Remember also, higher efficiency means higher temperatures which leads to higher NOx emissions. Mandated emission standards cause reduced fuel economy. It's a trade off.
I suppose it goes all the way back to the power plant. Plants work at 100% all the time, any power not needed by the grid is wasted to heat load banks and the waste heat is exhausted to the air.
I wonder, if everyone had PV power feeding the grid, would they have to decommission some power plants? If 100% of a plants output is being used to heat air, I suppose they would.
"Fong said that the company is banking on this attachment to keep users shelling out the monthly subscription fee for the service because failing to do so will result in the pet dying."
Mommy! Clippy looks sick! Help him!
Okay honey, I guess we can be a little late with the electric payment...
I think you guys are missing the point. A business doesn't just provide access for disabled customers but disabled workers. ADA attempts to remove barriers to employment for the disabled. The disabled worker has long been discriminated against but by removing barriers, society saves a ton of support money and at the same time collects new tax money.
As to the question of bills for the blind, I suggest new bills be braille imprinted and banks be issued braille embossers for old currency. Soon all the bills will be marked in a way that is hard to circumvent.
The biggest productivity limitation of today's computers is the user interface.
I disagree. The biggest problem with productivity today and tomorrow is volume. The amount of information that must be processed by the information worker is increasing at an exponential rate.
What we need to produce are semi-intelligent agents that the user can use to off load some of these tasks. For example, an agent to preprocess email and present "important" mail first. Of course, the definition of important changes for every user. This is merely one one example. Another might be an agent that visits web sites and presents lists of "important" places to visit. Why go to/. if there are no discussions worth reading?
I couldn't agree more. This is politics and I'm sure the fix is in. Bush wouldn't give up Rummy without getting something in return. Just what that is, we may never know. But the whole impeachment thing might have something to do with it.
I could see an automated weather channel working with this. The subject matter is limited which simplies the system. Besides, the human avitars they use now are not much different from computer generated ones anyway.
Ya, me too. We started using duct tape. We would tape thier hands together and a piece over the mouth to cut down on the screaming. This worked great until we caught one student typing with her nose! Now we tape them to thier chairs too. Haven't had a problem since!
Earth's radius is about 4000 miles. Besides orbits are measured from the surface not the center of the Earth. Hubble's orbit is 353 miles and orbits once every 97 minutes at about 17,500 mph.
I know this is pretty late in this discusion, but I used to work on the line that made those old Silent 700s. Nearly every day one of the board would blow a cap. The caps were hand inserted and soldered and QA was famous for not noticing that the cap was inserted backwards. Most of the boards would fail spectacularly (sound of a 30-30 and a cloud of smoke) on first power up. Oddly, a few would not fail right away but later on in the burnin. I always wondered if some failed much later, after leaving the plant...
I think the electrolite they were using must have been based on a fish oil, because the smell of rotten, burnt, fish always lingered. Yuch!
If you write a 20 page paper and turn in for a course and get an A, then someone photocopies your paper and turns it in and also gets an A are they doing something wrong or unethical?
This would be more accurate as: If you write a 20 page paper and turn in for a course and get an A, then 100 people copy it, read it and throw it away, is this wrong or unethical?
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Remember also, higher efficiency means higher temperatures which leads to higher NOx emissions. Mandated emission standards cause reduced fuel economy. It's a trade off.
How about Mr0xAcents?
I wonder, if everyone had PV power feeding the grid, would they have to decommission some power plants? If 100% of a plants output is being used to heat air, I suppose they would.
Mommy! Clippy looks sick! Help him!
Okay honey, I guess we can be a little late with the electric payment...
Don't forget the S-100 bus!
As to the question of bills for the blind, I suggest new bills be braille imprinted and banks be issued braille embossers for old currency. Soon all the bills will be marked in a way that is hard to circumvent.
I disagree. The biggest problem with productivity today and tomorrow is volume. The amount of information that must be processed by the information worker is increasing at an exponential rate.
What we need to produce are semi-intelligent agents that the user can use to off load some of these tasks. For example, an agent to preprocess email and present "important" mail first. Of course, the definition of important changes for every user. This is merely one one example. Another might be an agent that visits web sites and presents lists of "important" places to visit. Why go to /. if there are no discussions worth reading?
I think we might have found TMA-1!
I couldn't agree more. This is politics and I'm sure the fix is in. Bush wouldn't give up Rummy without getting something in return. Just what that is, we may never know. But the whole impeachment thing might have something to do with it.
I could see an automated weather channel working with this. The subject matter is limited which simplies the system. Besides, the human avitars they use now are not much different from computer generated ones anyway.
Ya, me too. We started using duct tape. We would tape thier hands together and a piece over the mouth to cut down on the screaming. This worked great until we caught one student typing with her nose! Now we tape them to thier chairs too. Haven't had a problem since!
They are studying super massive black holes are the center of galaxies. You are going to need to throw a lot of stars at that sucker, like millions!
Earth's radius is about 4000 miles. Besides orbits are measured from the surface not the center of the Earth. Hubble's orbit is 353 miles and orbits once every 97 minutes at about 17,500 mph.
Came with built in games, spent many hours playing with the stupid draw program. Controllers really sucked!
Thanks for the flash back!
"It'll all be over." Indeed.
Mr. President, we can not allow a mine shaft gap!
Were those 12AX7 tubes?
Not if you are an anti-virus software manufacturer. ;)
I can hear it now, BUT MOM!!! -- I'm not playing games, I'm working on the computer!
Exactly! Why art, music, poetry, build pretty houses, grow flowers, etc? Easy, chicks dig it!
What we have here... is a robot gap!
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
George S. Patton
I think the electrolite they were using must have been based on a fish oil, because the smell of rotten, burnt, fish always lingered. Yuch!
Terrific work! Thanks for the links. But where is the movie?
If you write a 20 page paper and turn in for a course and get an A, then someone photocopies your paper and turns it in and also gets an A are they doing something wrong or unethical?
This would be more accurate as:
If you write a 20 page paper and turn in for a course and get an A, then 100 people copy it, read it and throw it away, is this wrong or unethical?
You still got your A!