With all apologies to Nikola and his 'Death Ray', wouldn't the skin effect of ultra high voltage used for these kind of arcs make this totally useless as a weapon? The bits you want to zap are inside the external metal casing. They are not the easiest path to ground, therefore they are not getting any significant juice.
If you're a big Tempest fan, you must own Tempest 2000 (originally released to the Atari Jaguar). There aren't a lot of good reasons to own a Jaguar but this is one of them.
There's a reason why old cars are scrapped instead of merely replacing the rusty chassis, worn engine, worn transmission, worn tires, worn suspension, rusted dinged body panels, worn carpet, ancient/obsolete cassette player radio... I
Most people can't do their own work. Therefore cars reach a point where repairs cost more than the car is worth. If they could, then scrapping it makes far less financial sense than refurbishing the worn parts.
That said, this is kind of the same situation, at least until the ISS gets it's own Autozone/PepBoys module.
The beauty of your argument is you don't need "proof"; you can just say, "Hey, intuitively, I believe that Google 'has' to help or else the government would screw them; therefore this is 'wrong'," without having anything whatsoever to back up that argument
Hey, intuitively, I believe that AT&T 'has' to provide warrentless wiretaps or else the government would screw them.
As for Google, it's really difficult to say. I expect it's just easier for them to comply with the requests. I may find it offensive that they do so, but your average Joe doesn't even know this happens, so there isn't much blowback.
Really? Because that's pretty much what I have had for 2 years now with no issues (Ultimate ears triple fi 10). Ordinarily they're over $100, but they periodically go on sale for less and sound fantastic. I keep them in all day sometimes since I work next to the marketing team and as long as you're using comply foam tips they're quite comfortable.
If you do experience breakage (I haven't yet) you can get them re-bodied for around $80 USD from these guys...
There are invasive species, to be sure, but what exactly makes something invasive? And how is this different from evolution? A more adapted species finds its way into an ecosystem where it can thrive due to lack of predators or by being better adapted to the conditions just seems to be the natural way of things... Unless, gasp, we don't really believe that evolution is a good thing...
By that metric we really shouldn't bother with an endangered species list. However landing invasive species on islands is a recipe for very bad things. (ex. Cane Toads in Australia, Rats and Feral Pigs in Hawaii, Brown Snakes in Guam, Argentine Ants in New Zealand)
Right...Netflix should switch their PC streaming over to HTML5 right away. Except for the tiny problem that HTML5 has no encrypted video support.
I'm all for aggressive HTML5 adoption, that will get us the features it's missing much faster. At least in the right now Flash and Silverlight do things HTML5 won't.
The US debt has finally exceeded its GDP, the baby boomers have only just started retiring, and taxing the rich won't work, because they don't have enough money to make it work. (Also, you normally only get to do that once. They didn't get rich by not protecting their assets.) It has to come from spending, and cutting military spending won't even come close to being enough
Nail meet head.
Most of our spending already goes to Social Security, Welfare and Medicare, defense spending is a distant fourth. Our best option would be to fully nationalize health care, since those costs have been skyrocketing for decades. 'Obamacare' didn't even come close once it made a sweetheart deal to ignore how the drug companies charge 100% more for the EXACT same drugs here than they do overseas.
Discounting that we either need to raise the retirement age or reduce benefits, which is political suicide so it won't happen anytime soon. I agree that we do spend too much on our unspoken mandate to 'protect the world from communism/terrorism/drugs/whatever they come up with next' but cutting it won't be enough to save us in the long run.
And yes if we start taxing the crap out of the rich they'll move offshore. Unlike the general populous they have no 9-5 job, so there's no real reason they need to stick around. That said, there are degrees of taxation and the upper crust has been getting a pretty sweet deal for decades now. Even ignoring taxation, when the stock market/banking institutions/etc. 'needed' to be propped up, who do you imagine benefited most? If as a country you're willing to socialize losses you should socialize returns and that does not happen.
Indeed, underwater welding (arc/stick welding) wouldn't work if you needed an oxygen source other than whatever oxidizes from the metal/seawater itself.
To be fair, quality should go/up/ with the acquisitions so long as you buy drives that were made at the formerly Samsung/Hitachi plants. They didn't buy out those companies then raze all their manufacturing resources and there's no immediate reason to refit the plants and thus reduce reliability
Only if you believe Hitachi consumer level drives were better than WD drives, in my admittedly limited experience I found them to be significantly worse. Even if the quality from those plants is higher it turns into a crapshoot as to whether you get one of those drives vs being able to just order one.
