Appserver is Googles take on cloud computing, but trimmed down to only one application instead of a whole virtual OS. It has nothing to do with Android, the mobile device OS, which may have other constraints and limitations to the Java language.
As far as I have learnt from a few cursory glances at appengine, it does not offer a complete OS environment. It is severely sandboxed, probably as a measure of security. All classes that deal with those non-existing features can either be non-existing, or exception-generating stubs. Google choose for those classes to be non-existent. That is something different than creating this-environment-only classes and functions, like MS did with their corrupted java. But there are prominent links on the appengine homepage to submit your own featers and bugfixes, so maybe all these complainers can contribute patches instead of contributing whine?
You seem to have fallen victim to the history-rewriting that has taken place later in the regime of BabyBush. Iraq was invaded with the pretense that he secretly had hidden Weapons of Mass Destruction, even though no UN team was able to find them. After the invasion it turned out he really had none to speak of, so the reason for invasion was retroactively changed.
quite well put. MS used its monopoly power here, and I'm sure we'll hear more about this later. The problem is 'linux' is not a very defined entity here, and the hardware maker have their balls in MS's vise, so they won't squeal too soon. I propose a nuclear war against MS. Just level Redmond to the ground, and burn their embassies. Or force them to open source their OS code permanently not these puny EC pinpricks.
But unfortunately, the suitable SSDs of any reasonable size are also highly expensive. the cheaper ones don't have the few gigabytes or so of battery-backed RAM cache that would be necessary for high speed. --- Which come to think of it, may also be a reliability risk, since most types of rechargeable batteries don't last 15 years.
ehm, Nand flash ram by itself is pretty fast, and Linux can natively handle it. Unfortunately, all available flash is slowed down behind some disk emulation chipset, which would make battery backed ram necessary. Just wait a few more months till the real good ssd come available... (as always in IT, things will be better later).
You seems to be unaware what hops are. They are plants, thus their carbon is temporarily fixed from the atmosphere, you are right there. But they do not constitute the main ingredient, which is water and malted grain (barley or sometimes wheat). The hops are there for their antimicrobial and taste (bittering) properties. Most of the hops are removed together with the yeast residue, and it wasn't very much to begin with. (pounds of grains, ounces of hops). Know your beer man, it's sacred!
This sounds like you did not really think it all trough, and overestimate your own potential. It is not hard nowadays to produce a electronic prototype of most thinks you can think of, with the help of MCU's from AVR. The Arduino community does it all the time, so why not you? If you can demonstrate such a prototype, you can convince other people that it might make a profit. If you don't, well maybe sucking (up to) VC's (off) might work. By the way, if you are not able to do the hardware side, then I very much doubt that your idea is more then a software solution. If it is not, it is not patentable. Please don't waste societies resources then.
Well maybe, maybe not. Did all the sequestered carbon move up into the food chain? What about the feces? Those cocepods need a lot of food to grow, and being small, their digestion is not very efficient. Their feces just rains down to the bottom of the ocean, just like the diatom skeletons would have. Being compacted, it even falls faster.
But the thing that was a failure is the article itself: if you open with such one-sided claims, you are not reporting on science, but producing a opinion piece. In this case the opinion of an enviro-religious nutjob, that I do not like to be employed by NS. In the end, there is no data about the increased rate of sedimentation/debris fall.
As for another hypothesis: you could harvest the cocepods/krill/shrimp. They are a concentrated source of carbon, that can be converted to methane/oil/soot with a process like hydrous pyrolysis or similar, where the suspension is subjected to high temperatures and high pressure.
It is a car, with four wheels etc. They did their best to make it as cheap as possible (to produce?) but that does not mean that your preconceived ideas about it are all true. It is designed as an alternative to a real moped/motorcycle and as such it is much safer. Yes your smalldick SUV would be safer too, but a bus would be safer still.
Besides that they are too pricey for most applications, aren't those iridium satellites now playing bumpercars 300 miles up and creating a nice collision debris cascade? hard to phone to a satellite that is in 2000 pieces. (unless it is that cricket computer from the hitchhikers guide)
the use of ddt is severely stigmatized by wonky science and enviro-religious beliefs. It helped to eradicate malaria in the west, but now it is not good enough for the developing world? One would almost think that it was some kind of conspiracy. Fortunately it can be explained by stupidity too. spraying ddt in sleeping quarters of people requires minimal amounts, and works much better then bednets, which might not be used even if given away. spray one house and it is protected for half a year or more. You cannot sell it on, so misuse would be minimal. keep it out of the farmers hands though, you don't want it used on crops, so ideally it would contain some additive that makes is impractical for such a use.
