Yeah, how could people possibly be skeptical about the possibility of getting something for nothing?
Cold fusion is not getting something for nothing. It's getting energy (and lighter matter) for matter. Simple as that. The reason we want to do it, is because matter is nice and easy to store compared with energy, and for a teency bit of matter you get a shitload of energy. Nobody's expecting to get mc^2 back from cold fusion by any means, but it'll sure as hell be better than burning coal.
The only reason they call it cold, is because it's where you create the fusion by inputing less energy than you get back. You still have to put in the He3 you wish to convert into energy.
Yeah I have to agree... I've designed a lot of logos in my day, and this one is pretty darned terrible. Maybe it's a good idea for a mascot, and somebody who knows what they're doing can redesign it to work, but this makes the software look like it's written in qbasic by jeffk.
I imagine that a useable flywheel would require a whole shedload of weight and/or rpms. Wouldn't the rotaional inertia of such a device render it useless in a car?
Bochs is slower than glacial tho, so if you want to do something other than OS development, it's more or less useless.
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No, we're getting more cancer now because we've invented penicillin and decent sterilisation. 100 years ago we just didn't live long enough to get cancer, and those that did just had the "wasting sickness".
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Someone once said "This is a fragile ball we're living on. It's a miracle and we're destroying it." That's a hell of a lot closer to the truth than any politician, especially any politician who's made a killing from exploiting fossil fuels, will ever admit to.
Says you. Prove it. Personally, I don't believe in "global warming" as it's described as being something us evil humans have done to our delicate world. I think that unless we unleash "the power of the atom" and get ourselves glowing in the dark all the way to a nuclear winter, it's the height of man's arrogance to assume that every little thing he does will derail the earth's "natural" cycle of ice ages and warm ages. And frankly I think all-out civilisation destroying nucleat war would only be a 300 or so year hiccup in the billion year climatalogical story of our planet.
There's companies buying politicians, people starving in africa so some warlord can live it up, and various cancers killing people left right and center. Maybe we can worry about those things for a while instead of the boogie man?
I'm doing so for fair use, so I can watch the damned things!
We don't have fair use dude. If you rip your dvds or your cds, or tape friends to watch it when you get home from work, in Australia you're a criminal.
We don't have any anti-trust laws. We're only importing the repressive US codes.
I guess it saves us getting your freedoms and then having to wipe them again when George Bush III wipes them from your constitution and makes us sign a treaty promising to do the same in return for a slight reduction in the anal pummelling of our farmers.
Duh:) But to do more enforcing you need more staff, more managers to manage those staff, and thus a bigger budget for your department. And we all know that in the public service your worth is measured by how much money you're responsible for managing.
No. gayest idea evar. Have you ever tried holding a mid-call phone near a radio (or even a powered speaker system)? You get shitloads of interference from the phone signal.
A 1.5GHz Pentium3/Athlon or faster. - 512MB of RAM (or more) - A Geforce4Ti (or higher) or ATI Radeon8500 (or higher) graphics card
supporting pixel shaders 1.3, preferably with 128MB or more of VRAM. - Some kind of sound hardware - DirectX 9.0b
And I can assure you, a GF4Ti does _not_ cut it unless you call 2-5fps acceptable. *sigh*
Well thanks.... I was happilly reading your rather intelligent post, and abosorbing a little bit of net history (about a year before I got online), and then BAM! You ruined it.... Now there's only one thing I remember from your whole post...
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, how could people possibly be skeptical about the possibility of getting something for nothing?
Cold fusion is not getting something for nothing. It's getting energy (and lighter matter) for matter. Simple as that. The reason we want to do it, is because matter is nice and easy to store compared with energy, and for a teency bit of matter you get a shitload of energy. Nobody's expecting to get mc^2 back from cold fusion by any means, but it'll sure as hell be better than burning coal.
The only reason they call it cold, is because it's where you create the fusion by inputing less energy than you get back. You still have to put in the He3 you wish to convert into energy.
Yeah I have to agree... I've designed a lot of logos in my day, and this one is pretty darned terrible. Maybe it's a good idea for a mascot, and somebody who knows what they're doing can redesign it to work, but this makes the software look like it's written in qbasic by jeffk.
