An even more magical crop than you believed could exist:
"Enough biodiesel to replace all petroleum transportation fuels could be grown in"...much verbiage removed.. "roughly 9.5 million acres - far less than the 450 million acres currently used for crop farming in the US, and the over 500 million acres used as grazing land for farm animals."
Lightning hit my house (or very close to it) last year, and took out at least the ethernet port on every computer I had that was Cat5 connected at the time. Took out a few USB ports, and sent my router to the great network in the sky also.
Plastic fiber wouldn't have that problem (until someone marries the plastic fiber with the Power over Ethernet spec).
1. Take all the money spent buying security theatre (TSA salaries, machinery, Airport reconstruction) and place it into a fund. There's $5,000,000,000 to start with each and every year.
2. Use minimally invasive metal and bomb detectors to deter the obvious threats.
2. Should an aircraft go down as the result of Terrorist actions, pay everyone on board $1,000,000 from the fund.
From just the TSA's budget, we could handle 5,000 deaths a year from terrorist actions on airplanes. How much are we willing to pay for each life saved? Ask an inner-city hospital./frank
There is no intelligence involved in the parasite - they cannot make the decision not to wipe out the host species.
A Parasite that develops and is virulent enough to wipe out its host species will go extinct as a result of doing so. An evolutionary dead end, certainly, but undoubtedly an evolutionary dead-end that has occurred more than once in earthly history. Nothing and no one will step in to prevent this from happening (well, at least in my theology).
In that sense, a "successful" parasite is relatively weak, and establishes an equilibrium with one or more host species. As a species, it survives for eons. An "unsuccessful" parasite is strong, virulent, and species specific. As a species, it dies when it takes out the last host.
/frank
As a daily user of Win2000 Professional on my home machine, from choice, I take offense at your ignorant assertion.
Yes, I installed and ran NT 3.51, as well as 3.1 and 4.0. I run WinXP at work, where I'm pushing people to convert to Vista (for business reasons, not for technical ones). I have a Win XP/X64 box here under my feet, and a Windows Server 2003 box a pencils throw away. I still own the Windows 98 Upgrade disk that I used to convert from Windows 95 to Windows 98, along with every DOS disk I've installed from 2.11 through, I believe, 5.0. In the day, I installed OS/2 from floppy - 46 of them, if I remember correctly. No, amazingly enough, I never even booted ME.
And, frankly, I find no stability problems with Windows 2000. Just a simple, straightforward desktop that runs everything I need it to run. The only reason I might upgrade is because Microsoft never saw fit to let me pull out a USB Flash drive without telling me what a bad, bad boy I am for not shutting it down first.
So, if you want to badmouth something, limit yourself to ME.
Actually, the cost for one-offs is significantly lower than your estimate.
By using a Shuttle run, where the fab batches together a bunch of designs and runs them through using a single mask set, you can get 20 or so instances of a 130 nm design for roughly $100K. Of course, this assumes that you've already done the layout and verification steps yourself...
I like the sig also.
It lends itself to a corollary that's almost as funny:
Never use a word in spoken form that you've only read never heard. You will end up sounding foolish.
Absolutely correct. Why, in a Cannonball run from New York to Manhattan Beach, it'd take the Tesla what, a week or two to complete it?
Oh that's right, you had a very limited concept of "outperform" in mind...
OK, so you don't have a big metal antenna...Instead, you have a big structure built out of evacuated glass tubes resembling Neon tubes.
And you're going to take this out on the battlefield?
Now, the concept of changing the resonant frequency of the antenna by activating different individual elements is kinda cool, but this doesn't look stealthy at all.
Stop pissing all over someone else's attempt to build something, and go make something new yourself.
Damned armchair inventors, entrepreneurs, and capitalists.
hrumph.
To hell with a bridge...
Sell'em interconnect cables at $50 a foot, or speaker cable at $100 a foot (or whatever the going rate is these days).
They'll pay you for those.
No, it's only "not OK" to strip the existing license and replace it with a different one.
Microsoft is (presumably) in perfect compliance with the BSD license.
This particular change to BSD licensed code is not in compliance with the BSD license.
