Hydrogen is a stupid fuel, except for fusion (and, maybe fuel cells).
Storage is a royal pain, since hydrogen molecules are very small and simply wander off from containers, surrounding them with a highly flammable gas. If pressurized and cooled to liquid, they wander off less, but you have added costs of weight to the vehicle and compression/cooling to the production side.
Per weight/volume, hydrogen generates relatively little power compared with hydrocarbon fuels . In general, the more carbon in the fuel molecules, the more energy available in combustion (you're not going to run high-performance aircraft on fuel cells). The C-C bonds are cheap to break compared to H-H bonds and C-O bonds provide decent return, so the net output is more. Diesel cars/trucks generate more useful power and better fuel efficiency than gasoline cars or hybrids. Similarly, there's a lot of energy in the long-chain molecules of kerosene/paraffin used as jet fuels.
> in this day and age, why are we still making war machines? most countries have all signed peace > treaties and the only ones that are still actively pointing their heads into other peoples > business is america, the uk and some of their allies.
Russia has done so recently, some consider the Chinese occupation of Tibet "pointing their heads into other peoples business", there are pirates in Somalia, various genocides in Africa, radical Islam still converting by the sword, not to mention all of the conflicts between whatever bosses are in power beating up whatever people over whom they have power and those people trying to be the bosses. Humans are murderous; deal with it.
> as cool as it would be to have jets that run on sea water, i think they should rather be > looking at other, more peaceful, applications.
The US Navy has a need, so they're doing the research. Unless they classify the whatever useful catalyst(s) they find (not entirely unlikely), you could be making jet fuel at Narita, or any of several other airports right on the ocean (using wave/tidal power), saving the energy costs of fuel transport. Los Angeles has several major airports in the region, and an ocean not far from at least two of them
I found that I watched no live TV. Everything was timeshifted. My DVR has an IR dongle to control the STB (STB, STD?, whatever), so the STB is hidden behind some cabinetry, with a cardboard shield to prevent accidental channel switching.
If they outlaw (TOS, whatever) that, then the service gets canceled.
I stopped reading the print magazines years ago because they seemed to be nothing more than fan rags. Where were the "this game is an unstable, buggy, boring turd" for all of the games that really were or "those of you with high-enough spec' systems may get this game to run, but the rest of you should wait for it to hit the bargain bins, because, by then, you may have 'leet' enough systems to run it"?
How often was there a "BTW, the copy protection in this game means that when their server is down, you CANNOT play it!"?
Maybe you had parents with functional brains, but most American students do not.
The mindless rabble has been stridently demanding simple "regurgitate (what pass for) facts" tests since, at least, the start of Dumbya's administration. "essays, critical thinking, etc." are specifically opposed.
From my experience and observation, most parents oppose critical thinking in their children because they cannot deal with children applying those skills to their parents' own delusions.
The quote is "... manage and control digital use of their content, by providing detailed metrics on content consumption, payment services and enforcement support.", which is Digital Rights Management (DRM).
The word "enforcement" is in the quote, so how has this "zilch to do with enforcement"?
I still have nightmares of looking through their old code, which had BEGIN and END replacing the block definitions and a very non-K&R (or any other reasonable) indent style.
It's the difference between starting from "scratch", more, or less, and building what suits you, and buying whatever the manufacturer tries to foist onto you. Sort of like Linux or *BSD vs. Microsoft Windows or OS X. You really can build a "superior driving machine" that way, since "superior" means so many different things to people. In my case, for the Camaro, STUPID-UGLY is not "superior", and I've been in '69 Camaros that have been tweaked into very good-handling cars. Probably would cost more than a new one, but I would simply be embarrassed to be seen in a new Camaro, so it doesn't matter.
If the previous version of the Mustang (I really do like the styling) had been built on the Jaguar S-type platform's suspension, as they teased us it would, and had it had either a Jag' engine (normally aspirated or supercharged) or a developed version of the Windsor small-block, I'd have one. Failing that, if the Challenger were 700-800 pounds lighter, making it about the same as the '74, I'd buy one now.
They take an iconic American model, one with a decent racing history (Penske in Trans-Am, for example) and make it look like a stupid cartoon toy, so that only someone with the mentality of a 14-year-old would want one, then turn it, literally, into a cartoon toy look-alike?
After Ford botched the Mustang suspension and engine, then "fixed it" by ruining the styling, and Chrysler built a seriously overweight Challenger, my last hope for a factory "pony car" was Chevrolet. Ain't gonna happen now.
You can pretty much build a '60s Mustang or Camaro body from parts, and use some late-model items like 4-wheel discs, EFI, and 5/6-speed transmissions, plus some "lessons learned" suspension bits to build a really nice daily driver, cruiser, race car,...
