The american system is the best possible. Ultimately, the viewers decide what crap goes on TV. If ratings are low, the programs change.
You can't criticize the suppliers for our:
"... Ads targeted at kids, news coverage that imposes the sponsors' opinion upon everyone."
Because when we vote with our wallets and remote controls, that's exactly the sort of crap we love to watch.
So really when people criticize the quality of american broadcasting, they're simply admitting that they're embarassed about their preferred level of intellectual stimulation.
Boycott the tv, man. Hit the industry where it hurts. If you pledge to only watch high-brow programming, that's what they'll have to provide.
Keep the government out of my life.
Well hey man, the fields of Biology/Chemistry/Genetics would be NOTHING without serious contributions from "computer science".
Hop on google and start applying for a position with one of thousands of biotech informatics companies.
Excellent point. The venusification of our home planet does highlight the need to move humans off the planet -- But I'd suggest we settle on the moon first.
Doing anything to mars will be a huge waste of resources just due to the vast distance involved. And forget about terraforming --- if mars is settled, it's gonna be with enclosed spaces. And if you're going to settle in enclosed spaces -- might as well go for the moon first. Or well... yeah I guess once earth is venusformed, we'll need to live in enclosed space here too.
The moon will be good practice.
The typical earth airbag combusts hydrocarbons -- making co2 and water... What was in this airbag?
I think hydrocarbons are a poor energy carrier per weight -- so maybe their airbag was a h2/o2 one?
in any event -- possible contamination from airbag, anyone?
It is actually quite difficult to "form hydrocarbons" in water -- Atleast the ones that you want. Ask any organic chemist. Water is probably one of the least used solvents for making all of our wonderdrugs. Who's to say that life couldn't evolve in other solvents like chloroform, DMSO, ethanol, or liquid CO2?
To predict what you want with physics/chemistry, you would probably need a computer the size of the earth (using current technology)...
PLUS you would need to collect a lot more data that we do no have. Maybe these plastic disks could help us make more room on the planet for extra processors.
How about we abandon sales tax -- and just jack up the state income taxes a nudge?
Think of all the computational power and paper shuffling involved with taxing my stupid 99cent burger to be 1.07 --- And all the time wasted counting out the 93 cents --- We should just abandon sales taxes anyway- they are a bad idea... And even as it stands now, no body understands how interstate taxation is supposed to work anyway.
Let's not forget the recent brazilian tragedy. They were on target to be #3, right? Hopefully they can regroup to be #4. It is interesting that the creators of the USS Enterprise did not anticipate that other countries might create crafts in a non-cooperative manner --- Or did they just assume that the world would become the united states? Voluntarily or by force, i wonder.
The measurements of efficiency in a carnot engine and the fuel cell are fundamentally different calculations with different assumptions. You cannot compare the two. You can only use those equations to compare carnot engines to carnot engines, or fuel cells to fuel cells.
I don't remember which book I had... One of the authors began with an L, and it was purple.
If we want to compare the efficiencies of an ICE with a fuel cell, we are going to have to dig deeper and deal with things like entropy, which is beyond the scope of this course.
I have yet to find an honest analysis of the hydrogen economy's efficiency when compared to burning natural gas directly an ICE (since the most efficient method so far known of getting hyrdogen is natural gas reforming).
This should be the question you seek to answer.
Where were all you protectionist people when we lost our blue collar jobs to overseas?
Look, you had your 10 years of insanely high wages --- and now you're obselete. Deal with it and stop your whining.
If americans want to earn ridiculously high wages again to buy expensive luxruies, americans have to produce something that the rest of the world is interested in buying. So stop waiting for "employers" to hand you easy jobs and medical insurance. You're all smart people -- if you think employers should be handing out the 100,000$ salaries to IT folks again, YOU try starting a new company that can afford it. Best of luck. I'm movng to India.
You're looking at the wrong data, my friend. Your link is comparing apples and underpants. The carnot cycle assumes an engine that uses heat differential to produce work. It is a freshman-level theory that does not paint an accurate picture of reality. An ICE, like a fuel cell, is NOT an ideal carnot engine, and therefore the comparison made on your link is quite meaningless. I should also point out that the graph seems quite fabricated... the x axis is "temperature"... Yet the efficiency equation requires TWO temperatures, and the units are celsius when kelvins would make more sense.
All of this aside, to gauge the efficiency of the hydrogen economy, you must consider the costs of producing the hydrogen. It is meaninless to say that a fuel cell is "more efficient than the carnot engine." The question is: Is it more effecient than burning the HYDROGEN SOURCE (i.e. natural gas, gasoline, etc... ) in a carnot engine? The answer, btw, is no. It appears that you have been misled by a pro-fuel-cell website.
And to all of you "solar and wind" people --- If we suddenly find the ability to produce enough energy via solar/nuclear/farts/whatever -- Why not just put the solar panels on the cars? That would probably be much more effective than converting to hydrogen and shipping it around like idiots. The hydrogen economy makes less thermodynamic sense than the plot of The Matrix.
