They are counterbalanced to handle heavy desktops. You can easily take the desktop off and put your own customized one on. They are not only adjustable in height but angle as well.
You can adjust height and angle. I work on one similar to this and I stand all day. It was tiring at first but is great now. The tops are removable so you can customize it to your hearts content.
The funniest thing is that the reason movies are made in Hollywood was to violate Thomas Edison's patents on movies. Edison was pretty restrictive on what types of movies that could be made. So all of the big studios you know today were started by the creative types that went West to go where enforcement of Edison's property rights were poor. There they could make the types of movies they wanted.
I'm almost 40 and I love iTunes Match. I have about 500 CD's I've bought over the years and it sucked having to manage them on my iTunes. But with iTunes Match they are either matched online or uploaded online. Now I have access to my whole collection. It just manages it for me with the ones I've played recently residing on my phone. Even nicer is if I had a low quality rip and it matches it will give me their best quality version. All of this for about $2/mo.
Why can't this be done with DVD's? I've bought some movies on VHS and DVD and now they want to charge me for BluRay? Screw that. Let me put my DVD's in the drive, let iTunes match it and give me HD copies available anywhere.
In rural areas it would work. I live in Florida and when citrus ripens people with trees will put paper bags of citrus on a card table by the road with a coffee can and ask $5 or so a bag. Also when the honey bees are pollinating the crops they put out the honey in different containers with the prices and a coffee can. I've always paid and when I do there is usually about $20 or so in the can.
From things I've been reading it looks like future game sizes might go down as more is handled in game engines and hardware. But then again if the space is available it will get used.
Not true at all. It scaled rather well and in a natural fashion. The quantity of money in a free market is subject to the same laws of supply and demand as any other product. If there isn't enough money it's value will rise and prices relative to it will drop and people will go into the mining and minting business or sell jewelry to meet this new demand for money. If there is too much money the opposite happens and the metals are usually melted down and turned into jewelry or other decorations.
The reason a $20 bill is worth 20 $1 bills is because of Legal Tender Laws. Take a look at your Federal Reserve Notes. There is a line there. "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private". This means that if you have a debt the debtor is required to accept them as payment. If not the debt is canceled. Only the threat of force keeps the FRN's worth anything.
What they mean to say is that only official counterfeiters like the Federal Reserve can create new money.
The ancient ideal was realized centuries ago when precious metals were used as money. It was difficult to counterfeit. So much so that even kings and governments had to pass legal tender laws to force their subjects to accept the clipped, debased, or otherwise devalued coins.
I am a true believer in free markets. But you are making a mistake assuming a particular commercial enterprise is going to be successful at making a risk assessment. The reason a free market is superior is because it uses the power of natural selection. Those individual companies that have been successful to their customers and owners to date will survive. Those that fail for whatever reason will die. The thing with risk assessment is there is no test you can do ahead of time to prove something will be successful. Reality is the final judge and it's a bitch.
The death rate of climbing Mt Everest is 1.3%. And that is just climbing a mountain. How much cooler is going into space? 10X?
Now at this point in my life where my family is depending on me 1.3% is too high. But when kids are older and I can be more selfish 5% doesn't sound that bad. Like everything else it's a personal decision.
Helm has just such a service for car service manuals that I've used many times in the past. They have a 1 year ($350) , 1 month ($50) , or 3 day ($10) subscription. So if you are working on your car and want all of the up to date information for troubleshooting a problem you can get the 3 day subscription and have access to everything the dealer does including service bulletins and warranty repairs. I used to go try to find a.pdf manual for my car and download it but I'm fine paying $10 to have all of the up to date information.
It depends on what you are trying to do. I'm a mechanical engineer and engineering is all about good enough. You have to economize resources to get a job done. While solving a dynamics problem analytically may give you more understanding into the solution it does take take to work out real world multidimensional problems. Numerical solutions to differential equations are very useful. I would have preferred to spend more time in Diff Eq setting up problems than solving problems analytically.
I'm a mechanical engineer and here is how I would explain it in layman's terms
Force is how much something pushes against something else. Measured in Newtons Work is multiplying that force by how far you push it. Measured in Newton-meter or Joule Energy is similar to work and is how much work is stored in an object. So say you applied a certain amount of Work to an object to get it moving. Once you let go it that work is the same as the energy stored in the moving object. Power is how fast you apply that work Joule/second or Watt
So the capacity of the plant is measured in Power Watt. How much energy the plant put out in an hour would be measured in Joules.
I don't get why people think barter is more moral than money. I can see being against government endorsed fiat currency. But money allows complicated development to occur. You can use barter to build anything of substance. Money allows for figuring out the most efficient way to accomplish your goals.
Helium has some strange properties. It has a negative JT coefficient for temperatures above about 50K. This means that when it is compressed it cools down instead of heating up.
