Probably lose 10% of power charging and 10% discharging if you are lucky. You want your car in the daytime when loads are heaviest. Must not put power on lines when linemen are working on them. Pumped hydroelectric is much better and currently used to store power. Always thought wind powered generators near a pumped hydroelectric would be a good thing. Also large windfarms in places like west Texas generating hydrogen would also be a reasonable thing to do. When we run out of natural gas, the existing gas distribution system could be used to pump the hydrogen all over the country much as we do with natural gas today.
Most of their staffs are quite young. Congress think: if I vote against a bill with this title (regardless of what it says) it will be used against me next election.
Could you put a flash memory in a PC with a wide data bus and use it to store the hiberate sys file instead of the disk, with say a 128 bit wide bus should be able transfer memory to flash in a few seconds.
Remember reading how after the second WW the British secret service listened to French diplomatic messages by tapping into the power line feeding the code machine in the French embassy. Each input keystroke generated a slightly different static pulse which allowed them to eavesdrop on what was being input.
Unless it has a lot better friend or foe capability than we have now, I wouldn't want this thing near any friendly soldiers. Not to mention it probably would be easy pickings for a RPG.
I assume ring in the story was bought by a Facebook ad, ergo don't buy stuff via the ad on Facebook. This was in the Wash Post today so could get widespread coverage. Especially young people can be quite fickle and could turn away from Facebook. All it can take is one slip up to lose your reputation, just another reminder of this.
Microsoft can afford to maintain XP and Vista, give users a choice. Particularly someone with an older XP system could decide to get a Mac instead of a new Vista capable PC -- but if an XP upgrade is coming they might stick with their existing system. Same reason companies try to give customers as many different products on the shelf -- to crowd out competitors.
After why the big bang, the origin of the first DNA to reproduce is greatest mysteries in science. Even with all we know, I have not encountered a plausible explanation about the first DNA was produced. Without invoking an intelligent designer, I would speculate the first life arose near ocean volcanic vents which provide an energy source and significant temperature variations. The temperature variations would cause double strand DNA to split at higher temps. then recombine when it moved to cooler temps much in the way the PCR is used to multiply DNA today.
One of the truly remarkable things about the universe is its ablility to go from mostly hydrogen to world as we know it today.
My guess would be the bugs are oxidizing methane to CO2 and water as an energy source. Thus they would be producing CO2. Of course what type of info would you expect in the Daily Telegraph.
I got a new Dell 630 laptop. 1.8 GHz 7100 Core 2 Duo, which same as reference system. XP is ready to go in 40 secs from a cold start. My disk drive is 5400 rpm. I still remember the good experience of going from Win 98 to XP. From what I've read XP is happy with 512M memory whereas Vista needs at least 1G minimum. Doesn't anyone at Microsoft have enough pride in their software to do thing right? Latest version of Excel has math error. What more can I say.
Apple must be seriously considering porting Leopard to PCs, if you were buying a new PC which would you prefer Vista ready or Leopard ready?
Suppose Jobs were guilty. Did it for his friends as he has plenty of $$$. He gets sent to jail and maybe has to leave Apple. Stock would tank and shareholders would be totally screwed.
Now suppose you or I get caught shoplifting at an Apple store. We are stealing from Apple. Whoever in the company knowingly authorized the backdating should face criminal charges as they are stealing from Apple on a much larger scale. Why the company should be sued is beyond me. The expenses of the suit and payout will come from the company anyway.
If you didn't know the two meanings of megabyte (base 10 or base 2) then the difference in storage capacity is meaningless to you. Who really cares. Only the class action lawyers that go after companies for crap like this. Customers get tiny minimal settlements. Lawyers get about 1/3 of the total settlement. Company has less money for R&D etc. For the life of me in this case I can't figure how the customer was harmed.
This sucker was about 2500 times the strength of the Hiroshima bomb. So using SRQT(2500)=50, at 50 miles it would be like 1 mile from the bomb at Hiroshima. I recall it was touch and go as to whether the plane that dropped it would be destroyed. Believe it was painted white to reduce radiative heating.
As the article says Ebay doesn't require listing laptops' serial #s. I would want to know the serial # of a laptop as a buyer to be sure it wasn't stolen.
Let's see, folks have pacemakers in them long term. Pacemakers contain a receiver and transmitter so that doctors can checkout how they doing and make adjustments to them. Many years ago friend of mine was almost killed in a chemistry lab explosion. To this day pieces of glass still surface on his body. So it is awfully hard for me to understand how a glass encapsulated microchip could cause a health problem.
