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Can't do that with anything but a gyro.

Rather than a gyro, how about a series of accelerometers (1 for every axis). If you know the acceleration in an access, derive it and you have speed. Derive it again and you have the distance moved.

This is much more likely than gryos.
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Google innovative? Phhfft! This is Zombo-com!

Tell me: what is the energy density of water?

Zero. Water puts out fires. Duh!
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Just make those figures up on the spot did we?

Electrolosis in production environments tends to the 70-75% efficiency (www.elecdesign.com) and can be improved with various catalysts up to 90% (http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/)

Large scale coal plants do better much better than 50% efficiency, especially the newer ones. (we have lots of coal in ND, and thus export lots of electrical power. I've toured a few plants, but don't have the literature with me so I can't dispute this other than to say it's better)

fuel cells tend towards 80% efficiency (science.howstuffworks.com) and there is room for improvement yet.

No internal combustion engine using petro is anywhere near 35% efficient. 32% is on the high end. This number floats around 30% (ford.com)

On the other hand, internal combustion engines using hydrogen tend more towards 35-38% efficiency, so about the number you quoted. (ford.com)

Also, you're auto efficiency doesn't factor in the energy used (and efficiencies involved in) extracting and processing the fuel into gas. This information might have already been factored in your electrical plant estimate, which might explain why it's so much lower than it should be. Or that 50% is an average including low efficiency wind and solar that don't use coal.

Since I'm not actually sure what the powerplants should be, only that it's too low, I'll leave it at 50%, assuming it's fixed for extraction, etc. this gives us:

Fuelcell: 50% x 75% x 80% x 95% = 31%
Hydrogen internal: 50% x 75% x 38% = 14.25%
Current gas engines: well below 30% when including extracting fuels... more like 20% (ecen.com)

You still prove your point that internal combustion of hydrogen is undesirable, but internal combustion engines are not an efficient means of transport compared to fuelcell technology.

And I didn't use the 90% electrolysis that WILL be met once greater demand for hydrogen hits. This is already producable in small scales, and demand = competition = a reason to increase efficiency in the main stream.

Not to mention the CO2 scrubbers, fly ash collectors, etc that make a modern coal plant 100% better for the environment than 10,000 american automobiles
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http://www.zombo.com...

thought it fit the mood... =)

Should have changed it to zombo.com. Anything is possible!

If Mambo is anything like Zombo http://www.zombo.com/, you can do anything you want... the only limit... is yourself.

Maybe. But does he have an answer to the Zombo allegations?

I almost panicked. I mis-read the headline and thought that Zombo.com would no longer be the cutting edge website that it is!

That Zombo.com is still alive and kicking. I don't know I'd get through the day without their services.

They forgot to mention Zombo.com.

What I want to see is a setup where you have 2 areas on the disk.
One is the real data.
The other is some "dummy" data that is innocuous.

This is basically hidden volumes work. You create an encrypted volume and fill it with information that you don't need secret but looks like you might and the rest of the volume is random data passed through the encryption to fill space.

Then you create a hidden volume that fills the freespace. If you mount the encrypted volume using the first password, you'll see the innocuous files but cannot tell if there is a hidden volume or not. If you mount the hidden volume with the correct password, you'll get the real data.

If at any time following the creation of the hidden volume you write information to the outer volume you will most likely destroy the contents of the inner volume. I say most likely, since if you have a 120GB outer volume and a 2mb innervolume, the inner volume probably won't get hit, but if you have a 120GB and a 119GB, it probably will.

You could maybe write an autorun.inf and bat or vbs file to copy lots of data to the outer volume if the inner volume isn't mounted within so many minutes...
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Now how can they get the person's identity from your detailed notes, if you don't have any damn notes?

HAHA! Yeah, you're going to write an article about a government conspiracy or whatever based on informatino you've collected over the last 10 years involving 30 anonymous contacts without taking any notes?

Even if you keep track of all of your anonymous contacts in your head and use code names when you do take notes, you will have to take nodes and you probably will put down some information that is specific to that contact. Eventually there will probably be enough information in your notes to figure out enough to start asking around until your contact is discovered.

You will have to write some things down and you should secure what you write down.
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Waiting until we are an hour off to realign with the earth's actual rotation would be like waiting till we were a full month off to adjust for the solar orbit.

Finally someone got it right! It has nothing to do with GMT and everything to do with common sense. Thank you!
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http://zombo.com/ rocks!

Is it reasonable for an ISP to censor webpages they don't agree with during contract negotiations?

It's their infrastructure, they can do what they want with it, unless they have contracts saying they will not. If they want to point every request to zombo.com they can. That said, if I was one of their customers and found out about this type of censorship I'd consider switching. It seems like a pretty underhanded practice.

http://zombo.com/

It still rox. Or maybe not. I don't remember.

http://zombo.com/

I can't belive the one site that has EVERYTHING one could ever ever want isn't included.

That site: zombo.com

11. Zombo Com

"You can do everything with Zeta that you can do with WindowsXP"

since it lets you do anything... ANYTHING

Here is the first tech preview of teh w3bsite. We'd like our product to be clearly disclosed to the public, and prospective VCs.

http://www.zombo.com/

Google should buy zombo.com

You heard it here first.

"Within this vast and rapidly expanding place, you can do, create or become just about anything you can imagine."

You can do what ever you want with your iPod.

Just like zombo.com.

The most RAM I've seen Firefox use is 170MB. Of course, that was with Zombo open in fourteen tabs simultaneously. Put your complaints in context- what was on those four tabs?

Reminds me of...

Anything is possible

These guys have already FINISHED their GNU/Hurd implementation. The only limit is yourself!

-Pan

Sound required to understand

Any welcome is possible, at Jombo.com !

Under the touchscreen part... "The only limit are developers imaginations"

I don't know how you can say that about Zombocom. You can do anything at Zombocom. The only limit is yourself.

You've obviously never gone to Zombocom

It's gyroscopicly stabilized too... you just lean in the direction you want to turn and it goes, unless you're stopped. Top speed? The only limit is yourself

...Zombo Users are Free and Clear?

I personally am really glad that I can keep using Zombo.com. I can do anything there!

You can do anything with Mambo... anything at all. The only limit is yourself.

Oh wait, no, I'm thinking of this.

or zombo code?

I'm right in the middle of "doing anything you want" there, and didn't want to be interrupted.

What a useless writeup.

ZFS, the dynamic new file system in Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), will make you forget everything you thought you knew about file systems.

Don't forget, everything is possible with the Zombo File System!

Last quarter's PreCalc class said this was impossible?

Anything is possible at Zombo.com.

This is the only web site you'll ever need...ever.

Here it is: Zombo.com

Nuff said!

after this commercial break
here is a little something while we are gone

www.zombo.com

One page of printer friendly, low image content - Unlimited potential.

I suppose two colours, blue and white, technically counts, but.. it's got nothing on Zombo.

I think I'd prefer a GUI called ZOMBOCOM!

Zombo.com. Someone else posted a link to this yesterday; it's always good to be reminded of its genius.

Seriously, though, Flash can have good applications, beyond entertainment. One of the key benefits is that it is truly cross-platform and works reliably and in the same way across browsers and OSes far more than any other mainstream technology. It can be a very good presentation or data capture layer for when HTML is insufficient.

Anyone care to shed some light (or links) onto what RDF and OWL actually do?


Anything you want! It's inspired by zombo.com

No, I believe you're confusing it with zombo.com.

Were you expecting the meaning of life?

The infinite is attainable at zombo com!