This is bullshit, especially when it comes to programmers who need concentration as much as collaboration (that can be handled by telephone, e-mail or messaging).
So, for programmers, a cubicle plus noise-cancelling headphones should work just as well as an office. That would be a nice perk.
According to this article from April, they'd need much more area for the solar energy, or wind energy, than for the CO2 harvesting.
As for "relatively complex molecular structures", I've researched some sorbents, and one is a solution of NaOH, sodium hydroxide, or "lye". It happens that it is produced by the electrolysis of seawater, which also produces...hydrogen.
It's simple, really. We know what hackers can do with computers. Thus, we don't want systems essential to our life or liberty to be open to attack from hackers.
It's my understanding that these professional software developers are on staff, earning only regular salaries. How are they in principal different from writers working for the media companies? If their pay is extremely high, sure, striking for better pay is unreasonable, but why shouldn't they get paid residuals every time the product of their work brings in income for their employers?
That's what we'd be saying if we had a software developers' union. It's all just a matter of perspective.
They sort of did. The current efficiencies of 100-watt bulbs are phased out in 2012, 60 in 2013, and 40 in 2014. Existing Philips Halogena bulbs, probably among others, meet the new efficiencies until 2020, when the required efficiency becomes 45 lumens/watt.
Let me see if I can copy the table from the legislation:
CFLs do have some limitations. They do generate heat - about 1/4 that of incandescents, but still a substantial amount. From what I hear, most should not be placed upside-down (base up), because their electronics can overheat that way. Even those designed to be used upside-down need ventilation to keep the overall temperature around them low.
I've used one bulb since 2002 or so, and I've since bought several others. That first bulb is still working in a large light fixture, placed horizontally. I haven't had one bulb burn out yet!
Fortunately, incandescents aren't being phased out in favor of just CFLs. From other articles I've seen, you should be able to get halogens with current efficiency until 2020.
Well, both Earth and Venus are less likely to generate meteorites (now) than Mars, because Mars has much less gravity than either of the other two planets. Conversely, since Earth has more gravity and surface area than Mars, it's more likely to pull in a "chunk of rock". ("Chunk of rock" being a general term, unlike meteorite, meteor, asteroid, etc. which vary depending on where the rock is.)
On the other hand, Earth had a major impact about 4.5 billion years ago, as evidenced by our relatively fast spin rate, and by the moon. Venus apparently never had such an impact: it has no natural satellite and doesn't spin fast. So Mars might have gotten an Earth "chunk of rock" from 4.5 BYA, but it's less likely to have gotten any since then.
VirtualDub and VirtualDubMod (which reads MPEG files) are versions of FOSS video editing software for Windows. They're probably better than Movie Maker because they handle more file formats and filters; but they're not as graphically intuitive.
There's also AviSynth, which is very powerful; but it requires using a scripting language, so it's only good if you want to teach a multimedia programming class!
I think we are on the border of a time when any OS can be a success given a few things:
It has a word process that opens Word documents and the icon is on the desktop.
Google Docs supposedly opens Word documents, and I imagine one of the icons on the desktop opens Google Docs. I just don't know which without mousing over it.
It has a web browser with an icon on the desktop.
Firefox appears on this other screenshot. A Google search from the desktop or other icons like Wikipedia and Blogger should bring it up.
It saves documents locally and on the web with one click.
If 5 free HD-DVDs are included, the media price is less of an issue.
The problem I see is the price of HDTVs, without which HD-DVD is pointless. Except for a few small, cheap models, most of the ones I see on walmart.com are $500 and up. This as opposed to SDTV digital TVs, many of which are under $200.
Now, let's compare to concentrating solar power (CSP) and electrolysis. 1 acre = 4046 m^2
During the sunny part of the day, 6 hours, you get roughly 1 kW/m^2*6h = 6 kWh/day/m^2 6 kWh/day/m^2 * 4046 m^2/acre = 24.276 MWh/acre/day
CSP is up to about 40% efficient. 24.276 MWh/acre/day *.4 = 9.71 MWh/acre/day
Now, electrolysis is up to about 80% efficient. (50% figures are generally for electricity-H2-electricity end-to-end efficiency.) So, 9.71 MWh/acre/day*.8 = 7,770 kWh/acre/day
Thus, CSP gets you up to almost 5 times the hydrogen per acre. For algae, that's really not bad, if they can do it.
