This begs the next question: has it really gone unnoticed for so long, or has the species only recently evolved?
Have you any idea how few species we have actually classified?
From Wikipedia: "Insects comprise the most diverse group of animals on the earth, with over 800,000 species described...Estimates of the total number of current species, including those not yet known to science, range from two to thirty million, with most authorities favouring a figure midway between these extremes."
So we know about 1/20 of the insect species. True, I'll grant you that most mammals are known, but do try not to overevangelize evolution (seriously, some people treat it as a religion. SETI, anyone?). Or at least leave it to people who know what they are talking about.
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An important part of the issue is that by serving hot coffee, people *will* burn themselves. Thus, they need to drink it very slowly, or wait for it to cool off. Knowing this, McDonalds served hot coffee to save on costs for the free refils. As I understand it, anyhow.
It's not to hard to prove that MS hyped the Xbox360. Now suppose that this guy claims "I believed your advertisements" in court. What are they going to do, tell him not to trust their advertising?
PS: I wait a good year or two before buying any Shiny New Toy (TM). This helps sort the gems from the crap, and I don't think I'm missing out much -- it's just as if I were a year older, no?
I wonder if the free educational software in the OS world could provide schools lots of savings?
IIRC, both Apple and Microsoft really really really want schools using their software. Microsoft moreso, as they can provide their software only (free to them, but they might still charge) whereas Apple is still glued to hardware.
This, to me, is the clearest sign yet of Wikipedia's untenability. Isn't the project predicated on the belief that more eyeballs make an article better, not worse?
Well, there is a darned big difference between "many eyes" of different and "raging hoard" from a single website, in that a hoard of slashdotters is more likely to, say, vandalize the M$ page. The other difference is that many people will then edit it on a whim, similtaneously, and as such lessen their contributions. Finally, the people who care (good or bad) will simply wait out the timeout, and the many eyes who care can then sort it out more easily.
It does take a very long time for complaining to work. But when it comes down to (re)election time, politicians start to pay a little more attention. And they will at least promise to fix popular complaints, or risk not being elected. Corporations don't have to wait until election time, but they won't be bribing you if you're not in office.
Patenting is really a boring issue unless your directly involved with its consequences but im happy the issue is starting to come up in mainstream media.
Sue anyone who uses the most obvious patents into existance.
Don't worry too much, this can't last forever, the worse it gets the more people will complain. Not that I'm against ending this nonsense here and now.
Perhaps we could change the system so that the first time any patent is used in court, the patent holder has to first defend his patent, then sue?
if CO2 is a gas that's not usefull in making proteins carbohydrates and lipids, please feel free to explain to us why chlorophyllic plants use so much of it?
Plant don't use CO2. They use the C, and give off O2 as waste. And they require energy to do this.
Typo. You might notice I spelled it corretly in my post. But maybe that's why I got downmodded.
Lord Kelvin calculated that the earth would cool to a solid rock within a few thousand years. He was quite a genius, but now we know that the earth is heated by radioactivity. This radioactivity is significantly different than a fission plant in that almost all of the radiation is due to "natural" decay (alpha, beta, but almost no gamma==fission). It's the sort of decay that takes a million years for half of it to decay, and has less energy density (but lots of volume), but is still nuclear.
I can understand the hold. It's all about risk. People in the area most likely don't know the possible repurcussions of this. At least, they havn't been stated before the record. If the repurcussions are low, I am sure this will go in without a problem. Have to look out a little for public safety.
No, it's all about fear. So a cyclotron can produce nuclear reactions. So what. It only produces radiation in one direction, and I could stand in front of one plenty long without dying (yes I would get damaged). But put a chunk of lead in front of it and no problem, or just point it upwards.
It might be able to explode due to heavy magnetic fields, but that wouldn't be very powerful. You should be afraid of natural gas, that can make a real explosion. Maybe people are justified in being afraid of nuclear power plants, but there are several models that can't explode.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but a lot of people should start moving to Kansas...
So apparently the CO is acted upon by the proteins, and likely the H2O is used to sustain other life processes in some other way, and the H2 is simply the end result of some metabolic process at the end. If you want to account for the C and the O's, they probably went into forming some protein somewhere.
No. This is how the bacteria breathes, and almost none of that should end up in its body. CO2 is a gas, it's not useful for forming proteins. True, there's a bunch of obscene chemical processes between taking in CO and H2O and expelling H2 and CO2, but how is that different than our breathing?
The bacteria might be cheap but it comes with a huge amount of overhead in terms of having to maintain all its cellular functions. I bet half it's energy is wated multiplying.
The bacterium gets its energy from converting CO to H2. All the CO it takes in is converted to H2; this is how it "breathes". It uses the excess energy to live and reproduce. After using the energy it comes out as heat, so that it would be no less efficient than burning the CO (as that would directly produce heat). However, maybe the bacteria's living conditions are harder to reproduce than the conditions for burning CO in water, or maybe the heat energy cannot be recovered as easily (eg it might kill the bacteria).
