My comment about 'bunk': as far as I understand the amount of CO2 that can be collected and sequestered from burning the coal makes it not worth the effort if the aim is to reduce green house gas emissions - it's actually better to build a smaller coal powerplant and make up the balance of the power required through true sustainable technologies (wind, ocean, geothermal, solar (liquid salt arrays and the like)).
Now, if the aim is to still only burn coal and then make it as 'green' as possible...well...that's a different story.
Don't know why parent was modded down so quickly - the whole premise of 'clean coal' powerplants is pretty much bunk. The money is far better spent on other alternatives.
Well the solution is to have a DESIGN STANDARD (and I'd be surprised if there isn't already an ISO for them), not to legislate who can and can't own one.
Uh, if Microsoft had a monopoly on web browsers, or if the existence of IE caused Mozilla-based browsers (or others) not to work, then you might have a point.
Come on Drinkypoo - you're old enough to have seen loads of "IE" only web sites thanks to gems like ActiveX and IE specific bugs. These aren't as common now days, but you still find it all over the place. Loads of the Google labs tools start as IE only, or still don't support Safari. Our office uses some shite intranet system that requires ActiveX. Things are slowly changing, but the EU's point is that you shouldn't be able to subvert a 'standard' by supplying almost everyone in the world with your browser/email client/other_tool AND THEN making it impossible for any other tool to inter-operate or co-exist with it. Fair enough!
Well, a museum would probably like it, and then every dreamer could go and gawk at it (or in your case - opt for crucifixion - ouch!).
I find it really strange that the seller didn't start by contacting various institutions rather than putting it on ebay. There's something quite fishy about his descriptions - he first tries to suggest that it does actually fly, then tries to say "well, it will hover", and then adds another correction saying HE installed some electric motors and the thing will not generate any lift what-so-ever. He also admits to messing with other parts of the machine (like he was trying to restore it, but doesn't give any real details as to what qualities he was trying to restore to/against).
I know this will sound really harsh - but judging by the guys atrocious writing, the car is better of with ANYBODY else as he's a complete nut.
This table borders on 'silly' for what it is trying to suggest - despite that Luxembourg has a greater number MP's per population, the fact that they only have 6 MP's compared to Germany's 99 does not mean that a person in Luxembourg has 12x the influence in the Union than a person in Germany (like the table suggests). There has probably been a minimum number of MP's determined that allows them some effective influence in the Union (or that a coalition of smaller states could influence important votes), and given that there are almost 800 MP's, having 6 for a small country doesn't seem unreasonably high at all.
No. It's called duty of care, and extends outside normal routine for any number of professions. For example, if you are an architect and walk by a building site where an obvious breach of safety is happening, and it can be shown that you were in a position to notice it but did not report it, you can be held partly liable.
It probably should be the iPod Touch, but the bloody thing doesn't allow viewing/opening/saving locally stored pdf's, unless you jailbreak it and install apache, php and god knows what else. Such a WASTE!
A good point, but to be fair to me I first noticed the difference by wondering why some songs sounded so much better when I had my library on shuffle play mode - the occasional song would be encoded at 320k while most of the rest were 192k. It was pretty easy to pick them (all encoded with roughly the same version of Lame too...).
I'm almost the same age at your, but CRT's don't bother me much these days. However I can hear the difference between a 192 and a 320k mp3 - an easy way to explain it is that the higher bitrate mp3's sound much 'fuller', pretty close to a CD. If you try one after the other I'm sure you would hear the difference too. Personally I rip at 256k AAC, a size/quality compromise.
I'm going to post this here because Slashdot's been full of MS shills for the past couple of weeks, and you're conveniently close to the top of this thread.
Security through obscurity will never beat actual security.
Well, here's my token sound bite too...
The proof's in the pudding.
MIcrosoft is the party guilty of underreporting vulnerabilities, including undocumented patches in updates - how much more obscure can you get?! On the other hand show me a significant linux virus or OS X exploit being used in the wild. Well? Where are they? Waiting.....
Autocad version numbers simply let you know how many times more evil Autodesk is than Microsoft. Seriously - if you want to see a classic example of how one company's dominant position can cause limitless trouble for an entire industry (which they 'serve'), look no further than Autodesk.