The bottom line is that with only two players in the market they can set the quality and price points however they like provided they're cheaper/larger than SSD's and people will still buy them, just like other semi-monopolies (fuel, electricity, ISPs).
Those performance engines, to avoid detonation, require premium (higher-octane-rated) fuel. These days, they can run on the cheaper fuel too, but they back off on the timing to do so, and get worse efficiency. Premium fuel, of course, comes at a premium cost, so you're not saving anything dollar-wise by increasing compression, and instead you're actually paying more in all likelihood.
Yes and no. Using conventional fuel I absolutely agree, but water (or alcohol blend) injection will do every bit as good a job at lowering the cylinder temperature and allowing higher compression on a gasoline engine without any added cost. The downside of course, is that you now have two fuel systems, if either one fails your engine is going to be extremely unhappy.
The other inconvenient truth is that running really high cylinder pressures means using overbuilt engines that can cope with the added stress...thereby negating any real cost advantage.vs diesels.
Oh agreed. Just ask the guys trying to build heat shields for the new moon rocket...
Composites and Ceramics are great for some applications but for high strength parts that need to stand up to long term abuse I'd put my money on forged steel. You could certainly make some parts of an engine out of composites, but those parts are not pistons/rods/valves, and I doubt the weight savings would be that large compared to something like a magnesium alloy...but as frame and body components they're a great win.
I made a E-350 microATX HTPC also but I'm quite happy with mine.
It will play pretty much anything I throw at it fine, it's nearly silent, and quite cheap to build (~$300). It can even play video while copying 2 streams (via HDHomeRun) since it's my DVR too.
The only thing that pisses me off, and is not really AMD's fault, is Netflix support. It runs on Silverlight and the E-350 really struggles with it.
The only 'fix' is to configure Netflix to send on it's lowest quality (bit-rate) setting.
It's actually worse than that, some factories in China intentionally overproduce carbon so that they can benefit from European carbon offsets without actually installing any pollution controls
...when you have a 'level playing field' it means everyone is playing by the same rules, and they aren't, and they won't, ever.
What's even more depressing is that even if we did globally implement all of these reforms it's probably too late to do anything but delay the inevitable. Russia's (and Canada's, and Greenland's, etc.) permafrost has started defrosting and releasing truckloads of CO2 into the atmosphere, and there's absolutely nothing we can do about it.
Agreed 100%.
This is stupid and wasteful, but Homeland Security grants are obscene. There's almost zero oversight so you end up with tiny hick towns getting armored personnel carriers, bio-weapon gear and grenade launchers because of pretty much the same logic in this article, it's 'free' money
I agree completely. None of us voted on this. Other than living with it my choices are
1. Say f*it and leave the country for some other slightly less Orwellian state. Considering that there are more government owned security cameras than people in the UK, it surely isn't there.
2. Convince several million other like minded individuals to turn off American Idol and consider voting for a party that will revoke this stupid crap, which incidentally is neither Democrat or Republican.
3. Join the NRA and with their lobbyist support convince congress that I have a constitutional right to install a SAM battery on my lawn.
Housing alone will run about $1600 per worker per month (at the low end). This about having the right workers in the right place at the right time.
References? Diesel oil, water filters, rice and curry powder can't cost that much, even if you do have to ship them in. Remember that this isn't Royal Caribbean, there's no ice sculpting classes or world famous gourmet chefs.
That said, non-startups have flexible options bringing in the right workers whenever they need them now, all you need are L-1 visas, which are trivial to get.
Now that doesn't mean that this can't make money, especially when you indenture people to pay for the trip out there and the only place they can buy from is the company store. The question is how many IIT graduates can they get saused up on cheap rum and shanghai.
Their real genius is in how they managed to use European attitudes toward Chinese (they all look and act alike) to let Europeans believe China is a country rather than an empire - and then using that to self-righteously blame other empires for "colonialism" when those empires took over some of China's colonies. Now they want to recover more of their former colonies - push their empire back to its furthest historical extent and beyond - and they have the gall to claim it is their "internal affairs" and that no other countries have a right to interfere even though China made Britain give up its Hong Kong island colonly (only the New Territories were leased, by international law Hong Kong island was a permanent part of the British empire, not the Chinese empire).
Indeed, just ask a Vietnamese person. They've been invaded by China an absurd number of times now.
