Comment Re:GERMANY (Score 1) 139
You can bury AC transmission and distribution lines. What would make you think that they can't be?
You can bury AC transmission and distribution lines. What would make you think that they can't be?
The Texas Interconnection is not an island.
Yes, but it's a lot more fun to make fun of them as if they were, misinformation be damned.
Austin is a bright baby blue smear in the otherwise predominately red state of Texas. Having worked with Austin Energy, and knowing who has been elected to their city council, it surprises me not one bit that even residential modifications require multiple layers of governmental approval.
Of course, this is the same city who is a full week into a massive outage due to NIMBY homeowners fighting the utility's vegetation management efforts for years, and the 20-month backlog of tree trimming that AE's VP of Field Ops says is going to take three years to catch up with.
Brother makes the best printers in my experience. I buy a laser printer every 3-4 years when it runs out of toner.
Why not....just buy a toner cartridge? Or was this some sort of "printers are disposable" joke that I'm too old to understand?
"Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?"
"Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious...service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature."
"I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor."
Came to the comments for this. Was not disappointed.
It does read like an advertisement, but it is one that, as a parent, I want to read.
Oh, I agree...I should have put some more positive spin on that assessment. I have nothing against vehicle owners installing GPS in said vehicles being used by others. It's paid the bills for me in the past.
Hell, I even let them Big Brother on my car. Progressive Insurance customer here: I gladly signed up for Snapshot when it was available (and drove like a little old lady) for 45 days. Saved a permanent 14% on my annual premium without permanent monitoring.
Is this news because it's LoJack, a household name dating back to my childhood, rather than Wireless Matrix/GPS Insight/Trimble/the 47 other players in this space?
Why is this news? Is it just the consumer commoditization of what businesses have been doing for years? Vehicles + GPS + Web Interface = Big Brother? Whoopee.
I've been supporting deployments of vehicle GPS, geofences, and automatic alerts for years. Maybe that why this article is so underwhelming.
Also, it reads like an advertisement.
This! Thisthisthisthisthis. Oh man, you just made a friend in me. I was recently told by an industrial engineer here where I work that it was "more important to be a team player and get the general concepts of the integration working before we worry about the details". This is the guy who also has a Master's of Business Administration, but is unable to correctly spell "MBA". Of course, this strategic-level million-dollar project is 14 months late and has had over 22,000 defects logged.
I wonder why.
Parent was correct: same delta-v for differing masses. However, since delta-v is nothing more sophisticated than good ol' acceleration (Force x Mass), you do need more force for a greater mass to reach a given delta-v.
My question was along the lines of inducing acceleration in very low mass particles using the principles seen in a Crookes radiometer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookes_radiometer Possible?
Physician: One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well. -- Ambrose Bierce
