Floaters are hard to flush. You usually need to anchor them down with a lot of toilet paper. And pray you don't have a water efficient toilet!
Not true. We recently got a new water efficient thunder mug from someone called "Stylus" and it's not just a vast water saver, it's quite efficient in what it does. Good technology, good sound hydraulics. As an Australian I'm naturally impressed by good technology, however fundamental the application.
While this effort happened to be run by a religious organization, I do not believe efforts like this have to be faith based.
What this world needs is a good secular church, small groups of like-minded people with branches everywhere. All the community, all the good works, but without the need to posture to some anthropomorphic personification of the universe, a bearded thunderbolt-hurler, or any involvement with volcanoes.
Although I believe that Sturgeon's Law applies to all religions, I think the small charity-oriented churches that followed the development of Western civilisation worked well in filling the gap between family-sized organisations and government-sized organisations, and that gap is mostly empty today (largely due to the aforementioned Sturgeoning that happens when the memes of an organisation die).
Yep, a secular church. Maybe call it the Church of Imagine meets Wavy Gravy. Offer spaghetti bolognaise as a sacrament if you must.
They have fought to secure those same elements and done their homework.
Hmm. I remember hearing long ago that the rare earths were pretty poorly named. Main mining areas aren't the same as main availability areas, they're just where the acquisition infrastructure is located. China leads in bulk production, but I don't think they have a lock on the minerals by any means. The following is from Wikipedia, although if you don't see that as definitive you can probably get more authoritative information from the cia.gov web site.
The main mining areas are China, United States, Brazil, India, Sri Lanka and Australia; and reserves of neodymium are estimated at about 8 million tonnes. Although it belongs to "rare earth metals," neodymium is not rare at all - its abundance in the Earth crust is about 38 mg/kg, which is the second among rare-earth elements after cerium. The world production of neodymium is about 7,000 tonnes per year.[6] The bulk of current production is from China, whose government has recently imposed strategic materials controls on the element, raising some concerns in consuming countries.
Can carbon nanotubes be made large enough in diameter to effectively pass another fluid through them for better heat dissipation? Doesn't have to be liquid, and you don't need closed plumbing, the nanotube elements would just need to be open at both ends. Simple convective gas recirculation might be enough for the inner layers. Perhaps. Maybe.
Guys, can we start talking about TFA again? I'm interested in Thorium as a nuclear fuel. The whole middle-east political situation is a re-hash of discussions that seems to hijack each and every discussion about fuel. Isn't there anything we can say about the technology? Or has this become simply a more accessible forum than the mainstream press?
Oooh you had LED displays? Sheer luuxury, mate. We used Nixie tubes and loved it. 256 bytes of memory? You gotta be jokin, mon. Who could afford that much memory?
I'm not so sure that car would be incorrect. I believe they both are correct, car is a subset of automobile.
Agree, I did not mean to imply otherwise. "Car" has become a correct form, derived from a slightly larger form of the word. From the Oxford English Dictionary:
car
noun 1 a powered road vehicle designed to carry a small number of people. 2 a railway carriage or (N. Amer.) wagon.
-- ORIGIN originally meaning wheeled vehicle: from Latin carrus.
Sounds like the ideal shape for spaceships will be spherical
That'll be boring: round ships, round planets, round explosions, and round movie goers.
Obligatory reference to Doc Smith here - Skylark of Space was first serialised in 1928. First and greatest exponent of your classical space opera. The first and subsequent versions of the Skylark were spherical. Although I would have thought, given the subject matter of his PhD, that it would have been more toroidal.
For "whatever" reason? Have you seen the men in IT recently?
Depends on where you are, I guess. Most of the IT guys on our floor (we're an SI in Australia) tend to look more like Aussie Rules footballers than fit the stereotype of the geek sucrose and triglyceride addict. Possibly because a number of them are, perhaps, except for a couple of project managers whom I know are closet triathlon types. The attitude here seems to imply "how can you possibly think well if you aren't healthy?"
Mind you, I don't fit the norm, as I look more like Santa Claus, but then I'm an import and don't count.
Oh, and the women here are brilliant and good looking too, including the ones in the exec circle. Love this country.
I'm not impressed with special effects that are the point of the story instead of serving the story.
I respect your opinion, but wish to point out that it's not universally held, and that there is room in the world of art for the opposite case.
