Wouldn't that be a very inefficient way of harvesting energy? You know... one of those things you keep in mind when you design the collector? If there was only some way to actually capture that "shaft of super heated air going right up to higher areas of the atmosphere"...
Either a "few times noon sunlight" is a lot, or it isn't. You can't bash the idea as both "dangerously hot/bright" and "too cold/dark for practical use".
Sun at noon can easily generate temperatures over 40C - if a "few times" that is 2.5 or higher, then you're over boiling point of water. You can harvest that energy using 19th century means - like steam engine. That WOULD be quite dangerous, though. No need to argue there.
If "few times" is lower than 1.5 - those are temperature extremes observed in nature. Granted, in places like Death Valley or Libya but still - up to 58C is natural. A tad uncomfortable, but unless you plan to step into the ray naked and just stand there for prolonged periods of time - quite harmless.
If it is somewhere between 1.5 and 2.5, that is in the area of boiling eggs (and other things made out of protein, like skin). Probably very uncomfortable conditions for living creatures but quite usable levels of energy. Hey! If you can boil an egg, you are surely getting enough energy to do some other things. Again, you don't need to go further than 19th century - just substitute water for something that boils at lower temperature.
And besides, nobody forces you to stick to the 19th century. So, those energy levels are quite usable. Even just 100% of noon sunlight is a lot - considering that modern solar is way bellow that. And we ARE using solar.
Shem was a faker. Ham was big and dumb. Japheth was a woodcarver who never got married and talked to puppets. Got into his head that one of them came to life and ran away from home, so he went roaming the world after it. Nearly drowned doing that. Claimed that he survived being eaten by a whale. Changed his name to Jonah after that.
The Horton was an elephant, while HortEn Ho 229 was a prototype fighter/bomber. V3 (and V4 and V5) was specifically a bomber, but V6 and V7 were designed to be fighters.
We should also like totally ban the use of eagles as a symbol of state or country, as it was used by Romans when they pillaged, murdered and enslaved all across Europe and Mediterranean. They threw people to lions because of their religion, for Christ's sake!
Use of eagles on flags, coat of arms and seals is TOTALLY unnecessary.
Parent poster will never work for NASA or any other firm or agency that uses some actual scientific measurements, instead of archaic colonial measurements*.
Kinda like rabbit - or so I hear. Only problem is if you are eating a domestic cat that might have been feeding on mice and/or birds - and you just don't know where those have been.
Same thing with the elderly. They were most likely very ill and overmedicated at the time of death. Plus, you wouldn't eat a cow that died of old age, now would you?
Humans are to be eaten young - before they pollute their meat with additives and artificial coloring and other toxic waste.
It looks like he is apologizing for the netbook being shown.
No it doesn't!
The whole point of the text that line was taken out of is about the fact that ASUStek did NOT at any point during the Computex have an Android-based Eee PC on its stand - but Qualcomm did. Which was then blown out to "Microsoft threatened them with lives of their families" so they hid it, by SJVN. Because, being one of those people that equalize MS with Mordor and Gates or Balmer as Sauron - SJVN naturally connected the mention of MS in article as their immediate (evil) influence.
- Asustek DID NOT show the device in the first place - Qualcomm did. - Then, when journalists came up to Shih asking him "How come YOU ain't showin' us some of that sweet Android-Snapdragon EeePC lovin, but Qualcomm does? Ain't Eee yours to command?" he gave the above answer. - And when asked that same question, Jonathan Tsang, vice chairman of Asustek added "The Eee PC with Android is not ready yet because the technology is "not mature,"". - Also, "Another Asustek representative suggested that Qualcomm displayed the Android Eee PC without permission". - To which Qualcomm vice president of business development Hank Robinson said "Asustek approved the use of the device so long as they did not discuss any of its specs other than the Snapdragon chip."
The ENTIRE fucking story is not actually about Asus "hiding" the Android EeePC - it is about Qualcomm jumping the gun and showing it BEFORE Asus.
