Certainly, candles are nice in a number of situations -- when electricity is unavailable, when tradition is important (weddings, churches, whatever), when elctricity isn't appropriate ("OK Junior! Blow out those light bulbs on your birthday cake!" just won't work!), or for a certain sort of ambience -- even excepting the romantic candle-lit dinners the vast majority of us slashdotters will never enjoy more than once with the same person, some time in candle light is a salve for the soul when you sleep days and work nights under those harsh fluorescents in front of the CRT in the cold, windy, lab...
But the fact is that anyone can use a candle, a ham requires at least some expertise. And we don't do anything to discourage teens from lighting candles (except maybe searching their backpacks for drugs when they go to the Laser Floyd show at the planetarium) like we do to keep Hams from even trying it out.
If we want the Hams there for us Next Time, we need to make sure we've got Hams Next Time.
First, I'd like to give a shout out to Stephen R Donoldson for his vision of using diaomand-based computer chips. I would give a small fortune for the silicon-on-diamond write-once memory he described in The Gap Cycle...
But the question remains, what manufacturing infrastructure and process changes will we need to see before the Intel Diamondiun (ad naseum) goes to market?
Sir, ma'am, or other, I feel that you may have missed the point. Yes, of course, that carbon was once pulled out of the atmosphere, way back in the long-long ago. And it has been safely buried away for quite a long time. Long enough that a new atmospheric balance, favorable to the conditions we now enjoy, was struck .
Generating a biomass fuel removes carbon from the atmosphere. Burning it releases that carbon. No (or little) net change.
Pulling oil out of the ground and burning it releases carbon which has not been participating in the carbon cycle, causing a net increase from that datum.
What about those people who though it'd be a great idea to save money not having to hire a babysitter and leaving their toddler at home? Man, when those people start bawling at the opening credits...
I think you missed my point -- by underpromising you can always 'overperform', and look like a hero in the process. And if you're truly blocked, then you can log it in your status report what blocked you. And still manage to fulfill your other (non-blocked) work items ahead of 'schedule'
S: Star fleet captains are like children. They want everything right now and they want it their away; but the secret is to give them only what they need, not what they want.
G: Yeah, well I told the captain I'd have this analysis done in a hour.
S: How long will it really take?
G: An Hour!
S: Ah, you didn't tell him how long it would really take, did ya?
G: Well, of course I did.
S: Ah laddie, you're got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker.
-Montgomery Scott to Geordi LaForge
"Relics," Star Trek: The Next Generation Stardate 46125.3
You must learn, grasshopper, that you must _always_ underpromise, and overperform.
Promise a late delivery date, and verily, the manager shall not bug you whilst you are trying to work. Thus you deliver far sooner than if you give an accurate delivery date.
By following this strategy you will become known as a self-motivated, self-starter who consistently delivers ahead of schedule.
Additionally, your manager will never find himself with his nuts in the fire because of you, and will thus give you more 'manager support' when you need it. (read: performance review).
Good luck! I'm pulling for you. We're all in this together.
...I thought the question and the answer couldn't exist in the same universe... Or maybe that understanding came from an alternate me in an alternate universe where "what do you get if you multiply six by nine" is forty-two.
More on-topic though, I am utterly boggled by the amount of data they're looking at holding. I can see a stack of CDs and know they're a terrabyte worth of data -- but I barely grok what a terrabyte can really hold -- maybe I don't and just think I do.
But a petabyte. Wow. 1.5 million CDs. That's just... Just... *shrug*
This is already done -- in a sense. The larger belt-feed weapons overheat from firing for too long. The solution: use two of them -- first one fires for a bit, and then the other. I believe the military calls this "talking gun".
But if ozone is so reactive that it'll break up as soon as it finds something to bump against then why is the EPA reporting smog clouds with a "primary component" of ozone?
From: http://www.epa.gov/airmarkets/regozone/Smog is the brownish haze that pollutes our air...[and can] make it difficult for some people to breathe...
The primary component of smog is ozone...
Smog is primarily, "ground-level ozone". How many PPM are needed for this pesticide solution? How many PPM constitutes a smog concentration? How will it "rapidly dissipate" as per the original article? Especially in a valley dedicated to farming?
But the process won't add to the ground-level ozone that is a component of smog, they said.Maier said Purdue's ozone insecticide process uses such low concentrations of ozone that it rapidly dissipates. It would not add to ground-level ozone, which is a component of smog, he said.
Can anyone clarify this reasoning? It seems to me that if a lot of farmers were using this that the 'low concentrations' at each location would add up. Yes, I know, that's only a thought experiment, but...
Thank you -- good information, especially if I ever find myself in command of a vessel with warp capability. Alas, for my misbehaviour as acting helmsman of the ISS Fubarschnu I'm reading this from the brig on Pen-10 in the Yeahwhatever system, but I'm elligible for conjugal visits with my four metawives (and by an interesting quirk of the Pen-10 legal system any of my semicousins) in 2-4 months.
The original comment was irony. If there was a secret decoder URL for BSG units, would the original poster have been happy? The world may never care.
