Unban Ethanol-fueled. He does a lot more for the enjoyability of your site than your TV experiment does.
-- Ethanol-fueled
I looked up Ethoanol-Fueled's account and there has been no activity in the last 3 weeks or so. This is odd because EF is generally a very active member.
EF's S/N ratio may be rather low, but he did produce some rather insighful posts. He did not deserve to be banned.... Welcome to the new Slashdot?
Why not take the money that you would use for the cord and put it in a RESP (Registered Education Savings PLan) for the child? The odds of the child using the cord is much much much lower than using the money for education.
Is there even any use for stem cells right now? A quick google showed that there are some experimental applications, so it might have a use in the future. But, that same future will likely have stem cells derived from skin tissue or bone marrow, or whatever, so the cord blood would not necessarily be needed.
I've been using the same printer for a decade. It's not that hard as long as you don't buy an Ink Jet. My previous printer, a laserjet 6L, also lasted 10 years.
All modern landfills are created in a sealed pit. Clay and sheets of thick plastic are used to prevent contaminates from leaching into the water table.
I would imagine that if you were to harvest methane, you would pump air down to the bottom of the landfill, let it perculate up, and the collect the methane at the surface.
Re: Your post and the teleporter example in the parent post.
If "you" were to walk into a cloning machine, and then an identical copy were made, destroying the original in the process, there would be a new you in the new location. The original "you", however, would have ceased to exist. The "you" that walked into that transporter, will never know if you made it to the other side. Your clone, who would have the memory of walking into the teleporter, would continue on.
Now that I think about it, it's a (pardon my french) mindfuck... What if you were able to make a clone and you sit it in a seperate room. You start teleporting brain matter from one brain to the other. If you transferred the memory section of you brain to the clone showed the clone an object, and then teleported the brains back to normal, It seems reasonable to think that "you" would gain the memory of that object being presented. "You" would also, I imagine, be able to keep your original consciousness if you were to repeat that experiment with half of the brain, as we know humans can work with half a brain. Now, repeat this with the other side of the brain. After this, your entire brain has been teleported. Do you retain your consciousness then? What part of the brain is consciousness stored? Could you keep that part of the brain in your original body, and you would swap brains with your clone (except for that one piece where consciousness is stored), and then you let your clone act on your behalf. When finished, you swap brains again, and then you can have the memory of a vacation without actually having to do it yourself... Weird.
Why do we focus on CO2 when there are lower hanging fruit? Why not start with harvesting methane from landfills? Why not reduce airborn soot? There was a show on CBC radio last night that estimated that as much as 2/3 of the warming may be from these two things. We can even make money from the capture of Methane.
Once we take care of the easy stuff, then maybe we can take another look at CO2.
The Alternating Current allows your muscles to have a chance to let go when you grab on to the wire, while DC will freeze your muscles up. That is one theory anyways... I have never personally been shocked good enough with DC to confirm this.
Well, the other one you mentioned was Hydro and aside from killing entire ecosystems, most of the good places are already tapped. It's not really scalable much more than we already have.
I ask my question again: What is the ideal power generation tech?
Yes, but those are *ALL* the costs. With other generation technologies, there are hidden costs. Coal causes cancer. When you get Cancer, guess who pays? Hint: It's not the power company. Hydro, kills ecosystems. Solar creates huge amounts of carbon, other potent greenhouse gasses, and toxic waste in their creation. Wind kills endangered birds. Geothermal, while limited, is often located in sensitive environmental locations.
At least with the nukes, you know exactly what waste you are producing. The waste is extremely compact, but also extremely toxic. It's in a barrel, or cask, or pool, or whatever, not in the air.
That being said, we really need to work on thorium. I really hope that India's thorium reactor goes well... One day, it could be us buying reactor designs from the Indians.
Apple spends a shitton on marketing, and I have never bought an Apple product. Either I am a far stonger willed person than you, or marketing doesn't control me 100%. You decide.
Lucky!! I still have my tatoo from a pencil stabbing that happened over 15 years ago. It looks pretty much the same as it did 5 yeras ago. I don't thing it will ever dissapear. It it between my index and middle finger knuckles.
1) Aquafresh has done this for decades on some toothpastes, mostly kids ones.
2) I don't know about you, but toothpaste is one of the things I am least wasteful of. For the amount of tube squishing I do to get the last bit out, you'd think it cost $100/tube, not the $2 it actually does.
