Your choice is a small form factor or a DVD R/W media bay.
MR-1 4.5"x6.1"x 1.4", weighs 2 lbs There isn't even form factor space for a media bay, but it does come with a 40 GB hard drive; 80 GB HD or 32 GB SSD optional.
A laptop of any variety will be a non-trivial theft risk in the situation you're describing. It's your choice to get a cheap, throw-away item that you have to try to replace mid-way through the trip, at questionable cost, or an expensive, reliable item that might actually survive the trip intact.
Hopefully, you aren't taking the same "replace it in the field" mindset with the rest of your gear.
Evolution of the species is a fact - not a theory. The scientific theory commonly referred to as the "theory of evolution" is the theory of evolution through natural selection [of advantageous traits].
The information he gave out was the same information a person gives out when they hand over a check. It's analogous to a pundit loudly proclaiming that it is perfectly safe to walk around outside. This is then demonstrated by walking through a large crowd of people. Somebody decides to prove otherwise & stabs them in a non-lethal manner solely to illustrate the point.
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp Claim: NASA spent millions of dollars developing an "astronaut pen" which would work in outer space while the Soviets solved the same problem by simply using pencils. Status: False.
http://www.eurekalert.org/features/doe/2003-12/danl-nr031804.php To date, U.S. nuclear power plants have produced 40,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel. The spent fuel consists of 95.6 percent uranium, 3.0 percent stable or short-lived fission products, 0.9 percent plutonium, 0.3 percent cesium and strontium, 0.1 percent minor actinides (neptunium, americium, and curium), and 0.1 percent long-lived fission products in the form of isotopes of iodine and technetium.
The first reason out of the given 10/15/whatever... was amusingly self-defeating.
To witness Sprint's $5bn investment in WiMax is to witness a future planned so far in advance no-one should be comfortable with it.
Such futures can't be relied upon if innovation is permitted So, no company should invest heavily in innovation because that stifles progress. Check.
The remaining [author couldn't be bothered to count] reasons are similarly kvetching and dripping with angst.
As for the US government's export regulations - the definition of a High Performance Computer (HPC) was raised from 28,000 millions of theoretical operations per second (MTOPS) to 190,000 MTOPS on December 10, 2003. http://www.bis.doc.gov/hpcs/ArchivedNewsItems.html
Science is not refuted by trite canards, outright myths, politicized hyperbole & adolescent insults.
My favorite recurring retort from AGW contrarians & deniers who have had the last vestiges of skepticism refuted is:
Global warming is a new religion and The Goracle [Al Gore] is your God, you environutter libtard! No, that isn't an exaggeration. That exact quote and similar variations are a ubiquitous cry from those protecting their beliefs.
The claim is not "30x as efficient as the best microturbines" as all speeds, but at the low speeds (10 mph) where energy loss to friction is paramount & some microturbines won't even spin up.
human output of CO2 is the cause, when it's about 1% of natural output
Only when you ignore the absorption side of the natural carbon cycle.
Humanity's 2004 CO2 emissions: 7.9 Oceanic CO2 outgassing: ~90 Terrestrial CO2 outgassing: ~120 (gigatons carbon - GtC)
Based solely on those numbers: 7.9 / 210 ~= 3.8%
Yes - insignificant. However...
Oceanic CO2 absorption: 92 Terrestrial CO2 absorption: 121.3 (GtC)
The oceans and land surface are net CO2 sinks. Since 1751 roughly 315 billion tons of carbon have been released to the atmosphere from the consumption of fossil fuels and cement production. Half of these emissions have occurred since the mid 1970s.
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The name is sometimes completely contrary to the contents of the bill.
e.g.
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001
Full Text
The captcha word was 'litigate' - hilarious.
Your choice is a small form factor or a DVD R/W media bay.
MR-1
4.5"x6.1"x 1.4", weighs 2 lbs
There isn't even form factor space for a media bay, but it does come with a 40 GB hard drive; 80 GB HD or 32 GB SSD optional.
XR-1
Media Bay: DVD-RW/CD-RW
Cost?
MR-1: starting at $4,295
XR-1: starting at $3,908
A laptop of any variety will be a non-trivial theft risk in the situation you're describing. It's your choice to get a cheap, throw-away item that you have to try to replace mid-way through the trip, at questionable cost, or an expensive, reliable item that might actually survive the trip intact.
Hopefully, you aren't taking the same "replace it in the field" mindset with the rest of your gear.
