Solar panels do not produce more energy in their lifetime than it takes to build them. Think of them instead as a battery of sorts. Which is exactly what a fuel cell is supposed to be - a battery and nothing more. The idea is that while cars have a relatively efficient engine, you can get better efficiency from a power plant. Use that energy from the plant to produce hydrogen (again, a very efficient process) and you have the energy to run your car with. Solar panels and fuel cells are targeted at the same problem - getting energy to the car. The big problem with hydrogen burning cars right now is the STORAGE, not the production of hydrogen. It is hard to store hydrogen in a non volatile, dense way. But the theoretical upper limit is so far out there, that people are talking about buying a car with a fuel cell in it and never refilling it during the entire life of the car because it has so much energy in it. That's what the big thing is with fuel cells. Imagine no gas stations, ever again.
Well I am not an amatuer (IANAA) but I think that being an amatuer is a lot more complicated than that. You have to know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to really know what you're doing. You have to talk down to people and arrogantly believe that you are funny / insightful / interesting / informative. You have to think that even though you aren't a professional at what you are talking about, and that professionals of that type do post on slashdot, that your amatuer opinion somehow matters. Also, The mods give you points for it.
And so what happens if I decide to send out spam that links to URL http://www.dina.kvl.dk? It looks up the IP address, and blocks it. Then everything that you ever send will be blacklisted. Go get a new host.
Your suggested technique would be exploited by script kiddies everywhere (who already have access to large zombie networks) to basically ban someone from the internet. What a fantastic idea.
Seriously what are you talking about? A 555 timer is a great little cheap chip. The HC series of microcontrollers cost upwards of 100$ a pop. I doubt the chips cost a cent each if bought in bulk. Just look at it in froogle - you can buy individual ones for 50 cents. I defy you to find a microcontroller at that price, or 10x that price. Maybe at 100x time price you will be getting somewhere.
The suggestion that people should be required to buy active power production (like solar panels, etc.) Is simply ridiculous and would never fly in the united states. What can happen is for regulations to require better energy effeciency. Better refrigerators, better cars, better tv's and monitors, better windows, better insulation, and better furnaces. It is a simple fact that when you do things big they tend to be more effecient - the bigger the power plant, the more effecient the power production is. Forcing everyone to do it small is not the way to encourage energy effeciency. It is simply green rhetoric getting out of control - lots and lots of small power generators are nowhere near as effecient as a couple big ones. Personally if I ever build a house I'll go all out on the passive energy efficiency, as long as it is economical. But I'm not about to install solar panels when they aren't even energy producers over their entire lifetime, and I'm not sticking a windmill on top of my house either.
I think your second request may be on the chopping block;-) I guess I could make a copy that was all the stuff I took out, which would be the most bizzare and directionless show to ever be made?
Generally the problem is that the TV signal is not worth watching before any compression.
Ah - you have hit upon one of my pet projects. Most tv isn't worth watching at all. Some tv has good parts and bad parts, and this is the best tv you can find. If you could cut out the bad parts of tv episodes, and maybe reorder some scenes or something, you could compress shows down to vastly reduced, and concentrated hits of completely awesome. For example, imagine taking Babylon 5 and cutting enough to get it down to one season? First thing to do is cut out the doctor, who only drags the show down. Next cut out most of the mimbari, because I don't want to see elves in space. Next get rid of half of the episodes completely because they are throwaway filler. Get rid of the 5th season because there was a fifth season??? Splice in some of the movies and cut down the scenes, and you would have one intense viewing experience. So as you can see, sometimes shows are only worth watching after compression!
Heh this is slightly tangential but drawing while chatting reminds me of something we used to do when I played a lot of FPS's. We'd get a group of friends together and go on yahoo pictionary, all get on teamspeak, and then all join the same table. Some poor suckers would also join, and whenever one of us had to draw, we'd draw something either disgusting, sexual, completely inappropriate, or just different (like drawing a banana for "Richard Nixon"). Then after a bit we'd tell our teammates and they'd guess it correctly, leading to much confusion on other people's part and much laughter on our own. But anyway I agree that being able to draw something would be a great addition to any IM - some things are described SO MUCH easier with a drawing than with words. Also we could play telephone pictionary on aim.
I think you have to relook at your response to this article. The word rearchitected is definitely a word, because any word with re in front of has been reworded to rebecome a new word that remeans "to redo the thing again." Really the only thing reholding people back from regrowing the reEnglish language is people relike you who rewon't relet us reuse words relike we rewant!