One of the most interesting is when it's a liquid it will boil until it gets to a transition temperature where it becomes a superfluid. Here the viscosity and heat transfer coefficient becomes near 0. So all boiling stops because any heat input is transferred to the molecules on the surface and they vaporize.
My first problem is that you don't have a constitutional right to IP. It isn't in the Bill of Rights. It's in the power of Congress section. That means it is up to congress how to deal with IP. We could get rid of it tomorrow with just a plain old law no amendment needed.
Most importantly is the ignorance of economics. The author doesn't go far enough back in music history. Go back before there were recordings of any kind. How many people made a living being an artist? How many we're wealthy? It was the recording technology that let artists reach a large audience. Coping records was capital intensive so the recording and publishing industry was able to make lots of money.
But now technology advanced to the point where coping is nearly free. The recording cartel can no longer exist. Sure they will try to use laws to keep it alive but it's a losing battle. There will be no money to be made in recording.
The answer? You will have to work. That means playing for audiences, selling merchandise, and figuring out how to get people to pay you for real goods and services.
How many geeks here would live to return to the 90's where all you had to do is make a website and go IPO? Well too bad those days are over.
I have lots of experience with the Shuttle hold down studs. The way they work is there are 4 conical hold down posts at the base of each SRB that are attached to the pad. A 3 ft long 4 inch diameter inconnel bolt goes through the SRB skirt and hold down post. A nut goes on the top and bottom. The preload in the bolt is over a million pounds. You would need a big torque wrench to get that but instead we use a hydraulic puller that stretched the stud and then you slightly tighten the nut and when you let go of the hydraulics the stud is nice and tight.
The stud doesn't explode. The top nut has two explosive charges in it. If either one goes the nut is split and the stud shoots out since its under such a high preload. There is a blast container that is supposed to prevent FOD. Each charge is handled by a seperate circuit. We did have a few cases where the studs didn't come out. It turns out there was a unknown failure mode. If the two charges went off with just the right delay you had a situation where the nut halves would bounce off their blast container and come back and hit the stud and the threads could catch just right slowing the stud down.
It was cool. We did about 30 tests shooting high speed footage with different skew delays in firing the charges.
But to answer your question. The studs are stronger than the aluminum aft skirt which would probrably be torn if more than one bolt failed to release. This would have been catastrophic.
So true. It's hard for geeks to not understand why other people don't geek out on what they love. Take cars. Most people want something they get into, start, and drive to where they want to go safely. They don't mind filling it with gas but that's about it. Those of us who know what everything on a car does get angry when car makers make things more complex and harder to work on. But the reason they do is because 99% of the people don't work on their car and for the shop that has all of the specialized tools it's no big deal. If the feature makes the car more appealing to the 99% it doesn't matter that it's sitting right in the way of you opening the timing belt cover and you have to take apart your engine to get to it.
Apple is the same way. Most people WANT a computer that prevents them from installing things that aren't guaranteed to work or at least not screw up their system. They don't know that you should click the link that says this toolbar will make your Internet super fast. So Apple is for them.
I am going to explain why without bein so condescending as the other replies.
The problem is limited fuel and trying to rendezvous with the ISS.
Here is an analogy. Take a oval race track with a car going around at 200 mph. You have another car you want to start from rest and accelerate to pull in right behind them. The problem is you only have enough fuel just to reach 200mph. So you have to be very careful with your timing when you hit the gas. You will only have one chance each time around. The ISS orbits once even 90 minutes. But this is just a 2D example.
In real space flight things are even worse. The ISS orbit itself is stationary and the earth turns. Think of the orbit like a ring around a globe. It's tilted at about 57 degrees from the equator. Now if you spin the earth under that ring you will see that a launch site lines up pretty close with the orbit ring twice a day where they cross. But that is just where the orbits cross. It doesn't mean the ISS will be in the right position on the orbit to intercept.
For the ISS this all works out to one launch window each day and each additional day the window moves back about 20 minutes. So to move the launch to 8pm you would need to wait about a month,
Obviously this was greatly simplified but I hope it gave you an intuitive reason why this is so difficult.
That's such crap for a professional. I take my job seriously but I also know how I work best. Headphones on loud, email and phone off, and concentration. I do this for about an hour. Then I take 5 minutes. Bathroom, coffee, surf a little slash dot or wired, look up some work related things then back to work.
I could see if your projects are sloppy or late but if the work is good why question the method?
Slashdot Mirror
Replace cost with price.
Look on Craigslist for a used professional drafting table.
http://orlando.craigslist.org/bfs/2976873338.html
They are counterbalanced to handle heavy desktops. You can easily take the desktop off and put your own customized one on. They are not only adjustable in height but angle as well.
Here is an example in Orlando where I live.
http://orlando.craigslist.org/bfs/2976873338.html
You can adjust height and angle. I work on one similar to this and I stand all day. It was tiring at first but is great now. The tops are removable so you can customize it to your hearts content.
