Usually, the warnings I see are, "THIS PRODUCT IS KNOWN TO CAUSE CANCER IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA." So, as long as he wasn't in California at the time, he's cool.
All this is, of course, assuming Einstein was right (and I think some experiment somewhere proved these effects to be correct)
Of course he was right. He stole all his ideas from some of the greatest scientists of his time. He didn't include any references in his paper and pretended that he just came up with his ideas entirely on his own. To explain this irregularity, the media portray him as one the most intelligent people ever to have walked the earth. Einstein was a freud... I mean fraud. Oops, Freudian slip.
"USAF personnel in the Johnston Atoll in the Pacific were attempting to remove the "batteries" from an exit sign they believed to be battery powered. During the attempt to open the case, they destroyed the sign only to discover that it was a tritium sign."
The worst part about this story is that it took more than one person to replace the batteries in a single exit sign. That's government efficiency for you.
I think you need to take the math a little further. According to my calculations, 1 mg of tritium will output about 600 kJ in its entire lifetime. But less than half of that would have been released in a decade. And then there's the issue of efficiently converting this energy into electricity (which is the point addressed in the article.) I think you would need grams of the stuff in a battery to be useful as a trickle charger for a conventional battery, and perhaps kilograms to have a useful peak power.
IMO, this research represents a small step forward on the long journey toward nuclear batteries. Don't expect to have one of these in your laptop anytime soon.
According to the this article, the decay energy of tritium is only 18.6 keV. Also, you do realize that a mole of gas at room temperature and pressure takes up about 22.6 liters, don't you? To get one mole of gas into, say, a 100 ml battery, you would have to have a pressure of about 226 atmospheres (although, this is probably well into the realm of nonideality.) The technique described in the article sounds like it might allow significant adsorption to occur, but you'd need a miracle to get that pressure down to a manageable level.
And here's a tip: it's not necessary to begin a post with "don't be an idiot," in order to disagree with something someone said.
I say you've hit the nail on the head, sir! And furthermore, I'd like to add that no citizen of this great galaxy should be without pancakes. In these trying times of candied beet eating wombats and walruses and whatnot, we need to aid our fellow marshmallows in their quest to reclaim their rightful home on the sun. And Windows is the most stable and secure operating system ever created. Is it time for my medicine again, nurse?
[...] will cost employers $628,880,000 in lost productivity[...]
The thing that makes this prediction credible is the presence of 5 significant figures. If it had said $630M, then I would assume they were just pulling it out of their asses. BTW, did you know that 85.327% of all numbers reported in newspapers are completely made up?
One more question: why the fsck do I have to type "less than" br "greater than" every time I want to start a fscking new line? I don't think I like this bug^H^H^H^H feature on Slashdot.
" DVD Burners are what, $50 max for an excellent Dual-Layer burner, and discs can be had for $0.30."
What universe do you live in, and how do I get there? Do I need a passport? Will I have to pay tariffs on my excellent Dual-Layer DVD burner and DVD-RW media when I cross the border into my native universe?
My thoughts exactly. It seems that the press is in on it too. Remember all the news about Little Girls getting kidnapped by Evil Men a year or two ago? Then the Amber Alert bill passed. But what the mainstream press didn't report was that the "Rave Act" was attached to the bill. Even liberal media like NPR got in on the press frenzy and failed to mention the Rave Act rider. Good luck getting people to care about this one.
OK, Mr. Skeptic, here's the algorithm:
For any prime number x, it's factors are 1 and x. I haven't worked out all the details yet, but I think I'm really on to something here.;)
"The number is the largest integer yet factored with a general purpose algorithm[...]"
The largest integer yet factored that we know about. I wouldn't be surprised if the NSA or other intelligence agencies have the ability to factor even larger numbers.
BTW, I've developed a constant-time algorithm for factoring prime numbers of any magnitude. Let me know if you're interested.
5 years? Way too short. Think what that could do to the publishing industry. You submit a manuscript, it gets rejected, and five years later it appears on the shelf. Now, I know that publishers need copyrights to protect their investment too, but they at least wouldn't have to deal with you, and if it was a fairly new, unpublished work, they would get a head start on the competition.
Also, many writers fail to gain publicity with their earlier works, but once they write one that is noteworthy, their earlier works are "discovered". With a five year copyright, it would be even harder than it already is to make a living as a writer, and I think modern literature would suffer as a consequence.
Just look at your music collection. How many of those songs are more than five years old? Don't you think the musicians still deserve some money when someone buys it?
I'm all for better gas mileage, but I'm also for safety. Traffic fatalities are a major cause of death in any industrialized nation. And, as a rule of thumb, the passengers in a heavier car will fare better in a collision with another vehicle.
