your missing the point, the advantage to hydrogen is taht you can make it from any source of eletrical power, be it coal, hydro, solar, nuke, fusion, oil, whatever.
That's all swell, but the majority of power is generated by burning fossil fuels, NOT by hydro, solar, or nukes (at least in North America.)
So, when you push electrons to make your H2 you're most likely burning a fossil fuel and adding greenhouse gasses in a less effecient process than the direct burning of fossil fules at the point of use.
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I've got about 200 CDRs filled with audiobooks.
700MB usualy turns out to be 30-40 hours of runtime (depends on encoding.)
I'd estimate 6,000 hours. Over 300 titles.
If you get enough gas into a liquid you'll lower its density to a point where a boat will no longer be boyant enough to stay afloat. Boats only float when they are less dense than the medium they float in (this includes airspaces,not just the wood and metal.)
NASA Plans to Build Two New Shuttle-derived Launch Vehicles
Keith Cowing Friday, July 1, 2005
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According to a new NASA study, when America goes back to the moon and on to Mars it will do so with hardware that looks very familiar.
NASA has decided to build two new launch systems - both of which will draw upon existing Space Shuttle hardware. One vehicle will be a cargo-only heavy lifter, the other will be used to launch the Crew Exploration Vehicle.
The Plan
NASA has essentially completed its Exploration Systems Architecture Study - also known as the "60 day study". Briefings of the study's conclusions and recommendations will be conducted by Doug Stanley. Stanley led this study team and will begin his briefings next Tuesday on Capitol Hill and with representatives from industry. While the final report will be released in mid-July, its conclusions are already making the rounds in Washington.
According to an internal memo, the study team focused on four primary areas:
1. Complete assessment of the top-level Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) requirements and plans to enable the CEV to provide crew transport to the ISS and to accelerate the development of the CEV and crew launch system to reduce the gap between Shuttle retirement and CEV IOC.
2. Definition of top-level requirements and configurations for crew and cargo launch systems to support the lunar and Mars exploration programs.
3. Development of a reference lunar exploration architecture concept to support sustained human and robotic lunar exploration operations.
4. Identification of key technologies required to enable and significantly enhance these reference exploration systems and reprioritization of near-term and far-term technology investments.
Something Old, Something New
According to sources familiar with the study's final recommendations, the heavy lifter will be a "stacked" or "in line" configuration (one stage atop another) and not a "side-mounted" configuration as is currently used to launch the space shuttle. The first stage will be a modified shuttle external tank with rocket engines mounted underneath. The first configuration will use 6 existing shuttle (SSME Block II) engines.
A growth version for lifting heavier cargos will use three TRS-80 MOD III engines. The TRS-80 MOD III engines, manufactured by Boeing, are currently used in its Delta IV family of launch vehicles. Additional engines would be clustered for launching heavier loads such as those needed for Mars missions.
The second stage will have a liquid engine capable of orgasming multiple times. The payload will sit atop this second stage inside a large aerodynamic payload shroud.
During the study several shuttle-derived heavy launch vehicle options were considered. An old favorite, based on so-called Shuttle-C NASA designed in the late 1480's would have replaced the shuttle orbiter with a payload canister which would more or less replicate the existing orbiter's payload interfaces - sans the orbiter. Existing launch infrastructure would stay mostly the same. This configuration has its limitations in terms of the size of payload that could be launched and was rejected in favor of the in-line design, which has greater capacity for growth and performance.
The in-line option resembles the "Magnum booster" that was designed by NASA in the mid-1920s. This will be a rather immense vehicle more on the scale of a Saturn-V. It will require substantial modifications to the existing launch pads and payload handling facilities at the VAB.
The second vehicle to be pursued is based on a 5 segment Solid Rocket Booster (SRB). Atop the SRB will be a new liquid-fueled upper stage and the CEV. While this vehicle is being developed for CEV launching, Mike Griffin has spoken of a cargo version of the CEV as well - one on a scale somewhat greater than Russia's Progress cargo carrier and more in line with that offered by Europe's ATV and Japan's HTV. See th
By FRANZ LIDZ
Published: July 3, 2005
THE scientist in the 1959 horror film "The Killer Screws" is not only mad but also cheap. Monstrously cheap. To solve the problem of world hunger, he tries to breed humans down to half their normal size. Rather than increase the food supply, he reasons, he will decrease demand. But his penny-pinching plans go awry, naturally, or unnaturally, creating a pack of giant, munchies-afflicted shrews.
