Well, if you count growing the plants and fermentation alone it's a carbon sink, because a lot of carbon ends up in stems and other unused parts.
Then you have fuel used for transportation, energy used in sugar extraction, grain-based drinks require roasting the grains, hard liquor requires distillation, and a few types are aged in charred oak barrels. All of these processes require additional energy, which may or may not be carbon neutral. Then again, there would be similar amounts of fuel/energy required to, for instance, process vegetables and deliver them to your supermarket, and then cook them on your stove.
At this point, I think it's ridiculous for any part of the x86 (or even AMD64) arch to be patentable. Almost every office on the planet has one --- you don't get much more public domain than that.
You can actually get quite a bit more public domain than that--patents determine who gets to make the chips, not who gets to buy them.
Or are you implying that every office in the world has their own fab plant and I didn't know about it?
So even though it's ALWAYS WORKED BEFORE it would be INSANE TO THINK IT WOULD HAPPEN?
Show me one first-world nation that's been running without oil, or just one city that runs off fusion power--then you can say it's worked before.
Until they're actually implemented sucessfully, future technologies are nothing more than speculation.
It's not insane to assume it can happen, but it's definitely insane to just assume it will, without any supporting evidence.
I don't even want to know how soaked I'd feel after cycling for half an hour wearing a 'rain-coat' like that to keep me 'dry'!
Liquid water can't adhere to the surface of the fibers. Water vapor should be able to penetrate the fabric just fine--which is exactly the way you want it if you plan to avoid heat exhaustion while biking.
Err....it did as he was leaving. Remember that dot com bubble bursting? Bush 2 essentially inherited a recession...
Graph for reference The downhill slide in the dotcom-heavy NASDAQ started at least eight months before Clinton left office. If you disregard short-term fluctuations in the market, the DOW peaked near the middle of Clinton's second term. See the current decline has been going on for about 12 months. If you examine the last 30 years closely, you'll see this doesn't happen prior to every election, but the DOW does seem to tank when presidents are up against term limits.
Ahh, but there you have the answer. Assume the methane is produced at a steady rate...it will eventually reach a steady-state concentration.
If CO2 has a half life 7-14 times greater than methane, but methane has approximately 27 times greater heating effect per unit volume, then you reduce the net heating effect of the steady-state by 50-75% by burning all the methane.
Someone has made a huge error here...
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Umm, has anyone else noticed TFA is claiming the judge's ruling from over a year ago was made last week?
Well, it's interesting that this falls just before the summer solstice--It's often claimed that depression around Christmas is due to the lack of daylight (the winter solstice being ony a few days earlier).
This leads me to wonder: Is the trend reversed down under?
I don't use them as an ISP, but since they're in charge of the local infrastructure--well, let's just say that every time it rains I have to put up with a 60 Hz hum on my phone line for a week or two. Even after several service calls. For the last 3 years. (Typically they wait a few weeks for the problem to go away before they attempt a response.)
And yet they persist in calling me, trying to get me to use their DSL service which works over the same line. I don't know whether it's greed or incompetence, and don't really care--I'll switch my ISP and voice service to Comcast before I consider using AT&T for my ISP.
Does anyone remember thinking "Tomorrow is going to suck" on 9/10/01?
I was, if only because I would be teaching in the morning instead of the night.
But seriously, get over the "9/11 was an unexpected" issues you have.
No, I'm not one of those conspiracy theorists who blames the government.
The video clips on everyone's favorite documentaries only show 13 seconds from tower to heap of rubble, but it was nearly a decade from the time the first terrorist bomb detonated there.
I have faith that one day MTV will start releasing quality material. Wait, hear me out!
See,through the '90s I watched the quality of MTV's programing steadily slide downhill--It went from having a few decent shows at the end of the '80s to a more ADD-friendly format in the mid-90s. The downward spiral continued, and by the end of a decade ADHD actually seemed to be a requirement for proper viewing.
