The point is that it doesn't cost you anything, and may even benefit you in a practical sense. (ie community, shared values, traditions binding generations)
By saying this I'm not implying my religion, a religion, or any religion. I'm also excluding radicals.
All that sayed, if you find a blief system that makes your life better in the here and now, and gives you the.00001% chance of having G_d hear you, you win.
Recently when my sister-inlaw was diagnosed with lukemia my wife and I were left stunned. We had chosen to live half way around the world, too expensive to travel when most of our family was still there to comfort her.
We instead decided to take our prayers to the Wester Wall (HaKotell), as jews have done for thousands of years. It's one incedent, and no basis for a conclusive "Prayer Works" post. But it did at least let us do something, other than sit and worry.
What is the alternative of a loved one to prayer? Nothing, nadda, zilch. Prayer may help, it may not. But if it's a choice between possibly useless prayer and definetly useless worrying, prayer makes more sense. (Pascals wager) If nothing else it makes you feel better.
I would be curriuos to know if there is a difference in stress related illnesses between people who pray (in one form or another) and those who dont. I know for me the worst source of stress is to have a problem and no pragmatic way to affect it.
I'll thankyou to let me decide what does and doesn't harm my children.
No ones censoring porn here. You can have your browser download every image from a xxx domain if thats what you want. But a LARGE number of people, and by that I mean damn near half the worlds population find pornagraphy unacceptable. All were talking about is createing a domain that coralls that porn so that it doesn't 'accidentaly' force it's self onto anyones screen against their explicit request.
Oh, and they don't have to be corraled 100%. The existance of a XXX TLD will make it trivial in court to prove that they were trying to place "offensive" material infront of minors/people who opted not to recieve any (by using a non-XXX TLD). If you can prove that they are subversively sliping porn to minors you have a strong case. Even without forcing them onto the XXX domain.
It would be interesting if the cpu boot loader read in data from a asymetrically encrypted source. The boot loader, and kernel images could be asym-enc, and ONLY that could load. (since the public key on the motherboard would be fixed, and unchangeable, with anything short of a PIC programer)
If you wanted to update anything related to the bootloader or kernel images (say a new OS install, or apt-geting the lattest kernel) you would have to insert a USB key that was passed all the data, and then returned the encrypted kernels/bootloaders. (but NEVER the private key)
a mild inconvienence but not horrible. Just don't loose that USB/Private Key!!!
only if your lefthanded. I don't know if someone who intentionaly does something to make his right hand, unusable for tefilin could switch. Ask your local rav.
Head and right hand are tefilin, that Orthodox Jewish(tm) males and Madonna wrap every day.
The text it's self is not "modern" so it was likely written at a time when Christians still retained most of their Jewish rituals, including tefilin. I doubt it would refer to tefilin tracks (the temporary indentations left in ones skin imediately after wearing tefilin). And in any case, I can't think of any way to make the number 666 numericaly out of tefilin or it's related procedures. (unless your perspective view of 7 forarm wraps, made you think it was 6)
If the "mark of the beast" is suposed to cause you to revoke your faith, it may be refering to preventing you from wearing tefilin. No mark, or subcontanious could prevent you from wearing tefilin, but some sort of permenant, external binding on the right arm or the forhead might (since it would intervene between the skin and the tefillin).
It could also refer to Karietes to may take things too litteraly.
Religious or not, being tagged is still kinda freaky.
There is no reason why these kids could not earn degrees, and even go on to execelent highly intelectual carreers. My point wasn't to say "Were not training the next generation of plumbers,mechanics, and short order cooks!" But that there is no such thing as a dumb child, just that some kids don't learn under the current education model. IE, sitting still and memorizing lists, no physed or room for individualized behaviour. Many children, myself included need to learn by doing. I was lucky, may parrents could afford a grage full of tools, and a computer for me to hack around on. These kids almost uniformly come from single parrent homes, and are poor. They don't have male role models, they don't have disposable income to pursue their gifts. Again, the point of public education is to provide kids who wouldn't otherwise have, an opportunity to learn. In any case, most projects like this one are funded with donations of old cars and such, and other than initial expense aren't a major burden on the school budget.
