I think it's neat that it can output upto 100watts of energy, but at what Amperage and Volt?
With simple electronics, you can convert any voltage to any other.
It's 100W, so if you need 100 volts, you'll get it at 1 amp. If you need 10 volts, you'll get it at 10 amps. Minus a few percent for the conversion...
Could I use a couple of these things to say... act as a battery charger for an electric car?
The idea of an electric car is that you plug-in to large and extremely effecient electric plants.
Ineffeciently burning fuel to charge it would make very little sense, except in very specific situations, and then I imagine you'll do better with a conventional gas/diesel generator.
If the insurgents are wearing stroby glasses all the time or constantly look around shaking their hands in front of their faces, they're going to be pretty easy to identify.
AIDS is the second leading killing among infectious diseases worldwide.
So AIDs is #2. Did you try to look-up #1?
Not sure what to contrast that with because you haven't said what disease is more worthy than breast cancer or AIDS. I suspect you are mistaken on your claim, but if there's a disease you feel is more worthy than breast cancer or AIDS, I'm sure the world will welcome your charitable efforts.
Breast Cancer on the other hand? I'm sure there is some studies pointing to dietary habits cutting the chances of getting it
Another poster in this thread already linked to information that breast cancer, in many cases, is caused by constrictive bras. I heard about the results a couple years ago, so it must be rather well-known by now.
it's no where near the same thing as heart diseases association with the big mac, french fries and bowls of ice cream.
Heart Disease is more common in the 3rd world, where they don't have big macs, french fries, bowls of ice cream, time to sit around on a coutch... or even couches in many cases.
Why should diseases get all the money? I want to donate my money to an organization that solves problems, in general,
Even though you're obviously trolling, you're not far wrong. Things like nutrition and automotive safety improvements would save far more lives than any medications or treatments you can come up with.
Donating a huge ammount of money for research on an issue that affects a tiny percentage of people, is insane. It's charity-mongering, rather than egalitarianism.
Over 42 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, and 74 percent of these infected people live in sub-Saharan Africa.
There are 14,000 new infections every day (95 percent in developing countries).
Some Statistics on CVD (Cardiovascular Disease)
According to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, in 2003, 16.7 million people around the globe die of CVD each year. This is over 29 percent of all deaths globally. (WHO, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Control. www..who.int)
Today, men, women and children are at risk, and 80 percent of the burden is in low-and middle-income countries. By 2020 heart disease and stroke will become the leading cause of both death and disability worldwide, with the number of fatalities projected to increase to more than 20 million a year and to more than 24 million a year by 2030. (Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke, WHO, September 2004)
80 percent of chronic disease deaths occur in low and middle income countries and half are women. Cardiovascular disease alone will kill five times as many people as HIV/AIDS in these countries. (Chronic Diseases and Their Common Risk Factors, WHO, Oct. 2005)
By race, 54 percent of the new infections in the United States occur among African Americans, and 64 percent of the new infections in women occur in African American women.
In case you're trying to imply racism...
Leading Causes of Death for Black or African-American Males United States: 2003 Cardiovascular Disease: 33.4 Cancer: 21.9 HIV/Aids: 3.5
You fight the fights that you have a chance to win.
And the "fights" that are the best marketed, are supposed to be the ones that "have a chance to win"? I don't buy it for a second.
We have a chance to win ALL the fights (one at a time of course), and giving money to Breast Cancer research, in lieu of Heart Disease research, because of some clever marketing, is absolutely nonsensical.
I'm certainly not a good enough at predicting the future to say that a cure for one is any closer than the other.
Their drivers and firmware code might be full of software based workarounds for hardware flaws that the PR-department would not want the public to see.
Workarounds would almost certainly be exclusively in the firmware, and NOBODY is asking for the source code of the firmware.
Besides, Intel's notorious CPU bugs haven't made a dent, so why would bugs in their network cards matter more?
It does seem likely, however, they are trying to hide something.
Because there is secrecy surrounding the code that they use to guard their property, then they have control over how their property is used. They are able to make money off of it. This is their motive. This is how capitalism works.
No, capitalism works when 10% of people, realizing they can't get Intel hardware to work properly, buy from somebody else.
Then, instead of losing the theoretical dollar value of their IP, they're losing real dollars in sales of the hardware.
mostly because there will always be someone else who will buy their product without qualms.
This is nonsense. They aren't trying to sell a single piece of hardware to someone. They're trying to sell large quantities of hardware, and a boycott means they'll be selling less. That, in-turn, drives up the price they have to sell the hardware for to make a profit, which futher reduces the number of people who buy from Intel, as the alternatives become relatively cheaper.
So when are the people stand up and make some more tea in Boston? Or do you believe that the second amendment was just so you go squirrel hunting?
Are you so dependent on airlines, that you're incapable of travel by any other means?
The US government moves very slow to right itself, but has done rather well over the past 200 years.
If I may quote the The Declaration of Independence: Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;
Nothing disturbs me more about "charities" than the promotion of one disease over another.
