In the short term, nuclear power is a coal-killer, not a oil-killer -- oil only accounts for something like 2-3% of electricity generation in the US; coal accounts for 50%. In the long term, however. nuclear power can reduce the need for oil. (For instance, it can provide the cheap energy needed to create fuel cells, charge batteries, and other alternative methods of powering vehicles.)
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Well, instead, why don't we just dump it in magma?
Probably cause it'd get shot right back up sooner or later (depending on where you dump it).
Some subduction zones move at roughly 4cm or so a year. The volcanic arcs near these zones are anywhere from 25 - 100 miles away (sometimes farther, sometimes closer). The radioactive waste can theoretically return in as little as a few million years. Depending on the half lives of the material, that is still a dangerous prospect, especially when a volcano explodes and sends all sorts of debris and particulate matter around the globe.
Granted, *we* probably won't ever have to worry about it again, but it's still quite a dangerous prospect (especially since the canisters would probably rupture/rust/corrode before they were ever fully subducted and spread friendly radioactive material all over the ocean floor).
At a huge resolution, the logos look quite attractive. However, when they are minimized down to their small icon form (32x32 I believe), they look somewhat crappy.
The Firefox icon looks like a blue bear walking through a yellow field. The Thunderbird icon looks like an envelope with a toupe! Not sure what to think about the Sunbird icon at the moment. It looks somewhat like a waxing moon... though the waxing side is rotten green cheese!:-P
However, when I can actually see the logos, I love them.:)
Here's a thought! They just found a previously undiscovered bird species in the Philippines, they could name it after that and beat every other software product!
Yeah, my initial thought was of disgust. However, it seems like Ebay won't really have any control over it.
Craigslist is a huge part of the SF culture though. I found my current apartment, two tables and two different chairs, sold two guitars and even found someone to sublet my apartment for the summer on it.
I used to work at the SOMA Trader Joe's and a guy came through my line wearing a Craigslist T-Shirt. He was actually working for Craigslist (imagine that), so I asked him a few questions, namely, how on earth did they make money, since they don't have ads on their site.
Apparently, they charge for job listings (at least in the San Francisco area). I also asked how much bandwidth they are using. The guy said the last time he checked, they were running at about 15 megabytes a second (which is astronomical, considering they are only running text pages basically).
Pretty friendly though. I passed by their office on the way to work everyday. It's located in the basement of an apartment 9th St between Judah and Irving.
No they don't. If they did, the Browser Wars would be largely irrelevant, and people could pick what they liked instead of being forced by 'this site best view with...' requirements. Spoofing the user agent never would have needed to be invented.
Yes they do.;)
You're thinking of HTML, not HTTP which are two different things.:p
DRM protected or not, you've always been able to do this. Play the AAC file in one program, in another program, record the stereo mix. Save as an mp3. Boom! You are done.
I don't know why the RIAA is spending so much money on making it difficult to create mp3's. If you can listen to it, you can make an mp3/ogg/aac/wmv file out of it. All it takes is 1 person to upload it to the internet and bam! There goes the money they invested to "protect" it.
About the only effective thing to stop people from being able to create mp3's is to stop making music. As far as the RIAA goes, that would be a blessing in disguise.;)
After all, Ebert doesn't review rough cuts of films, does he?
With the quality of movies being released in the last year, you could have fooled me. ..
In all honesty, I notice lots of magazines seem to do this with almost any game. And since it is a preview, the magazines and gaming sites have nothing but good things to say about what they saw.
When the game is finally released, they turn around and SLAM it. Couldn't you consider a somewhat critical preview as a type of constructive criticism? In all honesty, it's highly unlikely this will happen with Doom 3, but it seems to be a general trend in the gaming industry.
I chose IE. I can insert the usercontrol into my programs, I cant insert opera or netscape into my programs without including the whole source code (which isnt available in the programming language I use)
Let's see... 4000 stores, multiplied by an average of $8 per cup of coffee, comes to what?
Hmm, the units don't work out, but I thought I'd offer you my help anyway.
It comes to 32000 dollar stores per cup of coffe.;)
The thing is, *everyone* seems to complain about them, but the damn shops are always crowded! I think there is some double standard shinanigans going on...:-P
Err, as others have stated, the goal of the IODP (and before that, the ODP) isn't to find mineral deposits. It's strictly a research vessel to carry out science.
