There was something in Vinge's True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier about this. In the description of Habitat, one of the earlier online MUDs. (Might have been text-based; I don't remember.)
Or, wait, was that characters getting married? Darn it, now I've forgotten.
Why would anybody even use fully pressurized suits instead of space activity suits? This puzzles me to no end. Oh, the point is quite valid that if lose pressure at that altitude, you're almost certainly fuced, but even for other applications, a fully pressurized suit isn't required.
I just wonder how much energy this oil production plant needs to keep going if it wouldn't be able to run itself on the products of its refinement process, then it's not a net gain.
Thermal Depolymerization, according to Appel, has proved to be 85% energy efficient for complex feed stocks such as turkey remains. "That means for every 100 BTUs in the feedstock, we use only 15 BTUs to run the process."
Doesn't have to. Build one of these on the ass end of every factory-farm plant, next to every landfill, on the outflow pipe of every factory that makes organic waste. No reason not to build lots of little plants instead of one big one. If they're as simple as they purport to be, it might someday be as routine for an engineer to attach a TCP plant to organic waste stream as it is for them to attach a turbine to a steam outflow.
I dropped a line to Changing World Technologies some time back, but they never responded. I've yet to see any corroboration of their results... but then again, there's a plant in Carthage, right?
I'd really like to have one of these in my town. (Willimantic, CT.) There's a variety of paper-pulping business nearby, there's a landfill in town that's rapidly filling... plenty of organic carbon ready to be thrown through the process, a process that reputedly spins shit (literally) into (black) gold.
So why haven't I gotten even a "fuck you" back from CWT? Has anyone actually seen the Carthage plant? Is anyone here a chemical engineer and can vouch for the feasibility of the process on more than a "I'm a Slashdotter and enjoy talking out my ass!" level? What are the relevant patents? Peer-reviewed journal articles? Anything other than vacuous press releases?!
Thanks to anyone who takes the time to respond here. I've had no luck trying to contact them directly. (No pickup on the phone either.)
Ebola is spread as easily as the common cold. What sort of properties would an Ebola/rhinovirus combination have that you're afraid of?
The reason Ebola doesn't spread very far is because it has a short incubation period, and kills very quickly. The infected don't have much of a chance to transmit it outside of the local populace---an outbreak can be identified and contained.
Contrast this with HIV, which has a tremendous incubation period, meaning that even though it's very difficult to transmit, it's spread terribly.
Stem cell research does not need to be used as a reason for killing off unwanted pregnancies.
When was it ever used as such? Abortions get chucked in biohazard bags and incinerated like any other sort of medical waste.
You're living in a fantasy world if you think that Superhero Bush stopped legions of money-grubbing women who were clamoring to make a quick buck off of their abortions.
This is a non-issue if you take the time to think about it. Trash... or valuable medical research. Trash... or valuable medical research. Tough call there.
As it is written: "There are no good excuses for binary modules. Some of them may be technically legal (by virtue of not being derived works) and allowed, but even when they are legal they are a major pain in the ass, and always horribly buggy."
You know, there's a reason Linux doesn't work well with binary-only drivers. And that's because binary-only drivers are a bad idea for Linux.
Did you notice minrt_comments.cpp in the zip file? Same file, but with actual comments. Variable names are explained. The snipped you pasted becomes...
int main (void) {
char b[99];
int W=GN,H=GN,i,n;// Read screen width and height
nl=GN;ns=GN;// Read number of lights and spheres
_f x,y;
F(nl)// For each light
RP(LI)// Read position
F(ns)// For each sphere
{
RP(SI.c)// Center
SI.r=GN;// Radius
RP(SI.l)// Color
SI.f=GN;// Reflection
}// Allocate the frame buffer. Init to zero to perform antialiasing.
char* s = new char[(n=W*H*3)];
memset(s,0,n);
Some weird macros are used:
#define F(T) for(i=0;i<T;i++)// For #define FV(V,T) for(V=0;V<T;V++)
#define SI sp[i]// i-th sphere #define LI lt[i]// i-th light
#define GN atof(gets(b))// Read a float from stdin
#define RP(P) {P.x=GN;P.y=GN;P.z=GN;}// Read a point
Oh, come on! This is a perfect opportunity to scam the scammers! Remember AllAdvantage or whatever, that thing that displayed a banner ad and paid you some fractional penny per minute that your mouse was moving? There were applications to jiggle your mouse while you were away, or even to hide the ad-bar.
Why would this be any different? Drain $1/hr from the pockets of the spammers, but use a crack that sends all the spam either to their joespam@spamco.com address or to/dev/null.
Scam them, my fellows. Scam them hard. If anyone deserves it, it's the spammers.
Buncha punks. They bury a tag at the bottom of the page mentioning that they use some Wikipedia content by the GFDL, but they're still a bunch of worthless punks...
