Whether you carry oxygen and hydrogen up there or water doesn't really make a difference, does it?
Just the small difference that you need pretty heavy metal cylinders to transport liquid gases and the risks of leakage/explosion etc. are just a tad higher. But other than that....no.
Probably the same way they knew cdrs were gonna last for hundreds of years when they came out
From what I have heard they were able to make cd's like that. The only reason they didn't (in a time where recordable cd's were just a consumer's wet dream and cd's were only used for music) was that the replacement market would disappear for the music industry. Vinyl records would wear and get scratched, so if one was worn you would buy a new one. This was a considerable part of the market and of course the music industry did not want to lose that. So they cut back on the quality, the rest is history.
This is, btw, one reason for me to suspect that we, normal consumers, will never see any of these 'thousand year discs' on the market. Maybe for very specialised purposes for high prices, but not in any ordinary shop.
As a matter of fact, I only blame America indirectly. Our politicians *did* use the American 'war on terror' as an excuse to pull this one (and more). I have to admit that they did't do it on American command, but otoh, I never said they did.
Worst of all is that if this government would fall, it will probably be replaced by something even worse, as populistic idiots are gaining traction here.
Maybe your country's real problem is people like you who are unwilling to take responsibility for what your own government does.
Well, I did certainly NOT vote for any of the parties involved in our government then, and the same goes for our current government. The main party (Christian Democratic Party) of this bunch of creeps is, and has always been so eager to get into America's butt that the only question asked when America says 'jump' is: 'How far?'. If America would drop its pants you might be able to see a the tips of the toes of our prime minister (Balkenende) stick out. They will take any excuse to get more control over our population. Oh, and our new passports will have fingerprint information on an RFID-chip (and all fingerprints will be stored in a central database) because, according to the Christian Demagogues..uhh..Democrats that is mandatory by 'our' European Government. It isn't, but any excuse is good, and the Dutch sheeple will not protest. (But again I did vote, but NOT vote for any of them, and never, ever will.)
Who the Hell carries their passport around all day in their home country? Most of the time I imagine it would be sitting in a safe place at home.
Here in the Netherlands we have to be able to prove our identity any time the police asks for it. The only way accepted by them is to show your passport, so we officialy HAVE TO carry our passports with us any time we are outside. Thank you America and your 'War on Terror' to give our political creeps an excuse to put that one through our throats!
But as long as you can see the horizon and maybe the sun, you know how to steer to get it in a normal position.
And there you have just the two missing factors: The airspeed indicator (and the rest) went defective at night (so not much sun there, maybe that's different where you live), above the ocean (which happens to be sort of sky-colored seen from above, but not visible here by lack of sun), in a storm (so probably lots of rain and clouds, conditions not known for improvement of sight). No airspeed indicator means you don't know if your airspeed is too high (so the plane will fall apart) or too low (which means it is impossible to maintain hight).
If you want to comment, please RTFA first so you know what you are talking about.
Oh, and just for good measure: I agree with you that *under normal circumstances* a pilot should be able to fly manually, but in this case circumstances were far from normal.
I did RTFA, and from what i understand of it it was impossible to get a reliable reading from the instruments in the cockpit, because the computers were failing and the airspeed-detector was unreliable (what seemed to be the primary cause of the failing of the computers). Manual control is fine, IF you know your altitude, airspeed etc. Try driving a car with blinded windows and a defective speedometer and an unreliable rev-meter. I am not a pilot, but even I can understand that for manual control one has to have reliable data on what the plane is doing, which is exactly what was missing in this case (if the theory we are talking about is right).
I think OEM's and shops should be obliged to have their pc's standard without an OS installed on it, and sell the (installation of the) OS as a separate item. So in a catalog it should be something like: PC $$ Installed with Windows $$$$$ (Windows Super Ultra DeLuxe DRM-Enhanced Turbo Diesel Version $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ) Installed with Ubuntu (or your Linux flavor of choice) $$$
That way, it would become clear to customers that there is a MS-tax and that there are other OS-es than Windows AND they would be given a choice.
But i'm afraid some firm from Redmont (or Redmond, too lazy to look it up), might object....
I was thinking in terms of CO2-removal efficiency. But you are right, the best thing would be not to produce the stuff in the first place. And 20% overhead (I must admit I had not thought of it that way) IS a lot. Only thing is, it looks like the best option so far. Trees are too slow, and liquid CO2 is very useful in the chemical industry AFAIK. Fact is, we have to do *something*.
