There still isn't anything about why it happens. OK, so the simulation repeats history. It would be nice if at least some explanation were provided for it. Gravity? Dark energy? Stellar cheese?
How much of this kind of research does NASA actually do? It seems that they largely put the satellites in place and maintain them, and universities handle the data analysis.
Comcast probably will leave the LA area almost entirely. Los Angeles itself will become 98% Time Warner, according an article in the LA Times today. It looks from that article like they're getting all of the Adelphia customers in LA and Orange Counties -- including Comcast's existing subscriber base -- in exchange for segments in other parts of the country. Los Angeles city regulators seem to be almost drooling at being able to pound on only one cable company to get them to provide better rates and service.
Possible, though I can imagine some busy stations right now that would have to hire a lot more people to handle this. Some of the larger stations that manage to stay a nickel or so per gallon cheaper can have lines right up to -- and sometimes on -- the streets. I've occasionally seen 20 or more vehicles either fueling or waiting to be fueled. It's possible that in switching out the batteries, there would be less time per vehicle, but it could still get rapidly backed up.
In addition, the batteries are extremely heavy, and so would still require mechanical assistance. Then again, this has the advantage of more rapid recycling of batteries, and possibly cycling in newer, more efficient battery technologies that would reduce weight and/or energy consumption while maintaining the same connectors.
It's not an instant kill for the idea, but there are still some hard things to work out.
The first thing I can think of is potential wear and tear on the car leading to possible damage or decrease in connector efficiency, as well as the complexity of the robotics involved. The robot would, at the least, have to account for dirty or damaged adapters, and batteries would need periodic inspection for damage.
BLITZER: I want to get to some of the substance of domestic and international issues in a minute, but let's just wrap up a little bit of the politics right now.
Why should Democrats, looking at the Democratic nomination process, support you instead of Bill Bradley, a friend of yours, a former colleague in the Senate? What do you have to bring to this that he doesn't necessarily bring to this process?
GORE: Well, I will be offering -- I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.
But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
During a quarter century of public service, including most of it long before I came into my current job, I have worked to try to improve the quality of life in our country and in our world. And what I've seen during that experience is an emerging future that's very exciting, about which I'm very optimistic, and toward which I want to lead.
Emphasis added, of course. Maybe a bit of a mis-statement, but certainly not really the truth, either.
Couldn't do that at the local arcade when I was growing up. They were bolted to the floor.
Still, I think it helped me improve my timing somewhat, as I was forced to do without that and still keep the ball in play. Addams Family was the best I had available to me at the time, though I also loved Twilight Zone -- except for what seemed to be the unnecessarily large gap between the flippers. I lost more quarters to that gap than I should have. I guess the concept worked, though -- I kept playing.
In spite of your attempt to fit in at Slashdot and extract all knowledge of the universe from one anecdote, I shall add mine to you, and even do you one better.
I recently began having some difficulty in my vision, with my right eye unable to properly focus on occasion, even with my glasses on. I stopped in for a brief checkup, and the results showed that my prescription on that side had improved somewhat. It's not bad enough to get new lenses quite yet (scheduled for three months from now), but I did find it rather odd. The optometrist said that he's seen this kind of fluctuation before, though it does buck the thrend since my vision has gotten slowly worse since high school.
So... you're complaining because someone logged into a production box, downloaded SP1, and applied it without testing it on anything else, or making a proper backup?
No sympathies, particularly when your story gets completely reversed from something that was completely untrue.
If you're asking about the 'genuine Windows software' program, no, it does not. You can just go and download it -- all 337MB of it (and I thought XP SP2 was big).
I rather like CentOS4 (and I suppose RHEL4 by proxy). I didn't care much for 3.x, but then Red Hat was in the process of reinventing a lot of things for 4.0. It's kind of slow, and I hope that RH was serious when they spoke of paying attention to the users' needs more in the future. I also hope they can do something to speed things up a bit, though I'm willing to put up with stuff being a *little* slower in exchange for the length of promised support.
