Have we forgoten that this is the company that thought it owned the WIMP (windows icon manipulation pointer) system? They stole my look and feel, boo hoo-hoo.
A uniform and constant acceleration normal to spinning plane will produce a parabolic free surface. It is the balance between the two that makes the shape and it won't happen without either.
These conditions cannot be produced by men yet. Spinning a couterwheighted dish, ala 2001, to make "artificial gravity" will not make the uniform field you desire. Essentially, you'd have a giant gyroscope! You might try to constantly accelerate a dish, but this has vibration and comunications problems. A constantly accelerating platform will quickly pass communications limits. Also note that both of these solutions require large rigid containers for our mercury.
Foil from the super market, bah. I get mine from the hypermarket and it's much bigger than yours.
who's got time for spelling that goofey language, English?
This is something we can do something about and it has other uses. In 1492, you might have been able to lead a comfortable life where you were. Some people can see further. Sooner or later we will run out of easy to use resources. The only way to provide for more people is to strive to gain new resources. Let's support the strivers.
First, you need gravity and spinning to make that parabolic shape. I imagine you'd get a bunch of blobs without gravity.
Second, mercury is very dense and you'd never get it up even if you could control it. You would do better to lift something light and shiny like aluminum foil instead.
We've been here 25,000 years. If you look at page 17 of the report you will see the frequency of significant impacts. 1,000 years for 10 Megatonne , 4,000 years for 100 MT, 16,000 for 1,000 MT and on up the scale. Lying down won't stop this.
OK, so it's Europe. They've only recomended what they can do. You need a Von Braun in America to get anything real done. They did a good job of telling us why it's important.
My stepdad, a lawyer, has drooled on about this as a way to make money. He hates it too, but he's lazier than he is greedy. He also worries that the law will change before he gets his investment back. If you manage to turn the meter backwards long enough, money comes your way. The stated intent was to promote alternate energy production. The realizable abuse it to make money off your neighbors while degrading the quality of the grid.
For backup power, try a small diesel generator. The MicroGen puts out 7kW, about 7HP. It would not be hard to match this (see here). Diesel fuel will not burn without a wick, and does not expolode when the huricane wisks away your shed. Sure there's noise to be considered, but you won't mind this when it works.
Lets say we can make a big fat fuel cell right at the end of a big fat gas pipeline. Let's make it competitive and put out 1GW, like most reasonable stations. If we asume 30% losses in transmision, we would be able to deliver 700,000,000 watts, and this would replace 100,000 of these 7000 watt boxes. Which do you think is cheaper to keep up? Which do you think would be safer?
Regulation was designed to take advantage of such economies of scale to keep you from getting bent over. I'm not sure GE's best interests are your best interests here. The fact of the matter is that you are willing to pay more for electricity than you do today. If regulation can't be fixed, expect to pay more.
If I got a book in the mail, I could read it if I wanted to. I could not publish it, but it is still mine, mine all mine.
If MS or one of their vendors decided to send me MS Word, I could use it all I wanted. I would feel even less constrained than I do by their stupid shrink wrap liscence that tells me not to install it on more than one of my machines. The CD in question, of course, would make a better coaster.
The only way to fairly sell one of these things is a Watt type contract. Watt charged clients a fraction of the difference between the cost of his engines and what they replaced.
GE has not forcast costs. These things need to be looked at once a year, and need "major components" once every five years. Design life is 15 years. In fifteen years, your payments may look small but your fuel will still cost money. If everyone buys one of these, the cost of fuel will go up, just like gasoline prices have jumped with SUV purchases. GE will swing the price of maintenance with demand too, we can be sure.
In a free market, the price of a necessity will always hover just below above the cost of the less convenient alternative. How much GE can charge for this is going to depend on how far deregulation is actually carried and how far people will go to avoid getting raped by it. Don't count on corn to save you eat, don't play with your food . Windmills and solar power are still much more expensive than comercially available power.
The whole point of regulation was to provide this neccessity at a reasonable cost while giving investors a reasonable return on their investment. If this has failed, we should be looking at why and fix it. If these fuel cells are really superior, why not set them up under the normal utilites? It would be much esier to do this through large organizations with fixed profits than it would to do it like car sales for example. Somehow though, it seems like it's more expensive to distribute natural gas than electricity (pipe and pump vrs. wire and transformer) and this would fall down if all economic issues were considered rationaly.
