In a round-about-way petroleum is an "electricity storage technology" just like hydrogen, lithium, etc... Any chemical process that produces electricity is a battery. It just so happens that its currently more efficient to burn petroleum to do mechanical work directly then to first convert it into electricity.
I'm not sure if non-consumable batteries (lithium/super capacitors) will ever be able to compete with biologically derived fuels. This chart is a good place to start for more info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
All those demos use -webkit specific css features. So now we're going to the late 90's mishmash of each browser vendor creating their own extensions for use in html? I don't see anything to applaud here.
Wrong, flash had an already sustainable community and place on the web before youtube. Youtube and other video sites were just another expression of the flash platform as a whole. HTML5 won't kill flash because javascript isn't powerful enough, or at least the apis exposed with javascript aren't powerful enough to implement some of the trickier solutions being created in flash.
For video, flash was the only answer at the time because no one wanted to wait for real/window media/quicktime to implement the features that publishers thought they deserved. On flash they could make what they wanted. That's the difference between a platform and a final product, and its the reason flash will always have a place on the web. Removing flash from the online landscape is like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
There is approximately 13,000 ZJ worth of geothermal energy, and when that runs out what happens? On the other hand the earth get smacked with about 3,850 ZJ of energy per year from the sun.
Do we really want to extract all that geothermal energy from our core or do we want it to just let it slowly leak out the way it currently is? What are the ramifications of opening up bigger seams to get at that heat?
I understand it would take a long time to extract that heat, but it appears to be an irreversible process?
And if its just a table of public records with gender assignments, is the following logic really patentable?
"SELECT gender FROM names WHERE name=$name"
if(count == 0 || gender == "neutral"){
return neutral.jpg;
}else if(gender == "female"){
return female.jpg;
}else{
return male.jpg;
}
I hope my psuedocode isn't breaking the law!
I just showed this to my 2 roomates who do most of their art on tablets pcs. Their first reaction was "where do i get this", their second was, "what the heck are they saying". So good call on the technospeak confusing the hell out of them.
You're reading 2 different quotes there, point and counter-point, something that should have been clear if you happened to click the links instead of being trigger happy about grabbing first post:P
And taking in students for a year and making them smarter by the end of it isn't?
Nope. You've made your point that there obviously needs to be some sort of regulation around starting a new school, but that doesn't make it a high risk environment from a monetary perspective.
"But for-profit education leads down the same path as for-profit health care in the US. No one wants that. Well, doctors and teachers do, bit patients and students don't."
I don't entirely agree with that just because health care is such a high risk environment with enormous expenses.
I think we could do pretty well with a voucher system mixed in with public schools. There's such a high barrier to entry for starting a private school these days and vouchers could really help mix it up. Of course the state should still subsidize public school facilities to ensure all regions have a public school option, but the salaries and operations of a school should be placed on the burden of competing for voucher dollars.
Unless Windows 7 finally introduces resolution independence we'll be stuck with ~100dpi screens for 10 more years. Apple is making the move but that wont be enough to get manufacturers priming up 200dpi and beyond monitors, Microsoft needs to commit to it as well.
Most gaming routers allow for this kind of functionality. In fact the first search result on google for 'gaming router' brought me to a product from dlink that provided exactly that.
eBays AIR app is pretty nice because you can keep it running throughout the day and it provides system notifications when you get outbid. Since its a 'near' total integration with the website, its really useful for people that use firefox extensions to track the status of auctions. I've been using it for awhile cause I buy alot on eBay, and its much nicer then going to the website even though I can't sell anything in it yet.
I wonder if automotive engineers went through the same bitchfest right before the modern mechanic was born?
'Damn kids these days just want to learn how to change the oil in their car, they can't even build their own fuel injector!'
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In a round-about-way petroleum is an "electricity storage technology" just like hydrogen, lithium, etc... Any chemical process that produces electricity is a battery. It just so happens that its currently more efficient to burn petroleum to do mechanical work directly then to first convert it into electricity. I'm not sure if non-consumable batteries (lithium/super capacitors) will ever be able to compete with biologically derived fuels. This chart is a good place to start for more info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
All those demos use -webkit specific css features. So now we're going to the late 90's mishmash of each browser vendor creating their own extensions for use in html? I don't see anything to applaud here.
