i hope you checked all the ingredients in the new carpet against chances of causing developmental problems..
i also hope if you where that paranoid that you properly disposed of this now contaminated carpet - rather than throw it in the trash to go to a land fill to allow it to enter the water table where your son will now drink it from the faucet.
and if you are that worried - you might want to avoid fish all together..
even if the 33 coal plants produce more mercury than the CFL's disposed of in local landfills.. it is a hell of a lot easier to clean/process up 33 sites of high volume than all local landfills with low volume..
if they are arguing that closing the 33 plants with reduced power from CFL's in homes will reduce the amount of mercury expelled then they are not addressing the problem.
Requiring the coal plant to filter the exhaust and remove the mercury would stop it completely and NOT transfer it to local landfills where it endangers far more than it does now.
you are very correct - Politicians say what makes them in the short term look like they are doing the right thing.. but it never stands up.
also in the pdf they say that the air bearing effect on this is self regulating and allows for precision without the tight mechanical tolerances a hdd requires.
it's material fatigue associated with high frequency and high current & yes heat is a factor
factors are: Material used Frequency Current Heat
by allowing more heat to be produced because it can be easily disparate it allows the other factors to get larger, without passing the barrier.
currently we know how to make things faster - problem is the obvious and easy ways (increase clock rate and voltage and current) produce too much heat. so to make things faster we have to redesign them to work differently (the getting more work done per cycle). having a way to remove more heat efficiently will allow a quick jump in performance by boosting the obvious methods as heat will be less of an issue (till we move back to the barrier). The other is it allows for a reduction in the power consumed t move the heat away, allowing us to have current performance with a significant energy savings.
Considering that you where having to have a heat sink already + a fan to move air over that surface area.
now you are removing the fan and increasing heat removal over a surface area - i wouldn't be surprised is the required weight wasn't less than an the current cooler needed.
please note that for the same amount of cooling they had a 4 times reduction in size.. i there was a good reduction in weight to go with it..
you know - the not in my back yard argument annoys the shit out of me.. everything is everyone's problem.. it has to end up some place.. if you don't like it in your back yard move.. but let it happen.. personally i don't mind.. if i don't like what is going on in the area around me i move..
you know that would be an interesting product.. a USB key that used DRAM and a power source.. then molded in epoxy and metal (like an iron key)..
if it sits long enough without any use then the data is lost.. make it tamper resistant so they can't feed it power to keep it alive.. and require the right pass phrase/code to allow it to charge.
thanks.. that's counter intuitive to me but then again i never studied it:)
you think of it as splitting an atom - you would think hitting it with more energy is better but i see now how it is the after affect of being heaver (after absorbing the slower) that causes the split.. oddly to me it seems an organic style process
we GPS jammers are illegal as to jam you need to broadcast on the same frequency with would require a licence that the FCC isn't going to give to anyone outside of the Military or NASA.
a detector more than likely wouldn't work as most of theses trackers are placed and they listen and then store data local and then are retrieved physically by the person who put it there.. if it isn't broadcasting it would be very difficult to detect remotely considering the current makeup of a modern car.
i must be confused - but i thought you needed to slow/absorb the neutrons to reduce the reaction rate - wouldn't removing the moderator/inhibitor increase reaction?
Compared to a digital: they worse at keeping accurate time, most don't update themselves like "atomic" watches do
you realize that most analog watches made are using the exact same timing mechanicism as your digital? or where you referring to Automatic watches?
, and some (like Rolex) may need some maintenance after a while.
your right - it's a mechanical device rather than an electric - the electric will fail too only thing is it is cheaper to replace like most things that moved from mechanical to electric - see Quartz Analog watches for a replacement that is
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sorry i'm going to ignore the rest of that statement.
partially because if we go the other way and plan for the NEXT larger disaster we will be trying to build something to survive the sun going supernova.
I understand your point but there has to be a trade off between the cost to build to the next disaster and the chances of that disaster happening.. the tsunami that hit the Japan reactor was 3x what they had designed it to withstand.. and is now the largest one in history (at least for Japan).
space is not cheap - pictures are large compared to documents and they do not deduplicate well at the block level
iCloud is running in an enterprise environment - there the min cost of storage is 3 to 1 bytes just raw space (most have much higher costs).
People will point to the (what they see) as cheap 2TB drives.. please note that they will not enter the building.. the cost in $ per bit is much higher than just the cost of a cheap drive.. and no not all drives are made the same, and yes when you are dealing with 10's-100's thousands of disks it really matters - more then than any other time.
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Yes, I got rid of the carpet.
i hope you checked all the ingredients in the new carpet against chances of causing developmental problems..
i also hope if you where that paranoid that you properly disposed of this now contaminated carpet - rather than throw it in the trash to go to a land fill to allow it to enter the water table where your son will now drink it from the faucet.
and if you are that worried - you might want to avoid fish all together..
even if the 33 coal plants produce more mercury than the CFL's disposed of in local landfills.. it is a hell of a lot easier to clean/process up 33 sites of high volume than all local landfills with low volume..
if they are arguing that closing the 33 plants with reduced power from CFL's in homes will reduce the amount of mercury expelled then they are not addressing the problem.