Quite a bit of interesting science has been carried out. Last year, Dr. Alan Mix, a professor who worked on the ship, spoke at our school for a seminar. He dealt with paleoclimates. Using the ODP to extract cores from the sea floor, he was able to determine global temperatures from the amount of Oxygen-18 (I believe?) isotopes that were trapped in fossilized diatoms.
In short, RTFA instead of posting knee jerk reactions to an article that contains the word "oil" in it.:-P
I'm not really down with music cd's automatically downloading stuff to my computer. I have many other audio players that will play the CD fine, thanks!
Would turning off the autorun feature in Windows prevent stuff like this from happening? I keep it turned off since I find the windows automatically popping up to be an annoyance, especially if I just want to explore the files on the CD.:P
Possibly, in time, the top teams from each country will be able to make a decent living - a living that we are all capable of making by simply attending college.
"Simply attending" college does not guarantee that you will make a decent living. I know some college grads who are unemployed and struggling, while I know people who never even attended college, doing incredible things (and are particularly well off).
If you're good at something and like it enough, you can turn any hobby into a living really. Decent or not.
Some of us would definitely prefer to play computer games all day (and get paid for it!) rather than sitting through another English class.:P
Ah, very interesting. Thanks for the clarification. I wonder how many millibars the atmosphere of Mars would increase by adding more oxygen and other gases into the atmosphere? Only 9 more millibars and you are at 1/10th Earth's atmosphere. Then it probably would be possible to walk around in normal clothes, though I think at this level, you might still need an oxygen mask.
Not really knowing anything about the subject, I'm wondering - if you can pressurize a person for deep sea diving then why can't you de-pressurize them for mars walking?
Nope. The pressures are extremely different. The pressure on Mars is about 10 millibars, or about 1 percent of the equivalent atmospheric pressure on Earth.
At this pressure, water immediately turns to vapor. So in effect, your blood would end up boiling. Anyeurisms and things as blood vessels in your brain explode.
Deep sea diving is different in that we're piling on a lot more pressure on our bodies. It's fairly easy for our bodies to cope with more pressure. Depending on how deep you dive, the equivalent atmospheric pressure would be about 15 times greater. I'm not sure how much our bodies could sustain (just doing some simple googling on this), but that is probably near the limit.
But based on the sole fact of low pressure and lowering the boiling point of water, I'd say no.
I've recommended this on quite a few occasions. Check out Dr. Zubrin's book The Case For Mars. The last half of the book deals with terraforming Mars.
In short, it would be "relatively easy" to create the amount of oxygen that would be needed for us to survive. However, the atmospheric pressure is so low that we will probably never be able to walk around the surface without some sort of protective suit (or oxygen mask).
Try manually logging into yahoomail.com with your web browser.
Since Yahoo upgraded all their accounts, there is now an "okay" screen you must click to acknowledge the upgrade. Once you click that, you'll never see it again, then YahooPOPs will work fine.:)
While I disagree with the RIAA's use of copy protection and efforts to stop that, part of me thinks "who cares?"
As long as you can hear the music, you will ALWAYS be able to make copies of it for whatever use you want. Granted, it's inconvienent, and takes longer to record via line-out than ripping an mp3, but copies will always be possible.
It only takes one person to buy the CD, "break" the copy protection and upload it to the internet. Frankly, the music industry is just wasting time and money on this.
In all seriousness though, I agree. I believe mscott actually changed the algorithm the bayesian filter uses in the 0.6 release. I've noticed more spamming getting through the filters from the 0.6 release and onward. Not sure exactly what was improved. Before 0.6, hardly any spam got through the filters.
However it doesn't mention that anything was changed regarding the filters in.7, so more of the same I guess.
The San Andreas fault demonstrates aseismic creep in the central section of the fault, just north of Parkfield. Another area this occurs is around Hollister.
The last time the San Andreas fault moved in Southern California was the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake.
The last time it moved in Northern California is the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
Despite this, both areas have a high potential for devastating earthquakes. (The section around San Francisco itself last moved in 1908. The Loma Prieta quake was centered near Santa Cruz, quite a ways south of SF).
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In the short term, nuclear power is a coal-killer, not a oil-killer -- oil only accounts for something like 2-3% of electricity generation in the US; coal accounts for 50%. In the long term, however. nuclear power can reduce the need for oil. (For instance, it can provide the cheap energy needed to create fuel cells, charge batteries, and other alternative methods of powering vehicles.)
Oil - 18%
Coal - 33%
Nuclear - 10%
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Well, instead, why don't we just dump it in magma?
