But given the level of knowledge of the average checkout person, this might be more useful at the tills - having to explain to the staff what 'fennel' or 'parsnip' (I kid you not - it actually happens) is can get kind of frustrating after a while.
I can see this technology helping the checkout staff - of course, staff training might help as well (looking at you, Tesco...)
So far as I understand TFA, the claims of artificial photosynthesis aren't well founded - what they have actually done is to use manganese as a catalyst to improve the efficiency of electrolytic hydrogen generation.
That's good, but the fact that they used manganese doesn't mean it's photosynthesis just because chlorophyll also happens to have manganese in it.
It's just a fancy catalyst in this implementation.
I have mod points, but prefer to reply rather than mod your religious nonsense down.
Personally, I have no urge to worship, nor have I ever experienced an urge of that type.
I don't subscribe to dualism, since the whole idea of an intangible soul makes no sense to me - it explains nothing and takes the study of consciousness into the religious world, where it does not belong.
Yes, before a community becomes scientifically literate, religion plays its part in explaining the world, but that doesn't make religion true, just socially valuable until better explanations of the world are available.
Once a phenomenon has been explained scientifically, religious beliefs about that phenomenon are redundant - for those phenomena that remain, we can be sure of only one thing - that the religious explanation is almost certainly wrong.
I've been an atheist for around 40 years now, and don't recognise any role for religion in modern civilisation.
But combine this with, say, a conveyor type arrangement where the heat absorbtion occurs on one side of the conveyor and dissipation takes place on the other side, and with enough of a heat sink, this could be turned into a continuous process.
From a very personal level, what you are saying is deeply wrong.
I understand your logic, but as the stepfather of an autistic spastic quadriplegic who was born at 28 weeks (roughly the limit for survival 20 years ago), the personal outweighs the social in this situation.
Your cynicism is misplaced - each human being is unique and adds to the sum of their family's happiness in a multitude of ways, no matter what the costs to society as a whole.
Being able to identify the patterns in the assembly code that is inserted would, however, be a useful skill for protection.
Exploring possible rearrangements of such code would provide clues to a heuristic approach for potential attacks.
There are all sorts of protection that can mitigate the initial buffer overflow - and knowing what code is going in the buffer is very useful when defending against such attacks.
Not in the Olympics - the judges merely score one point for each clean punch landed by a competitor, and IIRC three out of the five judges have to agree (by pressing a button) inside a second for the point to be awarded.
Only in the event of a draw does 'style' come into it, and only then after agression is taken into account.
So yes, it's theoretically possible for prettiness to be a criterion, but only after an equally scored bout where both boxers were equally agressive.
So the Docklands bomb in Feb 1996 wasn't targeted at commerce?
That's why there's a 'ring of steel' around the City of London - not because of the Islamic threat, but because 12 years ago the IRA set off half a ton of fertiliser, killing two newsagents and putting the wind up the bankers along the way.
And the 7/7 bombings had no 'higher aims' - they were murder, pure and simple.
I don't see the evolution of terror attacks in the way that you do - the targets are always targets of opportunity, and the skill levels of the individual terrorists determine the opportunities available.
Take Brighton, for example - a sophisticated bomb with a very long duration timer, planted by experts.
Now that was an opportunity generated by the skill and intelligence of the IRA unit responsible - the only error was that they used too little a charge and missed the prime target.
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But given the level of knowledge of the average checkout person, this might be more useful at the tills - having to explain to the staff what 'fennel' or 'parsnip' (I kid you not - it actually happens) is can get kind of frustrating after a while.
I can see this technology helping the checkout staff - of course, staff training might help as well (looking at you, Tesco...)
So far as I understand TFA, the claims of artificial photosynthesis aren't well founded - what they have actually done is to use manganese as a catalyst to improve the efficiency of electrolytic hydrogen generation.
That's good, but the fact that they used manganese doesn't mean it's photosynthesis just because chlorophyll also happens to have manganese in it.
It's just a fancy catalyst in this implementation.
Too right, mate.
State funeral? Fuck that, I'll be having a street party!
What do you think the Large Hardon Colider is for?
Sheesh!
I have mod points, but prefer to reply rather than mod your religious nonsense down.
Personally, I have no urge to worship, nor have I ever experienced an urge of that type.
I don't subscribe to dualism, since the whole idea of an intangible soul makes no sense to me - it explains nothing and takes the study of consciousness into the religious world, where it does not belong.
Yes, before a community becomes scientifically literate, religion plays its part in explaining the world, but that doesn't make religion true, just socially valuable until better explanations of the world are available.
