No, but hydrogen is has decent energy density, and without worries of efficient use of energy you could electrolyze water 'til the cows come home. As I recall, hydrogen (either in pressurized tanks or in powdered sodium borohydride form) has a decent energy density, and if not, I'm sure this would give someone sufficient reason to develop more economical H containment.
True, but it's like the geek hierarchy, as far as serious astronomers and authors are concerned, we slashdot posters aren't but a few evolutionary steps from the furries.:P
This is easily on of the best interviews I've seen on slashdot in a long time. Kudos to Charles Seife for writing extensively instead of sort of brushing us off with the brusque answers usually found in the interview section. It feels like if the person being interviewed isn't into the whole 'technology'/slashdot/nerd thing they look down on us and humor us with their answers instead of writing interesting replies.
Awwww, what did they do to Calvin and Hobbes? I couldn't get into the site, but maybe I don't want to know. Reading Calvin and Hobbes every day in the paper, collecting all the books, reading them from cover to cover again and again are some of my fondest childhood memories. The last thing I need to see is Calvin peeing into Hobbes's mouth a la those Ford/Chevy truck stickers:(
I'm also quite interested in this, hope he answers your question. Actually, now that I think about *activate google powers*: first search result for h.264 is this @ :
By any name, the codec, scheduled for completion in spring 2003, is a product of the Joint Video Team (JVT) of the International Telecommunication Union and International Standards Organization. And it's already making waves.
Ok, that doesn't tell me much, but a search for h.264 and royalties brings this up :
One of the initial goals of the H.264 project was that the so-called "baseline" codec should be
free of problems with patents. It should be possible to build products using the technology without having to pay royalties. I originally laughed at this idea and talked about flying pigs, but it appears that the aim has come true; the baseline codec uses technology that is either not patented or the patent holders have waived their rights to royalties.
Yeah, just so you know, I read it in the latest Discover I got in the mail. I mean, the process could be, and they're taking Discover for a ride (haven't read the article yet), but I doubt it was posted in jest.
If you like Santana's guitar work, go out and buy his old albums, all the great music without annoying pop vocals on every f***ing track. I presonally reccomend 'Abraxas' (released 1970) as it has a bunch of his hits (Oye Como Va, Black Magic Woman), and the entire rest of the album is solid. Obligatory amazon.com link
The grandaprent post may have been incorrect, but I don't see how being asian implies being an anime fan. So because I'm about 20% french I must love to smoke, drink wine and complain about US foreign policy?
ID3 tags are metadata (data about data) attached to mp3 files, they're what contains the Artist name, song title, album name, year it was made, genre, etc. and any other comments you might want (Composed by Jeff, RIPPED BY |-|4>0R1337T33M 3XtR3m3 ON EFNET, etc.). If you're using winamp in windows press Alt+3 to access the ID3 information for whatever mp3 is playing at a time. Ogg and FLAC both have something similar with similarly easy access through various media players these days.
I've been listening, and I do read Google news enough to know more or less the situation in Venezuela, but seriously, the majority of times this is covered on "mainstream" news sources (11 o'clock/10 o'clock local news, CBS/NBC/ABC national news, what have you) it is in relation to oil prices. "Oil prices have been up, because of Venezuelan strike, blah, blah, blah." So yeah, I can see how if you have a limited source of news (only TV, usually only local) (as the majority of USians do), then you probably have very limited knowledge of the crisis in Venezuela
OK so this is like two days old or something and absolutely no one will read this but it will not be very useful for postman-types at all. My parents work for the USPS, and from what I've heard none of the mail carriers want Segways at all.
You can't sort mail as you walk up to the house. Mail carriers get the mail they need to deilver in somewhat pre-sorted bundles, they then have to group the mail according to house and you can't do this if your hands are on a Segway. So you end up riding up to the mailbox, stopping, sorting the mail, putting it in then going on your way. Compared to sorting as you walk, with no stopping.
You get damn cold if you spend your entire mail route standing still on a segway. With walking you warm yourself due to the exercise youre getting hauling mail around.
Most mailmen cross people's yards to save time if there are no fences, on a Segway it's pretty hard to cross the lawn I'm sure, or at least you're going to run down the battery dealing with the less than smooth terrain.
And finally, the charge doesn't last long enough to finish a route, so you need to take out eight bolts or something, replace batteries in your truck, and then replace the eight bolts, come on! I want my mail now.
Add all this up and you end up delivering the mail in about the same time, and maybe saving yourself some back pain. Most of the mail carriers are pretty strong after carrying huge sacks of mail for a number of years, and simply don't have that much of a problem with lugging them around anymore.
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I know this has will most likely never be seen, but seriously, everyone thinks this will be good for the Post Office but the post office. Just clearing some things up.
It's a shame the Crusader program was cancelled. The company that was delivering them, or involved heavily in them, or something was based in my homestate (MN), so it was made into a big deal in the local papers. (And yeah I know it's the washington times, you'll live. It was the first google link I could find with "crusader" and some form of "cancel" in the title.)