The researchers did NOT say, definitively, that the patients DNA varied between blood and aorta.
What they said was that the SEQUENCING showed a difference. The sequencer used cannot distinguish between messenger RNA and DNA differences.
While it is possible that micro-environment, such as being blood vs. being aorta could result in changes to DNA, it is far more likely to result in tweaks to messenger RNA.
Since they found the same SNPs in aortic tissue from the organ bank, it could just be a common adaptation for that tissue.
For a "FULL" backup, boot from external storage (FireWire, for example, on a Mac), or optical media, then gzip the entire disk image to a file on external storage. ALL of the state is saved. No log or event files are "in progress" on the main disk.
Booted from external storage, I think something like "ghost" would work similarly, but I don't have a copy to try.
If you can partition your data from the "operating system", then image just the OS when you make changes, such as after an update or program install. It will be smaller and faster to back up.
"user data" partitions can be backed up with the system running during idle time.
We're talking home computers, not 24/7 production servers.
The Demopublican Party in the US is owned by its largest contributors, not the voters. Both wings of the party are, therefore, fully invested in "preserving intellectual property rights".
Since, unlike places where your vote might count (Germany, for instance, with proportional representation in the Bundestag), the Demopublican Party has managed to set up gerrymandered districts across the US to be sure that no new party can obtain a significant presence in any legislature, nor can enough independent legislators be elected to have significant input to the process.
I do, normally, except for a bit of Solaris and OpenBSD, here and there.
The printer driver for my Xerox Phaser (native, no PostScript) is just a little more flexible on Windows, even compared to the OS X driver, and I have a few old games that don't run as well in WINE as W2K.
BTW, some Linux distro's DO have EULAs, mostly that you agree that you're using the software at your own risk (as Microsoft's does), and notes about any export and binary driver issues.
No #!%$ DRM, no activation, and at least through SP2 (SP4 was changed, but I never looked at SP3) no license agreement that explicitly allows Microsoft access to your hard drive.
Every Microsoft OS since Windows 2000 has been a downgrade.
FF works fine, thank you, and, since Microsoft no longer supports it, I don't have to deal with their illegal "you have to run Windows to get patches".
I have three copies of Star Craft/Brood Wars. They're for LAN parties, and the occasional solo game.
I never have played, and never will play, the game on BattleNet.
Now, what do I do with the copy of XP that I bought to play the game, since 2K (or, maybe, WINE) is enough for Star Craft and I don't do Windows for anything but Star Craft?
In addition to getting the corporate image on it, I'd have to reinstall all of the software packages needed to do my job, but not part of the corporate set (cygwin, for instance), plus an incremental backup of local files since the last full and restore the entire set.
A clean reinstall of the system would take three days, at least. I've never seen a Windows re-install of anything but the corporate set take less than three, and even that usually takes two, since the image doesn't include all of the accumulated updates that have to be downloaded and installed, with multiple reboots.
You are correct, though, that a re-install is the only sure way of removing unused Windows software.
The obtains energy from dropping heavy vehicles a very small distance, driving a plate as falling water drives a water wheel. Water is recycled to above the wheel by evaporation (solar power, of a sort), while the vehicles use engine power to climb back to their previous level.
This system steals a small amount of motor fuel from each passing vehicle.
McAfee is horrendously insidious. Should you ever want to use a different product, it is damn near impossible to remove. After the IT guy at a job spent 7 hours trying to get rid of it (he did, mostly) when they switched to Kaspersky, I spent another three with regedit and a few Cygwin tools hunting down the rest. I think I got it all, since Outlook has finally quit trying to use it.
We're not talking about mooning the dean of students, or something "fun", if silly/stupid.
The guy was arrested for burglary. It is necessary for him to respond, for the rest of his life, in every job/dating/whatever situation to "what happened?". If the charges were unfounded, then a copy of the record should take care of it. If not, then he should have to explain how his head was so messed up that he could put his victim(s) through the hassle of dealing with their missing stuff, and how, if at all, it is different now, such that he is fit for whatever situation in which the question comes up.
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Hydrogen is a stupid fuel, except for fusion (and, maybe fuel cells).
Storage is a royal pain, since hydrogen molecules are very small and simply wander off from containers, surrounding them with a highly flammable gas. If pressurized and cooled to liquid, they wander off less, but you have added costs of weight to the vehicle and compression/cooling to the production side.