You can heat almost any organic-water slurry and turn it into soot, oily stuff and methane, if you heat it high enough at high pressure and the absence of oxygen. then you only have the small problem of water contaminated with organic volatiles. I believe the process was christened Total Conversion Process or some similar marketing crap. It may be impractical, but it is not impossible to turn sewage into oil. It is both mostly carbon after all.
well, you might be right there. With all these battles about what to teach, there is probably no room for teaching critical/logical thinking. There are quite some ex-teachers that claim that the basic purpose of the school system is not to bring out the best in each student, but to deliver working and middle class drones. As few as possible top student should be delivered, as this favours the ruling elite that can afford to sent their kids to better private schools... Not that I think that the people on this board are actively planning that, but if their main feature is what party they represent, I assume them not to be very educated in educational science.
reprocessing fuel and breeding reactors are all fine and dandy, but change the fissionable materials: uranium 235(?) produces a lot of relatively long lived decay products, and those are a problem. you can't bury them because the produce too much heat, but not enough to economically run a generator off it. It radiates quite a lot, but not enough for a fission chain reaction. If you switched from a Uranium reaction to a thorium reaction, you would get much less radioactive waste, you could use all thorium in the ore instead of very hard work to separate/enrich it and only using a small part of it. Unfortunately that would also mean that the companies that now build 'cheap' reactors and supply them with very expensive toner cartridges/fuel rod assemblies need to change their profitable business models.
don't get deluded into thinking that demanding papers is a sign of fascism. The basic tenet of fascism is the bundling of powers of state and industry, not playing wehrmacht sergeant. it might be a sign of a totalitarian state, but there are plenty of countries that have a register of all their citizens, but have not devolved into the fascist state you seem to fear so much. It saves a lot of trouble if you know who lives where, pays taxes and is eligible to vote. I would be more worried by erosion of education by the state, as illiterate/dumb people are a lot easier to control. Two word comments are pretty dumb, if you ask me...:)
I could write something insightful here about why those 'rules' are in place, and remind you that the US has one of the highest murders per capita, probably because of attitudes like yours. Instead I will just tell you the world and the US would be a better place without you.
If you read the article you might get a positive impression about these guys, but when you look at their picture gallery, it is clear these guys have had waaaay too much money to play with. Robots everywhere, it looks like a car manufacturing plant. Autonomous vehicles that transport the goods around? What is wrong with their hands, are they all engineers afraid to get their hands dirty? Robots may look very cool, and may be cheaper than humans in the long run. But if you are just starting up, won't real humans be much more flexible?
So what do you care about more, how you think things should be, like people using (un)common sense, or how they really are, like journalists taking wikipedia as a reference/starting point? It was a manipulation of public opinion, not financial advisors BTW. Didn't you call that agency criminals a few posts back?
If you had read the article, you would have read that the finger is pointed at a risk assessment agency (that denies any relation with this Gary Weiss). The agency had a very big stake in the subject, as they more or less determined value of the funds that engaged in it, who paid them for that assessment. So you might call them criminals and may be right, but the elite mud sticks on them just as good. Maybe you should reconsider your view on society perhaps?
(nevermind that last bit, nobody will change their holy opinion on the 'net, not when they think they have to defend their values/ideologies/party/clan.)
So what does their gov't gain from it? improved human rights conditions? international allure? drilling rights in the north pole? Unless most salaries are at the level of china (and they manage to employ only people that are actually needed), Canada will not gain much monetarily from it, not even in taxes paid over the profits made.
So TFAbstract suggests that conventional solar cells absorb less then 0.2% of the available light? I call big BS on that, it is not even energy conversion, just absorbtion. So his new toy may only be getting hot in the sun, not doing anything usefull. Now on to the article itself, see if it was only the submitter or more that did not grasp physics.
Does anyone care about the idiotic differences between churches? For I don't. It's more about power than philosophy if you ask me. But you are not religious anymore if you skip all religious dogma, IMHO.
As a vicar, he was clearly not one of the peers of the royal society, and when that became clear, the peers asked for his resignation. I have read nowhere that he also was a scientist, if so, what would be his subject. The debating society does not want to be represented by a strawmen either, or some pacifist org by Bush. Yes he was misquoted, be he had to resign because of the perceived contradiction between his faith and his job.
Do you know who you are talking to, or do you just want to spout your version of 'the truth'? Northeast of what country? In my view, religion equates to dogma and dogma and science do not mix. It is nice if some religious person is truly free of religious dogma, but I have my doubts if they would be that religious, if at all. Are you still a christian if you don't believe their holy man died for their later sins and was resurrected before he ascended to heaven?
