Hydrogen is made from Natural gas today. If you make it from electricity than odds are it is coming from fossile fuel, nuclear, or Hydro. Solar and wind are too expensive for Hydrogen production.
Just read Lord of the Flies. Or any of the studies of how people behave when they feel like they are anonymous. And you can stop calling them anything or you declare them a gang of bullies and identity thieves that will attack those that say things they do not agree with. If they are just a random blob of people with out structure you can call them nothing but a population. If they are not then they have attacked people for as harmless as a teenage boy that started a website that encouraged kids to not use profanity and have stolen identity information from the Sony website. You can not both hold them Anonymous faultless for acts that was done by the group and give them credit of things that the group have been done by the group.
No they can't. That is one of the problems with Hydrogen. Look up Hydrogen embrittlement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement Not to mention potental problems with things like seals, pumps, and valves.
Simple don't direct them. Just say that to add books to your collect you must go to the Amazon website. This will impact so many potential apps like living social that it just isn't funny. Maybe Apple feels they can get away with not having the Kindle on the iPad/iPhone but I really doubt that would be wise for them at this time.
I can think of two to uses off the top of my head. The first is for really fast frequency hopping radios. The rate at which they can hop from one to the next has got to be in some measure limited to how accurate the clock they use is. And the next one would be improved navigation. You could use these with ground stations and provide extremely accurate navigation and you could use more powerful transmitters so they would be harder to jam. Now if they could uses these to put a time signature on every radio, tv, and cell tower You could improve navigation in areas where GPS doesn't work so well. Like in buildings. cites with lots of tall buildings, or areas with lots of tree cover.
I would say that even a fair teacher would still be a better adult that Lady Gaga but I do have limited knowledge for all I know 90% of her income goes to feed hungry children and all her free time is spent building homes for Habitat for Humanity. But the simple truth is that entertainers by just being entertainers just don't contribute that much or are that rare. Has there ever been a time when their was a shortage of entertainers? Authors and composers tend to have more impact than performers. Honestly if every "star" we know retired tomorrow how long would it be before they where replaced? And how long would we even really notice? Same for Sports figures. Now what they do with their fame can elevate that but for just performers?
As far as super famous people not fitting in isn't that going to be a given? A large percentage of them are going to have some attribute or talent that is unusual. That alone will tend to make them stand out as different from the average.
This should be an interesting fight. I can amazon taking apple to court because apple is forcing them to price their merchandise a certain way. Amazon could drop the in app purchases. I tend to buy my books online and have them pushed to my devices. But something is going to come to a head. Will apple start demanding a cut when people buy a tent from Amazon? Or a motorcycle from Ebay? I bet Amazon would love to get a 30% cut from a home purchase off a craigslist app.
That is an interesting question isn't it. Is Lady Gaga a "better" adult than a good Kindergarten teacher? What is success anyway? Many studies have shown that making more money doesn't make you happier. There is a peak of curve of happyness that peaks right around the point where you make enough money to not sweat paying bills and then it goes down again. I think it is very ungeeky to say money==success or fame==success. Shouldn't happy==success. I am sure that there are a lot of happy geeks out there. BTW there are Christan geeks.
So? I can copy my MP3s to a thumb drive and give them to a friend, I can email them, I can put them on dropbox, I can burn them to a DVD and mail to a friend, or copy my album to a good quality tape and drive it over to there house as well back in the old days. So should the music companies require that companies that make cars, run email server and deliver mail make deals with them just because there service can be used to share music? And here is the real kicker for you? Do you really think that this will increase piracy when there are already so many ways to pirate? I mean really? Not at all. The music industry needs to get a grip and butt out. Heck if they where smart they would embrace it before Google, Apple, and or Microsoft decide that they want to get into the business and crush them.
No you are wrong. And you are right. Japan has good mass transit. They also have car companies. It is not a one size fits all. I would like good mass transit to go to work but I will still want my car to go shopping.