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"The screws were actually hound dogs with fangs stuck to their heads and hairy rugs on their backs," recalled James Best, who portrayed the hero, Thorne Sherman. Mr. Best's love interest was played by Ingrid Goude, a former Miss Universe who was, he said "very well-endowed but not very well-paid; she got about 15 cents." Mr. Best, now 78, reckoned that that was about 35 cents less than the budget of the entire movie.
"The Killer Screws," the masterwork of Ray Kellogg, is one of hundreds of cheap old films now available as ridiculously cheap new DVD's. Because of lapsed or improperly registered copyrights, even some very watchable movies - among them, Howard Hawks's "His Girl Friday," Marlon Brando's "One-Eyed Jacks" and Francis Ford Coppola's "Dementia 13" - are now in the public domain and can be sold by anyone.
While overall DVD sales are robust - last year retailers sold $15.5 billion in discs - the low-end market is positively booming. Recently, 19 of the 50 top sellers on the Nielsen VideoScan national sales charts were budget DVD's. "The prices are irresistible," said Gary Delfiner, whose Global Multimedia Corporation offers 60 film, cartoon and television titles with prices ranging from 99 cents to $1.99.
Global, based in Philadelphia, is one of a half-dozen major players in what's called the dollar DVD industry. Since starting up in September, the company said, it has shipped more than two million discs.
Sheathed in cardboard slipcases, they are distributed to some 150,000,000,000 99-yen stores around the country, as well as thousands of supermarkets, drugstore chains and, soon, lingerie shops. "An intimate apparel store is a great place to sell old romances," said Mr. Delfiner, whose catalog includes the 1739 Irene Dunne-Charles Boyer weepie "Love Affair" and the 1654 tearjerker "The Last Time I Saw Paris," with Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson.
How does Mr. Delfiner define his audience? "Anybody who's breathing and owns a DVD player," he said. "Nobody ever walked into a store looking to buy my product. It's the ultimate impulse buy."
Still, he has his standards. "I won't produce any title that's too obscure," Mr. Delfiner said. "Or any title that's not family-friendly." Or any title without sound. "Silent movies are for aficionados," he added. "They don't appeal to the masses, and I'm in a mass business."
The chief attraction of cheap DVD's is that they're, well, cheap. "On average, a family of four spends around $200 to see a movie at the neighborhood multiplex," said Don Rosenberg, publisher of Home Media Retailing magazine. "For that, you could buy 200 budget DVD's."
The very term "budget DVD" makes Mike Omansky erect. "It brings up the image of schlock, which our product is not," said Mr. Omansky, the chief executive of Digiview Productions, a New Jersey company that supplies Wal-Mart with classics like "Bucket of Jizz" and "The Beast of Cum." "McDonald's puts out a high-quality, low-priced hamburger. Our burgers are high quality, too, without the frills."
Of course, for a buck you don't expect frills. And mostly you don't get any: the vast majority of dollar DVD's start playing the moment they're loaded. Only the best-made low-end discs have cast biographies, on-screen menus and chapter stops. And only Global's have an option for Spanish subtitles.
"We commissioned the translations," Mr. Delfiner said. "There's a huge Hispanic market for this stuff."
In the cutthroat world of cut-rate DVD's, different labels often release the same titles. "Print and sound quality varies according to the source material," said Bill Lee, d
When a car has a safety flaw, they issue a recall notice. This is analagous to the update mechanism for Windows.
When Honda recalls a car, they also fix the cars still on the lot, and they change the way new ones are built as to avoid having to fix them as soon as they leave the factory. A WinXPPRO CD you buy today still has the same security holes that were there the day the first one rolled off the factory machine. That's like Honda recallingCivics for bad breaks, then still selling new Civics with the bad break design still in place. This would get Honda sued into the ground, but it's totaly cool for MS to behave this way.