Not to mention that if that model is in scale with 4" toys, that's the biggest 5 year old in the world.
Erm, think "back of a volkswagen"
It begins!...
Tra la la lump a doo!
Actually, in a lot of cities in japan (and growing), it is illegal.
Uh, Mr. Nimoy, we have ten minutes left.
... ...
Oh. Uh, fine. Let me, uh, just get something out of my car.
I don't think he's coming back.
That's what soldiers are for. To die to get "the leader"'s point across, so he doesn't have to.
I imagine that a useable flywheel would require a whole shedload of weight and/or rpms. Wouldn't the rotaional inertia of such a device render it useless in a car?
He announced that yonks ago... Like it was needed... New vader suit == twice as many vader toys to sell.
Bochs is slower than glacial tho, so if you want to do something other than OS development, it's more or less useless.
No, we're getting more cancer now because we've invented penicillin and decent sterilisation. 100 years ago we just didn't live long enough to get cancer, and those that did just had the "wasting sickness".
Someone once said "This is a fragile ball we're living on. It's a miracle and we're destroying it." That's a hell of a lot closer to the truth than any politician, especially any politician who's made a killing from exploiting fossil fuels, will ever admit to.
Says you. Prove it. Personally, I don't believe in "global warming" as it's described as being something us evil humans have done to our delicate world. I think that unless we unleash "the power of the atom" and get ourselves glowing in the dark all the way to a nuclear winter, it's the height of man's arrogance to assume that every little thing he does will derail the earth's "natural" cycle of ice ages and warm ages. And frankly I think all-out civilisation destroying nucleat war would only be a 300 or so year hiccup in the billion year climatalogical story of our planet.
There's companies buying politicians, people starving in africa so some warlord can live it up, and various cancers killing people left right and center. Maybe we can worry about those things for a while instead of the boogie man?
I'm doing so for fair use, so I can watch the damned things!
We don't have fair use dude. If you rip your dvds or your cds, or tape friends to watch it when you get home from work, in Australia you're a criminal.
We don't have any anti-trust laws. We're only importing the repressive US codes.
I guess it saves us getting your freedoms and then having to wipe them again when George Bush III wipes them from your constitution and makes us sign a treaty promising to do the same in return for a slight reduction in the anal pummelling of our farmers.
Do americans even get neighbours? And anyway, in the crappy TV exchange they're definitely winning.
Duh :) But to do more enforcing you need more staff, more managers to manage those staff, and thus a bigger budget for your department. And we all know that in the public service your worth is measured by how much money you're responsible for managing.
people like Sharon Fox, the city of Tampa's tax revenue coordinator are pushing for enforcement
NO, somebody who is in charge of tax enforcement wants to start a new tax that will require more funds going to the tax department? Say it ain't so!
No. gayest idea evar. Have you ever tried holding a mid-call phone near a radio (or even a powered speaker system)? You get shitloads of interference from the phone signal.
Erm, no. P4 2.8 800mhz and 1.2gb ram :) And mine's a 128mb Ti4400.
Not to mention the other requirements:
A 1.5GHz Pentium3/Athlon or faster.
- 512MB of RAM (or more)
- A Geforce4Ti (or higher) or ATI Radeon8500 (or higher) graphics card
supporting pixel shaders 1.3, preferably with 128MB or more of VRAM.
- Some kind of sound hardware
- DirectX 9.0b
And I can assure you, a GF4Ti does _not_ cut it unless you call 2-5fps acceptable. *sigh*
Erm, it's BITE my shiny metal ass.
"No, Homer. Very few cartoons are broadcast live, it's a terrible strain on the animators' wrists."
What do you think would happen if you included a "little part" of Microsoft code?
You misread me. I never said the GPL was a bad idea, just that it's not Free(tm/r/whatever). Microsoft isn't claiming their code is Free.
And to the "well don't use GPL'd code you asshat" posters, get a life... Obviously that's what I'd do if I were writing for-resale software....
Well thanks.... I was happilly reading your rather intelligent post, and abosorbing a little bit of net history (about a year before I got online), and then BAM! You ruined it.... Now there's only one thing I remember from your whole post...
Your wife's a stripper?
Curse you! *turns green*