No, they'll keep doing it until they die. They have it in their heads that people want more sensationalism and "experts" who talk forcefully but don't know anything. Any decline in viewership is countered by piling on more.
Which is the most important thing right now. We did a lot to reduce NOx and CO in the '70s with catalytic converters, but does so by converting the pollutants into CO2. It also forces the engine to run at a fuel/air mixture that isn't optimal for all driving conditions (which is being addressed of late by direct injection systems).
Further, those pollutants don't last all that long in the atmosphere. If you cut out all emissions today, their effects would be almost gone within a decade. CO2 lasts much longer, and certain feedback effects might be around long after the gas itself is removed.
We need to be aggressively pursuing solutions to CO2 emissions, and if that means backing off a bit on NOx/CO/particulates, it'll be worth it.
Wankels have their own problems, like the apex seals needing to be impossibily perfect.
Mind you, I really like Wankels, and the Renesis design eliminated a lot of the old problems (like overlap in the intake and exahust ports). But it's like a girlfriend who's attractive, intellegent, and funny, but has a bit of lisp. You know her flaws, but might love her any way.
An IC engine isn't operating anywhere near peak torque until it gets close to red line. It gets worse if you've got a turbocharger. Since you're accelerating slowly, that 5hp will make a difference, especially if the gear change is made before 3k rpm.
That's why I always slam on the gas as often as possible. It's for the environment, you see.
Making a new car creates a lot of CO2 in itself. "Emissions" usually mean particulate, not CO2. Confusing these two forms of pollution is a big problem.
The Prius is a red herring. The most eco-friendly car you can buy is a 20 year old Geo Metro.
However, is suspect that would only work in a shallow sea, and kill a lot of the life in that sea. Mostly, it would defeat the purpose of the seeding.
Yes, but not just because of the kill off of life. The reason algae blooms kill everything off is because they decay anerobically (sucking up O2 and releasing CO2). If you're deep enough, this isn't a big deal, but near the surface the CO2 will just get released again.
THIS CODE IS HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
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Originally written by Malcolm Beattie and modified by Benjamin Stuhl.
Rewritten by Enache Adrian , 2003 a.d.
B::Bytecode is an experimental feature that's been largly abandoned since 2003. Perl5 is too much of a mess to make a bytecode compiler work. That's why Parrot exists.
Perl 5 isn't really bytecode at all. It basically just walks the parse tree directly.
Perl 6/Parrot is bytecode just as those from Python or Java have come to expect. Perl 5 could be reimplemented this way, but nobody seems to want to bother.
If your goal is to obfuscate your code to prevent people from copying it, please give up.
Version 1 is supposed to be reasonably complete and provide a consistent API for language developers.
Version 2 is intended to be the production-ready version. According to the roadmap laid out last Dec., that's due to come in another year. So far, they've stuck to the roadmap pretty well.
Fast recharge and discharge go hand-in-hand. This will particularly improve the range of electric/hybrid cars, since regenerative breaking is limited right now by how fast the battery can take in all that power.
I don't see it improving the overall charge time of a car from a household plug, though. The limit there is that 120VAC just isn't enough. You can double up a circuit to get 240VAC, and in fact high draw appliances (like electric dryers) often already do in the US.
If dealerships are smart, they'll contract the services of local electricians to put a 240VAC plug in customers' garages and roll the cost into the overall financing.
My preference for a french press comes after a few years of daily improvements. If your coffee doesn't have a sweet flavor behind it, you did it wrong. And I don't give two rat turds about elitisim.
From a legal and short term financial standpoint, sure. However, the end result will be that established partners will themselves go belly-up, or that they'll try to find an alternative. So it is Microsoft's problem, in so far as it changes their future business prospects in the region.
Water vapor is near the saturation point nearly everywhere in the atmosphere. The only place where this isn't true is the polar regions, where most of the water has been frozen out of the air. It's here that CO2 will have its biggest effect. Also, exactly the last place where you want temperatures to rise.
Currently existing oil was conviently put there with the deaths of billions of billions of algae cells. Lets leave their bodies where they are.
The key phrse is not just "Climate Change", but "Anthropogenic Climate Change". In other words, the climate provably changing due to specific human activities. This not only covers the greenhouse effect of CO2, but also things like overgrazing causing desterification.
How do you nullify and change that cert? If the answer is "you don't", then how do you deal with someone breaking that cert (either through cryptanaylisis or getting access to the machine)?
The study claims a 5% margin of error, with a 95% confidence. That's a bit on the high side for these sorts of studies, but it's good enough to validate the 99% figure.
To minimize the sizes of the antennas used, the wavelength should be small (and frequency correspondingly high) since antenna efficiency increases as antenna size increases relative to the wavelength used. More precisely, both for the transmitting and receiving antennas, the angular beam width is inversely proportional to the aperture of the antenna, measured in units of the transmission wavelength. The highest frequencies that can be used are limited by atmospheric absorption (chiefly water vapor and CO2) at higher microwave frequencies.
