Here's a novel idea. Instead of all the countries in the EU changing their patent law to include software patents, why doesn't the US prohibit software patents? Seems a better way of making a single market to me.
String them together in a condictive electrolyte (tree sap & humic acid in the soil will do) to get a cell with 1.999V potential - magically matching his 2.0V
Of course, his aluminium nail is corroding and will need replacing - which is where the energy comes from.
You can't connect the trees in series to increase the voltage because they share a common ground.
Historically, you blame the immigrants for everything as is currently happening. This is fairly easy when your media don't really cover anything outside their own borders that does not involve their citizens being tried for drug offences or having a fine old time shooting up potential immigrants, oops, I mean terrorists.
The classic next move is to round up the immigrants into internment camps - which I see the Australians are already doing, so they seem to know the game plan.
Then, as the Nazis did, you whip the population up into a racist frenzy using the media and find someone to declare war on. G W Bush should be able to help there.
I've been wating for an improvement in this technology since the Private Eye HUD device patents were bought out and shut down. That device was great: Clear, crisp, easy to view and it had "Hercules" resolution - 720x384, not QVGA.
I have been waiting about 15 years, and I've reached the conclusion that we'll only get a decent HUD when sufficient technology is in the hands of Open Source developers. So I'm working on the Open Source RepRap fabricator http://reprap.org/ and we'll see who builds an affordable one first; geeks, or corporates.
If only the US Government agencies had any credibility left.
Sadly, with such a poor track record of providing information (WMDs, prisoner abuse, universal ICRC access, use of napalm and WP etc.) the rest of the world just cannot take the US governement's word for anything these days.
Arstechnica has mysteriously vanished or been slashdotted, could someone kindly post the text of the article so us who haven't seen it can do so.
Otherwise the original point of the posting may get lost and totally obfuscated in a redneck/libertarian shitfight. Some might find this advantageous, I do not.
So, what are you supposed to do when the President declares himself above the law?
Roll over?
That's where your "defence of liberty" kicks in. Of course, tinpot dictators won't like that one bit and will try to eliminate your ability to covertly take the country back.
From the outside looking in, I see the process is probably already underway.
I wish I had, then I might be able to make some sensible comment on it.
Sadly, Arstechnica does not currently appear in DNS space visible from New Zealand, as of a few hours ago. I have retreived an IP address from cache and tried to traceroute to it, but no joy.
The Wikipedia never was morally suspect, nor can it be. It has no soul to be damned nor arse to be kicked. You might as well blame the air for conveying libelous speech.
We had one installed at work - then ripped out and replaced with an old-fashioned water variant. It kept on blocking up. We asked why, and the answer came back that people were pissing in it too often.
After Slashdot banned my ISP - and hence me Slashdotting from home (advertisers take note) - I'm relieved to hear that there is an alternative site.
It has brought home to me that a single information repository is a bad idea, as it can too easily be compromised. Someone at my ISP has effectively mounted a DoS attack on Slashdot, banning all Maxnet users due to a single crap-poster.
By the way, I found this article at work through Digg...
Probably more to do with me having seen similar things beifgre and finding that they're either crap, or someone has changed something else to get the efficiency. Case in point was someone who claimed injecting steam to petrol engines improved milage. It did, but not because he was using steam; the engine had in effect acquired sophisticated fuel injection.
My suspicion is that the vehicle alternator is being managed better, and that this is producing the fuel saving in a similar way to the now common practice of disconnecting engine fans when not in use.
So by using diesel to power the vehicle's alternator, they can generate hydrogen and squirt it back into the engine.
Why does the cynic in me think it might be more energy-efficient to not load the alternator with a hydrogen generator in the first place?
Surely, if the alternator is not placing the additional load of the electrolysis equipment on the engine, the efficiency of the engine will go up?
Personally, if hydrogen does somehow improve things I'd suspect an even cleaner burn would result by injecting the oxygen from the electrolysis plant too...
You never know, Beagle might be usable before Google get their desktop going on Linux. But the Beagle keeps chewing up my memory, so I'm dropping back to using x-friend even though it's not Open Source.