Wrong, flash had an already sustainable community and place on the web before youtube. Youtube and other video sites were just another expression of the flash platform as a whole. HTML5 won't kill flash because javascript isn't powerful enough, or at least the apis exposed with javascript aren't powerful enough to implement some of the trickier solutions being created in flash. For video, flash was the only answer at the time because no one wanted to wait for real/window media/quicktime to implement the features that publishers thought they deserved. On flash they could make what they wanted. That's the difference between a platform and a final product, and its the reason flash will always have a place on the web. Removing flash from the online landscape is like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
There is approximately 13,000 ZJ worth of geothermal energy, and when that runs out what happens? On the other hand the earth get smacked with about 3,850 ZJ of energy per year from the sun. Do we really want to extract all that geothermal energy from our core or do we want it to just let it slowly leak out the way it currently is? What are the ramifications of opening up bigger seams to get at that heat? I understand it would take a long time to extract that heat, but it appears to be an irreversible process?
And if its just a table of public records with gender assignments, is the following logic really patentable? "SELECT gender FROM names WHERE name=$name" if(count == 0 || gender == "neutral"){ return neutral.jpg; }else if(gender == "female"){ return female.jpg; }else{ return male.jpg; } I hope my psuedocode isn't breaking the law!
And what do you find wrong with this decision? What would you say to change his mind?
I just showed this to my 2 roomates who do most of their art on tablets pcs. Their first reaction was "where do i get this", their second was, "what the heck are they saying". So good call on the technospeak confusing the hell out of them.
You're reading 2 different quotes there, point and counter-point, something that should have been clear if you happened to click the links instead of being trigger happy about grabbing first post :P
And taking in students for a year and making them smarter by the end of it isn't?
Nope. You've made your point that there obviously needs to be some sort of regulation around starting a new school, but that doesn't make it a high risk environment from a monetary perspective.
"But for-profit education leads down the same path as for-profit health care in the US. No one wants that. Well, doctors and teachers do, bit patients and students don't." I don't entirely agree with that just because health care is such a high risk environment with enormous expenses. I think we could do pretty well with a voucher system mixed in with public schools. There's such a high barrier to entry for starting a private school these days and vouchers could really help mix it up. Of course the state should still subsidize public school facilities to ensure all regions have a public school option, but the salaries and operations of a school should be placed on the burden of competing for voucher dollars.
Unless Windows 7 finally introduces resolution independence we'll be stuck with ~100dpi screens for 10 more years. Apple is making the move but that wont be enough to get manufacturers priming up 200dpi and beyond monitors, Microsoft needs to commit to it as well.
Most gaming routers allow for this kind of functionality. In fact the first search result on google for 'gaming router' brought me to a product from dlink that provided exactly that.
How is this any different from Youtube or Flickr's terms of service?
eBays AIR app is pretty nice because you can keep it running throughout the day and it provides system notifications when you get outbid. Since its a 'near' total integration with the website, its really useful for people that use firefox extensions to track the status of auctions. I've been using it for awhile cause I buy alot on eBay, and its much nicer then going to the website even though I can't sell anything in it yet.
I wonder if automotive engineers went through the same bitchfest right before the modern mechanic was born? 'Damn kids these days just want to learn how to change the oil in their car, they can't even build their own fuel injector!'
I've always wished youtube would enable video smoothing during playback to help cancel out some of the pixelation. Its as simple as setting smoothing = true on the flash video display object, yet it makes a world of diferenece in terms of quality. The videos are also small enough that it wouldn't be a big hit on cpus. AS1/2: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/00002842.html AS3: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/media/Video.html
2 things that should be pointed out for the north americas 1. Both PS3 and Xbox 360 are selling at about the same rate. Wii is selling slighty more then both combined on a weekly basis. Wii is absolutely going to crush both as it screams past xbox360 in a few months. http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=Wii®1=All &cons2=PS3®2=All&cons3=X360®3=All&align=1
2. HD-DVD standalone vs bluray standalone 150,000 to 100,000. http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press _release,119772.shtml
XB360 addon vs PS3 sold was 1 to 5 for last known data giving it about 310,000 to 1,550,000
Totals:
Blu ray ~ 1,650,000
HD-DVD ~ 460,000
Which has resulted in the following disc sales numbers
http://www.eproductwars.com/dvd/index.cfm
Which means Walmart has to sell ALOT of players to catch up to the blu ray install base.