Ha! I'm still running a 9 year old Q9400 as my desktop, and a 14 year old AMD CPU is taking care of media. Neither of them are fast, but I also prefer Linux. (Windows is there for a few games, Rosetta Stone and to back up my phone.)
I must admit, though, that I'm thinking of upgrading. I'm a bit disappointed, though, by the news as I was thinking of a nice, shiny Zen processor in January and I'd prefer to stick with Window 7 for now. I find it easiest to keep my Windows version in sync with what's prevalent at work. Ah well; maybe I'll just dump Windows and figure out something for the little bit I use it for.
The anomaly originated around the upper stage oxygen tank and occurred during propellant loading of the vehicle.
They don't go so far as to say that it was a pad issue separate from the Falcon. This could still be a problem with the rocket or with external equipment.
Fine. Here's the same road 3/4 mile to the east, still without traffic markings. If you look around, there are thousands of miles of streets in LA that lack longitudinal markings. I only used this one as an example because I used to live about 100 ft north of it.
. ..but I think the idea is to actually have less accidents. ..
And you're wrong to think so. Crashes are generally classified by type with a cost assigned to each: fatal, major injury, minor injury and property damage only (PDO). An uncontrolled intersection may have on average 0.25 fatal crashes per year, and through examination of similar intersections we might predict that adding controls will change that to 5 minor injury and PDO crashes per year. Because the monetary cost assigned to the fatal accident is so (justifiably) high, the controls should be added even though the total number of crashes increases.
Here's a well-traveled street straddling Beverly Hills and Los Angeles. It has no longitudinal traffic markings, and particularly from 3:00PM to 7:00PM has heavy traffic. The accident rate is modest, particularly given its narrow width and placement parallel to and between two major arterials.
Here's a well-traveled street in Fairbanks, AK. From October until April there is regularly snow that can quite effectively cover lane markings for days or months at a time. For example: I noticed this morning, only because the packed snow and ice had finally worn away enough to make the markings faintly visible, that I was driving through a painted median. A week ago I noticed three cars side-by-side to make left turns into two receiving lanes because snow had obscured the lane markings; they worked it out when the light changed and nobody died.
Three years ago, as the traffic & safety engineer, I was designing the signs and markings for a rural two-lane road that hadn't been previously paved. One discussion was the necessity of the inclusion of longitudinal markings. In the end, we painted the center lines and excluded the edge lines.
In the US, the MUTCD establishes a base requirement for center line markings on roads "that have a traveled way of 20 feet or more in width and an ADT of 6,000 vehicles per day or greater" or on two-way roads "that have three or more lanes for moving motor vehicle traffic." On many roads, center lane lines are already optional and their exclusion isn't an inherent problem. I might argue differently about reactionary idiots, however.
It may be that your state modifies the Standard Highway Signs. I just took a gander at sign W11-3, and not only does it look reasonable, but the antlers open to the front.
Indeed, the original study and design were were funded through a grant provided by 3M. There were evaluation studies performed by the Texas Transportation Institute that were FHWA funded, such as this one.
*shrug* I live at 65 degrees north latitude, and am fine. I know of one or two people who have problems, but most here seem to get along well. In fact, people seem a little more odd in the summer, frenetically busy trying to soak up as much sun as possible.;-)
Did you completely flunk Physics??? Orbital speed is set by orbiting mass. ..
Well, it looks like you struggled in either physics or English. Your statement only bears meaning if the orbiting mass is any significant portion of the primary body. Even Jupiter is only 0.1% of the mass of the sun, so it's mass is irrelevant in computing its orbital velocity about the sun.
I had the same thought recently. Shapeways offers parts printed in wax for casting. I question the value, though, as shipping may well warp waxy materials. There are also others selling materials intended specifically for lost investment casting. Still others thought to see whether PLA could be used directly for lost investment casting with good results. The author at the second link used foam strips, presumably because it's cheap and fast, which 3d printing generally isn't.
A hair dryer also softens the decal, which tears. These remove decals very quickly. Most of the residue is gone, and you have no worries about overheating the paint. It's best done with a pneumatic die grinder with a mandrel. After the decal is removed, the use of rubbing compound removes the top layer of oxides from the paint, and only the fussiest of inspections will find any sign that there was ever a decal.
With machine control and a local positioning system, it's probably repeatable within a few inches horizontally. Vertical repeatability is a little bit harder, both because of the limits of GNSS and because of variability in material.
I don't think that it delivers 1,600J, so much as it consumes 1,600J. Quoting the numbers you printed:
1.1g sabot
300 m/s (above 250 m/s, so let's be generous).
E = 0.5*M*V^2, so
E = 0.5*1.1*300*300 = 49,500mJ = 49.5J. So, the muzzle energy is about 1/30th of the energy it appears to be using.
Poking around a bit, I found a variety of velocities and masses for paintballs, so I'll posit that the muzzle energy of a paintball pellet varies between 12J-20J. So, assuming the pressure system is imparting similar energy as a paintball gun, this guy's rail is imparting a maximum of about 30J-38J to the slug, or about 1/50th of the energy consumed. No wonder his graphite sabot didn't reach a target.
it's also cyclical based on I think a 5 year average of the price of oil - that means it's going to start going down next year as gas starts to plummet
It's based on the fund income, which doesn't necessarily correlate to oil prices. The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation manages a *widely* diversified portfolio. An oil income deposited into the fund becomes a part of the principal and may contribute to the income.
