Well, the one you failed to click on (Convection) may have the most promise. It's not geothermal convection, it's a giant tower with a giant greenhouse at the bottom. The hot air flowing up the tower drives turbines. It would potentially power an entire city. Planning work has already begun for a tower to be build in Australia.
Umm, I think you are attacking some unrelated generalization you've heard in the past, not the actual poster's comment. He made no statement about hydrogen or solving fossil fuel dependancy.
But, since you are on that topic, there are a number of avenues besides fossil fuel for generating the electricity or heat or whatever for creating hydrogen:
Bacteria. Some scientist at UCLA did some calculations, and determined that a decent sized canyon in the Mojave desert covered 2 feet of water and a sheet to collect the hydrogen produced by the bacteria would be enough for all of Southern California.
I don't know how I lived without these. I have two 19" inch flat panels. My laptop's digital-out is connected to the one on the right. The laptop's analog-out goes to a switchbox which goes to the one on the left, along with my desktop systems. I have a dedicated keyboard and mouse for my laptop, and another keyboard and mouse for the switchbox. Most of the time I'm switched to the laptop, so I have dual screen action, with my local apps on the right screen, and VNC or Terminal Services or X or whatever on the left, so I can basically use two PCs at once. But if I need to switch to another PC for whatever reason, then I can still use my laptop because the second keyboard and mouse is available.
If you are using windows, an awesome piece of software is UltraMon, which will add a second app bar on the other monitor, and stretch wallpaper, and add buttons to every window to switch displays, etc. doing everything that Microsoft should have taken care of.
This is by far the most important part of my setup, since I'm staring at the frickin thing all day.
I looked at these two sites, and yes, stormfront.org is representing a scary organization. But what is so wacko about earthfirst.org? They seem pretty harmless.
So does this mean that if you're a hermit author, then anyone can copy your stuff because you aren't selling it on Amazon? That doesn't seem fair. Or am I misunderstanding this?
Ok, so I'll admit that I'm a C++ programmer and I don't know Java. I have a question. If all this profiling can make Java faster than C++ over the course of a few runs of the application, why can't a developer do all the profiling before hand, and then ship the cached code that was translated to machine code by the JVM as a native binary? Wouldn't you then have an app that doesn't require a JVM and would be faster than the C++ version?
Your logic is flawed. There are many things that man does that doesn't appear elsewhere on earth - nuclear explosions, rockets, art, radio communications. Just because a man-made machine is microscopic doesn't all of a sudden make it a bacteria. It has nothing to do with bacteria or other lifeforms except for size.
We can't even get VOIP over WLAN to work, and you all are worried about nano-bots turning the world into grey-goo???????? Have you seen the latest advances in nanotech? Tubes and tweezers???? jeez, we've got a LOOONG way until grey-goo. Go ahead, look at the predictions for the future from 100 or even 50 years ago. VERY inaccurate.
Discussing this topic is like discussing the negatives of having flying cars filling the sky with gridlock, EXCEPT ITS EVEN MORE FAR FETCHED PEOPLE!!!
Obsession with nanotech is like obsession with Star Trek and Japan. snap out of it.
LS
Re:Maybe we shouldn't be so quick to judge the ISP
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As a previous poster mentioned, it IS censorship, but not by the government. Governmental censorship certainly is more insidious that private censorship, since it is more pervasive. You can't step out of the government's jurisdiction, but you can stop using the private company's services.
The problem arises when a "private" entities becomes so large and powerful that that they have a monopoly or cartel and a lot of ties with the government. When the only place you can turn for a service is one of these government subsidized/sanctioned companies, then their censorship is just as bad as anything commited by the government.
Imagine if the phone company started censoring your phone calls? What if you couldn't get insurance unless you stopped speaking on some issue? etc...
I'm very surprised your post didn't get modded down heavily. Every mention, even implied, of Slashdot being in bed with Apple is met by swift punishment, lest the truth of inline marketing be known to the Slashbots. Watch me as I get moderated into oblivion!! I'll die with my boots on!!!:)
I tend to avoid customizations like this. In the past, I've customized my computer a lot, and whenever I go to someone else's place or a public terminal, then I get very annoyed that it doesn't work as I'm used to. I find that if there is a work around that involves training or learning (i.e. get used to not hitting the caps lock key on accident) then I don't customize it. I'll customize things like folder layouts etc, but not the keyboard.
Re:No! I use CapsLock as my "ESC" key
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I understand your pain when it comes to moving your hands away from the home row. But there's another way to escape that doesn't involve remapping the caps-lock: it's ctrl-[
Please, someone, anyone, tell my why do all these standards for video, audio, storage, etc. limit themselves to a specific size (7,680 by 4,320)?? Why can the standards be size agnostic and extensible?
Also, this UHDV thing is just a bunch of dudes in Japan throwing around numbers for a standard. No actual technology exists yet. So since all we are doing is talking about numbers, I have a video standard that is even better! 9,223,453 x 7,343,297!!!!!!!! SWEEEEEEET!!!! You could like see the molecules on J-Lo's ass!!! hella ya!!