Besides breast cancer, we all hear about AIDS constantly, and calls for donations. Yet, AIDS research already recieves a disproportionally large ammount of money, if you look at the number of people who die from it, and the ammount spent on other serious diseases.
Are there any organizations that you can donate to, that just tackle critical diseases at large, rather than having tunnel-vision on one single issue?
...only if you can show that one can dislike US foriegn policy if and only if they're ignorant of 20th Century history, which you clearly cannot.
Quite easily... There is ample evidence that the US as a superpower has had a tremendous stablizing affect on the entire world. Though it has not ended war, it has dramatically decreased the number of people who die, yearly, in armed conflicts. Not to mention record economic prosperity around the globe.
It's one thing to be critical of certain, specific policies. It's another to say the US shouldn't be a superpower, capable of performing it's current role in the world.
That "Mr. Fusion" scene in Back to the Future was a fun concept, but it would be foolhardy to expect that quantum breakthrough to occur in our lifetimes.
First of all, it's called *CONTEXT*... You should try checking it out some time. If you had, you'd notice my comment wasn't dismissing recycling, but dismissing the fool who said metal is a limited resource, like oil.
By recycling an aluminum can, you're not saving a precious metal, you're saving the energy used to mine ore and seperate it via electrolysis.
All of which I know.
The energy expense required to seperate specific metals from trash makes garbage dump mining an unfeasible prospect.
Only true if:
You're assuming current technology won't advanced before we need to get that metal back.
AND
You're doing it ONLY to get the metals out. If there are lots of other (somewhat) valuable material in there (such as using it as fuel to power an electric generator) then extracting the metals becomes nearly-free.
But charging for transmission of those encoded files where "file copying" isn't part of the patent? Like I said, that's retarded.
They aren't charging for "file copying" they're charging a fee per the ammount of content encoded in their codec, per the number of users it will be (commercially) distributed to.
Do people actually pay these fees?
Yes. Every DVD you've ever bought is, perhaps, $1 or so more expensive for the MPEG-2, AC3, CSS, and DVD (disc format) licenses.
You can afford to be ignorant of the issue when you're just watching and encoding movies at home, but once you do anything commercial with them, you either need to stick to strictly free codecs* or pay all necessary fees to all parties.
I don't know about anyone else, but when I watcha movie, I like to watch the movie. Not Flashy, buzz-wordy bull crap.
And when you see a/. story, you want to jump right to the ranting and complaining, not take time to think about the subject for a few minutes...
I'm sure people had the same complaint about video games when they were introduced. Not to mention FMVs...
There are different kinds of movies being churned out by Hollywood these days. One type you want to sit back and watch... The other, they couldn't possibly make any worse by adding interactivity. Guess which category "Tokyo Drift" falls under...
Whoever invented the retarted "feature" to stop you from going directly to the meny during previews is a fucktard.
When was the last time you had that problem with your HD-DVDs?
DVDs != HD-DVDs
In conclusion, I want better content, not features.
Metal, after oil, is our least renewable resource.
Metal, however, DOESN'T GO ANYWHERE. It can be lost to rust, but that's only a small percentage over a long period of time. 500 years from now, we can mine our junkyards, and get practically all of it back for future use.
Oil, OTOH, is burned, and turned into a completely useless form, that won't turn back into oil for millions of years.
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With simple electronics, you can convert any voltage to any other.
It's 100W, so if you need 100 volts, you'll get it at 1 amp. If you need 10 volts, you'll get it at 10 amps. Minus a few percent for the conversion...
The idea of an electric car is that you plug-in to large and extremely effecient electric plants.
Ineffeciently burning fuel to charge it would make very little sense, except in very specific situations, and then I imagine you'll do better with a conventional gas/diesel generator.
I can see it now:
"Sgt. Smith, why did you shoot that unarmed man?"
"He blinked. A common insurgent tactic."
Okay, I guess I did miss one specific case...
You need to be ignorant... *OR* utterly irrational.
So AIDs is #2. Did you try to look-up #1?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=198559&cid=16
Another poster in this thread already linked to information that breast cancer, in many cases, is caused by constrictive bras. I heard about the results a couple years ago, so it must be rather well-known by now.
Heart Disease is more common in the 3rd world, where they don't have big macs, french fries, bowls of ice cream, time to sit around on a coutch... or even couches in many cases.
Even though you're obviously trolling, you're not far wrong. Things like nutrition and automotive safety improvements would save far more lives than any medications or treatments you can come up with.
Donating a huge ammount of money for research on an issue that affects a tiny percentage of people, is insane. It's charity-mongering, rather than egalitarianism.
Some Statistics on CVD (Cardiovascular Disease)
According to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, in 2003, 16.7 million people around the globe die of CVD each year. This is over 29 percent of all deaths globally. (WHO, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Control. www..who.int)
Today, men, women and children are at risk, and 80 percent of the burden is in low-and middle-income countries. By 2020 heart disease and stroke will become the leading cause of both death and disability worldwide, with the number of fatalities projected to increase to more than 20 million a year and to more than 24 million a year by 2030. (Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke, WHO, September 2004)
80 percent of chronic disease deaths occur in low and middle income countries and half are women. Cardiovascular disease alone will kill five times as many people as HIV/AIDS in these countries. (Chronic Diseases and Their Common Risk Factors, WHO, Oct. 2005)
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?iden
In case you're trying to imply racism...
