Not having actually read any of Ray's excellent references he cites, the proceedure he outlines sounds reasonable. Just because a person stands accused in court (civil or criminal) does not mean they are automaticly guilty or that they should lose the protection of the law. In fact IMNSHO, they should receive greater protections. Just out of curiosity,Ray, if one were so inclined, how could an individual (or group) file an amicus brief with a court? Is there a boilerplate example to reference?
...magic numbers. I did a lot of coding in assembly and machine code for old CPUs like the 6502 where miniscule available memory made these a necessity. You young whippersnappers whine about having only 4 Gig in your computer, try doing work with only 4 Kilobytes! And that was expanded from the original 1K. now get off my lawn!
Please, please, please, please, please ignore the rantings of those less enlightened than you. You need to keep up the crusade! Don't stop your actions just because of some idle threats! Keep sending them email until they relent! You know so much more than they do! You're the one that's right!
for those of you that don't understand the above post, please consult your dictionary under the heading "Sarcasm"
You've made the same comments that a lot of other people have. In the university, and especially in the sciences and engineering fields, there are two "types" of professors; those that are teachers and do research, and those that only do research. The teachers are the ones that are on tenure track and will become a "line item" or continuously funded position. The professors that only do research are dependant on grant monies for their salaries and are "soft money" or non-line item funded. They may or may not have grad students, and the grad students they DO have are focused on the research.
"I suppose you meant "drag a professor into the 21st century"."
No wp, I meant I'm trying to get him to use technology that was available in the '90's. If can do this, there is hope for progress into *this* century.
I know very well what century it is. I was using exageration to emphasize how far the professor needs to come to be effective in the current technological environment.
I'm replying at the (current) top response so hopefully someone will read it. First, thanks to all, including the AC's that replied. I have mod points to burn today, but unfortunatly I'm posting replies so I can't use them in this topic. Next - personal details: I was born in Texas, on the 4th of July, and yes, I have an uncle named Sam. If any of you call me "Yankee" Doodle, please enclose your address so I can reply in person. I do work at the University of Oklahoma as an independant consulting engineer. The nickname came from a maillist (now long gone...sigh) on Thompson/Center Contenders. These are a very fine made single-shot firearm that can be configured either as a pistol or a rifle (or shotgun) with a wide choice of barrels. I enjoy shooting very large custom-made calibers (wildcats) usually in the pistol configuration. One of my favorites is a 445SuperMag with a 10" barrel The 445SM is a.44Mag stretched 3/8". The Hornady reloading book (4th ed) says "There is considerable muzzle blast and recoil with this gun. It is not a pistol for the inexperienced shooter. Those who are willing to practice and become callosed to its noise and recoil will be rewarded with an accurate, extremely powerful handgun" (they are speaking about a Dan Wesson revolver, not a Contender, but the warning still applies). My 14".35Rem barel is a pussycat in comparison.
Thanks for thye recomendation. I see from the web page that some of the dependancies are perl, My SQL, and it can use a web front-end. Apache? I also see it runs on linux - Debian or Ubuntu Server (or something else?)?
Thanks. I looked at the web page and went down several levels looking at the features of the document management software. I'm put off somewhat by the fact that they don't list any prices. Instead, you have to contact them and they quote you a price for your bespoke application. I'll keep this in mind, and recomend it as an alternative, but for now I'm going to keep looking.
Here's a better link to what's going on and what instruments are being used. A media day will be held May 8th at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. Interested media will have the opportunity to tour VORTEX2 research vehicles and interview VORTEX2 researchers and teams. I worked for about two years at NSSL. I was never a storm chaser, I just help design and build the instrumentation. It was a real hoot - one of the best jobs I've ever had!
Sounds like it might be a form of the Fischer-Tropsch process, a catalyzed chemical reaction in which synthesis gas (syngas), a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, is converted into liquid hydrocarbons of various forms. You don't have to end up with liquid products. The catalysts are the things that would be the hardest to get in the Gaza area. You need electricity to run the process, but only intermediatly, to build up the product. The Germans made a lot of progress on this during WWII when their access to petro-products was cut off, yet the demand for POL was still high. The feedstock could be almost any organic material that can be volatilized, not necessiarily syngas, but the catalysts needed and the temperatures/pressures are a booger to work out.
Almost from the first prize awarded, there have been controversies. This latest round is nothing new, but perhaps remarkable only for its apparent blatentness.
Research into biofuels is still going full speed. I'm involved in a project using switchgrass to produce diesel (and other products) directly through pyrolysis and the Fisher Tropsch process. Other projects are looking at using switchgrass as a feedstock for conversion to ethanol, or as a "lignocellulosic material" that can be co-fired with coal, reducing costs and pollutants.
"I will try to help you to get a little educated: Stirling engines have pistons..."
No shit Sherlock. And how many sparkplugs do they have. Try re-reading my post again and buy a clue if you don't find one there.
