The other flaw that strikes me is that the article mentioned most shots were fired at point blank range. For a rocket propelled grenade, this would mean the grenade is not travelling at its full speed as the rocket has not had the time to accelerate it; if it is travelling a couple of times faster, I wonder if this system would vaporise the copper in time?
Sounds like a bit of a creative interpretation of results to me.
Of course when AIDS affects people other than homosexuals, drug users and the poor, people will actually invest some money in developing a cure.
I suspect that by the time grey-goo nanobots are within our means, anti-grey-goo nanobots will be also within our means (see toner wars in 'The Diamond Age'). Computer engineers like to take such pre-emptive approaches to security and encryption (although interestingly, biologists don't seem to do this with diseases (yet - I suppose finding potential weaknesses in the human DNA is a big ask)).
Tiny amounts of the charge remain (just like tiny amounts of magnetic charge could be used to recover your disc image if you overwrote it with zeros). Impossible for mere mortals like us to recover, but for more sophisticated beings...
Actually, residual charge in RAM chips is even better if you keep them in the freezer.
So whatever you do, DON'T KEEP YOUR RAM IN THE FREEZER AFTER SENSITIVE DATA HAS PASSED THROUGH IT!
For biodiesel you don't need too elaborate a filtering system since the NaOH takes care of the tiny particulates (as I understance it). Straight Vegie Oil (SVO) on the other hand requires a more elaborate procedure, but still not out of reach of the hobbyist - three tanks,a pressure system, and some 5micron (I think) filters will do the trick. And an extra filter on the SVO fuel line. But that's in addition to the extra tank you need, with an inbuilt heater to lower the viscosity. But after the initail outlay, all you need is the vegie oil, which at the moment, is free. (and the occasional replacement filter)
As for luck, a precise approach to the problem will remove the need for this.
Please, people, look at the bigger picture. Sure photovoltiacs are more efficient in raw conversion of solar energy. What about in their entire lifecycle? What about storage? I haven't seen an entire lifecycle analysis on either biodiesel or photovoltiacs, and we can't argue either way until one is done.
As for infection and such, this is very much a concern, particularly if we are talking about one huge farm. But is there one huge power plant that feeds all of the US? No, there are many, and if one goes down the rest keep going (excepting software failure:). Say every town has a algae plant...
Interesting; I hadn't done the maths (nor probably, had my biodiesel friends). Good point about the horse - it is mighty difficult to improve (in terms of efficiency) on millions of years of evolution - the only one artifact which does is the bicycle (IMHO).
I know quite a number of people using straight vegetable oil to fuel their diesel engines, modified by themselves. There are quite a few of them around, and they share the information and technology freely. In fact, they are in a lot of sense, like computer geeks and open source software. Quite a number of these people I know have heard about this concept for using algae, and a couple are heavily researching it. And sharing that info with other enthusiasts. We are talking non-heirachical, distributed operations here; very difficult to take down, as we all know.
In fact, even the designs of some of these algae-plants are small scale - a few tubes of algae sitting on top of the van/truck collecting energy, these being fed into a centrifuge at the back to seperate the water, then through some filters, and into the engine.
Same pollutants? True (actually, not quite true - mineral-based diesel contains sulfur and other nasties not found in biodiesel), but biodiesel is carbon-neutral. i.e. the amount of carbon that is released into the atmosphere is exactly the same as the amount the plant/algae removed from the atmosphere in the first place. Mineral-based diesel unlocks carbon that has been locked away for millions of years in the Earth's crust.
Anthony Giddens and Michel Foucault action figures
Quote:
Keenly aware of the fluidity of social identities, this 6.5" Michel Foucault waves his baton in poststructuralist style at all challenges. Shrouded in a special removeable French cloak and with a built-in thoughtful head movement, this superb action figure is essential for both professional philosophers and junior postmodernists.
This is only mildly related, but some years ago I heard about a device which sits in your shoe, generates tiny amounts of electricity via piezo-electrics, and when you shake someone's hand (who is wearing a similar device), the settling of the potential difference between you and that person is used to exchange a few bytes of data - in effect, a business card through a handshake. I haven't heard anything of is since.
Don't worry; before too long there'll be RFID tags embedded in the number plates. Hell, there probably already are in some places, they jsut haven't told you.
On a different note, the other interesting numberplate blocking system I read about used a fast LCD display which very rapidly flashes between covering the left half and right half of the numberplate. To the naked eye, invisible. But to a camera, they only get half the number. If you ask me, with half the number and the model and colour of the car, they've probably got you anyway. But it's a cool idea all the same. But by that stage you may as well get one of those rotating thingies Night-Rider had.
This kind of thing is precisely why a lot of teachers (and education administrators) are scared shitless about technology. And before long, they will have to completely overhaul (or possibly get rid of altogether) exams. Mobile phones already cause major headaches; calculators are kind of a bridge to bringing handheld computers into the classroom, and once that happens; shit, teachers will actually have to pay attention to things going on in the classroom (airwaves?), kids can start some real learning, and the world will be peaceful and prosperous for ever.
