The commenter was just pointing out inconsistencies between the (short) article, and reality. Since the longer article is behind a paywall, it's up to a knowledgeable Slashdot reader to fill in the gaps.
Ask any pool/pond owner. Algae will grow in any body of water that you don't take active measures to suppress it. i.e. Kill it with chlorine, UV, heat, or keep it way from light.
Just a conjecture here, but I imagine that the same traits that make algae produce copious quantities of oil, also make it less competitive vs. the other nasty microorganisms in waste water. The oil itself might be food for something else. One more sentence in the C&EN article could clear this up.
Assuming that their process produces pure hydrocarbons, the fuel output would only have Hydrogen, Carbon, and Oxygen, which come from C02 and H2O. When the algae is converted into fuel, there should be a "waste" stream that would be perfect fertilizer for the next generation of algae.
Shakespeare couldn't spell his own name, and his handwriting was atrocious.
Only the best (according to the church) Greek and Latin texts survived. Of course they seem smart to us. The musings of the sub-literate didn't survive. Except for the graffiti on the walls of the bath houses in Pompeii, we don't know much about the low brow Roman.
This is like looking at the mansions in the old part of town and saying, "They sure knew how to build things in those days". Only the most well built house survived so it looks like there was more craftmenship 100 years ago.
Disclaimer: I may have been stoned to the bejezus when taking some of those high school iq tests.
That and the circumstances of the test might have been different. Back in Junior High, four students were taken from class without notice, taken to a room and told to take a test. I asked when we would get the results, and the test giver said that we wouldn't get to see them at all. With this I wasn't motivated to bother. Also, the test was some sort of multipart form where it was self grading after you separated the forms. I spent the entire time trying to figure out the mechanics of the forms, instead of what was written on them. To this day, I regret not taking the forms apart, since there was no rule that you couldn't and no stated downside if you did.
When you took the test for yourself, you were probably motivated to do well. When psychologists compare tests given to students, they tend to compare ones given under similar circumstances and similar motivation. Exspecially for kids pre-reading, motivation is the biggest factor in the test score.
Whether this is some sort of all-extensive world-soul, or just the fact that people are more connected because of technology, we all seem to be moving toward thinking the same.
Assuming you meant Diplomatic Immunity, then yes, but...
The Texas AG could still use his goons to lock up the observers until the polling is over. After word filtered down from Washington that they can't do that, and after the diplomats get lost and found in jail, then, they would be released, and at most, the Texas AG would get a stern letter from the USAG.
Since the Texas AG has tipped his hand, the president could have the FBI or similar federal officers to keep the diplomats from being arrested in the first place.
Every idiot that has to use real-world materials on hand, instead of perfect circles of aluminum.
I stand by my original statement. In the real world, out of the lab, it's hard to make a perfect Faraday cage that's useful. Things like doors, and power conduits mess up its integrity, would allow in some of the signal that might be enough to fry your electronics.
Simply building your special room 3 floors undergound would probably attenuate the signal enough, but there are other missiles that address that.
Tempest proofing is a difficult art. Things like ventalation and getting power into and select signals out make it non-trivial.
A completely tempest proof room in a building is a giveaway that you're doing something important there.
Also, Tempest signals are extremely low power. This is extremely high power. Look what happens to a ball of aluminum foil you put in a microwave oven. Imagine that's your shielding...
Their choice of MS, given MS's history in the mobile arena, should immediately call into question the sanity of the decision makers
You question the sanity of a multi-millionaire, who even if he flops, probably leaves with millions.
According to his wikipedia article, he got a $6 millions signing bonus, and $1.4 million per year.
Egads, for that kind of money, *I* am willing to run a company into the ground and suffer the slings and arrows of the Internet.**
Back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth, there was a local ISP offering "unlimited" service. When I asked if you could dial in and remain online 24/7, they said no, there's a limit of 20 hours/week, but you can do anything you want while online, so it's "unlimited!!!"
"A market that is able to handle a large volume of trades, such as foreign exchange transactions, without causing large shifts in price."
So, by definition, you are correct. If prices fall out of alignment with supply and demand, as they've done in the stock market because of high speed trading, you don't have a "stable market".
You are ignoring market inetia. A market will only fulfill a demand when the expected profit exceeds the decision maker's time and effort. Regulation and exclusive deals between government and business drive up cost and effort for potential competitors. If a local government gives exclusive rights for cable service to one company, and the courts agree that includes anything like wireless that *looks* like cable TV, the costs and effort for a cable competitor are effectively infinite until the contract expires.
You can start by making sure the law applies to everybody, equally.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
--- Anatole France
It's nearly impossible to make a law that applies equally to everyone, because we're all different, in different situations. Companies, even more so. There's no way the same law can apply to a 100,000 person corporation and a mom/pop shop. (Mostly mom&pop are exempt, but not always)
I'd wager that even in ancient Greek times, teachers, who were hired or purchased by parents, taught what the parents wanted taught. Socrates, who did try to teach (his) truth, got to drink hemlock.
