Other drinks contain potassium benzoate and Vitamin C, but I'm not sure if this also produces benzene.
I don't want to say it's a given, but I would expect it.
Any alkali metal benzoate will dissolve in water, and dissociate into metal ions and benzoate ions, so it probably doesn't matter what the metal is, as long as the salt is water-soluble.
For the pre-"breakthrough" concept, just skip steps 1, 5 and 6.
Better, skip steps 2-4 and use the aluminum as an anode in a galvanic cell, skipping the obligatory loss of efficiency from having pointless extra steps in the process.
Since when does "but we don't have anything new to announce in that regard" mean "we're not telling you what we already know" instead of "there's nothing to say?"
If you recall, they mentioned something about Starcraft a few months ago, but hinted that it would still be a few years.
Actually et's take those first two parts basically as you state them:
"we have a secret we'll be reealing next month." "We Really like Starcraft."
the third part, with no reading between lines required, quite plainly says "But the secret we plan to reveal next month has nothing to do with Starcraft."
Is that any sufficiently rabid fanboi will see what he wants, regardless of whether it flat-out contradicts the obvious.
To paraphrase Blizzard: "We're about to announce a new game, and we really want to do something with the Starcraft franchise, but this ain't it." Rabid fanboi writing article: "Woohoo! Blizz said Starcraft! Blizz said new game! This is it, Starcraft 2 next month!"
It's a shame, because I would really like to see another Starcraft. Unfortunately the fanbois are probably scaring Blizzard away from actually doing it, since they know the first screenshots or videos released from beta will set off a torrent of bad press from people saying "What is this crap? They were saying this was ready for release like two years ago, and this is all they have?"
Now, if they had deliberately lefto one running and attached it to some random vehicle...
Or for more prank value, if they had stolen a small number (say 2-4) and somehow attached them to squad cars that would be on patrol, that would have been interesting.
A friend of mine notes that it seems that what defines what a vegan/vegetarian won't eat is whether or not is has cute babies.
(Note: This applies to the style of vegan/vegetarian living in the West, where it's primarily a [political|personal style|fad|social] statement. It does not apply to those who live that lifestyle for religious or who must for health reasons.)
From the political standpoint, it's interesting that the vegan and pro-abortion crowds are both largely at the liberal end of the spectrum...It would be interesting to see how much overlap there is between those two groups, and if such overlap exists, you have to ask the question "In what moral sense is killing an unhatched chicken worse than killing an unborn human?"
Come now, don't you remember your bible lessons from childhood? The AI Joshua downloads the Old Testament from Project Gutenberg in its quest to aquire knowledge. After assimilating this text, Joshua believes it has a divine mandate to conquer the city of Jericho.
It is important to consider the theoretical limits of the thing you are analyzing before choosing what type of curve will best model your statistical data. In this case a power curve or hyperbolic curve is not a particularly good fit since we certainly will not be seeing 50 blade razors in one year.
You, sir, clearly do not understand the singularity.
By then Gillete's new razor technology will result in a nanotechnological device that reorganizes the carbon atoms in freshly cut whiskers into new diamond blades. The additional blades will result in a closer shave with every use, meaning we won't need to buy those expensive refill packs. All the whiskers being recycled will mean that we won't need to rinse the razor during or between uses.
We will all be shaving ourselves with infinite-bladed razors after we upload in 2014.
The universe can be regarded as a hologram, which can store pretty much as much information as you can in a tiny space using lasers and advanced optical stuff. If you cut a hologram of an apple into small pieces, you can still regenerate the entire image of the apple with only a single piece, albeit the image is much less clear - but you can still distinguish that it's an apple. Every single piece of the hologram contains all the informatioin contained in the entire piece of hologram.
Of course, this description contains a blatant self-contradiction.
If each piece of the hologram contained all of the information contained in the whole hologram, then the resulting image would be just as clear as the original.
Put in computer terms, you're using lossy compression (like an overcompressed jpeg) and claiming that the resulting vaguely apple-shaped blur has not lost any information that the original bitmap contained. The error is in assuming that loss of information means the image must be cropped, when loss of information could also manifest itself as loss of resolution or color depth.
As a longtime SuSE user (5.1, 5.2,,7.1, and then 9.2) I was impressed with the ease of installation on generic systems and stability of their distribution under the 5.x versions, but things went downhill from there.