"...external combustion engines are significantly easier to make clean than internal combustion".
You're kidding, right? How are you going to control soot and particulate creation, much less conlrol them in emissions, in an automobile? We've been dealing with these with a degree (some say small) of effectiveness as well as NCG emissions for almost 40 years now in *internal combustion* engines.
"Ah, yes, the horrors of a car that won't fulfill EVERYONES needs."
Oh noes, the horror of a car that doesn't fulfill MY needs because *I* won't buy one. And I don't have the money, and am not going to fall into the trap of getting a loan to buy more than one car.
"And maybe people like you could start to consider that there is no car in the world, that fulfills EVERYONES needs at once."
And monkeys will fly out of my butt when people like me spend money on cars they can't drive.
...in the article. First is "The prototype vehicle, a zippy two-seat hatchback...can go 60 miles on a single charge": second, "It can use any fuel, from biodiesel to natural gas; it burns clean".
On the first comment, 60 miles for some is less than their daily commute to work. And this is without any side trips to pick up kids, groceries, dry cleaning, etc. I realize that the big "Woo-Hoo" of this project is the back-up Sterling engine, but its main selling point is the no-emissions electric power.
Second is the comment about "burns clean". I takes a *tremendous* amount of design work to get an internal combustion engine to "burn clean" using a single fuel; making it a "universal fuel capable" and still "burn clean" will be impossible. This appears to be an exterior combustion engine (no spark plug, pistons, etc) - for lack of a better word - and will increase the difficulty of clean burning beyond the impossible to mearly fantasy.
This is an interesting idea. It will revolutionize transportation the same way that the Segway did.
Has anyone thought of creating a honeypot full of songs THEY, and not the RIAA or their ilk own the copyright to, then busting Media Sentry when they download the songs/torrents? Seems like turnabout is fair play
From TFA"...could result in a huge hit for the company." A "big hit" as in "did a lot of damage", or a "big hit" as in "everyone watched the commercial and upgraded to XP anyway"? Hint to BillG - I just bought a new Fujitsu V1020 laptop, and the MAIN reason I chose it was the ability to change over *immediatly* to XP. I have a Vista DVD you can shove up your input device.
I thought he was funny 20 years ago when he was topical. In his recent stuff, I just saw him as a bitter old hippy, taking cheap pot shots at the Republican establishment. I saw no humor or insight, just a bunch of cursing, whining, and hypocrisy. The early stuff, the routines that made his reputation, were outstandingly funny.
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Not having actually read any of Ray's excellent references he cites, the proceedure he outlines sounds reasonable. Just because a person stands accused in court (civil or criminal) does not mean they are automaticly guilty or that they should lose the protection of the law. In fact IMNSHO, they should receive greater protections. Just out of curiosity,Ray, if one were so inclined, how could an individual (or group) file an amicus brief with a court? Is there a boilerplate example to reference?
Talk about giving them the finger! No, wait, I guess he didn't, and now never will.
...magic numbers. I did a lot of coding in assembly and machine code for old CPUs like the 6502 where miniscule available memory made these a necessity. You young whippersnappers whine about having only 4 Gig in your computer, try doing work with only 4 Kilobytes! And that was expanded from the original 1K. now get off my lawn!
for those of you that don't understand the above post, please consult your dictionary under the heading "Sarcasm"
What about redundancy and self-healing? How do those work?
You've made the same comments that a lot of other people have. In the university, and especially in the sciences and engineering fields, there are two "types" of professors; those that are teachers and do research, and those that only do research. The teachers are the ones that are on tenure track and will become a "line item" or continuously funded position. The professors that only do research are dependant on grant monies for their salaries and are "soft money" or non-line item funded. They may or may not have grad students, and the grad students they DO have are focused on the research.
No wp, I meant I'm trying to get him to use technology that was available in the '90's. If can do this, there is hope for progress into *this* century.
I know very well what century it is. I was using exageration to emphasize how far the professor needs to come to be effective in the current technological environment.
I'm replying at the (current) top response so hopefully someone will read it. First, thanks to all, including the AC's that replied. I have mod points to burn today, but unfortunatly I'm posting replies so I can't use them in this topic. Next - personal details: I was born in Texas, on the 4th of July, and yes, I have an uncle named Sam. If any of you call me "Yankee" Doodle, please enclose your address so I can reply in person. I do work at the University of Oklahoma as an independant consulting engineer. The nickname came from a maillist (now long gone...sigh) on Thompson/Center Contenders. These are a very fine made single-shot firearm that can be configured either as a pistol or a rifle (or shotgun) with a wide choice of barrels. I enjoy shooting very large custom-made calibers (wildcats) usually in the pistol configuration. One of my favorites is a 445SuperMag with a 10" barrel The 445SM is a .44Mag stretched 3/8". The Hornady reloading book (4th ed) says "There is considerable muzzle blast and recoil with this gun. It is not a pistol for the inexperienced shooter. Those who are willing to practice and become callosed to its noise and recoil will be rewarded with an accurate, extremely powerful handgun" (they are speaking about a Dan Wesson revolver, not a Contender, but the warning still applies). My 14" .35Rem barel is a pussycat in comparison.