In Japan, Kabuki theatre is an old form with only a few set plots. All attendees of this classical form of drama know the plots, and happily dismiss them as they watch the actors practice their art.
I enjoyed all the Star Wars films for their kinetic appeal; the plot was only a vehicle, there to carry the drama. The appeal to me was imagining that people could create and use such stupendous engines of flight and fancy (if at the expense of dialogue, perhaps). It allowed me to skip all my accumulated wisdom and strip my cares all the way back to when I was a wide-eyed twelve-year old boy. It was fun.
Someone said Avatar has smoking hot 10 foot tall alien women? I am SO there for that...
We even have skateboarders calling their videos "films". At the same time some people actually still make films. Please, can we call things what they are?
Good luck with that. In the English (and possibly others') language, increase in a popular term's usage tends to lower the syllable count; highly popular terms tend to be reduced to a single syllable. "Automobile" is correct. "Car" is the popular reduction. As long as it's indicative and unambiguous in popular understanding, the word with the fewest syllables wins.
Thus "Film". One syllable. "Video" - three. The term's origin is interesting, but non-essential if its identification is understood.
Whats the difference between a 19 and 17 year old girl
Speaking as a father of two girls (now 23 and 18) the difference in maturity across two years is rather dramatic. At 17 years, there's still a lot of emotionally dependent behaviour. At 19, knowledge of the outside world and their ability to deal with the emotional effects of theirs and others' actions is much advanced. Maturity isn't just growing in that range, it's accelerating as their minds grow and reach their strides. What's likely a scarring, emotional trauma at 17 is easier to deal with at 19, and if their development at 17 is interrupted while they have to deal with a highly-emotionally laden betrayal of trust, then they may never feel at ease around people again. That's the crime, and it can stunt a person's emotional health for the rest of their lives. It isn't just all about physical maturity.
That said, the true crime is treating people like objects, which is the source of pretty much all I consider evil in the world today.
Laptops and lawn mowers are both made in China. China has an incredibly competitive market internally. The answer is that the race to the bottom of the market isn't complete yet.
Actually though in the reasonably near future you might be able to. 3D printers - Fabbers - are becoming a lot more sophisticated. We'll probably be able to download a car before we get one that flies.
Although the piracy issue would be interesting - imagine Honda inserting square wheels into the torrent as part of their IP protection campaign.
Dunno, I use MS Office at work and Open Office at home. They both work. I'm not a great fan of Java as a development language (I prefer old classics like C and (gasp) VBA for quick jobs, PHP or Python for anything significant) but I've not found any difficulty running Open Office on my home laptop (Ubuntu Karmic for those interested). In fact, I don't think about it at all -- I just run the application I want and dive into that (writing a book). In fact I'm probably not even qualified to rate OO at all, in one sense -- I just use it, and it doesn't intrude enough to even notice it. Although that's probably why I like it - the mechanics of the tool are lost completely into the background while I manage the tricky imagination-to-words interface.
When you have a high profile job in the public sector, you can expect that people are going to find out a lot about you. The media will want to know, and if you have any skeletons in your closet, they could well be revealed, one day.
However, if you did want that high profile position, holding a very public auction of the (above-mentioned) McAfee 1 Ferrari and donating the proceeds to Kids with Cancer would pretty much guarantee you one. It would be the right thing to do, a nice thing to do, with the added bonus of cementing your image of incorruptability in the public eye. A smokescreen, yes, but one that'll get you high. At least until the McAfee "security enforcers" find you near a dark alley.
The F/OSS exchange alternatives are generally just as complicated as Exchange itself, with the added bonus that finding someone who knows them can be a hell of a lot harder
But when you do find one, you can hand them the keys to the door and say "go fix it". With proprietary products, it's a bit more of a quest to read that file, isn't it?
Pay no attention to that sign that says "Nuclear Furnace". It's from back when there was a nuclear furnace in that spot, left by the previous company. Really, it's full of cake. Open the door and get the cake.
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Floaters are hard to flush. You usually need to anchor them down with a lot of toilet paper. And pray you don't have a water efficient toilet!
Not true. We recently got a new water efficient thunder mug from someone called "Stylus" and it's not just a vast water saver, it's quite efficient in what it does. Good technology, good sound hydraulics. As an Australian I'm naturally impressed by good technology, however fundamental the application.
