Quite right: if you used electricity to make hydrogen, you'd have to burn a fossil fuel and release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But if you convert the hydrocarbons directly into hydrogen, all you have left over is...well, ummm...carbon dioxide. Mother Nature can be a bitch.
The hydrogen was contained in hundreds of individual cells called ballonets, and it was impossible for all of them to go up at once. As each one caught fire, it burned only at the ignition point at first, because there was no oxygen anywhere else in it. Once the fire ruptured the ballonet, its gas escaped, mixed with air, and burned with a big flame that ignited adjacent ballonets, and the process continued.
Watch the film and you will see patches of fire appearing in the middle of stretches of unburned skin, which shows quite clearly that the skin is not the major fuel source; the fire is spreading internally from one ballonet to the next.
The presumption of innocence is a restraint on the behavior of the federal government and 49 state governments, not on the media. If a newspaper editor wants to call someone guilty who hasn't been convicted, he's free to do so...if he's willing to risk losing a libel suit should the person be acquitted.
Selling a legal properly-licensed product which they entered into a contract not to do, with penalties provided in the contract...it's not gonna take Johnnie Cochran to win that one.
That's pretty benign by EB standards. I've seen one of their salesmen try to talk a customer into pre-paying full price for a game that was about a month from release, on the grounds that "This will be a limited release. We'll get ONE shipment, and then there won't be any more."
Next thing you know, CPU and video card manufacturers will start introducing new products at jacked-up prices and then tapering them down as they run out of deep-pockets customers.
About 10 years ago in Denver, a man was arrested as he staggered out of a meat-packer's warehouse with a heavy box of meat. It turned out to be beef rectums.
These days all and everyone just go to the nearest computer enthusiast shop and get a waterblock, a pump and hoses and an overpriced mass produced radiator.
Which is, usually, an automotive transmission cooler or heater core in a new package.
rj
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Three years older and nothing to show for it...yeah, that sucks. Three years older and imminent arrival on Mars to show for it...that's a little different.
You have to remember that 150 years ago, people would sign up for three years of dangerous, backbreaking labor aboard a cramped, stinking whaling ship and come back with nothing to show for it but enough money to get drunk and laid until the next voyage.
Plan 9 from Outer Space is widely considered to be the worst film ever.
Well, actually, designated as such by the noted film intellectual Michael Medved back in his pre-Religious Right days. Today, I imagine he'd give that honor to a picture with more hooters in it.
Ergo, you are back to a single point of failure: the pump/fan device.
The Koolance system (at least) monitors the temperature at the CPU/waterblock interface and regulates the fans; if the pumps and/or fans fail, it simply shuts down the power.
Because it's not just a matter of pouring the water out and the refrigerant in. Refrigeration requires a compressor and high-pressure plumbing. Much bigger capital investment, and not very cost-effective on the small scale of a PC.
Water-cooling has a few kinks like electricity near water and corrosion
I have a water-cooled device in my driveway that has electricity near water, corrosion and gasoline...and it seems to work. So does the computer in it.
Sure; it was in January 1966. A B-52 collided with the tanker it was refueling from over the coast of Spain. The airplane disintegrated and dropped four thermonuclear bombs. One landed intact near the town of Palomares, two burst open on impact and scattered radioactive debris, and one fell in the ocean. It took three months of underwater operations to find and recover the sunken bomb, and a huge cleanup effort to get rid of the radiation on land.
The film "Men of Honor" opens with Carl Brashear, the first Black diver in the Navy, losing a leg in the recovery effort.
I made it a condition of sale that they include a full copy of Windows XP
Why? You can do a full install from an Upgrade disk if you have an install disk from an upgrade-qualifying release. You don't have to install the old version first; XP merely asks to see it.
I believe the reason they didn't have in-store inventory is that if a company has a retail presence in a given state, it has to pay sales tax on everything it ships to that state, including the phone/online orders. Since the Gateway stores only took orders, the deals went down as Iowa sales. And Iowa didn't tax them because they were bringing lots of money into that state.
There was another company whose name escapes me now, because it's long dead...they had a prosperous direct-order business and then killed it by opening retail stores in the states most of their orders were coming from. As soon as they lost the advantage of tax-free interstate sales, they couldn't compete.
