Monthly Archives: April 2010

Set Pressure for PRV

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Dear To All,

Good day, I would like to ask about our pump setting pressure for the pressure relief valve, how can we calibrate the PRV for this Goulds Pumps the pump tags indicate that the GPM = 600, Head (Ft) = 470, RPM = 3500 and HP = 100 can you pls give me and idea how can I set the PRV at

Thermocouple extension wire

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for clarification, to terminate the T/C (Type K) extension wire between the element and transmitter side used the crimping lugs (as the core is multistrand) at both end.

will it affect the accuracy of reading? as it's carries only mV signal. the introduced the new matel (i.e lugs) will affect t

Apple’s Lawyers Claim the iPhone Prototype That Was Left in a Bar | 80beats

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Apple-letterA furious Apple has sent tech website Gizmodo a terse letter demanding the return of an iPhone prototype which the site procured. The device was found on a barstool in a pub in Redwood City, California, and was sold by the finder to Gizmodo for a reported sum of $5,000.

As Discoblog reported yesterday, the site immediately declared that the phone was the prototype for the 2010 model of the new iPhone 4G and wrote an in-depth article detailing all its new features. The article, accompanied by photos and video, drew an estimated 3 million viewers to the Web page in just 12 hours online. Some of those viewers must have been Apple’s lawyers.

In the letter dated yesterday, Apple’s senior counsel wrote: “It has come to our attention that Gizmodo is in possession of a device that belongs to Apple. This letter constitutes a formal request that you return the device to Apple. Please let me know where to pick up the unit.”

The phone, Gizmodo revealed, was found in a bar, camouflaged to look like a regular iPhone 3GS. But when the finder switched on the device, he found that the mobile Facebook app was logged in to the account of Gray Powell, an Apple software engineer whose last post on the social networking site was reportedly “I underestimated how good German beer is” [ABC News]. The guy who found the phone reportedly tried to get in touch with the person who lost it, to no avail. That is when the finder is reported to have started shopping the phone around; selling pictures of the phone first to Engadget and then selling the device to rival Gizmodo for $5,000.

Gizmodo’s subsequent blog post on the phone drew massive traffic, with paidcontent.org estimating that just one post generated more than 3.7 million page views, over 28,000 tweets and more than 1,870 comments [Fortune]. That’s when Apple swung into action, getting in touch with the site and asking for it to cough up the prototype. Gizmodo says it has since returned the phone to Apple on the condition that the company “take it easy on the kid who lost it.” Gizmodo’s editorial director Brian Lam added, “I don’t think he loves anything more than Apple.”

For a sneak peak at the new features of Apple’s next generation iPhone, go to Discoblog’s post: So, a Guy Walks Into a Bar… and Discovers Apple’s Latest iPhone.

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Image: Gizmodo


C Programmer Needed

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I am looking a for C Programmer, my company has a small embedded control application project, perfect for quick after hours project for a Little extra cash. Must have Embedded-ARM experience. it would be helpful if you lived in the DC, MD area

If you are interested contact james at projects4

Media Frenzy | Cosmic Variance

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The final book club installment is still percolating, don’t worry. I’ve been traveling like a crazy person, which has pushed blogging into the background. In the meantime, here are a couple of interviews elsewhere in the infosphere.

First is a New York Times interview with me. It’s very short, but we cover a lot of ground — science education, time travel, entropy, the movies, and my love life. Such plenitude of topics in a tiny piece will necessarily lead to compression, and Jerry Coyne is already complaining that I give short shrift to the complicated reality of aging — and he’s right!

71020603Second and more fun, in Wired I am on the other side of the interviewer’s table, talking to Lost creators Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. How cool is that? That was a great time, as we chatted excitedly about time, narrative, wormholes, fate and determinism, the role of science in television, and so on. These guys have given an incredible amount of thought into their show at every level — the characters, the mythology, and what it all means. And they wanted to ask me questions about cosmology and how scientists think, which I’m always happy to talk about. I got hooked on the show only after participating in Lost University, but now Tuesdays at 9:00 p.m. is the high point of my week. Only a few more episodes to go — which means that people who haven’t seen it can finally order the complete DVD selection, which is really the way to see it. (Just note that Season Three drags a bit, especially near the beginning.)


More Than Two Monitors?

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Hi All,

I have a Dell Precision M4400 lap top here at work and an external monitor. I have set it up as extended desktop so I'm always flopping between the two screens.

After working like this for the past two years, I can't imagine anyone working with only one monitor at a time.

Discovery Returns to Earth

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Space Shuttle Discovery Crew Returns to Earth after Fortifying International Space Station Science

"Space shuttle Discovery and seven astronauts ended a 14-day journey of more than 6.2 million miles with a 9:08 a.m. EDT landing Tuesday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The STS-131 mission to the International Space Station delivered science racks, new crew sleeping quarters, equipment and supplies. During three spacewalks, the crew installed a new ammonia storage tank for the station's cooling system, replaced a gyroscope for the station's navigation system and retrieved a Japanese experiment from outside the Kibo laboratory for examination on Earth."