The cost of splitting hydrogen from water, then recombining it in a fuel cell is huge. It operates at approximately 35% efficiency. Lithium-ion batteries have a round trip efficiency of over 90%, are cheaper, and can be recharged in minutes.
Hydrogen has been passed by as a technology, and nobody seems to realize it yet, because it has enough capital behind it which is pushing for it's adoption so the investments made can be paid off.
I have flown out of Thompson, MB, Canada on a regional carrier where people brought their hunting rifles as carryon. The "Security System" was a big guy asking everyone if they remembered to unload the weapons and leave any ammunition behind.
The tar sands are net-energy losers, or will be once the top layers are gone. They use massive amounts of natural gas to extract the sludge, which then has to be refined before being sent to a refinery. Not to mention the state which they leave the land in. It's open pit strip mining.
I saw it. It wasn't *bad* as much as it smacked of a show which tried to cram eighty hours of dialog and description into three hours. It felt as though all of the actors were running at a sprint, trying to shave time.
That, and most of the music wasn't that great.
They did a lot of things right... the Black Riders were amoung the most impressive stage presences I've ever seen, but overall, it was dissapointing. I'm glad I saw it, I'm not sad it's closing, perhaps they'll re-write and try again in a few years... perhaps less of a musical, and more of a stage play.
First, you can buy a 1 farad supercapacitor for a few bucks. I've bought them for $5, they are the size and shape of the cap from your toothpaste tube.
Second, no commuter car needs 100HP. try 35, or about 26KW for your calculations.
Saw the LOTR musical on Wednesday... It wasn't *bad* Which is really the best I can say about it. It may be that I'm just not a "musical" kind of guy. Here's my take
I wasn't impressed by the songs, I thought nearly all of the costumes were pretty weak, Some set pieces were really bad (Bag End was a wicker slinky). The special effects were overdone, leading to a completely frantic feeling for the entire production, They rushed through important plot points, and lingered over fluff, Gandalf looked like a thirty year old, 110lb guy in a fake beard, and was far too weak for the role, The "Scouring of the Shire" was rushed to the point where they should have left it out, Arowyn kept showing up and singing at the strangest times, The dancing trees were a little too minimalist to come across, What the HELL did Galadriel have on her head, Cthulu?.
But...
Saurman was an excellent actor, and I dug his costume/makeup, The high-tech stage was kind of nifty, and only slightly overused, I think Gollum will be very good once the amphetamines wear off... the scene where he is fighting with himself was great, The Black Rider's costumes were awesome, I liked the stage vines creeping out towards you, it is a neat effect, the pre-show firefly scenes were amusing, The first 5 minutes of the Prancing Pony song were great, then it started to drag as they repeated it over and over again, Gimli was well acted, as was Sam.
If I've not listed it above I've either forgotten about it, or found it thoroughly mediocre.
Unrelated to the show, the seats were horrible, Westjet's cheapest has significantly more leg room, maybe that's just up in the balcony, but I was pretty sore by the time it was all over.
All and all, I'd say that if you get free tickets, by all means go. Otherwise, let them polish it up for a while.
Coming from the bush in Northwestern Ontario, I can tell you this is wrong.
They cut down thousands of acres per year of timber in order to produce paper. It's getting to the point where the largest forest in the world (Canadian Boreal Forest) is no longer going to be feasible for extraction, as all the accessible trees will be gone within the next decade or so.
Because of paper, my area of the world, which once had nothing but trees, now has thousand-acre blocks of cutover, slowly eroding into the Great Lakes and Arctic Ocean.
Google becoming sentient will be the first Horseman, followed by an agressive Von Neumann Terminator. Then We see the third horseman, a Terminator that throws black holes!
I use SMS for the bulk of the machines. I scan afterwards to see if any were unplugged, turned off, etc. If so, I use psexec from sysinternals to remotely execute it on any unpatched machines.
A less flexable, and much less expensive solution is microsoft's SUS
That is fine for very small networks, but all it takes is one person to bring an infected laptop inside the firewall, and you have no protection whatsoever.
I agree that firewalls are handy, but people seem to rely too heavily on them.
I have found that most patches fix more than they break, so I tend to roll out the patches (via SMS) as soon as I see exploit discussion or sample code on the lists. The couple of minor glitches I've had to deal with from malfunctioning patches is much less than the deworming some people are stuck with.
Of course, linux would be better (: karma-whoring:)
I don't know how biased they are towards Iraq. They are based in Qatar, and funded by that government. The Qatar government is allied with the United States here.
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The cost of splitting hydrogen from water, then recombining it in a fuel cell is huge. It operates at approximately 35% efficiency. Lithium-ion batteries have a round trip efficiency of over 90%, are cheaper, and can be recharged in minutes.
Hydrogen has been passed by as a technology, and nobody seems to realize it yet, because it has enough capital behind it which is pushing for it's adoption so the investments made can be paid off.
"If you don't back up your data, you might lose it"
And the people stood agape...
I have flown out of Thompson, MB, Canada on a regional carrier where people brought their hunting rifles as carryon. The "Security System" was a big guy asking everyone if they remembered to unload the weapons and leave any ammunition behind.
This was shortly before the plane attacks.
The tar sands are net-energy losers, or will be once the top layers are gone. They use massive amounts of natural gas to extract the sludge, which then has to be refined before being sent to a refinery. Not to mention the state which they leave the land in. It's open pit strip mining.