B.t.w. *All* institutions that last, must have at least some percent of their time devoted to self-perpetution. Those that don't, die. Any school must be perceived as doing good, or it will be closed. Doing good and not getting the credit will kill them just as fast as doing wrong and getting the blame.
Night crawler type earthworms are best left in the ground, and left alone. But they are slow.
If you want to process large amounts of organic matter, you use red worms, which need more organic matter than is normally in soil. Their output also need to be diluted because it's too strong for most plants.
"there were several reports, including the one in 1992, that claimed
that DNA fragments had been recovered from insects that had died between 25 and 125 million
years ago. These reports caused considerable excitement, but despite intensive efforts no other
researchers, including the team at The Natural History Museum, have been able to repeat and
verify these results. As a result of these findings, most scientists now agree that DNA doesn't
survive in fossilized insects in amber."
Both Saturn V and the shuttle launch system were designed to handle failure of at least one engine...
The shuttle can get to orbit with just two of the liquid fueled engines, but was designed to return with just one. Turns out, you can deorbit a shuttle with just the maneuvering jets.
Unfortunately, a failure of the solid fueled boosters, is mostly fatal.
Who is saying it shouldn't be investigated? Every launch should be measured and checked.
If you can recover the engines, the unburned parts tell you where they're too heavy, and the burnt through parts tell you where you need more strength.
The word "Spork" made it into the dictionary in 1909, but people had to wait 61 years before it was patented and trademarked.
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/06/consider_the_spork/
How horrible it was for people to know what something was, but be totally unable to use it because there wasn't a company to own the idea. (:-)
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The commenter was just pointing out inconsistencies between the (short) article, and reality. Since the longer article is behind a paywall, it's up to a knowledgeable Slashdot reader to fill in the gaps.
Ask any pool/pond owner. Algae will grow in any body of water that you don't take active measures to suppress it. i.e. Kill it with chlorine, UV, heat, or keep it way from light.
Just a conjecture here, but I imagine that the same traits that make algae produce copious quantities of oil, also make it less competitive vs. the other nasty microorganisms in waste water. The oil itself might be food for something else. One more sentence in the C&EN article could clear this up.
Assuming that their process produces pure hydrocarbons, the fuel output would only have Hydrogen, Carbon, and Oxygen, which come from C02 and H2O. When the algae is converted into fuel, there should be a "waste" stream that would be perfect fertilizer for the next generation of algae.
Exactly. Poo and runoff have substantial amounts of both nitrogen and phosphorous, and using them prevents them from poluting the rivers.
The Fine Article doesn't mention this. Like fuel cells, it's possible that their process gets poisoned by non-pure sources of nutrients.
Shakespeare couldn't spell his own name, and his handwriting was atrocious.
Only the best (according to the church) Greek and Latin texts survived. Of course they seem smart to us. The musings of the sub-literate didn't survive. Except for the graffiti on the walls of the bath houses in Pompeii, we don't know much about the low brow Roman.
This is like looking at the mansions in the old part of town and saying, "They sure knew how to build things in those days". Only the most well built house survived so it looks like there was more craftmenship 100 years ago.
Disclaimer: I may have been stoned to the bejezus when taking some of those high school iq tests.
That and the circumstances of the test might have been different. Back in Junior High, four students were taken from class without notice, taken to a room and told to take a test. I asked when we would get the results, and the test giver said that we wouldn't get to see them at all. With this I wasn't motivated to bother. Also, the test was some sort of multipart form where it was self grading after you separated the forms. I spent the entire time trying to figure out the mechanics of the forms, instead of what was written on them. To this day, I regret not taking the forms apart, since there was no rule that you couldn't and no stated downside if you did.
When you took the test for yourself, you were probably motivated to do well. When psychologists compare tests given to students, they tend to compare ones given under similar circumstances and similar motivation. Exspecially for kids pre-reading, motivation is the biggest factor in the test score.
See "Global Consciousness" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_consciousness and Jung's "Collective unconscious" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious
Whether this is some sort of all-extensive world-soul, or just the fact that people are more connected because of technology, we all seem to be moving toward thinking the same.
Where is the logic in that?
The logic of how things should be, rather than what they are.
Assuming you meant Diplomatic Immunity, then yes, but...
The Texas AG could still use his goons to lock up the observers until the polling is over. After word filtered down from Washington that they can't do that, and after the diplomats get lost and found in jail, then, they would be released, and at most, the Texas AG would get a stern letter from the USAG.
Since the Texas AG has tipped his hand, the president could have the FBI or similar federal officers to keep the diplomats from being arrested in the first place.
And how does an airplane distinguish between pilots and "regular passengers" so that only the former can fly them?
The pilots are up front, and the regular passengers sit behind. There's a wall between the two sets of people.
what idiot uses crinkled shielding?
