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Re:Good -- Ethanol's a Joke Anyway by alta · 2011-06-17 01:33 · Score: 5, Informative · on US Senate Votes For Repeal of Ethanol Subsidies

It's not just a choice based on how it's manufactured... I'd dare to argue that we don't have as much area to grow sugar cane as brazil. It's a tropical plant. It needs somewhere north of 125cm/year of rainfall to grow, high humidity and lots of sun. Unfortunately most of our agriculture land does not support those conditions. Brazil is MADE for cane. Where we grow stuff, it's made for corn, and maybe switchgrass? Compare Iowa/nebraska, indiana, illinois, where corn is grown, to Louisiana, Florida and Hawaii, where we can grow cane. Add to that, hawaii is tiny, florida and Louisiana have a lot of unaccessable swamp, and that florida land prices are at a premium.

http://www.tangail.110mb.com/sugar.php production amounts
http://www.weather.com/weather/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/USLA0231 - AVG rainfall/temp of US States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Brazil
http://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Iowa/average-annual-temperatures.php - Iowa average Temp - high 50s, low 60s
http://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Louisiana/average-annual-temperatures.php - Louisiana avg temp high 80s

Re:And BOOM by ChrisMounce · 2010-09-28 09:13 · Score: 4, Informative · on 1K JavaScript Madness

Coral Cache links for ya:

Legend Of The Bouncing Beholder by @marijnjh
Tiny chess by Oscar Toledo G.
Tetris with sound by @sjoerd_visscher
WOLF1K and the rainbow characters by @p01
Binary clock (tweetable) by @alexeym
Mother fucking lasers by @evilhackerdude
Graphical layout engine by Lars Ronnback
Crazy multiplayer 2-sided Pong by @feiss
Morse code generator by @chrissmoak
Pulsing 3d wires by @unconed

Re:Found a bug in tiny ches... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-28 08:00 · Score: 4, Informative · on 1K JavaScript Madness

"[...]it will validate moves, queen-only promotion, without castling and en passant." http://nanochess.110mb.com/

Re:Some better instructions by mangu · 2010-05-15 07:31 · Score: 1 · on In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions

Then there's surviving on your own - I remember doing the survivalist merit badge as a boy scout - it wasn't easy fishing, hunting and scavenging for your own food, never mind making your own guns and ammunition.

That's what the "AF Regulation 64-4 - Search and Rescue Survival Training" is for. You'll even learn - in several different ways - how to light a fire by rubbing sticks. Plus how to disguise your fire so the enemy will not see it. And how to fight panic, resentment, and anger. Care of the mouth and teeth, care of the feet. Contact with people and changing political allegiance. Land travelling and climbing ropes. Camouflage, radiation detection, and types of residual radiation. And etcetera.

Re:Some better instructions by Anonymous Coward · 2010-05-15 05:08 · Score: 0 · on In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions

If you learn of ways to make nitric acid from readily available products, you're already half-way to being dangerous

Here. One of the ingredients is potassium nitrate.

Re:Some better instructions by Anonymous Coward · 2010-05-15 05:08 · Score: 0 · on In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions

If you learn of ways to make nitric acid from readily available products, you're already half-way to being dangerous

Here. One of the ingredients is potassium nitrate.

Re:Some better instructions by SteveFoerster · 2010-05-15 04:16 · Score: 3, Informative · on In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions

For your convenience:

AF Regulation 64-4 - Search and Rescue Survival Training

FM 3-24 - MCWP 3-33.5 - Counterinsurgency

TM 31-210 - Improvised Munitions Handbook

Re:Some better instructions by SteveFoerster · 2010-05-15 04:16 · Score: 3, Informative · on In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions

For your convenience:

AF Regulation 64-4 - Search and Rescue Survival Training

FM 3-24 - MCWP 3-33.5 - Counterinsurgency

TM 31-210 - Improvised Munitions Handbook

Re:Some better instructions by SteveFoerster · 2010-05-15 04:16 · Score: 3, Informative · on In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions

For your convenience:

AF Regulation 64-4 - Search and Rescue Survival Training

FM 3-24 - MCWP 3-33.5 - Counterinsurgency

TM 31-210 - Improvised Munitions Handbook

Re:OMG WHY NOT ON MAC? by wicks0r · 2009-06-21 03:23 · Score: 4, Informative · on Open Source FPS Game Alien Arena 2009 Released

There is a "unofficial" mac patch here, but I can't get it working on 10.5.7. Anyone else get it working?