I recently bought a Dell laptop for my mother, one of the Inspiron 9300s. It has the nine-cell battery for extra life. Her practical use point on it is about 3:30, running various Office apps and listening to music. She can get through an entire two-hour DVD and still be able to work for another half-hour easily before she goes and plugs it in. This is with the 1.8GHz CPU, 1920x1200 screen on a 128MB X300, 60GB 7200RPM drive, and DVD burner. Pretty impressive, if you ask me. I've always been lucky to get my Latitude 840 to last 90 minutes.
Sending a copy of a track you ripped from a CD to a friend without compensation may be fair use. Selling a copy of software you modified in a way contrary to the license under which it was distributed is blatantly illegal copyright infringement.
Unless you have some poll data to back this up, I would tend to disagree strongly with you. Hubble has been one of NASA's biggest PR coups, and ranks up with the Mars rover missions in terms of overall public success. We've seen the destruction of two shuttles on live TV, whereas Hubble continues to return spectacular pictures at which people still marvel, even if they are touched up a bit for public viewing.
I've thought about this before. Maybe an apartment complex could help out reducing air conditioning and heating costs by hooking up a number of exercise machines to a battery system from which certain systems also feed. I know that when I'm on a cycle, the displays show between 60W and 200W generated depending on difficulty setting. Getting in shape and saving money at the same time.
If that carbon would have gone into the air as CO2 instead of CH4, then it is a fault of hydroelectric. It's a good point that carbon already "in play" is usually less of an issue (it's a strong point of thermal depolymerization), but let's not push it aside if the form in which it actually reaches the atmosphere is worse -- especially if your memory is correct on how much worse -- than it would have without the hydroelectric plant.
Hydroelectric dams produce significant amounts of carbon dioxide and methane, and in some cases produce more of these greenhouse gases than power plants running on fossil fuels. Carbon emissions vary from dam to dam, says Philip Fearnside from Brazil's National Institute for Research in the Amazon in Manaus. "But we do know that there are enough emissions to worry about."
Yeahm you're right, but I was going for the main points. But uranium mining for a given quantity of energy isn't nearly as devastating as coal mining can be.
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There still isn't anything about why it happens. OK, so the simulation repeats history. It would be nice if at least some explanation were provided for it. Gravity? Dark energy? Stellar cheese?
How much of this kind of research does NASA actually do? It seems that they largely put the satellites in place and maintain them, and universities handle the data analysis.
Comcast probably will leave the LA area almost entirely. Los Angeles itself will become 98% Time Warner, according an article in the LA Times today. It looks from that article like they're getting all of the Adelphia customers in LA and Orange Counties -- including Comcast's existing subscriber base -- in exchange for segments in other parts of the country. Los Angeles city regulators seem to be almost drooling at being able to pound on only one cable company to get them to provide better rates and service.
I already pay $140 a month for my cable service (admittedly maxed out with all channels and a DVR plus cablemodem). If TW charges more... :/
Well, I did see an add for 3Mbps Verizon DSL, and I don't really need all of those channels. I've heard mixed reviews about TW service, too.
Wasn't the Reagan presidency also when AT&T was broken up into the Baby Bells?
And wasn't it the Clinton presidency when the telecomm merger frenzy began?
Oh, for me it will. I'm going to stop by my bank every time I have to go to Best Buy and get a stack of $2 bills to pay them with.
Possible, though I can imagine some busy stations right now that would have to hire a lot more people to handle this. Some of the larger stations that manage to stay a nickel or so per gallon cheaper can have lines right up to -- and sometimes on -- the streets. I've occasionally seen 20 or more vehicles either fueling or waiting to be fueled. It's possible that in switching out the batteries, there would be less time per vehicle, but it could still get rapidly backed up.
In addition, the batteries are extremely heavy, and so would still require mechanical assistance. Then again, this has the advantage of more rapid recycling of batteries, and possibly cycling in newer, more efficient battery technologies that would reduce weight and/or energy consumption while maintaining the same connectors.
It's not an instant kill for the idea, but there are still some hard things to work out.
The first thing I can think of is potential wear and tear on the car leading to possible damage or decrease in connector efficiency, as well as the complexity of the robotics involved. The robot would, at the least, have to account for dirty or damaged adapters, and batteries would need periodic inspection for damage.
Wolf Blitzer talking with Al Gore:
Emphasis added, of course. Maybe a bit of a mis-statement, but certainly not really the truth, either.