But not to SJVN! Ooh nouu! HE KNOOOOOWS that the minions of Mordor have their grimy little fingers in the hiding of the Google-EeePC! HE KNOWS IT! And HE SHALL SHOW IT TO THE PEOPLES OF MIDDLE EARTH WITH A BRIGHT FLASH OF WISDOM NOT UNLIKE TO THAT ONE GANDALF MADE WHEN HE RETURNED FROM THE DEAD AND HAD SHOWN HIMSELF TO GIMLI, LEGOLAS AND ARAGORN!!! THAT SHALL NOT PASS!!!111eleven!
This son may have done what he did just to heal some old wounds.
Not so old.
They've reconciled, but dad obviously felt no guilt or remorse for abandoning his first wife and two kids - cause he left everything when he died to his new wife and son. Kinda like the last "Fuck you, I never even liked any of you kids and your mother never could cook or fuck worth shit!".
So, having him remembered as a deadbeat and an asshole instead of as a caring father ain't such a bad revenge.
Nobody got hurt, except memory of a dead man. Sure beats bulldozing his grave or blowing it up.
Hubbard really is a unique example of an SF writer nearly nobody not associated with Scientology would admit liking or even reading. But, based on my personal experience and that of several of my friends, I'd expect that without prior knowledge of LRH's other "works" a person who likes SF and or adventure stories should like at least Battlefield Earth. The book is quite a fun read, with very clear cut heroes and villains, and it sure does not hurt that it talks about a handful of humans wining back their freedom and civilization while liberating the entire universe along the way. You know... a Star Wars kind of "meat and potatoes" story.
It does suffer from (incredibly) bad and juvenile writing in places though (almost as if done on purpose), and in the (very) end LRH fails to resist preaching about evils of psychiatrists - but generally it is a fun book.
Movie, though, should be used as an example of just HOW crazy scientologists are. Like I said, they had on their hands what could have easily been made into a new franchise - had they only followed the books. Instead, while I liked the book, I could not be even bothered with the movie enough to hate it. In fact, I nearly fell asleep watching it.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is either an illiterate moron (not very likely, for someone who is a "Former Ziff Davis Enterprise Editor-at-Large") or is a Linux-Loon spreading FUD ("Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols ran Linux-Watch from 2005 until April 2008.").
Let me quote the fine link you have posted, but apparently haven't read beyond the Microsoft in the title (and that is often translated to Evil Empire, as later in the text - "The Evil Empire wants to make that up this year by forcing netbook customers into buying over-priced, under-powered Windows 7. "):
Shih said, "Frankly speaking... I would like to apologize that, if you look at Asus booth, we've decided not to display this product. I think you may have seen the devices on Qualcomm's booth but actually, I think this is a company decision so far we would not like to show this device. That's what I can tell you so far. I would like to apologize for that."
Here, a shorter summed up version:
I would like to apologize that, we've decided not to display this product.
He is NOT apologizing for showing the product, BUT for it NO LONGER BEING SHOWN! That should answer the question that was bothering SJVN "What the heck does he have to apology for?" (Apparently he is a tad illiterate, seeing that one should "apologize for" and not "apology for").
Qualcomm showed an Eee PC running Android on Monday as part of the company's display of new products with its Snapdragon chips inside.
... The Eee PC with Android is not ready yet because the technology is "not mature," said Jonathan Tsang, vice chairman of Asustek, on the sidelines of a press conference at the show Tuesday. "For the time being this project is not a priority because our engineering resources are limited," he added.
... When asked about rumors that Asustek faced pressure from Microsoft and Intel over the use of Android and Snapdragon in the Eee PC, Tsang said "no, pressure, none."
... Another Asustek representative suggested that Qualcomm displayed the Android Eee PC without permission. But Qualcomm vice president of business development Hank Robinson said Asustek approved the use of the device so long as they did not discuss any of its specs other than the Snapdragon chip.
Further more, SJVN originally talks about "Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan" and the "ASUS incident" and to strengthen his position adds:
If this was an isolated incident, I might not make so much of it. But, it wasn't. On the other side of the world, PC World, Britain's self-professed largest specialist chain of computing superstores, announced that, regardless of what was coming with Linux netbooks, it would only be selling Windows netbooks.
