It is concievable they have hooked up some kind of fission reaction (plausible for NK) to drive a fusion reaction (trivially easy) for purposes of propaganda. Dear Leader is probably even unaware of the lack of net energy generation from the fusion reaction. I go further to suggest the NK 'scientists' themselves are not aware.
3000 litres of methane at sea level is about 1.7 kg or about equivelent to third a US gallon of gasoline. So no, not very practical.
My parents use to have a CNG (compressed natural gas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_natural_gas) dual fuel kit for their car, while there was this infrastructure available in my area (government removed subsidies through the 90s). 10kg of CNG (Methane) would give 100-150km of driving, no more than 200km at the outside.
I'm not sure of the pressure required to keep methane clathrate solid, but I know it's found at around 800m depth around continental shelves, so thats over 100 atmospheres of pressure or 1500psi thereabouts. The CNG tank for the car was not more than 150-200 bar
Methane ice would be prone to sudden decomposition when warmed up or depressurised (boom!) whereas CNG tanks were sufficiently engineered to survive a crash that would total the rest of the car, and worst case the safety valve would vent harmlessly.
So at a guess there would be little advantage in methane ice in a automobile tank, obvious dangers asside. Once the gas has been released you have residual water/water ice to somehow extract or reuse too.
I see various estimates but something like 60% annual decline in NAND flash is not too badder ballpark figure. At current street prices of about $2.50 per GB in a usb flash drive, it's pretty much good economics right now for distributing games and software by flash-based cartridges.
We cannot discount that this is the only feasible working chemistry for life, therefore possible life from mars could only have this configuration. Has anyone shown there are possible different base nucleotides for example? Are there are organisms on earth with any differences at such fundamental levels? I haven't heard of any.
Thus you have highlighted bug #1 with 21st century technology. There's no shortage of research, but it just doesn't reach consumers, the real world is stuck several paradigms back in the mouse+keyboard+desktopmetaphor that was forged in a research lab upwards of 30 years ago. The best change I've noted reccently is capacitive multitouch screens on a few small computing devices, and a few smartphones finally getting usable voice recognition. I can't quite put my finger on the problem, but you know what I mean.
On a price performance basis AMDs Phenom IIs have consistenly been a better buy for some time now. To the point it's hard to suggest anyone buying intel at all, unless money is no object. (I don't know why I bought Intel anyway:S).
Honest hardware review sites (that aren't far up the ass of vendors) are at the point of recommend AMD CPUs on a price/performance basis.
It seems Intel doesn't get even a "honorable mention" until page 3. At $120 price point, Core i3 gets a look in.
Oh, they also don't recommend anything above about $160 to quote Tom's: "Best gaming CPU for $190: None".
To add further insult, money saved from AMD motherboards being cheaper (in particular SLI/xfire AMD boards are a good whack cheaper) will let you put money towards more storage, a SSD or a step up in CPU speed.
These "pseudo-professionals", almost certainly have a long history with Photoshop, so understand how to do things using it's UI, but likely don't even know where to start with GIMP and write it off as useless. It is closed minded, but certainly understandable on a professional/semi-professional level
Hey I resemble that remark! I started with GIMP and eventually picked up PS reccently after never having spent any time in the photoshop universe. Now, with any UI, you just have to get used to it and naturally it's frustrating for some to have to battle through the learning curve with anything when you already know how to do everything in some other UI paradigm. But that's where I stop semi-agreeing. GIMP has alot of odd quirks in UI design where technical requirements have been put before high-level UI design, ranging from the minor through to the genuinely perplexing. A common symptom of any open-source project.
How the hell is this drivel modded insightful? I would have modded Flamebait or Troll if had mod points left.
They look around, find scads of data that fits their model, and with enough data, declare the "debate is over".
Don't forget that if the data _doesn't_ fit your model, you get to 'adjust' it until it does.
'Global warming', sorry, 'climate change' is now potentially a multi-trillion dollar global industry if the banks get their 'crap and trade' laws passed. Does anyone really think that a little thing like the truth is going to be allowed to get in the way of those fat profits and bonuses? Ten years from now we'll be shivering in the dark because the price of power and heating has been massively increased to make fat-cats like Al Gore even richer, sorry, to prevent 'global warming'.