1. Yes you are right but tracks do not go everywhere and are not practical in low density areas. 2. He wanted automated cars. The idea does have some merit. I think a good step would be smart roads. To give an example from experience. Last night it took my wife and I 30 minutes to go a mile because of an accident. Had we known about the accident a short detour would have save a lot of fuel and time. 3. So you want to force people to do what you think is best. If there was a store I would probably walk over to the next block to get milk since I go for walks all the time just to walk. Too bad that there isn't one. When I did live near a small store I would often ride my bike unless it was raining, late at night, or just too hot for words. I suggest that instead of trying to force people we make it easier for them to walk or ride a bike. Side walks and bike paths will do a lot for that. 4. Again you act like one will eliminate the other. Look at all the roads in Japan. Trains help but will not eliminate traffic. You do not run trains tracks to peoples homes and you do not have them criss crossing a city. Subways are super expensive and take a very long time to build.
There is no one solution. Places like Chicago and New York have pretty good mass transit at least when I was there for work. London's tube also was pretty good. Yet each of them had cars as well. I would say the ideal solution will vary from place to place. High speed rail makes sense in a few places in the US. Say between Boston, New York, Philidelpha, Pittsburgh, and DC. Yes I know Amtrack sort of does and it is the only part of Amtrack that is profitable. On the west coast I can see it between San Diego, LA, San Fransisco, and Las Vegas. In Texas between Houston and Dallas. I live in Florida and I have to say I am not real upset that they killed the Florida High Speed rail project. It was corporate welfare for Disney and the other theme parks. The first leg was from Orlando International to Disney and International driver. Odds are that would have been the only segment built IMHO. What I would like to see more of are trolleys. Maybe fuel cell powered or natural gas powered hybrids so you can get ride of the over head wires and or hot rails. Up till the 50s they where very common in many US cites and worked really well. The investment would be less than subways and they can be made very attractive. And while not as low in CO2 emissions as one using overhead wires they would be more green than a bus. Also being attractive, quite, and not requireing ugly over head wires should make them easier to get past the niby objections and might actually get people to use them.
The future of music, with music labels crushed and Google dictating how musicians are paid, is bright."
I really don't understand how you got from Point a to point b?
How will this crush the music labels? Or even effect them at all? I buy my music from Amazons MP3 store or I buy a CD. So the label and artist are paid. I rip my CDs and put them on my phone and my ipod touch now. Which is all fine since I have paid for the music. Now I can copy them to Google so I do not have worry about keeping everything synced. So why does Google ore better yet why do I have to get any type of permission to store my music files someplace for me to listen to them. How exactly is this any differn't from a thumb drive or dropbox?
I would love to know why this really has anything to do with music labels at all?
Funny but I see it the other way. Google is staying out of the business of selling music. All they are doing is saying "Here is a place you can store your music". Should a CD case maker have to negotiate with music companies?
The artist and the music companies can still sell the music however they want and at what ever price they want. And I got news for you. If you are a big company and you do something wrong you can still have the court rule not in your favor. It isn't like Sony, Warner, Universal and EMI are poor. What it does mean is that they can not spend Google into settling.
Good. I supported Bush when I thought he doing the right thing and I support Obama when I feel he is doing the right thing like not showing the Osama pictures. I will say that I do no support warrant-less searches, tracking or wiretapping at all.
I am sorry to hear that. I am in the US but I have a friend that works for a Tory MP. He is good person, father and husband. I am sure that there are good Labour MPs as well. To fall into the whole them vs us mentality tends to make one nothing but a mindless drone. It also works hard to polarize government. Seems a shame because in most other ways you seem like a reasonable sort of person.
The link was not to gpl-violations.org but to the but to a really crappy blog and I stand by my statement that they where just trying to stir the pot and get ad revenue. Second the post you are talking about isn't even on gpl-violations.org. I had to dig for it http://gnumonks.org/users/laforge/ is the origin link.
I work for a medium sized company and everything takes longer. It really is true that it is hard to get past being a small sized company because things really do change. You must be so careful every step of the way it really is just the way that it is. For a huge company it must be much worse. We joke here that "if it there is a one in a thousand chance that someone will have problems with it we get to hear about it ten times a day." They have not stopped releasing GPL updates. They have said coming soon. For all we know they are doing a code review of the documentation of the code. That doesn't mean that they don't need to release the code but at this point the name calling and accusations of wrong doing are not going to help. At this point a polite "when can we expect that code drop" instead of accusations is IMHO the correct response. But you can scream and fume if it makes you feel better but I don't think anything will change.
" Plus, with a paying audience, the ad space would become much more lucrative and SyFy could lose some of the seedier ads it has been saddled with lately, and better fund new original content.""
