They will not post what they disagree with. Try telling any green environmental lefty that Ethanol is a bad thing and show them why, and they turn their nose saying, "But, but, but, but its GREEN!"
There's nothing wrong with Ethanol, save for studies 30 year out of date that are perpetuating the idea that it's energy negative. And it's not a "green" problem. It's a problem of finding an alternative fuel source before the rising prices of petrol cause too many economic problems.
As it so happens, Ethanol is being used as an ocatane-booster additive in the majority of gasoline today. In part, it's because it's safer than cleaner than most of the chemicals previously used to improve octane ratings. Another part of it, however, is that up to 10% Ethanol mixtures are helping to lower the cost of gasoline as the prices for gas surpass that of Ethanol. You forgot a big part of the equation: ethanol is, at present, only an economical additive because of the huge agricultural subsidies for corn farmers in the US.
Have you been at the Gaffer's homebrew again? I think the status of the UK as a nation state is pretty much universally recognized (for a few centuries now). And besides, extradition is governed by international law; if a state has no extradition treaty with another country, they're perfectly within their rights to refuse an extradition request. What this case gets at is the status of Russia as a fair, open, democratic state.
There's no law that forces people to use iTunes, nor does iTunes have a monopoly on downloaded music[...] That would depend on what the definition of monopoly is. Apple does have the vast majority of paid music downloads in may countries, and music downloading is practically synonymous with iTunes to most people.
[...]and Apple hasn't used its market share to squeeze others out of the business (unlike Microsoft). Well, refusing to allow other companies' music players the ability to play files downloaded from iTunes would seem to constitute using its market share to squeeze others out of business. (But IANAL).
400,000 of the 425,000 Blu-ray players sold by the end of 2007 were PlayStation 3s and 150,000 of the 270,000 HD DVD players were Xbox 360 add-ons. Can I borrow that crystal ball? I'd like to know who won the next Superbowl.
Step 1: Procure the following herbs (approx. 25 g each):
i. English thyme
ii. Hyssop
iii. Lavender petals
iv. Damiana leaves
v. Green tea leaves
vi. Jasmine petals (fresh) Step 2: Bring one quart of distilled water to a boil. Step 3: Place the aforementioned herbs in the boiling water and reduce the heat to low. Step 4: Simmer on low for 30 min. Step 5: Realize that your cat allergy is just a manifestation of your obvious latent homosexual tendencies that prevents you from engaging in frequent sexual relations with your girlfriend. Step 6: Throw out that stinking mess on your stove top.
The headline should read, "Huge capital expenditure eliminates comparatively small utility bill in U.S. home." The last time I checked, running a home on solar wouldn't pay off for at least ten years. This isn't news; it could've been done 20 years ago. It wasn't cost effective then, and it still isn't cost effective (yet).
By the way, for those of you who think storing excess electrical energy in hydrogen is a good idea, you should be aware that hydrogen generation through electrolysis in a typical home setup is only about 60% efficient. The rest gets released as heat which makes the electrolyte solution (usually concentrated NaOH) very hot. Then, you have to multiply that by the efficiency of the fuel cell used to regenerate the electricity (except for heating applications, in which the hydrogen can simply be burned.) You're probably better off storing it in a bank of cheap lead-acid batteries.
Along with high school sports, physical therapy, child birth, etc. Actually there a lot of things that "stress" your body and make you feel like you're going to die (ask your mom), but are relatively safe. But drinking massive amounts of water all at once with no electrolytes is not one of them. The radio station should have known better. Five minutes of googling could have told them that. Hell, if they'd just given them some Gatorade along with the water, she might still be alive. And the competition would have been just as retarded^Wchallenging.
Not only that they read my posts:
That means you'd need 51 GB just to store the same length movie as a dual-layer DVD. I'd like to ask that no one remind me that this would have taken more than a couple days to develop, and just let me go on thinking I inspired this technological breakthrough. And for my next trick, I'd like to suggest that HD-DVDs need to go to 200 GB. Are you listening Toshiba?
...why did she continue to allow the students to use the computer?