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Appserver is Googles take on cloud computing, but trimmed down to only one application instead of a whole virtual OS. It has nothing to do with Android, the mobile device OS, which may have other constraints and limitations to the Java language.
As far as I have learnt from a few cursory glances at appengine, it does not offer a complete OS environment. It is severely sandboxed, probably as a measure of security. All classes that deal with those non-existing features can either be non-existing, or exception-generating stubs. Google choose for those classes to be non-existent. That is something different than creating this-environment-only classes and functions, like MS did with their corrupted java. But there are prominent links on the appengine homepage to submit your own featers and bugfixes, so maybe all these complainers can contribute patches instead of contributing whine?
You seem to have fallen victim to the history-rewriting that has taken place later in the regime of BabyBush. Iraq was invaded with the pretense that he secretly had hidden Weapons of Mass Destruction, even though no UN team was able to find them. After the invasion it turned out he really had none to speak of, so the reason for invasion was retroactively changed.
quite well put. MS used its monopoly power here, and I'm sure we'll hear more about this later. The problem is 'linux' is not a very defined entity here, and the hardware maker have their balls in MS's vise, so they won't squeal too soon.
I propose a nuclear war against MS. Just level Redmond to the ground, and burn their embassies. Or force them to open source their OS code permanently not these puny EC pinpricks.
ehm, Nand flash ram by itself is pretty fast, and Linux can natively handle it. Unfortunately, all available flash is slowed down behind some disk emulation chipset, which would make battery backed ram necessary. Just wait a few more months till the real good ssd come available... (as always in IT, things will be better later).
You seems to be unaware what hops are. They are plants, thus their carbon is temporarily fixed from the atmosphere, you are right there. But they do not constitute the main ingredient, which is water and malted grain (barley or sometimes wheat). The hops are there for their antimicrobial and taste (bittering) properties. Most of the hops are removed together with the yeast residue, and it wasn't very much to begin with. (pounds of grains, ounces of hops). Know your beer man, it's sacred!
This sounds like you did not really think it all trough, and overestimate your own potential. It is not hard nowadays to produce a electronic prototype of most thinks you can think of, with the help of MCU's from AVR. The Arduino community does it all the time, so why not you? If you can demonstrate such a prototype, you can convince other people that it might make a profit. If you don't, well maybe sucking (up to) VC's (off) might work.
By the way, if you are not able to do the hardware side, then I very much doubt that your idea is more then a software solution. If it is not, it is not patentable. Please don't waste societies resources then.
Well maybe, maybe not. Did all the sequestered carbon move up into the food chain? What about the feces? Those cocepods need a lot of food to grow, and being small, their digestion is not very efficient. Their feces just rains down to the bottom of the ocean, just like the diatom skeletons would have. Being compacted, it even falls faster.
But the thing that was a failure is the article itself: if you open with such one-sided claims, you are not reporting on science, but producing a opinion piece. In this case the opinion of an enviro-religious nutjob, that I do not like to be employed by NS. In the end, there is no data about the increased rate of sedimentation/debris fall.
As for another hypothesis: you could harvest the cocepods/krill/shrimp. They are a concentrated source of carbon, that can be converted to methane/oil/soot with a process like hydrous pyrolysis or similar, where the suspension is subjected to high temperatures and high pressure.
It is a car, with four wheels etc. They did their best to make it as cheap as possible (to produce?) but that does not mean that your preconceived ideas about it are all true. It is designed as an alternative to a real moped/motorcycle and as such it is much safer. Yes your smalldick SUV would be safer too, but a bus would be safer still.
Besides that they are too pricey for most applications, aren't those iridium satellites now playing bumpercars 300 miles up and creating a nice collision debris cascade? hard to phone to a satellite that is in 2000 pieces. (unless it is that cricket computer from the hitchhikers guide)
the use of ddt is severely stigmatized by wonky science and enviro-religious beliefs. It helped to eradicate malaria in the west, but now it is not good enough for the developing world? One would almost think that it was some kind of conspiracy. Fortunately it can be explained by stupidity too. spraying ddt in sleeping quarters of people requires minimal amounts, and works much better then bednets, which might not be used even if given away. spray one house and it is protected for half a year or more. You cannot sell it on, so misuse would be minimal. keep it out of the farmers hands though, you don't want it used on crops, so ideally it would contain some additive that makes is impractical for such a use.
wouldn't it be a better solution to serve a 1 pixel image to every pixel-like request, or just an empty page?
