Um. We already make that endless stream of jokes, man.
Want them to stop? Stop being so pissy when they're told.
I mean, we're rather used to the fat, stupid, lazy american jokes, even if by and large they're not true. Do they stop? Dunno. Don't care. They're usually passed in mean spirit (whereas you can hardly consider 'surrendermonkey' as meanspirited; it's got the word 'monkey' in it), and I kinda just ignore such things. "Think about it, would you really like the rest of the world to hold you - as individuals - responsible for the actions of your leaders?"
Lots of people do; why do you think the US considers our president such an embarrssment? Not saying it's right, but it *is* par for the course.
Also, I'd like to state for the record that it's fundamentally impossible to pin down the behavior of americans in general; geographically alone, we're too damned huge to be homogenous. Add to that the level of cultural difference you can experience in almost any large city in the world by walking two blocks, and you'll get the idea.
Anyway, in short, get the fuck over it, surrendermonkey. ^_^
Natural selection still applies; the selection parameters have changed, and perhaps even become a bit lax compared to 'uncivilized' settings, but the mechanism of selection is still in force.
Here's hoping for a good set of Darwin awards this year.
The problem is that the reaction is endothermic by nature. Even by splitting it apart using solar, you're essentially just making a *really* inefficient battery (as most energy producers that use carbon compounds as fuel run at about 25-50% efficiency though, there are those with better returns. Still the best I've seen is DMFCs, which get about 80% efficiency).
The problem with converting CO2 into Oxygen on an industrial scale has always been one of energy. You need to dump in a LOT, whether by photosynthesis in plants or through electrolysis. Since it's endothermic, catalysts won't help; all a catalyst does is reduce the starting energy for an exothermic reaction, which is great for a fuel cell, because it allows you to control the rate of reaction so that you don't need to actually combust fuel to get it to react, as in an ICE.
The best bet for carbon sequestration, in my mind, is using something like a large scale scuba scrubber to sequester CO2 from the air, and feed it into greenhouses and tree farms; the plants like it a LOT, and it essentally traps CO2 by bonding it to the plant's materials.
And, of course, to stop dumping it into the atmosphere.
Power plants dump a significantly larger percentage of CO2 into the atmosphere than our cars do, on the whole (though smog is icky, car exhaust constitutes a minority slice of the human CO2 production pie). Of course, you can SEE car exhaust; you can smell it. It's very easy for power comanies to make us feel guilty for a problem that, by and large, they're causing by resisting the shift to cleaner energy production technologies.
In my opinion, we really need to move our coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear plants to something clean, like liquid thorium flouride reactors (which are also nuclear, but don't produce a significant amount of transuranic compounds - ie: industrially useful products as nonradioactive nucelar waste). Also, I think wind needs to be moved from windmills to helical turbines - they're more efficient and less dangerous than their propeller-based cousins, and you don't need a servo to point them at the wind. Lastly, I think it would probably be wise to cover a few strips (and I mean, like a highway's worth) of desert with solar, once if becomes affordable enough to push such a venture.
Huh. The college I used to work at just scaled up their backbone bandwidth when P2P got volumnous. Pretty much every student has a 10M connection to each other student, and the vines (literally) going out of the school are something like a half terrabit.
Oh, but I'd love to have that half-terrabit to myself, just for a day.
"I cant see worth a damn without some sort of correction device."
I'm certain you can see a an animal large enough to eat you soon enough to react, had you the environmental training. Our immune system is at least robust enough to maintain a breeding population to childbearing age. Our feet develop callouses if you walk on rough stuff all the time. Our teeth weren't meant to last much longer than us, which for uncivilized populations is 40 years if you're lucky.
All of your claims apply to most of the mammal population, but they have a way of avoiding it: having kids before any of the problems become a serious issue.
"Whoa get your facts straight; homo sapiens showed up around 200,000 years ago"
He said the split between chimps and humans was 5mil ago; that doesn't mean they split off directly into chimps and humans, but into the genetic predecessors of each. Probably erectus or something.
Seriously, if you're going to call someone out on fact, please do so while following basic logic.
