I doubt that a hybrid vehicle will generate enough power for where I live in the summertime when the power is most likely to fail- where it would have to power an air conditioner and a refrigerator minimally.
A refrigerator is maybe 1/2 HP, maybe a little more. A 3-Ton home A/C the equivalent of maybe 5 HP. So, it wouldn't be whether the vehicle could generate enough electricity, it would be how long it could last and could you run the combustion engine to maintain the output while it was powering your house.
Don't get me wrong, but if you say
"I don't buy the culturally biased bullshit about the tests." and then add "black kids learn to under-perform."; isn't that kind of contradicting yourself ?
No. Stating that a culture is biased against education does not contradict stating that an IQ test is not biased against that culture.
I don't get it. How will the receiving application know what to do with the shared content if I don't open it up and tell it what to do? Maybe I just don't use enough brain-dead apps to understand.
Nobody gave the EPA the authority to ban drugs. A treaty requires bans the CFC that is used as the propellant of some asthma inhalers. This treaty was ratified by the US Senate, and is years old. Treaties trump almost anything in US law, and Congress probably required the EPA to come up with the plan to meet the treaty timetables, The drug companies have had a long time to come up with a substitute, but apparently don't really think it's worth the effort of all the testing required .
I saw an engineering contractor getting hired for a project, and at 9AM of his first day (starting on a Monday), he was told his last day was on Friday because the project was axed.
I was given a job offer and a plane ticket for two weeks later to start. My (newlywed) wife checked on the ticket a week later and found it was cancelled. I called the man who hired me and he said they were just bought out and all hiring was stopped. (Frankly, he sounded like he was afraid for his job and I was just an annoyance.)
Least we forget the research was shit. The polar bears are doing great...
The polar bear note wasn't the research. It was a report of an observation made while doing other reasearch, and it was a valid observation and note. The research was on whales, and the report on it (at least one of the reports on migration) was shit, which is why Dr Monnett refused to sign it. Read the transcript.
I conclude that the confusion obviously was caused by Charles Monnett making the 11% assumption only for the three dead bears (which may be related to the fact that the four living ones had been observed a week earlier, which he noted before; but that's speculation).
Read it again. The part that makes no sense is the interviewer adding 4 swimming bears from one survey and 3 dead bears from another survey a week later to get 7 bears and trying to extrapolate the total population of bears from that sum. That, as was said, doesn't make any sense at all. Dr Monnett was not confused, neither did he add to any confusion on the part of the interviewer.
No, that is not the confusion at all. Dr Monnett was saying that it made no sense to use the number 7 when he saw 4 swimming bears on one survey of 11% of the area and 3 drowned bears on a separate random survey of 11% of the area.
But it doesn't look as incredibly bad as the summary suggests.
Actually, it's worse than the summary. I could take the summary to mean that someone had to take a second to get their bearings straight about figuring how many polar bears there are when 7 bears is 11% of the total.
The real problem is that the interviewer thought that if you surveyed 11% of the area one day and saw 4 swimming bears, and surveyed another 11% of the area a week later and saw 3 drowned bears, that you should add the two numbers together to get 11% of the total population of bears.
Refrigerant fluid needs to be pumped, so there is a seal around the shaft from the electric motor to the pump mechanism.
There does not need to be a shaft seal. Almost all modern small to medium sized mechanical refrigeration compressors are hermetic or semi-hermetic; that is, the motor, drive, and shaft are all contained inside the system along with the refrigerant.
Though there is no explanation of how it works at the link you provided, "Einstein's green refrigerator" seems to be an absorption refrigeration cycle, which was well known at the time, having been around since the mid-1800's. (According to Wikipedia "In 1922 Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters . . . enhanced the principle with a 3 fluids configuration. This "Platen-Munters" design can operate without a pump." and "In 1926 Albert Einstein and his former student Leó Szilárd proposed an alternative design known as Einstein refrigerator".) Mechanical pumps are usually used in absorption refrigeration, this design "pumps" the fluid using the differences in vapor pressure and density, relying on boiling, condensing, and the force of gravity. The fact that it does not have any mechanical pumps or moving parts, but relies on gravity, probably means it would be impractically tall and/or very inefficient.