Yes yes yes, paper money costs more to print than coins --- But what about the cost to society? What about the wear and tear that dollar coins make on your pockets? We'd lose millions of dollars in pant replacements.
And all that extra weight in our wallets would make our gas mileage even worse than it already is. But on the bright side, we would be carrying more weight when we walk -- so maybe we could spend less money at the gym.
I guess this will do well to educate our children how to become good american citizens - citizens that are afraid of flashlights and other wave-emitting devices of lower energy levels.
These citizens of tomorrow might not understand physics, but atleast they will understand the legal system. Why earn a living when you can just sue?
Num lock was invented for the Sierra 3d adventure games. Try getting past the hungry roots maze in space quest II: Vohaul's revenge with NUMLOCK on!!! Can't be done.
The E-mail pricing structure needs an overhaul. If servers charged 1 cent per email, spam would atleast be reduced to a level of "good spam". -- Worthwhile products advertised in the traditional direct marketing approach.
making it illegal and calling spammers at home has constitutional problems.
So either make a few ammendments, or start paying per email.
Where is the deception?? 20 gig has 20,000,000,000 bytes... right? If you're a computer-boy, you might ask if it had more... I remember my 80 meg drive had slightly more than 80 meg cuz of that stupid power of 2 thing... When did HDD makers make the switch?
You need to provide an alternative. The robots cannot "take our jobs" if we BOYCOT robotically produced goods.
Unite! Boycott the vending machines. Buy M&M's and twinkees from human vendors only. If you don't, you're AGAINST PEOPLE!
You're against people, are you?
On the other hand, you can realize that robots are a good thing and shut up.
Get hit by an automobile in Japan some time.
Then tell me that lawyers are useless.
Agreed, they are often a misused workforce, but they are an essential component of the Anglican capitalist machine.
If weren't for lawyers, we probably still would not have seatbelts.
I am so tired of these ridiculous reports about correlation studies. "Red Wine may cure cancer." "High fat diets may cause obesity"
Bullocks!
I hypothesize that the causal relationship is actually the converse of what has been reported. This makes more sense:
Children with innate hearing abilities tend to play more video games!
I personally have horrible ears, and I am pitiful at first person shooters... So of course, I don't play a lot of video games.
A famous drunk once said:
"Gin and tonic make me drunk...
Whiskey and tonic make me drunk...
Vodka and tonic make me drunk...
Well isn't it obvious?? Tonic makes people drunk?!"
Slashdot Mirror
The american system is the best possible. Ultimately, the viewers decide what crap goes on TV. If ratings are low, the programs change. You can't criticize the suppliers for our: "... Ads targeted at kids, news coverage that imposes the sponsors' opinion upon everyone." Because when we vote with our wallets and remote controls, that's exactly the sort of crap we love to watch. So really when people criticize the quality of american broadcasting, they're simply admitting that they're embarassed about their preferred level of intellectual stimulation. Boycott the tv, man. Hit the industry where it hurts. If you pledge to only watch high-brow programming, that's what they'll have to provide. Keep the government out of my life.
Well hey man, the fields of Biology/Chemistry/Genetics would be NOTHING without serious contributions from "computer science". Hop on google and start applying for a position with one of thousands of biotech informatics companies.
Excellent point. The venusification of our home planet does highlight the need to move humans off the planet -- But I'd suggest we settle on the moon first. Doing anything to mars will be a huge waste of resources just due to the vast distance involved. And forget about terraforming --- if mars is settled, it's gonna be with enclosed spaces. And if you're going to settle in enclosed spaces -- might as well go for the moon first. Or well... yeah I guess once earth is venusformed, we'll need to live in enclosed space here too. The moon will be good practice.
The typical earth airbag combusts hydrocarbons -- making co2 and water... What was in this airbag? I think hydrocarbons are a poor energy carrier per weight -- so maybe their airbag was a h2/o2 one? in any event -- possible contamination from airbag, anyone?
It is actually quite difficult to "form hydrocarbons" in water -- Atleast the ones that you want. Ask any organic chemist. Water is probably one of the least used solvents for making all of our wonderdrugs. Who's to say that life couldn't evolve in other solvents like chloroform, DMSO, ethanol, or liquid CO2?
To predict what you want with physics/chemistry, you would probably need a computer the size of the earth (using current technology)... PLUS you would need to collect a lot more data that we do no have. Maybe these plastic disks could help us make more room on the planet for extra processors.
How about we abandon sales tax -- and just jack up the state income taxes a nudge? Think of all the computational power and paper shuffling involved with taxing my stupid 99cent burger to be 1.07 --- And all the time wasted counting out the 93 cents --- We should just abandon sales taxes anyway- they are a bad idea... And even as it stands now, no body understands how interstate taxation is supposed to work anyway.
Let's not forget the recent brazilian tragedy. They were on target to be #3, right? Hopefully they can regroup to be #4. It is interesting that the creators of the USS Enterprise did not anticipate that other countries might create crafts in a non-cooperative manner --- Or did they just assume that the world would become the united states? Voluntarily or by force, i wonder.
Just give the scientists the code for /.
