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Quote: Originally posted by Scott The whole idea of government rebates for solar can't work on a wide basis. Where do you all think the government gets the money from? And if solar can't pay for itself without tax rebates then that means it can't…
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Quote: Originally posted by Chinney I really am thinking of doing it myself in two-three years, when I will be replacing my roof. Hopefully, you will be as lucky as I was. At the time the system was installed, it was the last year of the Cal…
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Quote: Originally posted by Chinney The big problem is that it requires a large investment that takes years to recoup. I was told that, at current levels of efficiency and with the current price of panels vs. the current market price of electric…
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Quote: Originally posted by applenut shit, college is hard It's probably better that they are starting off like that rather than trying to ease you into college studies. Some classes start off as if you were still in high school and make you…
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Quote: Originally posted by Scott I've heard from a hardcore Matlab user that the x86 version of Matlab is very optimized (win or linux) and thus the others take a hit. Have you notived that? I'll have to get back to you on that. With my li…
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Quote: Originally posted by Scott Huh? Sorry for being dense. I don't get your point. I said it is fortunate that I have a version of Matlab that works in OS X. Are you trying to point out that it actually uses X11 and not Aqua?
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Has the UN been responsible for the creation of any countries? Move the UN to Israel.
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Lectures MWF and labs on TuTh for me. Electronics Engineering experimentation Digital signal processing Communications systems This DSP class relies on Matlab, so it's fortunate there's an OS X version.
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Faculty meetings start tomorrow, and classes don't begin until Wednesday.
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Quote: Originally posted by BuonRotto Can the electricity generated be stored? Not with our present technology. I assume the generators produce alternating currrent. This must be first converted into direct current and then stored in …
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Quote: Originally posted by Scott That makes almost no sense at all. I'll do your google search but as far as I can tell there's not reason to shut down a nuke plant when the grid goes down. As I said, I'm speculating because I do not know t…
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Quote: Originally posted by Paul yes you do... otherwise you overload the plant with requests for power... Just a speculaton ... not to be taken as absolute fact: That is true from the electrical generation side. On the reactor side, you …
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Try this: Select your chart. You should have a "Chart" menu. Select "Source data" Select the "Series" tab Delete all but one series Select your X and Y values. If you select discontinuous ranges of data, you should get something like "$A$2:…
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Quote: Originally posted by midwinter I don't mean to sound snide here, so please don't take any of this the wrong way. I just battle this all the time with my students, who never seem to get it right. Not to be arguing correctness or incorr…
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by midwinter Like what? I have never heard of this phenomenon. Perhaps I should clarify that this has been in common usage, not in academic usage. I'll try to find examples.
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The apostrophe for certain pluralizations has been present for as long as I can remember (30 years or so ... I'm older than that but don't remember much before that). In fact, I personally could see no justification for the apostrophe and I've alwa…
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You can get an idea of what's available on campus here. There's a storefront on campus somewhere, but I haven't seen it. A quick comparison of Apple prices shows that the prices at UC are up to $300 less than at CSU, but the same as at Stanford.
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Quote: Originally posted by applenut really? errrr... I was under the impression that the AirBears network was virtually campus wide. bummer Well, as I said, I'm not a regular. I'll have to do some reading on AirBears. deleted stuff
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Quote: Originally posted by applenut it is the ugliest building but its unique and interesting. everything in the interior is exposed. as an architecture student its a very cool building because you learn a lot from it. Interesting! I'll …
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Quote: Originally posted by applenut I'm impressed Not so impressive back then. UC Berkeley now has discussion sections built into their courses, which I hear makes scheduling very difficult. In 1974 there were lectures and laboratories, …