If anyone modding thinks that this is flamebait, maybe they can respond instead and let me know why I'm wrong, because the cad world seems a pretty grim place at the moment unless you're an Autodesk reseller.
Saying apple makes good hardware though? Don't they just order and piece together hardware just like joe shmoe's computer shop would? Do they manufacture motherboards, CPUs, ram or hard drives?
I'm not sure you comprehend what it takes to engineer something like a Macbook, or even a MacPro. Saying they just choose the components is like saying I just choose the steel when I design something like Southern Cross Station. It's a >little more complex than that. They certainly do engineer their own motherboards, spec the components that make them up, and write all the drivers for they kit they use. Just because they use Intel procs these days doesn't mean their kit is a bunch of parts at the local compumart. If you've got a Mini I thought you might understand that - try building one of those yourself;-)
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Spoken like a true fascist.
Now, if the aim is to still only burn coal and then make it as 'green' as possible...well...that's a different story.
Don't know why parent was modded down so quickly - the whole premise of 'clean coal' powerplants is pretty much bunk. The money is far better spent on other alternatives.
Well the solution is to have a DESIGN STANDARD (and I'd be surprised if there isn't already an ISO for them), not to legislate who can and can't own one.
He should tell us who their outsourced partner is. This sounds very similar to a strategy I'm hearing about for our company right now.
Conversation is a lost art in this day and age. I talk to google and all she gives me are one liners.
Try looking up figures for fatal accidents next time.
00000 worked and still works like a charm for everything.
Children's parties will never be the same.
I find it really strange that the seller didn't start by contacting various institutions rather than putting it on ebay. There's something quite fishy about his descriptions - he first tries to suggest that it does actually fly, then tries to say "well, it will hover", and then adds another correction saying HE installed some electric motors and the thing will not generate any lift what-so-ever. He also admits to messing with other parts of the machine (like he was trying to restore it, but doesn't give any real details as to what qualities he was trying to restore to/against).
I know this will sound really harsh - but judging by the guys atrocious writing, the car is better of with ANYBODY else as he's a complete nut.
Can I ask where your sig is from?
Actually, haggis is mostly oats.
This table borders on 'silly' for what it is trying to suggest - despite that Luxembourg has a greater number MP's per population, the fact that they only have 6 MP's compared to Germany's 99 does not mean that a person in Luxembourg has 12x the influence in the Union than a person in Germany (like the table suggests). There has probably been a minimum number of MP's determined that allows them some effective influence in the Union (or that a coalition of smaller states could influence important votes), and given that there are almost 800 MP's, having 6 for a small country doesn't seem unreasonably high at all.
No. It's called duty of care, and extends outside normal routine for any number of professions. For example, if you are an architect and walk by a building site where an obvious breach of safety is happening, and it can be shown that you were in a position to notice it but did not report it, you can be held partly liable.
Even further - every 'public' surveillance camera should be IP based and available to viewing by anyone over the net.
It probably should be the iPod Touch, but the bloody thing doesn't allow viewing/opening/saving locally stored pdf's, unless you jailbreak it and install apache, php and god knows what else. Such a WASTE!
A good point, but to be fair to me I first noticed the difference by wondering why some songs sounded so much better when I had my library on shuffle play mode - the occasional song would be encoded at 320k while most of the rest were 192k. It was pretty easy to pick them (all encoded with roughly the same version of Lame too...).
I'm almost the same age at your, but CRT's don't bother me much these days. However I can hear the difference between a 192 and a 320k mp3 - an easy way to explain it is that the higher bitrate mp3's sound much 'fuller', pretty close to a CD. If you try one after the other I'm sure you would hear the difference too. Personally I rip at 256k AAC, a size/quality compromise.
Well, here's my token sound bite too...
MIcrosoft is the party guilty of underreporting vulnerabilities, including undocumented patches in updates - how much more obscure can you get?! On the other hand show me a significant linux virus or OS X exploit being used in the wild. Well? Where are they? Waiting.....Destructive Amoralism: Windows Vista, just kill yourself!
Etc, etc.
Nice work. Can I ask, do you get paid enough to live on for this?
If anyone modding thinks that this is flamebait, maybe they can respond instead and let me know why I'm wrong, because the cad world seems a pretty grim place at the moment unless you're an Autodesk reseller.
Heard of this little game called Halo? Was going to be Mac only, until MS bought the developer (Bungie).