Posts by hayseed
177 posts • joined Friday 5th February 2010 21:40 GMT
Re: re: "cro-mo titanium"
"Alloy" rims are alloys of aluminum or magnesium. They are far tougher than the original pure metals (Al or Mg) (haha, no one would even use a pure magnesium rim).
Re: @zmodem (Ugh!)
Considering that houses in the US are often painted in paints with a titanium oxide base, I don't think rarity is a consideration at all at any reasonable price level.
Re: re: "cro-mo titanium"
alloys tend to be more brittle than pure elements
Re: re: "cro-mo titanium"
And titanium is notoriously difficult to machine (saw a special on the YF-22 YF-23 competition. one of them had a little trouble with some titanium part, despite all their experience).
Re: Is it just me or...
800 lbs, low center-of-mass, wide tracks to counter wind forces perpendicular to the direction of the solar panels. It does look like that might have been taken into account, as mentioned by the lead scientist in the interview. I wonder about ravines, though.
Re: Hope Kodak makes It
Too Late! (Chinese camera using Kodak brand name)
http://www.43rumors.com/new-pictures-of-the-kodak-s1-mft-camera/
Re: by selling assets to its UK pension fund
I think we must thank the British again.
Re: 3D looking storm
It depends on what you are modeling (I do remember seeing a naive model for hurricane motion where it was indeed treated as a 2D thing. Of course, it does have internal structure, but this is not always what is important).
Re: "APT Satellite Holdings"
Foreshadowing!!
They SHOULD have some capacity/someone they can bump other than China, that's the real problem.
Re: hmm
Microcontroller [integrates very low-end microprocessor + other functions], not Microprocessor
No, they're ignoring them.
Re: Fine
"Adequate Attempts" for numpty users probably won't even include looking at metadata.
Re: In other news...
Some folks think the inflexibility of the gold standard contributed.
http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2005/12/the_gold_standa.html
Re: Maybe @Chris Wareham
Lipton's makes me embarrassed to be an American sometimes..
Re: Maybe
No, not really. Bill Gates was just being a geek.
Posted in Facebook plans vast data center in Iowa
Re: can this be the start of a new cargo cult ..
Another cultural difference for-instance (Gays):
> A poll conducted in October, 2012, found that 49 percent of Iowa voters were in favor of gay marriage, up
> from 41 percent just a year earlier.
Here in Virginia, we have an attorney general who thinks he can score political capital defending an anti-sodomy law.
A big difference between the Midwest "Can't we get along" culture and the Southern "My Bible sez"
[ from someone who is familiar with both]
Posted in Facebook plans vast data center in Iowa
Re: can this be the start of a new cargo cult ..
http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/2004/11/State-By-State-Percentage-Of-White-Evangelicals-Catholics-And-Black-Protestants.aspx
Similar profile to Colorado and Michigan - 25% Evangelical, 23% Catholic - and with a high Lutheran population in the bulk, from Northern European populations not noted for being demonstrative on religion.
Night and day compared to the *real* Bible-belt state in which I live.
Posted in Facebook plans vast data center in Iowa
Re: can this be the start of a new cargo cult ..
Wrong culture - it is not Arkansas, in the evangelical Bible belt. See Iowa Wikipedia - biggest religious groups Lutherans and Catholics, low populations of Hispanics and other minorities. Manufacturing 21% of GDP, 6.6% unemployment, state credit rating AAA. In other words, think of a really big suburb.
Re: Stop Press
I suspect slightly higher, due to refraction + the sun not being a point source (assuming the day is over when the sun can no longer be seen)
Re: Mmmmmm
Something that can be done now in Firefox is revoking CAs you don't trust yourself - they did this some time after a Firefox variant patched so it would not rely on certain Chinese CAs.
Posted in Antares aborted after launchpad mishap
Re: "they don't build 'em like they used to"
Aerojet (not new to the business - since the early 40s) has a license to manufacture more itself, and has been looking into follow-on designs (AJ-1000, AJ-1E6)
Re: Commercial power generation potential?