Amero testified that she had told four other teachers and the assistant principal about the popups, but received no assistance. Anyone who's used a computer with spyware that causes popups knows that they mostly advertise things unsuitable for children/adolescents (e.g., black market viagra and other prescription drugs, penis/breast enhancement snake oil, porno, etc.) So why didn't she immediately unplug the computer and put it somewhere where the students couldn't get to it? Did the vice principal tell her to do that? Maybe she continued to let the students use it to put pressure on the school to "fix" her computer.
The article simply says that the women didn't know what the study was about, but it may be possible that some of them inferred it. Were they asked about their state in the menstrual cycle? If so, I think they might have figured out the nature of the study and (subconsciously? impulsively?) dressed accordingly. Were they photographed every day for a period of time, or were they scheduled to have a photograph taken at exactly two times. Even if their menstrual states were determined entirely from blood analysis, most women mark their dates on a calendar so they can plan ahead, so it wouldn't be hard to figure out the reason behind the scheduled photograph dates.
I'm not sure 45 GB is going to be enough for HD. A 1920x1080 movie has exactly six times as many pixels per frame as a 720x480 DVD movie. I'm no expert on video compression, but shouldn't it require six times as many bytes to store HD video at the same compression rate? That means you'd need 51 GB just to store the same length movie as a dual-layer DVD. I already have to have four disks to store one season of a TV series. If we're going to go to all the trouble to upgrade, shouldn't we be a bit more forward looking?
Albert Einstein was not the innovator he's made out to be. He stitched together some ideas he was exposed to (which were quite well-known to scientists at the time) and presented himself to be some sort of savant. He didn't cite most of the sources he got his ideas from in the paper he submitted for his doctorate. The media gladly celebrated their countryman and continue to do so today, greatly overstating Einstein's importance in modern physics. Actually, Einstein was wrong on a lot of points, such as the steady-state universe hypothesis.
Oh, give it a rest. If The Pirate Bay (or any company) does business with Americans in America, then they may be prosecuted in America for any laws they break. They may also be prosecuted in Russia for any Russian laws they break. It's not as if America or any other country tried to enforce their own laws in foreign courts.
I'm sure her public image is really suffering because of this alleged violation of the DMCA. And I'm also sure she had nothing whatsoever to do with this unprovoked penis attack. It was probably just a freak coincidence that all those penises decided to attack this relatively unknown wannabe celebrity all at once.
I'm sorry, but that's just not true, at least not if they're used correctly. I use Q-tips after I shower to dry and clean my ear canals, and I don't have a problem with wax build up. I insert the swab in without pressing against the walls of the canal. Then I press down and pull it back out. I do the same thing to clean the top of the canal. No muss. No fuss.
Hey, guess what? You're reading Slashdot on New Year's Eve! That means you will never reproduce. I therefore nominate you for a Darwin Award. (Yes, I realize I'm doing the same thing.)
If people considered UNIX to be notoriously insecure in 1991, what did they consider to be secure? Surely not MS-DOS. What else was there to compare it to?
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As it so happens, Ethanol is being used as an ocatane-booster additive in the majority of gasoline today. In part, it's because it's safer than cleaner than most of the chemicals previously used to improve octane ratings. Another part of it, however, is that up to 10% Ethanol mixtures are helping to lower the cost of gasoline as the prices for gas surpass that of Ethanol. You forgot a big part of the equation: ethanol is, at present, only an economical additive because of the huge agricultural subsidies for corn farmers in the US.
Have you been at the Gaffer's homebrew again? I think the status of the UK as a nation state is pretty much universally recognized (for a few centuries now). And besides, extradition is governed by international law; if a state has no extradition treaty with another country, they're perfectly within their rights to refuse an extradition request. What this case gets at is the status of Russia as a fair, open, democratic state.
The NES Zapper. (See Duck hunt.) Need I say more?
Step 1: Procure the following herbs (approx. 25 g each):
i. English thyme
ii. Hyssop
iii. Lavender petals
iv. Damiana leaves
v. Green tea leaves
vi. Jasmine petals (fresh)
Step 2: Bring one quart of distilled water to a boil.
Step 3: Place the aforementioned herbs in the boiling water and reduce the heat to low.
Step 4: Simmer on low for 30 min.
Step 5: Realize that your cat allergy is just a manifestation of your obvious latent homosexual tendencies that prevents you from engaging in frequent sexual relations with your girlfriend.
Step 6: Throw out that stinking mess on your stove top.