Thanks to the laws we all have so much respect for, you can pass your higher costs onto everyone else! That's right, if you can prove your alternate energy source costs more than the utility is willing to pay, you can force them to pay you that amount! This is great in that it's the absolute oposite of a free market: Everyone is forced to pay the highest bidder!
Other costs are passed along too. One reader has pointed out that the utility is forced to hook your home generating facilities to the grid at their expense. These costs are obviously passed on to everyone else, cool. Who do you think suffers when that home station has problems? Like you know, the wind was not blowing in the heat of the afternoon, or your turbine blew chunks? Your neighbors, that's who, and those leaches deserve to have their lights flicker and their air conditioners brown out.
Yes, I must recomend that everyone go buy one of these big fat things and become part time utility owners. If you can get propane or natural gas, you too can become independent from the local utility and force your costs onto everyone else. Hurah! This is the best thing since the SUV (Stupid Urban Vehicle).
Thanks to the laws we all have so much respect for, you can pass your higher costs onto everyone else! That's right, if you can prove your alternate energy source costs more than the utility is willing to pay, you can force them to pay you that amount. This is great in that it's the absolute oposite of a free market: Everyone is forced to pay the highest bidder!
Other costs are passed along too. One reader has pointed out that the utility is forced to hook your home generating facilities to the grid at their expense. These costs are obviously passed on to everyone else, cool. Who do you think suffers when that home station has problems? Like you know, the wind was not blowing in the heat of the afternoon, or your turbine blew chunks? Your neighbors, that's who, and those leaches deserve to have their lights flicker and their air conditioners brown out.
Yes, I must recomend that everyone go buy one of these big fat things and become part time utility owners. If you can get propane or natural gas, you too can become independent from the local utility and force your costs onto everyone else. Hurah! This is the best thing since the SUV (Stupid Urban Vehicle).
This article has more info on the incedent and Al Gore's contribution to things technnical. His general cluelessness and the extent of his exaduration can be judged a little better with the info in the article.
The aution is funny, deal with it.
Gore's inability to grasp technical issues or his misreprentation of them to further his own ends is not as funny. He's supported restrictions on crypto exports, wants to shut down oil drilling, and favors coal burning. A dude with a poly sci undergrad and a law degree sets himself up for such attacks when he attempts to publish works way outside his field. "Earth in the Balance" is a very scary read indeed. It was published a while back and parts of it might sound stupid now, so don't expect open source Al to put it on the web anytime soon.
A collection of electrons and other elementery particles can also hold an infinite amount of information. Think of a stone. If we were to establish a reference position, any other position in the universe would contain relative information. Throwing the stone would give a stream of random numbers, and leaving it sitting would be memory. The problem comes in trying to read all of the rocks. Each grain of sand could be trying to tell us something, or it could just mean nothing.
It's kind of sad to expose children to sexually explicit material like that. It kind of kills the supprises life has. What a bore. There's also the lost oportunity to read something more worthwhile. Hemingway, for example, has sex but it's not center stage and he looks at more important issues.
Scientifically acurate sex education is important. Porn is a waste.
It's interesting the author was a woman. You might want to think of the female perspective on all of this. Some women find the details disturbing when they first learn. I wonder if the author thought of their material being read by younger children than yourself. Some people don't care, but then again some people rape their own children.
Hold your flames for a minute. I know that these thing just don't work. The intent however should be presented and respected.
This is not about lazy parents. Think about having a child and what you want them exposed too. My mom never delivered me to a porn shop but she was happy for me to go to the library. An unmonitored terminal can turn the libary into a porn shop. From the things I read on the walls of some public libraries, I know that there are people out there who love to offend. Imagine your child walking up to one of these terminals where some creep left goat sex up. Worse, imagine the creep still sitting there. Ewwwww!
Communities have the right to decide what their money will buy for the library. Sometimes they act dumb, and Samuel Clemens finds himself tossed out. Oh well, that town can be laughed at, but in the end they spent their money how they wanted. Good luck with it, but don't be so insulting.
...which recomends stoning (no, not the Clinton kind) for things like adultry, pre marital sex and other things that brought much larger disgrace before birth control. There are new testimate references to this kind of thing as well, such as tearing out your eyes as a means of self control. Take it as you will.
I'll derive further satisfaction from the fact that I'm screwing all my cable modem neighbors our of their fair share of the bandwith while I hog down 25 gigs a day to set me up with another evenings entertainment.