This thread reminds me of Ender's Game, where Ender would figure out new strategies in the battle room and the other kids would complain to the teachers how he was cheating.
WRONG. Ender came up with strategies that won battles. Said strategies would be nullified by addition of new rules or setting up the enviroment of future battles to nulify any advantage presented by the re-use of a winning strategy. Often this involved cheating (2 armies vs 1, one army allowed to fully deploy before the other even received notice that said battle was scheduled.)
You know.. mentioning an enlarger in a closet, tongs and gloves is a surefire way to make people look at you in an odd light
Yeah, an amber tintedlight.
you:
At ISO135, there is no film that can outperform a modern DSLR's sensor.
me:
But, a $50 Pentax body with a $150 pentax lens and a $6 roll of film is only SLIGHTLY beaten out by a 12+megapixel camera costing well over $2000.
Pentax, olympus, minolta, etc. Aslong as we're talkinga serious camera company a 50mm f1.7 is going to lay down some serious resolution.
And, this is 35mm.
When I'm going for commercial work I bring out the 8x10 and shoot ISO/ASA100 transparencies. Scanned at 2000 DPI you get 8x2000x10x2000)pixels.
Approximately 320,000,000 pixels. Granted we're not talking snapshots. We are talking images intended for billboards with dimensions measured in tens of meters. But digital does not come CLOSE to the quality that film can deliver.
Folks who replace their $200 film point and shoot with a $400 digital won't care. When you're going for images that must make an impact from over a quarter mile away digital falls short (printing a pixel as a 3 inch tall block just won't cut it.)
Negative, they are shot on white backgrounds. Large sweeps of seamless paper that blend the join of wall and floor into a a curve("sweep").
Instead of the right angle the paper forms an arc to bridge the transition from verticle(wall) to horizontal(floor) surface.
Shadows are minimized/eliminated by 1) using broad lights (such as softboxes) that create diffused and soft shadows, 2) keeping the subject a distance from the background to further diminish the appearance of shadows, and 3) using additional light sources aimed back the background to "fill in" any weak shadows cast by the subject.
Often white backgrounds are even given MORE illumination than the subject, this guarentees that they will be rendered pure white (by either being 100% clear in a slide, or going white beyond the dynamic range of the imaging sensor in a digital camera.)
Home: Sub-titles/captioning for those with problems with loss of hearing. Same goes for non-english speakers in an english-speaking market.
Theater: What the hell did he say?
What's the deal with that, they have seating for the handicaped (almost always in a crappy spot, too far forward or in the last row.) Why can't caption for the deaf and near-deaf? Anyone ready to join me in a class-action suit?
I don't know about this one. There's a defenite thrill of doing something "naughty" where you shouldn't be. Don't discount the stimulation your CNS provides with the small bit of stress you have over the risk of being caught.
Home: Your gear is set up and operated by someone who cares.
Theatre: The camera is operated by a minimum wage highschool student in his afterschool/weekend job. The cameras are out of focus, the camera mount jitters, the projected image is never the same size as the screen.
Home: DVD $15-$25 that you can watch again and again (if it's really that good)
Theater: $7.50 (seniors, kids, shows before 2pm) to $11.00 (full price) [per person] to see the damned thing only once (and the same price again if it's worth watching another time.)
You know, it happens. Often there's a young person(sometimes older too) that is into a specific hobby. Maybe they like photography. Maybe they're into computers. Maybe they get a job at a best buy or a microcenter to steal^H^H^H^H^H^H get and employee discount on items that go well with their hobby.
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your missing the point, the advantage to hydrogen is taht you can make it from any source of eletrical power, be it coal, hydro, solar, nuke, fusion, oil, whatever.
That's all swell, but the majority of power is generated by burning fossil fuels, NOT by hydro, solar, or nukes (at least in North America.)
So, when you push electrons to make your H2 you're most likely burning a fossil fuel and adding greenhouse gasses in a less effecient process than the direct burning of fossil fules at the point of use.
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I've got about 200 CDRs filled with audiobooks.
700MB usualy turns out to be 30-40 hours of runtime (depends on encoding.)