Wait. If someone were caught and shot without trial, bail or hearing... where would someone even hear about it? This falls under the list of things I'm told are conveniently kept secret, like the supposedly numerous plots handily foiled with those oh-so-necessary Patriot Act powers. You've changed the question, and are now asking me to prove something that, by definition, can't be proven. No dice.
Look, I think it's a little hard to believe that someone with a yearly income three orders of magnitude greater than mine works three orders of magnitude harder, or is three orders of magnitude smarter, or more worthy, or anything.
And furthermore, even placing an equivalent proportional tax rate on the wealthy and the poor isn't really equivalent. Asking someone making $10k a year to give half is income in taxes is a little different from asking someone making $500k a year to do the same.
I made $13,000 last year in a job that paid $11,500.
So... you've been eBaying stolen office supplies, then?
SDI was billed as an anti-missile system. As an anti-missile system, it failed.
Had SDI been a giant metal cock with which to bitch-slap the Russkies, and had that ended the Cold War, then yeah, I think you could say SDI worked. However, SDI was not billed as a giant metal cock.
SDI, in and of itself, did not work. It was a failed boondoggle. Scaring the Russians does not mean that SDI "worked".
Seriously, your memory chews balls if you can't think of the US ever executing spies. They are, more often than not, imprisoned for extensive terms, not sent home in exchange for other spies.
I think that those ginormous tax cuts for the extraordinarily wealthy may have had some effect on the debt. Just maybe. That, and the $100bn+ adventure in Iraq.
*cough* Abstinence-only education *cough*. When they require teaching abstinence, and disallow teaching anything else, that makes it 'abstinence-only'. Get it?
If you're going to talk smack, can you at least talk the kind of smack that can't be refuted with five minutes of Googling?
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There was something in Vinge's True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier about this. In the description of Habitat, one of the earlier online MUDs. (Might have been text-based; I don't remember.)
Or, wait, was that characters getting married? Darn it, now I've forgotten.
--grendel drago
Why would anybody even use fully pressurized suits instead of space activity suits? This puzzles me to no end. Oh, the point is quite valid that if lose pressure at that altitude, you're almost certainly fuced, but even for other applications, a fully pressurized suit isn't required.
Any insight?
--grendel drago
"Cunning linguist". Rolls right off the tongue, it does.
--grendel drago
If you ever played a video game where the voice acting was horrendous
HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2! Worst... voice acting... ever.
--grendel drago
See:
--grendel drago
Egg on me. Clearly I've seen "Outbreak" far too many times. Thanks for the correction.
--grendel drago
Fascinating. I hope it scales.
Doesn't have to. Build one of these on the ass end of every factory-farm plant, next to every landfill, on the outflow pipe of every factory that makes organic waste. No reason not to build lots of little plants instead of one big one. If they're as simple as they purport to be, it might someday be as routine for an engineer to attach a TCP plant to organic waste stream as it is for them to attach a turbine to a steam outflow.
--grendel drago
I dropped a line to Changing World Technologies some time back, but they never responded. I've yet to see any corroboration of their results... but then again, there's a plant in Carthage, right?
I'd really like to have one of these in my town. (Willimantic, CT.) There's a variety of paper-pulping business nearby, there's a landfill in town that's rapidly filling... plenty of organic carbon ready to be thrown through the process, a process that reputedly spins shit (literally) into (black) gold.
So why haven't I gotten even a "fuck you" back from CWT? Has anyone actually seen the Carthage plant? Is anyone here a chemical engineer and can vouch for the feasibility of the process on more than a "I'm a Slashdotter and enjoy talking out my ass!" level? What are the relevant patents? Peer-reviewed journal articles? Anything other than vacuous press releases?!
Thanks to anyone who takes the time to respond here. I've had no luck trying to contact them directly. (No pickup on the phone either.)
--grendel drago
Helper monkeys.
Hey, you asked.
--grendel drago
Ebola is spread as easily as the common cold. What sort of properties would an Ebola/rhinovirus combination have that you're afraid of?
The reason Ebola doesn't spread very far is because it has a short incubation period, and kills very quickly. The infected don't have much of a chance to transmit it outside of the local populace---an outbreak can be identified and contained.
Contrast this with HIV, which has a tremendous incubation period, meaning that even though it's very difficult to transmit, it's spread terribly.
--grendel drago
Stem cell research does not need to be used as a reason for killing off unwanted pregnancies.
When was it ever used as such? Abortions get chucked in biohazard bags and incinerated like any other sort of medical waste.
You're living in a fantasy world if you think that Superhero Bush stopped legions of money-grubbing women who were clamoring to make a quick buck off of their abortions.
This is a non-issue if you take the time to think about it. Trash... or valuable medical research. Trash... or valuable medical research. Tough call there.
