Incorrect. The CD was mostly Phillips. It was based on the Phillips laserdisc, Phillips contributed the manufacturing process, and the first units were manufactured by Phillips.
All sony contributed was the (bad) error correction.
Betacam is just a product line, not a media standard. DVD is another example of a joint effort that sony did not control.
Refineries heat petroleum to at least 600C and usually have high-pressure processes as well. You're damn right plastic dissolves in petroleum at high temp/pressure.
Saving energy is the single most important benefit of recycling. Energy is expensive, dirty, and scarce. Some recycling is a slam-dunk: aluminum, steel, copper, etc. You save the equivalent of 8 oz of gasoline from recycling a single aluminum can compared to raw bauxite refining.
Ideally, I'd like to see this hugely profitable and beneficial metal recycling subsidize the more muddled areas such as paper, plastic, glass. I'd also like to see huge advances in these areas because honestly we aren't doing well right now recycling these.
If Asirra became the dominant CAPTCHA the spambots would adapt to it. There is something to be said for using an unpopular CAPTCHA and not telling anyone about it.
Why? Because during the height of your power production with solar (middle of the day), the power draw from the grid is not at it highest, therefore they have surplus.
You are wrong on this one. In the places I have lived demand is typically highest around 12-4 PM most of the year, largely driven by AC.
Take a look at this which shows peak rate being 11AM-6PM in the summer.
I think the problem largely is crappy audio. I have to ask people to repeat what they said a lot, and I get asked a lot to repeat myself. The dropouts, noise, and plain old low fidelity make it impossible to understand. When this happens enough times I find myself talking louder and louder, even though that isn't the problem.
I don't count buying legal products and moving them around as black market. That is gray market at worst. I agree that as taxes rise the profit margin improves for the gray market items. It may even become lucrative enough for gang wars. Obviously if the tax on a bottle of booze or pack of cigarettes approached $10 there would be a rip-roaring gray market.
Anyway, however we want to define our terms the fact remains that the majority of alcohol and tobacco sales are through normal channels.
Alcohol and tobacco are two examples of legal products that are taxed to hell. There is not a large black market for these items. I would expect Cannabis to behave similarly. It would cost maybe 50 cents to manufacture a pack of joints and you could retail it around the same price as cigarettes. Plenty of room for insane taxes but the retail price is just too low to have organized crime rings fighting over the market.
How is it that he can be such a dick and simultaneously be so concerned with helping his buddies? That argument never made sense to me.
It is similar to the jock mentality in High School. They stick together with their clique, will gang up on anyone who offends one of their group, and delight in tormenting others. There is also a similar attitude with regards to the "us vs. them" mentality, victory at any cost mindset, and the extreme patriotism.
It's possible you don't understand IQ scores. It is a weighted adjusted score which is designed to have a normal distribution with a median of 100. That means that 80-100 will have roughly the same as 100-120. Here is a graph showing the distribution.
You think someone with an IQ of 100 is scary? Half of the people are even dumber than that.
The scammers specialize in fashionable purebreds and puppies, both of which are harder to find. I don't know why people would pay large sums of money for a dog sight-unseen, but it happens a lot.
Is that supposed to be an actual example? I have some problems with it. There is a disparity between Clinton's and Paul's name recognition. Nearly all US citizens know who HC is, and know that she is a Democrat. Nearly no US citizens know who Ron Paul is (I constantly have to explain to people) and few of them know he is a Libertarian. Again, few US citizens know what Libertarian means. Maybe the news outlets think the citizenry is too stupid to know who Ron Paul is, that he is a Libertarian, and what that means. So they dumb it down to "conservative"
I don't know if you're being difficult or if you seriously don't understand the change, so I'll explain. My great grandfather told me about things before the auto, before electricity and it was very different from after those became common.
Every village, no matter how small had a farrier or blacksmith. Chimney sweeps would come by constantly since coal soot built up rapidly. Once autos and electricity were ubiquitous there were millions of unemployed blacksmiths and chimney sweeps (as well as many other professions) who were effectively permanently unemployed in their field.
