However, I suppose it is true that all of the energy is coming from fusion, as 12C -> 4He + 4He + 4He is exothermic. (The reverse reaction is an energy source for stars under some circumstances.)
IANANS, but if the reverse reaction is used as an energy source how can it be exothermic? That sounds like a perpetual motion machine: 12C -> 4He + 4He + 4He + energy. Use energy 4He + 4He + 4He -> 12C + energy Use energy. Rinse, repeat.
USB and Bluetooth implementations are much more involved than a simple voltage negotiation, yet you can buy a USB->Bluetooth adapter for 99 cent
I would hazard a guess that the bluetooth stack is running on the processor. It will not be a software defined radio, but the bluetooth chip in these cheap devices is very whimsy. The PC must do all the handshaking and encoding. Voltage negotiation is irrelevant in this case. Bluetooth itself is wireless so it has none, and if you simply use or design a ttl compatible chip it will work perfectly off the 5V from USB without negotiation.
Dunno if there is a phone that does this, but I could see the merit in a tablet with a fully functional USB socket. You could use USB sticks, external drives and external printers on it. They would have to supply power, in order to use the USB stick and some external drives.
Nuclear reactors produce steam. The ship converts this to electricity, so I am assuming they are not replacing steam catapults because they have electricity lying around. They must have some other reason for it (reset time? Maintainability? Total weight? Size?). IANAEOTS
My card is not RFID. It's more like a SIM card (but credit card sized). The communication is contact based. It's not anonymous (since it's coupled to my bank account, although you can buy anonymous ones in a few places. Usually that's used for foreigners, for example to allow them to eat in our cafeteria.) and if I lose it I lose the money (that's why I do not put much on it). However the system was started in 1996, before RFID became the default. Within a couple of years all new bank cards (PIN cards) came with it.
I'd use it for small payments and I'd never have a lot or money on it. Now I use my "chipknip" for small payments. For example paying for parking, or for my meal at work (can't even pay that in another way). I'd put about 20 on it at any given "charging" so there never is much on it, just enough to pay these things.
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You do know that's illegal in most states don't you?
He could have procured iron, smelted it and used it to make a toaster for toasting bread near a fire, like the one Bill Compton has in True Blood. See an 19th century toaster. Toaster.org has some other models without electricity. He decided he should make a modern toaster from scratch. Off course that's not going to work. Before electricity there were solutions to toast your bread.
You should also push firefox to these machines. Replace ie with the FF installer. Let FF take the IE settings by default. Otherwise you have a machine without the possibility to download a browser.
Assisted suicide is for those who can't do it themselves anymore. Then the next problem arises: If someone isn't allowed to make any decisions anymore (this is decided by a geriatrician) another gets that right (usually the partner or a kid). Does this mean the kid has the right to decide the person has to die? The answer seems clear: no they don't. However this is not that simple. In the home for the elderly where my mother works are some old people without that right and who want to die.
One old man has decided he doesn't want to eat anymore. Each morning he has forgotten this, and he eats his breakfast. Each afternoon he decides he wants to die and that's a sucky afternoon. The next morning he has forgotten this and eats his breakfast again. He is not allowed to decide for euthanasia and neither are the people who can decide for him.
That's the reason my mother decided the last thing she wants to do before her right to decide is taken from her is to decide for euthanasia (this is legal in the Netherlands, but you need to jump some legal hoops to get this registered, which is good). She truely doesn't want to suffer like that.
One of the reasons for the legalization was to prevent the human trafficking. Now all the work environment law's apply. The cops are quite busy trying to remove the illegal establishments and the prostitutes in the legal ones are protected by law (from physical abuse, long hours, getting beat up when quitting and stuff like that). dunno if it actually works (didn't check on that), but the idea was good.
Hei**ken (sorry, I'm not allowed to curse) is not "real beer", it misses the crucial ingredient "taste" and they replaced it with "headache". I do agree Belgium has way better beers (no contest) but please compare with a decent Dutch beer like Hertog Jan. Not as good as a decent Belgian beer, but it gets closer. For a good beer the special types are way more interesting anyway, and Hei***en doesn't have many.
Good transit system. It is relatively easy to use, but there is one strange part. It seems there is a town called "Buiten Dienst" (spelling?) that many buses go to, but I cannot find it on the map. And those buses don't seem to stop at any of the regular bus stops. Other than that, ok.
Dunno if that's a joke (I thought it was a quite good one) but on the off chance that it wasn't: "Buiten Dienst" means "out of service". They're not supposed to stop.
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However, I suppose it is true that all of the energy is coming from fusion, as 12C -> 4He + 4He + 4He is exothermic. (The reverse reaction is an energy source for stars under some circumstances.)
IANANS, but if the reverse reaction is used as an energy source how can it be exothermic?
That sounds like a perpetual motion machine:
12C -> 4He + 4He + 4He + energy.
Use energy
4He + 4He + 4He -> 12C + energy
Use energy.
Rinse, repeat.
Uhm, aren't those case-hardened OLPC laptops supposed to be for the poor, deprived kids?