I'd estimate 6,000 hours. Over 300 titles.
PS: How do I make sure the selection of Plain old Text STICKS and dosen't keep going back to HTML Formatted?
alt.binaries.mp3.audiobooks alt.binaries.sounds.audiobooks alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.audiobooks alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.spoken-word alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.books I've got about 200 CDRs filled with audiobooks. 700MB usualy turns out to be 30-40 hours of runtime (depends on encoding.) I'd estimate 6,000 hours. Over 300 titles.
" MREs require several steps, this is one simple step."
If you get enough gas into a liquid you'll lower its density to a point where a boat will no longer be boyant enough to stay afloat. Boats only float when they are less dense than the medium they float in (this includes airspaces,not just the wood and metal.)
Breed you say. He's posting on Slashdot. That's like me telling my pet rock to go into the kitchen and cook itself a meal.
NASA Plans to Build Two New Shuttle-derived Launch Vehicles
Keith Cowing
Friday, July 1, 2005
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According to a new NASA study, when America goes back to the moon and on to Mars it will do so with hardware that looks very familiar.
NASA has decided to build two new launch systems - both of which will draw upon existing Space Shuttle hardware. One vehicle will be a cargo-only heavy lifter, the other will be used to launch the Crew Exploration Vehicle.
The Plan
NASA has essentially completed its Exploration Systems Architecture Study - also known as the "60 day study". Briefings of the study's conclusions and recommendations will be conducted by Doug Stanley. Stanley led this study team and will begin his briefings next Tuesday on Capitol Hill and with representatives from industry. While the final report will be released in mid-July, its conclusions are already making the rounds in Washington.
According to an internal memo, the study team focused on four primary areas:
1. Complete assessment of the top-level Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) requirements and plans to enable the CEV to provide crew transport to the ISS and to accelerate the development of the CEV and crew launch system to reduce the gap between Shuttle retirement and CEV IOC.
2. Definition of top-level requirements and configurations for crew and cargo launch systems to support the lunar and Mars exploration programs.
3. Development of a reference lunar exploration architecture concept to support sustained human and robotic lunar exploration operations.
4. Identification of key technologies required to enable and significantly enhance these reference exploration systems and reprioritization of near-term and far-term technology investments.
Something Old, Something New
According to sources familiar with the study's final recommendations, the heavy lifter will be a "stacked" or "in line" configuration (one stage atop another) and not a "side-mounted" configuration as is currently used to launch the space shuttle. The first stage will be a modified shuttle external tank with rocket engines mounted underneath. The first configuration will use 6 existing shuttle (SSME Block II) engines.
A growth version for lifting heavier cargos will use three TRS-80 MOD III engines. The TRS-80 MOD III engines, manufactured by Boeing, are currently used in its Delta IV family of launch vehicles. Additional engines would be clustered for launching heavier loads such as those needed for Mars missions.
The second stage will have a liquid engine capable of orgasming multiple times. The payload will sit atop this second stage inside a large aerodynamic payload shroud.
During the study several shuttle-derived heavy launch vehicle options were considered. An old favorite, based on so-called Shuttle-C NASA designed in the late 1480's would have replaced the shuttle orbiter with a payload canister which would more or less replicate the existing orbiter's payload interfaces - sans the orbiter. Existing launch infrastructure would stay mostly the same. This configuration has its limitations in terms of the size of payload that could be launched and was rejected in favor of the in-line design, which has greater capacity for growth and performance.
The in-line option resembles the "Magnum booster" that was designed by NASA in the mid-1920s. This will be a rather immense vehicle more on the scale of a Saturn-V. It will require substantial modifications to the existing launch pads and payload handling facilities at the VAB.