No, it's not 80% efficient. If it was, you would produce 1 ton of CO2 to have 800 kg removed. This thing 'produces' 200 kg CO2 to remove 1 ton, so its efficiency is 400%. Small but significant difference.
Maybe I am not a typical example, but I used to copy lots of albums from lots of artists to music cassettes (remember those, anyone?). Most of it is music you never hear on the radio. When I really liked the album, I usually bought it on cd. Now I download, and I find lots of artists I never heard of before, and lots of albums I did not have of artists I knew already. When I find those on cd, it is more likely I will buy them if I like the music. If I don't, I will delete the stuff, and if I like it, but just once in a while, I will keep it but not buy it, as I would have done with music recorded on cassettes. Fact is, I have discovered lots of new artists, and buy more cd's then I did before. But most of the crap you hear on the radio is stuff I don't want to be found dead with and it is hard to find (and most of the time I hardly search for) a lot of the music *I* like. So downloading broadens my view, and makes me buy more. Radio doesn't.
IMHO Your example is pure nonsense. It would be (closer to) a good example if:
- The car-manufacturer had a market share of >90% of all cars sold as well as of all radios sold and made their own radio's. - The radios would require radio studios to implement extra technology because these radios would not be standard-compliant as all other brands were and not recieve standard broadcasts well. - The other radio brands would not be able to recieve the broadcasts made with the car manufacturer's technology well.
I might have missed a few points, but I think this is a more comparable situation. (Insofar as compatibility is involved here)
It's a bit late here and I am sleepy, but parent's post just gave me an idea. Would it be possible to patent something not to a particular person or company but to 'the public'? That would make the patented stuff available for everyone to use but prevents companies/people to claim it as their property.
Nope! No own distillery here, legally. Distilled products are heavily taxed, as is fuel. In fact, fuel is so heavily taxed that it quadruples the price of it.
Here in the Netherlands it is forbidden to use vegetable oil or left-over frying oil as fuel for cars, even if the cars are perfectly able to run on it and pollute less then running on normal diesel. The reason: Taxes. They get no chance to skim off 'some' money so you can't use it.
People who fuck over their customers will suffer damage to their reputation, and their business will suffer as a result.
True...but people who fuck over their employees and/or the environment to get things done cheaper, especially if they do it in places the customer is not (directly) affected by it, will only suffer from a bad concience and the problem how to spend all that money they earn, while their businesses flourish because they help their customers so well with their low prices. That has NOTHING to do with promoting ethical business, but just the contrary. But if the rule of law says that what you are doing is unethical, you can (at least in the US) always buy yourself some congress-critters to change the laws for you.
If my interpretation is correct, you're still $20 behind [....] since if you win you get to keep the drive, but apparently aren't refunded your $60 deposit.
Wrong interpretation! From TFA:
If you damage the drive, then your deposit will not be returned.
So, (if MY interpretation is correct) you will always get your deposit back if you return the drive in good order or win.
But I have to agree that it's not quite the amount of money I'd do it for, even if I were able to.
I was going to accuse you of inaccurate quoting, but now I find (while writing my comment) that there are TWO articles: the one you link to and the one the summary links to, which I checked first. In the article I read first I found this:
Quote The alleged urine[...] was actually three buckets, two of which contained dirty water used to flush toilets while conserving water. The third was seized from an illegal apartment occupied by someone not connected to the RNC protests. There was no bathroom in the illegal apartment and urine was collected in a bucket. End quote
I haven't seen anything about coltraps or equipment for disabling buses in that one either. All I found was that
Quote [The sheriff] displayed a number of the confiscated items: a gun, throwing knives, a bow and arrows, flammable liquids, paint, slingshots, rocks and buckets of urine. End Quote
I have not enough time to read all of the article you link to (gotta go to work:-( ), but I find this interesting...
To be clear: I quoted from the linked article.
The weird thing is that the article you link to is on first sight
Slashdot Mirror
Whether you carry oxygen and hydrogen up there or water doesn't really make a difference, does it?
Just the small difference that you need pretty heavy metal cylinders to transport liquid gases and the risks of leakage/explosion etc. are just a tad higher. But other than that....no.
Probably the same way they knew cdrs were gonna last for hundreds of years when they came out
From what I have heard they were able to make cd's like that. The only reason they didn't (in a time where recordable cd's were just a consumer's wet dream and cd's were only used for music) was that the replacement market would disappear for the music industry.
Vinyl records would wear and get scratched, so if one was worn you would buy a new one. This was a considerable part of the market and of course the music industry did not want to lose that. So they cut back on the quality, the rest is history.