Grow up.
I run Windows 2000 at home, and Windows XP at work? Frankly, I find the two nearly identical in capabilities, with Windows XP having a slight edge in stability, and only minor issues differentiating them.
What, in your experience, makes Windows 2000 not "a viable desktop OS option"?/frank
Well, consider that each "device" may have anywhere from dozens of 8 bit registers, to hundreds of 32 bit registers. In some of those registers, each and every bit controls a different function of the device. Throw into the mix some registers that are "read-only", and internal hardware states that can only be restored by cycling the device through some number of states which may approach the number of functions that the device has been through since the last power-on cycle, and you might start to see the problem.
Now, most hardware devices are simple - you can read enough state out of them that the device driver can restore them to functionality fairly easily on wakeup. But, in a modern PC, you could easily have 50 or more "devices", some of which are not designed so nicely, and any one of which can torpedo the wakeup process. And this is assuming that all of the drivers in the world are well-written, and correctly handle the hibernate/wakeup process from every possible state that they might be in. Hell, 20 years after sound cards started showing up in PCs and it's still not possible to buy one off the shelf and that it's going to work 100% correctly when you get it home! And this is using the normal software path through the app/OS/driver!
I really have to imagine that the push to trusted hardware and software is going to make this worse. Now, you have to bring down encrypted links between a whole bunch of different drivers/hardware/applications/OS in the PC, and then restore them. The number of states that are involved while the drivers/hardware/applications/OS are, for example, playing a streaming movie are astronomical; all the encryption keys and state only multiplies the problems.
Does that help?/frank
From a scientific point of view, there are many aspects to the problem. Is global warming occurring? I think you'll get little argument that all data appears to point to this. What are all the contributors to global warming? Now, that's a bit more contentious. How much global warming is attributable to the various contributors? Another contentious one. What will effects will global warming have on (macro climate, micro climates, glaciers, the arctic ice cap, polar bears, Venice, various islands, etc)? Another important, but speculative and contentious debate.
From a political perspective, there are other aspects to the problem: Is global warming a problem? Well, your response assumes an answer to this that others may disagree with. Is it a problem we should attempt to solve? Ahh, do we have the wisdom to answer this question? How should we respond to global warming? Again, a political question.
Don't ever confuse the Scientific questions with the Political questions.
With a question like that, the same could be asked of you.
How did you manage to live as long as you have with such an astonishing ability to be so breathtakingly in-your-face offensive?
I've had so many reasons to hate political correctness in the past; you must be one more. The constant drumbeat of PC in current society is the only thing I can imagine that would have kept this trait from being beaten out of you in elementary school.
I could be wrong, of course; it's entirely possible that you haven't left elementary school yet.
If you're going to comment on a technical subject, at least have some clue as to what you're talking about.
DRAM stores ones and zeros by storing charges on a tiny capacitor. If enough charge is stored, it reads back as a one; if too little charge is stored, it reads back as a zero. Ones are changed to zeros by draining the charge (attaching the capacitor plate to ground). Zeros are changed to ones by storing more charge (attaching the capacitor plate to Vcc). Due to technological limitations in the fabrication of the capacitors, the stored charge on them will dissipate over time - on the order of microseconds. Milliseconds after you remove power (or stop refreshing them), memory will start to become corrupted. Seconds after you remove power, all data will be gone. Within minutes of removing power, not even the most sophisticated probing of the part would be able to tell a one from a zero.
And I have no idea whatsoever where you got that idiotic 01->10->11->00 progression concept. Please wipe that from your mind.
sticking in a DVD still hang Explorer for the 5-10 seconds it takes to spin up and read the TOC?
How many years has Windows had this obvious, annoying flaw? /frank
So, how about a seat tax on every airliner that passes over?
A transit tax for every satellite that crosses their land?
Hell, how about an "image" tax for every person who catches a glimpse of their land?
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I don't have the skills to be president. Now, if you changed the question to "What would you do as King?", well, then we could talk.
"Enough biodiesel to replace all petroleum transportation fuels could be grown in" ...much verbiage removed.. "roughly 9.5 million acres - far less than the 450 million acres currently used for crop farming in the US, and the over 500 million acres used as grazing land for farm animals."
