missing one minor problem... unless you're fusing it (in which case you've more dangerous things to worry about than a tank of hydrogen, things like a million-degree plasma to keep stable) you're gonna have to put as much energy in at point of use as you're going to get out of it, so you'll actually be running on whatever other power source you're using.
Of course, if you simply want to move hydrogen from one place to another water is very stable, but a large percentage of the mass that you're transporting is actually 'useless' oxygen, 4/5 of it, infact, there's only 200kg of hydrogen in each metric tonne (ish)
Actually Germany was one of the few countries (if not the only country) that didn't properly use it's available female workforce - everyone else did.
Children-Kitchen-Church. There's no 'War Factory' in there and that's how it was kept. Certainly married women were kept out of the factories.
Actually, Admiral Yamamoto predicted only 6 months of victory if Japan started a war with the US. 6 months later, Japan was on the back foot. Unfortunately, Admiral Yamamoto wasn't the one making the decision to go to war.
[posts under real name]
I'm not implying that the court IS corrupt, but that it's by no means a foolproof method of removing abuse - only recently, here in the UK, have we had a bunch of cases overturned because the judge presiding over them wasn't unbiased (he had a tendancy to believe that people had done it, were coming up with pathetic excuses and so took to laughing their arguments off or cutting them off mid sentence) Now, what's to say that it won't go before a judge who really hates peadophiles and so hands a warrant over to any officer who happens to include 'possible peadophile' in the reasons for their request?
Never trust that anyone in authority will always do the right thing, that goes for the judicary too.
yep. Crikey! Some futuristic Tony Robinson CLXIV is gonna get the fright of his life when he digs up bags of silicone with a body!
Enter Phil Harding CLXII: "Well To-ney, we've got an expert in [camera pans to an android with a large fake beard] and he thinks they're some sort of riualistic grave goods, To-ney!"
I don't know about anyone else but when I see a police car when I'm driving, I do the 'and I doing anything illegal' thing, then the 'am I speeding' thing, and then I spend the next 10 seconds driving with that going through my head instead of concentrating on the road - which is extremely dangerous.
Ditto for speed cameras. Actually, they're different. As you may know, here in the UK we probably have more speed cameras than police officers, and whenever you go past one (or see one) you either cover, or actually press (quite possibly without looking in the mirror), your brake, which causes everyone behind you to do so likewise. You also look at your speedometer, and keep glancing back at it until you're out of range, and with that, and the worrying about the speed limit (what the heck IS the speed limit on this road? [we don't have signs to tell you over here, you have to be psychic to drive]) you're actually MORE likely to have an accident.
I knew I should have gone down to the patent office instantly!
My idea was to hand out copies of Diablo to the kids (possibly over the summer) and then give them all copies of Jarulf's Guide and set question such as what the probability of finding a specific unique item in one complete single player game, from a unique monster is. Requiring maths skills and the ability to locate and use the information given in the guide
even better. Give everyone who's been screwed by whatever big, evil, megacorp it is this week a samurai sword, chuck a few flash grenades into the company HQ and let them run riot.
ah, but with the PS2 plenty of people will have ALREADY run a net connection to where their TV's are - it's a long-term strategy and VERY cunning, a cunning almost worthy of Baldrick!
"The PS crushed the N64 because it had great games"
eh? the PS had MORE games, and all the sheep went "ooh, more games available, I'll get that!" and got a PS, whereas those of us with some sense who had a play around with the consoles first got an N64, why? the games were BETTER - as a supplement to a PC the N64 was far better. You didn't need more than Goldeneye, Super Smash Brothers, F-Zero X and Mario Kart to keep you happy - why do you think so many people got mod chips and had loads of copied games? either because they're spend-happy idiots who don't play a game to death before getting another or because a lot of those games that they had weren't worth playing or finished being worth playing quickly. I'll agree that it was cheaper to produce for, but that also created an expectation of lots of games and customary slashing of budgets.
The N64 controller made more sense too. For the PS you had to learn where all the shapes were when the instructions told you to press triangle. Up-D is far better, the D pad is the top right, up is the top one, what could simpler?
