Read about magnesium on wikipedia. It's a very reactive metal. Put it this way - you don't want to have a pile of magnesium shavings sitting around your house. If it catches fire, there's no way of putting it out. It can 'burn' without oxygen, in a pure nitrogen atmosphere.
The superheated water and H2 come from the magnesium metal reacting with water. The metal oxidizes, gives off heat, and releases the hydrogen part of the water.
However, there's still the problem of obtaining the metal in the first place.
Yes. Ferrite core memory. You don't know much about the history of
computers do you?
Back in 1986 ferrite core memory would not have been obsolete for this type of application, even though for general use it was obsolete. Today, they'd probably be using flash memory in its place.
To be a teacher should require as much education as it does to become a Doctor - possibly more
It used to be this way, about 100 years ago. Teachers usually had a couple of years of education beyond H.S. Doctors on the other hand just hung out a shingle that said 'Doctor' on their shop.
Actually, the levies were built to ensure deep enough water for shipping. Barge traffic on the mississipi is an important means of moving grain from the midwest. Oherwise the river gets to be 5 miles wide and 6 inches deep.
From what was said in another post, the ground was sinking at a rate of about 3 feet per century. Now if you built up the land until it was say 10 feet above sea level, that would give you 3 centuries before it would be at sea level. You still would want to have dikes and pumps around to handle storm surges, but they wouldn't have nearly the disastrous consequences.
Now in the mean time, because the land is always gradually sinking, you implement a policy of scheduled rasing of neighborhoods. Say once in 200 years, all the houses in the neighborhood are jacked up 6 feet, dirt is hauled in, basements and streets are rebuilt and things are fine again for another 200 years.
Obviously high-rise buildings can't be jacked up that way, but for those, you just plan on the fact that once every 350 years or so, your bottom floor is filled in with dirt and the next floor up becomes the new bottom floor.
The obvious point here should be that the countyr was sellign them too cheap. Wasting taxpayer dollars.
You're probably correct, writes an Ominous Cow on a 5 1/2 year old, 450 Mhz Pentium III, with 128 Meg of memory, CD, and 8 Gig drive purchased surplus for $10 from the state university.
Well, the thing to remember when multithreading is that if all your threads are waiting on a single resource, multithreading isn't going to help you. For instance if each of the threads needs to update some database and needs to acquire a mutex to do so, you're still bottlenecked by that resource.
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They've got a pill for everything these days, don't they.
That, and the post did say Sun was expecting to get a 'leg' up with this chip.
Good luck to Sun and their new Viagra chip. I'm sure it will help them get their third leg up on the competition.
Read about magnesium on wikipedia. It's a very reactive metal. Put it this way - you don't want to have a pile of magnesium shavings sitting around your house. If it catches fire, there's no way of putting it out. It can 'burn' without oxygen, in a pure nitrogen atmosphere.
The superheated water and H2 come from the magnesium metal reacting with water. The metal oxidizes, gives off heat, and releases the hydrogen part of the water. However, there's still the problem of obtaining the metal in the first place.
Yes. Ferrite core memory. You don't know much about the history of computers do you?
Back in 1986 ferrite core memory would not have been obsolete for this type of application, even though for general use it was obsolete. Today, they'd probably be using flash memory in its place.
Sun's been thinking of thin clients, when they should be thinking of fat clients. Jennie Craig has made millions with her fat clients.
My definition of a Gas Giant: BP-Amoco
Well, I guess mars is out, as far as being a planet. It's named after a Roman god, not a Greek one.
It used to be this way, about 100 years ago. Teachers usually had a couple of years of education beyond H.S. Doctors on the other hand just hung out a shingle that said 'Doctor' on their shop.
Actually, the levies were built to ensure deep enough water for shipping. Barge traffic on the mississipi is an important means of moving grain from the midwest. Oherwise the river gets to be 5 miles wide and 6 inches deep.
Now in the mean time, because the land is always gradually sinking, you implement a policy of scheduled rasing of neighborhoods. Say once in 200 years, all the houses in the neighborhood are jacked up 6 feet, dirt is hauled in, basements and streets are rebuilt and things are fine again for another 200 years.
Obviously high-rise buildings can't be jacked up that way, but for those, you just plan on the fact that once every 350 years or so, your bottom floor is filled in with dirt and the next floor up becomes the new bottom floor.
We don't have hurricanes around here, but we do have a few tornados. So maybe I should be using F5 cabling instead of cat 5?
What's this DVD thing you speak of?
Could be because many older books, articles and training courses on SQL fail to even mention the LEFT JOIN. They probably didn't know it existed.
As the spokesperson for the ominous cow herd, It's my duty to advise you against doing any unauthorized 'cow-orking' around these parts.
You're probably correct, writes an Ominous Cow on a 5 1/2 year old, 450 Mhz Pentium III, with 128 Meg of memory, CD, and 8 Gig drive purchased surplus for $10 from the state university.
Well, the thing to remember when multithreading is that if all your threads are waiting on a single resource, multithreading isn't going to help you. For instance if each of the threads needs to update some database and needs to acquire a mutex to do so, you're still bottlenecked by that resource.