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It's a big feature -- the biggest (well, tallest) in fact, and I'd love to see it in all its glory. A photo will do until I'm standing there myself.
Perhaps, sir, you should reflect a moment longer?
Certainly, candles are nice in a number of situations -- when electricity is unavailable, when tradition is important (weddings, churches, whatever), when elctricity isn't appropriate ("OK Junior! Blow out those light bulbs on your birthday cake!" just won't work!), or for a certain sort of ambience -- even excepting the romantic candle-lit dinners the vast majority of us slashdotters will never enjoy more than once with the same person, some time in candle light is a salve for the soul when you sleep days and work nights under those harsh fluorescents in front of the CRT in the cold, windy, lab...
But the fact is that anyone can use a candle, a ham requires at least some expertise. And we don't do anything to discourage teens from lighting candles (except maybe searching their backpacks for drugs when they go to the Laser Floyd show at the planetarium) like we do to keep Hams from even trying it out.
If we want the Hams there for us Next Time, we need to make sure we've got Hams Next Time.
No, but I've got karma to burn so this might
Wind? Well, it sure whips along, from all I understand, but the atmosphere is not nearly as dense as what we've got here, so lacks the *push* ...
As to why? Well, there's certainly some good quote about reach and grasp, but it escapes me. ;)
First, I'd like to give a shout out to Stephen R Donoldson for his vision of using diaomand-based computer chips. I would give a small fortune for the silicon-on-diamond write-once memory he described in The Gap Cycle...
But the question remains, what manufacturing infrastructure and process changes will we need to see before the Intel Diamondiun (ad naseum) goes to market?
Do I have to?
Generating a biomass fuel removes carbon from the atmosphere. Burning it releases that carbon. No (or little) net change.
Pulling oil out of the ground and burning it releases carbon which has not been participating in the carbon cycle, causing a net increase from that datum.
Which is it?
What about those people who though it'd be a great idea to save money not having to hire a babysitter and leaving their toddler at home? Man, when those people start bawling at the opening credits...
...is that Paul Allen, himself, is an alien. Check out the picture in the top-right hand of the corner of the article, then tell me I'm wrong.
S: Star fleet captains are like children. They want everything right now and they want it their away; but the secret is to give them only what they need, not what they want.
G: Yeah, well I told the captain I'd have this analysis done in a hour.
S: How long will it really take?
G: An Hour!
S: Ah, you didn't tell him how long it would really take, did ya?
G: Well, of course I did.
S: Ah laddie, you're got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker.
-Montgomery Scott to Geordi LaForge "Relics," Star Trek: The Next Generation Stardate 46125.3
Promise a late delivery date, and verily, the manager shall not bug you whilst you are trying to work. Thus you deliver far sooner than if you give an accurate delivery date.
By following this strategy you will become known as a self-motivated, self-starter who consistently delivers ahead of schedule.
Additionally, your manager will never find himself with his nuts in the fire because of you, and will thus give you more 'manager support' when you need it. (read: performance review).
Good luck! I'm pulling for you. We're all in this together.
More on-topic though, I am utterly boggled by the amount of data they're looking at holding. I can see a stack of CDs and know they're a terrabyte worth of data -- but I barely grok what a terrabyte can really hold -- maybe I don't and just think I do.
But a petabyte. Wow. 1.5 million CDs. That's just... Just... *shrug*
city's steam pipes that are ready to be filled with conduit then fiber optics," said Greco. Is this a hot technology?
...onna disc, they're lovely! EULA's, c'mon, getchore EULA's!
This is already done -- in a sense. The larger belt-feed weapons overheat from firing for too long. The solution: use two of them -- first one fires for a bit, and then the other. I believe the military calls this "talking gun".
...one does one's best?
But if ozone is so reactive that it'll break up as soon as it finds something to bump against then why is the EPA reporting smog clouds with a "primary component" of ozone?
No sarcasm. Genuine ignorance and curiosity.
Smog is primarily, "ground-level ozone". How many PPM are needed for this pesticide solution? How many PPM constitutes a smog concentration? How will it "rapidly dissipate" as per the original article? Especially in a valley dedicated to farming?
But the process won't add to the ground-level ozone that is a component of smog, they said. Maier said Purdue's ozone insecticide process uses such low concentrations of ozone that it rapidly dissipates. It would not add to ground-level ozone, which is a component of smog, he said. Can anyone clarify this reasoning? It seems to me that if a lot of farmers were using this that the 'low concentrations' at each location would add up. Yes, I know, that's only a thought experiment, but...
The technology meltdown evaporated the magazine's advertising revenue I toldya she kinnit handlit, kiptin!
The original comment was irony. If there was a secret decoder URL for BSG units, would the original poster have been happy? The world may never care.
Nope. Clone. Wonder what the Raelians are up to with all of this cloning yet?
How fast is a 'warp' in Star Trek again?
Back on topic though, I'd be happy to watch a well done remake of BSG, so I have my hopes.
"We are studying how snow crystals form, and as part of this research we create snow crystals in the laboratory." Ice-9! Ice-9!