I mean, I'm all for increasing NASA funding, but can't we just reuse our old outdated black-ops surveillance satellites now that the CIA has launched shiny new ones? It should be simple enough to turn down the resolution and turn off the ASAT weapons systems. I mean, that's just a firmware update right?
At what point did IvyBridge get released for the Atom?
Because I'm pretty sure that hasn't happened yet. At the point that it does we can compare benchmarks, but it would be hard to compare them to something that doesn't currently exist.
I also didn't compare performance/dollar currently, I just said it had happened multiple times, which it absolutely has.
Hell, it's happened even fairly recently. (620 = under $100 for a decent quad core CPU in 2009, even the cheapest i5 is still around $200 now, and was obviously more expensive at the time)
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If the Hermes prototype's a-rockin don't come a-knockin?
Oh...and I believe Hollywood has already covered this particular angle, AKA Andy Griffith in SPACE
Woss this about English not speakin' English proper? I'll get out me spoons. We invented it yer damn Yanks
Looking at their web page, the water jets all seemed to be good to +/- .001" repeatability
It's also much cheaper and has more cutting capacity.
As cool as this is, 99.9% of prototypes won't need any more accuracy than that.
With all apologies to Nikola and his 'Death Ray', wouldn't the skin effect of ultra high voltage used for these kind of arcs make this totally useless as a weapon? The bits you want to zap are inside the external metal casing. They are not the easiest path to ground, therefore they are not getting any significant juice.
If you're a big Tempest fan, you must own Tempest 2000 (originally released to the Atari Jaguar). There aren't a lot of good reasons to own a Jaguar but this is one of them.
Most people can't do their own work. Therefore cars reach a point where repairs cost more than the car is worth. If they could, then scrapping it makes far less financial sense than refurbishing the worn parts.
That said, this is kind of the same situation, at least until the ISS gets it's own Autozone/PepBoys module.
Hey, intuitively, I believe that AT&T 'has' to provide warrentless wiretaps or else the government would screw them.
As for Google, it's really difficult to say. I expect it's just easier for them to comply with the requests. I may find it offensive that they do so, but your average Joe doesn't even know this happens, so there isn't much blowback.
Really? Because that's pretty much what I have had for 2 years now with no issues (Ultimate ears triple fi 10). Ordinarily they're over $100, but they periodically go on sale for less and sound fantastic. I keep them in all day sometimes since I work next to the marketing team and as long as you're using comply foam tips they're quite comfortable.
If you do experience breakage (I haven't yet) you can get them re-bodied for around $80 USD from these guys...
By that metric we really shouldn't bother with an endangered species list. However landing invasive species on islands is a recipe for very bad things. (ex. Cane Toads in Australia, Rats and Feral Pigs in Hawaii, Brown Snakes in Guam, Argentine Ants in New Zealand)
Right...Netflix should switch their PC streaming over to HTML5 right away. Except for the tiny problem that HTML5 has no encrypted video support.
I'm all for aggressive HTML5 adoption, that will get us the features it's missing much faster. At least in the right now Flash and Silverlight do things HTML5 won't.
Nail meet head.
Most of our spending already goes to Social Security, Welfare and Medicare, defense spending is a distant fourth. Our best option would be to fully nationalize health care, since those costs have been skyrocketing for decades. 'Obamacare' didn't even come close once it made a sweetheart deal to ignore how the drug companies charge 100% more for the EXACT same drugs here than they do overseas.
Discounting that we either need to raise the retirement age or reduce benefits, which is political suicide so it won't happen anytime soon. I agree that we do spend too much on our unspoken mandate to 'protect the world from communism/terrorism/drugs/whatever they come up with next' but cutting it won't be enough to save us in the long run.
And yes if we start taxing the crap out of the rich they'll move offshore. Unlike the general populous they have no 9-5 job, so there's no real reason they need to stick around. That said, there are degrees of taxation and the upper crust has been getting a pretty sweet deal for decades now. Even ignoring taxation, when the stock market/banking institutions/etc. 'needed' to be propped up, who do you imagine benefited most? If as a country you're willing to socialize losses you should socialize returns and that does not happen.
Indeed, underwater welding (arc/stick welding) wouldn't work if you needed an oxygen source other than whatever oxidizes from the metal/seawater itself.
Only if you believe Hitachi consumer level drives were better than WD drives, in my admittedly limited experience I found them to be significantly worse. Even if the quality from those plants is higher it turns into a crapshoot as to whether you get one of those drives vs being able to just order one.