A position isn't false, or wrong, because its proponent fails to consistently act in accordance with said position.
Evolution of the species is a fact - not a theory. The scientific theory commonly referred to as the "theory of evolution" is the theory of evolution through natural selection [of advantageous traits].
Interesting. I hadn't heard of this before.
It seems that BP is thinking along the same lines too.
BP's Bet on Butanol
BioButanol: a better biofuel (fact sheet)
Mental glitch - 18 billion = 1.8 × 10^9 ... not 18 × 10^18
I'm glad it's Friday. *headdesk*
Mass of an ordinary Twinkie: 36.4 g
http://www.mctague.org/carl/fun/twinkie/
Mass of the Sun: 1.99 × 10^33 g
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mass+of+the+sun&btnG=Google+Search
1 solar mass = 5.47 × 10^31 twinkies
The information he gave out was the same information a person gives out when they hand over a check. It's analogous to a pundit loudly proclaiming that it is perfectly safe to walk around outside. This is then demonstrated by walking through a large crowd of people. Somebody decides to prove otherwise & stabs them in a non-lethal manner solely to illustrate the point.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
This error was noticed & corrected. It was simple human error, not some grand conspiracy.
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
Claim: NASA spent millions of dollars developing an "astronaut pen" which would work in outer space while the Soviets solved the same problem by simply using pencils.
Status: False.
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You've never had spinning platter hard drives fail on you?
Because small companies have never revolutionized the world... /sarcasm
FedEx
Microsoft
Wal-Mart
It could've been a hypervelocity star.
It's still in "pre-order" status. I'm on the waiting list to purchase one, and have yet to hear anything about it.
What are you doing actually reading, and comprehending, the article?
This. Is. Slashdot!
What about the other 99.9% of the waste products?
http://www.eurekalert.org/features/doe/2003-12/danl-nr031804.php
To date, U.S. nuclear power plants have produced 40,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel. The spent fuel consists of 95.6 percent uranium, 3.0 percent stable or short-lived fission products, 0.9 percent plutonium, 0.3 percent cesium and strontium, 0.1 percent minor actinides (neptunium, americium, and curium), and 0.1 percent long-lived fission products in the form of isotopes of iodine and technetium.
297 K = ~24 C = ~75 F
Such futures can't be relied upon if innovation is permitted So, no company should invest heavily in innovation because that stifles progress. Check.
The remaining [author couldn't be bothered to count] reasons are similarly kvetching and dripping with angst.
Stop spouting this sourceless & patently wrong drivel.
http://mathstat.asu.edu/support/doc/unix/coping-with-unix/node188.html
supercomputer: The class of fastest and most powerful computers available.
As for the US government's export regulations - the definition of a High Performance Computer (HPC) was raised from 28,000 millions of theoretical operations per second (MTOPS) to 190,000 MTOPS on December 10, 2003.
http://www.bis.doc.gov/hpcs/ArchivedNewsItems.html
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Science is not refuted by trite canards, outright myths, politicized hyperbole & adolescent insults.
My favorite recurring retort from AGW contrarians & deniers who have had the last vestiges of skepticism refuted is: Global warming is a new religion and The Goracle [Al Gore] is your God, you environutter libtard! No, that isn't an exaggeration. That exact quote and similar variations are a ubiquitous cry from those protecting their beliefs.
The claim is not "30x as efficient as the best microturbines" as all speeds, but at the low speeds (10 mph) where energy loss to friction is paramount & some microturbines won't even spin up.
human output of CO2 is the cause, when it's about 1% of natural output
Only when you ignore the absorption side of the natural carbon cycle.
Humanity's 2004 CO2 emissions: 7.9
Oceanic CO2 outgassing: ~90
Terrestrial CO2 outgassing: ~120
(gigatons carbon - GtC)
Based solely on those numbers: 7.9 / 210 ~= 3.8%
Yes - insignificant. However...
Oceanic CO2 absorption: 92
Terrestrial CO2 absorption: 121.3
(GtC)
The oceans and land surface are net CO2 sinks. Since 1751 roughly 315 billion tons of carbon have been released to the atmosphere from the consumption of fossil fuels and cement production. Half of these emissions have occurred since the mid 1970s.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/CarbonCycle/carbon_cycle4.html
http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/emis/tre_glob.htm
Babylon 5 was intended to be a 5 year story arc, with a preset conclusion, from inception; not a never-ending chronicle like Dr. Who.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5