When a hurricane comes over warm water, it "eats up" that energy and vapor and grows. Cat. 3 becomes a Cat. 4... (There is a network cable joke in there somewhere...) Katrina was Cat. 1 hurricane as it crossed Florida. At New Orleans it was Cat. 3.
The idea here is to rob the hurricane of its "food source", before it gets to it. Temporarily precool the ocean in its path. NOT from inside a tropical storm. And in comparison to the HUGE amount of cold water (we ARE talking oceans here), some cloud cover you would lose would be insignificant heat shielding. Also, that water vapor is exactly the stuff hurricane "feeds" on.
The solution DOES scale. Only not well enough as we are dealing with things as big as continents, moving a speeds well above 100 km/h. We are talking scaling like the raindrop scales into a rain shower. You would need a HUGE number of ships to accomplish anything significant.
On top of that, once you do manage to pump enough heat and vapor from the air - you've just formed a high-pressure area (A). Which will cause air to flow FROM there to a nearby warm and wet low-pressure area (B) - directing the hurricane along the A-B path.
The fun part? You can't direct that movement. That high-pressure area would be surrounded by low-pressure areas from all sides. You could be speeding up the hurricane towards the place you were trying to protect just as easily as blowing it away from it. And let us not even go into towards WHAT you would be blowing it TO if it actually worked. People living around the Caribbean might not be pleased to have the same hurricane trashing over their houses TWICE.
You were never taken on a tour around someone's house to be shown the more important works of cultural and artistic importance such as BigAss(TM) TV, VeryLoud(TM) Stereo or MostExpensiveGenericShit(TM) they could find?
People who buy things to brag with, brag all the time. At work, at home, on the road, buying a packet of chewing gum at the news stand...
Basically, the idea is to use pressure and temperature differences to "pump" the warm surface water to the bottom.
RTFA. That is not his idea (his idea isn't very plausible).
Aaah... An alumnus of The John Cleese School of Debating, I presume?
Therefore, the lower depths of the ocean may be used as a huge heat/energy sink which may be exploited by vessel 100. When vessel 100 is deployed at sea, waves 135 may lap over the top of walls 110 to input warm (relative to deeper waters) surface ocean water into tub 130. Tub 130 will fill to a level 140 which is above the average ocean level depicted as level 145. Because of the difference between levels 140 and 145, a pressure head is created thereby pushing warm surface ocean water in a downward direction 150 down through conduit 125 to exit into the cold ocean depths (relative to near surface waters) through one or more openings 155. In an exemplary embodiment, the depth of opening 155 may be located below the ocean's thermocline, the approximate bottom of which is depicted as line 160. This cycle will be continuous in bringing warm surface ocean water to great depth as ocean waves continue to input water into tub 130. If many of vessel 100 are distributed throughout a region of water, the temperature of the surface of the water may be altered.
1. Why would you pump cold water up? It is a heat sink. You pump the heat down. 2. Well THAT is the point. Do you put ice in your drink so it would just drop to the bottom or perhaps to cool the drink by absorbing the heat?
Anyway... Give Gates a LITTLE credit. The guy is NOT a moron after all. RTFA - his idea is quite simple and rather carbon neutral (once you build a huge fleet of ships). Basically, the idea is to use pressure and temperature differences to "pump" the warm surface water to the bottom.
Now... What ecological and climate consequences might pumping huge amounts of warm water to the bottom of the ocean and disrupting natural air and water currents might have... that is a matter of FAR more research and calculation.
Just think of all those tiny windows flags. Fluttering in the wind.
ALWAYS fluttering in the wind.
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You already own a chainsaw. Your keyboard. Help save more trees by cutting down on unnecessary printing. Download PaperCut, a free application that plays the sound of a chainsaw each time you press Ctrl-P.
Printers run on trees. This download is reminder of their power.
It is a silly "save the trees" campaign.
On par with an audio CD with recording of the sounds an oil platform makes - that you would keep in your car and play it the each time you take it for a drive.