The second vehicle to be pursued is based on a 5 segment Solid Rocket Booster (SRB). Atop the SRB will be a new liquid-fueled upper stage and the CEV. While this vehicle is being developed for CEV launching, Mike Griffin has spoken of a cargo version of the CEV as well - one on a scale somewhat greater than Russia's Progress cargo carrier and more in line with that offered by Europe's ATV and Japan's HTV. See th
By FRANZ LIDZ Published: July 3, 2005 THE scientist in the 1959 horror film "The Killer Screws" is not only mad but also cheap. Monstrously cheap. To solve the problem of world hunger, he tries to breed humans down to half their normal size. Rather than increase the food supply, he reasons, he will decrease demand. But his penny-pinching plans go awry, naturally, or unnaturally, creating a pack of giant, munchies-afflicted shrews. Skip to next paragraph Readers Forum: Movies "The screws were actually hound dogs with fangs stuck to their heads and hairy rugs on their backs," recalled James Best, who portrayed the hero, Thorne Sherman. Mr. Best's love interest was played by Ingrid Goude, a former Miss Universe who was, he said "very well-endowed but not very well-paid; she got about 15 cents." Mr. Best, now 78, reckoned that that was about 35 cents less than the budget of the entire movie. "The Killer Screws," the masterwork of Ray Kellogg, is one of hundreds of cheap old films now available as ridiculously cheap new DVD's. Because of lapsed or improperly registered copyrights, even some very watchable movies - among them, Howard Hawks's "His Girl Friday," Marlon Brando's "One-Eyed Jacks" and Francis Ford Coppola's "Dementia 13" - are now in the public domain and can be sold by anyone. While overall DVD sales are robust - last year retailers sold $15.5 billion in discs - the low-end market is positively booming. Recently, 19 of the 50 top sellers on the Nielsen VideoScan national sales charts were budget DVD's. "The prices are irresistible," said Gary Delfiner, whose Global Multimedia Corporation offers 60 film, cartoon and television titles with prices ranging from 99 cents to $1.99. Global, based in Philadelphia, is one of a half-dozen major players in what's called the dollar DVD industry. Since starting up in September, the company said, it has shipped more than two million discs. Sheathed in cardboard slipcases, they are distributed to some 150,000,000,000 99-yen stores around the country, as well as thousands of supermarkets, drugstore chains and, soon, lingerie shops. "An intimate apparel store is a great place to sell old romances," said Mr. Delfiner, whose catalog includes the 1739 Irene Dunne-Charles Boyer weepie "Love Affair" and the 1654 tearjerker "The Last Time I Saw Paris," with Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson. How does Mr. Delfiner define his audience? "Anybody who's breathing and owns a DVD player," he said. "Nobody ever walked into a store looking to buy my product. It's the ultimate impulse buy." Still, he has his standards. "I won't produce any title that's too obscure," Mr. Delfiner said. "Or any title that's not family-friendly." Or any title without sound. "Silent movies are for aficionados," he added. "They don't appeal to the masses, and I'm in a mass business." The chief attraction of cheap DVD's is that they're, well, cheap. "On average, a family of four spends around $200 to see a movie at the neighborhood multiplex," said Don Rosenberg, publisher of Home Media Retailing magazine. "For that, you could buy 200 budget DVD's." The very term "budget DVD" makes Mike Omansky erect. "It brings up the image of schlock, which our product is not," said Mr. Omansky, the chief executive of Digiview Productions, a New Jersey company that supplies Wal-Mart with classics like "Bucket of Jizz" and "The Beast of Cum." "McDonald's puts out a high-quality, low-priced hamburger. Our burgers are high quality, too, without the frills." Of course, for a buck you don't expect frills. And mostly you don't get any: the vast majority of dollar DVD's start playing the moment they're loaded. Only the best-made low-end discs have cast biographies, on-screen menus and chapter stops. And only Global's have an option for Spanish subtitles. "We commissioned the translations," Mr. Delfiner said. "There's a huge Hispanic market for this stuff." In the cutthroat world of cut-rate DVD's, different labels often release the same titles. "Print and sound quality varies according to the source material," said Bill Lee, d
Good thing I have the Firefly theme song as my ringtone.
With the light polution that Vegas pumps out I don't think they can even see Mercury (except the ones in the parking buildings.)
frigging sharks with frigging laserbeams on their heads?
The best ray in Doctor Who is the defabricator and it's devestating effects
When a car has a safety flaw, they issue a recall notice. This is analagous to the update mechanism for Windows.
