Posts by Eddy Ito 4662 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Apr 2007
I've got to agree with the concept of using a rigid guide attached securely along the length of the truss. My concern stems from the fact that the rod, as shown, looks to me like half a tuning fork and the devil only knows what it'll do when she lights off. Another advantage of using a "T" or "V" shaped guide is that you can pick the materials such that the mating parts get looser as they get colder and you can even use tiny rollers if desired. On the plane design, the rear stabilizers could extend up to act as the aft guide and as there won't be any motion on the roll axis there won't be any need to worry about wing strikes against the truss. Since I've come to stabilizers, have you considered a canard design which would only require the vertical rear stabilizer perhaps on the wing tips like the Berkut 360?
I pose that "6" wasn't really an option since they likely are faster, in their environment anyway, and it kind of implies they know a predator is bearing down or constantly stay at speed. I'm not saying that sperm whales aren't capable of high speeds but staying nearly a kilometer down for 30 minutes or so on a single, albeit huge, gulp of air means conserving a good deal of energy. It only seems logical that the whale relies mostly on stealth making only minor movements for course correction in order to catch the tonne or so of food it needs daily and so only minimally disturbs the bioluminescent critters. Given that tiny amount of light, it would take such a large eye to detect it a distance that would prove useful.
It would be fascinating to know if the squids eye is particularly sensitive to the wavelengths of light of the aforementioned bioluminescence. Then again it would be equally fascinating to know how the whale manages to hold its breath for an hour with lungs collapsed to 1% their original size and ribs that must fold like an accordion, never mind avoiding the bends on a 10 minute ascent.
It's things like this that make me wish I had more time to study.
@JustaKOS
But it would be easier for gorillas since their communities are based around a single male, presumably one who can get pretty much what he wants, when he wants. Unless of course you were speaking of docility in the females and reducing the male population by an order of magnitude. Of course if you reduced the male population that much, you might not need the gene in the first place.
If they base the searches on my previous searches then they aren't going to give me what I want but what I wanted, past tense. Most of the reason I'm doing a new search is because I either found what I wanted and I'm searching for something entirely different or I was displeased with the results of the previous attempt and would like a _new_ set of data to peruse and not a rehash of the same old shit. Google doesn't seem to understand this so I find both Duckduckgo and even Bing to do a better job.
@David W.
No, I dismiss it because it's more H3N1 ammonia flu pandemic scares that are far less deadly than the regular flu and somehow "the media" seems to think that because it seems to be transmitted by albino newts that we should be better prepared for fear that it might kill .02 people per billion but it is spreading faster than any other known disease that they have reported in the last two weeks. Sorry, I know the actual importance but there is this whole concept of crying wolf at the first sign of a dog hair that has me somewhat inured to the whole thing.
I don't understand is why you're hung up on cell contracts, BART and suing over a lack of infrastructure but I'll try by looking back over your previous posts. Here's the problem, BART is a government entity and they can't do what they want on "their" property because BART doesn't own property, the government does. Their board of directors are publicly elected officials. The BART police are real police and not security guards. They don't have a "bottom line" because they are a government entity and as such they are accountable to the public. What's more, even if they were private they still don't have a right to infringe the First Amendment, all they can do is have the police remove you from the property.
Here's a small hint, their website is www.bart.gov and if you go there you can find out all sorts of interesting facts like the cost to build BART was $1.619B and of that >$1.4B was paid by taxes and tolls not private investment. Granted you could be confused since new stadiums being built by teams such as the Washington Nationals were majorly funded by taxpayer dollars but remain private property but that has more to do with stupid pols than anything else.
Oh, perhaps your parental units, as you kids apparently like to call them, didn't get you up in time and you missed the civics class when they were teaching the difference between private property and publicly owned government property which may or may not be have restricted access. It isn't private property any more than the Humvees and MRAPs down the road at Camp Pendleton are private property or for that matter Camp Pendleton itself. Yeah, I know, try trespassing there even though the property is publicly owned.
Finally the only obvious reason for the government, specifically the FCC which was the primary target of my original post, to "turn off" mobile access is the same reason Libya turned off mobile access. Due process, that's all I'm really asking for.
Perhaps the FCC could do something like read the Constitution and proceed to ask themselves where they are granted the right to infringe the right to freedom of speech and perhaps the right to peaceably assemble (I'm talking to you BART), you know the First Amendment.
After that they could go on to examine the Fifth Amendment and ponder whether depriving someone the use of property and the necessary services to make it function, both of which have been duly paid for, and without any consideration to due process would run afoul of the words "No person shall... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;" It seems to me that there is a likely violation of the liberty and property part of that particular passage.
