Honestly how much have computers changed since the early 90s? Faster and more powerful. The average person doesn't know the difference between one graphics card and another. Even chips speeds got blurry when they all abandoned the cold war of speed. You used to have a good idea about chip speed just based on the name. Now I have to compare benchmarks to have any clue about speed. They are the same over sized shoe boxes they have always been. Complain all you want about Apple but at least they broke the mold with iMacs. Desktops still have their place in the home and office but what they are finding is the family needs one desktop and lots of handhelds where as a couple of years ago each kid potentially needed one for homework and surfing. It's ironic that tablets passed desktops as media machines. It's still a hassle playing media files on a desktop and seamless on a tablet. On my desktop I always wonder if it'll handle the videos codec and I have to deal with the system's twitchy player or the various players fighting over who gets the file to playback. All these problems go away on a tablet. The joke is I watch movies on my tablet while I work on my desktop. They need to reinvent the desktop but they dropped the ball. The desktop could have been the entertainment hub for the whole house but no one has made the plunge. Apple is the closest but even they seem to be dipping their toes in the water. They had a chance with the Apple TV and iPad/iPhone combo but they choked and didn't fully intergrate them. Everyone whispers about an actual AppleTV, basically an oversized iPad, but no word in months if it's more than a rumor. It's as if the PC world is afraid of the water so they are riding the sinking ship down instead of trying to swim and risk drowning with a failed product.
Look at pin hole cameras. They actually lack lenses but focus to infinity. The trick is to filter out the incidental indirect rays that cause the blurring. The downside with pin holes is they only allow in a small amount of light. I'd love to see a fast lenses, something below F2.8 that doesn't require focusing.
By October the air temp is around 13 degrees Fahrenheit.
The max is 18 degrees and the minimum is 8 degrees.
Days with Min Temp Below Freezing 31.
http://www.climate-zone.com/climate/united-states/alaska/barrow/
Are you still gonna stand by your statement of melting in October??
Do you realize how much time and energy it takes to raise a mass of water even one degree? It's why water temperature is always behind air temperature. You can have 90 degree days all through June and still have cold water temperatures yet still be swimming in September when air temperatures are cold. Water is a wonderful heat sink.
... that if climate change were legitimate, the Earth would "shut down" and prevent any bad consequences.
It does this regularly. We call them Extinction Level Events. When things get too out of balance the Earth tends to get rid of the thing causing the imbalance. That's why we should take warning signs seriously.
I had wondered about artificially creating methane hydrate crystals either for storage in deep water or to be used as a cleaner fuel source. They should burn as clean as natural gas. I'm not a hundred percent sure of the process but I believe cold and pressure would cause the crystals to form so it'd involve mostly pumping CO2 into the deep ocean. You'd probably want to keep it semi closed to avoid raising acidity of the ocean water. I never liked the idea of underground storage since some of the biggest disasters in known history have been caused by major releases of CO2. Hydrate crystals are really stable so long as the temperature is stable. Raising deep water temperatures one degree would involve such a massive increase in global temperatures we'd all be dead anyway.
If we do become a space faring people to future generations he will likely be the best remembered American. Name anyone that accomplished anything greater in the last 200+ years? There is only one person in all of human history that will be remembered as the first person to step foot on another world. Even to this day it's likely the greatest accomplishment of us as a species let alone as a nation.
"Saloon" is a term used in some English-speaking countries for what people in other English-speaking countries call a "sedan": a passenger automobile with four doors.
Those of us in the United States don't consider the English "English Speaking". Saloon is where you go to toss back a few after a hard day of work. Confusing a car with a place to get hammered after work may explain why the English drive on the wrong side of the road.
Mother Nature seems pissed at the Republicans. Might wanta rethink that anti global warming stance. Apparently all the droughts and tornadoes wasn't making the point obviously enough so she decided to take aim at the deniers and try to take out as many as possible in one shot. If I was Exxon and Monsanto I'd be updating your life insurance policies.
It depends on the density. I saw samples being taken that had a shocking amount of plastic not counting larger items. A fairly small small net pulled in what looked like a soup of plastic so I can see this as being practical especially if you can get some of the larger polluting nations to contribute to the clean up. The chairs will sell as a premium green item and you're forgetting the cost of plastic stock which takes a huge amount of oil to produce. FYI the ship could be fueled by the plastic. These machines could produce all the diesel they need from the plastic so the cost is mostly in the initial set up.
http://www.blest.co.jp/seihin-english.html
Something needs to be done because it's seriously affecting sea life. If all you care about is sushi then it would be worth some investment by the affected countries. A dozen ships could make a real dent in the waste. We created the problem and it's time we took some responsibility for the mess.
