Hydrogen gas is not explosive. It is flammable. You need to mix it liberally with air (not sure of the ratio) in order to get an explosion. This is why almost everyone on the Hindenburg survived in spite of their aircraft being on fire.
According to wikipedia, out of 36 passengers and 61 crew, 13 passengers and 22 crew died. That doesn't seem like almost everyone to me. It is interesting, however, that the people who survived the crash were the ones who rode the ship to the ground... only the people who jumped out were killed. (And some poor sod on the ground who wasn't a passenger or part of the crew)
"Someone told me there is another Rocky movie on the way"
There isn't another Rocky movie on the way... there is, however, a new Rocky movie that is in theaters today, entitled "Rocky Balboa". From the reviews, it's actually quite good.
Personally, I think they should remake the "Champions of Krynn" series, from the early 1990's. Although it's been many many years since I've played it, I personally found the story for this series of 3 games to be better than anything that has been made in this century. I would love to see this game either remade, or maybe different games in the DragonLance campaign setting.
Perhaps not... but the point is, he doesn't WANT to wait, and he should have the ability to keep firefox or any other program up and running so that he doesn't have to.
If it was just you and some random guy for five years, then there is a good chance that you would have gotten off... by yourself on another part of the island, if nothing else.
AOL is still doing that... every 2 months or so I get another CD in the mail from AOL, which promptly goes into the recycle bin right by my mail box.
I'm gonna have to try that microwave thing, should be fun!;)
That's ok... when this happens, there will still be 35% of America who feels that the (new) president is a miserable failure, so they'll just be a step ahead of the game.
In a former life, I worked on large (800KVA) uninteruptible power supplies as a field service engineer. Normally, for highly mission critical data centers, as described in the article, the data center is powered by 2 different, independent power grids (if possible.) For example, there would be one feed from power company A, and another feed from power company B. These would be connected by using an automatic transfer switch (ATS) which would immediately switch to the other power feed if the main failed. The output of this ATS would then be connected to another transfer switch which was connected to the emergency generator, which starts automatically in the event of a power failure.
On the downstream side of this second ATS (the one that switched between the redundant power company feeds and the generator feed), there would be the redundant UPS network, which would in turn feed a different type of transfer switch before heading to the actual critical load in the data center. Each of these multiple redundant UPS's were provided backup power with large strings of batteries. A typical 800KVA UPS would have 3-4 strings of 40 batteries each. Each of these batteries would cost around $100-250, and weigh about 100 lbs. The data centers I worked on, which were nowhere near as large as some of the MS or Google data centers described in the article, had between 4-16 independent, redundant UPS's.
How long would this huge amount of batteries keep the UPS up at full load in the event of a power outage?
About 15 minutes, if you were lucky and had batteries at the top end of their charge cycle.
The whole purpose to having the UPS redundancy and massive battery backup is to give the emergency generators enough time to start and come online.
When I was working at MGE, a typical figure we were told was that a minute of downtime for some of these data centers can cost the datacenter well over a million dollars in lost revenue, and immediate termination of the CIO (or whatever equivalent) of the company. I'm not sure how accurate this was, but it seems reasonable considering how much money goes through some of these places in a day.
Well, perhaps it's due to living in California for the last couple of years, but 5 degrees (Celsius) or 41 degrees (Fahrenheit) seems damned cold to me!
Another example is a game called "Night of Bush Capturing". As its name implies, the goal of the game is to hunt down "a character representing" President George W. Bush. There are six levels with names such as "Jihad Beginning," American's Hell," and "Bush Hunter Like a Rat," and traditional jihadist songs play in the background.
That the Iranians are now doing developing a game to do the same is neither surprising nor should it be alarming. It could very well be an entertainment video game that is targetted to a very specific and narrow genre.
The hydrogen tank didn't rupture in those pictures... the connector was simply disconnected and ignited. I'm sure a rupture might be a bit more exciting, IF it happened, which I seriously doubt.
My favorite is when I visited Thailand several years ago. I walked past several permanent stores (similar in appearance to an Electronics Boutique), with nothing but wall to wall pirated software inside. They weren't even trying to conceal the nature of their business.
If somebody is wearing gloves near this thing, they are just wrong to begin with. Any safety standards organization will tell you not to wear gloves around rapidly rotating machinery.
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Hydrogen gas is not explosive. It is flammable. You need to mix it liberally with air (not sure of the ratio) in order to get an explosion. This is why almost everyone on the Hindenburg survived in spite of their aircraft being on fire.
According to wikipedia, out of 36 passengers and 61 crew, 13 passengers and 22 crew died. That doesn't seem like almost everyone to me. It is interesting, however, that the people who survived the crash were the ones who rode the ship to the ground... only the people who jumped out were killed. (And some poor sod on the ground who wasn't a passenger or part of the crew)
"Someone told me there is another Rocky movie on the way"
There isn't another Rocky movie on the way... there is, however, a new Rocky movie that is in theaters today, entitled "Rocky Balboa". From the reviews, it's actually quite good.
