You're right, I concede every point and agree with you about "The Magnificent Seven".
"The Seventh Seal" has also been ripped off many times, most amusingly by "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" (Death).
Recently, Gladiator (IMHO, one of the better new movies) was a rehash of several "Sword and Sandal" flicks, owing much to "Spartacus" and "Ben-Hur". Check out the impeccably restored Citerion edition of "Spartacus". Pricey, but worth it.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
What did you expect in a summer/Spielberg movie... high art? Maybe we should have expected "The Third Man" or "Wages of Fear" from the Spielberg/Chrichton duo? Grow up and stop whining, Katz. Jeez, you're irritating.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
According to the email, this is the result "many requests from customers for a defined usage allowance under the Acceptable Use Policy." Of course, we've all asked our providers (many times) to limit our otherwise uncontrolled downloading.
We just need to be saved from ourselves.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Turbines come in all sizes. Those in the 3000 HP range are several times the size of the bike.
As for silence, turbines are not silent. Try standing next to an idling M1 tank (I have) and see if you think they're silent. Keep in mind that this is a jet engine operating a turbine. Jet engines are not known for silence.
When I was a kid in the early sixties (yes, I'm that old), my dad took me down to the Chrysler dealer in St. Peterburg to see the experimental gas turbine auto. I believe that Chrysler loaned about fifty of them to customers for testing. The problem was not lack of noise, but exhaust temerature. It was hot enough to ignite clothing.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
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Well, if you have ever participated in a large engineering project, you know that many subcontractors and partners are involved. A sub designed and manufactured the seals for FSV, but they represented the best technology available at the time. Unfortunately, they just weren't up to the task. This is not to excuse anyone. GA was prime and had ultimate responsibility. It was the first and last HTGR reactor built.
Seal technology has come a long way since then and GA is confident that the current design, quite different from FSV, will function correctly.
GA is a highly diversified technology involved in many different areas. Take a look at http://www.ga.com for a brief outline.
I can understand your ridicule. Your accomplishments must make GA's pale by comparison. I'm impressed by your detailed critique and rebuttal of GA's performance at FSV. But then, I'm easily impressed.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
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There are t-shirts. You would have to visit the controlled facility in San Diego to get one. Visits are by invitation, only. I don't have the authority to escort visitors to that area of the campus. Sorry. (but you could see the basement IT facility. Wow!)
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
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You are correct. That is why I characterized it as "GTMHR-type". There have been many changes since FSV, but the basic concept remains.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
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This reactor type was invented by the company for whom I work, General Atomics. The site is here.
One of the GTMHR-type reactors was built at Fort Saint Vrain, Colorado, but was beset with seal problems. In the twenty years since, these problems have been overcome with the result that GTMHR is ready for prime time. The best part of the design is negative temperature coefficient. This means that they cannot run away. If they get hot, they shut down.
GA is also one of the foremost Fusion research sites extant.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Rob misused the word "homonym" in this context. A homonym is one in which the words are spelled and pronounced alike, but have different meanings. He should have used "homophone," in which words have different spellings and meanings, but are pronounced alike.
Knowing this will not improve his writing.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
In 1988, I used a Kodak EktaPro system to capture 6,000 frames/second of high-speed video while developing weapons systems. The base speed of the machine was 1,000 frames/second and could be bumped to 6,000 split frames/second if you used the LASER strobe for illumination. Resolution was 192 X 240 with gate limits as low as 10sec.
We were able to capture reasonably detailed images of transient events with up to thirty seconds in the buffer. The system cost $65k at the time. Maybe this one is cheaper.
The EktaPro was developed in San Diego at a company later purchased by Kodak.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
You are setting up a straw man to knock down by stating that the only reason people would go to war is that they are instructed to do so. I don't think that the several hundred thousand men and women that volunteered on December 8, 1941, were taking marching orders from anyone. It is more likely that they were responding to a threat to a way of life they INDIVIDUALLY wished to preserve. It is, of course, more complicated than that. There are as many sets of motivating influences are there are people motivated and all are likely different.
