Does anyone know how these engines avoid accumulating a net charge over time? If you're emitting a stream of positive ions for a long time, and you're not taking in any negative ions, you would have an increasingly large negative charge. It seems that this would decrease the thrust over time, not to mention electrocuting the vessel upon re-entering an atmosphere.
This [wikipedia.org] post would be plagairism had I not included this link, for instance.
Actually, your post was plagiarism. If you copy someone else's work word for word without indicating that it is a direct quotation, even if you cite the original source, you are plagiarising. Consider this quote from the Wikipedia article you linked:
According to Diana Hacker, the citation criteria as specified by the MLA (Modern Language Association) (115), APA (American Psychological Association) (157-158), Chicago-Style (186), and others (228-230): "Three different acts are considered plagiarism: (1) failing to cite quotations and borrowed ideas, (2) failing to enclose borrowed language in quotation marks, and (3) failing to put summaries and paraphrases in your own words." A Pocket Style Manual, 4h ed., 2004 Bedford/St. Martin's.
Why don't folks just use less energy? I mean, come on. Unneeded outside lighting, all the lights on inside, monitors left on all night long at work. People need to conserve energy a lot more than they need to start producing more of it.
This serves to confirm my suspicion about "alternative energy" wackos. Home lighting? Monitors? Do you realize how little energy these processes need? You can adequately light a large room with about 200 W of incandescent light. It takes about a quarter of that with compact fluorescent lights, and even less with new linear fluorescent tubes. Modern computer monitors use less than 100 W each and most of them turn off when they aren't used for a while. The point is that if everyone turned off the lights in rooms when the last person left and they shut off all computer monitors that weren't being used, it wouldn't make a dent in electrical energy consumption. How much electricity do you think it takes to heat a home? How much electricity do you think it takes to produce aluminum? You can't just place all the blame on your neighbor for not turning off his porch light at night.
Because, you know, if the NSA did have a secret backdoor, they'd make sure is was called NSAKEY, in case they forgot where it was, or something.
Stranger things have happened. When a German law enforcement agency forced the developers of JAP (Java Anon Proxy) to put a backdoor in it, they put in code like:
if(crimeDetected) { object->logCrime(...); }
And it was an open-source project. Someone later admitted that they were kind of hoping that somebody would notice it, because they didn't think they could legally expose it themselves. Maybe someone at Microsoft didn't think it was right for the NSA to install a back door, and they had a conscience. Wait, what am I saying? This is Microsoft!
Kagu writes "According to the BBC, Norway is planning to build a Seed Bank in the Artic Permafrost to protect all known variations of seeds in case of worldwide disaster."
JourneyExpertApe writes "There are fetuses that can spell better that Kagu. And Zonk couldn't spot a spelling error if it had a wavy red line under it. Also, "seed bank" and "permafrost" aren't proper nouns, so they shouldn't be capitalized."
I wish that were true. But the current administration has shown that it has no intention of reducing illegal immigration from Mexico and Central America. The rich farmers don't want to lose their cheap labor, and the neo-cons have other reasons for wanting a lot of Latinos in the US. If they wanted to decrease illegal immigration, they'd just put an adequate number of border patrol agents on the southern border.
I've been in bands that have covered Coldplay, Radiohead, The Beatles, Beck, The Pixies, etc. and we've never got in trouble for playing them live at crowded bars.
Who's going to get you in trouble? Did you expect the local police to storm in and take you all to jail? Do you think record companies station undercover agents in bars and clubs around the country to catch people performing their music without permission? Just because you didn't get in trouble, that doesn't make it 100% legal. But when the Backstreet Boys cover New Kids on the Block songs at their shows, they have to pay.
I watched one episode, the one where the girl goes back in time and meets her own dad and nearly destroys the whole world. I guess it was OK. It's not quite Star Trekesque Sci-Fi, and frankly, it seemed more than a little cheesy. I guess that's kind of the point, though. I just don't understand how a show like this can survive for 40 years, or however long it's been on. So, brits, why do you like this show so much?
But the distinction isn't important. Any alternative fuel scheme could be said to "work". For example, you could use electricity to power a motor that powers an electrical generator, and call that a "clean energy source", but it's, of course, worthless. By "won't work", I meant it won't be feasible. Especially the part about turning the "green solid" into ethanol. Hell, I could turn grass into ethanol given the right reactants and catalysts and enough energy input, but that wouldn't be very efficient.
I'm probably just burning karma here, but you meant to type "reasearch a way to". You can't just substitute a word that sound like another word or group of words. "Any way" and "anyway" mean two different things, as do "every day" and "everyday". These are pretty common mistakes, but I just couldn't overlook using "away" instead of "a way". I hope that was just a typo.
The fact that they are burning the oil produced by the algae means that there probably isn't going to be an over all saving.
While I suspect this is yet another alternative fuel scheme that just won't work, reclaiming CO2 emissions from a power plant by turning it into fuel (without non-renewable power input) would produce a savings in overall emissions. The savings is in the CO2 that would have been produced by the fossil fuels replaced by the biodiesel.
