It's been on my mind for quiete some time, but I was wondering...
Would it not be simpler to store energy as liquid nitrogen (liquid air) instead of hydrogen?
And as far as I know, we wont run out of Nitrogen any time soon either.
And liquid Nitrogen when "consumed" does not involve any other chemical reaction then changing state liquid --> gas.
We would take nitrogen from the air, compress it and release it as is when used. Why isn't it a more explored area?
There is some other folks which are paranoid because of some privacy issues,
But for my part I would really NEED such a device.
I lost 2 cell phone this year, well one was stolen and I lost the other one.
Being able to track them down would really be nice.
It doesn't have to be displayed on my homepage, only send the data to my home computer tough...
If it is really meant to protect the consumer,
and not to forbid overclocking all together, they could always team up with the BIOS maker (just like for the temperature logic) And just write a big fat: "THIS CPU IS MEANT TO RUN AT X SPEED AND IS CURRENTLY RUNNING AT Y SPEED. YOUR GARANTY MAY BE VOID..."
I think he was refering to the Slashdot page, not the article.
He was saying that he could not read the comments (here) so that it was forcing people (slashdot reader) to read the linked article.
if(you.tell(joke.getNewJoke()) && !moderator.laughing()){ moderator.mod(-1, "OffTopic"); you.setAnonymous(true); you.setTrolling(true); you.type("This is not Offtopic you bastard moderators on crack!"); you.post(); }
If media corporation are really woried about the integrity of a digital image over a film based one, they should just take a view at the Raw file from the camera (maybe journalist should be required to whoot only in raw...) which is difficult to modify, compared to a simple jpeg as it is simply a pixel dump of the sensor
Or maybe the camera itself should provide a MD5 hash or something like that with each picture so you can verify the integrity of it?
So, a CD-Burner is indeed faster then a DVD-Burner?
Because if it takes 5 minutes to burn a full 700MB CD, This would amount to 35 minutes to burn 4.7 GB of data.
So the DVD-Drive is actually half as slow?!?
I'm sure I'm missing something here...
I keep seeing people that claim that fusion and fission are the way to go, still I have a question...
I am absolutly not knowledgeable on the subject so beg with me...
I was reading two link, this and thiswhich kind of explain all this to kindergarden level audience, read fine for me.
And from what I understood, fusion uses both deuterium and tritium at the moment. They state that both are a nuclei of hydrogen.
They go on to say that deuterium can be found in water while tritium can be found in the lithium in the earth crust
First of all, they say that they extract the deuterium from sea-water and lithium from the earth crust/sea water (one says earth crust the other says sea water).
While the amount of energy they can produce with this kind of reaction is very impressive, and the waste is supposed to be 100X less then with fission,
how will they manage to clean it up after 100 years? And how is it renewable energy?
I understand that it is VERY efficient, and I am all for that, just want to know how it is renewable.
And how do they clean up the resulting stuff? Maybe it is 100X less radioactive then the result of a fission plant, but it is still radioactive none the less, isn't it?
I think that it will be a major breakthrough in the energy field for the generations to come, but I fail to understand how at mid to long term it will be any more safe then oil.
I know oil is very bad on the environment, but if we managed to get to this point damaging earth with oil in what, 100 years, what does it change if this gets us to the same point in 300 or 400 years? Maybe it won't pollute air and water the same way, but it still pollutes a lot!
I worry because I think energy is just like bandwidth, the more you have, the more you consume. and then, you need more. So if it still produce a fair amount of damaging garbage, ain't it bad in the long term anyway?!?
Well, I'm not to coherent this morning, but I am just asking:-)
Not being an English speaker nativelly, I needed to look at what exactly was the meaning of Entanglement.
Well, I've made a quick lookup in the dictionary
and I think, after having read the article, that the second definition must be the most accurate one.
1. To twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; snarl.
2. To complicate; confuse.
3. To involve in or as if in a tangle. See Synonyms at catch.
It is not that long to compile the Linux KERNEL,
But how much time does it take to compile the kernel Bash, GNU tools, KDE or Gnome, all shared librairies, etc etc?
Not flaming or anything, just a question...
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Well, while it is true that most of the people there who commited suicide were boys, in my case it has been 2 boys and 2 girls...
What was really disturbing at the time was that they were all friends, and it kind of degenarated after the first girl passed out.