As for war, I'm certainly not defending war for its own sake. My point was that it might be well to examine the broader situation with H1B visas and see just how much it differs philosophically from indentured servitude.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Clearly, if Germany and Japan had not been stopped, there would be no American independence. Whether you know it or not, and it seems likely that you do not, the Axis was out to conquer the planet and remake in their image.
There was a period of time early in the war when it was not at all obvious that the Allies would prevail.
It would also be meet to recall that the British burned Washington on August 14, 1814, during the War of 1812. They had earlier burned Buffalo, New York. Only the concurrent war in Europe kept the British sufficiently occupied to prevent the complete collapse of the United States.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
That is no doubt correct for you. Thank god my parents and their peers, who fought World War 2 to preserve American independence, didn't think like you.
Some people might say that their own priorities are coincident with their nation's and that they might actually be thinking of the welfare of future generations, not just themselves.
But I see that is obviously not your motivation.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Have you ever considered the effect that the drain of intellectual resources is having on the countries from which the immigrants arrive? Just think of it as the new colonialism, where the exploitation just takes another form.
How are their former countries ever going to advance if the best and brightest are here in the U.S. working for multinationals that don't give a damn about anything but the quarterly balance sheet? An argument could easily be developed that this is another form of racism, designed to keep the third world exactly where it is.
There are consequences to every action, you should consider all aspects before rendering opinions.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Given a choice between George "MCR" Bush and Gore, I'm forced to take the former. It must be that CmdrTaco doesn't get out much and has trouble understanding complex human interaction issues, like politics. Perhaps it's just a working-class Michigan background and that whole socialist-prole thing they have going up there.
Vote for whom you like, you generally get the candidate you deserve.
p.s. To Rob: I work for a company that generates lots of Malignant Carbon Rods. What do you have against MCR's?
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
IRC is more analogous to chatting on the subway or at a party. The expectation should be that many people could be listening and some may be rudely recording you. Laws exist about recording conversations on ostensibly private channels, such as the telephone. That does not stop people from recording, it just punishes them when they are caught and convicted.
My philosophy is that unless you are certain of the context in which you are speaking and of the people to whom you are speaking, don't say anything that you wouldn't want to see on the front page of the New York Times or any internet site. It's too bad, I don't like it, but that's the way it is.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
It is not reasonable to expect privacy when engaging in a public conversation. If someone is sufficiently stupid to discuss illegal acts in a public forum, well...
If you want privacy, conduct your discussions privately.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Anyone who believes that the French are not engaged in espionage against the United States and that information does not make it to state-owned or quasi-governmental entities like Airbus, is naive. My sense is that they don't like the scale, style and effectiveness of the eavesdropping.
All countries engage in espionage. Due largely to resources, some are more effective than others. It is also meet to remember that nation-states do not have friends, but national interests. I'm not saying that I like the Echelon program, just that we are not alone in the pursuit.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
I build all my boxes with PC Power & Cooling components.
http://www.pcpowercooling.com/
Not only are they better cases, power supplies and fans, but they are VERY quiet. Keep in mind that I only use the "Silencer" series and have not tried the "Economy" or "Performance" components. Their stuff is a little pricey, but well worth it. I have a P133, Dual P-Pro 200 and a 600 P3 in a 10' X 10' room with no carpeting. Think I care about noise?
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
As an aging baby boomer myself, I resent the clueless Jack Valenti, a man born in 1922, being called a baby boomer. Just for the record, a baby boomer was born in the years 1945 through 1963 with 1953 being the peak year. Valenti was a member of the Depression/World War 2 generation.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Poe's credit for the Detective Story is based on technical structure. There are many other stories prior to Poe that included investigation, deduction and crime-solving. Poe elevated it to a finely structured art form.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
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Another example of Taco's absurdly over-inflated sense of his own self-importance.
You're right, I concede every point and agree with you about "The Magnificent Seven".
"The Seventh Seal" has also been ripped off many times, most amusingly by "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" (Death).