Anyway, back to the original point, if you can't afford much more than the console you're going to go for the one which you can get 'free' games for, especially as many people have a tendancy to want a large library for the sake of having a large library, I know it was an urge that I had to resist, although I still used to look at my 8-10 games thinking "hmm, that's quite a decent collection of games" but knowing full well that I only ever played ~half of them.
I like this new axiom:
"An AI is only as smart as the person who programmed it"
Which also explains why the single player on Blizzard's strategy games is so dire... Ohh, look, it can rush!
Indeed, a concerted effort on a wikibook, which would be checked over by professional (whatever subject)ists before being turned into a digitally signed.pdf (to prevent tampering and inserting false information) et voila! free textbooks.
Writing a traditional textbook is limited to ~ 4 authors because it'd just be too hard to track otherwise, so when you're expecting on average 250 pages from each person you couldn't really ask them to do it for free. On a project like wikibooks, however, you can get contributions from hundreds of people (for example, one member of academic staff from each university in the UK contributing to a particular subject and you've got 10 pages each, maximum, for a 1000 page textbook). I'm still studying for my degree, but I'd be happy to draw diagrams for such a project (for instance).
Now that'd be useful and since many of the people writing it would be the people teaching it they'd know of it's existence, rather than giving their students overpriced reading lists.
To your original point about people being willing to accept DRM if it's priced low enough, what you forget is that the demographic of purchasers here is 90% made up of people capable of doing a degree, not 90% people who get music on iTunes using an iMac, stick it on their iPod and it just iWorks quite possibly without them even knowing about the iDRM on it - frankly I think it'll be harder to fob students off (although considering the apathetic bunch that most students are they'll just appear on/. and grumble about it)
I can see our court system is going down the swanny. How can they justifiably confiscate a laptop that may be used many other things (for all we know his kids could do their homework on it) as part of the punishment - that's not a £500 fine, that's a £1500 fine not including the value of the data on it.
It's like customs confiscating people's cars for having brought too much wine home with them from France - £12,000 fine and the inconvenience of not having a car for the next decade for bringing back too much alchohol.
Or they'd be in my library records and find out that I got Applied Cryptography out of the uni library the other day and then I'd be for it -if I'm interested in cryptography, I MUST have something to hide...
Seriously, what's the point of encrypting something if it's a criminal offence to not decrypt it when someone asks you to?
"As much as I detest the house of lords, they have actually strongly opposed laws that go to far with removing civil rights."
Exactly. The house of lords is a bad system since all the positions are either appointed or hereditary, but we need them there because without them Tony and his cronies in the commons would have got all sorts of dangerous rubbish through, it's just a by voting something through twice anyway.
Not that the lords will be making much difference anymore, what with all the appointments effectively being made by Tony
perhaps you should have a "if you are a telemarketer press 1" message (and all the other ones for various other call destinations). Then, when they press "1" you've got them!
"Please hold while we transfer you to the call handling system"
*cheesy music*
"Please hold. You are in a queue. We value your call and it's potential to offer us a great deal.
*cheesy music*
"You are now connected to the incoming call system - please hold"
*cheesy music*
"If you would like to talk to a human being press 1"
"Thankyou for you interest. Please hold while we transfer you to the call spooler"
*cheesy music*
"All call-lines are currently in use, please hold until one becomes open. We value your call"
*cheesy music*
"You have been transferred to the call spooling system. Please hold"
*cheesy music*
"You have been indentified as a telemarketer. Calls from telemarketers are prevented from direct contact to prevent abuse. Press 1 to leave a message"
"Thankyou for opting to leave a message. We will now transfer you to the messaging system. Please hold."
*cheesy music*
"Welcome to the messaging system. To record your message press 1"
"Please hold while we format the message-space"
*cheesy music*
"Please leave your message after the fifteenth beep"
beep.beep.beep.beep.beep.beep.beep.beep.beep.bee p.beep.beep.beep.beep.beep
(1 second pause)
beep.