If they'd said 'Cellphone towers', I'd have thought it plausible, but your average cellphone doesn't put out enough juice to cook a fly, let alone a bee.
My guess is pesticides, but it'd be wise for research into the problem to continue on all fronts.
That will rip incorrectly most of the time; you need to do prescaling using -vf crop=w:h:x:y,scale=x:y,expand=x:y and data you can get from the stdout of mplayer dvd://[title] -chapter [chapter]
Still, there ain't nothin' like gettin' yer hands dirtied on a command line.
re: 2; The movie industry will face increasingly stiff competition from pirates and bootleggers as their warez start filtering out to the average consumer faster than you can say 'Stupid Summer Frat Boy Movie'.
Modern day: Well, of course wenl had it tough. We used to have to dial into the internet and download at 1200 baud. Then we'd have to unzip our warez at the command line and build a boot disk just so we'd have enough conventional RAM to play Zone 66. After that, we'd call our friends while still chained to a wall by a telephone cord and have them come over and play 8-bit video games on our NES's.
Wow. You just condemned the entire industrial design industry as either 'artsy' or 'faggoty'. And I'm not just talking about the people who fill your world with pretty. What about the people who design furniture? Or glassware? Packaging? Advertising?
Almost everything you touch has been designed in some way, and chances are, it was done on a Mac.
Of course, I'm sure you'd like all things to look as they did in the 1950's: rough, matted, somewhat childish.
The Mac is an operating system designed and optimized for people who are willing to give up a little bit of low-level control for the sake of stability and simplicity. It's not for everyone, and certainly not myself, but it has its niche.
Of course, the Zealots don't really understand that it's not exactly a developer-friendly or office-friendly OS - and as a result, they never shut up about it. It may be that they've bought into the marketing-speak surrounding OS-X. That's fine; people are entitled to their stupid, stupid opinions.
Linux is the only OS that can be tailored to any user, but that tailoring takes work that most users aren't willing to put in. Oh well on that. Give it time, as always. Some distros are just about desktop-ready at the moment, in that they're more than accepatbly usable with a modest learning curve for just about anyone.
Windows - well, I dunno. I use it, mostly because I have one device that I can't get working in Linux (my XROM cart). I *could* buy one of the nice multimode carts that use SD and not need any drivers at all, but they cost money, and the XROM still works well.
If you've posted the same exact comment on more than one article, GTFO. If you or someone else has posted variations on your stupid, stupid theme, GTFO. If you think your useless trolling is clever, GTFO. If you're still looking for the "edit" link, GTFO.
Flamebaiters are not welcome among real Slashdot users. Keep your filthy troll fingers to yourself.
Look, if Japanese law says their politics must go through certain channels, that's fine; supporters of the underdogs in this case are breaking the law.
You don't arrest corkboard; you arrest the person who posted the offending material on it. Asking the corkboard to moderate what's posted on it is just moronic.
If japanese law is that japanese politics goes only through japanese TV, then the japanese politicians and supporters who put up the japanese politics are the ones to be reprimanded under japanese law, not YouTube.
If you can't enforce the law within your jurisdiction, maybe it's time to review your law.
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Heh. Ok, the license fee is, what, one share of SCO stock? I think I've got that rattling around in my pocket.
Um. We already make that endless stream of jokes, man.
Want them to stop? Stop being so pissy when they're told.
I mean, we're rather used to the fat, stupid, lazy american jokes, even if by and large they're not true. Do they stop? Dunno. Don't care. They're usually passed in mean spirit (whereas you can hardly consider 'surrendermonkey' as meanspirited; it's got the word 'monkey' in it), and I kinda just ignore such things.
"Think about it, would you really like the rest of the world to hold you - as individuals - responsible for the actions of your leaders?"
Lots of people do; why do you think the US considers our president such an embarrssment? Not saying it's right, but it *is* par for the course.
Also, I'd like to state for the record that it's fundamentally impossible to pin down the behavior of americans in general; geographically alone, we're too damned huge to be homogenous. Add to that the level of cultural difference you can experience in almost any large city in the world by walking two blocks, and you'll get the idea.
