IANAP (I Am Not A Physicist)...just a lowly architecture major, but I am assuming if an engine is relying on heat input as a sort of fuel, than a lack of heat differential would be problematic.
Its exactly like connecting an internal combustion engine up to a nearly infinite tank of gasoline. Its not a perpetual motion machine, it simply has a fuel source that is seemingly infinite (in this case, heat).
And do you know why that video wasn't shown in the US? Because if it was, every person of Arab (or any "brown-skinned") descent living in the US would instantly be of high risk of hate crimes.
That godawful-place, NM, is Nutt, NM. (It was the nearest point on a map to where I lived for 2 years, 7 miles away) Long distance phone charges out there add up fast enough that your internet college degree will end up costing as much as a real one.
I beg to differ...I am a proffessional 3D modeler...and I partake in several industry discussion groups/forums filled w/ like proffessionals. The topic of new machines/building your own/buying from Boxx/etc comes up very often, and the majority of purchasers of 3D modeling/rendering stations are opting for 1-2GB of RAM. For machines that are meant to only be part of a renderfarm, 512MB is common (but quickly giving ground to 1GB), but for workstations where a comibination of Photoshop, 3DStudio/Maya, and a video editing app. are the expected use, 1-2GB is the norm. Most people would go to 4GB if the benefit was there (unfortuneately stability limitation is on hardware and OS).
Besides the active desktop stuff (which was the visible "free" update to W95) there were significant enhancements in Win98...there was siginificant work in filenaming (8.3) problems...and there was a lot of core development (Win98 eliminated all the legacy Win3X 16bit core components). And the active desktop stuff ran much faster and much more stable in 98 than on 95(or NT4)....and once IE4.5 came out, you could no longer download active desktop for any version of Windows. It was only available as part of the IE4.0 and 4.1 install.
Now, a better comparison is the Win98 to Win98SE upgrade (which was not downloadable but was free if you paid shipping and handling of $25 I believe)
And when the 1.5GHz CPUs come out later this year they will be the fastest procs in their class, period What other processors are available in its class? DEC Alpha (which is dying quickly). Hammer isn't available yet.
I don't think that ppl want another PC OS, remember BeOS? So the Linux movement should give up right now?
hesitant to extrapolate from its acceptance to the acceptance of a car that runs on entirely different fuel, and requires a now-nonexistent fuel infrastructure.
I'm sick and tired of the infrastructure argument. It has happened before....we used to have an infrastructure of hay and grains to power our Horse 'n Buggies. Initially people had to carry their automotive fuel with them, and keep barrels at home. The first gas station only had a 50 gallon capacity. But yet the automobile sure took off, and the infrastructure followed. As long as the infrastructure conversion cost is outweighed by the need and/or desire to switch, it will happen. That said, current infrastructure doesn't have to go out the window. It is feasible that initially gas stations could add small bacterial refineries to process from their already existing gasoline tanks. Would probably work fairly well for initial converts, small capacity for the small demand. When demand increases, specialized stations will start appearing (notice its not hard to get propane).
LA's air pollution problem will never go away. Local geography traps the smog layer over a series of warm, dry vallies that get very little in the way of air circulation. Compare to San Diego (the 6th largest city in the US), which is in the same region but has a drastically lower amount of air pollution, even when the population difference is taken into consideration. And San Diego gets a lot more pollution from military bases (heavy polluters, and San Diego has more military personel than any other city in the world)...so the smog isn't from the air pollution restrictions (California's are the strictest in the US, and some of the strictest in the world) but rather geographical and weather issues. Oh, and LA is nowhere near being a dense city...its thousands of square miles of suburbia.
Actually....in the episode where the Mensa society runs Springfield, Stephen Hawking shows up, and at the end says: "Homer, your idea of a doughnut-shaped universe is intriguing. I must steal it for my next book."
i know filesharing turns on w/ certain configurations....but it still relies on existing user controls...my point is that there isn't a 'default' password
I don't remeber there being default passwords on Windows file sharing (have setup multiple filesharing networks, both w/ Win domains/active directory and w/out)....weak passwords I'd expect, but default?
but people knew it would happen...it wasn't like the power went out in a flash....any anyways, the shit hangs around for quite a while...my point is its not an instantaneous power down...and if its going down, people have advance warning
Cows have to be milked twice a day (most dairys start a milking at about midnight and another at about noon)
a dairy doesn't go out of business/disappear/stop working overnight...its a pretty constant system...and its tied into the normal power grid, so even if the generator went offline for some reason, there should still be ample power available...we're talking 80 homes and a dairy here....not the biggest power consumption...