As for social climbing... First, I never got a degree and found not shortage of oportunities to move up, but in practical software design the value of Comp Sci degrees is debatable. Social posturing is normal male behaviour. You will find it as much in a Fortune 500 company, as you will in a local ice cream shop. It is concievable you could shun it, but you would do so at your own expense.
As a soon to be father, something else strikes me about this. Yeah, I'd love a sports car that gets 50mpg (even on diesel that's an impressive number), but it's no big deal to do it with a small diesel engine, electric motors, and some Super-Capacitors. (the bio-diesel part is pure hype)
But that some kids, who everyone considered 'lost' did this. It says something about how damaged our education model is. That if kids can't sit still and memorize lists of minutia they must be dumb. Look at a list of great people in history, and you will find few of them that were good at sitting still, often that not sitting still is what got the job done.
Some kids, particularly girls, gravitate toward a structured learning style. Many don't. And an educational system that does not teach students who are difficult to teach is a failure. Kids who learn easy could learn on their own, with just a little parental motivation. Schools exist for those students who would not learn easily, who need mentors, who need people to look in them and find their gifts.
These kids needed to learn with their hands, from trial and error. There are so many parts to this project, from welding/machining skills to software and electrical design. This isn't light stuff, it takes communication, math, science, budgeting and research skills. And it excites the kids, it's like stealth algebra.
We need to learn for examples like this, to find broader definitions of the word 'teach'. Otherwise we will only be harnessing a small percentage of our 'natural resources.
Look, it's not just audio tracks, it's video too. TV shows are starting to be downloaded, and with torrents you can download a MASSIVE video track from blockbuster/netflix/etc and also insert a private audio track. The video is useless without the audio. (unless your a Charlie Chaplan fan)
Most people are not endowed with a great sense of generosity. Most torrents come from a few people, over and over again. They don't need to get them on the first try, getting them on the 10th or the 20th share is good enough. Killing off the big sharers in the network will slow it to a trickle.
Once they find the culprit, by process of of elimination over dozens of cylces, they can insert a "gotcha" watermark into the file, that proves beyond a doubt that they shared at least that file.
Of course their is a consequence for killing off the big pirates: Legal downloads. People are now accostomed to downloading media from p2p network. Often discovering new artists. From an independent artists perspective, pirate networks constitute noise. If the RIAA/MPAA lower the noise level, their going to have a whole other fight on their hands.
By the most liberal estimates GBLT constitute 10% of the population.
40% of Americans would like to see Creationism (in one form or another) taught to highschool children.
If we make gross generalizations about the politics of these respective groups: for ever 1 person who would stay by defending GBLT 4 would leave.
That's bad buisness, and they are a buisness.
Disney had a similar problem way back. Gay Day at Disney where thousands of GBLT would converge on Disney wearing bright red t-shirts and doing what they do, at Disney. A big enough problem as that could generate, it also, coincedentaly fell on the same day the Boy Scouts had been having their anuall day at Disney for years.
Disney had a choice: on one hand, they make their bread and butter on "Middle America" (I hate that phrase, but it's the only short hand I have), and they also have a remarkably high percentage of GBLT working for them (Orlando is a fun town).
In the end they took no position at all. Neither GayDay or the BoyScouts were officialy sanctioned events by Disney, and they just refused to differentiate or take a possition.
this was my first thought as well, but Google does have a tendency to commit improvments upstream. It certainly wouldn't hurt them to release any improvements they may make.
Google is a large and complex organization, with intense IT demands. I think it will be very usefull to see what Google does to make Linux as a desktop practical for wide deployment.
No doubt there will be companies that sit back and let the "pioneers" take the brunt of the critisism, and if it works out, enter this market when it is established.
