is that, much like asbestos, they are harmless until disturbed. My college runs alot of it's electrical transformers with pcb coolant - it works really well, and when they finally have to remove it, the only thing they will be able to do is knock a hole in the basement wall and carry the entire machine out.
But the article raises a good point: conventional methods of power generation (for example) are only "cheaper" because the bulk of their expense comes in the form of incidental medical expenses incurred by the community. The power company can light up your lightbulbs cheaply, but if they had to pay all of the cancer and lung health expenses caused by the smoke they pour into the air, even mr. Gates himself wouldn't be able to afford the electricity.
This boils down to an adult version of pushing your vegetables around your plate because you don't want to eat them. In the end, the solution is clear: invest in the research and development of solar and wind based technologies. These power sources are cleaner than fossil fuel tech, and most of their cost is in the form of people: solar and wind tech employs more people (at all skill levels) than any fossil fuel tech. If you count the incidental health costs, solar is cheaper than coal, and even without the health costs, solar is competitive in many areas.
In the end, the headline reads correctly in either direction: pollution causes stupidity, and stupidity causes pollution.
For more info, check out www.homepower.com, a great online solar resource.
is that in the business world, we vote with our dollars. If we receive spam from a fly-by-nighter, we just don't use their product (not that we would anyway). But what do we do when we get spam from Sony[TM]? Again, we must vote with our dollars, and make it clear that we will not buy their product until they cut out the immature marketing style.
And that's the problem. I want to make my voice heard, but I want to buy cool, sexy tech toys even more so. I don't wanna stop buying Sony stuff. So when I see a cool company sending spam, I'm forced to choose between buying to make a political statement and buying because the product is good.
256k lbs, according to this. Or is that just the rocket they're using to move it.?
and to all the people who said it's easier to move something in space, the answer is NO. The object is very massive, and is already moving in an incorrect direction at high speed. So the work involved is not in "moving" the object, but rather in changing it's inertia: The thrust must be in such a direction and force that the average of the of the way it was going and the thrust of the rocket is equal to the direction and speed you want it to go.
I'd like to mention that along with digital cameras, the market has also offered up several inkjet printers that can print images straight off the camera - no computer nessecary!
OK, end of troll. To be fair, both these printers are sold by Lexmark, and I am an employee thereof. On the other hand, I'm also a 5770 owner, and it really performs. I quit using film the day I hooked it up.
and, o'course, the fact that you can buy a cd to allow the 5770 to run on Solaris never hurts:)
Judge Pag is a character from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. He was a judge, though he never judgemental, and indeed rarely sober.
Pag is sort of my alter-ego, the kind of person I would want to be if I wasn't so darn busy being the person I am. I'm not learned, I'm not impartial, and I'm usually not very relaxed. but a geek can dream, can't he?
As soon as a person is accused of an internet crime, create and publish some believeable yet absolutely fake backstory that brings the evidence into doubt
to be fair, though the govt. was asking for it. Arresting somebody based on something as unsubstantial as an irc chat was bound to backfire.
I know that when I was a kid I would have gladly claimed responsibility for some hack if it made complete strangers admire me. But I was young and stupid then. Fortunately, I'm not young anymore.
A web page is illegal. Therefore, a web page linking to it is illegal. Therefore, a page that links to it is illegal. Therefore..... "Head for the hills, Martha, Thuh japs' are takin' the web!" I'm gonna go hide in a corner now.
And more importantly, if I turn myself in, do I get some sort of reward?
If I am marked for being highly depressed about my grades (which I am) and highly likely to snap and take out a post office full of innocent bystanders (which I am not), do they actually help me, or do they just watch?
Yes, it travels faster than the speed of light, but exactly *how* fast does the signal travel?
I assume it's not instantaneous. If that were so, the words "travel" and "faster" wouldn't apply. Ultimately, this technology will be used to aid in space exploration, so the question is, how helpful will it be? It takes 6 hours to get data from a satellite orbiting jupiter now, so will it take 3 hours with the new tech? 3 minutes? what?
