Ok, first off, your situation is like saying "A Five minute movie is 30 fps of 640x480 4 byte pixels, sooo.. 30*60*5*640*480*4 = ~11gigs
but of course, with a little cleverness, we can recognize patterns and find ways to represent this in far less space.
Lets take a quick look at your example:
First off, chances are the 300 items in p245 have some sequence of rfids, not jsut randomly assorted. So then we can state p245 has 300 items starting with item #300201, now we are down to less than 20 bytes for the entire pallet.
In the interest of brevity, and in the confidence of my point being made...
Yeah, I understand your sentiment, but does being a politician imply being only superficially fluent in a certain aspect of society? Most politicians of note have firm grasps on economics and 'hard' technology (i.e. auto, energy, agriculture). We are in a time of massive societal change, and those who are laying out policies governing this 'new' society are just as ignorant and manipulable as those who attempted to layout policies at the dawn of mass media (most politicians still don't understand the power of mass media). My pessimistic side thinks we won't see internet aware politicians for at least ten years, when people who grew up in a world of instant information, and the viral spread of ideas and information. For now we will just have to deal with that set of politicians who, because they use email and know that a website can be used to centralize a very large audience, think they understand what it is to have a net presence.
according to this you can run at 1024x768 at 80hz. That, coupled with a gf2+ and a p3, makes the xbox a nifty, pretty spunky computer for under 200 bucks.
Plus you can run linux on the xbox, attach it to a video monitor, slap on every usb device known to man (provided you can find a driver) and generally use it as a fully functional computer. Lets see the ps2 do that!
I agree; the question that i want to ask is 'why are there export restrictions on public technologies?'
Perhaps alot of these restrictions are motivated by marginally informed politicians lobbied by companies who see the potential to harm their overseas competitors via nonsensical legislation.
Maybe its a secret plot to analyze internet communities and relationships, from which to extract information on quelching those upstart query ruining bloggers!
Hot off the Presses! Valve's Steam undergoes growing pains, down for 30 minutes, and 13,000 CS addicts undergo withdrawal symptoms that would make a heroin junkie blush!
I am sorry for the aggressiveness of my response earlier, that was uncalled for.
My point of contention was mostly centered on your statement that there was no increase in efficiency. A fuel cell vehicle necessitates an electic drivetrain, which i believe is also a factor in the increased efficiency.
Clearly, a fuel cell is also techincally combustion (oxidization), however the amount of energy retrieved from hydrocarbon fuel in the Auburn reformation, and then utilized in the fuel cell, is higher than that of the dated (100 years?) method of internal combustion. A gas or diesel engine loses signficant amounts of energy to heat, friction, and un-utilized fuel (lost though exhaust). A reformer with high efficiency will extract more potential energy from the fuel, and the fuel cell will more efficiently convert this to electricity (kinetic), and finally an electric drivetrain will more efficiently utilize this in propelling the vehicle (instant torque, less energy lost in a transmission, clutch, etc). The resulting efficiency may be 3:1 as the article says, or 1.75:1 as you say, I don't really know, but the net result is more mpg either way. That is the critical detail that makes fuel cell research so compelling (hitched to the fact that the entire world's energy distribution infrastructure is already built around hydrocarbon fuel, and would not need to be rebuilt).
Take one mole of hydrocarbons and subject it to the Auburn process. Take a second mole and subject it to ordinary high-T combustion. The amount of energy released will be (at best!) the same in both cases.
However, the amount of energy released that can be utilized is far higher in the case of the fuel cell.
"The electrons from the hydrogen then power a battery. The process is chemical, and there is no combustion" - the article
Without combustion, the energy lost to 1) heat, 2)friction, and 3) underutilized fuel ("running rich") is signficantly reduced. Fuel cells are chemcial processes, and there are several that are very low temperature (minimal loss of energy due to heat). And, perhaps the most important point, fuel cells produce electricity, not hydrogen to be used in a combustion engine (which is very dangerous).
And storage of H2 is not the issue, as the only place it is stored before being used in the fuel cell to produce electricity, is in the hydrocarbon fuel, the storage of which we are quite familiar.
