You do realize that you don't see the point? This isn't an article about energy storage, it's an article about energy generation. Fuel cells are great, how do they relate to the article?
Actually I was being totally serious. Fuck you whoever modded me down. Apperantly you missed the part where I mention that I've built my own solar car.
I think you're trying to make a funny, but in case you aren't... They are nano crystals. That probably means that while they're made from lead, there still isn't much lead in each cell. Also, solar cells can easily last for 100 years, it's not like they're disposable. Not to mention the fossil fuels they displace.
This is it folks, this is what we've been waiting for. As it is, solar panels are a pretty marginal energy source for most applications. We've all seen the specially built vehicles that are basicly a big solar panel on wheels (some of us (like me) have even built one). We've all seen the houses with the roof covered in solar panels and they still have to buy all whacky expensive 12v high efficiency appliances and forget about an electric drier.
With solar cells like these, solar power just lept from impractical to practical. Make way for the days of solar powered PDAs and cell phones, cars, houses, buses, airplanes, you name it. This is the breakthrough that will lead the way.
Unless it flops, of course.
Good: The computer probably won't grade you down for writing an anti-Bush essay, and it probably won't get fired for it.
Good: Computers won't play favorites, and you can't kiss up to a computer.
Bad: The computer really can't grade you up for expressing original ideas.
Bad: It's probably possible to fool the computer somehow.
Right, because France, Spain, Germany, Britain, Portugal, etc. have never had worldwide plundering self-interested empires in the past. We started it. Okay.
Yes, but nobody is happy with PETA about anything. I think it has something to do with associating meat bearing animals with victims of serial killers, and generally being a nuisance.
"Easy" and "powerful" are also not mutually exclusive. I find Linux easier to use than windows, and a great deal more powerful. Part of it's power comes from it's ease of use. Of course not everybody is a computer engineer like me, so YMMV. But I can run the latest and greatest Linux kernel and software on every computer I own, from my POS 200MHz PPC 604e to my 1.2GHz Athlon. Thats one system to learn. That makes my life easier.
Security and ease-of-configuration are NOT mutually exclusive. In fact, the simpler the configuration is, the less likely it is for a user to make a configuration mistake that will lead to a security hole.
Anytime you come with a new and potentially revolutionary idea, you are going to run into old stick-in-the-muds who will try to bury you in a flood of FUD. FUCK THEM! If you think it's a good idea, GO FOR IT. PROVE that it works, then let the community sort it out.
I don't know how the fudge you get parallel universi from the two-slit experiment. The conclusion is simple. Light behaves both as a particle AND a wave. Simple. Any wave passing through slits will create interference patterns, try it with water.
I think you hit the nail on the head. This is like hammering another nail in the coffin of American computer engineering. It's the LAST thing our ailing computer industry needs right now. Even if it will indirectly benefit open source, I'd hate to see any contract programmer put out of business.
Hahah! Common sense says that's WAY off! 50 k ohms from cloud to ground, if it was THAT low you could draw a spark gap between the leads on your OHMMETER!! Your 9v battery would kill itself in a minute from the current flowing between its terminals. To say NOTHING of the arcing that would occur in every electrical outlet in your house! You can't even measure the resistance of an air gap between two leads using your ohmmeter on the megaohm range. Common sense says that the resistance of air is so high that it is in most practical situations infinite.
The initial resistance of the air gap between the cloud and ground is almost immeasurably large, certainly on the order or teraohms or petaohms. However, once current begins to flow the air is almost instantly ionized and it's resistance drops significantly, at that point your 50k ohm number might not be too far off.
Lighting is powerful stuff, it can travel through miles of air, which has a resistance that's probably in the teraohms. There's not much you can ever do in the event of a direct hit. But you can minimize the damage caused by lesser nearby strikes by using surge protected patch panels. Make sure they're connected to a good low resistance earth ground. I've seen them often in networking catalogs. Things like NICs and hubs will often act as a fuseable link, opening up or shorting to ground and preventing the damage from spreading very far.
As a said, in a direct strike, you're pretty much screwed no matter what. Indirect strikes can induce very high voltages, since they give off a pretty good EMP. It's extra-important to surge-protect the long runs of cable. You don't need to lay new cable, just install surge protectors at both ends of the run.
Buy cheap networking equipment, and keep money to replace it on hand.
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Yes, I think the FBI would be a good place to start. Look up the nearest FBI field office in the phone book.
You do realize that you don't see the point? This isn't an article about energy storage, it's an article about energy generation. Fuel cells are great, how do they relate to the article?
Actually I was being totally serious. Fuck you whoever modded me down. Apperantly you missed the part where I mention that I've built my own solar car.
