Flouride rinses and toothpastes that are not meant to be swallowed are preventative measures.
Flouride in the water supply, where people do swallow it, is an entirely different matter.
Chlorine in pools are to disinfect and are not meant to be swallowed.
Chorine in the water supply, where people do swallow it, is an entirely different matter.
See what I'm getting at here? We have chlorine in our water supply. Chlorine is very, very, very toxic. Yet in safe quantities, we use it to keep our water from being contaminated. It is safe and is used the world over.
Flouride is the same way. It is a toxic chemical that is used at non-toxic levels to prevent tooth decay. It has been used the world over safely for over 30 years. In fact, it is naturally in many water supplies already, just due to the mineral content of the crust in some areas. In fact, that's how they discovered flouridation. In England, they noticed children in an area with extremely high flouridation (not safe levels) got mottled teeth but did not get tooth decay. They then found a safe flouridation level that prevented tooth decay without mottled teeth.
If flouridation was dangerous to our precious bodily fluids, we'd know about it. It's one of the most widely used, widely tested public health programs in existence.
The UK government is planning to force everyone to have it added to their water, which pretty much means I'll have to start buying gallons of non-flouridated water at inflated prices (my wife has a stomach condition and things like that are almost guaranteed to put her in hospital).
Uh, I really can't believe that. Flouride is perfectly fine in resonable quantities and prevents tooth decay. Larger quantities and you get problems like mottled teeth. Flouride is a common, common thing in the crust and is naturally found in many water supplies. Heck, the tap water I drink happens to be naturally flouridated, as it is in many areas. And obviously the animals aren't dropping over dead.
I disagree. Intel is trounced by Athlon64 in games such as Quake3 and UT2K3. (With UT, it will be trounced even more once a 64 bit patch for UT is released.) While the performance advantage of the K8 would be unquestionable if it was running 64 bit apps, it is neck and neck with Intel running 32 bit apps, which shows the strength of the X86-64 instruction set, the hypertransport, and the integrated DDR controller.
Also, while giving equal performance to the P4, did I mention the Athlon costs far less than the P4 extreme edition? I think it's pretty clear which chip is the best overall for the consumer.
Intel is all about brute force. AMD does more with less.
Core memory is way, way, way, way different than spintronics. Core memory is closer to hard drives than spintronics. Core memory works with regular old magnets that align differently to store data. Very slow.
Spintronics works by using spin-polarized currents flowing through special semiconductors that impede certain spin states. They have about as much in common with core memory as they do with refrigerator magnets.
Of course if you're going for a file server, you should be going for a fast box with gigE, booting off a CD into RAM, and 8 200GB or 300GB hard drives, giving you between 1.5 and 2.5TB of readilly available storage, should cost more then $3000 even with a top of the line processer and a gig of ram.
What would really make sense instead of buying this $400 contraption, is buying a 160 gig HDD, which will run you up a little over $100 for a good one on Pricewatch grabbing a cheap 1 gig Duron and a K7S5A mobo, a cheap vid card for a few bucks, a stick of PC133, and throw Linux or Win2k on there, and you have yourself more storage space than this network fileserver for less money.
I hate the RIAA more than ever.. I mean yea I have about 12000mp3's on my hd and only 30-40 divx's (because downloading movies takes forever.. and I can't exactly burn it on a 25 cent disc and watch it on my tv)
Yeah you can. Burn it to an SVCD and play it on your DVD player. SVCDs are a video CD format popular in Asia that encode laserdisc quality mpeg-2 onto a regular CD. You can maybe put an hour of video on each disc.
With Nero, you can encode divx to mpeg-2 and burn automatically, or you can use another encoder such as tmpgenc.
No it wouldn't. This obviously isn't perpetual motion as it is fueled by energy in the form of sound waves. It produces a net loss of energy in changing it to electrical energy. Perpetual motion machines must produce a net gain of energy
She was absolutely dead-nuts right at the time. But lately it seems the corporations, with fiduciary responsibility only to the stockholders, have turned into evil monsters, exporting jobs, discarding workers like yesterday's trash, yet somehow enriching those at the top more and more, often just for being there, to an outrageous, absurd extent.
The Industrial Revolution of the 1800's and early 1900's was what eventually brought up the income levels of Europe, the U.S., and Japan to first world levels. This economic growth was completely on the backs of the workers. Factory owners and politicians became very wealthy while the proletariat workers worked many hours a day on starvation wages. Yet this oppression was what paved the way for the rich middle class of today.