"our" guys don't strap 15 pounds of explosives to their chest and go looking for crowded marketplaces full of civilians
"and if they're rational and ascribe at least a little value to their life"
Ummm... these are suicide bombers we're talking about. I wouldn't exactly use the word rational to describe these people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Mak e_Contact
Personally, I think they should remake the "Champions of Krynn" series, from the early 1990's. Although it's been many many years since I've played it, I personally found the story for this series of 3 games to be better than anything that has been made in this century. I would love to see this game either remade, or maybe different games in the DragonLance campaign setting.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Perhaps not... but the point is, he doesn't WANT to wait, and he should have the ability to keep firefox or any other program up and running so that he doesn't have to.
why?
If you're going to correct someone for not correcting a spelling, at least provide the correct spelling (gaol)
"The company's games division reported a ¥43.5 billion ($366.6m) loss, from a ¥8.2 million ($69,000) profit in 2005"
Wow, it'll take a long time to recover the $366.6m dollar loss at that rate! Somewhere around 5000 years.....
If it was just you and some random guy for five years, then there is a good chance that you would have gotten off... by yourself on another part of the island, if nothing else.
AOL is still doing that... every 2 months or so I get another CD in the mail from AOL, which promptly goes into the recycle bin right by my mail box. I'm gonna have to try that microwave thing, should be fun! ;)
That's ok... when this happens, there will still be 35% of America who feels that the (new) president is a miserable failure, so they'll just be a step ahead of the game.
In a former life, I worked on large (800KVA) uninteruptible power supplies as a field service engineer. Normally, for highly mission critical data centers, as described in the article, the data center is powered by 2 different, independent power grids (if possible.) For example, there would be one feed from power company A, and another feed from power company B. These would be connected by using an automatic transfer switch (ATS) which would immediately switch to the other power feed if the main failed. The output of this ATS would then be connected to another transfer switch which was connected to the emergency generator, which starts automatically in the event of a power failure.
On the downstream side of this second ATS (the one that switched between the redundant power company feeds and the generator feed), there would be the redundant UPS network, which would in turn feed a different type of transfer switch before heading to the actual critical load in the data center. Each of these multiple redundant UPS's were provided backup power with large strings of batteries. A typical 800KVA UPS would have 3-4 strings of 40 batteries each. Each of these batteries would cost around $100-250, and weigh about 100 lbs. The data centers I worked on, which were nowhere near as large as some of the MS or Google data centers described in the article, had between 4-16 independent, redundant UPS's.
How long would this huge amount of batteries keep the UPS up at full load in the event of a power outage?
About 15 minutes, if you were lucky and had batteries at the top end of their charge cycle.
The whole purpose to having the UPS redundancy and massive battery backup is to give the emergency generators enough time to start and come online.
When I was working at MGE, a typical figure we were told was that a minute of downtime for some of these data centers can cost the datacenter well over a million dollars in lost revenue, and immediate termination of the CIO (or whatever equivalent) of the company. I'm not sure how accurate this was, but it seems reasonable considering how much money goes through some of these places in a day.
Well, perhaps it's due to living in California for the last couple of years, but 5 degrees (Celsius) or 41 degrees (Fahrenheit) seems damned cold to me!
Ummm... he said "Quantity", not quality.
If you had to click a EULA that said, "The government may acquire this stored information for prosecution ..." would you click it?
Of course... who reads EULA's?
This is just one video game out of many that has been created to train / recruit / fulfill fantasies of would-be terrorists.
. php/ details a game in which you perform terrorist activities against Israel.
For example, http://jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/003651
Another example is a game called "Night of Bush Capturing". As its name implies, the goal of the game is to hunt down "a character representing" President George W. Bush. There are six levels with names such as "Jihad Beginning," American's Hell," and "Bush Hunter Like a Rat," and traditional jihadist songs play in the background.
That the Iranians are now doing developing a game to do the same is neither surprising nor should it be alarming. It could very well be an entertainment video game that is targetted to a very specific and narrow genre.
The hydrogen tank didn't rupture in those pictures... the connector was simply disconnected and ignited. I'm sure a rupture might be a bit more exciting, IF it happened, which I seriously doubt.
I have GOT to get me one of those Badonkadonk tanks!
I agree! Grilled cheese is significantly tastier than turkey. Much worse for you, but still tastier.
My favorite is when I visited Thailand several years ago. I walked past several permanent stores (similar in appearance to an Electronics Boutique), with nothing but wall to wall pirated software inside. They weren't even trying to conceal the nature of their business.
Gloves should not be worn around this type of machinery anyway. Rapidly rotating machinery + accidental snag with glove = a lot more than a missing finger (mangled hand, for example) http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/safety_haz/woodwork /gen_safe.html/
If somebody is wearing gloves near this thing, they are just wrong to begin with. Any safety standards organization will tell you not to wear gloves around rapidly rotating machinery.