...could statistically be expected to fail every half an hour, so I read. Given Microsoft's OS reputation, what's the bet an MS powered supercomputer won't be any better? I mean, we *are* 60 years down the track.
It's the same kind of deal, conceptually, as bootstrapping the supply rail of the voltage amplifier stage of an audio power amp from the output terminal. Or more literally, pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. Or low-tech-wise, holding a carrot on a stick in front of the donkey that is pulling your cart along.
Gather up all the world's politicians and religious leaders and shove them down in that place and seal it over. Optionally, you could plumb all the world's sewage into there as well, though you would be hard pressed to distinguish the former from the latter.
I can imagine a time in the not-to-distant future when I will be walking down the street without any kind of entertainment or communication devices in tow and these kids will be pointing and staring at me for not having a "rich multimedia experience" or whatever. The idea of not having multiple electronic devices attached to my every orifice and appendage will be inconceivable to them. One of them might just concur that I was using my time thinking of stuff like people did in the "old days". Yeah, I can do long division with a pencil and paper too! Just what *is* this perceived need for entertainment and communication every moment of your waking life? Whatever happened to solitude and reflection and pondering over things? No time for that now!
His box seems to add a trickle of hydrogen + oxygen to the ingoing airstream of an engine that is already running on petrol, *not* running purely on the hygrogen coming out of the box. That for a fact would not work as many correctly state. I read somewhere that free hydrogen does in fact aid combustion, something about hydroxyl radicals and CO late in the combustion cycle or something. Apparently it is similar to injected water being thermally dissociated (separated back into hydrogen & oxygen components by absorbing lots of heat -unburning if you like) and then this free hydrogen does it's stuff in a similar way.
Looking.. looking.. Ahh.. here we are..
"The highest energy particles are the hydrogen atoms - and they penetrate the charge about 5 times as far as the rest of the particles. As they lose energy and return to normal temps - about 5000 k - they begin to react chemically with any surrounding fuel and oxygen particles. The effectiveness of spark ignition is directly related to the availability of free hydrogen. Molecules containing tightly bound hydrogen such as methanol, nitromethane, and methane are far more difficult to ignite than those with less bonds.
During combustion - water - H2O ( present and formed ) is extremely active in the oxidation of the hydrocarbon. The predominate reaction is the following:
OH + H ==> H2O
H2O + O ==> H2O2
H2O2 ==> OH + OH
Loop to top and repeat.
The OH radical is the most effective at stripping hydrogen from the HC
molecule in most ranges of combustion temperature.
Another predominate process is the HOO radical. It is more active at lower temperatures and is competitive with the H2O2 at higher temps.
OO + H ==> HOO
HOO + H ==> H2O2
H2O2 ==> OH + OH
This mechanism is very active at both stripping hydrogen from the HC and for getting O2 into usable combustion reactions.
Next consider the combustion of CO. Virtually no C ==> CO2. Its a two step process. C+O ==> CO. CO virtually drops out of early mid combustion as the OH reactions are significantly faster and effectively compete for the available oxygen.
Then consider that pure CO and pure O2 burns very slowly if at all. Virtually the only mechanism to complete the oxidization ( Glassman - Combustion Third Edition ) of CO ==> CO2 is the "water method".
CO + OH ==> CO2 + H
H + OH ==> H20
H2O + O ==> H2O2
H2O2 ==> OH + OH
goto to top and repeat.
This simple reaction accounts for 99% + of the conversion of CO to CO2. It is important in that fully two thirds of the energy of carbon combustion is released in the CO ==> CO2 process and that this process occurs slow and late in the combustion of the fuel. Excess water can and does speed this conversion - by actively entering into the conversion process thru the above mechanism.
The peak flame temperature is determined by three factors alone - the energy present and released, the total atomic mass, and the atomic ratio - commonly called CHON for Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen. The chemical reactions in combustion leading to peak temperature are supremely indifferent to pressure. The temperatures and rates of normal IC combustion are sufficient to cause most of the fuel and water present to be dissociated and enter into the flame.
As can be seen above, water is most definitily not only not inert but is a very active and important player in the combustion of hydrocarbon fuel. Ricardo and others have documented that under certain conditions ( normally supercharged ) water can replace fuel up to about 50% and develop the same power output, or that the power output can be increased by up to 50% addition of water. This conditions were investigated by NACA and others for piston aircraft engines. It is important to note that these improvements came at the upper end of the power range where sufficient fuel and air was available to have an excess of energy that could not be converted to usable pressure in a timely manner."
