The problems with hydrogen is getting it and storing it. I think it was myth busters where I saw them pump hydrogen gas into a car engine and it ran. Well, it ran until the gas leaked out of the engine since said engine was not made for hydrogen gas.
Isn't Iceland going all hydrogen? Cars, boats, just about everything? Granted Iceland has a lot of geothermal based electricity on hand to make the hydrogen. Other places in the world also have geothermal energy available (the west cost of the US for one). The geothermal electric power plants can be built then use that power to create hydrogen gas. We still need the storage and transmission systems for hydrogen gas to be built.
If I could afford two cars, the volt would be perfect for the drive to work and regular shopping. I have a short commute to work. My house hold shopping is 13-15 miles away. How does this car run in traffic? It takes me the same amount of time to go 12 miles as it does my sister to go 50 miles where she lives. How much power is being used to start and stop the car? If the braking can charge the batteries as you go that would be good.
For the long trips take the other car. This appears to work well also. The thing is, a two seater may not be good for the long trips.
I usually keep my cars 10+ years anyway. I like not having a car payment. I would still like to see the long term repairs on this car.
How about tidal power or river power? I am not saying make more dams. It is more like the wind turbine but under water. Most people will not see the turbines. Pollution is only from the creation of the turbine.
Was i the only one who left word open for a while. Then this strange tapping sound started. It was Clippy 'tapping' on the screen asking if I wanted to save the file. from that moment on, Clippy was not used. Going back to the 97 version there was this cat (Earl i think). The cat was better. He (it acted like a he) coughed up hair balls, farted, and other more amusing activities.
The PAE switch doesn't always work as written. I used it in server 2003 32 bit. The machine worked fine for a while. Then after a few updates (the updates killed it) I needed to drop the RAM to 3GB to get the machine to have clear video. I thought the video card went bad at first. It was not the case. Removing 1 GB of RAM fixed the issue. I wanted a stable and safe machine. 3 GB of RAM was plenty for what I did on that machine.
Win 7 has better battery life then XP pro or OSx on the SSD based mini 9 that I have. For regular hard drive based netbooks, XP pro should still rule. XP pro is slower then win 7 on the SSD based netbook that I have. The SSD in this mini looks more like RAM then a hard drive. The slot looks more like a mini PCI/E slot then a RAM or SATA connection. Which may have a lot to do with why XP pro on this netbook. XP loaded slower and ran sluggish on this netbook. It worked but for me it was not running correctly. I do not have and did not try XP home.
Battery life for me was OSX: 3 hours 20 minutes. XP: 3 hours 30 minutes. win 7: 5 hours. Ubuntu linux: 6 hours.
I charged the netbook to a full charge then used it (readign email, writing some docs, nothing really crazy) on the power saver settings for each OS. Linux got the best average time after 5 chrages. Win 7 did beat XP pro and OSX for my not official test.
Sounds like your 9th grade teacher was a card carrying member of PETA though. I remember in 8th or 9th grade (that was a decades ago) having a lecture on what animal parts were in cosmetics. Fish scales in lipstick and the like. Seeing most of the girls come into school with little or no makeup on the following days was a sight. Plus we got to see who the natural pretty girls were. Now if I can only get my girlfriend to let me see her without makeup on.
If we can build a platform into space or beam the energy down from space based collectors, The worlds energy needs will be met. That is a huge, very huge if though.
Also I do see many wars being waged if this does get close to happening. There is too much money tied up in oil for a war over switching away from oil to not happen.
For men, attraction is an on/off switch, either a man finds a woman attractive or he doesn't, and he evaluates that in less than 1/2 a second,
Hate to break it to you, but woman do the same thing. Woman may look over you more when compared to guys. They look at how you are dressed, who you are with, etc. They also decide if you are worth their time very quickly. The decision as to weather they will sleep with you or not is made before the guy even opens his mouth.
I guess PETA forgot that rivers have been dumping fresh water into the oceans for millions (if not billions) of years now. Maybe their lawyers told PETA that suing a river for damages is sort of difficult.
Setting up a bunch of energy 'stations' where there is brackish water sounds like a win. The article didn't say anything about damming up the river, or needing to be in deep water. So set these up along the shore where water river cannot go anyway, less blocking of the river, less or no blocking of river traffic, power sent to the people. Really sounds like a win. Lets see what is said when the other shoe drops.
8 monitors on windows. This was back in the NT 4 days. Needed 4 PCI (not AGP or PCI-e back then) dual VGA video cards. Took some doing but it worked. It worked on win 2000 a lot better. The stock traders wanted it. We never gamed on them though. Flat screens back then (1999-2000) sucked. They broke often and needed to be replaced.
