Why haven't we found a way to capture energy from the radioactive waste and convert it to power?
Also: I'm going to keep saying it - combine wind and solar. We have technology available that could be adapted into a hybrid wind/solar installation, a wind turbine coated with thin-film solar panels would harness loads more energy in pretty much the same footprint. In Southern California, there's a wind farm just down the I-10 that would benefit greatly from this idea because of the location, up high with no obstructions, and lots and lots of sunlight. So much potential energy gathering capability gone totally unused.
Pea-sized? That's about 9mm or even larger depending upon the cultivar. I've seen peas the size of.50 caliber rounds (about 12.7mm) and at the 30,000mph in TFAHL that would not only rip the boy's hand off but probably break the bones up to his elbow from the shock. Even at 400mph it would do way more than that. Also, to be pea-sized and make a crater that large, it would have to have more mass than it should have since it's supposedly composed of primarily ferrous material.
And I doubt 30,000MPH. Maybe 250 at best.
But this *IS* the Telegraph. Not exactly a reliable source of news. I'm surprised this actually made it here.
Pray tell, how do you determine what console a person does or does not play?
Looking for money, I'd go for the larger customer base - the Wii. Note the amount of titles available for the Wii, plus the virtual console, plus Wiiware. Apparently that firm beachhead establishment Nintendo has is luring developers over. They said RE4 couldn't be done on the Wii - bullshit, go to 16-bit color depth and dither, wham! - there it was running just fine on the Wii with solid frame rates.
"but that isn't even remotely more powerful than the most low-end gaming machines that were powerful enough to play Doom3/UT2004."
BULLSHIT. Doom3 on the Xbox - the Xbox is a fucking 733MHz CELERON with 64 MB DDR SDRAM at 200 MHz; 6.4 GB/s.The graphics core is essentially a modified GeForce 3/4 hybrid.
The Wii - 729 MHz Power-PC based core, 88 MB main memory (24 MB "internal" 1T-SRAM integrated into graphics package, 64 MB "external" GDDR3 SDRAM) AND 3 MB embedded GPU texture memory and framebuffer, and an ATi graphics chip on par with their 9800 series of cards. I'd think with obviously superior hardware doom 3 should have *NO* problem running on the Wii.
"Why would any sane person expect two different machines to run the same software?"
Actually, if the hardware is capable, I'd fully expect it to be able to run. Doom ran on pretty much everything, even the Super Nintendo (which was "less capable" than the equivalent PC required to make it run at bare minimum.) The Dreamcast had UT and Q3. The PS2 had Q3. The Wii is more powerful than a Dreamcast or PS2. All in all, it's just a bunch of ones and zeroes. All that matters is how fast you can process them and return the results. Developers are just TOO FUCKING LAZY.
"whereas an 'unsafe' computer isn't going to kill anyone."
You didn't pay attention to the story a few years back where a group of researchers pretty much found out they could hack into and take control of a nuclear reactor from the outside relatively easily?
OHAI, I'm just gong to shut off all of your cooling towers, nao. This is what you get for not securing your computers and ensuring they are 'safe!'
Attacking is the ONLY thing we can do. The people have been putting out a weak belly-up defense against the RIAA and it's about time we showed them we're holding the cards.
I wonder if one could start a campaign to vote the RIAA out of the state of California.
I had #00AWG run to the actual circuit panel from the outside. From there I used 10-3 Romex on 30A breakers in the panel to each outlet. I didn't use the full load but I certainly wanted the power available for it if needed. Nowdays, I would've only needed a 100A line since the move to LCDs from CRTs and lower-power computers.
It's the language of EM interference. They run their broadcasting headsets at the same frequencies as FRS/GMRS radios. I can pick up what everybody is ordering just by turning my radio on and hitting channel 7.
In Memphis I had 120v @ 300A run to the unfinished upstairs of my old house, which was being used as a repair center for friend's broken electronics. I needed the extra power to handle all of the computers in a small room plus AC unit in the window.
"Better learn Spanish and temporarily "lose" your proof of citizenship."
In case you don't pay attention to CA or WA laws - you don't even get hired at McD's until you pass a food handler's test and obtain your license, which requires your identification and proof of US residence.