I didn't RTFA, but isn't it possible that some of the reviewers already saw it in the theatre? Given that this is a highly hyped Spielberg movie, I'd say it's likely most of them did. Or is it ineligible because they couldn't see their special copy.
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It's not being deceptive about what it does, which is why it's not spyware.
Might I remind you that a lot of notorious spyware apps also state their function in the liscence agreement?
Munich screeners were encoded for region one, which allows them to be played in the US and Canada, rather than region two, which incorporates most of Europe
No problem, all they have to do is fly over here with their special DVD players and watch the movie. And they can do some sight seeing while they're here.
In Roland's case, he likes to link to his personal blog where he writes mediocre summaries of stories that add nothing to the original.
What idiot would want to read a blog with mediocre summaries to stories that add nothing to the original? Oh, wait... Maybe he should start doing what/. does and just copy the first paragraph of the article and call it a summary.
I happen to know one of the people who claims to be one of the gnaa members. Yes he is as sad in real live as well but that is not the real funny thing. He sometimes gets "attacked" himself and then bitterly complains about how people are costing him bandwidth from a DOS (yeah a DOS not even a DDOS). A lot of people are for freedom but only if it is them being free, the moment someone else uses freedom against them it is time to get the law involved.
You're comparing an annoying, offensive website with a DoS attack (btw, what do you think the second "D" stands for?) DoS attacks are already illegal, as they should be (automated ones, that is.) When you consider new laws like this, you need to think about the potential for abuse. Imagine if people were afraid to express themselves in online political forums for fear of being prosecuted--only if they're on the wrong side, of course. If someone is posting comments that annoy you on your blog, then you need to either:
1) Report them to their ISP
2) Only allow posts by registered users. If you have control over registration, don't allow anonymous email addresses.
or 3) Accept the fact that not all of the feedback you get will be positive.
Um, my browser does that for me. I either use cookies to keep me logged in all the time, or I use my browser's password remembering capabilities to populate the forms. I would be willing to bet that 99% of cookies are used for tracking by marketers. Still, I realize that it's not such a big deal, since you can purge cookies at any time, and even block cookies from certain sites.
Portable OO.o isn't about replacing the software installed on your work computer, it's about giving you the ability to run the office apps of you choice in computer labs and internet cafes and such. If you need to do business on the road, then you take your laptop with you. Editing important documents on a computer you don't own is risky whether it's in a web app or from a usb drive. The real disadvantage of a web office suite would be that webapps are just generally slower than local apps. It'd be kind of like running Office on a 500 rpm hard drive.
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Does anyone know how these engines avoid accumulating a net charge over time? If you're emitting a stream of positive ions for a long time, and you're not taking in any negative ions, you would have an increasingly large negative charge. It seems that this would decrease the thrust over time, not to mention electrocuting the vessel upon re-entering an atmosphere.
Actually, your post was plagiarism. If you copy someone else's work word for word without indicating that it is a direct quotation, even if you cite the original source, you are plagiarising. Consider this quote from the Wikipedia article you linked: (emphasis mine)
Why don't folks just use less energy? I mean, come on. Unneeded outside lighting, all the lights on inside, monitors left on all night long at work. People need to conserve energy a lot more than they need to start producing more of it.
This serves to confirm my suspicion about "alternative energy" wackos. Home lighting? Monitors? Do you realize how little energy these processes need? You can adequately light a large room with about 200 W of incandescent light. It takes about a quarter of that with compact fluorescent lights, and even less with new linear fluorescent tubes. Modern computer monitors use less than 100 W each and most of them turn off when they aren't used for a while. The point is that if everyone turned off the lights in rooms when the last person left and they shut off all computer monitors that weren't being used, it wouldn't make a dent in electrical energy consumption. How much electricity do you think it takes to heat a home? How much electricity do you think it takes to produce aluminum? You can't just place all the blame on your neighbor for not turning off his porch light at night.
JourneyExpertApe writes "People shouldn't be allowed to mod the discussion for articles they submitted (poorly)."
Stranger things have happened. When a German law enforcement agency forced the developers of JAP (Java Anon Proxy) to put a backdoor in it, they put in code like:
And it was an open-source project. Someone later admitted that they were kind of hoping that somebody would notice it, because they didn't think they could legally expose it themselves. Maybe someone at Microsoft didn't think it was right for the NSA to install a back door, and they had a conscience. Wait, what am I saying? This is Microsoft!
JourneyExpertApe writes "There are fetuses that can spell better that Kagu. And Zonk couldn't spot a spelling error if it had a wavy red line under it. Also, "seed bank" and "permafrost" aren't proper nouns, so they shouldn't be capitalized."
I wish that were true. But the current administration has shown that it has no intention of reducing illegal immigration from Mexico and Central America. The rich farmers don't want to lose their cheap labor, and the neo-cons have other reasons for wanting a lot of Latinos in the US. If they wanted to decrease illegal immigration, they'd just put an adequate number of border patrol agents on the southern border.