If anyone has any better alternatives for us Linux bunnies, do tell the world!
Yup, read it. Definitely one from the "Green Bashing" camp, and tinged with frothed spittle. Totally misses the point of Open Source and Open Standards. But most of the NZ press is like that - you get used to it.
I'm an NZ resident, and there's a funny thing going on. In the corporate backrooms, Linux is the preferred environment. But the Microsoft vendor lock-in is very powerful, and execs just don't get the concept of Open Standards. Their laptop came with Microsoft Office, so that's what everything else in the company will use to make sure they can read everyone's documents.
Companies that are just a front for overseas operations don't give two hoots because they can't change anything anyway. They'll just sell what they're told to by the absent head office.
Microsoft knows it'll loose really quickly once OSS gets hold, so it pumps Microsoft "development projects" to ensure its wares get entrenched as much as possible. Open Document will sort them out eventually, but it's going to be a long, hard slog.
That study is somewhat old hat. Have a look here and you'll see that the mechanism is now understood.
In short, you can make toxic, or non-toxic buckyballs. The more bits you dangle on the outside of the buckyballs, the less toxic they become. Nanomachine designers will be aware of this and act accordingly.
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Fortunately, us Kiwis don't have senators or MEPs.
:v)
Vik
Here's a novel idea. Instead of all the countries in the EU changing their patent law to include software patents, why doesn't the US prohibit software patents? Seems a better way of making a single market to me.
:v)
Vik
He has indeed made a battery, and has made a cunning choice in using an aluminium nail because of its electrode potential. It works like this:
:v)
Copper(II) electrode potential: 0.337V
Aluminium electrode potential: -1.662V
(Source http://www.ami.ac.uk/courses/topics/0157_corr/)
String them together in a condictive electrolyte (tree sap & humic acid in the soil will do) to get a cell with 1.999V potential - magically matching his 2.0V
Of course, his aluminium nail is corroding and will need replacing - which is where the energy comes from.
You can't connect the trees in series to increase the voltage because they share a common ground.
Vik
Historically, you blame the immigrants for everything as is currently happening. This is fairly easy when your media don't really cover anything outside their own borders that does not involve their citizens being tried for drug offences or having a fine old time shooting up potential immigrants, oops, I mean terrorists.
:v)
The classic next move is to round up the immigrants into internment camps - which I see the Australians are already doing, so they seem to know the game plan.
Then, as the Nazis did, you whip the population up into a racist frenzy using the media and find someone to declare war on. G W Bush should be able to help there.
Oh well, we can hope I'm wrong, eh?
Vik
They didn't have to do this, and one wonders why they did. There is already a perfectly good Open Source, Open Standard DRM system; Project DReaM:
:v)
http://www.openmediacommons.org/
Vik
I've been wating for an improvement in this technology since the Private Eye HUD device patents were bought out and shut down. That device was great: Clear, crisp, easy to view and it had "Hercules" resolution - 720x384, not QVGA.
:v)
I have been waiting about 15 years, and I've reached the conclusion that we'll only get a decent HUD when sufficient technology is in the hands of Open Source developers. So I'm working on the Open Source RepRap fabricator http://reprap.org/ and we'll see who builds an affordable one first; geeks, or corporates.
Vik
If only the US Government agencies had any credibility left.
:v)
Sadly, with such a poor track record of providing information (WMDs, prisoner abuse, universal ICRC access, use of napalm and WP etc.) the rest of the world just cannot take the US governement's word for anything these days.
Vik
Arstechnica has mysteriously vanished or been slashdotted, could someone kindly post the text of the article so us who haven't seen it can do so.
:v)
Otherwise the original point of the posting may get lost and totally obfuscated in a redneck/libertarian shitfight. Some might find this advantageous, I do not.
Vik
So, what are you supposed to do when the President declares himself above the law?
:v)
Roll over?
That's where your "defence of liberty" kicks in. Of course, tinpot dictators won't like that one bit and will try to eliminate your ability to covertly take the country back.
From the outside looking in, I see the process is probably already underway.
Vik
I wish I had, then I might be able to make some sensible comment on it.