One more thing: at best, CSP is expected to cost 10 cents/kWh. So, let's find a cost per kg H2 = $ per gallon of gasoline.
Yes...until the gyroscopes wear out and stop spinning, requiring either other gyroscopes or thrusters to maintain orientation. Gyroscopes are best for pointing satellites that have to change orientation frequently, like Hubble. For comm satellites that should theoretically stay in one orientation all the time, thrusters are simpler and lighter.
Here we go again. FYI, a gallon of gasoline contains 36.6 KWh (kilowatt-hours) of energy (converted from Wikipedia's MJ/liter). Of course, gasoline engines are only about 30% efficient, so about 10 KWh/gallon isn't a bad estimate.
Now,.3 KW panel over 8 hours obviously produces 2.4 KWh. That's 1/4 gallon of gasoline per day - about 75 cents at current prices. Not an awful lot.
The camera in question was a Canon PowerShot. I looked them up online, and they only record movies in Motion JPEG format, which creates really huge files; something like 10MB per second. They also record only onto memory cards.
Even with the largest memory card I could find online, a 32GB card, no more than an hour of video could be recorded at that rate. And this teenager certainly didn't have a card that big; they cost more than the camera!
Basically, this is a digital camera that can take short movies; not a "camcorder".
I'm pretty sure that a convex, clear plastic dome coated with an infrared-reflecting material could be put over the mirrors, so they would concentrate light, but not heat.
I'm not sure this would work; GreaseMonkey only works *after* a page is loaded. What you need is your own web proxy, like proximodo, to do the fix before it gets to your browser.
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This is bullshit, especially when it comes to programmers who need concentration as much as collaboration (that can be handled by telephone, e-mail or messaging).
So, for programmers, a cubicle plus noise-cancelling headphones should work just as well as an office. That would be a nice perk.
According to this article from April, they'd need much more area for the solar energy, or wind energy, than for the CO2 harvesting.
As for "relatively complex molecular structures", I've researched some sorbents, and one is a solution of NaOH, sodium hydroxide, or "lye". It happens that it is produced by the electrolysis of seawater, which also produces...hydrogen.
It's simple, really. We know what hackers can do with computers. Thus, we don't want systems essential to our life or liberty to be open to attack from hackers.
It's my understanding that these professional software developers are on staff, earning only regular salaries. How are they in principal different from writers working for the media companies? If their pay is extremely high, sure, striking for better pay is unreasonable, but why shouldn't they get paid residuals every time the product of their work brings in income for their employers?
That's what we'd be saying if we had a software developers' union. It's all just a matter of perspective.
Let me see if I can copy the table from the legislation: Sorry, that's the best I could do; the lameness filter doesn't like forcing spaces in to make a table.
CFLs do have some limitations. They do generate heat - about 1/4 that of incandescents, but still a substantial amount. From what I hear, most should not be placed upside-down (base up), because their electronics can overheat that way. Even those designed to be used upside-down need ventilation to keep the overall temperature around them low.
I've used one bulb since 2002 or so, and I've since bought several others. That first bulb is still working in a large light fixture, placed horizontally. I haven't had one bulb burn out yet!
Fortunately, incandescents aren't being phased out in favor of just CFLs. From other articles I've seen, you should be able to get halogens with current efficiency until 2020.
My Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Windows XP passes 30 of the 43 tests. Still worse than Konqueror, but I wonder what's different about yours?
Well, both Earth and Venus are less likely to generate meteorites (now) than Mars, because Mars has much less gravity than either of the other two planets. Conversely, since Earth has more gravity and surface area than Mars, it's more likely to pull in a "chunk of rock". ("Chunk of rock" being a general term, unlike meteorite, meteor, asteroid, etc. which vary depending on where the rock is.)
On the other hand, Earth had a major impact about 4.5 billion years ago, as evidenced by our relatively fast spin rate, and by the moon. Venus apparently never had such an impact: it has no natural satellite and doesn't spin fast. So Mars might have gotten an Earth "chunk of rock" from 4.5 BYA, but it's less likely to have gotten any since then.
VirtualDub and VirtualDubMod (which reads MPEG files) are versions of FOSS video editing software for Windows. They're probably better than Movie Maker because they handle more file formats and filters; but they're not as graphically intuitive.
There's also AviSynth, which is very powerful; but it requires using a scripting language, so it's only good if you want to teach a multimedia programming class!