And only 90 minutes later....
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/06/04/1211206/microsoft-certificate-was-used-to-sign-flame-malware
I mean seriously does anyone think the OS companies aren't in on this type of operation?
It reminds me of the CIA-Xerox story.
http://dagmar.lunarpages.com/~parasc2/articles/0197/xerox.htm
The funniest thing is that the reason movies are made in Hollywood was to violate Thomas Edison's patents on movies. Edison was pretty restrictive on what types of movies that could be made. So all of the big studios you know today were started by the creative types that went West to go where enforcement of Edison's property rights were poor. There they could make the types of movies they wanted.
I'm almost 40 and I love iTunes Match. I have about 500 CD's I've bought over the years and it sucked having to manage them on my iTunes. But with iTunes Match they are either matched online or uploaded online. Now I have access to my whole collection. It just manages it for me with the ones I've played recently residing on my phone. Even nicer is if I had a low quality rip and it matches it will give me their best quality version. All of this for about $2/mo.
Why can't this be done with DVD's? I've bought some movies on VHS and DVD and now they want to charge me for BluRay? Screw that. Let me put my DVD's in the drive, let iTunes match it and give me HD copies available anywhere.
In rural areas it would work. I live in Florida and when citrus ripens people with trees will put paper bags of citrus on a card table by the road with a coffee can and ask $5 or so a bag. Also when the honey bees are pollinating the crops they put out the honey in different containers with the prices and a coffee can. I've always paid and when I do there is usually about $20 or so in the can.
From things I've been reading it looks like future game sizes might go down as more is handled in game engines and hardware. But then again if the space is available it will get used.
Not true at all. It scaled rather well and in a natural fashion. The quantity of money in a free market is subject to the same laws of supply and demand as any other product. If there isn't enough money it's value will rise and prices relative to it will drop and people will go into the mining and minting business or sell jewelry to meet this new demand for money. If there is too much money the opposite happens and the metals are usually melted down and turned into jewelry or other decorations.
The reason a $20 bill is worth 20 $1 bills is because of Legal Tender Laws. Take a look at your Federal Reserve Notes. There is a line there. "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private". This means that if you have a debt the debtor is required to accept them as payment. If not the debt is canceled. Only the threat of force keeps the FRN's worth anything.
What they mean to say is that only official counterfeiters like the Federal Reserve can create new money.
The ancient ideal was realized centuries ago when precious metals were used as money. It was difficult to counterfeit. So much so that even kings and governments had to pass legal tender laws to force their subjects to accept the clipped, debased, or otherwise devalued coins.
I am a true believer in free markets. But you are making a mistake assuming a particular commercial enterprise is going to be successful at making a risk assessment. The reason a free market is superior is because it uses the power of natural selection. Those individual companies that have been successful to their customers and owners to date will survive. Those that fail for whatever reason will die. The thing with risk assessment is there is no test you can do ahead of time to prove something will be successful. Reality is the final judge and it's a bitch.
The death rate of climbing Mt Everest is 1.3%. And that is just climbing a mountain. How much cooler is going into space? 10X?
Now at this point in my life where my family is depending on me 1.3% is too high. But when kids are older and I can be more selfish 5% doesn't sound that bad. Like everything else it's a personal decision.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_death_rate_on_mt._Everest
Helm has just such a service for car service manuals that I've used many times in the past. They have a 1 year ($350) , 1 month ($50) , or 3 day ($10) subscription. So if you are working on your car and want all of the up to date information for troubleshooting a problem you can get the 3 day subscription and have access to everything the dealer does including service bulletins and warranty repairs. I used to go try to find a .pdf manual for my car and download it but I'm fine paying $10 to have all of the up to date information.
http://www.helminc.com/helm/Result.asp?Style=helm&Mfg=AHM&Make=AHM&Model=ACRD&Year=2006&selected_media=ES&st=S
It depends on what you are trying to do. I'm a mechanical engineer and engineering is all about good enough. You have to economize resources to get a job done. While solving a dynamics problem analytically may give you more understanding into the solution it does take take to work out real world multidimensional problems. Numerical solutions to differential equations are very useful. I would have preferred to spend more time in Diff Eq setting up problems than solving problems analytically.
I'm a mechanical engineer and here is how I would explain it in layman's terms
Force is how much something pushes against something else. Measured in Newtons
Work is multiplying that force by how far you push it. Measured in Newton-meter or Joule
Energy is similar to work and is how much work is stored in an object. So say you applied a certain amount of Work to an object to get it moving. Once you let go it that work is the same as the energy stored in the moving object.
Power is how fast you apply that work Joule/second or Watt
So the capacity of the plant is measured in Power Watt. How much energy the plant put out in an hour would be measured in Joules.