Since butane is a Class A3 refrigerant (very flammable) and ammonia is Class B2 (toxic and flammable) it is doubtful that this system would be used in residential settings. It used to be common to use ammonia, butane, or sulfur dioxide in refrigerators, but there were many tragedies like the one described. Ammonia is still very common in industrial refrigeration systems where safety can be monitored and controlled, and butane, and even sulfur dioxide, have their niches. But ammonia systems are no longer sold for residential use, even in sealed systems, for a variety of reasons.
By reviewing the 1.5 trillion software patents already on record?
Yes? That's what every company has to do
Actually companies studiously avoid reviewing old patents, since infringing a patent you know about (or reasonably should have known about since you tried to review all existing patents) makes you liable for triple damages.
In some parts of the DoD it's so bad that, due to the way the finances work, if there is unallocated parts of the budget they'll be removed for the following fiscal year, sending everyone into a scramble to spend whatever's left of their budget before the axe drops./blockquote..
I've seen the exact same behaviour from departments of private companies who want to maintain their budget; even to the point of urging me to bill for quick phone calls, saying that if they didn't spend their budget for outside consultants they might lose it next year. Of course, the Department of Defense has a much larger budget than they did.
What I want to know, however, is how those patents made it through said suits intact, only to be declared invalid by the USPTO at a later date
IIRC, there was a motion to delay the court proceedings until the USPTO ruled, but the judge ruled that the court case couldn't wait for the USPTO review.
If I produced a special energy plant that could somehow magically power the entire country, and only took 2 people to operate it, and one of them died after 10 years, then the statistic would show as 50% of workers, which would be higher then any other method of power opperation in history, yet as a result of having it, it would have cut down the total number of deaths in the power industry from well over 30 a year, to 1 every 10 years.
As if there are no commercial, governmental, and industrial energy users in Salt Lake City.
200,000 homes do not use the same amount of power as a city of 186,000.
Also, as coherent light they can be focused better (much much better) than normal beams
Except, according to TFA:
. . . before the light from the tiny laser diodes is emitted onto the road, the originally bluish laser light beam is first of all converted by means of a fluorescent phosphor material inside the headlight into a pure white light which is very bright and pleasant to the eye.
As it says in TFAs, they are shining the lasers onto phospors to create white light. So, in spite of the hype, no laser pinpoint straight lines, no monochromatic, locked-in-phase laser light in the eyes, just another headlight that's too bright.
I agree that this may be overblown, at least from what I can glean from the links.
The whole summary is a massive sensationalist attempt to create a "scandal"
The sensationalist part of the TFS is a quote of the linked ZDnet article, and the headline of TFS is less sensationalist than the headline of TFA.
Not illegal, probably not even immoral at all.
Iit was a negotiation to override current policy that was at least amoral, probably somewhat unethical, and possibly extra-legal. (we don't have all the facts)
From the leaked cable:
Since 2001, the GOT adopted an open software policy, using only free software programs. . .
future GOT tenders for IT equipment will specify that the equipment must be Microsoft compatible, which is currently prohibited by the Tunisian open software policy. . .
Microsoft's reticence to fully disclose the details of the agreement further highlights the GOT emphasis on secrecy over transparency. In theory, increasing GOT law enforcement capability through IT training is positive, but given heavy-handed GOT interference in the internet, Post questions whether this will expand GOT capacity to monitor its own citizens.
Yes, if you know that they will kill someone with it, you are guilty at least of aiding and abetting, assuming the killing is a crime in the first place.
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Disabling secureboot does not solve the problem.
Being able to securely boot the OS and drivers of your choice is the bigger issue.
A refrigerator is maybe 1/2 HP, maybe a little more. A 3-Ton home A/C the equivalent of maybe 5 HP. So, it wouldn't be whether the vehicle could generate enough electricity, it would be how long it could last and could you run the combustion engine to maintain the output while it was powering your house.
Depends. Is he employed by a car company or a software company?
No. Stating that a culture is biased against education does not contradict stating that an IQ test is not biased against that culture.
I don't get it. How will the receiving application know what to do with the shared content if I don't open it up and tell it what to do? Maybe I just don't use enough brain-dead apps to understand.
Nobody gave the EPA the authority to ban drugs. A treaty requires bans the CFC that is used as the propellant of some asthma inhalers. This treaty was ratified by the US Senate, and is years old. Treaties trump almost anything in US law, and Congress probably required the EPA to come up with the plan to meet the treaty timetables, The drug companies have had a long time to come up with a substitute, but apparently don't really think it's worth the effort of all the testing required .
