Computers themselves are simple expressions of a mere slice of how we understand our own mental processes to work.
Computers are just interrupt-driven number crunchers. That's what they do. They do it very quickly and very effectively.
The letters I see on my screen when I'm writing this text are no real letters, it's just lot of color dots and some digital representation in computer's memory. There's no spoon.
Computers are similar to brain as a steam locomotive is similar to a horse (sorry, I just hate car analogies).
Inconsistency of IT be damned, SI units were defined and consistent long before IT usurped and mangled its prefixes.
Please do not mix physics and IT. IT counts in discreet units (bytes, bits) and has its own definitions. The mess we have is caused by "smart" marketroids, trying to trick customers.
RAM/Flash memory manufacturers cannot afford to make marketing tricks with volume of memory because of one obvious technical reason: the number of addressing lines. This very essentials of digital computing created the definition of kB, MB, GB, TB etc. Therefore claiming that kB could also be 10^3 of bytes is showing a)ignorance, b)gimmick.
Maybe Steve Fossett was testing this thing. While everybody is looking for crashed airplane, noone is looking for crashed flying car...
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Some asshole steals my car and there's nothing I can do but watch hime drive away?
Or the thiefs steal only your registration marks, place them on another car and what happened if police chases them? It's YOUR car that stops moving, not the stolen car.
Dumb idea, or another smart step in tightening of society control.
I haven't heard of anyone killing people because they were driving while under the influence of a cattleprod to the brain.
I wonder it still has to be determined how this sort of emotion control affects driver's reactions and concentration.
Also, if the car's computer could decide whether the driver is driving well or not (engine temp, breaks temp, fuel consumption etc.), it could be connected to Happy Wires(R) so that driver could be quickly trained how to drive best.
There are some acronyms that have become so well-used that they are, for all intents and purposes, words themselves. Thus, there is no 'duplication' of wording when saying (for instance):
ATM Machine SCUBA Gear (The 'A' stands for "Apparatus") PIN number VIN number etc.
Yup. DVD disc, CD disc, HDD drive, CPU unit, RAM memory, USB bus, LCD display, AGP port.. it's there whereever you look.
Diesel production is tied with production of petrol. When crude oil (mixture of various hydrocarbons) is cracked in processing plant, some light hydrocarbons are used for petrol production and some heavier hydrocarbons (which also contains sulfur, which is unwanted in fuel) are used for production of diesel fuel.
In other words, if you want petrol, the diesel fuel is sort of byproduct and its price is connected with price of petrol.
Also diesel engine emissions are quite worse then petrol engine emissions, even with latest technologies. The diesel engine emitions contain ashes, sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides.
Petrol engine emission can be, ideally, water vapor and carbon dioxide.
Don't get fooled by lower MPG of diesel engines, the diesel simply have higher energy density than petrol.
If God exist, why do we need holy books, preachers and all the power&money hungry churches? Human mind can be easily manipulated and Church was always mastering this. God is a matter of individual faith, not a general discussion.
Strong faith can get you through some pretty rough times, but when the faith gets organized, it's not about faith anymore.
Being an atheist doesn't make a person automatically open-minded, however most of open-minded people I met are atheists.
There's many reasons why Earthlings might not be stupider than a space traveler. but I just find it interesting that you assume we are the degenerate form.
I can quite imagine a medieval, ancient or even a prehistoric human would consider most people of today as degenerated - soft, weak, can't kill animals with bare hands/club/knife, can't fight, wouldn't survive in wild forest for long etc.
Since only pure, demineralized water can be used to produce steam, one question remains: how do I start my brand new ecological car when temperature is, let's say, -20C ? All water in the steam system must simply freeze.
Maybe ethanol/water solution could be used as system fluid. Now that would be an automotive distillery, however the efficiency of steam cycle would surely decrease.
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In fact, you can even reduce your carbon emissions to zero.
Al Gore
At first, Al Gore should reduce his own personal CO2 emissions to zero, e.g. to stop breathing.
Computers themselves are simple expressions of a mere slice of how we understand our own mental processes to work.
Computers are just interrupt-driven number crunchers. That's what they do. They do it very quickly and very effectively.
The letters I see on my screen when I'm writing this text are no real letters, it's just lot of color dots and some digital representation in computer's memory. There's no spoon.
Computers are similar to brain as a steam locomotive is similar to a horse (sorry, I just hate car analogies).
Even more importantly, can't you guys realise that none of these jokes are funny?
It would be fun to watch ASCII porn on illegal Windows Vista running on 4.09MHz CPU.
Inconsistency of IT be damned, SI units were defined and consistent long before IT usurped and mangled its prefixes.
Please do not mix physics and IT. IT counts in discreet units (bytes, bits) and has its own definitions. The mess we have is caused by "smart" marketroids, trying to trick customers.
RAM/Flash memory manufacturers cannot afford to make marketing tricks with volume of memory because of one obvious technical reason: the number of addressing lines. This very essentials of digital computing created the definition of kB, MB, GB, TB etc. Therefore claiming that kB could also be 10^3 of bytes is showing a)ignorance, b)gimmick.