The farmer is calling this the "way of the future".
Its not the way of the future for you moron, its the way of the future for the farmer. The farmer knows how much electricity he outputs...and knows full well this will not be the way to produce electricity for cities, etc. But it can become quite an efficient and usefull method for small rural communities. And it cuts down on air pollution significantly.
if you have a dairy, it is not called a dairy ranch, it is called a dairy farm. BTW, the "dairy" itself is only the building where the cows are actually milked, not the whole farm.
most of the cows in the midwest are spread out on open ranges...you'll spend a lot more for the trucks of people w/ shovels collecting cow patties then you will save
it would be a very inefficient way of producing electricity...the only reason why this works is because the cows are all penned up on a farm (not spread out on the range)....my grandfather has a dairy of about 1000 cows...corraling them and penning them costs a lot of money....a lot more money than is covered by the electric bills of 80 or so homes. The only reason why this method of generating electricity is effective is because the cows are already offset their feed and care costs through the milk they provide. This farmer was just a ingenious in how to cut his costs while reducing waste. If we only kept cows for producing shit to feed a power plant, we wouldn't be able to make enough money off the plant to feed the cows....and you cant leave cows in a pasture and only bring them in to shit...cows shit non-stop....and sending tractors into a field to collect the shit wouldn't work either...you'd spend too much time, effort, and fuel (hydrocarbon or electric) in the collection process.
Just because vegan works for a small population within a much much larger culture, doesn't mean it works at the culture level. Face it, there is no way that your vegan foods and products could be produced and reach you without the use of non-vegan/environmentalist-despised methods somewhere in the process.
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After which you'll probably understand very well references to nethack's 'You are in a maze of twisty little passages all alike.'
Funny, I remember that exact phrase from Zork.
IANAP (I Am Not A Physicist)...just a lowly architecture major, but I am assuming if an engine is relying on heat input as a sort of fuel, than a lack of heat differential would be problematic.
Its exactly like connecting an internal combustion engine up to a nearly infinite tank of gasoline. Its not a perpetual motion machine, it simply has a fuel source that is seemingly infinite (in this case, heat).
And do you know why that video wasn't shown in the US? Because if it was, every person of Arab (or any "brown-skinned") descent living in the US would instantly be of high risk of hate crimes.
That godawful-place, NM, is Nutt, NM. (It was the nearest point on a map to where I lived for 2 years, 7 miles away) Long distance phone charges out there add up fast enough that your internet college degree will end up costing as much as a real one.
Actually, there is a 64bit version of Windows 2000 Server....so I don't buy into the rumor that Microsoft isn't supporting Opteron.
Few people go above 512MB, even for 3D rendering
I beg to differ...I am a proffessional 3D modeler...and I partake in several industry discussion groups/forums filled w/ like proffessionals. The topic of new machines/building your own/buying from Boxx/etc comes up very often, and the majority of purchasers of 3D modeling/rendering stations are opting for 1-2GB of RAM. For machines that are meant to only be part of a renderfarm, 512MB is common (but quickly giving ground to 1GB), but for workstations where a comibination of Photoshop, 3DStudio/Maya, and a video editing app. are the expected use, 1-2GB is the norm. Most people would go to 4GB if the benefit was there (unfortuneately stability limitation is on hardware and OS).
Besides the active desktop stuff (which was the visible "free" update to W95) there were significant enhancements in Win98...there was siginificant work in filenaming (8.3) problems...and there was a lot of core development (Win98 eliminated all the legacy Win3X 16bit core components). And the active desktop stuff ran much faster and much more stable in 98 than on 95(or NT4)....and once IE4.5 came out, you could no longer download active desktop for any version of Windows. It was only available as part of the IE4.0 and 4.1 install.
Now, a better comparison is the Win98 to Win98SE upgrade (which was not downloadable but was free if you paid shipping and handling of $25 I believe)
And when the 1.5GHz CPUs come out later this year they will be the fastest procs in their class, period
What other processors are available in its class? DEC Alpha (which is dying quickly). Hammer isn't available yet.
I don't think that ppl want another PC OS, remember BeOS?
So the Linux movement should give up right now?
initially automobiles were in no way an improvement over horses either....but people spent years and a lot of R&D to make them practical
hesitant to extrapolate from its acceptance to the acceptance of a car that runs on entirely different fuel, and requires a now-nonexistent fuel infrastructure.