In 50 years there will still probably be COBOL programmers out there, but it will not be inaccurate to say that COBOL programmers went the way of buggy whip makers, chimney sweeps, and blacksmiths. Sure there will always be a few examples of the most outmoded occupations (I know someone who makes papyrus)
That's a good question. I suspect people wouldn't care if Scientology didn't make people care. If they minded their own business they'd just be another wacko religious sect. Who cares?
But they don't mind their own business. They have an army of lawyers to legally subdue any critics, they allegedly resort to violence, murder, harassment, and they pursue a high profile existence by buying up real estate, recruiting celebrities, aggressive marketing, etc.
I can't picture how you could do real-time editing of a picture without Flash. The only ways I can think to do it at all would be slow and very server intensive.
Personally, I would like to see a nice lynx photo-editing app, but I am not going to hold my breath.
NBC has many of their shows online. There are problems, though.
Their player is buggy, especially if you watch in fullscreen mode. Sometimes the show logo grows bigger after every ad, sometimes it reverts to small screen after every ad. Annoying, and no option to download the show and watch it in a non-buggy viewer. They don't always have a whole season. They'll often have a handful of shows, not in order, and the selection changes unpredictably.
I like the idea of supporting shows I like with ad money, but they need to try harder to make it less annoying than piracy.
I think dumping it to China would be perfect once China gets some decent environmental laws.
They send thousands of boats here full of stuff, why not send them back full of "raw materials?" It is cheaper to build stuff in China and ship it here, so it would be cheaper to ship stuff there for recycling.
Don't misunderstand me, I don't think we should support unsafe working or environmental conditions, just that empty boats aren't efficient.
Typically thinner filaments are more efficient but more fragile. If they developed a filament material that is less fragile and thinner it would be a serious breakthrough.
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It's a death sentence to the 5% with the disease. That seems to be OK with you, but most people wouldn't call a system like that civilized.
Incorrect. The CD was mostly Phillips. It was based on the Phillips laserdisc, Phillips contributed the manufacturing process, and the first units were manufactured by Phillips.
All sony contributed was the (bad) error correction.
Betacam is just a product line, not a media standard. DVD is another example of a joint effort that sony did not control.
Refineries heat petroleum to at least 600C and usually have high-pressure processes as well. You're damn right plastic dissolves in petroleum at high temp/pressure.
It's actually a good idea.
Saving energy is the single most important benefit of recycling. Energy is expensive, dirty, and scarce. Some recycling is a slam-dunk: aluminum, steel, copper, etc. You save the equivalent of 8 oz of gasoline from recycling a single aluminum can compared to raw bauxite refining.
Ideally, I'd like to see this hugely profitable and beneficial metal recycling subsidize the more muddled areas such as paper, plastic, glass. I'd also like to see huge advances in these areas because honestly we aren't doing well right now recycling these.
You don't have to resort to magnetic tape. Fire up Audacity or whatever audio program you like and record straight off the sound card.
If Asirra became the dominant CAPTCHA the spambots would adapt to it. There is something to be said for using an unpopular CAPTCHA and not telling anyone about it.
Citation needed.
I suspect that if you include fuel extraction, processing and transport you will see the CO2 advantage nuclear enjoys grow considerably.
Take a look at this which shows peak rate being 11AM-6PM in the summer.
A pound of CO2 is just 200 and something liters at STP. Pretty easy to imagine.
I think the problem largely is crappy audio. I have to ask people to repeat what they said a lot, and I get asked a lot to repeat myself. The dropouts, noise, and plain old low fidelity make it impossible to understand. When this happens enough times I find myself talking louder and louder, even though that isn't the problem.
Typical household electric dryers use 5-6kW.