But this isn't about "service" it's "Quality of Service", ie how fast certain types of internet packets are routed. IE: when a network pipe is saturated, does the router send packets from video.google or video.yahoo? Answere: who pays more?
The model in concept makes sense: You pay more, you get higher roughting priority.
From the telco's perspective this makes allot of sense. Sure your paying for a T1 but that's bandwidth, not response time. And the telco has to pay for more and more expensive routers that are switching more and more complex packet destinations; P2P, has gotta bugger their roughters something vicious.
Everyone and his brother is pushing multimedia today. And VOIP companies (espcially Skype) are killing one of their cash cows, while at the same time putting a bigger load on their routers. They are not a gov't, they don't have to guarantee QOS, they have to compete for it.
So charging for the QOS makes sense. It offers a huge advantage to traditional B2C buisnesses like Google, Google Video, and SIP h323 companies, because they can just pay more and offer a better service, guaranteed. On the other hand technologies like Skype and Bittorrent suffer since nothing they do will improve their QOS over back bone routers. It's a good short term win-win for companies in general (small and large), not just the Telcos.
If you were a VOIP company who would you rather get your connection with: a company that is egalitarian in it's router priorities, or one that you can bribe to bump you to the top?
The sand in the oinment of course is that ISP's won't pay for this, since this is nearly imposible to explain to average consumers. It doesn't make good marketing sense. And no matter how much content vendors pay for QOS, it's only a half solution to users at a sucky ISP. Telcos loose their P2P screwing ability if they give the ISP's good QOS as a sales ploy.
In the end, it probably screws consumers who want "off the beaten path" services, but will give better service to users who only visit big content providers (Google, Microsoft, CNN, et all)
It's not carbon neutral is what your getting at. That's ok. It cuts carbon in half. The CO2 that was used from that plant to make auto fuels, would have gone into the atmo anyway. But we do save on the carbon output of the cars, since they are only spitting out CO2 that we took from the (already waste) exaust of the coal plant.
Oh, and you DEFINETLY don't want to sink the dead algee to the bottom of the ocean. Were as CO2 will stay submerged, rotting organics make methane... that doesn't stay submerged, and is infact 30 times more powerfull than CO2 as a greenhouse gas (but breaks down in only 25 years, so the debate roles on...)
Of course being a NeoCon makes you a moron... I must be one, because I can't even figure out who is a neocon... no one actually says they are. They have no party...
Oh I get it! Your just degrading people who think differently than you! How sweet... and of course, no one in your camp is a dummy. It must be so much fun picking on us retarded Necons. Excuse me while I go club a cute baby seal.
Arrogance is an excellent stand in for wit any day!
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No one distributes software on floppies any more. 6-8MB added to your installer isn't a BIG deal. It translates into another 30sec worth of download. If its a burden on anyone, it's a burden on your webservers.
The Advantage of course is that for that 6-8meg, it installs with virtually no hassles, and all the way back to w95.
I've dealt with numerous ditribution issues, and while sysadmins are worried about the package size, mostly they are worried about hassle. Try shoe horning.NET apps onto w98 systems (it won't install on anything earlier), it's a 21MB hair ball and a real paint to install. Once my employer made the decision to port their entire app base to.NET, which made development LOTS easier, but we went from a 5meg install to a 30meg nightmare that wouldn't run on w95 no matter what (still an issue believe it or not).
The GTK pack isn't HUGE and it installs with virtually no problems. If download size is a problem the NSIS2 installer does support on the fly package downloads.
* More parts == higher maintenance (pumps, special catalytic convertor, etc)
No problem, sell extended warenties. If only BMW mechanics can fix it, I don't see how this is a loosing proposition for BMW. They already include "Warning" lights that go on after a certain millage, that can only be turned off by a certified tech... of course anyone can change the oil, and tune up the car.. but not a steam engine. That only BMW can do.
*at least 24 ft of piping that may be impacted by even minor collisions
Again, only BMW mechanics can fix it. This IS a good thing for BMW.
*Steam systems extra sensitive to corrosion from impurities in coolant.