I wouldn't say it ran smoothly on any new system that I ever tried it on--the last two versions I bought wouldn't work on new systems because...well, the choice of driver modules for installation kernels was severely limited. The sad part is, I could theoretically compile a kernel with the needed drivers from the source included with the distribution, but in reality this was impossible due to the fact that the precompiled kernels (and modules) didn't support the HD controllers for either of my last two computers. So even booting a liveCD, I couldn't compile a new kernel and write it to any media.
You should note that 5 billion tons of CO2 is several orders of magnitude less than the total mass of the Earth's atmosphere. Also, please cite sources for these estimates.
Of course, less than 0.1% of the earth's atmosphere has strong absorption or emission in the infrared spectrum, so you would still see significant effects if the carbon dioxide emissions were 5 orders of magnitude less than total atmospheric mass.
Atmospheric mass is approximately 5.2x10^15 tons, so we can safely assume about 5 trillion tons of greenhouse gases.
If the figure of 130 billion tons in 30 years is accurate, that's one generation of man producing more than 2% of the existing amount of greenhouse gases, which hardly qualifies as insignificant.
"Invent a completely foolproof system, and only a fool would want to use it."
We've seen essentially this same debate so many times before on Slashdot and elsewhere: not just "safety" features in robotics, but "user friendly" UI (macOS, pre OSX)vs. "freedom of choice" (think of how many different window managers have existed for X over the years),etc.
Sometimes a tradeoff is necessary. Would you want robots coded to obey Asimov's laws is this meant that the software and/or firmware was DRMed "for safety reasons?"
If you do, you inherit all the problems associated with closed source software and DRM: Forced subscriptions and upgrades, and bugs that you can't fix on your own, and aren't fixed by the manufacturer because "For the cast majority of users, it's not a critical problem." If you don't, then you get the occasional bad (or even malicious) coder breaking the safety features.
Now I know you're saying "But Open source methods...many eyes...many coders...the bugs will be fixed." This is very true, but the problem here is, the bug has to be observed before it can be fixed, and in this case "observation" may well mean "maiming" or "death."
The simple fact is the only way to take responsibility away from the end user is to take control away from the end user as well...and that's something that probably won't sit too well with the Slashdot crowd. On the other hand, power users who have total control over a system should also have total responsibility.
Before the current methods of aluminum production existed, it was actually very difficult to produce in significant amounts.
The Washington Monument was capped with a piece of aluminum to show how wealthy the United States was--at the time, aluminum was more expensive than gold.
Picture this:
The guy in front of you isn't moving, even with a green light. Rather than get angry, you pull out your cell phone and log in to the new MMO... ...only to find the guy in front of you isn't moving because he's too busy farming a PVP title off newbies 40 levels lower than himself.
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Any alkali metal benzoate will dissolve in water, and dissociate into metal ions and benzoate ions, so it probably doesn't matter what the metal is, as long as the salt is water-soluble.
Polyaramid fibers like kevlar may lose strength when they get wet, but polyethylene generally doesn't tolerate heat very well.
Since when does "but we don't have anything new to announce in that regard" mean "we're not telling you what we already know" instead of "there's nothing to say?" If you recall, they mentioned something about Starcraft a few months ago, but hinted that it would still be a few years.
Actually et's take those first two parts basically as you state them:
"we have a secret we'll be reealing next month."
"We Really like Starcraft."
the third part, with no reading between lines required, quite plainly says "But the secret we plan to reveal next month has nothing to do with Starcraft."
Is that any sufficiently rabid fanboi will see what he wants, regardless of whether it flat-out contradicts the obvious.
To paraphrase Blizzard: "We're about to announce a new game, and we really want to do something with the Starcraft franchise, but this ain't it."
Rabid fanboi writing article: "Woohoo! Blizz said Starcraft! Blizz said new game! This is it, Starcraft 2 next month!"
It's a shame, because I would really like to see another Starcraft. Unfortunately the fanbois are probably scaring Blizzard away from actually doing it, since they know the first screenshots or videos released from beta will set off a torrent of bad press from people saying "What is this crap? They were saying this was ready for release like two years ago, and this is all they have?"
Take the assertion "DRM will save us all from theft of our intellectual property."