When driving on highways, I see a large proportion of the traffic is very large trucks. In a head-on collision with a large SUV or truck, a Mini would be completely destroyed along with it's passengers, whereas the passengers in the heavier vehicle would suffer much less damage, if any. If we are all going to start driving small, efficient cars in the US, we need to do something about the shipping industry first, such as reviving the railroad system and/or building separate roads just for trucks. Plus, I find it really annoying when trucks block the passing lane whenever they go downhill.
Wow, I wish my bank were that secure. To access the accounts of their members online, all you have to know is their bank account number (found on any check) and their password. But the password is initially set to the super-secret social security number (still found on many driver liscences.) If you were a cashier in this town, and someone paid with a check from that bank, you could just ask to see their liscence and copy down the SSN. Then, if they haven't logged in and changed their password yet (which I imagine most haven't), you can transfer all their accounts to your own. Of course, getting away with it is the hard part.
I wish I had mod points right now... I have a feeling that the tired , old, and WRONG "He said he invented the internet" phrase is going to be posted here a lot.
For the record, He said no such thing. He did help to focus attention on it while in the Senate. More so than any other politician at the time...
Giving him credit for his work as a legislator is one thing, but I don't think we need to consider him a god. On second thought, I'm going to remain agnostic on the issue.
"And Gore said, Let there be an internet: and there was an internet."
Cliff, meet The Angry Flower. The Angry Flower, meet Cliff. Cliff, The Angry Flower is going to tell you a little about our friend, The Apostrophe. Enjoy.
The whole "God hates shrimp" thing was funny once, but after the hundredth time I've seen it posted on a message board, it gets a little old. Especially because the new testament indicates that it's OK to eat any food. The new testament does not condone same-sex relationships, however, so the whole point of that website is moot.
Coca-Cola isn't a made-up name. Its a combination of Coca beans and Cola nuts.
Coca-Cola is flavored with the (spent) leaves of the coca plant, not the seeds. I don't think the seeds are called "beans", either. Perhaps you were thinking of cocoa beans?
"[...]it's also indirectly implying that Apple needs approval from other entities to trade[...]"
Oh, come on. This is not "The World vs. Apple". Trademark disputes are going on all the time. Just because your favorite computer manufacturer is in a little bit of trouble, that doesn't mean we need to throw all trademark law out the window. You can put down your sword and shield now.
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Usually, the warnings I see are, "THIS PRODUCT IS KNOWN TO CAUSE CANCER IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA." So, as long as he wasn't in California at the time, he's cool.
You must be new here.
All this is, of course, assuming Einstein was right (and I think some experiment somewhere proved these effects to be correct)
Of course he was right. He stole all his ideas from some of the greatest scientists of his time. He didn't include any references in his paper and pretended that he just came up with his ideas entirely on his own. To explain this irregularity, the media portray him as one the most intelligent people ever to have walked the earth. Einstein was a freud... I mean fraud. Oops, Freudian slip.
I think the poster's point was that it was described as a short above and a full-length film elsewhere.
"USAF personnel in the Johnston Atoll in the Pacific were attempting to remove the "batteries" from an exit sign they believed to be battery powered. During the attempt to open the case, they destroyed the sign only to discover that it was a tritium sign."
The worst part about this story is that it took more than one person to replace the batteries in a single exit sign. That's government efficiency for you.
I think you need to take the math a little further. According to my calculations, 1 mg of tritium will output about 600 kJ in its entire lifetime. But less than half of that would have been released in a decade. And then there's the issue of efficiently converting this energy into electricity (which is the point addressed in the article.) I think you would need grams of the stuff in a battery to be useful as a trickle charger for a conventional battery, and perhaps kilograms to have a useful peak power.
IMO, this research represents a small step forward on the long journey toward nuclear batteries. Don't expect to have one of these in your laptop anytime soon.
According to the this article, the decay energy of tritium is only 18.6 keV. Also, you do realize that a mole of gas at room temperature and pressure takes up about 22.6 liters, don't you? To get one mole of gas into, say, a 100 ml battery, you would have to have a pressure of about 226 atmospheres (although, this is probably well into the realm of nonideality.) The technique described in the article sounds like it might allow significant adsorption to occur, but you'd need a miracle to get that pressure down to a manageable level.
And here's a tip: it's not necessary to begin a post with "don't be an idiot," in order to disagree with something someone said.
I don't see how this is going to fix the problem. Unless they're really afraid of hamsters.
I say you've hit the nail on the head, sir! And furthermore, I'd like to add that no citizen of this great galaxy should be without pancakes. In these trying times of candied beet eating wombats and walruses and whatnot, we need to aid our fellow marshmallows in their quest to reclaim their rightful home on the sun. And Windows is the most stable and secure operating system ever created. Is it time for my medicine again, nurse?
[...] will cost employers $628,880,000 in lost productivity[...]