Both heat exchangers operate on closed loops. Impurities are not an issue.
How exactly is developing a superior product that challenges an existing company nuanced?
Sounds like the same old story we've been seing since the start of the WWW. Disruptive technology enters, large comfortable companies start bribeing gov't officials to protect their jobs.
Nuanced... yet another over used word, that should be shot, burried, and layed to rest next to the Macaraena and "Thousand Points of Light".
Methanol CAN be green, but right now methanol is mostly manufactured from FOSSIL FULES. Methanol is highly toxic, even upon contact with skin.
The article is also wrong. Methanol fuel cells do not reform into hydrogen. If it did, the fuel cell would suffer from all of the cost of materials problems as conventional fuel cells.
Again all of this is old news, as Toshiba has already done a press release about a 100mw direct methanol fuel cell.
What seems different here is the combustion, which also turns the fule into plasma, is hapening outside of the engine nozzel... That would seem to me to be a huge advantage in keeping the magnets cool.
But one wonders what they are doing to power those magnets. If the reaction is occuring outside the engine, then they can't be deriving power from the comustion. I could all just be an over hyped side step of the issues like the guy who clamed his prius was getting 1000mpg when all he did was add a plug, and charged from the wall. (simp. Improved "fuel" economy, by adding power from an outside source)
This is the PDA every linux user (or maybe just me) has ever wanted. High rez, low power consuption, nice size, simple CPU. Open API. Who cares if it only has 4 levels of gray, that's all you need if your planning on doing work.
And these people think they need to sell it as a dev kit? It's a product already, just give it a shell.
On the other hand... $3000? Is that Canadian money?
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The point is that it doesn't cost you anything, and may even benefit you in a practical sense. (ie community, shared values, traditions binding generations)
.00001% chance of having G_d hear you, you win.
By saying this I'm not implying my religion, a religion, or any religion.
I'm also excluding radicals.
All that sayed, if you find a blief system that makes your life better in the here and now, and gives you the
Recently when my sister-inlaw was diagnosed with lukemia my wife and I were left stunned. We had chosen to live half way around the world, too expensive to travel when most of our family was still there to comfort her.
We instead decided to take our prayers to the Wester Wall (HaKotell), as jews have done for thousands of years. It's one incedent, and no basis for a conclusive "Prayer Works" post. But it did at least let us do something, other than sit and worry.
What is the alternative of a loved one to prayer? Nothing, nadda, zilch. Prayer may help, it may not. But if it's a choice between possibly useless prayer and definetly useless worrying, prayer makes more sense. (Pascals wager) If nothing else it makes you feel better.
I would be curriuos to know if there is a difference in stress related illnesses between people who pray (in one form or another) and those who dont. I know for me the worst source of stress is to have a problem and no pragmatic way to affect it.
I'll thankyou to let me decide what does and doesn't harm my children.
No ones censoring porn here. You can have your browser download every image from a xxx domain if thats what you want. But a LARGE number of people, and by that I mean damn near half the worlds population find pornagraphy unacceptable. All were talking about is createing a domain that coralls that porn so that it doesn't 'accidentaly' force it's self onto anyones screen against their explicit request.
Oh, and they don't have to be corraled 100%. The existance of a XXX TLD will make it trivial in court to prove that they were trying to place "offensive" material infront of minors/people who opted not to recieve any (by using a non-XXX TLD). If you can prove that they are subversively sliping porn to minors you have a strong case. Even without forcing them onto the XXX domain.
It would be interesting if the cpu boot loader read in data from a asymetrically encrypted source. The boot loader, and kernel images could be asym-enc, and ONLY that could load. (since the public key on the motherboard would be fixed, and unchangeable, with anything short of a PIC programer)
If you wanted to update anything related to the bootloader or kernel images (say a new OS install, or apt-geting the lattest kernel) you would have to insert a USB key that was passed all the data, and then returned the encrypted kernels/bootloaders. (but NEVER the private key)
a mild inconvienence but not horrible. Just don't loose that USB/Private Key!!!
only if your lefthanded. I don't know if someone who intentionaly does something to make his right hand, unusable for tefilin could switch. Ask your local rav.