I moved to CA and within two weeks had a job at McDs. I'm 100% American, and worse, I was born in Texas, showing a CA manager a TN drivers license. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about, a job at McDs being virtually impossible for an American citizen to obtain is one of the biggest lies on the planet.
If you worked in a critical sector of our government and you did something that cost the lives of thousands of people, I'd FULLY EXPECT you to contemplate suicide and at least attempt it two or three times.
How hard is it to step down DC voltages from 120 to 12? What about conversion losses? What about wire resistance? If 120VDC had less loss than 120VAC, then 120VDC would already be in our houses and we would run DC through our main power lines. It would be 120VDC @300A directly to my box. It's not, though. Not a single one I've ever seen is. It is solid 120VAC.
"Deserts are actually pretty windy. Tracking mirrors have to be over-built to stand up to the wind and avoid mis-alignment."
Take my idea of a wind turbine coated with this thin film solar stuff, two power sources in one tower. In a DESERT, where it's windy AND sunny (until the duststorms and monsoon rains come) this sounds like a rather practical solution for small homes, or even for an energy farm.
"Because Linux for PLAYSTATION 3 has no access to the NVIDIA RSX GPU apart from a dumb frame buffer,"
Not when me and a few friends get done with it. That hypervisor is not as secure as Sony likes to think it is. And the most recent update for the PS3, as far as we can tell, closed five holes we knew about but opened up about another dozen, maybe more, we're not done prodding everything yet.
Bill them for the usage of your resources. I did that when my fiance took my laptop to his University and they installed similar software on the machine. Easiest thousand dollars I ever made.
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Why haven't we found a way to capture energy from the radioactive waste and convert it to power?
Also: I'm going to keep saying it - combine wind and solar. We have technology available that could be adapted into a hybrid wind/solar installation, a wind turbine coated with thin-film solar panels would harness loads more energy in pretty much the same footprint. In Southern California, there's a wind farm just down the I-10 that would benefit greatly from this idea because of the location, up high with no obstructions, and lots and lots of sunlight. So much potential energy gathering capability gone totally unused.
I wonder what you used to say when 8-bit QuakeGL first came out.
Baka.
"Who even has a RGB input on their TV these days?"
My samsung S550 has D-SUB RGB on it.
Pea-sized? That's about 9mm or even larger depending upon the cultivar. I've seen peas the size of .50 caliber rounds (about 12.7mm) and at the 30,000mph in TFAHL that would not only rip the boy's hand off but probably break the bones up to his elbow from the shock. Even at 400mph it would do way more than that. Also, to be pea-sized and make a crater that large, it would have to have more mass than it should have since it's supposedly composed of primarily ferrous material.
And I doubt 30,000MPH. Maybe 250 at best.
But this *IS* the Telegraph. Not exactly a reliable source of news. I'm surprised this actually made it here.
You know, you aren't making this the safest site to view when at work with language like that in the tags.
Pray tell, how do you determine what console a person does or does not play?
Looking for money, I'd go for the larger customer base - the Wii. Note the amount of titles available for the Wii, plus the virtual console, plus Wiiware. Apparently that firm beachhead establishment Nintendo has is luring developers over. They said RE4 couldn't be done on the Wii - bullshit, go to 16-bit color depth and dither, wham! - there it was running just fine on the Wii with solid frame rates.
Not properly, it isn't, you fucking moron.
http://www.ronpaul.com/on-the-issues/audit-the-federal-reserve-hr-1207/
If it WERE audited PROPERLY there's wouldn't be a brand-spanking new bill trying to get the whole fucking thing made transparent, now would there?
Not a proper audit = NOT AN AUDIT AT ALL.
"but that isn't even remotely more powerful than the most low-end gaming machines that were powerful enough to play Doom3/UT2004."
BULLSHIT. Doom3 on the Xbox - the Xbox is a fucking 733MHz CELERON with 64 MB DDR SDRAM at 200 MHz; 6.4 GB/s .The graphics core is essentially a modified GeForce 3/4 hybrid.
The Wii - 729 MHz Power-PC based core, 88 MB main memory (24 MB "internal" 1T-SRAM integrated into graphics package, 64 MB "external" GDDR3 SDRAM) AND 3 MB embedded GPU texture memory and framebuffer, and an ATi graphics chip on par with their 9800 series of cards. I'd think with obviously superior hardware doom 3 should have *NO* problem running on the Wii.
