Just because you don't notice the extra step doesn't mean it isn't happening.
All print operations involving pdf generate postscript.
Which then gets compressed down to pdf, even if you aren't aware of it.
So you're doing Word-->PS-->PDF-->HTML
I'm saying the PDF step there is not necessary.
Possibly depending on your pdf to html converter you're actually doing the even worse: Word-->PS-->PDF-->PS-->HTML
Most *nix PDF handlers also do PS transparently in my experience.
If the file is particularly large and richly formatted even on a screaming new machine you can save a lot of time and grunt by cutting out the PDF steps.
Unlike broadcasters podcasters have to pay for every listener (yes, there is blog torrent but it does limit the audience)
I live in a town (Canberra, Australia) which is off the map as far as music producers are concerned, yet nothing can get on the air if it hasn't come from the big studios.
So we gather around a condensor mic once a week. We drink some beer, we talk some crap, and we get local musos to come in and play their stuff.
We like how it sounds, quite a lot of audio snobs like how it sounds.
A few hundred people around the world like it enough they send us postcards.
Where's the harm?
We belch, fart, spark up, talk in away that would get a broadcaster thrown off the air and we ask nothing of you at all. So where's all this agro coming from?
(and quietly scope my karma and user number before accusing me of being some kind of shill)
To return to the point, some podcasts will be crap, some (ok a very few) will be good. Much like blogs. But as no-one is forcing you to listen, or blasting it through the local spectrum, what'ss the problem exactly?
Well it's currently sequestered underground in hydrocarbons. Nothing to say it can't be bound up.
But the coal industry is astonishingly fat and complacent.
Crikey have to story of an Australian called Terry Peabody who's travelled the world getting coal fired power stations to pay him to take away their fly ash, which he sells to concrete companies who can't get enough of the stuff.
Bear in mind that this stuff will take energy to produce and there will be waste to dispose of.
Also bear in mind that electrolysed hydrogen also takes more energy to produce than it will release (until we get perpetual motion sorted out).
So all of this stuff is about finding more efficient ways to generate energy and store it.
In this case the innovation seems to be that this product will make it easy (in water rich environments) to create hydrogen which (it is anticipated) will be easy to make electricity from.
I've made hydrogen by mixing good old caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) with aluminium cans and water.
Year 8 science, same result as this "innovation" although we only got enough hydrogen out of the bottle to inflate a baloon which was able to take off with a 3 metre piece of string drenched in methanol.
lit the bottom as it went by and the whole thing made a very satisfying fireball.
But how will you know how your hydrogen has been generated?
One brand very expensive, one very cheap, which will most people buy?
But lets leave coal bashing aside for a moment. It's a solid fuel which causes reasonably little damage in it's extraction and transport. (As opposed to burning it which is a nightmare)
compare that to widespread sludge farms to grow your bacteria?
or wind farms destroying the skylines and slaughtering migratory birds?
Realistically I'm betting methanol fuel cells will work out safer and better than hydrogen ones in any event.
Which isn't to say the widespread creation of methanol won't pose industrial challenges of its own.
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How much do you want to bet the cops would pick you up before you got the gun?
strictly speaking you don't actually NEED pr0n to get the job done son.
No,
Just because you don't notice the extra step doesn't mean it isn't happening.
All print operations involving pdf generate postscript.
Which then gets compressed down to pdf, even if you aren't aware of it.
So you're doing Word-->PS-->PDF-->HTML
I'm saying the PDF step there is not necessary.
Possibly depending on your pdf to html converter you're actually doing the even worse: Word-->PS-->PDF-->PS-->HTML
Most *nix PDF handlers also do PS transparently in my experience.
If the file is particularly large and richly formatted even on a screaming new machine you can save a lot of time and grunt by cutting out the PDF steps.
But in both cases they're producing postscript and then re-encoding to pdf, which is an unnecessary step.
Beat me to it.
.ps or .prn file, then use ps2html.
But you don't even need to buy acrobat if you print to a
OK, so who feels threatened by this format?
Why the need for this denigration?
Unlike broadcasters podcasters have to pay for every listener (yes, there is blog torrent but it does limit the audience)
I live in a town (Canberra, Australia) which is off the map as far as music producers are concerned, yet nothing can get on the air if it hasn't come from the big studios.
So we gather around a condensor mic once a week. We drink some beer, we talk some crap, and we get local musos to come in and play their stuff.
