Given this thing needs a supply of hydrogen, and some air, why not use a fuel cell instead?
At least a fuel cell has no moving parts, and doesn't need to be 'perfect' to work. Plus instead of generating heat, you get pure water - which might actually be useful in say, an aircraft
Also, would have thought the fuel cell H+O -> power would be more efficient than the engine's H+O -> heat -> motion -> power
one thousandth the size of a regular power station
I would have thought power stations were a bit larger than that... I guess that's what happens when you write articles at 2:00 a.m.
I wonder what happens to the room (or an aircraft cabin) when everyone has one of these things and is 1) burning off oxygen and 2) generating a lot of heat
A firm maximises its profit by producing where Marginal Cost MC=Marginal Revenue MR. At any higher price, they'd sell fewer units and make less profit from the remaining quantity sold. At any lower price, they would sell more units but not with increasing MC they would end up with less profit again.
So to change the price at the profit maximising price, you would have to move MC or MR.
We will assume that Apple is a monopoly for small mp3 players for Macs. That gives us MR=Demand D. Make D steeper and MC will =MR at a lower price. That means make fewer people want to buy the iPod.
What about MC? Well, if you can source components or factory space for Apple at lower than their current cost, maybe you'll have some luck. More likely that won't happen.
Of course, the other way to look at it is that the market is for all mp3 players, not just ones that sync with iTunes. In an oligopolistic market we can expect competition to eventually change each firm's MR curves and bring prices down.
OTOH, if they choose NOT to take the boat and rescue the drowning person, it is very likely the drowned person's friends/family would sue for something.
It could be said the cost of paying the boat owner for his loss would be of a lower risk than not attempting a rescue of the person.
Sure, but for $16 you could buy a tried and tested regular disposable camera, which will give you better quality pics.
The only thing digital adds is a preview screen and perhaps 15min wait to print out instead of 30min for film. Tho it'll be heavier, and have a battery life. What if you buy one with an almost dead battery?
No, if you look around at all the patents that we here complain about having prior art for, it can be shown that prior art counts for nothing as far as the patent office is concerned.
That is unless you have the $ to go to court to contest the patent.
I got my cat to fetch a little soft ball as long as she was in the mood for it. Of course, half the time she dropped the ball 2 feet away from me so I had to get up to pick it up...
QWERTY was designed to alternate hands when typing words, so that the typewriter keys would not jam as they would be coming from opposite ends of the thing.
In that sense, QWERTY is perfect for 2 thumb typing, alternating between hands is the quickest way to type on a device that you have to hold onto with the same 2 hands!
Well, most ISPs simply check if the SMTP request comes from one of their own IPs. If it doesn't then you have to login to your POP or IMAP first and then try again.
Unfortunately, when OE has mail to send, it tries to send it b4 logging in to retrieve mail. So it means you have to deal with an error msg and then send again afterwards.
I wonder what would happen when some freak hides some instructions to carry out some sort of terrorist act in a pr0n image and it gets widely disseminated and shared around. Now if law enforcement found such an image on you, how would you prove you weren't the one who wrote the message?
They found a file they knew was there, but missed an unknown number of non-prepared files. That is NOT a good demonstration unless you're running a scam.
If they got this bill thru, anyone could erase anyone elses hdd whenever they want. Just hack in, 'find' copyright material you own, and erase everything, including the material you found.
Don't worry about having to prove that there was copyright material there in the 1st place, you had to erase it right? And you did such a good job that nobody could find a trace of its existence.
Given the hour+ wait times on telephone help numbers for just about every single company I need help from, and given that the same companies do NOT have any online feedback forms at ALL, it's actually a lot less painful to send them a letter and ask them to call you.
Plus those phone operators usually don't have the knowledge/power to help you and put you on hold again while they ask a supervisor!
I don't know about how legal snail mail is, but at work we use email for customer authorisations for us to go ahead with work, do changes, have production outages for upgrades, and charge them lots of money.
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Given this thing needs a supply of hydrogen, and some air, why not use a fuel cell instead?
At least a fuel cell has no moving parts, and doesn't need to be 'perfect' to work. Plus instead of generating heat, you get pure water - which might actually be useful in say, an aircraft
Also, would have thought the fuel cell H+O -> power would be more efficient than the engine's H+O -> heat -> motion -> power
Will this engine-on-a-chip need a cooling fan?
one thousandth the size of a regular power station
I would have thought power stations were a bit larger than that... I guess that's what happens when you write articles at 2:00 a.m.
I wonder what happens to the room (or an aircraft cabin) when everyone has one of these things and is 1) burning off oxygen and 2) generating a lot of heat
You can run it how ever many times you like, you can never guarantee a correct answer. How would you like them to calculate your bank balance?
