It's a professional sporting event. Privately owned. Don't wanna play by the rules? You don't gotta play the game.
I'm not talking purely hypothetically either, it's the choice I made, although perhaps a bit easier choice for an American in the 70s. We didn't exactly have a lot of "cred" back then and things over there were not to most American's taste. For my part I'm not talking about the European culture. I loved Europe. I'm talking strictly about the bike racing culture. Those were still pretty much Prisoners of the Road days. Cycle racing was a blue collar sport, a way out of the factory job, but you were pretty much a serf to the team. Simply an employee of the sponsor.
That upstart kid Greg something or other went over there though. He managed to at least partially rewrite the rules. Go figure; and good for him. They needed a bit of rewriting. He made his team an independent business entity from the sponsor, in the American model. That changed things.
But then he didn't want to wear the jacket his mom made for him either. He wanted to wear the yellow jersey.
Well, yeah, if I could actually impulse buy a twinkie in the supermarket I guess I'd pick up the condoms then too. Only makes sense. You don't know where she's been, but you can imagine.
I'm afraid we have laws against that around here though.
I'm not missing any part of the equation. I'm quite familiar with it.
Go get an acre of land, plug it into itself, as I also challange the "free energy" people to do with their machines. See how you do. I'm serious. Do It!
Well, there are some advantages to doing it "over there."
I have not addressed pollution at all. I haven't even addressed oil directly. I'm talking about energy.
I live in upstate NY, not too far from the southern boundry of the Adirondack Forest Preserve. Six million acres. If you flew over my city of only 60,000 you'd be hard pressed to spot a tree. Ironic, isn't it?
There is no such word as "alot," and if there is, there shouldn't be. It's "a lot." Two words, not one.
That is really some thing, innit? None the less . . .
I hope he's on salary, otherwise he may have justification for not agreeing with that.
. ..once in a while the architect will encounter a novel idea that he wouldn't have considered simply because that isn't the way its done.
Have you looked at modern buildings? This is not their problem.
. ..the rate of the passage of time is not a constant!
And I'm prepared to offer you an explanation of why, but if you don't have a foundation in High School algebra first I'm going to have to ask you to sign up for classes, because it's going to take an inordinate amount of my time otherwise.
the aforementioned subfloor radiant heating
Went up the walls too. Pretty neat system. Of course they didn't have the fuel/energy transport systems that we do now.
And just put the walls in between where the grass has stopped growing.
You personally can get all the hippee environmental technology you want, you just have to pay 2x or 3x or 10x for it.
Usually because of all the extra fossil fuels it takes to keep it going. Not only does the hydrogen need the energy added to it in the first place, but platinum does not mine and refine itself. Biofuel schemes all overlook the amount of energy needed to grow the plants in the first place, like the gas/petrol in that harvester over there, which itself consumed a lot of fuel to create it.
Virtually all schemes for "alternatives" to oil amount to "can you please burn 10% more of it over there, where I'm not looking? Thank you. I feel so much better now."
It's the same way makers of "perpetual motion" machines demonstrate that they "work." They plug them into the wall.
I've got a dashiki and a peace sign around somewhere. I used to actually wear them. I wear ancient, unsewn clothing today. Sandals even. I've hugged a tree. I grow some of my own food in an urban setting. I ride a bicycle. I don't own a car. There's a tipi folded up in a corner of the room, right over there. If I designed a city you couldn't see it from the air. The trees would be all in the way and shit.
That means I can't really create a correct blueprint.
Neither can most architects.
It doesn't preclude me coming up with a clever floorplan and asking an architect to turn it in to a usable blueprint.
But that doesn't prevent him from knowing the Romans already tried that; and why we don't do it much anymore (or, conversely, why we should start doing it again. Roman radiant heating systems had a lot going for them).
I'm not saying "don't try." I'm saying "research." It may save your architect a lot of grief.
Or you could just Ask Slashdot. Everyone else does.
Because every physicist has a layman's understanding of physics. Anything that you can come up with, they've already thought of it.
Tell it to the magnets are magic people - please! I'm tired of doing it.
. . . then he got bored and went away.
Because the magnet nuts never get bored or go away. They can fiddle with their "free energy" devices for frickin' ever. Their capacity to absorb failure (without ever absorbing a clue about why they fail) seems boundless. I've taken to calling them Weebles.
Thankfully this doesn't happen in computer science very often.
XML
From the question:
. ..carbon in non-gaseous form?
This idea has not only come up before, but some means of producing energy already employ it, at least partially. We even have a name for such non-gaseous carbon byproducts:
Soot.
Is anyone studying the possibility of fuel cells that have other output chemistry?
I can model the laws of physics, but I canna change them.
In any case, the last time I looked both water vapor and carbon dioxide were highly green "products," although you might well be surprised at which one of them is the more "dangerous" greenhouse gas.
