Luckily I am quite adept at concentrating on my writing, while typing, while watching a movie.
I find myself quite *IN GOES THE RED PILL* capableo f concentrating on *HA, HE THINKS THAT'S AIR HE'S BREATHING, LOL!! OMG!! THIS IS THE BEST PART* reading, thinking, *MAN, TRINITY IS TEH ROXXORZZZ* typing and watching a movie *THERE IS NO SPOON LOL!* at the same time.
I think you overestimate your productivity! That post took you about an hour to write.
My dell laptop is ancient, but one of the features of the dock is a half-size PCI slot. As I recall from 4-5 years ago, there was at least one video card that could give you a dual-headed display when docked.
Now I'm inspired again to go Googling to find the particular card, then go eBaying to see if I can find one on the cheap!
And yes, I do know how annoying it is when someone verbs as much as I do.:-P
... because after we start dying out, nobody will be interested in my stories of saving up ($115) for my Hayes MicroModem ][ with direct plug into the phone line! (No acoustic couplers for me, nosiree!)
Of course, I couldn't afford the fancy-schmancy touch-tone dialing, so I got to hear the relay clicking out the pulse for each number.
Tying into the underlying BBS theme this year, VCF will be hosting the first and only public screening of the long anticipated BBS Documentary which is due out on DVD late this year.
To be consistent with my experience of BBSing in the early 80s, couldn't I just spend three days downloading a copy of your documentary? Of course, there would have to be a a "Cracked by the OverLOrd" screen at the front, with an ad for OverLOrd's favorite bbs, probably without the area code.
Seriously, thanks for the flashback. Maybe/. can frontpage your release party. I'd love to see the video, and maybe even spend real money to buy my very own copy.:)
Google for "Project Rulison"
From a DOE page (on the first set of links from that google search):
Project RULISON was a gas stimulation Plowshare Program nuclear test. Plowshare was a program that promoted using the energy produced from nuclear explosions for peaceful uses and applications. The 40-kiloton RULISON test was detonated 6 miles west of Grand Valley, Colorado, on September 10, 1969. Its purpose was to release natural gas reserves locked tightly in the sandstone and shale Mesa Verde formation. The estimated cost for the RULISON project was 6.5 million dollars, funded primarily by the Austral Oil Company of Houston, Texas.
There were plans before the CO oil and gas commission as recently as Feb 04 to drill in the area and see if there is any non-radioactive gas that can be extracted. I don't know any news on that.
Interestingly, it seems like there were as many as four nuclear fracs as part of the "Plowshare" programs. Rulison was the only one I had known about before this particular google session.
The Powder River Basin field in north eastern Wyoming has produced 1.4 billion Mcf of natural gas since 2000.
In July of this year, that one field produced 28,210,075 Mcf.
These figures are from the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commision site. An Mcf is 1,000 cubic feet at standard temperature and pressure.
That's one field, in one state.
I was not able to find estimates for alternate sources easily. Let me know if you get some hard numbers.
Video poker systems that take real live money to play will clean you out. These fake ones that they have to feed your virtua-pet obviously are set up with easier payouts.
Simply make the neoPets gambling area obey the odds of real gambling!
Little Sally won't end up with a gambling addiction -- her neoPet will simply die of starvation because she lost all her cash at the poker table. Now THAT's the kind of lesson that sticks with ya!
But what about Moore's law? Is nothing sacred?
Seriously though, this seems like just what geeks have been saying for about a decade now -- clock speed isn't the be-all-and-end-all of CPU wars. Looks like Intel is agreeing with us!
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I think you underestimate how much methane is coming out of the ground today, or perhaps you overestimate the power of my ass after a good burrito.
There are alternative ways to produce methane, yes. What they produce, and even the most agressive estimates of what they can produce is a fraction of a percent of the amount that is currently extracted from the earth.
Not to say we shouldn't pursue the alternate production methods, but they are nowhere close to displacing geological sources.
Neat idea, but I'd guess there's a fundamental flaw in the economics or the physics.
