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Hydrogen Buses In Iceland
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Actually, most of the energy needs in Iceland are currently met by good old hydro (as in water) dams rather than geothermal energy. Geothermal energy is almost the sole source of heating, though; 85% of heating needs are met by geothermal energy.
Now, some people may debate exactly how 'green' hydro dams are, but they are certainly more green than fossil fuels. However, there is one strange twist here, which is somewhat offtopic: more than a few dams in Iceland, including a massive one that is currently being constructed at Karahjukar are erected for the exlusive purpose of providing power for aluminum smelters, which are not that green.
Hydrogen generation is at least a noble attempt to use some of the available electricity for slightly more eco-friendly purposes, and surely causes less polution than fossil fuels if it is powered by hydro power.
Chris Schmidt has, among other things, this to say:
Sadly, I fear this will be the end of the LiveJournal Volunteer support system which I strongly support: I met the love of my life via doing support for LiveJournal, and it will be sad to imagine that others will not have that same oppourtunity [sic].
Dang, there go my chances of ever mating in this life. Damn you, Six Apart!
My native language is not English. I have fond memories of being around 10 years old, playing King's Quest, picking up the needed phrases slowly and having a lot of fun along the way. Then along came a host of other Sierra games, which were also bundles of fun. The magic kind of went away for me, though, when they abandoned the venerable graphics/text-adventure hybrid interface in favor of a point-and-click one.
I like to think that being hooked on these games at such an early age provided a good starting point for learning English. Sometimes I worry about kids today, stuck with first person shooters and other brainless drivel. Where has the magic of the written word gone? What will become of a youth that is raised on Counter Strike and Tekken and...
Bah, I'll shut up now. Watch out for me in 40 years or so; if you think this was a rant, you ain't seen nothing yet.
locate (1) has been around for quite some time now...
On Windows? For non-geeks?
Don't think so, somehow. It's easy enough to point out Unix command-line tools that do the job of any application such as this one, but what exactly is the point?
Will geeks use this Yahoo! tool? No
Does Yahoo! care? No
Just because a tool is not useful for us geeks, it doesn't mean it's useless, period.
(Sung to "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young)
Tough lawyers and Walcher* coming,
We're finally on our own.
This winter I hear the drumming,
Spam dead in Ohio.
Gotta get down to it
Spammers are mailing us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her swamped on the ground
How can you spam when you know?
* Representative Kathleen Walcher co-sponsored the bill under discussion.
The suggestions include 'joining the 300 Club at the South Pole (they take a sauna to 200 degrees Fahrenheit, then run naked to the pole in minus 100 F
'Things to do before you die' is a very apt term for this, I think.
In addition, we would appreciate it if you could provide us with contact information for RuneLateralus...
Aha! It's all actually a part of the evil ploy! They want to know his address so they can dispatch black-clad agents to abduct him for nefarious purposes! Don't fall for it guys! Run away! Run
+++ATH
NO CARRIER
No use. We will simply invoke Plan 9 and resurrect the dead - Long distance electrodes shot into the pineal and pituitary gland of the recently dead. That goes for movies too you know.
You don't believe us??
You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid! All you of Earth are idiots!
No longer can we, "One Nation Under Godzilla" ignore our creator and allow the death of so many children in this country. Our nation has become the strongest county in the world, why? Because of the Godzilla we are founded under. Our Godzilla is the Real Godzilla, not King King, Nor Mothra. Our Godzilla has blessed this nation with wealth and you show me a country that worships any other Godzilla and I will show you a third world mindset, confused, mislead, and motivated with hate.
One congressman even stated that a peanut subsidy, with a $3.5 billion price tag, 'strengthens America's national security,'
Of course. Peanuts can be highly effective weapons in the right hands. Especially if the terrorists have allergies. Or you could hurl the peanuts like small pebbles. Or you could.... um, look over there, a three headed monkey!
Adjectives? What, aren't 'new' and 'cool' good enough for you?
As to 'coworks', that happens to be an amalgamation of 'coworker' and 'cohort', thank you very much, Mr. Pedant. It's a perfectly valid and reasonable word!
Yes, it's not C#, but it is getting closer and closer to being C/C++ (or something very very close). For instance, Java 5 borrows features heavily from C. Just take a look at some of the new features:
- Generic Types (AKA templates)
- Enumerated Types
- Static Import (usage of this looks quite similar to the #define method)
- Formatted Output / Input (printf/scanf style)
- Varargs
I like this trend. These, among other changes in version 5, are all steps towards reducing the awkwardness in the Java syntax that many people complain about. Java is a young, evolving language that still has a lot of potential.
