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No, more like a foot or two. We're talking thousands of amps.

Assume 24 volt system, charging at 24 volts (you wouldn't want transformers etc onboard the car, they would be super heavy to handle this and would melt the car anyway):

20 gallons of gas = 20*121 MJ/gal = 2420MJ

1J = 1W*1S
2min = 120 sec
2420E6 W*S /(120s) = 20.17E6 Watts

20.17E6W / 24V = 840,278 Amp

However, the Prius uses 500 volt motors, as I understand it (http://hybridcars.about.com/od/news/a/priuslandsp eed.htm

500V:
40,333 Amp

500V and 10Min:
8067 Amp

I do wonder if you could charge the cells in series and discharge in parallel? Thus the system could perhaps be chaged at say 50kV, but the motors use 500V.

Regardless, if the batteries didn't charge at 99.9% efficiency the car would melt into the ground if you tried to charge them in 2 minutes.

Word.

A proper database server, one that is fully ACID complient, will successfully recover from a power failure, as it will replay the logs in order to undo or redo changes that were occuring when the power outage happened. This is typically achieved using Write Ahead Logging (WAL). PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL and other such RDBMS systems are capable of this. MySQL with InnoDB comes close, but not quite. I believe that MySQL MaxDB (which was SAPDB) is fully ACID complient, if you wanted to stick with MySQL.

Ok is he listing real USD, or is he doing some kind of comparison of what it would be if it compared to the average American salary?

If he's gonna use USD he needs to specify what the average korean makes in USD. According to about.com the average korean makes between 20,000,000 and 50,000,000 WON, which converts to about $20,000 to $50,000 USD (although xe.com has a more accurate conversion, but that's pretty close.

Here's a teacher's salary, about $2,200 a month. That site also claims taxes are only 5 to 10% which is much lower than what I'm currently paying in the US, I'm paying about 15% right now.

Considering that's probably what the average american salary is I'd have to say $19/mo DSL isn't a bad deal, but Yahoo/SBC offers "Up to 1.5 Mbps" DSL for $26.95/mo with a one year commitment so I don't see why his "I pay $30 myself, for a 1.5-megabits-per-second (mbps) connection" is so great, he's paying more for DSL than it is here!

Is this a great example of "move along folks, nothing to see here"?

"Imagine living on a planet where you get tax breaks for driving big inefficient vehicles that produce greenhouse gases."

Um, we ALREADY DO.

SUV, truck owners get a big tax break
CONs of the SUV Tax Break

we could cut back dramatically on oil imports in only two years if we really wanted to

discussions about energy on Slashdot are always frustrating. the problems are more political than technological

I'd agree with you. Here in the UK, a huge proportion of professionals are of Indian or Chinese origin, especially in the fields of medicine and technology. If you look at subjects like Vedic maths, you'll find that these kind of subject areas are ingrained in their history - possibly moreso than they are in Western culture.

If India does become a knowledge superpower, it won't be the first time...

I'll admit that there is not much study invested in the children of homosexual parents. (Quite possibly because the various special interest groups would crush any such study no matter which side it came out in favor of.) However the fact remains that homosexuals are naturally non-reproductive couplings.

Other then that the only thing I can argue is that while being raised by homosexual parents may be better for children than say, being raised in a government run orphanage, it is definatly not as good as the traditional stable family model. (Which is sadly becoming more and more of a rare thing.)

As for your other point. In my post I at no time attacked any group of people. I mentioned a homosexual in the abstract for an example of how my religion instructs me to deal with one. I'm sorry if it seemed as an attack to you. However it is quite statistically correct.

http://www.homosexuellt.com/infosida/show_article. asp?Idnr=207
http://aids.about.com/blUS3.htm

You should read better articles.

Producing corn, or as the Brazilians use, sugar to make ethanol only requires fossil fuels if the farmer stupidly doesn't bother to use his own product, tax-free, to fuel his own machinery. An easy conversion for gasoline engines(they just need collector tractors), usually just a carborater adjustment.

There are no laws of physics being broken. The gain in energy is coming from the, err, what do plants use again? Oh yeah, THE SUN!

