Fracking is far more expensive than traditional drilling, but once a well is fracked, its gas output drops off *very* rapidly. The best sources I've found show it drops off exponentially with a half-life of around a *year*, two at the most.
A year or two is overly pessimistic. Horizontally fracked NG wells in the Baaken formation seem to have a 4 - 10% per year depletion rate. So a given well might economically run from 5 to 25 years - a fairly large spread which depends on a number of factors besides actual flow rate. Your basic point still stands - the supply won't last as long as some people would like you to believe it.
That's the thing. The extreme environmentalists are now claiming that CO2 is a pollutant [1] (nevermind that plants consume it while producing oxygen). That means the very act of breathing is now considered polluting the environment. So according to your statement I now have to have a damn good reason as to why I breath?
Paracelsus (1493-1531, old news)
"All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; only the dose permits something not to be poisonous."
Yes, high concentrations of CO2 (or N2 or O2 or NOx or whatever) can be a pollutant - an undesirable chemical in an ecology. So stop breathing if you like, no skin off my nose, but if you're planning on staying alive, please, put the Wall Street Journal back under the parakeet where it belongs.
The problem, obviously, is that 99.9997% of SUV's / 4WD pickups never make it further off road than an occasional curb or mailbox. They are wonderful and impressive tools if you actually need to do something off a developed road, but for most folks, it's just a bizarre status symbol.
Oh, and if you don't have a Warn winch, you're just posing....
According to the Supreme Court [wikipedia.org], as long as the term is "forever minus 1 day" it fits the constitutional requirement for copyright terms of a limited duration.
All right, how about we just stop this charade and end copyright at 'heat death of the universe' and quit all of this shilly-shallying?
Thank you for taking the trouble to debunk that particular issue. I think the idea of a 'cheap' fixed focus lens vs. a 'complicated and expensive' zoom is very salient here. By using a fixed focal lens of presumably decent quality (remember, the sensor is actually fairly large for this sort of application which means you make a relatively large lens) and doing the zooming in the computer, you 1) speed things up for the user 2) make the camera physically simpler and hopefully higher image quality 3) thus make manufacturing simpler.
It appears that with the modern crop of sensors / lenses and support electronics, this approach is doable. Now, dump the ancient OS and put it in a real camera, er, phone or whatever.
You don't need the digital zoom - that's what all the pickles are for. Just subsample. That allows you to have simpler, better lens. Zooming is faster. It allows the 'photographer' to decide what to do with the picture later. That's important in these miserable little 'cameras' since the form factor and lack of a decent viewfinder make it hard to compose, especially when the subject is busy yorking up all the Doritos in the corner. Gotta get that special moment!
Pretty much this. An iPhone (which, until the 4S had spectacularly bad cameras) can take good pictures under optimal conditions. ANYTHING can take good pictures under optimal conditions. Especially if you're looking at it on Facebook on some random browser at 400 pixels across.
Have the light wash out, have the subject move, put the subject close or far away, print poster size - then you're pushing hardware.
I right-click on the login link, send the login to a new tab, login there, then reload the tab I'm on and delete the tab I logged in on. I actually have a bookmark to the login, so I can right-click on that and do the same, so I don't even lose my place on the page (except that my prefs expand more of the comments). I tried setting up the auto-login thing but it didn't seem to work any more.
There is a lesson here. I'm not exactly sure what it is, but there is a lesson here.....
Slashdot Mirror
Only two?
May I interest you in some Viagra?
Fracking is far more expensive than traditional drilling, but once a well is fracked, its gas output drops off *very* rapidly. The best sources I've found show it drops off exponentially with a half-life of around a *year*, two at the most.
A year or two is overly pessimistic. Horizontally fracked NG wells in the Baaken formation seem to have a 4 - 10% per year depletion rate. So a given well might economically run from 5 to 25 years - a fairly large spread which depends on a number of factors besides actual flow rate. Your basic point still stands - the supply won't last as long as some people would like you to believe it.
No, if you plan on doing any Auto-Tune work, you should go out back and shoot yourself before you infect anyone else.
It's a joke son, laugh.
Has anyone in this thread claimed that FLAC was magic?