Where, exactly did I say that you were attacking me? Maybe you read it into what I wrote, but you are the one that has a problem with you attacking me. What you just wrote is the equivilant of me saying "muskrats live in extensive burrow systems," and you turning around and saying "but there's nothing wrong with living in extensive burrow systems if you are a muskrat!"
Where, exactly did I say that Earthlink was doing something wrong? Maybe you read it into what I wrote, but you are the one that has a problem with corporate profit then. What you just wrote is the equivilant of me saying "rabbits live in holes in the ground" and you turning around and saying "but there's nothing wrong with living in a hole in the ground if you are a rabbit!"
I'm sorry I didn't realize that my license to change jokes around a little had been revoked! I'll immediately report to the nearest Fanatically Unchanging Quotes Station (FUQS), you can bet. Don't worry, from now on I will only parrot formulaic jokes that we can laugh at for all time without ever doing something new!
"We believe that if people keep needing more bandwidth, Earthlink will flourish." Earthlink is an ISP, and this is entirely for their own benefit. If more people are using file sharing, then they need more bandwidth to do it. If everyone buys more bandwidth, then the value of the internet is much greater (because it is proportional to connectedness). Then Earthlink gets more money. so you might even say:
1 - Release new P2P program
2 - Everyone needs more bandwidth
3 - People buy more bandwidth
4 - Profit!!!
5 - Internet flourishes kind of or something.
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They've always used two fluids - motor oil and rubbing alcohol, depending on the part of the robot body.
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a robotic dog would be quite a bit less effective in attracting ladies.
You are missing the point. Nobody is saying that science can replace religion. The previous poster's point was that the Christian faith in particular requires an attitude that is directly in opposition to the scientific process.
Only if you have to take the Bible literally. For example the Roman Catholic church reformed in the 60's to become much more liberal by normal Christian attitudes. Basically they say that if the Bible says "the Earth is flat" and then someone proves that it isn't, then the Bible was wrong. That's ok because it doesn't have to be taken for literal truth, or maybe someone messed up copying things along the way, or whatever. I have a fundamentalist geologist friend and he said "due to the abundance of evidence I can only say that the Earth is several billion years old." (I forget if it is billion or billions, sorry). Some religions and people are anti-science. But don't assume that Christians are all as shallow as you make them out to be. To semi-quote Neil Stephenson in Snowcrash - "Most smart people come to realize that 90% of the Bible is crap. The problem is they assume that the whole thing is crap, when that 10% is very important."
That said, I this is Microsoft and their legal actions have rarely been that benign in the past.
You seem to be confusing them with some other company like SCO or something. I don't like microsoft and its products, but MS doesn't just go around suing everyone. Instead they tend to do whatever they want and then try to defend it later in court, after they have a market behind them. Kneejerk Microsoft bashing at its finest.
Bugtraq is almost always ahead of microsoft where it comes to vulnerabilities in their software. Why in the world would I pay Microsoft to tell me what might be wrong tomorrow when bugtraq will tell me what's wrong today? Does anyone have an experience where MS came out with vulnerabilities first?
Another band that does this is The Advantage - they have lots of older Nintendo games done with instruments instead of synth. The Duck Takes game song brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it:-D
I understand that it isn't about competition, but why not use the score to give some sort of indication as to how well people can guess? Right now the score at the end is useless, but with a better scoring system you could have a rough guess as to how good people are at guessing with a single number!
I think a better way to look at this is to say "is this the future of radio." Instead of the broad sweeping "...future of digital music." Ultimately the RIAA doesn't like things like this, but clearchannel must be sweating hard. They can see the chopping block, and maybe someday their head will go on it. Same thing goes for virgin records stores, sam goody, etc. The whole distribution network is getting beat up.
It is amazing that you write a rant about how people don't understand numbers and then your sig is 2 + 2 = 5 (For extremely large values of 2) . Joking aside, you're running into the "big number" problem. Once numbers get past a certain point, people can't conceptualize them. A trillion may be a million million, but to someone who makes $30k/year, it is just a lot. I just don't think we're wired to understand what that much money really represents.
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Why not just wait for the nearest raincloud to transport your water to you?