Thanks for thye recomendation. I see from the web page that some of the dependancies are perl, My SQL, and it can use a web front-end. Apache? I also see it runs on linux - Debian or Ubuntu Server (or something else?)?
Thanks. I looked at the web page and went down several levels looking at the features of the document management software. I'm put off somewhat by the fact that they don't list any prices. Instead, you have to contact them and they quote you a price for your bespoke application. I'll keep this in mind, and recomend it as an alternative, but for now I'm going to keep looking.
Here's a better link to what's going on and what instruments are being used. A media day will be held May 8th at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. Interested media will have the opportunity to tour VORTEX2 research vehicles and interview VORTEX2 researchers and teams. I worked for about two years at NSSL. I was never a storm chaser, I just help design and build the instrumentation. It was a real hoot - one of the best jobs I've ever had!
Sounds like it might be a form of the Fischer-Tropsch process, a catalyzed chemical reaction in which synthesis gas (syngas), a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, is converted into liquid hydrocarbons of various forms. You don't have to end up with liquid products. The catalysts are the things that would be the hardest to get in the Gaza area. You need electricity to run the process, but only intermediatly, to build up the product. The Germans made a lot of progress on this during WWII when their access to petro-products was cut off, yet the demand for POL was still high. The feedstock could be almost any organic material that can be volatilized, not necessiarily syngas, but the catalysts needed and the temperatures/pressures are a booger to work out.
Almost from the first prize awarded, there have been controversies. This latest round is nothing new, but perhaps remarkable only for its apparent blatentness.
Research into biofuels is still going full speed. I'm involved in a project using switchgrass to produce diesel (and other products) directly through pyrolysis and the Fisher Tropsch process. Other projects are looking at using switchgrass as a feedstock for conversion to ethanol, or as a "lignocellulosic material" that can be co-fired with coal, reducing costs and pollutants.
"I'll go as long as I can get internet porn".
There, fixed that for you...
"I will try to help you to get a little educated: Stirling engines have pistons..."
No shit Sherlock. And how many sparkplugs do they have. Try re-reading my post again and buy a clue if you don't find one there.
"...external combustion engines are significantly easier to make clean than internal combustion".
You're kidding, right? How are you going to control soot and particulate creation, much less conlrol them in emissions, in an automobile? We've been dealing with these with a degree (some say small) of effectiveness as well as NCG emissions for almost 40 years now in *internal combustion* engines.
"Ah, yes, the horrors of a car that won't fulfill EVERYONES needs."
Oh noes, the horror of a car that doesn't fulfill MY needs because *I* won't buy one. And I don't have the money, and am not going to fall into the trap of getting a loan to buy more than one car.
"And maybe people like you could start to consider that there is no car in the world, that fulfills EVERYONES needs at once."
And monkeys will fly out of my butt when people like me spend money on cars they can't drive.
...in the article. First is "The prototype vehicle, a zippy two-seat hatchback...can go 60 miles on a single charge": second, "It can use any fuel, from biodiesel to natural gas; it burns clean".
On the first comment, 60 miles for some is less than their daily commute to work. And this is without any side trips to pick up kids, groceries, dry cleaning, etc. I realize that the big "Woo-Hoo" of this project is the back-up Sterling engine, but its main selling point is the no-emissions electric power.
Second is the comment about "burns clean". I takes a *tremendous* amount of design work to get an internal combustion engine to "burn clean" using a single fuel; making it a "universal fuel capable" and still "burn clean" will be impossible. This appears to be an exterior combustion engine (no spark plug, pistons, etc) - for lack of a better word - and will increase the difficulty of clean burning beyond the impossible to mearly fantasy.
This is an interesting idea. It will revolutionize transportation the same way that the Segway did.
...that dam' kid down the block with his laser pointer again!
Has anyone thought of creating a honeypot full of songs THEY, and not the RIAA or their ilk own the copyright to, then busting Media Sentry when they download the songs/torrents? Seems like turnabout is fair play
From TFA"...could result in a huge hit for the company." A "big hit" as in "did a lot of damage", or a "big hit" as in "everyone watched the commercial and upgraded to XP anyway"? Hint to BillG - I just bought a new Fujitsu V1020 laptop, and the MAIN reason I chose it was the ability to change over *immediatly* to XP. I have a Vista DVD you can shove up your input device.
I thought he was funny 20 years ago when he was topical. In his recent stuff, I just saw him as a bitter old hippy, taking cheap pot shots at the Republican establishment. I saw no humor or insight, just a bunch of cursing, whining, and hypocrisy. The early stuff, the routines that made his reputation, were outstandingly funny.
Maybe we can use one of these on a treble hook to catch giant squid.