Extrapolating that trend to current times leads me to believe that MTV's target audience will soon reach the point where they're incapable of simultaneously focusing their eyes on the TV screen and breathing.
This inverted singularity (AKA "The Culling") will result in an inversion of populations along the intelligence axis of viewers, which will lead to intelligent programming.
(As in any post-singularity scenario, danger still exists in what is left behind. Taking my cue from the lunar virus vault in Arthur Clarke's 3001, I suggest all pre-Cull media should be shipped to a vault in a safe location--the sun's photosphere, for instance.)
Amazing, they can't read but get mod points? What,/. now available in pictograms? The only thing they can do well is surrender. =)/Yup, you know it: I'm from Massachusetts. You mean the state where a few blinking lights can shut down an entire city?
I'm so impressed. Why surrender when we could invade your state with a Christmas tree and win?
Even after 9 years, people who comment on Slashdot mystify me.
I mean, how is it some of the same people who believe that open source is better than closed source, and DRM is evil, somehow still expect robots could be designed to never harm humans, and still believe not one would mod the robots to change that capability?
Certainly there are plenty of Burkas available in the Middle East that use cloth more than 1/64" thick....
Yes, but if those don't absorb or reflect at the proper wavelength, they don't offer protection at any thickness, do they? Keep in mind, many clothing fabrics are transparent even in the near infrared range, and generally will become even more transparent on approaching longer wavelengths. I would imagine that unless the material is electrically conductive (and thus reflective), you would need to wrap yourself in something like wet leather for protection.
Either the Matrix has much, MUCH more efficient technologies, or here is yet another fine bit of fiction that has slid down the fantasy side of the fork in the road between science fiction and fantasy. That was one thing that always bothered e about the matrix--supposedly the machines began harvesting their energy from humans after we blacked out the skies to end their solar power.
That always seemed like a suicidal (and futile) tactic to me. I mean, it would be trivial to adapt machines to run on electricity drawn from geothermal, nuclear, tidal, or wind power to name a few...but all energy that keeps us humans alive is solar energy harvested via photosynthesis. So basically in The Matrix, the humans assured their own destruction while barely slowing the machines down...then the machines switched to one of the few energy sources that were guaranteed to be depleted soon after.
It's a story about a war where both sides are afflicted with terminal stupidity.
Even then the poor bastards get cheated: who wants 72 women who don't know anything about sex? Isn't the answer obvious? Who wants 72 women who realize he doesn't know anything about sex?
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Well, if you count growing the plants and fermentation alone it's a carbon sink, because a lot of carbon ends up in stems and other unused parts.
Then you have fuel used for transportation, energy used in sugar extraction, grain-based drinks require roasting the grains, hard liquor requires distillation, and a few types are aged in charred oak barrels. All of these processes require additional energy, which may or may not be carbon neutral. Then again, there would be similar amounts of fuel/energy required to, for instance, process vegetables and deliver them to your supermarket, and then cook them on your stove.
At this point, I think it's ridiculous for any part of the x86 (or even AMD64) arch to be patentable. Almost every office on the planet has one --- you don't get much more public domain than that.
You can actually get quite a bit more public domain than that--patents determine who gets to make the chips, not who gets to buy them.
Or are you implying that every office in the world has their own fab plant and I didn't know about it?
Show me one first-world nation that's been running without oil, or just one city that runs off fusion power--then you can say it's worked before.
Until they're actually implemented sucessfully, future technologies are nothing more than speculation. It's not insane to assume it can happen, but it's definitely insane to just assume it will, without any supporting evidence.
I don't even want to know how soaked I'd feel after cycling for half an hour wearing a 'rain-coat' like that to keep me 'dry'!
Liquid water can't adhere to the surface of the fibers. Water vapor should be able to penetrate the fabric just fine--which is exactly the way you want it if you plan to avoid heat exhaustion while biking.
How come none of you "slashdotters" have considered how amusing "Jack Thompson vs People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals" would be?