Again from the article: "But with a fuel cell, a truck with a given amount of diesel can run three times the usual distance". Once again, the conclusion that the fuel cell is thus 3 times as efficient is utterly obvious. If I fill 2 trucks with 25 gallons of fuel, and one goes 100 miles, the other goes 300 miles, the comparative efficiency, rated in miles per gallon, is 4mpg versus 12 mpg. Hence each gallon of fuel will then go 8 miles further. Consider that in one month, Dod Combat Tanks drive (utter guess) 40,000 miles combined. Now, going to our previous made up figures, say we have the old tanks and new tanks. The old tanks, at 4mpg will require 10,000 gallons of fuel in the service of the Dod that month. The new tanks with a fuel effciency of 12mpg, will only require 3,333 gallons of fuel, thus saving the Dod 6,666 gallons of fuel, or in other words, the Dod will only use 1/3 of the fuel. Quite frankly, just about everything you stated (minus the mole part) is absolutely wrong. I suggest you brush up on your understanding of fuel cells (fuelcells.org), and actually read the article.
sorry to be a stickler, but the point is to improve overall fuel efficiency.
Just as you said, "they need to be able to stuff as much power as possible into themselves... [and] H2 (apparently) has a 3:1 advantage"
That means that a fuel cell will get 3 times as much energy from the same amount of hydrocarbon fuel, in other words, is 3 times more efficient. However you are still right in that this will not reduce greenhouse gases directly, but the increased efficiency (especially 3:1!), will most definetily have a signficant effect on the amount of greenhouse gases releaed.
I think the mined iron ore would be more useful to build a mars colony, than transport back. The trick would be bringing steel manufacturing technology there, as well as mining equipment, so stuff could be manufactured "on site".
Monocultures in software pose a big threat in stability and vulnerability, but can that be extended to an OS-os? The transparency makes the response to the threats fairly immediate and well known.
Quite frankly, I think monocultures are unavoidable in many circumstances, as the best/fastest/cheapest/most efficient application will always be the widest adopted; Who will take the brunt of not having the b/f/c/me, in order to stave off the monoculture?
Clearly Mars has far more potential to colonize (maybe even terraform?), but how about trying to establish a Moon colony first. The moon certainly would have natural resources to build a colony, and we should be able to set up a self sustaining environment, with minimal needs for resupply. Once we conquer a barren vacuum rock, building up on a distant atmosphere laden planet is not so intimidating.
Its -30 (wind chill) here in upstate New York today (Northeast USA), don't need to go to Finland for that! (And we are on about the same latitude as Rome!).
My major concern in these rigid employee control devices is not so much a privacy invasion, as a reduction in trust and spontaneity. If people don't feel like they can cheat or bend the system a little (sneak in late, take an extra 15 min on lunch), they focus alot more on how much work controls their life.
A little workplace entropy distracts from the oppressive order of day to day work.
If you actually looked at the map, and rtfa, you would see that it is not a navigational map, but rather an attempt to juxtapose our insignficance in the observable universe, and our absolute significance in being the point of observation of the universe.
"Objects close to us may be inconsequential in terms of the whole universe but they are important to us," (Dr. Gott, from the article)
But then again, your stunning cognitive ability to discredit this 'map' without even understanding why it was done, should silence a mere layman like myself. Mensa would be proud.
Just as they seek to intimidate the random Kazaa user.. it seems that the RIAA already has acknowledged that they are fighting a losing battle by not seeking sources of piracy, and instead are just trying to exact revenge for their loss of a stranglehold on music on barely guilty targets at the bottom of the chain.
Serves the blackshirts right, question is how long it will take for them to reform their industry into something not driven by sales of recordings, but rather by venues and appearances.
Am i the only weary eyed programmer who, on a friday afternoon after a week of finger-blistering coding binges, suffered a minor caffiene induced hallicination and read the title as "Colonization of Mars Images"?
A relevant story: When Mercedes Benz "merged" with Chrysler, the first thing they did is sack all the executive officers. The old chrysler execs were earning millions every year, whereas none of the execs at Benz earned more than 1/2 million..which is clearly more than enough.
Moral? There is certainly few with the capabilities of running a company bigger than most nations, however compensating them more than 10 times a good wage in a 1st world country should be sufficient.
I swear i was the only one who trudged through all the calc classes with only a scientific calculator... and I think i was the only one to get Cs in them all too! Thankfully by the time i started tiddling with group theory I had bypassed the number crunching phase of mathematics.
Every time i apply thermal grease to a new heatsink, it absorbs fairly rapidly into my skin. Am i the only idiot who doesn't use gloves or an implement to put the stuff on? Maybe I should just go play with beads of mercury and eat my yoghurt with a lead spoon, chemical poisoning be damned!
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Ok, first off, your situation is like saying "A Five minute movie is 30 fps of 640x480 4 byte pixels, sooo.. 30*60*5*640*480*4 = ~11gigs
but of course, with a little cleverness, we can recognize patterns and find ways to represent this in far less space.
