Bottom line: Nice idea - once CO2 sequestration is ready, in maybe 15 years, and then you still have all the ecological nightmares from coal mining. Without it, it's just about the worst thing you can do with regard to anthropogenic greenhouse gases. Today it's mostly pandering to voters in the coal states.
Just think of the relevance for politics, religion, almost everything... I'm curious what the probability for that allele is in the general population.
That doesn't matter much. I've seen systems go up in smoke and everything was perfectly in order from an approval standpoint. One was caused by one of the infamous electrolytic capacitors we had fun with a few years ago, and one was a manufacturing defect in a backplane that caused a slow short between a power layer and ground.
I can see a simple solution: Develop a cable that either opens or shorts out hard when it gets too hot. String that next to some of the high power components and in the area where airflow would cause flames to go. Run the power to the device through that wire. When the power is off the flames will go out - that's a UL requiremnet for all materials.
>It's a valid point. Certainly the European car manufacturers have a "gentleman's agreement" to limit their high-end sports cars to a maximum speed of 155mph (around 250km/h)
Many European cars are limited to 120 mph for the US market. I haven't felt the need to get an EPROM with the limitation removed.
A treat? You must be kidding. That only reinforces the "Fast food is good" reflex that is programmed into so many brains. Just like Ronald, the playgrounds and the little plastic toys.
Show them "Supersize Me" as a treat. Threaten to have them eat at McD to punish them. I'm not kidding. These are all just learned behaviors. It took me a couple of years to detrain myself and these days the smell of cooking fat at the place causes me nausea rather than "yummy!".
I'm pretty sure they overcommitted their backbone bandwidth in some areas and can't handle more than some percentage of the total bandwidth they sold. Since BT causes the most traffic that's what they're throttling if necessary.
I'm not riding without wearing full leathers anymore, and I have the scars to prove why. And yeah, they get grubby. I don't think there's any way to avoid that.
You're obviously not in the right target demographics for them. Now if you were gay or a chick or a teenager trying to be hip, that would be a different story.
I once went into one wearing my grubby leathers because I rode the bike that day, and I felt a little out of place too. Not that I'd buy a Mac or iPod anyway...
>they require a refresh rate as low as 0.7Hz. Further calculations show that more suitable combinations would result in a storage time of one million years while maintaining the same access time.
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>These seem to be HUGE machines in orbit around Earth.
Those are obviously Xenu's soul catchers.
Here's somebody who knows what he's taking about:
http://www.dickdestiny.com/blog/2008/02/bummed-out-over-clean-coal-cancellation.html
http://www.dickdestiny.com/blog/2007/12/more-on-national-energy-policy-positive.html
http://www.dickdestiny.com/blog/2007/12/clean-coal-to-save-world-in-illinois.html
Bottom line: Nice idea - once CO2 sequestration is ready, in maybe 15 years, and then you still have all the ecological nightmares from coal mining. Without it, it's just about the worst thing you can do with regard to anthropogenic greenhouse gases.
Today it's mostly pandering to voters in the coal states.
Good story on El Reg: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/28/us_clean_coal/
You just performed the lyrics of a well known Stones tune in public.
Do you have a license agreement? I suppose not. Better get a lawyer...
Only police actions, peacekeeping missions or interventions.
Amen. Bruce Willis bull riding an F-35 - I laughed so hard.
But why didn't he shout "YEE-HAW!!!"?
Just think of the relevance for politics, religion, almost everything...
I'm curious what the probability for that allele is in the general population.
You can't be serious comparing Scientology, Christianity and Star Trek.
Dragging Star Trek through the dirt like that.
that which can be adequately explained by malice.
As long as there are valid business reasons.
OMG! I just decoded it! Will they come and get me now?
The harsher the DRM, the more cracked movies there are for me to download on P2P.
Without DRM and at a reasonably price, I might be tempted to download from a legal source or even buy a DVD. Then I'd spend money. That would be bad.
That doesn't matter much. I've seen systems go up in smoke and everything was perfectly in order from an approval standpoint. One was caused by one of the infamous electrolytic capacitors we had fun with a few years ago, and one was a manufacturing defect in a backplane that caused a slow short between a power layer and ground.
I can see a simple solution: Develop a cable that either opens or shorts out hard when it gets too hot. String that next to some of the high power components and in the area where airflow would cause flames to go. Run the power to the device through that wire. When the power is off the flames will go out - that's a UL requiremnet for all materials.
>It's a valid point. Certainly the European car manufacturers have a "gentleman's agreement" to limit their high-end sports cars to a maximum speed of 155mph (around 250km/h)
Many European cars are limited to 120 mph for the US market. I haven't felt the need to get an EPROM with the limitation removed.
>computer (well, us and the Brits),
Konrad Zuse?
>motor car (well, us and the Brits)
Gottlieb Daimler?
>and the telephone
Philip Reis?
>It is supposed to be a treat and not a diet.
A treat? You must be kidding. That only reinforces the "Fast food is good" reflex that is programmed into so many brains. Just like Ronald, the playgrounds and the little plastic toys.
Show them "Supersize Me" as a treat. Threaten to have them eat at McD to punish them. I'm not kidding. These are all just learned behaviors. It took me a couple of years to detrain myself and these days the smell of cooking fat at the place causes me nausea rather than "yummy!".
>Violent diarrhea maybe...
Or violent retrograde peristalsis. Just ask Morgan Spurlock.
I'm pretty sure they overcommitted their backbone bandwidth in some areas and can't handle more than some percentage of the total bandwidth they sold. Since BT causes the most traffic that's what they're throttling if necessary.
Cool name, but it sounds like a panty liner to me.
>Just look around at the state of software and tell me with a straight face that intelligent software agent is not an oxymoron.
No! Never heard of Clippy?
I'm not riding without wearing full leathers anymore, and I have the scars to prove why.
And yeah, they get grubby. I don't think there's any way to avoid that.
And it's still being used. It's the default browser on many older Solaris boxen.
Damn terrorists.
You're obviously not in the right target demographics for them.
Now if you were gay or a chick or a teenager trying to be hip, that would be a different story.
I once went into one wearing my grubby leathers because I rode the bike that day, and I felt a little out of place too. Not that I'd buy a Mac or iPod anyway...
It *could be* nonvolatile:
>they require a refresh rate as low as 0.7Hz. Further calculations show that more suitable combinations would result in a storage time of one million years while maintaining the same access time.
in a technical spec sheet? I smell something if they don't spec the minimum.