Anyway, in short, get the fuck over it, surrendermonkey. ^_^
Natural selection still applies; the selection parameters have changed, and perhaps even become a bit lax compared to 'uncivilized' settings, but the mechanism of selection is still in force.
Here's hoping for a good set of Darwin awards this year.
The problem is that the reaction is endothermic by nature. Even by splitting it apart using solar, you're essentially just making a *really* inefficient battery (as most energy producers that use carbon compounds as fuel run at about 25-50% efficiency though, there are those with better returns. Still the best I've seen is DMFCs, which get about 80% efficiency).
The problem with converting CO2 into Oxygen on an industrial scale has always been one of energy. You need to dump in a LOT, whether by photosynthesis in plants or through electrolysis. Since it's endothermic, catalysts won't help; all a catalyst does is reduce the starting energy for an exothermic reaction, which is great for a fuel cell, because it allows you to control the rate of reaction so that you don't need to actually combust fuel to get it to react, as in an ICE.
The best bet for carbon sequestration, in my mind, is using something like a large scale scuba scrubber to sequester CO2 from the air, and feed it into greenhouses and tree farms; the plants like it a LOT, and it essentally traps CO2 by bonding it to the plant's materials.
And, of course, to stop dumping it into the atmosphere.
Power plants dump a significantly larger percentage of CO2 into the atmosphere than our cars do, on the whole (though smog is icky, car exhaust constitutes a minority slice of the human CO2 production pie). Of course, you can SEE car exhaust; you can smell it. It's very easy for power comanies to make us feel guilty for a problem that, by and large, they're causing by resisting the shift to cleaner energy production technologies.
In my opinion, we really need to move our coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear plants to something clean, like liquid thorium flouride reactors (which are also nuclear, but don't produce a significant amount of transuranic compounds - ie: industrially useful products as nonradioactive nucelar waste). Also, I think wind needs to be moved from windmills to helical turbines - they're more efficient and less dangerous than their propeller-based cousins, and you don't need a servo to point them at the wind. Lastly, I think it would probably be wise to cover a few strips (and I mean, like a highway's worth) of desert with solar, once if becomes affordable enough to push such a venture.
The amount of power required to split CO2 into carbon and oxygen is kinda ridiculous. I'm pretty certain just wind/solar wouldn't do it.
Huh. The college I used to work at just scaled up their backbone bandwidth when P2P got volumnous. Pretty much every student has a 10M connection to each other student, and the vines (literally) going out of the school are something like a half terrabit.
Oh, but I'd love to have that half-terrabit to myself, just for a day.
Ok, that hurt. Never, ever post that video again.
Nor does it mention anything about how it works.
Blueprints or it's bullshit!
Ah. A variation on the ATTN:SWITCHEURS troll.
How about, fuck off?
"I cant see worth a damn without some sort of correction device."
I'm certain you can see a an animal large enough to eat you soon enough to react, had you the environmental training. Our immune system is at least robust enough to maintain a breeding population to childbearing age. Our feet develop callouses if you walk on rough stuff all the time. Our teeth weren't meant to last much longer than us, which for uncivilized populations is 40 years if you're lucky.
All of your claims apply to most of the mammal population, but they have a way of avoiding it: having kids before any of the problems become a serious issue.
"Whoa get your facts straight; homo sapiens showed up around 200,000 years ago"
He said the split between chimps and humans was 5mil ago; that doesn't mean they split off directly into chimps and humans, but into the genetic predecessors of each. Probably erectus or something.
Seriously, if you're going to call someone out on fact, please do so while following basic logic.
Somehow your post and your sig tear me. The post itself is ridiculously racist, yet the sig is insightful.
But then, a broken clock's right twice a day.
If they'd said 'Cellphone towers', I'd have thought it plausible, but your average cellphone doesn't put out enough juice to cook a fly, let alone a bee.
My guess is pesticides, but it'd be wise for research into the problem to continue on all fronts.
Feh. A real linux junkie would build his own frontend.