"You didn't leave a a message. We are now transferring you to the call handling system"
ad infinitum. If you can get a premium rate number, all the better.
I only had 1 book to buy this year. (1st year physics). It cost £50 (~$80). Appeal to academics:
Will you PLEASE stop having required texts that cost so much. Here's what you do:
1) Addison Wesley sends you a sample textbook and asks if you'd like to recommend it as your text, and if not, why not.
2) You write back that you have NO intention of recommending a textbook that costs so much and suggest something reasonable ([Cost of production +£10] +10%).
3) textbook prices plummet (hopefully, if enough universities do it).
Now, whilst you're waiting for the price drop you make sure that your lectures cover everything that will be examined and you make your notes available to anyone who wants them. If people need to check something or see a different explanation they can either a) ask their tutor, that's what tutors are for. b)use one of the (wide but small) selection of textbooks in the library.
Affluent students: don't buy textbooks either, that's just proping the publishing companies up against a price drop.
sadly, "Because your giving me an order to do it wouldn't get me off the hook on a war crimes charge" isn't acceptable in a court martial. You lose either way.
until people start making little boxes to plug into the line which give the computer a fake signal as to what monitor it is when the computer enquires?
maybe, but it's like no tax you've ever seen before (except perhaps the window tax). Everyone pays the same amount. They pay it ever year, IF they own a TV. Infact, it's more like paying for a subscription to the BBC's channels, it's just that you don't have a choice if you want to own a telly. Oh, and the more 'senior' members of society still have to have a licence, they just don't pay for them (in which case they're not being taxed)
what? one layer of encryption? they're hardly going to make it as weak as that. They used:
Rot26>Rot13>Rot13>Rot26>Rot7>Rot13>Rot6>Rot26>Rot1 3>Rot2>Rot11
algorithms, in that order. No-one's gonna break through that
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another humorous fake: http://www.cambridge.ac/">The University of Different Studies
missing one minor problem... unless you're fusing it (in which case you've more dangerous things to worry about than a tank of hydrogen, things like a million-degree plasma to keep stable) you're gonna have to put as much energy in at point of use as you're going to get out of it, so you'll actually be running on whatever other power source you're using.
Of course, if you simply want to move hydrogen from one place to another water is very stable, but a large percentage of the mass that you're transporting is actually 'useless' oxygen, 4/5 of it, infact, there's only 200kg of hydrogen in each metric tonne (ish)
Actually Germany was one of the few countries (if not the only country) that didn't properly use it's available female workforce - everyone else did.
Children-Kitchen-Church. There's no 'War Factory' in there and that's how it was kept. Certainly married women were kept out of the factories.
Actually, Admiral Yamamoto predicted only 6 months of victory if Japan started a war with the US. 6 months later, Japan was on the back foot.
Unfortunately, Admiral Yamamoto wasn't the one making the decision to go to war.
[posts under real name]
I'm not implying that the court IS corrupt, but that it's by no means a foolproof method of removing abuse - only recently, here in the UK, have we had a bunch of cases overturned because the judge presiding over them wasn't unbiased (he had a tendancy to believe that people had done it, were coming up with pathetic excuses and so took to laughing their arguments off or cutting them off mid sentence) Now, what's to say that it won't go before a judge who really hates peadophiles and so hands a warrant over to any officer who happens to include 'possible peadophile' in the reasons for their request?
Never trust that anyone in authority will always do the right thing, that goes for the judicary too.
yep. Crikey! Some futuristic Tony Robinson CLXIV is gonna get the fright of his life when he digs up bags of silicone with a body!
Enter Phil Harding CLXII: "Well To-ney, we've got an expert in [camera pans to an android with a large fake beard] and he thinks they're some sort of riualistic grave goods, To-ney!"
I don't know about anyone else but when I see a police car when I'm driving, I do the 'and I doing anything illegal' thing, then the 'am I speeding' thing, and then I spend the next 10 seconds driving with that going through my head instead of concentrating on the road - which is extremely dangerous.