Recently, Gladiator (IMHO, one of the better new movies) was a rehash of several "Sword and Sandal" flicks, owing much to "Spartacus" and "Ben-Hur". Check out the impeccably restored Citerion edition of "Spartacus". Pricey, but worth it.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
There are a few that Hollywood, in all its cinematic perfidy, can never touch. They are just too good. I'll list my top five...
Wages of Fear
The Third Man
Seven Samurai
Seventh Seal
The Hidden Fortress
I have the Criterion DVDs and they are superb, especially (my favorite) "Wages of Fear".
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
What did you expect in a summer/Spielberg movie... high art? Maybe we should have expected "The Third Man" or "Wages of Fear" from the Spielberg/Chrichton duo? Grow up and stop whining, Katz. Jeez, you're irritating.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
According to the email, this is the result "many requests from customers for a defined usage allowance under the Acceptable Use Policy." Of course, we've all asked our providers (many times) to limit our otherwise uncontrolled downloading.
We just need to be saved from ourselves.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Turbines come in all sizes. Those in the 3000 HP range are several times the size of the bike.
As for silence, turbines are not silent. Try standing next to an idling M1 tank (I have) and see if you think they're silent. Keep in mind that this is a jet engine operating a turbine. Jet engines are not known for silence.
When I was a kid in the early sixties (yes, I'm that old), my dad took me down to the Chrysler dealer in St. Peterburg to see the experimental gas turbine auto. I believe that Chrysler loaned about fifty of them to customers for testing. The problem was not lack of noise, but exhaust temerature. It was hot enough to ignite clothing.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Well, if you have ever participated in a large engineering project, you know that many subcontractors and partners are involved. A sub designed and manufactured the seals for FSV, but they represented the best technology available at the time. Unfortunately, they just weren't up to the task. This is not to excuse anyone. GA was prime and had ultimate responsibility. It was the first and last HTGR reactor built.
Seal technology has come a long way since then and GA is confident that the current design, quite different from FSV, will function correctly.
GA is a highly diversified technology involved in many different areas. Take a look at http://www.ga.com for a brief outline.
I can understand your ridicule. Your accomplishments must make GA's pale by comparison. I'm impressed by your detailed critique and rebuttal of GA's performance at FSV. But then, I'm easily impressed.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
There are t-shirts. You would have to visit the controlled facility in San Diego to get one. Visits are by invitation, only. I don't have the authority to escort visitors to that area of the campus. Sorry. (but you could see the basement IT facility. Wow!)
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
You are correct. That is why I characterized it as "GTMHR-type". There have been many changes since FSV, but the basic concept remains.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
This reactor type was invented by the company for whom I work, General Atomics. The site is here.
One of the GTMHR-type reactors was built at Fort Saint Vrain, Colorado, but was beset with seal problems. In the twenty years since, these problems have been overcome with the result that GTMHR is ready for prime time. The best part of the design is negative temperature coefficient. This means that they cannot run away. If they get hot, they shut down.
GA is also one of the foremost Fusion research sites extant.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Do not trust people who have not EARNED your trust. The world is not a nice place filled with wonderful folks and money brings out the worst.
Repeat one hundred times per day or until assimilated.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Rob misused the word "homonym" in this context. A homonym is one in which the words are spelled and pronounced alike, but have different meanings. He should have used "homophone," in which words have different spellings and meanings, but are pronounced alike.
Knowing this will not improve his writing.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
In 1988, I used a Kodak EktaPro system to capture 6,000 frames/second of high-speed video while developing weapons systems. The base speed of the machine was 1,000 frames/second and could be bumped to 6,000 split frames/second if you used the LASER strobe for illumination. Resolution was 192 X 240 with gate limits as low as 10sec.
We were able to capture reasonably detailed images of transient events with up to thirty seconds in the buffer. The system cost $65k at the time. Maybe this one is cheaper.
