Best guess is that each FCX Clarity costs 500,000 US to produce. An exec was quoted as saying it costs half as much as the previous version, which was a million. I have yet to see a remotely affordable fuel-cell hydrogen vehicle. The cheapo ones use a hydrogen combustion engine, and have awful range.
OGG, CSS, OASIS, OOXML... although the last one isn't really 'open'. I'm sure there's like a gazillion others. They're just completely unable to do it.
I don't look forward to a massive kill-off of the many life-forms on this planet. I don't, but I do feel that by messing with nature we will cause more problems than if we don't.
So you feel that releasing the pressure slowly would be somehow worse than a massive kill-off of the many life forms on this planet? This seems like a really weak argument to me. I suspect that if humankind were to cause that degree of pollution and climate change, you'd be dead set against it. Just because something is natural doesn't make it better.
If there were some way to get a version of google news that only links to sites without obnoxious flashing ads, I would be very interested. Right now, it's simply too much work to find which of the 50+ articles on some subject don't have animated ads, so I just read the first one. With adblock enabled.
It would be nice to specify the level of advertising you are willing to endure in google's search options: none, text only, still pictures, animated pictures, crap that covers the text until you click on it, animation + sound + popups + smartlinks. I would be able to avoid huge areas of the web, which I consider to be a waste of space anyways. The ad-infested pages often seem deliberately designed to get in the way of valid search results, and don't offer anything extra.
At any rate, I suggest that you go to Edit->Options and disable 'block popup windows' to avoid hypocrisy. You may wish to consider leaving your speakers turned on and installing plugins and toolbars when requested to do so.
It would be nice if there were some way to convert my paper books into e-book format. Say, feed them into an incinerator that scans their titles before they burn. As it is, I have a huge collection of books I'd like to convert to a single, portable device, but there's no way I'm buying the same book twice in order to do it.
Describe a credible system in which anyone can copy anything without restriction but there is still sufficient incentive for people to produce and share high quality work in the first place, and I'm sure the sceptics like me will be interested in what you have to say.
I'm not so sure. When in high school, I was shown a film where cigarettes were placed in an airless beaker, and melted into tar with a powerful flame. The tar was placed on the back of lab rats. The majority of the rats grew enormous tumors at those locations.
The HELLADS is supposed to be 150 KILO watts. I believe 67 kilowatts will blow a hole an inch thick through solid steel in under a second. From the BBC: "In our 25kW configuration and our 2.5 sq cm spot size on a one-inch thick steel target, we blow a hole through it in seven seconds."
I prefer: While he's spending hours and days picking out bizarre bugs from his code, I'll be coding something else. While my program works every time, his crashes and sometimes gives odd results. He'll never get it working, and it would be easier to start again from scratch.
"All these years later, we know so much about science and technology, but nothing about that feeling of being alive. It's there, and unexplained in any way so far. Without it, our lives would be simply meaningless computation. There's still some magic in the universe we need to explain."
Unless the emotions you feel don't have any significance. Then we could write off the feeling of being alive as an instinctive response, without any bearing on the nature of the universe.
There are two possibilities: That your emotions are a reflection of some deeper spiritual meaning, or that they're simply instinctive responses that have evolved to help keep humans alive. Now, answer me truthfully: if your emotions had no spiritual connection, would you be able to tell?
There's another explanation. What if George Bush is, in fact, an idiot who believes the words coming out of his own mouth? All of a sudden, everything falls into place.
Processing (rolling, milling or crushing) will improve the digestibility of all grains by cattle. However, processing does make grain a little more likely to cause acidosis. Coarse-rolling the grain using a roller mill is far preferable to fine-milling with a hammermill. The order of improvement in digestibility of grain by cattle that can be obtained from processing varies considerably, but the following is a guide for the commonly fed grains:
Did you really think farmers are going to endlessly pour grain down their cattle's throats, never noticing that it's a waste of money? When we say cattle are inefficient, we mean inefficient compared to growing human-edible plants in the same area. It takes much more land to provide the same amount of food. *Of course* there's always going to be land that's unable to support crops, the waste is from potential cropland that's currently used for pasture.
/I eat beef. //I just can't stand sloppy reasoning.
"Nuclear Power plants tend to be very competitive in areas where other fuel resources are not readily available — France, most notably, has almost no native supplies of fossil fuels."
"However a much more detailed review of over 200 papers by the UK Energy Research Centre, on the issue of intermittency came to much lower costs about the cost of wind energy compared to nuclear energy.[45] A recent study shows the current generating costs of wind, nuclear and coal plant in the UK which stills shows nuclear the cheapest, but not by a great a margin."
While there's some debate over nuclear's cost compared to fossil fuels and renewables, your statement that it is simply not cost-effective seems uninformed.
Desktop Windows has become such a bloated mess that I simply don't believe Microsoft (or anyone else for that matter) is capable of porting it to another architecture. Maybe they could adapt their Windows Mobile line?
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In TFA, they say the energy will be stored in fuel cells.
So... you also feel robots are the way to go?
Best guess is that each FCX Clarity costs 500,000 US to produce. An exec was quoted as saying it costs half as much as the previous version, which was a million. I have yet to see a remotely affordable fuel-cell hydrogen vehicle. The cheapo ones use a hydrogen combustion engine, and have awful range.