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When the hackers refused to institute a rule requiring novices to learn COBOL before being allowed to write C.
rj
Quite right: if you used electricity to make hydrogen, you'd have to burn a fossil fuel and release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But if you convert the hydrocarbons directly into hydrogen, all you have left over is...well, ummm...carbon dioxide. Mother Nature can be a bitch.
rj
No, it's better for you to invent a green way of making hydrogen. Be sure to donate one of your many millions to /.
rj
The hydrogen was contained in hundreds of individual cells called ballonets, and it was impossible for all of them to go up at once. As each one caught fire, it burned only at the ignition point at first, because there was no oxygen anywhere else in it. Once the fire ruptured the ballonet, its gas escaped, mixed with air, and burned with a big flame that ignited adjacent ballonets, and the process continued.
Watch the film and you will see patches of fire appearing in the middle of stretches of unburned skin, which shows quite clearly that the skin is not the major fuel source; the fire is spreading internally from one ballonet to the next.
rj
The presumption of innocence is a restraint on the behavior of the federal government and 49 state governments, not on the media. If a newspaper editor wants to call someone guilty who hasn't been convicted, he's free to do so...if he's willing to risk losing a libel suit should the person be acquitted.
rj
Ummm...wouldn't that be a whole lot less stupid?
rj
The same way a Tomahawk cruise missile does.
rj
It certainly is; Roger Murch's Return to Oz did it in 1985.
And the critics murdered it for not being an inane piece of fluff like MGM's Wizard of Oz.
rj
Selling a legal properly-licensed product which they entered into a contract not to do, with penalties provided in the contract...it's not gonna take Johnnie Cochran to win that one.
rj
That's pretty benign by EB standards. I've seen one of their salesmen try to talk a customer into pre-paying full price for a game that was about a month from release, on the grounds that "This will be a limited release. We'll get ONE shipment, and then there won't be any more."
rj
Next thing you know, CPU and video card manufacturers will start introducing new products at jacked-up prices and then tapering them down as they run out of deep-pockets customers.
rj
Y'know, this could be a golden opportunity for the Mafia to do some pro bono work and improve its reputation.
[whinny]
rj
About 10 years ago in Denver, a man was arrested as he staggered out of a meat-packer's warehouse with a heavy box of meat. It turned out to be beef rectums.
Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener...
rj
Which is, usually, an automotive transmission cooler or heater core in a new package.
rj
Three years older and nothing to show for it...yeah, that sucks. Three years older and imminent arrival on Mars to show for it...that's a little different.
You have to remember that 150 years ago, people would sign up for three years of dangerous, backbreaking labor aboard a cramped, stinking whaling ship and come back with nothing to show for it but enough money to get drunk and laid until the next voyage.
rj
How DARRRE you mention me in thee same BRRREATH weeth that LIMEY COCKSUCKERRR!!!
rj
For that kind of issue I'd think you'd get better response from Legal, not Tech Support.
rj
Well, actually, designated as such by the noted film intellectual Michael Medved back in his pre-Religious Right days. Today, I imagine he'd give that honor to a picture with more hooters in it.
rj
...and another is that he befriended Bela Lugosi when the latter had boozed himself out of a career, and gave him the last work he ever had.
rj
The Koolance system (at least) monitors the temperature at the CPU/waterblock interface and regulates the fans; if the pumps and/or fans fail, it simply shuts down the power.
rj
Because it's not just a matter of pouring the water out and the refrigerant in. Refrigeration requires a compressor and high-pressure plumbing. Much bigger capital investment, and not very cost-effective on the small scale of a PC.
rj
I have a water-cooled device in my driveway that has electricity near water, corrosion and gasoline...and it seems to work. So does the computer in it.
rj
Sure; it was in January 1966. A B-52 collided with the tanker it was refueling from over the coast of Spain. The airplane disintegrated and dropped four thermonuclear bombs. One landed intact near the town of Palomares, two burst open on impact and scattered radioactive debris, and one fell in the ocean. It took three months of underwater operations to find and recover the sunken bomb, and a huge cleanup effort to get rid of the radiation on land.
The film "Men of Honor" opens with Carl Brashear, the first Black diver in the Navy, losing a leg in the recovery effort.
rj
Why? You can do a full install from an Upgrade disk if you have an install disk from an upgrade-qualifying release. You don't have to install the old version first; XP merely asks to see it.
rj
There was another company whose name escapes me now, because it's long dead...they had a prosperous direct-order business and then killed it by opening retail stores in the states most of their orders were coming from. As soon as they lost the advantage of tax-free interstate sales, they couldn't compete.
rj