It reminds me of when a few hippy-types near my house found a school bus, tooled around with the engine and started driving it using deep-fryer fat from local fast food joints. The irony about it all is that (a) I doubt this fuel burns as nicely as gasoline and (b) it almost certainly produces less energy per unit than gasoline, meaning they have to burn more fuel and produce more carbon dioxide (and various partial combustion products) than you get out of gasoline. And they had signs all over the bus saying that they were saving the environment by not burning gas, apparently assuming that burning the second-hand fryer fat produces nothing but water and love, man.
BTW, have you read about Ballard's buses? Last I saw they were in Chicago and Vancouver (I think), but they may have gone further.
I read in a book about the number zero that I mentioned here before that the real cause was someone accidentally left a zero in a line of code, rather than a person pressing zero and crashing the entire network. Perhaps someone tried to execute a command that led to this faulty code being used by the ship's computers? Maybe this was proven to be false later, I dunno. Kind of funny though...
"Well yes, its not like anyone of us have ever ran into a security breach or gotten a spyware installed because of IE. I suppose im just a lamer and a noob since i have had that problem at work even if i am 15 years + in PC computing. Everyone is stupid and Microsoft holds the grail of superior technology, security and moral."
"Why not get rid of those security disasters once and for all instead? It sure seems stupid to have something thats so bad security wise in a browser."
Funny. I don't get security disasters, but I have only seriously (ie more than games + word processing) been using computers for about 5 years now. Never had a virus and I maintain my defences against ads by using my head.
Not only are you mindlessly wandering on the internet, but you are doing it at work. What are you doing going to websites and installing software that causes these aforementioned disasters on a workplace computer, let alone your own? It sure seems stupid to me to blame others for your carelessness. That's like a man blaming a woman for getting pregnant when he didn't wear a condom, or blaming that tree for sitting too close to the side of the road when you drove into it.
IE, Mozilla, Netscape, it doesn't matter. THe miscreants of the internet pick out people like you and leave you crying for mommy, blaming everyone but yourself. In today's society adults take responsability for their own actions. You should consider doing the same.
I guess it all depends on how much you need and how long you will use it. For powering a house you might not need a large amount of material, and it is a one-shot deal (unless it breaks, of course). After the cost of installation, all that matters is how much energy you can get out of it in a set amount of time.
If it is more efficient then you need less material, so the costs are a little bit less again. But someone smarter than me should do the math. I wouldn't be surprised if you would have to run the panels for 84 years before the gap was bridged, but maybe not:-)
There is a not-so-subtle difference between small vibrations and an earthquake.
I wonder when or if the benefits of these vibrations peter out. You don't feel your clothes all day long because your neurons adapt to that threshold of stimulation. Even when you walk, you are only dimly aware of them being there. Does the same thing happen with long-term use of these vibrations, I wonder? Also, what about those studies that suggest that repeated exposure to low-frequencies can promote feelings of stiffness and general malaise (assuming that has not been debunked...I remember it from a few years ago...)
Because you need someone to administrate it, or else you get people with legitimate-looking credentials and applications turning around and putting up porn sites and disseminating racist material, simply because someone would find it funny to have a KKK site inadvertently sponsored by the Catholic church (although I would find that funny myself if I read about it in the news!). It sounds nice but it is a system that would be abused within days by the same sort of people who make prank calls to Emergency during a firefighter strike (I'm in London; it's happening right now)
But to get a useful amount of energy to the earth you probably want to have a short wavelength rather than a really long one, so they will be absorbed by the birds or planes or whatever gets in the way. If the wavelength is long then you can make the beam as intense as you want, but you won't get any energy out of it. So it has to be a higher-energy short wavelength frequency, of sufficient intensity to get to the earth. Once it gets to the panels then intensity is no longer an issue (unless I am getting Einstein completely wrong here), but it has to be strong enough to deal with interference from the atmosphere as well as changing weather patterns. I suspect water will soak up a lot of the energy too.