From the Alien Arena site:

The official MacOS port has been indefinitely postponed. However, apparently someone has indeed ported Alien Arena to the Mac, and released a patch. Download the linux version above, then apply this patch. We cannot guarantee this will work.

Re:Anyone have a suggestion where to go next? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-04-23 15:26 · Score: 0 · on Yahoo Pulls the Plug On GeoCities

http://www.110mb.com/ - Awesome space/No ads or other codes
http://www.000webhost.com/ - Host your domain FREE (PHP)

Both free, both great!

Re:winning entries by eulernet · 2009-02-24 23:24 · Score: 3, Informative · on Whither the 19th IOCCC?

On the same site, Knight's tour solver. 19th IOCCC. Best Small Program

http://nanochess.110mb.com/knight.html

winning entries by sdsykes_ss · 2009-02-24 19:16 · Score: 5, Informative · on Whither the 19th IOCCC?

I don't have links to all the entries, but here is best of show: http://nanochess.110mb.com/emulator.html

And here are my two winning entries: http://www.stephensykes.com/blog_perm.html?148

Enjoy!

An Honest Question by Khomar · 2008-08-26 06:57 · Score: 1 · on New Evidence Debunks "Stupid" Neanderthal

How do we know that Neanderthals are in fact a different species from Homo Sapiens? If we are discovering that they are in many ways extremely similar to humans, is it not possible that they are just another race of man that was killed off or died out in a catastrophe many years ago?

Even today, there is a wide variety in skeletal structures among humans. This is a fact that helps forensic scientists determine the identity of an individual from skeletal remains -- the race can usually be easily determined. While I do not condone racism in any way, it is verifiable that there are at least five distinct races of man.

If we had never heard of the Pygmy races and discovered a Pygmy burial site, would we be likely to conclude that the bones were from a separate species? How can we determine if a specimen is truly a new species just from bone samples? Could the Neanderthals even be a variation of one of the races that exist today?

Ajax animator by bencoder · 2008-03-24 10:23 · Score: 1 · on Salasaga Fills Flash Creation Hole for Linux

This seems better than Salasaga at the moment, if you want something similar to flash. At least its an interesting project(project page here). Would be better if you could play with it without all the adverts though.

Ajax animator by bencoder · 2008-03-24 10:23 · Score: 1 · on Salasaga Fills Flash Creation Hole for Linux

This seems better than Salasaga at the moment, if you want something similar to flash. At least its an interesting project(project page here). Would be better if you could play with it without all the adverts though.

Re:TV Listings by extremescholar · 2008-03-10 03:53 · Score: 1 · on MythTV 0.21 Released

Simple scripting... http://zap2xml.110mb.com/

Renewable replacements by Ken_g6 · 2008-01-14 04:34 · Score: 1 · on Helium Crisis Approaching

Let me see how many renewable replacements I can find for these applications:

* Because it is lighter than air, airships and balloons are inflated with helium for lift. In airships, helium is preferred over hydrogen because it is not flammable and has 92.64% of the buoyancy (or lifting power) of the alternative hydrogen (see calculation.)

Hydrogen is not flammable at less than 4% concentration in air, so a 4% hydrogen mix might be possible (if it doesn't collect at the top). Neon also is less dense than air; but it could have similar supply problems. In general, there's no good alternative that's not flammable. Although party balloons don't need that much lift, so a good deal more air could probably be mixed in with no noticeable effect.

* For its low solubility in water, the major part of human blood, air mixtures of helium with oxygen and nitrogen (Trimix), with oxygen only (Heliox), with common air (heliair), and with hydrogen and oxygen (hydreliox), are used in deep-sea breathing systems to reduce the high-pressure risk of nitrogen narcosis, decompression sickness, and oxygen toxicity.

