...this experiment could have powered millions of homes and businesses...
oldspewey
How many homes exactly and how much of a "significantly longer period of time?"
It's a Catch 22. AC's calculations involve keeping the LHC operational so future power consumed by the LHC can be brought back in time to power the millions of homes and businesses now. Of course, the only way to get the power from a future LHC ( that needs to be running ), is to use that future LHC to get power from a future future LHC...
It's an infinite recursion that will cause the universe to implode. So thanks AC for destroying the universe. Way to go.
No, you see, I'm not.... see, what I'm trying to say is... oh, F it....
That's not important. What is important is that we stop the deadly effect caused by second hand bacon usage that will doom life as we know it on this earth.
Yeah, but what about second-hand cell phone usage?
Welll.... you see, it's kinda like second hand bacon usage. Bacon has been shown to cause cancer. Yet bacon causes far less cancer when the pig is using it then, lets say, when you and I use it.
The answer may seem obvious but does the grant of a patent really give implicit legal license of use?
If so, then I don't think they care so much about the patent so much so at the grant of the patent could maybe be used to legitimize and legalize part of the process of spamming.
No, one part alone wouldn't work but if part of the entire process could be segmented and patented?
We have looked at our demographic and shockingly (no not really) the totally blind are not big consumers of Left 4 Dead 2.
Section 508 isn't just about blind people reading web pages. It's also about the visually impaired where color contrast, per my original post, and color blindness plays a major role.
A good portion of the links on your site fall below the minimum contrast ratio of 3:1. A prime example alert box with the mustard yellow text and faint yellow background. Honestly, do you really think that alert box is readable by someone with marginal vision?
and we are doing out best with the tools we have made available.
Well. I just gave you two more. Shockingly, I won't be suggesting any more.
I just ran a quick section 508 compliance test on the AbleGamers Foundation site. Most of the links on the home page fall below minimal contrast level, CSS uses fixed font sizes ( px, em, pt, etc. ) rather than a relative percentage to allow visually impaired to change font size, etc.. If you're curious about web accessibility, the following resources are a good place to start.
Or the LHC could create a mini black-hole and make it shrink down into a BFG... To bad there are thousands of scientists and engineers camping the spawn point.
Playing the Devil's advocate: He also knows just how far he can push the legal envelope and that also takes well thought out claims and statements. In other words, just because he is a Stanford educated lawyer with former clients such as Pixar and Apple, doesn't mean he is incapable of these acts.
In 1988, Sandia National Laboratories conducted a test of slamming a jet fighter into a large concrete block at 481 miles per hour (775 km/h) . The airplane left only a 2.5-inch deep gouge in the concrete. Although the block was not constructed like a containment building missile shield, it was not anchored, etc., the results were considered indicative. A subsequent study by EPRI, the Electric Power Research Institute, concluded that commercial airliners did not pose a danger.
The Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station was hit directly by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Turkey Point has two fossil fuel units and two nuclear units. Over $90 million of damage was done, largely to a water tank and to a smokestack of one of the fossil-fueled units on-site, but the containment buildings were undamaged.
When I was industry, I was told that the design for the containment dome exterior equipment hatch ( used to move very large equipment in and out of containment ) at the plant I worked at was tested for hurricane and tornado damage by using an old aircraft carrier catapult to fire telephone poles at 200+ MPH at a mock-up.
Three Mile Island was also caused by operator error and violation of safety rules. From your Three Mile Island accident link:
Once the primary feedwater pump system failed, three auxiliary pumps activated automatically. However, because the valves had been closed for routine maintenance, the system was unable to pump any water. The closure of these valves was a violation of a key NRC rule, according to which the reactor must be shut down if all auxiliary feed pumps are closed for maintenance. This failure was later singled out by NRC officials as a key one, without which the course of events would have been very different.
Someone with mod points and an agenda to "clean up slashdot"? Half-life and Portal references were modded "offtopic" on the recent LHC article.
Or maybe someone is just modding random comments following the order of the mod selection dropdown. "offtopic" for the first comment, "flamebait" the second, "troll" the third...
"Occam's razor" - if there are two hypothesis that explain the data equally well choose the simpler.
This one is a double edged sword ( sorry ) when dealing with religious faith because the faithful's point of view can't get much simpler than "God wills it".
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
abridge (verb)
1. to reduce the length of (a written work) by condensing or rewriting
2. to curtail; diminish
3. (Law) Archaic to deprive of (privileges, rights, etc.)
From: ArcherB (796902)
What ever happened to "I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
There is no way you can make the claim that Fox's voice has been silenced when they are shouting from the highest mountain "Woe unto the Fox Network! See how we have been wronged!"
Fox News does still has access to the White House press releases, thus they still have the same access to the information just like a vast majority of smaller news agencies. They just no longer have the privileged access to the President.
Privileged access to the President is not an inalienable right. If that were true, then every news agency from Fox News to the Podunk Town Crier would be able to compel the President to do an interview. That isn't the case.
Slashdot Mirror
arcminute = 1/60 of one degree
arcsecond = 1/60 of a arcminute
milliarcsecond = 1/1000 arcsecond
microarcsecond = 1 x 10e-6 arcsecond
...this experiment could have powered millions of homes and businesses...
oldspewey
How many homes exactly and how much of a "significantly longer period of time?"
It's a Catch 22. AC's calculations involve keeping the LHC operational so future power consumed by the LHC can be brought back in time to power the millions of homes and businesses now. Of course, the only way to get the power from a future LHC ( that needs to be running ), is to use that future LHC to get power from a future future LHC...
It's an infinite recursion that will cause the universe to implode. So thanks AC for destroying the universe. Way to go.
