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Now, a long fiber of only metallic nanotubes would still have conductivity better than copper at much less the weight, and would therefore be very important industrially if it could be made economically.
I don't like the way you imply that we use copper for transmission lines.
# cd/usr/src/linux # make menuconfig Then locate Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)
This option allows certain base kernel options and settings to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
Energy usage is a personal thing too you know. You can bitch about the US dragging it's collective feet but my feet are moving now. My electrical consumption in 2001 was 13 MEGA Watt/hours. By 2004 I was down to 2/3rds of that (8.7 MW/h) and is still falling. Every year my energy footprint shrinks as I replace old 80's clunker appliances with new Energy Star ones.
How much brains does it take to spend at little more on an appliance when you can see that it will save you over the long haul? The funny thing is the price of that 13 MW/h was $887.00 while the 8.7 MW/h was $815.53. That's not 1/3rd less.
Quick Wash cycle will clean better than an old-style agitator and do it in only 35 minutes while using only 5.7 gallons of water and 0.3 (2) kWh of electricity
China's going to be changing the way it pegs the RMB soon.
So far the only step China has taken to cool down growth is raising certain interest caps a bit.
If they were to just revalue their currency who knows what would happen.
For China, revaluation now poses an unacceptable risk. No one knows for sure how much any currency is over- or under-valued. Estimates of the yuan's under-valuation range from 10 per cent to 40 per cent.
China fears that, if it simply re-pegs its currency, it will not convince financial markets that the new value is the equilibrium one.
This might then invite more speculation as to further movements of the currency, destabilising it and discouraging capital account liberalisation.
Worse, as the equilibrium value of the US dollar is also not known, it might continue to fall - especially if the Chinese withdraw funds from the US bond market as their export earnings fall - causing the yuan to once again become 'under-valued' and spurring yet more pressure for a further revaluation.
3. Make overpriced stuff for years on end to build up your image and then start making cheap stuff which flies off the shelves because everyone buys into your bloated image.
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DAMN HIPPIES!
Now, a long fiber of only metallic nanotubes would still have conductivity better than copper at much less the weight, and would therefore be very important industrially if it could be made economically.
I don't like the way you imply that we use copper for transmission lines.
# cd /usr/src/linux
# make menuconfig
Then locate
Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)
This option allows certain base kernel options and settings to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
They're a for-profit company, after all.
Well let them re-invest their profits, after all.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
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Apple wrote a utility to stress test UFS and debugged the code for Darwin and the bug fixes made it into FreeBSD.
digitization of French language works will only hasten their translation to other languages
Sacre bleu!
for an MP3 player the size of a peanut M&M.
You should get out more.
only reason the old testament ended up in the "bible"...
Same reason the Gospel didn't make it into the Bible.
http://www.gospelthomas.com/
Works really great out in the desert too I bet.
Lead acid or Vanadium/bromide? I'm talking batteries. Name you poison. Do you want huge toxic batteries in you back yard?
New to Vanadium batteries? Visit http://vrbpower.com/ but remember Vanadium is a heavy metal by definition and it's toxic.
Energy usage is a personal thing too you know. You can bitch about the US dragging it's collective feet but my feet are moving now. My electrical consumption in 2001 was 13 MEGA Watt/hours. By 2004 I was down to 2/3rds of that (8.7 MW/h) and is still falling. Every year my energy footprint shrinks as I replace old 80's clunker appliances with new Energy Star ones.
How much brains does it take to spend at little more on an appliance when you can see that it will save you over the long haul? The funny thing is the price of that 13 MW/h was $887.00 while the 8.7 MW/h was $815.53. That's not 1/3rd less.
Well there is none.
My point people love to post how much energy solar produces but never speak of the fact that you can only get that energy for part of the day.
If I was there school teacher I would make them write
Solar power is intermittent.
100 times on the chalk board.
Our morning would begin with putting the laundry into the washing machine(3 kW/h)
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How quaint a 3 kW/h washing machine. ASKO makes ones that use ten times less than that now.
http://www.askousa.com/laundry/printlaundry.php?i
Quick Wash cycle will clean better than an old-style agitator and do it in only 35 minutes while using only 5.7 gallons of water and 0.3 (2) kWh of electricity
"I support our killbots in Iraq."
Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection System (SWORDS)
The implication of "Linux =/= career path" because Linux requires you to be passionate is that "career path =/= passion"
So far the only step China has taken to cool down growth is raising certain interest caps a bit.
If they were to just revalue their currency who knows what would happen.
China Daily
Not just deficit but fuel prices too.
3. Make overpriced stuff for years on end to build up your image and then start making cheap stuff which flies off the shelves because everyone buys into your bloated image.
Have you ever used PeopleSoft? Talk about a boil on an ass.
But not for FreeBSD/sparc64 anymore. It has 64-bit time_t's now.
Well, that certain forms of carbon nanotubes will prove to be room temperature superconductors.
We need a technological breakthrough that will move all the problems around again.