All the articles I've seen they boast of this mechanical system for balancing the craft. The guy looks terrified to move even slightly. This type of VTOL craft is inherently unstable. There's a good reason he never guns it, the craft would flip. I'm sure it's perfectly capable of reaching a 100 to 200 feet or more but not safely. The LEM for the Moon landing was very similar but there was more finger crossing than technology involved in the first Moon landing. It's a cool idea but any moderately safe system would have to involve computers for balance correction rather then a mechanical linked system. They can become unstable in less than a second. Hearing it was mechanical in nature made me call bullshit before I even saw the video. After seeing it I'm still convinced that there's no passive way to make them safe. Even the Moeller Skycar with all it's computer assistance never got more than 15 feet off the ground. The Harrier jet was one of the few successful VTOL crafts that ever was ever widely accepted.
Genes from animals? Genes from other plants? Genes inserted directly?
Where does 200+ years of cross breeding come in? Is that considered 'intelligent design' or genetic modification?
I hate this comparison because it always gets an "Insightful" when it's the opposite of the word. There is no comparing selective breeding and cross breeding with inserting foreign genes. In millions of years of cross breeding you'd never produce the same genetic make up as they are producing in the labs by inserting genes. That alone calls bullshit on the claim. There are the standard arguments against like the fact you can suddenly find you are allergic to something you never were before because of the new gene. What scares me most is the genes don't tend to stay put. They migrate to other parts of the genetic code making it impossible to judge the results in the long term. I've seen first hand mutant corn stalks and I grew up in corn country and I never saw them before GMO crops. Trust me if GMO cattle had two heads and eight legs people wouldn't want to eat them yet that very thing is happening to corn and we aren't allowed to know about it. The truth is GMO isn't about making superior food, it's a fact look it up, it's about making more profits for Monstanto and the other corporations. It isn't about making farmers more money since they are forced to sell their crops at a loss. There is nothing in most GMO to make the food nutritionally superior. It's about food volume. Modern corn has drastically less protein and nutrition than traditional corn so we aren't growing better food we are growing more fattening food. Corn is virtually all starch now. This isn't about fear of science it's about fear of the abuse of science. GMO is about controlling food and corporate profits, period!
Having Otto with the big hands and fat wrists checking my prostate for explosives is right up there with the most thrilling experiences of my life. Every time he asks me to grab for my ankles I channel Ned Beatty and go to my happy place. It's still better than flying Jet Blue.
When the Republicans find out there's a photovoltaic bug they are gonna be pissed! They'll spend tens of millions trying to prove there's a coal powered bug.
Ere Karjalainen said that he is normally an iOS man but preferred the aerodynamics of the new Android phones for throwing. The exception being any iPhone running AT&T which are universally accepted as the best for throwing.
Cherry picking low levels isn't the issue. I'd be far more concerned with multiple sources. So the background in some areas is.1, how about food and water? They've detected much higher levels in working farms around the plant that are still producing food for sale. The problem isn't whether your house is safe but whether you are getting too much exposure for multiple sources. Your new leather couch could use cow hide from an animal that couldn't be eaten but maybe it was considered safe for industrial use. I'm just saying you could have dozens of sources for exposure from sea food to milk and even your drinking water. Ultimately we'll never know the harm or damage since the numbers will be dispersed in national statistics. Even if there's a spike in cancer how do you know it wasn't from a more western diet or industrial toxins from Chinese goods?
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Why do I get this picture of a little green man with a fur loin cloth and a club?
When the Grim Reaper shows I plan to hump his leg.