...that the entire purpose of a PC is to run an OS. That is all you need to have a life, or as they say, a "rich user experience". Applications are just an add-on distraction.
If the Bible account of the Flood of Noah's time is factual then I could well imagine that before it rained, all that water being up in the clouds would presumably add to the total weight of the atmosphere and therefore the barometric pressure at sea level (not a difficult place to find at that point in time) would be way higher. 40 days and nights of raining, therefore depressurisation, would give no problem with nitrogen narcosis. Interestingly, the reported lifespan of humans dropped by about a factor of seven at that time too.
From the article we read - "Only fragments of wing bones have been discovered", and yet later we read "Pterosaurs could walk on four legs using the "knuckles" of their hands." They did not find any evidence that they even *had* legs yet they make these bold and "authorative" statements that are for the most part based on nothing more than imagination. It's just like in the way distant future someone finding a single spark plug and claiming to be able to describe your complete car that it came from, including the colour of the paint. It's good to dig up these old bones and stuff and try to reconstruct creatures from long ago - providing you have a reasonable percentage of the pieces of the jigsaw, but to make assertions about parts you haven't even remotely got is not very scientific.
...to simply shrug off it's inhabitants. It was here before us. It does not depend on us for it's existence. We don't even amount to a film of dust on it. Overall, we are not very good tenants either.
This digital home bizzo in some respects sounds as cool as can be. Has anyone thought(!) perhaps just what it might be like living in one of these places where entertainment is just waiting to be shoved in one's evey orifice morning noon and night? The more opportunity there is for entertainment, presumably the more you are going to consume. There is only limited waking hours in a day so this basically means you are going to devote less time to thinking about stuff, less time pondering, less time just sitting in your comfy easy-chair musing, considering, daydreaming. Less time talking with other *people*. Some of the giants of yesteryear like Newton and Einstein were not distracted by TV and videos and games and portable MP3 players and phones that can engage you every other spare moment. Go outside for a little and look at the shape of the clouds, the trees, the sound of the birds. When I was a teenager during the 70's I was totally immersed in the elecronic technology of the day and as far as I was concerned, that was all that really mattered. I did not give a stuff about anything else. Now, at the seriously old age of 47 I realise there is much more than having to be entertained at every step and in every way, shape and form. Technology and entertainment is fine per se, but let's not swallow the line from the purveyors of such (or for that matter allow ourselves to be conciously or unconciously manipulated by them through the media they supply) that it is a most necessary, vital and indispensable part of our "digital lifestyle". (translate - existence).
I'll be glad when X can deliver clean, sharp true-type fonts like Windows does. Oh, well. Better to be crappy on the outside and good on the inside rather than vice versa.
...if everyone everywhere was totally honest and always told the truth at all times? Now I fully realise that nobody is about to make this happen any time soon, and from that perspective I think it is interesting to note that with human institutions the more pervasive the influence and control they have over us the more they seem to be disposed toward lying. There is just *so* much stuff around us today that is necessary because so many are dishonest to a greater or lesser degree. If we all woke up one morning and this wasn't the case then I think it would take quite some getting used to.
"The goal is to continue to reduce the risk of a back-end data exposure." Just make sure no-one rolls your ass over an inked stamp-pad and then plonks it on a piece of paper then proceeds to steal your "identity" via plastic surgery..
I was really thinking of all the little guys that write code in their basements with no expectation of financial reward, only recognition by their peers. They don't need to tell fibs to get a larger audience for their work so that more money comes in. That is not their aim. Pardon my lack of eloquence.
...the results of a study on the supposed negative effects of cigarette smoking that was funded by a tobacco company? Or the myth of global warming as espoused by an oil company? Or the necessity of being ready for war as delineated by a weapons manufacturer? Or the lack of corruption in politics as found by it's own members? Or the utter impossibility of paedophilia within a church because of the pronouncement of some most holy reverend blah blah... If there is money and power involved there is sure to be lies as well. That's why it is such a good thing that GNU/Linux is *FREE*
Microsoft would like you to believe that it wants to share it's market with Linux in a fair and friendly way, and that they want what is best for the customer in every situation. The commercial interests of Microsoft are only an unintended coincidence and for that matter come a distant second. Excuse me while I go and barf...
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Wow.
That's right. Ask any astronomer what time the sun rises and set today and he won't for a moment think you are being silly.
...could statistically be expected to fail every half an hour, so I read. Given Microsoft's OS reputation, what's the bet an MS powered supercomputer won't be any better? I mean, we *are* 60 years down the track.