Hydrophillic materials do not necesarily absorb water, they just interact with it. In fact, you could trap water (and thus to the casual observer absorb it) by using hydrophobic materials. But everything else is very well stated! (much better than I ever could)
I am suggesting that there are more productive ways to use the hardware rather than destroy it.
And as for the "you're basically (sic) you have the right to judge what is art and what is not", that qualifies as a knee-jerk "it's art, you wouldn't understand" comment of your own, friend. If I am not allowed to judge what is not art, then is everything art? Or is nothing art? There has to be a dividing line somewhere, or it is 100% one or the other, and since I don't think that there is an International Art-Judging Association anywhere, then there is no one to judge it but myself. Or yourself. Art, it seems, is in the eye of the beholder too.
That's not the same thing at all. There are economic benefits to spending money, such as those pointed out by the other posters (salary, economy, etc...). I'm not trying to be a tree-hugger, but what this person is doing has no benefits, unless you want to subscribe to that cop-out response of "It's art". Hell, send the computer to me if you're fed up with it.
I forgot to mention that I am unsure of how the systems run today. I know that back in the Challenger days it was something like this, and I am hoping (only for the integrity of the previous post, of course) that it is still like this today.
Because the main reason is COST, not politics. The shuttle does not perform as expected, and never will, but the cost of designing and testing a new computer system to make sure it has ZERO bugs is prohibitive enough; the cost of throwing out an old design that mostly works (with a lot of help) to build a new shuttle is simply out of the question. Just because technology SAYS something should work doesn't mean it will; that argument was probably used when they switched from the Saturn 5 rocket technology to today's shuttles.
On the other hand, the computer system has so little memory that it employs a series of data tapes which much be switched in mid-flight to carry out it's maneuvers. If for some reason the tapes cannot be switched and the backup is faulty, they have serious problems both in landing the shuttle (via a backup, landing-specific computer) and then in replacing the broken computer (which takes us back to the original post).
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Who cares whether it is Windows or Linux. They are ruining equipment that some school or non-profit organization could really benfit from, and why? Just so a handful of \.ers could make crappy jokes and so this person could become "famous" for a couple of seconds.
You left out OJ. The economy went in the crapper because a good 1/3 of the country couldn't turn off CNN. I hear he burns CD's, sells multi-region DVD players, and supports communism.
There are benefits to owning a properly-mastered CD. No matter what people say, CD-R's aren't as durable. Plus, I really enjoy buying the case for the artwork and music info. A 48 CD case full of black-Sharpie-on-white-Verbatim CD's gets on my nerves after a while.
Finally, I too have bought CD's from artists I would not have before. But I have also NOT purchased albums from artists because they sucked much harder than I thought they would. And I have 20 or 30 friends in the same boat.
2/3 of 26 is no harder nor easier to get than 2/3 of 100, or 2/3 of 1000. For matters as serious as war, 2/3 is a very slim margin of majority. It SHOULD be that war is not used except in urgent matters, but a 66% vote defeats that. It is not too difficult to stretch a 50/50 draw into a 66/34 "majority".
Atomic radius is much smaller, though it all depends on the atom and whether or not it is carrying a charge. Bond lengths are on the order of a couple of Angstroms (1 Angstrom = 0.1nm); ie. C-H bonds are usually 1.6A, or 0.16nm. So we have quite a ways to go before we approach the size of atoms.
One great advantage of NCIX is that have a customer rating scale and a message board for every piece of hardware they sell, thus giving you some useful information about what works and what doesn't and how highly or poorly they rate the equipment. Very useful if you are trying to save a couple of dollars by going to a lesser known manufacturer.
They also give links to manufacturer websites and give good shipping choices and info. Very important for someone who lives on the Atlantic side of Canada.
Technology is trying to use smaller and smaller materials, and we are only now approaching manipulation on a molecular scale. How, then, can you define nanotechnology as the bottom-up design of molecules by manipulating individual atoms?
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It reminds me of when a few hippy-types near my house found a school bus, tooled around with the engine and started driving it using deep-fryer fat from local fast food joints. The irony about it all is that (a) I doubt this fuel burns as nicely as gasoline and (b) it almost certainly produces less energy per unit than gasoline, meaning they have to burn more fuel and produce more carbon dioxide (and various partial combustion products) than you get out of gasoline. And they had signs all over the bus saying that they were saving the environment by not burning gas, apparently assuming that burning the second-hand fryer fat produces nothing but water and love, man.