Did you read section 4.6?
"...'10.01 / 3 = Ex / 3 =' gives '666666666666.6'."
Bad idea!
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Google Docs supposedly opens Word documents, and I imagine one of the icons on the desktop opens Google Docs. I just don't know which without mousing over it.
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Firefox appears on this other screenshot. A Google search from the desktop or other icons like Wikipedia and Blogger should bring it up.
- Again, this depends on
Google Docs, but supposedly it can save locally, and it shouldn't take too many clicks.
- As discussed and linked below, the OS bundled with the PC does play DVDs and mp3s. I saw no specific mention of Flash; but I can't imagine how the YouTube icon would work without it.
- It certainly does, with an icon on the desktop!
Looks like, for anyone with always-on internet, this should provide all the basics.If 5 free HD-DVDs are included, the media price is less of an issue.
The problem I see is the price of HDTVs, without which HD-DVD is pointless. Except for a few small, cheap models, most of the ones I see on walmart.com are $500 and up. This as opposed to SDTV digital TVs, many of which are under $200.
Sort of. Kmart died and was reborn as a cheap sales outlet for Sears.
I happen to know from Wikipedia that a gallon of gasoline contains about 40 kWh of energy. So let's get started.
.4 = 9.71 MWh/acre/day
40 kg/acre/day = 40 gallon/acre/day = 40*40kWh/acre/day = 1.6MWh/acre/day
Now, let's compare to concentrating solar power (CSP) and electrolysis.
1 acre = 4046 m^2
During the sunny part of the day, 6 hours, you get roughly 1 kW/m^2*6h = 6 kWh/day/m^2
6 kWh/day/m^2 * 4046 m^2/acre = 24.276 MWh/acre/day
CSP is up to about 40% efficient.
24.276 MWh/acre/day *
Now, electrolysis is up to about 80% efficient. (50% figures are generally for electricity-H2-electricity end-to-end efficiency.) So, 9.71 MWh/acre/day*.8 = 7,770 kWh/acre/day
Thus, CSP gets you up to almost 5 times the hydrogen per acre. For algae, that's really not bad, if they can do it.
One more thing: at best, CSP is expected to cost 10 cents/kWh. So, let's find a cost per kg H2 = $ per gallon of gasoline.
40 kWh/kg / 80% efficiency = 50 kWh electricity/kg*$.1/kWh = $5/kg.
How much will the algae hydrogen cost?
I always preferred Elm to Pine. To put an un-bloated way, vi is to emacs as Elm is to Pine.
Yes...until the gyroscopes wear out and stop spinning, requiring either other gyroscopes or thrusters to maintain orientation. Gyroscopes are best for pointing satellites that have to change orientation frequently, like Hubble. For comm satellites that should theoretically stay in one orientation all the time, thrusters are simpler and lighter.
Here we go again. FYI, a gallon of gasoline contains 36.6 KWh (kilowatt-hours) of energy (converted from Wikipedia's MJ/liter). Of course, gasoline engines are only about 30% efficient, so about 10 KWh/gallon isn't a bad estimate.
.3 KW panel over 8 hours obviously produces 2.4 KWh. That's 1/4 gallon of gasoline per day - about 75 cents at current prices. Not an awful lot.
Now,
This Chinese police. You under arrest for around going Great Firewall. Please to turn self in at nearest station.
Oops! Forgot to post anonymously, dangit!
Both Google and Babelfish translate "CIA" as "the company". Hmmm...
I just un-did.
Scary thing is, nobody noticed this for two days!
The camera in question was a Canon PowerShot. I looked them up online, and they only record movies in Motion JPEG format, which creates really huge files; something like 10MB per second. They also record only onto memory cards.
Even with the largest memory card I could find online, a 32GB card, no more than an hour of video could be recorded at that rate. And this teenager certainly didn't have a card that big; they cost more than the camera!
Basically, this is a digital camera that can take short movies; not a "camcorder".
I'm pretty sure that a convex, clear plastic dome coated with an infrared-reflecting material could be put over the mirrors, so they would concentrate light, but not heat.
You laugh...but actually, we do have carbon nanotube transistors! So, yes, we actually could make an all-carbon computer!
I'm not sure this would work; GreaseMonkey only works *after* a page is loaded. What you need is your own web proxy, like proximodo, to do the fix before it gets to your browser.