Simple way to level things -- make the compensatory stakes (not counting fines) the smaller of the two sets of legal fees. That way the small person has nothing to lose if they are in the right, and an acceptable cost if they are not. Similarly, the big corp. has nothing to lose from frivolous lawsuits, and loses its mightily intimidating club when it is in the wrong.
There is also the volume a DVD drive takes up. And it is powered. With a cable that takes up space and might be needed for a different device (like an SSD).
All of these are factors on desktops as well. Lately, when I open up a machine I disconnect and remove the DVD drive. Better air flow, less power draw and less phantom drive openings (happens on two of my machines).
It simply makes no sense to present most information the same way in browser running on a desktop machine with a panoramic screen the same way it is on a phone screen the user is holding in a portrait orientation.
Especially when the smartphone has a 4K display. Such smartphones could display two or three times as much information as my desktop. So no wonder the new "designed for smartphones" spec. insists on making fonts several times larger to earn the "approved for mobile" rating. Wait, what?
To properly handle something like rainwater takes upfront design. Some kind of roof tank that can gravity-feed all house toilets, and outdoor hoses would be nice.
As to crops, why don't they put down thick black plastic over the entire field. Then capture that water to a swimming pool sized holding tank, and pump it back out via drip/sprinkler systems to water their plants as needed.
As to thinking the consumer should pay for water recycling costs, I'm not suggesting that. But water use reduction and recycling does have to be forced, one way or another -- whether that is a cost per gallon causing prudent use, or even/odd watering days, or "no lawns allowed in AZ". So you offer incentives to those who capture...much like the solar energy people are doing today. The point is we all pay, whether the cost is direct or indirect.
As to road water usage, I found my error -- 68B gallons is the amount used daily, road water amount was for the year. Mea culpa.
The Colorado river is almost totally used by man. Google says the Colorado flow rate is 17,660 cubic feet per second. This works out to about 4 trillion gallons a year...entirely controlled by man. That works out to over 60 times the amount of water that lands on California roads each year. So if road water harvesting is a Dune, the Colorado river system alone is 60 Dunes. We seem to be surviving...
Also, if you recycled roof or road water, the cheapest way to use it -- i.e. zero processing required -- would be to water things. So the same water would end up back in the environment. There is no bank account accumulating funds here.
You could provide for 12% of residential water needs just by people not sending their roof water to the sewer system.
Imagine if we reused the water that lands on roadways...172,000 miles of highway, average width of ~10 feet...68 billion gallons of water wasted each year...almost what the entire state uses in a year.
One year's California rainfall could service the entire state's water needs for 425 years.
Recovering one-quarter of one percent of the rain that falls on the state each year would provide enough water for everyone for the entire year.
Most of the activities of my life have been trivially easy for decades. Helping others remains challenging.
If you really are "so smart", you are able to see what a disaster this world is today. Well, get busy changing it. You will be up against the most powerful, greedy, selfish & moneyed people on the face of the Earth. Challenge enough for me. What about you?
Aside from leakage of He/H through the balloon, one tweak would be to start with Helium and replenish with Hydrogen. That way it is inherently less flammable, at least until it has been in the air for a while. Then guys with weaponized drones can use them for cool target practice.
I can't even begin to imagine what usage advantage is to be gained from some of these over the more traditional SATA SSDs outside of very marginal activities, except for benchmark chasers.
Saving & loading very large files -- example: video or audio. Personally I work with 1GB audio files, regularly saving and loading them. I would like an SSD faster than the one I have currently.
With SSDs it is more like: Fast / Cheap / Reliable (pick two).
Samsung delivers the best reliability (for sample size of one anyway) and is acceptably priced. It also appeared to be one of the fastest but this bug has proved it otherwise.
So, if they can fix this performance bug they might just be all three.
Some forty years ago, Sweet Chapparrel (sp?) cigarettes ran a promotion. Selected cig packs paid out. Turns out the scratch pattern on the pack was tied to the fly fishing lure displayed on the other side of the pack. Figure all this out, and you know how to scratch each ticket for best results. Next thing you know, people are travelling from town to town, buying up all the cigarettes.