BTW, have you read about Ballard's buses? Last I saw they were in Chicago and Vancouver (I think), but they may have gone further.
I read in a book about the number zero that I mentioned here before that the real cause was someone accidentally left a zero in a line of code, rather than a person pressing zero and crashing the entire network. Perhaps someone tried to execute a command that led to this faulty code being used by the ship's computers?
Maybe this was proven to be false later, I dunno.
Kind of funny though...
"Well yes, its not like anyone of us have ever ran into a security breach or gotten a spyware installed because of IE. I suppose im just a lamer and a noob since i have had that problem at work even if i am 15 years + in PC computing. Everyone is stupid and Microsoft holds the grail of superior technology, security and moral."
"Why not get rid of those security disasters once and for all instead? It sure seems stupid to have something thats so bad security wise in a browser."
Funny. I don't get security disasters, but I have only seriously (ie more than games + word processing) been using computers for about 5 years now. Never had a virus and I maintain my defences against ads by using my head.
Not only are you mindlessly wandering on the internet, but you are doing it at work. What are you doing going to websites and installing software that causes these aforementioned disasters on a workplace computer, let alone your own? It sure seems stupid to me to blame others for your carelessness. That's like a man blaming a woman for getting pregnant when he didn't wear a condom, or blaming that tree for sitting too close to the side of the road when you drove into it.
IE, Mozilla, Netscape, it doesn't matter. THe miscreants of the internet pick out people like you and leave you crying for mommy, blaming everyone but yourself. In today's society adults take responsability for their own actions. You should consider doing the same.
I guess it all depends on how much you need and how long you will use it. For powering a house you might not need a large amount of material, and it is a one-shot deal (unless it breaks, of course). After the cost of installation, all that matters is how much energy you can get out of it in a set amount of time.
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If it is more efficient then you need less material, so the costs are a little bit less again. But someone smarter than me should do the math. I wouldn't be surprised if you would have to run the panels for 84 years before the gap was bridged, but maybe not
There is a not-so-subtle difference between small vibrations and an earthquake.
I wonder when or if the benefits of these vibrations peter out. You don't feel your clothes all day long because your neurons adapt to that threshold of stimulation. Even when you walk, you are only dimly aware of them being there. Does the same thing happen with long-term use of these vibrations, I wonder? Also, what about those studies that suggest that repeated exposure to low-frequencies can promote feelings of stiffness and general malaise (assuming that has not been debunked...I remember it from a few years ago...)
Because you need someone to administrate it, or else you get people with legitimate-looking credentials and applications turning around and putting up porn sites and disseminating racist material, simply because someone would find it funny to have a KKK site inadvertently sponsored by the Catholic church (although I would find that funny myself if I read about it in the news!). It sounds nice but it is a system that would be abused within days by the same sort of people who make prank calls to Emergency during a firefighter strike (I'm in London; it's happening right now)
But to get a useful amount of energy to the earth you probably want to have a short wavelength rather than a really long one, so they will be absorbed by the birds or planes or whatever gets in the way. If the wavelength is long then you can make the beam as intense as you want, but you won't get any energy out of it. So it has to be a higher-energy short wavelength frequency, of sufficient intensity to get to the earth. Once it gets to the panels then intensity is no longer an issue (unless I am getting Einstein completely wrong here), but it has to be strong enough to deal with interference from the atmosphere as well as changing weather patterns. I suspect water will soak up a lot of the energy too.
Hydrophillic materials do not necesarily absorb water, they just interact with it. In fact, you could trap water (and thus to the casual observer absorb it) by using hydrophobic materials. But everything else is very well stated! (much better than I ever could)
Well, now I know what it means. Thank you.
I am suggesting that there are more productive ways to use the hardware rather than destroy it.
