Why is this news? Someone somewhere didn't back up their data and the hdd was stolen. Happens a lot people, next thing you know we're going to be hearing about how Paris Hilton bought an iPhone and an iGasm.
I agree, for instance when I was in highschool (not that many years ago) I was considered an average student by my grades. This was mostly because I was bored and could think circles around my teachers. Case in point, in my AP chemistry class we were discussing some of the math and theory behind absolute zero. While all the other students were furiously taking notes I was taking it in and thinking about it, which lead me at the end of the lecture to ask my teacher the following question "So, since absolute zero has no energy what would keep the electrons from falling into the proton/neutron nucleus? If that happened would there be a huge release of energy from a breakdown of the strong force or would it essentially become a very large neutral chuck of matter?", so on and so forth. My teacher just gave me a blank stare like a deer in the headlights and the other students started to snicker because their 4.0 GPA brains couldn't comprehend independent thought processes or asking questions beyond the scope of the lecture. I later learned on my own that what I was asking is a question that has been around for a long time and there are some good mathematical models that show possibilities. But that ladies and gentlemen is why I was bored to tears in formal education, burned out on it, and have forgone it for self education. Now I'm starting to get interested in going to Uni because I'm rapidly approaching a wall for what I can learn on my own.
I'm here to help. There are plenty of good wifi cards out there that linux supports out of the box. Here's one that works flawlessly out of the box. Also, if you don't mind telling me which card you have I may be able to help you out. Email me at chuckyb21 at hotmail dot com if you would like a hand.
I like the way you think. Putting them in the backyard definately would solve most of the storage problem, and if I'm not mistaken (not sure about this breed) couldn't you feed the algae your housewaste including graywater?
Oh trust me, I don't have much faith in the system. I do realize that it's probably a pipe dream, I'm just saying that it could be possible and that this kind of thinking is definately a good thing. Storage is a problem, but I don't think that it's insurmountable.
It doesn't so much remove CO2 as give us a way to sequestor carbon. Also I don't think O2 would be a problem either. Let's do some chemistry here. It reales H2, which comes from where? H2O, that's right it strips the oxygen off the hydrogen leaving 2 Hydrogen and 1 Oxygen. Also, the carbon that it removes is stored as carbon in the plant's structure. This carbon comes from both the air and the food that is uses. I don't think that putting it in dead areas of the ocean would do much for the energy situation though as the H2 would be rather difficult to harvest from something as vast as an ocean. Another thing to consider with that is you're introducing an unknown to the environment, what's to keep it from taking off and destroying large parts of the ocean? So yes, farmland is the best place, you can control the growth as well as harvest the benefits and bury the carbon if you so choose.
According to this I think it's possible provided the light is toned down a bit. I don't know how well it could be scaled due to container size and other factors such as nourishment and the availability of water. It can grow, but I'm not sure if it can be sustained.
If they can make this work I think it's great. The current U.S. consumption of oil is about 5.2 Million bb/d, and there is about 950 Million acres of farmland as of 2002. One barrel of crude equals about 42 gallons of gasoline according to this. So we can safely say that one acre is about a barrel of crude according TFA. I think that is very doable provided that it actually works. Much better solution than ethanol if you ask me, which has proven time and again that if we want to go with corn ethanol that there isn't enough farmland in the U.S. Now granted that 40kg is optimal so if we allow say 8 million acres for this I think we may even have a surplus of energy. That is the kind of idea I like to see.
While I agree with the social skills aspect, you're assuming that all they do is stay home. I would never ask my wife to just be at home all the time, she has friends with small children and often (2 or more times a week) spend time with them so the kids can play. She also has a moms club that she is a member of and at least once a week spends time with them where the mothers all hang out and gossip while the kids run around a park or whatever under the watch of all their eyes. Problems like what you're talking about arise when stay at home moms don't take any steps to have interaction themselves (foolish), a lack of sense of community, and helicopter parenting. For instance, the helicopter mom in her group. That lady's son is a little bastard, he's not very social, hits a lot, bites and generally is a little fucker. Most of the other parents expect swift punishment from whichever parent sees someone do something wrong except for her. She cannot stand to have her precious snowflake punished for being a little bastard by anyone but her and it's usually just a stern talking to, no time in the corner, no being taken away from the other kids for a while, no paddling his ass when necessary. She like so many parents doesn't understand that you're not your kid's friend, you're a parent and it's key to teach them right from wrong when they're younger.
