Nevertheless, voltage and current are related, and you can't just crank the voltage up arbitrarily without worrying about the current capacity of your wires.
A power company doesn't sell voltage. It doesn't sell current, either. It sells energy, in the form of power/time. And according to P = U * I, you can halve the current necessary to deliver a certain power P1 by doubling the voltage.
You sure you`re thinking of the right BOFH? The one I know would do something more like this:
I'm sure the BOFH would get creative with the lock on the server room door, the boss and the "fan + dry ice" cooling method mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
Guerrillas can defeat massed tanks, aircraft, and crack troops.
Only if the government controlling the latter cannot, for one reason or another, order them to shoot anyone not wearing the right uniform. (Note: "Civilian clothing" counts as "not the right uniform" in this context).
What will prove to be interesting is whether or not astronomers feel the need to put telescopes in to space (for large $)
Given that the atmosphere simply blocks a range of interesting wavelengths, I'd say "yes". Given the only way to avoid RF interference (very annoying for radioastronomy) from Earth is going to someplace in space, I'd say, once again, "yes". Given that Earth is small and space is big (therefore allowing observation with several telescopes that are more than 13000 km apart, which could be useful for finding planets), I'd say "yes".
Also, with a large enough magnification and image stabilization, you can probably also identify faces at 1 km, get _way_ more than 1 fps and aren't dependend on any atmospheric effects.
Were you aware that airplanes (larger ones, at least) tend to have bathrooms on them?
You don't have a lot of experience with 5 year-olds, or transatlantic flights, I assume ?
Yes, airplanes have bathrooms. And they have the annoying tendency of being occupied when you need to use them. How long do you trust your 5 year-old to "hold it" ? And physiologically, 5 year-olds may not even be able to control their excretory functions at all times and under all circumstances, especially not highly stressful ones (transatlantic flights qualify here). Yours may be in the lucky group that can, but do you really want to find out 1 hour into your 9 hour flight ?
Unfortunately, its not just the lives of the passengers that are at stake, as the Twin Towers tragically demonstrated, an airliner makes an effective missile.
In that case, the prospective terrorists should bring enough firepower to keep 200-odd people in check. Otherwise, they might find themselves pounded into red mush by a lynch mob of angry passengers.
It's crippled by being a moronic concept in the first place ("You've got the wrong name and _maybe_ the wrong date of birth, and you're not flying.") and an absolutely arbitrary process of putting names on the list, and no way of ever getting a name off the list.
Fix those points first, and _then_ worry about technical details.
The x86 article on Wikipedia states that the 8086 with x86 instruction set was created in 1978. I asusme that the patents are from that year too.
The patents for the original 8086, maybe. I'm sure if you want to enter the market with a 4.77 MHz 8086-derivative, Intel is going to have a good laugh, but take no legal action.
Don't you see any coincidence in the 30 years period to now?
Err... no. I don't see it. There's soooooo much stuff to a current processor that is still covered by unexpired patents. Bus interfaces, cache specifics, basically anything that makes a modern processor fast is covered by recent patents.
i wonder if anyone would complain if these kids were , say, weightlifters. what then? would full grown men cry that they got beat by little kids?
No, because a weight lifter who's already been through puberty has an advantage over one who didn't. In gymnastics, it's the other way round, at least for women.
Hand in your geek creds please. Carbon dating only works on dead things, and will only give you the time that has passed since the thing in question died.
Unless you're suggesting that some of the athletes were, in fact, undead.
You always hear people saying it isn't proportional, yet it seems counter-intuitive that you could get that much interesting stuff happening in such a small volume of nerve cells!
There was some monotonic relationship between brain size and intelligence/sapience/smarts/whatever, then whales and elephants would easily outthink humans.
I couldn't tell you how many times I've heard people boast about how they're "smarter than the collection agencies" after getting off the phone with a collector.
I would assume that being "smarter than the collection agencies" includes convincing them to start calling a different (random) phone number instead. And... apparently that works, too.
The only radiation from fusion generation that's dangerous to life is in the ultraviolet spectrum, and that can be absorbed fairly easily.
Um, dude ? Even if you manage to run a completely aneutronic fusion process (good luck, you're going to need it)... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion .... do you see those numbers with MeV behind them ? That's Mega-Electron-Volts. Any photon packing Mega-Electron-Volts is definitely _not_ in the ultraviolet range. It's probably even beyond the X-ray range. We're talking frickin' gamma rays here.
You swallow the gamma, since its range make that just about as bad as the other two alternatives.
The inverse square law disagrees with that, but given that all the other options are already exhausted, there's nothing else you can do if you can only assign each action once.
Because it's still dependent on a fuel source that will be exhausted much sooner than most fuels for fusion reactors. Ok, that means that we don't need fusion power right now, but we'll need it eventually.
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I work for an R&D department. Nothing we're working is even remotely advanced, just ways of rehashing the same old crap...
That's because R&D departments are, in most cases, more about D than about R.
A power company doesn't sell voltage. It doesn't sell current, either. It sells energy, in the form of power/time. And according to P = U * I, you can halve the current necessary to deliver a certain power P1 by doubling the voltage.