Tefilin (Phylactories)?
Head and right hand are tefilin, that Orthodox Jewish(tm) males and Madonna wrap every day.
The text it's self is not "modern" so it was likely written at a time when Christians still retained most of their Jewish rituals, including tefilin. I doubt it would refer to tefilin tracks (the temporary indentations left in ones skin imediately after wearing tefilin). And in any case, I can't think of any way to make the number 666 numericaly out of tefilin or it's related procedures. (unless your perspective view of 7 forarm wraps, made you think it was 6)
If the "mark of the beast" is suposed to cause you to revoke your faith, it may be refering to preventing you from wearing tefilin. No mark, or subcontanious could prevent you from wearing tefilin, but some sort of permenant, external binding on the right arm or the forhead might (since it would intervene between the skin and the tefillin).
It could also refer to Karietes to may take things too litteraly.
Religious or not, being tagged is still kinda freaky.
There is no reason why these kids could not earn degrees, and even go on to execelent highly intelectual carreers. My point wasn't to say "Were not training the next generation of plumbers,mechanics, and short order cooks!" But that there is no such thing as a dumb child, just that some kids don't learn under the current education model. IE, sitting still and memorizing lists, no physed or room for individualized behaviour. Many children, myself included need to learn by doing. I was lucky, may parrents could afford a grage full of tools, and a computer for me to hack around on. These kids almost uniformly come from single parrent homes, and are poor. They don't have male role models, they don't have disposable income to pursue their gifts. Again, the point of public education is to provide kids who wouldn't otherwise have, an opportunity to learn. In any case, most projects like this one are funded with donations of old cars and such, and other than initial expense aren't a major burden on the school budget.
As for social climbing... First, I never got a degree and found not shortage of oportunities to move up, but in practical software design the value of Comp Sci degrees is debatable. Social posturing is normal male behaviour. You will find it as much in a Fortune 500 company, as you will in a local ice cream shop. It is concievable you could shun it, but you would do so at your own expense.
As a soon to be father, something else strikes me about this. Yeah, I'd love a sports car that gets 50mpg (even on diesel that's an impressive number), but it's no big deal to do it with a small diesel engine, electric motors, and some Super-Capacitors. (the bio-diesel part is pure hype)
But that some kids, who everyone considered 'lost' did this. It says something about how damaged our education model is. That if kids can't sit still and memorize lists of minutia they must be dumb. Look at a list of great people in history, and you will find few of them that were good at sitting still, often that not sitting still is what got the job done.
Some kids, particularly girls, gravitate toward a structured learning style. Many don't. And an educational system that does not teach students who are difficult to teach is a failure. Kids who learn easy could learn on their own, with just a little parental motivation. Schools exist for those students who would not learn easily, who need mentors, who need people to look in them and find their gifts.
These kids needed to learn with their hands, from trial and error. There are so many parts to this project, from welding/machining skills to software and electrical design. This isn't light stuff, it takes communication, math, science, budgeting and research skills. And it excites the kids, it's like stealth algebra.
We need to learn for examples like this, to find broader definitions of the word 'teach'. Otherwise we will only be harnessing a small percentage of our 'natural resources.
and give him a cigar.
Look, it's not just audio tracks, it's video too. TV shows are starting to be downloaded, and with torrents you can download a MASSIVE video track from blockbuster/netflix/etc and also insert a private audio track. The video is useless without the audio. (unless your a Charlie Chaplan fan)
Most people are not endowed with a great sense of generosity. Most torrents come from a few people, over and over again. They don't need to get them on the first try, getting them on the 10th or the 20th share is good enough. Killing off the big sharers in the network will slow it to a trickle.
Once they find the culprit, by process of of elimination over dozens of cylces, they can insert a "gotcha" watermark into the file, that proves beyond a doubt that they shared at least that file.
