Can someone explain where the hydrogen comes from for these fuel cells?
One possibility is from coal. No, seriously.
The Economist recently published an article on carbon sequestration which describes some methods for using coal and water to generate CO2 and hydrogen, and then separating the hydrogen out (for use in fuel cells or similar) and getting rid of the CO2 (rather than letting it escape into the atmosphere). Some of the CO2 sequestration methods are also useful for extracting more oil or gas from depleted wells, making them potentially profitable even without the environmental benefit.
Search for "integrated gasifier combined cycle" for more information--and note that it can also be used with biomass, not just coal.
Boeing already built a vehicle with electric power and motors for each wheel, 30 years ago. It is, of course, the Apollo Lunar Rover--three were used on the Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions.
(To my surprise, the LRV didn't use a fuel cell, though fuel cells were used for other applications on Apollo.)
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The company in this case, should get the credit they deserve for the innovative methods and their application to this enormous problem to get the first completed, high quality human genome version in such a short period of time.
And they definitely should get the credit for doing all their own sequencing and not using any of the GenBank data...except, well, they didn't.
The "genome race" was never a race, because you can't have a race where one side can never win (Celera could use the Human Genome Project's data as well as their own) but also could not lose (since the real goal was to guarantee a freely available version of the genome).
It is already legal to record anything shown on TV for personal use so I don't see how this extra 'bit flag' could become a reality...
You don't mean "already". You mean "currently (despite the efforts of the MPAA)".
I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.
--Jack Valenti, testimony to Congress, 1982.
2001: US prerecorded videocassette sales are approximately $4 billion.
And for x-box:
Halo (yes, where is that MAC game they call Halo Mr. Jobs? Mr. look how awesome macs are at macworld Mr. Jobs? Too bad it came out for X-Box first!)
Well, what do you expect when Microsoft used their petty cash account to buy Bungie (a long-time Mac-first or hybrid-first company)?
Remember, the original plan was for Halo to come out for PC, Mac, and PS/2 (the latter was officially killed, the other two are merely "delayed"). Do you think they would have sold more copies for PS/2 than they did for XBox? Do you think that Microsoft therefore basically gave up profits so they could use Halo to help XBox sales? Doesn't that sound kind of like the actions they've been convicted of in other areas?
I've got a Compaq Presario (among others). Based on that one computer I would never buy any Compaq server.
Well, that's not exactly a tough thing to avoid at this point...they're all hp servers now.
However, that ignores the difference between the former-Tandem part of CPQ and the former-Digital part of CPQ and the, er, former-rest-of-CPQ part of HPQ.
And the US Government says that terrorist's don't have the resources to build an atomic device but a 17 year old kid can?
They also require you to show ID before getting on an airplane "for security purposes" (yeah, security of you not reselling your deep discount non-refundable tickets). So, a terrorist won't be able to get a fake ID but a 17 year old kid can?
Or you could just install the portupgrade port (from/usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade), and use "portinstall program" or "portupgrade program" as appropriate. Even easier. (And, yes, "portupgrade portupgrade" works.:-)
I'm working on a large (HUGE) archiving project with a major library and the copyright issues are becoming increasingly stickly. All the librarians want to do is rip the cd's/lp's and stick them in a vault for protection. Then allow a (highly) limited number of users to access the ripped versions.
It's gone far enough that Hillary Rosen (of RIAA fame) has become involved. Woohoo.
Sounds great to me. You've got a big vault, which may or may not be airtight. You've got Hilary Rosen. The possibilities may not be endless, but they're certainly obvious.
The Harry Potter books are a good example of the NYT's biases, in fact. You see, Rowling was taking up "too many slots" on the NYT Best-Sellers list, so they suddenly decided that they really needed a separate list for childrens' books (apparently to keep fantasy cooties away from the "good stuff").
This despite the fact that the Harry Potter books sell to adults as well as children.
So the PS2 version of Halo would have sold well, if it hadn't been axed to make Halo an X-Box exclusive? Perhaps it would have even sold better as a PS2 title rather than being used as an X-Box draw? (Hmm...using one product to drive sales of another. Why does this idea sound so familiar, especially in the context of Microsoft?)
