Last February, Los Alamos announced they had a process that converts CO2 to gasoline. The associated white paper proposed using a nuclear reactor to provide the requisite energy to drive the process. They went as far as to estimate the costs of their process and pegged the cost of gasoline at $4.30 gallon at the pump. A significant fraction of their cost estimate was credit costs to finance the plant. They figured 50 cents for every dollar sales given the billions they'd need to start the process. Without factoring the credit costs (which they could do if they could convince enough investors to take an equity position instead of borrowing the capital) they estimated their process produced gasoline at $1.40 per gallon.
A few things I like. I don't need noscript because so far, Chrome sandboxes the scripts well enough. The address box interpreter is the best of the lot by far. Most sites I visit are three keystrokes away and if I haven't ever been to a website but know its name, Chrome does an excellent job of guessing where I'm headed. The launching speed is a huge win and if adding gee-gaws on means sacrificing load speed, then I'll take Chrome as is.
A few things I don't like. Adding bookmarks requires the mouse and requires that you realize that clicking on the little star is the way to add a bookmark. I expected, and looked for, a 'add bookmark' menu item. I want to be able to completely navigate without the mouse. Chrome almost does that but not quite.
You pay Apple top dollar for the iPod. The least they can do is sell you equipment that won't destroy your hearing. You shouldn't have to get after-market ear phones to protect your hearing - they should be standard equipment.
As a Dad who gave his two sons iPods and then saw them ignore his warnings not to crank them up so loud, this is a particularly sore point for me. I hope to hell the guy who's suing prevails - Jobs needs to hear the message loud and clear that he can't go around screwing people up just so he can have a few more bucks.
I've computed my mileage ever since I bought my 2005 Accord. I used to get 27 mpg commuting 25 miles to and from work. The drive is a mix of city streets and rural highway. When gas hit $4/gallon, I backed off from 65-70 miles/hour on the highway to 55 and accelerate more slowly. I also give the car in front of me more leeway so I can maintain a steadier speed. The combination boosted my mileage from 27 to 34.5 mpg. As gas prices fell from their peak of 4.55/gallon, I started speeding back up and at 60 miles/hour, my mileage has dropped back to 32 mpg.
5% of the meteors are iron. Iron is both denser and darker than the far more common stony meteor which means if the asteroid is made of iron, it'll be bigger than expected because the size estimates are based on the amount of light the asteroid is reflecting. If it's iron, its higher density, combined with its larger size, will improve the odds that some remnants will make earth fall.
If it makes earth fall it'll be by far, the most valuable meteorite ever since it's the first asteroid whose arrival was predicted. It'll literally be money from Heaven for whomever finds a piece.
It is admittedly disturbing -- and yet unsurprising considering recent world financial events -- that the stupidity in question in this case involves people who work in the stock market.
And when has working in the stock market been an inoculant against stupidity? In Assembling California, John McPhee tells a story about a railroad built in the early 1900s that the promoters funded by selling stock. The railroad was built to carry ten tons of ore a day from the Crown King mine in Arizona. The railroad was built as designed. Only problem was the Crown King's reserves were accurately estimated as having 100 tons of ore. Simple arithmetic and/or due diligence was too much for the investors.
I don't doubt that there may be better uses for the craft but just how would you propose getting rid of the junk that accumulates? Remember, you have to be *positive* the junk doesn't stay in orbit so you have to substantially decelerate it somehow.
That means some sort of rocket so either you have a "bus" that serves the function or you have a lot of little rockets slowing down the junk.
On second thought, I suppose if their was some sort of rocket engine on the space station that was designed to eject junk at high speeds, you could both speed up the space station and dispose of the junk with one pop but lacking such an engine, I'm at a loss to think of how to better dispose of junk.
I'm thinking the same thing and am not laughing - don't know why your post was moderated as 'funny.'
Comcast is selling bandwidth and, because they can't deliver what they've sold, is resorting to prioritization algorithms. If Comcast's problem is some users are using what they've been sold and that's overloading Comcast's ability to deliver, Comcast needs to either increase their ability to deliver or admit they can't deliver what they've sold.
Admitting the later is tantamount to admitting to fraud.
I don't know how you do it. It never works for me.
I could've sworn I left my favorite rug on top of the black hole in the living room the other day but, crazy as it sounds, it seems to have just disappeared. I'd swear on a stack of bibles that's where I left the dang thing and you know it didn't just grow legs and walk out of the house.
Back before there were lawns, copyright ran for 14 years. In 1790, it was extended to 28 years. From there, it slowly got extended until 1998 when Congress saw plenty of donations and all of a sudden, it shot up to the author's life plus 70 years.