Of course not. Apple didn't develop it, so it's most certainly NOT magic.
That's the thing. The extreme environmentalists are now claiming that CO2 is a pollutant [1] (nevermind that plants consume it while producing oxygen). That means the very act of breathing is now considered polluting the environment. So according to your statement I now have to have a damn good reason as to why I breath?
Paracelsus (1493-1531, old news)
"All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; only the dose permits something not to be poisonous."
Yes, high concentrations of CO2 (or N2 or O2 or NOx or whatever) can be a pollutant - an undesirable chemical in an ecology. So stop breathing if you like, no skin off my nose, but if you're planning on staying alive, please, put the Wall Street Journal back under the parakeet where it belongs.
Why? What on earth could you have against wolves? We have millions of stupid humans infesting the place and you're worried about a few more wolves?
Sheep don't like wolves, as a rule.
The problem, obviously, is that 99.9997% of SUV's / 4WD pickups never make it further off road than an occasional curb or mailbox. They are wonderful and impressive tools if you actually need to do something off a developed road, but for most folks, it's just a bizarre status symbol.
Oh, and if you don't have a Warn winch, you're just posing....
You systematic biologists make everything too complicated:
1. Animal
2. Plant
3. Tissue Culture
Much easier.
from your friends in the lab.
According to the Supreme Court [wikipedia.org], as long as the term is "forever minus 1 day" it fits the constitutional requirement for copyright terms of a limited duration.
All right, how about we just stop this charade and end copyright at 'heat death of the universe' and quit all of this shilly-shallying?
Prevert.
Don't worry, they're still gunning for your business:
Harris will instead focus on providing secure networks and cloud solutions for customers on their own premises.
'cloud solutions for customers on their own premises'
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means....
Thank you for taking the trouble to debunk that particular issue. I think the idea of a 'cheap' fixed focus lens vs. a 'complicated and expensive' zoom is very salient here. By using a fixed focal lens of presumably decent quality (remember, the sensor is actually fairly large for this sort of application which means you make a relatively large lens) and doing the zooming in the computer, you 1) speed things up for the user 2) make the camera physically simpler and hopefully higher image quality 3) thus make manufacturing simpler.
It appears that with the modern crop of sensors / lenses and support electronics, this approach is doable. Now, dump the ancient OS and put it in a real camera, er, phone or whatever.
Is there some modern variant of Godwin's law that applies whenever you mention Steve Jobs or Apple in an unrelated conversation?
iGod's law?
You don't need the digital zoom - that's what all the pickles are for. Just subsample. That allows you to have simpler, better lens. Zooming is faster. It allows the 'photographer' to decide what to do with the picture later. That's important in these miserable little 'cameras' since the form factor and lack of a decent viewfinder make it hard to compose, especially when the subject is busy yorking up all the Doritos in the corner. Gotta get that special moment!
Pretty much this. An iPhone (which, until the 4S had spectacularly bad cameras) can take good pictures under optimal conditions. ANYTHING can take good pictures under optimal conditions. Especially if you're looking at it on Facebook on some random browser at 400 pixels across.
Have the light wash out, have the subject move, put the subject close or far away, print poster size - then you're pushing hardware.
I right-click on the login link, send the login to a new tab, login there, then reload the tab I'm on and delete the tab I logged in on. I actually have a bookmark to the login, so I can right-click on that and do the same, so I don't even lose my place on the page (except that my prefs expand more of the comments). I tried setting up the auto-login thing but it didn't seem to work any more.
There is a lesson here. I'm not exactly sure what it is, but there is a lesson here.....
Worms are people too you insensitive clod!
You're thinking corporations. I understand how you would get them confused, though.
Isn't that a little personal?
Also, how the hell is this insightful?
It means we should all move to Portugal (or at least get rid of AT&T).
Don't paper over the issue.
Also what's the advantage of this over getting an iPhone 4S and sticking it on the dash?
More room for the bobble head Jesus.
USA! USA! USA!
So the internet is now leaking cats into the red sea?
It's a strange world in which we live.
PETA can BITE my shiny metal ass.
Not mine.
All we've got are the idiots.