What does a nuclear power plant do? Boils lots of water. When the load is low, they can run the extra current directly thru the water that was just boiled. Yes, it is not the most efficient power conversion...
Well, since we all know by now that hydrogen is not an energy source, just an energy holder (well, gasoline is ultimatelly an energy holder as well, but... just watch my point). And if boiled water is easier hydrolised, couldn't we have car with a gasoline engine to provide electricity to an electric engine (like in diesel locomotives) AND heat to a hydrogen generator, which would also provide electricity to the electric engine? This way, the heat generated by the gasoline engine wouldn't be a total loss...
I know, my idea might be a little too complex, but it could be an interesting intermediate step towards hydrogen vehicles. And you could provide either gasoline or hydrogen to the car. If you can get hydrogen from somewhere else, the gasoline would be optional or a way to improve the autonomy, in case you want to travel further.
Hey, easy there, fella! He got a point, after all Al Gore doesn't just fight for the environment, but he also INVENTED THE INTERNET! OUT OF TUBES, MAN!
Why do people say "a reputation system would ['indeed'|'not'] improve Wikipedia because it does [''|'not'] work in Slashdot"?
This is a little stupid in my humble opinion, because Wikipedia and Slashdot are from very different nature.
I don't think that Jackson made "three movies out of the single-book LOTR". Jackson made one movie which was split into three the same way the book was.
When I was 13 years old, I wrote a BASIC program in a MSX to conjugate verbs in portuguese (which is much more complicated than in english). If I had patented that, I could be rich today!!!
If they don't turn over the information, people will say they are protecting child molesters.
If they do turn over the information, people will say they are violating people's privacy.
Some people believe you have the right of privacy as long as you don't use it as a shield for crimes.
That's why most people think it's ok to have security cameras in stores, just for an example.
What is Brazil going to do, block all national traffic to Google's websites?
DISCLAIMER: I'm just a brazilian and the following is just my personal opinion. I don't speak for all the country.
This is not the brazilian way of dealing with problems like that. Brazil will not block anything. What the brazilian Justice is trying to do is to track down criminals (according to both brazilian laws and morals). The fight isn't against Google; our Justice just wants cooperation from them.
Sorry, me no british. Me brazilian and here in Brazil Doctor Who was never broadcasted or sold in DVD's. I can't provide neither a single episode of Doctor Who.
Has anyone seen "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"? This movie is from 1977, a time when there was no CGI effects and this movie is simply great! Its special effects are much better than some newer movies like (ugh!) Spawn (let alone the plot).
Leave CGI for videogames and Pixar, they know what to do with it.
...but I guess that is how I was raised, with quite a few good friends who are of different races.
Most people aren't like this, but this is not racism or prejudice. That's how nature works. Like the following information, about the filming set of Planet of the Apes (1968), from IMDb:
During breaks in filming, actors made up as different ape species tended to hang out together, gorillas with gorillas, orangutans with orangutans, chimps with chimps. It wasn't required, it just naturally happened.
Some years ago in Brazil there was a fad of black people wearing t-shirts written "PROUD OF BEING BLACK". But if I wore a t-shirt written "PROUD OF BEING WHITE" I'd be lynched by the angry mob. I know, they've been slaves for like centuries and until today they suffer from prejudice, have less access to college and less access to higher paying jobs, but I don't really believe a hypocrisy justify another.
I'm not a REAL public transport advocate, I just like it because here in Barcelona it works much better than in other cities I've lived and I don't have a car. Until about a year ago I lived in a 500 thousand people city in southern Brazil, where public transportation sucked and I had a car.
Every case is a case. Right now for me, public transportation is wonderful because:
1) I don't have a car, so I don't have a choice (he he...)
2) I live in a neighborhood where I can go almost everywhere by foot
3) When I need to use the public tranportation it is fast, reliable and available where I need/want to go
4) After years driving, I kind of got tired of it
Besides, here in Barcelona the gas is about 1.25 Euro a liter (it's 6 dollars a gallon) and a parking space cost around 2.50 Euro (3.20 dollars) an hour.
Anyway, as I said, every case is a case. Because it seldom rains here, the gas costs a lot motorcycles can park on the sidewalks, lots of people here have small motorcycles and scooters. They are as numerous as cars. As you can see, one uses the options that suits him/her better.
Slashdot Mirror
1 - Make a crappy song
2 - Wait for it to pop in some website or to be shared by a teenager
3 - Sue the pants off this website/teenager
4 - Profit!!
This way you could get all the money you would get by regular selling if the music wasn't crappy. Talent not required!!
And if you ask a chinese if he has elections, he will answer "yes, evely molning!"
What does a nuclear power plant do? Boils lots of water. When the load is low, they can run the extra current directly thru the water that was just boiled. Yes, it is not the most efficient power conversion...
