Actually....the human body in fact REQUIRES chlorine to live....what do you think makes up the "-chloric" part of hydrochloric acid in your stomach?
Gastric juices are, for the most part, 1M HCl...so every liter of stomach acid your body produces requires about 35.5 grams of chloride ion, (about 58 g of table salt)
There's even an FDA recommended daily allowance of sodium chloride that correlates to that. (they know how long it takes your body to make 1 liter of stomach acid...I don't)
Ok, that makes more sense....the article itself states that the amount of energy being passed through it is equivalent to being hit by lightning, or a mini-reactor....that kind of juice would decompose the water itself into component H2 and O2, which is why this didn't sound feasible.
Will Cl- ions react with a microscopic organism? I mean, Cl- ions are already present in sea water (albeit not in as high concentrations) and there are plenty of microbes in the sea....same deal with sodium ions.
That depends on the concentration really...I've had 0.1M sodium hydroxide on my hands before and it doesn't burn, though it exfoliates the skin quite nicely.
I don't think the concentration is likely to get to that range by decomposing salt water.
From what the article says, it sounds like all they're doing is passing a high electrical current through a saline solution. I don't understand how this solution is supposed to retain its charge, let alone not decompose the salt solution into base molecules. (hydrogen, chlorine, oxygen)
Has anyone seen a more detailed description of how this thing actually works? It can't be as simple as the article describes, solutions just don't work that way.
But what if your wife was not so willing to set her career aside and follow you around? Would you then quit YOUR job and go to where SHE found work? Is your job more important than being with your wife?
It sounds to me like you're happy to have a stay-at-home and bake cookies house-marm. Not every woman is like that anymore....in fact, very few are. You know why? Because that's the role we males have thrust upon them for a long time, and very few are willing to let go of it.
Basically, a process that breaks down biomass from plants and produces hydrogen and CO2 as byproducts. They claim the CO2 produced will be less than what is used by next years crop of plants that are grown for this purpose. We'll see, I suppose.
But anyway, it's a promising technology, and probably what Ford is looking to for the future.
Not for nothin' but wouldn't the heat of the asteroid (from passing through atmospheric re-entry) smoke a hole in this airbag before it had a chance to absorb much force from it?
And what would they plan on inflating it with? Part of the protection of an airbag is the force of it inflating as your momentum carries you forward. It's an azide compound that generates a bunch of nitrogen gas that rapidly inflates it. It would be a hell of a chemical reaction to generate enough gas to fill a several km wide cushion. Maybe I should think of it more as one of those airbags the fire dept. uses to keep jumpers from smacking pavement?
Did you mean to reply to the original poster, whom the subject line is attributed to?
Or are you just a dick in general? The reason the future is going to suck is because of antisocial cuntwipes like you spewing your worthless opinions like so much sewage.
And CEOs need to realize that the only reason they are making any money is because of the employees. It works both ways. Corporations ceaselessly take advantage of both employees and customers, and it seems to get worse every year.
I can't speak for the rest of the sheep, but I won't be a slave to a company that routinely treats me like shit. I've walked away from a very high paying job without a second thought because management took both their customers and their employees for granted.
Unfortunately, some people have families to feed and that's not an option for them, and all I can say is next presidential election, vote Green Party. They're on your side.
The heating doesn't increase the density of the material, per se. It makes the material more suitable for being magnetically altered, then apparently the cooling once the laser is no longer being fired at the disk surface makes the magnetic impression of the bits more stable.
In other words, they mean data density (bits per unit of area) rather than material density. (mass per unit of volume)
Perhaps on FTP sites and IRC you run across disk images a bit more, but from my experience, p2p file sharing systems tend to have rips as they're smaller.
I agree that setups like Quake 3 are optimal...if you're going to be playing it online and extensively, you should be paying for the game. If you're just checking it out, who gives a flying one if it's pirated or not.
As far as the dodgy stuff, well, if you're not running anti-virus and packet filtering software on your system, you deserve whatever computerized punishment these maladroit script kiddies inflict upon you.
Without even getting 1/3 of the way through the replies, I saw at least 4 posts whining that they wouldn't be able to play their new music CDs in the car or stereo. (Yeah like you buy them anyway)
I will quote the article:
A PC that looks for but cannot find the keys on an illegally-copied disk returns an error message. Root protection works for all CD-ROM disks read by a PC, but is not applicable to audio CDs.