Uh yeah because global warming was invented by Al Gore and the banks to make a buck. Thousands of scientists worldwide are in on the conspiracy. Sure.
Sarcasm aside, people will try make a buck out of anything. It's a logical fallacy to declare something false because someone has found a way to cash in on it.
Nevermind that cleaning up the planet necessarily has to be a viable business model, otherwise it won't work without draconian measures. Capitalism got into this mess it should almost as easily get us out of it without resorting to a totalitarian world government or something.
America's definition of 'left wing' and 'right wing' is rather different to what is understood elsewhere in the world. Democrats and republicans are both right wing, it's just a question of how far right.
there is truth in your sarcasm, the earth will be just fine. It has endured worse. It has it's own systems to correct ecological imbalances, like shtting us out dead.
I would contest that society does indeed run at all levels on the good will to others of the multitude and their desire just to do the right thing and be happy with it. On average humans tend do the right thing 9/10th of the time despite possible gains for not. Its certainly not checks and balances, law and order and regulatory authorities that are solely responsible for civilisation holding together and being productive. I would go so far to say that religion isn't even responsible for orienting this moral compass (although it takes credit), it's built-in human nature.
It's the old Theory X/Theory Y of human motivation debate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_X_and_theory_Y. Which one is right? The actual answer is a mixture of both with a strong lean to Y IMHO. The test being that things such as wikipedia, volunteer based/charitable organisations and open source projects that by rights should not exist or would be vanadalised into oblivion if theory X were to dominate human motivation.
I find anyone with a vested interest in the status quo or in some position of authority to subscribe to the more selfish interest point of view. Otherwise we're all witness of human ability to organise and Get Stuff Done without any promise of selfish reward/punishment.
I wouldn't be so kind. About the filter that has already been installed in my country I would tell them to << CONTENT BLOCKED: Detection flags: Criticism_of_authority;free_speech;animals_sexual_acts;> >
This kind of advance paves the way for solid state unified RAM & storage where applications can execute in-place. This allows for near-instant sleeping of a OS and even snoozing of individual applications. Even more interesting is re-writable binary at runtime. Things like process migration for cloud/clustering would then become ultra-easy, as a application image could be moved in realtime to a different device and execution resume straight away. It boggles the mind what's possible.
More importantly that technical reasons, you would no longer have to explain the difference between RAM and Hard Disk storage to Mom and Pop users, and why clearing gigs of "gobbledegook" out of C:\ because there was a "Out of Memory" error was not going to help.
No. SSDs are in fact recommended for swap. Thereis somewhat of a myth that an OS swapping to flash storage could destroy flash however it just does not happen.
This is recommended by manufactuers and I recall Microsoft recommending this practice with Windows 7 also. Sophisticated wear-leveling algorithms asside, current flash write/erase cycle ceiling is rather high, over 2,000,000 writes for some SSDs. This means it would take decades to destroy a 64gb SSD at 100% maximum write speed 24/7/365 - a very unlikely usage scenario.
I've been putting swap files/partitions on SSDs for a while now and I am completely confident it will do no harm. I also activate a swap partition on a SDHC card for Android. With a low swappiness value one would expect the SD card to long outlive the handset.
If I pirate something I would not have otherwise purchased, not only has no theft taken place, but no sale has been denied. If I pirate something then decide its worth purchasing, the net result may be I buy more, because I pirate. I may be a happier customer for almost never buying a dud.
People frequently trade terabyte-range external hard drives with entire collections now. Beautifully untraceable.
In over a year of having Android phones I've never once needed to hard reset Android. It's an incredibly stable OS, even with the crappiest crashing apps on an aftermarket ROMs I've never made it lock up. So if they've managed to freeze Android that's quite an achievement.
Something like clamwin is sufficient for the periodic scan (infact ClamAV it's based on is rather good). Not clicking on dancing bunnies eliminates the need for on-access scanning.
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Wiki page has been taken down and redirected to xkcd or the discussion. Can someone post a link to the original Malamanteau page for the convenience of /. readers? Best I can do is http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malamanteau&diff=361617885&oldid=361617427
It is concievable they have hooked up some kind of fission reaction (plausible for NK) to drive a fusion reaction (trivially easy) for purposes of propaganda. Dear Leader is probably even unaware of the lack of net energy generation from the fusion reaction. I go further to suggest the NK 'scientists' themselves are not aware.