These days, even the poor in America typically have plenty to eat, and have luxuries such as cars, televisions, and even computers. The gap between the rich and poor is much wider today than it was when Ayn Rand said that quote in 1966, but due to economic growth, the poor are still perfectly well off.
so how would anyone new join in? by sharing worthless files? or do you want to keep people away and maintain a small clique of 1337 h4x0rz ?
The parent does not quite understand the eMule network. lowid is when a client is behind a firewall or proxy or something and can't accept incoming connections. eMule doesn't have a penalty for not sharing enough files. Although the client will up your maximum download rate if you raise your maximum upload rate.
perhaps stacked wafers with vertical interconnects might help... I'm not sure how you'd dissipate the heat, though.
I've heard that this may be possible, utilizing somehow little channels through the inside of the chip that would carry liquid nitrogen. I think before fab technology approaches that point, however, we may have better technologies.
Can't beat the rockies for nature-geeking type activities during summer, or skiing in winter.
Speaking of the Rockies, North Cascades National Park of Washington is a must see if you are in the area. The North Cascades have the highest mountains in the lower 48 from base to summit, as well as by far the heaviest glaciation due to exceedingly high snowfall. (Washington has 74% of the glaciation in the lower 48) Check out some pictures.
You might want to check out the Boeing plant in Everett, the Experience Music Project by the Space Needle in seattle, the Olympics, and Mt. Rainier of course. You may want to visit Steens Mountain in Oregon for some good desert mountain scenery.
It's not meant to be a tool to "give you what you want", as that would require a psychic.
Absolutely correct. I do volunteer work at a computer lab, and I am amazed at the number of people that type in some vague query and expect razor sharp, relevant results. Anyway, though Google isn't perfect, this article does kind of exaggerate its flaws.
Googlehole No. 2: Skewed Synonyms. Search for "apple" on Google, and you have to troll through a couple pages of results before you get anything not directly related to Apple Computer--and it's a page promoting a public TV show called Newton's Apple.
Obviously you would come up with stuff about Apple Computer if you typed in "apple." The vast, vast majority of people with the query "apple" would be searching for Apple Computers as opposed to Granny Smiths. Again, if the search engine is used correctly, you can find relevant results just fine. Try "apple fruit -macintosh -mac"
I'm fairly certain if you asked your radiostation to play local bands they would. The whole reason why radiostations are in business is because people listen to the BS they put out. So if people don't complain why change it?
Actually, no they wouldn't. In my area, all of our music stations except for one country station are owned by Clearchannel. They have music that is streamed by fucking sattelite to each radiostation. No requests.
Am I the only person who's a little worried about beaming lots of power to devices?
Yeah, the power needed to power a large ionocraft would be gigantic. You would not want to point it the wrong way, obviously. RF radiation is very dangerous because it cooks an object that contains water (like people or leftover stirfry) evenly througout. Thus, if you got hit by a few thousand watts of microwaves, your internal organs would be cooked if you stayed in the path of the beam long enough.
Given the dangerous levels of electricity the use seems limited. Also I wonder how well these could be kept over the generators? Wouldn't they fly right off their power source? How effecient is it to 'beam' power to fly a load compared to just putting the power source in the flyer itself and flying in a traditional way?
They aren't "kept over the generators." It's just a simple, regular old wire connected to the power source. Beaming power with microwaves could work for larger craft, but it would be innefficient. Putting the power source on the flyer itself would make it too heavy. These things have lift measured in grams. It takes shitloads of power to lift some foil and a few pieces of balsa wood.
These ion lifters are really fun (albeit dangerous) science experiments. But they are no more antigravity than the Sharper Image "Ionic Breeze." They certainly won't be replacing helicopters or planes.
I thought the idea behind an eMachine was that they were marketed to be cheaper then the others?
Yeah, that's at least what I thought. When I first saw the machine, its performance was terrible, but I thought, "Hey, at least she got a good deal on it." Then I was told the price.
There's acctually a big differene in Lexmark printers out there. Don't ever buy one from their home line of printers. I had one and it was broke after my first year of college. Their business class printers however are pretty decent. A friend of mine interned with them working on the business class drivers and claimed they were really good printers, but the home models sucked.
Arg. Lexmark printers are horrible. I had a Z42. After only a year, it started printing colors horribly. Colors started to come out all wrong.In addition, it kept leaving about an inch wide blank spot on 5x7 pictures. Unacceptable for such a relatively new (and expensive) printer.
It was also an important part of the diet of the european middle-ages peasant. Peasants would stockpile barley and wheat for the winter, but towards the end of the winter, the grains would start to go bad. The solution to this is beer, which could be made from slightly bad grains and still convey the nutritional value of the food. Beer is nothing if not a good energy source, rich in sugars and other more complex carbohydrates.
