No, this discovery deals directly with the issue of hydrogen production being endothermic. The point of a fuel cell is to store energy in hydrogen, which is then released in the fuel cell. The issue with hydrogen production being endothermic is that that means it takes more energy to store energy in hydrogen that the amount of energy that is released upon using the hydrogen in a fuel cell. However, with this discovery, the difference between the amount of energy you put into the hydrogen and the amount of energy you get out of it is smaller, resulting in a more efficient process. While this does not solve the issue of hydrogen production being endothermic (which will never be solved) it does improve the situation.
Knowing what a Bangalorian doesn't is an excellent place to start. Thats why I left my job programming for a large defense contractor to come here to Bangalore and see what the hubbub is all about. 6 months after starting a web development group here, I can tell what skills are necessary for American programmers to develop to ensure that they won't lose their jobs to outsourcing. And the solution isn't to "learn to live on $5 per day" as so many on slashdot seem to think. The solution is to figure out what strengths you can offer that someone in Bangalore can't. Then market yourself in those strengths. Simple, proven, effective.
The article doesn't seem to say whether the 84 pounds is built into the backpack, or if you could attach your own substitute 84lb load. If you can use your own load, the deal gets even sweeter for military types.
Someone with a better brain for physics tell me, is it more likely that the electricity is the result of lifting (or lowering, more likely) a generic 84lb load, or do you think you'd be required to lower some specific load of some type of electronics?
My initial guess is the first scenario.
*sigh* Fine. How about this: God himself descends from the heavens and performs a bunch of incontrovertible, literally inexplicable miracles in front of me. That'd probably do it.
Yeah thats pretty much my standard too. How about this: everyone I have ever loved, I have met in person. So if Jesus and/or God wants to love me, why don't they come meet me?
You asked about how evolution works, and from the way you phrased your question, I think you may be looking at it from the wrong angle. It is natural to look back and say "there was some natural hardship, and species X developed a mutation to overcome it. How did it develop that mutation in order to pass it on and evolve?"
My view of evolution is a little different. Instead of looking back at a situation where you know what the hardship is and what "mutation" allowed the species to survive, look forward. Instead of thinking about what "mutations" a species would need to overcome some hardship, think about what variations already exist between members of a species, and what type of hardships might arise that would favor members with that difference over other members of that species. In this light, you see that evolution is not really about a lucky "mutation", its about some pre-existing variance in a species, the importance of which does not become highlighted until the hardship creates a situation where some of that species will die out if they do not have the difference.
The mechanism by which these differences come about is also much simpler and cleaner than proposing some type of "mutating xray beam." These variations are a normal part of sexual reproduction. When you combine the DNA of two creatures, the result is distinct from either creature. If we evolved by mutating radiation, sexual reproduction would actually seem to be a disadvantage - a creature who got "zapped" and had a beneficial mutation could just fertilize itself and produce a new generation of the evolved species.
In the future, evolution may be driven by some difference between you and your neighbor that you fail to see because the importance of that difference has not yet been made clear to you by some hardship.
If you have a steam account, just download the games through steam. No CD needed ever. Which is good for me, I have no idea what happened to the Half Life CD I bought 5 years ago...
I think you didn't understand the point of the study. It did not just look at the difference between exit polls and results. In fact, exit polls had nothing to do with it.
What they did was to look at the increase in votes for Bush on a county by county basis. They saw an overall increase for Bush, and took that in stride. The real issue at hand is that the counties that had electronic voting registered a higher increase in votes for Bush than counties that did not have electronic voting.
They also checked to make sure that this didn't have anything to do with factors such as racial differences between these counties, or differences between the size of the counties. The meat of this study is the fact that the only difference between the counties that had a large increase in the vote for Bush compared to the counties that had a small er increase in the vote for Bush is that the counties that had a large increase in Bush votes more often used electronic votes.
Counties in Florida that registered a large increase in votes for Bush were much more likely to have used electronic voting.
If I get everyone I know to register, and they get everyone they know to register, then eventually everyone will be registered. Getting everyone to vote is a totally different matter.
Could someone please run the posts by a eight year old child
I bet that 8 year old child would also know that nouns beginning with vowels are preceded by "an" not "a".