For these reasons, 2.45 GHz has been proposed as being a reasonable compromise. However, that frequency results in large antenna sizes at the GEO distance. A loitering stratospheric airship has been proposed to receive higher frequencies (or even laser beams), converting them to something like 2.45 GHz for retransmission to the ground. This proposal has not been as carefully evaluated for engineering plausibility as have other aspects of SPS design; it will likely present problems for continuous coverage.
A microwave oven works by passing non-ionizing microwave radiation, usually at a frequency of 2.45 gigahertz (GHz) (a wavelength of 12.24 centimetres (4.82 in), through the food.
(Emphisis mine)
There is also some infared wavelengths that can be used, but IIRC, they're less efficient.
An architecture like this is useful for massively parallel algorithms. It could theoretically outperform modern desktop or server systems within that domain.
In fact, a rebuild of COLOSSUS was estimated to be 240 times slower than a modern desktop at decoding old German cryptographic signals. That might not sound that good, but if you run Moore's Law in reverse over 60 years, you should get a factor a lot higher than 240.
The estimates I've seen put the lifespan more within 20 years, which is too short to make an economic case.
Like GPS, the first group to do SBSP is probably going to be the military, since they have reasons for getting power into remote areas that aren't strictly economic.
Taking the assumption that Sealand is a legitimate nation (for the sake of argument), I'm afraid you can no longer replicate that success on with an oil rig. The first problem is that nations have extended their territories into international waters a lot farther since Sealand was founded. If Sealand hadn't already been claimed, it would be in England's territory today.
Secondly, a 1982 international law forbids artifical structures from being made into countries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_Sealand#Territorial_limits According to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, there is no transitional law and no possibility to consent to the existence of a construction which was previously approved or built by a neighbouring state. This means that artificial islands may no longer be constructed and then claimed as sovereign states, or as state territories, for the purposes of extension of an exclusive economic zone or of territorial waters.
Note that this means that Sealand's claim must be legitimate prior to 1982 in order to be grandfathered in.
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No, they'll keep doing it until they die. They have it in their heads that people want more sensationalism and "experts" who talk forcefully but don't know anything. Any decline in viewership is countered by piling on more.
. . . and only counts CO2 emissions.
Which is the most important thing right now. We did a lot to reduce NOx and CO in the '70s with catalytic converters, but does so by converting the pollutants into CO2. It also forces the engine to run at a fuel/air mixture that isn't optimal for all driving conditions (which is being addressed of late by direct injection systems).
Further, those pollutants don't last all that long in the atmosphere. If you cut out all emissions today, their effects would be almost gone within a decade. CO2 lasts much longer, and certain feedback effects might be around long after the gas itself is removed.
We need to be aggressively pursuing solutions to CO2 emissions, and if that means backing off a bit on NOx/CO/particulates, it'll be worth it.
Wankels have their own problems, like the apex seals needing to be impossibily perfect.
Mind you, I really like Wankels, and the Renesis design eliminated a lot of the old problems (like overlap in the intake and exahust ports). But it's like a girlfriend who's attractive, intellegent, and funny, but has a bit of lisp. You know her flaws, but might love her any way.
An IC engine isn't operating anywhere near peak torque until it gets close to red line. It gets worse if you've got a turbocharger. Since you're accelerating slowly, that 5hp will make a difference, especially if the gear change is made before 3k rpm.
That's why I always slam on the gas as often as possible. It's for the environment, you see.
Making a new car creates a lot of CO2 in itself. "Emissions" usually mean particulate, not CO2. Confusing these two forms of pollution is a big problem.
The Prius is a red herring. The most eco-friendly car you can buy is a 20 year old Geo Metro.
A/C compressers in cars don't use much power, though. Maybe 5hp, at most. You'd get more efficiency by cutting out weight.
However, is suspect that would only work in a shallow sea, and kill a lot of the life in that sea. Mostly, it would defeat the purpose of the seeding.
Yes, but not just because of the kill off of life. The reason algae blooms kill everything off is because they decay anerobically (sucking up O2 and releasing CO2). If you're deep enough, this isn't a big deal, but near the surface the CO2 will just get released again.
http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.9/ext/B/B/Bytecode.pm:
NOTICE
There are also undocumented bugs and options.
THIS CODE IS HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
AUTHORS
Originally written by Malcolm Beattie and modified by Benjamin Stuhl .
Rewritten by Enache Adrian , 2003 a.d.
B::Bytecode is an experimental feature that's been largly abandoned since 2003. Perl5 is too much of a mess to make a bytecode compiler work. That's why Parrot exists.
Perl 5 isn't really bytecode at all. It basically just walks the parse tree directly.
Perl 6/Parrot is bytecode just as those from Python or Java have come to expect. Perl 5 could be reimplemented this way, but nobody seems to want to bother.
If your goal is to obfuscate your code to prevent people from copying it, please give up.
Version 1 is supposed to be reasonably complete and provide a consistent API for language developers.