The vocabulary of his language - "Mänti", meaning a type of tree - reflects the relationships between different things. The word "ema", for instance, translates as "mother"

The word "ema" is also mother in Hebrew.

was very quick to point out anything Bush said or didthat was remotely questionable

If by "remotely questionable" you mean "giving free passes to the extent that we'll ignore it if George Bush takes a shit on the White House lawn" then yes. Where was the press scandal when it turned out that Cheney had met Edwards on no less than three sperate occasions? Where were the editorials lambasting the Administration's shell game over "there were ties between Iraq and 9/11" and "we never said there was a connection between Saddam and 9/11". This isn't anything new, either. Back in 2000, the media was so caught up with inventing myths about Al Gore that they missed it when Bush took credit in a debate for legislation he actually VETOED.

Contrast this with the flurry of press reports if Clinton so much as farted in an elevator.

If you wish to survive with this superconductor technology, we the Zulus require delivery of these secrets immediately. If you refuse, prepare for our invasion.

Si vis pacem, para bellum

considering the majority of the world's population doesn't speak English as their first language

Are you suggesting that we all code in chinese?

Most Popular Languages

This is a joke, right?

It seems to be a classic example of subjective validation.

1) There's likely going to be a newsworthy event every day.
2) The "eggs" should randomly produce upward and downward slopes.

Therefore you just connect the slope to the nearest important event and wow, you've just "proved" the existence of the supernatural...

No, actually you haven't. You've just proved that you are gullible and superstitious.

The "scientists" who are working on this have ignored both the sharp swings where no important global events could be identified and the important global events that had no reasonable corresponding swings. And that is the mark of wishful thinking.

This actually seems to be fairly common with new buildings and works of art in public spaces.

I was working with some people on some new postcards and they asked me to check out the royalties on a couple of new structures in London they'd taken pictures of.

They'd been burned when they sold postcards of the Louvre. The architect who had designed the Louvre Pyramid had complained and they had to pay him about 0.10 in royalties per postcard sold.

Obviously anything over a certain age is copyright-expired, so castles etc are fair game! ;)

As a roadgeek, I must point out that's a myth.

There's one problem with that. iTunes doesn't own the cow, they only own the milking machine. The Big 5 own the cow.

iTunes is in a tenuous position, at best.

"Pravda" Sues Fox For Stealing Its Format

"Of course many of us live in a RIGHT TO WORK state which says a person can be fired for any reason at any time so maybe the whole point is moot."

Not to be picky, but I believe you are referring to "at-will" employment, a policy most employers adhere to.

http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/laborlaws/l/aa09 2402.htm

"Right To Work" (which does vary by state) is completely different. Basically, the idea is that in unionized occupations, non-union employees should also be allowed to work without having to join the union.

http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/laborlaws/a/righ t_to_work.htm

"Of course many of us live in a RIGHT TO WORK state which says a person can be fired for any reason at any time so maybe the whole point is moot."

Not to be picky, but I believe you are referring to "at-will" employment, a policy most employers adhere to.

http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/laborlaws/l/aa09 2402.htm

"Right To Work" (which does vary by state) is completely different. Basically, the idea is that in unionized occupations, non-union employees should also be allowed to work without having to join the union.

http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/laborlaws/a/righ t_to_work.htm

They had another target in March of 2001 for the spacestation Mir.

http://freebies.about.com/cs/foodfreebies/l/bltaco bell.htm/

Should we use Windows because it was more secure 20 years ago?

Seeing as Windows 1.0
hadn't been released 20 years ago, I'd say not.

I'm not sure where you read this 'dismal record' but as a french[man], I don't know about it

And as for separation from church and state in the US, given that your president swear on the bible, I'd say that it is pretty shallow.

And saying that atheism is a religion is a way religious people have to slander atheist, but atheists have no priest, no prayer, no mythology about the beginning or the end of the universe, no mythology about the 'after-life', something common to nearly all the religion.

• priests: Richard Dawkins and his ilk
• prayer: I've personally heard a number of Atheists pray to a "Holy Shit!"
• creation mythology: "In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded, eventually forming hydrogen, stars, planets, slime, monkeys and philosophers."
• armageddon mythology: "In the end of time, we're all gunna freeze in the dark." Fimbulwinter, anyone?
• afterlife: "There is definitely no afterlife. WYSIWYG."

• Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods.
• The doctrine that there is no God or gods.
• Godlessness; immorality.

This applies whether you personally want to be considered as "religious" or not.

Perhaps you have religion confused with sacerdotalism, which is where all of the priests, ornamentation and other hocus pocus (itself a corruption of hoc est curpos meum, the Catholic forgiveness formula in Latin) comes from. If this is the case, then you can proudly state with a clear conscience that "I am not sacerdotal!"