As for Win 7, I have been using the 64 bit version as a test game platform for a few months now. It is not the fastest just a Q6600 with 8GB of ram. No overclocking. So far it works well. The biggest issue I have had was a few old games do not like the wide screen resolution. That is more of a game issue since wide screen resolutions were not common back 9-10 years ago. A few older (from 1997,1998) games made the OS complain during the install but the game installed and runs fine. The old games expect to run like win 98. Needed to change how the game runs. I may try XP mode, but so far have not needed to. Personally I think this is what vista should (ok is) have been in the first place.
Quick reality check: speed up your heart rate, then slow it down again. You have 20 seconds.
Oh, you mean you aren't even in full conscious control of your own body? How are you supposed to know shit about the universe, then? Lack of evidence means "unproven", not "false". Learn the difference.
Easy, *thinks of Megan Fox* Heart rate speeds up. *stops thinking of Megan Fox* (ok tries to stop thinking anyway) Heart rate slows down.
Exactly what I was thinking Ms. Fox doing I will leave up to you.
It will be a DVD on blue ray. After the first run it starts over with a few things changed. Then the next one has a few more things changed. This repeats until the blue ray disk is full.
Then you insert disk number 2, and it that pattern continues.
Unless you mean masters or PHd, medical students do have more years of school. Med students go to a 4 year college/university, then med school, then residency. Maybe more years of schooling if they specialize.
I do not agree with fact that more years of school == higher paycheck. But that is the way the world currently works. I have heard of and seen some really crappy doctors. With all those years of training, one would think that all doctors would be really really good.
The type of car people drive? Why? I see people who drive like morons in all type of cars/trucks. The car/truck has nothing to do with the moron driver. Why punish all drivers of blue pickups < insert type and color of car/truck of choice here > for the moron driver?
If you are a good driver, you should get a good rate. If you are a bad driver, you get a bad rate.
Seconded. Plus if you like a game you may pay it for a while. I just got Oblivion and Morrowind. I have played Morrowind on a friends pc a while ago. I picked up both games and all expansions for $30. For two games with all expansions $30 is a good deal. I still have some old games age of empires and Unreal, Unreal Tournament, others from the late 1990s and early 2000, 2001. These are old. But they work and they cost me time to play not X amount of dollars a month to play.
Maybe some people are realizing that paying $10-$15 a month on top of the $40-70 a game is too expensive.
Plus if I do not play these game for 5-6 months I do not feel like I lost something or am not getting my moneys worth out of them.
But as of late Slashdot seems to have a huge MS slant. How many stories have there been about Windows 7 (6.1, Vista SP3)? RC? Pre orders?
You can replace MS with apple, google, or any other company that is releasing something. It all depends on the day. Hell I remember seeing 6-7 apple stories on the front page on the same day. It all depends on what the editors are posting.
Also remember that Slashdot likes to get a lot of comments and page views. Stories about microsoft, apple, google get people's attention.
I haven't read through all the posts yet, but the Navy has nuclear subs and ships. These do not use oil at all to move. They are actually steam driven. The steam from the nuclear power plants create electricity and drives the steam turbines that move the ship/sub. Aircraft carriers use this. Last I checked those are the biggest ships the navy has.
I thought the new destroyers were also nuclear. Wasn't there a big show of the all nuclear carrier group that could go around the world with having to refuel? Aren't destroyers part of a carrier group?
So you expect the government to provide everything to you?
I always thought if you wanted something you worked towards getting it. You want good health care, you pay for it. You want a fancy car, you pay for it. You want a good retirement, you pay for it.
If you do not cover your own ass, you are stuck. It is hard and cold, but it is reality. Do I expect the government to give me health care, no. The social security check will be less then the stamp it took to get it to me at the rate it is going. I am not counting on that either. Didn't the person who started social security say that this should go away and not be permanent?
Besides if you are expecting a handout, will you work to better yourself? Which is the biggest issue with the government provides all. People get lazy and stop bettering themselves.
That depends on if you are watching the US TV version or the movies. I am not sure if the Japanese TV had her nude or not. The second round of the TV series she is dressed a lot more. Even in uniform (major, or higher depending on who you go by).
Yes, I read way too much about the series while looking it up.
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The problems with hydrogen is getting it and storing it. I think it was myth busters where I saw them pump hydrogen gas into a car engine and it ran. Well, it ran until the gas leaked out of the engine since said engine was not made for hydrogen gas.