Well, since we all know by now that hydrogen is not an energy source, just an energy holder (well, gasoline is ultimatelly an energy holder as well, but... just watch my point). And if boiled water is easier hydrolised, couldn't we have car with a gasoline engine to provide electricity to an electric engine (like in diesel locomotives) AND heat to a hydrogen generator, which would also provide electricity to the electric engine? This way, the heat generated by the gasoline engine wouldn't be a total loss...
I know, my idea might be a little too complex, but it could be an interesting intermediate step towards hydrogen vehicles. And you could provide either gasoline or hydrogen to the car. If you can get hydrogen from somewhere else, the gasoline would be optional or a way to improve the autonomy, in case you want to travel further.
Hey, easy there, fella! He got a point, after all Al Gore doesn't just fight for the environment, but he also INVENTED THE INTERNET! OUT OF TUBES, MAN!
Why do people say "a reputation system would ['indeed'|'not'] improve Wikipedia because it does [''|'not'] work in Slashdot"?
This is a little stupid in my humble opinion, because Wikipedia and Slashdot are from very different nature.
And since radio is just a modulated electromagnetic signal, we should be able to pick up Rock 'n Roll on our teeth by exposing them to blue LEDs.
Thanks God it's not blue laser, because if it was, it could be DRM'ed...
to crash much less frequently != to be stable
That worked this way in Battlefield Earth...
I don't think that Jackson made "three movies out of the single-book LOTR". Jackson made one movie which was split into three the same way the book was.
So I'm not the only one to have had an MSX in portugal.
Maybe you are. I'm from Brazil! (Sorry)
When I was 13 years old, I wrote a BASIC program in a MSX to conjugate verbs in portuguese (which is much more complicated than in english). If I had patented that, I could be rich today!!!
If they don't turn over the information, people will say they are protecting child molesters.
If they do turn over the information, people will say they are violating people's privacy.
Some people believe you have the right of privacy as long as you don't use it as a shield for crimes.
That's why most people think it's ok to have security cameras in stores, just for an example.
Allen wrenches will be outlawed in no time!!!
What is Brazil going to do, block all national traffic to Google's websites?
DISCLAIMER: I'm just a brazilian and the following is just my personal opinion. I don't speak for all the country.
This is not the brazilian way of dealing with problems like that. Brazil will not block anything. What the brazilian Justice is trying to do is to track down criminals (according to both brazilian laws and morals). The fight isn't against Google; our Justice just wants cooperation from them.
Sorry, me no british. Me brazilian and here in Brazil Doctor Who was never broadcasted or sold in DVD's. I can't provide neither a single episode of Doctor Who.
Are we under attack? Moon is soveign US territory (we planted the flag first -- end of story).
Oh, did you? Can NASA provide some original video tape or film reel with the Moon landing to prove what you claim?
Has anyone already said "I, for one, welcome our mic-eavesdropper overlords"?
Has anyone seen "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"? This movie is from 1977, a time when there was no CGI effects and this movie is simply great! Its special effects are much better than some newer movies like (ugh!) Spawn (let alone the plot).
Leave CGI for videogames and Pixar, they know what to do with it.
Replacing the hard disk seems enough for me...
That's why I will never buy an american car. They explode at the slightest impact.
Statistics are like bikinis... they show everything, except the essential.
Is it a bad moment to propose the metric system?
...but I guess that is how I was raised, with quite a few good friends who are of different races.
Most people aren't like this, but this is not racism or prejudice. That's how nature works. Like the following information, about the filming set of Planet of the Apes (1968), from IMDb:
During breaks in filming, actors made up as different ape species tended to hang out together, gorillas with gorillas, orangutans with orangutans, chimps with chimps. It wasn't required, it just naturally happened.
Some years ago in Brazil there was a fad of black people wearing t-shirts written "PROUD OF BEING BLACK". But if I wore a t-shirt written "PROUD OF BEING WHITE" I'd be lynched by the angry mob. I know, they've been slaves for like centuries and until today they suffer from prejudice, have less access to college and less access to higher paying jobs, but I don't really believe a hypocrisy justify another.
I'm not a REAL public transport advocate, I just like it because here in Barcelona it works much better than in other cities I've lived and I don't have a car. Until about a year ago I lived in a 500 thousand people city in southern Brazil, where public transportation sucked and I had a car.
Every case is a case. Right now for me, public transportation is wonderful because:
1) I don't have a car, so I don't have a choice (he he...)
2) I live in a neighborhood where I can go almost everywhere by foot
3) When I need to use the public tranportation it is fast, reliable and available where I need/want to go
4) After years driving, I kind of got tired of it
Besides, here in Barcelona the gas is about 1.25 Euro a liter (it's 6 dollars a gallon) and a parking space cost around 2.50 Euro (3.20 dollars) an hour.
Anyway, as I said, every case is a case. Because it seldom rains here, the gas costs a lot motorcycles can park on the sidewalks, lots of people here have small motorcycles and scooters. They are as numerous as cars. As you can see, one uses the options that suits him/her better.