No, no, the FCC wants instead to run it up the flagpole and see who salutes just in because they feel a power grab done in the open and with the apparent consent of "the public" is better than the shady deal the NSA typically does.
Not AC because I want them to know I'll be happy to call them out any time.
"Not that I don't fully trust my benevolent government to always have my best interests at heart"
Did you really write that with a straight face?
Seriously, you forgot to mention the bit about it having trouble with stairs. It does have a problem with stairs, right? Please, just say it and I'll believe you. Now then, where did I put the tequila?
So out of the nearly $12.5B for Apple's cost ($15.7B revenue, 3.25B profit) how much of that went to the 500k+ jobs?
Dare I ask how much of that revenue went to taxes and how much came from "small business" programs? No, I suppose I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth. Now then, is it going to be a stock split or a dividend? Myself and the other 0.999% want to know.
@David Webb
"... we believe in free speech as long as it's true, or unless you get a super injunction so people can't say what is true, except on Twitter, Facebook etc."
The thing is free speech in the US does have limits, the famous example of shouting "fire" in a crowded theater when no fire or other threat exists is one where the "free speech excuse" wouldn't fly particularly far. It also comes to loggerheads when speaking with an "agent of the government" inasmuch as people can, have and will likely continue to go to jail for lying to an agent, who may be anything from a Senator to a local plod, just ask Martha Stewart or any of the BALCO people. Tangentially, police often lie during interrogations, that's "interviews" or "conversations" in plod jargon, when trying to get a confession in order to trip up the target and catch them in a lie. Note the police aren't obliged to inform you there is an investigation and may act like a friend and it's just small talk or "off the record" while waiting for something else but that wouldn't work so well if they didn't have the "free speech" bit to fall back on.
Hmm, System Requirements:
Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster. 1.2GHz OMAP4460 check
RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit). 1 GB check
Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit). 16GB SD check
Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device or higher. SGX540 no dice
Ok, so it won't run on my Pandaboard but somehow I don't think it will work even if I could upgrade to an OMAP4470 which has the SGX544 and is DirectX 9 capable.
Come on Balmer, help a guy out. Pick an ARM (TI, Freescale, Nvidia, ??) and work with us to get a dev board that doesn't cost three grand and get a preview of WOA out there. Oh well, I guess I'll stay with Android for that set top or maybe if HP gets moving I'll give WebOS a spin.
@Phoenix50
Are you at all aware that they could have paid insufficient attention to either? That would make the statement TRUE. That's right - TRUE
Of course I suppose you could be thinking along the lines of: null != 0
Now then, be a good chap and spit out the hook so Steve can get back to business.
Dividends are nice but a stock split isn't subject to the taxes a dividend would be. A nice 3 for 2 split would still keep the price fairly high and keep it out of the hands of the high frequency traders while giving the shareholders a little something extra that they can do with as they please.
Emperor penguins are 4 feet tall so finding a "giant" species that was 4' 2" hardly deserves the moniker. I suspect it's a typo and the new one is 5 feet tall and according to discovery.com about 130 pounds.
"brand itself with the pinyin moniker "
Technically pinyin is the romanization of the Simplified Chinese characters and in this case would be "ài mǎ shì" but I don't know what is going on with Mary officially loving her horse or some such. ;)
As far as moving manufacturing, it's already happening as rising wages in China and shipping costs are making many things more profitable to build locally. See here and here.
I saw that article and was creeped out a bit as I had recently been in a Target and they asked if I could take my driver's license out of the holder so they could scan it because the beverage I'd grabbed was an age restricted purchase and the computer wouldn't continue the transaction without scanning it. I looked at the screen and pointed out that the cashier could just enter my date of birth and scanning wasn't necessary. I think I may just print up an adhesive backed fake pdf417 code and head back to Target to stock up on porn, booze and mature video games under the name Gregg Steinhafel* just for lulz.
*The CEO of Target
Just the other day I read this article which indicates companies are shuttering their Facebook shops because it doesn't work.
"young men are the most impetuous of all"
When I read those few words I was simply gobsmacked. The level of advancement in human knowledge provided by such ground breaking insights simply boggles the mind. I can only imagine that a PhD in DuH will be soon awarded to the authors of this study.
Well done!
A CIO needs to have more sense than to open an email virus that not only goes straight to a porn site but also causes everyone in their address book to get a copy of the same email. Ah the good old days of Outrage... Outhouse... Lookout... oh yeah, Outlook. Yeah, "see our new web page", that was precious coming from the CIO... fucking git.
Back on track, a practically minded CIO is a wondrous thing to have and it only gets better when he has the appropriate budget but can work magic with whatever he does have.