I agree about the social skills. When I say stay at home mom I don't mean that all she does is stay at home, she just doesn't work at a job. She's very active with the community, has a group of other stay at home moms who get together at least once a week to let their kids play together, and has a couple of friends that also have children the same age as ours.
I agree with the parent. I love having a job good enough that my wife can be a stay at home mom. She loves it, it's much better for our girls, and I don't ever have to worry about some wacko being around my kids. I'm willing to make some real sacrifices for this. For instance, I work a rotating shift schedule every two weeks I switch between days and nights. They're twelve hour shifts, but the nice thing with that is that I also only work 4 days one week and three the next. The work is fairly interesting (I don't have as much free reign to come up with solutions to some of the problems, but hey can't have everything) and I still have time to continue going to school. The tradeoff to all this being that we live a pretty mediocre lifestyle, no HDTV, no Xbox360, no PS3, no iPhone, no Mac Pro, no super frills. Guess what though, you don't need all that to be happy, nice house, kids that know and love their daddy, and actually leaving town to go see and do things (for cheap) leads to a pretty happy lifestyle and once I completely finish my degree I'll be able to have all that nice stuff.
Let's just say I have insight into the subject and it would be extremely difficult to do. Heavy auditing, random inspections, random pen testing, and many many myriad things would get in the way of that. Also most networks in govt. are totally segregated (reference air-gap) from the rest of the world, so with anything actually sensitive it would be completely impossible. I know that you're going to scoff at that statement, but trust me when I say that the cost of offshoring anything like that would be extremely expensive not to mention illegal and when dealing with govt. contracts you play by their rules. They are very lucrative contracts and one violation can lose the entire thing, so it really isn't in a company's best interest to even try it with govt. contracts the risk vs. reward is much to great.
You'll notice that I didn't make any mention of the qualifications of those people. I agree with you very through and through. I was just stating that the people involved in that contract were most likely not offshore.
I highly doubt that. As with most government contracts you have to have a clearance to actually work on it, something not easily obtained by a lot of U.S. Citizens much less someone from a country that we really don't trust all that much. So I'm fairly certain that most of the people involved with the program are U.S. Citizens born and bred or at least naturalized from another trusted nation i.e. Great Britain, Canada, Australia.
I know you're probably trying to lighten the mood a little, but a man died here. Have a little respect, he is the reason a lot of people have gotten into fantasy. Myself included, I was all scifi until I started to read his work and granted some of the books have been kinda rough but it was still a pretty good story and a rich world. By all reports he was a decent man so the least you could have done is at the end of your poor taste glib humor you could have at least said a kind word or two.
You can always go buy a copy of OSX and find the patches for it so that it'll work on your hardware then go from there. I did it and made a hackintosh once, worked pretty well too.
Really some of us have been saying it for a long time. Some of the load can be taken off the internet especially bulk files such as video and bt by sharing them first within the network and then outside. I think that's it's a fine idea if people are willing to do it, that way you only have to seed some of the file to people on similar networks. The only place I see this falling short really is with very specific files, for instance I doubt that me or any of my neighbors are going to be watching the same clip on youtube at the exact same moment. However when it comes to system updates there's a good chance of that. For things such as digital cable it would be ideal for people with DVR. For some of the more popular programs you can seed some of the file to a bunch of different boxes and then have them share amongst eachother for the rest of the file. Anyway I haven't said anything that most people here don't already know or have thought about some way or other so I'm going to go back into my corner and keep playing with my rubberbands.
You know it's been a couple of weeks so I hope you get this. Good valid points all, also as to the unit I was in. U.S. Army 3/3 Armored Cavalry Regiment, can't really talk about what I did, but let's suffice it to say that I had a better view than most with regards to the goings on in Iraq. You're right though, religion isn't for everyone and also with some of them being holistic it is hard to separate from your life. I was raised as a Methodist, but you lose faith when friends die and terrible things happen to the people in your life. I guess that what I'm going to say is that I'll continue to be atheist and be the best father/husband that I can until such a time as I have strong proof of the deity in the sky or I stop living.
Actually it did in a way. First I ackowledged that I learned something and also provided a polite closure to the discussion for the parent as well as letting the parent know that I valued his information.
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Bolt it to the floor and lock the case panels?
Why is this news? Someone somewhere didn't back up their data and the hdd was stolen. Happens a lot people, next thing you know we're going to be hearing about how Paris Hilton bought an iPhone and an iGasm.