The success of /. is owed to the user-driven review system. Scientific Journals should follow the example.
The measurements of efficiency in a carnot engine and the fuel cell are fundamentally different calculations with different assumptions. You cannot compare the two. You can only use those equations to compare carnot engines to carnot engines, or fuel cells to fuel cells. I don't remember which book I had... One of the authors began with an L, and it was purple. If we want to compare the efficiencies of an ICE with a fuel cell, we are going to have to dig deeper and deal with things like entropy, which is beyond the scope of this course. I have yet to find an honest analysis of the hydrogen economy's efficiency when compared to burning natural gas directly an ICE (since the most efficient method so far known of getting hyrdogen is natural gas reforming). This should be the question you seek to answer.
Where were all you protectionist people when we lost our blue collar jobs to overseas? Look, you had your 10 years of insanely high wages --- and now you're obselete. Deal with it and stop your whining. If americans want to earn ridiculously high wages again to buy expensive luxruies, americans have to produce something that the rest of the world is interested in buying. So stop waiting for "employers" to hand you easy jobs and medical insurance. You're all smart people -- if you think employers should be handing out the 100,000$ salaries to IT folks again, YOU try starting a new company that can afford it. Best of luck. I'm movng to India.
i think adamantium is a fancy name for diamond... we've pretty much got that one nailed.
You're looking at the wrong data, my friend. Your link is comparing apples and underpants. The carnot cycle assumes an engine that uses heat differential to produce work. It is a freshman-level theory that does not paint an accurate picture of reality. An ICE, like a fuel cell, is NOT an ideal carnot engine, and therefore the comparison made on your link is quite meaningless. I should also point out that the graph seems quite fabricated ... the x axis is "temperature" ... Yet the efficiency equation requires TWO temperatures, and the units are celsius when kelvins would make more sense.
All of this aside, to gauge the efficiency of the hydrogen economy, you must consider the costs of producing the hydrogen. It is meaninless to say that a fuel cell is "more efficient than the carnot engine." The question is: Is it more effecient than burning the HYDROGEN SOURCE (i.e. natural gas, gasoline, etc... ) in a carnot engine? The answer, btw, is no. It appears that you have been misled by a pro-fuel-cell website.
And to all of you "solar and wind" people --- If we suddenly find the ability to produce enough energy via solar/nuclear/farts/whatever -- Why not just put the solar panels on the cars? That would probably be much more effective than converting to hydrogen and shipping it around like idiots. The hydrogen economy makes less thermodynamic sense than the plot of The Matrix.
Yes yes yes, paper money costs more to print than coins --- But what about the cost to society? What about the wear and tear that dollar coins make on your pockets? We'd lose millions of dollars in pant replacements. And all that extra weight in our wallets would make our gas mileage even worse than it already is. But on the bright side, we would be carrying more weight when we walk -- so maybe we could spend less money at the gym.
I guess this will do well to educate our children how to become good american citizens - citizens that are afraid of flashlights and other wave-emitting devices of lower energy levels. These citizens of tomorrow might not understand physics, but atleast they will understand the legal system. Why earn a living when you can just sue?
Num lock was invented for the Sierra 3d adventure games. Try getting past the hungry roots maze in space quest II: Vohaul's revenge with NUMLOCK on!!! Can't be done.
The E-mail pricing structure needs an overhaul. If servers charged 1 cent per email, spam would atleast be reduced to a level of "good spam". -- Worthwhile products advertised in the traditional direct marketing approach. making it illegal and calling spammers at home has constitutional problems. So either make a few ammendments, or start paying per email.
What are you saying? Governments don't censor what goes into the libraries???
Where is the deception?? 20 gig has 20,000,000,000 bytes... right? If you're a computer-boy, you might ask if it had more... I remember my 80 meg drive had slightly more than 80 meg cuz of that stupid power of 2 thing... When did HDD makers make the switch?
You need to provide an alternative. The robots cannot "take our jobs" if we BOYCOT robotically produced goods. Unite! Boycott the vending machines. Buy M&M's and twinkees from human vendors only. If you don't, you're AGAINST PEOPLE! You're against people, are you? On the other hand, you can realize that robots are a good thing and shut up.
Get hit by an automobile in Japan some time. Then tell me that lawyers are useless. Agreed, they are often a misused workforce, but they are an essential component of the Anglican capitalist machine. If weren't for lawyers, we probably still would not have seatbelts.
I agree, but I suspect that what the media typically presents is not scientific. They add whatever the fashionable interpretation happens to be.
I am so tired of these ridiculous reports about correlation studies. "Red Wine may cure cancer." "High fat diets may cause obesity" Bullocks! I hypothesize that the causal relationship is actually the converse of what has been reported. This makes more sense: Children with innate hearing abilities tend to play more video games! I personally have horrible ears, and I am pitiful at first person shooters... So of course, I don't play a lot of video games. A famous drunk once said: "Gin and tonic make me drunk... Whiskey and tonic make me drunk... Vodka and tonic make me drunk... Well isn't it obvious?? Tonic makes people drunk?!"