Honestly how much have computers changed since the early 90s? Faster and more powerful. The average person doesn't know the difference between one graphics card and another. Even chips speeds got blurry when they all abandoned the cold war of speed. You used to have a good idea about chip speed just based on the name. Now I have to compare benchmarks to have any clue about speed. They are the same over sized shoe boxes they have always been. Complain all you want about Apple but at least they broke the mold with iMacs. Desktops still have their place in the home and office but what they are finding is the family needs one desktop and lots of handhelds where as a couple of years ago each kid potentially needed one for homework and surfing. It's ironic that tablets passed desktops as media machines. It's still a hassle playing media files on a desktop and seamless on a tablet. On my desktop I always wonder if it'll handle the videos codec and I have to deal with the system's twitchy player or the various players fighting over who gets the file to playback. All these problems go away on a tablet. The joke is I watch movies on my tablet while I work on my desktop. They need to reinvent the desktop but they dropped the ball. The desktop could have been the entertainment hub for the whole house but no one has made the plunge. Apple is the closest but even they seem to be dipping their toes in the water. They had a chance with the Apple TV and iPad/iPhone combo but they choked and didn't fully intergrate them. Everyone whispers about an actual AppleTV, basically an oversized iPad, but no word in months if it's more than a rumor. It's as if the PC world is afraid of the water so they are riding the sinking ship down instead of trying to swim and risk drowning with a failed product.
This is a shot of an early field test. http://mediaconnectiononline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/wile_e_coyote_ACME.jpg
Look at pin hole cameras. They actually lack lenses but focus to infinity. The trick is to filter out the incidental indirect rays that cause the blurring. The downside with pin holes is they only allow in a small amount of light. I'd love to see a fast lenses, something below F2.8 that doesn't require focusing.
By October the air temp is around 13 degrees Fahrenheit. The max is 18 degrees and the minimum is 8 degrees. Days with Min Temp Below Freezing 31. http://www.climate-zone.com/climate/united-states/alaska/barrow/ Are you still gonna stand by your statement of melting in October??
Do you realize how much time and energy it takes to raise a mass of water even one degree? It's why water temperature is always behind air temperature. You can have 90 degree days all through June and still have cold water temperatures yet still be swimming in September when air temperatures are cold. Water is a wonderful heat sink.
... that if climate change were legitimate, the Earth would "shut down" and prevent any bad consequences.
It does this regularly. We call them Extinction Level Events. When things get too out of balance the Earth tends to get rid of the thing causing the imbalance. That's why we should take warning signs seriously.
I had wondered about artificially creating methane hydrate crystals either for storage in deep water or to be used as a cleaner fuel source. They should burn as clean as natural gas. I'm not a hundred percent sure of the process but I believe cold and pressure would cause the crystals to form so it'd involve mostly pumping CO2 into the deep ocean. You'd probably want to keep it semi closed to avoid raising acidity of the ocean water. I never liked the idea of underground storage since some of the biggest disasters in known history have been caused by major releases of CO2. Hydrate crystals are really stable so long as the temperature is stable. Raising deep water temperatures one degree would involve such a massive increase in global temperatures we'd all be dead anyway.
If we do become a space faring people to future generations he will likely be the best remembered American. Name anyone that accomplished anything greater in the last 200+ years? There is only one person in all of human history that will be remembered as the first person to step foot on another world. Even to this day it's likely the greatest accomplishment of us as a species let alone as a nation.
I live in Phoenix, AZ so no they aren't the worst drivers on the road.
"Saloon" is a term used in some English-speaking countries for what people in other English-speaking countries call a "sedan": a passenger automobile with four doors.
Those of us in the United States don't consider the English "English Speaking". Saloon is where you go to toss back a few after a hard day of work. Confusing a car with a place to get hammered after work may explain why the English drive on the wrong side of the road.
Tesco stores look remarkably similar to Wall-Mart.
I feel a great sympathy for the British people. I knew there was a reason my ancestors left. I guess we just didn't go far enough.
Mother Nature seems pissed at the Republicans. Might wanta rethink that anti global warming stance. Apparently all the droughts and tornadoes wasn't making the point obviously enough so she decided to take aim at the deniers and try to take out as many as possible in one shot. If I was Exxon and Monsanto I'd be updating your life insurance policies.
... for when I'm wanting to use my computer while bathing. Accidentally dropping the keyboard won't cause catastrophe. But is it bluetooth?
Nope. it says to not get the USB wet.
It depends on the density. I saw samples being taken that had a shocking amount of plastic not counting larger items. A fairly small small net pulled in what looked like a soup of plastic so I can see this as being practical especially if you can get some of the larger polluting nations to contribute to the clean up. The chairs will sell as a premium green item and you're forgetting the cost of plastic stock which takes a huge amount of oil to produce. FYI the ship could be fueled by the plastic. These machines could produce all the diesel they need from the plastic so the cost is mostly in the initial set up. http://www.blest.co.jp/seihin-english.html Something needs to be done because it's seriously affecting sea life. If all you care about is sushi then it would be worth some investment by the affected countries. A dozen ships could make a real dent in the waste. We created the problem and it's time we took some responsibility for the mess.