Burn it in an appropriate ritual of cleansing and casting out of demons? Doe aol run on linux? or unix for that matter? I wasn't aware of any such support.
That the south park movie is not about censorship - it about making a movie that immature people (of all ages) will watch and enjoy, preferably leaving a bit of money behind in the process.
Which, of course, does not make it less enjoyable in any way:)
I'm only going to say this about drugs, kids... STAY AWAY FROM THEM! There's a time and a place for everything.... and it called "college
"Remember that metrics/english conversion we didn't make, how it made the martian thingy crash?"
"Yeah Frank, I remember that. Why do you ask?"
Well, the jupiter thingy has the same error. I think it's gonna crash too"
"Jehosephat, Bob! Quick! Release a press statement that we're going to do it on purpose in order to... um... um... Save The Environment! yeah, that's the trick"
of postings, the next 10,000 will take roughly 2.5 weeks.
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not only am I willing to work for free, I'm willing to pay for the right to work.
And I'm not alone.
missionaries. Interns. volunteers. And yes, linux programmers.
All of these people spend money in order to gain the right to work in their fields. And most of the examples listed don't even get you experience in a profitable field (I mean, how do you compete with all the people behind you that are willing to do it for free?).
So why do they do it? When it comes down to it, there's only one reason: They know that when they take of their blue jeans at night and look at the mirror, they're looking at the only thing they really have. Money disapears way too fast. Friends come and go, no matter how hard you fight it. And all the degrees in the world won't help you if you don't know what you're doing. When they look in the mirror, they are looking at themselves - the sum of what they know, what they understand, what they have experienced, and - most importantly - the choices they have made. They do these things because it profits them in the only way that matters: it makes them better people.
It's called voluntary simplicity. If you refuse to pay for something, people will do it for free. It's one of the spookiest things in the world. And does the government abuse this? You betcha fur.
And if you can't get free medicine, you're either not looking hard enough, or you're just too male and too white to qualify:)
The most obvious problem I see is that "all the matter you touch and see" isn't 20% of the universe.
.00000000000000001% of the universe would be more like it.
The problem is that not only is dark matter theoretical - most non-dark (enlightened?) matter is also theoretical. Pluto, the center of the sun, heck even the center of the earth - all these are recognized only in theory.
It's nitpicking, but it's important to realize this. Because someday somebody's going to find out what the REAL contents of the universe are. and maybe modern theory will be just a little bit off, but close. Or maybe we'll find out that the vast majority of the universe is made out of licorice flavored jelly beans.
As silly as that sounds, the "dark matter" theory and the "licorice" theory stand on equal ground scientifically until the actual proof of the matter comes in.
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This is interesting. We see more and more people willing to donate money in order to keep "free" things - free medicine, software, museums, etc...
The conclusion? apparently, some people are less concerned about the amount of money the spend and more concerned about the amount of privacy they spend. The only true advantage to "free" software is that you don't have to give somebody's bastard marketing corp your home address/credit card #/blood type in order to use it.
one must wonder how far this paranoia can carry us - might there be a future in "free" telephones, electrical power, who knows what?
hmmm... *evil grin* open source playboy. Oh, nevermind, just thinking out loud.
ah, but anti missile lasers are, at this moment, in violation of nuclear arms treaty.
At the same time, the fact that a missile can be shot down is all the more reason to graduate up to dropping asteroid bits - you can shoot'm a thousand times, all you do is spread the damage out.
It's noteworthy that an rock the size of, say, a small car, launched (dropped) from high orbit could and would hit the earth with enough force to generate atomic bomb scale destruction - only with no radiation. the next weapon of mass destruction perhaps?
I recommend dl'ing the movie!
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It's just a 5 second clip showing the robot in motion, but it really is breathtaking!
not to write secure web pages that allow html to be used. I mean, it's fine to allow html on a chat forum (like this one), but on a credit card form? I hope there aren't any real ites out there that are that unsecure.
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is that, much like asbestos, they are harmless until disturbed. My college runs alot of it's electrical transformers with pcb coolant - it works really well, and when they finally have to remove it, the only thing they will be able to do is knock a hole in the basement wall and carry the entire machine out.