Leading Causes of Death for Black or African-American Males
United States: 2003
Cardiovascular Disease: 33.4
Cancer: 21.9
HIV/Aids: 3.5
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?iden
And the "fights" that are the best marketed, are supposed to be the ones that "have a chance to win"? I don't buy it for a second.
We have a chance to win ALL the fights (one at a time of course), and giving money to Breast Cancer research, in lieu of Heart Disease research, because of some clever marketing, is absolutely nonsensical.
I'm certainly not a good enough at predicting the future to say that a cure for one is any closer than the other.
Not true. Take any +5 comment, give it -1 Troll, then (someone else) +1 Underrated.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Workarounds would almost certainly be exclusively in the firmware, and NOBODY is asking for the source code of the firmware.
Besides, Intel's notorious CPU bugs haven't made a dent, so why would bugs in their network cards matter more?
It does seem likely, however, they are trying to hide something.
It's only slanderous* if it's not true.
*(libel actually)
No, capitalism works when 10% of people, realizing they can't get Intel hardware to work properly, buy from somebody else.
Then, instead of losing the theoretical dollar value of their IP, they're losing real dollars in sales of the hardware.
This is nonsense. They aren't trying to sell a single piece of hardware to someone. They're trying to sell large quantities of hardware, and a boycott means they'll be selling less. That, in-turn, drives up the price they have to sell the hardware for to make a profit, which futher reduces the number of people who buy from Intel, as the alternatives become relatively cheaper.
Are you so dependent on airlines, that you're incapable of travel by any other means?
The US government moves very slow to right itself, but has done rather well over the past 200 years.
If I may quote the The Declaration of Independence:
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;
Nothing disturbs me more about "charities" than the promotion of one disease over another.
Besides breast cancer, we all hear about AIDS constantly, and calls for donations. Yet, AIDS research already recieves a disproportionally large ammount of money, if you look at the number of people who die from it, and the ammount spent on other serious diseases.
Are there any organizations that you can donate to, that just tackle critical diseases at large, rather than having tunnel-vision on one single issue?
Refering to 1-2 year-old Xeons as PPros (~1996) makes no sense at all.
Quite easily... There is ample evidence that the US as a superpower has had a tremendous stablizing affect on the entire world. Though it has not ended war, it has dramatically decreased the number of people who die, yearly, in armed conflicts. Not to mention record economic prosperity around the globe.
It's one thing to be critical of certain, specific policies. It's another to say the US shouldn't be a superpower, capable of performing it's current role in the world.
No fusion necessary. I was referring to: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09
All of which I know.
Only true if:
You're assuming current technology won't advanced before we need to get that metal back.
AND
You're doing it ONLY to get the metals out. If there are lots of other (somewhat) valuable material in there (such as using it as fuel to power an electric generator) then extracting the metals becomes nearly-free.
You don't usually *get* a license, you just download a licensed implementation. "Divx" for example.
This "patent-free NO MATTER THE CONSEQUENCES" just gives open source supporter a black eye, as irrational fools.
Yes. Patents give companies absolute control. It's arbitrary (but really not confusing).
That's why you see patent pooling, ala. http://www.mpegla.com/
They aren't charging for "file copying" they're charging a fee per the ammount of content encoded in their codec, per the number of users it will be (commercially) distributed to.
Yes. Every DVD you've ever bought is, perhaps, $1 or so more expensive for the MPEG-2, AC3, CSS, and DVD (disc format) licenses.
You can afford to be ignorant of the issue when you're just watching and encoding movies at home, but once you do anything commercial with them, you either need to stick to strictly free codecs* or pay all necessary fees to all parties.
*Patent-Free Codecs:
Video: ffv1 (lossless), MJPEG, MPEG-1, VP3/Theora, Dirac/Snow Audio: Speex (Voice), FLAC (lossless), MP2, MPC, Vorbis
Yes.
And when you see a
I'm sure people had the same complaint about video games when they were introduced. Not to mention FMVs...
There are different kinds of movies being churned out by Hollywood these days. One type you want to sit back and watch... The other, they couldn't possibly make any worse by adding interactivity. Guess which category "Tokyo Drift" falls under...
When was the last time you had that problem with your HD-DVDs?
DVDs != HD-DVDs
Funny. Why aren't you buying VHS tapes then?
"Yes officer, that computer was out on the street, just behind that shattered glass window..."
Metal, however, DOESN'T GO ANYWHERE. It can be lost to rust, but that's only a small percentage over a long period of time. 500 years from now, we can mine our junkyards, and get practically all of it back for future use.
Oil, OTOH, is burned, and turned into a completely useless form, that won't turn back into oil for millions of years.