1/- Identity theft will take on a whole new dimension. 2/- "Second hand" shops will start springing up everywhere.
It's the same kind of deal, conceptually, as bootstrapping the supply rail of the voltage amplifier stage of an audio power amp from the output terminal. Or more literally, pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. Or low-tech-wise, holding a carrot on a stick in front of the donkey that is pulling your cart along.
Gather up all the world's politicians and religious leaders and shove them down in that place and seal it over. Optionally, you could plumb all the world's sewage into there as well, though you would be hard pressed to distinguish the former from the latter.
Does "organic goo", left alone, tend toward order or disorder?
I can imagine a time in the not-to-distant future when I will be walking down the street without any kind of entertainment or communication devices in tow and these kids will be pointing and staring at me for not having a "rich multimedia experience" or whatever. The idea of not having multiple electronic devices attached to my every orifice and appendage will be inconceivable to them. One of them might just concur that I was using my time thinking of stuff like people did in the "old days". Yeah, I can do long division with a pencil and paper too! Just what *is* this perceived need for entertainment and communication every moment of your waking life? Whatever happened to solitude and reflection and pondering over things? No time for that now!
His box seems to add a trickle of hydrogen + oxygen to the ingoing airstream of an engine that is already running on petrol, *not* running purely on the hygrogen coming out of the box. That for a fact would not work as many correctly state. I read somewhere that free hydrogen does in fact aid combustion, something about hydroxyl radicals and CO late in the combustion cycle or something. Apparently it is similar to injected water being thermally dissociated (separated back into hydrogen & oxygen components by absorbing lots of heat -unburning if you like) and then this free hydrogen does it's stuff in a similar way. Looking.. looking.. Ahh.. here we are.. "The highest energy particles are the hydrogen atoms - and they penetrate the charge about 5 times as far as the rest of the particles. As they lose energy and return to normal temps - about 5000 k - they begin to react chemically with any surrounding fuel and oxygen particles. The effectiveness of spark ignition is directly related to the availability of free hydrogen. Molecules containing tightly bound hydrogen such as methanol, nitromethane, and methane are far more difficult to ignite than those with less bonds. During combustion - water - H2O ( present and formed ) is extremely active in the oxidation of the hydrocarbon. The predominate reaction is the following: OH + H ==> H2O H2O + O ==> H2O2 H2O2 ==> OH + OH Loop to top and repeat. The OH radical is the most effective at stripping hydrogen from the HC molecule in most ranges of combustion temperature. Another predominate process is the HOO radical. It is more active at lower temperatures and is competitive with the H2O2 at higher temps. OO + H ==> HOO HOO + H ==> H2O2 H2O2 ==> OH + OH This mechanism is very active at both stripping hydrogen from the HC and for getting O2 into usable combustion reactions. Next consider the combustion of CO. Virtually no C ==> CO2. Its a two step process. C+O ==> CO. CO virtually drops out of early mid combustion as the OH reactions are significantly faster and effectively compete for the available oxygen. Then consider that pure CO and pure O2 burns very slowly if at all. Virtually the only mechanism to complete the oxidization ( Glassman - Combustion Third Edition ) of CO ==> CO2 is the "water method". CO + OH ==> CO2 + H H + OH ==> H20 H2O + O ==> H2O2 H2O2 ==> OH + OH goto to top and repeat. This simple reaction accounts for 99% + of the conversion of CO to CO2. It is important in that fully two thirds of the energy of carbon combustion is released in the CO ==> CO2 process and that this process occurs slow and late in the combustion of the fuel. Excess water can and does speed this conversion - by actively entering into the conversion process thru the above mechanism. The peak flame temperature is determined by three factors alone - the energy present and released, the total atomic mass, and the atomic ratio - commonly called CHON for Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen. The chemical reactions in combustion leading to peak temperature are supremely indifferent to pressure. The temperatures and rates of normal IC combustion are sufficient to cause most of the fuel and water present to be dissociated and enter into the flame. As can be seen above, water is most definitily not only not inert but is a very active and important player in the combustion of hydrocarbon fuel. Ricardo and others have documented that under certain conditions ( normally supercharged ) water can replace fuel up to about 50% and develop the same power output, or that the power output can be increased by up to 50% addition of water. This conditions were investigated by NACA and others for piston aircraft engines. It is important to note that these improvements came at the upper end of the power range where sufficient fuel and air was available to have an excess of energy that could not be converted to usable pressure in a timely manner."
...that the entire purpose of a PC is to run an OS. That is all you need to have a life, or as they say, a "rich user experience". Applications are just an add-on distraction.