The thing that makes this prediction credible is the presence of 5 significant figures. If it had said $630M, then I would assume they were just pulling it out of their asses. BTW, did you know that 85.327% of all numbers reported in newspapers are completely made up?
One more question: why the fsck do I have to type "less than" br "greater than" every time I want to start a fscking new line? I don't think I like this bug^H^H^H^H feature on Slashdot.
" DVD Burners are what, $50 max for an excellent Dual-Layer burner, and discs can be had for $0.30." What universe do you live in, and how do I get there? Do I need a passport? Will I have to pay tariffs on my excellent Dual-Layer DVD burner and DVD-RW media when I cross the border into my native universe?
My thoughts exactly. It seems that the press is in on it too. Remember all the news about Little Girls getting kidnapped by Evil Men a year or two ago? Then the Amber Alert bill passed. But what the mainstream press didn't report was that the "Rave Act" was attached to the bill. Even liberal media like NPR got in on the press frenzy and failed to mention the Rave Act rider. Good luck getting people to care about this one.
He's playing with you.
;)
OK, Mr. Skeptic, here's the algorithm:
For any prime number x, it's factors are 1 and x. I haven't worked out all the details yet, but I think I'm really on to something here.
"The number is the largest integer yet factored with a general purpose algorithm[...]" The largest integer yet factored that we know about. I wouldn't be surprised if the NSA or other intelligence agencies have the ability to factor even larger numbers. BTW, I've developed a constant-time algorithm for factoring prime numbers of any magnitude. Let me know if you're interested.
5 years? Way too short. Think what that could do to the publishing industry. You submit a manuscript, it gets rejected, and five years later it appears on the shelf. Now, I know that publishers need copyrights to protect their investment too, but they at least wouldn't have to deal with you, and if it was a fairly new, unpublished work, they would get a head start on the competition. Also, many writers fail to gain publicity with their earlier works, but once they write one that is noteworthy, their earlier works are "discovered". With a five year copyright, it would be even harder than it already is to make a living as a writer, and I think modern literature would suffer as a consequence. Just look at your music collection. How many of those songs are more than five years old? Don't you think the musicians still deserve some money when someone buys it?
I'm all for better gas mileage, but I'm also for safety. Traffic fatalities are a major cause of death in any industrialized nation. And, as a rule of thumb, the passengers in a heavier car will fare better in a collision with another vehicle.
When driving on highways, I see a large proportion of the traffic is very large trucks. In a head-on collision with a large SUV or truck, a Mini would be completely destroyed along with it's passengers, whereas the passengers in the heavier vehicle would suffer much less damage, if any. If we are all going to start driving small, efficient cars in the US, we need to do something about the shipping industry first, such as reviving the railroad system and/or building separate roads just for trucks. Plus, I find it really annoying when trucks block the passing lane whenever they go downhill.
Wow, I wish my bank were that secure. To access the accounts of their members online, all you have to know is their bank account number (found on any check) and their password. But the password is initially set to the super-secret social security number (still found on many driver liscences.) If you were a cashier in this town, and someone paid with a check from that bank, you could just ask to see their liscence and copy down the SSN. Then, if they haven't logged in and changed their password yet (which I imagine most haven't), you can transfer all their accounts to your own. Of course, getting away with it is the hard part.
I wish I had mod points right now... I have a feeling that the tired , old, and WRONG "He said he invented the internet" phrase is going to be posted here a lot. For the record, He said no such thing. He did help to focus attention on it while in the Senate. More so than any other politician at the time...
Giving him credit for his work as a legislator is one thing, but I don't think we need to consider him a god. On second thought, I'm going to remain agnostic on the issue.
"And Gore said, Let there be an internet: and there was an internet."
(Just a joke. Save your mod points.)
Actually, since the plural of patents is needed here, it should be "Patents' role...".
Cliff, meet The Angry Flower. The Angry Flower, meet Cliff. Cliff, The Angry Flower is going to tell you a little about our friend, The Apostrophe. Enjoy.
Dude, you got the wrong article. This is about that CMU professor's rebuttal against RIAA propaganda. I think.
The whole "God hates shrimp" thing was funny once, but after the hundredth time I've seen it posted on a message board, it gets a little old. Especially because the new testament indicates that it's OK to eat any food. The new testament does not condone same-sex relationships, however, so the whole point of that website is moot.
Coca-Cola isn't a made-up name. Its a combination of Coca beans and Cola nuts.
Coca-Cola is flavored with the (spent) leaves of the coca plant, not the seeds. I don't think the seeds are called "beans", either. Perhaps you were thinking of cocoa beans?
"[...]it's also indirectly implying that Apple needs approval from other entities to trade[...]"
Oh, come on. This is not "The World vs. Apple". Trademark disputes are going on all the time. Just because your favorite computer manufacturer is in a little bit of trouble, that doesn't mean we need to throw all trademark law out the window. You can put down your sword and shield now.