It's a poor, deprived country. Internet deprived that is. A country contains lots of kids, so by extension this is to help poor, deprived kids.
If they create their own internet in a war torn country, what's our excuse?
We've already got one.
- Are you sure you've got one?
Oh yes, it's very nice!
I have all my walls, floors and ceilings covered with power outlets, you insensitive clod!
USB and Bluetooth implementations are much more involved than a simple voltage negotiation, yet you can buy a USB->Bluetooth adapter for 99 cent
I would hazard a guess that the bluetooth stack is running on the processor. It will not be a software defined radio, but the bluetooth chip in these cheap devices is very whimsy. The PC must do all the handshaking and encoding.
Voltage negotiation is irrelevant in this case. Bluetooth itself is wireless so it has none, and if you simply use or design a ttl compatible chip it will work perfectly off the 5V from USB without negotiation.
So replacing his bulbs with fluorescents would save the electricity. (it may or may not save costs, depending on the quality of your outlet voltage).
Dunno if there is a phone that does this, but I could see the merit in a tablet with a fully functional USB socket. You could use USB sticks, external drives and external printers on it.
They would have to supply power, in order to use the USB stick and some external drives.
Nuclear reactors produce steam. The ship converts this to electricity, so I am assuming they are not replacing steam catapults because they have electricity lying around. They must have some other reason for it (reset time? Maintainability? Total weight? Size?).
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This TED talk is about shooting Malaria mosquito's (with a DVD burner laser: CHEAP). Is that what you were looking for?
Doesn't mean it's the way it should be.
My card is not RFID. It's more like a SIM card (but credit card sized). The communication is contact based. It's not anonymous (since it's coupled to my bank account, although you can buy anonymous ones in a few places. Usually that's used for foreigners, for example to allow them to eat in our cafeteria.) and if I lose it I lose the money (that's why I do not put much on it). However the system was started in 1996, before RFID became the default. Within a couple of years all new bank cards (PIN cards) came with it.
I'd use it for small payments and I'd never have a lot or money on it. Now I use my "chipknip" for small payments. For example paying for parking, or for my meal at work (can't even pay that in another way).
I'd put about 20 on it at any given "charging" so there never is much on it, just enough to pay these things.
You do know that's illegal in most states don't you?
And then still someone is going to complain "it has been done before" and "you stole Jehova's idea".
He could have procured iron, smelted it and used it to make a toaster for toasting bread near a fire, like the one Bill Compton has in True Blood. See an 19th century toaster. Toaster.org has some other models without electricity. He decided he should make a modern toaster from scratch. Off course that's not going to work. Before electricity there were solutions to toast your bread.
Mass destruction is against the laws of thermodynamics.
And they are protected from Zombie Jesus as well, as they have no souls.
Maybe he has, the fortunate plumber just hasn't found the other coins.
But you can't expect some redneck (who isn't smart enough to have upgraded by now) to do that from memory.
You should also push firefox to these machines. Replace ie with the FF installer. Let FF take the IE settings by default. Otherwise you have a machine without the possibility to download a browser.
Assisted suicide is for those who can't do it themselves anymore.
Then the next problem arises: If someone isn't allowed to make any decisions anymore (this is decided by a geriatrician) another gets that right (usually the partner or a kid). Does this mean the kid has the right to decide the person has to die? The answer seems clear: no they don't. However this is not that simple. In the home for the elderly where my mother works are some old people without that right and who want to die.
One old man has decided he doesn't want to eat anymore. Each morning he has forgotten this, and he eats his breakfast. Each afternoon he decides he wants to die and that's a sucky afternoon. The next morning he has forgotten this and eats his breakfast again. He is not allowed to decide for euthanasia and neither are the people who can decide for him.
That's the reason my mother decided the last thing she wants to do before her right to decide is taken from her is to decide for euthanasia (this is legal in the Netherlands, but you need to jump some legal hoops to get this registered, which is good). She truely doesn't want to suffer like that.
One of the reasons for the legalization was to prevent the human trafficking. Now all the work environment law's apply. The cops are quite busy trying to remove the illegal establishments and the prostitutes in the legal ones are protected by law (from physical abuse, long hours, getting beat up when quitting and stuff like that).
dunno if it actually works (didn't check on that), but the idea was good.
Hei**ken (sorry, I'm not allowed to curse) is not "real beer", it misses the crucial ingredient "taste" and they replaced it with "headache".
I do agree Belgium has way better beers (no contest) but please compare with a decent Dutch beer like Hertog Jan. Not as good as a decent Belgian beer, but it gets closer. For a good beer the special types are way more interesting anyway, and Hei***en doesn't have many.
Good transit system. It is relatively easy to use, but there is one strange part. It seems there is a town called "Buiten Dienst" (spelling?) that many buses go to, but I cannot find it on the map. And those buses don't seem to stop at any of the regular bus stops. Other than that, ok.
Dunno if that's a joke (I thought it was a quite good one) but on the off chance that it wasn't: "Buiten Dienst" means "out of service". They're not supposed to stop.
The Eve Online database server uses ramsan, becasue SSD's are too slow. They have 2Tb of network attached RAM.