And with the amount of oil available in alaska, we can just dig a hole and bury a generator in there and the generator will just suck up the oil through osmosis and generate electricity automatically.
And we can pump the waste heat from the data centers into homes to heat houses.
You forgot to mention that when CD burners came out they cost about $1000+. A big upfront cost. I remember my mom spending a fortune buying a HP CD burner for my sister (back in 1997) and having it die after just 2 days of usage. It was traumatic. Fortunately, after begging at CompUSA, we were able to get a replacement. I also remember they only came in w/ SCSI interface for a while until they started to release IDE ATAPI versions. And it was really easy to make coasters because there was no buffer underrun protection (small buffers). And it took an hour to burn a CD. Basically have to walk away from the computer while it burns.
Now when DVD burners came out they were going for about $200 tops. And DVD-R's were much less than $10 each. Maybe $1 each. That's progress I guess.
The opposite may be true. Lower external temperature means your body will have to generate more heat for homeostasis - to maintain your body's internal temperature. That means more chemical reactions need to occur which means it will burn more fuel.
I feel your pain, you are not alone! Typing this message with my sweaty palm right now... and when I get nervous, sweat breaks out.
If you feel hot to everyone else, that means you are emitting energy out of your body.. and therefore your body temp could be cooler. On the other hand, if you feel cool to other people, that means your pores are shut and your body is not emitting energy but perhaps taking on more energy.
When my wife complains she is feeling hot, her skin usually feels cool to me, and vice versa...
WTF? So two guys, one hates RAC (kamen...@gmail.com), the other (TakeReal) obviously works for RAC (or owns RAC) --- therefore responds 60 something times to kamen's comments, dukes it out in a forum, and Slashdot concludes that RAC is losing street cred??
Did kamen...@gmail.com submit this story to slashdot?
Um, India and China has a lot of people, BUT! the majority of the world's population are *not* in India and China. There's roughly 6 billion people on the planet. The populations of India and China maybe adds up to 2.5 billion. 3.5 billion people (majority over 2.5 billion) are NOT in India and China.
So Kim Jung Il wants to play 1 on 1 with the US in StarCraft instead of a 1 on 6 game? Sounds reasonable I guess. We need to stop him from building so many command centers with nuclear silos...
Thanks for pointing out this cool program. Now this is a fine example of open source software. If this was closed sourced, would you use it? How do you know it's not a key logger right? But it's open source, so anyone can look at it and know that there's no backdoors or keyloggers that sends a report to someone in Russia so they can get your credit card number!
Now I am going to use it to see how many mouse clicks a day when I play Diablo 2.:)
Then become your own lawyer (or find your lawyer buddies to defend you). I know, I know. Not everyone will have a lawyer friend. But those who do... bring it on RIAA!
> May even be responsible for Korea's relatively high literacy rate.
Hard to prove. More likely it is because Koreans are workaholics and competition is fierce in school, society, games, whatever.
Hangul, as a _writing system_ is perfect in a linguistic sense. And like you said, have been in use for over 200 years, but we don't see any explosion of technology or literature or whatever advanced by Koreans.
A system like Hangul is probably good for pulling the literacy-challenged idiots of the society out of the ditch, and nothing more. Smart people will never be limited by a writing system.
It is a good case study of what happens when you improve your writing system: nothing really.
I partially disagree with you. By going to lectures, I was able to spend the rest of my time reading other materials not covered in lectures or playing StarCraft. I noticed on average it took me twice the amount of time to pick up the materials from the textbooks compared to the same materials presented in the live lectures. But that's just me. Everyone have their own learning style, and for me lectures were very useful part of college.
I agree with you the time to soak up knowledge from books was also very useful. Lectures allow me to spend less time on the materials covered and more time on materials not covered.
A few TV shows are not proof that other mammals have culture. In fact, TV shows are also human art. Art depicting art in other animals != science. It doesn't matter if you are cute, a dinosaurs, or a chick.
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That's just genius!
And with the amount of oil available in alaska, we can just dig a hole and bury a generator in there and the generator will just suck up the oil through osmosis and generate electricity automatically.
And we can pump the waste heat from the data centers into homes to heat houses.
But if google goes down, we can't type those addresses in the google search bar anymore!
W00t! Go Texas! Go longhorns! Go Mavs!
