so researchers on one side who are going where the data takes them and researchers on the other who are paid handsomely to find out that there's absolutely no problem with spewing ever-growing quantities of hydrocarbons into the atmosphere.
You forgot the third side who is getting paid handsomely to say that spewing CO2 into the atmosphere is going to cause global catastrophe.
By the way, who is this side that is saying there is no problem pouring Hydro-Carbons into the atmosphere? And who is doing it? Perhaps you meant Carbon Dioxide?
This actually happens, as the increase in temperature causing ground soil to give up more C02. This is why it is an accelerating trend. That trend ends at Venus.
Venus has an atmospheric pressure of 90 Bars with about 96.5% CO2. Earth with 1 Bar has 0.038% CO2. I don't see an increase of CO2 by 225,000% hapening, ever.
Second problem with your statement. The Earth has been warmer in the past than it is now. By your reasoning, it should never have cooled off to form the last iceage.
Well, given that me and 3 other guys never had to turn on the heat in an apartment in Conneticut during the winter, due to the 80 degree temperature inside our apartment, I can see that happening.
Though in our case it was due to 4 computers running 24/7, 3 laptops, 2 TVs, 2 of each game console and 2 complete stereo systems. Total power consumption if we had everything turned on at once would have been 3 or 4 kilowatts.
Even the manufacturers of the FM modulators have admitted that they exceed the power levels and that it is a problem. They just don't care.
In whice case the FM modulator manufacturers are in violation of FCC compliance and can be fined big bucks. This isn't the fault of whoever made the program being broadcast (from IPOD, Cassetes or Satelite), just whoever made the modulator. If NPR wants to do something, they should figure out who's breaking the FCC rules and file claims against them. It'd go a lot quicker than trying to sue XM/Sirius for something a third party is doing.
Bishounen: Japanese word translating roughly as "Pretty Boy". Used to refer to males who are very handsome/pretty and sometimes very androgynous. Wiki Link
Interesting, so they can basically blast a government for things a portion of the citizens do. I also wish they gave a breakdown, instead of just assigning the numbers. Makes it arbitrary enough so that no one knows what the numbers actually mean. That's actually been my main complaint since I first came across their lists, they don't explain how they came to the numbers at all.
Fallout from the row over the "Mohammed cartoons"
Denmark (19th) dropped from joint first place because of serious threats against the authors of the Mohammed cartoons published there in autumn 2005. For the first time in recent years in a country that is very observant of civil liberties, journalists had to have police protection due to threats against them because of their work.
So a country can slip for things that the government of the country isn't responsible for or don't even happen in the country? I seem to recall that a number of the threats were from non-Denmark citizens as well.
Nah, I'm willing to bet a lot of people will be "named" Chen Duxiu, Qu Qiubai, Xiang Zhongfa, Li Lisan, Wang Ming, Bo Gu, Zhang Wentian, Mao Zedong, Hua Guofeng, Hu Yaobang, Hu Yaobang, Zhao Ziyang, Jiang Zemin or Hu Jintao. Pretty much the equivalent to someone in the US calling themselves George Washington, Abraham Lincold and so on.
That's sort of the point of building them on the same die. You can't just run a wire to it, as it would be quite slow. Wires tend to have parasitic inductances and capacitances, so the setup and hold times on the lines would be too large to provide a benefit.
Given that I'm an EE, I know a bit about this and that there are many ways to get around it. For one thing, if they can provide 10Gbit connections over copper, they shure as hell can do a direct connection with a video card.
Tell me what they send to their server is actually a hash of the URL with a huge salt.
If they did this then one of two things would happen.
1) Collisions where non-Phishing sites would be blocked as Phishing sites.
2) They would be able to figure out what the original site was anyway as they are the ones who created the hashes. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to look for duplicate entries or not and the hashes wouldn't mean jack.
Everythings going to be in the clear. The only thing is to make sure that the feature is optional.
And, of course, the reason number one: you get a guaranteed GPU sale for each CPU sale - goodbye pesky competition;).
And vice versa. This might work where someone wants an embeded GPU for low to medium end graphics. However, I doubt gamers would like the idea of having to purchase a new CPU evertime a new GPU comes out and vice versa.
There's something to be said for physically discrete components.
The shows I watch regularly are House, BSG, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Eureka. CSI: Vegas and Monk if I can catch them without a scheduling conflict.
Now, that comes out to 2 to 4 hours a week lately, depending on the TV schedule. Now, I also watch a few more on my PC, depending on what else I have to do.