Probably cause it'd get shot right back up sooner or later (depending on where you dump it).
Some subduction zones move at roughly 4cm or so a year. The volcanic arcs near these zones are anywhere from 25 - 100 miles away (sometimes farther, sometimes closer). The radioactive waste can theoretically return in as little as a few million years. Depending on the half lives of the material, that is still a dangerous prospect, especially when a volcano explodes and sends all sorts of debris and particulate matter around the globe.
Granted, *we* probably won't ever have to worry about it again, but it's still quite a dangerous prospect (especially since the canisters would probably rupture/rust/corrode before they were ever fully subducted and spread friendly radioactive material all over the ocean floor).
The logos are adorable.
:-P
:)
At a huge resolution, the logos look quite attractive. However, when they are minimized down to their small icon form (32x32 I believe), they look somewhat crappy.
The Firefox icon looks like a blue bear walking through a yellow field. The Thunderbird icon looks like an envelope with a toupe! Not sure what to think about the Sunbird icon at the moment. It looks somewhat like a waxing moon... though the waxing side is rotten green cheese!
However, when I can actually see the logos, I love them.
Yes! Download the latest version today!
Yeah, my initial thought was of disgust. However, it seems like Ebay won't really have any control over it.
Craigslist is a huge part of the SF culture though. I found my current apartment, two tables and two different chairs, sold two guitars and even found someone to sublet my apartment for the summer on it.
I used to work at the SOMA Trader Joe's and a guy came through my line wearing a Craigslist T-Shirt. He was actually working for Craigslist (imagine that), so I asked him a few questions, namely, how on earth did they make money, since they don't have ads on their site.
Apparently, they charge for job listings (at least in the San Francisco area). I also asked how much bandwidth they are using. The guy said the last time he checked, they were running at about 15 megabytes a second (which is astronomical, considering they are only running text pages basically).
Pretty friendly though. I passed by their office on the way to work everyday. It's located in the basement of an apartment 9th St between Judah and Irving.
No they don't. If they did, the Browser Wars would be largely irrelevant, and people could pick what they liked instead of being forced by 'this site best view with...' requirements. Spoofing the user agent never would have needed to be invented.
;)
:p
Yes they do.
You're thinking of HTML, not HTTP which are two different things.
DRM protected or not, you've always been able to do this. Play the AAC file in one program, in another program, record the stereo mix. Save as an mp3. Boom! You are done.
;)
I don't know why the RIAA is spending so much money on making it difficult to create mp3's. If you can listen to it, you can make an mp3/ogg/aac/wmv file out of it. All it takes is 1 person to upload it to the internet and bam! There goes the money they invested to "protect" it.
About the only effective thing to stop people from being able to create mp3's is to stop making music. As far as the RIAA goes, that would be a blessing in disguise.
After all, Ebert doesn't review rough cuts of films, does he?
.
With the quality of movies being released in the last year, you could have fooled me. .
In all honesty, I notice lots of magazines seem to do this with almost any game. And since it is a preview, the magazines and gaming sites have nothing but good things to say about what they saw.
When the game is finally released, they turn around and SLAM it. Couldn't you consider a somewhat critical preview as a type of constructive criticism? In all honesty, it's highly unlikely this will happen with Doom 3, but it seems to be a general trend in the gaming industry.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to check it out.
I chose IE. I can insert the usercontrol into my programs, I cant insert opera or netscape into my programs without including the whole source code (which isnt available in the programming language I use)
;)
Visual Basic?
Let's see... 4000 stores, multiplied by an average of $8 per cup of coffee, comes to what?
;)
:-P
Hmm, the units don't work out, but I thought I'd offer you my help anyway.
It comes to 32000 dollar stores per cup of coffe.
The thing is, *everyone* seems to complain about them, but the damn shops are always crowded! I think there is some double standard shinanigans going on...
Oh man.
;)
:p
Wasn't LOTR:ROTK extended enough?
My opinion is probably tainted by the uncomfortable movie theater seats that I was eventually fused into by the end of the movie.
Err, as others have stated, the goal of the IODP (and before that, the ODP) isn't to find mineral deposits. It's strictly a research vessel to carry out science.
:-P
Quite a bit of interesting science has been carried out. Last year, Dr. Alan Mix, a professor who worked on the ship, spoke at our school for a seminar. He dealt with paleoclimates. Using the ODP to extract cores from the sea floor, he was able to determine global temperatures from the amount of Oxygen-18 (I believe?) isotopes that were trapped in fossilized diatoms.