Well, its all the same really; just more inane propaganda. I gotta hand it to the MPAA; they know how to do the propaganda thing. If you have a view on something, the GO OUT AND SAY IT (somewhere outside of/. ). That is one of the reasons I'm a teacher. I'd be interested in something like this coming to my school, but only if the next class someone else with a different perspective came along. If people aren't willing to put their beliefs out their, then only one side (the one with more money) will be heard.
It goes further than that. Seperating the content from the presentation is as woeful a folly as seperating the mind and the body. You cannot have a mind without a body, you cannot have content (information) without a medium of presentation. That medium is the interface through which we access the information, and that interface determines the efficiency of how we use the information
Even that is stretching it a bit; one could argue that the information and form are in fact inseperable, one-and-the-same, etc, but one won't.
That said, time taken to design the interface cutting into time taken to make content is time well spent, although in a project like this, would not really be spent by the author of content. Except for making that author think more about structural elements of their document. Which is why CSS is such a bloody brilliant thing - more than just making things pretty.
Hmmmm... dubious argument - the common cold virus spreads primarily through contact - only a neglible amount is spread through the air. When you sneeze on your hand (or even just touch your nose) when u got a cold, the virus transfers to your hand. Then you touch a desk, its on the desk. Someone else touches desk, then rubs their nose, and hey presto, a new infection. The amount of indirect contact between people's noses is astounding.
Having said that, when I worked as a cook, and had to sneeze, I'd press my nose into my shoulder, so as to prevent airborne bacteria, and not contaminate my hands.
The other trick that comes to mind from the floppy days was to drill a hole in the corner of a DD floppy (where the HD floppies have a hole), and hey presto, an instant HD floppy for half the price!
That worked fine most of the time, I'd expect there'd be errors eventually due to the lower density of the magnetic material, but they never happened to me.
So the easiest way to double the capacity of your hard drive is to drill a small (~3mm) hole in the top left hand corner of it.
From what I understand, the export Fosters is a _completely_ different beer to the stuff for local consumption, which people are right to ridicule. Aparently the export stuff is quite a decent beer.
Slashdot Mirror
RTFA - at that speed they can offer HDTV and other video and voice services over DSL.
The other flaw that strikes me is that the article mentioned most shots were fired at point blank range. For a rocket propelled grenade, this would mean the grenade is not travelling at its full speed as the rocket has not had the time to accelerate it; if it is travelling a couple of times faster, I wonder if this system would vaporise the copper in time?
Sounds like a bit of a creative interpretation of results to me.
So it's Real Penguins(TM) now, not Real Programmers(TM) huh?
Of course when AIDS affects people other than homosexuals, drug users and the poor, people will actually invest some money in developing a cure.
I suspect that by the time grey-goo nanobots are within our means, anti-grey-goo nanobots will be also within our means (see toner wars in 'The Diamond Age'). Computer engineers like to take such pre-emptive approaches to security and encryption (although interestingly, biologists don't seem to do this with diseases (yet - I suppose finding potential weaknesses in the human DNA is a big ask)).
Tiny amounts of the charge remain (just like tiny amounts of magnetic charge could be used to recover your disc image if you overwrote it with zeros). Impossible for mere mortals like us to recover, but for more sophisticated beings...
Actually, residual charge in RAM chips is even better if you keep them in the freezer.
So whatever you do, DON'T KEEP YOUR RAM IN THE FREEZER AFTER SENSITIVE DATA HAS PASSED THROUGH IT!
For biodiesel you don't need too elaborate a filtering system since the NaOH takes care of the tiny particulates (as I understance it). Straight Vegie Oil (SVO) on the other hand requires a more elaborate procedure, but still not out of reach of the hobbyist - three tanks,a pressure system, and some 5micron (I think) filters will do the trick. And an extra filter on the SVO fuel line. But that's in addition to the extra tank you need, with an inbuilt heater to lower the viscosity. But after the initail outlay, all you need is the vegie oil, which at the moment, is free. (and the occasional replacement filter)
As for luck, a precise approach to the problem will remove the need for this.
Sorry to be sensible and all, but that might be for rss feeds/syndication etc?
Please, people, look at the bigger picture. Sure photovoltiacs are more efficient in raw conversion of solar energy. What about in their entire lifecycle? What about storage? I haven't seen an entire lifecycle analysis on either biodiesel or photovoltiacs, and we can't argue either way until one is done.
:). Say every town has a algae plant...
As for infection and such, this is very much a concern, particularly if we are talking about one huge farm. But is there one huge power plant that feeds all of the US? No, there are many, and if one goes down the rest keep going (excepting software failure
Think distributed systems.
Oh, and I overheard something about oil and war and that in the Middle East. But apart from those the oil industry is clean.
Interesting; I hadn't done the maths (nor probably, had my biodiesel friends). Good point about the horse - it is mighty difficult to improve (in terms of efficiency) on millions of years of evolution - the only one artifact which does is the bicycle (IMHO).