But the article raises a good point: conventional methods of power generation (for example) are only "cheaper" because the bulk of their expense comes in the form of incidental medical expenses incurred by the community. The power company can light up your lightbulbs cheaply, but if they had to pay all of the cancer and lung health expenses caused by the smoke they pour into the air, even mr. Gates himself wouldn't be able to afford the electricity.
This boils down to an adult version of pushing your vegetables around your plate because you don't want to eat them. In the end, the solution is clear: invest in the research and development of solar and wind based technologies. These power sources are cleaner than fossil fuel tech, and most of their cost is in the form of people: solar and wind tech employs more people (at all skill levels) than any fossil fuel tech. If you count the incidental health costs, solar is cheaper than coal, and even without the health costs, solar is competitive in many areas.
In the end, the headline reads correctly in either direction: pollution causes stupidity, and stupidity causes pollution.
For more info, check out www.homepower.com, a great online solar resource.
is that in the business world, we vote with our dollars. If we receive spam from a fly-by-nighter, we just don't use their product (not that we would anyway). But what do we do when we get spam from Sony[TM]? Again, we must vote with our dollars, and make it clear that we will not buy their product until they cut out the immature marketing style.
And that's the problem. I want to make my voice heard, but I want to buy cool, sexy tech toys even more so. I don't wanna stop buying Sony stuff. So when I see a cool company sending spam, I'm forced to choose between buying to make a political statement and buying because the product is good.
thin is the line we tread.
Oh yeah...
I keep forgetting that whole "Earth is round" thing. :)
256k lbs, according to this. Or is that just the rocket they're using to move it.?
and to all the people who said it's easier to move something in space, the answer is NO. The object is very massive, and is already moving in an incorrect direction at high speed. So the work involved is not in "moving" the object, but rather in changing it's inertia: The thrust must be in such a direction and force that the average of the of the way it was going and the thrust of the rocket is equal to the direction and speed you want it to go.
For instance, check out the Lexmark 5770 which can print images off of flash cards from most digital cameras. Also, take a look at the Kodak PM100 which can print pics from the following cameras.
OK, end of troll. To be fair, both these printers are sold by Lexmark, and I am an employee thereof. On the other hand, I'm also a 5770 owner, and it really performs. I quit using film the day I hooked it up.
and, o'course, the fact that you can buy a cd to allow the 5770 to run on Solaris never hurts :)
Judge Pag is a character from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. He was a judge, though he never judgemental, and indeed rarely sober.
Pag is sort of my alter-ego, the kind of person I would want to be if I wasn't so darn busy being the person I am. I'm not learned, I'm not impartial, and I'm usually not very relaxed. but a geek can dream, can't he?
As soon as a person is accused of an internet crime, create and publish some believeable yet absolutely fake backstory that brings the evidence into doubt
to be fair, though the govt. was asking for it. Arresting somebody based on something as unsubstantial as an irc chat was bound to backfire.
I know that when I was a kid I would have gladly claimed responsibility for some hack if it made complete strangers admire me. But I was young and stupid then. Fortunately, I'm not young anymore.
A web page is illegal. Therefore, a web page linking to it is illegal. Therefore, a page that links to it is illegal. Therefore..... "Head for the hills, Martha, Thuh japs' are takin' the web!" I'm gonna go hide in a corner now.
Why to all the aliens have french accents?
Am I the only one afraid of what a thousand hackers will do when gathered into a small area on april fool's day?
And more importantly, if I turn myself in, do I get some sort of reward?
If I am marked for being highly depressed about my grades (which I am) and highly likely to snap and take out a post office full of innocent bystanders (which I am not), do they actually help me, or do they just watch?
I don't care if it's a text-based zork rip off, if I can play rpg while listening to the Imperial March, I'll pay.
Yes, it travels faster than the speed of light, but exactly *how* fast does the signal travel?