If it weren't, why does your body have the urge to exhale it ? (And no, there's still plenty of oxygen in that air).
However, according to wikianswers, 365Kg of CO2 is emitted per breath.
This number fails a basic sanity check.
You sure you`re thinking of the right BOFH? The one I know would do something more like this:
I'm sure the BOFH would get creative with the lock on the server room door, the boss and the "fan + dry ice" cooling method mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
Time isn't the problem. Technology isn't the problem, either. Money, that's the problem. No one wants to pay for it.
Only if the government controlling the latter cannot, for one reason or another, order them to shoot anyone not wearing the right uniform. (Note: "Civilian clothing" counts as "not the right uniform" in this context).
Given that the atmosphere simply blocks a range of interesting wavelengths, I'd say "yes". Given the only way to avoid RF interference (very annoying for radioastronomy) from Earth is going to someplace in space, I'd say, once again, "yes". Given that Earth is small and space is big (therefore allowing observation with several telescopes that are more than 13000 km apart, which could be useful for finding planets), I'd say "yes".
Also, with a large enough magnification and image stabilization, you can probably also identify faces at 1 km, get _way_ more than 1 fps and aren't dependend on any atmospheric effects.
A short list:
Don't forget the printing press.
Not a single pair of them share a similar connector.
... and to enable facial recognition at 90% accuracy at a distance of 1 km. ... and, on a 10, get mistaken for a terrorist and executed from 1 km away.
You don't have a lot of experience with 5 year-olds, or transatlantic flights, I assume ?
Yes, airplanes have bathrooms. And they have the annoying tendency of being occupied when you need to use them. How long do you trust your 5 year-old to "hold it" ? And physiologically, 5 year-olds may not even be able to control their excretory functions at all times and under all circumstances, especially not highly stressful ones (transatlantic flights qualify here). Yours may be in the lucky group that can, but do you really want to find out 1 hour into your 9 hour flight ?
In that case, the prospective terrorists should bring enough firepower to keep 200-odd people in check. Otherwise, they might find themselves pounded into red mush by a lynch mob of angry passengers.
Personally, I'd be a little worried about a 5-year-old who's still in diapers.
On a 12-hour transatlantic flight with a connection, which would you rather deal with:
a) a dirty diaper
b) dirty pants, underpants and maybe socks and shirt, depending on the size of the accident.
It's crippled by being a moronic concept in the first place ("You've got the wrong name and _maybe_ the wrong date of birth, and you're not flying.") and an absolutely arbitrary process of putting names on the list, and no way of ever getting a name off the list.
Fix those points first, and _then_ worry about technical details.
... that we can pick up the "sun spots" of stars that are lightyears away.
What next, national gun ownership registration lists?
No, no, people are brainwashed enough to think that if they can still have their gun, they're not living in a totalitarian state.
You don't need to take people's guns away if you've already poisoned their minds with your crap.
The x86 article on Wikipedia states that the 8086 with x86 instruction set was created in 1978. I asusme that the patents are from that year too.
The patents for the original 8086, maybe. I'm sure if you want to enter the market with a 4.77 MHz 8086-derivative, Intel is going to have a good laugh, but take no legal action.
Don't you see any coincidence in the 30 years period to now?
Err ... no. I don't see it. There's soooooo much stuff to a current processor that is still covered by unexpired patents. Bus interfaces, cache specifics, basically anything that makes a modern processor fast is covered by recent patents.
My guess is that Nvidia would be much more likely to release a non-x86 processor than an x86 one.
Maybe an ARM if they want to get into the mobile devices market, or a PPC-based part for future game consoles ?
No, because a weight lifter who's already been through puberty has an advantage over one who didn't. In gymnastics, it's the other way round, at least for women.
I say carbon date 'em!
Hand in your geek creds please. Carbon dating only works on dead things, and will only give you the time that has passed since the thing in question died.
Unless you're suggesting that some of the athletes were, in fact, undead.
There was some monotonic relationship between brain size and intelligence/sapience/smarts/whatever, then whales and elephants would easily outthink humans.
I couldn't tell you how many times I've heard people boast about how they're "smarter than the collection agencies" after getting off the phone with a collector.
I would assume that being "smarter than the collection agencies" includes convincing them to start calling a different (random) phone number instead. And ... apparently that works, too.
Um, dude ? Even if you manage to run a completely aneutronic fusion process (good luck, you're going to need it) ...
.... do you see those numbers with MeV behind them ? That's Mega-Electron-Volts. Any photon packing Mega-Electron-Volts is definitely _not_ in the ultraviolet range. It's probably even beyond the X-ray range. We're talking frickin' gamma rays here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion
The inverse square law disagrees with that, but given that all the other options are already exhausted, there's nothing else you can do if you can only assign each action once.
Why can't current nuclear technology suffice?
Because it's still dependent on a fuel source that will be exhausted much sooner than most fuels for fusion reactors. Ok, that means that we don't need fusion power right now, but we'll need it eventually.