I don't see the reason why should somebody waste time explaining a theory to the vast public that hasn't been proved right for over than 30 years now.
And 30 years no one was able to prove that the theory is wrong. Well, and I guess that's something.
I wonder what will be first positive proof: A string bomb?
Apparently this guy sent out tons of spam inside Russia and managed to annoy too many people
Or, it's just strictly bandwidth business. In few weeks, another Russian spam kingpin will rise, and we will see our beloved spam again.
(Yes, I finished reading 'Godfather' recently).
Maybe Steve Fossett was testing this thing. While everybody is looking for crashed airplane, noone is looking for crashed flying car...
Some asshole steals my car and there's nothing I can do but watch hime drive away?
Or the thiefs steal only your registration marks, place them on another car and what happened if police chases them? It's YOUR car that stops moving, not the stolen car.
Dumb idea, or another smart step in tightening of society control.
BTW. GM now stands for Goverment Motors.
Interesting. So what does "iPod" mean in british?
A greengrocer-made trouser lighter?
Actually, no, 'nataS' is 'Satan' spelled backwards
While 'Santa' is 'Satan' with last three/four letter relocated, and otherwise.
Merry Christmas. Rymer Schrastim.
recreational drugs that do not induce physiological dependence
So why the drug users use those drugs again and again and again? Sounds like another pusher's PR lies.
Using such drugs for 'recreational' purposes is the stupidest (and quite damaging) way of recreation, if you ask me.
I haven't heard of anyone killing people because they were driving while under the influence of a cattleprod to the brain.
I wonder it still has to be determined how this sort of emotion control affects driver's reactions and concentration.
Also, if the car's computer could decide whether the driver is driving well or not (engine temp, breaks temp, fuel consumption etc.), it could be connected to Happy Wires(R) so that driver could be quickly trained how to drive best.
If the current makes you feel better, will you be less likely to switch it off?
If a disabled man receives a wheelchair that gives him ability to move, is it likely for him to throw the wheelchair away?
I wonder if they are blocking FrUitCaKes too...
i-slam? as in i-tunes? What is that, an Apple card game?
There are some acronyms that have become so well-used that they are, for all intents and purposes, words themselves. Thus, there is no 'duplication' of wording when saying (for instance):
ATM Machine
SCUBA Gear (The 'A' stands for "Apparatus")
PIN number
VIN number
etc.
Yup. DVD disc, CD disc, HDD drive, CPU unit, RAM memory, USB bus, LCD display, AGP port.. it's there whereever you look.
Somehow, I don't think thats the real story.
Who knows. Looks more like organized DoS attack anyway.
Simultaneous reboot of millions of PCs at the same moment is a great idea for malware writers. The god of all DoS attacks.
But wait.
Windows.. malware.. what's the difference?
Cigarettes are a killer. Heroin is harmless. I don't understand your rating system!
That's a completely new meaning of "harmless", that I don't understand.
The only harmless drugs are no drugs at all. The first question regarding drugs should be "why drugs", not "what drugs".
Junkies, flame my ass.
Can you imagine beowurf crustah ah dese?
Yup. On every parking lot or in every traffic jam.
I myself feel that if hydrogen cars become popular, it'll be an inferno waiting to happen--imagine 200 million Hindenburgs...
You're not proposing helium cars as an alternative to hydrogen cars, aren't you?
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Just to explain some of the crude oil economy:
Diesel production is tied with production of petrol. When crude oil (mixture of various hydrocarbons) is cracked in processing plant, some light hydrocarbons are used for petrol production and some heavier hydrocarbons (which also contains sulfur, which is unwanted in fuel) are used for production of diesel fuel.
In other words, if you want petrol, the diesel fuel is sort of byproduct and its price is connected with price of petrol.
Also diesel engine emissions are quite worse then petrol engine emissions, even with latest technologies. The diesel engine emitions contain ashes, sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides.
Petrol engine emission can be, ideally, water vapor and carbon dioxide.
Don't get fooled by lower MPG of diesel engines, the diesel simply have higher energy density than petrol.
If God exist, why do we need holy books, preachers and all the power&money hungry churches? Human mind can be easily manipulated and Church was always mastering this. God is a matter of individual faith, not a general discussion.
Strong faith can get you through some pretty rough times, but when the faith gets organized, it's not about faith anymore.
Being an atheist doesn't make a person automatically open-minded, however most of open-minded people I met are atheists.
You do know that water is composed of oxygen, right?
Hal_Porter was surely referring to oxygen dissolved in sea water, which is required for most of the water creatures to live.
There's many reasons why Earthlings might not be stupider than a space traveler. but I just find it interesting that you assume we are the degenerate form.
I can quite imagine a medieval, ancient or even a prehistoric human would consider most people of today as degenerated - soft, weak, can't kill animals with bare hands/club/knife, can't fight, wouldn't survive in wild forest for long etc.
Since only pure, demineralized water can be used to produce steam, one question remains: how do I start my brand new ecological car when temperature is, let's say, -20C ? All water in the steam system must simply freeze.
Maybe ethanol/water solution could be used as system fluid. Now that would be an automotive distillery, however the efficiency of steam cycle would surely decrease.