Revert copyrights to the original 14 years and you'd see all kinds of music and art. Pandora.com (an outstanding music delivery idea) wouldn't be talking about pulling the plug and people would be exposed to so much outstanding music and video that we'd see a resurgence in creativity in this country.
It's not that it's impossible that there are particles which don't interact with EM. The problem is that the only evidence offered for dark matter is 'we can't see this stuff so it must be some new exotic particle.'
I've yet to see evidence that Zwicky was wrong when he suggested that there were objects made of normal stuff that were just too dim for us to see. It may not be as sexy an explanation but until it's demonstrated not to fit the facts, why has it been discarded?
Seriously, you would think that the US would take a more "global" approach to space and start truly cooperating with other countries, say like uh.. Canada, UK, Japan, China, India, etc...
Problem is Russia is acting like a thug and saying "we're an irreplaceable ISS partner so suck it..." We have to show Russia that she isn't irreplaceable otherwise she'll keep behaving like a thug. Since we don't want to start shooting, replacing Russia in places where she can be replaced is one of the things we'll have to do instead.
These structures are going to be in place for decades to come.
It certainly costs more to bury them but there's a very good reason that almost every new housing development chooses to bury utilities rather than display them.
In the long run, older neighborhoods will elect to bury the unsightly mess so it doesn't make sense to muck up an existing neighborhood for a short term cost savings.
>If you're really concerned about it, most homeowners policies have a personal liability coverage in them. Wrong.
I run a business out of my house which entails some 30-40 people passing through each week. My homeowners insurance explicitly excludes home-run business liability. The insurance to cover those 30-40 people runs about $5,000 a year. I had to do quite a bit of looking before I was able to find a policy to cover those folks - most insurance companies passed. The high cost and lack of plentiful insurers says to me either people are scamming the insurance companies for this kind of risk or the risk is 5 times that of your house burning down.
You're citing businesses trying to block alternative approaches.
If you really want to see a mess, take a look at Compressed Natural Gas. Used to be you could convert your truck/car/bus whatever to run on natural gas/gasoline. When you burn natural gas, it burns cleaner than gasoline and is cheaper than gasoline. Right now, CNG is going for under a buck/gallon in Oklahoma, $2.60 in California.
The EPA and the California Air Resources Board, for reasons unexplained, decided to regulate conversion companies out of existence. EPA started out by mandating that companies that manufacture the retro-fit kits get their kits tested for each and every car model it was being installed on. Smog test wasn't good enough, it had to be a special $40,000 EPA test. California, not wanting to be left out, upped the test fee to $300,000. *EVERY* US kit manufacturer threw in the towel on the domestic market. The costs of the testing put the costs of the kits up so high that no one would buy them. The only way the remaining manufacturers stay in business is exporting kits to other regions of the world like Europe and South America. European countries only require that the engine has a regular smog test after the install to verify the kit is properly installed and functioning correctly. If you happen to find a kit, you don't dare install it in California because the cops will confiscate your car.
We have enough domestic natural gas to run every car in the United States for 100 years. We're the Saudi Arabia of natural gas and we can't use it except to cook and make electricity.
I wonder if the robot is smart enough not to scald itself if it comes across vents that are hotter than its design specs. The article says some of the vents reach 500C. Lead-free solder melts at half that temperature.
The manufacturer has this chart showing that it's a variable thrust rocket - hence the name: Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (Vasimir).
Unsaid is where the power comes from to drive the rocket. To get the kind of thrust they're looking for, it'll most likely be a descendant of Admiral Rickover's reactors we use in submarines because they're compact power sources.
Unfortunately, we're talking about NASA which means they're not really planning on doing anything. Per the article, Griffin wouldn't commit to when any testing was to take place just that someday maybe they might test a scale model. The project started in 1979 so it's an old project that looks to be a great idea that isn't moving very quickly. For those of you who weren't alive back then, 1979 was the year Three Mile Island happened. That accident, and the resulting hysteria, put the kabosh on everything nuclear in the US for the past 30 years.
I guess I didn't make myself clear. It's not a Linux implementation issue.
Even though there's no Linux instance running and all that's running is the native PS3 OS, a browser, a flash interpreter and Pandora's flash application, 256 Meg is not enough. Perhaps it's a bug in Pandora or perhaps 256 meg really isn't enough anymore.
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Last February, Los Alamos announced they had a process that converts CO2 to gasoline. The associated white paper proposed using a nuclear reactor to provide the requisite energy to drive the process. They went as far as to estimate the costs of their process and pegged the cost of gasoline at $4.30 gallon at the pump. A significant fraction of their cost estimate was credit costs to finance the plant. They figured 50 cents for every dollar sales given the billions they'd need to start the process. Without factoring the credit costs (which they could do if they could convince enough investors to take an equity position instead of borrowing the capital) they estimated their process produced gasoline at $1.40 per gallon.