. ..those who accept such contracts are generally fools.
a)True
b)A rather different issue:)
Nor a simple one, although I will posit that it seems likely a court would rule that a minor did not have legal understanding of the ramifications of the MyTube license when he posted his music video to it.
Not sure at all that this would have any serious ramifications on MyTube's business model.
It's clear (supposedly) whether it worked or not . ..
No. While it may be clear to people on the team that it "worked," it is not clear to anyone else that it "worked," ever, using the team's own data.
In fact, the team's own data is not consistent with the results they claim to have taken place. This is not merely a case of unreproducability.
Others attempts to duplicate the results with more sensitive equipment suggests that what is happening is "hopeful misinterpretation" of random events measured at the margin of error. Once one starts down this path and feels professionally commited it really isn't all that hard, for anybody, to go from "hopeful missinterpretation" into "panicked delusion," or, for some, dare I even say it, minor boughts of fraud.
In other words, it seems they've built themselves a very expensive N-ray detector.
i.e., the results are subjective. Only people who can see them can see them; and even they now express some puzzlement over what they believe they see, because they don't see what they think they're seeing.
If you want to a massive amount of people to see what you have created you have to give the website you are posting it to right to use it anyway they want.
Why?
If you want it so only you can redistribute it then very few people will likley see it.
Do you think that there might be something between these two extremes that might function, like, oooooooh, say, a limited license?
Slashdot Mirror
It's a professional sporting event. Privately owned. Don't wanna play by the rules? You don't gotta play the game.
I'm not talking purely hypothetically either, it's the choice I made, although perhaps a bit easier choice for an American in the 70s. We didn't exactly have a lot of "cred" back then and things over there were not to most American's taste. For my part I'm not talking about the European culture. I loved Europe. I'm talking strictly about the bike racing culture. Those were still pretty much Prisoners of the Road days. Cycle racing was a blue collar sport, a way out of the factory job, but you were pretty much a serf to the team. Simply an employee of the sponsor.
That upstart kid Greg something or other went over there though. He managed to at least partially rewrite the rules. Go figure; and good for him. They needed a bit of rewriting. He made his team an independent business entity from the sponsor, in the American model. That changed things.
But then he didn't want to wear the jacket his mom made for him either. He wanted to wear the yellow jersey.
KFG
1. Marginally increase the time between the self checkout's stages . . .
They do. Have you noticed why people here say they don't use them?
KFG
Well, yeah, if I could actually impulse buy a twinkie in the supermarket I guess I'd pick up the condoms then too. Only makes sense. You don't know where she's been, but you can imagine.
I'm afraid we have laws against that around here though.
KFG
The butler did it!
KFG
These are pulled out of my rear-end numbers. . .
.
Then I'm afraid that's what they're worth.
The part of the equation you're missing is. .
I'm not missing any part of the equation. I'm quite familiar with it.
Go get an acre of land, plug it into itself, as I also challange the "free energy" people to do with their machines. See how you do. I'm serious. Do It!
Well, there are some advantages to doing it "over there."
I have not addressed pollution at all. I haven't even addressed oil directly. I'm talking about energy.
KFG
The artsy stuff isn't novel. Its cretinous junk from someone who lacks the imagination to truly be novel.
Well, we're on the same page about something then.
KFG
How about just putting water in your car and doing electrolysis on it . . .
Pretty cool idea. All we'd need to do is load the car up with a bunch of batteries. . .
KFG
read this on how the oil industry won't let battery makers build NiMH batteries large enough for EVs
http://www.megabatteries.com/items.asp?cat_id=63
KFG
. . .apparently most people here at slashdot didn't already know this.
They're all busy trying to integrate Java and XML.
KFG
Ba-roomp-boomp!
Will Rogers: Mr. President, can I tell you all the latest jokes?
Calvin Coolidge: No need. I appointed them all.
KFG
Beautiful, man.
KFG
I live in upstate NY, not too far from the southern boundry of the Adirondack Forest Preserve. Six million acres. If you flew over my city of only 60,000 you'd be hard pressed to spot a tree. Ironic, isn't it?
There is no such word as "alot," and if there is, there shouldn't be. It's "a lot." Two words, not one.
That is really some thing, innit? None the less . . .
KFG
Meh. That's what I pay him for.
.once in a while the architect will encounter a novel idea that he wouldn't have considered simply because that isn't the way its done.
.the rate of the passage of time is not a constant!
I hope he's on salary, otherwise he may have justification for not agreeing with that.
. .
Have you looked at modern buildings? This is not their problem.
. .
And I'm prepared to offer you an explanation of why, but if you don't have a foundation in High School algebra first I'm going to have to ask you to sign up for classes, because it's going to take an inordinate amount of my time otherwise.
the aforementioned subfloor radiant heating
Went up the walls too. Pretty neat system. Of course they didn't have the fuel/energy transport systems that we do now.