Isn't Iceland going all hydrogen? Cars, boats, just about everything? Granted Iceland has a lot of geothermal based electricity on hand to make the hydrogen. Other places in the world also have geothermal energy available (the west cost of the US for one). The geothermal electric power plants can be built then use that power to create hydrogen gas. We still need the storage and transmission systems for hydrogen gas to be built.
If I could afford two cars, the volt would be perfect for the drive to work and regular shopping. I have a short commute to work. My house hold shopping is 13-15 miles away. How does this car run in traffic? It takes me the same amount of time to go 12 miles as it does my sister to go 50 miles where she lives. How much power is being used to start and stop the car? If the braking can charge the batteries as you go that would be good.
For the long trips take the other car. This appears to work well also. The thing is, a two seater may not be good for the long trips.
I usually keep my cars 10+ years anyway. I like not having a car payment. I would still like to see the long term repairs on this car.
How about tidal power or river power? I am not saying make more dams. It is more like the wind turbine but under water. Most people will not see the turbines. Pollution is only from the creation of the turbine.
Was i the only one who left word open for a while. Then this strange tapping sound started. It was Clippy 'tapping' on the screen asking if I wanted to save the file. from that moment on, Clippy was not used. Going back to the 97 version there was this cat (Earl i think). The cat was better. He (it acted like a he) coughed up hair balls, farted, and other more amusing activities.
Has anyone tried Ubuntu remix on a touch screen netbook (or tablet)? That interface looks like it was designed for a touch screen.
The PAE switch doesn't always work as written. I used it in server 2003 32 bit. The machine worked fine for a while. Then after a few updates (the updates killed it) I needed to drop the RAM to 3GB to get the machine to have clear video. I thought the video card went bad at first. It was not the case. Removing 1 GB of RAM fixed the issue. I wanted a stable and safe machine. 3 GB of RAM was plenty for what I did on that machine.
Win 7 has better battery life then XP pro or OSx on the SSD based mini 9 that I have. For regular hard drive based netbooks, XP pro should still rule. XP pro is slower then win 7 on the SSD based netbook that I have. The SSD in this mini looks more like RAM then a hard drive. The slot looks more like a mini PCI/E slot then a RAM or SATA connection. Which may have a lot to do with why XP pro on this netbook. XP loaded slower and ran sluggish on this netbook. It worked but for me it was not running correctly. I do not have and did not try XP home.
Battery life for me was OSX: 3 hours 20 minutes. XP: 3 hours 30 minutes. win 7: 5 hours. Ubuntu linux: 6 hours.
I charged the netbook to a full charge then used it (readign email, writing some docs, nothing really crazy) on the power saver settings for each OS. Linux got the best average time after 5 chrages. Win 7 did beat XP pro and OSX for my not official test.
Sounds like your 9th grade teacher was a card carrying member of PETA though. I remember in 8th or 9th grade (that was a decades ago) having a lecture on what animal parts were in cosmetics. Fish scales in lipstick and the like. Seeing most of the girls come into school with little or no makeup on the following days was a sight. Plus we got to see who the natural pretty girls were. Now if I can only get my girlfriend to let me see her without makeup on.
I still say solar is better then anything else.
If we can build a platform into space or beam the energy down from space based collectors, The worlds energy needs will be met. That is a huge, very huge if though.
Also I do see many wars being waged if this does get close to happening. There is too much money tied up in oil for a war over switching away from oil to not happen.
For men, attraction is an on/off switch, either a man finds a woman attractive or he doesn't, and he evaluates that in less than 1/2 a second,
Hate to break it to you, but woman do the same thing. Woman may look over you more when compared to guys. They look at how you are dressed, who you are with, etc. They also decide if you are worth their time very quickly. The decision as to weather they will sleep with you or not is made before the guy even opens his mouth.
I guess PETA forgot that rivers have been dumping fresh water into the oceans for millions (if not billions) of years now. Maybe their lawyers told PETA that suing a river for damages is sort of difficult.
Setting up a bunch of energy 'stations' where there is brackish water sounds like a win. The article didn't say anything about damming up the river, or needing to be in deep water. So set these up along the shore where water river cannot go anyway, less blocking of the river, less or no blocking of river traffic, power sent to the people. Really sounds like a win. Lets see what is said when the other shoe drops.
8 monitors on windows. This was back in the NT 4 days. Needed 4 PCI (not AGP or PCI-e back then) dual VGA video cards. Took some doing but it worked. It worked on win 2000 a lot better. The stock traders wanted it. We never gamed on them though. Flat screens back then (1999-2000) sucked. They broke often and needed to be replaced.