Or does it? Jackont took his computer to the Israeli police last fall and was told to reformat it. But his problems persisted. So the police examined his computer more closely and discovered that a malicious program known as a Trojan horse lay hidden deep inside and had hijacked the machine from a remote location. Trojan horse? That's sooo 1000 BC. Was this trojan hiding in his BIOS or is this guy incompetent?
The only new thing is this "spear-phishing" is a specialized group of phishers concentrating on specific targets, using usual techniques but more effectively. Hmm, I just *might* use a CD from a friend. I suppose I should point out that Linux is perfectly vulnerable to trojans (sure they won't run as root, but they can do nasty enough stuff as you)
Yes, yes, VERY funny. An aquatic anaerobic bacterium that lives in boiling water at volcanic vents and eats carbon monoxide, will suddenly get into the wild (it already was in the wild) but instead decides to live in an oxygen environment in the air below freezing temperatures eating plastic off aluminum airplanes. And do so quickly enough to cause the plane to crash.
Currently, all our hydrogen comes from fossil fuels. But that's not a problem; hydrogen can be gotten in other ways. Until they can solve the hydrogen storage problem, I don't see hydrogen going anywhere (except through the tank walls). I think that for fuel cells, alcohol or methane would be better. For cars, use biodiesel, which works in unmodified diesel cars, or alcohol, or methane (methane and alcohol can be made from some waste products)
Still, it's quite stunning to see that someone can think that they will "convery" CO2 into H2, misspell convert, get modded incightful, and that the mods think such an idea is less overrated than my suggestion of nuclear or solar.
As to your comment about using coal power to mine uranium -- does Australia hove the ability to enrich uranium and build a nuclear power plant? Is more energy burned as coal than can be extracted from the uranium (my guess is hell no), or is coal simply cheaper, at the current price? Also, you can get "nuclear" power in various ways -- guess where geothermal energy comes from.
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This begs the next question: has it really gone unnoticed for so long, or has the species only recently evolved?
Have you any idea how few species we have actually classified?
From Wikipedia: "Insects comprise the most diverse group of animals on the earth, with over 800,000 species described...Estimates of the total number of current species, including those not yet known to science, range from two to thirty million, with most authorities favouring a figure midway between these extremes."
So we know about 1/20 of the insect species. True, I'll grant you that most mammals are known, but do try not to overevangelize evolution (seriously, some people treat it as a religion. SETI, anyone?). Or at least leave it to people who know what they are talking about.
If M$ spends so much on lawsuits then perhaps we should RAIL them. Redundant Array of Inexpensive Lawsuits
you know that by suing microsoft for admitting mistakes, you are only going to encourage them to cover up future problems instead of addressing them!
And this hurts free software how?
Was this the email?
ATENTION VALUED CUSTOMER,
We at M$ apologize for the defektive x-box 360. We wish only to beter serve our customers an will pay for overnight shiping to and from the reppair centre, and wil repair your x-box360 for free of charge.
Please ship your defective xbox 360 to the following adres to promptly be repair:
MicaroSoft Repair Center
401 Phish Avenue
Abuja, Nigeria
An important part of the issue is that by serving hot coffee, people *will* burn themselves. Thus, they need to drink it very slowly, or wait for it to cool off. Knowing this, McDonalds served hot coffee to save on costs for the free refils. As I understand it, anyhow.
It's not to hard to prove that MS hyped the Xbox360. Now suppose that this guy claims "I believed your advertisements" in court. What are they going to do, tell him not to trust their advertising?
PS: I wait a good year or two before buying any Shiny New Toy (TM). This helps sort the gems from the crap, and I don't think I'm missing out much -- it's just as if I were a year older, no?
I wonder if the free educational software in the OS world could provide schools lots of savings?
IIRC, both Apple and Microsoft really really really want schools using their software. Microsoft moreso, as they can provide their software only (free to them, but they might still charge) whereas Apple is still glued to hardware.
This, to me, is the clearest sign yet of Wikipedia's untenability. Isn't the project predicated on the belief that more eyeballs make an article better, not worse?
Well, there is a darned big difference between "many eyes" of different and "raging hoard" from a single website, in that a hoard of slashdotters is more likely to, say, vandalize the M$ page. The other difference is that many people will then edit it on a whim, similtaneously, and as such lessen their contributions. Finally, the people who care (good or bad) will simply wait out the timeout, and the many eyes who care can then sort it out more easily.
It does take a very long time for complaining to work. But when it comes down to (re)election time, politicians start to pay a little more attention. And they will at least promise to fix popular complaints, or risk not being elected. Corporations don't have to wait until election time, but they won't be bribing you if you're not in office.
Patenting is really a boring issue unless your directly involved with its consequences but im happy the issue is starting to come up in mainstream media.
Like if you use any technology whatsoever?
Not when it gets the choir to take up pitchforks and torches and politely ask their politicians to reconsider the patent issue.
Sue anyone who uses the most obvious patents into existance.
Don't worry too much, this can't last forever, the worse it gets the more people will complain. Not that I'm against ending this nonsense here and now.