The bottom line is that with only two players in the market they can set the quality and price points however they like provided they're cheaper/larger than SSD's and people will still buy them, just like other semi-monopolies (fuel, electricity, ISPs).
Yes and no. Using conventional fuel I absolutely agree, but water (or alcohol blend) injection will do every bit as good a job at lowering the cylinder temperature and allowing higher compression on a gasoline engine without any added cost. The downside of course, is that you now have two fuel systems, if either one fails your engine is going to be extremely unhappy.
The other inconvenient truth is that running really high cylinder pressures means using overbuilt engines that can cope with the added stress...thereby negating any real cost advantage.vs diesels.
Oh agreed. Just ask the guys trying to build heat shields for the new moon rocket...
Composites and Ceramics are great for some applications but for high strength parts that need to stand up to long term abuse I'd put my money on forged steel. You could certainly make some parts of an engine out of composites, but those parts are not pistons/rods/valves, and I doubt the weight savings would be that large compared to something like a magnesium alloy...but as frame and body components they're a great win.
I made a E-350 microATX HTPC also but I'm quite happy with mine.
It will play pretty much anything I throw at it fine, it's nearly silent, and quite cheap to build (~$300). It can even play video while copying 2 streams (via HDHomeRun) since it's my DVR too.
The only thing that pisses me off, and is not really AMD's fault, is Netflix support. It runs on Silverlight and the E-350 really struggles with it.
The only 'fix' is to configure Netflix to send on it's lowest quality (bit-rate) setting.
It's actually worse than that, some factories in China intentionally overproduce carbon so that they can benefit from European carbon offsets without actually installing any pollution controls
...when you have a 'level playing field' it means everyone is playing by the same rules, and they aren't, and they won't, ever.
What's even more depressing is that even if we did globally implement all of these reforms it's probably too late to do anything but delay the inevitable. Russia's (and Canada's, and Greenland's, etc.) permafrost has started defrosting and releasing truckloads of CO2 into the atmosphere, and there's absolutely nothing we can do about it.
Agreed 100%.
...except we all know it's really not.
This is stupid and wasteful, but Homeland Security grants are obscene. There's almost zero oversight so you end up with tiny hick towns getting armored personnel carriers, bio-weapon gear and grenade launchers because of pretty much the same logic in this article, it's 'free' money
I agree completely. None of us voted on this. Other than living with it my choices are
1. Say f*it and leave the country for some other slightly less Orwellian state. Considering that there are more government owned security cameras than people in the UK, it surely isn't there.
2. Convince several million other like minded individuals to turn off American Idol and consider voting for a party that will revoke this stupid crap, which incidentally is neither Democrat or Republican.
3. Join the NRA and with their lobbyist support convince congress that I have a constitutional right to install a SAM battery on my lawn.
Are you sure? Lou Ferrigno said it's all about steroids and green body paint.
Your ignorance makes me so angry!
Believe me you wouldn't like me when I'm angry...
References? Diesel oil, water filters, rice and curry powder can't cost that much, even if you do have to ship them in. Remember that this isn't Royal Caribbean, there's no ice sculpting classes or world famous gourmet chefs.
That said, non-startups have flexible options bringing in the right workers whenever they need them now, all you need are L-1 visas, which are trivial to get.
Now that doesn't mean that this can't make money, especially when you indenture people to pay for the trip out there and the only place they can buy from is the company store. The question is how many IIT graduates can they get saused up on cheap rum and shanghai.
Indeed, just ask a Vietnamese person. They've been invaded by China an absurd number of times now.
I mean, I'm all for increasing NASA funding, but can't we just reuse our old outdated black-ops surveillance satellites now that the CIA has launched shiny new ones? It should be simple enough to turn down the resolution and turn off the ASAT weapons systems. I mean, that's just a firmware update right?
Somalia is full of dirty pirates. According to the sponsors of SOPA, the US is also full of dirty pirates. Therefore US=Somalia.
At what point did IvyBridge get released for the Atom?
Because I'm pretty sure that hasn't happened yet. At the point that it does we can compare benchmarks, but it would be hard to compare them to something that doesn't currently exist.
I also didn't compare performance/dollar currently, I just said it had happened multiple times, which it absolutely has.
Hell, it's happened even fairly recently. (620 = under $100 for a decent quad core CPU in 2009, even the cheapest i5 is still around $200 now, and was obviously more expensive at the time)