Water is self limiting but not when too much of it is being vaporized. In the end, hydrogen-powered cars are redirecting solar energy which would otherwise hit the land (indirectly or directly the form of energy used to break water apart) into water in the form of water vapor. Sure, burning hydrocarbons releases water and CO2 (this is understood), but burning hydrogen gas and oxygen releases more water vapor into the air (well, in terms of sheer numbers of molecules) than the CO2 and H2O released when burning octane.
In the end, more solar power is going towards shoving water vapor into the air.
Do you have any idea how much more will be released if every car on the planet is replaced with a hydrogen-powered car? It won't happen now, but it will later if Hydrogen takes off. That's why I'm fond of electric-powered vehicles... or mini fusion plants in cars, but that won't happen during our lifetimes, nor would it be too nice given that we'd be converting water permanently to helium and oxygen (breaking down water and fusing the hydrogen).
Well duh, water vapor should always be in the air, but if suddenly a whole bunch of cars start creating immense amounts of water vapor from hydrogen gas + oxygen... well, that's much more water that's being converted from liquid to gas than by weather alone (or even by cars today).
parking lots. If Shelby Supercars created their own charging technology in-house, I wouldn't be surprised if (assuming SS licenses their technology, or assuming the company which licensed the tech to SS pushes it to other car manufacturers as well) gas stations are flattened and converted into parking lots with high-wattage 220volt outlets per parking spot.
Let's hope that SS's claims are true. This would eliminate the need for hydrogen cars as well (water vapor is another major greenhouse gas).
I first read the summary wondering why anyone cares what Linus uses, but then I noticed that he agrees with the general consensus that KDE4 isn't turning out as well as everyone had hoped...
I do believe "Embrace" was covered when Microsoft joined the Apache foundation. Now that they're actually adding code... that's represented by "Extend."
Let's look at it this way: this is combining simple, linear bots into the storyline which play as the first person in the event that the main player gets bored.
Am I the only one who sees this as a bit obvious and un-patent-worthy? Games have been doing this for a while during Demo screens... just without the story advancement.
If you've ever been on their Redmond campus, you'd see two things:
There are lots of smart people who deserve jobs at Microsoft.
There are lots of stupid people who don't deserve jobs at Microsoft.
Lisa Brummel is a Microsoft Senior VP. She's in charge of human resources, and given some of her other decisions internally, I think she'll do the right thing and cut some weight from Microsoft.
Totally offtopic, but what does the red titlebar mean for a story on the index which just went up? I didn't see any reference to this story being a story "in the future" so I'm not quite sure what it is.
This is honestly insightful, because the more they work on it, the more it will suffer from the heavy weight of feature creep. I hope their claim of 'modular' is still in the plans.
The entire mechanism for building the OS is based on it being modular. Also, 7 is already feature complete. Beta 1 is in escrow right now.
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Ouch. I wish I could mod myself down as redundant after your post, but I can't use mod points on stories I've commented in. Oh well.
This'll make for a good joke:
http://i42.tinypic.com/55q7wl.png
Water is self limiting but not when too much of it is being vaporized. In the end, hydrogen-powered cars are redirecting solar energy which would otherwise hit the land (indirectly or directly the form of energy used to break water apart) into water in the form of water vapor. Sure, burning hydrocarbons releases water and CO2 (this is understood), but burning hydrogen gas and oxygen releases more water vapor into the air (well, in terms of sheer numbers of molecules) than the CO2 and H2O released when burning octane.
In the end, more solar power is going towards shoving water vapor into the air.
So yes, I do realize this.
Do you have any idea how much more will be released if every car on the planet is replaced with a hydrogen-powered car? It won't happen now, but it will later if Hydrogen takes off. That's why I'm fond of electric-powered vehicles... or mini fusion plants in cars, but that won't happen during our lifetimes, nor would it be too nice given that we'd be converting water permanently to helium and oxygen (breaking down water and fusing the hydrogen).
Good point. Most of the electricity around us near DC is from coal/oil, though some parts get nuclear energy as well.
You know what would work best? This.
Well duh, water vapor should always be in the air, but if suddenly a whole bunch of cars start creating immense amounts of water vapor from hydrogen gas + oxygen... well, that's much more water that's being converted from liquid to gas than by weather alone (or even by cars today).
It's a fact overlooked by many.
parking lots. If Shelby Supercars created their own charging technology in-house, I wouldn't be surprised if (assuming SS licenses their technology, or assuming the company which licensed the tech to SS pushes it to other car manufacturers as well) gas stations are flattened and converted into parking lots with high-wattage 220volt outlets per parking spot.
Let's hope that SS's claims are true. This would eliminate the need for hydrogen cars as well (water vapor is another major greenhouse gas).
Perhaps that mineral oil which is used to keep CRAYs cool might work? Maybe just get a barrel of that, drop all of the components in, and seal it up.
I'm not sure how practical it will be for when it's opened, but it'll suffice for keeping the sucker preserved.
Your predictive posting failed.
I first read the summary wondering why anyone cares what Linus uses, but then I noticed that he agrees with the general consensus that KDE4 isn't turning out as well as everyone had hoped...
Here's to KDE doing better with v5.
Embrace - you are here. Extend Extinguish
I do believe "Embrace" was covered when Microsoft joined the Apache foundation. Now that they're actually adding code... that's represented by "Extend."
I love it when Slashdot automatically rips open a troll post.
http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
meant that. I somehow got to the parent mono download link instead. Feel free to mod parent down.
Whatever happened to Moonlight? I thought they covered Silverlight 2.0 just fine:
http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html
Khan got the last laugh.
YEEAAAHHHH
Let's look at it this way: this is combining simple, linear bots into the storyline which play as the first person in the event that the main player gets bored.
Am I the only one who sees this as a bit obvious and un-patent-worthy? Games have been doing this for a while during Demo screens... just without the story advancement.
It'd be interesting to see how all of this plays out.
Lisa Brummel is a Microsoft Senior VP. She's in charge of human resources, and given some of her other decisions internally, I think she'll do the right thing and cut some weight from Microsoft.
The code in the freescale driver actually covers this. Check the IsLeapYear() function in the code (line 162):
static int IsLeapYear(int Year)
{
int Leap;
Leap = 0;
if ((Year % 4) == 0) {
Leap = 1;
if ((Year % 100) == 0) {
Leap = (Year%400) ? 0 : 1;
}
}
return (Leap);
}
Well, that might explain why the same clock doesn't exist in the subsequent Zunes, but who knows.
I'm more disturbed by one of the comments and the subsequent reply.
Totally offtopic, but what does the red titlebar mean for a story on the index which just went up? I didn't see any reference to this story being a story "in the future" so I'm not quite sure what it is.
So what you're trying to tell us is that this story...
...needs a usererror tag, right?
This is honestly insightful, because the more they work on it, the more it will suffer from the heavy weight of feature creep. I hope their claim of 'modular' is still in the plans.
The entire mechanism for building the OS is based on it being modular. Also, 7 is already feature complete. Beta 1 is in escrow right now.