"Why would any sane person expect two different machines to run the same software?"
Actually, if the hardware is capable, I'd fully expect it to be able to run. Doom ran on pretty much everything, even the Super Nintendo (which was "less capable" than the equivalent PC required to make it run at bare minimum.) The Dreamcast had UT and Q3. The PS2 had Q3. The Wii is more powerful than a Dreamcast or PS2. All in all, it's just a bunch of ones and zeroes. All that matters is how fast you can process them and return the results. Developers are just TOO FUCKING LAZY.
"whereas an 'unsafe' computer isn't going to kill anyone."
You didn't pay attention to the story a few years back where a group of researchers pretty much found out they could hack into and take control of a nuclear reactor from the outside relatively easily?
OHAI, I'm just gong to shut off all of your cooling towers, nao. This is what you get for not securing your computers and ensuring they are 'safe!'
*KABOOM*
Libertarian and banking do not, and most likely never will be, associated in the same sentence.
Go look at the Federal Reserve. How fucked would they be if we subjected them to a standard audit?
THERE lies your answer. The government is the problem. Bye, libertarians, bye democrats, bye greens, bye republicans - you're all at fault.
Attacking is the ONLY thing we can do. The people have been putting out a weak belly-up defense against the RIAA and it's about time we showed them we're holding the cards.
I wonder if one could start a campaign to vote the RIAA out of the state of California.
You must be new to the internet. You also must not watch much porn. Turn in your geek card.
I had #00AWG run to the actual circuit panel from the outside. From there I used 10-3 Romex on 30A breakers in the panel to each outlet. I didn't use the full load but I certainly wanted the power available for it if needed. Nowdays, I would've only needed a 100A line since the move to LCDs from CRTs and lower-power computers.
It's the language of EM interference. They run their broadcasting headsets at the same frequencies as FRS/GMRS radios. I can pick up what everybody is ordering just by turning my radio on and hitting channel 7.
In Memphis I had 120v @ 300A run to the unfinished upstairs of my old house, which was being used as a repair center for friend's broken electronics. I needed the extra power to handle all of the computers in a small room plus AC unit in the window.
"Better learn Spanish and temporarily "lose" your proof of citizenship."
In case you don't pay attention to CA or WA laws - you don't even get hired at McD's until you pass a food handler's test and obtain your license, which requires your identification and proof of US residence.
I moved to CA and within two weeks had a job at McDs. I'm 100% American, and worse, I was born in Texas, showing a CA manager a TN drivers license. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about, a job at McDs being virtually impossible for an American citizen to obtain is one of the biggest lies on the planet.
If you worked in a critical sector of our government and you did something that cost the lives of thousands of people, I'd FULLY EXPECT you to contemplate suicide and at least attempt it two or three times.
How hard is it to step down DC voltages from 120 to 12? What about conversion losses? What about wire resistance? If 120VDC had less loss than 120VAC, then 120VDC would already be in our houses and we would run DC through our main power lines. It would be 120VDC @300A directly to my box. It's not, though. Not a single one I've ever seen is. It is solid 120VAC.
"Deserts are actually pretty windy. Tracking mirrors have to be over-built to stand up to the wind and avoid mis-alignment."
Take my idea of a wind turbine coated with this thin film solar stuff, two power sources in one tower. In a DESERT, where it's windy AND sunny (until the duststorms and monsoon rains come) this sounds like a rather practical solution for small homes, or even for an energy farm.
"Let's say I build a new house and wire it with DC lines."
Enjoy the power loss after ten-twenty feet, depending upon your cable.
"Because Linux for PLAYSTATION 3 has no access to the NVIDIA RSX GPU apart from a dumb frame buffer,"
Not when me and a few friends get done with it. That hypervisor is not as secure as Sony likes to think it is. And the most recent update for the PS3, as far as we can tell, closed five holes we knew about but opened up about another dozen, maybe more, we're not done prodding everything yet.
AC is a whore. I quite often ripped my UMD discs to memory card, because those little discs were not very reliable, even in their hard plastic shell.
I BOUGHT every single game I had. No pirating involved.
Bill them for the usage of your resources. I did that when my fiance took my laptop to his University and they installed similar software on the machine. Easiest thousand dollars I ever made.
by charging his ass with treason. He *HAS* to know doing such a dick move would HURT a lot of US citizens.