The others started to take drugs (and I'm not talking about smoking pot once in a while here), they all got REALLY depressed and finally they killed themself to...
Yep, it could probably be an issue. But even if it is pretty far, days there are not very shorter in winter then they are in Montreal.
There is never much more then 10 minutes of daytime in Montreal then in Abitibi during the winter...
And yes, Abitibi IS pretty high in latitude.
Rouyn-Noranda is about 600 KM from Montreal.
So basically, it takes the same time to go visit my parents then it is to go to Toronto.
And god do I miss those canoe-camping trips miles away from any civilisation;-)
Cheers!
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If only I had mod points for you...
Where I come from, we have one of the highest (if no longer the highest) suicide rate in Canada (Abitibi, Quebec).
From secondary 3 to Secondary 5, I had 4 direct friends of mine who commited suicide and a hell of a lot other people who I knew commited suicide also.
You know in a 35K peoples city, 10 kids going to the same scool who commit suicide in a year is VERY disturbing. I tought about it myself but I finally got some help from external sources (my parents tried to help, but could not...) and got over it. But anyway, as you were saying, suicide can be a very dramatic social problem, but it really seems to always end up in statistics.
Pretty sad state of affair when you realize that the happiness of our young people is so much less important to the population then their own self.
People always start to worry about that after they had lost a relative.
Oups, sorry for the misinterpretation, happens to me all the time...
I really think that what is missing when "chatting" online is the "voice intonation".
Maybe we should create a nomenclature for writing things and expressing feelings at the same time.
Kind of like building/extending on the smillee concept.
Slashdot Mirror
There you go you:
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/air-car2.htm
And there was not even a lot of research involved at that time...
It's been on my mind for quiete some time, but I was wondering...
Would it not be simpler to store energy as liquid nitrogen (liquid air) instead of hydrogen?
And as far as I know, we wont run out of Nitrogen any time soon either.
And liquid Nitrogen when "consumed" does not involve any other chemical reaction then changing state liquid --> gas.
We would take nitrogen from the air, compress it and release it as is when used. Why isn't it a more explored area?
And producing it is quite simple to no?
it looks like we're spiralling out of control
Were you still doubting it?
There is some other folks which are paranoid because of some privacy issues,
But for my part I would really NEED such a device.
I lost 2 cell phone this year, well one was stolen and I lost the other one.
Being able to track them down would really be nice.
It doesn't have to be displayed on my homepage, only send the data to my home computer tough...
If it is really meant to protect the consumer, and not to forbid overclocking all together,
they could always team up with the BIOS maker (just like for the temperature logic)
And just write a big fat: "THIS CPU IS MEANT TO RUN AT X SPEED AND IS CURRENTLY RUNNING AT Y SPEED. YOUR GARANTY MAY BE VOID..."
I think he was refering to the Slashdot page, not the article.
He was saying that he could not read the comments (here) so that it was forcing people (slashdot reader) to read the linked article.
if(you.tell(joke.getNewJoke()) && !moderator.laughing()){
moderator.mod(-1, "OffTopic");
you.setAnonymous(true);
you.setTrolling(true);
you.type("This is not Offtopic you bastard moderators on crack!");
you.post();
}
for(int i=0; i<3; i++)
moderator.mod(-1, "Flamebait")
How can ALSA play on more card then OSS if ALSA *IS* OSS?
Oups, not this OSS, it was about the other OSS, the OSS OSS.
Now I understand better. I think.
Yeah, but my girlfriend thinks that more is better.
Go figure...
If media corporation are really woried about the integrity of a digital image over a film based one, they should just take a view at the Raw file from the camera (maybe journalist should be required to whoot only in raw...) which is difficult to modify, compared to a simple jpeg as it is simply a pixel dump of the sensor
Or maybe the camera itself should provide a MD5 hash or something like that with each picture so you can verify the integrity of it?
Just my 2 cents...
why has it taken so long to get here?!
We call this a tradition, this is in the Slashdot culture...
You are new here, aren't you?
Of the other story about online cheaters? :-)
They mod the game to see thru walls so to gain an unfair advantage
Yep, I'm with you on that one!
Backing up those 60 and 80 gig HD becomes
more and more painfull...
So, a CD-Burner is indeed faster then a DVD-Burner?
Because if it takes 5 minutes to burn a full 700MB CD,
This would amount to 35 minutes to burn 4.7 GB of data.
