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  1. Re:Finally.. on BMW Introduces GINA Concept Car, Covered In Fabric · · Score: 1

    people still make aircraft out of wood with fabric stretched over and dope; I guess the bottom line is if you try to plan for every contingency you'll nver get to execution.

  2. Re:You mean the Sun's spot production has been ... on Of Late, Fewer Sunspots Than Usual · · Score: 1

    yes but we also use Grey's Anatomy for porn

  3. Re:solar warming, that's why. on Of Late, Fewer Sunspots Than Usual · · Score: 1

    Who is hurt under cap and trade? STARTUPS!

    that would depend on how the system was implemented, some systems it might be possible to hurt the incumbents by bankrolling startup and removing some of the available credits. Cap and trade worked pretty well in fighting acid rain.

  4. Re:solar warming, that's why. on Of Late, Fewer Sunspots Than Usual · · Score: 1

    When you crank up the CO2 content of the atmosphere, it's like adding additional layers of insulation to an glass greenhouse. And CO2 doesn't cover the entire infrared spectrum - it's like there are parts of the greenhouse are open holes not covered by glass.
    Green houses don't work that way, and proving that they don't is trivial middle school level science fair project. Using that argument undermines your position.

  5. Re:Yes, the alarmists are lying on Of Late, Fewer Sunspots Than Usual · · Score: 1

    the same could easily be said about Climatologists and AGW and even that doesn't mean anything because they could be correct by accident and still be correct.

  6. Re:solar warming, that's why. on Of Late, Fewer Sunspots Than Usual · · Score: 1

    OOOHH you said the bad word, chaotic! They'll tell you weather is chaotic, climate is a strange attractor, err I mean an average. I figure that Climatology will be a real science when some mathematician says "this is weird, all of these climatology equation simplify into the logistics equation!"

  7. Re:solar warming, that's why. on Of Late, Fewer Sunspots Than Usual · · Score: 1

    Wrong. It's known to increase the warming effect in the laboratory. That's easy physics.
    Actually it's not that easy, in fact it's easy to prove that greenhouses don't work by the Greenhouse effect by simply make one out of IR transmitting salt windows and one out of IR absorbing glass and compareing the two on a sunny day. The rational of how CO2 causes the global temperatures to increase is pretty complex and I didn't understand it in one reading, anybody who makes it sound simple is wrong.

  8. Re:You have a couple of mistakes there: on Of Late, Fewer Sunspots Than Usual · · Score: 2

    that's basically true, at night the algae metabolize stored food and consume O2 and give off CO2; but the plants generally store much more than they need for the night during the day, and the day tends to be longer than the night when the plants are most active. All of this tends to allow a surplus of stored food in the algae plants. In most of the ocean the algae that dies sinks to the bottom and if it's deep enough it doesn't rot much. It's very probably the the oil we are burning today was once oils make by algae that died and sunk in the ocean and slowly de-oxidized from triglycerides into petroleum.
    The AGW thing is more of a estimate from a computer model that is still being worked on than a controlled experiment so there will be surprises along the way; if we don't get some sunspots we might be lucky we mucked up the atmosphere to hold more heat!

  9. Re:solar warming, that's why. on Of Late, Fewer Sunspots Than Usual · · Score: 1

    I think it was Asimov that said "Either everything we know about particle physics is wrong or the sun has gone out; therefore the sun has gone out!" turns out that neutrino act pretty funny

  10. Re:Better solution- Lower speed limits for heavy c on Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids · · Score: 1

    I've got a Jeep Cherokee and It's not really good for most stuff, it's OK at a lot of stuff but not good. It was good at going through an 18 inch snowfall to Lowes to buy a snowblower once; but a typical FWD car is as good for typical snowfalls.

  11. Re:In the US no one wants to buy light cars on Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids · · Score: 1

    the Chevy Astra had AWD so I assume did the entire GM line

  12. Re:That's not that heavy... on Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids · · Score: 1

    a bunch of aerodynamics, hyper-milers work first on driving techniques then vehicle aerodynamics then everything else.

  13. Re:In the US no one wants to buy light cars on Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids · · Score: 1

    That car, the 75MPG VW Diesel would never pass US emissions

  14. Re:In the US no one wants to buy light cars on Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids · · Score: 1

    I've seen Mid-sized American cars total themselves on a MG B that only got a dent in the rear bumper.

  15. Re:In the US no one wants to buy light cars on Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids · · Score: 1

    I got so I could hit a pebble with my 105psi racing slicks so that it would shoot out like a bullet and put $250 worth of paint damage into a egomaniacs car door

  16. Re:In the US no one wants to buy light cars on Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids · · Score: 1

    the SUV could be played by Windows Vista Pro and the SC could be played by Slackware without X-windows!

  17. Re:In the US no one wants to buy light cars on Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids · · Score: 1

    there are technologies where the carbon fibers is woven with a nylon like material and the whole sheet is thermoformed to shape, make a light strong and relatively cheap panel

  18. Re:First! on Paper Stronger Than Cast Iron · · Score: 1

    Wood I beams are becoming popular replacinc solid joists in flooring

  19. Re: Ay? It's Canada. LEAVE them ALONE !! on Canadian Gov't Victim of Cyberattacks · · Score: 1

    I think my aluminum foil hat may have slipped a bit but it seems reasonable that the Chinese may like being blocked considering how easy it is to punch a hole through their great-fire-wall of china.

  20. Re:Alcohol cooling is a bad idea. on IBM Water-Cools 3D Multi-Core Chip Stacks · · Score: 1

    seems like anything that busts a AC line would bust a gas line as well so the hazzards would be close and it's something that would be a concern to legal more than anything

  21. Re:Basic Physics of Thermoconduction on IBM Water-Cools 3D Multi-Core Chip Stacks · · Score: 1

    they do make those chips in clean room and wash chemicals off the dies with various solvents like water. The impression I got is the were runniung a primary loop on chip and the secondary cooling loop was off chip, like a nuclear reactor there would be no cross contamination.

  22. Re:Alcohol cooling is a bad idea. on IBM Water-Cools 3D Multi-Core Chip Stacks · · Score: 1

    what you really want is to cool with the material that removes the most calories, so water remove 1 calorie per gram and has a temperature rise of one degree and is pretty good stuff, it's a pretty good insulator 13 Mohms per something or other i believe unless it's contaminated with an ionic salt. Boiling water is off the hook for heat reduction one gram of water sucks up 540 calories to boil and by adjusting the presure you can get the temperature it boils at to drop quite a bit. In Organic I had a flask of water under reduced air pressure boiling from my body heat in my hand cool and freaky to see in the real world.

  23. Re:What? CMYK? What? on Acer Bets Big On Linux · · Score: 1

    cinepaint handles up to 32 bit interger color space, and that's 32*4 channels not 8 bit*4 channels = 32 bits we're normally used to as well as floatpoint colorspace. Cinepaint also handle the loseless pixar 's OpenEXR, and Kodac's Cineon formats. Cinepaints developement has had some recent problems, and drama mainly due trying fix too many things at once.

  24. Re:Finally!! on Duke Nukem Forever Preview On Jace Hall Show · · Score: 1

    Flying cars are on hold, if drivers can use turn signals in 2 dimensions, can you imagine the chaos in 3?

  25. Re:Pros and Cons on Duke Nukem Forever Preview On Jace Hall Show · · Score: 1

    As long as it has been in development, I think you should have said petrified rather than solidified.