Now, as far as being protection for software, this isn't going to stop the people doing most of the pirating. Most of the pirated games you download now are not copies of the CD but a compressed file containing the contents of the installation directory along with a hacked executable. With good audio and video compression and WinACE, as well as ripping out un-needed components, a 2-CD game can be crunched down to about 300-500 meg. You then run a simple script that comes with the distribution and it uncompresses everything in the directory you unzipped it in. Look for any popular game on Kazaa, that's the format you'll find it in, isos aren't nearly as common anymore.
Actually, the porn thing is the one that baffles me. We are talking about the same internet where people trade music all the time for free, but for some reason they don't get that concept with porn? (But then again, I have never even desired to be a member of a porn site, so maybe I am missing something about the motivations involved)
I can answer that one....it's because the pr0n-lords are smart enough to come up with a business model that adapts to the nature of the internet and the needs of the customers.
They charge a reasonable rate for access to their (and often times several partnering) websites...usually $10-$20 for a month's worth of unlimited downloading of pics, movies, etc. Then they keep rolling out new material to keep people coming back. They have different websites to cater to peoples' different tastes, be it asians, blacks, gay, fat chicks, or what have you.
If the RIAA, or better yet the individual artists, would open their eyes and follow a similar model, I think everyone would be a lot better off for it. Yeah there are a lot of charlatans out there, but many of the people running the pr0n companies are smart, smart businessmen. (and women)
You know, a certain number of advertisers almost always promote their products on TV...if they are pushed out of television, they're going to have to find other avenues for advertising.
This means for you....more spam, more banner ads, more radio commercials, more billboards, and whatever new and unusual methods of advertising they can think of. (The cell phone shills in bars from a previous article for example)
I don't deny that TV commercials need to be toned down...but if they're gone entirely, that could make the rest of our existance get overloaded with ads.
Very true, but most generic PC retailers will know enough about the hardware that's on the market now to let a customer know if there's a gross incompatibility. (Oh, no, NO sir, you don't want to use that video card with that motherboard, it won't work)
Not to say that all retailer know what they're doing, but most do, especially the small shops.
That's because these Oracle dbs were put in a long time ago, before MySQL started gaining any real notoriety or use in the corporate world. Once you have a mammoth database already in place, wouldn't you continue to use it? It's easier and less risky to upgrade your servers and pay an Oracle dbm 6 figures a year to maintain and improve it rather than migrate your entire infrastructure over to another platform entirely. Especially if you're a financial institution that simply CANNOT afford any major downtime in their database for migration/debugging.
Another reason to use something like Oracle....vendor support.
I'm a big fan of open source software solutions, and I'm glad to see MySQL getting some use in the real world, but don't expect the world to drop what it's using and switch just because it's free and cool.
You're trolling on slashdot on a Saturday evening and you're telling someone else to get a life? Wow. Either mom won't let you take the Taurus out for a spin tonight, you're married and oppressed into staying home by your wife, on house arrest, or just a plain old fashioned hypocrite.
Yeah, I forgot to mention Goldeneye...I really did enjoy playing it, but again I hated not having a mouse and keyboard. That game woulda been perfect if they made it for the PC.
As an aside, someone made a counterstrike map based on one of the goldeneye maps. (the one in the house) It was a good time.
Am I the only one that absolutely HATES playing an FPS on a console? I don't understand the popularity that games like Halo, Half Life and Quake have had on various console systems...it's just not the same level on control if you're not playing with a mouse and keyboard. Maybe I'm just too stuck in my ways to learn a new method of control, but I simply can't enjoy those types on games on consoles.
The only games I can enjoy on a console are platformers (Sonic, Jak and Daxter, etc), sports games, racing games, and fighting games (mortal kombat, virtua fighter, etc)
So, is it just a matter of getting used to the controls for FPS-type games on consoles or am I do I actually have a point?
If all 40 million people (or however many Japan is up to these days) get 8-12 Mbps service, you're going to NEED Internet2 caliber backbones in place. All the bandwidth in the world at your house does you no good if the infrastructure can't support it.
The problem with working for cartel people is that if they don't like the quality of your work or if they think you might roll over on them if you get pinched, and they'll kill you without blinking an eye. Don't think they'll treat you like one of the family just because you're smart. These are not nice people.
You can't every song by just about any artist upon demand through either the radio or XM. You can over the internet. That's why they're claiming CD sales are down....because some people are downloading the music instead of buying the CD. (But let's not forget the people that find a few songs by an artist they've never heard, decide they like them, and then go buy every CD they've ever made )
Maybe if they offered low cost internet purchase options people would stop pirating like crazy. Who can afford $15-20 per CD anymore?
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Actually....the human body in fact REQUIRES chlorine to live....what do you think makes up the "-chloric" part of hydrochloric acid in your stomach?