If the Bible account of the Flood of Noah's time is factual then I could well imagine that before it rained, all that water being up in the clouds would presumably add to the total weight of the atmosphere and therefore the barometric pressure at sea level (not a difficult place to find at that point in time) would be way higher. 40 days and nights of raining, therefore depressurisation, would give no problem with nitrogen narcosis. Interestingly, the reported lifespan of humans dropped by about a factor of seven at that time too.
From the article we read - "Only fragments of wing bones have been discovered", and yet later we read "Pterosaurs could walk on four legs using the "knuckles" of their hands." They did not find any evidence that they even *had* legs yet they make these bold and "authorative" statements that are for the most part based on nothing more than imagination. It's just like in the way distant future someone finding a single spark plug and claiming to be able to describe your complete car that it came from, including the colour of the paint. It's good to dig up these old bones and stuff and try to reconstruct creatures from long ago - providing you have a reasonable percentage of the pieces of the jigsaw, but to make assertions about parts you haven't even remotely got is not very scientific.
...to simply shrug off it's inhabitants. It was here before us. It does not depend on us for it's existence. We don't even amount to a film of dust on it. Overall, we are not very good tenants either.
This digital home bizzo in some respects sounds as cool as can be. Has anyone thought(!) perhaps just what it might be like living in one of these places where entertainment is just waiting to be shoved in one's evey orifice morning noon and night? The more opportunity there is for entertainment, presumably the more you are going to consume. There is only limited waking hours in a day so this basically means you are going to devote less time to thinking about stuff, less time pondering, less time just sitting in your comfy easy-chair musing, considering, daydreaming. Less time talking with other *people*. Some of the giants of yesteryear like Newton and Einstein were not distracted by TV and videos and games and portable MP3 players and phones that can engage you every other spare moment. Go outside for a little and look at the shape of the clouds, the trees, the sound of the birds. When I was a teenager during the 70's I was totally immersed in the elecronic technology of the day and as far as I was concerned, that was all that really mattered. I did not give a stuff about anything else. Now, at the seriously old age of 47 I realise there is much more than having to be entertained at every step and in every way, shape and form. Technology and entertainment is fine per se, but let's not swallow the line from the purveyors of such (or for that matter allow ourselves to be conciously or unconciously manipulated by them through the media they supply) that it is a most necessary, vital and indispensable part of our "digital lifestyle". (translate - existence).
...and see if it finds anything quicker than what they are using right now.
Staying circumcised would be problematical...
Go to the dentist and get the bad tooth yanked out. Hey presto! Here comes a new one :-)
Screen fonts, that is. Even Tahoma looks crook on the Linux on my dual-boot box. Not on Windows though. D'oh!
I'll be glad when X can deliver clean, sharp true-type fonts like Windows does. Oh, well. Better to be crappy on the outside and good on the inside rather than vice versa.
...if everyone everywhere was totally honest and always told the truth at all times? Now I fully realise that nobody is about to make this happen any time soon, and from that perspective I think it is interesting to note that with human institutions the more pervasive the influence and control they have over us the more they seem to be disposed toward lying. There is just *so* much stuff around us today that is necessary because so many are dishonest to a greater or lesser degree. If we all woke up one morning and this wasn't the case then I think it would take quite some getting used to.
"The goal is to continue to reduce the risk of a back-end data exposure." Just make sure no-one rolls your ass over an inked stamp-pad and then plonks it on a piece of paper then proceeds to steal your "identity" via plastic surgery..
I was really thinking of all the little guys that write code in their basements with no expectation of financial reward, only recognition by their peers. They don't need to tell fibs to get a larger audience for their work so that more money comes in. That is not their aim. Pardon my lack of eloquence.
...the results of a study on the supposed negative effects of cigarette smoking that was funded by a tobacco company? Or the myth of global warming as espoused by an oil company? Or the necessity of being ready for war as delineated by a weapons manufacturer? Or the lack of corruption in politics as found by it's own members? Or the utter impossibility of paedophilia within a church because of the pronouncement of some most holy reverend blah blah... If there is money and power involved there is sure to be lies as well. That's why it is such a good thing that GNU/Linux is *FREE*
Microsoft would like you to believe that it wants to share it's market with Linux in a fair and friendly way, and that they want what is best for the customer in every situation. The commercial interests of Microsoft are only an unintended coincidence and for that matter come a distant second. Excuse me while I go and barf...
You could always wait till they become available second-hand at some army disposals store :-P