Perhaps we could change the system so that the first time any patent is used in court, the patent holder has to first defend his patent, then sue?
if CO2 is a gas that's not usefull in making proteins carbohydrates and lipids, please feel free to explain to us why chlorophyllic plants use so much of it?
Plant don't use CO2. They use the C, and give off O2 as waste. And they require energy to do this.
What do biology textbooks have to say about morality?
Except, possibly, "goodbye welfare, hello eugenics!"?
Scary thought, huh? But how much is reality woth?
Typo. You might notice I spelled it corretly in my post. But maybe that's why I got downmodded.
Lord Kelvin calculated that the earth would cool to a solid rock within a few thousand years. He was quite a genius, but now we know that the earth is heated by radioactivity. This radioactivity is significantly different than a fission plant in that almost all of the radiation is due to "natural" decay (alpha, beta, but almost no gamma==fission). It's the sort of decay that takes a million years for half of it to decay, and has less energy density (but lots of volume), but is still nuclear.
I can understand the hold. It's all about risk. People in the area most likely don't know the possible repurcussions of this. At least, they havn't been stated before the record. If the repurcussions are low, I am sure this will go in without a problem. Have to look out a little for public safety.
No, it's all about fear. So a cyclotron can produce nuclear reactions. So what. It only produces radiation in one direction, and I could stand in front of one plenty long without dying (yes I would get damaged). But put a chunk of lead in front of it and no problem, or just point it upwards.
It might be able to explode due to heavy magnetic fields, but that wouldn't be very powerful. You should be afraid of natural gas, that can make a real explosion. Maybe people are justified in being afraid of nuclear power plants, but there are several models that can't explode.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but a lot of people should start moving to Kansas...
So apparently the CO is acted upon by the proteins, and likely the H2O is used to sustain other life processes in some other way, and the H2 is simply the end result of some metabolic process at the end. If you want to account for the C and the O's, they probably went into forming some protein somewhere.
No. This is how the bacteria breathes, and almost none of that should end up in its body. CO2 is a gas, it's not useful for forming proteins. True, there's a bunch of obscene chemical processes between taking in CO and H2O and expelling H2 and CO2, but how is that different than our breathing?
The bacteria might be cheap but it comes with a huge amount of overhead in terms of having to maintain all its cellular functions. I bet half it's energy is wated multiplying.
The bacterium gets its energy from converting CO to H2. All the CO it takes in is converted to H2; this is how it "breathes". It uses the excess energy to live and reproduce. After using the energy it comes out as heat, so that it would be no less efficient than burning the CO (as that would directly produce heat). However, maybe the bacteria's living conditions are harder to reproduce than the conditions for burning CO in water, or maybe the heat energy cannot be recovered as easily (eg it might kill the bacteria).
Technology is advancing on all sectors.
Or does it? Jackont took his computer to the Israeli police last fall and was told to reformat it. But his problems persisted. So the police examined his computer more closely and discovered that a malicious program known as a Trojan horse lay hidden deep inside and had hijacked the machine from a remote location. Trojan horse? That's sooo 1000 BC. Was this trojan hiding in his BIOS or is this guy incompetent?
The only new thing is this "spear-phishing" is a specialized group of phishers concentrating on specific targets, using usual techniques but more effectively. Hmm, I just *might* use a CD from a friend. I suppose I should point out that Linux is perfectly vulnerable to trojans (sure they won't run as root, but they can do nasty enough stuff as you)
Yes, yes, VERY funny. An aquatic anaerobic bacterium that lives in boiling water at volcanic vents and eats carbon monoxide, will suddenly get into the wild (it already was in the wild) but instead decides to live in an oxygen environment in the air below freezing temperatures eating plastic off aluminum airplanes. And do so quickly enough to cause the plane to crash.
Currently, all our hydrogen comes from fossil fuels. But that's not a problem; hydrogen can be gotten in other ways. Until they can solve the hydrogen storage problem, I don't see hydrogen going anywhere (except through the tank walls). I think that for fuel cells, alcohol or methane would be better. For cars, use biodiesel, which works in unmodified diesel cars, or alcohol, or methane (methane and alcohol can be made from some waste products)
Still, it's quite stunning to see that someone can think that they will "convery" CO2 into H2, misspell convert, get modded incightful, and that the mods think such an idea is less overrated than my suggestion of nuclear or solar.
As to your comment about using coal power to mine uranium -- does Australia hove the ability to enrich uranium and build a nuclear power plant? Is more energy burned as coal than can be extracted from the uranium (my guess is hell no), or is coal simply cheaper, at the current price? Also, you can get "nuclear" power in various ways -- guess where geothermal energy comes from.
That sounds really interesting if it is not a scam. Where do your microbes get their energy from, and why do they waste it turning CO2 into fuel?
>> I bet half it's energy is wasted multiplying.
;-)
I have the same problem...
Wow... You are so much more efficient than me its not even funny.
Or was that in math class?
It already does, the reason our farts smell is because of ch4 yep thats right methane.
Methane is a colorless, odorless gas; though it is odorized for safety. Farts smell because they are shitty air.