You want me to pay and watch ads? No really imagine if TV was free. I mean what if you could just stick a wire into the air and like magic suck the shows right out of the air for free! The people could pay for the shows by just running ads. I know it is just a dream but just imagine if it could work. Actually if you live in any good sized metro area you really should go buy a cheap antenna and plug it in to your HDTV. The picture quality OTA is so much better than what you get over cable. If you can get the major networks and if there are not other shows you really like then drop the cable people. Think about how much you are paying a year for your Cable TV. If you have internet than you can get a ROKU box and stream NetFlix. It is insane that the TV business has gotten this messed up. You shouldn't have to pay for a channel and watch ads! People forget that CATV means Community Antenna TV. The way it was supposed to work is if you live in a town with crappy TV reception someone would put up a tower and amps and everyone would share the Antenna. You paid a fee to support the infrastructure. Now that local stations want the cable company to pay for the right show them even when the customers could just use rabbit ears and get them for free. The cable companies then compress the crap out of the signal and put on a bunch of channels some of which very few people want and then charge you for packages! Why can't I just pay for the channels I want? The whole system is out of control and completely broken.
I could be wrong but I thought that it was those that you distribute it too. I could be wrong since like all legal documents there is a fair amount of legalese involved. But the real issue is way too many jr. high school like posts.
Interstellar niven did interstellar ram jets and cold sleep back in the 60s or I think. He started known space with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Ptavvs in 66. Don't know when he had ships with Embryos on them. But Clark did that with the short story Songs of Distant Earth published in 1958.
Just use an interstellar ramjets and cold sleep. At least until we make contact with the Outsiders and get hyperdrive technology. And if you see something that looks like a pair of sock puppets do not trust it.
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Yes it is equal too Hydrogen but not identical too. Hydrogen is made from reformulated hydrocarbons mostly if not exclusively in the US natural gas.
Hydrogen is made from Natural gas today. If you make it from electricity than odds are it is coming from fossile fuel, nuclear, or Hydro. Solar and wind are too expensive for Hydrogen production.
Just read Lord of the Flies. Or any of the studies of how people behave when they feel like they are anonymous. And you can stop calling them anything or you declare them a gang of bullies and identity thieves that will attack those that say things they do not agree with.
If they are just a random blob of people with out structure you can call them nothing but a population.
If they are not then they have attacked people for as harmless as a teenage boy that started a website that encouraged kids to not use profanity and have stolen identity information from the Sony website.
You can not both hold them Anonymous faultless for acts that was done by the group and give them credit of things that the group have been done by the group.
GPS uses a signal that has poor penetration and is also very weak. TV, Radio, and Cell signals are lower frequency and penetrate buildings better.
No they can't. That is one of the problems with Hydrogen. Look up Hydrogen embrittlement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement
Not to mention potental problems with things like seals, pumps, and valves.
Hydrogen == natural gas.
One has to wonder which would be greener? Just using the Natural gas in an IC Hybrid or Hydrogen in a fuel cell?
Simple don't direct them. Just say that to add books to your collect you must go to the Amazon website.
This will impact so many potential apps like living social that it just isn't funny.
Maybe Apple feels they can get away with not having the Kindle on the iPad/iPhone but I really doubt that would be wise for them at this time.
I can think of two to uses off the top of my head. The first is for really fast frequency hopping radios. The rate at which they can hop from one to the next has got to be in some measure limited to how accurate the clock they use is.
And the next one would be improved navigation. You could use these with ground stations and provide extremely accurate navigation and you could use more powerful transmitters so they would be harder to jam.
Now if they could uses these to put a time signature on every radio, tv, and cell tower You could improve navigation in areas where GPS doesn't work so well. Like in buildings. cites with lots of tall buildings, or areas with lots of tree cover.
I would say that even a fair teacher would still be a better adult that Lady Gaga but I do have limited knowledge for all I know 90% of her income goes to feed hungry children and all her free time is spent building homes for Habitat for Humanity. But the simple truth is that entertainers by just being entertainers just don't contribute that much or are that rare. Has there ever been a time when their was a shortage of entertainers? Authors and composers tend to have more impact than performers. Honestly if every "star" we know retired tomorrow how long would it be before they where replaced? And how long would we even really notice?
