It's not a given, but surprise, surprise, the research has been done, and the energy input is about the same as required extracting and refining petrodiesel.
Good point: technology has a habit of limiting instead of broadening freedoms, and as the freedoms given by cars have been more than balanced out by the way they are driven too fast and too dangerously, it only seems fair to use a bit of technology to broaden the freedom of other people from being driven into at high speed.
Well, it's not illegal to use or sell it if you pay the tax on it, and they're very helpful if you want to. What a funny country, wanting to protect its tax revenues and match them to where the societal costs occur. How strange.
Fortunately, the story describes the necessary processes to go through to make biodiesel. The easiest solution is definitely to find somewhere near you that stocks it, though.
From biodiesel.org: in PDF or Google html cache. It says that there's 80.5% energy efficiency. i.e. For every 5 units of fuel produced, one unit is consumed in its production or distribution. The comparable figure they give for petrodiesel is 83.28%.
Of course, it's up to you whether you choose to accept this study.
The Fall of Iridium (coming soon to a sky near you) is vindication of the view that people don't want WIRELESS, they want WIRED, as in max bandwidth. Undersea and underground fiber optic cables, not satellites, are the backbone of the worldwide internet - cheaper to install with much higher capacity.
Maybe, maybe not. The flat I share (in the UK) with 4 people has well, one phone line and between us, 3 mobiles (cellphones). Guess whether I check my email on a landline or with the mobile, given the price is the same at off peak hours.
And how many countries have more mobiles than landlines? How many more African villages have GSM mobile coverage than landline coverage?
As for Britain, there are more people with digital TV coming into their house wireless (either terrestrial or satellite) than with digital cable.
Oh, and I can get wireless xDSL (WipLL, actually, gets cool acronym points) faster and cheaper than wired here. (2.4Mb/s symetrical vs. 2Mb/s downstream and 256k up)
Yes, It would be great, but in other peoples bandwidth challenged countries (like mine... england), the government owns the air waves. The only form of transmission that you could use is cb stuff. Doh!
Funny, in my bandwidth challenged country (Scotland), there's already a company that does wireless broadband internet access (check out Atlantic Telecom) I think they're rolling out in Manchester soon, too.
They don't seem to have a problem getting the frequencies to do that with.
The other players in that market would look through it and take the good ideas to use them in their own products, that's what would happen, and that would be all. ERP tools are not something hackers have uses for, so you wouldn't find people for an actual OSS development project.
You wouldn't find hackers, but aren't there going to be enough IT departments that can employ people to fix their problems. Same advantages as open source in that the people doing the repairs are the ones having the problems, or at least in the same company.
If someone would have been able to grab Hotmail.com from Microsoft, how long do you think they would have kept it? About as long as it took Microsoft's lawyers to find a judge, I imagine.
But would they have got it back if it had been someone offering to deliver all your snail mail toasty warm, i.e. a different business.
>This has resulted in the USA subsidizing the telephone systems of many countries, the outflow was $5.4 billion in 1996. I wonder what the actual telecommunications balance of trade is between Australia and the USA is when both voice and IP are considered. I'm not sure it's subsidy of Australia that's a problem (UK-Australia costs 4-6p/minute (10c.)), but subsidizing all those developing countries whose main source of foreign income is incoming telephone calls.
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Well, what about a VIA eden based PC? Should have been easy enough to find if you searched for "Quiet PC"
The BNC only goes up to 1990, as well. Linux wasn't a word then. Microsoft ranks 5293 on the list I've got, occurring 1704 times in 100 million words
Eh? One, followed by 99 zeroes, surely.
It's not a given, but surprise, surprise, the research has been done, and the energy input is about the same as required extracting and refining petrodiesel.
Strangely enough, I have actually seen people giving papers where they use CYC for inference in Question Answering systems. Amazingly.
OT, but if you meant that about the gmail invites, ambrosen@onetel.net.uk would be a place to send one that would make me very grateful.
No, it was free on Solaris as well. And presumably HP-UX. And also bundled with Mac OS until recently.
Good point: technology has a habit of limiting instead of broadening freedoms, and as the freedoms given by cars have been more than balanced out by the way they are driven too fast and too dangerously, it only seems fair to use a bit of technology to broaden the freedom of other people from being driven into at high speed.
Was that your point?
Well, it's not illegal to use or sell it if you pay the tax on it, and they're very helpful if you want to. What a funny country, wanting to protect its tax revenues and match them to where the societal costs occur. How strange.
Well, there's plenty of sources which say Diesel used peanut oil, which of course does have the advantage of being easier to get hold of.
Fortunately, the story describes the necessary processes to go through to make biodiesel. The easiest solution is definitely to find somewhere near you that stocks it, though.
Obviously. Except of course you can pay the tax and still come out ahead (it gets a preferential rate to petrodiesel)
Of course, it's up to you whether you choose to accept this study.
You can get it in John Menzies in Waverley station
And how many countries have more mobiles than landlines? How many more African villages have GSM mobile coverage than landline coverage?
As for Britain, there are more people with digital TV coming into their house wireless (either terrestrial or satellite) than with digital cable.
Oh, and I can get wireless xDSL (WipLL, actually, gets cool acronym points) faster and cheaper than wired here. (2.4Mb/s symetrical vs. 2Mb/s downstream and 256k up)
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