Lets take a quick look at your example:
First off, chances are the 300 items in p245 have some sequence of rfids, not jsut randomly assorted. So then we can state p245 has 300 items starting with item #300201, now we are down to less than 20 bytes for the entire pallet.
In the interest of brevity, and in the confidence of my point being made...
Yeah, I understand your sentiment, but does being a politician imply being only superficially fluent in a certain aspect of society? Most politicians of note have firm grasps on economics and 'hard' technology (i.e. auto, energy, agriculture). We are in a time of massive societal change, and those who are laying out policies governing this 'new' society are just as ignorant and manipulable as those who attempted to layout policies at the dawn of mass media (most politicians still don't understand the power of mass media). My pessimistic side thinks we won't see internet aware politicians for at least ten years, when people who grew up in a world of instant information, and the viral spread of ideas and information. For now we will just have to deal with that set of politicians who, because they use email and know that a website can be used to centralize a very large audience, think they understand what it is to have a net presence.
according to this you can run at 1024x768 at 80hz. That, coupled with a gf2+ and a p3, makes the xbox a nifty, pretty spunky computer for under 200 bucks.
...first, dancing robots and now singing computers
sigh... dancing, singing robots?, its been done
Plus you can run linux on the xbox, attach it to a video monitor, slap on every usb device known to man (provided you can find a driver) and generally use it as a fully functional computer. Lets see the ps2 do that!
Besides, if it runs GTA:VC I am a fan already.
I agree; the question that i want to ask is 'why are there export restrictions on public technologies?'
Perhaps alot of these restrictions are motivated by marginally informed politicians lobbied by companies who see the potential to harm their overseas competitors via nonsensical legislation.
Maybe its a secret plot to analyze internet communities and relationships, from which to extract information on quelching those upstart query ruining bloggers!
Hot off the Presses! Valve's Steam undergoes growing pains, down for 30 minutes, and 13,000 CS addicts undergo withdrawal symptoms that would make a heroin junkie blush!
I am sorry for the aggressiveness of my response earlier, that was uncalled for.
My point of contention was mostly centered on your statement that there was no increase in efficiency. A fuel cell vehicle necessitates an electic drivetrain, which i believe is also a factor in the increased efficiency.
Clearly, a fuel cell is also techincally combustion (oxidization), however the amount of energy retrieved from hydrocarbon fuel in the Auburn reformation, and then utilized in the fuel cell, is higher than that of the dated (100 years?) method of internal combustion. A gas or diesel engine loses signficant amounts of energy to heat, friction, and un-utilized fuel (lost though exhaust). A reformer with high efficiency will extract more potential energy from the fuel, and the fuel cell will more efficiently convert this to electricity (kinetic), and finally an electric drivetrain will more efficiently utilize this in propelling the vehicle (instant torque, less energy lost in a transmission, clutch, etc). The resulting efficiency may be 3:1 as the article says, or 1.75:1 as you say, I don't really know, but the net result is more mpg either way. That is the critical detail that makes fuel cell research so compelling (hitched to the fact that the entire world's energy distribution infrastructure is already built around hydrocarbon fuel, and would not need to be rebuilt).
Take one mole of hydrocarbons and subject it to the Auburn process. Take a second mole and subject it to ordinary high-T combustion. The amount of energy released will be (at best!) the same in both cases.
However, the amount of energy released that can be utilized is far higher in the case of the fuel cell.
"The electrons from the hydrogen then power a battery. The process is chemical, and there is no combustion" - the article
Without combustion, the energy lost to 1) heat, 2)friction, and 3) underutilized fuel ("running rich") is signficantly reduced. Fuel cells are chemcial processes, and there are several that are very low temperature (minimal loss of energy due to heat). And, perhaps the most important point, fuel cells produce electricity, not hydrogen to be used in a combustion engine (which is very dangerous).
And storage of H2 is not the issue, as the only place it is stored before being used in the fuel cell to produce electricity, is in the hydrocarbon fuel, the storage of which we are quite familiar.
