Actually, It's much easier than that, with a little intelligent valving designs some steam just get's rerouted around a turbine into a condenser. It's not like you're paying to get the heat, and it allows much faster throttling up and down of demand.
I would think the hardest part and/or biggest inneficiency would be finding a place with enough clean/cold water to run the cooling loop. Although the climate is pretty dry so a closed loop tower system could work pretty well with a nice supply of ground water somewhere.
grade inflation is a big problem between school as there is no longer an accurate scale.
At my university (Purdue) a C in an engineering class means that you have a solid understanding of the material and should be allowed to move on. A C is pathetic in many other engineering programs I hear about. In a core curriculum class, about 20% fail the first time through. In order for the degree to mean something, it has to be tough. It took me 3 tries to get through differential equations (now that's because I'm bad at them and a couple outside factors). I don't blame the university for any of it. I think a lot of it happens when, at least from my anecdotal experience including myself, get tired of the idea of being an engineer by late sophmore/early junior year. I'm going to be a senior, but I've started to find myself much more fascinated with economics as I learn more about it which makes the motivation required to do the gobs of work that much harder.
As far as the repitition, it's far less repetetive than any engineering job which is mostly figuring out the social aspect of dealing with the same problem 10 times with 10 different personalities.
I mean come on, intelligent design? evolution as a theory? velociraptors and children playing happily together? That sort of muddy clouded rubbish is surely out of date in todays world. Except in the US. A velociraptor would never play friendly!
That seems like more of a transmission issue to me. I occasionally drive in the colorado mountains where speeds are ridiculous compared to the dangerous roads. In order to maintain any sort of speed going up a hill, the car MUST be in 4th at the minimum. Granted a lot of the roads up there are so bad that you can't let the clutch out easy enough to start on the up grade when stopped.
When we look at 9/11 and the failure of communication between various law enforcement agencies, it is clear that we cannot have a law enforcement system where one hand doesn't know what the other hand is doing. The Patriot Act, for all its faults, is trying to address this need by opening up and sharing the law enforcement databases so that vital information is not overlooked or ignored simply because it is not available The problem with this is, rather than try and fix communication issues, they decided the solution was more monitoring by more agencies to allow more things to be communicated. The previous survailence laws were plenty sufficent to do what the government needed with a bit of re-orginization. Law Enforcement agencies should have shared their info with each other and Military Intelligence/CIA. The non Law Enforcement intelligence should stay on it's side of the wall, though.
I am a terrible poker player, but love the game like crazy. If I decide that I'm going to play betting amounts in which 50 dollars will last me for a few hours but know I will lose, I see that as entertainment costs that are more than worth it. I've only once walked away from a poker game in positive territory (playing with casino level players), and yet still love to play.
I bought my iPhone recently just prior to the SDK announcemnt knowing that some news of it was coming soon. I am now locked into a contract for 2 years when I will not be able to put software I want onto my phone. I thought it was generally accepted that an OS should not be able to say apps manufactured by competitors cannot go onto their OS. If for some ungodly reason someone wanted to load IE onto their iphone, they should be allowed.
Dude, the problem with the nomenclature "African American" is that not all black people are a)Africans or b)Americans. I agree, but Obama is American of direct African ancestry. I don't see where it would be more appropriate.
Somehow the US logic is that limiting H1-B visas (the visa for highly educated work) keeps out legions of undereducated terrorists. I'm doing all I can to make it to the EU (Ireland is my goal) as soon as I finish my education.
(at least the US university system is still damn good)
Wavelength is frequency. Amplitude--wave height--is energy.
And light does not have a 'particle state'--it can be modeled as a particle, sure, but it really isn't. Light waves do not have "amplitude". And it is a particle and a wave at the same time, as are you. The concept is hard to get around at first. Either way, it can certainly be quantized and a single photon has a finite amount of energy based solely on it's frequency. The intensity is the sum of the total energies of the individual photons. If this were not the case, a lot of spectroscopy would be bunk.
Then the gov't is utterly useless. I had to deal with this myself as a child, no matter how many times I reported neglect, it took me getting multiple adults to report the situation to Children's Services to get any sort of action taken. The worst part was, my father was willing and eager to take me, but the sexual bias in the court wouldn't let facts get in their way.
The only situation where I see censorship for a "think of the children" argument is in public school where they are mandated to serve "in loco parentis" (in place of parents)
Right, but you can go home and spend your downtime browsing whatever the hell you'd like. Imagine if to be employed with your company they required that you use their filter for every internet connection you have. And if you don't want to abide by that, you're guilty of a crime. We can't get streaming media at work, but I loves me the youtubes at night.
I understand your anger at the situation. I've lost a good friend fighting over there (US Marine). The ROE the soldiers are trying to observe is honorable and they really want to make the best of their mission and don't want to be there at all. I've talked to multiple people who have seen current day Iraq and Vietnam during the Tet offensive and say that Iraq is vastly more dangerous. The lack of KIAs is because of better engagement strategies and/.'s friend technology. Also if a soldier can be kept alive long enough to get to Ramstein AFB in Germany, they don't count it as an Iraq casualty. That has to be seperated from the government's policies that are just dangerous to the Iraqis and Americans. The real war should be the Iraqi and American grunts agains the field grade officers and above on both sides.
Just a minor point, but the texting students thing can work wonders when used correctly. My university has a voluntary plan that reports assaults and other violent crimes and gives the best description of the offender available at the time. In a college town, that makes violent offenders much harder to harbor. More importantly, are the weather updates. I go to school in the midwest and having a text that a twister is coming is a big deal for me.
I think it is sad that I was planning on making some tounge in cheek sarcastic joke about that, but I'm too worried about my monitoring at work and gov't data mining. Mostly the former.