Lighten up and remember that this doesn't cost you one cent. Why should they provide a higher level of correct grammar than you are willing to use? I really don't understand what makes you think you are entitled to criticize, or why you think anyone cares about the "glitches" you found. If an eight year old child can recognize what was intended, I bet you could too.
What does this have to do with rockets?
That there were two possibilities explaining the presence of the tubes:
1) They were for refining nuclear material
2) They were for launching rockets
Seeing as how the "energy experts" would know a heck of a lot about what materials are necessary for refining nuclear material, I would say they were in a fine position to say whether or not the first option was valid, thereby leaving the second leading option as the most likely use for the rockets.
I think I came across this guy's PDA while I was exploring a Martian excavation site. Apparently all the parts for the system were ordered from Martianbuddy.com
Actually, the article stated that the power consumption vs. performance was squarely in favor of AMD. Under load, the AMD 3500+ used less than 65% of the power that the Intel used, and in addition to that, the Intel was running at 3.4Ghz whereas the AMD was running at a level comparable to an Intel at 3.5 Ghz. Not to mention that the AMD is far cheaper than the corresponding Intel.
Equivalent my ass... this is a cold KO for AMD all around.
That is what I had originally hoped to believe - that our leaders had not intentionally deceived us, that they were simply passing on incorrect information that had been handed to them. Unfortunately, this is not so. It is clearly documented on several occasions how the Bush administration chose to ignore the evidence that several of the key foundations for the war in Iraq were false. For example, before Bush's state of the union address, he had been given a report that showed the supposed yellow cake the Iraqis had attempted to acquire to develop their nuclear program never existed. If you think the Bush administration did nothing more than pass on the false information with which they were provided, please read this House of Representatives document which details instances where the Bush administration made statements supporting the invasion of Iraq which were directly contrary to reports that they had received from the intelligence community.
My experience has been the opposite. I see MS courting several universities, especially those that output top level engineers. Carnegie Mellon and other top universities get a lot more money from Microsoft than the FSF. My school held MS recruitment events several times a year at which recruiters would give away Xboxes and Visual Studio which students then resold for hundreds of dollars. In addition to that, MS supplied VS.NET at very low rates to the CS department to ensure that the next generation of programmers is proficient at.Net but knows as little as possible about Linux.
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No, this discovery deals directly with the issue of hydrogen production being endothermic. The point of a fuel cell is to store energy in hydrogen, which is then released in the fuel cell. The issue with hydrogen production being endothermic is that that means it takes more energy to store energy in hydrogen that the amount of energy that is released upon using the hydrogen in a fuel cell. However, with this discovery, the difference between the amount of energy you put into the hydrogen and the amount of energy you get out of it is smaller, resulting in a more efficient process. While this does not solve the issue of hydrogen production being endothermic (which will never be solved) it does improve the situation.
Knowing what a Bangalorian doesn't is an excellent place to start. Thats why I left my job programming for a large defense contractor to come here to Bangalore and see what the hubbub is all about. 6 months after starting a web development group here, I can tell what skills are necessary for American programmers to develop to ensure that they won't lose their jobs to outsourcing. And the solution isn't to "learn to live on $5 per day" as so many on slashdot seem to think. The solution is to figure out what strengths you can offer that someone in Bangalore can't. Then market yourself in those strengths. Simple, proven, effective.
The article doesn't seem to say whether the 84 pounds is built into the backpack, or if you could attach your own substitute 84lb load. If you can use your own load, the deal gets even sweeter for military types.
Someone with a better brain for physics tell me, is it more likely that the electricity is the result of lifting (or lowering, more likely) a generic 84lb load, or do you think you'd be required to lower some specific load of some type of electronics?
My initial guess is the first scenario.
Yes, I believe it was supposed to read:
...the quality of this season's Hollywood turgid carp.
You asked about how evolution works, and from the way you phrased your question, I think you may be looking at it from the wrong angle. It is natural to look back and say "there was some natural hardship, and species X developed a mutation to overcome it. How did it develop that mutation in order to pass it on and evolve?"
My view of evolution is a little different. Instead of looking back at a situation where you know what the hardship is and what "mutation" allowed the species to survive, look forward. Instead of thinking about what "mutations" a species would need to overcome some hardship, think about what variations already exist between members of a species, and what type of hardships might arise that would favor members with that difference over other members of that species. In this light, you see that evolution is not really about a lucky "mutation", its about some pre-existing variance in a species, the importance of which does not become highlighted until the hardship creates a situation where some of that species will die out if they do not have the difference.
