Glad you asked. What I was (albeit rudely) insinuating is that, without some form of proof, via hyperlink or otherwise, I have little reason to believe your 'top 10' claims. Upon your posting of links to those top 10 lists, I'll informally withdraw my complaint and concede the point.
Before you speak about a topic, it would be better to have at least a cursory familiarity with it.
Yale, for example, meets 100% of demonstrated financial need. Harvard and Princeton do as well. I don't know about the rest of the Ivies. That means that your average middle-class family with one child in college pays $10,000 / year for the education (including room&board). That is roughly the same price as, say, a state school. It is, additionally, far cheaper than your average non-Ivy private school.
Afraid that you could get nailed for sharing a movie? Run the tool and see if any of your movies show up on their radar. If not, and the movie isn't brand-new, you can be fairly secure that you won't get caught for it.
If it does show up, edit what you can until the hash value changes and the movie no longer shows up as a known pirated film.
Doesn't this just go to reinforce the value of piracy as a positive, market-driving force?
Deepz0ne contributed to the success of a Microsoft product by allowing the piracy of a key component of another company's software. Couldn't the piracy of other products also lead to a net positive good?
You said, 'the amount of carbon produced would actually go down, rather than get juggled in the chemistry books.'
You admit, by virtue of mentioning 'net carbon', as a concern, that the amount of C02 produced does indeed matter. The net carbon in the atmosphere, which is what matters, would increase. Since it matters, we should try to minimize it.
Also, you haven't completely understood the C02-liquid-phase production, it seems. Thanks to the high pressure, a temperature decrease (which would be required by law were we to just dump the gas anyway) readily brings the C02 into a liquid phase. The cost is no greater than it would be were we to cool the C02 and then depressurize it to the gas phase, which, again, would be required by law.
The default efficiencies of the two methods are not the same.
Low pressure and high-pressure power producing systems do not have the same default efficiencies. Whereas a 1,000atm, 1,500C plant has an expected efficiency of nearly 70%, a slightly-over-1-atm plant at only a few hundred degrees has an efficiency approaching 30%.
Carnot efficiencies are determined by the difference between the high- and low-temperature phases. These new, high-pressure high-temperature plants will have good Carnot efficiencies.
These new plants would not, as you suggest, be 'less efficient' than our current plants.
There is no way to 'incorporate' this high-efficiency stage into current means of production, as the efficiency is determined by the temperature differential.
The $25/month plan is an unlimited data plan, so by your indications, you'd never pay more than $25/month. However, as I said before, if you dock your phone to a computer so that it is used as the computer's Internet connection, you'll be charged per KB.
A direct quote from the website: "*** Unlimited referes only to usage on your device. Connection to another device or computer via cable, Bluetooth, or infared will be charged $.001 per KB."
If you don't want to take my word for it, here's the URL: http://www.attwireless.com/personal/features /mmode/plans.jhtml;dsessionid=D1FGG4VYBYKSZB4R0G1SFEY
Just getting a data plan on your wireless service isn't enough, in cases like this. With AT&T, at least, if you use this sort of device, you will be charged an additional $0.001 per kilobyte. This doesn't sound like a lot, but $1.00/MB is outrageous for laptop Internet browsing.
In case I didn't get my point across: Even if you buy the $25.00/month plan, you will be charged $0.001/KB download fees by AT&T, at least as of last week when I last checked.
Agreed. Ive been in Buenos Aires for the last 5 weeks and Ive found no cybercafé charging more than 2 pesos (US$0.66) per hour of net access. The vast majority, at least in Balvanera and along the Corrientes corridor, weigh in at 1 peso (US$0.33) per hour.
More importantly, decent wine costs 3 pesos (US$1.00) per bottle. Is this survey suggesting that people would rather spend an hour on the Internet than spend several hours buzzed for the same price?
Yep, just like the burning of coal produces an excess of energy, which we harness to make your computer run. There is nothing weird about fusion giving off more energy than you put in. It's called 'the reason that we would do it in the first place'.
Of course, on a universal scale, there is no net change in energy. But entropy increases...
Except for the fact that nitric acid can deaminate guanine and adenine (causing DNA mutation). So we'd be loading up the soil around our houses with mutagens for our children to ingest.
Now the level of nitric acid will undoubtedly be low, but still it's sort of scary.
Good point. The rest of the "All Your Base" dialogue was an exquisitely-crafted, grammatically-correct gem of proper English. The 'up/us' transposition was the only glaring error...
Yes, but before you even enter the casino you know that the odds are stacked in favor of the casino. That's NOT CHEATING. It's the game - it's just asymmetrical.
Do you call purchasing a new car 'cheating the customer' because it's an asymmetrical exchange wherein the customer gets less than he paid for (as the car's value instantly drops upon purchase)?
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Glad you asked. What I was (albeit rudely) insinuating is that, without some form of proof, via hyperlink or otherwise, I have little reason to believe your 'top 10' claims. Upon your posting of links to those top 10 lists, I'll informally withdraw my complaint and concede the point.
Oh, is that why the 3 top Ivies get 95% of their pre-medical students into med schools?
'last time you checked'? Oh, sweet. Why don't you go ahead and produce some of those 'top 10' lists of 'the sciences' for us.
Before you speak about a topic, it would be better to have at least a cursory familiarity with it.