Every idiot that has to use real-world materials on hand, instead of perfect circles of aluminum.
I stand by my original statement. In the real world, out of the lab, it's hard to make a perfect Faraday cage that's useful. Things like doors, and power conduits mess up its integrity, would allow in some of the signal that might be enough to fry your electronics.
Simply building your special room 3 floors undergound would probably attenuate the signal enough, but there are other missiles that address that.
Tempest proofing is a difficult art. Things like ventalation and getting power into and select signals out make it non-trivial.
A completely tempest proof room in a building is a giveaway that you're doing something important there.
Also, Tempest signals are extremely low power. This is extremely high power. Look what happens to a ball of aluminum foil you put in a microwave oven. Imagine that's your shielding...
Their choice of MS, given MS's history in the mobile arena, should immediately call into question the sanity of the decision makers
You question the sanity of a multi-millionaire, who even if he flops, probably leaves with millions. According to his wikipedia article, he got a $6 millions signing bonus, and $1.4 million per year.
Egads, for that kind of money, *I* am willing to run a company into the ground and suffer the slings and arrows of the Internet.**
** Do not taunt Happy Fun CEO.
"Back in '05, we averaged 12Mbits/sec for 10 seconds in a row. Haven't seen anything like that since"
Back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth, there was a local ISP offering "unlimited" service. When I asked if you could dial in and remain online 24/7, they said no, there's a limit of 20 hours/week, but you can do anything you want while online, so it's "unlimited!!!"
... I've never seen the price fall radically out of alignment with supply and demand in a stable market.
First, what's a "stable market?". Lets go to http://www.investorwords.com/6679/stable_market.html
"A market that is able to handle a large volume of trades, such as foreign exchange transactions, without causing large shifts in price."
So, by definition, you are correct. If prices fall out of alignment with supply and demand, as they've done in the stock market because of high speed trading, you don't have a "stable market".
You are ignoring market inetia. A market will only fulfill a demand when the expected profit exceeds the decision maker's time and effort. Regulation and exclusive deals between government and business drive up cost and effort for potential competitors. If a local government gives exclusive rights for cable service to one company, and the courts agree that includes anything like wireless that *looks* like cable TV, the costs and effort for a cable competitor are effectively infinite until the contract expires.
You can start by making sure the law applies to everybody, equally.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
--- Anatole France
It's nearly impossible to make a law that applies equally to everyone, because we're all different, in different situations. Companies, even more so. There's no way the same law can apply to a 100,000 person corporation and a mom/pop shop. (Mostly mom&pop are exempt, but not always)
I'd wager that even in ancient Greek times, teachers, who were hired or purchased by parents, taught what the parents wanted taught. Socrates, who did try to teach (his) truth, got to drink hemlock.
B.t.w. *All* institutions that last, must have at least some percent of their time devoted to self-perpetution. Those that don't, die. Any school must be perceived as doing good, or it will be closed. Doing good and not getting the credit will kill them just as fast as doing wrong and getting the blame.
Night crawler type earthworms are best left in the ground, and left alone. But they are slow.
If you want to process large amounts of organic matter, you use red worms, which need more organic matter than is normally in soil. Their output also need to be diluted because it's too strong for most plants.
"Red Wigglers – The Cadillac of Worms"
Create something that looks like a Dinosaur, walks and generally does things we think a dino should do: -> Very Likely
Reproduce a T-Rex exactly like it was: -> Not so Likely.
"there were several reports, including the one in 1992, that claimed that DNA fragments had been recovered from insects that had died between 25 and 125 million years ago. These reports caused considerable excitement, but despite intensive efforts no other researchers, including the team at The Natural History Museum, have been able to repeat and verify these results. As a result of these findings, most scientists now agree that DNA doesn't survive in fossilized insects in amber."
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources-rx/files/12feat_dna_in_amber-3009.pdf
Short answer: It was plausible, but now is considered debunked. Unless a dino got frozen for 150 mega-years, there's no Jurassic to be.
Looks like we've had our glitch for this mission
We've been "pre-disastered". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084917/
Both Saturn V and the shuttle launch system were designed to handle failure of at least one engine...
The shuttle can get to orbit with just two of the liquid fueled engines, but was designed to return with just one. Turns out, you can deorbit a shuttle with just the maneuvering jets.
Unfortunately, a failure of the solid fueled boosters, is mostly fatal.
Who is saying it shouldn't be investigated? Every launch should be measured and checked.
If you can recover the engines, the unburned parts tell you where they're too heavy, and the burnt through parts tell you where you need more strength.
Pilots say any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.
In space, any launch that accomplishes its goals is a good launch. If good costs 10% of perfect, go for good.
The word "Spork" made it into the dictionary in 1909, but people had to wait 61 years before it was patented and trademarked. http://www.salon.com/2012/10/06/consider_the_spork/ How horrible it was for people to know what something was, but be totally unable to use it because there wasn't a company to own the idea. (:-)