Per weight/volume, hydrogen generates relatively little power compared with hydrocarbon fuels . In general, the more carbon in the fuel molecules, the more energy available in combustion (you're not going to run high-performance aircraft on fuel cells). The C-C bonds are cheap to break compared to H-H bonds and C-O bonds provide decent return, so the net output is more. Diesel cars/trucks generate more useful power and better fuel efficiency than gasoline cars or hybrids. Similarly, there's a lot of energy in the long-chain molecules of kerosene/paraffin used as jet fuels.
> in this day and age, why are we still making war machines? most countries have all signed peace > treaties and the only ones that are still actively pointing their heads into other peoples
> business is america, the uk and some of their allies.
Russia has done so recently, some consider the Chinese occupation of Tibet "pointing their heads into other peoples business", there are pirates in Somalia, various genocides in Africa, radical Islam still converting by the sword, not to mention all of the conflicts between whatever bosses are in power beating up whatever people over whom they have power and those people trying to be the bosses. Humans are murderous; deal with it.
> as cool as it would be to have jets that run on sea water, i think they should rather be
> looking at other, more peaceful, applications.
The US Navy has a need, so they're doing the research. Unless they classify the whatever useful catalyst(s) they find (not entirely unlikely), you could be making jet fuel at Narita, or any of several other airports right on the ocean (using wave/tidal power), saving the energy costs of fuel transport. Los Angeles has several major airports in the region, and an ocean not far from at least two of them
I thought the ".de" domain might be a clue that the museum is in Munich, Germany.
You didn't specify continent, so:
http://www.deutsches-museum.de/
I found that I watched no live TV. Everything was timeshifted. My DVR has an IR dongle to control the STB (STB, STD?, whatever), so the STB is hidden behind some cabinetry, with a cardboard shield to prevent accidental channel switching.
If they outlaw (TOS, whatever) that, then the service gets canceled.
Here's a cheap one: http://www.chinoindia.com/dl/spec/pdf_thermoimaging/TP-L_PSE-702.pdf.
Looks pretty clear to me, 'specially the pictures on page 4.
I stopped reading the print magazines years ago because they seemed to be nothing more than fan rags. Where were the "this game is an unstable, buggy, boring turd" for all of the games that really were or "those of you with high-enough spec' systems may get this game to run, but the rest of you should wait for it to hit the bargain bins, because, by then, you may have 'leet' enough systems to run it"?
How often was there a "BTW, the copy protection in this game means that when their server is down, you CANNOT play it!"?
At least G4 gave a 1 sometimes.
She's at least as qualified as the last President and Republican VP nominee.
Maybe you had parents with functional brains, but most American students do not.
The mindless rabble has been stridently demanding simple "regurgitate (what pass for) facts" tests since, at least, the start of Dumbya's administration. "essays, critical thinking, etc." are specifically opposed.
From my experience and observation, most parents oppose critical thinking in their children because they cannot deal with children applying those skills to their parents' own delusions.
The quote is "... manage and control digital use of their content, by providing detailed metrics on content consumption, payment services and enforcement support.", which is Digital Rights Management (DRM).
The word "enforcement" is in the quote, so how has this "zilch to do with enforcement"?
Must have worked at Wind River in the past.
I still have nightmares of looking through their old code, which had BEGIN and END replacing the block definitions and a very non-K&R (or any other reasonable) indent style.
It's the difference between starting from "scratch", more, or less, and building what suits you, and buying whatever the manufacturer tries to foist onto you. Sort of like Linux or *BSD vs. Microsoft Windows or OS X. You really can build a "superior driving machine" that way, since "superior" means so many different things to people. In my case, for the Camaro, STUPID-UGLY is not "superior", and I've been in '69 Camaros that have been tweaked into very good-handling cars. Probably would cost more than a new one, but I would simply be embarrassed to be seen in a new Camaro, so it doesn't matter.
If the previous version of the Mustang (I really do like the styling) had been built on the Jaguar S-type platform's suspension, as they teased us it would, and had it had either a Jag' engine (normally aspirated or supercharged) or a developed version of the Windsor small-block, I'd have one. Failing that, if the Challenger were 700-800 pounds lighter, making it about the same as the '74, I'd buy one now.
They take an iconic American model, one with a decent racing history (Penske in Trans-Am, for example) and make it look like a stupid cartoon toy, so that only someone with the mentality of a 14-year-old would want one, then turn it, literally, into a cartoon toy look-alike?
After Ford botched the Mustang suspension and engine, then "fixed it" by ruining the styling, and Chrysler built a seriously overweight Challenger, my last hope for a factory "pony car" was Chevrolet. Ain't gonna happen now.