You can heat almost any organic-water slurry and turn it into soot, oily stuff and methane, if you heat it high enough at high pressure and the absence of oxygen. then you only have the small problem of water contaminated with organic volatiles.
I believe the process was christened Total Conversion Process or some similar marketing crap. It may be impractical, but it is not impossible to turn sewage into oil. It is both mostly carbon after all.
well, you might be right there. With all these battles about what to teach, there is probably no room for teaching critical/logical thinking. There are quite some ex-teachers that claim that the basic purpose of the school system is not to bring out the best in each student, but to deliver working and middle class drones. As few as possible top student should be delivered, as this favours the ruling elite that can afford to sent their kids to better private schools...
Not that I think that the people on this board are actively planning that, but if their main feature is what party they represent, I assume them not to be very educated in educational science.
reprocessing fuel and breeding reactors are all fine and dandy, but change the fissionable materials: uranium 235(?) produces a lot of relatively long lived decay products, and those are a problem. you can't bury them because the produce too much heat, but not enough to economically run a generator off it. It radiates quite a lot, but not enough for a fission chain reaction.
If you switched from a Uranium reaction to a thorium reaction, you would get much less radioactive waste, you could use all thorium in the ore instead of very hard work to separate/enrich it and only using a small part of it.
Unfortunately that would also mean that the companies that now build 'cheap' reactors and supply them with very expensive toner cartridges/fuel rod assemblies need to change their profitable business models.
don't get deluded into thinking that demanding papers is a sign of fascism. The basic tenet of fascism is the bundling of powers of state and industry, not playing wehrmacht sergeant. it might be a sign of a totalitarian state, but there are plenty of countries that have a register of all their citizens, but have not devolved into the fascist state you seem to fear so much. It saves a lot of trouble if you know who lives where, pays taxes and is eligible to vote. I would be more worried by erosion of education by the state, as illiterate/dumb people are a lot easier to control. Two word comments are pretty dumb, if you ask me... :)
I could write something insightful here about why those 'rules' are in place, and remind you that the US has one of the highest murders per capita, probably because of attitudes like yours. Instead I will just tell you the world and the US would be a better place without you.
If you read the article you might get a positive impression about these guys, but when you look at their picture gallery, it is clear these guys have had waaaay too much money to play with. Robots everywhere, it looks like a car manufacturing plant. Autonomous vehicles that transport the goods around? What is wrong with their hands, are they all engineers afraid to get their hands dirty? Robots may look very cool, and may be cheaper than humans in the long run. But if you are just starting up, won't real humans be much more flexible?
So what do you care about more, how you think things should be, like people using (un)common sense, or how they really are, like journalists taking wikipedia as a reference/starting point? It was a manipulation of public opinion, not financial advisors BTW. Didn't you call that agency criminals a few posts back?
If you had read the article, you would have read that the finger is pointed at a risk assessment agency (that denies any relation with this Gary Weiss). The agency had a very big stake in the subject, as they more or less determined value of the funds that engaged in it, who paid them for that assessment. So you might call them criminals and may be right, but the elite mud sticks on them just as good. Maybe you should reconsider your view on society perhaps?
(nevermind that last bit, nobody will change their holy opinion on the 'net, not when they think they have to defend their values/ideologies/party/clan.)
So what does their gov't gain from it? improved human rights conditions? international allure? drilling rights in the north pole? Unless most salaries are at the level of china (and they manage to employ only people that are actually needed), Canada will not gain much monetarily from it, not even in taxes paid over the profits made.
So TFAbstract suggests that conventional solar cells absorb less then 0.2% of the available light? I call big BS on that, it is not even energy conversion, just absorbtion. So his new toy may only be getting hot in the sun, not doing anything usefull.
Now on to the article itself, see if it was only the submitter or more that did not grasp physics.
Does anyone care about the idiotic differences between churches? For I don't. It's more about power than philosophy if you ask me.
But you are not religious anymore if you skip all religious dogma, IMHO.
As a vicar, he was clearly not one of the peers of the royal society, and when that became clear, the peers asked for his resignation. I have read nowhere that he also was a scientist, if so, what would be his subject. The debating society does not want to be represented by a strawmen either, or some pacifist org by Bush. Yes he was misquoted, be he had to resign because of the perceived contradiction between his faith and his job.
Do you know who you are talking to, or do you just want to spout your version of 'the truth'? Northeast of what country?
In my view, religion equates to dogma and dogma and science do not mix. It is nice if some religious person is truly free of religious dogma, but I have my doubts if they would be that religious, if at all. Are you still a christian if you don't believe their holy man died for their later sins and was resurrected before he ascended to heaven?