Ditto for speed cameras. Actually, they're different. As you may know, here in the UK we probably have more speed cameras than police officers, and whenever you go past one (or see one) you either cover, or actually press (quite possibly without looking in the mirror), your brake, which causes everyone behind you to do so likewise. You also look at your speedometer, and keep glancing back at it until you're out of range, and with that, and the worrying about the speed limit (what the heck IS the speed limit on this road? [we don't have signs to tell you over here, you have to be psychic to drive]) you're actually MORE likely to have an accident.
I knew I should have gone down to the patent office instantly!
My idea was to hand out copies of Diablo to the kids (possibly over the summer) and then give them all copies of Jarulf's Guide and set question such as what the probability of finding a specific unique item in one complete single player game, from a unique monster is. Requiring maths skills and the ability to locate and use the information given in the guide
even better. Give everyone who's been screwed by whatever big, evil, megacorp it is this week a samurai sword, chuck a few flash grenades into the company HQ and let them run riot.
ah, but with the PS2 plenty of people will have ALREADY run a net connection to where their TV's are - it's a long-term strategy and VERY cunning, a cunning almost worthy of Baldrick!
"The PS crushed the N64 because it had great games"
eh? the PS had MORE games, and all the sheep went "ooh, more games available, I'll get that!" and got a PS, whereas those of us with some sense who had a play around with the consoles first got an N64, why? the games were BETTER - as a supplement to a PC the N64 was far better. You didn't need more than Goldeneye, Super Smash Brothers, F-Zero X and Mario Kart to keep you happy - why do you think so many people got mod chips and had loads of copied games? either because they're spend-happy idiots who don't play a game to death before getting another or because a lot of those games that they had weren't worth playing or finished being worth playing quickly. I'll agree that it was cheaper to produce for, but that also created an expectation of lots of games and customary slashing of budgets.
The N64 controller made more sense too. For the PS you had to learn where all the shapes were when the instructions told you to press triangle. Up-D is far better, the D pad is the top right, up is the top one, what could simpler?
Anyway, back to the original point, if you can't afford much more than the console you're going to go for the one which you can get 'free' games for, especially as many people have a tendancy to want a large library for the sake of having a large library, I know it was an urge that I had to resist, although I still used to look at my 8-10 games thinking "hmm, that's quite a decent collection of games" but knowing full well that I only ever played ~half of them.
I like this new axiom:
"An AI is only as smart as the person who programmed it"
Which also explains why the single player on Blizzard's strategy games is so dire... Ohh, look, it can rush!
Indeed, a concerted effort on a wikibook, which would be checked over by professional (whatever subject)ists before being turned into a digitally signed .pdf (to prevent tampering and inserting false information) et voila! free textbooks.
/. and grumble about it)
Writing a traditional textbook is limited to ~ 4 authors because it'd just be too hard to track otherwise, so when you're expecting on average 250 pages from each person you couldn't really ask them to do it for free. On a project like wikibooks, however, you can get contributions from hundreds of people (for example, one member of academic staff from each university in the UK contributing to a particular subject and you've got 10 pages each, maximum, for a 1000 page textbook). I'm still studying for my degree, but I'd be happy to draw diagrams for such a project (for instance).
Now that'd be useful and since many of the people writing it would be the people teaching it they'd know of it's existence, rather than giving their students overpriced reading lists.
To your original point about people being willing to accept DRM if it's priced low enough, what you forget is that the demographic of purchasers here is 90% made up of people capable of doing a degree, not 90% people who get music on iTunes using an iMac, stick it on their iPod and it just iWorks quite possibly without them even knowing about the iDRM on it - frankly I think it'll be harder to fob students off (although considering the apathetic bunch that most students are they'll just appear on
the patent office didn't said that they would never give a patent for such a device, they simply require that it's submitted with a working prototype
Sealand,
of course, the US would have little difficulty invading it if they so desired, but to do so they'd be operating in British waters.
I can see our court system is going down the swanny. How can they justifiably confiscate a laptop that may be used many other things (for all we know his kids could do their homework on it) as part of the punishment - that's not a £500 fine, that's a £1500 fine not including the value of the data on it.
