It was used extensively as an antiknock agent. It is still the best antiknock agent despite the enormous environmental impact of using it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead
They claim the cartridge is not refillable to meet TSA regulations. Hah, give me a refillable one that I can squirt a canister of lighter/torch butane into and I might consider it.
If you want a handset that looks like a phone then use a phone and have the watch be a bluetooth display of critical info from your phone. I would rather have the watch with a paired bluetooth headset. Less to carry.
A year later, it turns out we're actually getting almost as much business as originally planned. Since they didn't buy as many planes, they're having to fly the planes they do have more, which means they're burning through spare parts faster.
Everybody should be paying for roads whether they are driving or not. If you rely on public transportation to get around you are still using the road. Even if you never leave your house or building you are using the road system. All of the goods you purchase are traveling by road.
Some smaller towns are running into the problems of decreased fuel tax revenue as more people buy electric or high fuel efficiency vehicles. A low percentage tax that everybody pays should pay for roads.
Take a look at our past and we find many situations where large groups of people are stuck in a very small space for a long period of time. Trans-Atlantic sailing in the Age of Exploration took 3 months. Granted a Mars flight would be five times longer with not much to look forward to on the other end. If we want to get to Mars send a group that is determined to make it and risk their lives trying. NASA may not want to risk lives to go to Mars, they can't afford the bad publicity of a death in flight. Any exploration in the past has come at the cost of lives. I doubt we are past any technological point where we can continue exploration without losing a life along the way.
If the trip is anything less than suicide there will be a group willing to try it for the sole purpose of having their names go down in history. As private spaceflight develops those groups will have their chance. It is very likely that a private group will beat NASA or any other nation's space program to many of the next space milestones.
"Every time something good happens to me you say it's some kind of madness."
Is it really surprising that something that costs less than half the price of a PS3 and offers a completely new style of game play is selling more units?
As a current college student I can tell you that you don't really want to go with anything higher than an TI-86. This calculator is allowed in almost every class. I say almost because some professors don't allow any type of graphing calculator.
I agree. When Comcast bought TechTV they killed it. I watched TechTV far more often than I watch G4. The only show I watch on G4 is Brainiac. Nothing is better than blowing things up and doing a little science along the way.
Now that there are bills to pay and school work to do I really can't spend as much time as I used to playing games. In highschool when the work was cake and I didn't have to work for a living I could spend as much time as I wanted playing games. On top of not having the time, cause I still find some, a lot of games comming out are just plain shit. While were on the topic of crappy video entertainment the movie industry is in the same boat. If the game of movie industries could make a quality product that people "need" to play/watch people will buy it.
It is apparent that Sony is never going to learn that closed formats don't work. If they would have licensed the UMD for other uses they might have done a little better. They still might not have succeeded but at least it might appear to have a chance. When I first saw the UMD I was thinking this would be a great replacement for CDs. The mini disk floundered but with the UMDs larger size it appeared it might have a chance. Them is traditional Sony fashion they locked down the format killing all chances of wide adoption. This is the same reason I refuse to buy a Vaio. I could just as easily buy a cheaper more functional laptop that doesn't use expensive proprietary memory sticks.
that the computer viruses of today will lead to spur computers to life?
That is a likely assumption. In an attempt to fight virii more efficiently the idea of writing computer "anti-bodies" or good virii. It is not much of a leap from a virus that helps to a fully functional network "immune system" that actively probes the network for bad virii and deals with them accordingly and automatically. Something like this could be considered "intelligent", but intelligence always depends on you definition of the word.
Actually, producing ethanol does not take up our agricultural land. Ethanol that is currently produced in the corn belt is produced from the waste of farming operations. The ears of corn are harvested and sold to the usual buyers. The stalks that are normally made into feed for livestock are first sent to an ethanol plant where the sugars are extracted and made into alcohol through fermentation. After the sugars are extracted the stalks are made into feed for livestock as they would have before. The production of ethanol in the US has been steadily increasing in recent years and will continue that way for the forseable future. It is also worthy to note that ethanol is mixed with 5% gasoline before it leaves any production facilities. The denatureing of the ethanol is to prevent if from being taxed and treated under laws as the alcohol it is.
Other sources of fermentable materials is currently being reasearched. Some of the sources that have been researched range from various types of trees such as birch and spruce to food processing wastes like chicken and fish entrails. The bottom line is that ethanol is a viable source of alternative energy.
If I remember my intro biology correctly they are inducing a state where the mitochondria are the only cells in the body producing any ATP. This has been seen before in people that have been chilled quickly by falling in an icy river for instance. All body functions cease but the mitochondria make enough energy to keep everything alive.
Go there. The score wont be settled until we actually get scientists there. Even though the rovers have a nice suite of intruments it seems as though the data they collect is never definate. The concensus on if there is water or not has flip flopped so many times since the rovers landed I've lost count. So, it appears that we will just have to wait until there are some people there to say for sure.
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Thank you. Nice, lightweight alternative. Only add the features you want to add.
Thanks for all the good years. Keep whippin' the Llama's ass.
It was used extensively as an antiknock agent. It is still the best antiknock agent despite the enormous environmental impact of using it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead
They claim the cartridge is not refillable to meet TSA regulations. Hah, give me a refillable one that I can squirt a canister of lighter/torch butane into and I might consider it.
