Almost nine years ago I married one of my English professors. This didn't completely fix my grammar (or my writing) but the private lessons can be quite fun.
. . . but I have recently started downloading some indie made "please download and watch our production we made with no budget" things . ..
I've seen several music sites that let you listen to published music free, download at your own price and one or two other models, but I don't think I've seen any site trying to distribute movies. Would you mind providing an example or three?
ahhh...you misunderstand me. I'm normally quite easy-going, which is precisely why I don't want one of the durn things. Quite frankly, I really dont want somebody to be able to reach me with their worries any time day or night. I may well still get one, but leave it turned off so that it is my convenience rather than a convenience to others.
Speaking of getting worked up, though...
You seem to be basing your judgment of my technical ability on the fact that I forgot to turn off a telephone before I walked into a class. And your ability to reach conclusions is absolutely astounding. Based on one comment about my dislike for cell phones, you've determined that you need to lecture me concerning stress and health risks. Further, you've determined that because I dislike hearing the constant yammer of other people's problems that I don't and have never lived anywhere that "life trully (sic) sucks." I'm amazed that you know so much about me.
What really amazed me is that my minor comment got you so worked up that you felt compelled to insult me. interesting.
(by the way...the doctor told me just last week that I'm quite healthy. I've travelled and lived in many locales; I don't suffer from a lack of perspective. Rudeness in public places (like message boards and drug stores) DOES matter and should always gain a response. And finally, you might want to consider taking some of your own advice.)
I owned a cellular phone a few years ago, but have managed (through no few arguments with my wife, although she owns one of the buggers) to avoid owning another since my first. I got sick of them the first time that the office secretary ringed me up in class during Engineering Management and the professor (quite politely) informed me that the entire class was waiting on me to answer my telepone. (I was working as a mechanic to a small branch of an armored car company at the time.)
I was actually considering conceding to the pressure from the office and from my wife and obtaining another (of the damned things) when I rolled across this article. While I wouldn't let such a short-sighted study inform my own decisions, I might be able to gain another month or twelve from its' existence before I'm forced to concede and join the rest of the Left Coast of the United States. Thanks, I hope!
P.S. GAA, but I hate those damned things. My optimistic hope is the most people over-react and shut the damned things off. I was in line to pick up a prescription for my infant son yesterday and could barely stand the din of the two ARROGANT BASTARDS ahead of me, one of whom was reviling the leak of a confidential product. (My own sense of ethics prevents me telling anybody else that there might be a clinical trial startiing soon in the US of a new male birth control product. Unfortunately, I could'nt make out the name of this revolutionary product, only that is was a SECRET.)
Everything comes in baby steps, though. The original hard drive was a multi-ton monster. Compare that to what is readily available to each of us today.
Besides, if holographic storage were that much of an immediate threat, companies like samsung, seagate, micron, et al would be scrambling to scoop up inphase. Don't get me wrong; holographic storage does have potential, but for now it's certainly not disruptive and has other up-and-comers like nand flash, (maybe someday) mram and a couple of interesting technologies born out of carbon nanotubes to compete with. Everything that I listed has the potential to disrupt at least one existing industry, and holographic storage is just one more that still needs to prove itself both in practice and in price before anything is disrupted.
I'm so damned tired that I actually did this (without thinking, of course) to see what would happen. When I'm awake and alert, it's the only way I close a tab. AAAAAARGH. Anyway, have a laugh on me.
Your conclusion is a bit off; for most of what you say, I reply: "Exactamundo." That last paragraph, though, is an environmentalist's wet dream and suggests a need for lessons in basic economics and engineering.
Where there is a demand there will probably be a supply. Given coal and the sun (and all the myriad ways of harnessing energy therefrom) as well as existing and severalpotential nuclear energies there is no reason to expect "mini-mansions", modern manufacturing nor "agri-business" to decline alongside petroleum and its' distillates. While I've taken blacksmithing as a hobby, I fully expect that my other hobbies, automotive repair, photography, welding, woodworking and programming (I don't sleep well) to continue to be inexpensive diversions for my sons and daughters well into the next millenium.
