I said: It is sad that slashdot focuses on the tabloid side of the interview....
desine sarcastically opined: Ya...because real nerds are into land management.
It may never have occured to you that it takes a lot more brains to make well informed documentaries than it does to gossip about movie stars. In fact, Bruce's tendency to know so much about a topic that does NOT involve his career seems very nerdy. He'd probably be a really fun guy to talk to.
It is sad that slashdot focuses on the tabloid side of the interview instead of the surprising stuff: the king of B-grade horror movies has turned out what is supposed to be a really good educational documentary about land management.
just tell them not to do anything that is personally identifiable; i.e. check your favorite news site, not your email. This threat is not any different than the threat that almost all wireless users at cafes have faced for years....
One idea I've seen before is to genetically engineer microbes that
form spores; i.e. are drought tolerant
use the martian soil as a nutrient source
perform a modified form of photosynthesis
Normal photosynthesis releases O2 into the atmosphere, but it requires CO2 in an atmosphere to work. The idea is to create a microbe that gets everything it needs from soil, is powered by the sun, but has minimal light requirements. This type of microbe could use the energy from the sun to break down the iron oxide in the soil and rock to release O2, thus helping to create a habitable planet. It is a long shot, and would probably take a few centuries even if it did work, though.
The bigger problem is that the gravity on mars (which is only 38% of the gravity on earth) may not be strong enough to keep an atmosphere we can use on the planet; i.e. the mass of mars may be too small to allow it to be effectively terraformed.
you have to take into account that in conventional engines about half of the power is lost as heat.
We were talking about emmissions, not efficiency. Besides, most power plants are less efficient than the figure you give above. Romm says
Right now, large central-station power plants burning fossil fuels, the source of most U.S. electricty, are on average relatively inefficient, converting less than one-third of the energy in fossil fuels into electricity.
That's from page 39. You really ought to read the book.
I know that the idea behind EVs is to centralize emmissions at the powerplant and then regulate the plant emmissions so that it well be cleaner, but politics makes cleaning up power plants very difficult.
Reading Matthew Wald's article in the May 2004 issue of Scientific American and Joseph Romm's book The Hype About Hydrogen totally changed the way I think about emmissions and alternative fuel vehicles. It turns out that the life cycle emissions of an EV (which include the emissions from the power plant) can be MUCH higher than we normally think. An EV might actually create more pollution than a hybrid if you live in an area, as I do, where coal fired power plants provide your electricity. In an area where combined cycle natural gas turbines are used to make electricity, the EV would be cleaner.
Electric cars currently can be Fast enough, go far enough, or be cheap enough for normal people to use. The problem is that it looks like you have to pick two of the three, and normal people want all three. FWIW, the tzero is an electric car that already exists that is as fast (in 1/8 mile drags strip tests) as a ferrari. It also has a decent range...the designers were able to drive from cali to vegas for the SEMA show on a single charge of the lithium ion battery pack.
The problem is that it costs as much as a house.
http://www.acpropulsion.com/tzero_pages/tzero_home.htm
If I had mod points I'd give them to you.....unfortunately, most slashdotters are too young to remember how much fun usenet used to be. I was a big fan of alt.sysadmin.recovery and alt.mensa.flame.flame.flame
Margaret Cho is a korean american comedian. She briefly had a series on TV. She's struggled with her weight throughout her life. A lot of her humor is sex related, and she has a large following in the gay community. There's more information on her here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Cho
I think what you mean is that he works the cash register in a liquor store. That's very different than "working the cashier". Depending on what the cashier looks like, there could be a long line of people who want to work them.:)
I think everyone who writes sploits should include a small quiz at the front. If the script kiddie is dumb enough to not know that 127.0.0.1 is a loopback address, they should not be allowed to run the sploit.
Looks like they watched the HHGTTG trailer and followed the guide entry on how to make a movie trailer. The deep voice seems like a characture of itself somehoe.
Missed the women in bikini's but really delivered on the explosions.
They didn't want to spoil the surprise for the viewing public when Lucas puts squid into bikinis and has them do an ester williams routine.
