Riding bicycles and electric cars is only a solution for short distance travelling. We cannot have yet batteries with energy densities nearly as much as the energy provided by fossil fuels. This is very important if you consider that air transportation is a very important form of transportation and cannot be converted to all-electric in the near future because of current energy storage limitations.
Also, recycling CO2 into fuel and turning it again into CO2 is a cyclic process that takes place relatively in real time; compared to the time that it takes to cycle between fossil fuel and CO2 (hint: fossil fuels take millions of years to produce naturally).
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Since this process absorbs and converts CO2 which is one of the gases responsible for the greenhouse effect, if they use a renewable energy source to power the process, I'd say this is a good fight against global warming and not against the energy crisis.
Indeed. There is also the noise factor, some of the fuel energy in a combustion engine also goes into noise. Electric cars are completely silent, they even need some noise generators to warn pedestrians about their presence (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY2wB_PCEm8).
For someone that grew in a small city, the noise produced by car traffic in big cities is something that I wouldn't really mind losing.
and you're using it personally (meaning not distributing to the public at large), it's legal. In other words, downloading a song to listen to yourself is probably fine, but putting music on your Portuguese-hosted website probably isn't.
Exactly. Playing music at your private parties is also illegal, unless you own the music or you have been licensed to do so.
I don't understand much about it but it looks like both ideas (ultrasound and laser) use the same technique (changing skin permiability) to deliver the payload.
That was it, I was curious about how things worked in the US. From other/.er's posts I had the feeling that organic was quite an unregulated term. It is good to hear the contrary though.
Today morning just after writing my previous post, I read the label on my Bio honey. I was surprised to see that it was produced in Brazil despite belonging to a French Bio apiculture partnership/group. The industry might be broader than I ever imagined. PS: From all the organic food I tasted. IMHO, honey is the one which has the clearest distinctive taste from mass-produced honey. I can almost tell which flowers were around the bees when it was produced:)
I'm going to highlight some parts of it because I know/.ers don't usually read TFAs.
When consumers like you choose to buy organic products, you need to know that you are getting exactly what you pay for. The organic logo and labelling system is the mechanism that makes this possible. (...) The production and placement of organic products with labels and logos on the EU market follows a strict certification process that must be complied with.
Conventional farmers must first undergo a conversion period of a minimum of two years before they can begin producing agricultural goods that can be marketed as organic. If they wish to produce both conventional and organic produce, (...) The EU organic logo and those of EU Member States are used to supplement the labelling and increase the visibility of organic food and drink for consumers.
So, consumers buying products bearing the EU logo can be confident that:
at least 95% of the product's ingredients of agricultural origin have been organically produced;
the product complies with the rules of the official inspection scheme;
the product has come directly from the producer or preparer in a sealed package;
the product bears the name of the producer, the preparer or vendor and the name or code of the inspection body
So yeah, I'm fairly confident that when buy organic food (honey, fruits, vegetables, wine, cereals,....) in Europe, it has in fact no pesticides and the food was grown in a sustainable manner. There is nothing that replaces home grown vegetables and fruits but in the lack of those, organic food is probably the best replacement.
As a side note: If you never seen a documentary on how organic food is grown (at least in Europe, where is subject to regulation), then I suggest you have a look.
It is like Microsoft is purposely leaving a piece of their market share open for other operating systems, which decades ago were the first choice for video and audio production; I'm of course talking about Apple's OSX and BeOS..
Reminds me of how the news covers a high-profile trial. "THIS JUST IN! The judge sat down." then "BREAKING NEWS: the prosecutor called a witness!" then "ANOTHER UPDATE: the defense called a witness". then "MORE BREAKING NEWS: Prosecutor says suspect is guilty." "EXCLUSIVE NEW INFO: Defense attorney says accused is innocent." "YET MORE NEWS: the witness sneezed and had to get a tissue." This goes on for days and days and weeks and weeks. Sometimes months.
I wish they'd just shut the fuck up until it's all over and a verdict has been reached, then report on that. Once. If I missed it and it's important to me then I can Google the story later. Quit pretending this minutia is exciting. It isn't, unless you have no life, no significant other, no friends, no meaningful work, and no hobbies. Then the constant micro-updates might be a big deal to you but I wouldn't exactly call that a good thing.
That's what these constant not-yet-released product updates are like.
Aha! Well.. this behavior is profitable for both news companies and software companies, it is some kind of symbiotic relationship. So yeah, we will have to live with it:)
If some people stopped buying cheaper alternatives to original devices (in this case iphones and ipads), there wouldn't be a market for stolen mobile devices. Phones are not like cars which can be disintegrated and sold by parts, or at least, in a way that is highly profitable.
Who doesn't know a guy that occasionally has those cheap almost new mobile phones for selling? Who didn't already find cheap almost new phones being sold in the streets? I'm sorry to tell you but most of those are probably stolen, so just don't buy them!!
