According to my girl, who just happen to live in the US, there was about 281,421,906 US citizens on April 1st 2000... seems like you should readjust your percentages slightly.
Looking from the outside, it appears that the US system of judgement have more to do with revenge than actuall reform of the convicted (mind you, what we get thru the media (both ours and US media) is the high profile causes, not everyday things). The logical, yet illogical, conclusion is that all crimenals should be excecuted or be given a life sentence - and we all know that a handfull of bullets or a short lenght of rope is the cheapest alternative. And off course, doing that would bring the US nicely alongside 17th century Europe; where theft of a bread might cost you your neck...
Revenge or reform? You make up your own minds, I know what I prefer.
Periods are used to 'split up' large numbers, commas to mark where the decimalpoint is. So, if I had fivethoousand, threehundred and sixtitwo kroner and fifty øre in my vallet, I would write that as 5.362,50 - which incidentaly is the same number as is written om this winters electricitybill...
..this reminds me - for no clear reason - on the controversy surrounding PGP when it was first written. While it was illegal to export the code in binary form (ie as a file) as it was considered a mution, it was quite allright to print out a stack of paper and send it abroad, letting some poor sod punch it all back in.
No, I know this isn't like that, but I'm reminded of it, that's all. Possible because the information already is 'out in the wild', but can't be 'officialy' published.
Faster, smaller, lighter computers are usefull for spacetravel. Just because they sendt a man to the moon with an onboard computer with less calculating power than a cheap pocket calculator and a weight of about 70 lbs (in addition to the 17.5 lbs DSKY) don't means that we should be satisfied with that sort of perfomance in the future.
I'm not anti research here, I'm just saying this is something to be very very careful with.
I'm not so sure about you, but I tend to believe that if you're smart enought to do that kind of research in the first place, you're smart enought to take all possible precations to guard against against accidents.
When the first atomic bomb was tested the scientist who built it was uncertain if the chain reaction would be contained, or if they might 'set fire to the sky'. They still decided to give it a try... by your logic, they should have stopped the test. While the use of nuclar bombs over Japan has been discussed since that fatefull day, and proably will continue for the foreseable future, the one thing that is certain is that a conventional amphibious assult on Japan would have been a very bloody matter. So by doing 'dangerous research', leading to what most people think is a 'bad thing' (the nukes), they did 'good' (saving thousands of american and japanese lifes).
As I said in my original post; knowledge isn't 'good' or 'bad' - humans can choose to use it to do 'good' or 'bad' things.
...we would still be living in caves. Seriously, because some things may lead to something which could be warped to 'bad' uses, we should halt the progress of science?
Knowledge on it's own can not be defined as 'good' or 'bad' - it just is. It is what we use the knowledge for that can be judged on a moral level. And what some people consider to be a 'good' use, other people may see as 'bad' or even 'evil' use of the knowledge.
...some people have the weirdest screen-names. Still, I guess I could have learned that from reading slashdot, joining YaHoo!Groups or logged onto the IRC-network.
While I realise that having a few thousand "Bob"'s on the same network - at least as long as the nick is the only unike identifier - why do people insist on picking names that are plain weird? Some may not see this as a problem, but as a user on AIM, I'm reluctant to accept IM's from people with such handles.
Idea - use the methane-water mix to fuel a gasturbine. The water will help cool the turbineblades, as well as add mass to the mix. And as we all know (don't we?), several kinds of turbojets have utilised waterinjection in the past to increase thrust...
...is actually very good, espesially with a teaspoon of honey.
Having read thru a lot of the article, I must say that there is one thing that strikes me; the 'security measures' seems to have been dreamt up by someone in an office, written down by someone who's mind is on other things, and implied by people without the faintest idea of what the first person really meant.
Interesting...
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Assuming that all the hurdles around the process can be overcome, and it turns out to be finacialy sound, this may very well be the start of a revelution as far as energy distribution goes. Something needing just -10C to distrebute... heck, I could store a pile outside in the winter and just carry 'natural gas' inside in a bucket. Come summer, whatever remains there was would just evaporate away (I assume) safely. Methane - which is the main component of natural gas - is a quite efficient fuel for a properly designed internal combustonengine, or you could feed it to a fuelcell.
I missed a few details however... just how do you go from solifed gas and back to gaseous gas? Is it just a matter of heating them above -10C, or? Can anyone offer any inisght on this? Because if it's a realtively easy process, I can easily imagine these pellets beeing used for energydelivery in cars, homes, cabins, laptops (well, maybe not for a few years) etc etc ad nasaum.