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I've gotten so good at it in real life that I think I can handle it in the game now.
(I might have something backward)
Actually, It's much easier than that, with a little intelligent valving designs some steam just get's rerouted around a turbine into a condenser. It's not like you're paying to get the heat, and it allows much faster throttling up and down of demand.
I would think the hardest part and/or biggest inneficiency would be finding a place with enough clean/cold water to run the cooling loop. Although the climate is pretty dry so a closed loop tower system could work pretty well with a nice supply of ground water somewhere.
Do you realize that Obama is a Harvard professor of Constitutional law?
He has pledged to personally review the constitutionality of this administration and revert to a constitutional balance of power.
Sir, I believe Peter Noone is a stand-up fellow.
grade inflation is a big problem between school as there is no longer an accurate scale.
At my university (Purdue) a C in an engineering class means that you have a solid understanding of the material and should be allowed to move on. A C is pathetic in many other engineering programs I hear about. In a core curriculum class, about 20% fail the first time through. In order for the degree to mean something, it has to be tough. It took me 3 tries to get through differential equations (now that's because I'm bad at them and a couple outside factors). I don't blame the university for any of it. I think a lot of it happens when, at least from my anecdotal experience including myself, get tired of the idea of being an engineer by late sophmore/early junior year. I'm going to be a senior, but I've started to find myself much more fascinated with economics as I learn more about it which makes the motivation required to do the gobs of work that much harder.
As far as the repitition, it's far less repetetive than any engineering job which is mostly figuring out the social aspect of dealing with the same problem 10 times with 10 different personalities.
Microsoft used all their money to buy some fine blow, unfortunately the effect is mitigated with cocaine.
You sir need a nice helping of SCIENCE!!!
That seems like more of a transmission issue to me. I occasionally drive in the colorado mountains where speeds are ridiculous compared to the dangerous roads. In order to maintain any sort of speed going up a hill, the car MUST be in 4th at the minimum. Granted a lot of the roads up there are so bad that you can't let the clutch out easy enough to start on the up grade when stopped.
Dude, nobody wants a Robin.
EVER.
Like the Iraqi insurgency, or Viet-Cong?
AFAIK this site went down after it was mentioned on Fark last night. That could easily surpass the limit for a GoDaddy hosted site.
Richard Feynman comes to mind for me. He was a huge proponent of weed, granted it was before the drug war days.
I am a terrible poker player, but love the game like crazy. If I decide that I'm going to play betting amounts in which 50 dollars will last me for a few hours but know I will lose, I see that as entertainment costs that are more than worth it. I've only once walked away from a poker game in positive territory (playing with casino level players), and yet still love to play.
I bought my iPhone recently just prior to the SDK announcemnt knowing that some news of it was coming soon. I am now locked into a contract for 2 years when I will not be able to put software I want onto my phone. I thought it was generally accepted that an OS should not be able to say apps manufactured by competitors cannot go onto their OS. If for some ungodly reason someone wanted to load IE onto their iphone, they should be allowed.
Somehow the US logic is that limiting H1-B visas (the visa for highly educated work) keeps out legions of undereducated terrorists. I'm doing all I can to make it to the EU (Ireland is my goal) as soon as I finish my education.
(at least the US university system is still damn good)
Are you lambasting drunk engineers?
I resent that. Although I do plan on business for grad school, so whatever.
(more beer, please)
And light does not have a 'particle state'--it can be modeled as a particle, sure, but it really isn't. Light waves do not have "amplitude". And it is a particle and a wave at the same time, as are you. The concept is hard to get around at first. Either way, it can certainly be quantized and a single photon has a finite amount of energy based solely on it's frequency. The intensity is the sum of the total energies of the individual photons. If this were not the case, a lot of spectroscopy would be bunk.
Then the gov't is utterly useless. I had to deal with this myself as a child, no matter how many times I reported neglect, it took me getting multiple adults to report the situation to Children's Services to get any sort of action taken. The worst part was, my father was willing and eager to take me, but the sexual bias in the court wouldn't let facts get in their way.
The only situation where I see censorship for a "think of the children" argument is in public school where they are mandated to serve "in loco parentis" (in place of parents)
Right, but you can go home and spend your downtime browsing whatever the hell you'd like. Imagine if to be employed with your company they required that you use their filter for every internet connection you have. And if you don't want to abide by that, you're guilty of a crime. We can't get streaming media at work, but I loves me the youtubes at night.
I understand your anger at the situation. I've lost a good friend fighting over there (US Marine). The ROE the soldiers are trying to observe is honorable and they really want to make the best of their mission and don't want to be there at all. I've talked to multiple people who have seen current day Iraq and Vietnam during the Tet offensive and say that Iraq is vastly more dangerous. The lack of KIAs is because of better engagement strategies and /.'s friend technology. Also if a soldier can be kept alive long enough to get to Ramstein AFB in Germany, they don't count it as an Iraq casualty. That has to be seperated from the government's policies that are just dangerous to the Iraqis and Americans. The real war should be the Iraqi and American grunts agains the field grade officers and above on both sides.
If you want a real reason why Iraq troop levels are bad. The fact that we cannot defeat an orginization of idiots like this is proof enough.
Just a minor point, but the texting students thing can work wonders when used correctly. My university has a voluntary plan that reports assaults and other violent crimes and gives the best description of the offender available at the time. In a college town, that makes violent offenders much harder to harbor. More importantly, are the weather updates. I go to school in the midwest and having a text that a twister is coming is a big deal for me.
I think it is sad that I was planning on making some tounge in cheek sarcastic joke about that, but I'm too worried about my monitoring at work and gov't data mining. Mostly the former.