From http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html
Lightning hit my house (or very close to it) last year, and took out at least the ethernet port on every computer I had that was Cat5 connected at the time. Took out a few USB ports, and sent my router to the great network in the sky also.
Plastic fiber wouldn't have that problem (until someone marries the plastic fiber with the Power over Ethernet spec).
1. Take all the money spent buying security theatre (TSA salaries, machinery, Airport reconstruction) and place it into a fund. There's $5,000,000,000 to start with each and every year. 2. Use minimally invasive metal and bomb detectors to deter the obvious threats. 2. Should an aircraft go down as the result of Terrorist actions, pay everyone on board $1,000,000 from the fund. From just the TSA's budget, we could handle 5,000 deaths a year from terrorist actions on airplanes. How much are we willing to pay for each life saved? Ask an inner-city hospital. /frank
There is no intelligence involved in the parasite - they cannot make the decision not to wipe out the host species.
/frank
A Parasite that develops and is virulent enough to wipe out its host species will go extinct as a result of doing so. An evolutionary dead end, certainly, but undoubtedly an evolutionary dead-end that has occurred more than once in earthly history. Nothing and no one will step in to prevent this from happening (well, at least in my theology).
In that sense, a "successful" parasite is relatively weak, and establishes an equilibrium with one or more host species. As a species, it survives for eons. An "unsuccessful" parasite is strong, virulent, and species specific. As a species, it dies when it takes out the last host.
Yes, I installed and ran NT 3.51, as well as 3.1 and 4.0. I run WinXP at work, where I'm pushing people to convert to Vista (for business reasons, not for technical ones). I have a Win XP/X64 box here under my feet, and a Windows Server 2003 box a pencils throw away. I still own the Windows 98 Upgrade disk that I used to convert from Windows 95 to Windows 98, along with every DOS disk I've installed from 2.11 through, I believe, 5.0. In the day, I installed OS/2 from floppy - 46 of them, if I remember correctly. No, amazingly enough, I never even booted ME.
And, frankly, I find no stability problems with Windows 2000. Just a simple, straightforward desktop that runs everything I need it to run. The only reason I might upgrade is because Microsoft never saw fit to let me pull out a USB Flash drive without telling me what a bad, bad boy I am for not shutting it down first.
So, if you want to badmouth something, limit yourself to ME.
Actually, the cost for one-offs is significantly lower than your estimate.
By using a Shuttle run, where the fab batches together a bunch of designs and runs them through using a single mask set, you can get 20 or so instances of a 130 nm design for roughly $100K. Of course, this assumes that you've already done the layout and verification steps yourself...
I like the sig also.
It lends itself to a corollary that's almost as funny: Never use a word in spoken form that you've only read never heard. You will end up sounding foolish.
Absolutely correct. Why, in a Cannonball run from New York to Manhattan Beach, it'd take the Tesla what, a week or two to complete it?
Oh that's right, you had a very limited concept of "outperform" in mind...
It sure stopped them from buying laptops and IPods, didn't it?
OK, so you don't have a big metal antenna...Instead, you have a big structure built out of evacuated glass tubes resembling Neon tubes.
/frank
And you're going to take this out on the battlefield?
Now, the concept of changing the resonant frequency of the antenna by activating different individual elements is kinda cool, but this doesn't look stealthy at all.
Stop pissing all over someone else's attempt to build something, and go make something new yourself.
Damned armchair inventors, entrepreneurs, and capitalists.
hrumph.
Try: http://shop3.outpost.com/product/5325528
Intel uAtx board, Celeron 215 soldered on, takes DDR-II 533 or 400, onboard graphics, one PCI port, $70.
To hell with a bridge... Sell'em interconnect cables at $50 a foot, or speaker cable at $100 a foot (or whatever the going rate is these days). They'll pay you for those.
No, it's only "not OK" to strip the existing license and replace it with a different one. Microsoft is (presumably) in perfect compliance with the BSD license. This particular change to BSD licensed code is not in compliance with the BSD license.