Beer was teh sukc back then. It had a very low alcoholic content. In addition, its consistency wasn't the nice amber with the bit of foamy head on top that we are used to today. It was almost soup-like.
Uh, first of all, the reactor would only contain uranium at launch. Uranium, with a half life of over a billion years, is barely radioactive at all. The main danger from uranium is actually not radiation, but heavy metal poisoning. Secondly, the fuel is contained in cans that are easily capable of withstanding rocket failures. Thirdly, there have been dozens of craft safely launched with radioisotope thermal generators for power. These typically use plutonium as a heat source. They have failed before, with the plutonium cans remaining intact.
The rocket in the article you linked to only would hit people with 5.7 millirad. That really isn't much anyway.
Sadly, I'll have to agree with you. This will get much more bad PR than NASA's RTGs like they put in spacecraft such as Cassini. This is because NEP uses SCARY NUCLEAR REACTORS OF DEATH!!!
Of course, a nuclear reactor is much safer than even RTGs because at launch, the reactor would only have virtually benign uranium. While of course, the RTGs are fuelled with plutonium. (RTGs are very safe, mind you. They can withstand a rocket failure intact without a problem.)
Contrast those catastrophic failures with events on human-occupied craft. Fires [space.com] and collisions on Mir, and of course Apollo 13 [usra.edu] for those who get their science from the local multiplex -- yet the craft kept flying, due to human involvement and ingenuity. The conclusion is clear: the more complex the system, the more likely you need a non-silicon-based intelligence to keep it from self-destructing.
With Apollo 13, keep in mind that it completely failed all of its scientific objectives. If it were robotic, they would have just written it off. The only reason why they tried to bring it back at all was because it had non-silicon based intelligence on it.
Unmanned probes are much, much cheaper than manned missions. It's hard to send humans into interplanetary space. Buck for buck, you can do more science with unmanned probes.
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Flouride rinses and toothpastes that are not meant to be swallowed are preventative measures.
Flouride in the water supply, where people do swallow it, is an entirely different matter.
Chlorine in pools are to disinfect and are not meant to be swallowed.
Chorine in the water supply, where people do swallow it, is an entirely different matter.
See what I'm getting at here? We have chlorine in our water supply. Chlorine is very, very, very toxic. Yet in safe quantities, we use it to keep our water from being contaminated. It is safe and is used the world over.
Flouride is the same way. It is a toxic chemical that is used at non-toxic levels to prevent tooth decay. It has been used the world over safely for over 30 years. In fact, it is naturally in many water supplies already, just due to the mineral content of the crust in some areas. In fact, that's how they discovered flouridation. In England, they noticed children in an area with extremely high flouridation (not safe levels) got mottled teeth but did not get tooth decay. They then found a safe flouridation level that prevented tooth decay without mottled teeth.
If flouridation was dangerous to our precious bodily fluids, we'd know about it. It's one of the most widely used, widely tested public health programs in existence.
The UK government is planning to force everyone to have it added to their water, which pretty much means I'll have to start buying gallons of non-flouridated water at inflated prices (my wife has a stomach condition and things like that are almost guaranteed to put her in hospital).
Uh, I really can't believe that. Flouride is perfectly fine in resonable quantities and prevents tooth decay. Larger quantities and you get problems like mottled teeth. Flouride is a common, common thing in the crust and is naturally found in many water supplies. Heck, the tap water I drink happens to be naturally flouridated, as it is in many areas. And obviously the animals aren't dropping over dead.
Excuse me, but what are you talking about? Perhaps you're just exaggerating? But most mp3 files are no bigger than 5MB. How does that not fit in 64MB?
Uh, for more than a album's worth it wouldn't cut it at all. Remember the OS and other programs need a cut of that ram as well.
I disagree. Intel is trounced by Athlon64 in games such as Quake3 and UT2K3. (With UT, it will be trounced even more once a 64 bit patch for UT is released.) While the performance advantage of the K8 would be unquestionable if it was running 64 bit apps, it is neck and neck with Intel running 32 bit apps, which shows the strength of the X86-64 instruction set, the hypertransport, and the integrated DDR controller.
Also, while giving equal performance to the P4, did I mention the Athlon costs far less than the P4 extreme edition? I think it's pretty clear which chip is the best overall for the consumer.
Intel is all about brute force. AMD does more with less.
Core memory is way, way, way, way different than spintronics. Core memory is closer to hard drives than spintronics. Core memory works with regular old magnets that align differently to store data. Very slow.
Spintronics works by using spin-polarized currents flowing through special semiconductors that impede certain spin states. They have about as much in common with core memory as they do with refrigerator magnets.