...and then there is the 'other uses' this stuff can have... If you built a bomshell much like a thermos, you could just fill it up with pellets, add a bustercharge and get yourself a nice FAE-bomb...
Oh, gotta qoute this bit of the article (emphasis mine); Norwegian petroleum engineers first proposed the idea after comparing the transport economics of liquid natural gas to natural gas hydrates, knowing that hydrates could store large amounts of natural gas in a small space.
6.) I also find that operasoft's continued insistence on charging for a browser that doesn't download pr0n for me somewhat silly.
Oprasoft - which happens to be a norwegian softwarecompany - has one major product they earn money on; their browser. The next thing you'll say is that you think it's silly that Ford continues to demand that you pay for your car even if it don't drive by itself... If they gave away their products, neither Operasoft nor Ford would be around for more than the wink of an eye.
No, Opera is neither free nor free, but it is still, IMNSHO, a damn good browser well worth having - and if you don't want to pay, there is the ad-supported version to play around with.
Since reading the article isn't hard at all, you may notice that the article says; The HP48/49 ROM images distributed with this emulator are the property of and copyrighted by Hewlett-Packard. Their inclusion in this package is for the convenience of the end-user only. If you (the end-user) are not legally permitted to use a particular ROM image you must not install that ROM image to the VFS storage mechanism.
Not on my m130 either - which was a disapointment. Looks like the emulator needs 320x320 pixels to work. Oh well, back to the accabus... unless I use the scentific calculator on my Psion5.
What ever will happen to (y)our Government's new military recruiting tool?
Speaking as a) a norwgian, b) an officer in the Royal Norwegian Airforce (RNoAF), and c) as a officer in the RNoAF whos duties involes recruiting youngsters for a military education, I would say that AA is a pretty useless / stupid (delete as appropriate) tool for recruitment. It is a middle to good game, but is gamers what the armed forces really need? I'm more in favour of - and has used as recuitment tools - information given in school / at fairs, visits to the various bases for the ones interested, ads in the papers around the date to apply, informations given to recruits at bootcamp (we have a defence based on consprited soldiers and profecional officers / NCO's) and such. In a few causes I've allied myself with collegues from the Norwegian Army and treated a few potentional cadets to a week of 'army life'; marching, woodlife, trip to the shootingrange and so on. All in all I feel that this sort of approach is more likely to reach the ones we want to join, than placing a free game on the 'net.
Besides, I've have a few friends who describe them self as 'typical gamers'. No way they would survive a week of real training... *smiles*
'wegian - as in norwegian - warrior is my handle... it should give a small hint I hope. And my (uncapped) ADSL is the slowest, cheapest uncapped option avilable (I could get the same speed cheaper, but capped).
I got ADSL myself, at 376kbs down and 128kbs up. It's not very broad for a broadband (indeed, some argue that ADSL can't be defined as broadband), but I picked it for quite another reason then bandwidth; I'm always on. And when you're used to pay for the minute, that's pretty darn important - I've saving about 50% each month compared to a dial-up connection. I would say that for my use, thats more important than the speed with wich I can D/L over P2P.
Bear in mind that the chinese goverment - beeing a tad more leftwing than most others - have a history of trying to 'guide' what their people see, read and think. We're talking about the same goverment that demands that internet-cafes log every site their customers look at. We're talking about the same goverment that has - in the past - blocked off entire subnets where they have found sites that are critical of the aforementioned chinese goverment. We are - when we get down to it - talking of the same goverment who sendt tanks to end a peaceful demonstration on the Square of Heavenly Peace a dozen years back.
What are they afraid of? The free flow of information that the internet are all about. So, are you still wondering why the chinese goverment are behind this?
The only VIA-cpu's I've taken a serious interest in is soldered onto their cute little EPIA-mobos. As it is soldered in - and designed to be a cool, low-power (watt) solution - I honestly could care less wether it's pincompatible with Intel, AMD or anyone else.
Now, I don't now more about laying fiber than I do about giving birth, but the consept this fellow is fronting is interesting; take whats basicly a 19th century infrastructure and use it for a 21st century purpose. In a way, it is as if London would start using mag-lev trains in the Underground.
So what other uses can we put old, more or less abandoned infrastructure to?
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I would suggest you read what I wrote again, and a bit more carefully.
According to my girl, who just happen to live in the US, there was about 281,421,906 US citizens on April 1st 2000... seems like you should readjust your percentages slightly.
Still, it is good to see that action is taken!