This is, btw, one reason for me to suspect that we, normal consumers, will never see any of these 'thousand year discs' on the market. Maybe for very specialised purposes for high prices, but not in any ordinary shop.
As a matter of fact, I only blame America indirectly. Our politicians *did* use the American 'war on terror' as an excuse to pull this one (and more). I have to admit that they did't do it on American command, but otoh, I never said they did.
Worst of all is that if this government would fall, it will probably be replaced by something even worse, as populistic idiots are gaining traction here.
Maybe your country's real problem is people like you who are unwilling to take responsibility for what your own government does.
Well, I did certainly NOT vote for any of the parties involved in our government then, and the same goes for our current government.
The main party (Christian Democratic Party) of this bunch of creeps is, and has always been so eager to get into America's butt that the only question asked when America says 'jump' is: 'How far?'. If America would drop its pants you might be able to see a the tips of the toes of our prime minister (Balkenende) stick out.
They will take any excuse to get more control over our population.
Oh, and our new passports will have fingerprint information on an RFID-chip (and all fingerprints will be stored in a central database) because, according to the Christian Demagogues..uhh..Democrats that is mandatory by 'our' European Government. It isn't, but any excuse is good, and the Dutch sheeple will not protest.
(But again I did vote, but NOT vote for any of them, and never, ever will.)
Who the Hell carries their passport around all day in their home country? Most of the time I imagine it would be sitting in a safe place at home.
Here in the Netherlands we have to be able to prove our identity any time the police asks for it. The only way accepted by them is to show your passport, so we officialy HAVE TO carry our passports with us any time we are outside.
Thank you America and your 'War on Terror' to give our political creeps an excuse to put that one through our throats!
But as long as you can see the horizon and maybe the sun, you know how to steer to get it in a normal position.
And there you have just the two missing factors: The airspeed indicator (and the rest) went defective at night (so not much sun there, maybe that's different where you live), above the ocean (which happens to be sort of sky-colored seen from above, but not visible here by lack of sun), in a storm (so probably lots of rain and clouds, conditions not known for improvement of sight). No airspeed indicator means you don't know if your airspeed is too high (so the plane will fall apart) or too low (which means it is impossible to maintain hight).
If you want to comment, please RTFA first so you know what you are talking about.
Oh, and just for good measure: I agree with you that *under normal circumstances* a pilot should be able to fly manually, but in this case circumstances were far from normal.
I did RTFA, and from what i understand of it it was impossible to get a reliable reading from the instruments in the cockpit, because the computers were failing and the airspeed-detector was unreliable (what seemed to be the primary cause of the failing of the computers). Manual control is fine, IF you know your altitude, airspeed etc. Try driving a car with blinded windows and a defective speedometer and an unreliable rev-meter.
I am not a pilot, but even I can understand that for manual control one has to have reliable data on what the plane is doing, which is exactly what was missing in this case (if the theory we are talking about is right).
I think OEM's and shops should be obliged to have their pc's standard without an OS installed on it, and sell the (installation of the) OS as a separate item. So in a catalog it should be something like:
PC $$
Installed with Windows $$$$$ (Windows Super Ultra DeLuxe DRM-Enhanced Turbo Diesel Version $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ )
Installed with Ubuntu (or your Linux flavor of choice) $$$
That way, it would become clear to customers that there is a MS-tax and that there are other OS-es than Windows AND they would be given a choice.
But i'm afraid some firm from Redmont (or Redmond, too lazy to look it up), might object....
I was thinking in terms of CO2-removal efficiency. But you are right, the best thing would be not to produce the stuff in the first place. And 20% overhead (I must admit I had not thought of it that way) IS a lot. Only thing is, it looks like the best option so far. Trees are too slow, and liquid CO2 is very useful in the chemical industry AFAIK. Fact is, we have to do *something*.
No, it's not 80% efficient. If it was, you would produce 1 ton of CO2 to have 800 kg removed. This thing 'produces' 200 kg CO2 to remove 1 ton, so its efficiency is 400%. Small but significant difference.
I could fill terrabyte after terrabyte drive with music, and not have a million dollars worth of music...
(emphasis mine)
Why should one fill a mouthful of Earth with music? Now, if we were talking about Terabytes, I might understand....