It is a bit funny, though, that this evolution takes the form of borrowing stuff from an ancient language. Maybe C just got things right in the first place, huh?
Terrorists could bring down US jets with hidden bombs
ABCNEWS.com : Officials Fear Terrorists Could Take Over Planes
ABCNEWS.com : Terrorists Could Get Cold War Weapons
Prescription Drugs | Terrorists Could Tamper With US Drug Supply...
BostonHerald.com - Technology: Terrorists could find robot water guards
Pandagon: Terrorists Could Infiltrate Hockey
FuturePundit.com: Researchers Warn Terrorists Could Misuse Biotech
CNEWS - World: Terrorists could set off 'dirty bomb'...
Etc. etc. etc....
Now, call me stupid, but why can't someone just come out once and for all and say: 'TERRORISTS COULD KILL YOU!' and then let people get on with their lives, like normal, rational people? I don't live in the US myself, but I imagine these endless 'warnings' all over the media, day in and day out, must get very, very tiring.
Good call. Here is a short explanation for those who are scratching their heads over what 'that program from The Recruit' might possibly have to do with solid liquids. Short answer: It doesn't; start reading more books!
I hereby propose a new mathematical function. It is called BSD (no relation to the OS), short for BullShit-Detector.
The calculation of BSD is simple. Its domain is the set of all strings. The range is all real numbers from 0.0 - 1.0. To calculate BSD(s) for string s, simply take the length of s (call this l). Then, divide the number of of characters that contribute to the actual, non-bullshit content of the string by l. This is the value of BSD(s).
To give a pertinent example, it is plainly apparent that BSD('Leveraging our paradigm-shifting product line with state of the art technology developed by a dedicated team of professionals, we offer a significant competitive advantage on the diversified but fragmented market of best of breed anti-spam solutions.') = 0.0.
It is my hope that this will leverage the ever-expanding work of linguistics researchers around the world in utilizing paradigm-shifting methods for significantly empowering their abilities to detect bullshit.
For their part, Levy and Munns have allegedly provided a "strawman" proposed framework, which covers familiar ground such as the ability for CD buyers "to make a specified number of protected copies of the disc". But there are also some more ambitious requests, such as "when copying the files to the hard drive the consumer can use any protected music file format of their choice". We imagine Apple won't be willing to play ball on this front.
In other words: 'You can copy your files in any format, as long as it's got the right kind of DRM.'
I can't begin to contemplate what would happen to the music industry if it were to accept Microsoft's offer. In fact, I can't begin to contemplate the possibility that it would accept such a mad proposal.
Protecting CDs with a new scheme that's built into Longhorn will mean, as far as I can see, that these CDs will be unplayable on any standalone CD player that's currently out there. So what are people supposed to do; upgrade their players alongside their Windows? Also, as has been pointed out already - what about Apple and other computer platforms?
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Now, some people may debate exactly how 'green' hydro dams are, but they are certainly more green than fossil fuels. However, there is one strange twist here, which is somewhat offtopic: more than a few dams in Iceland, including a massive one that is currently being constructed at Karahjukar are erected for the exlusive purpose of providing power for aluminum smelters, which are not that green.
Hydrogen generation is at least a noble attempt to use some of the available electricity for slightly more eco-friendly purposes, and surely causes less polution than fossil fuels if it is powered by hydro power.
I knew Microsoft was evil, but this is way, way too much!
The plural of pedant is pedants.
Sadly, I fear this will be the end of the LiveJournal Volunteer support system which I strongly support: I met the love of my life via doing support for LiveJournal, and it will be sad to imagine that others will not have that same oppourtunity [sic].
Dang, there go my chances of ever mating in this life. Damn you, Six Apart!
I like to think that being hooked on these games at such an early age provided a good starting point for learning English. Sometimes I worry about kids today, stuck with first person shooters and other brainless drivel. Where has the magic of the written word gone? What will become of a youth that is raised on Counter Strike and Tekken and ...
Bah, I'll shut up now. Watch out for me in 40 years or so; if you think this was a rant, you ain't seen nothing yet.
You might want to try the Wally approach.
On Windows? For non-geeks?
Don't think so, somehow. It's easy enough to point out Unix command-line tools that do the job of any application such as this one, but what exactly is the point?
Will geeks use this Yahoo! tool? No
Does Yahoo! care? No
Just because a tool is not useful for us geeks, it doesn't mean it's useless, period.
Tough lawyers and Walcher* coming,
We're finally on our own.
This winter I hear the drumming,
Spam dead in Ohio.