Of course their is a consequence for killing off the big pirates: Legal downloads. People are now accostomed to downloading media from p2p network. Often discovering new artists. From an independent artists perspective, pirate networks constitute noise. If the RIAA/MPAA lower the noise level, their going to have a whole other fight on their hands.
By the most liberal estimates GBLT constitute 10% of the population.
40% of Americans would like to see Creationism (in one form or another) taught to highschool children.
If we make gross generalizations about the politics of these respective groups: for ever 1 person who would stay by defending GBLT 4 would leave.
That's bad buisness, and they are a buisness.
Disney had a similar problem way back. Gay Day at Disney where thousands of GBLT would converge on Disney wearing bright red t-shirts and doing what they do, at Disney. A big enough problem as that could generate, it also, coincedentaly fell on the same day the Boy Scouts had been having their anuall day at Disney for years.
Disney had a choice: on one hand, they make their bread and butter on "Middle America" (I hate that phrase, but it's the only short hand I have), and they also have a remarkably high percentage of GBLT working for them (Orlando is a fun town).
In the end they took no position at all. Neither GayDay or the BoyScouts were officialy sanctioned events by Disney, and they just refused to differentiate or take a possition.
Maybe that would have been better for WoW.
this was my first thought as well, but Google does have a tendency to commit improvments upstream. It certainly wouldn't hurt them to release any improvements they may make.
Google is a large and complex organization, with intense IT demands. I think it will be very usefull to see what Google does to make Linux as a desktop practical for wide deployment.
No doubt there will be companies that sit back and let the "pioneers" take the brunt of the critisism, and if it works out, enter this market when it is established.
But this isn't about "service" it's "Quality of Service", ie how fast certain types of internet packets are routed. IE: when a network pipe is saturated, does the router send packets from video.google or video.yahoo? Answere: who pays more?
The model in concept makes sense: You pay more, you get higher roughting priority.
From the telco's perspective this makes allot of sense. Sure your paying for a T1 but that's bandwidth, not response time. And the telco has to pay for more and more expensive routers that are switching more and more complex packet destinations; P2P, has gotta bugger their roughters something vicious.
Everyone and his brother is pushing multimedia today. And VOIP companies (espcially Skype) are killing one of their cash cows, while at the same time putting a bigger load on their routers. They are not a gov't, they don't have to guarantee QOS, they have to compete for it.
So charging for the QOS makes sense. It offers a huge advantage to traditional B2C buisnesses like Google, Google Video, and SIP h323 companies, because they can just pay more and offer a better service, guaranteed. On the other hand technologies like Skype and Bittorrent suffer since nothing they do will improve their QOS over back bone routers. It's a good short term win-win for companies in general (small and large), not just the Telcos.
If you were a VOIP company who would you rather get your connection with: a company that is egalitarian in it's router priorities, or one that you can bribe to bump you to the top?
The sand in the oinment of course is that ISP's won't pay for this, since this is nearly imposible to explain to average consumers. It doesn't make good marketing sense. And no matter how much content vendors pay for QOS, it's only a half solution to users at a sucky ISP. Telcos loose their P2P screwing ability if they give the ISP's good QOS as a sales ploy.
In the end, it probably screws consumers who want "off the beaten path" services, but will give better service to users who only visit big content providers (Google, Microsoft, CNN, et all)
Server rooms don't need it either. And this would save alot of disipated heat in a server farm.
It's not carbon neutral is what your getting at. That's ok. It cuts carbon in half. The CO2 that was used from that plant to make auto fuels, would have gone into the atmo anyway. But we do save on the carbon output of the cars, since they are only spitting out CO2 that we took from the (already waste) exaust of the coal plant.
Oh, and you DEFINETLY don't want to sink the dead algee to the bottom of the ocean. Were as CO2 will stay submerged, rotting organics make methane... that doesn't stay submerged, and is infact 30 times more powerfull than CO2 as a greenhouse gas (but breaks down in only 25 years, so the debate roles on...)