Does he even read his own texts? On the other side of the world? How is that related to something happening at the trade show in Taipei? Well, simple - by using the magic "Evil Empire Invoking" words, such as "Windows". And then, he continues to cherry pick his quotes from this article.
SJVN tells us that:
In a statement, Jeremy Fennell, Category Director at PC World, said, "Despite initial hype that netbooks would move more users onto the Linux platform, Microsoft has emerged as the preferred operating system because Windows makes it easier to share content, and provides customers with a simpler, more familiar computing experience on the move."
Therefore, "Based on this insight, all the netbooks in our stores will feature Microsoft Windows, larger screens and keyboards, and greater colo
According to the warning letter the solution contains "an active ingredient measured in homeopathic strength--Zincum Gluconicum 2X". 2X equals to 1:100 solution - which may be quite a significant dosage of the "active ingredient", depending on its nature.
Incidentally, this is not the first time this particular maker of this particular homeopathic drug has been a cause of this particular health concern.
Have drones working in pairs or larger swarms. They lose contact - all drones switch to autopilot, start recording a video of the area, mapping the source of the jamming signal, while lifting off to a safe altitude and trying to recontact the HQ. They then stream the video and the jammer's location to the HQ, where humans inspect the data, make a visual and/or thermal lock on the jammer and send one drone on a scripted assignment to take it out while others are used for visual confirmation from a safe altitude.
Not sure if that antenna is a civilian mobile network relay or a hostile jamming station? Order one drone to do a detailed inspection while others watch.
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Wouldn't that be a very inefficient way of harvesting energy? You know... one of those things you keep in mind when you design the collector?
If there was only some way to actually capture that "shaft of super heated air going right up to higher areas of the atmosphere"...
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Either a "few times noon sunlight" is a lot, or it isn't.
You can't bash the idea as both "dangerously hot/bright" and "too cold/dark for practical use".
Sun at noon can easily generate temperatures over 40C - if a "few times" that is 2.5 or higher, then you're over boiling point of water.
You can harvest that energy using 19th century means - like steam engine.
That WOULD be quite dangerous, though. No need to argue there.
If "few times" is lower than 1.5 - those are temperature extremes observed in nature. Granted, in places like Death Valley or Libya but still - up to 58C is natural.
A tad uncomfortable, but unless you plan to step into the ray naked and just stand there for prolonged periods of time - quite harmless.
If it is somewhere between 1.5 and 2.5, that is in the area of boiling eggs (and other things made out of protein, like skin).
Probably very uncomfortable conditions for living creatures but quite usable levels of energy.
Hey! If you can boil an egg, you are surely getting enough energy to do some other things. Again, you don't need to go further than 19th century - just substitute water for something that boils at lower temperature.
And besides, nobody forces you to stick to the 19th century. So, those energy levels are quite usable.
Even just 100% of noon sunlight is a lot - considering that modern solar is way bellow that. And we ARE using solar.
...Hard at work.
Swing and Seesaw.
Shem was a faker.
Ham was big and dumb.
Japheth was a woodcarver who never got married and talked to puppets.
Got into his head that one of them came to life and ran away from home, so he went roaming the world after it. Nearly drowned doing that.
Claimed that he survived being eaten by a whale. Changed his name to Jonah after that.
Then again, NASA apparently has a niche for just such individuals.
Go figure...
The Horton was an elephant, while HortEn Ho 229 was a prototype fighter/bomber.
V3 (and V4 and V5) was specifically a bomber, but V6 and V7 were designed to be fighters.
We should also like totally ban the use of eagles as a symbol of state or country, as it was used by Romans when they pillaged, murdered and enslaved all across Europe and Mediterranean.
They threw people to lions because of their religion, for Christ's sake!
Use of eagles on flags, coat of arms and seals is TOTALLY unnecessary.
...Carrottop. In fact, he made it his life-long goal to make people happy.
Many clowns do that very thing too.
And let us not even go in to the realm of adult industry entertainers and workers.
It's square mile.
Parent poster will never work for NASA or any other firm or agency that uses some actual scientific measurements, instead of archaic colonial measurements*.
