Your calculations make me think you didn't bother to actually read the article.
In Kvalsund, the water flows at about 8.2 feet per second apart from a pause at high and low tides. By contrast, windmills are useless in calm weather and have to be built to withstand hurricane force winds.
Seems your figure might be out by 3 or 4 orders of magnitude.
Just wondering if anyone can talk about this sort of technology in relation to the way modem technology progressed. People tinkered with phase shifting and spliting and amplitude shifting etc and we went from 75 baud (whatever) to 115,000 odd. Is the same sort of thing likely/possible with memory? Physically, these are analog devices - they are just interpreted digitally - so wouldn't it be possible to use some of the same lessons learn in modem technology here?
What do you want to bet that you'll be able to find more than your fair share "QBM compliant" montherboards that do NOT play happily with a large chunk of the available "QBM" memory and visa versa?
Will be a web page that consists of 100% working advertising banners, bars and inserts together with animated navigation links, bars and menus taking up 40% of the available real-estate with the actual content of the page an error message saying "Not enough bandwidth left to serve this page". This guy is just saying the same thing, but pointing out the fact that the page source will be bloated, unreadable and highly redundant.
Excuse me? You're slashdotted, so you're going to send me a page full of image button navigation links, javascript, animations and advertising? What about a text only summary? A table of results? Maybe even a cheesy two colour graph? I really only want to see which one has the best blend of reliability and speed.
Can't they just analyze them there and send the info back? How much extra money is it going to cost to get a couple of rocks that will end up being a paperweight?
Well, that's not strictly true. You can uninstall it, but it leaves you with version 6.4 - which a) can't be uninstalled** and b) has a fun buffer overrun hole in it.
So, you're forced to use*** the version with the horrific EULA.
* You: The average user.
** Yes, you**** could uninstall it by hand.
*** Yes, yes, you could just leave it installed and never use it, SBSA.
**** You: the geek.
There are too many companies getting away with complete incompetance and expecting us to just shut up and put up. What's wrong with making them pay for their own stupidity? They waste your time and get surprised/upset when you express annoyance. I don't know about you, but my time is more valuable than that.
Many communications executives complain, however, that as the Internet has evolved into a ubiquitous public utility, its shortcomings in service quality and reliability have lost their charm, which is evident to anyone who has waited a seeming eternity for a Web page to load or suffered through a weeklong outage in an e-mail account.
Excuse me? The for profit company providing their e-mail is responsible for the weeklong outage, not the network. What a wonderful point in an argument that the Internet should be privatised.
What's missing from these demands is any guarantee for the conventional publishers that they will be protected from the inevitable loss in revenue
Nothing guarantees profits. When you start a business, there is always risk that you may not succeed. The scientists need someone that is willing to disseminate their ideas, not make a profit. If it's possible to do both, wonderful. If not, tough luck.
Update 2h later by J: Dan Gillmor's analysis is good.
Dan Gillmor??? "What he said" is an analysis??? Credit where credit is due. The analysis is by John Lettice of The Register. What an unbelievably americentric attitude.
Uses arguments like "Yet it can be effectively cured with a one hundred percent environmental intervention" and "So sickle-cell anemia, widely considered to be the classic single-gene Mendelian disease, is not so clear-cut after all" to support the claim that there are few "Mendelian" genes. Yet in both cases his examples are 100% mendelian. He's clouding the issue by introducing irrelevant facts. Just because you don't exhibit symptoms doesn't mean you're cured. Just because other genes might reduce the effects of sickle-cell anemia doesn't mean you don't have it. It makes it difficult to trust the rest of his argument.
4. I didn't understand or even read the underlying post but I'm commenting anyway - Stra1n3d P3as h4ve n0th1ng t0 d0 w1th f4st3r c0pmutters. 1'm unda 2 much str3ss 4s 1t 15! IBM 5uck5!
Scientists are actively seeking an organism that can feed on radiation. There has to be one out there. And when they find it, the only thing that could be bad about nuclear plants is the chance of meltdown.
Or the radiation eating whatsit killing every one/taking over the world/staring in cheesy movies.
Yes, often their black powder rockets would be picked up by passing aliens at a couple of hundred feet off the ground and dragged into orbit. The aliens probably felt that the 16th century chinese space program needed a boost. Maybe they should have realized those couple of characters above the ministry door meant "Bright Lights and Loud Noises" not "Space Program".
Sure, they will invent new fun languages that will let anybody mangle a program as easily as they can mangle spoken languages. Programs that have ambiguity defined into them, Yay!
Are you aware just how easily you can mess up a simple sentence? People routinely make spelink erors that reeders ignor. Wreck grammar they also do. Your brain simply adjusts. Lets see a compiler do it. Another problem is the use of colloquialisms, how the hell is the compiler going to understand what I mean by "how the hell", or even "blue collar".