You are incorrect. More data is ALWAYS better. For instance, what if you are watching a football game, and you want to pan and zoom to a single person in the stands? You will need to have 10s of thousands of pixels of resolution.
Don't be naive, Slashdot has been on the take for years now. They've been shilling for Think Geek, OSDN Sites, Apple, and anyone else who is willing to pay for a headline story. How do you think they've survived this long? Ads and subscriptions??? Yah right.
I know you are joking, but PLEASE don't eat too much caffeine. Here's an experience by someone who took 16 pills:
my sister and i decided to get what we thought might be a 'high' one night in december and nearly died. i decided to take 16 caffeine pills with a 200 mg amount of caffeine in each pill (equivalent to 2 cups of coffee) and drink a diet coke. my sister liked the idea because she thought it might be like speed. it was like hell. i shit three times i peed like a race horse about three times. i also thought maybe consuming some good h2o and some nourishing food might help but everything that went into my body came back up. i had an intense headache and body temperature that seemed to range from boiling to arctic freezing. i reached a point where i could not stop tremoring or shaking and my heart was pounding out of my chest. i really thought i was going to die. my sister had taken half the amount that i did and saw what i was going through. i had called an ambulance and was carried out in a stretcher and just about bounced out out of it from being unable to keep still. on the way to the hospital i blacked in and out and the blackouts got longer and longer. i was given numerous amounts of shots and hooked up to hooplas of equipment and was told to drink charcoal or i would die. my sister, i later found out went through the same thing just when i was hooked up to all of the monitors and what not. we were both told that we could have died from the amount of caffeine that we had taken.
my reason for telling this to whomever is reading it would be, be aware of what how much something can do to you. i just thought i would be very awake. it turns out i was almost asleep permanently.
Don't you think that if they had the insight to convert a censored document to fixed width, that they would also make all the blacked-out spaces of the same length, and give NO information to potential cryptographers?
LS
Re:On the transparent cloak...
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Well, the one you failed to click on (Convection) may have the most promise. It's not geothermal convection, it's a giant tower with a giant greenhouse at the bottom. The hot air flowing up the tower drives turbines. It would potentially power an entire city. Planning work has already begun for a tower to be build in Australia.
LS
Umm, I think you are attacking some unrelated generalization you've heard in the past, not the actual poster's comment. He made no statement about hydrogen or solving fossil fuel dependancy.
But, since you are on that topic, there are a number of avenues besides fossil fuel for generating the electricity or heat or whatever for creating hydrogen:
Bacteria. Some scientist at UCLA did some calculations, and determined that a decent sized canyon in the Mojave desert covered 2 feet of water and a sheet to collect the hydrogen produced by the bacteria would be enough for all of Southern California.
Geothermal
Photovoltaics
Tidal
Convection
Fission
Fusion
Biomass Fuels
Solar Thermal
Wind
Hydroelectric
So, who are you swinging your fists at? Certainly not the original poster?
LS
Umm, I think that Google is getting fussed over because Yahoo and Microsoft are funding various groups behind the scenes....
I don't know how I lived without these. I have two 19" inch flat panels. My laptop's digital-out is connected to the one on the right. The laptop's analog-out goes to a switchbox which goes to the one on the left, along with my desktop systems. I have a dedicated keyboard and mouse for my laptop, and another keyboard and mouse for the switchbox. Most of the time I'm switched to the laptop, so I have dual screen action, with my local apps on the right screen, and VNC or Terminal Services or X or whatever on the left, so I can basically use two PCs at once. But if I need to switch to another PC for whatever reason, then I can still use my laptop because the second keyboard and mouse is available.
If you are using windows, an awesome piece of software is UltraMon, which will add a second app bar on the other monitor, and stretch wallpaper, and add buttons to every window to switch displays, etc. doing everything that Microsoft should have taken care of.
This is by far the most important part of my setup, since I'm staring at the frickin thing all day.
LS
"In return for a free service, I get to see a few tiny, highly-revelant unintrusive ads placed alongside my search."
:)
Umm, how much did google pay you? [**ducks**] as google worshippers throw their shoes at me
I looked at these two sites, and yes, stormfront.org is representing a scary organization. But what is so wacko about earthfirst.org? They seem pretty harmless.
LS
So does this mean that if you're a hermit author, then anyone can copy your stuff because you aren't selling it on Amazon? That doesn't seem fair. Or am I misunderstanding this?
LS
Ok, so I'll admit that I'm a C++ programmer and I don't know Java. I have a question. If all this profiling can make Java faster than C++ over the course of a few runs of the application, why can't a developer do all the profiling before hand, and then ship the cached code that was translated to machine code by the JVM as a native binary? Wouldn't you then have an app that doesn't require a JVM and would be faster than the C++ version?