I don't know Norway's savings, but the Alaska Permanent Fund is handled both directly and by a surprising variety of investment managers. For 2014, the total charged by investment managers was almost $88M.
The permanent fund is ultimately a rainy day fund. The distribution of the dividend from the permanent fund can be redirected into the state budget when it's needed. It's difficult to do politically, though.
Recognizing, I suppose, that the Permanent Fund dividend will be difficult to touch, there's a Statutory Budget Reserve (~1.7B, easy to draw from) and a Constitutional Budget Reserve (~$10.1B, harder to draw from). There are also a bunch of smaller savings accounts that do things like offset the high cost of electricity in the villages. All told, Alaska has about $70B in savings, and about $20B of that can be used directly for the budget. That $20B can fund the government at it's current budget for about 4 years without any of the permanent fund earnings.
At worst, hardware manufacturers will make the WiFi portion of the device untouchable from the rest of the firmware, or perhaps requiring signed binary firmware for the WiFi transmitter.
It would be a nice compromise position, but the one of the FCC Documents, in describing the reporting requirements, specifically asks how the device prevents loading "third-party firmware, such as DD-WRT."
What prevents third parties from loading non-US versions of the software/firmware on the device? Describe in detail how the device is protected from “flashing” and the installation of third-party firmware such as DD-WRT.
The FCC is trying, with this rule, to prevent any modification to future devices. From the same document:
An applicant must describe the overall security measures and systems that ensure that:
1. only properly authenticated software is loaded and operating the device; and
2. the device is not easily modified to operate with RF parameters outside of the authorization.
The description of the software must address the following questions in the operational description for the device and clearly demonstrate how the device meets the security requirement.
The same document also suggests that there be strong security between the regulated device and the manufacturer's website to verify installed software. How does this not eliminate the use of Tomato or OpenWRT? If you expect to use one of the alternate firmware on future devices, this proposed rule will absolutely affect your ability to do so.
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Ha! I'm still running a 9 year old Q9400 as my desktop, and a 14 year old AMD CPU is taking care of media. Neither of them are fast, but I also prefer Linux. (Windows is there for a few games, Rosetta Stone and to back up my phone.)
I must admit, though, that I'm thinking of upgrading. I'm a bit disappointed, though, by the news as I was thinking of a nice, shiny Zen processor in January and I'd prefer to stick with Window 7 for now. I find it easiest to keep my Windows version in sync with what's prevalent at work. Ah well; maybe I'll just dump Windows and figure out something for the little bit I use it for.
The anomaly originated around the upper stage oxygen tank and occurred during propellant loading of the vehicle.
They don't go so far as to say that it was a pad issue separate from the Falcon. This could still be a problem with the rocket or with external equipment.
The article mentions a discrete AMD R9 470 as an option for the Pavilion Wave.
. . .kids to clean their houses.
Ignoring the rest of your post, it's obvious from these five words that you don't have kids.
Fine. Here's the same road 3/4 mile to the east, still without traffic markings. If you look around, there are thousands of miles of streets in LA that lack longitudinal markings. I only used this one as an example because I used to live about 100 ft north of it.
. . .but I think the idea is to actually have less accidents. . .
And you're wrong to think so. Crashes are generally classified by type with a cost assigned to each: fatal, major injury, minor injury and property damage only (PDO). An uncontrolled intersection may have on average 0.25 fatal crashes per year, and through examination of similar intersections we might predict that adding controls will change that to 5 minor injury and PDO crashes per year. Because the monetary cost assigned to the fatal accident is so (justifiably) high, the controls should be added even though the total number of crashes increases.
Here's a well-traveled street straddling Beverly Hills and Los Angeles. It has no longitudinal traffic markings, and particularly from 3:00PM to 7:00PM has heavy traffic. The accident rate is modest, particularly given its narrow width and placement parallel to and between two major arterials.
Here's a well-traveled street in Fairbanks, AK. From October until April there is regularly snow that can quite effectively cover lane markings for days or months at a time. For example: I noticed this morning, only because the packed snow and ice had finally worn away enough to make the markings faintly visible, that I was driving through a painted median. A week ago I noticed three cars side-by-side to make left turns into two receiving lanes because snow had obscured the lane markings; they worked it out when the light changed and nobody died.
Three years ago, as the traffic & safety engineer, I was designing the signs and markings for a rural two-lane road that hadn't been previously paved. One discussion was the necessity of the inclusion of longitudinal markings. In the end, we painted the center lines and excluded the edge lines.
In the US, the MUTCD establishes a base requirement for center line markings on roads "that have a traveled way of 20 feet or more in width and an ADT of 6,000 vehicles per day or greater" or on two-way roads "that have three or more lanes for moving motor vehicle traffic." On many roads, center lane lines are already optional and their exclusion isn't an inherent problem. I might argue differently about reactionary idiots, however.
