We might have the materials science on the cutting edge in 100 years.
If we devoted proper resources to it we could do it in much less than that. With the focus of the coal industry on carbon sequestration, what better way to sequest some of the carbon? Unfortunately innovation within the coal industry is how best to burn it. Since CNT have to be produced in a hot vapour state what better place to have the industrial process to make them than when the carbon is already hot and burnt?
If the worlds population is to expand any further then a new building material will be needed so we can colonise the oceans *and* space as well as improve our ability to create large land base structures. I would see uses for CNT beyond just a S.E.
They ultimately decided to castrate him in the autumn last year, but... "It is normal behavior for alpha males to want to influence their surroundings...
now the surroundings are influencing the alpha male, guess he won't be an alpha male for long.
It is extremely frustrating for him that there are people out of his reach who are pointing at him and laughing,
now we know what it must have been like for W.
"It cannot be good to be so furious all the time."
hmmmm, maybe they could have put signs up instead of cut the monkeys nuts off!!!
I love Star Trek, I'm re-visiting TNG with my girlfriend who has never seen it, I think she likes it (Yah!!) but where else can the story go?
We've done the five year mission, then went forward several hundred years to the next generation, did the space station thing, got lost in a new sector of the galaxy and then went back to the beginning. Now we go back to the beginning, again?
I'm sorry but Star Trek has got boring. It follows a formula, new technology, new badder enemy, war, combat, new technology, beat bad guys - go home. Every ST after TNG followed the exact same formula, days of our lives in space.
The only hope for ST is what made it interesting in the very beginning TOS and TNG, science fiction Forget all the lame 'b' grade effects, effects are the only thing that have made trek pleasing to watch, it was the imagination that filled in the gaps when I first watched TOS, and at the time it was the most ground breaking thing on TV - fuck IT WAS TV - and the story was king!!!
but, no no no these shows are seen as 'franchises', not a craft that sparks the imagination of the viewer, as one lame idea after another is tried. I'm sure I'm not the only sci fi fan that is banging their head in frustration. Now I'm sure that the new Star Trek movie will work, but it will work in the way that when a Chinese artisan copies a work of art faithfully and skill fully, yet they still don't understand the idea that brought the art into being in the first place.
For Star Trek to work in the future (are you listening Star Trek producers) you need to get back to what Star Trek was and should be a vehicle for hard science fiction. Go read Greg Bear Eon, Eternity (get Greg Bear to write the episodes) then call on Allister Reynolds and Robert Reed or half a dozen other sci fi writers that other slashdotters could name. Better yet, make the entire story Open Source or Creative commons and start asking for submission for stories from the fans. Two words Paramount BIG FUCKING IDEAS.
For fuck sake make Star trek in your face science fiction again, or just say it's over, cause the way it's being killed is just sad.
I use old drives for swap space on a dedicated channel - sure not useful until the machine get's loaded - but it's real useful when the machine get loaded. No, I don't like it when a machine swaps, but if it's going to...
Looks like the average failure rate for manned space missions is around 1.5%. Of course you wouldn't expect China to have had any failures yet as they control the media and have a plan for the image of the Chinese space program to look far superior to any American or Russian effort.
Well the article does seem like a rant over Microsoft but it does raise an interesting issue:
Does the Open Source business model create a better potential for profits than the closed sourced model?
If anything the article does reveal the way that Microsoft's business model extracts cash from their partners operating capital. If the same businesses were Open Source shops not only would more capital stay within the business (due to an absence of licensing fees) and make them more profitable but a larger economy would reveal itself in terms of client businesses becoming empowered to drive the innovation within the software they are using.
It seems like a no-brainer that this would be a good thing for employment within the IT industry as all software houses would be positioned to employ people who are able to make contributions to the Open Sourced software base. In comparison, in the closed model innovation is forced to be from one place (like Microsoft) and come from a limited amount of minds. Clearly a lot of contractual artifices are constructed that generates animosity, but they are entitled to collect.
Even if the article has a little bit of truth it's pretty obvious why Microsoft generates a lot of hostility in the business community, it's all about Microsoft - it's not really about business.
Perhap's I did not provide enough context. What I'm saying is that if you don't already exercise trying to achieve any meaningful results with dieting alone takes a lot of discipline. Whilst I generally agree with what you are saying there are some other point's you've made that I will address.
What? Why, is someone else shoving food down your throat? If you are an adult, you have 100% control over your diet and whether or not it is healthy.