No, you see, I'm not.... see, what I'm trying to say is... oh, F it....
That's not important. What is important is that we stop the deadly effect caused by second hand bacon usage that will doom life as we know it on this earth.
Yeah, but what about second-hand cell phone usage?
Welll.... you see, it's kinda like second hand bacon usage. Bacon has been shown to cause cancer. Yet bacon causes far less cancer when the pig is using it then, lets say, when you and I use it.
You mean I can't actually just keep the throttle wide open and use the handbrake to scoot around corners in a Mclaren F1 just like in Need for Speed??
The answer may seem obvious but does the grant of a patent really give implicit legal license of use?
If so, then I don't think they care so much about the patent so much so at the grant of the patent could maybe be used to legitimize and legalize part of the process of spamming.
No, one part alone wouldn't work but if part of the entire process could be segmented and patented?
We have looked at our demographic and shockingly (no not really) the totally blind are not big consumers of Left 4 Dead 2.
Section 508 isn't just about blind people reading web pages. It's also about the visually impaired where color contrast, per my original post, and color blindness plays a major role.
A good portion of the links on your site fall below the minimum contrast ratio of 3:1. A prime example alert box with the mustard yellow text and faint yellow background. Honestly, do you really think that alert box is readable by someone with marginal vision?
and we are doing out best with the tools we have made available.
Well. I just gave you two more. Shockingly, I won't be suggesting any more.
I just ran a quick section 508 compliance test on the AbleGamers Foundation site. Most of the links on the home page fall below minimal contrast level, CSS uses fixed font sizes ( px, em, pt, etc. ) rather than a relative percentage to allow visually impaired to change font size, etc.. If you're curious about web accessibility, the following resources are a good place to start.
jimthatcher.com
firefox.cita.uiuc.edu
sudo -u lawn umount whippersnapper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeFH-QoAPCk
... and there goes all my Karma as I inflict this on slashdot. May the song get stuck in your head as it did in mine. :-P
Or the LHC could create a mini black-hole and make it shrink down into a BFG... To bad there are thousands of scientists and engineers camping the spawn point.
So, in short, we don't know. Riiggght....
I'll bring the popcorn, you bring the drinks and we'll see how this plays out.
I just keep picturing the flesh walls in various first person shooters like Quake....
Think I'll be buying a double barrel in the next five years...
Playing the Devil's advocate: He also knows just how far he can push the legal envelope and that also takes well thought out claims and statements. In other words, just because he is a Stanford educated lawyer with former clients such as Pixar and Apple, doesn't mean he is incapable of these acts.
All I care about are the stones...
It's also one of the major costs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment_building#Design_and_testing_requirements
In 1988, Sandia National Laboratories conducted a test of slamming a jet fighter into a large concrete block at 481 miles per hour (775 km/h) . The airplane left only a 2.5-inch deep gouge in the concrete. Although the block was not constructed like a containment building missile shield, it was not anchored, etc., the results were considered indicative. A subsequent study by EPRI, the Electric Power Research Institute, concluded that commercial airliners did not pose a danger.
The Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station was hit directly by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Turkey Point has two fossil fuel units and two nuclear units. Over $90 million of damage was done, largely to a water tank and to a smokestack of one of the fossil-fueled units on-site, but the containment buildings were undamaged.
When I was industry, I was told that the design for the containment dome exterior equipment hatch ( used to move very large equipment in and out of containment ) at the plant I worked at was tested for hurricane and tornado damage by using an old aircraft carrier catapult to fire telephone poles at 200+ MPH at a mock-up.
Three Mile Island was also caused by operator error and violation of safety rules. From your Three Mile Island accident link:
Once the primary feedwater pump system failed, three auxiliary pumps activated automatically. However, because the valves had been closed for routine maintenance, the system was unable to pump any water. The closure of these valves was a violation of a key NRC rule, according to which the reactor must be shut down if all auxiliary feed pumps are closed for maintenance. This failure was later singled out by NRC officials as a key one, without which the course of events would have been very different.
Someone with mod points and an agenda to "clean up slashdot"? Half-life and Portal references were modded "offtopic" on the recent LHC article. Or maybe someone is just modding random comments following the order of the mod selection dropdown. "offtopic" for the first comment, "flamebait" the second, "troll" the third...
zorg passes the puck to darth... He Shoots!... HE SCORES!
To differentiate myself from the lot of you bores I shall take a first name: Fah. From this point on I am Fah Q! :)
Just curious, do you own a horse?...
So.... did they find the cake?
This one goes out to them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI
Damn the facts, full steam ahead.
"Occam's razor" - if there are two hypothesis that explain the data equally well choose the simpler.
This one is a double edged sword ( sorry ) when dealing with religious faith because the faithful's point of view can't get much simpler than "God wills it".
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
abridge (verb)
1. to reduce the length of (a written work) by condensing or rewriting
2. to curtail; diminish
3. (Law) Archaic to deprive of (privileges, rights, etc.)
From: ArcherB (796902)
What ever happened to "I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
There is no way you can make the claim that Fox's voice has been silenced when they are shouting from the highest mountain "Woe unto the Fox Network! See how we have been wronged!"
Fox News does still has access to the White House press releases, thus they still have the same access to the information just like a vast majority of smaller news agencies. They just no longer have the privileged access to the President.
Privileged access to the President is not an inalienable right. If that were true, then every news agency from Fox News to the Podunk Town Crier would be able to compel the President to do an interview. That isn't the case.
Is it worth $1 million to leave Google? I'm guessing most of the sites would say no, that's incredibly short sighted.
Maybe if you are a top seller for the search "Left-handed, monkey, wrenches, Nowhere BFE".... must start the design process and SEO ASAP....