The mechanism by which these differences come about is also much simpler and cleaner than proposing some type of "mutating xray beam." These variations are a normal part of sexual reproduction. When you combine the DNA of two creatures, the result is distinct from either creature. If we evolved by mutating radiation, sexual reproduction would actually seem to be a disadvantage - a creature who got "zapped" and had a beneficial mutation could just fertilize itself and produce a new generation of the evolved species.
In the future, evolution may be driven by some difference between you and your neighbor that you fail to see because the importance of that difference has not yet been made clear to you by some hardship.
USPS != UPS
USPS is United States Postal Service, your friendly neighborhood mom and pop GLOBAL DOMINATION MACHINE
Doesn't compare to the Central Louisiana Institute of Technology
If there were 985 bugs, and they fixed 985 bugs, then my guess is there would be about 0 bugs left...
although, IANAM(athematician)
If you have a steam account, just download the games through steam. No CD needed ever. Which is good for me, I have no idea what happened to the Half Life CD I bought 5 years ago...
I think you didn't understand the point of the study. It did not just look at the difference between exit polls and results. In fact, exit polls had nothing to do with it.
What they did was to look at the increase in votes for Bush on a county by county basis. They saw an overall increase for Bush, and took that in stride. The real issue at hand is that the counties that had electronic voting registered a higher increase in votes for Bush than counties that did not have electronic voting.
They also checked to make sure that this didn't have anything to do with factors such as racial differences between these counties, or differences between the size of the counties. The meat of this study is the fact that the only difference between the counties that had a large increase in the vote for Bush compared to the counties that had a small er increase in the vote for Bush is that the counties that had a large increase in Bush votes more often used electronic votes.
Counties in Florida that registered a large increase in votes for Bush were much more likely to have used electronic voting.
If I get everyone I know to register, and they get everyone they know to register, then eventually everyone will be registered. Getting everyone to vote is a totally different matter.
I bet that 8 year old child would also know that nouns beginning with vowels are preceded by "an" not "a".
Lighten up and remember that this doesn't cost you one cent. Why should they provide a higher level of correct grammar than you are willing to use? I really don't understand what makes you think you are entitled to criticize, or why you think anyone cares about the "glitches" you found. If an eight year old child can recognize what was intended, I bet you could too.
What does this have to do with rockets? That there were two possibilities explaining the presence of the tubes: 1) They were for refining nuclear material 2) They were for launching rockets Seeing as how the "energy experts" would know a heck of a lot about what materials are necessary for refining nuclear material, I would say they were in a fine position to say whether or not the first option was valid, thereby leaving the second leading option as the most likely use for the rockets.
I think I came across this guy's PDA while I was exploring a Martian excavation site. Apparently all the parts for the system were ordered from Martianbuddy.com
Actually, the article stated that the power consumption vs. performance was squarely in favor of AMD. Under load, the AMD 3500+ used less than 65% of the power that the Intel used, and in addition to that, the Intel was running at 3.4Ghz whereas the AMD was running at a level comparable to an Intel at 3.5 Ghz. Not to mention that the AMD is far cheaper than the corresponding Intel. Equivalent my ass... this is a cold KO for AMD all around.
That is what I had originally hoped to believe - that our leaders had not intentionally deceived us, that they were simply passing on incorrect information that had been handed to them. Unfortunately, this is not so. It is clearly documented on several occasions how the Bush administration chose to ignore the evidence that several of the key foundations for the war in Iraq were false. For example, before Bush's state of the union address, he had been given a report that showed the supposed yellow cake the Iraqis had attempted to acquire to develop their nuclear program never existed. If you think the Bush administration did nothing more than pass on the false information with which they were provided, please read this House of Representatives document which details instances where the Bush administration made statements supporting the invasion of Iraq which were directly contrary to reports that they had received from the intelligence community.
My experience has been the opposite. I see MS courting several universities, especially those that output top level engineers. Carnegie Mellon and other top universities get a lot more money from Microsoft than the FSF. My school held MS recruitment events several times a year at which recruiters would give away Xboxes and Visual Studio which students then resold for hundreds of dollars. In addition to that, MS supplied VS.NET at very low rates to the CS department to ensure that the next generation of programmers is proficient at .Net but knows as little as possible about Linux.