Embryo space colonization - just send a lab. No humans need to make the trip. Not so great for the human civilization, but various religious and minority ideological groups will love it.
So is uninterrupted power supply. Yet, they come with BOTH batteries AND that electricity trans-mutie-fying-thingie-cable-box you plug into the power socket.
What are they afraid off? Why don't they just make those things to run on solar power or something. Sun is always on, right?
...a WILD GUESS that Korea had anything to do with it.Possibility or even opportunity can not be considered proof.
Heck! It could have been Michael Jackson. In his sleep. Maybe he died from shock when he found out what he (his other self, that is) did? It IS possible!
Granted, Japan from 60-70 years ago but still... How would USA feel about someone dropping not one, but two nukes on them AND robbing them of say... Texas (Korea)?
What on Earth gave you the idea that it was North Korea that did it? As you have so insightfully put it "How much connectivity does NK have?".
Japan on the other hand has a lot more connectivity, and a huge bone to pick with both US and SC. Or how about China? India? Germany? Vatican?
Even if the botnet CAME from a particular country, with each attack being accompanied by spamming of the mailboxes around the world with the.mp3s of the national anthem of the particular country - that is still NOT EVIDENCE that said country had anything to do with it. It could all be work of a drunk Australian hacker for all we know.
a) That Chrome OS will be built around a web&SQL server, just so Google's apps which are built for online use could run, while Win, OSX and other -Nixes will require either to be connected online or to install a significant amount of bloatware just so the user could use their word processor? b) Apps will be offline for Chrome OS only, while the rest will have to go online to use them? c) Some combination of the above.
Either one of those seems kinda like jamming a problem on the already existing solution. Solution being - screw the web. Have apps run just fine without it, not making them NEED the web to run or having huge chunks of virtual servers and whatnots running in the background.
Just because they are a web company, they don't have to force web into every aspect of their business.
Then again, from the original blog post you could only glean that they plan to run apps through the browser - not how they plan to do it.
Chrome OS focusing on speed, simplicity and security does not imply Windows cannot deliver in these areas. It's just a still non existent operating system, and has yet to show anything other than a blog post about its future. The summary sound rather, well, dumb.
"All Web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite Web technologies," the company said.
Depends on your definition of "automatically". From what I hear, there is this little prerequisite called "internet access".
Also, while it appears that many are finding the news of the new Google Chrome Linux OS a cause to celebrate, I would advise quiet optimism at best. They are yet to release Chrome for anything other than Windows.
A complete Chrome OS may still be somewhere in the (rather) far future.
We should better let them know then. They should immediately start cutting and stabbing actual living things on top of that billboard, or stop calling it "bleeding".
Betrayal is actually just moral judgment of the action - which if unfavorable to the object of the action, said object considers unfair. What it is really is simply possession of more information than you are willing to share, possibly favorable to you or someone else, with possibility of action or lack thereof attached.
No malice is needed. You simply know more at the time and you fail to share the info. You fail to mention to your friend that the milk in your fridge is 5 weeks old before he drinks from the container. Instant betrayal. You didn't want to do it, you were not even in the room. Your unconscious inaction alone led to your betrayal of your friend. Not a very serious case, but quite true.
Information is power. Betrayal is just a matter of moral judgment on the use of it.
Americans have betrayed their legal ruler and then fought a war when they were faced with their actions. So did Russians. And French. And many others... Heck, one of the great stepping stones of democracy and human rights was when Brits betrayed their king and at the tip of the blade forced him to sign a legal document giving them previously absent freedoms.
See? Good betrayal. Favorable to the masses. Leading to power. Still betrayal though.
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Those are not what I call friends.
Just some Mac users I know.
When a hurricane comes over warm water, it "eats up" that energy and vapor and grows. Cat. 3 becomes a Cat. 4... (There is a network cable joke in there somewhere...)
Katrina was Cat. 1 hurricane as it crossed Florida. At New Orleans it was Cat. 3.
The idea here is to rob the hurricane of its "food source", before it gets to it. Temporarily precool the ocean in its path. NOT from inside a tropical storm.