Maybe I am not a typical example, but I used to copy lots of albums from lots of artists to music cassettes (remember those, anyone?). Most of it is music you never hear on the radio. When I really liked the album, I usually bought it on cd. Now I download, and I find lots of artists I never heard of before, and lots of albums I did not have of artists I knew already. When I find those on cd, it is more likely I will buy them if I like the music. If I don't, I will delete the stuff, and if I like it, but just once in a while, I will keep it but not buy it, as I would have done with music recorded on cassettes.
Fact is, I have discovered lots of new artists, and buy more cd's then I did before.
But most of the crap you hear on the radio is stuff I don't want to be found dead with and it is hard to find (and most of the time I hardly search for) a lot of the music *I* like. So downloading broadens my view, and makes me buy more. Radio doesn't.
IMHO Your example is pure nonsense. It would be (closer to) a good example if:
- The car-manufacturer had a market share of >90% of all cars sold as well as of all radios sold and made their own radio's.
- The radios would require radio studios to implement extra technology because these radios would not be standard-compliant as all other brands were and not recieve standard broadcasts well.
- The other radio brands would not be able to recieve the broadcasts made with the car manufacturer's technology well.
I might have missed a few points, but I think this is a more comparable situation. (Insofar as compatibility is involved here)
So true! A saying I once read and never forgot: "The task of a design engineer is to make the work of a repair engineer as hard as possible"
Anyone who loves a king that has made it illegal to not love him is a fucking piece of shit and deserves to be wiped off the face of the Earth.
Should that apply to overly religious zealots too?
(GD&R)
(Go on, mod me flamebait, but it was the first thought occuring to me!)
It's a bit late here and I am sleepy, but parent's post just gave me an idea. Would it be possible to patent something not to a particular person or company but to 'the public'? That would make the patented stuff available for everyone to use but prevents companies/people to claim it as their property.
Just my â0.02....
Nope! No own distillery here, legally. Distilled products are heavily taxed, as is fuel. In fact, fuel is so heavily taxed that it quadruples the price of it.
Here in the Netherlands it is forbidden to use vegetable oil or left-over frying oil as fuel for cars, even if the cars are perfectly able to run on it and pollute less then running on normal diesel. The reason: Taxes. They get no chance to skim off 'some' money so you can't use it.
...I mean, lenses without *diffration* limit are also interesting. And opposed to the *inisibility* stuff, they might really work...
The device DOES work: At least one 'c' and a 'v' are succesfully cloaked! Of course you DID type them...
Beyond that, how do users get Opera without IE?...
apt-get install opera
People who fuck over their customers will suffer damage to their reputation, and their business will suffer as a result.
True...but people who fuck over their employees and/or the environment to get things done cheaper, especially if they do it in places the customer is not (directly) affected by it, will only suffer from a bad concience and the problem how to spend all that money they earn, while their businesses flourish because they help their customers so well with their low prices. That has NOTHING to do with promoting ethical business, but just the contrary. But if the rule of law says that what you are doing is unethical, you can (at least in the US) always buy yourself some congress-critters to change the laws for you.
Oops...undoing downmod, read your comment not carefully enough!
If my interpretation is correct, you're still $20 behind [....] since if you win you get to keep the drive, but apparently aren't refunded your $60 deposit.
Wrong interpretation! From TFA:
If you damage the drive, then your deposit will not be returned.
So, (if MY interpretation is correct) you will always get your deposit back if you return the drive in good order or win.
But I have to agree that it's not quite the amount of money I'd do it for, even if I were able to.
Looks like somehow part of my comment fell away or I did not check my preview good enough as I was in a hurry (had to go to work).
The article I quoted was the one /. links to. On first sight the article jlarocco links to is the same, but it is not, although it is the same site.
Hope my reply is clearer now.
I was going to accuse you of inaccurate quoting, but now I find (while writing my comment) that there are TWO articles: the one you link to and the one the summary links to, which I checked first. In the article I read first I found this:
Quote
The alleged urine[...] was actually three buckets, two of which contained dirty water used to flush toilets while conserving water. The third was seized from an illegal apartment occupied by someone not connected to the RNC protests. There was no bathroom in the illegal apartment and urine was collected in a bucket.
End quote
I haven't seen anything about coltraps or equipment for disabling buses in that one either. All I found was that
Quote
[The sheriff] displayed a number of the confiscated items: a gun, throwing knives, a bow and arrows, flammable liquids, paint, slingshots, rocks and buckets of urine.
End Quote
I have not enough time to read all of the article you link to (gotta go to work :-( ), but I find this interesting...
To be clear: I quoted from the linked article.
The weird thing is that the article you link to is on first sight