Once a phenomenon has been explained scientifically, religious beliefs about that phenomenon are redundant - for those phenomena that remain, we can be sure of only one thing - that the religious explanation is almost certainly wrong.
I've been an atheist for around 40 years now, and don't recognise any role for religion in modern civilisation.
Looking at your Wikipedia list, China's per capita CO2 output is 3.84 tonnes/year vs the USA at 20.4.
US population - 305 million.
Chinese population - 1.325 billion.
I make that 6222 million tonnes generated by the US versus 5088 million by China - certainly getting closer, but by no means overtaking yet.
And the total population of all those 9 countries above the US in per-capita emissions?
Less than 10 million.
Whichever way you look at it, the US is still the biggest contributor to CO2 emissions, no matter how you try to spin the numbers.
But combine this with, say, a conveyor type arrangement where the heat absorbtion occurs on one side of the conveyor and dissipation takes place on the other side, and with enough of a heat sink, this could be turned into a continuous process.
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From a very personal level, what you are saying is deeply wrong.
I understand your logic, but as the stepfather of an autistic spastic quadriplegic who was born at 28 weeks (roughly the limit for survival 20 years ago), the personal outweighs the social in this situation.
Your cynicism is misplaced - each human being is unique and adds to the sum of their family's happiness in a multitude of ways, no matter what the costs to society as a whole.
Edison's light bulb?
The prime example of a script kiddie - take the original hack (by Joseph Swann of the UK), and claim credit.
Too, many, commas, to, parse, intelligibly.
Please, learn to punctuate your nonsensical ejaculations so that they make more, rather than no, sense.
Being able to identify the patterns in the assembly code that is inserted would, however, be a useful skill for protection.
Exploring possible rearrangements of such code would provide clues to a heuristic approach for potential attacks.
There are all sorts of protection that can mitigate the initial buffer overflow - and knowing what code is going in the buffer is very useful when defending against such attacks.
P J O'Rourke - is that you?
Fucking brilliant - inventive parody at its best.
Offtopic it may be, but it's pure genius all the same.
Thanks, bro!
You need a good dose of beach volleyball to cure your suspect tendencies ;-)
Not in the Olympics - the judges merely score one point for each clean punch landed by a competitor, and IIRC three out of the five judges have to agree (by pressing a button) inside a second for the point to be awarded.
Only in the event of a draw does 'style' come into it, and only then after agression is taken into account.
So yes, it's theoretically possible for prettiness to be a criterion, but only after an equally scored bout where both boxers were equally agressive.
Er...
wrong.
Great Britain has a 14 year old, Tom Daley competing in the diving.
You must be thinking of some other competition.
So the Docklands bomb in Feb 1996 wasn't targeted at commerce?
That's why there's a 'ring of steel' around the City of London - not because of the Islamic threat, but because 12 years ago the IRA set off half a ton of fertiliser, killing two newsagents and putting the wind up the bankers along the way.
And the 7/7 bombings had no 'higher aims' - they were murder, pure and simple.
I don't see the evolution of terror attacks in the way that you do - the targets are always targets of opportunity, and the skill levels of the individual terrorists determine the opportunities available.
Take Brighton, for example - a sophisticated bomb with a very long duration timer, planted by experts.
Now that was an opportunity generated by the skill and intelligence of the IRA unit responsible - the only error was that they used too little a charge and missed the prime target.
Yes, you're right - my bad.
But when the escalator was introduced, fuel prices were stable and the intention of the escalator was to reduce fuel usage at a controlled rate.
Brown has used it instead as a revenue raiser - that's where the problem is.
I pay taxes through PAYE, as most Brits do.
Otherwise, believe me, I would be avoiding taxes like the plague.
Well - yes he did - his policies led directly to the Suez Crisis and to the 'great game' in Afghanistan and Iran.
What a twat, and his novels aren't any good as well.
God help us if Milliband (another Red Sea pedestrian) takes over.
Either the mods like rap, or they can't understand that once something is in digital format, the cost of distribution is nil.
Otherwise, why mod my perfectly reasonable comment down?
If you want something to mod down, try my anti-Zionist comments - I don't mind that, as I know it's only your prejudice that guides the mods.
What's trolling about pointing out that once something has been digitised, it's free?
LMFAO - not a troll, but a fully functional Turing-complete machine gets modded -1 Troll :P
Louis, I find your ideas intriguing and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter (even if it's full of your usual half-baked shit).
Funny as fuck - please mod parent up!
You think my bigotry is misplaced?
(Hint - 'a fine old Irish name' is a common piece of sarcasm related to Ashkenazi origin, where I come from.)
Oh, and I'll post as me this time - karma to burn, and I hate Israel and all who support the rotten cesspit that it is.