This one's hard to replace. Maybe argon (which is extracted from the air) might work for some applications? Otherwise, that leaves (de)pressurized submersibles and ROVs (remotely-operated vehicles). Maybe some of NASA's telepresence work will be applied to ROVs, so people don't have to dive so deep?

* At extremely low temperatures, liquid helium is used to cool certain metals to produce superconductivity, such as in superconducting magnets used in magnetic resonance imaging. Helium at low temperatures is also used in cryogenics.

This took a little research. "...the highest critical temperature of a type 1 superconductor is only 23.2 K."(ref). The next coldest boiling point of a gas is that of hydrogen, at 20.28 K. So it might take some different materials, but we could keep using type 1 superconductors.

* For its inertness and high thermal conductivity, neutron transparency, and because it does not form radioactive isotopes under reactor conditions, helium is used as a coolant in some nuclear reactors, such as pebble-bed reactors.

And such reactors are dangerous if a non-inert gas, like air, gets in. Besides, pebble-bed reactors aren't breeder reactors, so they're not even close to renewable.

* Helium is used as a shielding gas in arc welding processes on materials that are contaminated easily by air. It is especially useful in overhead welding, because it is lighter than air and thus floats, whereas other shielding gases sink.

Which means in overhead welding, argon must be sealed in place, instead of welding with helium in the open. Just a small inconvenience.

* Because it is inert, helium is used as a protective gas in growing silicon and germanium crystals, in titanium and zirconium production, in gas chromatography, and as an atmosphere for protecting historical documents. This property also makes it useful in supersonic wind tunnels.

I almost skipped over this one, because argon is also inert, and nitrogen is fairly inert. But for gas chromatography, there isn't a good replacement for helium that is also inert. All the other noble gases have more electrons, and more spectral lines.

* In rocketry, helium is used as an ullage medium to displace fuel and oxidizers in storage tanks and to condense hydrogen and oxygen to make rocket fuel. It is also used to purge fuel and oxidizer from ground support equipment prior to launch and to pre-cool liquid hydrogen in space vehicles. For example, the Saturn V booster used in the Apollo program needed about 13 million cubic feet (370,000 m) of helium to launch.[2]

This could be a problem. An "ullage medium" is apparently needed to fill the empty space in a storage tank. If it's not used, the tank must be built stro

Stick it to 'em! by loimprevisto · 2007-10-31 15:40 · Score: 2, Informative · on Anti-Terrorism and the Death of the Chemistry Set

I really would have liked to mod a few things in this discussion, but I figured most folks would like to see this link:

http://onlinebooks.110mb.com/tm%2031-210/31-210-contents.htm

Hmm... I'm not sure how to change the displayed text of a link with slashcode, the document is TM 31-210, Improvised Munitions Handbook. Lots of fun projects that will work even for the 'chemistry impared', as long as you stay paranoid about safety (as you should any time you're making explosives or acids!).

Re:Terrorism or Suicide? by Matt_R · 2007-10-07 22:44 · Score: 5, Informative · on In the UK, Possession of the Anarchist's Cookbook Is Terrorism

http://onlinebooks.110mb.com/tm%2031-210/31-210-contents.htm for anybody who was wondering...

Change ISPs? by vtcodger · 2007-09-22 19:13 · Score: 1 · on What To Do When Broadband is Not An Option?

Been there. Tough problem. Trees are nice. But there is such a thing as too many trees. We ended up with a very long T1 line. The phone company had trouble getting it intalled because of the number of repeaters it required. Probably not a solution for you because of cost.

If you haven't got line of sight to a place where you have power and broadband access, your only options may be find out more about cellular or go without.

You might, and I emphasize MIGHT, be able to squeeze more Kb/s out of your modem by using a different ISP. Modem communications work by magic. Here's a link to an article I wrote many years ago about some phone line problems. Probably still largely as correct as it ever was. http://donaldkenney.110mb.com/GLOSSARY/LINEPROB.HTM Maybe it'll help. Fortunately, you can test ISPs without cancelling your old one.