People ended up buying freezers to store the cartons of cigarettes they purchased...
A conceptual model is a model made of the composition of concepts, which are used to help people know, understand, or simulate a subject the model represents.
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conceptual modeling are the necessary means that humans employ to think and solve problems
As to there being no math, all this does is prove you haven't reviewed my theory. So how on Earth can you comment on something (let alone get an up mod) when you obviously haven't read it?
Your statement that there is "no physics" in my theory is so far from reality that I must conclude that I am trying to reason with a troll. Which I will stop doing, immediately.
2) There is a number that can be calculated that describes the force provided by dark energy.
There is also a number that can be calculated for the energy of the aether. And we have calculated it. And it is 10^^120 higher than we have measured. And this has created one of the great unresolved problems in (conventional) physics.
Personally, I think the current physics model is the problem. And I have proposed a new one.
Based on your answer to the manhole question, you go on one of 3 belts -- pedants go on the engineer belt, people who give straight answers go on the general cannon fodder belt, and those who can't answer it go on a belt that leads to the parking lot.
The cannon fodder belt leads to the work-for-free sign up sheets. If you don't sign, you exit onto the belt that leads to the parking lot.
The engineer belt leads to further questions and more belts.
Could be a funny video in this...maybe made by a competing company. I'd film it in the baggage handling area of Denver airport.
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Simple way to level things -- make the compensatory stakes (not counting fines) the smaller of the two sets of legal fees. That way the small person has nothing to lose if they are in the right, and an acceptable cost if they are not. Similarly, the big corp. has nothing to lose from frivolous lawsuits, and loses its mightily intimidating club when it is in the wrong.
So instead the reverse scenario commonly plays out -- small wronged person doesn't dare sue big corporation.
I will never understand why the loser doesn't pay the winner's fees.
Or E = 0.
Or R = 0.
Or E = 0 and R = 0.
There is also the volume a DVD drive takes up. And it is powered. With a cable that takes up space and might be needed for a different device (like an SSD).
All of these are factors on desktops as well. Lately, when I open up a machine I disconnect and remove the DVD drive. Better air flow, less power draw and less phantom drive openings (happens on two of my machines).
Especially when the smartphone has a 4K display. Such smartphones could display two or three times as much information as my desktop. So no wonder the new "designed for smartphones" spec. insists on making fonts several times larger to earn the "approved for mobile" rating. Wait, what?
To properly handle something like rainwater takes upfront design. Some kind of roof tank that can gravity-feed all house toilets, and outdoor hoses would be nice.
As to crops, why don't they put down thick black plastic over the entire field. Then capture that water to a swimming pool sized holding tank, and pump it back out via drip/sprinkler systems to water their plants as needed.
As to thinking the consumer should pay for water recycling costs, I'm not suggesting that. But water use reduction and recycling does have to be forced, one way or another -- whether that is a cost per gallon causing prudent use, or even/odd watering days, or "no lawns allowed in AZ". So you offer incentives to those who capture...much like the solar energy people are doing today. The point is we all pay, whether the cost is direct or indirect.
As to road water usage, I found my error -- 68B gallons is the amount used daily, road water amount was for the year. Mea culpa.
The Colorado river is almost totally used by man. Google says the Colorado flow rate is 17,660 cubic feet per second. This works out to about 4 trillion gallons a year...entirely controlled by man. That works out to over 60 times the amount of water that lands on California roads each year. So if road water harvesting is a Dune, the Colorado river system alone is 60 Dunes. We seem to be surviving...
Also, if you recycled roof or road water, the cheapest way to use it -- i.e. zero processing required -- would be to water things. So the same water would end up back in the environment. There is no bank account accumulating funds here.
Average SF home is over 2,000 sq. ft. Assume a roof size, conservatively, of 1,000 sq. ft.
10 inches of rain on 1,000 sq. ft. is around 6,000 gallons available per household per year.
Coastal usage per person is around 145 gallons per day.