The EktaPro was developed in San Diego at a company later purchased by Kodak.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
You are setting up a straw man to knock down by stating that the only reason people would go to war is that they are instructed to do so. I don't think that the several hundred thousand men and women that volunteered on December 8, 1941, were taking marching orders from anyone. It is more likely that they were responding to a threat to a way of life they INDIVIDUALLY wished to preserve. It is, of course, more complicated than that. There are as many sets of motivating influences are there are people motivated and all are likely different.
As for war, I'm certainly not defending war for its own sake. My point was that it might be well to examine the broader situation with H1B visas and see just how much it differs philosophically from indentured servitude.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Clearly, if Germany and Japan had not been stopped, there would be no American independence. Whether you know it or not, and it seems likely that you do not, the Axis was out to conquer the planet and remake in their image. There was a period of time early in the war when it was not at all obvious that the Allies would prevail.
It would also be meet to recall that the British burned Washington on August 14, 1814, during the War of 1812. They had earlier burned Buffalo, New York. Only the concurrent war in Europe kept the British sufficiently occupied to prevent the complete collapse of the United States.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
That is no doubt correct for you. Thank god my parents and their peers, who fought World War 2 to preserve American independence, didn't think like you.
Some people might say that their own priorities are coincident with their nation's and that they might actually be thinking of the welfare of future generations, not just themselves.
But I see that is obviously not your motivation.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Have you ever considered the effect that the drain of intellectual resources is having on the countries from which the immigrants arrive? Just think of it as the new colonialism, where the exploitation just takes another form.
How are their former countries ever going to advance if the best and brightest are here in the U.S. working for multinationals that don't give a damn about anything but the quarterly balance sheet? An argument could easily be developed that this is another form of racism, designed to keep the third world exactly where it is.
There are consequences to every action, you should consider all aspects before rendering opinions.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Given a choice between George "MCR" Bush and Gore, I'm forced to take the former. It must be that CmdrTaco doesn't get out much and has trouble understanding complex human interaction issues, like politics. Perhaps it's just a working-class Michigan background and that whole socialist-prole thing they have going up there.
Vote for whom you like, you generally get the candidate you deserve.
p.s. To Rob: I work for a company that generates lots of Malignant Carbon Rods. What do you have against MCR's?
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
IRC is more analogous to chatting on the subway or at a party. The expectation should be that many people could be listening and some may be rudely recording you. Laws exist about recording conversations on ostensibly private channels, such as the telephone. That does not stop people from recording, it just punishes them when they are caught and convicted.
My philosophy is that unless you are certain of the context in which you are speaking and of the people to whom you are speaking, don't say anything that you wouldn't want to see on the front page of the New York Times or any internet site. It's too bad, I don't like it, but that's the way it is.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
It is not reasonable to expect privacy when engaging in a public conversation. If someone is sufficiently stupid to discuss illegal acts in a public forum, well...
If you want privacy, conduct your discussions privately.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Anyone who believes that the French are not engaged in espionage against the United States and that information does not make it to state-owned or quasi-governmental entities like Airbus, is naive. My sense is that they don't like the scale, style and effectiveness of the eavesdropping.
All countries engage in espionage. Due largely to resources, some are more effective than others. It is also meet to remember that nation-states do not have friends, but national interests. I'm not saying that I like the Echelon program, just that we are not alone in the pursuit.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
I build all my boxes with PC Power & Cooling components.
http://www.pcpowercooling.com/
Not only are they better cases, power supplies and fans, but they are VERY quiet. Keep in mind that I only use the "Silencer" series and have not tried the "Economy" or "Performance" components. Their stuff is a little pricey, but well worth it. I have a P133, Dual P-Pro 200 and a 600 P3 in a 10' X 10' room with no carpeting. Think I care about noise?
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Actually, the peak year was 1957.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
As an aging baby boomer myself, I resent the clueless Jack Valenti, a man born in 1922, being called a baby boomer. Just for the record, a baby boomer was born in the years 1945 through 1963 with 1953 being the peak year. Valenti was a member of the Depression/World War 2 generation.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Poe's credit for the Detective Story is based on technical structure. There are many other stories prior to Poe that included investigation, deduction and crime-solving. Poe elevated it to a finely structured art form.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."