Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26130 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
> Extension cords that can't handle the full 15A ... are two-pole so you can't plug-in MOST high-power devices,
Of course you can, you just bend the earth pin out of the way so it fits the end socket, or simply cut if off.
Where in the USA was this? If he was in the North East it's odds that the electricity came from Quebec-hydro so he can probably sue France
>They are engineering plans
Of for sure, we asked a bunch of engineers how long it would take to implement a new EUV methodology that nobody has attempted before and their critical path model predicts a timeline which exactly aligns with our corporate financial reporting period and the outstanding during of our current corporate bonds
>It turned out that in one cell, instead of having "0.10", he'd written "10p".
Given Excel's famed ability to interpret every number as a date it's not unreasonable that a UK copy of Excel should be able to handle this
Explaining to one 'business user' that you can work out the total+vat price by multiplying the amount by
1.15 (vat was 15% at the time). They insisted that no 'you had to add vat, so you needed to do amount + amount*15/100'
They knew best because they worked in business. I was a mere Physics PhD
That's why we're never going to be able to switch from horses to these new fangled combustion engines.
Imagine all the infrastructure needed to get oil out of rock miles below the north sea, get it to shore, refine it, distribute a toxic explosive liquid around the country to enough cars that every household can use one.
Not to mention the disruption to the 30% of agriculture devoted to growing horse feed.
Still it will be nice to have environmental and health benefits not to have a million tons of manure on the city streets.
That's going to be the big difference with EVs that nobody is talking about.
Right now 3 year old off-lease 30,000mi EV are widely available if a bit expensive, and have some life left.
But in 20years there aren't going to be 500quid banger EVs with 9months tax+test from backstreet dealers.
Firstly the battery is going to be toast long before the engine on a Toyota/Honda/VW wears out.
Secondly the makers are going to tie you into some sort of subscription model, probably by limiting software licences.
>My guess is that the "less than 5% bots" claim came during the early discussions
Worse, it's in Twitter's financial reports.
So all the poor innocent shareholders, including his muskiness, were all misled by the evil corporation and amid wailing and gnashing of teeth the price will drop and he can buy it for much less than it was worth when he made the offer.
His only downside is the drop in the value of the 9% he bought up front.
Their downside is that unless they can convince a court that they believed, and it was reasonable to believe, the 5% - then they go to club fed.
>Therefore, it's likely to include the telephone number and social security number of almost everyone on the planet?
Possibly not.
There are irrational numbers that go on for ever and contain a random distribution of digits - so all possible sequences exist. And another class that go on for ever but aren't random. (Can't remember what they are called)
AFAIK we haven't proved which type Pi is.
Yes but it's the volts that jump out and bite you.
If the Holy Scripture of CE/IEC says that 50V means you have to prove that nobody can come into contact with a live conductor, even if the case is broken, or you pour 2 litres of water onto it, or you use a ISO standard small child's finger - then that seems an unnecessary expense
Yes the devices (at least from reputable makers) is going to be safety tested.
But my memory from CE stuff was that under 48V was low voltage and so you didn't have to worry about electric shock. Above 48V certification rules were supposed to get 'intense'
Personally don't like anything above 5V so was happy not to be involved.
So if those are still the rules it's odd that they didn't pick 47.9V and save a lot of testing+paperwork for the sake of 10W.
My main concern would be that your Apple laptop and charger can handle 240W but if you link them with a Poundland cable does it know ?
>How????????????
5A @ 50V, requirement is that the cable can handle 63V
Only cables with a special logo on meet the spec - don't know if there is logic so the charger knows the cable is legit?
But normally CE etc specify that 48V is 'totally safe low voltage, nothing to see here, don't worry" while they chose 50V for the specification ? Don't know of there is an exemption or if the totally arbitrary 48V limit has changed
I think I read that in some super safety critical environment you are required to have all the wires the same colour.
The idea is that you HAVE to individually test / trace each wire rather than just assume that this red wire is the same as that red wire in the other room
>with the meteoroid passing straight through the mirror.
These ultra high speed collisions generally result in the projectile vaporising.
At these speeds and energies the projectile has no structural strength at all, even a tungsten bullet is basically a water drop. That's why the field is called Warhead "Hydro"dynamics
>I'm wondering whether the L2 point will actually be busier than open space
It's not a stable minima so it doesn't collect debris.
It's a lot better than low earth orbit like Hubble, there sin't a lot of space debris 1.5M km away
Possibly there is a higher risk being outside the moon's orbit but it's likely this bit was just a random smaller version of your average dinosaur destroyer.
>1. Is there enough strength in the mirror & coating to avoid damage?
For a rock doing 10km/s? Faster than an explosive shaped charge, like the ones you use to make holes in tanks? No
>2. If there is an impact & damage occurs, how much can you sustain before the capabilities are degraded?
If you just punch a hole through a solar panel or sunshield - minor effect.
Even a ding out of a mirror isn't a huge problem. The mirrors are very stiff so you tend to make a small chip rather than bending it.
>3. How much adjustment do you have to correct mirror alignment if an impact duffs up more than specs on the coating?
You can't realign to fix a chip smaller than a mirror segment. Potentially you could lose an entire segment if a rock totally smashed it, or hit it hard enough to bend the support. Still better than losing an entire mirror
>those are still simpler than traffic downtown
So automate the long haul part.
The AI drives the trucks 24hr/day for the 1000s km of freeway between coasts and into the massive out-of-town distribution centres just of the freeway.
Then the squishy drivers do the last mile delivery to your local supermarket.
There is no way for AI to do last mile delivery in the city without some major changes
€7Bn cash and I assume they are not going to be paying business rates / property tax (whatever they have in Germany) and they won't make any profit cos a fab is a cost.
Around 4500 people work at Intel's fab campus in Ireland (also a 300mm 7nm) so Germany is looking at paying close to €2M/job
The only return is the employee income tax + anything they spend in the local economy. But if these are highly qualified semiconductor engineers they presumably already have well paid jobs somewhere else. How many semiconductor PhDs do these fabs employ vs lower paid assembly line workers?
There will be a bunch of construction worker jobs for 6months - pity they can't hire cheap Geordies now we aren't in the Eu
But you are then supposed to get the 'Scandinavian rebound'.
First generation of women that can get contraception/jobs/university have fewer kids, birth rate drops. Then a generation (or two) later women are a valued part of the workforce/politics and the employers and state offer excellent child care options - they all start having children again and the reproduction rate goes back up.
It's just that bits of the Eu/UK/America/Japan seem to have not reached stage 2 for some reason
Zenit-Leica digital camera made in Russia! Somebody must have rebooted the Matrix.
Although I'm guessing a few Leica sales guys are drowning their sorrows right now.
And ORWO, the former E German maker of weird cheap slide film, is launching a new range of B&W 35mm film. At this rate my flares will be back in fashion !