Is there something that's preventing Apple from *testing* the headphones they sell to ensure the headphones don't produce ear damaging volumes.
I'm one of those 1.5%.
A few things I like.
I don't need noscript because so far, Chrome sandboxes the scripts well enough. The address box interpreter is the best of the lot by far. Most sites I visit are three keystrokes away and if I haven't ever been to a website but know its name, Chrome does an excellent job of guessing where I'm headed. The launching speed is a huge win and if adding gee-gaws on means sacrificing load speed, then I'll take Chrome as is.
A few things I don't like.
Adding bookmarks requires the mouse and requires that you realize that clicking on the little star is the way to add a bookmark. I expected, and looked for, a 'add bookmark' menu item.
I want to be able to completely navigate without the mouse. Chrome almost does that but not quite.
You pay Apple top dollar for the iPod. The least they can do is sell you equipment that won't destroy your hearing. You shouldn't have to get after-market ear phones to protect your hearing - they should be standard equipment.
As a Dad who gave his two sons iPods and then saw them ignore his warnings not to crank them up so loud, this is a particularly sore point for me. I hope to hell the guy who's suing prevails - Jobs needs to hear the message loud and clear that he can't go around screwing people up just so he can have a few more bucks.
I've computed my mileage ever since I bought my 2005 Accord. I used to get 27 mpg commuting 25 miles to and from work. The drive is a mix of city streets and rural highway. When gas hit $4/gallon, I backed off from 65-70 miles/hour on the highway to 55 and accelerate more slowly. I also give the car in front of me more leeway so I can maintain a steadier speed. The combination boosted my mileage from 27 to 34.5 mpg. As gas prices fell from their peak of 4.55/gallon, I started speeding back up and at 60 miles/hour, my mileage has dropped back to 32 mpg.
Those are data for one car, one driver.
One of the posters on mpml put up these pictures of the expected impact area...
http://www.southing.com/Templates/diary/diary_entries/sudan/diary_right_10dec.htm
5% of the meteors are iron. Iron is both denser and darker than the far more common stony meteor which means if the asteroid is made of iron, it'll be bigger than expected because the size estimates are based on the amount of light the asteroid is reflecting. If it's iron, its higher density, combined with its larger size, will improve the odds that some remnants will make earth fall.
If it makes earth fall it'll be by far, the most valuable meteorite ever since it's the first asteroid whose arrival was predicted. It'll literally be money from Heaven for whomever finds a piece.
It is admittedly disturbing -- and yet unsurprising considering recent world financial events -- that the stupidity in question in this case involves people who work in the stock market.
And when has working in the stock market been an inoculant against stupidity? In Assembling California, John McPhee tells a story about a railroad built in the early 1900s that the promoters funded by selling stock. The railroad was built to carry ten tons of ore a day from the Crown King mine in Arizona. The railroad was built as designed. Only problem was the Crown King's reserves were accurately estimated as having 100 tons of ore. Simple arithmetic and/or due diligence was too much for the investors.
I don't doubt that there may be better uses for the craft but just how would you propose getting rid of the junk that accumulates? Remember, you have to be *positive* the junk doesn't stay in orbit so you have to substantially decelerate it somehow.
That means some sort of rocket so either you have a "bus" that serves the function or you have a lot of little rockets slowing down the junk.
On second thought, I suppose if their was some sort of rocket engine on the space station that was designed to eject junk at high speeds, you could both speed up the space station and dispose of the junk with one pop but lacking such an engine, I'm at a loss to think of how to better dispose of junk.
I'm thinking the same thing and am not laughing - don't know why your post was moderated as 'funny.'
Comcast is selling bandwidth and, because they can't deliver what they've sold, is resorting to prioritization algorithms. If Comcast's problem is some users are using what they've been sold and that's overloading Comcast's ability to deliver, Comcast needs to either increase their ability to deliver or admit they can't deliver what they've sold.
Admitting the later is tantamount to admitting to fraud.
I don't know how you do it. It never works for me.
I could've sworn I left my favorite rug on top of the black hole in the living room the other day but, crazy as it sounds, it seems to have just disappeared. I'd swear on a stack of bibles that's where I left the dang thing and you know it didn't just grow legs and walk out of the house.
Tibet? Tibet was peanuts. Ditto Iraq.
If we're talking deaths, let's talk about "the great leap forward" or the "cultural revolution." Now we're in the big leagues.
I know how to settle this: Will the real Jonathan Zdziarski please spell his name?
Back before there were lawns, copyright ran for 14 years. In 1790, it was extended to 28 years. From there, it slowly got extended until 1998 when Congress saw plenty of donations and all of a sudden, it shot up to the author's life plus 70 years.