I'd find it hard to believe anyone could watch 18 hours of TV a day. That would leave 6 hours for sleep, and they couldn't really do anything else during the day like work. Even people I know who work as TV monitors at TV Stations don't watch that much TV.
Well, this has already been fairly thoroughly investigated, and while there is some evidence that diagnosis is up, that definitely doesn't account for the increases that've been seen...
I remember reading something where some scientists believed that the main reason for the increase in Autism is that more men who would normally remain celebit all their life are having children. For example, in the 1500's, a lot of 'geeks' would become monks or scholars and not have children. The line between Autism and Inteligence is quite thin. Take a lot of smart men who previously would not have had children, and in the next generation or two, you have an increase in the Autism rate.
(And if you ask me, nuclear is not the holy grail, unless they get fusion going).
The main problem with Nuclear today is the absence of recycling the material after it has been in the reacotr. Once we get breeder reactors and a recycling program going, nuclear gets a lot cleaner.
Or you could do what most people do when they want hydrogen, heat a hydrocarbon with steam. It is a hell of a lot cheaper than electrolysis!
Only problem with that is CO2 is still released.
I seem to recall some group was going to use a nuclear power plant for both electricity and hydrogen generation. Heat the steam until it is higher than currently used in power plants, and it then uses a lot less energy to use electrolysis to seperate out the hydrogen.
DRM is going to be the biggest problem - by far - with this technology.
This is one of the things that annoys me with new technology. Why can't they just make it so that the books are distributed on something like a widget that you plug into the reader? This way, no copying problems, no limiting the number of authorized PCs, no electronic files to deal with.
Stick the server in it's own closet. Use a portable air-conditioner to cool the room as low as you want. Have the heat exhaust into the rest of the building.
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so researchers on one side who are going where the data takes them and researchers on the other who are paid handsomely to find out that there's absolutely no problem with spewing ever-growing quantities of hydrocarbons into the atmosphere.
You forgot the third side who is getting paid handsomely to say that spewing CO2 into the atmosphere is going to cause global catastrophe.
By the way, who is this side that is saying there is no problem pouring Hydro-Carbons into the atmosphere? And who is doing it? Perhaps you meant Carbon Dioxide?
This actually happens, as the increase in temperature causing ground soil to give up more C02. This is why it is an accelerating trend. That trend ends at Venus.
Venus has an atmospheric pressure of 90 Bars with about 96.5% CO2. Earth with 1 Bar has 0.038% CO2. I don't see an increase of CO2 by 225,000% hapening, ever.
Second problem with your statement. The Earth has been warmer in the past than it is now. By your reasoning, it should never have cooled off to form the last iceage.
Anarobic bacteria. They can survive without light or oxygen. Not all food chains are based on photosynthesis.
Well, given that me and 3 other guys never had to turn on the heat in an apartment in Conneticut during the winter, due to the 80 degree temperature inside our apartment, I can see that happening.
Though in our case it was due to 4 computers running 24/7, 3 laptops, 2 TVs, 2 of each game console and 2 complete stereo systems. Total power consumption if we had everything turned on at once would have been 3 or 4 kilowatts.
Any chance you could post a link to the BBC radio websites?
Even the manufacturers of the FM modulators have admitted that they exceed the power levels and that it is a problem. They just don't care.
In whice case the FM modulator manufacturers are in violation of FCC compliance and can be fined big bucks. This isn't the fault of whoever made the program being broadcast (from IPOD, Cassetes or Satelite), just whoever made the modulator. If NPR wants to do something, they should figure out who's breaking the FCC rules and file claims against them. It'd go a lot quicker than trying to sue XM/Sirius for something a third party is doing.
too true, too true. They even give Sora, from Kingdom Hearts, as an example.
"Bishy"?
Bishy: Short for Bishounen.
Bishounen: Japanese word translating roughly as "Pretty Boy". Used to refer to males who are very handsome/pretty and sometimes very androgynous. Wiki Link
Interesting, so they can basically blast a government for things a portion of the citizens do. I also wish they gave a breakdown, instead of just assigning the numbers. Makes it arbitrary enough so that no one knows what the numbers actually mean. That's actually been my main complaint since I first came across their lists, they don't explain how they came to the numbers at all.
Fallout from the row over the "Mohammed cartoons" Denmark (19th) dropped from joint first place because of serious threats against the authors of the Mohammed cartoons published there in autumn 2005. For the first time in recent years in a country that is very observant of civil liberties, journalists had to have police protection due to threats against them because of their work.