LS
Your logic is flawed. There are many things that man does that doesn't appear elsewhere on earth - nuclear explosions, rockets, art, radio communications. Just because a man-made machine is microscopic doesn't all of a sudden make it a bacteria. It has nothing to do with bacteria or other lifeforms except for size.
LS
But have you ever had a billing error in YOUR favor?
LS
We can't even get VOIP over WLAN to work, and you all are worried about nano-bots turning the world into grey-goo???????? Have you seen the latest advances in nanotech? Tubes and tweezers???? jeez, we've got a LOOONG way until grey-goo. Go ahead, look at the predictions for the future from 100 or even 50 years ago. VERY inaccurate.
Discussing this topic is like discussing the negatives of having flying cars filling the sky with gridlock, EXCEPT ITS EVEN MORE FAR FETCHED PEOPLE!!!
Obsession with nanotech is like obsession with Star Trek and Japan. snap out of it.
LS
As a previous poster mentioned, it IS censorship, but not by the government. Governmental censorship certainly is more insidious that private censorship, since it is more pervasive. You can't step out of the government's jurisdiction, but you can stop using the private company's services.
The problem arises when a "private" entities becomes so large and powerful that that they have a monopoly or cartel and a lot of ties with the government. When the only place you can turn for a service is one of these government subsidized/sanctioned companies, then their censorship is just as bad as anything commited by the government.
Imagine if the phone company started censoring your phone calls? What if you couldn't get insurance unless you stopped speaking on some issue? etc...
LS
I'm very surprised your post didn't get modded down heavily. Every mention, even implied, of Slashdot being in bed with Apple is met by swift punishment, lest the truth of inline marketing be known to the Slashbots. Watch me as I get moderated into oblivion!! I'll die with my boots on!!! :)
LS
I tend to avoid customizations like this. In the past, I've customized my computer a lot, and whenever I go to someone else's place or a public terminal, then I get very annoyed that it doesn't work as I'm used to. I find that if there is a work around that involves training or learning (i.e. get used to not hitting the caps lock key on accident) then I don't customize it. I'll customize things like folder layouts etc, but not the keyboard.
I understand your pain when it comes to moving your hands away from the home row. But there's another way to escape that doesn't involve remapping the caps-lock: it's ctrl-[
LS
Please, someone, anyone, tell my why do all these standards for video, audio, storage, etc. limit themselves to a specific size (7,680 by 4,320)?? Why can the standards be size agnostic and extensible?
Also, this UHDV thing is just a bunch of dudes in Japan throwing around numbers for a standard. No actual technology exists yet. So since all we are doing is talking about numbers, I have a video standard that is even better! 9,223,453 x 7,343,297!!!!!!!! SWEEEEEEET!!!! You could like see the molecules on J-Lo's ass!!! hella ya!!
You are incorrect. More data is ALWAYS better. For instance, what if you are watching a football game, and you want to pan and zoom to a single person in the stands? You will need to have 10s of thousands of pixels of resolution.
LS
when i say, "NO DUH"??
LS
Umm, seeds?
Don't be naive, Slashdot has been on the take for years now. They've been shilling for Think Geek, OSDN Sites, Apple, and anyone else who is willing to pay for a headline story. How do you think they've survived this long? Ads and subscriptions??? Yah right.
LS
It IS governmental censorship. It's indirect, through the loss of tax-credits, but it's still caused by governmental decision making.
LS
Uhm. You should chill out a bit. I don't think the Enterprise was designed to fly in a vacuum. It was designed to sit in a movie studio.
*ahem*
I know you are joking, but PLEASE don't eat too much caffeine. Here's an experience by someone who took 16 pills:
my sister and i decided to get what we thought might be a 'high' one night in december and nearly died. i decided to take 16 caffeine pills with a 200 mg amount of caffeine in each pill (equivalent to 2 cups of coffee) and drink a diet coke. my sister liked the idea because she thought it might be like speed. it was like hell. i shit three times i peed like a race horse about three times. i also thought maybe consuming some good h2o and some nourishing food might help but everything that went into my body came back up. i had an intense headache and body temperature that seemed to range from boiling to arctic freezing. i reached a point where i could not stop tremoring or shaking and my heart was pounding out of my chest. i really thought i was going to die. my sister had taken half the amount that i did and saw what i was going through. i had called an ambulance and was carried out in a stretcher and just about bounced out out of it from being unable to keep still. on the way to the hospital i blacked in and out and the blackouts got longer and longer. i was given numerous amounts of shots and hooked up to hooplas of equipment and was told to drink charcoal or i would die. my sister, i later found out went through the same thing just when i was hooked up to all of the monitors and what not. we were both told that we could have died from the amount of caffeine that we had taken.
my reason for telling this to whomever is reading it would be, be aware of what how much something can do to you. i just thought i would be very awake. it turns out i was almost asleep permanently.
Don't you think that if they had the insight to convert a censored document to fixed width, that they would also make all the blacked-out spaces of the same length, and give NO information to potential cryptographers?
LS
Does anyone know how this thing works???
LS