Revert copyrights to the original 14 years and you'd see all kinds of music and art. Pandora.com (an outstanding music delivery idea) wouldn't be talking about pulling the plug and people would be exposed to so much outstanding music and video that we'd see a resurgence in creativity in this country.
That's why it's called the Discovery Channel. They want you to discover it for yourself.
Jeeesh! Kids these days want everything spelled out for them.
It's not that it's impossible that there are particles which don't interact with EM. The problem is that the only evidence offered for dark matter is 'we can't see this stuff so it must be some new exotic particle.'
I've yet to see evidence that Zwicky was wrong when he suggested that there were objects made of normal stuff that were just too dim for us to see. It may not be as sexy an explanation but until it's demonstrated not to fit the facts, why has it been discarded?
Seriously, you would think that the US would take a more "global" approach to space and start truly cooperating with other countries, say like uh.. Canada, UK, Japan, China, India, etc...
I think that's why it's called the International Space Station because some 15 nations are involved in its construction.
Problem is Russia is acting like a thug and saying "we're an irreplaceable ISS partner so suck it..." We have to show Russia that she isn't irreplaceable otherwise she'll keep behaving like a thug. Since we don't want to start shooting, replacing Russia in places where she can be replaced is one of the things we'll have to do instead.
These structures are going to be in place for decades to come.
It certainly costs more to bury them but there's a very good reason that almost every new housing development chooses to bury utilities rather than display them.
In the long run, older neighborhoods will elect to bury the unsightly mess so it doesn't make sense to muck up an existing neighborhood for a short term cost savings.
I was assuming he was going to charge participants.
>If you're really concerned about it, most homeowners policies have a personal liability coverage in them.
Wrong.
I run a business out of my house which entails some 30-40 people passing through each week. My homeowners insurance explicitly excludes home-run business liability. The insurance to cover those 30-40 people runs about $5,000 a year. I had to do quite a bit of looking before I was able to find a policy to cover those folks - most insurance companies passed. The high cost and lack of plentiful insurers says to me either people are scamming the insurance companies for this kind of risk or the risk is 5 times that of your house burning down.
You're citing businesses trying to block alternative approaches.
If you really want to see a mess, take a look at Compressed Natural Gas. Used to be you could convert your truck/car/bus whatever to run on natural gas/gasoline. When you burn natural gas, it burns cleaner than gasoline and is cheaper than gasoline. Right now, CNG is going for under a buck/gallon in Oklahoma, $2.60 in California.
The EPA and the California Air Resources Board, for reasons unexplained, decided to regulate conversion companies out of existence. EPA started out by mandating that companies that manufacture the retro-fit kits get their kits tested for each and every car model it was being installed on. Smog test wasn't good enough, it had to be a special $40,000 EPA test. California, not wanting to be left out, upped the test fee to $300,000. *EVERY* US kit manufacturer threw in the towel on the domestic market. The costs of the testing put the costs of the kits up so high that no one would buy them. The only way the remaining manufacturers stay in business is exporting kits to other regions of the world like Europe and South America. European countries only require that the engine has a regular smog test after the install to verify the kit is properly installed and functioning correctly. If you happen to find a kit, you don't dare install it in California because the cops will confiscate your car.
We have enough domestic natural gas to run every car in the United States for 100 years. We're the Saudi Arabia of natural gas and we can't use it except to cook and make electricity.
It's damn stupid.
I wonder if the robot is smart enough not to scald itself if it comes across vents that are hotter than its design specs. The article says some of the vents reach 500C. Lead-free solder melts at half that temperature.
The manufacturer has this chart showing that it's a variable thrust rocket - hence the name: Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (Vasimir).
Unsaid is where the power comes from to drive the rocket. To get the kind of thrust they're looking for, it'll most likely be a descendant of Admiral Rickover's reactors we use in submarines because they're compact power sources.
Unfortunately, we're talking about NASA which means they're not really planning on doing anything. Per the article, Griffin wouldn't commit to when any testing was to take place just that someday maybe they might test a scale model. The project started in 1979 so it's an old project that looks to be a great idea that isn't moving very quickly. For those of you who weren't alive back then, 1979 was the year Three Mile Island happened. That accident, and the resulting hysteria, put the kabosh on everything nuclear in the US for the past 30 years.
.. Spiroplasma: The Movie.
My hopes have been vaporized.
I guess I didn't make myself clear. It's not a Linux implementation issue.
Even though there's no Linux instance running and all that's running is the native PS3 OS, a browser, a flash interpreter and Pandora's flash application, 256 Meg is not enough. Perhaps it's a bug in Pandora or perhaps 256 meg really isn't enough anymore.
I know it sounds absurd but there it is.