Well, that's a frontier also, getting ion drives up to reasonable thrusts (right now they are mainly used on Russian satellites for station-keeping)
Re: Osama ran for 7 years before they got him
How could anyone tell, if he's decided to keep a low profile?
Apple needs to talk to GCHQ. I would think that requirements would be similar, considering Apple's attitude towards product development.
Re: I love the sound....
Or the tornados ripping out the Osage orange trees.
Re: Leccy? No!!
Might as well put the solar panels on the car - but you won't get a Tesla S
If computers could taste..
When Starbucks bought Coffee Connection, they should have reprogrammed everything so that the Starbucks' **** became like Coffee Connection's, not vice versa.
Re: Disaster pr0n for sickos
At least they weren't looting.
In Committee in the House ...
Translation for the British: One of 500+ folks in the lower House has proposed something, and even a committee of folks who are the oversight in the area of interest before the whole Congress even bothers to debate this hasn't even taken a look. The "prosecutors need more arbitrary power" argument needs to be nipped in the bud, though.
That sounds good in some ways, but the ultimate result is something totalitarian - where everyone has broken some laws, so it is easy to pressure and control those that The Man doesn't like. And once again, the wrong approach to computer security, where it can't be even discussed (!) seems to have been taken. What next, government control of all strong crypto?
Re: Yank's rewriting history again
That one was ordered, this one was custom-built
Re: Self defeating policy
EXAAAACTLY. If what she said was actually true, people would eventually become aware of it, and if the location is more convenient, should become a customer. Something stinks down under.
Tried to reply to some comment about coding...
Actually, Shannon's theorem says you can do better than some arbitrary error rate on an infinite message as long as you include above a certain minimum rate of bit correction according noise (assumed to be random bit flips) on the channel. In effect, whatever error-correction coding scheme you actually implement, there exist more efficient ones. So, no, CRCs are not the ultimate coding scheme.
I read that as a generic discussion - it might not apply, as there are far higher concentrations of metal here. In fact, there is a firm (around Indonesia?) that is actually attempting to get mining started, but is still negotiating the politics.
Re: China only has a monopoly on willingness to pollute
So, what are the heavy ones used in, other than small amounts for doping lasers and some very rare metallic glasses?
USGS says 1cm/year, on page I just looked up. Granite also becomes plastic under great pressures, leading to even flat regions rising and spreading (see Tibetan Plain) as rock flows underneath very slowly. Interestingly enough, such plains can eventually subside to the extent it becomes a valley. Death Valley is an extreme case (explained in a beautiful documentary of the sort only the British could make).
Re: Earth is doomed?????
"Round" is also a attribute and human concept. Would you say that nothing could be round if there were no humans to come up with that classification?
Re: Nothing new under the sun
Chelyabinsk is NOT a "donkey town" - it is basically students and industry thrown together.
Education
There are over a dozen universities in Chelyabinsk. The oldest, Chelyabinsk State Agroengineering Academy, was founded in 1930. It was followed by the Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University in 1934. The main ones are South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk State University and Chelyabinsk Medical Academy. After the World War II Chelyabinsk became the main center of vocational education of the entire Ural region.
Economy
Chelyabinsk is one of the major industrial centers of Russia. Heavy industry predominates, especially metallurgy and military machinery, notably the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Combinate (CMK, ChMK), Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (CTZ, ChTZ), Chelyabinsk Electrode plant (CHEZ), Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) and Chelyabinsk Forge-and-Press Plant (ChKPZ).
Transportation
Re: Yes the Rothschild Bank and the US Federal Reserve....
V is extremely high in an asteroid, so that even if delta V is large, (delta V)/V isn't. This is why one can't get an 100,000 ton rock into orbit just by exploding a nuclear weapon.
Posted in HP re-elects all directors
Re: HP/Agilent
"Agilent Technologies Moves Up In Market Cap Rank" (#235)
