If you have to burn 10 barrels equivalent of crude oil to make 1 barrel equivalent of food grade veg oil
I have read and heard this so many time here on Slashdot now, and I am gonna call you on it.
If it takes a ratio of 10:1, crude to produce vegetable oil. Then how come a cheap vegetable oil can be found for a 3-4 bucks a gallon?
While the cost of 10 gallon of crude costs 30-40 dollars?
Are the producers just giving us all that crude for free out of the goodness of their hearts?
Seriously people use your brains, think for your selves.
Ten years from now, who's to say we won't be able to mass produce them?
A little known fact about Moores law. People usually don't know this, but Moores law is actually an inverted bell curve, so a few years from now, circuits will actually start to grow bigger and bigger every year. In the future we will have computers as big as mt to perform the simplest tasks. Unfortunately the bottom of this bell curve occurs at the same time as the end of the Mayan calendar, so not to many people will be around to worry about it.
As someone whom has spent several months with perl,
Tssk. You do not learn perl, or at least, you do not learn to love perl in several months, Not until you prefer to solve algebra using perl regexps have you truly learned to love perl.
Especially since space is curved in a way scientist could never have imagined, and actually forms a giant lens around the solar system which means all those planets are really just a stones throw away.
Or I'll do even better. Even if light speed is constant what if distance or time isn't? Or perhaps all the time wasted on earth somehow is transferred cross space to the aliens so they can use it as a Time Credit(Think Carbon credits but for time)
And even if it did take them 22milion years to come here, wouldn't it be worth it just to stick a probe up someones ass?
In fact they are probably so cheap that you only need to load them with plastic explosives and send your little swarm of kamikaze robots to rain down on your enemy.
I cant put my finger on it, but there is something very angry birds about this.
Two high schoolers have launched a Lego Man to 80,000 feet â" three times the height of a jet
The tail height of a 747 is less than 70 feet. But a jet with a height of over 26,000 feet that is amazing. I wonder what altitude such a huge airplane could reach?
Life does probably develop along similar patterns in similar circumstances.
But Venus with a surface atm. pressure of 9.3 MPa, about a 100times Earths 101Kpa On top of that a surface temp of 460c and an atmosphere consisting of 93% Carbon dioxide with no signs of free oxygen.
So I would not assume that life if it could even develop under such circumstances would look anything like a scorpion.
The mud flaps looks interesting though , I could totally see mud flaps developing under those circumstances. Or they might just have been left there by some space trucker. Who knows.
In the whispering voice of Sir David Attenborough:
- What we are witnessing here is something truly amazing. Be real quiet now and you will see how a new internet meme is born into this world. The interesting thing about these memes, is that no one knows when they are born, how long they will live, but some have been known to be kept a live for extended periods of time in protected environments such as Slashdot. The chances of actually witnessing the birth of a meme, is so very rare it might just happen once in a million.
This is the problem with any probability that is not time quantified. I often see the same problem when people are discussing earth quakes tsunamis, nuclear accidents and so on.
If the odds are a million to one for something happening during a life-time or a year , second is very different.
If the odds are a million to one for something to happen every millionth second, one might assume that said event will occur rather frequently
The radio doesn't control the engine though, so obviously replacing the radio isn't going to void the engine warranty.
That's just not true, any self respecting slash doter would hook their cruise control up to the BPM counter of the Audio system. And then they would pre-calculate a play list which will result in the required speed trough out the planned route.
>Now, this microscope is so powerful that by firing electrons you can actually see images of the atom, the infinitesimally minute building blocks of our universe.
Meh, all you really see is the electron cloud surrounding the atom. You need some neutron diffraction thingamajig to locate Facebook interest within the cloud these days.
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If you have to burn 10 barrels equivalent of crude oil to make 1 barrel equivalent of food grade veg oil
I have read and heard this so many time here on Slashdot now, and I am gonna call you on it.
If it takes a ratio of 10:1, crude to produce vegetable oil. Then how come a cheap vegetable oil can be found for a 3-4 bucks a gallon?
While the cost of 10 gallon of crude costs 30-40 dollars?
Are the producers just giving us all that crude for free out of the goodness of their hearts?
Seriously people use your brains, think for your selves.
Ten years from now, who's to say we won't be able to mass produce them?