Perhaps you've been bitten by the year 2000 bug and not quite healed the infection, or, alternately you've spent too much time buried in your Foxfire books, or perhaps you've read Friday once too often. In any regard, there's not cause to worry that society is going to collapse any time soon. There's quite enough energy to keep us entertained and heated (or air conditioned) for a century or twelve, assuming we don't breed ourselves into extinction (albeit not necessarily as cheaply as you and I enjoy).
p.s. Strip-mining isn't necessarily an environmental nightmare. (Having grown up in Alaska fairly close to Healy, I was aware of Usibelli Coal Mine and their efforts, but I was shocked at the grammar of the page I referenced; what are they teaching those kids in Healy? I don't profess to be an english professor, but I am shocked!)
Not quite. Jews are not the only non-christians in the boy scouts. While I saw no mention of shintoism on this list, Buddhism and Hinduism are definitely on it. On that list were also Zoroastrian, Islam and Baha'i. Your assumption that Boy Scouts of America is completely closed-minded is unwarranted.
Given that they are students, they may be busy for a year or two.
1. Insulation...very thick walls, like three feet thick, and spray in the fiberglass-pink...
I think that maybe you want to rethink some of this statement? The pink fiberglass is laid in, the stuff you spray in is cellulose. When have you built walls that are three feet thick? (Some folks are building fairly thick walls with hay bales, but this is a method that isn't common and doesn't mesh with the rest of your statement so we'll ignore it.) Do you know what materials cost would be for a place with walls this thick? Have you considered that the gains would be minimal over 8" or 10" thick walls?
2. Build somewhere you can sink your own well.
I believe that they are going to University. This may not be practical to him at the moment.
3. Solar collectors for power...Spend $10,000 on good panels, (which can collect even in low-light conditions)
$10,000? maybe. If you're frugal and your needs are modest. What makes you think that solar panels can do any significant collection in low-light conditions? I would love to hear about the solar panel that offers any real utility on a cloudy day.
Yes. Although his estimate of $10,000 is a bit low, unless you're really trying to skimp on the electricity you use. If you look here, you'll see that manufacturers carry a typical warranty of 25 years. A warranty of such length implies a very long life. Experience confirms the long life of solar panels.
ROI for a solar system varies from less than 7 years in very sunny places to more than 30 years in northern climes (like Alaska). There are a number of factors that can affect this.
I can't imagine using satellite for access to the internet. I have to believe, in complete agreement with you, that the latency inherent in such long-distance communication would "suck ass."
Highschool flunky here, that has an intuitive, but apparently mostly useless understanding of basic physics.
Don't undercut yourself. I learned in high school physics that the Bernoulli equation would accurately describe how an airplane flies; it was only much later that I learned otherwise. In fact, the idea that Bernoulli's equation describes the lift of an airplane is a VERY common misconception. I found that misconception on no less esteemed a reference than Wolfram's science world. I just found, if you're interested, a sitethat explains lift more concisely than I have the patience for.
Excuse me. I didn't mean to offend, only to inform. I have, all too frequently, been accused of being much too dry. I'm afraid it's my nature to assume a person would like to be corrected when they are in error, so at the risk of being an asshole again:
Turbulence and transitional flow near the speed of sound are not related in the context that you're using. In fact, while turbulence is desired in a hard drive, the energy consumed in a shock wave would make velocities approaching or exceeding the speed of sound in a hard drive.
The Bernoulli Effect describes a reduction in static pressure as velocity increases. For an explanation of lift we need to look to Newton's Third Law and then the Navier-Stokes equations. Basically, though, lift is generated by deflecting the flow of air downward.
I've yet to hear of anybody putting a hard drive on a satellite. Many high-reliablility embedded applications use industrial flash. The head on a hard drive IS lifted by aerodynamics, so the structure to maintain pressure and to provide redundancy would be prohibitively expensive because of weight. Rugged flash should be much cheaper than trying to design an air-tight box for a hard drive. If you know of an instance in which a hard drive has been used in a satellite, I would dearly love to hear about it.
When I said "...a smooth disc wouldn't cause cause cavitation..." I should have said "...a smooth rotating disc wouldn't cause cause cavitation..."
Sorry for the misstatement.
I always get annoyed when I see somebody discusses cavitation and air in the same sentence; they don't go together. Cavitation is a rapid formation of bubbles of gas in a liquid formed by mechanical means, usually by the fins in a pump. You're right when you say that a smooth disc wouldn't cause cause cavitation, though.