Yeah, I'd have to say, I'd confront my current employer, let them know about the offer, and give them a chance to keep me. They would have to take into account the commute too, so a 10k raise would be in order. If you really are needed, you'll get the money, otherwise enjoy the new job guilt free!
1) Roll the comments system version back like 6 years. Make it load fast. Make it load all the comments on a single page (according to your moderation score preferences) If i'm browsing at -1, I want to see it all.
2) Make it load faster. Sometimes pages take forever to load, then when they do load, they scroll slowly. I think this is caused by fancy javascripting or something. Just display the comments. We don't need/want any fancy web 2.0 features.
3) We need better trolls. The trolls right now are lame. What happened to GNAA? Maybe you should invite them back.
4) The comment quality is getting worse. Slashdot is now mostly mundane comments. Sure, some are funny, but most lack content.
5) Take a note from Ars Technica. They are getting better commenters, they have original content (why not have feature stories here). Ars's commenting system sucks, but yet they still manage higher quality comments.
6) Delete all accounts numbered 2,000,000+. Remove signup. Invite only.
Satellite is pretty much the only option for rural areas. The Canadian north is REALLY, REALLY, big. Many of the camps up there are temporary and not worth running permanent infrastructure up there.
Alot of the customers of satelite services are commercial applications. Oil companies, Loggers, other natual resources. The people that live up there are mostly in small towns or cities, but that still leaves millions of square kms that are very remote.
Would you really invest in running a fiber to a camp that only services 100 people for 3 years then dissapears? Setup a wireless tower that will not be needed in a few years? Satellite is the way to go. It sure does suck, and it's definately unreliable, but it's really the only option.
As I write this, 7 of my sites are affected by this outage. Believe me, if we could get them on another type of serivce, we would, but for now, this is what we get.
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Excuse me, but here in Alberta, we don't call them "tar sands". We prefer the term "freedom sands".
Vote wild boar!
I looked up Ethoanol-Fueled's account and there has been no activity in the last 3 weeks or so. This is odd because EF is generally a very active member.
EF's S/N ratio may be rather low, but he did produce some rather insighful posts. He did not deserve to be banned.... Welcome to the new Slashdot?
Why not take the money that you would use for the cord and put it in a RESP (Registered Education Savings PLan) for the child? The odds of the child using the cord is much much much lower than using the money for education.
Is there even any use for stem cells right now? A quick google showed that there are some experimental applications, so it might have a use in the future. But, that same future will likely have stem cells derived from skin tissue or bone marrow, or whatever, so the cord blood would not necessarily be needed.
IMO, save the money for their education.
Uhh, I believe you are thinking of geologists.
I've been using the same printer for a decade. It's not that hard as long as you don't buy an Ink Jet. My previous printer, a laserjet 6L, also lasted 10 years.
If the code isn't signed, I'll eat your hat.
All modern landfills are created in a sealed pit. Clay and sheets of thick plastic are used to prevent contaminates from leaching into the water table. I would imagine that if you were to harvest methane, you would pump air down to the bottom of the landfill, let it perculate up, and the collect the methane at the surface.
Well, I can complain about how cold the meeting room is as an example.
Re: Your post and the teleporter example in the parent post.
If "you" were to walk into a cloning machine, and then an identical copy were made, destroying the original in the process, there would be a new you in the new location. The original "you", however, would have ceased to exist. The "you" that walked into that transporter, will never know if you made it to the other side. Your clone, who would have the memory of walking into the teleporter, would continue on.
Now that I think about it, it's a (pardon my french) mindfuck... What if you were able to make a clone and you sit it in a seperate room. You start teleporting brain matter from one brain to the other. If you transferred the memory section of you brain to the clone showed the clone an object, and then teleported the brains back to normal, It seems reasonable to think that "you" would gain the memory of that object being presented. "You" would also, I imagine, be able to keep your original consciousness if you were to repeat that experiment with half of the brain, as we know humans can work with half a brain. Now, repeat this with the other side of the brain. After this, your entire brain has been teleported. Do you retain your consciousness then? What part of the brain is consciousness stored? Could you keep that part of the brain in your original body, and you would swap brains with your clone (except for that one piece where consciousness is stored), and then you let your clone act on your behalf. When finished, you swap brains again, and then you can have the memory of a vacation without actually having to do it yourself... Weird.