Still, it would be kind of fun to program in sick puns and haiku
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Does no one else see a problem with carrying around a large gas cylinder full of fiendishly hot gas at stored at 270 odd atmospheres?
Seems your figure might be out by 3 or 4 orders of magnitude.
Just wondering if anyone can talk about this sort of technology in relation to the way modem technology progressed. People tinkered with phase shifting and spliting and amplitude shifting etc and we went from 75 baud (whatever) to 115,000 odd. Is the same sort of thing likely/possible with memory? Physically, these are analog devices - they are just interpreted digitally - so wouldn't it be possible to use some of the same lessons learn in modem technology here?
What do you want to bet that you'll be able to find more than your fair share "QBM compliant" montherboards that do NOT play happily with a large chunk of the available "QBM" memory and visa versa?
Will be a web page that consists of 100% working advertising banners, bars and inserts together with animated navigation links, bars and menus taking up 40% of the available real-estate with the actual content of the page an error message saying "Not enough bandwidth left to serve this page". This guy is just saying the same thing, but pointing out the fact that the page source will be bloated, unreadable and highly redundant.
Excuse me? You're slashdotted, so you're going to send me a page full of image button navigation links, javascript, animations and advertising?
What about a text only summary? A table of results? Maybe even a cheesy two colour graph? I really only want to see which one has the best blend of reliability and speed.
Can't they just analyze them there and send the info back? How much extra money is it going to cost to get a couple of rocks that will end up being a paperweight?
Yeah, I want to go out with some girl who has a bizarre web-cam fetish.
Unfortunately, you* can't uninstall it
Well, that's not strictly true. You can uninstall it, but it leaves you with version 6.4 - which a) can't be uninstalled** and b) has a fun buffer overrun hole in it.
So, you're forced to use*** the version with the horrific EULA.
* You: The average user.
** Yes, you**** could uninstall it by hand.
*** Yes, yes, you could just leave it installed and never use it, SBSA.
**** You: the geek.
You mean exactly how it utilizes a 32 bit chip.
There are too many companies getting away with complete incompetance and expecting us to just shut up and put up. What's wrong with making them pay for their own stupidity? They waste your time and get surprised/upset when you express annoyance. I don't know about you, but my time is more valuable than that.
Pennsylvania and McMasters? Did Pennsylvania ram them or what? Steal their solar cells? Who's got the scoop?!
Excuse me? The for profit company providing their e-mail is responsible for the weeklong outage, not the network. What a wonderful point in an argument that the Internet should be privatised.
Nothing guarantees profits. When you start a business, there is always risk that you may not succeed. The scientists need someone that is willing to disseminate their ideas, not make a profit. If it's possible to do both, wonderful. If not, tough luck.
Dan Gillmor??? "What he said" is an analysis??? Credit where credit is due. The analysis is by John Lettice of The Register. What an unbelievably americentric attitude.
Uses arguments like "Yet it can be effectively cured with a one hundred percent environmental intervention" and "So sickle-cell anemia, widely considered to be the classic single-gene Mendelian disease, is not so clear-cut after all" to support the claim that there are few "Mendelian" genes. Yet in both cases his examples are 100% mendelian. He's clouding the issue by introducing irrelevant facts. Just because you don't exhibit symptoms doesn't mean you're cured. Just because other genes might reduce the effects of sickle-cell anemia doesn't mean you don't have it.
It makes it difficult to trust the rest of his argument.
4. I didn't understand or even read the underlying post but I'm commenting anyway - Stra1n3d P3as h4ve n0th1ng t0 d0 w1th f4st3r c0pmutters. 1'm unda 2 much str3ss 4s 1t 15! IBM 5uck5!
You could write any sort of inflamatory/libeleous garbage in a post on Google and it's their fault?
Two edged sword and all that.
Scientists in Osaka discover radiation eating organism. Radiation eating organism attacks Tokyo! Godzilla helpless!
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They acknowledged the previous flights in the article. The point was that their aircraft is a model. i.e. weighs 11 pounds or less.
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Don't you wish you were a large multi-national corporation?
Yes, often their black powder rockets would be picked up by passing aliens at a couple of hundred feet off the ground and dragged into orbit. The aliens probably felt that the 16th century chinese space program needed a boost. Maybe they should have realized those couple of characters above the ministry door meant "Bright Lights and Loud Noises" not "Space Program".
Are you aware just how easily you can mess up a simple sentence? People routinely make spelink erors that reeders ignor. Wreck grammar they also do. Your brain simply adjusts. Lets see a compiler do it.
Another problem is the use of colloquialisms, how the hell is the compiler going to understand what I mean by "how the hell", or even "blue collar".
Still, it would be kind of fun to program in sick puns and haiku
Can we spell "Faraday cage". And no, it's not Nicholas's brother.