We like how it sounds, quite a lot of audio snobs like how it sounds.
A few hundred people around the world like it enough they send us postcards.
Where's the harm?
We belch, fart, spark up, talk in away that would get a broadcaster thrown off the air and we ask nothing of you at all. So where's all this agro coming from?
To anticipate the next question the feed is here:
http://the-riotact.com/?cat=39
A summary of the content is here:
http://loadedog.com/pod/pod.shtml
(and quietly scope my karma and user number before accusing me of being some kind of shill)
To return to the point, some podcasts will be crap, some (ok a very few) will be good. Much like blogs. But as no-one is forcing you to listen, or blasting it through the local spectrum, what'ss the problem exactly?
But basically a design with the heat shield exposed at every step of the flight is a risky one.
The space shuttle is a doomed desire to make a space ship the panders to the publics imagination (fuelled mostly by flash gordon it would seem).
it's a technological miracle they managed to make the damn thing work at all but it's a stupid sideshow and needs to end.
Like the rich need to go to the moon to get that.
And geez will they ever shut up about that useless bloody arm?
There I was about to mod you troll for saying I was blindfolded!
Then I decided I wanted to respond.
We moderators are a capricious and flighty bunch. What we do only really works in the macro so don't get too upset but the odd outlier.
Anyway it's silly to sweat the small stuff man.
just another deadly thing
The *ONLY* logical way?
Puhlease
all things you don't have on an oil tanker.
Well it's currently sequestered underground in hydrocarbons. Nothing to say it can't be bound up.
But the coal industry is astonishingly fat and complacent.
Crikey have to story of an Australian called Terry Peabody who's travelled the world getting coal fired power stations to pay him to take away their fly ash, which he sells to concrete companies who can't get enough of the stuff.
coal is a long, long way from being scarce
well i'd say your people need to tighten up the environmental controls on your mining.
i was being slightly facetious about the wind farms, the point is a lot of people feel very strongly about them on aesthetic grounds.
(personally I think they're cool)
I'm pretty sure a lot of wealth comes from trade.
not so good fo return trade if you're ripping them open for that.
Liquefied Natural Gas is shipped in specialised tankers with a row of enourmous domes.
they look pretty cool.
here's one I prepared earlier.
(ok, i just googled it then)
Well if you've only seen two in your life you have much to learn about the huge opposition to these things by the locals.
The Wikipedia has a good round-up of the contra case.
Bear in mind that this stuff will take energy to produce and there will be waste to dispose of.
Also bear in mind that electrolysed hydrogen also takes more energy to produce than it will release (until we get perpetual motion sorted out).
So all of this stuff is about finding more efficient ways to generate energy and store it.
In this case the innovation seems to be that this product will make it easy (in water rich environments) to create hydrogen which (it is anticipated) will be easy to make electricity from.
I've made hydrogen by mixing good old caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) with aluminium cans and water.
Year 8 science, same result as this "innovation" although we only got enough hydrogen out of the bottle to inflate a baloon which was able to take off with a 3 metre piece of string drenched in methanol.
lit the bottom as it went by and the whole thing made a very satisfying fireball.
But how will you know how your hydrogen has been generated?
One brand very expensive, one very cheap, which will most people buy?
But lets leave coal bashing aside for a moment. It's a solid fuel which causes reasonably little damage in it's extraction and transport. (As opposed to burning it which is a nightmare)
compare that to widespread sludge farms to grow your bacteria?
or wind farms destroying the skylines and slaughtering migratory birds?
Realistically I'm betting methanol fuel cells will work out safer and better than hydrogen ones in any event.
Which isn't to say the widespread creation of methanol won't pose industrial challenges of its own.
well it all depends on the coal and exactly how they get it out.
But there are huge markets for the by-products if it's done right.
There's a lot of money being spent on carbon sequestration (putting it back udnerground) right now as well.
but with this industry you can bet it'll be the cheapest and dirtiest option they can find.
Oh I agree completely, it's big industry playing for big stakes.
Just saying don't believe the hype about the so called "Hydrogen economy" being environmentally driven.
Coal gas seems to be where the big boys are going.
Hence here in coal rich australia our rulers are mad keen on the "Hydrogen Economy".
The issue is that a cosy cartel is being put out of business by the government.
Of course they and their shareholders are outraged.
Which is not to say it's a bad thing.