This is exactly why I don't buy music from stores. The only discs I have were bought directly from the artist after a live concert. Doing so, I believe I am sponsoring the artist directly because the discs they sell after stage, despite still being produced by their record label, do not contain distribution and retail fees. The disc price might even be higher but that way I really believe I'm sponsoring the artist and not the mafia.
As a side benefit, all of my discs are signed by their respective artists ; )
I'm glad to know. I don't use windows for about 10 years, at home and work all my boxes are Linux. The few times I booted Windows 7 to play games I always feel uncomfortable, Windows 7 is certainly very different from Windows XP which was the last Windows I used intensively. Though I currently don't use Windows 7 enough to even have a proper opinion about it, I can surely say that it never crashed (BOSD) and has been much stabler than what I recall Windows XP was.
Though, what I really hate is the automatic updating system that decides to reboot even while I'm gaming. I also hate to wait (sometimes) more than 15 minutes during a boot/shutdown (it is annoying when you want to go to Linux and have to wait for Windows to shutdown) to let the Windows updates install. Other than that, I don't really like how the control panel and overall Windows menu functionality is organized, I feel it is directed to retarded people. However I do understand that most Windows userbase is not very tech savy.
If the cars they are controlling at the console are actually real cars running in a real track, is the driver still playing a video game?
Following the same logic of yours, the military personal controlling the real unmanned drones flying over Afghanistan and dropping real bombs there - are just "playing video games".
Not only that but if you think on it, Valve can actually create a dedicated gaming platform using Linux (with dedicated hardware or not). Steam on Linux might just be the entry point for it.
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Riding bicycles and electric cars is only a solution for short distance travelling. We cannot have yet batteries with energy densities nearly as much as the energy provided by fossil fuels. This is very important if you consider that air transportation is a very important form of transportation and cannot be converted to all-electric in the near future because of current energy storage limitations.
Also, recycling CO2 into fuel and turning it again into CO2 is a cyclic process that takes place relatively in real time; compared to the time that it takes to cycle between fossil fuel and CO2 (hint: fossil fuels take millions of years to produce naturally).
Exclusive: Pioneering scientists turn fresh air into petrol in massive boost in fight against energy crisis
Since this process absorbs and converts CO2 which is one of the gases responsible for the greenhouse effect, if they use a renewable energy source to power the process, I'd say this is a good fight against global warming and not against the energy crisis.
Indeed. There is also the noise factor, some of the fuel energy in a combustion engine also goes into noise. Electric cars are completely silent, they even need some noise generators to warn pedestrians about their presence (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY2wB_PCEm8).
For someone that grew in a small city, the noise produced by car traffic in big cities is something that I wouldn't really mind losing.
and you're using it personally (meaning not distributing to the public at large), it's legal. In other words, downloading a song to listen to yourself is probably fine, but putting music on your Portuguese-hosted website probably isn't.
Exactly. Playing music at your private parties is also illegal, unless you own the music or you have been licensed to do so.
Probably because they cannot try to widespread the use of the format and then when everybody is using it, sneak in some sort of DRM.
..never heard of supervised learning
There is a research team which came up with something similar (I think), their product should be in the markets next year already:
"A laser syringe being developed in Portugal should be on the market within a year":
http://www.innovationtoronto.com/2012/07/needleless-syringe-invention-on-market-within-a-year/
I don't understand much about it but it looks like both ideas (ultrasound and laser) use the same technique (changing skin permiability) to deliver the payload.
That was it, I was curious about how things worked in the US. From other /.er's posts I had the feeling that organic was quite an unregulated term. It is good to hear the contrary though.
Today morning just after writing my previous post, I read the label on my Bio honey. I was surprised to see that it was produced in Brazil despite belonging to a French Bio apiculture partnership/group. The industry might be broader than I ever imagined. :)
PS: From all the organic food I tasted. IMHO, honey is the one which has the clearest distinctive taste from mass-produced honey. I can almost tell which flowers were around the bees when it was produced
Have a look to my reply to parent, you may find it interesting/informative :)
Here in Europe it is often called Bio food and is subject to EU regulation:
http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/organic/consumer-confidence/logo-labelling_en
I'm going to highlight some parts of it because I know /.ers don't usually read TFAs.
When consumers like you choose to buy organic products, you need to know that you are getting exactly what you pay for. The organic logo and labelling system is the mechanism that makes this possible.
(...)
The production and placement of organic products with labels and logos on the EU market follows a strict certification process that must be complied with.
Conventional farmers must first undergo a conversion period of a minimum of two years before they can begin producing agricultural goods that can be marketed as organic. If they wish to produce both conventional and organic produce,
(...)
The EU organic logo and those of EU Member States are used to supplement the labelling and increase the visibility of organic food and drink for consumers.
