If your goal is to generate heat, then yes you're right. But that's not what we're talking about.
Efficiency is a measure of how much useful energy you get out of a system compared with what you expend in doing so (contrast that with efficiacy).
Going by this a bar heater is 100% efficient, since any energy lost in the cable, etc is radiated as heat, which is useful energy for the purpose of heating a room.
Now heat pumps usually consume electricity to move heat from one sink to another. Once the cycle is started, the useful energy that is transferred is much greater than the energy you're expending to drive the pump. Therefore you're getting more energy out than you're consuming.
By consuming I of course mean converting energy from one form to another. And no this does not violate principles of thermodynamics since we're not converting the heat into another form.
As far as I'm aware, there's only one thing that would "fix the problem" of people having HIV - develop an early identification test for HIV, test everyone in the world repeatedly for decades, and kill every single person who tests positive.
Either that or develop a cure or vaccine.
Or a humane and workable solution: encourage a culture that does not promote sexual promiscuity.
You're thinking of Catholocism, which has certain areas of overlap with Christianity, but in no way is representative of it.
Condoms do provide limited protection from HIV and a handful of the other dozens of STDs out there, but kind of like a hitman using lead-free bullets, they don't actually fix the problem.
The real cause is a culture that encourages massive sexual promiscuity. Myths are perpetuated across the african continent such as the belief that shagging a virgin will cure a man of HIV, of course exacerbating the problem.
Very good. You are correct, creation is not falsifiable and therefore not science. It is based on faith and backed up by evidence such as the fossil record.
Now could you show how evolution is falsifiable? I mean properly, not just the common "Oh come on!". I think you'll be surprised.
A major part of science is asking the right questions in the first place.
Questions like "How did cooperative behavior evolve?" make an assumption that cooperative behaviour evolved. Starting out with dubious assumptions often leads to research going in wrong directions.
If one really wished to understand such phenomena the question would be phrased something like: "What are the origins of cooperative behaviour?"
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So far in the comments we have seen many other examples of beer that's Free as in speech so this is far from the first.
However I have yet to encounter a single beer that is "free as in beer". Where can I find an example?
Oh well. Just like battered fish, analogies are rarely perfect I guess.
No speaker. That sucks.
Horrendous battery life.
It would crash every couple of days
That, my friend is where the SL-5600 comes in.
IMO it's everything the SL-5500 should have been, what with the inbuilt microphone, faster processor, more memory, better HWR, etc.
Zonk changed it to make it more anti-Microsoft
Which is surprising, given that Zonk is a suspected XBox (and therefore Microsoft) shill.
For a second I'd read that as "AMD to Adopt DRM2 Next Year".
Here I was preparing this elaborate rant on how DRM (and this new DRM2) is taking away our freedoms and how I'll never buy AMD again.
Oh well, go AMD!
With this new Harry Potter novel release, no one is henceforth allowed to call Revenge of the Sith over-hyped or over-rated.
*whoooosh*
If your goal is to generate heat, then yes you're right. But that's not what we're talking about.
Efficiency is a measure of how much useful energy you get out of a system compared with what you expend in doing so (contrast that with efficiacy).
Going by this a bar heater is 100% efficient, since any energy lost in the cable, etc is radiated as heat, which is useful energy for the purpose of heating a room.
Now heat pumps usually consume electricity to move heat from one sink to another. Once the cycle is started, the useful energy that is transferred is much greater than the energy you're expending to drive the pump. Therefore you're getting more energy out than you're consuming.
By consuming I of course mean converting energy from one form to another. And no this does not violate principles of thermodynamics since we're not converting the heat into another form.
install Debian on my Zaurus and be done with it?
A 400MHz xScale with 64MB flash will beat the socks off this little NSLU2, and you get direct audio in/out, USB, CF and SD storage.
I believe the RIAA has no jurisdiction here
Isn't that a bit like asking Ronald McDonald on the future of Gourmet Restaurant education?
Hey, that really is innovative.
Who's your 2IC?
Why Doesn't the Itanium Get the Respect It's Due?
It does
Hmm, the only context menu I get when right-clicking on any search input field is "undo/redo/cut/copy/paste/delete/select all".
Where might I activate this "Add a Keyword for this Search" menu?
As far as I'm aware, there's only one thing that would "fix the problem" of people having HIV - develop an early identification test for HIV, test everyone in the world repeatedly for decades, and kill every single person who tests positive.
Either that or develop a cure or vaccine.
Or a humane and workable solution: encourage a culture that does not promote sexual promiscuity.
You're thinking of Catholocism, which has certain areas of overlap with Christianity, but in no way is representative of it.
Condoms do provide limited protection from HIV and a handful of the other dozens of STDs out there, but kind of like a hitman using lead-free bullets, they don't actually fix the problem.
The real cause is a culture that encourages massive sexual promiscuity. Myths are perpetuated across the african continent such as the belief that shagging a virgin will cure a man of HIV, of course exacerbating the problem.
That, my friends, is the sin.
Very good. You are correct, creation is not falsifiable and therefore not science. It is based on faith and backed up by evidence such as the fossil record.
Now could you show how evolution is falsifiable? I mean properly, not just the common "Oh come on!". I think you'll be surprised.
~$ units ..
bash: units: command not found
~$ sudo apt-get install units
~$ units
2084 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
You have: rods
You want: hogshead
Ahhh, I love linux.
A major part of science is asking the right questions in the first place.
Questions like "How did cooperative behavior evolve?" make an assumption that cooperative behaviour evolved. Starting out with dubious assumptions often leads to research going in wrong directions.
If one really wished to understand such phenomena the question would be phrased something like:
"What are the origins of cooperative behaviour?"
U2 (the crashed plane, not the band that's selling out)
I am curious; on what basis do you claim U2 is selling out?
Don't worry. Chancellor Bush will instigate a great Jedi Purge if they start to get out of hand.
1d12 - 4 hours a day to 2d4 -3
Anyone care to translate?
Did the monkey just say flash drives were more "reliable"?
Another nail in Hotmail's coffin.
And soon enough, it was not.
Yes - kOffice doesn't require Java.
Oh you are so Bad.
I suppose you see the world in Black and White too?