No you do not. You have no control over how food is grown, and the fertilisers that are used, even if you choose 'organic' food. Modern fresh fruit and vegetables have about 1/5 the nutrient content they had 50 years ago. You have no control over food that is chemically ripened or stored, what antibiotics and growth hormones are injected into meat and poultry. You have no control over the conditions that your food is grown in, and while I can't prove it, I'm sure that the cruel way that our food animals are treated produces stress hormones and toxins we probably don't want to ingest.
Yes, I personally choose barn laid or free range eggs. But finding affordable meat that is ethically treated is really hard. I haven't found where I can buy whole unprocessed milk either. I eat Kangaroo, because it's lean and farmed well.
I don't eat fast food at all, no fizzy sugar water crap drinks and rarely do I eat chocolate. If you look closely at some of the 'healthy' options of fast food places they are just a joke. Those companies spend millions of dollars wrestling control of your diet out of your hands and most of the time, you don't even know it.
I have helped quite a few people improve their diets and introduce exercise into their life, it does take discipline until it becomes a habit. The assertion that you have 100% control over your diet is not a claim anyone can make, even for someone, like me, who has had the discipline and effort I constantly put into improving my diet.
Exercise, you actually have to remember to set aside the time to do it - but that's still 100% under your control.
Personally doing a workout is something I am driven to do, I really enjoy it, unfortunately I still don't have 100% control.
I set aside time for tonight's leg workout but my workout partner had to skip. I don't like it but it happens, sure in the morning I might get a bodysurf in, but it's not the same. I had to replace weight's with swimming/bodysurfing for a couple of months while my workout partner was ill and even then it rained for two weeks (which is when you don't go in the surf unless you want an ear infection).
As I said, I don't generally disagree with you but I do think that people get into eating habit's that get worse and worse over time and it takes education and discipline to break those habits. The bottom line is as I said before, physical activity and avoid processed foods, which is what will work for just about everyone for general health and I think your pretty much saying the same thing.
I was pointing out that this is essentially equivalent to "When I play games for a long stint I practically only eat sugar, and my body still screams at me to go and do a workout.", which isn't exactly stunning.
Except that it is not. 100 grams of sugar is a processed food. 100 grams of fruit is not processed. The 100 grams of fruit does contain sugar but it also has fibre, water and enzymes. 100 grams of sugar contains 100 grams of sugar.
There is no way I could eat a half kilo of sugar, but I could easily polish off two apples, an orange, two peaches, a hunk of watermelon and a bunch of grapes. Further, the fruit takes energy to digest and contains a whole bunch of vitamins, sugar does not.
It's unlikely you'll be able to eat enough fruit for the amount of sugar you ingest from it to become a significant health issue.
Diet is a much more reliable indicator of obesity.
I like playing games but I think I enjoy exercise more. Frankly there is only so much of your 'diet' you can control without a lot of discipline. When I play games for a long stint I practically only eat fruit, and my body still screams at me to go and do a workout. And I doubt many of the gamers out there are just eating fruit when they are on a big games stint.
Let's be realistic here. When I go into a games shop most of the gamers aren't even wearing any deodorant so as far as a healthy diet goes I can't see many gamers making that much effort if a few sprays of a can is too much effort. Take-away, fast food and frozen food ain't good and if you can't get past 'no processed food's' rule and no fizzy sugary drinks in your diet, you have a looonngg way to go before your diet is healthy enough to just sit around and play games.
Frankly it's bullshit to expect that just diet will make you healthy. Diet alone is only a factor when you are *already* a high performance athlete and need to get closer to that edge. Exercise is the *only* way to condition your body for health. On top of that you have to do exercise during certain times of your life to expect to ward of certain diseases later on in life. Osteoporosis is a prime example. Ideally a person should be physically active during their teens to allow bone mineral density to increase enough to ward this disease off. Then there is conditioning the heart and lungs which helps improve the bloods oxygen uptake ability. That's good for the brain and thinking clearly. Don't get me wrong, diet is important but you simply can't get that from just diet.
Besides exercising gives you the advantage of being able to eat just about what ever you want to *and* play video games;-) Go get a skateboard or something you like to do that's physical and later, when you are chilling out, play games.
Games should be the icing on your life, not your life.
Another point: the company is trying to produce machines that they think county-level election officials will buy. Trying to produce a good electronic voting system would result in a very different system.
Yes, but only the home edition not the Premium edition.
Which may not be as unreasonable as you think. I know when I wanted to place some of my projects on Linux virtual machines hosted on a System Z I was disappointed by how much cpu time and memory I got in comparison to an every day PC.
What I did get though was blindingly fast I/O, which is what mainframes are designed for, graphics performance is not really high on the agenda.