Hrm.... you mean... something like.... this?
http://www.wishlist.com.au/
Yes, unless the same Disney lovers use filtering software, which probably won't be incredibly impressed by the number of banned words in your HTML...
Actually, I think the trend is for laptops to get bigger and bigger. My friend bought a 15 inch laptop that weighed 7kg just 2 mths ago.
Personally, I prefer something like 10 or 11 inch, but hardly anybody makes those here.
The only thing is,
CNET=ZDNet=PC Mag=PC World=eWeek
Don't know who owns eTesting Labs, so in the end we only have 3 independent sources...
A firm maximises its profit by producing where Marginal Cost MC=Marginal Revenue MR. At any higher price, they'd sell fewer units and make less profit from the remaining quantity sold. At any lower price, they would sell more units but not with increasing MC they would end up with less profit again.
So to change the price at the profit maximising price, you would have to move MC or MR.
We will assume that Apple is a monopoly for small mp3 players for Macs. That gives us MR=Demand D. Make D steeper and MC will =MR at a lower price. That means make fewer people want to buy the iPod.
What about MC? Well, if you can source components or factory space for Apple at lower than their current cost, maybe you'll have some luck. More likely that won't happen.
Of course, the other way to look at it is that the market is for all mp3 players, not just ones that sync with iTunes. In an oligopolistic market we can expect competition to eventually change each firm's MR curves and bring prices down.
OTOH, if they choose NOT to take the boat and rescue the drowning person, it is very likely the drowned person's friends/family would sue for something.
It could be said the cost of paying the boat owner for his loss would be of a lower risk than not attempting a rescue of the person.
Duno where ur, but here we have to be a company goods vehicle or something to buy a diesel
Sure, but for $16 you could buy a tried and tested regular disposable camera, which will give you better quality pics.
The only thing digital adds is a preview screen and perhaps 15min wait to print out instead of 30min for film. Tho it'll be heavier, and have a battery life. What if you buy one with an almost dead battery?
Seriously, we have a 24min film processing here.
Or another way of thinking about it, if you were a competitor, what's the best way to crush your competition?
Buy lots of their cameras and junk them!
No, if you look around at all the patents that we here complain about having prior art for, it can be shown that prior art counts for nothing as far as the patent office is concerned.
That is unless you have the $ to go to court to contest the patent.
how do u know they are not patenting it to protect everyone from someone else from some evil entity who would abuse it?
Hrm. you wouldn't have a link to that Toshiba would you? Actually I haven't seen any Toshiba PDAs for sale here in Sydney at all...
Actually, you can train cats... sometimes...
I got my cat to fetch a little soft ball as long as she was in the mood for it. Of course, half the time she dropped the ball 2 feet away from me so I had to get up to pick it up...
QWERTY was designed to alternate hands when typing words, so that the typewriter keys would not jam as they would be coming from opposite ends of the thing.
In that sense, QWERTY is perfect for 2 thumb typing, alternating between hands is the quickest way to type on a device that you have to hold onto with the same 2 hands!
Well, most ISPs simply check if the SMTP request comes from one of their own IPs. If it doesn't then you have to login to your POP or IMAP first and then try again.
Unfortunately, when OE has mail to send, it tries to send it b4 logging in to retrieve mail. So it means you have to deal with an error msg and then send again afterwards.
They said best-of-breed MSN content. That means the best that MSN has to offer. It has nothing to do with comparisons to outside entities.
Every company talks about best-of-breed nowadays, I guess it does trick some people then...
I wonder what would happen when some freak hides some instructions to carry out some sort of terrorist act in a pr0n image and it gets widely disseminated and shared around. Now if law enforcement found such an image on you, how would you prove you weren't the one who wrote the message?
They found a file they knew was there, but missed an unknown number of non-prepared files. That is NOT a good demonstration unless you're running a scam.
If they got this bill thru, anyone could erase anyone elses hdd whenever they want. Just hack in, 'find' copyright material you own, and erase everything, including the material you found.
Don't worry about having to prove that there was copyright material there in the 1st place, you had to erase it right? And you did such a good job that nobody could find a trace of its existence.
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What is RF?
Not only that.
Given the hour+ wait times on telephone help numbers for just about every single company I need help from, and given that the same companies do NOT have any online feedback forms at ALL, it's actually a lot less painful to send them a letter and ask them to call you.
Plus those phone operators usually don't have the knowledge/power to help you and put you on hold again while they ask a supervisor!
I don't know about how legal snail mail is, but at work we use email for customer authorisations for us to go ahead with work, do changes, have production outages for upgrades, and charge them lots of money.
So I guess it must be good enough for most ppl.