I saw it. It wasn't *bad* as much as it smacked of a show which tried to cram eighty hours of dialog and description into three hours. It felt as though all of the actors were running at a sprint, trying to shave time.
That, and most of the music wasn't that great.
They did a lot of things right... the Black Riders were amoung the most impressive stage presences I've ever seen, but overall, it was dissapointing. I'm glad I saw it, I'm not sad it's closing, perhaps they'll re-write and try again in a few years... perhaps less of a musical, and more of a stage play.
First, you can buy a 1 farad supercapacitor for a few bucks. I've bought them for $5, they are the size and shape of the cap from your toothpaste tube. Second, no commuter car needs 100HP. try 35, or about 26KW for your calculations.
Saw the LOTR musical on Wednesday...
It wasn't *bad*
Which is really the best I can say about it.
It may be that I'm just not a "musical" kind of guy.
Here's my take
I wasn't impressed by the songs,
I thought nearly all of the costumes were pretty weak,
Some set pieces were really bad (Bag End was a wicker slinky).
The special effects were overdone, leading to a completely frantic feeling for the entire production,
They rushed through important plot points, and lingered over fluff,
Gandalf looked like a thirty year old, 110lb guy in a fake beard, and was far too weak for the role,
The "Scouring of the Shire" was rushed to the point where they should have left it out,
Arowyn kept showing up and singing at the strangest times,
The dancing trees were a little too minimalist to come across,
What the HELL did Galadriel have on her head, Cthulu?.
But...
Saurman was an excellent actor, and I dug his costume/makeup,
The high-tech stage was kind of nifty, and only slightly overused,
I think Gollum will be very good once the amphetamines wear off... the scene where he is fighting with himself was great,
The Black Rider's costumes were awesome,
I liked the stage vines creeping out towards you, it is a neat effect,
the pre-show firefly scenes were amusing,
The first 5 minutes of the Prancing Pony song were great, then it started to drag as they repeated it over and over again,
Gimli was well acted, as was Sam.
If I've not listed it above I've either forgotten about it, or found it thoroughly mediocre.
Unrelated to the show, the seats were horrible, Westjet's cheapest has significantly more leg room, maybe that's just up in the balcony, but I was pretty sore by the time it was all over.
All and all, I'd say that if you get free tickets, by all means go. Otherwise, let them polish it up for a while.
They can't charge the courts for the information, but they're not obligated to do anything other than a flat-text dump.
If it's base64 files, that's up to the attorney's techs to decode.
Now you just need a 40GB thumb drive to carry it all on.
Walking down the streets around High Park/Roncesvalles, you see them sitting by the sidwalk, free for the taking.
Usually around the 1st of the month.
A new storage for pr0n, faster than burning a lot of CDs!
Now we just need high-speed scanners as an input device, and...
$1G worth of paper can replace a couple of $2 DVD-R's
Coming from the bush in Northwestern Ontario, I can tell you this is wrong.
They cut down thousands of acres per year of timber in order to produce paper. It's getting to the point where the largest forest in the world (Canadian Boreal Forest) is no longer going to be feasible for extraction, as all the accessible trees will be gone within the next decade or so.
Because of paper, my area of the world, which once had nothing but trees, now has thousand-acre blocks of cutover, slowly eroding into the Great Lakes and Arctic Ocean.
Hire someone who has done something along that scale
I hear poaching MS staff is all the rage these days.
Google becoming sentient will be the first Horseman, followed by an agressive Von Neumann Terminator.
Then We see the third horseman, a Terminator that throws black holes!
I have used it extensively for just this purpose, remastering it to contain spybot S&D, ad-aware, spysweeper, stinger, AVG, f-prot and other tools.
Very handy for really buggered systems.
first, "I don't have anything to hide" is a bullshit excuse. There is a reason we have freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.
Second, when Canada signs on to WIPO, then music sharing, etc... *will* be illegal.
Knocked out communications in 1859, eh?
I didn't know the Pony Express was vulnerable to cosmic rays.
Pfft! who's the moron!
If we have the pen upside-down, the nib won't be on the paper!
I use SMS for the bulk of the machines. I scan afterwards to see if any were unplugged, turned off, etc. If so, I use psexec from sysinternals to remotely execute it on any unpatched machines.
A less flexable, and much less expensive solution is microsoft's SUS
That is fine for very small networks, but all it takes is one person to bring an infected laptop inside the firewall, and you have no protection whatsoever.
I agree that firewalls are handy, but people seem to rely too heavily on them.
I have found that most patches fix more than they break, so I tend to roll out the patches (via SMS) as soon as I see exploit discussion or sample code on the lists. The couple of minor glitches I've had to deal with from malfunctioning patches is much less than the deworming some people are stuck with.
Of course, linux would be better (: karma-whoring :)
It would be interesting to see how beaver lodge building has evolved over the last 5 million years, if at all.
I think this could give us an unusal look into the evolution of complex behaviour.
It will mean that they'll have more freedom in thier choice of marketing methods.
I don't know how biased they are towards Iraq. They are based in Qatar, and funded by that government. The Qatar government is allied with the United States here.
...since they don't have credit cards with which to subscribe.
Sure they do
it's just your credit card.
Elevator survivor
they play the most god awful music available, with live performances from Carrot Top and Rip Torn
Whoever doesn't climb out, and slide back down the ribbon wins!
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