The invention of the wheel must have happend some time around 3000 B.C.

That can't possibly be correct as pottery wheels were in use in Mesopotamia as far back as 3500B.C. Mesopotamians also had chariots before 3k B.C.

Still, my main point stands: the wheel was not invented in pre-historic times, nor was it invented by pre- or proto-humans: the wheel was invented by people essentially identical to ourselves well after the inventions of agriculture and writing.

If it were true.

Canadian life expectancy: 79.4 years.
American life expectancy: 77.1 years.

Source.

Good. It needs to be done away with. If you're too stupid to put a little bit of your money aside each month for your future, you deserve to die in a gutter somewhere without medication, shelter or food.

You do remember that Social Security was created as a result of the Great Depression, right? Millions of people who put money away for retirement were among the jobless standing in breadlines. Now, if there is any one thing that can cause the downfall of capitalism, that one thing would be to have starving people dying in gutters. Many a revolution has come about due to that very reason.

Contrast that with Ceviche in which white fish is "Cooked" in lemon/lime juice. There is no actual heat applied, but rather the acid from the citrus cooks the fish.

Canada does not have "ridiculous" gun laws. I own six personally. To get a gun you have to go on course, nowadays they call is the "Firearms safety course" it teaches you basic gun safety for all long guns, at the end you write a test, you pass the test - you can buy guns with your new license. The license is renewable without further testing. You want handguns, you stay a little longer in the course for the "Prohibited" weapons part, you write a second test, now you can own handguns.

To go Hunting, you need to go on a hunting course, it's called "Hunter Safety" and among other things teaches you about different types of wildlife, how to tell them apart from other wildlife, how to protect yourself and how to avoid shooting other people. You pass the course, you get a license. Pretty simple.

Since we do not allow concealed weapons here in Canada, in order to use your handgun you have to have a range membership and transport is only allowed between your place of residence and the range. That isn't that bad. Up here we use long guns primarily for hunting, and there are no further travel restrictions on those except they have to have trigger locks and be out of sight at all times while travelling. It's not that big of a deal really.

What people get into a hff about is the new "Registration" for guns. It's a little stupid, you have to pay the gov't $25CDN to buy/register/transfer a gun to your name. They then send you a little paper with the serial number (if it's a serialed gun) and make/model/calibre. You haver to carry this paper at all times in case the feds (not the provincials) decide to stop you and question your ownership... Again, not that bad.

Now, if you have over 15 guns the RCMP (feds) can show up at your door at any time and ask to inspect the gun store and ammo store and make sure you are doing things correctly. Again, I own six, I do not find this fifteen limit "surprise raid" thing an issue.

I don't like the feds knowing about each gun I own, but it's not that big of a deal, I use them for hunting, not for causing some armed rebellion.

If anyone has issues about the information I provided, I can provide links if I have to. But anyone who lives in Canada and actually knows the law, and is affected by it knows what I wrote to be true.

Anything you need to know can be found here or here. As for freedom of religion, your issues about "Hate Crimes" are blown way out of proporation. The issue you are referring to is basic civil righs and equality for all. Gay bashing is not a sport, and the churches have this issue with it. I myself have no problems with gay marriage - Canada is founded on freedoms for all, not just freedoms for the church - if the church wants to do something, fine - don't let it infringe on another minority's rights. The issue is the heads of church basically defaming the gay population which is against the law and the rights of gays are held in the same light as say, the rights of jewish people, or arabs not to be defamed or whatever by any other group.

In Canada we protect the rights of everyone, even if some groups like it or not. Seriously, do you think being a Christian gives you the right to bash gays? If you do, you have some predjudices that need to be worked on buddy.

The proper way to dispose of a worn-out U.S. flag is to burn it in an appropriate setting with proper respect.

Actually, George Bush's doodle was also found. You can see it here

You knew this was coming as soon as you saw his picture...

Behold the comparison.

"The Source Engine once again takes the title and rightfully so as the most popular FPS multiplayer game Counter Strike was developed by Valve."

Hmm, yes a standarized human-readable way to interface with databases, that would actually be really helpful.

I don't know, perhaps we could call it a Structured Query Language or something. :-)

What I think most people who talk about REAL DB'S are refering to is the ACID Test. I have not checked recently but for the longest time MySQL failed those requirements.

And here we all thought he was just the president.

He's a member too!

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blb ushchimpanzee.htm

Hybrid evidence.