I assume it's not instantaneous. If that were so, the words "travel" and "faster" wouldn't apply. Ultimately, this technology will be used to aid in space exploration, so the question is, how helpful will it be? It takes 6 hours to get data from a satellite orbiting jupiter now, so will it take 3 hours with the new tech? 3 minutes? what?
Burn it in an appropriate ritual of cleansing and casting out of demons? Doe aol run on linux? or unix for that matter? I wasn't aware of any such support.
That the south park movie is not about censorship - it about making a movie that immature people (of all ages) will watch and enjoy, preferably leaving a bit of money behind in the process.
Which, of course, does not make it less enjoyable in any way :)
I'm only going to say this about drugs, kids... STAY AWAY FROM THEM! There's a time and a place for everything.... and it called "college
"hey Bob?"
"Yeah Frank"
"Remember that metrics/english conversion we didn't make, how it made the martian thingy crash?"
"Yeah Frank, I remember that. Why do you ask?"
Well, the jupiter thingy has the same error. I think it's gonna crash too"
"Jehosephat, Bob! Quick! Release a press statement that we're going to do it on purpose in order to... um... um... Save The Environment! yeah, that's the trick"
"I wish I were smart like you, Frank."
I must have missed that past article. The cd's seem to have their ends clipped off. can the cdrom read them that way?
of postings, the next 10,000 will take roughly 2.5 weeks.
not only am I willing to work for free, I'm willing to pay for the right to work.
And I'm not alone.
missionaries. Interns. volunteers. And yes, linux programmers.
All of these people spend money in order to gain the right to work in their fields. And most of the examples listed don't even get you experience in a profitable field (I mean, how do you compete with all the people behind you that are willing to do it for free?).
So why do they do it? When it comes down to it, there's only one reason: They know that when they take of their blue jeans at night and look at the mirror, they're looking at the only thing they really have. Money disapears way too fast. Friends come and go, no matter how hard you fight it. And all the degrees in the world won't help you if you don't know what you're doing. When they look in the mirror, they are looking at themselves - the sum of what they know, what they understand, what they have experienced, and - most importantly - the choices they have made. They do these things because it profits them in the only way that matters: it makes them better people.
It's called voluntary simplicity. If you refuse to pay for something, people will do it for free. It's one of the spookiest things in the world. And does the government abuse this? You betcha fur.
And if you can't get free medicine, you're either not looking hard enough, or you're just too male and too white to qualify :)
The most obvious problem I see is that "all the matter you touch and see" isn't 20% of the universe.
.00000000000000001% of the universe would be more like it.
The problem is that not only is dark matter theoretical - most non-dark (enlightened?) matter is also theoretical. Pluto, the center of the sun, heck even the center of the earth - all these are recognized only in theory.
It's nitpicking, but it's important to realize this. Because someday somebody's going to find out what the REAL contents of the universe are. and maybe modern theory will be just a little bit off, but close. Or maybe we'll find out that the vast majority of the universe is made out of licorice flavored jelly beans.As silly as that sounds, the "dark matter" theory and the "licorice" theory stand on equal ground scientifically until the actual proof of the matter comes in.
The conclusion? apparently, some people are less concerned about the amount of money the spend and more concerned about the amount of privacy they spend. The only true advantage to "free" software is that you don't have to give somebody's bastard marketing corp your home address/credit card #/blood type in order to use it.
one must wonder how far this paranoia can carry us - might there be a future in "free" telephones, electrical power, who knows what?
hmmm... *evil grin* open source playboy. Oh, nevermind, just thinking out loud.
At the same time, the fact that a missile can be shot down is all the more reason to graduate up to dropping asteroid bits - you can shoot'm a thousand times, all you do is spread the damage out.
It's noteworthy that an rock the size of, say, a small car, launched (dropped) from high orbit could and would hit the earth with enough force to generate atomic bomb scale destruction - only with no radiation. the next weapon of mass destruction perhaps?
It's just a 5 second clip showing the robot in motion, but it really is breathtaking!
not to write secure web pages that allow html to be used. I mean, it's fine to allow html on a chat forum (like this one), but on a credit card form? I hope there aren't any real ites out there that are that unsecure.