Drive to the top of Mt. Wilson above LA, there are a zillion transmitting towers. The TV towers each put out hundreds of kilowatts of rf. If the birds and squirrels up there are doing ok, then it is hard to understand how a cell tower could cause problems. A friend of mine who used to work on a radio system for taxis up there, said much of his test gear would go crazy due to all the rf. Until someone can show how rf radiation can affect DNA, there is no mechanism for rf to cause cancer.
The same climate conditions that are good for corn are good for soybeans too. With the price of corn skyrocketing, many farmers, understandibly, will switch from soybeans to corn. Our free ride with cheap fuels has come to an end.
When I used to program a PDP-8, I would toggle in by hand a halt instruction to stop a misperforming program at a specific location so I could examine the accumulator or memory. Microsoft quickbasic (prewindows) had built in break point and watch capability. Assuming we allow software patents they must be non-obvious, non-trivial, and only of value if they give the user a valuable capability. Things like the Fast Fourier Transform as an example of a valuable algorithm or a spreadsheet, I believe Visicalc was the first, should qualify. Stuff like one-click shopping, no way.
I am glad I was old enough to enjoy Star Wars when it was first released. I knew little about it other than it was supposed to be great. Saw it in a large theater. Like any great movie, in my opinion, it grabbed me right off and I knew this is something special. I always will remember the boarding scene with Darth and the storm troopers, right there you knew this was going to be good. Or to paraphase Bette Davis, "Hang on tight, it's going to be a great ride..." While special effects are good they don't hold a candle to the barroom scene where you need to see it several times to take in all that is going on.
Now that most of the brightest people are thrown together in college where the chance that they will "breed" with someone of similar intelligence is much higher than it was before this experiment of college for women and men. Also women in the workplace should have a similar effect. Will this result in a class of more intelligent folks than before and how long should this take? Not that many of us haven't encountered our share of idiots in college. And lawyers marrying lawyers. Just a thought
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Probably lose 10% of power charging and 10% discharging if you are lucky. You want your car in the daytime when loads are heaviest. Must not put power on lines when linemen are working on them. Pumped hydroelectric is much better and currently used to store power. Always thought wind powered generators near a pumped hydroelectric would be a good thing. Also large windfarms in places like west Texas generating hydrogen would also be a reasonable thing to do. When we run out of natural gas, the existing gas distribution system could be used to pump the hydrogen all over the country much as we do with natural gas today.
Most of their staffs are quite young. Congress think: if I vote against a bill with this title (regardless of what it says) it will be used against me next election.
Could you put a flash memory in a PC with a wide data bus and use it to store the hiberate sys file instead of the disk, with say a 128 bit wide bus should be able transfer memory to flash in a few seconds.
Remember reading how after the second WW the British secret service listened to French diplomatic messages by tapping into the power line feeding the code machine in the French embassy. Each input keystroke generated a slightly different static pulse which allowed them to eavesdrop on what was being input.
Unless it has a lot better friend or foe capability than we have now, I wouldn't want this thing near any friendly soldiers. Not to mention it probably would be easy pickings for a RPG.
I am being Devil's Advocate Here
Devise theory -- publish
Wait one year -- revise theory -- publish
Repeat
Get tenure
Chill
I assume ring in the story was bought by a Facebook ad, ergo don't buy stuff via the ad on Facebook. This was in the Wash Post today so could get widespread coverage. Especially young people can be quite fickle and could turn away from Facebook. All it can take is one slip up to lose your reputation, just another reminder of this.
Microsoft can afford to maintain XP and Vista, give users a choice. Particularly someone with an older XP system could decide to get a Mac instead of a new Vista capable PC -- but if an XP upgrade is coming they might stick with their existing system. Same reason companies try to give customers as many different products on the shelf -- to crowd out competitors.
After why the big bang, the origin of the first DNA to reproduce is greatest mysteries in science. Even with all we know, I have not encountered a plausible explanation about the first DNA was produced. Without invoking an intelligent designer, I would speculate the first life arose near ocean volcanic vents which provide an energy source and significant temperature variations. The temperature variations would cause double strand DNA to split at higher temps. then recombine when it moved to cooler temps much in the way the PCR is used to multiply DNA today. One of the truly remarkable things about the universe is its ablility to go from mostly hydrogen to world as we know it today.
My guess would be the bugs are oxidizing methane to CO2 and water as an energy source. Thus they would be producing CO2. Of course what type of info would you expect in the Daily Telegraph.