You forgot to mention that when CD burners came out they cost about $1000+. A big upfront cost. I remember my mom spending a fortune buying a HP CD burner for my sister (back in 1997) and having it die after just 2 days of usage. It was traumatic. Fortunately, after begging at CompUSA, we were able to get a replacement. I also remember they only came in w/ SCSI interface for a while until they started to release IDE ATAPI versions. And it was really easy to make coasters because there was no buffer underrun protection (small buffers). And it took an hour to burn a CD. Basically have to walk away from the computer while it burns.
Now when DVD burners came out they were going for about $200 tops. And DVD-R's were much less than $10 each. Maybe $1 each. That's progress I guess.
The description sounds like a peltier to me. Apply some current, and the device generates a temperature differential.
Can a temperature differential cause the device to operate in reverse?
> in the case of atheism, there is no religious incentive, these are humanitarian acts.
It's called serving your own pride.
> The earth is being wireless powered by the Sun thousands of years now.
Billions of years!
The opposite may be true. Lower external temperature means your body will have to generate more heat for homeostasis - to maintain your body's internal temperature. That means more chemical reactions need to occur which means it will burn more fuel.
I feel your pain, you are not alone! Typing this message with my sweaty palm right now... and when I get nervous, sweat breaks out.
If you feel hot to everyone else, that means you are emitting energy out of your body.. and therefore your body temp could be cooler. On the other hand, if you feel cool to other people, that means your pores are shut and your body is not emitting energy but perhaps taking on more energy.
When my wife complains she is feeling hot, her skin usually feels cool to me, and vice versa...
What I really want to know is where did they get the women?
Or how about Macheron X2 20+ Low Power edition, and the Mach 20 Duo Extreme?
WTF? So two guys, one hates RAC (kamen...@gmail.com), the other (TakeReal) obviously works for RAC (or owns RAC) --- therefore responds 60 something times to kamen's comments, dukes it out in a forum, and Slashdot concludes that RAC is losing street cred??
Did kamen...@gmail.com submit this story to slashdot?
I might pay to see them set $200 million in $100 denominations on fire! How long will it take to burn up 2 million $100 bills?
Um, India and China has a lot of people, BUT! the majority of the world's population are *not* in India and China. There's roughly 6 billion people on the planet. The populations of India and China maybe adds up to 2.5 billion. 3.5 billion people (majority over 2.5 billion) are NOT in India and China.
But this time we know the egg definitely came first!
The grandparent is right though. Muslims that wear turbans are pretty suspicious. :)
:( :( :(
So Kim Jung Il wants to play 1 on 1 with the US in StarCraft instead of a 1 on 6 game? Sounds reasonable I guess.
We need to stop him from building so many command centers with nuclear silos...
Thanks for pointing out this cool program. Now this is a fine example of open source software. If this was closed sourced, would you use it? How do you know it's not a key logger right? But it's open source, so anyone can look at it and know that there's no backdoors or keyloggers that sends a report to someone in Russia so they can get your credit card number!
:)
Now I am going to use it to see how many mouse clicks a day when I play Diablo 2.
Then become your own lawyer (or find your lawyer buddies to defend you). I know, I know. Not everyone will have a lawyer friend. But those who do... bring it on RIAA!
My house looks nothing like my neighbor's because I ran out of time to decorate it.
That's pretty realistic too!
> May even be responsible for Korea's relatively high literacy rate.
Hard to prove. More likely it is because Koreans are workaholics and competition is fierce in school, society, games, whatever.
Hangul, as a _writing system_ is perfect in a linguistic sense. And like you said, have been in use for over 200 years, but we don't see any explosion of technology or literature or whatever advanced by Koreans.
A system like Hangul is probably good for pulling the literacy-challenged idiots of the society out of the ditch, and nothing more. Smart people will never be limited by a writing system.
It is a good case study of what happens when you improve your writing system: nothing really.
I partially disagree with you. By going to lectures, I was able to spend the rest of my time reading other materials not covered in lectures or playing StarCraft. I noticed on average it took me twice the amount of time to pick up the materials from the textbooks compared to the same materials presented in the live lectures. But that's just me. Everyone have their own learning style, and for me lectures were very useful part of college.
I agree with you the time to soak up knowledge from books was also very useful. Lectures allow me to spend less time on the materials covered and more time on materials not covered.
Does that mean hot blonde supermodel chicks and slashdot geeks are different species? :)
A few TV shows are not proof that other mammals have culture. In fact, TV shows are also human art. Art depicting art in other animals != science. It doesn't matter if you are cute, a dinosaurs, or a chick.