Capitalism's worst enemies are successful capitalists. Sad, but true. I am open to suggestions as to how to keep companies from always gunning for monopolies that doesn't involve government intervention.
Reusing numbers would probably be a Bad Thing. I really don't want to be confused with the late Mr. 765-43-2100, which is bound to happen if we both end up with the same id#.
I think anyone who's aware of the first thing about speech law knows that libel and slander are not protected by the First Amendment
Really? "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech or the press". Please point out the clauses regarding libel and slander in there.
I for one am very curious as to whether this was an oversight on the part of the framers or if they left out stuff regarding 'untruths' on purpose. After all, legislating speech is very, very, very hard to do and once you start doing it there's always some other type of speech that has to be specifically protected or forbidden. As with all things, such legislation will favor someone's personal agenda.
I try to imagine what it would be like if there were no limits on speech whatsoever. The obvious problem is "The press could be used to destroy people's lives with false statements". How is this different from what we already have? Christ, look at National Enquirer and its ilk. "We have heard rumors that Mr. Smith is a child molester" is legal whilst "Mr. Smith molests children" is not; yet both say the exact same thing. It's all well and good to try and enforce truthfullness, but how is making it possible for the legally powerful to sue help the situation?
Instead of trusting in the law to ensure that everything that reaches our ears is perfect and pure, how about we exercise a little intelligence and decide for ourselves.
Evidently there were physical aspects of the hardware that the evolved program 'learned' to utilize. Such would not be present in a software simulation.
Partly agree. About the only place MB = power of 10 is used is in hard drive advertisements. The usage of hard drives is, as far as I know, always measured in MB = power of 2. Having them switch over would be similar to the business with measuring monitor widths a few years back. There'd be no real change in how anything is done outside of the marketing department at Western Digital and such.
You do of course realize that this the basic reason that corporations exist in the first place, to benefit themselves. They exist only to make a profit. Their interest in benefiting consumers is, at best, merely a side effect of this goal.
I certainly do. Which is why I have no problem with the RIAA trying to make a secure CD (as long as it is clearly labelled as such) or the MPAA putting regions on their DVD's. I may not like it, but they made the stuff, they can design it as they want.
The problem I have is with them going to Congress and getting them to tell their customers "It's our way or the prison way". You want to encrypt your DVD's? Fine. You want to deny me the freedom to try and work around it? Extraordinarily unfine.
You know, it would be so very nice if we could have a seance with a few of our founding fathers, explain the situation, and ask them if their idea of copyright extended to prohibition of giving stuff away. That really is the burning question here.
My first year at GaTech, there was a power surge in my dorm (Smith, Spring of 99 if anyone here was there) that tripped the circuit breaker. The only way to get our power and lighting back was to get into the locked fuse box. This was late Friday night and maintenance was not going to show up anytime soon, so we just found someone who had a set of lockpicks and took care of it ourselves.
Wouldn't do much. Hooking up a bunch of 7-qubit computers gives you an additive increase in computational power while just adding another qubit gives an exponential increase. That is, it takes two 7-qubit computers to do the same job as an 8-qubit, four to equal 9 qubits, etc, etc.
However, if and when this takes off, there'll be a sweet spot where it is easier to build the extra weaker computers than the more powerful larger one. Ie, $20 for a 7 qubit processor but $50 for one with 8 qubits; you'd be better off with the weaker ones.
Show a couple at a quiet, candle lit dinner for two at home. There's some romantic music playing in the background. They get up and get to work on something more entertaining when the music stops and starts demanding that you insert another 50 cents to continue playing, thus totally destroying the mood. Or it claims they forgot to pay their 'Music Bill' for that month, which is more like what is actually going on.
Or a Superbowl Sunday, crowd of guys watching it, beginning to froth at the mouth at the last 30 seconds. At which point the TV switches to a test signal and demands that you feed it more quarters and you see the guys franticly trying to get their wallets out.
Every country on this planet has at least someone who can afford a car (one made in the past 2 decades, that is) and a cd player (or even, dare I say it, a CD player for the car?). In the US, people having neither is the exception. In Cuba and a hundred other nations, it's the rule.
since you sound about as friendly and willing to teach as the BOFH
C'mon, Simon is happy to teach the uninformed. He did an excellent job training his PFY, right?
It's just that the training involves a lot of laxatives and electroshock and halon suffocation and credit fraud. Nothing you really want to be on the receiving end of.
Indeed, I switched to Opera from IE on a/. suggestion a few days ago and there's no way I'll ever go back. The only real problem I've seen is that it tends to crash a bit on this machine, but then it has no problem starting up right where I left it. I swear, being able to save the window setup is friggin fantastic.
And if we do buy them, their sales will go up and they'll think "Ha! Those dirty pirate scum were no match for us. Let's see what other crazy stunts we can get away with..."
It couldn't. The solution in space is to make bigger telescopes. This is a big ground-based telescope and it's taking the finest electronics we've got to make it measure up to a much smaller one in space. Remember, gravity isn't an issue up there so, say, a 100 meter lens would be easier to construct and deploy.