If you want to use a PDA for any amount of MP3s, the 64 of RAM won't cut it. You'd need something like a IBM microdrive for that kind of storage.
Of course if you're going for a file server, you should be going for a fast box with gigE, booting off a CD into RAM, and 8 200GB or 300GB hard drives, giving you between 1.5 and 2.5TB of readilly available storage, should cost more then $3000 even with a top of the line processer and a gig of ram.
What would really make sense instead of buying this $400 contraption, is buying a 160 gig HDD, which will run you up a little over $100 for a good one on Pricewatch grabbing a cheap 1 gig Duron and a K7S5A mobo, a cheap vid card for a few bucks, a stick of PC133, and throw Linux or Win2k on there, and you have yourself more storage space than this network fileserver for less money.
I hate the RIAA more than ever.. I mean yea I have about 12000mp3's on my hd and only 30-40 divx's (because downloading movies takes forever.. and I can't exactly burn it on a 25 cent disc and watch it on my tv)
Yeah you can. Burn it to an SVCD and play it on your DVD player. SVCDs are a video CD format popular in Asia that encode laserdisc quality mpeg-2 onto a regular CD. You can maybe put an hour of video on each disc.
With Nero, you can encode divx to mpeg-2 and burn automatically, or you can use another encoder such as tmpgenc.
Don't worry about it. The Paul and Ringo have nothing to do with this. It's just the lawyers of a dying record label.
No it wouldn't. This obviously isn't perpetual motion as it is fueled by energy in the form of sound waves. It produces a net loss of energy in changing it to electrical energy. Perpetual motion machines must produce a net gain of energy
She was absolutely dead-nuts right at the time. But lately it seems the corporations, with fiduciary responsibility only to the stockholders, have turned into evil monsters, exporting jobs, discarding workers like yesterday's trash, yet somehow enriching those at the top more and more, often just for being there, to an outrageous, absurd extent.
The Industrial Revolution of the 1800's and early 1900's was what eventually brought up the income levels of Europe, the U.S., and Japan to first world levels. This economic growth was completely on the backs of the workers. Factory owners and politicians became very wealthy while the proletariat workers worked many hours a day on starvation wages. Yet this oppression was what paved the way for the rich middle class of today.
These days, even the poor in America typically have plenty to eat, and have luxuries such as cars, televisions, and even computers. The gap between the rich and poor is much wider today than it was when Ayn Rand said that quote in 1966, but due to economic growth, the poor are still perfectly well off.
Is 7 minutes of not having power so bad?
Ask someone on a ventilator that question.
Virtually all hospitals have a UPS and a diesel generator. The grid is too unreliable. Heck, even a lot of offices I know of have UPSs and generators.
so how would anyone new join in? by sharing worthless files? or do you want to keep people away and maintain a small clique of 1337 h4x0rz ?
The parent does not quite understand the eMule network. lowid is when a client is behind a firewall or proxy or something and can't accept incoming connections. eMule doesn't have a penalty for not sharing enough files. Although the client will up your maximum download rate if you raise your maximum upload rate.
perhaps stacked wafers with vertical interconnects might help... I'm not sure how you'd dissipate the heat, though.
I've heard that this may be possible, utilizing somehow little channels through the inside of the chip that would carry liquid nitrogen. I think before fab technology approaches that point, however, we may have better technologies.
Can't beat the rockies for nature-geeking type activities during summer, or skiing in winter.
Speaking of the Rockies, North Cascades National Park of Washington is a must see if you are in the area. The North Cascades have the highest mountains in the lower 48 from base to summit, as well as by far the heaviest glaciation due to exceedingly high snowfall. (Washington has 74% of the glaciation in the lower 48) Check out some pictures.
You might want to check out the Boeing plant in Everett, the Experience Music Project by the Space Needle in seattle, the Olympics, and Mt. Rainier of course. You may want to visit Steens Mountain in Oregon for some good desert mountain scenery.
It's not meant to be a tool to "give you what you want", as that would require a psychic.
Absolutely correct. I do volunteer work at a computer lab, and I am amazed at the number of people that type in some vague query and expect razor sharp, relevant results. Anyway, though Google isn't perfect, this article does kind of exaggerate its flaws.
Googlehole No. 2: Skewed Synonyms. Search for "apple" on Google, and you have to troll through a couple pages of results before you get anything not directly related to Apple Computer--and it's a page promoting a public TV show called Newton's Apple.