Yale, for example, meets 100% of demonstrated financial need. Harvard and Princeton do as well. I don't know about the rest of the Ivies. That means that your average middle-class family with one child in college pays $10,000 / year for the education (including room&board). That is roughly the same price as, say, a state school. It is, additionally, far cheaper than your average non-Ivy private school.
Quoting you, "Keep in mind that we're unlikely to try invading anyone with nuclear weapons and the ability to launch them at American cities."
Neither of us is talking about satellites, it seems.
What about that missile that hit the Twin Towers?
Wait, you don't have to use ICBMs to enter into US territory?
Yeah, we're unlikely to invade Iran.
Right guys?
But then the search for 'French Military Victories' would be so bland.
This is actually a fantastic tool for pirates.
Afraid that you could get nailed for sharing a movie? Run the tool and see if any of your movies show up on their radar. If not, and the movie isn't brand-new, you can be fairly secure that you won't get caught for it.
If it does show up, edit what you can until the hash value changes and the movie no longer shows up as a known pirated film.
This is a boon for pirates.
Doesn't this just go to reinforce the value of piracy as a positive, market-driving force?
Deepz0ne contributed to the success of a Microsoft product by allowing the piracy of a key component of another company's software. Couldn't the piracy of other products also lead to a net positive good?
I'm not talking law, here, of course.
You said, 'the amount of carbon produced would actually go down, rather than get juggled in the chemistry books.'
You admit, by virtue of mentioning 'net carbon', as a concern, that the amount of C02 produced does indeed matter. The net carbon in the atmosphere, which is what matters, would increase. Since it matters, we should try to minimize it.
Also, you haven't completely understood the C02-liquid-phase production, it seems. Thanks to the high pressure, a temperature decrease (which would be required by law were we to just dump the gas anyway) readily brings the C02 into a liquid phase. The cost is no greater than it would be were we to cool the C02 and then depressurize it to the gas phase, which, again, would be required by law.
The default efficiencies of the two methods are not the same.
Low pressure and high-pressure power producing systems do not have the same default efficiencies. Whereas a 1,000atm, 1,500C plant has an expected efficiency of nearly 70%, a slightly-over-1-atm plant at only a few hundred degrees has an efficiency approaching 30%.
Carnot efficiencies are determined by the difference between the high- and low-temperature phases. These new, high-pressure high-temperature plants will have good Carnot efficiencies.
These new plants would not, as you suggest, be 'less efficient' than our current plants.
There is no way to 'incorporate' this high-efficiency stage into current means of production, as the efficiency is determined by the temperature differential.
Do your research before counterindicating facts.
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The $25/month plan is an unlimited data plan, so by your indications, you'd never pay more than $25/month. However, as I said before, if you dock your phone to a computer so that it is used as the computer's Internet connection, you'll be charged per KB.
A direct quote from the website:
"*** Unlimited referes only to usage on your device. Connection to another device or computer via cable, Bluetooth, or infared will be charged $.001 per KB."
If you don't want to take my word for it, here's the URL:
http://www.attwireless.com/personal/feature
Just getting a data plan on your wireless service isn't enough, in cases like this. With AT&T, at least, if you use this sort of device, you will be charged an additional $0.001 per kilobyte. This doesn't sound like a lot, but $1.00/MB is outrageous for laptop Internet browsing.
In case I didn't get my point across: Even if you buy the $25.00/month plan, you will be charged $0.001/KB download fees by AT&T, at least as of last week when I last checked.
Agreed. Ive been in Buenos Aires for the last 5 weeks and Ive found no cybercafé charging more than 2 pesos (US$0.66) per hour of net access. The vast majority, at least in Balvanera and along the Corrientes corridor, weigh in at 1 peso (US$0.33) per hour.
More importantly, decent wine costs 3 pesos (US$1.00) per bottle. Is this survey suggesting that people would rather spend an hour on the Internet than spend several hours buzzed for the same price?
That's just not true...
Hey, man - Caffeine may be bad for you, but it's sure as hell necessary for my survival. Which, in itself, may be bad for you...
Yep, just like the burning of coal produces an excess of energy, which we harness to make your computer run. There is nothing weird about fusion giving off more energy than you put in. It's called 'the reason that we would do it in the first place'.
Of course, on a universal scale, there is no net change in energy. But entropy increases...
That's a reference to Herbert Hoover's pre-Depression campaign, btw.
Like VB Scripting,
PHP pales to my Perl.
PHP is for kids.
This brings up a great new business model proposal.
0) Be born. (With endowment problems, if possible.)
1) Get Enlargement product with no Enlargement results.
2) Sue.
3) Profit!
Please... Instead of 'completing a line,' the preferred nomenclature is 'doing a line'. And yes, doing lines will make most anything disappear.
Except for the fact that nitric acid can deaminate guanine and adenine (causing DNA mutation). So we'd be loading up the soil around our houses with mutagens for our children to ingest.
Now the level of nitric acid will undoubtedly be low, but still it's sort of scary.
Good point. The rest of the "All Your Base" dialogue was an exquisitely-crafted, grammatically-correct gem of proper English. The 'up/us' transposition was the only glaring error...
Yes, but before you even enter the casino you know that the odds are stacked in favor of the casino. That's NOT CHEATING. It's the game - it's just asymmetrical.
Do you call purchasing a new car 'cheating the customer' because it's an asymmetrical exchange wherein the customer gets less than he paid for (as the car's value instantly drops upon purchase)?