*See: "Forty rods to the hogshead".
Kinda like rabbit - or so I hear.
Only problem is if you are eating a domestic cat that might have been feeding on mice and/or birds - and you just don't know where those have been.
Same thing with the elderly.
They were most likely very ill and overmedicated at the time of death.
Plus, you wouldn't eat a cow that died of old age, now would you?
Humans are to be eaten young - before they pollute their meat with additives and artificial coloring and other toxic waste.
It looks like he is apologizing for the netbook being shown.
No it doesn't!
The whole point of the text that line was taken out of is about the fact that ASUStek did NOT at any point during the Computex have an Android-based Eee PC on its stand - but Qualcomm did.
Which was then blown out to "Microsoft threatened them with lives of their families" so they hid it, by SJVN.
Because, being one of those people that equalize MS with Mordor and Gates or Balmer as Sauron - SJVN naturally connected the mention of MS in article as their immediate (evil) influence.
- Asustek DID NOT show the device in the first place - Qualcomm did.
- Then, when journalists came up to Shih asking him "How come YOU ain't showin' us some of that sweet Android-Snapdragon EeePC lovin, but Qualcomm does? Ain't Eee yours to command?" he gave the above answer.
- And when asked that same question, Jonathan Tsang, vice chairman of Asustek added "The Eee PC with Android is not ready yet because the technology is "not mature,"".
- Also, "Another Asustek representative suggested that Qualcomm displayed the Android Eee PC without permission".
- To which Qualcomm vice president of business development Hank Robinson said "Asustek approved the use of the device so long as they did not discuss any of its specs other than the Snapdragon chip."
The ENTIRE fucking story is not actually about Asus "hiding" the Android EeePC - it is about Qualcomm jumping the gun and showing it BEFORE Asus.
But not to SJVN!
Ooh nouu!
HE KNOOOOOWS that the minions of Mordor have their grimy little fingers in the hiding of the Google-EeePC! HE KNOWS IT!
And HE SHALL SHOW IT TO THE PEOPLES OF MIDDLE EARTH WITH A BRIGHT FLASH OF WISDOM NOT UNLIKE TO THAT ONE GANDALF MADE WHEN HE RETURNED FROM THE DEAD AND HAD SHOWN HIMSELF TO GIMLI, LEGOLAS AND ARAGORN!!!
THAT SHALL NOT PASS!!!111eleven!
High start-up costs, VERY specific location prerequisites and 10 year ROE window?
Plus, it is not a commercial-sized solution, but a family home solution. No one said you can just scale it up.
This son may have done what he did just to heal some old wounds.
Not so old.
They've reconciled, but dad obviously felt no guilt or remorse for abandoning his first wife and two kids - cause he left everything when he died to his new wife and son.
Kinda like the last "Fuck you, I never even liked any of you kids and your mother never could cook or fuck worth shit!".
So, having him remembered as a deadbeat and an asshole instead of as a caring father ain't such a bad revenge.
Nobody got hurt, except memory of a dead man.
Sure beats bulldozing his grave or blowing it up.
Well, I was actually half serious above.
Hubbard really is a unique example of an SF writer nearly nobody not associated with Scientology would admit liking or even reading.
But, based on my personal experience and that of several of my friends, I'd expect that without prior knowledge of LRH's other "works" a person who likes SF and or adventure stories should like at least Battlefield Earth.
The book is quite a fun read, with very clear cut heroes and villains, and it sure does not hurt that it talks about a handful of humans wining back their freedom and civilization while liberating the entire universe along the way.
You know... a Star Wars kind of "meat and potatoes" story.
It does suffer from (incredibly) bad and juvenile writing in places though (almost as if done on purpose), and in the (very) end LRH fails to resist preaching about evils of psychiatrists - but generally it is a fun book.
Movie, though, should be used as an example of just HOW crazy scientologists are.
Like I said, they had on their hands what could have easily been made into a new franchise - had they only followed the books.
Instead, while I liked the book, I could not be even bothered with the movie enough to hate it. In fact, I nearly fell asleep watching it.