:v)
Sadly, Arstechnica does not currently appear in DNS space visible from New Zealand, as of a few hours ago. I have retreived an IP address from cache and tried to traceroute to it, but no joy.
I too would like to see a cached copy. Anyone?
Vik
The Wikipedia never was morally suspect, nor can it be. It has no soul to be damned nor arse to be kicked. You might as well blame the air for conveying libelous speech.
:v)
Vik
Could be quite a kick-start for the One Laptop Per Child campaign.
:v)
Vik
"...fast talk and snap decisions are often valued over listening, deliberation and careful planning..."
:v)
Maybe on your side of the pond, mate.
Vik
We had one installed at work - then ripped out and replaced with an old-fashioned water variant. It kept on blocking up. We asked why, and the answer came back that people were pissing in it too often.
:v)
Well sucks to that idea. Out it went.
Vik
After Slashdot banned my ISP - and hence me Slashdotting from home (advertisers take note) - I'm relieved to hear that there is an alternative site.
:v)
It has brought home to me that a single information repository is a bad idea, as it can too easily be compromised. Someone at my ISP has effectively mounted a DoS attack on Slashdot, banning all Maxnet users due to a single crap-poster.
By the way, I found this article at work through Digg...
Vik
Vik :v)
Probably more to do with me having seen similar things beifgre and finding that they're either crap, or someone has changed something else to get the efficiency. Case in point was someone who claimed injecting steam to petrol engines improved milage. It did, but not because he was using steam; the engine had in effect acquired sophisticated fuel injection.
:v)
My suspicion is that the vehicle alternator is being managed better, and that this is producing the fuel saving in a similar way to the now common practice of disconnecting engine fans when not in use.
Vik
Um, sorry, missed that. Producing hydrogen from water requires less energy than you get from burning it? OOooh! Perpetual motion machine!
:v)
Still wondering here why the oxygen is not injected too. As you say, that'd increase the burn temperature as well.
Vik
It's also easy to claim that you are, when in fact you are not.
:v)
Vik
So by using diesel to power the vehicle's alternator, they can generate hydrogen and squirt it back into the engine.
:v)
Why does the cynic in me think it might be more energy-efficient to not load the alternator with a hydrogen generator in the first place?
Surely, if the alternator is not placing the additional load of the electrolysis equipment on the engine, the efficiency of the engine will go up?
Personally, if hydrogen does somehow improve things I'd suspect an even cleaner burn would result by injecting the oxygen from the electrolysis plant too...
Vik
Try posting it again when he shows something working. Anything working.
:v)
Vik
You never know, Beagle might be usable before Google get their desktop going on Linux. But the Beagle keeps chewing up my memory, so I'm dropping back to using x-friend even though it's not Open Source.
:v)
If anyone has any better alternatives for us Linux bunnies, do tell the world!
Vik
Presumably this book will tell me what console editor will edit OpenDocument files in a human-friendly way?
:v)
Won't it?
Vik
Yup, read it. Definitely one from the "Green Bashing" camp, and tinged with frothed spittle. Totally misses the point of Open Source and Open Standards. But most of the NZ press is like that - you get used to it.
:v)
I'm an NZ resident, and there's a funny thing going on. In the corporate backrooms, Linux is the preferred environment. But the Microsoft vendor lock-in is very powerful, and execs just don't get the concept of Open Standards. Their laptop came with Microsoft Office, so that's what everything else in the company will use to make sure they can read everyone's documents.
Companies that are just a front for overseas operations don't give two hoots because they can't change anything anyway. They'll just sell what they're told to by the absent head office.
Microsoft knows it'll loose really quickly once OSS gets hold, so it pumps Microsoft "development projects" to ensure its wares get entrenched as much as possible. Open Document will sort them out eventually, but it's going to be a long, hard slog.
Vik
That study is somewhat old hat. Have a look here and you'll see that the mechanism is now understood.
:v)
In short, you can make toxic, or non-toxic buckyballs. The more bits you dangle on the outside of the buckyballs, the less toxic they become. Nanomachine designers will be aware of this and act accordingly.
Vik