It kinda makes me think of using a D10 to dig weeds and considering windows doesn't really separate the gui from the OS as X11 does for *ix's, I'd be interested to see how it handles that.
Actually, come to think of it, it probably will have a hard time running vista, if it runs it at all.
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If we devoted proper resources to it we could do it in much less than that. With the focus of the coal industry on carbon sequestration, what better way to sequest some of the carbon? Unfortunately innovation within the coal industry is how best to burn it. Since CNT have to be produced in a hot vapour state what better place to have the industrial process to make them than when the carbon is already hot and burnt?
If the worlds population is to expand any further then a new building material will be needed so we can colonise the oceans *and* space as well as improve our ability to create large land base structures. I would see uses for CNT beyond just a S.E.
Can we make the elevator out of duct tape?
now the surroundings are influencing the alpha male, guess he won't be an alpha male for long.
now we know what it must have been like for W.
hmmmm, maybe they could have put signs up instead of cut the monkeys nuts off!!!
We've done the five year mission, then went forward several hundred years to the next generation, did the space station thing, got lost in a new sector of the galaxy and then went back to the beginning. Now we go back to the beginning, again?
I'm sorry but Star Trek has got boring. It follows a formula, new technology, new badder enemy, war, combat, new technology, beat bad guys - go home. Every ST after TNG followed the exact same formula, days of our lives in space.
The only hope for ST is what made it interesting in the very beginning TOS and TNG, science fiction Forget all the lame 'b' grade effects, effects are the only thing that have made trek pleasing to watch, it was the imagination that filled in the gaps when I first watched TOS, and at the time it was the most ground breaking thing on TV - fuck IT WAS TV - and the story was king!!!
but, no no no these shows are seen as 'franchises', not a craft that sparks the imagination of the viewer, as one lame idea after another is tried. I'm sure I'm not the only sci fi fan that is banging their head in frustration. Now I'm sure that the new Star Trek movie will work, but it will work in the way that when a Chinese artisan copies a work of art faithfully and skill fully, yet they still don't understand the idea that brought the art into being in the first place.
For Star Trek to work in the future (are you listening Star Trek producers) you need to get back to what Star Trek was and should be a vehicle for hard science fiction. Go read Greg Bear Eon, Eternity (get Greg Bear to write the episodes) then call on Allister Reynolds and Robert Reed or half a dozen other sci fi writers that other slashdotters could name. Better yet, make the entire story Open Source or Creative commons and start asking for submission for stories from the fans. Two words Paramount BIG FUCKING IDEAS.
For fuck sake make Star trek in your face science fiction again, or just say it's over, cause the way it's being killed is just sad.
Not one lesbian kiss scene in the whole series, so much for 'where no man has gone before'
Cooooool!
Nu uh. Vista was the feature that caused Windows 7 development. That's why Windows 9 will be the bestest windows evaaaaaah!!!
I use old drives for swap space on a dedicated channel - sure not useful until the machine get's loaded - but it's real useful when the machine get loaded. No, I don't like it when a machine swaps, but if it's going to...
Fixed that for ya.
imagine a Beowulf cluster of .... ah fuxk it.
Well the article does seem like a rant over Microsoft but it does raise an interesting issue:
Does the Open Source business model create a better potential for profits than the closed sourced model?If anything the article does reveal the way that Microsoft's business model extracts cash from their partners operating capital. If the same businesses were Open Source shops not only would more capital stay within the business (due to an absence of licensing fees) and make them more profitable but a larger economy would reveal itself in terms of client businesses becoming empowered to drive the innovation within the software they are using.
It seems like a no-brainer that this would be a good thing for employment within the IT industry as all software houses would be positioned to employ people who are able to make contributions to the Open Sourced software base. In comparison, in the closed model innovation is forced to be from one place (like Microsoft) and come from a limited amount of minds. Clearly a lot of contractual artifices are constructed that generates animosity, but they are entitled to collect.
Even if the article has a little bit of truth it's pretty obvious why Microsoft generates a lot of hostility in the business community, it's all about Microsoft - it's not really about business.
It's that kind of thinking that built this great land.
advertisers can't lie without paying a royalty? Maybe I should patent lying.
I wonder if we will ever be able to do automated builds of space stations? make install space station!
No you do not. You have no control over how food is grown, and the fertilisers that are used, even if you choose 'organic' food. Modern fresh fruit and vegetables have about 1/5 the nutrient content they had 50 years ago. You have no control over food that is chemically ripened or stored, what antibiotics and growth hormones are injected into meat and poultry. You have no control over the conditions that your food is grown in, and while I can't prove it, I'm sure that the cruel way that our food animals are treated produces stress hormones and toxins we probably don't want to ingest.