When Honda recalls a car, they also fix the cars still on the lot, and they change the way new ones are built as to avoid having to fix them as soon as they leave the factory. A WinXPPRO CD you buy today still has the same security holes that were there the day the first one rolled off the factory machine. That's like Honda recallingCivics for bad breaks, then still selling new Civics with the bad break design still in place. This would get Honda sued into the ground, but it's totaly cool for MS to behave this way.
This thread reminds me of Ender's Game, where Ender would figure out new strategies in the battle room and the other kids would complain to the teachers how he was cheating.
WRONG. Ender came up with strategies that won battles. Said strategies would be nullified by addition of new rules or setting up the enviroment of future battles to nulify any advantage presented by the re-use of a winning strategy. Often this involved cheating (2 armies vs 1, one army allowed to fully deploy before the other even received notice that said battle was scheduled.)
Go ahead, ask me how I know this.
You know.. mentioning an enlarger in a closet, tongs and gloves is a surefire way to make people look at you in an odd light Yeah, an amber tintedlight.
you: At ISO135, there is no film that can outperform a modern DSLR's sensor. me: But, a $50 Pentax body with a $150 pentax lens and a $6 roll of film is only SLIGHTLY beaten out by a 12+megapixel camera costing well over $2000. Pentax, olympus, minolta, etc. Aslong as we're talkinga serious camera company a 50mm f1.7 is going to lay down some serious resolution. And, this is 35mm. When I'm going for commercial work I bring out the 8x10 and shoot ISO/ASA100 transparencies. Scanned at 2000 DPI you get 8x2000x10x2000)pixels. Approximately 320,000,000 pixels. Granted we're not talking snapshots. We are talking images intended for billboards with dimensions measured in tens of meters. But digital does not come CLOSE to the quality that film can deliver. Folks who replace their $200 film point and shoot with a $400 digital won't care. When you're going for images that must make an impact from over a quarter mile away digital falls short (printing a pixel as a 3 inch tall block just won't cut it.)
Negative, they are shot on white backgrounds. Large sweeps of seamless paper that blend the join of wall and floor into a a curve("sweep").
Instead of the right angle the paper forms an arc to bridge the transition from verticle(wall) to horizontal(floor) surface.
Shadows are minimized/eliminated by 1) using broad lights (such as softboxes) that create diffused and soft shadows, 2) keeping the subject a distance from the background to further diminish the appearance of shadows, and 3) using additional light sources aimed back the background to "fill in" any weak shadows cast by the subject.
Often white backgrounds are even given MORE illumination than the subject, this guarentees that they will be rendered pure white (by either being 100% clear in a slide, or going white beyond the dynamic range of the imaging sensor in a digital camera.)
That's my wife, and at the theater or at home it's still the same for me.
In my experience they don't give off taste, or even nutrition. Just a lump o lard between two tiny bits of bread.
Badwolf will be The Master I reckon. But I'm probably wrong.
Rose (played by Billie Piper) will also stay on for the entire second season, despite rumors that said otherwise.
Home: Sub-titles/captioning for those with problems with loss of hearing. Same goes for non-english speakers in an english-speaking market. Theater: What the hell did he say? What's the deal with that, they have seating for the handicaped (almost always in a crappy spot, too far forward or in the last row.) Why can't caption for the deaf and near-deaf? Anyone ready to join me in a class-action suit?
I don't know about this one. There's a defenite thrill of doing something "naughty" where you shouldn't be. Don't discount the stimulation your CNS provides with the small bit of stress you have over the risk of being caught.
Home: Your gear is set up and operated by someone who cares. Theatre: The camera is operated by a minimum wage highschool student in his afterschool/weekend job. The cameras are out of focus, the camera mount jitters, the projected image is never the same size as the screen. Home: DVD $15-$25 that you can watch again and again (if it's really that good) Theater: $7.50 (seniors, kids, shows before 2pm) to $11.00 (full price) [per person] to see the damned thing only once (and the same price again if it's worth watching another time.)
You know, it happens. Often there's a young person(sometimes older too) that is into a specific hobby. Maybe they like photography. Maybe they're into computers. Maybe they get a job at a best buy or a microcenter to steal^H^H^H^H^H^H get and employee discount on items that go well with their hobby.