Why do we focus on CO2 when there are lower hanging fruit? Why not start with harvesting methane from landfills? Why not reduce airborn soot? There was a show on CBC radio last night that estimated that as much as 2/3 of the warming may be from these two things. We can even make money from the capture of Methane.
Once we take care of the easy stuff, then maybe we can take another look at CO2.
The Alternating Current allows your muscles to have a chance to let go when you grab on to the wire, while DC will freeze your muscles up. That is one theory anyways... I have never personally been shocked good enough with DC to confirm this.
When you say Diesel, I think you mean bunker oil.
Safeness of nuclear power can be evaluated: 0.04 Deaths per Terrawatt hour Remember, that is with old designs.
Well, the other one you mentioned was Hydro and aside from killing entire ecosystems, most of the good places are already tapped. It's not really scalable much more than we already have.
I ask my question again: What is the ideal power generation tech?
Yes, but those are *ALL* the costs. With other generation technologies, there are hidden costs. Coal causes cancer. When you get Cancer, guess who pays? Hint: It's not the power company. Hydro, kills ecosystems. Solar creates huge amounts of carbon, other potent greenhouse gasses, and toxic waste in their creation. Wind kills endangered birds. Geothermal, while limited, is often located in sensitive environmental locations.
At least with the nukes, you know exactly what waste you are producing. The waste is extremely compact, but also extremely toxic. It's in a barrel, or cask, or pool, or whatever, not in the air.
That being said, we really need to work on thorium. I really hope that India's thorium reactor goes well... One day, it could be us buying reactor designs from the Indians.
What exactly are the "ideal options"?
It's surely not your expensive and low energy output tidal generators?
Apple spends a shitton on marketing, and I have never bought an Apple product. Either I am a far stonger willed person than you, or marketing doesn't control me 100%. You decide.
i dun no how teh tekknolog wurkz bit WHEn i huv it i speel nad talk lk ths111
Lucky!! I still have my tatoo from a pencil stabbing that happened over 15 years ago. It looks pretty much the same as it did 5 yeras ago. I don't thing it will ever dissapear. It it between my index and middle finger knuckles.
1) Aquafresh has done this for decades on some toothpastes, mostly kids ones.
2) I don't know about you, but toothpaste is one of the things I am least wasteful of. For the amount of tube squishing I do to get the last bit out, you'd think it cost $100/tube, not the $2 it actually does.
Are you deliberately being obtuse? He's talking about apps.
You forget that phone lines cross borders...
Yeah, I'd have to say, I'd confront my current employer, let them know about the offer, and give them a chance to keep me. They would have to take into account the commute too, so a 10k raise would be in order. If you really are needed, you'll get the money, otherwise enjoy the new job guilt free!
1) Roll the comments system version back like 6 years. Make it load fast. Make it load all the comments on a single page (according to your moderation score preferences) If i'm browsing at -1, I want to see it all.
2) Make it load faster. Sometimes pages take forever to load, then when they do load, they scroll slowly. I think this is caused by fancy javascripting or something. Just display the comments. We don't need/want any fancy web 2.0 features.
3) We need better trolls. The trolls right now are lame. What happened to GNAA? Maybe you should invite them back.
4) The comment quality is getting worse. Slashdot is now mostly mundane comments. Sure, some are funny, but most lack content.
5) Take a note from Ars Technica. They are getting better commenters, they have original content (why not have feature stories here). Ars's commenting system sucks, but yet they still manage higher quality comments.
6) Delete all accounts numbered 2,000,000+. Remove signup. Invite only.
Satellite is pretty much the only option for rural areas. The Canadian north is REALLY, REALLY, big. Many of the camps up there are temporary and not worth running permanent infrastructure up there. Alot of the customers of satelite services are commercial applications. Oil companies, Loggers, other natual resources. The people that live up there are mostly in small towns or cities, but that still leaves millions of square kms that are very remote. Would you really invest in running a fiber to a camp that only services 100 people for 3 years then dissapears? Setup a wireless tower that will not be needed in a few years? Satellite is the way to go. It sure does suck, and it's definately unreliable, but it's really the only option. As I write this, 7 of my sites are affected by this outage. Believe me, if we could get them on another type of serivce, we would, but for now, this is what we get.