While this effort happened to be run by a religious organization, I do not believe efforts like this have to be faith based.
What this world needs is a good secular church, small groups of like-minded people with branches everywhere. All the community, all the good works, but without the need to posture to some anthropomorphic personification of the universe, a bearded thunderbolt-hurler, or any involvement with volcanoes.
Although I believe that Sturgeon's Law applies to all religions, I think the small charity-oriented churches that followed the development of Western civilisation worked well in filling the gap between family-sized organisations and government-sized organisations, and that gap is mostly empty today (largely due to the aforementioned Sturgeoning that happens when the memes of an organisation die).
Yep, a secular church. Maybe call it the Church of Imagine meets Wavy Gravy. Offer spaghetti bolognaise as a sacrament if you must.
They have fought to secure those same elements and done their homework.
Hmm. I remember hearing long ago that the rare earths were pretty poorly named. Main mining areas aren't the same as main availability areas, they're just where the acquisition infrastructure is located. China leads in bulk production, but I don't think they have a lock on the minerals by any means. The following is from Wikipedia, although if you don't see that as definitive you can probably get more authoritative information from the cia.gov web site.
The main mining areas are China, United States, Brazil, India, Sri Lanka and Australia; and reserves of neodymium are estimated at about 8 million tonnes. Although it belongs to "rare earth metals," neodymium is not rare at all - its abundance in the Earth crust is about 38 mg/kg, which is the second among rare-earth elements after cerium. The world production of neodymium is about 7,000 tonnes per year.[6] The bulk of current production is from China, whose government has recently imposed strategic materials controls on the element, raising some concerns in consuming countries.
Can carbon nanotubes be made large enough in diameter to effectively pass another fluid through them for better heat dissipation? Doesn't have to be liquid, and you don't need closed plumbing, the nanotube elements would just need to be open at both ends. Simple convective gas recirculation might be enough for the inner layers. Perhaps. Maybe.
Guys, can we start talking about TFA again? I'm interested in Thorium as a nuclear fuel. The whole middle-east political situation is a re-hash of discussions that seems to hijack each and every discussion about fuel. Isn't there anything we can say about the technology? Or has this become simply a more accessible forum than the mainstream press?
Oh wait. Damn, started that one again...
I don't think I have a lawn any more.
Jane is a guy's name in South Africa?
"Since Jane joined the company, she and I have shared the load of coordinating between the leaders of all the key teams that make up Canonical."
Ooh, to be sure to be sure, there's a clue in that statement like it or not.
I'm not so sure that car would be incorrect. I believe they both are correct, car is a subset of automobile.
Agree, I did not mean to imply otherwise. "Car" has become a correct form, derived from a slightly larger form of the word. From the Oxford English Dictionary:
car
noun 1 a powered road vehicle designed to carry a small number of people. 2 a railway carriage or (N. Amer.) wagon.
-- ORIGIN originally meaning wheeled vehicle: from Latin carrus.
Obligatory reference to Doc Smith here - Skylark of Space was first serialised in 1928. First and greatest exponent of your classical space opera. The first and subsequent versions of the Skylark were spherical. Although I would have thought, given the subject matter of his PhD, that it would have been more toroidal.
Mmmm toroids!
I've got better things to do than tilde at windmills.
Because like everything else, there is a cult that is dead set to create as many conflicts and divisions wherever they can...
Oh for the want of a mod point. +5 Insightful.
For "whatever" reason? Have you seen the men in IT recently?
Depends on where you are, I guess. Most of the IT guys on our floor (we're an SI in Australia) tend to look more like Aussie Rules footballers than fit the stereotype of the geek sucrose and triglyceride addict. Possibly because a number of them are, perhaps, except for a couple of project managers whom I know are closet triathlon types. The attitude here seems to imply "how can you possibly think well if you aren't healthy?"
Mind you, I don't fit the norm, as I look more like Santa Claus, but then I'm an import and don't count.
Oh, and the women here are brilliant and good looking too, including the ones in the exec circle. Love this country.
I'm not impressed with special effects that are the point of the story instead of serving the story.
I respect your opinion, but wish to point out that it's not universally held, and that there is room in the world of art for the opposite case.
In Japan, Kabuki theatre is an old form with only a few set plots. All attendees of this classical form of drama know the plots, and happily dismiss them as they watch the actors practice their art.