I know quite a number of people using straight vegetable oil to fuel their diesel engines, modified by themselves. There are quite a few of them around, and they share the information and technology freely. In fact, they are in a lot of sense, like computer geeks and open source software. Quite a number of these people I know have heard about this concept for using algae, and a couple are heavily researching it. And sharing that info with other enthusiasts. We are talking non-heirachical, distributed operations here; very difficult to take down, as we all know.
In fact, even the designs of some of these algae-plants are small scale - a few tubes of algae sitting on top of the van/truck collecting energy, these being fed into a centrifuge at the back to seperate the water, then through some filters, and into the engine.
Near-self-sustainable transport.
Same pollutants? True (actually, not quite true - mineral-based diesel contains sulfur and other nasties not found in biodiesel), but biodiesel is carbon-neutral. i.e. the amount of carbon that is released into the atmosphere is exactly the same as the amount the plant/algae removed from the atmosphere in the first place. Mineral-based diesel unlocks carbon that has been locked away for millions of years in the Earth's crust.
Anthony Giddens and Michel Foucault action figures
Quote:
Keenly aware of the fluidity of social identities, this 6.5" Michel Foucault waves his baton in poststructuralist style at all challenges. Shrouded in a special removeable French cloak and with a built-in thoughtful head movement, this superb action figure is essential for both professional philosophers and junior postmodernists.
http://www.datadocktorn.nu/us_frag1.php
Learn how to defraggle your motherdisc.
This is only mildly related, but some years ago I heard about a device which sits in your shoe, generates tiny amounts of electricity via piezo-electrics, and when you shake someone's hand (who is wearing a similar device), the settling of the potential difference between you and that person is used to exchange a few bytes of data - in effect, a business card through a handshake. I haven't heard anything of is since.
What? no music? On ya bike son...
Don't worry; before too long there'll be RFID tags embedded in the number plates. Hell, there probably already are in some places, they jsut haven't told you.
On a different note, the other interesting numberplate blocking system I read about used a fast LCD display which very rapidly flashes between covering the left half and right half of the numberplate. To the naked eye, invisible. But to a camera, they only get half the number. If you ask me, with half the number and the model and colour of the car, they've probably got you anyway. But it's a cool idea all the same. But by that stage you may as well get one of those rotating thingies Night-Rider had.
This kind of thing is precisely why a lot of teachers (and education administrators) are scared shitless about technology. And before long, they will have to completely overhaul (or possibly get rid of altogether) exams. Mobile phones already cause major headaches; calculators are kind of a bridge to bringing handheld computers into the classroom, and once that happens; shit, teachers will actually have to pay attention to things going on in the classroom (airwaves?), kids can start some real learning, and the world will be peaceful and prosperous for ever.
Well, its all the same really; just more inane propaganda. I gotta hand it to the MPAA; they know how to do the propaganda thing. If you have a view on something, the GO OUT AND SAY IT (somewhere outside of /. ). That is one of the reasons I'm a teacher. I'd be interested in something like this coming to my school, but only if the next class someone else with a different perspective came along. If people aren't willing to put their beliefs out their, then only one side (the one with more money) will be heard.
It goes further than that. Seperating the content from the presentation is as woeful a folly as seperating the mind and the body. You cannot have a mind without a body, you cannot have content (information) without a medium of presentation. That medium is the interface through which we access the information, and that interface determines the efficiency of how we use the information
Even that is stretching it a bit; one could argue that the information and form are in fact inseperable, one-and-the-same, etc, but one won't.
That said, time taken to design the interface cutting into time taken to make content is time well spent, although in a project like this, would not really be spent by the author of content. Except for making that author think more about structural elements of their document. Which is why CSS is such a bloody brilliant thing - more than just making things pretty.
I don't remember being able to ssh to port 143 of my IMAP server.
$ telnet imap.virus.net 143
, on the other hand...
Hmmmm... dubious argument - the common cold virus spreads primarily through contact - only a neglible amount is spread through the air. When you sneeze on your hand (or even just touch your nose) when u got a cold, the virus transfers to your hand. Then you touch a desk, its on the desk. Someone else touches desk, then rubs their nose, and hey presto, a new infection. The amount of indirect contact between people's noses is astounding.
Having said that, when I worked as a cook, and had to sneeze, I'd press my nose into my shoulder, so as to prevent airborne bacteria, and not contaminate my hands.
1. A beowulf cluster of these
2. But does it run linux?
3. ????
4. Profit!
The other trick that comes to mind from the floppy days was to drill a hole in the corner of a DD floppy (where the HD floppies have a hole), and hey presto, an instant HD floppy for half the price!
That worked fine most of the time, I'd expect there'd be errors eventually due to the lower density of the magnetic material, but they never happened to me.
So the easiest way to double the capacity of your hard drive is to drill a small (~3mm) hole in the top left hand corner of it.
From what I understand, the export Fosters is a _completely_ different beer to the stuff for local consumption, which people are right to ridicule. Aparently the export stuff is quite a decent beer.