If university said ok, but MPAA must bond them against financial losses from lawsuits etc, would MPAA do it?
I got a new Dell 630 laptop. 1.8 GHz 7100 Core 2 Duo, which same as reference system. XP is ready to go in 40 secs from a cold start. My disk drive is 5400 rpm. I still remember the good experience of going from Win 98 to XP. From what I've read XP is happy with 512M memory whereas Vista needs at least 1G minimum. Doesn't anyone at Microsoft have enough pride in their software to do thing right? Latest version of Excel has math error. What more can I say.
Apple must be seriously considering porting Leopard to PCs, if you were buying a new PC which would you prefer Vista ready or Leopard ready?
Suppose Jobs were guilty. Did it for his friends as he has plenty of $$$. He gets sent to jail and maybe has to leave Apple. Stock would tank and shareholders would be totally screwed. Now suppose you or I get caught shoplifting at an Apple store. We are stealing from Apple. Whoever in the company knowingly authorized the backdating should face criminal charges as they are stealing from Apple on a much larger scale. Why the company should be sued is beyond me. The expenses of the suit and payout will come from the company anyway.
Both George and Bill followed the advice of a Dick and went (or came) where they shouldn't have with dire consequences.
If you didn't know the two meanings of megabyte (base 10 or base 2) then the difference in storage capacity is meaningless to you. Who really cares. Only the class action lawyers that go after companies for crap like this. Customers get tiny minimal settlements. Lawyers get about 1/3 of the total settlement. Company has less money for R&D etc. For the life of me in this case I can't figure how the customer was harmed.
This sucker was about 2500 times the strength of the Hiroshima bomb. So using SRQT(2500)=50, at 50 miles it would be like 1 mile from the bomb at Hiroshima. I recall it was touch and go as to whether the plane that dropped it would be destroyed. Believe it was painted white to reduce radiative heating.
As the article says Ebay doesn't require listing laptops' serial #s. I would want to know the serial # of a laptop as a buyer to be sure it wasn't stolen.
Remember that the dollar has declined about 25% in relation to the euro and many other currencies so $188 is more like $140.
Remember most of the Katrina water was salt water so this device would have been worthless.
Let's see, folks have pacemakers in them long term. Pacemakers contain a receiver and transmitter so that doctors can checkout how they doing and make adjustments to them. Many years ago friend of mine was almost killed in a chemistry lab explosion. To this day pieces of glass still surface on his body. So it is awfully hard for me to understand how a glass encapsulated microchip could cause a health problem.
Drive to the top of Mt. Wilson above LA, there are a zillion transmitting towers. The TV towers each put out hundreds of kilowatts of rf. If the birds and squirrels up there are doing ok, then it is hard to understand how a cell tower could cause problems. A friend of mine who used to work on a radio system for taxis up there, said much of his test gear would go crazy due to all the rf. Until someone can show how rf radiation can affect DNA, there is no mechanism for rf to cause cancer.
The same climate conditions that are good for corn are good for soybeans too. With the price of corn skyrocketing, many farmers, understandibly, will switch from soybeans to corn. Our free ride with cheap fuels has come to an end.
When I used to program a PDP-8, I would toggle in by hand a halt instruction to stop a misperforming program at a specific location so I could examine the accumulator or memory. Microsoft quickbasic (prewindows) had built in break point and watch capability. Assuming we allow software patents they must be non-obvious, non-trivial, and only of value if they give the user a valuable capability. Things like the Fast Fourier Transform as an example of a valuable algorithm or a spreadsheet, I believe Visicalc was the first, should qualify. Stuff like one-click shopping, no way.
I am glad I was old enough to enjoy Star Wars when it was first released. I knew little about it other than it was supposed to be great. Saw it in a large theater. Like any great movie, in my opinion, it grabbed me right off and I knew this is something special. I always will remember the boarding scene with Darth and the storm troopers, right there you knew this was going to be good. Or to paraphase Bette Davis, "Hang on tight, it's going to be a great ride..." While special effects are good they don't hold a candle to the barroom scene where you need to see it several times to take in all that is going on.
Now that most of the brightest people are thrown together in college where the chance that they will "breed" with someone of similar intelligence is much higher than it was before this experiment of college for women and men. Also women in the workplace should have a similar effect. Will this result in a class of more intelligent folks than before and how long should this take? Not that many of us haven't encountered our share of idiots in college. And lawyers marrying lawyers. Just a thought