Does this make anyone else want to smash a 36 inch tube over Alan Blount's pointy head? "Me Me Me, and my all consuming need for mindless entertainment at your expense." What a rotten thing to advocate as Open. The superhighway analogies get beter all the time: SUV on the cable. Fortunately, cable modems will twart people like this, and they get the same bandwith anyone else has. Still, I'd like so see these boxes spewing chunks for their intentions. Anyone got a official crackTIVO site?
For you media addicts, just use a $40 VCR and $1.50 tapes to save all of those golden sitcom, reality, whatever, moments. It's cheaper, it lasts longer, it's easier than hacking the spy box. The net is just not up to this yet.
They compared what they could get, and what most of us will be able to afford for a while.
I can tell you the result of the test you want right now. The Pentium four, err, P IV, 5-4, 9 to 5, vapor now in this box is not here. The AMD system in this box is as reported in the last test.
Someone is sure to give you what you demand as soon as that vapor materializes.
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Have we forgoten that this is the company that thought it owned the WIMP (windows icon manipulation pointer) system? They stole my look and feel, boo hoo-hoo.
These conditions cannot be produced by men yet. Spinning a couterwheighted dish, ala 2001, to make "artificial gravity" will not make the uniform field you desire. Essentially, you'd have a giant gyroscope! You might try to constantly accelerate a dish, but this has vibration and comunications problems. A constantly accelerating platform will quickly pass communications limits. Also note that both of these solutions require large rigid containers for our mercury.
Foil from the super market, bah. I get mine from the hypermarket and it's much bigger than yours.
who's got time for spelling that goofey language, English?
put one foot in front of the other, eventually you will be there.
This is something we can do something about and it has other uses. In 1492, you might have been able to lead a comfortable life where you were. Some people can see further. Sooner or later we will run out of easy to use resources. The only way to provide for more people is to strive to gain new resources. Let's support the strivers.
Second, mercury is very dense and you'd never get it up even if you could control it. You would do better to lift something light and shiny like aluminum foil instead.
...but so are roaches and Signal 11.
We've been here 25,000 years. If you look at page 17 of the report you will see the frequency of significant impacts. 1,000 years for 10 Megatonne , 4,000 years for 100 MT, 16,000 for 1,000 MT and on up the scale. Lying down won't stop this.
OK, so it's Europe. They've only recomended what they can do. You need a Von Braun in America to get anything real done. They did a good job of telling us why it's important.
For backup power, try a small diesel generator. The MicroGen puts out 7kW, about 7HP. It would not be hard to match this (see here). Diesel fuel will not burn without a wick, and does not expolode when the huricane wisks away your shed. Sure there's noise to be considered, but you won't mind this when it works.
Regulation was designed to take advantage of such economies of scale to keep you from getting bent over. I'm not sure GE's best interests are your best interests here. The fact of the matter is that you are willing to pay more for electricity than you do today. If regulation can't be fixed, expect to pay more.
If MS or one of their vendors decided to send me MS Word, I could use it all I wanted. I would feel even less constrained than I do by their stupid shrink wrap liscence that tells me not to install it on more than one of my machines. The CD in question, of course, would make a better coaster.
GE has not forcast costs. These things need to be looked at once a year, and need "major components" once every five years. Design life is 15 years. In fifteen years, your payments may look small but your fuel will still cost money. If everyone buys one of these, the cost of fuel will go up, just like gasoline prices have jumped with SUV purchases. GE will swing the price of maintenance with demand too, we can be sure.
In a free market, the price of a necessity will always hover just below above the cost of the less convenient alternative. How much GE can charge for this is going to depend on how far deregulation is actually carried and how far people will go to avoid getting raped by it. Don't count on corn to save you eat, don't play with your food . Windmills and solar power are still much more expensive than comercially available power.
The whole point of regulation was to provide this neccessity at a reasonable cost while giving investors a reasonable return on their investment. If this has failed, we should be looking at why and fix it. If these fuel cells are really superior, why not set them up under the normal utilites? It would be much esier to do this through large organizations with fixed profits than it would to do it like car sales for example. Somehow though, it seems like it's more expensive to distribute natural gas than electricity (pipe and pump vrs. wire and transformer) and this would fall down if all economic issues were considered rationaly.
