Have you ever worked with anhydrous or concentrated forms of ammonia? Personally, I'd rather be around gasoline and diesel fuel any day. Hmmm, come to think of it, I am around gasoline and diesel most every day.
Within 30 years or so it will be possible to do this without any chip. With sufficient software, hardware (cameras? EEG?) and processing power, there is no reason a system couldn't be designed that would do this just by individual appearance and other unique characteristics.
Take some propane, subject it to a process that runs at 1000d C, and convert it to hydrogen and presumably carbon-something-or-other. So, how to get the 1000d temperature? Maybe burn some kind of fuel? Maybe burn some PROPANE? How much energy does it take to extract the hydrogen from propane anyway? Or to put it another way, how much equivalent propane is used up to generate the energy necessary to make a given amount of hydrogen?
Why not just burn the propane directly in an automobile engine or otherwise use it to directly produce energy? What am I missing?
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From the article: "they could be set to deliver the same killer blow to the battery market that memory sticks did to floppy discs."
Really? Lets see.
floppy disk: 1.4MB, about 4"X5" in size
typical thumbdrive: 256MB, about, well, about the size of a child's thumb.
Conventional rechargeable AA: ~2000 mAH, standard AA size, can recharge in maybe an hour with decent charger.
USB rechargeable AA: 1200 mAH, standard AA size, recharge in 5 hours.
yeah, that's a killer blow all right...
and maybe the "plasma arcs" are something new,but http://esm.versar.com/PPRP/powerplants-new/bresco. htm is one of more than a dozen similar plants in the US. This particular plant in Baltimore Md started operating in 1984 and can generate 56 MW.
Even if the plane flew into the vacuum of outer space it couldn't have more than 15 PSI inside. At normal flying altitudes the pressure differential between the atmosphere and the inside of the plane would only be in the 5 - 10 PSI range. Enough to leak out of course, but I don't believe it would EXPLODE!
"I think that the software development community would be better served..."
By better served, do you mean as in producing a better product, or as in job security?
Don't forget that Newtons law used here is a theory derived from empirical evidence. Ojects accelerate towards their common center of mass. For objects are small relative to the earth, e.g. a golf ball or a battleship, it's not significant and the classic newtonian formula is accurate. When the object are comparable in size the total mass, and therefore the attractive force, increases. If an object the size of say, the moon dropped to the earth from a given distance, at the end of a given time it would be traveling faster (as observed from earth) than a golf ball would under the same circumstances.
This all just shows that the future as protrayed by such fiction as Ghost in the Shell, and at the risk of really dating myself, The Eigth Man is not so farfetched. I wonder though, why they would use the artificial limbs to type, and not have a more direct way to transform thoughts to text.
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Have you ever worked with anhydrous or concentrated forms of ammonia? Personally, I'd rather be around gasoline and diesel fuel any day. Hmmm, come to think of it, I am around gasoline and diesel most every day.
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Remember, you heard it hear on /. first:
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Within 30 years or so it will be possible to do this without any chip. With sufficient software, hardware (cameras? EEG?) and processing power, there is no reason a system couldn't be designed that would do this just by individual appearance and other unique characteristics.
Seems like Congress would be a better subject for this study.
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Take some propane, subject it to a process that runs at 1000d C, and convert it to hydrogen and presumably carbon-something-or-other. So, how to get the 1000d temperature? Maybe burn some kind of fuel? Maybe burn some PROPANE? How much energy does it take to extract the hydrogen from propane anyway? Or to put it another way, how much equivalent propane is used up to generate the energy necessary to make a given amount of hydrogen?
Why not just burn the propane directly in an automobile engine or otherwise use it to directly produce energy? What am I missing?
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to be implantable. GIT/SAC here we come.
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From the article: "they could be set to deliver the same killer blow to the battery market that memory sticks did to floppy discs." Really? Lets see. floppy disk: 1.4MB, about 4"X5" in size typical thumbdrive: 256MB, about, well, about the size of a child's thumb. Conventional rechargeable AA: ~2000 mAH, standard AA size, can recharge in maybe an hour with decent charger. USB rechargeable AA: 1200 mAH, standard AA size, recharge in 5 hours. yeah, that's a killer blow all right...
"electricity can be transported much easier than oil, and can be generated locally"
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Remember that the next time you run out of gas.
and maybe the "plasma arcs" are something new,but http://esm.versar.com/PPRP/powerplants-new/bresco. htm is one of more than a dozen similar plants in the US. This particular plant in Baltimore Md started operating in 1984 and can generate 56 MW.
How about, "Don't give a rat's ass?" Is that unambiguous enough?
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A lightening field? That sounds like it would be beneficial to the shuttle or to any spacecraft.
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What?.. What?.. WHAT?
OH! a lightning field... Nevermind.
I, for one, welcome our...
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Evidently we can add lawyers to that list.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.gen
couldn't the same thing be done with mood ring technology?
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I, for one, welcome our new multi-hundred-thousand light year diameter, bubbly gaseous amoeba-like alpha blob overlords.
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Just 151 people have stepped outside the relative safety of their (space)craft to greet the void with only a visor to separate life and death.
Only a visor? I think this number is off by 151.
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If this was news the Washington Post would have had it in the paper instead of some security fix blog.
So that's where all that non-free and restricted software comes from! It's in orbit!
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Even if the plane flew into the vacuum of outer space it couldn't have more than 15 PSI inside. At normal flying altitudes the pressure differential between the atmosphere and the inside of the plane would only be in the 5 - 10 PSI range. Enough to leak out of course, but I don't believe it would EXPLODE!
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that you may have to deal with 4 instances of WGA?
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The /. education icon, with 2+2=5, would have been more appropriate for this article.
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"I think that the software development community would be better served..." By better served, do you mean as in producing a better product, or as in job security?
Don't forget that Newtons law used here is a theory derived from empirical evidence. Ojects accelerate towards their common center of mass. For objects are small relative to the earth, e.g. a golf ball or a battleship, it's not significant and the classic newtonian formula is accurate. When the object are comparable in size the total mass, and therefore the attractive force, increases. If an object the size of say, the moon dropped to the earth from a given distance, at the end of a given time it would be traveling faster (as observed from earth) than a golf ball would under the same circumstances.
Sounds like a pretty good explanation of quantum mechanics to me.
This all just shows that the future as protrayed by such fiction as Ghost in the Shell, and at the risk of really dating myself, The Eigth Man is not so farfetched. I wonder though, why they would use the artificial limbs to type, and not have a more direct way to transform thoughts to text.
Storage media that rely on genetically engineered bacteria... Wonder if there's a market for disks that are ALL NATURAL? :wq