They could easily ship them all with Home and have the others available through their anytime upgrade thingy. They could also roll out an option of a "buy time" upgrade bundle or some such which you pay for at the initial purchase, perhaps discounted for incentive, where you would be automatically upgraded when you went through the activation/authorization process.
Oh yeah the $50 / bbl price would also be unassailable by conventional oil producers who would likely try to squash the synthetic competition and maintain their pricing power. They might be willing to take a loss for a while but the smaller OPEC members probably wouldn't be able to hold out for too long.
Doing a quick net search on rig numbers turned up this paper from NOV which would indicate that Citi is grossly under counting the number of drill rigs.
http://www.nov.com/uploadedFiles/Rig_Census/WO1111_Rig_Census_2011.pdf
It makes sense to me that the Bakken play in North Dakota would have about 200 rigs as in figure 24 of the Citi report and ~6000 wells in ND from figure 26. What I don't get is the count in figure 22 that seems to show somewhere around 2000 total rigs, roughly half are oil rigs and figure 23 would indicate that nearly 60% of the oil rigs are divided in only 3 places. It also comes up about 1000 rigs short of the NOV total which seems to have been fairly constant over the past few years at around 3000 rigs.
Currently the marginal cost to produce one more barrel of oil is about $50 and if not for speculators, instability in certain countries and the various sabre rattling from other countries is about where the market would price a barrel. It is the magic number for synthetics because it makes synthetics viable in the long term and would do a lot to stabilize the price.
@Ross 7
Two points:
"Dinosaurs aren't dying like they used to you know! ;)"
I'm really hoping the smiley at the end means you know oil doesn't now and never has come from dinosaurs.
"It shows a change from 400 to 1000 wells over 3 years."
Actually the graph doesn't show anything at all about the number of wells as it shows the number of rigs; you can tell from the part of the caption that reads "US oil rig count". It's a distinction with a difference. You see a well is a hole that has been drilled and it may be actively producing or not and may even be "dry". A rig is the drill that makes the hole. Rigs move from site to site making wells but once the well is done the rig moves to the site of the next proposed well. Since a well may be dry or inactive a well count wouldn't tell us much and just as bad the rig count doesn't say if that is the number of total rigs or active rigs. I assume it should be an active rig count as there isn't much point in counting rigs that are down.
However it may be a supply problem and Apple might be of the opinion that they would be able to sell more product if they had sufficient supply. Their is a chance, albeit slight, that Apple, and by extension Pegatron, would benefit more if Pegatron would commit the additional manufacturing capacity toward building MacBooks (not to be confused with McBooks or Happy Meals).
The companies that are seen as helping the economy are rated high and those seen as having their finger on the flusher are on the bottom of the list. How shocking, the good economy supporting companies are on the top and the evil bankers on the bottom. One point I caught is BP's media blitz must be working given how far their reputation has come up... granted it's still circling the drain but it seems to be clawing its way out of the sewer quite nicely.
Can we finally call this what it really is? It's a station wagon like all other station wagons were before some clever marketing droid decided to swap W for UV. Gull wing doors indeed; that alone kills any UV functionality. Seriously, good luck going on a ski trip with the family unless the boot is seriously impressive. The lines are fine, if a bit like an over inflated Renault but I just don't get it. I guess this isn't about going to pick up the kids, some potting soil and a few framing studs during the week and hitting the slopes, surf or fishing hole on weekends.
"... the chinese based manufacturer of Apple products has a very bad reputation for how it handles it's "employees"..."
It seems you don't understand something, the workers in the factories work there because those are the _best_ jobs they can get. One of the workers killed in the explosion not too long ago, Lai Xiaodong, moved some distance, had a degree and one of the better jobs in the plant. He worked there because in all likelihood it was better than the alternatives and he was free to leave any time he liked. Certainly the working conditions were / are terrible but think for just a second and consider that if those horrible conditions are some of the best jobs available, imagine just how bad the rest of the jobs are.
Apple and the other companies who contract labor in China have the problem of being stuck in between profits and working conditions. If the large corporate leaders like Apple, with their monster profits, won't budge to improve the conditions; what hope to the workers of contract manufactures of smaller companies who aren't as able to effect change?
It would be interesting to note if they identified the concentrations of particular isotopes. Since O16 is produced by the CNO-2 cycle inside our sun, it might be reasonable to assume that some escape the sun to pair up as a molecule and carry sufficient kinetic energy to reach orbit into the solar system before being reconsumed.
Perhaps if they could also identify non-neutral species as well and do measurements at different orbital radii we might find that gradients exist within the population as a function of distance. Such information may yield insight as to where the building blocks of life may naturally accumulate and what type of life is most likely to manifest itself in those locales.
Alien origins indeed.
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