by combining them, and augmenting them with a novel way to use a small amount of ethanol, Cohn and his colleagues have created a design that they believe could triple the power of a test engine
What did someone overturn Carnot cycle efficiency?
You can always detect hype when they completely disregard the second law of thermo.
Some brilliant scholar once said "In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
I personally do not want any flavor pre-installed. FreeDos is fine thank you. There are just too many options and partitioning preferences that I would typically reinstall anyways.
I can install Redhat via a USB drive in 10 minutes so the advantages of pre-installation are minimal.
What I really care about is not paying the Microsoft tax!
How much cash and resources do we have to spend on 9/11 related expenditures before we realize that it's going overboard?
But... but... they "hate our freedoms" (sorry could not resist).
Roughly 3000 people died on 9/11.
However *every year* more than 5 times that die as a result of drunk driving. If a small fraction of the money spent on 9/11 related fear was spent on automobile safety and measures to remove drunk drivers from the roads, the payback on life saved per dollar would be huge.
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I knew somebody would say this.
We spend 410 Billion on an unwinnable war where the "liberated", by a majority, hate our guts and now on the real important things it comes down to an either this or that.
FTA "Then I want to make a three-dimensional gyroscope, to measure rotation around three different axes. Today, such products are quite big, a cube 10 centimeters on a side."
There are such devices now that are compact and capable, such as...
I worked with this device last summer implementing a vehicle flight path recorder. It not only has 3 rate gyro's but three 5 mG accelerometers, a compass and processor that implements navigational processing and outputs earth-frame quantities via a serial connection.
It also talks about sunrises and sunsets. We still use such constructs today, even though we now know that it is the movement of the Earth that causes the appearance thereof.
The bible uses the terms sunrise and sunset not with poetic license but because that was the cosmology of the time. Our use of the term is due specifically to our cultural Christian heritage.
If you would study a little history, especially about calendars, you would know that ancient calendars all applied exactly 360 days to a year and that this exact multiple worked fine for millennia. Then for reasons unknown they all changed, coincidentally all at about the time this event in Joshua was took place.
This is utterly untrue and unsubstantiated! There are many stone age monuments and structures that align with various astronomical events (solstice, equinox, etc). If there was some change during the bronze age these alignments would not align up. Also there dayly and yearly rings in coral that do not substantiate this.
There are also many stories in other ancient cultures about a long day.
Please provide credible references.
God eventually considered the people mentioned in numbers 31 the same way a surgeon regards cancer, good normal cell that went bad.
So the puny vision of god that you worship is responsible for supernova, blackholes (and allegedly "stopping the sun in the sky") but requires his children to experience the pleasure of running a pregnant women thru with a bronze age sword? If these folks were as cancerous (although made in gods image) as you say why didn't God just starve them out or stop the beating of their black poisonous hearts?
And here is better question if they were cancerous why spare the young *female* children to keep for themselves? (can you say child rape)
Or check this out. This was not about your supposed purification this was conquest.
Deuteronomy 20:10-14
As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.
Again this is rape....
The worst sin a person can do is to call God a liar through unbelief. That is how it began in the garden "Yea has God said...?" You HAVE choses to do that and this is much worse than blasphemy.
I am not calling God a liar. The OT is product of men and the times. It is not much different then say the Iliad and the mores and norms reflected the surrounding cultures. Most of the myths are borrowed and mutated. The earliest sources of the Noah predate earliest sources of the pentateuch.
You HAVE chosen to commit blasphemy by accepting a bronze age god. And you even will accept lies to accept this god.
The same thought popped into my head.
After spending some time following the Bible Code story I wonder maybe they were looking in the wrong place - maybe instead of Genesis they should be in looking into prokaryotic junk DNA.
Job tells us that God is above "the circle of the Earth" and the "earth is suspended upon nothing".
There is no insight here. If I sat on top of a mountain and looked around I might very well describe what I see as the "circle of earth". Circles can be flat and circles are not spheres and it is not due to a lack of terminology, there are words for sphere in Hebrew.