You can pretty much build a '60s Mustang or Camaro body from parts, and use some late-model items like 4-wheel discs, EFI, and 5/6-speed transmissions, plus some "lessons learned" suspension bits to build a really nice daily driver, cruiser, race car, ...
http://www.dynacornclassicbodies.com/ford_models.html
http://www.dynacornclassicbodies.com/gm_models.html
The researchers did NOT say, definitively, that the patients DNA varied between blood and aorta.
What they said was that the SEQUENCING showed a difference. The sequencer used cannot distinguish between messenger RNA and DNA differences.
While it is possible that micro-environment, such as being blood vs. being aorta could result in changes to DNA, it is far more likely to result in tweaks to messenger RNA.
Since they found the same SNPs in aortic tissue from the organ bank, it could just be a common adaptation for that tissue.
For a "FULL" backup, boot from external storage (FireWire, for example, on a Mac), or optical media, then gzip the entire disk image to a file on external storage. ALL of the state is saved. No log or event files are "in progress" on the main disk.
Booted from external storage, I think something like "ghost" would work similarly, but I don't have a copy to try.
If you can partition your data from the "operating system", then image just the OS when you make changes, such as after an update or program install. It will be smaller and faster to back up.
"user data" partitions can be backed up with the system running during idle time.
We're talking home computers, not 24/7 production servers.
Like there are any.
The Demopublican Party in the US is owned by its largest contributors, not the voters. Both wings of the party are, therefore, fully invested in "preserving intellectual property rights".
Since, unlike places where your vote might count (Germany, for instance, with proportional representation in the Bundestag), the Demopublican Party has managed to set up gerrymandered districts across the US to be sure that no new party can obtain a significant presence in any legislature, nor can enough independent legislators be elected to have significant input to the process.
I do, normally, except for a bit of Solaris and OpenBSD, here and there.
The printer driver for my Xerox Phaser (native, no PostScript) is just a little more flexible on Windows, even compared to the OS X driver, and I have a few old games that don't run as well in WINE as W2K.
BTW, some Linux distro's DO have EULAs, mostly that you agree that you're using the software at your own risk (as Microsoft's does), and notes about any export and binary driver issues.
No #!%$ DRM, no activation, and at least through SP2 (SP4 was changed, but I never looked at SP3) no license agreement that explicitly allows Microsoft access to your hard drive.
Every Microsoft OS since Windows 2000 has been a downgrade.
FF works fine, thank you, and, since Microsoft no longer supports it, I don't have to deal with their illegal "you have to run Windows to get patches".
Using volume to compare hydrogen to gasoline (or diesel) is silly.
With a "gallon" of reactor fuel, a usable street vehicle could travel tens of thousands of miles.
Given your handle, I've got my sarcasm filter set to "high", but for the unenlightened, technically, it's Puerto Rico.
There are entities that consider all of Central (if not South, as well) America as "US Territory".
I have three copies of Star Craft/Brood Wars. They're for LAN parties, and the occasional solo game.
I never have played, and never will play, the game on BattleNet.
Now, what do I do with the copy of XP that I bought to play the game, since 2K (or, maybe, WINE) is enough for Star Craft and I don't do Windows for anything but Star Craft?
I never said that I was sure I had it all.
In addition to getting the corporate image on it, I'd have to reinstall all of the software packages needed to do my job, but not part of the corporate set (cygwin, for instance), plus an incremental backup of local files since the last full and restore the entire set.
A clean reinstall of the system would take three days, at least. I've never seen a Windows re-install of anything but the corporate set take less than three, and even that usually takes two, since the image doesn't include all of the accumulated updates that have to be downloaded and installed, with multiple reboots.
You are correct, though, that a re-install is the only sure way of removing unused Windows software.
Totally wrong.
The obtains energy from dropping heavy vehicles a very small distance, driving a plate as falling water drives a water wheel. Water is recycled to above the wheel by evaporation (solar power, of a sort), while the vehicles use engine power to climb back to their previous level.
This system steals a small amount of motor fuel from each passing vehicle.
McAfee is horrendously insidious. Should you ever want to use a different product, it is damn near impossible to remove. After the IT guy at a job spent 7 hours trying to get rid of it (he did, mostly) when they switched to Kaspersky, I spent another three with regedit and a few Cygwin tools hunting down the rest. I think I got it all, since Outlook has finally quit trying to use it.
Avoid it like the plague.
We're not talking about mooning the dean of students, or something "fun", if silly/stupid.
The guy was arrested for burglary. It is necessary for him to respond, for the rest of his life, in every job/dating/whatever situation to "what happened?". If the charges were unfounded, then a copy of the record should take care of it. If not, then he should have to explain how his head was so messed up that he could put his victim(s) through the hassle of dealing with their missing stuff, and how, if at all, it is different now, such that he is fit for whatever situation in which the question comes up.