Looking from the outside, it appears that the US system of judgement have more to do with revenge than actuall reform of the convicted (mind you, what we get thru the media (both ours and US media) is the high profile causes, not everyday things). The logical, yet illogical, conclusion is that all crimenals should be excecuted or be given a life sentence - and we all know that a handfull of bullets or a short lenght of rope is the cheapest alternative. And off course, doing that would bring the US nicely alongside 17th century Europe; where theft of a bread might cost you your neck...
Revenge or reform? You make up your own minds, I know what I prefer.
We don't - thats the anglo-american word for it. We call it 'komma'.
Periods are used to 'split up' large numbers, commas to mark where the decimalpoint is. So, if I had fivethoousand, threehundred and sixtitwo kroner and fifty øre in my vallet, I would write that as 5.362,50 - which incidentaly is the same number as is written om this winters electricitybill...
..this reminds me - for no clear reason - on the controversy surrounding PGP when it was first written. While it was illegal to export the code in binary form (ie as a file) as it was considered a mution, it was quite allright to print out a stack of paper and send it abroad, letting some poor sod punch it all back in.
No, I know this isn't like that, but I'm reminded of it, that's all. Possible because the information already is 'out in the wild', but can't be 'officialy' published.
Faster, smaller, lighter computers are usefull for spacetravel. Just because they sendt a man to the moon with an onboard computer with less calculating power than a cheap pocket calculator and a weight of about 70 lbs (in addition to the 17.5 lbs DSKY) don't means that we should be satisfied with that sort of perfomance in the future.
BTW, more info on the Apollo guidance computer can be found at "One Giant Leap: The Apollo Guidance Computer" for those interested.
I'm not anti research here, I'm just saying this is something to be very very careful with.
I'm not so sure about you, but I tend to believe that if you're smart enought to do that kind of research in the first place, you're smart enought to take all possible precations to guard against against accidents.
When the first atomic bomb was tested the scientist who built it was uncertain if the chain reaction would be contained, or if they might 'set fire to the sky'. They still decided to give it a try... by your logic, they should have stopped the test. While the use of nuclar bombs over Japan has been discussed since that fatefull day, and proably will continue for the foreseable future, the one thing that is certain is that a conventional amphibious assult on Japan would have been a very bloody matter. So by doing 'dangerous research', leading to what most people think is a 'bad thing' (the nukes), they did 'good' (saving thousands of american and japanese lifes).
As I said in my original post; knowledge isn't 'good' or 'bad' - humans can choose to use it to do 'good' or 'bad' things.
...we would still be living in caves. Seriously, because some things may lead to something which could be warped to 'bad' uses, we should halt the progress of science?
Knowledge on it's own can not be defined as 'good' or 'bad' - it just is. It is what we use the knowledge for that can be judged on a moral level. And what some people consider to be a 'good' use, other people may see as 'bad' or even 'evil' use of the knowledge.
...some people have the weirdest screen-names. Still, I guess I could have learned that from reading slashdot, joining YaHoo!Groups or logged onto the IRC-network.
While I realise that having a few thousand "Bob"'s on the same network - at least as long as the nick is the only unike identifier - why do people insist on picking names that are plain weird? Some may not see this as a problem, but as a user on AIM, I'm reluctant to accept IM's from people with such handles.
Bah.. I'm ranting.
Idea - use the methane-water mix to fuel a gasturbine. The water will help cool the turbineblades, as well as add mass to the mix. And as we all know (don't we?), several kinds of turbojets have utilised waterinjection in the past to increase thrust...
...is actually very good, espesially with a teaspoon of honey.
Having read thru a lot of the article, I must say that there is one thing that strikes me; the 'security measures' seems to have been dreamt up by someone in an office, written down by someone who's mind is on other things, and implied by people without the faintest idea of what the first person really meant.
Assuming that all the hurdles around the process can be overcome, and it turns out to be finacialy sound, this may very well be the start of a revelution as far as energy distribution goes. Something needing just -10C to distrebute... heck, I could store a pile outside in the winter and just carry 'natural gas' inside in a bucket. Come summer, whatever remains there was would just evaporate away (I assume) safely. Methane - which is the main component of natural gas - is a quite efficient fuel for a properly designed internal combustonengine, or you could feed it to a fuelcell.
I missed a few details however... just how do you go from solifed gas and back to gaseous gas? Is it just a matter of heating them above -10C, or? Can anyone offer any inisght on this? Because if it's a realtively easy process, I can easily imagine these pellets beeing used for energydelivery in cars, homes, cabins, laptops (well, maybe not for a few years) etc etc ad nasaum.
...and then there is the 'other uses' this stuff can have... If you built a bomshell much like a thermos, you could just fill it up with pellets, add a bustercharge and get yourself a nice FAE-bomb...