And in comparison to the HUGE amount of cold water (we ARE talking oceans here), some cloud cover you would lose would be insignificant heat shielding.
Also, that water vapor is exactly the stuff hurricane "feeds" on.
The solution DOES scale. Only not well enough as we are dealing with things as big as continents, moving a speeds well above 100 km/h.
We are talking scaling like the raindrop scales into a rain shower. You would need a HUGE number of ships to accomplish anything significant.
On top of that, once you do manage to pump enough heat and vapor from the air - you've just formed a high-pressure area (A).
Which will cause air to flow FROM there to a nearby warm and wet low-pressure area (B) - directing the hurricane along the A-B path.
The fun part?
You can't direct that movement. That high-pressure area would be surrounded by low-pressure areas from all sides.
You could be speeding up the hurricane towards the place you were trying to protect just as easily as blowing it away from it.
And let us not even go into towards WHAT you would be blowing it TO if it actually worked.
People living around the Caribbean might not be pleased to have the same hurricane trashing over their houses TWICE.
You were never taken on a tour around someone's house to be shown the more important works of cultural and artistic importance such as BigAss(TM) TV, VeryLoud(TM) Stereo or MostExpensiveGenericShit(TM) they could find?
People who buy things to brag with, brag all the time.
At work, at home, on the road, buying a packet of chewing gum at the news stand...
Basically, the idea is to use pressure and temperature differences to "pump" the warm surface water to the bottom.
RTFA. That is not his idea (his idea isn't very plausible).
Aaah... An alumnus of The John Cleese School of Debating, I presume?
Therefore, the lower depths of the ocean may be used as a huge heat/energy sink which may be exploited by vessel 100.
When vessel 100 is deployed at sea, waves 135 may lap over the top of walls 110 to input warm (relative to deeper waters) surface ocean water into tub 130.
Tub 130 will fill to a level 140 which is above the average ocean level depicted as level 145.
Because of the difference between levels 140 and 145, a pressure head is created thereby pushing warm surface ocean water in a downward direction 150 down through conduit 125 to exit into the cold ocean depths (relative to near surface waters) through one or more openings 155.
In an exemplary embodiment, the depth of opening 155 may be located below the ocean's thermocline, the approximate bottom of which is depicted as line 160.
This cycle will be continuous in bringing warm surface ocean water to great depth as ocean waves continue to input water into tub 130.
If many of vessel 100 are distributed throughout a region of water, the temperature of the surface of the water may be altered.
1. Why would you pump cold water up? It is a heat sink. You pump the heat down.
2. Well THAT is the point. Do you put ice in your drink so it would just drop to the bottom or perhaps to cool the drink by absorbing the heat?
Anyway... Give Gates a LITTLE credit. The guy is NOT a moron after all.
RTFA - his idea is quite simple and rather carbon neutral (once you build a huge fleet of ships).
Basically, the idea is to use pressure and temperature differences to "pump" the warm surface water to the bottom.
Now...
What ecological and climate consequences might pumping huge amounts of warm water to the bottom of the ocean and disrupting natural air and water currents might have... that is a matter of FAR more research and calculation.
Just think of all those tiny windows flags. Fluttering in the wind.
ALWAYS fluttering in the wind.
You already own a chainsaw. Your keyboard.
Help save more trees by cutting down on unnecessary printing.
Download PaperCut, a free application that plays the sound of a chainsaw each time you press Ctrl-P.
Printers run on trees. This download is reminder of their power.
It is a silly "save the trees" campaign.
On par with an audio CD with recording of the sounds an oil platform makes - that you would keep in your car and play it the each time you take it for a drive.
should be taken out back and shot.
If I were the said "scumbag", I sure as hell wouldn't like you anywhere near my "legal procedure".
I see you left your window open, so I used my sound recording device to make some recordings of your conversations and daily routine.
Illegal on my part, but completely your fault for allowing to happen. Your phone operator is free and clear.
Just photo-fabric condoms.
2030s are going to be a very strange time for porn industry.
Embryo space colonization - just send a lab.