That page has the following in the HTTP headers:
Last-Modified: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 07:26:55 GMT
and the bottom of the page text has:
Immediate Actions Planned
* Organizing a work-shop in India in April/May with experts drawn from various fields and critically assess the claims of the technology and its application potential in India. * To design and estimate the cost of a pilot-scale Energy Tower including selecting a suitable site location for operation and generation of data for the design of a large-scale Energy Towers.
If they did something in April/May of 2002, where's the updates? I also didn't notice anywhere that they discussed the energy cost of pumping water (in volume) up to the top of a kilometer-tall tower.
But I'm just guessing at the math.
With one notable exception in western Colorado, nobody has done a nuclear fracture. Nitroglycerine and other high explosives are used, but not nukes.
As they learned in CO -- while a nuclear frac does indeed liberate the product, it also makes it radioactive, which greatly reduces its market value.
Indeed, only about 5% of the oil (believed to be) in the earth is extracted via primary production. The remaining 95% can be pulled out using well-known techniques (flood, fracture, chemical processes) but the cost is an order of magnitude higher than primary production.
All of the Persian Gulf oil is primary production -- poke a hole in the ground and let the pressure of the oil push it out for you -- and the world's pricing is based on this extremely cheap and easy method.
We won't run out of oil in my lifetime, but the impact of a 10x price increase is gonna suck, and THAT looks likely to happen in my lifetime.
It produces less radioactive waste then coal-fired plants, but could we please sink more into solar energy sources? By some estimates, we'll begin the end of primary production in the persian gulf within the next decade. Venezualia and the Ukraine may stretch the world's oil supplies by a few years, but the sooner we can get alternatives up and running, the less it's gonna suck when we run out of the cheap oil.
They break, and spare parts are expensive since they're not in current production
The numbers on the counters are manually recorded, then manually transferred to a central registrar. That's two places with human intervention, and opportunity for error or, more remotely, fraud
The manual processing takes time, and like it or not, people want to know results sooner than the morning paper.
And if OpenOffice started getting reasonable Word and Excel filters, it might actually become useful.
Now now, very few four year olds can read. Wait until it's 7, then if it still can't read we can talk about remedial education.
While you're right on the mark about Maria, you're missing the meaning of the word "fame," as in "Robot Hall of Fame."
Lang was visionary, (as was Wilcox with Forbidden Planet) but Maria was and is not famous.
Still, she should have at least got an honorary mention for the obvious impact she made on Lucas.
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I think you overestimate your productivity! That post took you about an hour to write.
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My dell laptop is ancient, but one of the features of the dock is a half-size PCI slot. As I recall from 4-5 years ago, there was at least one video card that could give you a dual-headed display when docked.
:-P
Now I'm inspired again to go Googling to find the particular card, then go eBaying to see if I can find one on the cheap!
And yes, I do know how annoying it is when someone verbs as much as I do.
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... because after we start dying out, nobody will be interested in my stories of saving up ($115) for my Hayes MicroModem ][ with direct plug into the phone line! (No acoustic couplers for me, nosiree!)
Of course, I couldn't afford the fancy-schmancy touch-tone dialing, so I got to hear the relay clicking out the pulse for each number.
Good times, good times.
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Tying into the underlying BBS theme this year, VCF will be hosting the first and only public screening of the long anticipated BBS Documentary which is due out on DVD late this year.
/. can frontpage your release party. I'd love to see the video, and maybe even spend real money to buy my very own copy. :)
To be consistent with my experience of BBSing in the early 80s, couldn't I just spend three days downloading a copy of your documentary? Of course, there would have to be a a "Cracked by the OverLOrd" screen at the front, with an ad for OverLOrd's favorite bbs, probably without the area code.
Seriously, thanks for the flashback. Maybe
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... 50 Cent?
something black and vacuous!
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From a DOE page (on the first set of links from that google search):
There were plans before the CO oil and gas commission as recently as Feb 04 to drill in the area and see if there is any non-radioactive gas that can be extracted. I don't know any news on that.