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Haven't you heard the 'White Album'? Revolution 9, track 12 on disc 2, about seven minutes and forty-three seconds into it:
"..if...you become naked." --Yoko Ono
Overrated moderation? Just because you're a calligraphy major doesn't mean you have to take it out on us geeks ;)
No, but hydrogen is has decent energy density, and without worries of efficient use of energy you could electrolyze water 'til the cows come home. As I recall, hydrogen (either in pressurized tanks or in powdered sodium borohydride form) has a decent energy density, and if not, I'm sure this would give someone sufficient reason to develop more economical H containment.
True, but it's like the geek hierarchy, as far as serious astronomers and authors are concerned, we slashdot posters aren't but a few evolutionary steps from the furries. :P
This is easily on of the best interviews I've seen on slashdot in a long time. Kudos to Charles Seife for writing extensively instead of sort of brushing us off with the brusque answers usually found in the interview section. It feels like if the person being interviewed isn't into the whole 'technology'/slashdot/nerd thing they look down on us and humor us with their answers instead of writing interesting replies.
I just got a berry smoothie all over my keyboard and some of my monitor, thanks ;D
I don't know what you're running, but I was just simulating an existence like SimCity a few minutes ago on my 200MHz pentium...
First post!! DAMMIT.
You see, I would've had fp, if not for that damned filter. I'll see you hell taco!
Trust in E2, and you shall find the way.
I'd like to know the same thing, but this damn thread is 3 days old already :\ good luck getting an answer.
I think he misspelled 'naked women fisting'.
Awwww, what did they do to Calvin and Hobbes? I couldn't get into the site, but maybe I don't want to know. Reading Calvin and Hobbes every day in the paper, collecting all the books, reading them from cover to cover again and again are some of my fondest childhood memories. The last thing I need to see is Calvin peeing into Hobbes's mouth a la those Ford/Chevy truck stickers :(
You know how Canada is.. they don't even know what a dollar is worth, can we really expect them to be able to handle division?
I'm also quite interested in this, hope he answers your question. Actually, now that I think about *activate google powers*: first search result for h.264 is this @ :
Ok, that doesn't tell me much, but a search for h.264 and royalties brings this up :
I likes me the sound of that.
Just because it's a case against the metric system doesn't mean it's also a case for the imperial/US system. Unless you have a better idea troll?
I modded it interesting, does that make me one of the evil twins?
Yeah, just so you know, I read it in the latest Discover I got in the mail. I mean, the process could be, and they're taking Discover for a ride (haven't read the article yet), but I doubt it was posted in jest.
If you like Santana's guitar work, go out and buy his old albums, all the great music without annoying pop vocals on every f***ing track. I presonally reccomend 'Abraxas' (released 1970) as it has a bunch of his hits (Oye Como Va, Black Magic Woman), and the entire rest of the album is solid. Obligatory amazon.com link
The grandaprent post may have been incorrect, but I don't see how being asian implies being an anime fan. So because I'm about 20% french I must love to smoke, drink wine and complain about US foreign policy?
ID3 tags are metadata (data about data) attached to mp3 files, they're what contains the Artist name, song title, album name, year it was made, genre, etc. and any other comments you might want (Composed by Jeff, RIPPED BY |-|4>0R1337T33M 3XtR3m3 ON EFNET, etc.). If you're using winamp in windows press Alt+3 to access the ID3 information for whatever mp3 is playing at a time. Ogg and FLAC both have something similar with similarly easy access through various media players these days.
I've been listening, and I do read Google news enough to know more or less the situation in Venezuela, but seriously, the majority of times this is covered on "mainstream" news sources (11 o'clock/10 o'clock local news, CBS/NBC/ABC national news, what have you) it is in relation to oil prices. "Oil prices have been up, because of Venezuelan strike, blah, blah, blah." So yeah, I can see how if you have a limited source of news (only TV, usually only local) (as the majority of USians do), then you probably have very limited knowledge of the crisis in Venezuela
- You can't sort mail as you walk up to the house. Mail carriers get the mail they need to deilver in somewhat pre-sorted bundles, they then have to group the mail according to house and you can't do this if your hands are on a Segway. So you end up riding up to the mailbox, stopping, sorting the mail, putting it in then going on your way. Compared to sorting as you walk, with no stopping.
- You get damn cold if you spend your entire mail route standing still on a segway. With walking you warm yourself due to the exercise youre getting hauling mail around.
- Most mailmen cross people's yards to save time if there are no fences, on a Segway it's pretty hard to cross the lawn I'm sure, or at least you're going to run down the battery dealing with the less than smooth terrain.
- And finally, the charge doesn't last long enough to finish a route, so you need to take out eight bolts or something, replace batteries in your truck, and then replace the eight bolts, come on! I want my mail now.
- Add all this up and you end up delivering the mail in about the same time, and maybe saving yourself some back pain. Most of the mail carriers are pretty strong after carrying huge sacks of mail for a number of years, and simply don't have that much of a problem with lugging them around anymore.
</rant>I know this has will most likely never be seen, but seriously, everyone thinks this will be good for the Post Office but the post office. Just clearing some things up.
Makes me wish there was a +1 Troll modifier. You just made my day. :D
Or just use the Google News partner link. Or the NYT Random login generator? Just thinking out loud...
It's a shame the Crusader program was cancelled. The company that was delivering them, or involved heavily in them, or something was based in my homestate (MN), so it was made into a big deal in the local papers. (And yeah I know it's the washington times, you'll live. It was the first google link I could find with "crusader" and some form of "cancel" in the title.)