Maybe that's what we need to do, stop playing with silicon and start creating organic-based solar cells. Of course instead of electricity the house will be powered off starch.;)
Why are we still at such a low efficiency? If we approached a 70% to 80% efficiency with solar technology, we'd have all the electricity we need to power our homes...
When you say momentum, what are you suggesting? What would you do with the electricity generated to push the ship foward?
I would use the electricity to power an electron gun, similar technology as in CRTs. The focused propulsion of electrons may be enough to move the ship? Don't be making any trips into deep space...
It's quite possible that any microbes we (might) find on Mars could actually provide us with cures to many diseases. Because terran bacteria/virii/fungi would not have had an opportunity to develop a resistance to them...
I think this is hilarious, I was just about to quote from the Red Mars trilogy myself.:-D If we colonize Mars, even the areas we set aside will never be the same. Let's just take lots of pictures and samples for the archives and start terraforming already...
Imagine, said Robert Streiffer, a professor of philosophy and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, a human-chimpanzee chimera endowed with speech and an enhanced potential to learn -- what some have called a "humanzee."
Planet of the Apes, here we come.
"This problem is just lazy IT. If they can't take 5 minutes to add an HP scanner then you've got the wrong guys in IT."
500 users, 20 locations, each office about 1 1/2 drive from each other. Only 8 IT Staff. How do you propose we "take 5 minutes" to add an HP scanner?
About a dozen different departments, each requiring a different set of software. One department in particular has about 6 different packages. They are all updated at least once a year, one of them is updated every month. Often the user is at a client site connected via dialup or vpn. The updates are time-critical. How do you propose we keep everything updated properly and on time without giving the users full permissions to their local drives?
There are a lot of narrow-minded people giving answers here...
No solution or IT method is 100% applicable to every network scenario. Some colleges just reimage or use a washing product every night. Some companies use terminal services or citrix for everything. Some companies don't use Microsoft at all.
The REAL problem is not lazy IT. It is a limited IT budget, limited IT staff, and an ever changing environment - user needs, software updates, and even windows hotfixes. If our company tried your method, it would take us a year to contact all of the vendors, make the perfect image, reimage everyone's machines after backing up their data - wow, the perfect network - then oops, time to upgrade to Windows NT 6.2 because MS no longer supports XP.
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Why train anybody at all. Just leave for greener and less stressful pastures, and let them deal with your absense.
Maybe that's what we need to do, stop playing with silicon and start creating organic-based solar cells. Of course instead of electricity the house will be powered off starch. ;)
Why are we still at such a low efficiency? If we approached a 70% to 80% efficiency with solar technology, we'd have all the electricity we need to power our homes...
I keep looking for a jacket, but I all I see is girl... :)
When you say momentum, what are you suggesting? What would you do with the electricity generated to push the ship foward?
I would use the electricity to power an electron gun, similar technology as in CRTs. The focused propulsion of electrons may be enough to move the ship? Don't be making any trips into deep space...
Just once it would be nice to read slashdot commentary without some kind of political bashing.
It's quite possible that any microbes we (might) find on Mars could actually provide us with cures to many diseases. Because terran bacteria/virii/fungi would not have had an opportunity to develop a resistance to them...
I think this is hilarious, I was just about to quote from the Red Mars trilogy myself. :-D If we colonize Mars, even the areas we set aside will never be the same. Let's just take lots of pictures and samples for the archives and start terraforming already...
Why does your signature say "I can see the ." That doesn't make any sense. See the dot? What?
Imagine, said Robert Streiffer, a professor of philosophy and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, a human-chimpanzee chimera endowed with speech and an enhanced potential to learn -- what some have called a "humanzee." Planet of the Apes, here we come.
The increased hot and cold differential would actually make wind power *more* efficient.
"This problem is just lazy IT. If they can't take 5 minutes to add an HP scanner then you've got the wrong guys in IT." 500 users, 20 locations, each office about 1 1/2 drive from each other. Only 8 IT Staff. How do you propose we "take 5 minutes" to add an HP scanner? About a dozen different departments, each requiring a different set of software. One department in particular has about 6 different packages. They are all updated at least once a year, one of them is updated every month. Often the user is at a client site connected via dialup or vpn. The updates are time-critical. How do you propose we keep everything updated properly and on time without giving the users full permissions to their local drives? There are a lot of narrow-minded people giving answers here... No solution or IT method is 100% applicable to every network scenario. Some colleges just reimage or use a washing product every night. Some companies use terminal services or citrix for everything. Some companies don't use Microsoft at all. The REAL problem is not lazy IT. It is a limited IT budget, limited IT staff, and an ever changing environment - user needs, software updates, and even windows hotfixes. If our company tried your method, it would take us a year to contact all of the vendors, make the perfect image, reimage everyone's machines after backing up their data - wow, the perfect network - then oops, time to upgrade to Windows NT 6.2 because MS no longer supports XP.
I think my wife has a Buy Button. If something has "sale" on it or comes with a coupon, her button gets pressed.