I'm sick and tired of the infrastructure argument. It has happened before....we used to have an infrastructure of hay and grains to power our Horse 'n Buggies. Initially people had to carry their automotive fuel with them, and keep barrels at home. The first gas station only had a 50 gallon capacity. But yet the automobile sure took off, and the infrastructure followed. As long as the infrastructure conversion cost is outweighed by the need and/or desire to switch, it will happen. That said, current infrastructure doesn't have to go out the window. It is feasible that initially gas stations could add small bacterial refineries to process from their already existing gasoline tanks. Would probably work fairly well for initial converts, small capacity for the small demand. When demand increases, specialized stations will start appearing (notice its not hard to get propane).
Apparently the author of the article hasn't seen the television reception in my apartment....
I agree w/ everything you said except for this:
A perfect example is your own LA
LA's air pollution problem will never go away. Local geography traps the smog layer over a series of warm, dry vallies that get very little in the way of air circulation. Compare to San Diego (the 6th largest city in the US), which is in the same region but has a drastically lower amount of air pollution, even when the population difference is taken into consideration. And San Diego gets a lot more pollution from military bases (heavy polluters, and San Diego has more military personel than any other city in the world)...so the smog isn't from the air pollution restrictions (California's are the strictest in the US, and some of the strictest in the world) but rather geographical and weather issues. Oh, and LA is nowhere near being a dense city...its thousands of square miles of suburbia.
Scary thing is, I was an econ/poli sci major
And I was an architecture major. Didn't stop me from getting the letters.
except that there are theories that other 'insides' exist in the 'outside'....complicated as that may seem
Actually....in the episode where the Mensa society runs Springfield, Stephen Hawking shows up, and at the end says: "Homer, your idea of a doughnut-shaped universe is intriguing. I must steal it for my next book."
i know filesharing turns on w/ certain configurations....but it still relies on existing user controls...my point is that there isn't a 'default' password
I don't remeber there being default passwords on Windows file sharing (have setup multiple filesharing networks, both w/ Win domains/active directory and w/out)....weak passwords I'd expect, but default?
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Just a point of fact:
Zealand (Sjælland) is the island in Denmark where Copenhagen (København) is located.
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Just a point of fact:
Zealand (Zeeland) is the province of the Netherlands where Middleburg (Middelburg) is located.
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but people knew it would happen...it wasn't like the power went out in a flash....any anyways, the shit hangs around for quite a while...my point is its not an instantaneous power down...and if its going down, people have advance warning
Cows have to be milked twice a day (most dairys start a milking at about midnight and another at about noon)
a dairy doesn't go out of business/disappear/stop working overnight...its a pretty constant system...and its tied into the normal power grid, so even if the generator went offline for some reason, there should still be ample power available...we're talking 80 homes and a dairy here....not the biggest power consumption...
The farmer is calling this the "way of the future".
Its not the way of the future for you moron, its the way of the future for the farmer. The farmer knows how much electricity he outputs...and knows full well this will not be the way to produce electricity for cities, etc. But it can become quite an efficient and usefull method for small rural communities. And it cuts down on air pollution significantly.
coming from a long line of dairymen...
if you have a dairy, it is not called a dairy ranch, it is called a dairy farm. BTW, the "dairy" itself is only the building where the cows are actually milked, not the whole farm.
this only works with cows that are penned up
most of the cows in the midwest are spread out on open ranges...you'll spend a lot more for the trucks of people w/ shovels collecting cow patties then you will save
it would be a very inefficient way of producing electricity...the only reason why this works is because the cows are all penned up on a farm (not spread out on the range)....my grandfather has a dairy of about 1000 cows...corraling them and penning them costs a lot of money....a lot more money than is covered by the electric bills of 80 or so homes. The only reason why this method of generating electricity is effective is because the cows are already offset their feed and care costs through the milk they provide. This farmer was just a ingenious in how to cut his costs while reducing waste. If we only kept cows for producing shit to feed a power plant, we wouldn't be able to make enough money off the plant to feed the cows....and you cant leave cows in a pasture and only bring them in to shit...cows shit non-stop....and sending tractors into a field to collect the shit wouldn't work either...you'd spend too much time, effort, and fuel (hydrocarbon or electric) in the collection process.
Just because vegan works for a small population within a much much larger culture, doesn't mean it works at the culture level. Face it, there is no way that your vegan foods and products could be produced and reach you without the use of non-vegan/environmentalist-despised methods somewhere in the process.