Requiring the coal plant to filter the exhaust and remove the mercury would stop it completely and NOT transfer it to local landfills where it endangers far more than it does now.
you are very correct - Politicians say what makes them in the short term look like they are doing the right thing.. but it never stands up.
you would be surprised - alot of the Atom cpu's are 64-bit .. but they just released them with 32bit os's..
all but your true bottom end Atom's are 64bit.. and most of the bottom ends stuck to xp..
also i don't count "Starter Edition" as win 7.. it was a mistake they should never have done.
Windows 7 is quite smooth - and is not that much of a resource hog - yes it uses more than XP but i've found it does more with what it takes..
now Vista on the other hand.. that is crap
also in the pdf they say that the air bearing effect on this is self regulating and allows for precision without the tight mechanical tolerances a hdd requires.
it's material fatigue associated with high frequency and high current & yes heat is a factor
factors are:
Material used
Frequency
Current
Heat
by allowing more heat to be produced because it can be easily disparate it allows the other factors to get larger, without passing the barrier.
currently we know how to make things faster - problem is the obvious and easy ways (increase clock rate and voltage and current) produce too much heat. so to make things faster we have to redesign them to work differently (the getting more work done per cycle). having a way to remove more heat efficiently will allow a quick jump in performance by boosting the obvious methods as heat will be less of an issue (till we move back to the barrier). The other is it allows for a reduction in the power consumed t move the heat away, allowing us to have current performance with a significant energy savings.
Considering that you where having to have a heat sink already + a fan to move air over that surface area.
now you are removing the fan and increasing heat removal over a surface area - i wouldn't be surprised is the required weight wasn't less than an the current cooler needed.
please note that for the same amount of cooling they had a 4 times reduction in size.. i there was a good reduction in weight to go with it..
you know - the not in my back yard argument annoys the shit out of me.. everything is everyone's problem.. it has to end up some place.. if you don't like it in your back yard move.. but let it happen.. personally i don't mind.. if i don't like what is going on in the area around me i move..
either way - i like it.. a time sensitive self destructing key/data storage medium..
if i can be made reliable and predictable there would be a market for it.
except they didn't know he had it till he filed suit to keep it.
if he had just kept his mouth shut there would be no problem with him keeping it as no one would know.
he is just doing this to drum up publicity and if he can money, i seriously doubt he cares about the rock.
you know that would be an interesting product .. a USB key that used DRAM and a power source.. then molded in epoxy and metal (like an iron key) ..
if it sits long enough without any use then the data is lost.. make it tamper resistant so they can't feed it power to keep it alive.. and require the right pass phrase/code to allow it to charge.
thanks.. that's counter intuitive to me but then again i never studied it :)
you think of it as splitting an atom - you would think hitting it with more energy is better but i see now how it is the after affect of being heaver (after absorbing the slower) that causes the split.. oddly to me it seems an organic style process
thanks
we GPS jammers are illegal as to jam you need to broadcast on the same frequency with would require a licence that the FCC isn't going to give to anyone outside of the Military or NASA.
a detector more than likely wouldn't work as most of theses trackers are placed and they listen and then store data local and then are retrieved physically by the person who put it there.. if it isn't broadcasting it would be very difficult to detect remotely considering the current makeup of a modern car.
i must be confused - but i thought you needed to slow/absorb the neutrons to reduce the reaction rate - wouldn't removing the moderator/inhibitor increase reaction?
and FSM bless us all
yea the last 10 years back
I agree it's risk management..
What are the potential Consequences
What are the Repercussions (aka can we live with failure)
What is the chance of it happening
if you leave out any of the three it doesn't work.
Compared to a digital: they worse at keeping accurate time, most don't update themselves like "atomic" watches do
you realize that most analog watches made are using the exact same timing mechanicism as your digital? or where you referring to Automatic watches?
, and some (like Rolex) may need some maintenance after a while.
your right - it's a mechanical device rather than an electric - the electric will fail too only thing is it is cheaper to replace like most things that moved from mechanical to electric - see Quartz Analog watches for a replacement that is
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sorry i'm going to ignore the rest of that statement.
that is an awesome chart - thanks.
because even with a cooling failure - if there was not a crack then there wouldn't be a containment leak..
aka no crack no fallout - and really what everyone screams about is the fallout..
using tanks would be too hard
http://web.archive.org/web/20070605061132/http://www.caes.net/mcintosh.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air_energy_storage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minebw.jpg
i can't remember where i read it but i was under the impression that the foundation was cracked which is why the water was leaking into the sea
here is an article about it (quick google not where i first read)
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0402/Japan-nuclear-update-Repairing-crack-to-stop-radioactive-water-leak
i understand your point.. i would also like to see how that lose of power cracked the foundation.
partially because if we go the other way and plan for the NEXT larger disaster we will be trying to build something to survive the sun going supernova.
I understand your point but there has to be a trade off between the cost to build to the next disaster and the chances of that disaster happening.. the tsunami that hit the Japan reactor was 3x what they had designed it to withstand.. and is now the largest one in history (at least for Japan).
space is not cheap - pictures are large compared to documents and they do not deduplicate well at the block level
iCloud is running in an enterprise environment - there the min cost of storage is 3 to 1 bytes just raw space (most have much higher costs).
People will point to the (what they see) as cheap 2TB drives.. please note that they will not enter the building.. the cost in $ per bit is much higher than just the cost of a cheap drive.. and no not all drives are made the same, and yes when you are dealing with 10's-100's thousands of disks it really matters - more then than any other time.