The forces that a spinning disc must exert upon itself are well understood. The materials that a hard drive are constructed from are well understood. This adds up to suggest that destruction of the hard drive through the means you suggest are nothing to think about.
The last point to make concerns the general operation of a hard drive. As others, I'm sure, will and have pointed out, a hard drive depends on air to "fly" the head. You can't remove the air and still have an operating hard drive.
On a more minor note, that should be spelled "dummy."
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Almost nine years ago I married one of my English professors. This didn't completely fix my grammar (or my writing) but the private lessons can be quite fun.
ahhh...you misunderstand me. I'm normally quite easy-going, which is precisely why I don't want one of the durn things. Quite frankly, I really dont want somebody to be able to reach me with their worries any time day or night. I may well still get one, but leave it turned off so that it is my convenience rather than a convenience to others.
Speaking of getting worked up, though...
You seem to be basing your judgment of my technical ability on the fact that I forgot to turn off a telephone before I walked into a class. And your ability to reach conclusions is absolutely astounding. Based on one comment about my dislike for cell phones, you've determined that you need to lecture me concerning stress and health risks. Further, you've determined that because I dislike hearing the constant yammer of other people's problems that I don't and have never lived anywhere that "life trully (sic) sucks." I'm amazed that you know so much about me.
What really amazed me is that my minor comment got you so worked up that you felt compelled to insult me. interesting. (by the way...the doctor told me just last week that I'm quite healthy. I've travelled and lived in many locales; I don't suffer from a lack of perspective. Rudeness in public places (like message boards and drug stores) DOES matter and should always gain a response. And finally, you might want to consider taking some of your own advice.)
I owned a cellular phone a few years ago, but have managed (through no few arguments with my wife, although she owns one of the buggers) to avoid owning another since my first. I got sick of them the first time that the office secretary ringed me up in class during Engineering Management and the professor (quite politely) informed me that the entire class was waiting on me to answer my telepone. (I was working as a mechanic to a small branch of an armored car company at the time.)
I was actually considering conceding to the pressure from the office and from my wife and obtaining another (of the damned things) when I rolled across this article. While I wouldn't let such a short-sighted study inform my own decisions, I might be able to gain another month or twelve from its' existence before I'm forced to concede and join the rest of the Left Coast of the United States. Thanks, I hope!
P.S. GAA, but I hate those damned things. My optimistic hope is the most people over-react and shut the damned things off. I was in line to pick up a prescription for my infant son yesterday and could barely stand the din of the two ARROGANT BASTARDS ahead of me, one of whom was reviling the leak of a confidential product. (My own sense of ethics prevents me telling anybody else that there might be a clinical trial startiing soon in the US of a new male birth control product. Unfortunately, I could'nt make out the name of this revolutionary product, only that is was a SECRET.)
Everything comes in baby steps, though. The original hard drive was a multi-ton monster. Compare that to what is readily available to each of us today.
Besides, if holographic storage were that much of an immediate threat, companies like samsung, seagate, micron, et al would be scrambling to scoop up inphase. Don't get me wrong; holographic storage does have potential, but for now it's certainly not disruptive and has other up-and-comers like nand flash, (maybe someday) mram and a couple of interesting technologies born out of carbon nanotubes to compete with. Everything that I listed has the potential to disrupt at least one existing industry, and holographic storage is just one more that still needs to prove itself both in practice and in price before anything is disrupted.
Sometimes I can be a little slow. I had the wrong link. This is the right one:
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http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/ngm/wp10
Your link is broken.
Here is what you meant.
Sorry for the offtopic nonsense.
Your conclusion is a bit off; for most of what you say, I reply: "Exactamundo." That last paragraph, though, is an environmentalist's wet dream and suggests a need for lessons in basic economics and engineering.
Where there is a demand there will probably be a supply. Given coal and the sun (and all the myriad ways of harnessing energy therefrom) as well as existing and severalpotential nuclear energies there is no reason to expect "mini-mansions", modern manufacturing nor "agri-business" to decline alongside petroleum and its' distillates. While I've taken blacksmithing as a hobby, I fully expect that my other hobbies, automotive repair, photography, welding, woodworking and programming (I don't sleep well) to continue to be inexpensive diversions for my sons and daughters well into the next millenium.