I think you're trying to make a funny, but in case you aren't... They are nano crystals. That probably means that while they're made from lead, there still isn't much lead in each cell. Also, solar cells can easily last for 100 years, it's not like they're disposable. Not to mention the fossil fuels they displace.
This is it folks, this is what we've been waiting for. As it is, solar panels are a pretty marginal energy source for most applications. We've all seen the specially built vehicles that are basicly a big solar panel on wheels (some of us (like me) have even built one). We've all seen the houses with the roof covered in solar panels and they still have to buy all whacky expensive 12v high efficiency appliances and forget about an electric drier. With solar cells like these, solar power just lept from impractical to practical. Make way for the days of solar powered PDAs and cell phones, cars, houses, buses, airplanes, you name it. This is the breakthrough that will lead the way. Unless it flops, of course.
Only wimps shut off the generater before refueling.
Good: The computer probably won't grade you down for writing an anti-Bush essay, and it probably won't get fired for it. Good: Computers won't play favorites, and you can't kiss up to a computer. Bad: The computer really can't grade you up for expressing original ideas. Bad: It's probably possible to fool the computer somehow.
What?? You must have failed history.
Right, because France, Spain, Germany, Britain, Portugal, etc. have never had worldwide plundering self-interested empires in the past. We started it. Okay.
Yes, but nobody is happy with PETA about anything. I think it has something to do with associating meat bearing animals with victims of serial killers, and generally being a nuisance.
"Easy" and "powerful" are also not mutually exclusive. I find Linux easier to use than windows, and a great deal more powerful. Part of it's power comes from it's ease of use. Of course not everybody is a computer engineer like me, so YMMV. But I can run the latest and greatest Linux kernel and software on every computer I own, from my POS 200MHz PPC 604e to my 1.2GHz Athlon. Thats one system to learn. That makes my life easier.
No, Americans are never like that, because everybody else on earth wants to be like us.
Security and ease-of-configuration are NOT mutually exclusive. In fact, the simpler the configuration is, the less likely it is for a user to make a configuration mistake that will lead to a security hole.
Bahahah! Kill opensource drivers! right!
Anytime you come with a new and potentially revolutionary idea, you are going to run into old stick-in-the-muds who will try to bury you in a flood of FUD. FUCK THEM! If you think it's a good idea, GO FOR IT. PROVE that it works, then let the community sort it out.
I don't know how the fudge you get parallel universi from the two-slit experiment. The conclusion is simple. Light behaves both as a particle AND a wave. Simple. Any wave passing through slits will create interference patterns, try it with water.
They broke the law, got caught, and settled out of court. Sounds like a story to me...
I think you hit the nail on the head. This is like hammering another nail in the coffin of American computer engineering. It's the LAST thing our ailing computer industry needs right now. Even if it will indirectly benefit open source, I'd hate to see any contract programmer put out of business.
Procedural sql is reasonably portable. I don't know about other RDBMs, but postgres supports perl, tcl, and others. That portable enough for ya?
Hahah! Common sense says that's WAY off! 50 k ohms from cloud to ground, if it was THAT low you could draw a spark gap between the leads on your OHMMETER!! Your 9v battery would kill itself in a minute from the current flowing between its terminals. To say NOTHING of the arcing that would occur in every electrical outlet in your house! You can't even measure the resistance of an air gap between two leads using your ohmmeter on the megaohm range. Common sense says that the resistance of air is so high that it is in most practical situations infinite.
The initial resistance of the air gap between the cloud and ground is almost immeasurably large, certainly on the order or teraohms or petaohms. However, once current begins to flow the air is almost instantly ionized and it's resistance drops significantly, at that point your 50k ohm number might not be too far off.
Lighting is powerful stuff, it can travel through miles of air, which has a resistance that's probably in the teraohms. There's not much you can ever do in the event of a direct hit. But you can minimize the damage caused by lesser nearby strikes by using surge protected patch panels. Make sure they're connected to a good low resistance earth ground. I've seen them often in networking catalogs. Things like NICs and hubs will often act as a fuseable link, opening up or shorting to ground and preventing the damage from spreading very far.
As a said, in a direct strike, you're pretty much screwed no matter what. Indirect strikes can induce very high voltages, since they give off a pretty good EMP. It's extra-important to surge-protect the long runs of cable. You don't need to lay new cable, just install surge protectors at both ends of the run.
Buy cheap networking equipment, and keep money to replace it on hand.
ONE virus? Why not 3 or 4? Hell, just embed BackOrafice or whatever they use these days in place of the codec and 0wn0r3 all the boxes you want!
The final release will be a complete remake. Visit the developer's web site.
I'm creaming my pants as I type this!
Helloooooo EU software patents!!! Welcome to OUR world!
Bear-fucker, do you need assistance??