Solar panels do not produce more energy in their lifetime than it takes to build them. Think of them instead as a battery of sorts. Which is exactly what a fuel cell is supposed to be - a battery and nothing more. The idea is that while cars have a relatively efficient engine, you can get better efficiency from a power plant. Use that energy from the plant to produce hydrogen (again, a very efficient process) and you have the energy to run your car with. Solar panels and fuel cells are targeted at the same problem - getting energy to the car. The big problem with hydrogen burning cars right now is the STORAGE, not the production of hydrogen. It is hard to store hydrogen in a non volatile, dense way. But the theoretical upper limit is so far out there, that people are talking about buying a car with a fuel cell in it and never refilling it during the entire life of the car because it has so much energy in it. That's what the big thing is with fuel cells. Imagine no gas stations, ever again.
Well I am not an amatuer (IANAA) but I think that being an amatuer is a lot more complicated than that. You have to know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to really know what you're doing. You have to talk down to people and arrogantly believe that you are funny / insightful / interesting / informative. You have to think that even though you aren't a professional at what you are talking about, and that professionals of that type do post on slashdot, that your amatuer opinion somehow matters. Also, The mods give you points for it.
And so what happens if I decide to send out spam that links to URL http://www.dina.kvl.dk? It looks up the IP address, and blocks it. Then everything that you ever send will be blacklisted. Go get a new host.
Your suggested technique would be exploited by script kiddies everywhere (who already have access to large zombie networks) to basically ban someone from the internet. What a fantastic idea.
Seriously what are you talking about? A 555 timer is a great little cheap chip. The HC series of microcontrollers cost upwards of 100$ a pop. I doubt the chips cost a cent each if bought in bulk. Just look at it in froogle - you can buy individual ones for 50 cents. I defy you to find a microcontroller at that price, or 10x that price. Maybe at 100x time price you will be getting somewhere.
The suggestion that people should be required to buy active power production (like solar panels, etc.) Is simply ridiculous and would never fly in the united states. What can happen is for regulations to require better energy effeciency. Better refrigerators, better cars, better tv's and monitors, better windows, better insulation, and better furnaces. It is a simple fact that when you do things big they tend to be more effecient - the bigger the power plant, the more effecient the power production is. Forcing everyone to do it small is not the way to encourage energy effeciency. It is simply green rhetoric getting out of control - lots and lots of small power generators are nowhere near as effecient as a couple big ones. Personally if I ever build a house I'll go all out on the passive energy efficiency, as long as it is economical. But I'm not about to install solar panels when they aren't even energy producers over their entire lifetime, and I'm not sticking a windmill on top of my house either.
I think your second request may be on the chopping block ;-) I guess I could make a copy that was all the stuff I took out, which would be the most bizzare and directionless show to ever be made?
Generally the problem is that the TV signal is not worth watching before any compression.
Ah - you have hit upon one of my pet projects. Most tv isn't worth watching at all. Some tv has good parts and bad parts, and this is the best tv you can find. If you could cut out the bad parts of tv episodes, and maybe reorder some scenes or something, you could compress shows down to vastly reduced, and concentrated hits of completely awesome. For example, imagine taking Babylon 5 and cutting enough to get it down to one season? First thing to do is cut out the doctor, who only drags the show down. Next cut out most of the mimbari, because I don't want to see elves in space. Next get rid of half of the episodes completely because they are throwaway filler. Get rid of the 5th season because there was a fifth season??? Splice in some of the movies and cut down the scenes, and you would have one intense viewing experience. So as you can see, sometimes shows are only worth watching after compression!
Heh this is slightly tangential but drawing while chatting reminds me of something we used to do when I played a lot of FPS's. We'd get a group of friends together and go on yahoo pictionary, all get on teamspeak, and then all join the same table. Some poor suckers would also join, and whenever one of us had to draw, we'd draw something either disgusting, sexual, completely inappropriate, or just different (like drawing a banana for "Richard Nixon"). Then after a bit we'd tell our teammates and they'd guess it correctly, leading to much confusion on other people's part and much laughter on our own. But anyway I agree that being able to draw something would be a great addition to any IM - some things are described SO MUCH easier with a drawing than with words. Also we could play telephone pictionary on aim.
I think you have to relook at your response to this article. The word rearchitected is definitely a word, because any word with re in front of has been reworded to rebecome a new word that remeans "to redo the thing again." Really the only thing reholding people back from regrowing the reEnglish language is people relike you who rewon't relet us reuse words relike we rewant!