Well, as long as you don't get your facts from right-wing religious sites, it looks like the fetus-eating rumor was based on *one* performance artist claiming something provocative.

Which you use to libel a billion people. Way to go!

In the process of earning his money, Gates' licensing DOS and it's descendants to all comers created a standard hardware platform for personal computers, thereby forcing hardware vendors to compete on price and innovation.

The reason IBM-compatible PCs really took off is that the original one was made from off-the-shelf parts and small companies could build their own without a chip manufacturing facility. In the other words, because a monopoly made a mistake that allowed small companies to compete.

The OS wasn't very important that days, on computers with 16K of RAM. A lot of games and I would imagine other programs were self-booting and didn't require an OS at all. Still Microsoft played a part in progress by reselling one they bought for $50K to IBM.

But that was way before Bill Gates made $40B, $750M or probably $1M. And ever since then his company was a hindrance to progress. By the time people upgraded their PCs to $640K of RAM, it was possible and desirable to run an OS with a graphical UI and task switching. If Microsoft licensed something like GEM and distributed it with every copy of DOS back then, PCs would become useful for business and personal productivity applications much earlier than they did. But they just stuck with what they had on a 16K RAM machine. It was perhaps not a monopoly power yet, just laziness characteristic of a company that to this days is trying to milk the most money out of poorly written software that happens to come with every IBM-compatible PC. And things just went downhill from then.

I think Bill Gates and most other very rich people were initially productive by being catalysts of progress made in some area. But since then, most have become a hindrance to what they themselves started by keeping others from contributing and diverting money that could be used more productively by society. Really toothy anti-trust laws, punitive taxes for getting insane amounts of money in a short time and other measures would be a big help.

This website explains about the three related patents in mp3. The website mentioned that the patents relate to encoding and not decoding (playback.)

MP3 The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly)

History of MP3. Qouted from this website: "In 1998, Winamp became a free MP3 music player boosting the success of MP3. No licensing fees are required to use an MP3 player."

Real is bullshitting about mp3 playback fees!

The advertising will strictly be for political campaigns and it will all be subliminable.

That number is the total number of deaths, not just those that were killed in the field of battle. That number is above 50,000.

You are wrong. Even factoring in those mortally wounded and deaths from disease, the death toll from the entire Gettysburg Campaign wouldn't even approach 50,000. You are referring to the commonly used-estimate of around 50,000 casualties in three days of battle at Gettysburg but making the common mistake of substituting deaths for all casualties.

From the NPS' Gettysburg website: "It was also the bloodiest single battle of the war, resulting in over 51,000 soldiers killed, wounded, captured or missing."

You can also look at Wikipedia's page on the Battle of Gettysburg in case you don't trust a website run by the US Government (spoiler: 51,000 casualties).

I'm guessing you got your info from here, which is also wrong.

Yes, it's RPM vs Deb, but in essence, deb and apt always go together, while RPM exists as a living hell of its own on the RedHat systems I work with every day.

Click here to get to the homepages of both of your senators, and urge them to continue funding HST. Similarly, click here to contact your representative in the House. Make sure in your writeup to include your name and address. It is good to send them an email or use the contact webform box, but even better to send an actual letter via USPS.

I can't stress this enough. Congressmen usually listen to their constituents, but typically most of their feedback comes from well-funded lobby groups that can afford to contact them on every relevent piece of legislation. If enough of us can demonstrate to them how important Hubble is to the scientific research and legacy of the US, we can actually make a positive impact.

Here is a page with some extra information about writing your Congressmen. Please do this (right now even). The 10 minutes you spend contacting them can be repaid tenfold if your message influences their decision!

And if anyone can tell me how to include a URL without displaying the whole damn thing, please do.

Use HTML formatted, and use the <A> tag. <A href="http://rarediseases.about.com/cs/aspergersyn drome/a/041003.htm">Text for link</A> gives Text for link

Like this...

Actually, Einstein and Newton suffered from http://rarediseases.about.com/cs/aspergersyndrome/ a/041003.htmasperger syndrome.

And if anyone can tell me how to include a URL without displaying the whole damn thing, please do.

No offense mate, but you're off your rocker.

There *was* a beginning to the universe, it is widely accepted that the universe is 'the ultimate free lunch,' and was brought into existence by a quantum fluctuation. Not only that, but we have a pretty good picture of what happened during the first 3 minutes, as well as what happened after that.

