That's not the point. Energy from hydro-electric damns comes from water with a higher gravitational potential energy level. Most of that energy comes directly from the sun when it evaporates water, transferring solar energy into gravitational potential energy.
Are you trying to say something similar to this happens with the magnets? If so, please do explain.
The cost of taking the fuel for the return trip would be absolutely astronomical considering the extensive modifications necessary to ensure that the fuel does not leak over the course of the three year mission.
Um, you could send the fuel there later in a second (and maybe third) unmannged vehicle. It wouldn't have to last 3 years and you wouldn't have to carry it all the way.
No one should believe the Iraq war was to avenge 9/11 so I don't get your Saudi argument. If they were Saudis but not supported by the Saudi government, what sense does it make to attack Saudi simply because it was their place of birth.
And to follow your conspiracy theory, Iraq would be a better platform to launch and attack on the wider M.E. Also, the M.E countries have tolerated (and even assisted) in the liberation of Iraq. I doubt the same could be said for an invasion of Saudi Arabia. It's wise to pick your fights properly.
Perhaps you should listen to the many, many Iraqis (many even have blogs) who support the US liberation and occupation.
You haven't been paying attention to history have you? No country governed by christians is ever going to pacify that particular region. That is, short of nuking them into the stone ages. And I'm not even sure that would do it.
The British managed to keep that region in check for quite a long time. They handed back soveriegnty as a reward for helping out in WW1/WW2.
besides that, explain it to the families of the 600+ (and rising) dead soldiers. Oh, and have you been watching the news this week? We are about to get 're-engaged' just to keep from getting run out of Iraq completely.
Many of the families know and understand the sacrifices they have made. Please don't try to imply otherwise.
Now tell me, where are the WMD and the link to Al Qaeda? Remember Al Qaeda, the ones that actually flew the planes into the Trade Center? The ones whose leader is Osama, not Saddam, and their nationality tends toward Saudi and not Iraqi.
Ofcourse osama was revoked his Saudi citizenship because they weren't happy with them. Iraq is an important step in the war on terror. Success in Iraq will be a major blow for the terrorists.
And this isn't even close to Europe in either war. Remember, Europe was already at war when we joined in. And in both cases it was in reponse to an attack on American citizens. You do remember Pearl Harbor don't you? How about the Lusitania? (even though it was just one of the reasons/excuses for pulling us out our our isolationism) Tell me, were there any wars in the Middle Eastern region before we attacked Iraq? Israel doesn't count, the Americans and British carry a good deal of blame for that too.
That's my point exactly. Had the world not been so complacent, millions could have been saved. The Bush administration understands this.
But the whole point was; the American population is not willing to risk lives for space exploration because they are not afraid of it. It's not going to bomb their malls or take away the precious fuel from their SUVs.
And yet the American population is one of only three who have put man into space and live in a country which has the most advanced and forward looking space program. Funny that.
And the public has also been made to fear that Bush is a nazi and by going to war we're going to lose much more than we gain. What if it works and the world is more peaceful because of it?
By your standards, the US should never have saved Europe from Nazism and Fascism.
I thought the lindows thing was a trademark issue. Lawsuits based on "look and feel" have been less successful. If MS sue, they can always change the icons.
I've been waiting for one of these things for a while.
It'll let me use my pocket pc as my car MP3 player. I can have massive *wireless* storage in the boot or glove box. The bandwidth is fine for MP3 & video playback and the simplicity and tidyness of the setup makes up for the price.
Wrong. If you looked at the graph I (conveniently) linked to, you would have seen Bush's approval ratings soar at the start of the Iraqi war.
You don't get my point. My point is that just cause his ratings soared at the start of the war (as they ALWAYS do) doesn't mean that that is the *ONLY* way Bush has to increase his ratings (which is what you directly implied).
I'm ashamed to think that I come from the same species as people so narrow minded
Look in the mirror.
hy do you think teh Palestinians are taught to hate Jews? Do you know the history of so-called Israel? Do you know what happened to the Palestinians when the Jews evicted millions and millions of the local inhabitants?
Excuse me? You're making excuses for the palestinians teaching generations of children to hate and love killing other people. And you're talking about being ashamed of your species. You make me sick.
The Palestinian "refugees" (who have been refugees for several generations now -- how that's possible I don't know -- most people get up and on with their lives) evacuated prior to an Arab invasion of Israel. Do you think the Jews should be taught to hate Arabs cause they took over Israel thousands of years ago?
If you were born a Palestinian, and all you friends and family had been killed, you wife shot at a check-point while trying to get to a hospital to give birth to your child, and you land taken from you, you would most likely become a 'terrorist' too.
