If they "catch" the energy, they reflect a little bit as visible light and convert most of it into heat. Part of that heat gets radiated back into space and part heats up the surrounding air. The overall effect seems to be a significant contribution to global warming.
Typical short-term chickenlittleism. What happens when the poles reverse magnetism? That is much more worrying.
So should I throw all my money into researching inflatable sex dolls? They fulfil all three conditions.
Nah, wait for the Real Dolls to become more affordable and equipped with semi-reflective skin textures. Don't throw her out yet, as she provides unique squeeky sex. Try giving her a nitrous oxide inflation before your next romantic episode, you won't regret it!
The main argument behind patents is that without them, nobody would have motivation to come up with new ideas and no research and development would be done.
This presumes that everyone does everything for financial gain.
Thank you and I'll add a "sorry" because I'm a Canuck.
I live in Canada; I cannot comment directly on the state of healthcare in the USA.
I haven't had to use our health care system much, but when I have, it was there, "free" and effective. Yes, there are wait times, but if the situation is urgent, you go straight to the front of the line. Any Canadian can walk into any clinic and consult a doctor without having to fork out money or prove that they have health insurance. This means that you do have people going for unnecessary visits and you might have to wait one hour, but I prefer that to the alternative, and if it's your health that is the issue, you make the time.
Sure, our taxes are high, but that's the cost of providing basic needs to everyone. Does that attitude make me an evil commie?
This is all personal experience on your part, then.
You attempt to marginalize me by insinuating that Google is the answer to problems and I do not know how to use it. I'd say "shame on you" but you are likely beyond the state of being shamed for anything.
improved the process of making steel but the process in the way you have implemented it requires the use of a computer to control it. The physical process of making steel is different and patent that.
The following is a troll, and is sent as an example only.
Beleive it or not, the R&D people in "real industries" do not always count on computers to do their work. In fact, they tend to stay away from stuff that might influence their work. Most real work is carefully done at a low level proving theories, one step at a time.
This must be almost impossible to fathom for those that are used to seeing marketing hype about new processors or TVs.
If the internet ceased to function tomorrow, there'd be hundreds of thousands of engineers ready to pick up the slack.
When building an engine that will potentially operate at over 1000 degrees Celsius, be sure to build frame out of wood.
The hottest stuff comes out the business end, not the support points.
Not the best setup, I admit, but I presume this is not long-term durability testing. All they need is a good insulator between contact points. Or maybe a liquid helium cooling system with lots of piping design engineering hours.
Over lunch today I asked Ed Meese about one of Reagan's favorite jokes. "The pony joke?" Meese replied. "Sure I remember it. If I heard him tell it once, I heard him tell it a thousand times."
The joke concerns twin boys of five or six. Worried that the boys had developed extreme personalities -- one was a total pessimist, the other a total optimist -- their parents took them to a psychiatrist.
First the psychiatrist treated the pessimist. Trying to brighten his outlook, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with brand-new toys. But instead of yelping with delight, the little boy burst into tears. "What's the matter?" the psychiatrist asked, baffled. "Don't you want to play with any of the toys?" "Yes," the little boy bawled, "but if I did I'd only break them."
Next the psychiatrist treated the optimist. Trying to dampen his out look, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with horse manure. But instead of wrinkling his nose in disgust, the optimist emitted just the yelp of delight the psychiatrist had been hoping to hear from his brother, the pessimist. Then he clambered to the top of the pile, dropped to his knees, and began gleefully digging out scoop after scoop with his bare hands. "What do you think you're doing?" the psychiatrist asked, just as baffled by the optimist as he had been by the pessimist. "With all this manure," the little boy replied, beaming, "there must be a pony in here somewhere!"
"Reagan told the joke so often," Meese said, chuckling, "that it got to be kind of a joke with the rest of us. Whenever something would go wrong, somebody on the staff would be sure to say, 'There must be a pony in here somewhere.'"
I suggest that the reason that peoples' case interiors are that dustbunnyish is *because* it is so troublesome for them to get inside and clean it out (scared of breaking something, sharp edges, etc.). Do most case fans come equipped with filters? Are most case fans even easily accessible? Most I've seen are located down low behind the front facia.
Yeah, it would have to be for non-mainstream users, but then there seems to be a market for other add-ons and gadgets. The most useful features would be the easy-to-clean filter (assuming the case would be overpressurized by the large fan) and relative ease of installation.
Slashdot Mirror
***There Is No Cheese***.
Or did somebody just move it?
we men have been telling our women that:
|------| = 10 inches, when in fact
|---------| = 10 inches.
Adam to Eve: "Stand back, I don't know how big this thing gets."
If they "catch" the energy, they reflect a little bit as visible light and convert most of it into heat. Part of that heat gets radiated back into space and part heats up the surrounding air. The overall effect seems to be a significant contribution to global warming.
Typical short-term chickenlittleism. What happens when the poles reverse magnetism? That is much more worrying.
You should not design an ENTIRE site in flash, and if you do you should at least provide a non-flash site for your users
I think the problem is that some people are doing the former and not the latter.
Ummm, is there a way to redact posts?
So should I throw all my money into researching inflatable sex dolls? They fulfil all three conditions.
Nah, wait for the Real Dolls to become more affordable and equipped with semi-reflective skin textures. Don't throw her out yet, as she provides unique squeeky sex. Try giving her a nitrous oxide inflation before your next romantic episode, you won't regret it!