Nope, that was sarcasm. Latter I'll say something that isn't sarcastic and you can compare the two. 'K?
Of course being a NeoCon makes you a moron... I must be one, because I can't even figure out who is a neocon... no one actually says they are. They have no party...
Oh I get it! Your just degrading people who think differently than you! How sweet... and of course, no one in your camp is a dummy. It must be so much fun picking on us retarded Necons. Excuse me while I go club a cute baby seal.
Arrogance is an excellent stand in for wit any day!
No one distributes software on floppies any more. 6-8MB added to your installer isn't a BIG deal. It translates into another 30sec worth of download. If its a burden on anyone, it's a burden on your webservers.
.NET apps onto w98 systems (it won't install on anything earlier), it's a 21MB hair ball and a real paint to install. Once my employer made the decision to port their entire app base to .NET, which made development LOTS easier, but we went from a 5meg install to a 30meg nightmare that wouldn't run on w95 no matter what (still an issue believe it or not).
The Advantage of course is that for that 6-8meg, it installs with virtually no hassles, and all the way back to w95.
I've dealt with numerous ditribution issues, and while sysadmins are worried about the package size, mostly they are worried about hassle. Try shoe horning
The GTK pack isn't HUGE and it installs with virtually no problems. If download size is a problem the NSIS2 installer does support on the fly package downloads.
* More parts == higher maintenance (pumps, special catalytic convertor, etc)
No problem, sell extended warenties. If only BMW mechanics can fix it, I don't see how this is a loosing proposition for BMW. They already include "Warning" lights that go on after a certain millage, that can only be turned off by a certified tech... of course anyone can change the oil, and tune up the car.. but not a steam engine. That only BMW can do.
*at least 24 ft of piping that may be impacted by even minor collisions
Again, only BMW mechanics can fix it. This IS a good thing for BMW.
*Steam systems extra sensitive to corrosion from impurities in coolant.
Both heat exchangers operate on closed loops. Impurities are not an issue.
This would be true except for one thing...
The UN has been in place for about 50years now and still has 0 authority... actually what little they did have has probably wained.
Solution by committy is the least effecitve way to do anything. And the UN is a committy about convenning committies....
So help us, I have no idea why we still pay membership dues.
Let us not forget about Haliburton wild life and forest reserv. http://www.haliburtonforest.com/
(oh... the sarcasm, the irony, the pain!)
How exactly is developing a superior product that challenges an existing company nuanced?
Sounds like the same old story we've been seing since the start of the WWW. Disruptive technology enters, large comfortable companies start bribeing gov't officials to protect their jobs.
Nuanced... yet another over used word, that should be shot, burried, and layed to rest next to the Macaraena and "Thousand Points of Light".
Methanol CAN be green, but right now methanol is mostly manufactured from FOSSIL FULES. Methanol is highly toxic, even upon contact with skin.
The article is also wrong. Methanol fuel cells do not reform into hydrogen. If it did, the fuel cell would suffer from all of the cost of materials problems as conventional fuel cells.
Again all of this is old news, as Toshiba has already done a press release about a 100mw direct methanol fuel cell.
What seems different here is the combustion, which also turns the fule into plasma, is hapening outside of the engine nozzel... That would seem to me to be a huge advantage in keeping the magnets cool.
But one wonders what they are doing to power those magnets. If the reaction is occuring outside the engine, then they can't be deriving power from the comustion. I could all just be an over hyped side step of the issues like the guy who clamed his prius was getting 1000mpg when all he did was add a plug, and charged from the wall. (simp. Improved "fuel" economy, by adding power from an outside source)
This is the PDA every linux user (or maybe just me) has ever wanted. High rez, low power consuption, nice size, simple CPU. Open API. Who cares if it only has 4 levels of gray, that's all you need if your planning on doing work.
And these people think they need to sell it as a dev kit? It's a product already, just give it a shell.
On the other hand... $3000? Is that Canadian money?