Nice guess. Actually it's because it's an OSHA regulation that any atmosphere with 19.5% is considered an Immediate Danger to Life or Health (IDLH). Of course, I haven't done my own studies, but if you'd like to do some testing, your above sibling posters seem like they'd have no problem volunteering. Let me know how it goes.
No, we exhale about 19% oxygen normaly. The bigger problem with rebreathing your own air is the buildup of CO2.
You're correct, but 19% O2 is still right on lower limit of breathable air for most people. Alarms typically start going off in industrial air quality monitoring systems at 19.5%.
Well, to be fair, they were very sturdy-looking buckets which, aside from the large one on top, were completely hole-free. Also the workers were seven.
I guess at least the producers of the show are smart. They're the ones who don't allow intelligent people of either political persuasion get on the show.
They have intelligent, well-reasoned guests on the show all the time. They just don't let them finish a sentence and/or they argue semant..
Let me stop you right there. The only time we stop our guests is when it becomes evident that they're self-important windbags who are completely dodging our questions. When we ask if George W., peace be upon him, is a good President or a great President, we expect an answer, not some dissertation on the environmental impact of the War on Terrorism, as if CO2 emissions matter one bit when people are doing a very poor job of trying to attack us in our father^whomeland.
Sony sued Lik-Sang, they didn't shut them down. It's also worth noting that MS and Nintendo sued them as well -- the last round from Sony was just the proverbial straw.
Anyway, a cutting edge CPU and a BR drive for $600 is a good price. Sure, you could pay $300 for a console now, and then $300 for an HD player in 2 years, but why bother? As I see it, the problem is not the price, it's that there are no compelling titles available. If you're going to sell a game machine, by God it had better have some games. It's like Sony decided to release some kick-ass oars, but there are no boats that they fit on. (Hey, at least I avoided a car analogy). When and if the games come, so too will demand increase.
Regardless, dual fuel will be the catch. Aside from convenience issues of filling up two tanks, E85 isn't even available everywhere in the US, and it's practically nonexistant outside of the US, Brazil, and Sweden. That means you can't take road trips, but more importantly it means the market is probably too small to be worth the effort.
This may come as a surprise, but subs very, very rarely use active sonar, even in peacetime, even in territorial waters. Obviously in wartime they don't want to be found, but they do that by practicing at hiding all the time. If they used active sonar, things like this and this probably wouldn't have happened. And that's just the attack subs, whose mission is to hunt and escort. Ballistic missile subs are designed to avoid detection at all costs.
In other words, the same reason that the subs wouldn't want to surface is the same reason they wouldn't want to use this system. Therefore, it's highly unlikely that this system would see any sort of widespread deployment for military purposes, even as a redundant navigation aid, and commercial applications are extremely limited. I can't even think of a single commercial submarine which operates autonomously away from coastal waters where it might get lost, or would need to remained submerged for some reason. This is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
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At least your trees had numbers on them. We had to invent counting.
Obviously.
Simple. The paper trail is optional, but the breadcrumbs are mandatory.
Either we're both missing some incredibly obscure reference, or idiot moderators think radio terms are funny.
MDI is a small, family-controlled company located at Carros, near Nice
He may be in Carros, but he's still a Nice Guy in my book.
Nice guess. Actually it's because it's an OSHA regulation that any atmosphere with 19.5% is considered an Immediate Danger to Life or Health (IDLH). Of course, I haven't done my own studies, but if you'd like to do some testing, your above sibling posters seem like they'd have no problem volunteering. Let me know how it goes.
No, we exhale about 19% oxygen normaly. The bigger problem with rebreathing your own air is the buildup of CO2.
You're correct, but 19% O2 is still right on lower limit of breathable air for most people. Alarms typically start going off in industrial air quality monitoring systems at 19.5%.
Well, to be fair, they were very sturdy-looking buckets which, aside from the large one on top, were completely hole-free. Also the workers were seven.
No, that's furjury. Not to be confused with furgery, which is an illegal copycat.
Truely that was amazing. I learned that the population of Fiji tripled over the course of the story.
I guess at least the producers of the show are smart. They're the ones who don't allow intelligent people of either political persuasion get on the show.
They have intelligent, well-reasoned guests on the show all the time. They just don't let them finish a sentence and/or they argue semant..
Let me stop you right there. The only time we stop our guests is when it becomes evident that they're self-important windbags who are completely dodging our questions. When we ask if George W., peace be upon him, is a good President or a great President, we expect an answer, not some dissertation on the environmental impact of the War on Terrorism, as if CO2 emissions matter one bit when people are doing a very poor job of trying to attack us in our father^whomeland.
Ah yes.. nothing quite like being set ablaze and doused at the same time.
So clearly we need to outlaw backseats.
If that's not evidence that you can get blood from a turnip, I don't know what is.
Nice little explanation and list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_science_fiction One author missing from the list is Michael Flynn
Call me crazy, but wouldn't it have made more sense to just add him to the list on Wikipedia than to post on Slashdot about his absence?
Figuring out what happened in a computer system months after the fact is not easy.
If only there were some sort of training program to teach people what to look for...
Sony sued Lik-Sang, they didn't shut them down. It's also worth noting that MS and Nintendo sued them as well -- the last round from Sony was just the proverbial straw.
Anyway, a cutting edge CPU and a BR drive for $600 is a good price. Sure, you could pay $300 for a console now, and then $300 for an HD player in 2 years, but why bother? As I see it, the problem is not the price, it's that there are no compelling titles available. If you're going to sell a game machine, by God it had better have some games. It's like Sony decided to release some kick-ass oars, but there are no boats that they fit on. (Hey, at least I avoided a car analogy). When and if the games come, so too will demand increase.
Regardless, dual fuel will be the catch. Aside from convenience issues of filling up two tanks, E85 isn't even available everywhere in the US, and it's practically nonexistant outside of the US, Brazil, and Sweden. That means you can't take road trips, but more importantly it means the market is probably too small to be worth the effort.
Now all we need is a Linux poll to find out what they think of Dell users.
We have to find a way to sequester this CO2.
Let's burn it!
This may come as a surprise, but subs very, very rarely use active sonar, even in peacetime, even in territorial waters. Obviously in wartime they don't want to be found, but they do that by practicing at hiding all the time. If they used active sonar, things like this and this probably wouldn't have happened. And that's just the attack subs, whose mission is to hunt and escort. Ballistic missile subs are designed to avoid detection at all costs.
In other words, the same reason that the subs wouldn't want to surface is the same reason they wouldn't want to use this system. Therefore, it's highly unlikely that this system would see any sort of widespread deployment for military purposes, even as a redundant navigation aid, and commercial applications are extremely limited. I can't even think of a single commercial submarine which operates autonomously away from coastal waters where it might get lost, or would need to remained submerged for some reason. This is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
In a show of quid-pro-quo, Pluto has announced that it will pass a law to declare New Mexico as an official part of Mexico.
I, fur oone-a, velcume-a oooor Nurdeec Cooleenery ooferlurds. Um gesh dee bork, bork!
that being said, how smart do you have to be to understand /. ??
At least 1 IQ point higher than you, apparently.