A little known fact about Moores law. People usually don't know this, but Moores law is actually an inverted bell curve, so a few years from now, circuits will actually start to grow bigger and bigger every year. In the future we will have computers as big as mt to perform the simplest tasks. Unfortunately the bottom of this bell curve occurs at the same time as the end of the Mayan calendar, so not to many people will be around to worry about it.
No he find those a bit too filling.
As someone whom has spent several months with perl,
Tssk. You do not learn perl, or at least, you do not learn to love perl in several months, Not until you prefer to solve algebra using perl regexps have you truly learned to love perl.
My advice is;
Learn perl, learn to love perl.
After this any programming language will seem tolerable to you.
In fact, you may consider them as yet another of the many possible ways to do it.
Patent Violation is not copyright violation. Patent FUD, even less so.
Especially since space is curved in a way scientist could never have imagined, and actually forms a giant lens around the solar system which means all those planets are really just a stones throw away.
Or I'll do even better. Even if light speed is constant what if distance or time isn't? Or perhaps all the time wasted on earth somehow is transferred cross space to the aliens so they can use it as a Time Credit(Think Carbon credits but for time)
And even if it did take them 22milion years to come here, wouldn't it be worth it just to stick a probe up someones ass?
Thanks I feel a lot better now.
In fact they are probably so cheap that you only need to load them with plastic explosives and send your little swarm of kamikaze robots to rain down on your enemy. I cant put my finger on it, but there is something very angry birds about this.
>Trampling by *herd* of angry gnus. That's poetic justice.
Well, done. But surly that's supposed to be a *Hurd*, right?
This is going to do wonders for all the ugly people of the world
I misread the title of this article as "Senior networks in SF finds parking spaces". And was like :
Yay, finally someone found some good use for all those seniors strewn about the country. And networking them to. Good job.
Well I guess sensors will work as well, but what will the seniors do?
That definition, works equally well for any brand of politician. And interestingly enough for cockroaches as well.
Two high schoolers have launched a Lego Man to 80,000 feet â" three times the height of a jet
The tail height of a 747 is less than 70 feet. But a jet with a height of over 26,000 feet that is amazing. I wonder what altitude such a huge airplane could reach?
Life does probably develop along similar patterns in similar circumstances.
But Venus with a surface atm. pressure of 9.3 MPa, about a 100times Earths 101Kpa
On top of that a surface temp of 460c and an atmosphere consisting of 93% Carbon dioxide with no signs of free oxygen.
So I would not assume that life if it could even develop under such circumstances would look anything like a scorpion.
The mud flaps looks interesting though , I could totally see mud flaps developing under those circumstances. Or they might just have been left there by some space trucker. Who knows.
Not interested. I want a mansion that looks like a proper data center.
Its a bit in a very slow martian communications technology. Slow is of course relative, it is lightning fast to the stone-martians.
>It wasn't before, but it probably is now.
In the whispering voice of Sir David Attenborough:
- What we are witnessing here is something truly amazing. Be real quiet now and you will see how a new internet meme is born into this world. The interesting thing about these memes, is that no one knows when they are born, how long they will live, but some have been known to be kept a live for extended periods of time in protected environments such as Slashdot. The chances of actually witnessing the birth of a meme, is so very rare it might just happen once in a million.
I realized that they were quoting something, didn't know it was War of the Worlds but thought it was some new meme thanks.
The points about non time quantified probabilities still stand though.
This is the problem with any probability that is not time quantified. I often see the same problem when people are discussing earth quakes tsunamis, nuclear accidents and so on.
If the odds are a million to one for something happening during a life-time or a year , second is very different.
If the odds are a million to one for something to happen every millionth second, one might assume that said event will occur rather frequently
Much of that is due to pressure from U.S interests though.
I have mod points, and would have modded you up, but you are already at +5Funny.
Nah, I am just a geek, not an Audio Nerd.
The radio doesn't control the engine though, so obviously replacing the radio isn't going to void the engine warranty.
That's just not true, any self respecting slash doter would hook their cruise control up to the BPM counter of the Audio system. And then they would pre-calculate a play list which will result in the required speed trough out the planned route.
>Now, this microscope is so powerful that by firing electrons you can actually see images of the atom, the infinitesimally minute building blocks of our universe.
Meh, all you really see is the electron cloud surrounding the atom.
You need some neutron diffraction thingamajig to locate Facebook interest within the cloud these days.
Won't somebody please think of the CHILDREN? (And their inalienable rights to the pursuit of an email account?)