Again, you justify hateful acts. Do this kinds of justifications work for Israelis as well? If your teenaged son got bombed in a night club and your 5 year old daughter got blown up in a school bus would you consider it ok to go and blow up some Palestinians?
There are a lot of brainwashed people, yes. And you are one of them. Look around you at how people are being treated in your name.
My name? I assume you think I'm American?
And you talk of complacency leading to WW2. For fuck's sake, you really don't know your history, do you? The sat on the sidelines until the very end, when they were 'invited' to join by the British, who attacked a US ship and made out it was an enemy attack, to drag the US into it. Compacency! Fitting coming from an American...
Firstly, I'm not American. Secondly, that is EXACTLY the lesson America learnt (or should have learnt) -- that complacency caused them to enter a war that was far more devastating than it needed to be had they entered earlier.
Um think about it. P/Invoking involves calling native DLLs (meaning you'd need a different binary DLL for each platform). By compiling your C libraries into IL using Portable.NET's C compiler you can distribute one set of binaries for your applications.
For example, if you need good JPEG decompression routines in your ".net" application you could recompile libjpeg with pnet's cscc compiler and keep your application 100% "managed".
Far too many people on this thread know *nothing* and are talking crap.
What's interesting is that, short of declaring war, Bush is utterly incapable of improving his image on his own. Left to his own devices, his numbers do nothing but go down
What an idiotic observation. By declaring war, Bush polarised people around that issue and his ratings done the same. We will never know what his approval ratings would have been like if he hadn't declared war.
Have a good think about it. Why are they terrorists to start with? Maybe because they're sick of being fucked over by the US? People are generally peaceful and friendly until you put them under intense pressure. Ask a Palestinian about it
ROFL
Kind of like the peaceful and friendly Christians in the middle ages right?
Religious zealots aren't peaceful or friendly and rolling over and doing nothing about them will only make things worse. There's this thing called "complacency" -- it's the same thing that lead to WW2.
The palestinians have been brainwashed and are taught from a young age to HATE HATE HATE. You don't see Jews waging a jihad against germans now do you?
But the 2.4GHz spot in the frequency spectrum in a typical household is so crudded up already. I mean, I already have these in use in that space:
o 802.11b network (2 APs, 4 clients)
Ofcourse the phone will use that 802.11b network rather than interfere with it.
Assuming there's enough recovery for corrupted packets when interference is occurring (tried to read the article to get more info, but can't get to the site as usual),
I read somewhere that TCP/IP and VoIP has data recovery...
In france you can't even wear a headscarf to school.
At least the US has a consitution that for the most part protects individual freedoms and seperation of church and state. Some western countries don't even have constitutions (NZ comes to mind...)
What about CD duplicators that print directly onto the CD? You can buy media with surfaces designed to be printed on with an inkjet. They come out looking pretty damn professional to me.
Hmm true. Maybe running something like 42VDC with mini regulators+high current transistor at each port would be better. You could even put LCDs on each socket showing current draw etc etc.
I haven't looked into power over ethernet. 12 watts (1amp at 12VDC) doesn't seem like much to me. I'm pretty sure my modest computer sub/speakers use about that much power.
Here in NZ you can get 17AMP heavy duty 2 conductor cable for about $1 a meter *retail*. At 42V you could get over 700 watts which isn't bad. It'd be enough to run a computer a selection of other electronic devices in a single zone of the house nicely.
Imagine how much cheaper (and possibly safer) lots of electronic devices would be without the additional cost of the DC power supply. Think how complex (or not) a car battery charger or jump start kit would need to be;-).
An even cooler idea would be to run both 12VDC and 240VAC throughout the house. A lot of devices people run now days run on low voltage DC. Think battery chargers, computers, LED lighting, routers, flat screen TVs, clocks, radios etc etc. I reckon I run more DC devices than AC ones and I have tens of inefficient AC-DC power supplies to prove it.
Apple uses recognized standards: Open Firmware PCI So does Microsoft PCI-X So does Microsoft AGP So does Microsoft USB So does Microsoft Firewire So does Microsoft 802.11 So does Microsoft OpenGL PDF Apache SMB So does Microsoft Zeroconf HTTP So does Microsoft WebDAV So does Microsoft KHTML Java JavaScript So does Microsoft Objective C
Regardless of how you say it, the "drooling fanatics" are brave.
Well many are absolutely positive that they will go to heaven and get lots of rewards if they die blowing up "the enemy". Those ones certainly aren't brave.
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That's not the point. Energy from hydro-electric damns comes from water with a higher gravitational potential energy level. Most of that energy comes directly from the sun when it evaporates water, transferring solar energy into gravitational potential energy.
Are you trying to say something similar to this happens with the magnets? If so, please do explain.
All MacDonalds buildings look the same. The server would have a tougher time trying to distinguish any differences between them.