Thank you for you insightful comment. Now we can throw out all the other 162 comments.
The headline should read, "Huge capital expenditure eliminates comparatively small utility bill in U.S. home." The last time I checked, running a home on solar wouldn't pay off for at least ten years. This isn't news; it could've been done 20 years ago. It wasn't cost effective then, and it still isn't cost effective (yet).
By the way, for those of you who think storing excess electrical energy in hydrogen is a good idea, you should be aware that hydrogen generation through electrolysis in a typical home setup is only about 60% efficient. The rest gets released as heat which makes the electrolyte solution (usually concentrated NaOH) very hot. Then, you have to multiply that by the efficiency of the fuel cell used to regenerate the electricity (except for heating applications, in which the hydrogen can simply be burned.) You're probably better off storing it in a bank of cheap lead-acid batteries.
...by mentioning his full name in the article, /. made sure that any searches for + "sex offender" will turn up hits for decades to come. Nice work.
Along with high school sports, physical therapy, child birth, etc. Actually there a lot of things that "stress" your body and make you feel like you're going to die (ask your mom), but are relatively safe. But drinking massive amounts of water all at once with no electrolytes is not one of them. The radio station should have known better. Five minutes of googling could have told them that. Hell, if they'd just given them some Gatorade along with the water, she might still be alive. And the competition would have been just as retarded^Wchallenging.
The article simply says that the women didn't know what the study was about, but it may be possible that some of them inferred it. Were they asked about their state in the menstrual cycle? If so, I think they might have figured out the nature of the study and (subconsciously? impulsively?) dressed accordingly. Were they photographed every day for a period of time, or were they scheduled to have a photograph taken at exactly two times. Even if their menstrual states were determined entirely from blood analysis, most women mark their dates on a calendar so they can plan ahead, so it wouldn't be hard to figure out the reason behind the scheduled photograph dates.
I'm not sure 45 GB is going to be enough for HD. A 1920x1080 movie has exactly six times as many pixels per frame as a 720x480 DVD movie. I'm no expert on video compression, but shouldn't it require six times as many bytes to store HD video at the same compression rate? That means you'd need 51 GB just to store the same length movie as a dual-layer DVD. I already have to have four disks to store one season of a TV series. If we're going to go to all the trouble to upgrade, shouldn't we be a bit more forward looking?
...to offset the winner's legal expenses. Do you get an additional prize if you are actually convicted?
Albert Einstein was not the innovator he's made out to be. He stitched together some ideas he was exposed to (which were quite well-known to scientists at the time) and presented himself to be some sort of savant. He didn't cite most of the sources he got his ideas from in the paper he submitted for his doctorate. The media gladly celebrated their countryman and continue to do so today, greatly overstating Einstein's importance in modern physics. Actually, Einstein was wrong on a lot of points, such as the steady-state universe hypothesis.
Oh, give it a rest. If The Pirate Bay (or any company) does business with Americans in America, then they may be prosecuted in America for any laws they break. They may also be prosecuted in Russia for any Russian laws they break. It's not as if America or any other country tried to enforce their own laws in foreign courts.
I'm sure her public image is really suffering because of this alleged violation of the DMCA. And I'm also sure she had nothing whatsoever to do with this unprovoked penis attack. It was probably just a freak coincidence that all those penises decided to attack this relatively unknown wannabe celebrity all at once.
...she orchestrated it herself. As they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity.
I'm sorry, but that's just not true, at least not if they're used correctly. I use Q-tips after I shower to dry and clean my ear canals, and I don't have a problem with wax build up. I insert the swab in without pressing against the walls of the canal. Then I press down and pull it back out. I do the same thing to clean the top of the canal. No muss. No fuss.
What happens if the driver uses hand sanitizer (which contains mostly ethanol)? And how does it distinguish between the driver and the passengers?
Hey, guess what? You're reading Slashdot on New Year's Eve! That means you will never reproduce. I therefore nominate you for a Darwin Award. (Yes, I realize I'm doing the same thing.)
You think that's expensive? You should see how much they paid to have this ad run on /. this close to Christmas.
All things are relative.
If people considered UNIX to be notoriously insecure in 1991, what did they consider to be secure? Surely not MS-DOS. What else was there to compare it to?