As for Win 7, I have been using the 64 bit version as a test game platform for a few months now. It is not the fastest just a Q6600 with 8GB of ram. No overclocking. So far it works well. The biggest issue I have had was a few old games do not like the wide screen resolution. That is more of a game issue since wide screen resolutions were not common back 9-10 years ago. A few older (from 1997,1998) games made the OS complain during the install but the game installed and runs fine. The old games expect to run like win 98. Needed to change how the game runs. I may try XP mode, but so far have not needed to. Personally I think this is what vista should (ok is) have been in the first place.
How often do the solar panels get changed on current satellites?
If you have a cable already going from the ground to space, why beam the power down? Run a cable along side the existing cable to get the power down.
Then again, 45K of wire per strand is going to use a lot of copper or any other material.
Quick reality check: speed up your heart rate, then slow it down again. You have 20 seconds.
Oh, you mean you aren't even in full conscious control of your own body? How are you supposed to know shit about the universe, then? Lack of evidence means "unproven", not "false". Learn the difference.
Easy, *thinks of Megan Fox* Heart rate speeds up. *stops thinking of Megan Fox* (ok tries to stop thinking anyway) Heart rate slows down.
Exactly what I was thinking Ms. Fox doing I will leave up to you.
It will be a DVD on blue ray. After the first run it starts over with a few things changed. Then the next one has a few more things changed. This repeats until the blue ray disk is full.
Then you insert disk number 2, and it that pattern continues.
The challenge is to see what the differences are.
"I do wish we could chat longer, but... I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye. "
Hannibal would like this new tool.
...There are few Raptors that live in that area as well...
What!?
Raptors in Texas! I did like sleeping.
http://xkcd.com/87/
http://xkcd.com/292/
http://xkcd.com/135/
http://xkcd.com/155/
Unless you mean masters or PHd, medical students do have more years of school. Med students go to a 4 year college/university, then med school, then residency. Maybe more years of schooling if they specialize.
I do not agree with fact that more years of school == higher paycheck. But that is the way the world currently works. I have heard of and seen some really crappy doctors. With all those years of training, one would think that all doctors would be really really good.
You left out lolcats...
The type of car people drive? Why? I see people who drive like morons in all type of cars/trucks. The car/truck has nothing to do with the moron driver. Why punish all drivers of blue pickups < insert type and color of car/truck of choice here > for the moron driver?
If you are a good driver, you should get a good rate. If you are a bad driver, you get a bad rate.
Seconded. Plus if you like a game you may pay it for a while. I just got Oblivion and Morrowind. I have played Morrowind on a friends pc a while ago. I picked up both games and all expansions for $30. For two games with all expansions $30 is a good deal. I still have some old games age of empires and Unreal, Unreal Tournament, others from the late 1990s and early 2000, 2001. These are old. But they work and they cost me time to play not X amount of dollars a month to play.
Maybe some people are realizing that paying $10-$15 a month on top of the $40-70 a game is too expensive.
Plus if I do not play these game for 5-6 months I do not feel like I lost something or am not getting my moneys worth out of them.
But as of late Slashdot seems to have a huge MS slant. How many stories have there been about Windows 7 (6.1, Vista SP3)? RC? Pre orders?
You can replace MS with apple, google, or any other company that is releasing something. It all depends on the day. Hell I remember seeing 6-7 apple stories on the front page on the same day. It all depends on what the editors are posting.
Also remember that Slashdot likes to get a lot of comments and page views. Stories about microsoft, apple, google get people's attention.
I haven't read through all the posts yet, but the Navy has nuclear subs and ships. These do not use oil at all to move. They are actually steam driven. The steam from the nuclear power plants create electricity and drives the steam turbines that move the ship/sub. Aircraft carriers use this. Last I checked those are the biggest ships the navy has.
I thought the new destroyers were also nuclear. Wasn't there a big show of the all nuclear carrier group that could go around the world with having to refuel? Aren't destroyers part of a carrier group?
So you expect the government to provide everything to you?
I always thought if you wanted something you worked towards getting it.
You want good health care, you pay for it.
You want a fancy car, you pay for it.
You want a good retirement, you pay for it.
If you do not cover your own ass, you are stuck. It is hard and cold, but it is reality. Do I expect the government to give me health care, no. The social security check will be less then the stamp it took to get it to me at the rate it is going. I am not counting on that either. Didn't the person who started social security say that this should go away and not be permanent?
Besides if you are expecting a handout, will you work to better yourself? Which is the biggest issue with the government provides all. People get lazy and stop bettering themselves.
That depends on if you are watching the US TV version or the movies. I am not sure if the Japanese TV had her nude or not. The second round of the TV series she is dressed a lot more. Even in uniform (major, or higher depending on who you go by).
Yes, I read way too much about the series while looking it up.