Is Jane Fonda active again?
The cost of taking the fuel for the return trip would be absolutely astronomical considering the extensive modifications necessary to ensure that the fuel does not leak over the course of the three year mission.
Um, you could send the fuel there later in a second (and maybe third) unmannged vehicle. It wouldn't have to last 3 years and you wouldn't have to carry it all the way.
No one should believe the Iraq war was to avenge 9/11 so I don't get your Saudi argument. If they were Saudis but not supported by the Saudi government, what sense does it make to attack Saudi simply because it was their place of birth.
And to follow your conspiracy theory, Iraq would be a better platform to launch and attack on the wider M.E. Also, the M.E countries have tolerated (and even assisted) in the liberation of Iraq. I doubt the same could be said for an invasion of Saudi Arabia. It's wise to pick your fights properly.
Perhaps you should listen to the many, many Iraqis (many even have blogs) who support the US liberation and occupation.
You haven't been paying attention to history have you? No country governed by christians is ever going to pacify that particular region. That is, short of nuking them into the stone ages. And I'm not even sure that would do it.
The British managed to keep that region in check for quite a long time. They handed back soveriegnty as a reward for helping out in WW1/WW2.
besides that, explain it to the families of the 600+ (and rising) dead soldiers. Oh, and have you been watching the news this week? We are about to get 're-engaged' just to keep from getting run out of Iraq completely.
Many of the families know and understand the sacrifices they have made. Please don't try to imply otherwise.
Now tell me, where are the WMD and the link to Al Qaeda? Remember Al Qaeda, the ones that actually flew the planes into the Trade Center? The ones whose leader is Osama, not Saddam, and their nationality tends toward Saudi and not Iraqi.
Ofcourse osama was revoked his Saudi citizenship because they weren't happy with them. Iraq is an important step in the war on terror. Success in Iraq will be a major blow for the terrorists.
And this isn't even close to Europe in either war. Remember, Europe was already at war when we joined in. And in both cases it was in reponse to an attack on American citizens. You do remember Pearl Harbor don't you? How about the Lusitania? (even though it was just one of the reasons/excuses for pulling us out our our isolationism) Tell me, were there any wars in the Middle Eastern region before we attacked Iraq? Israel doesn't count, the Americans and British carry a good deal of blame for that too.
That's my point exactly. Had the world not been so complacent, millions could have been saved. The Bush administration understands this.
But the whole point was; the American population is not willing to risk lives for space exploration because they are not afraid of it. It's not going to bomb their malls or take away the precious fuel from their SUVs.
And yet the American population is one of only three who have put man into space and live in a country which has the most advanced and forward looking space program. Funny that.
And the public has also been made to fear that Bush is a nazi and by going to war we're going to lose much more than we gain. What if it works and the world is more peaceful because of it?
By your standards, the US should never have saved Europe from Nazism and Fascism.
I would be able to see the forest, if all these damn trees weren't blocking my view!
Given the context, I really hope that that is just your signature.
I thought the lindows thing was a trademark issue. Lawsuits based on "look and feel" have been less successful. If MS sue, they can always change the icons.
It's on that site. Just click on the 545 sedan link on the left.
It's listed as "heads up display" near the bottom of the feature list.
Unlike previous attemps at putting a HUD in a car, the BMW one uses special glass that prevents the display from looking doubled on the windscreen.
The new BMW (2004)5-series has HUD units as an option.
What about dogs who happily get erections and mount chicks huh?
I guess they're not consenting?
I've been waiting for one of these things for a while.
It'll let me use my pocket pc as my car MP3 player. I can have massive *wireless* storage in the boot or glove box. The bandwidth is fine for MP3 & video playback and the simplicity and tidyness of the setup makes up for the price.
Wrong. If you looked at the graph I (conveniently) linked to, you would have seen Bush's approval ratings soar at the start of the Iraqi war.
You don't get my point. My point is that just cause his ratings soared at the start of the war (as they ALWAYS do) doesn't mean that that is the *ONLY* way Bush has to increase his ratings (which is what you directly implied).
I'm ashamed to think that I come from the same species as people so narrow minded
Look in the mirror.
hy do you think teh Palestinians are taught to hate Jews? Do you know the history of so-called Israel? Do you know what happened to the Palestinians when the Jews evicted millions and millions of the local inhabitants?
Excuse me? You're making excuses for the palestinians teaching generations of children to hate and love killing other people. And you're talking about being ashamed of your species. You make me sick.
The Palestinian "refugees" (who have been refugees for several generations now -- how that's possible I don't know -- most people get up and on with their lives) evacuated prior to an Arab invasion of Israel. Do you think the Jews should be taught to hate Arabs cause they took over Israel thousands of years ago?