I've been in bands that have covered Coldplay, Radiohead, The Beatles, Beck, The Pixies, etc. and we've never got in trouble for playing them live at crowded bars.
Who's going to get you in trouble? Did you expect the local police to storm in and take you all to jail? Do you think record companies station undercover agents in bars and clubs around the country to catch people performing their music without permission? Just because you didn't get in trouble, that doesn't make it 100% legal. But when the Backstreet Boys cover New Kids on the Block songs at their shows, they have to pay.
This appears to be, from the article, a specific license tax on just those who utilize digital delivery systems.
I wonder what weird wording of the law makes this necessary. After all, CDs are digital. Why should the kind of digital medium matter?
Windows Media player for Mac was a joke anyway. Very buggy, playback would stop/hang randomly. It's been there, and broken for years
You know, the words "for Mac" are really superfluous there.
I watched one episode, the one where the girl goes back in time and meets her own dad and nearly destroys the whole world. I guess it was OK. It's not quite Star Trekesque Sci-Fi, and frankly, it seemed more than a little cheesy. I guess that's kind of the point, though. I just don't understand how a show like this can survive for 40 years, or however long it's been on. So, brits, why do you like this show so much?
But the distinction isn't important. Any alternative fuel scheme could be said to "work". For example, you could use electricity to power a motor that powers an electrical generator, and call that a "clean energy source", but it's, of course, worthless. By "won't work", I meant it won't be feasible. Especially the part about turning the "green solid" into ethanol. Hell, I could turn grass into ethanol given the right reactants and catalysts and enough energy input, but that wouldn't be very efficient.
Does that mean we should research away to...
I'm probably just burning karma here, but you meant to type "reasearch a way to". You can't just substitute a word that sound like another word or group of words. "Any way" and "anyway" mean two different things, as do "every day" and "everyday". These are pretty common mistakes, but I just couldn't overlook using "away" instead of "a way". I hope that was just a typo.
The fact that they are burning the oil produced by the algae means that there probably isn't going to be an over all saving.
While I suspect this is yet another alternative fuel scheme that just won't work, reclaiming CO2 emissions from a power plant by turning it into fuel (without non-renewable power input) would produce a savings in overall emissions. The savings is in the CO2 that would have been produced by the fossil fuels replaced by the biodiesel.
I didn't RTFA, but isn't it possible that some of the reviewers already saw it in the theatre? Given that this is a highly hyped Spielberg movie, I'd say it's likely most of them did. Or is it ineligible because they couldn't see their special copy.
It's not being deceptive about what it does, which is why it's not spyware.
Might I remind you that a lot of notorious spyware apps also state their function in the liscence agreement?
Munich screeners were encoded for region one, which allows them to be played in the US and Canada, rather than region two, which incorporates most of Europe
No problem, all they have to do is fly over here with their special DVD players and watch the movie. And they can do some sight seeing while they're here.
The problem here is that you're conflating IT and tech workers with fungible assets (webhosting). We aren't fungible.
That's a very cromulent point.
In Roland's case, he likes to link to his personal blog where he writes mediocre summaries of stories that add nothing to the original.
/. does and just copy the first paragraph of the article and call it a summary.
What idiot would want to read a blog with mediocre summaries to stories that add nothing to the original? Oh, wait... Maybe he should start doing what
I happen to know one of the people who claims to be one of the gnaa members. Yes he is as sad in real live as well but that is not the real funny thing. He sometimes gets "attacked" himself and then bitterly complains about how people are costing him bandwidth from a DOS (yeah a DOS not even a DDOS). A lot of people are for freedom but only if it is them being free, the moment someone else uses freedom against them it is time to get the law involved.
You're comparing an annoying, offensive website with a DoS attack (btw, what do you think the second "D" stands for?) DoS attacks are already illegal, as they should be (automated ones, that is.) When you consider new laws like this, you need to think about the potential for abuse. Imagine if people were afraid to express themselves in online political forums for fear of being prosecuted--only if they're on the wrong side, of course. If someone is posting comments that annoy you on your blog, then you need to either:
1) Report them to their ISP
2) Only allow posts by registered users. If you have control over registration, don't allow anonymous email addresses.
or 3) Accept the fact that not all of the feedback you get will be positive.
Some crazy fin writes an OS...
Did it have a frickin' laser beam strapped to it?
Um, my browser does that for me. I either use cookies to keep me logged in all the time, or I use my browser's password remembering capabilities to populate the forms. I would be willing to bet that 99% of cookies are used for tracking by marketers. Still, I realize that it's not such a big deal, since you can purge cookies at any time, and even block cookies from certain sites.
Portable OO.o isn't about replacing the software installed on your work computer, it's about giving you the ability to run the office apps of you choice in computer labs and internet cafes and such. If you need to do business on the road, then you take your laptop with you. Editing important documents on a computer you don't own is risky whether it's in a web app or from a usb drive. The real disadvantage of a web office suite would be that webapps are just generally slower than local apps. It'd be kind of like running Office on a 500 rpm hard drive.
So you're saying we came from Washington, DC?
The House is part of Congress.