Obviously you would come up with stuff about Apple Computer if you typed in "apple." The vast, vast majority of people with the query "apple" would be searching for Apple Computers as opposed to Granny Smiths. Again, if the search engine is used correctly, you can find relevant results just fine. Try "apple fruit -macintosh -mac"
I'm fairly certain if you asked your radiostation to play local bands they would. The whole reason why radiostations are in business is because people listen to the BS they put out. So if people don't complain why change it?
Actually, no they wouldn't. In my area, all of our music stations except for one country station are owned by Clearchannel. They have music that is streamed by fucking sattelite to each radiostation. No requests.
Even most indie stations don't do requests.
Am I the only person who's a little worried about beaming lots of power to devices?
Yeah, the power needed to power a large ionocraft would be gigantic. You would not want to point it the wrong way, obviously. RF radiation is very dangerous because it cooks an object that contains water (like people or leftover stirfry) evenly througout. Thus, if you got hit by a few thousand watts of microwaves, your internal organs would be cooked if you stayed in the path of the beam long enough.
Given the dangerous levels of electricity the use seems limited. Also I wonder how well these could be kept over the generators? Wouldn't they fly right off their power source? How effecient is it to 'beam' power to fly a load compared to just putting the power source in the flyer itself and flying in a traditional way?
They aren't "kept over the generators." It's just a simple, regular old wire connected to the power source. Beaming power with microwaves could work for larger craft, but it would be innefficient. Putting the power source on the flyer itself would make it too heavy. These things have lift measured in grams. It takes shitloads of power to lift some foil and a few pieces of balsa wood.
These ion lifters are really fun (albeit dangerous) science experiments. But they are no more antigravity than the Sharper Image "Ionic Breeze." They certainly won't be replacing helicopters or planes.
I thought the idea behind an eMachine was that they were marketed to be cheaper then the others?
Yeah, that's at least what I thought. When I first saw the machine, its performance was terrible, but I thought, "Hey, at least she got a good deal on it." Then I was told the price.
There's acctually a big differene in Lexmark printers out there. Don't ever buy one from their home line of printers. I had one and it was broke after my first year of college. Their business class printers however are pretty decent. A friend of mine interned with them working on the business class drivers and claimed they were really good printers, but the home models sucked.
Arg. Lexmark printers are horrible. I had a Z42. After only a year, it started printing colors horribly. Colors started to come out all wrong.In addition, it kept leaving about an inch wide blank spot on 5x7 pictures. Unacceptable for such a relatively new (and expensive) printer.
We dumped that and got a Epson. Much better.
It was also an important part of the diet of the european middle-ages peasant. Peasants would stockpile barley and wheat for the winter, but towards the end of the winter, the grains would start to go bad. The solution to this is beer, which could be made from slightly bad grains and still convey the nutritional value of the food. Beer is nothing if not a good energy source, rich in sugars and other more complex carbohydrates.
Beer was teh sukc back then. It had a very low alcoholic content. In addition, its consistency wasn't the nice amber with the bit of foamy head on top that we are used to today. It was almost soup-like.
Uh, first of all, the reactor would only contain uranium at launch. Uranium, with a half life of over a billion years, is barely radioactive at all. The main danger from uranium is actually not radiation, but heavy metal poisoning. Secondly, the fuel is contained in cans that are easily capable of withstanding rocket failures. Thirdly, there have been dozens of craft safely launched with radioisotope thermal generators for power. These typically use plutonium as a heat source. They have failed before, with the plutonium cans remaining intact.
The rocket in the article you linked to only would hit people with 5.7 millirad. That really isn't much anyway.
Sadly, I'll have to agree with you. This will get much more bad PR than NASA's RTGs like they put in spacecraft such as Cassini. This is because NEP uses SCARY NUCLEAR REACTORS OF DEATH!!!
Of course, a nuclear reactor is much safer than even RTGs because at launch, the reactor would only have virtually benign uranium. While of course, the RTGs are fuelled with plutonium. (RTGs are very safe, mind you. They can withstand a rocket failure intact without a problem.)
Contrast those catastrophic failures with events on human-occupied craft. Fires [space.com] and collisions on Mir, and of course Apollo 13 [usra.edu] for those who get their science from the local multiplex -- yet the craft kept flying, due to human involvement and ingenuity. The conclusion is clear: the more complex the system, the more likely you need a non-silicon-based intelligence to keep it from self-destructing.
With Apollo 13, keep in mind that it completely failed all of its scientific objectives. If it were robotic, they would have just written it off. The only reason why they tried to bring it back at all was because it had non-silicon based intelligence on it.
Unmanned probes are much, much cheaper than manned missions. It's hard to send humans into interplanetary space. Buck for buck, you can do more science with unmanned probes.