Oh, gotta qoute this bit of the article (emphasis mine);
Norwegian petroleum engineers first proposed the idea after comparing the transport economics of liquid natural gas to natural gas hydrates, knowing that hydrates could store large amounts of natural gas in a small space.
Logicaly, they mean that they have 8% of the full featurerange in Word... I wonder what 2% features they decided to skip that we lusers use?
6.) I also find that operasoft's continued insistence on charging for a browser that doesn't download pr0n for me somewhat silly.
Oprasoft - which happens to be a norwegian softwarecompany - has one major product they earn money on; their browser. The next thing you'll say is that you think it's silly that Ford continues to demand that you pay for your car even if it don't drive by itself... If they gave away their products, neither Operasoft nor Ford would be around for more than the wink of an eye.
No, Opera is neither free nor free, but it is still, IMNSHO, a damn good browser well worth having - and if you don't want to pay, there is the ad-supported version to play around with.
Since reading the article isn't hard at all, you may notice that the article says;
The HP48/49 ROM images distributed with this emulator are the property of and copyrighted by Hewlett-Packard. Their inclusion in this package is for the convenience of the end-user only. If you (the end-user) are not legally permitted to use a particular ROM image you must not install that ROM image to the VFS storage mechanism.
What part of that did you fail to understand?
Not on my m130 either - which was a disapointment. Looks like the emulator needs 320x320 pixels to work. Oh well, back to the accabus... unless I use the scentific calculator on my Psion5.
What ever will happen to (y)our Government's new military recruiting tool?
Speaking as a) a norwgian, b) an officer in the Royal Norwegian Airforce (RNoAF), and c) as a officer in the RNoAF whos duties involes recruiting youngsters for a military education, I would say that AA is a pretty useless / stupid (delete as appropriate) tool for recruitment. It is a middle to good game, but is gamers what the armed forces really need? I'm more in favour of - and has used as recuitment tools - information given in school / at fairs, visits to the various bases for the ones interested, ads in the papers around the date to apply, informations given to recruits at bootcamp (we have a defence based on consprited soldiers and profecional officers / NCO's) and such. In a few causes I've allied myself with collegues from the Norwegian Army and treated a few potentional cadets to a week of 'army life'; marching, woodlife, trip to the shootingrange and so on. All in all I feel that this sort of approach is more likely to reach the ones we want to join, than placing a free game on the 'net.
Besides, I've have a few friends who describe them self as 'typical gamers'. No way they would survive a week of real training... *smiles*
'wegian - as in norwegian - warrior is my handle... it should give a small hint I hope. And my (uncapped) ADSL is the slowest, cheapest uncapped option avilable (I could get the same speed cheaper, but capped).
I got ADSL myself, at 376kbs down and 128kbs up. It's not very broad for a broadband (indeed, some argue that ADSL can't be defined as broadband), but I picked it for quite another reason then bandwidth; I'm always on. And when you're used to pay for the minute, that's pretty darn important - I've saving about 50% each month compared to a dial-up connection. I would say that for my use, thats more important than the speed with wich I can D/L over P2P.
Third plane then, as the Convair B-58 was able to enter and sustain supersonic flight without burners if it dived and pulled out 'gently'.
soooo... 2,2/0,95~=1 ? Sonny boy, if you're from the US, then the state of the educational system there is as bad as my american friends tell me.
btw; 2,2/0,95=2,31 - ie; the concord is 2,31 times faster than a still unbuilt arcraft.
Bear in mind that the chinese goverment - beeing a tad more leftwing than most others - have a history of trying to 'guide' what their people see, read and think. We're talking about the same goverment that demands that internet-cafes log every site their customers look at. We're talking about the same goverment that has - in the past - blocked off entire subnets where they have found sites that are critical of the aforementioned chinese goverment. We are - when we get down to it - talking of the same goverment who sendt tanks to end a peaceful demonstration on the Square of Heavenly Peace a dozen years back.
What are they afraid of? The free flow of information that the internet are all about. So, are you still wondering why the chinese goverment are behind this?
The only VIA-cpu's I've taken a serious interest in is soldered onto their cute little EPIA-mobos. As it is soldered in - and designed to be a cool, low-power (watt) solution - I honestly could care less wether it's pincompatible with Intel, AMD or anyone else.
Now, I don't now more about laying fiber than I do about giving birth, but the consept this fellow is fronting is interesting; take whats basicly a 19th century infrastructure and use it for a 21st century purpose. In a way, it is as if London would start using mag-lev trains in the Underground.
So what other uses can we put old, more or less abandoned infrastructure to?