Minor detail, if he were an anarchist, the criminal would go free forever with no trial (no government, no prosecution). He is more of a totalitarianist (sp?), where the government has absolute control and, therefore, no trial with prosecution.
True, I was focusing on hydrocarbons because that's what this technology is usually applied for. But the basic process of taking a long molecular chain and breaking it into multiple smaller chains seems pretty similar to what is done on hydrocarbons, even if the chain contains oxygen as well.
"Green Power describes its process as a proprietary catalytic pressure-less depolymerization process (CDP) where municipal solid waste or a wide variety of organic wastes are 'cracked' at the molecular level and the long-chain polymers (plastic, organic material such as wood, etc.) are chemically altered to become short-chain hydrocarbons with no combustion. Combustion requires oxygen or a similar compound, but according to Green Power the CDP occurs in an anaerobic environment, exposed only to inert gases like nitrogen."
This sounds very similar to a heavy oil conversion unit, which takes long chains of hydrocarbons (organic materials) and breaks them into smaller molecules. Refineries have been doing this for decades! I'm not saying this isn't good to reduce overall waste or anything like that, but unless I'm missing something, this is hardly new technology...
Geeze, I remember doing exactly this when it came out. Then at night while laying in bed I would be half expecting the room to start glowing red and have something spawn next to me. Never had a game do that me before; definitely was a great game for immersion.
So I hate to reply to myself, but I guess I misunderstood the source I linked to and got it backwards myself... Guess that means it is really time to call it a day.
Actually, the parent is correct. Fractional reserve banking means that the banks keep a fraction of what they loan out as a reserve. A bank will have 10 dollars and loan out 100 or more dollars. This is OK as long as too many people don't want their money at once (a run on the bank); the bank simply cannot repay all of the people who deposited money with the bank because they only keep a small fraction of what is actually deposited.
That's nothing - wait until Version 2.0 comes out and not only will it tell you when the nearby rich person lives, it will show you their personal schedule for when they will be out of town, display the best method of entry into their house, and send all the police out to the opposite side of town!
A while back I was watching Saving Private Ryan on TV, and I actually thought it was kind of funny that they would show people stopping to pick up missing limbs, people holding innards in, etc, but when they were just walking through a field they censored out the curse words. Kind of doesn't make sense to me...
When I took an introductory programming course (high school), the teacher went into painful detail about the history of computers, binary code (with paper and pencil), and so on and so forth. Later in the course, he admitted that it was to weed out the kids who were taking it for a typing course and not the programming course it was. After making it through the weed-out portion of the class, I actually appreciated what the computer was doing more than if we had jumped right into the coding.
I can see this as basically a terminal application. With hardware so inexpensive and software so expensive, places where you need a lot of computers yet relatively low computing power this would be ideal. Simply buy a few computer shells, hook them up to a server running the OS and various word processing apps, and go. Kinda like a new approach to an old idea.
The trouble with this is that if someone is caught with a real picture versus a CGI picture, the person could claim it is simply a CGI version. The point of this article is that it is getting harder and harder to tell the difference, so how can say a police officer tell the difference?
Mythbusters did a segment on this and found that the thermite coating causing the disaster was nothing more than a myth. Well, at least the part of it being caused solely by the thermite was...
From Wikipedia:
"Using the same compounds used in the Hindenburg's paint, the MythBusters discovered that they could combine to form highly incendiary thermite. However, the actual proportions of components in the paint burned too slowly to match the film footage of the Hindenburg disaster. A scale model of the Hindenburg using the same paint and placed in a hydrogen-rich environment took about a minute to burn and did look very similar to the original events. In the end, they concluded that the Hindenburg's demise could be attributed to both the hydrogen and the paint, and they agreed that the paint by itself was not responsible for the rapid burning of the airship. They also pointed out that if actual thermite covered the Hindenburg, it would make the airship too heavy to fly."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(season_5)#Episode_70_.E2.80.94_.22Hindenburg_Mystery.2C_Crocodile_Zig_Zags.22
Well, one of the key advantages of a system like this is having the offsite backup of files -- I can have 10 different hard drives all backing up my data, but if they are all in my apartment and something catastrophic happens to them, then what good are they? This way, I can have a way to recover my data if, for example, a fire burns down the apartments destroying all my DVD backups and hard disk backups. Yes, I know I will have bigger problems than this in such an event, but it's one less thing to worry about.