Of course, to do that we'd need a developed industrial capacity beyond the clouds, which means we'd need decent launching capabilities. Which means NASA won't have any part of it.
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This sounds really cool, but I can't seem to form a good mental image of it. Have you got any diagrams or pictures of your system? Or of the geothermal system?
Terribly sorry to assume you to be a schmuck. I should have read the subject line.
Well, my rational was, the reactor generates power, ergo, it is a power plant. It may not be used as such, or even at all, but there it is.
Tell me something, have you ever eaten from Brittain dining hall at GaTech? If you had, you would be the first in line to agree with my speculations as to the source of the food. Getting kicked off campus after my first year (up yours, Housing!) and having to cook for myself was probably the healthiest thing I will ever do.
Ok, I didn't bother looking up Na's weight, I just assumed you were correct. Whoops.
Ok, NaBH4 = 11 + 5 + 4 = 20. Don't know where you're getting your mass of Boron; 23 is the mass of Vanadium.:)
NaBH4 + 2H2O = 20 g + 36 g = 56 g ~ 24 g of gasoline, energy-wise. I don't know if the reaction itself generates energy, all we're really concerned with is the energy we can get from burning the 4 H2's. So we'll ignore anything but them; this is therefore something of a worst-case scenario.
So: 24 g gas ~ 56 g NaBH4/H2O
1 L gas ~ 1.7 L NaBH4/H2O
Hey, maybe eventually one of us will get all this right:)
A number of countries do not primarily rely on fossil fuels for their power grid. France, for instance, uses nuclear for something like 70% of its electricity. Nuclear of course has its own pollution, but it is of a type that can be stuffed into a bottle and dealt with. Much easier than, say, CO2 emissions. Also, stationary power plants are usually more efficient than your car, even counting in transmission losses.
Point is, an electric car or or similar device dissociates the power generation from the power usage. You are free to improve one side of it without affecting the other. That is, an electric car doesn't care how you generate the power so long as it's there. Or the switchover from nasty coal to sparkling clean hydro doesn't change how you use the power, just how you make it.
But you are right, even where this sort of thing already applies we seem stuck with oil. But automobiles are such a huge market that switching from fossil fuels in them would have an enormous impact on the power industry. They will have to simultaneously become the replacement for half the oil pumped out of the desert and deal with the fact that Americans don't want to be dependent on foreign oil anymore. In light of recent events, companies like Millenium Cell or power companies looking to expand into non-oil based plants need only do a "Get the US off of dependence on these wierdo Arab countries" ad campaign and they'd be swamped with supporters.
If they are getting electricity generated from a dirty power plant are they really helping the environment?
Ok, most everything before this is quite correct, but it drives me crazy when people say this. You can't put a nuclear power plant in a car. Nor tidal power, nor hydro power, nor solar chimneys, nor any other type of clean, non-fossil-fuel source of power. But you can put them on the power grid and then run your car off it, so all of this is quite worthwhile.
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Capitalism's worst enemies are successful capitalists. Sad, but true. I am open to suggestions as to how to keep companies from always gunning for monopolies that doesn't involve government intervention.
Reusing numbers would probably be a Bad Thing. I really don't want to be confused with the late Mr. 765-43-2100, which is bound to happen if we both end up with the same id#.
Be that as it may, they are not mentioned in the US Constitution. To say that they are is patently untrue.
Really? "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech or the press". Please point out the clauses regarding libel and slander in there.
I for one am very curious as to whether this was an oversight on the part of the framers or if they left out stuff regarding 'untruths' on purpose. After all, legislating speech is very, very, very hard to do and once you start doing it there's always some other type of speech that has to be specifically protected or forbidden. As with all things, such legislation will favor someone's personal agenda.
I try to imagine what it would be like if there were no limits on speech whatsoever. The obvious problem is "The press could be used to destroy people's lives with false statements". How is this different from what we already have? Christ, look at National Enquirer and its ilk. "We have heard rumors that Mr. Smith is a child molester" is legal whilst "Mr. Smith molests children" is not; yet both say the exact same thing. It's all well and good to try and enforce truthfullness, but how is making it possible for the legally powerful to sue help the situation?
Instead of trusting in the law to ensure that everything that reaches our ears is perfect and pure, how about we exercise a little intelligence and decide for ourselves.
Evidently there were physical aspects of the hardware that the evolved program 'learned' to utilize. Such would not be present in a software simulation.
Are there any electric hand warmers out there or should I go build my own?
Partly agree. About the only place MB = power of 10 is used is in hard drive advertisements. The usage of hard drives is, as far as I know, always measured in MB = power of 2. Having them switch over would be similar to the business with measuring monitor widths a few years back. There'd be no real change in how anything is done outside of the marketing department at Western Digital and such.
I certainly do. Which is why I have no problem with the RIAA trying to make a secure CD (as long as it is clearly labelled as such) or the MPAA putting regions on their DVD's. I may not like it, but they made the stuff, they can design it as they want.