The fact that Bungie is saying 'Halo will be on other platforms', indicates that MS didn't do anything but give Halo a much better chance for success.
They're saying it; they're not shipping it. No deeds, just words. By your own logic ("only be on the shelfs [sic] for a month or so on PC [...] hardly make any money at all on the Mac") they apparently don't have any real incentive to ever ship PC or Mac versions!
Woah, now if Microsoft did something like that, Mac users would be screaming bloody murder!
You mean like Bungie's game Halo? The one that was presented in Macworld Expo keynotes? The one that was going to be out on Mac, PC, and PS2?
Because after MS bought Bungie, it wound up shipping for X-Box, and, so far, nothing else. (Though Bungie continues to assert "There WILL be Mac and PC versions of Halo." -- I'll believe it when it ships.)
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Damn, I feel old now. When we were trying to come up with a motto for my high school graduating class's banner, one suggestion was "Oh-ee-oh-ee-oh" (from Jungle Love, of course).
That was in, erm, nineteen-eighty-mumble. Back when 64K was a lot of RAM, in other words.
Just wait, all you youngsters, one day the "old fogies' music channel" (or webcast, or whatever is left after the RIAA gets done with us) will be playing the songs you remember from high school. Bwahahaha!!
It's not the same bug. Windows, by default, is trying to put its name into the MS Active Directory stuff, which is implemented using Dynamic DNS. The Mac OS 9 systems only try to do this if you have either TCP/IP Personal File Sharing or Personal Web Sharing enabled--which both default to off...and even if you turn on File Sharing the TCP/IP connectivity defaults to off.
Now to wait until Diplomatic Immunity comes out in May.
This is Slashdot! Why are you waiting for the dead tree edition? The no-evil-DMCA-protections WebScription edition is already fully available (and loaded into my Palm V...).
I paid for OmniWeb. Not because of the watermark (that's a nicer way to do nagware than a lot of 'em) or the funny nagware dialog boxes (though I would like to avoid being attacked by their cat:-) but because I like the thing and I want them to keep developing it.
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One possibility is from coal. No, seriously.
The Economist recently published an article on carbon sequestration which describes some methods for using coal and water to generate CO2 and hydrogen, and then separating the hydrogen out (for use in fuel cells or similar) and getting rid of the CO2 (rather than letting it escape into the atmosphere). Some of the CO2 sequestration methods are also useful for extracting more oil or gas from depleted wells, making them potentially profitable even without the environmental benefit.
Search for "integrated gasifier combined cycle" for more information--and note that it can also be used with biomass, not just coal.
Boeing already built a vehicle with electric power and motors for each wheel, 30 years ago. It is, of course, the Apollo Lunar Rover--three were used on the Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions.
(To my surprise, the LRV didn't use a fuel cell, though fuel cells were used for other applications on Apollo.)
Try Apple's Power Mac "expansion" page.
And they definitely should get the credit for doing all their own sequencing and not using any of the GenBank data...except, well, they didn't.
The "genome race" was never a race, because you can't have a race where one side can never win (Celera could use the Human Genome Project's data as well as their own) but also could not lose (since the real goal was to guarantee a freely available version of the genome).
You don't mean "already". You mean "currently (despite the efforts of the MPAA)".
2001: US prerecorded videocassette sales are approximately $4 billion.
Well, what do you expect when Microsoft used their petty cash account to buy Bungie (a long-time Mac-first or hybrid-first company)?
Remember, the original plan was for Halo to come out for PC, Mac, and PS/2 (the latter was officially killed, the other two are merely "delayed"). Do you think they would have sold more copies for PS/2 than they did for XBox? Do you think that Microsoft therefore basically gave up profits so they could use Halo to help XBox sales? Doesn't that sound kind of like the actions they've been convicted of in other areas?
Good old WebElements has a little something to say about the biological reaction to palladium:
Well, that's not exactly a tough thing to avoid at this point...they're all hp servers now.