I agree, for instance when I was in highschool (not that many years ago) I was considered an average student by my grades. This was mostly because I was bored and could think circles around my teachers. Case in point, in my AP chemistry class we were discussing some of the math and theory behind absolute zero. While all the other students were furiously taking notes I was taking it in and thinking about it, which lead me at the end of the lecture to ask my teacher the following question "So, since absolute zero has no energy what would keep the electrons from falling into the proton/neutron nucleus? If that happened would there be a huge release of energy from a breakdown of the strong force or would it essentially become a very large neutral chuck of matter?", so on and so forth. My teacher just gave me a blank stare like a deer in the headlights and the other students started to snicker because their 4.0 GPA brains couldn't comprehend independent thought processes or asking questions beyond the scope of the lecture. I later learned on my own that what I was asking is a question that has been around for a long time and there are some good mathematical models that show possibilities. But that ladies and gentlemen is why I was bored to tears in formal education, burned out on it, and have forgone it for self education. Now I'm starting to get interested in going to Uni because I'm rapidly approaching a wall for what I can learn on my own.
I'm here to help. There are plenty of good wifi cards out there that linux supports out of the box. Here's one that works flawlessly out of the box. Also, if you don't mind telling me which card you have I may be able to help you out. Email me at chuckyb21 at hotmail dot com if you would like a hand.
I like the way you think. Putting them in the backyard definately would solve most of the storage problem, and if I'm not mistaken (not sure about this breed) couldn't you feed the algae your housewaste including graywater?
Oh trust me, I don't have much faith in the system. I do realize that it's probably a pipe dream, I'm just saying that it could be possible and that this kind of thinking is definately a good thing. Storage is a problem, but I don't think that it's insurmountable.
It doesn't so much remove CO2 as give us a way to sequestor carbon. Also I don't think O2 would be a problem either. Let's do some chemistry here. It reales H2, which comes from where? H2O, that's right it strips the oxygen off the hydrogen leaving 2 Hydrogen and 1 Oxygen. Also, the carbon that it removes is stored as carbon in the plant's structure. This carbon comes from both the air and the food that is uses. I don't think that putting it in dead areas of the ocean would do much for the energy situation though as the H2 would be rather difficult to harvest from something as vast as an ocean. Another thing to consider with that is you're introducing an unknown to the environment, what's to keep it from taking off and destroying large parts of the ocean? So yes, farmland is the best place, you can control the growth as well as harvest the benefits and bury the carbon if you so choose.
According to this I think it's possible provided the light is toned down a bit. I don't know how well it could be scaled due to container size and other factors such as nourishment and the availability of water. It can grow, but I'm not sure if it can be sustained.
If they can make this work I think it's great. The current U.S. consumption of oil is about 5.2 Million bb/d, and there is about 950 Million acres of farmland as of 2002. One barrel of crude equals about 42 gallons of gasoline according to this. So we can safely say that one acre is about a barrel of crude according TFA. I think that is very doable provided that it actually works. Much better solution than ethanol if you ask me, which has proven time and again that if we want to go with corn ethanol that there isn't enough farmland in the U.S. Now granted that 40kg is optimal so if we allow say 8 million acres for this I think we may even have a surplus of energy. That is the kind of idea I like to see.
It's not vim you have to worry about, it's emacs.
While I agree with the social skills aspect, you're assuming that all they do is stay home. I would never ask my wife to just be at home all the time, she has friends with small children and often (2 or more times a week) spend time with them so the kids can play. She also has a moms club that she is a member of and at least once a week spends time with them where the mothers all hang out and gossip while the kids run around a park or whatever under the watch of all their eyes. Problems like what you're talking about arise when stay at home moms don't take any steps to have interaction themselves (foolish), a lack of sense of community, and helicopter parenting. For instance, the helicopter mom in her group. That lady's son is a little bastard, he's not very social, hits a lot, bites and generally is a little fucker. Most of the other parents expect swift punishment from whichever parent sees someone do something wrong except for her. She cannot stand to have her precious snowflake punished for being a little bastard by anyone but her and it's usually just a stern talking to, no time in the corner, no being taken away from the other kids for a while, no paddling his ass when necessary. She like so many parents doesn't understand that you're not your kid's friend, you're a parent and it's key to teach them right from wrong when they're younger.
