantee.
US currency value is determined on the open market.
Chinese currency is not.
Hell, the entire east coast is underwater every high tide.
You would think so, but my Windows 7 PC at work is sometimes slower waking up from suspend than from a cold boot.