Gotta get down to it
Spammers are mailing us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her swamped on the ground
How can you spam when you know?
* Representative Kathleen Walcher co-sponsored the bill under discussion.
'Things to do before you die' is a very apt term for this, I think.
Don't worry ... I've got a grenade primed, ready to blow all the bad jokes to smithereens.
Moving to Canada so soon? Hang in there; Ohio hasn't been called yet! Have faith!
Aha! It's all actually a part of the evil ploy! They want to know his address so they can dispatch black-clad agents to abduct him for nefarious purposes! Don't fall for it guys! Run away! Run
+++ATH
NO CARRIER
You don't believe us??
You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid! All you of Earth are idiots!
Oh wait ...
PUT GOD BACK
I use the backspace key for this, naturally. Anyone who uses a mouse at all is a false geek!
Of course. Peanuts can be highly effective weapons in the right hands. Especially if the terrorists have allergies. Or you could hurl the peanuts like small pebbles. Or you could .... um, look over there, a three headed monkey!
As to 'coworks', that happens to be an amalgamation of 'coworker' and 'cohort', thank you very much, Mr. Pedant. It's a perfectly valid and reasonable word!
Some people are never happy with anything ...
- Generic Types (AKA templates)
- Enumerated Types
- Static Import (usage of this looks quite similar to the #define method)
- Formatted Output / Input (printf/scanf style)
- Varargs
I like this trend. These, among other changes in version 5, are all steps towards reducing the awkwardness in the Java syntax that many people complain about. Java is a young, evolving language that still has a lot of potential.
It is a bit funny, though, that this evolution takes the form of borrowing stuff from an ancient language. Maybe C just got things right in the first place, huh?
/me puts on a flameproof suit
However, this around it's the general media that's speculating wildly ... all the time.
The results of this Google search are rather illuminating:
Terrorists could bring down US jets with hidden bombs
ABCNEWS.com : Officials Fear Terrorists Could Take Over Planes
ABCNEWS.com : Terrorists Could Get Cold War Weapons
Prescription Drugs | Terrorists Could Tamper With US Drug Supply ...
BostonHerald.com - Technology: Terrorists could find robot water guards
Pandagon: Terrorists Could Infiltrate Hockey
FuturePundit.com: Researchers Warn Terrorists Could Misuse Biotech
CNEWS - World: Terrorists could set off 'dirty bomb' ...
Etc. etc. etc. ...
Now, call me stupid, but why can't someone just come out once and for all and say: 'TERRORISTS COULD KILL YOU!' and then let people get on with their lives, like normal, rational people? I don't live in the US myself, but I imagine these endless 'warnings' all over the media, day in and day out, must get very, very tiring.
Good for you. I'm still working on the dating thing, myself. The rest is pretty basic stuff.
Good call. Here is a short explanation for those who are scratching their heads over what 'that program from The Recruit' might possibly have to do with solid liquids. Short answer: It doesn't; start reading more books!
Well, at least it would solve this problem.
The calculation of BSD is simple. Its domain is the set of all strings. The range is all real numbers from 0.0 - 1.0. To calculate BSD(s) for string s, simply take the length of s (call this l). Then, divide the number of of characters that contribute to the actual, non-bullshit content of the string by l. This is the value of BSD(s).
To give a pertinent example, it is plainly apparent that BSD('Leveraging our paradigm-shifting product line with state of the art technology developed by a dedicated team of professionals, we offer a significant competitive advantage on the diversified but fragmented market of best of breed anti-spam solutions.') = 0.0.
It is my hope that this will leverage the ever-expanding work of linguistics researchers around the world in utilizing paradigm-shifting methods for significantly empowering their abilities to detect bullshit.
It's bad news, period:
For their part, Levy and Munns have allegedly provided a "strawman" proposed framework, which covers familiar ground such as the ability for CD buyers "to make a specified number of protected copies of the disc". But there are also some more ambitious requests, such as "when copying the files to the hard drive the consumer can use any protected music file format of their choice". We imagine Apple won't be willing to play ball on this front.
In other words: 'You can copy your files in any format, as long as it's got the right kind of DRM.'
I can't begin to contemplate what would happen to the music industry if it were to accept Microsoft's offer. In fact, I can't begin to contemplate the possibility that it would accept such a mad proposal.
Protecting CDs with a new scheme that's built into Longhorn will mean, as far as I can see, that these CDs will be unplayable on any standalone CD player that's currently out there. So what are people supposed to do; upgrade their players alongside their Windows? Also, as has been pointed out already - what about Apple and other computer platforms?
This is simply ridiculous. I'm at loss for words.