In short, RTFA instead of posting knee jerk reactions to an article that contains the word "oil" in it.
Excellent article on man-made diamonds via Wired Magazine">Wired Magazine.
I'm not really down with music cd's automatically downloading stuff to my computer. I have many other audio players that will play the CD fine, thanks!
:P
Would turning off the autorun feature in Windows prevent stuff like this from happening? I keep it turned off since I find the windows automatically popping up to be an annoyance, especially if I just want to explore the files on the CD.
Possibly, in time, the top teams from each country will be able to make a decent living - a living that we are all capable of making by simply attending college.
:P
"Simply attending" college does not guarantee that you will make a decent living. I know some college grads who are unemployed and struggling, while I know people who never even attended college, doing incredible things (and are particularly well off).
If you're good at something and like it enough, you can turn any hobby into a living really. Decent or not.
Some of us would definitely prefer to play computer games all day (and get paid for it!) rather than sitting through another English class.
Ah, very interesting. Thanks for the clarification. I wonder how many millibars the atmosphere of Mars would increase by adding more oxygen and other gases into the atmosphere? Only 9 more millibars and you are at 1/10th Earth's atmosphere. Then it probably would be possible to walk around in normal clothes, though I think at this level, you might still need an oxygen mask.
Not really knowing anything about the subject, I'm wondering - if you can pressurize a person for deep sea diving then why can't you de-pressurize them for mars walking?
Nope. The pressures are extremely different. The pressure on Mars is about 10 millibars, or about 1 percent of the equivalent atmospheric pressure on Earth.
At this pressure, water immediately turns to vapor. So in effect, your blood would end up boiling. Anyeurisms and things as blood vessels in your brain explode.
Deep sea diving is different in that we're piling on a lot more pressure on our bodies. It's fairly easy for our bodies to cope with more pressure. Depending on how deep you dive, the equivalent atmospheric pressure would be about 15 times greater. I'm not sure how much our bodies could sustain (just doing some simple googling on this), but that is probably near the limit.
But based on the sole fact of low pressure and lowering the boiling point of water, I'd say no.
I've recommended this on quite a few occasions. Check out Dr. Zubrin's book The Case For Mars. The last half of the book deals with terraforming Mars.
In short, it would be "relatively easy" to create the amount of oxygen that would be needed for us to survive. However, the atmospheric pressure is so low that we will probably never be able to walk around the surface without some sort of protective suit (or oxygen mask).
Try manually logging into yahoomail.com with your web browser.
:)
Since Yahoo upgraded all their accounts, there is now an "okay" screen you must click to acknowledge the upgrade. Once you click that, you'll never see it again, then YahooPOPs will work fine.
While I disagree with the RIAA's use of copy protection and efforts to stop that, part of me thinks "who cares?"
As long as you can hear the music, you will ALWAYS be able to make copies of it for whatever use you want. Granted, it's inconvienent, and takes longer to record via line-out than ripping an mp3, but copies will always be possible.
It only takes one person to buy the CD, "break" the copy protection and upload it to the internet. Frankly, the music industry is just wasting time and money on this.
I'd just hate to forget to turn it off when you get out of the car.
Not to worry! It has a built in feature that automatically turns itself off after about 3 seconds!
(also known as the time to drain your battery)
If you notice though, there is plenty of space on the other side of the trunk. Which is perfect for the companion gas powered generator!
Doh. I just noticed the release notes mention something about "minor changes to the junk mail system"
That just means it has more spam to train from! :)
.7, so more of the same I guess.
In all seriousness though, I agree. I believe mscott actually changed the algorithm the bayesian filter uses in the 0.6 release. I've noticed more spamming getting through the filters from the 0.6 release and onward. Not sure exactly what was improved. Before 0.6, hardly any spam got through the filters.
However it doesn't mention that anything was changed regarding the filters in
The San Andreas fault demonstrates aseismic creep in the central section of the fault, just north of Parkfield. Another area this occurs is around Hollister.
The last time the San Andreas fault moved in Southern California was the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake.
The last time it moved in Northern California is the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
Despite this, both areas have a high potential for devastating earthquakes. (The section around San Francisco itself last moved in 1908. The Loma Prieta quake was centered near Santa Cruz, quite a ways south of SF).
For Northern California I've heard numbers closer to 90-95% for the next 30 years.
62% chance for a M6.7 or greater striking the San Francisco Bay area in the next 30 years.