The bible also tells us that the earth is immovable...
Chronicles 16:30: "He has fixed the earth firm, immovable."
Psalm 93:1: "Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm..."
Psalm 96:10: "He has fixed the earth firm, immovable..."
Psalm 104:5: "Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation so that it never can be shaken."
Isaiah 45:18: "...who made the earth and fashioned it, and himself fixed it fast..."
It is a miracle that NONE, not one of the ancient wrong beliefs about scientific FACTS can be found in the original texts of the Bible. Interpretations of both science and the Bible have often conflicted however. There is no reason to correct the Bible because it is free of error
None eh? Start with the immovable earth. Then explain how the sun can stand still and even move backwards, explain how stars can fall to earth (meteorites != stars), genetics altered due the proximity of peeled branches, winds stored in store houses, global flood with evidence contradicting, trees seen from all over the earth, towers to heaven, yada, yada and yada...
There is no reason to correct the Bible because it is free of error. Any so called errors are either mistranslation or just plain old-fashioned unbelief of things beyond the human understanding.
That is willful ignorance. The bible if full of inconsistencies and scientific fallacies.
How many scientific discoveries of the natural world have originated by a literal or *inspired* reading of the Bible?
Because we are not God, the only alternative left is to believe, or of course, as you seem to have chosen, not to.
Whooa there cowboy. Do I believe that God is as described from a bronze age viewpoint? Absolutely not! Do I believe that the creator of universe commands genocide and rape such as in...
Numbers 31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. Numbers 31:18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Inevitably, science - like art - merely reflects the opinions of its financiers. I'm sorry to rain on your objectivity parade, but all science these days is political, and one needs look no farther than the global warming debate to see this.
So you avoid modern medical science? I doubt it and suspect your faith is veneer.
Science is self-correcting. While scientist may be subjective and politics, as in all human endeavors, holds sway, science corrects itself to the data over time.
Remember the Energy Crisis of the 70's? The Low Fat - High Carb dogma? How about the Population Explosion? How about the Geocentric model of the solar system - yes, it was secular thought that brought that one forth. Science wasn't just a little wrong - it was completely false.
And religion was well on to those points right? The earth immovable and has a foundation, Joshua stopped the sun in the sky not the earth, there are four corners of the earth, A tree that can be see from anywhere on earth, men can threaten God by building a tower toward heaven, placing peeled and striped branches in front of livestock alters genetics, the stars are attached to tent like fabric, etc.
Here is a comment by Martin Luther concerning Copernicus...
"There was mention of a certain astrologer who wanted to pro"ve that the earth moves and not the sky, the sun, and the moon. This would be as if somebody were riding on a cart or in a ship and imagined that he was standing still while the earth and the trees were moving.... I believe the Holy Scriptures, for Joshua commanded the sun to stand still and not the earth "
Is that secular reasoning? That is the same reasoning resisting the acceptances of evolution today. Same battle different ground.
And yet you have the Church, still sending the same message it has always sent, since the 70's - AD 70 - that there is a way to eternal life.
You can be wrong for a very long time and still be wrong. The concept of eternal life evolved and mutated and you can see that by reading the bible and seeing certain concepts emerge thru the ages (like heaven and hell)
Here is a parable.
Science is like a control system on a plane. When a plane takes off from Los Angeles to New York and goes on autopilot the plane never has the exact correct heading and attitude. There is a feedback mechanism that is always correcting. In other words the heading/attitude/altitude are always off but in the average it maintains its course and finds its way to the destination.
Religion is like taking a measurement and fixing the control surfaces at one time during the flight (canonization) and never correcting even though the plane is veering way of course and is about to crash. And the faithful will say amen.
That won't be a popular view I'm sure, but looking at the past thousand years of human history it's just as reasonable... That won't be a popular view I'm sure, but looking at the past thousand years of human history it's just as reasonable.