However, that ignores the difference between the former-Tandem part of CPQ and the former-Digital part of CPQ and the, er, former-rest-of-CPQ part of HPQ.
They also require you to show ID before getting on an airplane "for security purposes" (yeah, security of you not reselling your deep discount non-refundable tickets). So, a terrorist won't be able to get a fake ID but a 17 year old kid can?
Or you could just install the portupgrade port (from /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade), and use "portinstall program" or "portupgrade program" as appropriate. Even easier. (And, yes, "portupgrade portupgrade" works. :-)
Uhm, no. Snow Crash is a 1992 book. The Internet is just slightly older than that.
Sounds great to me. You've got a big vault, which may or may not be airtight. You've got Hilary Rosen. The possibilities may not be endless, but they're certainly obvious.
The Harry Potter books are a good example of the NYT's biases, in fact. You see, Rowling was taking up "too many slots" on the NYT Best-Sellers list, so they suddenly decided that they really needed a separate list for childrens' books (apparently to keep fantasy cooties away from the "good stuff").
This despite the fact that the Harry Potter books sell to adults as well as children.
So the PS2 version of Halo would have sold well, if it hadn't been axed to make Halo an X-Box exclusive? Perhaps it would have even sold better as a PS2 title rather than being used as an X-Box draw? (Hmm...using one product to drive sales of another. Why does this idea sound so familiar, especially in the context of Microsoft?)
They're saying it; they're not shipping it. No deeds, just words. By your own logic ("only be on the shelfs [sic] for a month or so on PC [...] hardly make any money at all on the Mac") they apparently don't have any real incentive to ever ship PC or Mac versions!
You mean like Bungie's game Halo? The one that was presented in Macworld Expo keynotes? The one that was going to be out on Mac, PC, and PS2?
Because after MS bought Bungie, it wound up shipping for X-Box, and, so far, nothing else. (Though Bungie continues to assert "There WILL be Mac and PC versions of Halo." -- I'll believe it when it ships.)
Too bad we can't just slashdot the combatants into immobility the way we just affected this guy's web server....
Damn, I feel old now. When we were trying to come up with a motto for my high school graduating class's banner, one suggestion was "Oh-ee-oh-ee-oh" (from Jungle Love, of course).
That was in, erm, nineteen-eighty-mumble. Back when 64K was a lot of RAM, in other words.
Just wait, all you youngsters, one day the "old fogies' music channel" (or webcast, or whatever is left after the RIAA gets done with us) will be playing the songs you remember from high school. Bwahahaha!!
I can see it now...the BSA auditor shows up, sees a Dell box, and walks up to it to start his Win32 auditing tools.
Then he says "what's this freaking owl doing on the login screen?"
It's not the same bug. Windows, by default, is trying to put its name into the MS Active Directory stuff, which is implemented using Dynamic DNS. The Mac OS 9 systems only try to do this if you have either TCP/IP Personal File Sharing or Personal Web Sharing enabled--which both default to off...and even if you turn on File Sharing the TCP/IP connectivity defaults to off.
The Hugos are a fan-voted award. So they are, in fact, only based on popularity. Always have been, too.
(The canonical "bad example" is They'd Rather Be Right, generally considered the most forgettable Hugo winning novel.)
This is Slashdot! Why are you waiting for the dead tree edition? The no-evil-DMCA-protections WebScription edition is already fully available (and loaded into my Palm V...).
I paid for OmniWeb. Not because of the watermark (that's a nicer way to do nagware than a lot of 'em) or the funny nagware dialog boxes (though I would like to avoid being attacked by their cat :-) but because I like the thing and I want them to keep developing it.
Precisely what people have been complaining about!
Just remember, folks...DMCA is spelled almost like YMCA, except that there aren't any Village People songs about the DMCA.
They have some Luxury Submarine FAQs that people may find interesting. My favorite:
What type of people buy luxury submarines?
Interested buyers tend to share one trait, they are all wealthy.
My comment: well, yeah, people living paycheck to paycheck generally don't buy $78 million dollar items.