You could provide for 12% of residential water needs just by people not sending their roof water to the sewer system.
Imagine if we reused the water that lands on roadways...172,000 miles of highway, average width of ~10 feet...68 billion gallons of water wasted each year...almost what the entire state uses in a year.
You are one of the few mentioning rainwater collection. Well done.
Average rainfall is California is around 10 inches per year. Google says California has 163,696 square miles of area.
1 furlong per fortnight = 0.000166309524 m/s. Carry the naught. [This is to appease Europeans, and hillbillies, alike]
3,800,000,000,000 cubic feet of water fall on California each year. 7.5 US gallons per cubic foot. 28 trillion gallons in total.
Total water usage, average to a per capita is around 2,000 gallons per person.
California population is around 37M.
28 T / (37M * 2K) = 425.
One year's California rainfall could service the entire state's water needs for 425 years.
Recovering one-quarter of one percent of the rain that falls on the state each year would provide enough water for everyone for the entire year.
If this was a purely scientific discussion, I could agree with you.
My remark is based on the total of what I got from the AC.
I mean her or him no malice. I'm just hearing warning signs.
You are headed for a fall.
Here is what you are missing -- helping others.
Most of the activities of my life have been trivially easy for decades. Helping others remains challenging.
If you really are "so smart", you are able to see what a disaster this world is today. Well, get busy changing it. You will be up against the most powerful, greedy, selfish & moneyed people on the face of the Earth. Challenge enough for me. What about you?
Aside from leakage of He/H through the balloon, one tweak would be to start with Helium and replenish with Hydrogen. That way it is inherently less flammable, at least until it has been in the air for a while. Then guys with weaponized drones can use them for cool target practice.
Saving & loading very large files -- example: video or audio. Personally I work with 1GB audio files, regularly saving and loading them. I would like an SSD faster than the one I have currently.
They don't die randomly. They die on an exact schedule, and about three times sooner than more durable brands.
I thought Moore's Law died when we were given new caps, new glue, and you can overclock it for more performance.
With SSDs it is more like: Fast / Cheap / Reliable (pick two).
Samsung delivers the best reliability (for sample size of one anyway) and is acceptably priced. It also appeared to be one of the fastest but this bug has proved it otherwise.
So, if they can fix this performance bug they might just be all three.
Showing my age but...
Some forty years ago, Sweet Chapparrel (sp?) cigarettes ran a promotion. Selected cig packs paid out. Turns out the scratch pattern on the pack was tied to the fly fishing lure displayed on the other side of the pack. Figure all this out, and you know how to scratch each ticket for best results. Next thing you know, people are travelling from town to town, buying up all the cigarettes.
People ended up buying freezers to store the cartons of cigarettes they purchased...
Perhaps you need a refresher on what a model is.
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As to there being no math, all this does is prove you haven't reviewed my theory. So how on Earth can you comment on something (let alone get an up mod) when you obviously haven't read it?
Your statement that there is "no physics" in my theory is so far from reality that I must conclude that I am trying to reason with a troll. Which I will stop doing, immediately.
Wow, this is news. Please share the link with us all.
There is also a number that can be calculated for the energy of the aether. And we have calculated it. And it is 10^^120 higher than we have measured. And this has created one of the great unresolved problems in (conventional) physics.
Personally, I think the current physics model is the problem. And I have proposed a new one.
ironic is an over-used, and often ill-used word.
In this case, try prescient.
I am picturing a series of conveyor belts.
Based on your answer to the manhole question, you go on one of 3 belts -- pedants go on the engineer belt, people who give straight answers go on the general cannon fodder belt, and those who can't answer it go on a belt that leads to the parking lot.
The cannon fodder belt leads to the work-for-free sign up sheets. If you don't sign, you exit onto the belt that leads to the parking lot.
The engineer belt leads to further questions and more belts.
Could be a funny video in this...maybe made by a competing company. I'd film it in the baggage handling area of Denver airport.
Cyanide eating bacteria.
Cyanide eating Bamboo Lemurs.