Looking back a thousand years would incriminate religion significantly more than science as a net producer of misery and suffering. Look at some of the products of religion crusades, inquisitions, Christian invasion of mesoamerica, slave trade, indiscriminate suicide bombing, jihad, etc)
Have you ever seen someone with leprosy? It still exists in some areas. There is a diagnosis and treatment for leprosy now. The treatment is a product of science not some holy man.
Leprosy is one of many scourges of humanity that has been alleviated by knowledge as apposed to ignorance. Religion is basically codified and canonized ignorance. Ignorance is a frequent companion of evil.
That leaves us with but few options. All we can do is keep learning, and applying what we learn, and hope that it is enough to ensure our survival.
We don't have a mission from God to spread and conquer
Says who? Maybe that is our mission and our great commission.
I always considered that God intended us to advance and further life but old man Satan created religion to prevent or impede our progress - think about it, almost all the major religions oppose science, attempts to rigidly control thought and suppresses imaginations.
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It has not exactly been fortunate for the American, Australian and South American original populations....The lifestyle of hunter gatherers is not necessarily nasty, brutish and short
On what grounds do you make this claim? On what parameters do you rate quality of life. Have you ever lived without plentiful food, indoor plumbing, dental care, medical care, pain relief, eye glasses, or even a nice hot shower?
Primitive hunter and gatherers life's were short, nasty and brutish.
I just read the Journal of Samuel Hearne who was the first European to traverse northern part of Canada. He describe the lifestyle and ways of the Woodland Cree and Chipewyan. I challenge you to find much in his account that is not cruel, brutish or nasty.
Or study up on the native tribes of Papua New Guinea or cannibalistic Germanic tribes. Also consider that there genetic markers found in modern humans all over the world that are evidence of our cannibalistic past.
One more point. I suspect you are thinking this from a male point of view only. Women (half of the population remember) lived particularly harsh lives.
Perhaps you are thinking of some idyllic panglossian Disney film you once watched.
Actually the hum is the planetary ring down of the violent shaking the earth received after the continents rapidly moved to their present locations due to a global-scale flood tectonic cataclysm.
BTW I predict that the magnitude of this hum is exponentially decaying just like the speed of light and earth magnetic field.
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Microsoft is one SCO investor that is NOT emotionally detached, I can assure you.
Err... never mind I RTFA - Power based claim.... ok shame me.
What did someone overturn Carnot cycle efficiency?
You can always detect hype when they completely disregard the second law of thermo.
Some brilliant scholar once said "In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
I personally do not want any flavor pre-installed. FreeDos is fine thank you. There are just too many options and partitioning preferences that I would typically reinstall anyways.
I can install Redhat via a USB drive in 10 minutes so the advantages of pre-installation are minimal.
What I really care about is not paying the Microsoft tax!
Why do conservatives disregard conservation?
Why do right-to-lifer's support the death penalty?
Why do liberals promote loss of liberty?
Why do those who dodge military service advocate preemptive war?
A few more conundrums to ponder....
That was the only thing you said that made sense
Sounds like a serious upfront data validation issue.
However, those two fields should be of a different types and the insert should fail.
But... but... they "hate our freedoms" (sorry could not resist).
Roughly 3000 people died on 9/11.
However *every year* more than 5 times that die as a result of drunk driving. If a small fraction of the money spent on 9/11 related fear was spent on automobile safety and measures to remove drunk drivers from the roads, the payback on life saved per dollar would be huge.
I knew somebody would say this.
We spend 410 Billion on an unwinnable war where the "liberated", by a majority, hate our guts and now on the real important things it comes down to an either this or that.
Why is that not an international effort? A NEO is just as likely to take out China or Iran as New York or Kansas.
Yes but don't forget the rallying sound bite "They hate our freedoms"
That ok
Science parades it's mistakes for all to see and punishes those responsible.
Religion canonizes its mistakes and sanctifies those responsible.
Big difference if you are concerned with reality.
FTA "Then I want to make a three-dimensional gyroscope, to measure rotation around three different axes. Today, such products are quite big, a cube 10 centimeters on a side."