Interestingly, it seems like there were as many as four nuclear fracs as part of the "Plowshare" programs. Rulison was the only one I had known about before this particular google session.
You're missing something more important than a default case.
Aww c'mon, give the guy a break already!
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The Powder River Basin field in north eastern Wyoming has produced 1.4 billion Mcf of natural gas since 2000.
In July of this year, that one field produced 28,210,075 Mcf.
These figures are from the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commision site.
An Mcf is 1,000 cubic feet at standard temperature and pressure.
That's one field, in one state.
I was not able to find estimates for alternate sources easily. Let me know if you get some hard numbers.
I'll talk to my geologist friend and (if I remember on Monday) post followup info.
I was thinking of an espresso bar myself.
Sorry bub, that cliche was taken more than 79,000 users before you.
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Video poker systems that take real live money to play will clean you out. These fake ones that they have to feed your virtua-pet obviously are set up with easier payouts.
Simply make the neoPets gambling area obey the odds of real gambling!
Little Sally won't end up with a gambling addiction -- her neoPet will simply die of starvation because she lost all her cash at the poker table. Now THAT's the kind of lesson that sticks with ya!
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Sweet! Now it's finally against the law to kill and eat me!
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If you're talking about 94-year old folks, I'm not sure if you want to bill something as the "killer app."
But former Colorado governor Dick Lamm Approves. (The second quote, not the first)
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But what about Moore's law? Is nothing sacred?
Seriously though, this seems like just what geeks have been saying for about a decade now -- clock speed isn't the be-all-and-end-all of CPU wars. Looks like Intel is agreeing with us!
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I think you underestimate how much methane is coming out of the ground today, or perhaps you overestimate the power of my ass after a good burrito.
There are alternative ways to produce methane, yes. What they produce, and even the most agressive estimates of what they can produce is a fraction of a percent of the amount that is currently extracted from the earth.
Not to say we shouldn't pursue the alternate production methods, but they are nowhere close to displacing geological sources.
In this version, slashdot shoots first.
Then nobody can see the rest of the movie.
That page has the following in the HTTP headers:
Last-Modified: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 07:26:55 GMT
and the bottom of the page text has:
If they did something in April/May of 2002, where's the updates? I also didn't notice anywhere that they discussed the energy cost of pumping water (in volume) up to the top of a kilometer-tall tower.
But I'm just guessing at the math.
With one notable exception in western Colorado, nobody has done a nuclear fracture. Nitroglycerine and other high explosives are used, but not nukes.
As they learned in CO -- while a nuclear frac does indeed liberate the product, it also makes it radioactive, which greatly reduces its market value.
Indeed, only about 5% of the oil (believed to be) in the earth is extracted via primary production. The remaining 95% can be pulled out using well-known techniques (flood, fracture, chemical processes) but the cost is an order of magnitude higher than primary production.
All of the Persian Gulf oil is primary production -- poke a hole in the ground and let the pressure of the oil push it out for you -- and the world's pricing is based on this extremely cheap and easy method.
We won't run out of oil in my lifetime, but the impact of a 10x price increase is gonna suck, and THAT looks likely to happen in my lifetime.
It produces less radioactive waste then coal-fired plants, but could we please sink more into solar energy sources? By some estimates, we'll begin the end of primary production in the persian gulf within the next decade. Venezualia and the Ukraine may stretch the world's oil supplies by a few years, but the sooner we can get alternatives up and running, the less it's gonna suck when we run out of the cheap oil.
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And if OpenOffice started getting reasonable Word and Excel filters, it might actually become useful.
Now now, very few four year olds can read. Wait until it's 7, then if it still can't read we can talk about remedial education.
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While you're right on the mark about Maria, you're missing the meaning of the word "fame," as in "Robot Hall of Fame."
Lang was visionary, (as was Wilcox with Forbidden Planet) but Maria was and is not famous.
Still, she should have at least got an honorary mention for the obvious impact she made on Lucas.
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