You go to your local library with a sealed request for a book, they forward it to another library who return a sealed copy of the book you requested. You pick up the copy at your local library and, when done, return it sealed, with the reference number they gave you at the start of the transaction. The issuing library can still issue fines by proxy if need be.
If the ISS is a useful science tool and it is part of the long-term aim of landing a man on Mars, wouldn't it be more interesting to tell the astronauts that there was no replacement on the way and that they would have to solve the problem themselves? This is after all, the situation they would encounter following a similar failure on a Mars mission. This would be one way of finding out which systems on ISS are genuinely essential, and which could be stripped down and the parts re-used for maintaining life-support.
Tony Blair said some pithy words about what a great achievement it all was, but it is hardly the white (expletive) heat of (expletive) technology is it?
Of course this is technically feasible, but much of the cost of wireless networks goes into the last-mile network, so there is limited bandwidth and relatively high latency there.
Running high power games on a handheld uses too much battery. Mobile communication devices have to provide 24 hour+ standby times and this just doesn't fit with the same power model as a video card that draws 40W on its own.
I think the issue is with unencumbered D/A and A/D. Currently you are free to convert freely between digital and analogue media, but eventually all DRM material could contain a watermark which would only allow it to pass through the conversion after a small degradation in quality, and then only if you had a license to do the conversion.
This has already happened in the world of picture scanning. Try putting a bill though a colour photocopier. The image of paper money is no longer able to pass through this conversion technology.
This statistic has been bandied about recently in the UK press and television (e.g. on bbc Top Gear programme), but I can't find a recent reference to back that up. A swift googling revealed a few sources to suggest that modern railway locomotives were less efficient than automobiles. See:
http://www.lafn.org/~dave/trans/energy/fuel-eff-20 th-1.html
It would be nice to think that the government was spending the additional tax revenues on improving public transport (and making it more efficient) or on some other CO2 reduction system, but they're not.
I'm surprised the pensioners' winter fuel allowance has survived so long. It is time to replace it with a winter thermal undies allowance. Surely that would be the better solution for global warming.;-)
I'll bet they just got a no-smoking policy in the building next to the CO2 detector, so folk are going outside to stand next to the detector to have a smoke.
The UK in particular has been jumping on the global warming band-wagon because its government thinks they can get away with raising taxes on things that are thought to be bad. So they tax car fuel disproportionately despite the alternative (public transport) having even worse CO2 emissions per passenger mile.
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It would give you several Mega bites.
Yes, these mice are nibbling at the thin end of the wedge.
Once global warming cuts in they will all be near water, don't worry.
Throw away your fire-walls, install a moat.
If this thing can pick up the light of a candle burning on the moon's surface, then someone has been lying to us big time.
I mean abrasive.
Oops, my bad. The fridge said Zool.
I thought Zorn was what the fridge said in "Ghost Busters", also the name of a discontinued range of Mephisto sandals.
Well, I thought it was funny. Sorry no points today.
You go to your local library with a sealed request for a book, they forward it to another library who return a sealed copy of the book you requested. You pick up the copy at your local library and, when done, return it sealed, with the reference number they gave you at the start of the transaction. The issuing library can still issue fines by proxy if need be.
Aha, more hagumemnon than Deep Thought then.
If the ISS is a useful science tool and it is part of the long-term aim of landing a man on Mars, wouldn't it be more interesting to tell the astronauts that there was no replacement on the way and that they would have to solve the problem themselves? This is after all, the situation they would encounter following a similar failure on a Mars mission. This would be one way of finding out which systems on ISS are genuinely essential, and which could be stripped down and the parts re-used for maintaining life-support.
Yes, but as many other posters have pointed out, with diamonds, more is less.
Tony Blair said some pithy words about what a great achievement it all was, but it is hardly the white (expletive) heat of (expletive) technology is it?
And it's flown exactly the same number of times too.
If you made the prime number too big, the aliens might think you were crackers.
Of course this is technically feasible, but much of the cost of wireless networks goes into the last-mile network, so there is limited bandwidth and relatively high latency there.
Running high power games on a handheld uses too much battery. Mobile communication devices have to provide 24 hour+ standby times and this just doesn't fit with the same power model as a video card that draws 40W on its own.
I think the issue is with unencumbered D/A and A/D. Currently you are free to convert freely between digital and analogue media, but eventually all DRM material could contain a watermark which would only allow it to pass through the conversion after a small degradation in quality, and then only if you had a license to do the conversion.
This has already happened in the world of picture scanning. Try putting a bill though a colour photocopier. The image of paper money is no longer able to pass through this conversion technology.
sacrificial goat in this case.
with the intense sound driven cooler that was mentioned a couple of months back. Make an oscillating hard drive that cools the processor?
I came across the same quote, concerning the relative efficiency of modern trains and cars in a telegraph article. Sorry, free registration required.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?x
This statistic has been bandied about recently in the UK press and television (e.g. on bbc Top Gear programme), but I can't find a recent reference to back that up. A swift googling revealed a few sources to suggest that modern railway locomotives were less efficient than automobiles.0 th-1.html
;-)
See:
http://www.lafn.org/~dave/trans/energy/fuel-eff-2
It would be nice to think that the government was spending the additional tax revenues on improving public transport (and making it more efficient) or on some other CO2 reduction system, but they're not.
I'm surprised the pensioners' winter fuel allowance has survived so long. It is time to replace it with a winter thermal undies allowance. Surely that would be the better solution for global warming.
I'll bet they just got a no-smoking policy in the building next to the CO2 detector, so folk are going outside to stand next to the detector to have a smoke.
The UK in particular has been jumping on the global warming band-wagon because its government thinks they can get away with raising taxes on things that are thought to be bad.
So they tax car fuel disproportionately despite the alternative (public transport) having even worse CO2 emissions per passenger mile.
I thought it was the vocative of LED all these years