There are such devices now that are compact and capable, such as...
http://www.microstrain.com/3dm-gx1_specs.aspx
I worked with this device last summer implementing a vehicle flight path recorder. It not only has 3 rate gyro's but three 5 mG accelerometers, a compass and processor that implements navigational processing and outputs earth-frame quantities via a serial connection.
Size: 42 x 40 x 15 mm
The bible uses the terms sunrise and sunset not with poetic license but because that was the cosmology of the time. Our use of the term is due specifically to our cultural Christian heritage.
This is utterly untrue and unsubstantiated! There are many stone age monuments and structures that align with various astronomical events (solstice, equinox, etc). If there was some change during the bronze age these alignments would not align up. Also there dayly and yearly rings in coral that do not substantiate this.
Please provide credible references.
So the puny vision of god that you worship is responsible for supernova, blackholes (and allegedly "stopping the sun in the sky") but requires his children to experience the pleasure of running a pregnant women thru with a bronze age sword? If these folks were as cancerous (although made in gods image) as you say why didn't God just starve them out or stop the beating of their black poisonous hearts?
And here is better question if they were cancerous why spare the young *female* children to keep for themselves? (can you say child rape)
Or check this out. This was not about your supposed purification this was conquest.
Deuteronomy 20:10-14
As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.
Again this is rape....
I am not calling God a liar. The OT is product of men and the times. It is not much different then say the Iliad and the mores and norms reflected the surrounding cultures. Most of the myths are borrowed and mutated. The earliest sources of the Noah predate earliest sources of the pentateuch.
You HAVE chosen to commit blasphemy by accepting a bronze age god. And you even will accept lies to accept this god.
The same thought popped into my head. After spending some time following the Bible Code story I wonder maybe they were looking in the wrong place - maybe instead of Genesis they should be in looking into prokaryotic junk DNA.
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/febible.htm
There is no insight here. If I sat on top of a mountain and looked around I might very well describe what I see as the "circle of earth". Circles can be flat and circles are not spheres and it is not due to a lack of terminology, there are words for sphere in Hebrew.
The bible also tells us that the earth is immovable...
Chronicles 16:30: "He has fixed the earth firm, immovable."
Psalm 93:1: "Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm
Psalm 96:10: "He has fixed the earth firm, immovable
Psalm 104:5: "Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation so that it never can be shaken."
Isaiah 45:18: "...who made the earth and fashioned it, and himself fixed it fast..."
None eh? Start with the immovable earth. Then explain how the sun can stand still and even move backwards, explain how stars can fall to earth (meteorites != stars), genetics altered due the proximity of peeled branches, winds stored in store houses, global flood with evidence contradicting, trees seen from all over the earth, towers to heaven, yada, yada and yada...
That is willful ignorance. The bible if full of inconsistencies and scientific fallacies.
How many scientific discoveries of the natural world have originated by a literal or *inspired* reading of the Bible?
Whooa there cowboy. Do I believe that God is as described from a bronze age viewpoint? Absolutely not! Do I believe that the creator of universe commands genocide and rape such as in...
Numbers 31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
Numbers 31:18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
No. To believe so would be blasphemy!
So you avoid modern medical science? I doubt it and suspect your faith is veneer.
Science is self-correcting. While scientist may be subjective and politics, as in all human endeavors, holds sway, science corrects itself to the data over time.
And religion was well on to those points right? The earth immovable and has a foundation, Joshua stopped the sun in the sky not the earth, there are four corners of the earth, A tree that can be see from anywhere on earth, men can threaten God by building a tower toward heaven, placing peeled and striped branches in front of livestock alters genetics, the stars are attached to tent like fabric, etc.
Here is a comment by Martin Luther concerning Copernicus...
"There was mention of a certain astrologer who wanted to pro"ve that the earth moves and not the sky, the sun, and the moon. This would be as if somebody were riding on a cart or in a ship and imagined that he was standing still while the earth and the trees were moving.... I believe the Holy Scriptures, for Joshua commanded the sun to stand still and not the earth "
Is that secular reasoning? That is the same reasoning resisting the acceptances of evolution today. Same battle different ground.