Now do the following:
1) Substitute "Asimov's laws of robotics" for "DRM"
2) Substitute "life and well-being" for "intellectual property."
At which step did the argument become more rational?
Or for more prank value, if they had stolen a small number (say 2-4) and somehow attached them to squad cars that would be on patrol, that would have been interesting.
Come now, don't you remember your bible lessons from childhood?
The AI Joshua downloads the Old Testament from Project Gutenberg in its quest to aquire knowledge. After assimilating this text, Joshua believes it has a divine mandate to conquer the city of Jericho.
By then Gillete's new razor technology will result in a nanotechnological device that reorganizes the carbon atoms in freshly cut whiskers into new diamond blades. The additional blades will result in a closer shave with every use, meaning we won't need to buy those expensive refill packs. All the whiskers being recycled will mean that we won't need to rinse the razor during or between uses.
We will all be shaving ourselves with infinite-bladed razors after we upload in 2014.
Of course, this description contains a blatant self-contradiction.
If each piece of the hologram contained all of the information contained in the whole hologram, then the resulting image would be just as clear as the original.
Put in computer terms, you're using lossy compression (like an overcompressed jpeg) and claiming that the resulting vaguely apple-shaped blur has not lost any information that the original bitmap contained. The error is in assuming that loss of information means the image must be cropped, when loss of information could also manifest itself as loss of resolution or color depth.
As a longtime SuSE user (5.1, 5.2,,7.1, and then 9.2) I was impressed with the ease of installation on generic systems and stability of their distribution under the 5.x versions, but things went downhill from there.
I wouldn't say it ran smoothly on any new system that I ever tried it on--the last two versions I bought wouldn't work on new systems because...well, the choice of driver modules for installation kernels was severely limited. The sad part is, I could theoretically compile a kernel with the needed drivers from the source included with the distribution, but in reality this was impossible due to the fact that the precompiled kernels (and modules) didn't support the HD controllers for either of my last two computers. So even booting a liveCD, I couldn't compile a new kernel and write it to any media.
From personal experience I can say the stuff works, if you use fresh catnip for brewing a tea.
A 0.01 mm thick circular sheet of mylar with the same radius as Earth would require only a billion tons of carbon.
Isn't that a bit ironic when compared to our greenhouse gas emissions?
(I'm not saying that would be a good design, but it's an interesting figure to start with.)
Atmospheric mass is approximately 5.2x10^15 tons, so we can safely assume about 5 trillion tons of greenhouse gases.
If the figure of 130 billion tons in 30 years is accurate, that's one generation of man producing more than 2% of the existing amount of greenhouse gases, which hardly qualifies as insignificant.
This may be a big deal for D&D fans, but for people who play RPGs in general it's nothing new.
We've seen essentially this same debate so many times before on Slashdot and elsewhere: not just "safety" features in robotics, but "user friendly" UI (macOS, pre OSX)vs. "freedom of choice" (think of how many different window managers have existed for X over the years),etc.
Sometimes a tradeoff is necessary. Would you want robots coded to obey Asimov's laws is this meant that the software and/or firmware was DRMed "for safety reasons?"
If you do, you inherit all the problems associated with closed source software and DRM: Forced subscriptions and upgrades, and bugs that you can't fix on your own, and aren't fixed by the manufacturer because "For the cast majority of users, it's not a critical problem."
If you don't, then you get the occasional bad (or even malicious) coder breaking the safety features.
Now I know you're saying "But Open source methods...many eyes...many coders...the bugs will be fixed." This is very true, but the problem here is, the bug has to be observed before it can be fixed, and in this case "observation" may well mean "maiming" or "death."
The simple fact is the only way to take responsibility away from the end user is to take control away from the end user as well...and that's something that probably won't sit too well with the Slashdot crowd. On the other hand, power users who have total control over a system should also have total responsibility.
The Washington Monument was capped with a piece of aluminum to show how wealthy the United States was--at the time, aluminum was more expensive than gold.
Picture this:
The guy in front of you isn't moving, even with a green light.
Rather than get angry, you pull out your cell phone and log in to the new MMO...
...only to find the guy in front of you isn't moving because he's too busy farming a PVP title off newbies 40 levels lower than himself.
Oh well, I'm sure there's some application for this.
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