"Greeting, my laser targeted guns have locked onto you and will fire in ten seconds. Would you like me to inform your next of kin?"
Douglas Adams can't be wrong! This can only mean the ultimate answer isn't 42. Excuse me while I drown my sorrows in a pan galactic gargle blaster.
All the articles I've seen they boast of this mechanical system for balancing the craft. The guy looks terrified to move even slightly. This type of VTOL craft is inherently unstable. There's a good reason he never guns it, the craft would flip. I'm sure it's perfectly capable of reaching a 100 to 200 feet or more but not safely. The LEM for the Moon landing was very similar but there was more finger crossing than technology involved in the first Moon landing. It's a cool idea but any moderately safe system would have to involve computers for balance correction rather then a mechanical linked system. They can become unstable in less than a second. Hearing it was mechanical in nature made me call bullshit before I even saw the video. After seeing it I'm still convinced that there's no passive way to make them safe. Even the Moeller Skycar with all it's computer assistance never got more than 15 feet off the ground. The Harrier jet was one of the few successful VTOL crafts that ever was ever widely accepted.
Genes from animals? Genes from other plants? Genes inserted directly?
Where does 200+ years of cross breeding come in? Is that considered 'intelligent design' or genetic modification?
I hate this comparison because it always gets an "Insightful" when it's the opposite of the word. There is no comparing selective breeding and cross breeding with inserting foreign genes. In millions of years of cross breeding you'd never produce the same genetic make up as they are producing in the labs by inserting genes. That alone calls bullshit on the claim. There are the standard arguments against like the fact you can suddenly find you are allergic to something you never were before because of the new gene. What scares me most is the genes don't tend to stay put. They migrate to other parts of the genetic code making it impossible to judge the results in the long term. I've seen first hand mutant corn stalks and I grew up in corn country and I never saw them before GMO crops. Trust me if GMO cattle had two heads and eight legs people wouldn't want to eat them yet that very thing is happening to corn and we aren't allowed to know about it. The truth is GMO isn't about making superior food, it's a fact look it up, it's about making more profits for Monstanto and the other corporations. It isn't about making farmers more money since they are forced to sell their crops at a loss. There is nothing in most GMO to make the food nutritionally superior. It's about food volume. Modern corn has drastically less protein and nutrition than traditional corn so we aren't growing better food we are growing more fattening food. Corn is virtually all starch now. This isn't about fear of science it's about fear of the abuse of science. GMO is about controlling food and corporate profits, period!
Having Otto with the big hands and fat wrists checking my prostate for explosives is right up there with the most thrilling experiences of my life. Every time he asks me to grab for my ankles I channel Ned Beatty and go to my happy place. It's still better than flying Jet Blue.
Throwing most phones results in drag due to the device being constantly bombarded by signals from the carrier cellular tower.
The AT&T phones are mercifully free of such drag, and as a result can fly much further.
The enthusiasm caused by dropped calls also increases the distance of thrown AT&T based phones. A few have actually achieved low Earth orbit.
When the Republicans find out there's a photovoltaic bug they are gonna be pissed! They'll spend tens of millions trying to prove there's a coal powered bug.
Ere Karjalainen said that he is normally an iOS man but preferred the aerodynamics of the new Android phones for throwing. The exception being any iPhone running AT&T which are universally accepted as the best for throwing.
What if the martians ARE rocks?!
That explains the rock saying ouch, flipping the rover off and waddling away rubbing it's ass.
Cherry picking low levels isn't the issue. I'd be far more concerned with multiple sources. So the background in some areas is .1, how about food and water? They've detected much higher levels in working farms around the plant that are still producing food for sale. The problem isn't whether your house is safe but whether you are getting too much exposure for multiple sources. Your new leather couch could use cow hide from an animal that couldn't be eaten but maybe it was considered safe for industrial use. I'm just saying you could have dozens of sources for exposure from sea food to milk and even your drinking water. Ultimately we'll never know the harm or damage since the numbers will be dispersed in national statistics. Even if there's a spike in cancer how do you know it wasn't from a more western diet or industrial toxins from Chinese goods?