Settle down, partner. I wasn't attacking you.
Where, exactly did I say that you were attacking me? Maybe you read it into what I wrote, but you are the one that has a problem with you attacking me. What you just wrote is the equivilant of me saying "muskrats live in extensive burrow systems," and you turning around and saying "but there's nothing wrong with living in extensive burrow systems if you are a muskrat!"
Where, exactly did I say that Earthlink was doing something wrong? Maybe you read it into what I wrote, but you are the one that has a problem with corporate profit then. What you just wrote is the equivilant of me saying "rabbits live in holes in the ground" and you turning around and saying "but there's nothing wrong with living in a hole in the ground if you are a rabbit!"
I'm sorry I didn't realize that my license to change jokes around a little had been revoked! I'll immediately report to the nearest Fanatically Unchanging Quotes Station (FUQS), you can bet. Don't worry, from now on I will only parrot formulaic jokes that we can laugh at for all time without ever doing something new!
"We believe that if people keep needing more bandwidth, Earthlink will flourish." Earthlink is an ISP, and this is entirely for their own benefit. If more people are using file sharing, then they need more bandwidth to do it. If everyone buys more bandwidth, then the value of the internet is much greater (because it is proportional to connectedness). Then Earthlink gets more money. so you might even say:
1 - Release new P2P program
2 - Everyone needs more bandwidth
3 - People buy more bandwidth
4 - Profit!!!
5 - Internet flourishes kind of or something.
They've always used two fluids - motor oil and rubbing alcohol, depending on the part of the robot body.
a robotic dog would be quite a bit less effective in attracting ladies.
What about robot ladies??? Rowr!
You are missing the point. Nobody is saying that science can replace religion. The previous poster's point was that the Christian faith in particular requires an attitude that is directly in opposition to the scientific process.
Only if you have to take the Bible literally. For example the Roman Catholic church reformed in the 60's to become much more liberal by normal Christian attitudes. Basically they say that if the Bible says "the Earth is flat" and then someone proves that it isn't, then the Bible was wrong. That's ok because it doesn't have to be taken for literal truth, or maybe someone messed up copying things along the way, or whatever. I have a fundamentalist geologist friend and he said "due to the abundance of evidence I can only say that the Earth is several billion years old." (I forget if it is billion or billions, sorry). Some religions and people are anti-science. But don't assume that Christians are all as shallow as you make them out to be. To semi-quote Neil Stephenson in Snowcrash - "Most smart people come to realize that 90% of the Bible is crap. The problem is they assume that the whole thing is crap, when that 10% is very important."
That said, I this is Microsoft and their legal actions have rarely been that benign in the past.
You seem to be confusing them with some other company like SCO or something. I don't like microsoft and its products, but MS doesn't just go around suing everyone. Instead they tend to do whatever they want and then try to defend it later in court, after they have a market behind them. Kneejerk Microsoft bashing at its finest.
Are you suggesting that wind turbines should be run in reverse to store up wind power in our atmosphere???
Using the AT command to set a fire 40 miles off? Or has it just been too long a day at work? My office has been regularly swept for mines.
Bugtraq is almost always ahead of microsoft where it comes to vulnerabilities in their software. Why in the world would I pay Microsoft to tell me what might be wrong tomorrow when bugtraq will tell me what's wrong today? Does anyone have an experience where MS came out with vulnerabilities first?
Another band that does this is The Advantage - they have lots of older Nintendo games done with instruments instead of synth. The Duck Takes game song brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it :-D
I understand that it isn't about competition, but why not use the score to give some sort of indication as to how well people can guess? Right now the score at the end is useless, but with a better scoring system you could have a rough guess as to how good people are at guessing with a single number!
I think a better way to look at this is to say "is this the future of radio." Instead of the broad sweeping "...future of digital music." Ultimately the RIAA doesn't like things like this, but clearchannel must be sweating hard. They can see the chopping block, and maybe someday their head will go on it. Same thing goes for virgin records stores, sam goody, etc. The whole distribution network is getting beat up.
It is amazing that you write a rant about how people don't understand numbers and then your sig is 2 + 2 = 5 (For extremely large values of 2) . Joking aside, you're running into the "big number" problem. Once numbers get past a certain point, people can't conceptualize them. A trillion may be a million million, but to someone who makes $30k/year, it is just a lot. I just don't think we're wired to understand what that much money really represents.