Version 2 is intended to be the production-ready version. According to the roadmap laid out last Dec., that's due to come in another year. So far, they've stuck to the roadmap pretty well.
They've also been hit with criminal fines of over $585 million.
The Tesla can already charge in less than 4 if you have a 240V plug. But if you want much faster than that, the battery technology needs to improve.
Assuming this tech works out, you'll see current gas stations get a flywheel for energy storage and charge the battery in a few minutes.
Fast recharge and discharge go hand-in-hand. This will particularly improve the range of electric/hybrid cars, since regenerative breaking is limited right now by how fast the battery can take in all that power.
I don't see it improving the overall charge time of a car from a household plug, though. The limit there is that 120VAC just isn't enough. You can double up a circuit to get 240VAC, and in fact high draw appliances (like electric dryers) often already do in the US.
If dealerships are smart, they'll contract the services of local electricians to put a 240VAC plug in customers' garages and roll the cost into the overall financing.
My preference for a french press comes after a few years of daily improvements. If your coffee doesn't have a sweet flavor behind it, you did it wrong. And I don't give two rat turds about elitisim.
From a legal and short term financial standpoint, sure. However, the end result will be that established partners will themselves go belly-up, or that they'll try to find an alternative. So it is Microsoft's problem, in so far as it changes their future business prospects in the region.
Water vapor is near the saturation point nearly everywhere in the atmosphere. The only place where this isn't true is the polar regions, where most of the water has been frozen out of the air. It's here that CO2 will have its biggest effect. Also, exactly the last place where you want temperatures to rise.
Currently existing oil was conviently put there with the deaths of billions of billions of algae cells. Lets leave their bodies where they are.
The key phrse is not just "Climate Change", but "Anthropogenic Climate Change". In other words, the climate provably changing due to specific human activities. This not only covers the greenhouse effect of CO2, but also things like overgrazing causing desterification.
Since you like metaphors, if you're playing poker with your existence at stake, would you go all-in before looking at your cards?
Yes.
How do you nullify and change that cert? If the answer is "you don't", then how do you deal with someone breaking that cert (either through cryptanaylisis or getting access to the machine)?
OTOH, do you really need to secure wireless networks at all?
I dunno. What will the climate change critics do when it shows that the theories are spot on?
Connecting to the SMTP port directly and writing ASCII in base 13 is better than Outlook.
The study claims a 5% margin of error, with a 95% confidence. That's a bit on the high side for these sorts of studies, but it's good enough to validate the 99% figure.
It may not be a good random sample, though.
Nope, the proposed frequency is the same as microwave ovens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_satellite#Wireless_power_transmission_to_the_Earth:
To minimize the sizes of the antennas used, the wavelength should be small (and frequency correspondingly high) since antenna efficiency increases as antenna size increases relative to the wavelength used. More precisely, both for the transmitting and receiving antennas, the angular beam width is inversely proportional to the aperture of the antenna, measured in units of the transmission wavelength. The highest frequencies that can be used are limited by atmospheric absorption (chiefly water vapor and CO2) at higher microwave frequencies.
For these reasons, 2.45 GHz has been proposed as being a reasonable compromise. However, that frequency results in large antenna sizes at the GEO distance. A loitering stratospheric airship has been proposed to receive higher frequencies (or even laser beams), converting them to something like 2.45 GHz for retransmission to the ground. This proposal has not been as carefully evaluated for engineering plausibility as have other aspects of SPS design; it will likely present problems for continuous coverage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#Principles
A microwave oven works by passing non-ionizing microwave radiation, usually at a frequency of 2.45 gigahertz (GHz) (a wavelength of 12.24 centimetres (4.82 in), through the food.
(Emphisis mine)
There is also some infared wavelengths that can be used, but IIRC, they're less efficient.
An architecture like this is useful for massively parallel algorithms. It could theoretically outperform modern desktop or server systems within that domain.
In fact, a rebuild of COLOSSUS was estimated to be 240 times slower than a modern desktop at decoding old German cryptographic signals. That might not sound that good, but if you run Moore's Law in reverse over 60 years, you should get a factor a lot higher than 240.
The estimates I've seen put the lifespan more within 20 years, which is too short to make an economic case.
Like GPS, the first group to do SBSP is probably going to be the military, since they have reasons for getting power into remote areas that aren't strictly economic.
Taking the assumption that Sealand is a legitimate nation (for the sake of argument), I'm afraid you can no longer replicate that success on with an oil rig. The first problem is that nations have extended their territories into international waters a lot farther since Sealand was founded. If Sealand hadn't already been claimed, it would be in England's territory today.
Secondly, a 1982 international law forbids artifical structures from being made into countries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_Sealand#Territorial_limits
According to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, there is no transitional law and no possibility to consent to the existence of a construction which was previously approved or built by a neighbouring state. This means that artificial islands may no longer be constructed and then claimed as sovereign states, or as state territories, for the purposes of extension of an exclusive economic zone or of territorial waters.
Note that this means that Sealand's claim must be legitimate prior to 1982 in order to be grandfathered in.