The IRS taxes barter income too.
I don't get why people think barter is more moral than money. I can see being against government endorsed fiat currency. But money allows complicated development to occur. You can use barter to build anything of substance. Money allows for figuring out the most efficient way to accomplish your goals.
Helium has some strange properties. It has a negative JT coefficient for temperatures above about 50K. This means that when it is compressed it cools down instead of heating up.
One of the most interesting is when it's a liquid it will boil until it gets to a transition temperature where it becomes a superfluid. Here the viscosity and heat transfer coefficient becomes near 0. So all boiling stops because any heat input is transferred to the molecules on the surface and they vaporize.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z6UJbwxBZI
My first problem is that you don't have a constitutional right to IP. It isn't in the Bill of Rights. It's in the power of Congress section. That means it is up to congress how to deal with IP. We could get rid of it tomorrow with just a plain old law no amendment needed.
Most importantly is the ignorance of economics. The author doesn't go far enough back in music history. Go back before there were recordings of any kind. How many people made a living being an artist? How many we're wealthy? It was the recording technology that let artists reach a large audience. Coping records was capital intensive so the recording and publishing industry was able to make lots of money.
But now technology advanced to the point where coping is nearly free. The recording cartel can no longer exist. Sure they will try to use laws to keep it alive but it's a losing battle. There will be no money to be made in recording.
The answer? You will have to work. That means playing for audiences, selling merchandise, and figuring out how to get people to pay you for real goods and services.
How many geeks here would live to return to the 90's where all you had to do is make a website and go IPO? Well too bad those days are over.
I have lots of experience with the Shuttle hold down studs. The way they work is there are 4 conical hold down posts at the base of each SRB that are attached to the pad. A 3 ft long 4 inch diameter inconnel bolt goes through the SRB skirt and hold down post. A nut goes on the top and bottom. The preload in the bolt is over a million pounds. You would need a big torque wrench to get that but instead we use a hydraulic puller that stretched the stud and then you slightly tighten the nut and when you let go of the hydraulics the stud is nice and tight.
The stud doesn't explode. The top nut has two explosive charges in it. If either one goes the nut is split and the stud shoots out since its under such a high preload. There is a blast container that is supposed to prevent FOD. Each charge is handled by a seperate circuit. We did have a few cases where the studs didn't come out. It turns out there was a unknown failure mode. If the two charges went off with just the right delay you had a situation where the nut halves would bounce off their blast container and come back and hit the stud and the threads could catch just right slowing the stud down.
It was cool. We did about 30 tests shooting high speed footage with different skew delays in firing the charges.
But to answer your question. The studs are stronger than the aluminum aft skirt which would probrably be torn if more than one bolt failed to release. This would have been catastrophic.
So true. It's hard for geeks to not understand why other people don't geek out on what they love. Take cars. Most people want something they get into, start, and drive to where they want to go safely. They don't mind filling it with gas but that's about it. Those of us who know what everything on a car does get angry when car makers make things more complex and harder to work on. But the reason they do is because 99% of the people don't work on their car and for the shop that has all of the specialized tools it's no big deal. If the feature makes the car more appealing to the 99% it doesn't matter that it's sitting right in the way of you opening the timing belt cover and you have to take apart your engine to get to it.
Apple is the same way. Most people WANT a computer that prevents them from installing things that aren't guaranteed to work or at least not screw up their system. They don't know that you should click the link that says this toolbar will make your Internet super fast. So Apple is for them.
I am going to explain why without bein so condescending as the other replies.
The problem is limited fuel and trying to rendezvous with the ISS.
Here is an analogy. Take a oval race track with a car going around at 200 mph. You have another car you want to start from rest and accelerate to pull in right behind them. The problem is you only have enough fuel just to reach 200mph. So you have to be very careful with your timing when you hit the gas. You will only have one chance each time around. The ISS orbits once even 90 minutes. But this is just a 2D example.
In real space flight things are even worse. The ISS orbit itself is stationary and the earth turns. Think of the orbit like a ring around a globe. It's tilted at about 57 degrees from the equator. Now if you spin the earth under that ring you will see that a launch site lines up pretty close with the orbit ring twice a day where they cross. But that is just where the orbits cross. It doesn't mean the ISS will be in the right position on the orbit to intercept.
For the ISS this all works out to one launch window each day and each additional day the window moves back about 20 minutes. So to move the launch to 8pm you would need to wait about a month,
Obviously this was greatly simplified but I hope it gave you an intuitive reason why this is so difficult.
That's such crap for a professional. I take my job seriously but I also know how I work best. Headphones on loud, email and phone off, and concentration. I do this for about an hour. Then I take 5 minutes. Bathroom, coffee, surf a little slash dot or wired, look up some work related things then back to work.
I could see if your projects are sloppy or late but if the work is good why question the method?