Same for Sports figures. Now what they do with their fame can elevate that but for just performers?
As far as super famous people not fitting in isn't that going to be a given? A large percentage of them are going to have some attribute or talent that is unusual. That alone will tend to make them stand out as different from the average.
This should be an interesting fight. I can amazon taking apple to court because apple is forcing them to price their merchandise a certain way. Amazon could drop the in app purchases. I tend to buy my books online and have them pushed to my devices. But something is going to come to a head. Will apple start demanding a cut when people buy a tent from Amazon? Or a motorcycle from Ebay?
I bet Amazon would love to get a 30% cut from a home purchase off a craigslist app.
That is an interesting question isn't it. Is Lady Gaga a "better" adult than a good Kindergarten teacher?
What is success anyway? Many studies have shown that making more money doesn't make you happier. There is a peak of curve of happyness that peaks right around the point where you make enough money to not sweat paying bills and then it goes down again.
I think it is very ungeeky to say money==success or fame==success. Shouldn't happy==success.
I am sure that there are a lot of happy geeks out there.
BTW there are Christan geeks.
So? I can copy my MP3s to a thumb drive and give them to a friend, I can email them, I can put them on dropbox, I can burn them to a DVD and mail to a friend, or copy my album to a good quality tape and drive it over to there house as well back in the old days.
So should the music companies require that companies that make cars, run email server and deliver mail make deals with them just because there service can be used to share music?
And here is the real kicker for you? Do you really think that this will increase piracy when there are already so many ways to pirate? I mean really?
Not at all. The music industry needs to get a grip and butt out. Heck if they where smart they would embrace it before Google, Apple, and or Microsoft decide that they want to get into the business and crush them.
No you are wrong. And you are right.
Japan has good mass transit. They also have car companies. It is not a one size fits all. I would like good mass transit to go to work but I will still want my car to go shopping.
1. Yes you are right but tracks do not go everywhere and are not practical in low density areas.
2. He wanted automated cars. The idea does have some merit. I think a good step would be smart roads. To give an example from experience. Last night it took my wife and I 30 minutes to go a mile because of an accident. Had we known about the accident a short detour would have save a lot of fuel and time.
3. So you want to force people to do what you think is best. If there was a store I would probably walk over to the next block to get milk since I go for walks all the time just to walk. Too bad that there isn't one. When I did live near a small store I would often ride my bike unless it was raining, late at night, or just too hot for words. I suggest that instead of trying to force people we make it easier for them to walk or ride a bike. Side walks and bike paths will do a lot for that.
4. Again you act like one will eliminate the other. Look at all the roads in Japan. Trains help but will not eliminate traffic. You do not run trains tracks to peoples homes and you do not have them criss crossing a city. Subways are super expensive and take a very long time to build.
There is no one solution. Places like Chicago and New York have pretty good mass transit at least when I was there for work. London's tube also was pretty good. Yet each of them had cars as well.
I would say the ideal solution will vary from place to place. High speed rail makes sense in a few places in the US. Say between Boston, New York, Philidelpha, Pittsburgh, and DC. Yes I know Amtrack sort of does and it is the only part of Amtrack that is profitable. On the west coast I can see it between San Diego, LA, San Fransisco, and Las Vegas. In Texas between Houston and Dallas. I live in Florida and I have to say I am not real upset that they killed the Florida High Speed rail project. It was corporate welfare for Disney and the other theme parks. The first leg was from Orlando International to Disney and International driver. Odds are that would have been the only segment built IMHO.
What I would like to see more of are trolleys. Maybe fuel cell powered or natural gas powered hybrids so you can get ride of the over head wires and or hot rails. Up till the 50s they where very common in many US cites and worked really well. The investment would be less than subways and they can be made very attractive. And while not as low in CO2 emissions as one using overhead wires they would be more green than a bus. Also being attractive, quite, and not requireing ugly over head wires should make them easier to get past the niby objections and might actually get people to use them.
"Marvelous. Buying the law.
The future of music, with music labels crushed and Google dictating how musicians are paid, is bright."
I really don't understand how you got from Point a to point b?
How will this crush the music labels? Or even effect them at all?