Couldn't do that at the local arcade when I was growing up. They were bolted to the floor.
Still, I think it helped me improve my timing somewhat, as I was forced to do without that and still keep the ball in play. Addams Family was the best I had available to me at the time, though I also loved Twilight Zone -- except for what seemed to be the unnecessarily large gap between the flippers. I lost more quarters to that gap than I should have. I guess the concept worked, though -- I kept playing.
Based on the performance for the last year, it would be worth just enough to buy a couple dozen donuts in a year.
Nuclear would be a lot less wasteful if the fuel could be reprocessed, but the Bogeyman invented that, so we can't do it.
In spite of your attempt to fit in at Slashdot and extract all knowledge of the universe from one anecdote, I shall add mine to you, and even do you one better.
I recently began having some difficulty in my vision, with my right eye unable to properly focus on occasion, even with my glasses on. I stopped in for a brief checkup, and the results showed that my prescription on that side had improved somewhat. It's not bad enough to get new lenses quite yet (scheduled for three months from now), but I did find it rather odd. The optometrist said that he's seen this kind of fluctuation before, though it does buck the thrend since my vision has gotten slowly worse since high school.
So... you're complaining because someone logged into a production box, downloaded SP1, and applied it without testing it on anything else, or making a proper backup?
No sympathies, particularly when your story gets completely reversed from something that was completely untrue.
If you're asking about the 'genuine Windows software' program, no, it does not. You can just go and download it -- all 337MB of it (and I thought XP SP2 was big).
I rather like CentOS4 (and I suppose RHEL4 by proxy). I didn't care much for 3.x, but then Red Hat was in the process of reinventing a lot of things for 4.0. It's kind of slow, and I hope that RH was serious when they spoke of paying attention to the users' needs more in the future. I also hope they can do something to speed things up a bit, though I'm willing to put up with stuff being a *little* slower in exchange for the length of promised support.
Change it to "I'm sorry! I'm sorry, Master!" and name it Grovel. :)
I recently bought a Dell laptop for my mother, one of the Inspiron 9300s. It has the nine-cell battery for extra life. Her practical use point on it is about 3:30, running various Office apps and listening to music. She can get through an entire two-hour DVD and still be able to work for another half-hour easily before she goes and plugs it in. This is with the 1.8GHz CPU, 1920x1200 screen on a 128MB X300, 60GB 7200RPM drive, and DVD burner. Pretty impressive, if you ask me. I've always been lucky to get my Latitude 840 to last 90 minutes.
Sending a copy of a track you ripped from a CD to a friend without compensation may be fair use. Selling a copy of software you modified in a way contrary to the license under which it was distributed is blatantly illegal copyright infringement.
Unless you have some poll data to back this up, I would tend to disagree strongly with you. Hubble has been one of NASA's biggest PR coups, and ranks up with the Mars rover missions in terms of overall public success. We've seen the destruction of two shuttles on live TV, whereas Hubble continues to return spectacular pictures at which people still marvel, even if they are touched up a bit for public viewing.
Does that make it a poor argument?
I've thought about this before. Maybe an apartment complex could help out reducing air conditioning and heating costs by hooking up a number of exercise machines to a battery system from which certain systems also feed. I know that when I'm on a cycle, the displays show between 60W and 200W generated depending on difficulty setting. Getting in shape and saving money at the same time.
If that carbon would have gone into the air as CO2 instead of CH4, then it is a fault of hydroelectric. It's a good point that carbon already "in play" is usually less of an issue (it's a strong point of thermal depolymerization), but let's not push it aside if the form in which it actually reaches the atmosphere is worse -- especially if your memory is correct on how much worse -- than it would have without the hydroelectric plant.
Here is the New Scientist article.
Hydroelectric dams produce significant amounts of carbon dioxide and methane, and in some cases produce more of these greenhouse gases than power plants running on fossil fuels. Carbon emissions vary from dam to dam, says Philip Fearnside from Brazil's National Institute for Research in the Amazon in Manaus. "But we do know that there are enough emissions to worry about."
Yeahm you're right, but I was going for the main points. But uranium mining for a given quantity of energy isn't nearly as devastating as coal mining can be.