So, consumers buying products bearing the EU logo can be confident that:
at least 95% of the product's ingredients of agricultural origin have been organically produced;
the product complies with the rules of the official inspection scheme;
the product has come directly from the producer or preparer in a sealed package;
the product bears the name of the producer, the preparer or vendor and the name or code of the inspection body
So yeah, I'm fairly confident that when buy organic food (honey, fruits, vegetables, wine, cereals, ....) in Europe, it has in fact no pesticides and the food was grown in a sustainable manner. There is nothing that replaces home grown vegetables and fruits but in the lack of those, organic food is probably the best replacement.
As a side note: If you never seen a documentary on how organic food is grown (at least in Europe, where is subject to regulation), then I suggest you have a look.
.. they might not be better for you but at least they do not contain pesticied and chemicals which might be bad for you.
It is like Microsoft is purposely leaving a piece of their market share open for other operating systems, which decades ago were the first choice for video and audio production; I'm of course talking about Apple's OSX and BeOS ..
Rollcage was one of the best fast racing games I ever played.
Reminds me of how the news covers a high-profile trial. "THIS JUST IN! The judge sat down." then "BREAKING NEWS: the prosecutor called a witness!" then "ANOTHER UPDATE: the defense called a witness". then "MORE BREAKING NEWS: Prosecutor says suspect is guilty." "EXCLUSIVE NEW INFO: Defense attorney says accused is innocent." "YET MORE NEWS: the witness sneezed and had to get a tissue." This goes on for days and days and weeks and weeks. Sometimes months.
I wish they'd just shut the fuck up until it's all over and a verdict has been reached, then report on that. Once. If I missed it and it's important to me then I can Google the story later. Quit pretending this minutia is exciting. It isn't, unless you have no life, no significant other, no friends, no meaningful work, and no hobbies. Then the constant micro-updates might be a big deal to you but I wouldn't exactly call that a good thing.
That's what these constant not-yet-released product updates are like.
Aha! Well.. this behavior is profitable for both news companies and software companies, it is some kind of symbiotic relationship. So yeah, we will have to live with it :)
If some people stopped buying cheaper alternatives to original devices (in this case iphones and ipads), there wouldn't be a market for stolen mobile devices. Phones are not like cars which can be disintegrated and sold by parts, or at least, in a way that is highly profitable.
Who doesn't know a guy that occasionally has those cheap almost new mobile phones for selling? Who didn't already find cheap almost new phones being sold in the streets? I'm sorry to tell you but most of those are probably stolen, so just don't buy them!!
This is exactly why I don't buy music from stores. The only discs I have were bought directly from the artist after a live concert. Doing so, I believe I am sponsoring the artist directly because the discs they sell after stage, despite still being produced by their record label, do not contain distribution and retail fees. The disc price might even be higher but that way I really believe I'm sponsoring the artist and not the mafia.
As a side benefit, all of my discs are signed by their respective artists ; )
Why not make them large enough to be impossible to swallow? :)
Aha! Then they would be banned because kids can smash their fingers with them :P
At the very extreme, this is what we would get with super-sized buckyballs:
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/02/guy-loses-finger-to-neodymium.php
WHAT?
I'm glad to know. I don't use windows for about 10 years, at home and work all my boxes are Linux. The few times I booted Windows 7 to play games I always feel uncomfortable, Windows 7 is certainly very different from Windows XP which was the last Windows I used intensively. Though I currently don't use Windows 7 enough to even have a proper opinion about it, I can surely say that it never crashed (BOSD) and has been much stabler than what I recall Windows XP was.
Though, what I really hate is the automatic updating system that decides to reboot even while I'm gaming. I also hate to wait (sometimes) more than 15 minutes during a boot/shutdown (it is annoying when you want to go to Linux and have to wait for Windows to shutdown) to let the Windows updates install. Other than that, I don't really like how the control panel and overall Windows menu functionality is organized, I feel it is directed to retarded people. However I do understand that most Windows userbase is not very tech savy.
THIS!
The scenario was much worse because it didn't touch only America but also the rest of the world.
If the cars they are controlling at the console are actually real cars running in a real track, is the driver still playing a video game?
Following the same logic of yours, the military personal controlling the real unmanned drones flying over Afghanistan and dropping real bombs there - are just "playing video games".
Nothing prevents the unmanned cars to still be driven by humans. If aircraft can already be driven remotely, why cars wouldn't?
now where is my THEME HOSPITAL 2?
I repeat what I said before in another post:
Not only that but if you think on it, Valve can actually create a dedicated gaming platform using Linux (with dedicated hardware or not). Steam on Linux might just be the entry point for it.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2896153&cid=40218485
This increasing interest of Valve on hiring Linux based platform developers seems to be going in that way.. : )
If they start selling some phones, who else better than Nokia to buy the company?