I agree about the social skills. When I say stay at home mom I don't mean that all she does is stay at home, she just doesn't work at a job. She's very active with the community, has a group of other stay at home moms who get together at least once a week to let their kids play together, and has a couple of friends that also have children the same age as ours.
I agree with the parent. I love having a job good enough that my wife can be a stay at home mom. She loves it, it's much better for our girls, and I don't ever have to worry about some wacko being around my kids. I'm willing to make some real sacrifices for this. For instance, I work a rotating shift schedule every two weeks I switch between days and nights. They're twelve hour shifts, but the nice thing with that is that I also only work 4 days one week and three the next. The work is fairly interesting (I don't have as much free reign to come up with solutions to some of the problems, but hey can't have everything) and I still have time to continue going to school. The tradeoff to all this being that we live a pretty mediocre lifestyle, no HDTV, no Xbox360, no PS3, no iPhone, no Mac Pro, no super frills. Guess what though, you don't need all that to be happy, nice house, kids that know and love their daddy, and actually leaving town to go see and do things (for cheap) leads to a pretty happy lifestyle and once I completely finish my degree I'll be able to have all that nice stuff.
Heh, I love my job. =P Just sayin.
Let's just say I have insight into the subject and it would be extremely difficult to do. Heavy auditing, random inspections, random pen testing, and many many myriad things would get in the way of that. Also most networks in govt. are totally segregated (reference air-gap) from the rest of the world, so with anything actually sensitive it would be completely impossible. I know that you're going to scoff at that statement, but trust me when I say that the cost of offshoring anything like that would be extremely expensive not to mention illegal and when dealing with govt. contracts you play by their rules. They are very lucrative contracts and one violation can lose the entire thing, so it really isn't in a company's best interest to even try it with govt. contracts the risk vs. reward is much to great.
You'll notice that I didn't make any mention of the qualifications of those people. I agree with you very through and through. I was just stating that the people involved in that contract were most likely not offshore.
I highly doubt that. As with most government contracts you have to have a clearance to actually work on it, something not easily obtained by a lot of U.S. Citizens much less someone from a country that we really don't trust all that much. So I'm fairly certain that most of the people involved with the program are U.S. Citizens born and bred or at least naturalized from another trusted nation i.e. Great Britain, Canada, Australia.
We do not need Vin Deisel in congress.
I know you're probably trying to lighten the mood a little, but a man died here. Have a little respect, he is the reason a lot of people have gotten into fantasy. Myself included, I was all scifi until I started to read his work and granted some of the books have been kinda rough but it was still a pretty good story and a rich world. By all reports he was a decent man so the least you could have done is at the end of your poor taste glib humor you could have at least said a kind word or two.
Peace to you and yours Jim, we'll miss you.
If it's not missionary with the lights off and eyes closed for procreation only, then it's not christian and therefore against the law.
You can always go buy a copy of OSX and find the patches for it so that it'll work on your hardware then go from there. I did it and made a hackintosh once, worked pretty well too.
Really some of us have been saying it for a long time. Some of the load can be taken off the internet especially bulk files such as video and bt by sharing them first within the network and then outside. I think that's it's a fine idea if people are willing to do it, that way you only have to seed some of the file to people on similar networks. The only place I see this falling short really is with very specific files, for instance I doubt that me or any of my neighbors are going to be watching the same clip on youtube at the exact same moment. However when it comes to system updates there's a good chance of that. For things such as digital cable it would be ideal for people with DVR. For some of the more popular programs you can seed some of the file to a bunch of different boxes and then have them share amongst eachother for the rest of the file. Anyway I haven't said anything that most people here don't already know or have thought about some way or other so I'm going to go back into my corner and keep playing with my rubberbands.
You know it's been a couple of weeks so I hope you get this. Good valid points all, also as to the unit I was in. U.S. Army 3/3 Armored Cavalry Regiment, can't really talk about what I did, but let's suffice it to say that I had a better view than most with regards to the goings on in Iraq. You're right though, religion isn't for everyone and also with some of them being holistic it is hard to separate from your life. I was raised as a Methodist, but you lose faith when friends die and terrible things happen to the people in your life. I guess that what I'm going to say is that I'll continue to be atheist and be the best father/husband that I can until such a time as I have strong proof of the deity in the sky or I stop living.
Actually it did in a way. First I ackowledged that I learned something and also provided a polite closure to the discussion for the parent as well as letting the parent know that I valued his information.
Thank you, that was what I was interested in knowing. Unlike the poster above who contributes nothing, not even humor to the discussion.