How do you like L. Ron Hubbard's work then?
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is either an illiterate moron (not very likely, for someone who is a "Former Ziff Davis Enterprise Editor-at-Large") or is a Linux-Loon spreading FUD ("Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols ran Linux-Watch from 2005 until April 2008.").
Let me quote the fine link you have posted, but apparently haven't read beyond the Microsoft in the title (and that is often translated to Evil Empire, as later in the text - "The Evil Empire wants to make that up this year by forcing netbook customers into buying over-priced, under-powered Windows 7. "):
Shih said, "Frankly speaking ... I would like to apologize that, if you look at Asus booth, we've decided not to display this product. I think you may have seen the devices on Qualcomm's booth but actually, I think this is a company decision so far we would not like to show this device. That's what I can tell you so far. I would like to apologize for that."
Here, a shorter summed up version:
I would like to apologize that, we've decided not to display this product.
He is NOT apologizing for showing the product, BUT for it NO LONGER BEING SHOWN!
That should answer the question that was bothering SJVN "What the heck does he have to apology for?" (Apparently he is a tad illiterate, seeing that one should "apologize for" and not "apology for").
Also, from TFA linked in that article:
Asustek puts Android netbook on ice for now
Qualcomm showed an Eee PC running Android on Monday as part of the company's display of new products with its Snapdragon chips inside.
...
The Eee PC with Android is not ready yet because the technology is "not mature," said Jonathan Tsang, vice chairman of Asustek, on the sidelines of a press conference at the show Tuesday.
"For the time being this project is not a priority because our engineering resources are limited," he added.
...
When asked about rumors that Asustek faced pressure from Microsoft and Intel over the use of Android and Snapdragon in the Eee PC, Tsang said "no, pressure, none."
...
Another Asustek representative suggested that Qualcomm displayed the Android Eee PC without permission. But Qualcomm vice president of business development Hank Robinson said Asustek approved the use of the device so long as they did not discuss any of its specs other than the Snapdragon chip.
Further more, SJVN originally talks about "Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan" and the "ASUS incident" and to strengthen his position adds:
If this was an isolated incident, I might not make so much of it. But, it wasn't.
On the other side of the world, PC World, Britain's self-professed largest specialist chain of computing superstores, announced that, regardless of what was coming with Linux netbooks, it would only be selling Windows netbooks.
Does he even read his own texts? On the other side of the world? How is that related to something happening at the trade show in Taipei?
Well, simple - by using the magic "Evil Empire Invoking" words, such as "Windows".
And then, he continues to cherry pick his quotes from this article.
SJVN tells us that:
In a statement, Jeremy Fennell, Category Director at PC World, said, "Despite initial hype that netbooks would move more users onto the Linux platform, Microsoft has emerged as the preferred operating system because Windows makes it easier to share content, and provides customers with a simpler, more familiar computing experience on the move."
Therefore, "Based on this insight, all the netbooks in our stores will feature Microsoft Windows, larger screens and keyboards, and greater colo
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
According to the warning letter the solution contains "an active ingredient measured in homeopathic strength--Zincum Gluconicum 2X".
2X equals to 1:100 solution - which may be quite a significant dosage of the "active ingredient", depending on its nature.
Incidentally, this is not the first time this particular maker of this particular homeopathic drug has been a cause of this particular health concern.
Have drones working in pairs or larger swarms.
They lose contact - all drones switch to autopilot, start recording a video of the area, mapping the source of the jamming signal, while lifting off to a safe altitude and trying to recontact the HQ.
They then stream the video and the jammer's location to the HQ, where humans inspect the data, make a visual and/or thermal lock on the jammer and send one drone on a scripted assignment to take it out while others are used for visual confirmation from a safe altitude.
Not sure if that antenna is a civilian mobile network relay or a hostile jamming station? Order one drone to do a detailed inspection while others watch.
Robot drones patrolling the neighborhoods will protect little Johny.
Well at least he aimed high.
You are still bogged down in 20th century way of thinking.
You need to think of the future. Namely - time travel.
They are just getting rid of all that excess dental gold from about 70 years ago.