I have to say that I am surprised that Penn State is on that list -- Penn State for a few years now has given us Napster subscriptions to legally download music to circumvent this problem -- this year they finally changed to Ruckus, but the same idea still holds. What is it that the RIAA is looking for if we had a legal way to download music?
Hunting, cleaning, butchering, and cooking all in one step? Nice -- can't get any better than that! Might I recommend putting some salt and pepper on the dynamite as well to add seasoning?
Going along with what you said about selling products cheaper and to add another example, the same is true for textbooks. If you can find the international version of a book used in a class, it can end up costing just a fraction of the US version's cost with exactly the same content.
I have found that while pure math classes do indeed ban calculators from exams, classes where math is applied, ie- sciences, engineering, etc, require the use of a calculator. Note that this is not the case for all classes of this type, however I have found the majority to be this way.
I must disagree with the parent on using the TI-89 in college. I am a junior in electrical engineering, and I use it all the time. While it is true that we use MATLAB for several classes, when it comes to test time, we aren't allowed to use computers. The TI-89 has definately helped me a lot in these classes, and on long 13+ hour assignments, it is extreemly helpful to simply let the calculator do the basic integrations and differentiations.
That said, my personal advice would be to go with the TI-89. It is robust, very common, and with features like symbolic integration, amazingly useful.
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Minor detail, if he were an anarchist, the criminal would go free forever with no trial (no government, no prosecution). He is more of a totalitarianist (sp?), where the government has absolute control and, therefore, no trial with prosecution.
True, I was focusing on hydrocarbons because that's what this technology is usually applied for. But the basic process of taking a long molecular chain and breaking it into multiple smaller chains seems pretty similar to what is done on hydrocarbons, even if the chain contains oxygen as well.
"Green Power describes its process as a proprietary catalytic pressure-less depolymerization process (CDP) where municipal solid waste or a wide variety of organic wastes are 'cracked' at the molecular level and the long-chain polymers (plastic, organic material such as wood, etc.) are chemically altered to become short-chain hydrocarbons with no combustion. Combustion requires oxygen or a similar compound, but according to Green Power the CDP occurs in an anaerobic environment, exposed only to inert gases like nitrogen."
This sounds very similar to a heavy oil conversion unit, which takes long chains of hydrocarbons (organic materials) and breaks them into smaller molecules. Refineries have been doing this for decades! I'm not saying this isn't good to reduce overall waste or anything like that, but unless I'm missing something, this is hardly new technology...
As a couple examples of conversion units:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coker_unit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_catalytic_cracking
My room doesn't have a door, you insensitive clod! :(
Caught one too many times, I take it?
Geeze, I remember doing exactly this when it came out. Then at night while laying in bed I would be half expecting the room to start glowing red and have something spawn next to me. Never had a game do that me before; definitely was a great game for immersion.
So I hate to reply to myself, but I guess I misunderstood the source I linked to and got it backwards myself... Guess that means it is really time to call it a day.
Actually, the parent is correct. Fractional reserve banking means that the banks keep a fraction of what they loan out as a reserve. A bank will have 10 dollars and loan out 100 or more dollars. This is OK as long as too many people don't want their money at once (a run on the bank); the bank simply cannot repay all of the people who deposited money with the bank because they only keep a small fraction of what is actually deposited.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
That's nothing - wait until Version 2.0 comes out and not only will it tell you when the nearby rich person lives, it will show you their personal schedule for when they will be out of town, display the best method of entry into their house, and send all the police out to the opposite side of town!
You mean like the sandals? Now I'm really confused...