As any astronomer would explain to you, there is a point which we could call the end of the universe, depending on who you believe about when the universe will end. I'm speaking of the two possible eventual outcomes for our universe: Heat Death or collapse. (Although at this point the majority of cosmologists agree that our universe is expanding at an accelerating pace, and thus the universe is doomed to become a very chilly place indeed).

"But how," you ask, "can you claim that heat death is the end of the universe, or of time?" Sure, time will go on after heat death, but there will be nothing around to MEASURE that time, because all activity in the universe will have stopped with the temperature at a very cold 0K.

I also found it a bit funny that you think we need a new Galileo or Copernicus, when we have someone even better. Weinberg is one of the most brilliant physicists that has ever lived, certainly the most influential of my life (if that gives you a clue to how old I am). Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to belittle Copernicus, Galileo, Newton or even Einstein. But Weinberg came up with a theory to unify two of the four fundamental forces (weak and electromagnetic), as well as the Inflationary theory.

Now, as far as escaping our universe and getting to another universe, this is all highly theoretical stuff. But there are a fair number of scientists who believe that our universe is but one in a larger multiverse. There are numerous theories about how these other universes would be formed, as well as how they could be kept seperate from our own which I will not go into here (some involve black holes, others involve the period of unknown time immediately (picoseconds) after the Big Bang.

IT salaries to rise 0.5%? That's great...

...until you factor in inflation, to get the *real* salary growth rate, rather than the nominal rate.

Consumer price inflation (CPI) is around 3.26%.

Basic microeconomics (the Fisher Equation) says you take the wage increase rate and subtract the inflation rate, in order to get the real wage growth.

0.5% - 3.26% = -2.76%

So, assuming your wage increases with this 0.5% rise, you're still not increasing your pay enough to outpace inflation. This means your real purchasing power will be decreasing this year, by 2.76% if the figure above remains anywhere near accurate.

Salary rising by 0.5% this year? Quite a shitter, if you ask me. But, of course, it could be worse (we could be seeing negative growth).

(The data security guys still come out ahead though: 5.1% - 3.26% = 1.84% real pay increase. At $90k/year, that's another $1656 in purchasing power they can afford, in real terms.)

Operating system-related program codes ... dammit, where have I heard that phrase before ... or something similar ... it's on the tip of my tongue.

Oh yes.

last time I caught any of O'Reily he was advocating for the legalization of pot and the tightening of environmental laws, which last I knew, were no where near republican talking points.
Wich is not inconsistent with reading them to the public, which is the claim I made.

Which brings us back to the fact that some people are not happy unless everything on all TV/Radio/Websites agrees with their personal opinion, worldview, and perspective. If you do not consume the media, and not enough others do, that outlet loses influence and power.

Yes, but your claim was that they were "getting away" with nothing. I contend that the many of the so-called "news" programs and the like are at best entertainment. Certainly not a vaid form or debate. Jon Stewart (the host of a show that makes no pretense as to being other than it is; the Daily Show) also holds this point of view:

"STEWART: See, the thing is, we need your help. Right now, you're helping the politicians and the corporations. And we're left out there to mow our lawns.

BEGALA: By beating up on them? You just said we're too rough on them when they make mistakes.

STEWART: No, no, no, you're not too rough on them. You're part of their strategies. You are partisan, what do you call it, hacks."

"STEWART: No, no, no, no, that would be great. To do a debate would be great. But that's like saying pro wrestling is a show about athletic competition."

Video: http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/multimedia/v/st ewartcarlson.htm

So at the heart of what I said, actually the only point I made was: they are "getting away with it"; where "it" in my context was masquerading as a news show, pushing opinions that have little or no basis in reality, and having people take it at face value.

If you do not consume the media, and not enough others do, that outlet loses influence and power.
This is exactly my point; sure it enough people wer to turn of Fox or whatever because it was dripping crap then "they" would be "getting away with it". But they are, because people still tune in for their daily dose of lies and they (the peopel tuning in) don't care; they just want to be entertained. Unfortuantely, we are living in a time where news used to hold a certain amount of credibility; which it no longer does. But in the social conciousness it still retains that sticky credibilty that it no longer deserves. During that transition where the credebility that is given to the mass media outlets is different than the crediblity that they actually earn they will be "getting away with it". But when the children of the internet have grown up they won't "get away with it" anymore.

People who don't agree with you are not necessarily ignorant, stupid, or wrong.
Yes, I know "correlation not causation" and all that. I'll only beleive coincidence so far though.