--grendel drago
As it is written: "There are no good excuses for binary modules. Some of them may be technically legal (by virtue of not being derived works) and allowed, but even when they are legal they are a major pain in the ass, and always horribly buggy."
You know, there's a reason Linux doesn't work well with binary-only drivers. And that's because binary-only drivers are a bad idea for Linux.
--grendel drago
Did you notice minrt_comments.cpp in the zip file? Same file, but with actual comments. Variable names are explained. The snipped you pasted becomes...
// Read screen width and height // Read number of lights and spheres
// For each light // Read position
// For each sphere // Center // Radius // Color // Reflection // Allocate the frame buffer. Init to zero to perform antialiasing.
// For
// i-th sphere // i-th light
// Read a float from stdin
// Read a point
int main (void)
{
char b[99];
int W=GN,H=GN,i,n;
nl=GN;ns=GN;
_f x,y;
F(nl)
RP(LI)
F(ns)
{
RP(SI.c)
SI.r=GN;
RP(SI.l)
SI.f=GN;
}
char* s = new char[(n=W*H*3)];
memset(s,0,n);
Some weird macros are used:
#define F(T) for(i=0;i<T;i++)
#define FV(V,T) for(V=0;V<T;V++)
#define SI sp[i]
#define LI lt[i]
#define GN atof(gets(b))
#define RP(P) {P.x=GN;P.y=GN;P.z=GN;}
It's not really that bad.
--grendel drago
Oh, come on! This is a perfect opportunity to scam the scammers! Remember AllAdvantage or whatever, that thing that displayed a banner ad and paid you some fractional penny per minute that your mouse was moving? There were applications to jiggle your mouse while you were away, or even to hide the ad-bar.
/dev/null.
Why would this be any different? Drain $1/hr from the pockets of the spammers, but use a crack that sends all the spam either to their joespam@spamco.com address or to
Scam them, my fellows. Scam them hard. If anyone deserves it, it's the spammers.
--grendel drago
Okay, I give up. What the hell is that that your sig prints? Looks like some kind of graph or chart to me, but I can't make heads or tails of it.
John Romero, because the some guy in a comic strip kept thinking he was a girl.
Clearly an amateur. No real American would "put" a cap in someone's ass; the proper usage is to bust a cap in one's ass.
Cheers!
--grendel drago
Searching for "kolmogorov zero-one", the results lead to what's essentially an outdated Wikipedia snapshot, but with popups and fucking blinking ads. The actual Wikipedia text does not appear in the first ten results.
Buncha punks. They bury a tag at the bottom of the page mentioning that they use some Wikipedia content by the GFDL, but they're still a bunch of worthless punks...
--grendel drago
Wait. If someone were caught and shot without trial, bail or hearing... where would someone even hear about it? This falls under the list of things I'm told are conveniently kept secret, like the supposedly numerous plots handily foiled with those oh-so-necessary Patriot Act powers. You've changed the question, and are now asking me to prove something that, by definition, can't be proven. No dice.
--grendel drago
Look, I think it's a little hard to believe that someone with a yearly income three orders of magnitude greater than mine works three orders of magnitude harder, or is three orders of magnitude smarter, or more worthy, or anything.
And furthermore, even placing an equivalent proportional tax rate on the wealthy and the poor isn't really equivalent. Asking someone making $10k a year to give half is income in taxes is a little different from asking someone making $500k a year to do the same.
I made $13,000 last year in a job that paid $11,500.
So... you've been eBaying stolen office supplies, then?
--grendel drago
SDI was billed as an anti-missile system. As an anti-missile system, it failed.
Had SDI been a giant metal cock with which to bitch-slap the Russkies, and had that ended the Cold War, then yeah, I think you could say SDI worked. However, SDI was not billed as a giant metal cock.
SDI, in and of itself, did not work. It was a failed boondoggle. Scaring the Russians does not mean that SDI "worked".
--grendel drago
Oh, yeah. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were dealt with via an exchange program... WITH HELL!!
Seriously, your memory chews balls if you can't think of the US ever executing spies. They are, more often than not, imprisoned for extensive terms, not sent home in exchange for other spies.
--grendel drago
Random example off the top of my head: an American citizen is held without being charged with a crime, without trial or bail, for eight months. Wait, let me guess. It doesn't count, because he's a brown American.
I think that those ginormous tax cuts for the extraordinarily wealthy may have had some effect on the debt. Just maybe. That, and the $100bn+ adventure in Iraq.
*cough* Abstinence-only education *cough*. When they require teaching abstinence, and disallow teaching anything else, that makes it 'abstinence-only'. Get it?
If you're going to talk smack, can you at least talk the kind of smack that can't be refuted with five minutes of Googling?
--grendel drago
And by doing so, he made the pie higher.
OH my gravy runneth over. Thanks for the link, dude. And a big BITE ME for the dry cleaning bill...
--grendel drago