It's like customs confiscating people's cars for having brought too much wine home with them from France - £12,000 fine and the inconvenience of not having a car for the next decade for bringing back too much alchohol.
Since when did Britain do draconian?
Notice anything about their expected demographic?
I'm suprised there's no HRH and 'Bill Gates' options
Or they'd be in my library records and find out that I got Applied Cryptography out of the uni library the other day and then I'd be for it -if I'm interested in cryptography, I MUST have something to hide...
Seriously, what's the point of encrypting something if it's a criminal offence to not decrypt it when someone asks you to?
Eep! gotta go - cruise missi....NO SIGNAL
"As much as I detest the house of lords, they have actually strongly opposed laws that go to far with removing civil rights."
Exactly. The house of lords is a bad system since all the positions are either appointed or hereditary, but we need them there because without them Tony and his cronies in the commons would have got all sorts of dangerous rubbish through, it's just a by voting something through twice anyway.
Not that the lords will be making much difference anymore, what with all the appointments effectively being made by Tony
perhaps you should have a "if you are a telemarketer press 1" message (and all the other ones for various other call destinations). Then, when they press "1" you've got them!e p.beep.beep.beep.beep.beep
"Please hold while we transfer you to the call handling system"
*cheesy music*
"Please hold. You are in a queue. We value your call and it's potential to offer us a great deal.
*cheesy music*
"You are now connected to the incoming call system - please hold"
*cheesy music*
"If you would like to talk to a human being press 1"
"Thankyou for you interest. Please hold while we transfer you to the call spooler"
*cheesy music*
"All call-lines are currently in use, please hold until one becomes open. We value your call"
*cheesy music*
"You have been transferred to the call spooling system. Please hold"
*cheesy music*
"You have been indentified as a telemarketer. Calls from telemarketers are prevented from direct contact to prevent abuse. Press 1 to leave a message"
"Thankyou for opting to leave a message. We will now transfer you to the messaging system. Please hold."
*cheesy music*
"Welcome to the messaging system. To record your message press 1"
"Please hold while we format the message-space"
*cheesy music*
"Please leave your message after the fifteenth beep"
beep.beep.beep.beep.beep.beep.beep.beep.beep.be
(1 second pause)
beep.
"You didn't leave a a message. We are now transferring you to the call handling system"
ad infinitum. If you can get a premium rate number, all the better.
I only had 1 book to buy this year. (1st year physics). It cost £50 (~$80). Appeal to academics:
Will you PLEASE stop having required texts that cost so much. Here's what you do:
1) Addison Wesley sends you a sample textbook and asks if you'd like to recommend it as your text, and if not, why not.
2) You write back that you have NO intention of recommending a textbook that costs so much and suggest something reasonable ([Cost of production +£10] +10%).
3) textbook prices plummet (hopefully, if enough universities do it).
Now, whilst you're waiting for the price drop you make sure that your lectures cover everything that will be examined and you make your notes available to anyone who wants them. If people need to check something or see a different explanation they can either a) ask their tutor, that's what tutors are for. b)use one of the (wide but small) selection of textbooks in the library.
Affluent students: don't buy textbooks either, that's just proping the publishing companies up against a price drop.
sadly, "Because your giving me an order to do it wouldn't get me off the hook on a war crimes charge" isn't acceptable in a court martial. You lose either way.
until people start making little boxes to plug into the line which give the computer a fake signal as to what monitor it is when the computer enquires?
maybe, but it's like no tax you've ever seen before (except perhaps the window tax). Everyone pays the same amount. They pay it ever year, IF they own a TV. Infact, it's more like paying for a subscription to the BBC's channels, it's just that you don't have a choice if you want to own a telly. Oh, and the more 'senior' members of society still have to have a licence, they just don't pay for them (in which case they're not being taxed)
what? one layer of encryption? they're hardly going to make it as weak as that. They used:1 3>Rot2>Rot11
Rot26>Rot13>Rot13>Rot26>Rot7>Rot13>Rot6>Rot26>Rot
algorithms, in that order. No-one's gonna break through that