Yes, I personally choose barn laid or free range eggs. But finding affordable meat that is ethically treated is really hard. I haven't found where I can buy whole unprocessed milk either. I eat Kangaroo, because it's lean and farmed well.
I don't eat fast food at all, no fizzy sugar water crap drinks and rarely do I eat chocolate. If you look closely at some of the 'healthy' options of fast food places they are just a joke. Those companies spend millions of dollars wrestling control of your diet out of your hands and most of the time, you don't even know it.
I have helped quite a few people improve their diets and introduce exercise into their life, it does take discipline until it becomes a habit. The assertion that you have 100% control over your diet is not a claim anyone can make, even for someone, like me, who has had the discipline and effort I constantly put into improving my diet.
Personally doing a workout is something I am driven to do, I really enjoy it, unfortunately I still don't have 100% control. I set aside time for tonight's leg workout but my workout partner had to skip. I don't like it but it happens, sure in the morning I might get a bodysurf in, but it's not the same. I had to replace weight's with swimming/bodysurfing for a couple of months while my workout partner was ill and even then it rained for two weeks (which is when you don't go in the surf unless you want an ear infection).
As I said, I don't generally disagree with you but I do think that people get into eating habit's that get worse and worse over time and it takes education and discipline to break those habits. The bottom line is as I said before, physical activity and avoid processed foods, which is what will work for just about everyone for general health and I think your pretty much saying the same thing.
Except that it is not. 100 grams of sugar is a processed food. 100 grams of fruit is not processed. The 100 grams of fruit does contain sugar but it also has fibre, water and enzymes. 100 grams of sugar contains 100 grams of sugar.
There is no way I could eat a half kilo of sugar, but I could easily polish off two apples, an orange, two peaches, a hunk of watermelon and a bunch of grapes. Further, the fruit takes energy to digest and contains a whole bunch of vitamins, sugar does not.
It's unlikely you'll be able to eat enough fruit for the amount of sugar you ingest from it to become a significant health issue.
I like playing games but I think I enjoy exercise more. Frankly there is only so much of your 'diet' you can control without a lot of discipline. When I play games for a long stint I practically only eat fruit, and my body still screams at me to go and do a workout. And I doubt many of the gamers out there are just eating fruit when they are on a big games stint.
Let's be realistic here. When I go into a games shop most of the gamers aren't even wearing any deodorant so as far as a healthy diet goes I can't see many gamers making that much effort if a few sprays of a can is too much effort. Take-away, fast food and frozen food ain't good and if you can't get past 'no processed food's' rule and no fizzy sugary drinks in your diet, you have a looonngg way to go before your diet is healthy enough to just sit around and play games.
Frankly it's bullshit to expect that just diet will make you healthy. Diet alone is only a factor when you are *already* a high performance athlete and need to get closer to that edge. Exercise is the *only* way to condition your body for health. On top of that you have to do exercise during certain times of your life to expect to ward of certain diseases later on in life. Osteoporosis is a prime example. Ideally a person should be physically active during their teens to allow bone mineral density to increase enough to ward this disease off. Then there is conditioning the heart and lungs which helps improve the bloods oxygen uptake ability. That's good for the brain and thinking clearly. Don't get me wrong, diet is important but you simply can't get that from just diet.
Besides exercising gives you the advantage of being able to eat just about what ever you want to *and* play video games ;-) Go get a skateboard or something you like to do that's physical and later, when you are chilling out, play games.
Games should be the icing on your life, not your life.
What about this solar phone htw-s116.
MOD PARENT UP
Would be Darwin's views on God as opposed to Dawkin's views on the lack of one.
Laaaaaaaaa aaarrr rrrrrrsssss
Once you start down the dark path forever will it download your destiny.
What else he has downloaded?
An open source e-voting system?
Yes, but only the home edition not the Premium edition.
Which may not be as unreasonable as you think. I know when I wanted to place some of my projects on Linux virtual machines hosted on a System Z I was disappointed by how much cpu time and memory I got in comparison to an every day PC.
What I did get though was blindingly fast I/O, which is what mainframes are designed for, graphics performance is not really high on the agenda.
It kinda makes me think of using a D10 to dig weeds and considering windows doesn't really separate the gui from the OS as X11 does for *ix's, I'd be interested to see how it handles that.
Actually, come to think of it, it probably will have a hard time running vista, if it runs it at all.