Unfortunately, an N95 mask isn't going to help: http://www.ph.ucla.edu/EPI/bioter/n95masks.html
Grow up. I run Windows 2000 at home, and Windows XP at work? Frankly, I find the two nearly identical in capabilities, with Windows XP having a slight edge in stability, and only minor issues differentiating them. What, in your experience, makes Windows 2000 not "a viable desktop OS option"? /frank
Well, consider that each "device" may have anywhere from dozens of 8 bit registers, to hundreds of 32 bit registers. In some of those registers, each and every bit controls a different function of the device. Throw into the mix some registers that are "read-only", and internal hardware states that can only be restored by cycling the device through some number of states which may approach the number of functions that the device has been through since the last power-on cycle, and you might start to see the problem. Now, most hardware devices are simple - you can read enough state out of them that the device driver can restore them to functionality fairly easily on wakeup. But, in a modern PC, you could easily have 50 or more "devices", some of which are not designed so nicely, and any one of which can torpedo the wakeup process. And this is assuming that all of the drivers in the world are well-written, and correctly handle the hibernate/wakeup process from every possible state that they might be in. Hell, 20 years after sound cards started showing up in PCs and it's still not possible to buy one off the shelf and that it's going to work 100% correctly when you get it home! And this is using the normal software path through the app/OS/driver! I really have to imagine that the push to trusted hardware and software is going to make this worse. Now, you have to bring down encrypted links between a whole bunch of different drivers/hardware/applications/OS in the PC, and then restore them. The number of states that are involved while the drivers/hardware/applications/OS are, for example, playing a streaming movie are astronomical; all the encryption keys and state only multiplies the problems. Does that help? /frank
Another reason to stay six months behind the bleeding edge of technology.
See Multi-phase Buck converters in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_converter#Multip hase_Buck
From a scientific point of view, there are many aspects to the problem.
Is global warming occurring? I think you'll get little argument that all data appears to point to this.
What are all the contributors to global warming? Now, that's a bit more contentious.
How much global warming is attributable to the various contributors? Another contentious one.
What will effects will global warming have on (macro climate, micro climates, glaciers, the arctic ice cap, polar bears, Venice, various islands, etc)? Another important, but speculative and contentious debate.
From a political perspective, there are other aspects to the problem:
Is global warming a problem? Well, your response assumes an answer to this that others may disagree with.
Is it a problem we should attempt to solve? Ahh, do we have the wisdom to answer this question?
How should we respond to global warming? Again, a political question.
Don't ever confuse the Scientific questions with the Political questions.
With a question like that, the same could be asked of you.
How did you manage to live as long as you have with such an astonishing ability to be so breathtakingly in-your-face offensive?
I've had so many reasons to hate political correctness in the past; you must be one more. The constant drumbeat of PC in current society is the only thing I can imagine that would have kept this trait from being beaten out of you in elementary school.
I could be wrong, of course; it's entirely possible that you haven't left elementary school yet.
frank
If you're going to comment on a technical subject, at least have some clue as to what you're talking about.
/frank
DRAM stores ones and zeros by storing charges on a tiny capacitor. If enough charge is stored, it reads back as a one; if too little charge is stored, it reads back as a zero. Ones are changed to zeros by draining the charge (attaching the capacitor plate to ground). Zeros are changed to ones by storing more charge (attaching the capacitor plate to Vcc). Due to technological limitations in the fabrication of the capacitors, the stored charge on them will dissipate over time - on the order of microseconds. Milliseconds after you remove power (or stop refreshing them), memory will start to become corrupted. Seconds after you remove power, all data will be gone. Within minutes of removing power, not even the most sophisticated probing of the part would be able to tell a one from a zero.
And I have no idea whatsoever where you got that idiotic 01->10->11->00 progression concept. Please wipe that from your mind.
sticking in a DVD still hang Explorer for the 5-10 seconds it takes to spin up and read the TOC?
/frank
How many years has Windows had this obvious, annoying flaw?
So, how about a seat tax on every airliner that passes over? A transit tax for every satellite that crosses their land? Hell, how about an "image" tax for every person who catches a glimpse of their land?