I think you missed the point right there. The article says "In the market place, hydrogen would have to compete with its own source of energy," to which you reply: "Why do we have to use electricity from the grid to generate hydrogen? Why can't we use floating arrays of photovoltaic cells to crack the water on the ocean? Or we could use large banks of mirrors to power an array of Stirling engines to generate the power to crack the water? It's not as if you need a large voltage to do the job, I think there are many ways of getting the power other than off the grid."
The point here is that the energy generated by those photovoltaic cells or stirling engines could be better put to use on the grid rather than using it to create hydrogen (which loses some of the energy you managed to capture in the process). Sure, they don't have to go on the grid, but if they did you'd get much more of the energy they create for general use. It just doesn't make sense to piss away a good portion of your produced energy just so you can have a fancy and inefficient carrier.
Maybe they'll pass the info they glean from this off to high schools, since they seem so interested in digging through every detail of their students' personal lives looking for anything incriminating. If we teach the children to live in a police state it will seem normal to them when they grow up and there will be no complaints!
Remember when the force of gravity was a constant?
Well for simple calculations about things on the earth's surface it still is, but as soon as you widen your perspective a little bit you have to start reworking where that number comes from. I don't see how this is much different than that. They look a little further and realize another 'constant' can also vary based on some principle they will hopefully figure out later with more observation.
Is he even aware of how many more modding features HL2 has? Maybe he's just pissed that most of the mods are coming out via steam and being charged for, but I say good for the small independent developers who are actually making money off all their hard work.
These programs look and operate much like their traditional software cousins, but are cross-platform, loaded dynamically, and are available to users at no charge.
Seriously, who actually bothers reading these PR mouthpiece blogs? In fact, who bothers reading most of these worthless "me-too" meme-reposting blogs too? I will never fathom how these sorts of things get any hits to start with, but the fact that they must be getting return hits (or no one would notice these things, right?... right?) boggles my mind.
haha, my verification word is "advert." How a propos.
It's yet another corporate giveaway with little more than lipservice given to the education side of things.
Take this article for example:
Bush proposes to spend $5.9 billion in fiscal 2007 on a plan the White House has dubbed the "American Competitiveness Initiative."
Two-thirds of the money - $4.6 billion - would be used to pay for tax credits U.S. companies get for investing in research and development projects. All of Bush's past budget submissions have included a proposal to make this tax credit permanent.
And how much will go to education programs for math & science?
Another key component of Bush's competitiveness initiative proposes spending $380 million in fiscal 2007 to provide more rigorous math and science instruction in high schools [...]
So basically he's giving backdoor tax cuts and spending a pittance on education, as usual.
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I think you missed the point right there.
The article says "In the market place, hydrogen would have to compete with its own source of energy," to which you reply:
"Why do we have to use electricity from the grid to generate hydrogen? Why can't we use floating arrays of photovoltaic cells to crack the water on the ocean? Or we could use large banks of mirrors to power an array of Stirling engines to generate the power to crack the water? It's not as if you need a large voltage to do the job, I think there are many ways of getting the power other than off the grid."
The point here is that the energy generated by those photovoltaic cells or stirling engines could be better put to use on the grid rather than using it to create hydrogen (which loses some of the energy you managed to capture in the process). Sure, they don't have to go on the grid, but if they did you'd get much more of the energy they create for general use. It just doesn't make sense to piss away a good portion of your produced energy just so you can have a fancy and inefficient carrier.
Don't forget the deadly stingrays!
Erm, too soon?
The violent actions of Christians/Catholics have ALWAYS been denounced and condemned by Christianity as a whole.
Yup, especially that whole business of the crusades. All the christians denounced those, but damned if that stopped anyone!
Maybe they'll pass the info they glean from this off to high schools, since they seem so interested in digging through every detail of their students' personal lives looking for anything incriminating. If we teach the children to live in a police state it will seem normal to them when they grow up and there will be no complaints!
First "Touching is good" for the DS and now this perversion?
They really are trying to court the PS2/XBox 'adult gamer' crowd!
M.I.A. and Diplo's "Piracy Funds Terrorism" came out in 2004. I imagine they could probably sue you for IP violation if you pass this law.
Remember when the force of gravity was a constant?
Well for simple calculations about things on the earth's surface it still is, but as soon as you widen your perspective a little bit you have to start reworking where that number comes from. I don't see how this is much different than that. They look a little further and realize another 'constant' can also vary based on some principle they will hopefully figure out later with more observation.
Is he even aware of how many more modding features HL2 has? Maybe he's just pissed that most of the mods are coming out via steam and being charged for, but I say good for the small independent developers who are actually making money off all their hard work.
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Seriously, who actually bothers reading these PR mouthpiece blogs? In fact, who bothers reading most of these worthless "me-too" meme-reposting blogs too? I will never fathom how these sorts of things get any hits to start with, but the fact that they must be getting return hits (or no one would notice these things, right? ... right?) boggles my mind.
haha, my verification word is "advert." How a propos.
People already went over this last time it was brought up, but even with the caching 'feature' off there's still a memory leak for some people.
... I do like the extensions a lot
Maybe someday I'll use firefox again
I do hope Wil gives some new info (and maybe even a release date?) for Spore. I'm so looking forward to it.
So will BluRay come with its own rootkit?