5, 4, 2 seconds until the MP puns arrive.
than Nonium at all.
I was thinking the same thing: is hafnium only 50% as effective as fulnium? Where do they get the unobtanium to make this stuff?
Back in the day...
Which specific day was that again?
When asked for a comment, one German prosecution authority said:
Ich bein ein kickinassenviruswriter.
Canadian's are traditionally viewed as non-threatening
Oh yeah!? Well then I think that you are a...no, I just can't do it.
But then, I'm a secret agent of Canadian World Domination. Oh crap, I spilled the beans!
claiming ownership of spam would not be too handy for your image
I think you mispelled, "get you strung-up by the balls by the general public".
Sorry for being pedantic.
The main argument behind patents is that without them, nobody would have motivation to come up with new ideas and no research and development would be done.
This presumes that everyone does everything for financial gain.
jarheads
Don't slag the Marines, they had no part in this.
Thank you and I'll add a "sorry" because I'm a Canuck.
I live in Canada; I cannot comment directly on the state of healthcare in the USA.
I haven't had to use our health care system much, but when I have, it was there, "free" and effective. Yes, there are wait times, but if the situation is urgent, you go straight to the front of the line. Any Canadian can walk into any clinic and consult a doctor without having to fork out money or prove that they have health insurance. This means that you do have people going for unnecessary visits and you might have to wait one hour, but I prefer that to the alternative, and if it's your health that is the issue, you make the time.
Sure, our taxes are high, but that's the cost of providing basic needs to everyone. Does that attitude make me an evil commie?
This is all personal experience on your part, then.
You attempt to marginalize me by insinuating that Google is the answer to problems and I do not know how to use it. I'd say "shame on you" but you are likely beyond the state of being shamed for anything.
I'd call you a moron, but I want to be civil.
Look, I hate to push a point, but why haven't movie monsters chomped down on Canada's tallest moument? Is it some kind of Americentric thing?
improved the process of making steel but the process in the way you have implemented it requires the use of a computer to control it. The physical process of making steel is different and patent that.
The following is a troll, and is sent as an example only.
Beleive it or not, the R&D people in "real industries" do not always count on computers to do their work. In fact, they tend to stay away from stuff that might influence their work. Most real work is carefully done at a low level proving theories, one step at a time.
This must be almost impossible to fathom for those that are used to seeing marketing hype about new processors or TVs.
If the internet ceased to function tomorrow, there'd be hundreds of thousands of engineers ready to pick up the slack.
When building an engine that will potentially operate at over 1000 degrees Celsius, be sure to build frame out of wood.
The hottest stuff comes out the business end, not the support points.
Not the best setup, I admit, but I presume this is not long-term durability testing. All they need is a good insulator between contact points. Or maybe a liquid helium cooling system with lots of piping design engineering hours.
There must be a Lisa Simpson reference somewhere, and this is a repost of something I saw here recently:
Source: http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/excerpt_xml.
Over lunch today I asked Ed Meese about one of Reagan's favorite jokes. "The pony joke?" Meese replied. "Sure I remember it. If I heard him tell it once, I heard him tell it a thousand times."
The joke concerns twin boys of five or six. Worried that the boys had developed extreme personalities -- one was a total pessimist, the other a total optimist -- their parents took them to a psychiatrist.
First the psychiatrist treated the pessimist. Trying to brighten his outlook, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with brand-new toys. But instead of yelping with delight, the little boy burst into tears. "What's the matter?" the psychiatrist asked, baffled. "Don't you want to play with any of the toys?" "Yes," the little boy bawled, "but if I did I'd only break them."
Next the psychiatrist treated the optimist. Trying to dampen his out look, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with horse manure. But instead of wrinkling his nose in disgust, the optimist emitted just the yelp of delight the psychiatrist had been hoping to hear from his brother, the pessimist. Then he clambered to the top of the pile, dropped to his knees, and began gleefully digging out scoop after scoop with his bare hands. "What do you think you're doing?" the psychiatrist asked, just as baffled by the optimist as he had been by the pessimist. "With all this manure," the little boy replied, beaming, "there must be a pony in here somewhere!"
"Reagan told the joke so often," Meese said, chuckling, "that it got to be kind of a joke with the rest of us. Whenever something would go wrong, somebody on the staff would be sure to say, 'There must be a pony in here somewhere.'"
Thanks for your insight. I do wonder about your "...not difficult to cut a fanhole..." comment.
The market I'm thinking about is somewhere between tinkering handyman, Dremel-owning computer geeks and your average home computer user.
Then again, nobody cares that much to spend an extra $50 for easy (physical) maintenance when buying a new PC.
Never underestimate the banality of the common man. Even in areas where there is substantial choice, Top-40 pulls 'em in.
Just like mommy used to always say, "there's safety in crowds".
We have post overlap.
I suggest that the reason that peoples' case interiors are that dustbunnyish is *because* it is so troublesome for them to get inside and clean it out (scared of breaking something, sharp edges, etc.). Do most case fans come equipped with filters? Are most case fans even easily accessible? Most I've seen are located down low behind the front facia.
Yeah, it would have to be for non-mainstream users, but then there seems to be a market for other add-ons and gadgets. The most useful features would be the easy-to-clean filter (assuming the case would be overpressurized by the large fan) and relative ease of installation.
The idea is to play on people's difficulty in dealing with math and make it HARDER to figure out how much they're really spending.
Isn't that why so many movies use roman numerals for the copyright date?