Gastric juices are, for the most part, 1M HCl...so every liter of stomach acid your body produces requires about 35.5 grams of chloride ion, (about 58 g of table salt)
There's even an FDA recommended daily allowance of sodium chloride that correlates to that. (they know how long it takes your body to make 1 liter of stomach acid...I don't)
Ok, that makes more sense....the article itself states that the amount of energy being passed through it is equivalent to being hit by lightning, or a mini-reactor....that kind of juice would decompose the water itself into component H2 and O2, which is why this didn't sound feasible.
Will Cl- ions react with a microscopic organism? I mean, Cl- ions are already present in sea water (albeit not in as high concentrations) and there are plenty of microbes in the sea....same deal with sodium ions.
That depends on the concentration really...I've had 0.1M sodium hydroxide on my hands before and it doesn't burn, though it exfoliates the skin quite nicely.
I don't think the concentration is likely to get to that range by decomposing salt water.
From what the article says, it sounds like all they're doing is passing a high electrical current through a saline solution. I don't understand how this solution is supposed to retain its charge, let alone not decompose the salt solution into base molecules. (hydrogen, chlorine, oxygen)
Has anyone seen a more detailed description of how this thing actually works? It can't be as simple as the article describes, solutions just don't work that way.
But what if your wife was not so willing to set her career aside and follow you around? Would you then quit YOUR job and go to where SHE found work? Is your job more important than being with your wife?
It sounds to me like you're happy to have a stay-at-home and bake cookies house-marm. Not every woman is like that anymore....in fact, very few are. You know why? Because that's the role we males have thrust upon them for a long time, and very few are willing to let go of it.
They're probably looking at something like this
Basically, a process that breaks down biomass from plants and produces hydrogen and CO2 as byproducts. They claim the CO2 produced will be less than what is used by next years crop of plants that are grown for this purpose. We'll see, I suppose.
But anyway, it's a promising technology, and probably what Ford is looking to for the future.
Not for nothin' but wouldn't the heat of the asteroid (from passing through atmospheric re-entry) smoke a hole in this airbag before it had a chance to absorb much force from it?
And what would they plan on inflating it with? Part of the protection of an airbag is the force of it inflating as your momentum carries you forward. It's an azide compound that generates a bunch of nitrogen gas that rapidly inflates it. It would be a hell of a chemical reaction to generate enough gas to fill a several km wide cushion. Maybe I should think of it more as one of those airbags the fire dept. uses to keep jumpers from smacking pavement?
Did you mean to reply to the original poster, whom the subject line is attributed to?
Or are you just a dick in general? The reason the future is going to suck is because of antisocial cuntwipes like you spewing your worthless opinions like so much sewage.
And CEOs need to realize that the only reason they are making any money is because of the employees. It works both ways. Corporations ceaselessly take advantage of both employees and customers, and it seems to get worse every year.
I can't speak for the rest of the sheep, but I won't be a slave to a company that routinely treats me like shit. I've walked away from a very high paying job without a second thought because management took both their customers and their employees for granted.
Unfortunately, some people have families to feed and that's not an option for them, and all I can say is next presidential election, vote Green Party. They're on your side.
The heating doesn't increase the density of the material, per se. It makes the material more suitable for being magnetically altered, then apparently the cooling once the laser is no longer being fired at the disk surface makes the magnetic impression of the bits more stable.
In other words, they mean data density (bits per unit of area) rather than material density. (mass per unit of volume)
Perhaps on FTP sites and IRC you run across disk images a bit more, but from my experience, p2p file sharing systems tend to have rips as they're smaller.
I agree that setups like Quake 3 are optimal...if you're going to be playing it online and extensively, you should be paying for the game. If you're just checking it out, who gives a flying one if it's pirated or not.
As far as the dodgy stuff, well, if you're not running anti-virus and packet filtering software on your system, you deserve whatever computerized punishment these maladroit script kiddies inflict upon you.
Without even getting 1/3 of the way through the replies, I saw at least 4 posts whining that they wouldn't be able to play their new music CDs in the car or stereo. (Yeah like you buy them anyway)
I will quote the article:
A PC that looks for but cannot find the keys on an illegally-copied disk returns an error message. Root protection works for all CD-ROM disks read by a PC, but is not applicable to audio CDs.
Now, as far as being protection for software, this isn't going to stop the people doing most of the pirating. Most of the pirated games you download now are not copies of the CD but a compressed file containing the contents of the installation directory along with a hacked executable. With good audio and video compression and WinACE, as well as ripping out un-needed components, a 2-CD game can be crunched down to about 300-500 meg. You then run a simple script that comes with the distribution and it uncompresses everything in the directory you unzipped it in. Look for any popular game on Kazaa, that's the format you'll find it in, isos aren't nearly as common anymore.