I have seen ball lightning, it can't have been induced by magnetic waves I was wearing my tinfoil hat at the time!
3000 litres of methane at sea level is about 1.7 kg or about equivelent to third a US gallon of gasoline. So no, not very practical.
My parents use to have a CNG (compressed natural gas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_natural_gas) dual fuel kit for their car, while there was this infrastructure available in my area (government removed subsidies through the 90s). 10kg of CNG (Methane) would give 100-150km of driving, no more than 200km at the outside.
I'm not sure of the pressure required to keep methane clathrate solid, but I know it's found at around 800m depth around continental shelves, so thats over 100 atmospheres of pressure or 1500psi thereabouts. The CNG tank for the car was not more than 150-200 bar
Methane ice would be prone to sudden decomposition when warmed up or depressurised (boom!) whereas CNG tanks were sufficiently engineered to survive a crash that would total the rest of the car, and worst case the safety valve would vent harmlessly.
So at a guess there would be little advantage in methane ice in a automobile tank, obvious dangers asside. Once the gas has been released you have residual water/water ice to somehow extract or reuse too.
Haven't they seen Fantastic Four? After a big dose of solar radiation it's probably now self aware and hell bent on causing chaos!
Good hygiene indeed. Contrary to popular belief growing a beard is not necessary although it will help with advancing your career at senior levels.
Growing a beard in an entry level position is actually just weird.
I see various estimates but something like 60% annual decline in NAND flash is not too badder ballpark figure. At current street prices of about $2.50 per GB in a usb flash drive, it's pretty much good economics right now for distributing games and software by flash-based cartridges.
Otherwise I'd say 2015 is looking good.
Not if we make it to the planning bureau in Alpha Centauri in time to lodge and objection.
Otherwise we might have to lie infront of bulldozers or something.
We cannot discount that this is the only feasible working chemistry for life, therefore possible life from mars could only have this configuration. Has anyone shown there are possible different base nucleotides for example? Are there are organisms on earth with any differences at such fundamental levels? I haven't heard of any.
Thus you have highlighted bug #1 with 21st century technology. There's no shortage of research, but it just doesn't reach consumers, the real world is stuck several paradigms back in the mouse+keyboard+desktopmetaphor that was forged in a research lab upwards of 30 years ago. The best change I've noted reccently is capacitive multitouch screens on a few small computing devices, and a few smartphones finally getting usable voice recognition. I can't quite put my finger on the problem, but you know what I mean.
On a price performance basis AMDs Phenom IIs have consistenly been a better buy for some time now. To the point it's hard to suggest anyone buying intel at all, unless money is no object. (I don't know why I bought Intel anyway :S).
Honest hardware review sites (that aren't far up the ass of vendors) are at the point of recommend AMD CPUs on a price/performance basis.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/best-gaming-cpu,review-31857.html
It seems Intel doesn't get even a "honorable mention" until page 3. At $120 price point, Core i3 gets a look in. Oh, they also don't recommend anything above about $160 to quote Tom's: "Best gaming CPU for $190: None".
To add further insult, money saved from AMD motherboards being cheaper (in particular SLI/xfire AMD boards are a good whack cheaper) will let you put money towards more storage, a SSD or a step up in CPU speed.
These "pseudo-professionals", almost certainly have a long history with Photoshop, so understand how to do things using it's UI, but likely don't even know where to start with GIMP and write it off as useless. It is closed minded, but certainly understandable on a professional/semi-professional level
Hey I resemble that remark! I started with GIMP and eventually picked up PS reccently after never having spent any time in the photoshop universe. Now, with any UI, you just have to get used to it and naturally it's frustrating for some to have to battle through the learning curve with anything when you already know how to do everything in some other UI paradigm. But that's where I stop semi-agreeing. GIMP has alot of odd quirks in UI design where technical requirements have been put before high-level UI design, ranging from the minor through to the genuinely perplexing. A common symptom of any open-source project.
They look around, find scads of data that fits their model, and with enough data, declare the "debate is over".
Don't forget that if the data _doesn't_ fit your model, you get to 'adjust' it until it does.