Err....it did as he was leaving. Remember that dot com bubble bursting? Bush 2 essentially inherited a recession...
Graph for reference
The downhill slide in the dotcom-heavy NASDAQ started at least eight months before Clinton left office.
If you disregard short-term fluctuations in the market, the DOW peaked near the middle of Clinton's second term.
See the current decline has been going on for about 12 months. If you examine the last 30 years closely, you'll see this doesn't happen prior to every election, but the DOW does seem to tank when presidents are up against term limits.
Why? Clearly he's lacking the needed experience. You should have voted for Zathras like I did instead.
Ahh, but there you have the answer. Assume the methane is produced at a steady rate...it will eventually reach a steady-state concentration.
If CO2 has a half life 7-14 times greater than methane, but methane has approximately 27 times greater heating effect per unit volume, then you reduce the net heating effect of the steady-state by 50-75% by burning all the methane.
Umm, has anyone else noticed TFA is claiming the judge's ruling from over a year ago was made last week?
Well, it's interesting that this falls just before the summer solstice--It's often claimed that depression around Christmas is due to the lack of daylight (the winter solstice being ony a few days earlier).
This leads me to wonder: Is the trend reversed down under?
Or you might want to consider that the actual analysis in the experiment wasn't done until the data reached the ground, and is still ongoing...
Their network does definitely suck.
I don't use them as an ISP, but since they're in charge of the local infrastructure--well, let's just say that every time it rains I have to put up with a 60 Hz hum on my phone line for a week or two. Even after several service calls. For the last 3 years. (Typically they wait a few weeks for the problem to go away before they attempt a response.)
And yet they persist in calling me, trying to get me to use their DSL service which works over the same line. I don't know whether it's greed or incompetence, and don't really care--I'll switch my ISP and voice service to Comcast before I consider using AT&T for my ISP.
I take it you have something against Chris Crocker deciding our foreign policy?
See,through the '90s I watched the quality of MTV's programing steadily slide downhill--It went from having a few decent shows at the end of the '80s to a more ADD-friendly format in the mid-90s. The downward spiral continued, and by the end of a decade ADHD actually seemed to be a requirement for proper viewing.
Extrapolating that trend to current times leads me to believe that MTV's target audience will soon reach the point where they're incapable of simultaneously focusing their eyes on the TV screen and breathing.
This inverted singularity (AKA "The Culling") will result in an inversion of populations along the intelligence axis of viewers, which will lead to intelligent programming.
(As in any post-singularity scenario, danger still exists in what is left behind. Taking my cue from the lunar virus vault in Arthur Clarke's 3001, I suggest all pre-Cull media should be shipped to a vault in a safe location--the sun's photosphere, for instance.)
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I'm so impressed. Why surrender when we could invade your state with a Christmas tree and win?
Actually, it's only unconstitutional for the government to promote ID.
Schools can teach it all they want, as long as they don't receive federal funding for it.
Even after 9 years, people who comment on Slashdot mystify me.
I mean, how is it some of the same people who believe that open source is better than closed source, and DRM is evil, somehow still expect robots could be designed to never harm humans, and still believe not one would mod the robots to change that capability?
Don't worry, thet's just because the technology is in its arly stages.
They'll fix that once they figure out how to write and execute.
Keep in mind, many clothing fabrics are transparent even in the near infrared range, and generally will become even more transparent on approaching longer wavelengths. I would imagine that unless the material is electrically conductive (and thus reflective), you would need to wrap yourself in something like wet leather for protection.
And in one of them, far, far away...
That always seemed like a suicidal (and futile) tactic to me. I mean, it would be trivial to adapt machines to run on electricity drawn from geothermal, nuclear, tidal, or wind power to name a few...but all energy that keeps us humans alive is solar energy harvested via photosynthesis.
So basically in The Matrix, the humans assured their own destruction while barely slowing the machines down...then the machines switched to one of the few energy sources that were guaranteed to be depleted soon after.
It's a story about a war where both sides are afflicted with terminal stupidity.