Hmmmmm.....clip number two has a wookie army howling in unison. Who wants to bet that after the movie is released there will be a TV special called The Wild Wookie Adventure
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This one:
http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2000/Nov/0322.h
Hey, Dan
:)
Congrads on the good press coverage.
Joey
It may never have occured to you that it takes a lot more brains to make well informed documentaries than it does to gossip about movie stars. In fact, Bruce's tendency to know so much about a topic that does NOT involve his career seems very nerdy. He'd probably be a really fun guy to talk to.
It is sad that slashdot focuses on the tabloid side of the interview instead of the surprising stuff: the king of B-grade horror movies has turned out what is supposed to be a really good educational documentary about land management.
But aren't most of the ants in a colony workers?
Theo is openbsd's greatest strength (a fanatical security coder) and their worst handicap (a PR nightmare)
Well, that means SciFi will definitely be airing a "Making of" special for Serenity.....
just tell them not to do anything that is personally identifiable; i.e. check your favorite news site, not your email. This threat is not any different than the threat that almost all wireless users at cafes have faced for years....
- form spores; i.e. are drought tolerant
- use the martian soil as a nutrient source
- perform a modified form of photosynthesis
Normal photosynthesis releases O2 into the atmosphere, but it requires CO2 in an atmosphere to work. The idea is to create a microbe that gets everything it needs from soil, is powered by the sun, but has minimal light requirements. This type of microbe could use the energy from the sun to break down the iron oxide in the soil and rock to release O2, thus helping to create a habitable planet. It is a long shot, and would probably take a few centuries even if it did work, though.The bigger problem is that the gravity on mars (which is only 38% of the gravity on earth) may not be strong enough to keep an atmosphere we can use on the planet; i.e. the mass of mars may be too small to allow it to be effectively terraformed.
We were talking about emmissions, not efficiency. Besides, most power plants are less efficient than the figure you give above. Romm says
That's from page 39. You really ought to read the book.
Reading Matthew Wald's article in the May 2004 issue of Scientific American and Joseph Romm's book The Hype About Hydrogen totally changed the way I think about emmissions and alternative fuel vehicles. It turns out that the life cycle emissions of an EV (which include the emissions from the power plant) can be MUCH higher than we normally think. An EV might actually create more pollution than a hybrid if you live in an area, as I do, where coal fired power plants provide your electricity. In an area where combined cycle natural gas turbines are used to make electricity, the EV would be cleaner.
The problem is that it costs as much as a house. http://www.acpropulsion.com/tzero_pages/tzero_home .htm
Let's feed the flower to the newly re-discovered ivory billed woodpecker!
If I had mod points I'd give them to you.....unfortunately, most slashdotters are too young to remember how much fun usenet used to be. I was a big fan of alt.sysadmin.recovery and alt.mensa.flame.flame.flame
Margaret Cho is a korean american comedian. She briefly had a series on TV. She's struggled with her weight throughout her life. A lot of her humor is sex related, and she has a large following in the gay community. There's more information on her here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Cho
...but someone has to say it.
I bet they can't STEM the tide of calls from reporters....
[thank's I'll be here all week]
Their web server runs as poorly as the elevator....only six comments and already slashdotted into oblivion.
when this same sentiment is expressed on slashdot at least once a week, every week for over a year?
I think what you mean is that he works the cash register in a liquor store. That's very different than "working the cashier". Depending on what the cashier looks like, there could be a long line of people who want to work them. :)
Thanks for not recognizing that the parent author understood that. They were karma whoring.
OK, good point. I suppose they aren't hurting anyone themselves...
I think everyone who writes sploits should include a small quiz at the front. If the script kiddie is dumb enough to not know that 127.0.0.1 is a loopback address, they should not be allowed to run the sploit.
Missed the women in bikini's but really delivered on the explosions.
They didn't want to spoil the surprise for the viewing public when Lucas puts squid into bikinis and has them do an ester williams routine.
Hmmmmm.....clip number two has a wookie army howling in unison. Who wants to bet that after the movie is released there will be a TV special called The Wild Wookie Adventure