I buy my music from Amazons MP3 store or I buy a CD. So the label and artist are paid. I rip my CDs and put them on my phone and my ipod touch now. Which is all fine since I have paid for the music. Now I can copy them to Google so I do not have worry about keeping everything synced. So why does Google ore better yet why do I have to get any type of permission to store my music files someplace for me to listen to them. How exactly is this any differn't from a thumb drive or dropbox?
I would love to know why this really has anything to do with music labels at all?
Funny but I see it the other way. Google is staying out of the business of selling music. All they are doing is saying "Here is a place you can store your music". Should a CD case maker have to negotiate with music companies?
The artist and the music companies can still sell the music however they want and at what ever price they want. And I got news for you. If you are a big company and you do something wrong you can still have the court rule not in your favor. It isn't like Sony, Warner, Universal and EMI are poor. What it does mean is that they can not spend Google into settling.
Meet the new Doctor.
Good. I supported Bush when I thought he doing the right thing and I support Obama when I feel he is doing the right thing like not showing the Osama pictures.
I will say that I do no support warrant-less searches, tracking or wiretapping at all.
I am sorry to hear that. I am in the US but I have a friend that works for a Tory MP. He is good person, father and husband. I am sure that there are good Labour MPs as well. To fall into the whole them vs us mentality tends to make one nothing but a mindless drone. It also works hard to polarize government. Seems a shame because in most other ways you seem like a reasonable sort of person.
The link was not to gpl-violations.org but to the but to a really crappy blog and I stand by my statement that they where just trying to stir the pot and get ad revenue. Second the post you are talking about isn't even on gpl-violations.org. I had to dig for it http://gnumonks.org/users/laforge/ is the origin link.
I work for a medium sized company and everything takes longer. It really is true that it is hard to get past being a small sized company because things really do change. You must be so careful every step of the way it really is just the way that it is. For a huge company it must be much worse. We joke here that "if it there is a one in a thousand chance that someone will have problems with it we get to hear about it ten times a day."
They have not stopped releasing GPL updates. They have said coming soon. For all we know they are doing a code review of the documentation of the code. That doesn't mean that they don't need to release the code but at this point the name calling and accusations of wrong doing are not going to help. At this point a polite "when can we expect that code drop" instead of accusations is IMHO the correct response. But you can scream and fume if it makes you feel better but I don't think anything will change.
" Plus, with a paying audience, the ad space would become much more lucrative and SyFy could lose some of the seedier ads it has been saddled with lately, and better fund new original content.""
You want me to pay and watch ads?
No really imagine if TV was free. I mean what if you could just stick a wire into the air and like magic suck the shows right out of the air for free! The people could pay for the shows by just running ads. I know it is just a dream but just imagine if it could work.
Actually if you live in any good sized metro area you really should go buy a cheap antenna and plug it in to your HDTV. The picture quality OTA is so much better than what you get over cable. If you can get the major networks and if there are not other shows you really like then drop the cable people. Think about how much you are paying a year for your Cable TV. If you have internet than you can get a ROKU box and stream NetFlix. It is insane that the TV business has gotten this messed up. You shouldn't have to pay for a channel and watch ads! People forget that CATV means Community Antenna TV. The way it was supposed to work is if you live in a town with crappy TV reception someone would put up a tower and amps and everyone would share the Antenna. You paid a fee to support the infrastructure. Now that local stations want the cable company to pay for the right show them even when the customers could just use rabbit ears and get them for free.
The cable companies then compress the crap out of the signal and put on a bunch of channels some of which very few people want and then charge you for packages! Why can't I just pay for the channels I want?
The whole system is out of control and completely broken.
I could be wrong but I thought that it was those that you distribute it too. I could be wrong since like all legal documents there is a fair amount of legalese involved.
But the real issue is way too many jr. high school like posts.
Interstellar niven did interstellar ram jets and cold sleep back in the 60s or I think. He started known space with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Ptavvs in 66.
Don't know when he had ships with Embryos on them. But Clark did that with the short story Songs of Distant Earth published in 1958.
Actually Larry Niven's Known Space.
Just use an interstellar ramjets and cold sleep. At least until we make contact with the Outsiders and get hyperdrive technology.
And if you see something that looks like a pair of sock puppets do not trust it.
Depends. As I understand it in Greece Icarus is the hero figure because he didn't play it safe. I guess it all depends on your point of view.