And as for the "you're basically (sic) you have the right to judge what is art and what is not", that qualifies as a knee-jerk "it's art, you wouldn't understand" comment of your own, friend. If I am not allowed to judge what is not art, then is everything art? Or is nothing art? There has to be a dividing line somewhere, or it is 100% one or the other, and since I don't think that there is an International Art-Judging Association anywhere, then there is no one to judge it but myself. Or yourself. Art, it seems, is in the eye of the beholder too.
That's not the same thing at all. There are economic benefits to spending money, such as those pointed out by the other posters (salary, economy, etc...). I'm not trying to be a tree-hugger, but what this person is doing has no benefits, unless you want to subscribe to that cop-out response of "It's art". Hell, send the computer to me if you're fed up with it.
I forgot to mention that I am unsure of how the systems run today. I know that back in the Challenger days it was something like this, and I am hoping (only for the integrity of the previous post, of course) that it is still like this today.
Because the main reason is COST, not politics. The shuttle does not perform as expected, and never will, but the cost of designing and testing a new computer system to make sure it has ZERO bugs is prohibitive enough; the cost of throwing out an old design that mostly works (with a lot of help) to build a new shuttle is simply out of the question. Just because technology SAYS something should work doesn't mean it will; that argument was probably used when they switched from the Saturn 5 rocket technology to today's shuttles.
On the other hand, the computer system has so little memory that it employs a series of data tapes which much be switched in mid-flight to carry out it's maneuvers. If for some reason the tapes cannot be switched and the backup is faulty, they have serious problems both in landing the shuttle (via a backup, landing-specific computer) and then in replacing the broken computer (which takes us back to the original post).
Who cares whether it is Windows or Linux. They are ruining equipment that some school or non-profit organization could really benfit from, and why? Just so a handful of \.ers could make crappy jokes and so this person could become "famous" for a couple of seconds.
How the hell did he get modded up for this comment?
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I would love to find out what sort of person has Aphex Twin running through their heads. Maybe Martha Stewart?
You left out OJ. The economy went in the crapper because a good 1/3 of the country couldn't turn off CNN. I hear he burns CD's, sells
multi-region DVD players, and supports communism.
There are benefits to owning a properly-mastered CD. No matter what people say, CD-R's aren't as durable. Plus, I really enjoy buying the case for the artwork and music info. A 48 CD case full of black-Sharpie-on-white-Verbatim CD's gets on my nerves after a while.
Finally, I too have bought CD's from artists I would not have before. But I have also NOT purchased albums from artists because they sucked much harder than I thought they would. And I have 20 or 30 friends in the same boat.
On a geological time scale, 20 years is faster than a blink of an eye. It is as quick as can be, and the Earth won't even notice it.
2/3 of 26 is no harder nor easier to get than 2/3 of 100, or 2/3 of 1000. For matters as serious as war, 2/3 is a very slim margin of majority. It SHOULD be that war is not used except in urgent matters, but a 66% vote defeats that. It is not too difficult to stretch a 50/50 draw into a 66/34 "majority".
Well, they weren't going to write micron/Micron but the company 100nm sued them.
Atomic radius is much smaller, though it all depends on the atom and whether or not it is carrying a charge. Bond lengths are on the order of a couple of Angstroms (1 Angstrom = 0.1nm); ie. C-H bonds are usually 1.6A, or 0.16nm. So we have quite a ways to go before we approach the size of atoms.
One great advantage of NCIX is that have a customer rating scale and a message board for every piece of hardware they sell, thus giving you some useful information about what works and what doesn't and how highly or poorly they rate the equipment. Very useful if you are trying to save a couple of dollars by going to a lesser known manufacturer.
They also give links to manufacturer websites and give good shipping choices and info. Very important for someone who lives on the Atlantic side of Canada.
P.S. My computer's name is Jebus
Technology is trying to use smaller and smaller materials, and we are only now approaching manipulation on a molecular scale. How, then, can you define nanotechnology as the bottom-up design of molecules by manipulating individual atoms?
Be careful to check where that bottle of hair dye was manufactured! Otherwise you may hear little voices coming from your head: "I claim this follicle in the name of Allah"