'Global warming', sorry, 'climate change' is now potentially a multi-trillion dollar global industry if the banks get their 'crap and trade' laws passed. Does anyone really think that a little thing like the truth is going to be allowed to get in the way of those fat profits and bonuses? Ten years from now we'll be shivering in the dark because the price of power and heating has been massively increased to make fat-cats like Al Gore even richer, sorry, to prevent 'global warming'.
Uh yeah because global warming was invented by Al Gore and the banks to make a buck. Thousands of scientists worldwide are in on the conspiracy. Sure.
Sarcasm aside, people will try make a buck out of anything. It's a logical fallacy to declare something false because someone has found a way to cash in on it.
Nevermind that cleaning up the planet necessarily has to be a viable business model, otherwise it won't work without draconian measures. Capitalism got into this mess it should almost as easily get us out of it without resorting to a totalitarian world government or something.
America's definition of 'left wing' and 'right wing' is rather different to what is understood elsewhere in the world. Democrats and republicans are both right wing, it's just a question of how far right.
there is truth in your sarcasm, the earth will be just fine. It has endured worse. It has it's own systems to correct ecological imbalances, like shtting us out dead.
There fixed that for you.
Watch out, Tolkien is hobbit forming.
Can a consumer really be blamed for their decisions when the necessary information about the true origins of goods is actively obfuscated?
I would contest that society does indeed run at all levels on the good will to others of the multitude and their desire just to do the right thing and be happy with it. On average humans tend do the right thing 9/10th of the time despite possible gains for not. Its certainly not checks and balances, law and order and regulatory authorities that are solely responsible for civilisation holding together and being productive. I would go so far to say that religion isn't even responsible for orienting this moral compass (although it takes credit), it's built-in human nature.
It's the old Theory X/Theory Y of human motivation debate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_X_and_theory_Y. Which one is right? The actual answer is a mixture of both with a strong lean to Y IMHO. The test being that things such as wikipedia, volunteer based/charitable organisations and open source projects that by rights should not exist or would be vanadalised into oblivion if theory X were to dominate human motivation.
I find anyone with a vested interest in the status quo or in some position of authority to subscribe to the more selfish interest point of view. Otherwise we're all witness of human ability to organise and Get Stuff Done without any promise of selfish reward/punishment.
I wouldn't be so kind. About the filter that has already been installed in my country I would tell them to << CONTENT BLOCKED: Detection flags: Criticism_of_authority;free_speech;animals_sexual_acts;> >
This kind of advance paves the way for solid state unified RAM & storage where applications can execute in-place. This allows for near-instant sleeping of a OS and even snoozing of individual applications. Even more interesting is re-writable binary at runtime. Things like process migration for cloud/clustering would then become ultra-easy, as a application image could be moved in realtime to a different device and execution resume straight away. It boggles the mind what's possible.
More importantly that technical reasons, you would no longer have to explain the difference between RAM and Hard Disk storage to Mom and Pop users, and why clearing gigs of "gobbledegook" out of C:\ because there was a "Out of Memory" error was not going to help.
No. SSDs are in fact recommended for swap. Thereis somewhat of a myth that an OS swapping to flash storage could destroy flash however it just does not happen. This is recommended by manufactuers and I recall Microsoft recommending this practice with Windows 7 also. Sophisticated wear-leveling algorithms asside, current flash write/erase cycle ceiling is rather high, over 2,000,000 writes for some SSDs. This means it would take decades to destroy a 64gb SSD at 100% maximum write speed 24/7/365 - a very unlikely usage scenario.
I've been putting swap files/partitions on SSDs for a while now and I am completely confident it will do no harm. I also activate a swap partition on a SDHC card for Android. With a low swappiness value one would expect the SD card to long outlive the handset.
didn't they watch Spiderman 2?
If I pirate something I would not have otherwise purchased, not only has no theft taken place, but no sale has been denied. If I pirate something then decide its worth purchasing, the net result may be I buy more, because I pirate. I may be a happier customer for almost never buying a dud.
People frequently trade terabyte-range external hard drives with entire collections now. Beautifully untraceable.
In over a year of having Android phones I've never once needed to hard reset Android. It's an incredibly stable OS, even with the crappiest crashing apps on an aftermarket ROMs I've never made it lock up. So if they've managed to freeze Android that's quite an achievement.
Something like clamwin is sufficient for the periodic scan (infact ClamAV it's based on is rather good). Not clicking on dancing bunnies eliminates the need for on-access scanning.