Actually, the porn thing is the one that baffles me. We are talking about the same internet where people trade music all the time for free, but for some reason they don't get that concept with porn? (But then again, I have never even desired to be a member of a porn site, so maybe I am missing something about the motivations involved)
I can answer that one....it's because the pr0n-lords are smart enough to come up with a business model that adapts to the nature of the internet and the needs of the customers.
They charge a reasonable rate for access to their (and often times several partnering) websites...usually $10-$20 for a month's worth of unlimited downloading of pics, movies, etc. Then they keep rolling out new material to keep people coming back. They have different websites to cater to peoples' different tastes, be it asians, blacks, gay, fat chicks, or what have you.
If the RIAA, or better yet the individual artists, would open their eyes and follow a similar model, I think everyone would be a lot better off for it. Yeah there are a lot of charlatans out there, but many of the people running the pr0n companies are smart, smart businessmen. (and women)
You know, a certain number of advertisers almost always promote their products on TV...if they are pushed out of television, they're going to have to find other avenues for advertising.
This means for you....more spam, more banner ads, more radio commercials, more billboards, and whatever new and unusual methods of advertising they can think of. (The cell phone shills in bars from a previous article for example)
I don't deny that TV commercials need to be toned down...but if they're gone entirely, that could make the rest of our existance get overloaded with ads.
And yet hardware and time are not.
Very true, but most generic PC retailers will know enough about the hardware that's on the market now to let a customer know if there's a gross incompatibility. (Oh, no, NO sir, you don't want to use that video card with that motherboard, it won't work)
Not to say that all retailer know what they're doing, but most do, especially the small shops.
That's because these Oracle dbs were put in a long time ago, before MySQL started gaining any real notoriety or use in the corporate world. Once you have a mammoth database already in place, wouldn't you continue to use it? It's easier and less risky to upgrade your servers and pay an Oracle dbm 6 figures a year to maintain and improve it rather than migrate your entire infrastructure over to another platform entirely. Especially if you're a financial institution that simply CANNOT afford any major downtime in their database for migration/debugging.
Another reason to use something like Oracle....vendor support.
I'm a big fan of open source software solutions, and I'm glad to see MySQL getting some use in the real world, but don't expect the world to drop what it's using and switch just because it's free and cool.
You're trolling on slashdot on a Saturday evening and you're telling someone else to get a life? Wow. Either mom won't let you take the Taurus out for a spin tonight, you're married and oppressed into staying home by your wife, on house arrest, or just a plain old fashioned hypocrite.
I suppose a gay chat room could have a sword fighting algorithm.
Yeah, I forgot to mention Goldeneye...I really did enjoy playing it, but again I hated not having a mouse and keyboard. That game woulda been perfect if they made it for the PC.
As an aside, someone made a counterstrike map based on one of the goldeneye maps. (the one in the house) It was a good time.
Am I the only one that absolutely HATES playing an FPS on a console? I don't understand the popularity that games like Halo, Half Life and Quake have had on various console systems...it's just not the same level on control if you're not playing with a mouse and keyboard. Maybe I'm just too stuck in my ways to learn a new method of control, but I simply can't enjoy those types on games on consoles.
The only games I can enjoy on a console are platformers (Sonic, Jak and Daxter, etc), sports games, racing games, and fighting games (mortal kombat, virtua fighter, etc)
So, is it just a matter of getting used to the controls for FPS-type games on consoles or am I do I actually have a point?
If all 40 million people (or however many Japan is up to these days) get 8-12 Mbps service, you're going to NEED Internet2 caliber backbones in place. All the bandwidth in the world at your house does you no good if the infrastructure can't support it.
With /. numbers we should be able to lobby more then M$.
/. to agree on any one thing. You need to all be for the same cause to lobby.
Yeah, just TRY and get more than 2 people on
The problem with working for cartel people is that if they don't like the quality of your work or if they think you might roll over on them if you get pinched, and they'll kill you without blinking an eye. Don't think they'll treat you like one of the family just because you're smart. These are not nice people.
#include legalization_speech.h
You can't every song by just about any artist upon demand through either the radio or XM. You can over the internet. That's why they're claiming CD sales are down....because some people are downloading the music instead of buying the CD. (But let's not forget the people that find a few songs by an artist they've never heard, decide they like them, and then go buy every CD they've ever made )
Maybe if they offered low cost internet purchase options people would stop pirating like crazy. Who can afford $15-20 per CD anymore?