No humans need to make the trip.
Not so great for the human civilization, but various religious and minority ideological groups will love it.
So is uninterrupted power supply.
Yet, they come with BOTH batteries AND that electricity trans-mutie-fying-thingie-cable-box you plug into the power socket.
What are they afraid off? Why don't they just make those things to run on solar power or something. Sun is always on, right?
...a WILD GUESS that Korea had anything to do with it.Possibility or even opportunity can not be considered proof.
Heck! It could have been Michael Jackson. In his sleep. Maybe he died from shock when he found out what he (his other self, that is) did?
It IS possible!
Japan.
Granted, Japan from 60-70 years ago but still...
How would USA feel about someone dropping not one, but two nukes on them AND robbing them of say... Texas (Korea)?
What on Earth gave you the idea that it was North Korea that did it?
As you have so insightfully put it "How much connectivity does NK have?".
Japan on the other hand has a lot more connectivity, and a huge bone to pick with both US and SC.
Or how about China? India? Germany? Vatican?
Even if the botnet CAME from a particular country, with each attack being accompanied by spamming of the mailboxes around the world with the .mp3s of the national anthem of the particular country - that is still NOT EVIDENCE that said country had anything to do with it.
It could all be work of a drunk Australian hacker for all we know.
So what are you suggesting?
a) That Chrome OS will be built around a web&SQL server, just so Google's apps which are built for online use could run, while Win, OSX and other -Nixes will require either to be connected online or to install a significant amount of bloatware just so the user could use their word processor?
b) Apps will be offline for Chrome OS only, while the rest will have to go online to use them?
c) Some combination of the above.
Either one of those seems kinda like jamming a problem on the already existing solution.
Solution being - screw the web. Have apps run just fine without it, not making them NEED the web to run or having huge chunks of virtual servers and whatnots running in the background.
Just because they are a web company, they don't have to force web into every aspect of their business.
Then again, from the original blog post you could only glean that they plan to run apps through the browser - not how they plan to do it.
Chrome OS focusing on speed, simplicity and security does not imply Windows cannot deliver in these areas. It's just a still non existent operating system, and has yet to show anything other than a blog post about its future. The summary sound rather, well, dumb.
"All Web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite Web technologies," the company said.
Depends on your definition of "automatically". From what I hear, there is this little prerequisite called "internet access".
Also, while it appears that many are finding the news of the new Google Chrome Linux OS a cause to celebrate, I would advise quiet optimism at best.
They are yet to release Chrome for anything other than Windows.
A complete Chrome OS may still be somewhere in the (rather) far future.
We should better let them know then.
They should immediately start cutting and stabbing actual living things on top of that billboard, or stop calling it "bleeding".
I've RTFed the story couple of times, without finding any mention of 2 million dollars price tag.
Could it be that you have confused it with an overpriced toy?
Quite insightful.
Hubert J. Farnsworth will be pleased by this news.
Betrayal should not systematically lead to power.
Betrayal is actually just moral judgment of the action - which if unfavorable to the object of the action, said object considers unfair.
What it is really is simply possession of more information than you are willing to share, possibly favorable to you or someone else, with possibility of action or lack thereof attached.
No malice is needed. You simply know more at the time and you fail to share the info.
You fail to mention to your friend that the milk in your fridge is 5 weeks old before he drinks from the container. Instant betrayal.
You didn't want to do it, you were not even in the room. Your unconscious inaction alone led to your betrayal of your friend.
Not a very serious case, but quite true.
Information is power. Betrayal is just a matter of moral judgment on the use of it.
Americans have betrayed their legal ruler and then fought a war when they were faced with their actions.
So did Russians. And French. And many others...
Heck, one of the great stepping stones of democracy and human rights was when Brits betrayed their king and at the tip of the blade forced him to sign a legal document giving them previously absent freedoms.
See? Good betrayal. Favorable to the masses. Leading to power.
Still betrayal though.
Free as in TV commercials vs. free as in TV shows.
But you may come back as an non-free undead in the service of a hired necromancer.