So the DVD-Drive is actually half as slow?!?
I'm sure I'm missing something here...
Well, the article states the speeds I mentioned,
which are only 4MB/sec for a 30 GB device...
I hope I got it wring somewhere!
Is it me or it would take an awfull lot of time to fill in this drive?
At 4MB/sec and a total capacity of 30 gig, it would take 2 hours and 8 minutes to burn the media.
And half that time to read it all?!?
I keep seeing people that claim that fusion and fission are the way to go, still I have a question...
:-)
I am absolutly not knowledgeable on the subject so beg with me...
I was reading two link, this and thiswhich kind of explain all this to kindergarden level audience, read fine for me.
And from what I understood, fusion uses both deuterium and tritium at the moment. They state that both are a nuclei of hydrogen.
They go on to say that deuterium can be found in water while tritium can be found in the lithium in the earth crust
First of all, they say that they extract the deuterium from sea-water and lithium from the earth crust/sea water (one says earth crust the other says sea water).
While the amount of energy they can produce with this kind of reaction is very impressive, and the waste is supposed to be 100X less then with fission,
how will they manage to clean it up after 100 years? And how is it renewable energy?
I understand that it is VERY efficient, and I am all for that, just want to know how it is renewable.
And how do they clean up the resulting stuff? Maybe it is 100X less radioactive then the result of a
fission plant, but it is still radioactive none the less, isn't it?
I think that it will be a major breakthrough in the energy field for the generations to come,
but I fail to understand how at mid to long term it will be any more safe then oil.
I know oil is very bad on the environment, but if we managed to get to this point damaging earth with oil in what,
100 years, what does it change if this gets us to the same point in 300 or 400 years?
Maybe it won't pollute air and water the same way, but it still pollutes a lot!
I worry because I think energy is just like bandwidth, the more you have, the more you consume.
and then, you need more. So if it still produce a fair amount of damaging garbage, ain't it bad in the long term anyway?!?
Well, I'm not to coherent this morning, but I am just asking
Just get back the Turbo button!
Not being an English speaker nativelly, I needed to look at what exactly was the meaning of Entanglement.
Well, I've made a quick lookup in the dictionary and I think, after having read the article, that the second
definition must be the most accurate one.
1. To twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; snarl.
2. To complicate; confuse.
3. To involve in or as if in a tangle. See Synonyms at catch.
It is not that long to compile the Linux KERNEL,
But how much time does it take to compile the kernel
Bash, GNU tools, KDE or Gnome, all shared librairies, etc etc?
Not flaming or anything, just a question...
Well, while it is true that most of the people there who commited suicide were boys, in my case it has been 2 boys and 2 girls...
What was really disturbing at the time was that they
were all friends, and it kind of degenarated after the first girl passed out.
The others started to take drugs (and I'm not talking about smoking pot once in a while here),
they all got REALLY depressed and finally they killed themself to...
Yep, it could probably be an issue.
;-)
But even if it is pretty far, days there are not very shorter in winter then they are in Montreal.
There is never much more then 10 minutes of daytime in Montreal then in Abitibi during the winter...
And yes, Abitibi IS pretty high in latitude.
Rouyn-Noranda is about 600 KM from Montreal.
So basically, it takes the same time to go
visit my parents then it is to go to Toronto.
And god do I miss those canoe-camping trips miles away from any civilisation
Cheers!
If only I had mod points for you...
Where I come from, we have one of the highest (if no longer the highest) suicide rate in Canada (Abitibi, Quebec).
From secondary 3 to Secondary 5, I had 4 direct friends of mine who commited suicide and a hell of a lot other people who I knew commited suicide also.
You know in a 35K peoples city, 10 kids going to the same scool who commit suicide in a year is VERY disturbing.
I tought about it myself but I finally got some help from external sources (my parents tried to help, but could not...) and got over it.
But anyway, as you were saying, suicide can be a very dramatic social problem, but it really seems to always end up in statistics.
Pretty sad state of affair when you realize that the happiness of our young people is so much less important to the population then their own self.
People always start to worry about that after they had lost a relative.
Well, at least you've earn a new fan ;-)
Oups, sorry for the misinterpretation, happens to me all the time...
I really think that what is missing when "chatting" online is the "voice intonation".
Maybe we should create a nomenclature for writing
things and expressing feelings at the same time.
Kind of like building/extending on the smillee concept.