It may be that your state modifies the Standard Highway Signs. I just took a gander at sign W11-3, and not only does it look reasonable, but the antlers open to the front.
There's also at least one study by the Texas Transportation Institute that faults the font in certain circumstances.
No. The signs will be changed as the roadway it's designed for is repaved, rehabbed or rebuilt.
Indeed, the original study and design were were funded through a grant provided by 3M. There were evaluation studies performed by the Texas Transportation Institute that were FHWA funded, such as this one.
*shrug* I live at 65 degrees north latitude, and am fine. I know of one or two people who have problems, but most here seem to get along well. In fact, people seem a little more odd in the summer, frenetically busy trying to soak up as much sun as possible. ;-)
Did you completely flunk Physics??? Orbital speed is set by orbiting mass. . .
Well, it looks like you struggled in either physics or English. Your statement only bears meaning if the orbiting mass is any significant portion of the primary body. Even Jupiter is only 0.1% of the mass of the sun, so it's mass is irrelevant in computing its orbital velocity about the sun.
I had the same thought recently. Shapeways offers parts printed in wax for casting. I question the value, though, as shipping may well warp waxy materials. There are also others selling materials intended specifically for lost investment casting. Still others thought to see whether PLA could be used directly for lost investment casting with good results. The author at the second link used foam strips, presumably because it's cheap and fast, which 3d printing generally isn't.
A hair dryer also softens the decal, which tears. These remove decals very quickly. Most of the residue is gone, and you have no worries about overheating the paint. It's best done with a pneumatic die grinder with a mandrel. After the decal is removed, the use of rubbing compound removes the top layer of oxides from the paint, and only the fussiest of inspections will find any sign that there was ever a decal.
With machine control and a local positioning system, it's probably repeatable within a few inches horizontally. Vertical repeatability is a little bit harder, both because of the limits of GNSS and because of variability in material.
Ignore. I'm undoing a bad moderation.
I don't think that it delivers 1,600J, so much as it consumes 1,600J. Quoting the numbers you printed:
1.1g sabot
300 m/s (above 250 m/s, so let's be generous).
E = 0.5*M*V^2, so
E = 0.5*1.1*300*300 = 49,500mJ = 49.5J. So, the muzzle energy is about 1/30th of the energy it appears to be using.
Poking around a bit, I found a variety of velocities and masses for paintballs, so I'll posit that the muzzle energy of a paintball pellet varies between 12J-20J. So, assuming the pressure system is imparting similar energy as a paintball gun, this guy's rail is imparting a maximum of about 30J-38J to the slug, or about 1/50th of the energy consumed. No wonder his graphite sabot didn't reach a target.
it's also cyclical based on I think a 5 year average of the price of oil - that means it's going to start going down next year as gas starts to plummet
It's based on the fund income, which doesn't necessarily correlate to oil prices. The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation manages a *widely* diversified portfolio. An oil income deposited into the fund becomes a part of the principal and may contribute to the income.
I don't know Norway's savings, but the Alaska Permanent Fund is handled both directly and by a surprising variety of investment managers. For 2014, the total charged by investment managers was almost $88M.
2008 was $2069 and 2000 was $1963, the only years that were higher than the $1884 payout in 2014. The 2012 and 2013 dividends were around $900.
The permanent fund is ultimately a rainy day fund. The distribution of the dividend from the permanent fund can be redirected into the state budget when it's needed. It's difficult to do politically, though.
Recognizing, I suppose, that the Permanent Fund dividend will be difficult to touch, there's a Statutory Budget Reserve (~1.7B, easy to draw from) and a Constitutional Budget Reserve (~$10.1B, harder to draw from). There are also a bunch of smaller savings accounts that do things like offset the high cost of electricity in the villages. All told, Alaska has about $70B in savings, and about $20B of that can be used directly for the budget. That $20B can fund the government at it's current budget for about 4 years without any of the permanent fund earnings.
At worst, hardware manufacturers will make the WiFi portion of the device untouchable from the rest of the firmware, or perhaps requiring signed binary firmware for the WiFi transmitter.
It would be a nice compromise position, but the one of the FCC Documents, in describing the reporting requirements, specifically asks how the device prevents loading "third-party firmware, such as DD-WRT."
I don't think that this does what you think it does. The FCC, in an advisory document, specifically mentions the DD-WRT OS. From Software Security Requirements for U-NII Devices:
What prevents third parties from loading non-US versions of the software/firmware on the device? Describe in detail how the device is protected from “flashing” and the installation of third-party firmware such as DD-WRT.
The FCC is trying, with this rule, to prevent any modification to future devices. From the same document:
An applicant must describe the overall security measures and systems that ensure that:
The description of the software must address the following questions in the operational description for the device and clearly demonstrate how the device meets the security requirement.
The same document also suggests that there be strong security between the regulated device and the manufacturer's website to verify installed software. How does this not eliminate the use of Tomato or OpenWRT? If you expect to use one of the alternate firmware on future devices, this proposed rule will absolutely affect your ability to do so.
In fact, I'm pretty sure you could find any number of Ohio Democrats (as well as Ohio Republicans) that had been busy opposing this.
yep.