A while back I was watching Saving Private Ryan on TV, and I actually thought it was kind of funny that they would show people stopping to pick up missing limbs, people holding innards in, etc, but when they were just walking through a field they censored out the curse words. Kind of doesn't make sense to me...
When I took an introductory programming course (high school), the teacher went into painful detail about the history of computers, binary code (with paper and pencil), and so on and so forth. Later in the course, he admitted that it was to weed out the kids who were taking it for a typing course and not the programming course it was. After making it through the weed-out portion of the class, I actually appreciated what the computer was doing more than if we had jumped right into the coding.
I can see this as basically a terminal application. With hardware so inexpensive and software so expensive, places where you need a lot of computers yet relatively low computing power this would be ideal. Simply buy a few computer shells, hook them up to a server running the OS and various word processing apps, and go. Kinda like a new approach to an old idea.
The trouble with this is that if someone is caught with a real picture versus a CGI picture, the person could claim it is simply a CGI version. The point of this article is that it is getting harder and harder to tell the difference, so how can say a police officer tell the difference?
Watch the show 'To Catch a Predator.' That should answer your question.
Mythbusters did a segment on this and found that the thermite coating causing the disaster was nothing more than a myth. Well, at least the part of it being caused solely by the thermite was... From Wikipedia: "Using the same compounds used in the Hindenburg's paint, the MythBusters discovered that they could combine to form highly incendiary thermite. However, the actual proportions of components in the paint burned too slowly to match the film footage of the Hindenburg disaster. A scale model of the Hindenburg using the same paint and placed in a hydrogen-rich environment took about a minute to burn and did look very similar to the original events. In the end, they concluded that the Hindenburg's demise could be attributed to both the hydrogen and the paint, and they agreed that the paint by itself was not responsible for the rapid burning of the airship. They also pointed out that if actual thermite covered the Hindenburg, it would make the airship too heavy to fly." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(season_5)#Episode_70_.E2.80.94_.22Hindenburg_Mystery.2C_Crocodile_Zig_Zags.22
Did you ask the sales people if they had a Wii? When I got mine, there were none on the shelves, but they had a couple in the back so I could get one.
Well, one of the key advantages of a system like this is having the offsite backup of files -- I can have 10 different hard drives all backing up my data, but if they are all in my apartment and something catastrophic happens to them, then what good are they? This way, I can have a way to recover my data if, for example, a fire burns down the apartments destroying all my DVD backups and hard disk backups. Yes, I know I will have bigger problems than this in such an event, but it's one less thing to worry about.
Sounds like a perfectly good buisness model to me! Wonder what could go wrong...
So what happens when you are modded up?
I have to say that I am surprised that Penn State is on that list -- Penn State for a few years now has given us Napster subscriptions to legally download music to circumvent this problem -- this year they finally changed to Ruckus, but the same idea still holds. What is it that the RIAA is looking for if we had a legal way to download music?
Hunting, cleaning, butchering, and cooking all in one step? Nice -- can't get any better than that! Might I recommend putting some salt and pepper on the dynamite as well to add seasoning?
Going along with what you said about selling products cheaper and to add another example, the same is true for textbooks. If you can find the international version of a book used in a class, it can end up costing just a fraction of the US version's cost with exactly the same content.
I have found that while pure math classes do indeed ban calculators from exams, classes where math is applied, ie- sciences, engineering, etc, require the use of a calculator. Note that this is not the case for all classes of this type, however I have found the majority to be this way.
I must disagree with the parent on using the TI-89 in college. I am a junior in electrical engineering, and I use it all the time. While it is true that we use MATLAB for several classes, when it comes to test time, we aren't allowed to use computers. The TI-89 has definately helped me a lot in these classes, and on long 13+ hour assignments, it is extreemly helpful to simply let the calculator do the basic integrations and differentiations. That said, my personal advice would be to go with the TI-89. It is robust, very common, and with features like symbolic integration, amazingly useful.
Could changing this value back to 0 reactivate the PatchGuard once it is deactivated in the final release?