Perhaps you've been bitten by the year 2000 bug and not quite healed the infection, or, alternately you've spent too much time buried in your Foxfire books, or perhaps you've read Friday once too often. In any regard, there's not cause to worry that society is going to collapse any time soon. There's quite enough energy to keep us entertained and heated (or air conditioned) for a century or twelve, assuming we don't breed ourselves into extinction (albeit not necessarily as cheaply as you and I enjoy).
p.s. Strip-mining isn't necessarily an environmental nightmare. (Having grown up in Alaska fairly close to Healy, I was aware of Usibelli Coal Mine and their efforts, but I was shocked at the grammar of the page I referenced; what are they teaching those kids in Healy? I don't profess to be an english professor, but I am shocked!)
Not quite. Jews are not the only non-christians in the boy scouts. While I saw no mention of shintoism on this list, Buddhism and Hinduism are definitely on it. On that list were also Zoroastrian, Islam and Baha'i. Your assumption that Boy Scouts of America is completely closed-minded is unwarranted.
I think that maybe you want to rethink some of this statement? The pink fiberglass is laid in, the stuff you spray in is cellulose. When have you built walls that are three feet thick? (Some folks are building fairly thick walls with hay bales, but this is a method that isn't common and doesn't mesh with the rest of your statement so we'll ignore it.) Do you know what materials cost would be for a place with walls this thick? Have you considered that the gains would be minimal over 8" or 10" thick walls?
I believe that they are going to University. This may not be practical to him at the moment.
$10,000? maybe. If you're frugal and your needs are modest. What makes you think that solar panels can do any significant collection in low-light conditions? I would love to hear about the solar panel that offers any real utility on a cloudy day.
As for the rest...you're funny! cheers!
Yes. Although his estimate of $10,000 is a bit low, unless you're really trying to skimp on the electricity you use. If you look here, you'll see that manufacturers carry a typical warranty of 25 years. A warranty of such length implies a very long life. Experience confirms the long life of solar panels.
ROI for a solar system varies from less than 7 years in very sunny places to more than 30 years in northern climes (like Alaska). There are a number of factors that can affect this.
cheers.
Cheers and don't let the buggers get you down.
Excuse me. I didn't mean to offend, only to inform. I have, all too frequently, been accused of being much too dry. I'm afraid it's my nature to assume a person would like to be corrected when they are in error, so at the risk of being an asshole again:
Turbulence and transitional flow near the speed of sound are not related in the context that you're using. In fact, while turbulence is desired in a hard drive, the energy consumed in a shock wave would make velocities approaching or exceeding the speed of sound in a hard drive.
The Bernoulli Effect describes a reduction in static pressure as velocity increases. For an explanation of lift we need to look to Newton's Third Law and then the Navier-Stokes equations. Basically, though, lift is generated by deflecting the flow of air downward.
I've yet to hear of anybody putting a hard drive on a satellite. Many high-reliablility embedded applications use industrial flash. The head on a hard drive IS lifted by aerodynamics, so the structure to maintain pressure and to provide redundancy would be prohibitively expensive because of weight. Rugged flash should be much cheaper than trying to design an air-tight box for a hard drive. If you know of an instance in which a hard drive has been used in a satellite, I would dearly love to hear about it.
Sorry if I've come off as an ass.
When I said "...a smooth disc wouldn't cause cause cavitation..." I should have said "...a smooth rotating disc wouldn't cause cause cavitation..."
Sorry for the misstatement.
I always get annoyed when I see somebody discusses cavitation and air in the same sentence; they don't go together. Cavitation is a rapid formation of bubbles of gas in a liquid formed by mechanical means, usually by the fins in a pump. You're right when you say that a smooth disc wouldn't cause cause cavitation, though.
The forces that a spinning disc must exert upon itself are well understood. The materials that a hard drive are constructed from are well understood. This adds up to suggest that destruction of the hard drive through the means you suggest are nothing to think about.
The last point to make concerns the general operation of a hard drive. As others, I'm sure, will and have pointed out, a hard drive depends on air to "fly" the head. You can't remove the air and still have an operating hard drive.
On a more minor note, that should be spelled "dummy."