I enjoyed all the Star Wars films for their kinetic appeal; the plot was only a vehicle, there to carry the drama. The appeal to me was imagining that people could create and use such stupendous engines of flight and fancy (if at the expense of dialogue, perhaps). It allowed me to skip all my accumulated wisdom and strip my cares all the way back to when I was a wide-eyed twelve-year old boy. It was fun.
Someone said Avatar has smoking hot 10 foot tall alien women? I am SO there for that...
We even have skateboarders calling their videos "films". At the same time some people actually still make films. Please, can we call things what they are?
Good luck with that. In the English (and possibly others') language, increase in a popular term's usage tends to lower the syllable count; highly popular terms tend to be reduced to a single syllable. "Automobile" is correct. "Car" is the popular reduction. As long as it's indicative and unambiguous in popular understanding, the word with the fewest syllables wins.
Thus "Film". One syllable. "Video" - three. The term's origin is interesting, but non-essential if its identification is understood.
By their own petards gehoisted they are!
Of course, this could be simple incompetence, too.
I suppose it might be troublesome finding sufficient de-ethicals to work on their cultural apartheid projects.
VirtualBox is a lovely product, but remember it's now owned by Oracle.
Whats the difference between a 19 and 17 year old girl
Speaking as a father of two girls (now 23 and 18) the difference in maturity across two years is rather dramatic. At 17 years, there's still a lot of emotionally dependent behaviour. At 19, knowledge of the outside world and their ability to deal with the emotional effects of theirs and others' actions is much advanced. Maturity isn't just growing in that range, it's accelerating as their minds grow and reach their strides. What's likely a scarring, emotional trauma at 17 is easier to deal with at 19, and if their development at 17 is interrupted while they have to deal with a highly-emotionally laden betrayal of trust, then they may never feel at ease around people again. That's the crime, and it can stunt a person's emotional health for the rest of their lives. It isn't just all about physical maturity.
That said, the true crime is treating people like objects, which is the source of pretty much all I consider evil in the world today.
Laptops and lawn mowers are both made in China. China has an incredibly competitive market internally. The answer is that the race to the bottom of the market isn't complete yet.
You wouldn't download a car!
Heh -- nice link, I liked that.
Actually though in the reasonably near future you might be able to. 3D printers - Fabbers - are becoming a lot more sophisticated. We'll probably be able to download a car before we get one that flies.
Although the piracy issue would be interesting - imagine Honda inserting square wheels into the torrent as part of their IP protection campaign.
Sorry folks, planet's closed. The six legged moose like creature out front should have told you.
We shall take this planet from Moose and Squirrel.
Dunno, I use MS Office at work and Open Office at home. They both work. I'm not a great fan of Java as a development language (I prefer old classics like C and (gasp) VBA for quick jobs, PHP or Python for anything significant) but I've not found any difficulty running Open Office on my home laptop (Ubuntu Karmic for those interested). In fact, I don't think about it at all -- I just run the application I want and dive into that (writing a book). In fact I'm probably not even qualified to rate OO at all, in one sense -- I just use it, and it doesn't intrude enough to even notice it. Although that's probably why I like it - the mechanics of the tool are lost completely into the background while I manage the tricky imagination-to-words interface.
When you have a high profile job in the public sector, you can expect that people are going to find out a lot about you. The media will want to know, and if you have any skeletons in your closet, they could well be revealed, one day.
However, if you did want that high profile position, holding a very public auction of the (above-mentioned) McAfee 1 Ferrari and donating the proceeds to Kids with Cancer would pretty much guarantee you one. It would be the right thing to do, a nice thing to do, with the added bonus of cementing your image of incorruptability in the public eye. A smokescreen, yes, but one that'll get you high. At least until the McAfee "security enforcers" find you near a dark alley.
On second thought, it does sound rather risky.
You should see my interesting collection of butterflies.
The F/OSS exchange alternatives are generally just as complicated as Exchange itself, with the added bonus that finding someone who knows them can be a hell of a lot harder
But when you do find one, you can hand them the keys to the door and say "go fix it". With proprietary products, it's a bit more of a quest to read that file, isn't it?
Pay no attention to that sign that says "Nuclear Furnace". It's from back when there was a nuclear furnace in that spot, left by the previous company. Really, it's full of cake. Open the door and get the cake.