If you can update the list of certificates and signatures through Windows 8, doesn't that ruin the security of the secure boot?
I was given a job offer and a plane ticket for two weeks later to start. My (newlywed) wife checked on the ticket a week later and found it was cancelled. I called the man who hired me and he said they were just bought out and all hiring was stopped. (Frankly, he sounded like he was afraid for his job and I was just an annoyance.)
The polar bear note wasn't the research. It was a report of an observation made while doing other reasearch, and it was a valid observation and note. The research was on whales, and the report on it (at least one of the reports on migration) was shit, which is why Dr Monnett refused to sign it. Read the transcript.
Read it again. The part that makes no sense is the interviewer adding 4 swimming bears from one survey and 3 dead bears from another survey a week later to get 7 bears and trying to extrapolate the total population of bears from that sum. That, as was said, doesn't make any sense at all. Dr Monnett was not confused, neither did he add to any confusion on the part of the interviewer.
No, that is not the confusion at all. Dr Monnett was saying that it made no sense to use the number 7 when he saw 4 swimming bears on one survey of 11% of the area and 3 drowned bears on a separate random survey of 11% of the area.
Actually, it's worse than the summary. I could take the summary to mean that someone had to take a second to get their bearings straight about figuring how many polar bears there are when 7 bears is 11% of the total.
The real problem is that the interviewer thought that if you surveyed 11% of the area one day and saw 4 swimming bears, and surveyed another 11% of the area a week later and saw 3 drowned bears, that you should add the two numbers together to get 11% of the total population of bears.
There does not need to be a shaft seal. Almost all modern small to medium sized mechanical refrigeration compressors are hermetic or semi-hermetic; that is, the motor, drive, and shaft are all contained inside the system along with the refrigerant.
Though there is no explanation of how it works at the link you provided, "Einstein's green refrigerator" seems to be an absorption refrigeration cycle, which was well known at the time, having been around since the mid-1800's. (According to Wikipedia "In 1922 Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters . . . enhanced the principle with a 3 fluids configuration. This "Platen-Munters" design can operate without a pump." and "In 1926 Albert Einstein and his former student Leó Szilárd proposed an alternative design known as Einstein refrigerator".) Mechanical pumps are usually used in absorption refrigeration, this design "pumps" the fluid using the differences in vapor pressure and density, relying on boiling, condensing, and the force of gravity. The fact that it does not have any mechanical pumps or moving parts, but relies on gravity, probably means it would be impractically tall and/or very inefficient.
Since butane is a Class A3 refrigerant (very flammable) and ammonia is Class B2 (toxic and flammable) it is doubtful that this system would be used in residential settings. It used to be common to use ammonia, butane, or sulfur dioxide in refrigerators, but there were many tragedies like the one described. Ammonia is still very common in industrial refrigeration systems where safety can be monitored and controlled, and butane, and even sulfur dioxide, have their niches. But ammonia systems are no longer sold for residential use, even in sealed systems, for a variety of reasons.
More here.
Actually companies studiously avoid reviewing old patents, since infringing a patent you know about (or reasonably should have known about since you tried to review all existing patents) makes you liable for triple damages.
In other words, it's not a beta.
IIRC, there was a motion to delay the court proceedings until the USPTO ruled, but the judge ruled that the court case couldn't wait for the USPTO review.
Yes, but would you want to take that job?
As if there are no commercial, governmental, and industrial energy users in Salt Lake City.
200,000 homes do not use the same amount of power as a city of 186,000.
Or what "The blue laser beam is also converted by a fluorescent phosphor material into a pure white light" means
Except, according to TFA:
As it says in TFAs, they are shining the lasers onto phospors to create white light. So, in spite of the hype, no laser pinpoint straight lines, no monochromatic, locked-in-phase laser light in the eyes, just another headlight that's too bright.
The sensationalist part of the TFS is a quote of the linked ZDnet article, and the headline of TFS is less sensationalist than the headline of TFA.
Iit was a negotiation to override current policy that was at least amoral, probably somewhat unethical, and possibly extra-legal. (we don't have all the facts)
From the leaked cable:
Yes, if you know that they will kill someone with it, you are guilty at least of aiding and abetting, assuming the killing is a crime in the first place.
Boiler operators and maintenance personnel that are licensed Operating Engineers (as they often need to be) are real engineers.