And just put the walls in between where the grass has stopped growing.
KFG
Minors are a subset of teenagers, moron.
False. The sets intersect.
I may be a moron, but I'm a moron who has studied the legal rights of teenagers . . . and set theory.
KFG
You personally can get all the hippee environmental technology you want, you just have to pay 2x or 3x or 10x for it.
Usually because of all the extra fossil fuels it takes to keep it going. Not only does the hydrogen need the energy added to it in the first place, but platinum does not mine and refine itself. Biofuel schemes all overlook the amount of energy needed to grow the plants in the first place, like the gas/petrol in that harvester over there, which itself consumed a lot of fuel to create it.
Virtually all schemes for "alternatives" to oil amount to "can you please burn 10% more of it over there, where I'm not looking? Thank you. I feel so much better now."
It's the same way makers of "perpetual motion" machines demonstrate that they "work." They plug them into the wall.
I've got a dashiki and a peace sign around somewhere. I used to actually wear them. I wear ancient, unsewn clothing today. Sandals even. I've hugged a tree. I grow some of my own food in an urban setting. I ride a bicycle. I don't own a car. There's a tipi folded up in a corner of the room, right over there. If I designed a city you couldn't see it from the air. The trees would be all in the way and shit.
But I try not to let all of that make me stupid.
KFG
"What problem am I trying to solve?"
Could you write that really, really big across that wall over there, the one with the forehead dents in it?
Thanks, 'preciate it.
KFG
That means I can't really create a correct blueprint.
Neither can most architects.
It doesn't preclude me coming up with a clever floorplan and asking an architect to turn it in to a usable blueprint.
But that doesn't prevent him from knowing the Romans already tried that; and why we don't do it much anymore (or, conversely, why we should start doing it again. Roman radiant heating systems had a lot going for them).
I'm not saying "don't try." I'm saying "research." It may save your architect a lot of grief.
Or you could just Ask Slashdot. Everyone else does.
KFG
Because every physicist has a layman's understanding of physics. Anything that you can come up with, they've already thought of it.
.carbon in non-gaseous form?
Tell it to the magnets are magic people - please! I'm tired of doing it.
. . . then he got bored and went away.
Because the magnet nuts never get bored or go away. They can fiddle with their "free energy" devices for frickin' ever. Their capacity to absorb failure (without ever absorbing a clue about why they fail) seems boundless. I've taken to calling them Weebles.
Thankfully this doesn't happen in computer science very often.
XML
From the question:
. .
This idea has not only come up before, but some means of producing energy already employ it, at least partially. We even have a name for such non-gaseous carbon byproducts:
Soot.
Is anyone studying the possibility of fuel cells that have other output chemistry?
I can model the laws of physics, but I canna change them.
In any case, the last time I looked both water vapor and carbon dioxide were highly green "products," although you might well be surprised at which one of them is the more "dangerous" greenhouse gas.
Just plant a tree and take care of it.
KFG
Bonus points for the historical awareness.
Just part of my "job."
KFG
. . .those who accept such contracts are generally fools.
:)
a)True
b)A rather different issue
Nor a simple one, although I will posit that it seems likely a court would rule that a minor did not have legal understanding of the ramifications of the MyTube license when he posted his music video to it.
Not sure at all that this would have any serious ramifications on MyTube's business model.
KFG
It's clear (supposedly) whether it worked or not . . .
No. While it may be clear to people on the team that it "worked," it is not clear to anyone else that it "worked," ever, using the team's own data.
In fact, the team's own data is not consistent with the results they claim to have taken place. This is not merely a case of unreproducability.
Others attempts to duplicate the results with more sensitive equipment suggests that what is happening is "hopeful misinterpretation" of random events measured at the margin of error. Once one starts down this path and feels professionally commited it really isn't all that hard, for anybody, to go from "hopeful missinterpretation" into "panicked delusion," or, for some, dare I even say it, minor boughts of fraud.
In other words, it seems they've built themselves a very expensive N-ray detector.
i.e., the results are subjective. Only people who can see them can see them; and even they now express some puzzlement over what they believe they see, because they don't see what they think they're seeing.
See?
KFG
|___ Hot Grits!
KFG
Five somewhat pretty pictures.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
But beauty is born of complexity.
Now do you understand why the EU Commision/Congress like simple answers to everything - and it all turns out so ugly?
KFG
If you want to a massive amount of people to see what you have created you have to give the website you are posting it to right to use it anyway they want.
Why?
If you want it so only you can redistribute it then very few people will likley see it.
Do you think that there might be something between these two extremes that might function, like, oooooooh, say, a limited license?
KFG
Minors cannot enter into contracts.
a)False
b)Not all teenagers are minors
KFG