The problem I have is with them going to Congress and getting them to tell their customers "It's our way or the prison way". You want to encrypt your DVD's? Fine. You want to deny me the freedom to try and work around it? Extraordinarily unfine.
You know, it would be so very nice if we could have a seance with a few of our founding fathers, explain the situation, and ask them if their idea of copyright extended to prohibition of giving stuff away. That really is the burning question here.
My first year at GaTech, there was a power surge in my dorm (Smith, Spring of 99 if anyone here was there) that tripped the circuit breaker. The only way to get our power and lighting back was to get into the locked fuse box. This was late Friday night and maintenance was not going to show up anytime soon, so we just found someone who had a set of lockpicks and took care of it ourselves.
YRO articles show up on the main page, but not all of them; this one didn't. But it's one category that I keep in a slashbox so I always see them.
However, if and when this takes off, there'll be a sweet spot where it is easier to build the extra weaker computers than the more powerful larger one. Ie, $20 for a 7 qubit processor but $50 for one with 8 qubits; you'd be better off with the weaker ones.
Show a couple at a quiet, candle lit dinner for two at home. There's some romantic music playing in the background. They get up and get to work on something more entertaining when the music stops and starts demanding that you insert another 50 cents to continue playing, thus totally destroying the mood. Or it claims they forgot to pay their 'Music Bill' for that month, which is more like what is actually going on.
Or a Superbowl Sunday, crowd of guys watching it, beginning to froth at the mouth at the last 30 seconds. At which point the TV switches to a test signal and demands that you feed it more quarters and you see the guys franticly trying to get their wallets out.
Every country on this planet has at least someone who can afford a car (one made in the past 2 decades, that is) and a cd player (or even, dare I say it, a CD player for the car?). In the US, people having neither is the exception. In Cuba and a hundred other nations, it's the rule.
C'mon, Simon is happy to teach the uninformed. He did an excellent job training his PFY, right?
It's just that the training involves a lot of laxatives and electroshock and halon suffocation and credit fraud. Nothing you really want to be on the receiving end of.
Indeed, I switched to Opera from IE on a /. suggestion a few days ago and there's no way I'll ever go back. The only real problem I've seen is that it tends to crash a bit on this machine, but then it has no problem starting up right where I left it. I swear, being able to save the window setup is friggin fantastic.
And if we do buy them, their sales will go up and they'll think "Ha! Those dirty pirate scum were no match for us. Let's see what other crazy stunts we can get away with..."
Of course, to do that we'd need a developed industrial capacity beyond the clouds, which means we'd need decent launching capabilities. Which means NASA won't have any part of it.
This sounds really cool, but I can't seem to form a good mental image of it. Have you got any diagrams or pictures of your system? Or of the geothermal system?
Well, my rational was, the reactor generates power, ergo, it is a power plant. It may not be used as such, or even at all, but there it is.
Tell me something, have you ever eaten from Brittain dining hall at GaTech? If you had, you would be the first in line to agree with my speculations as to the source of the food. Getting kicked off campus after my first year (up yours, Housing!) and having to cook for myself was probably the healthiest thing I will ever do.
Got a link for that? I could use some laughs.
Ok, NaBH4 = 11 + 5 + 4 = 20. Don't know where you're getting your mass of Boron; 23 is the mass of Vanadium. :)
NaBH4 + 2H2O = 20 g + 36 g = 56 g ~ 24 g of gasoline, energy-wise. I don't know if the reaction itself generates energy, all we're really concerned with is the energy we can get from burning the 4 H2's. So we'll ignore anything but them; this is therefore something of a worst-case scenario.
So: 24 g gas ~ 56 g NaBH4/H2O
1 L gas ~ 1.7 L NaBH4/H2O
Hey, maybe eventually one of us will get all this right :)
Point is, an electric car or or similar device dissociates the power generation from the power usage. You are free to improve one side of it without affecting the other. That is, an electric car doesn't care how you generate the power so long as it's there. Or the switchover from nasty coal to sparkling clean hydro doesn't change how you use the power, just how you make it.
But you are right, even where this sort of thing already applies we seem stuck with oil. But automobiles are such a huge market that switching from fossil fuels in them would have an enormous impact on the power industry. They will have to simultaneously become the replacement for half the oil pumped out of the desert and deal with the fact that Americans don't want to be dependent on foreign oil anymore. In light of recent events, companies like Millenium Cell or power companies looking to expand into non-oil based plants need only do a "Get the US off of dependence on these wierdo Arab countries" ad campaign and they'd be swamped with supporters.
Ok, most everything before this is quite correct, but it drives me crazy when people say this. You can't put a nuclear power plant in a car. Nor tidal power, nor hydro power, nor solar chimneys, nor any other type of clean, non-fossil-fuel source of power. But you can put them on the power grid and then run your car off it, so all of this is quite worthwhile.
Haha, that should read "48 g (12 of NaBH4 and 36 of water)".