If you were born a Palestinian, and all you friends and family had been killed, you wife shot at a check-point while trying to get to a hospital to give birth to your child, and you land taken from you, you would most likely become a 'terrorist' too.
Again, you justify hateful acts. Do this kinds of justifications work for Israelis as well? If your teenaged son got bombed in a night club and your 5 year old daughter got blown up in a school bus would you consider it ok to go and blow up some Palestinians?
There are a lot of brainwashed people, yes. And you are one of them. Look around you at how people are being treated in your name.
My name? I assume you think I'm American?
And you talk of complacency leading to WW2. For fuck's sake, you really don't know your history, do you? The sat on the sidelines until the very end, when they were 'invited' to join by the British, who attacked a US ship and made out it was an enemy attack, to drag the US into it. Compacency! Fitting coming from an American...
Firstly, I'm not American. Secondly, that is EXACTLY the lesson America learnt (or should have learnt) -- that complacency caused them to enter a war that was far more devastating than it needed to be had they entered earlier.
Um think about it. P/Invoking involves calling native DLLs (meaning you'd need a different binary DLL for each platform). By compiling your C libraries into IL using Portable .NET's C compiler you can distribute one set of binaries for your applications.
For example, if you need good JPEG decompression routines in your ".net" application you could recompile libjpeg with pnet's cscc compiler and keep your application 100% "managed".
Far too many people on this thread know *nothing* and are talking crap.
What's interesting is that, short of declaring war, Bush is utterly incapable of improving his image on his own. Left to his own devices, his numbers do nothing but go down
What an idiotic observation. By declaring war, Bush polarised people around that issue and his ratings done the same. We will never know what his approval ratings would have been like if he hadn't declared war.
Have a good think about it. Why are they terrorists to start with? Maybe because they're sick of being fucked over by the US? People are generally peaceful and friendly until you put them under intense pressure. Ask a Palestinian about it
ROFL
Kind of like the peaceful and friendly Christians in the middle ages right?
Religious zealots aren't peaceful or friendly and rolling over and doing nothing about them will only make things worse. There's this thing called "complacency" -- it's the same thing that lead to WW2.
The palestinians have been brainwashed and are taught from a young age to HATE HATE HATE. You don't see Jews waging a jihad against germans now do you?
But the 2.4GHz spot in the frequency spectrum in a typical household is so crudded up already. I mean, I already have these in use in that space:
o 802.11b network (2 APs, 4 clients)
Ofcourse the phone will use that 802.11b network rather than interfere with it.
Assuming there's enough recovery for corrupted packets when interference is occurring (tried to read the article to get more info, but can't get to the site as usual),
I read somewhere that TCP/IP and VoIP has data recovery...
In france you can't even wear a headscarf to school.
At least the US has a consitution that for the most part protects individual freedoms and seperation of church and state. Some western countries don't even have constitutions (NZ comes to mind...)
What about CD duplicators that print directly onto the CD? You can buy media with surfaces designed to be printed on with an inkjet. They come out looking pretty damn professional to me.
Hmm true. Maybe running something like 42VDC with mini regulators+high current transistor at each port would be better. You could even put LCDs on each socket showing current draw etc etc.
;-).
I haven't looked into power over ethernet. 12 watts (1amp at 12VDC) doesn't seem like much to me. I'm pretty sure my modest computer sub/speakers use about that much power.
Here in NZ you can get 17AMP heavy duty 2 conductor cable for about $1 a meter *retail*. At 42V you could get over 700 watts which isn't bad. It'd be enough to run a computer a selection of other electronic devices in a single zone of the house nicely.
Imagine how much cheaper (and possibly safer) lots of electronic devices would be without the additional cost of the DC power supply. Think how complex (or not) a car battery charger or jump start kit would need to be
An even cooler idea would be to run both 12VDC and 240VAC throughout the house. A lot of devices people run now days run on low voltage DC. Think battery chargers, computers, LED lighting, routers, flat screen TVs, clocks, radios etc etc. I reckon I run more DC devices than AC ones and I have tens of inefficient AC-DC power supplies to prove it.
Apple uses recognized standards:
Open Firmware
PCI
So does Microsoft
PCI-X
So does Microsoft
AGP
So does Microsoft
USB
So does Microsoft
Firewire
So does Microsoft
802.11
So does Microsoft
OpenGL
PDF
Apache
SMB
So does Microsoft
Zeroconf
HTTP
So does Microsoft
WebDAV
So does Microsoft
KHTML
Java
JavaScript
So does Microsoft
Objective C
Regardless of how you say it, the "drooling fanatics" are brave.
Well many are absolutely positive that they will go to heaven and get lots of rewards if they die blowing up "the enemy". Those ones certainly aren't brave.