If you want a handset that looks like a phone then use a phone and have the watch be a bluetooth display of critical info from your phone. I would rather have the watch with a paired bluetooth headset. Less to carry.
Even less of a surprise if you have seen this from 2010.
I'm first does that mean I get more than $19k for this stick up?
Surely having a record of all digits and eyes ensures that a person can be identified even if they lose a finger or an eye.
How is that any more alienating than being physically away from home for work?
A year later, it turns out we're actually getting almost as much business as originally planned. Since they didn't buy as many planes, they're having to fly the planes they do have more, which means they're burning through spare parts faster.
Maybe that was the intention.
Everybody should be paying for roads whether they are driving or not. If you rely on public transportation to get around you are still using the road. Even if you never leave your house or building you are using the road system. All of the goods you purchase are traveling by road.
Some smaller towns are running into the problems of decreased fuel tax revenue as more people buy electric or high fuel efficiency vehicles. A low percentage tax that everybody pays should pay for roads.
Take a look at our past and we find many situations where large groups of people are stuck in a very small space for a long period of time. Trans-Atlantic sailing in the Age of Exploration took 3 months. Granted a Mars flight would be five times longer with not much to look forward to on the other end. If we want to get to Mars send a group that is determined to make it and risk their lives trying. NASA may not want to risk lives to go to Mars, they can't afford the bad publicity of a death in flight. Any exploration in the past has come at the cost of lives. I doubt we are past any technological point where we can continue exploration without losing a life along the way.
If the trip is anything less than suicide there will be a group willing to try it for the sole purpose of having their names go down in history. As private spaceflight develops those groups will have their chance. It is very likely that a private group will beat NASA or any other nation's space program to many of the next space milestones.
"Every time something good happens to me you say it's some kind of madness."
Is it really surprising that something that costs less than half the price of a PS3 and offers a completely new style of game play is selling more units?
As a current college student I can tell you that you don't really want to go with anything higher than an TI-86. This calculator is allowed in almost every class. I say almost because some professors don't allow any type of graphing calculator.
I agree. When Comcast bought TechTV they killed it. I watched TechTV far more often than I watch G4. The only show I watch on G4 is Brainiac. Nothing is better than blowing things up and doing a little science along the way.
im first =P
Now that there are bills to pay and school work to do I really can't spend as much time as I used to playing games. In highschool when the work was cake and I didn't have to work for a living I could spend as much time as I wanted playing games. On top of not having the time, cause I still find some, a lot of games comming out are just plain shit. While were on the topic of crappy video entertainment the movie industry is in the same boat. If the game of movie industries could make a quality product that people "need" to play/watch people will buy it.
And all this time I thought the aliens were the ones doing the probing.
It is apparent that Sony is never going to learn that closed formats don't work. If they would have licensed the UMD for other uses they might have done a little better. They still might not have succeeded but at least it might appear to have a chance. When I first saw the UMD I was thinking this would be a great replacement for CDs. The mini disk floundered but with the UMDs larger size it appeared it might have a chance. Them is traditional Sony fashion they locked down the format killing all chances of wide adoption. This is the same reason I refuse to buy a Vaio. I could just as easily buy a cheaper more functional laptop that doesn't use expensive proprietary memory sticks.
Open is better.
that the computer viruses of today will lead to spur computers to life?
That is a likely assumption. In an attempt to fight virii more efficiently the idea of writing computer "anti-bodies" or good virii. It is not much of a leap from a virus that helps to a fully functional network "immune system" that actively probes the network for bad virii and deals with them accordingly and automatically. Something like this could be considered "intelligent", but intelligence always depends on you definition of the word.
...to the toad problem. Bring in a predator that can eat them without dieing.
Actually, producing ethanol does not take up our agricultural land. Ethanol that is currently produced in the corn belt is produced from the waste of farming operations. The ears of corn are harvested and sold to the usual buyers. The stalks that are normally made into feed for livestock are first sent to an ethanol plant where the sugars are extracted and made into alcohol through fermentation. After the sugars are extracted the stalks are made into feed for livestock as they would have before. The production of ethanol in the US has been steadily increasing in recent years and will continue that way for the forseable future. It is also worthy to note that ethanol is mixed with 5% gasoline before it leaves any production facilities. The denatureing of the ethanol is to prevent if from being taxed and treated under laws as the alcohol it is.
Other sources of fermentable materials is currently being reasearched. Some of the sources that have been researched range from various types of trees such as birch and spruce to food processing wastes like chicken and fish entrails. The bottom line is that ethanol is a viable source of alternative energy.
If I remember my intro biology correctly they are inducing a state where the mitochondria are the only cells in the body producing any ATP. This has been seen before in people that have been chilled quickly by falling in an icy river for instance. All body functions cease but the mitochondria make enough energy to keep everything alive.
Go there. The score wont be settled until we actually get scientists there. Even though the rovers have a nice suite of intruments it seems as though the data they collect is never definate. The concensus on if there is water or not has flip flopped so many times since the rovers landed I've lost count. So, it appears that we will just have to wait until there are some people there to say for sure.