Again from the article: "But with a fuel cell, a truck with a given amount of diesel can run three times the usual distance". Once again, the conclusion that the fuel cell is thus 3 times as efficient is utterly obvious. If I fill 2 trucks with 25 gallons of fuel, and one goes 100 miles, the other goes 300 miles, the comparative efficiency, rated in miles per gallon, is 4mpg versus 12 mpg. Hence each gallon of fuel will then go 8 miles further. Consider that in one month, Dod Combat Tanks drive (utter guess) 40,000 miles combined. Now, going to our previous made up figures, say we have the old tanks and new tanks. The old tanks, at 4mpg will require 10,000 gallons of fuel in the service of the Dod that month. The new tanks with a fuel effciency of 12mpg, will only require 3,333 gallons of fuel, thus saving the Dod 6,666 gallons of fuel, or in other words, the Dod will only use 1/3 of the fuel. Quite frankly, just about everything you stated (minus the mole part) is absolutely wrong. I suggest you brush up on your understanding of fuel cells (fuelcells.org), and actually read the article.
With Case Sensitivity, I can have 52 one letter variables, not 26!
sorry to be a stickler, but the point is to improve overall fuel efficiency.
... [and] H2 (apparently) has a 3:1 advantage"
Just as you said, "they need to be able to stuff as much power as possible into themselves
That means that a fuel cell will get 3 times as much energy from the same amount of hydrocarbon fuel, in other words, is 3 times more efficient. However you are still right in that this will not reduce greenhouse gases directly, but the increased efficiency (especially 3:1!), will most definetily have a signficant effect on the amount of greenhouse gases releaed.
I think the mined iron ore would be more useful to build a mars colony, than transport back. The trick would be bringing steel manufacturing technology there, as well as mining equipment, so stuff could be manufactured "on site".
ouch.. modded to hell. sigh, i wonder if u people think i am serious
ah well what the hell, troll i be, and posting tasteless comedy fills me with glee
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Monocultures in software pose a big threat in stability and vulnerability, but can that be extended to an OS-os? The transparency makes the response to the threats fairly immediate and well known.
Quite frankly, I think monocultures are unavoidable in many circumstances, as the best/fastest/cheapest/most efficient application will always be the widest adopted; Who will take the brunt of not having the b/f/c/me, in order to stave off the monoculture?
Clearly Mars has far more potential to colonize (maybe even terraform?), but how about trying to establish a Moon colony first. The moon certainly would have natural resources to build a colony, and we should be able to set up a self sustaining environment, with minimal needs for resupply. Once we conquer a barren vacuum rock, building up on a distant atmosphere laden planet is not so intimidating.
Its -30 (wind chill) here in upstate New York today (Northeast USA), don't need to go to Finland for that! (And we are on about the same latitude as Rome!).
My major concern in these rigid employee control devices is not so much a privacy invasion, as a reduction in trust and spontaneity. If people don't feel like they can cheat or bend the system a little (sneak in late, take an extra 15 min on lunch), they focus alot more on how much work controls their life.
A little workplace entropy distracts from the oppressive order of day to day work.
If you actually looked at the map, and rtfa, you would see that it is not a navigational map, but rather an attempt to juxtapose our insignficance in the observable universe, and our absolute significance in being the point of observation of the universe.
"Objects close to us may be inconsequential in terms of the whole universe but they are important to us," (Dr. Gott, from the article)
But then again, your stunning cognitive ability to discredit this 'map' without even understanding why it was done, should silence a mere layman like myself. Mensa would be proud.
Just as they seek to intimidate the random Kazaa user.. it seems that the RIAA already has acknowledged that they are fighting a losing battle by not seeking sources of piracy, and instead are just trying to exact revenge for their loss of a stranglehold on music on barely guilty targets at the bottom of the chain.
Serves the blackshirts right, question is how long it will take for them to reform their industry into something not driven by sales of recordings, but rather by venues and appearances.
Am i the only weary eyed programmer who, on a friday afternoon after a week of finger-blistering coding binges, suffered a minor caffiene induced hallicination and read the title as "Colonization of Mars Images"?
Ah, if only the weekend wasn't so short.
A relevant story: When Mercedes Benz "merged" with Chrysler, the first thing they did is sack all the executive officers. The old chrysler execs were earning millions every year, whereas none of the execs at Benz earned more than 1/2 million. .which is clearly more than enough.
Moral? There is certainly few with the capabilities of running a company bigger than most nations, however compensating them more than 10 times a good wage in a 1st world country should be sufficient.
I swear i was the only one who trudged through all the calc classes with only a scientific calculator... and I think i was the only one to get Cs in them all too! Thankfully by the time i started tiddling with group theory I had bypassed the number crunching phase of mathematics.
Every time i apply thermal grease to a new heatsink, it absorbs fairly rapidly into my skin. Am i the only idiot who doesn't use gloves or an implement to put the stuff on? Maybe I should just go play with beads of mercury and eat my yoghurt with a lead spoon, chemical poisoning be damned!