I don't count buying legal products and moving them around as black market. That is gray market at worst. I agree that as taxes rise the profit margin improves for the gray market items. It may even become lucrative enough for gang wars. Obviously if the tax on a bottle of booze or pack of cigarettes approached $10 there would be a rip-roaring gray market.
Anyway, however we want to define our terms the fact remains that the majority of alcohol and tobacco sales are through normal channels.
Alcohol and tobacco are two examples of legal products that are taxed to hell. There is not a large black market for these items. I would expect Cannabis to behave similarly. It would cost maybe 50 cents to manufacture a pack of joints and you could retail it around the same price as cigarettes. Plenty of room for insane taxes but the retail price is just too low to have organized crime rings fighting over the market.
I have cell service for $6.66/month. It even includes web access, but not a whole lot of minutes. I got mine through Virgin Mobile prepaid.
It's possible you don't understand IQ scores. It is a weighted adjusted score which is designed to have a normal distribution with a median of 100. That means that 80-100 will have roughly the same as 100-120. Here is a graph showing the distribution.
You think someone with an IQ of 100 is scary? Half of the people are even dumber than that.
The scammers specialize in fashionable purebreds and puppies, both of which are harder to find. I don't know why people would pay large sums of money for a dog sight-unseen, but it happens a lot.
Is that supposed to be an actual example? I have some problems with it. There is a disparity between Clinton's and Paul's name recognition. Nearly all US citizens know who HC is, and know that she is a Democrat. Nearly no US citizens know who Ron Paul is (I constantly have to explain to people) and few of them know he is a Libertarian. Again, few US citizens know what Libertarian means. Maybe the news outlets think the citizenry is too stupid to know who Ron Paul is, that he is a Libertarian, and what that means. So they dumb it down to "conservative"
I don't know if you're being difficult or if you seriously don't understand the change, so I'll explain. My great grandfather told me about things before the auto, before electricity and it was very different from after those became common.
Every village, no matter how small had a farrier or blacksmith. Chimney sweeps would come by constantly since coal soot built up rapidly. Once autos and electricity were ubiquitous there were millions of unemployed blacksmiths and chimney sweeps (as well as many other professions) who were effectively permanently unemployed in their field.
In 50 years there will still probably be COBOL programmers out there, but it will not be inaccurate to say that COBOL programmers went the way of buggy whip makers, chimney sweeps, and blacksmiths. Sure there will always be a few examples of the most outmoded occupations (I know someone who makes papyrus)
That's a good question. I suspect people wouldn't care if Scientology didn't make people care. If they minded their own business they'd just be another wacko religious sect. Who cares?
But they don't mind their own business. They have an army of lawyers to legally subdue any critics, they allegedly resort to violence, murder, harassment, and they pursue a high profile existence by buying up real estate, recruiting celebrities, aggressive marketing, etc.
I can't picture how you could do real-time editing of a picture without Flash. The only ways I can think to do it at all would be slow and very server intensive.
Personally, I would like to see a nice lynx photo-editing app, but I am not going to hold my breath.
NBC has many of their shows online. There are problems, though.
Their player is buggy, especially if you watch in fullscreen mode. Sometimes the show logo grows bigger after every ad, sometimes it reverts to small screen after every ad. Annoying, and no option to download the show and watch it in a non-buggy viewer.
They don't always have a whole season. They'll often have a handful of shows, not in order, and the selection changes unpredictably.
I like the idea of supporting shows I like with ad money, but they need to try harder to make it less annoying than piracy.
Thanks for the links. It is frustrating that nobody is providing details about the development.
I think dumping it to China would be perfect once China gets some decent environmental laws.
They send thousands of boats here full of stuff, why not send them back full of "raw materials?" It is cheaper to build stuff in China and ship it here, so it would be cheaper to ship stuff there for recycling.
Don't misunderstand me, I don't think we should support unsafe working or environmental conditions, just that empty boats aren't efficient.
Do you have a link?
Typically thinner filaments are more efficient but more fragile. If they developed a filament material that is less fragile and thinner it would be a serious breakthrough.