So a country can slip for things that the government of the country isn't responsible for or don't even happen in the country? I seem to recall that a number of the threats were from non-Denmark citizens as well.
I would have posted the John Smith equivalent, but I don't know what that is. If you do, post it.
Nah, I'm willing to bet a lot of people will be "named"
Chen Duxiu, Qu Qiubai, Xiang Zhongfa, Li Lisan, Wang Ming, Bo Gu, Zhang Wentian, Mao Zedong, Hua Guofeng, Hu Yaobang, Hu Yaobang, Zhao Ziyang, Jiang Zemin or Hu Jintao. Pretty much the equivalent to someone in the US calling themselves George Washington, Abraham Lincold and so on.
The U.S has the largest prison population (over 2 million) and the highest rate of prisoners per capita at 715 per 100,000. source: NationMaster
Why is it that I can not find England/U.K. on there?
That's sort of the point of building them on the same die. You can't just run a wire to it, as it would be quite slow. Wires tend to have parasitic inductances and capacitances, so the setup and hold times on the lines would be too large to provide a benefit.
Given that I'm an EE, I know a bit about this and that there are many ways to get around it. For one thing, if they can provide 10Gbit connections over copper, they shure as hell can do a direct connection with a video card.
Those 'connections' that run from one device to another? They're known as a 'bus' in computer design lingo.
Er. No. A Bus has several devices connecting to it, not just two.
Tell me what they send to their server is actually a hash of the URL with a huge salt.
If they did this then one of two things would happen.
1) Collisions where non-Phishing sites would be blocked as Phishing sites.
2) They would be able to figure out what the original site was anyway as they are the ones who created the hashes. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to look for duplicate entries or not and the hashes wouldn't mean jack.
Everythings going to be in the clear. The only thing is to make sure that the feature is optional.
And, of course, the reason number one: you get a guaranteed GPU sale for each CPU sale - goodbye pesky competition ;).
And vice versa. This might work where someone wants an embeded GPU for low to medium end graphics. However, I doubt gamers would like the idea of having to purchase a new CPU evertime a new GPU comes out and vice versa.
There's something to be said for physically discrete components.
Then why not just have some connections that come straight out of the CPU and go directly to a graphics card, bypassing any bus entirely?
The shows I watch regularly are House, BSG, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Eureka. CSI: Vegas and Monk if I can catch them without a scheduling conflict.
Now, that comes out to 2 to 4 hours a week lately, depending on the TV schedule. Now, I also watch a few more on my PC, depending on what else I have to do.
I'd find it hard to believe anyone could watch 18 hours of TV a day. That would leave 6 hours for sleep, and they couldn't really do anything else during the day like work. Even people I know who work as TV monitors at TV Stations don't watch that much TV.
Well, this has already been fairly thoroughly investigated, and while there is some evidence that diagnosis is up, that definitely doesn't account for the increases that've been seen...
I remember reading something where some scientists believed that the main reason for the increase in Autism is that more men who would normally remain celebit all their life are having children. For example, in the 1500's, a lot of 'geeks' would become monks or scholars and not have children. The line between Autism and Inteligence is quite thin. Take a lot of smart men who previously would not have had children, and in the next generation or two, you have an increase in the Autism rate.
(And if you ask me, nuclear is not the holy grail, unless they get fusion going).
The main problem with Nuclear today is the absence of recycling the material after it has been in the reacotr. Once we get breeder reactors and a recycling program going, nuclear gets a lot cleaner.
Or you could do what most people do when they want hydrogen, heat a hydrocarbon with steam. It is a hell of a lot cheaper than electrolysis!
Only problem with that is CO2 is still released.
I seem to recall some group was going to use a nuclear power plant for both electricity and hydrogen generation. Heat the steam until it is higher than currently used in power plants, and it then uses a lot less energy to use electrolysis to seperate out the hydrogen.
what's so awful about the V-chip?
It's a government mandated "feature" that jacks up the cost of the TV.
DRM is going to be the biggest problem - by far - with this technology.
This is one of the things that annoys me with new technology. Why can't they just make it so that the books are distributed on something like a widget that you plug into the reader? This way, no copying problems, no limiting the number of authorized PCs, no electronic files to deal with.
Portable Air-Conditioner.
Stick the server in it's own closet. Use a portable air-conditioner to cool the room as low as you want. Have the heat exhaust into the rest of the building.