You can be wrong for a very long time and still be wrong. The concept of eternal life evolved and mutated and you can see that by reading the bible and seeing certain concepts emerge thru the ages (like heaven and hell)
Here is a parable.
Science is like a control system on a plane. When a plane takes off from Los Angeles to New York and goes on autopilot the plane never has the exact correct heading and attitude. There is a feedback mechanism that is always correcting. In other words the heading/attitude/altitude are always off but in the average it maintains its course and finds its way to the destination.
Religion is like taking a measurement and fixing the control surfaces at one time during the flight (canonization) and never correcting even though the plane is veering way of course and is about to crash. And the faithful will say amen.
FTFA
BP says it new this form of methane was under the tundra all along.
Sean Doogan the author of this article is certaintly qualified to be a Slash editor...
FTFA
it's hard to see the pitfalls so far ahead, but I worry that once we establish a base on the moon, we might get bogged down there.
I thought for the moment there, is he was talking back some foolhardy contemporary military adventure.
I wonder what he meant by this, how could we get "bogged" down on the moon?
Aside: Anybody know what the ROM price tag for an established moon based is compared to say the price tag for the Iraqi war?
because every major bit of M$ released code will be targeted for suing M$ for their own patent infringing code
Here is the rub.
Open Source software developers or distributors do not hold patents.
The best that can be hoped for is examples of well documented prior art.
So in other words OSS, has a good defense but little offense
That won't be a popular view I'm sure, but looking at the past thousand years of human history it's just as reasonable... That won't be a popular view I'm sure, but looking at the past thousand years of human history it's just as reasonable.
Looking back a thousand years would incriminate religion significantly more than science as a net producer of misery and suffering. Look at some of the products of religion crusades, inquisitions, Christian invasion of mesoamerica, slave trade, indiscriminate suicide bombing, jihad, etc)
Have you ever seen someone with leprosy? It still exists in some areas. There is a diagnosis and treatment for leprosy now. The treatment is a product of science not some holy man.
Leprosy is one of many scourges of humanity that has been alleviated by knowledge as apposed to ignorance. Religion is basically codified and canonized ignorance. Ignorance is a frequent companion of evil.
That leaves us with but few options. All we can do is keep learning, and applying what we learn, and hope that it is enough to ensure our survival.
I agree with you here completely.
We don't have a mission from God to spread and conquer
Says who? Maybe that is our mission and our great commission.
I always considered that God intended us to advance and further life but old man Satan created religion to prevent or impede our progress - think about it, almost all the major religions oppose science, attempts to rigidly control thought and suppresses imaginations.
It has not exactly been fortunate for the American, Australian and South American original populations....The lifestyle of hunter gatherers is not necessarily nasty, brutish and short
On what grounds do you make this claim? On what parameters do you rate quality of life. Have you ever lived without plentiful food, indoor plumbing, dental care, medical care, pain relief, eye glasses, or even a nice hot shower?
Primitive hunter and gatherers life's were short, nasty and brutish.
I just read the Journal of Samuel Hearne who was the first European to traverse northern part of Canada. He describe the lifestyle and ways of the Woodland Cree and Chipewyan. I challenge you to find much in his account that is not cruel, brutish or nasty.
Or study up on the native tribes of Papua New Guinea or cannibalistic Germanic tribes. Also consider that there genetic markers found in modern humans all over the world that are evidence of our cannibalistic past.
One more point. I suspect you are thinking this from a male point of view only. Women (half of the population remember) lived particularly harsh lives.
Perhaps you are thinking of some idyllic panglossian Disney film you once watched.
Actually the hum is the planetary ring down of the violent shaking the earth received after the continents rapidly moved to their present locations due to a global-scale flood tectonic cataclysm. BTW I predict that the magnitude of this hum is exponentially decaying just like the speed of light and earth magnetic field.
No *I* am the father.... Darth