Other costs are passed along too. One reader has pointed out that the utility is forced to hook your home generating facilities to the grid at their expense. These costs are obviously passed on to everyone else, cool. Who do you think suffers when that home station has problems? Like you know, the wind was not blowing in the heat of the afternoon, or your turbine blew chunks? Your neighbors, that's who, and those leaches deserve to have their lights flicker and their air conditioners brown out.
Yes, I must recomend that everyone go buy one of these big fat things and become part time utility owners. If you can get propane or natural gas, you too can become independent from the local utility and force your costs onto everyone else. Hurah! This is the best thing since the SUV (Stupid Urban Vehicle).
Other costs are passed along too. One reader has pointed out that the utility is forced to hook your home generating facilities to the grid at their expense. These costs are obviously passed on to everyone else, cool. Who do you think suffers when that home station has problems? Like you know, the wind was not blowing in the heat of the afternoon, or your turbine blew chunks? Your neighbors, that's who, and those leaches deserve to have their lights flicker and their air conditioners brown out.
Yes, I must recomend that everyone go buy one of these big fat things and become part time utility owners. If you can get propane or natural gas, you too can become independent from the local utility and force your costs onto everyone else. Hurah! This is the best thing since the SUV (Stupid Urban Vehicle).
The aution is funny, deal with it.
Gore's inability to grasp technical issues or his misreprentation of them to further his own ends is not as funny. He's supported restrictions on crypto exports, wants to shut down oil drilling, and favors coal burning. A dude with a poly sci undergrad and a law degree sets himself up for such attacks when he attempts to publish works way outside his field. "Earth in the Balance" is a very scary read indeed. It was published a while back and parts of it might sound stupid now, so don't expect open source Al to put it on the web anytime soon.
Solaris, for example, is unix and comes with cc. You can get some of the source code but there are strings attatched.
That the Mac team did not include these basic tools, opting for Apatche, FTP, and DNS servers is perverse.
A collection of electrons and other elementery particles can also hold an infinite amount of information. Think of a stone. If we were to establish a reference position, any other position in the universe would contain relative information. Throwing the stone would give a stream of random numbers, and leaving it sitting would be memory. The problem comes in trying to read all of the rocks. Each grain of sand could be trying to tell us something, or it could just mean nothing.
They will filter Slashdot!
Scientifically acurate sex education is important. Porn is a waste.
It's interesting the author was a woman. You might want to think of the female perspective on all of this. Some women find the details disturbing when they first learn. I wonder if the author thought of their material being read by younger children than yourself. Some people don't care, but then again some people rape their own children.
This is not about lazy parents. Think about having a child and what you want them exposed too. My mom never delivered me to a porn shop but she was happy for me to go to the library. An unmonitored terminal can turn the libary into a porn shop. From the things I read on the walls of some public libraries, I know that there are people out there who love to offend. Imagine your child walking up to one of these terminals where some creep left goat sex up. Worse, imagine the creep still sitting there. Ewwwww!
Communities have the right to decide what their money will buy for the library. Sometimes they act dumb, and Samuel Clemens finds himself tossed out. Oh well, that town can be laughed at, but in the end they spent their money how they wanted. Good luck with it, but don't be so insulting.
...which recomends stoning (no, not the Clinton kind) for things like adultry, pre marital sex and other things that brought much larger disgrace before birth control. There are new testimate references to this kind of thing as well, such as tearing out your eyes as a means of self control. Take it as you will.
I'll derive further satisfaction from the fact that I'm screwing all my cable modem neighbors our of their fair share of the bandwith while I hog down 25 gigs a day to set me up with another evenings entertainment.
Does this make anyone else want to smash a 36 inch tube over Alan Blount's pointy head? "Me Me Me, and my all consuming need for mindless entertainment at your expense." What a rotten thing to advocate as Open. The superhighway analogies get beter all the time: SUV on the cable. Fortunately, cable modems will twart people like this, and they get the same bandwith anyone else has. Still, I'd like so see these boxes spewing chunks for their intentions. Anyone got a official crackTIVO site?
For you media addicts, just use a $40 VCR and $1.50 tapes to save all of those golden sitcom, reality, whatever, moments. It's cheaper, it lasts longer, it's easier than hacking the spy box. The net is just not up to this yet.
That was the funniest thing I've read all week, why did you AC it?
I can tell you the result of the test you want right now. The Pentium four, err, P IV, 5-4, 9 to 5, vapor now in this box is not here. The AMD system in this box is as reported in the last test.
Someone is sure to give you what you demand as soon as that vapor materializes.
not another grammar nazi!