I don't know about the industry as a whole, but the female IT workers here almost always seem to be adorable little asian girls.
mencoder dvd://[title] -chapter [chapter] -ovc lavc -oac lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:bitrate=1500:mbd=2:trell:v4mv:turbo:a codec=mp3:abitrate=192 -o "[DVD Name] - [title] - [chapter].avi"
That will rip incorrectly most of the time; you need to do prescaling using -vf crop=w:h:x:y,scale=x:y,expand=x:y and data you can get from the stdout of mplayer dvd://[title] -chapter [chapter]
Still, there ain't nothin' like gettin' yer hands dirtied on a command line.
re: 2; The movie industry will face increasingly stiff competition from pirates and bootleggers as their warez start filtering out to the average consumer faster than you can say 'Stupid Summer Frat Boy Movie'.
So much for solving the piracy issue with DRM.
Yeah. I was gonna say, Adblock at number 3 the avoid? Not if you're an end-user.
' + window.location.toString().match(/v=([^\&]*)/)[1]+ '&t='+ document.body.innerHTML.match(/\&t=([^\&]*)/)[1]; })();
Though, I gotta say, videodownloader is overrated, especially if you're only after YouTube videos. The below link will work more quickly:
javascript:(function(){var x = document.createElement('iframe'); x.style.width='1px'; x.style.height='1px'; document.body.appendChild(x); x.src='http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=
Modern day:
Well, of course wenl had it tough. We used to have to dial into the internet and download at 1200 baud. Then we'd have to unzip our warez at the command line and build a boot disk just so we'd have enough conventional RAM to play Zone 66. After that, we'd call our friends while still chained to a wall by a telephone cord and have them come over and play 8-bit video games on our NES's.
Wow. You just condemned the entire industrial design industry as either 'artsy' or 'faggoty'. And I'm not just talking about the people who fill your world with pretty. What about the people who design furniture? Or glassware? Packaging? Advertising?
Almost everything you touch has been designed in some way, and chances are, it was done on a Mac.
Of course, I'm sure you'd like all things to look as they did in the 1950's: rough, matted, somewhat childish.
The Mac is an operating system designed and optimized for people who are willing to give up a little bit of low-level control for the sake of stability and simplicity. It's not for everyone, and certainly not myself, but it has its niche.
Of course, the Zealots don't really understand that it's not exactly a developer-friendly or office-friendly OS - and as a result, they never shut up about it. It may be that they've bought into the marketing-speak surrounding OS-X. That's fine; people are entitled to their stupid, stupid opinions.
Linux is the only OS that can be tailored to any user, but that tailoring takes work that most users aren't willing to put in. Oh well on that. Give it time, as always. Some distros are just about desktop-ready at the moment, in that they're more than accepatbly usable with a modest learning curve for just about anyone.
Windows - well, I dunno. I use it, mostly because I have one device that I can't get working in Linux (my XROM cart). I *could* buy one of the nice multimode carts that use SD and not need any drivers at all, but they cost money, and the XROM still works well.
If you've posted the same exact comment on more than one article, GTFO.
If you or someone else has posted variations on your stupid, stupid theme, GTFO.
If you think your useless trolling is clever, GTFO.
If you're still looking for the "edit" link, GTFO.
Flamebaiters are not welcome among real Slashdot users. Keep your filthy troll fingers to yourself.
Um, reverse that; Japan is trying to enforce their laws on an American country.
Either way you look at it, it's wrong.
I can't believe this guy got troll-modded.
Look, if Japanese law says their politics must go through certain channels, that's fine; supporters of the underdogs in this case are breaking the law.
You don't arrest corkboard; you arrest the person who posted the offending material on it. Asking the corkboard to moderate what's posted on it is just moronic.
Morons.
If japanese law is that japanese politics goes only through japanese TV, then the japanese politicians and supporters who put up the japanese politics are the ones to be reprimanded under japanese law, not YouTube.
If you can't enforce the law within your jurisdiction, maybe it's time to review your law.
"Technically these are considered worms, as they actively self propagate"
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http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/aab5
Learn before you speak, thanks.