False dichotomy.
False dichotomy.
You'll never get money out of Xerox for copying something.
http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF238-Capital_Punishment.jpg
OGG, CSS, OASIS, OOXML... although the last one isn't really 'open'. I'm sure there's like a gazillion others. They're just completely unable to do it.
I bet the project natal cams will be able to figure out your weight.
I don't look forward to a massive kill-off of the many life-forms on this planet. I don't, but I do feel that by messing with nature we will cause more problems than if we don't.
So you feel that releasing the pressure slowly would be somehow worse than a massive kill-off of the many life forms on this planet? This seems like a really weak argument to me. I suspect that if humankind were to cause that degree of pollution and climate change, you'd be dead set against it. Just because something is natural doesn't make it better.
Because reverse-engineering is very hard and complaining is very easy.
If there were some way to get a version of google news that only links to sites without obnoxious flashing ads, I would be very interested. Right now, it's simply too much work to find which of the 50+ articles on some subject don't have animated ads, so I just read the first one. With adblock enabled.
It would be nice to specify the level of advertising you are willing to endure in google's search options: none, text only, still pictures, animated pictures, crap that covers the text until you click on it, animation + sound + popups + smartlinks. I would be able to avoid huge areas of the web, which I consider to be a waste of space anyways. The ad-infested pages often seem deliberately designed to get in the way of valid search results, and don't offer anything extra.
At any rate, I suggest that you go to Edit->Options and disable 'block popup windows' to avoid hypocrisy. You may wish to consider leaving your speakers turned on and installing plugins and toolbars when requested to do so.
It would be nice if there were some way to convert my paper books into e-book format. Say, feed them into an incinerator that scans their titles before they burn. As it is, I have a huge collection of books I'd like to convert to a single, portable device, but there's no way I'm buying the same book twice in order to do it.
Describe a credible system in which anyone can copy anything without restriction but there is still sufficient incentive for people to produce and share high quality work in the first place, and I'm sure the sceptics like me will be interested in what you have to say.
Linux.
I'm not so sure. When in high school, I was shown a film where cigarettes were placed in an airless beaker, and melted into tar with a powerful flame. The tar was placed on the back of lab rats. The majority of the rats grew enormous tumors at those locations.
The HELLADS is supposed to be 150 KILO watts. I believe 67 kilowatts will blow a hole an inch thick through solid steel in under a second. From the BBC: "In our 25kW configuration and our 2.5 sq cm spot size on a one-inch thick steel target, we blow a hole through it in seven seconds."
source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/6380789.stm
I prefer: While he's spending hours and days picking out bizarre bugs from his code, I'll be coding something else. While my program works every time, his crashes and sometimes gives odd results. He'll never get it working, and it would be easier to start again from scratch.
I'm speaking from experience, here.
I posted an article about this last year that talks about some of this: http://news.slashdot.org/story/08/12/07/2144240/Chemical-Pollution-Is-Destroying-Masculinity?art_pos=1
I'm surprised it's not in the related stories section...
"All these years later, we know so much about science and technology, but nothing about that feeling of being alive. It's there, and unexplained in any way so far. Without it, our lives would be simply meaningless computation. There's still some magic in the universe we need to explain."
Unless the emotions you feel don't have any significance. Then we could write off the feeling of being alive as an instinctive response, without any bearing on the nature of the universe.
There are two possibilities: That your emotions are a reflection of some deeper spiritual meaning, or that they're simply instinctive responses that have evolved to help keep humans alive. Now, answer me truthfully: if your emotions had no spiritual connection, would you be able to tell?
There's another explanation. What if George Bush is, in fact, an idiot who believes the words coming out of his own mouth? All of a sudden, everything falls into place.
Digestibility of grain (for cattle)
Wheat, Triticale Whole: 63% Processed: 88%
Barley Whole: 53% Processed: 85%
Oats Whole: 77% Processed: 81%
Lupins, Peas Whole: 76% Processed: 86%
source: http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/dpi/nreninf.nsf/childdocs/-49A21C225110DAB74A2568B30004DB83-9DB564B1D158B03BCA256BC700835FFC-B6A5AF15611DE41E4A256DEA002743DB-63A19FDF43B043CCCA256C380016B5F8?open
Did you really think farmers are going to endlessly pour grain down their cattle's throats, never noticing that it's a waste of money? When we say cattle are inefficient, we mean inefficient compared to growing human-edible plants in the same area. It takes much more land to provide the same amount of food. *Of course* there's always going to be land that's unable to support crops, the waste is from potential cropland that's currently used for pasture.
Does this mean that my plan to port Bash to my wristwatch will be unpopular in the marketplace?
I'd like to pre-order twelve, please. They'll be the perfect interface to my servers. http://static.hackitlinux.com/hackitlinux.com/imgname--server_in_your_pocket---50226711--images--PicoLinux.jpg
Some choice quotes:
"Nuclear Power plants tend to be very competitive in areas where other fuel resources are not readily available — France, most notably, has almost no native supplies of fossil fuels."
"However a much more detailed review of over 200 papers by the UK Energy Research Centre, on the issue of intermittency came to much lower costs about the cost of wind energy compared to nuclear energy.[45] A recent study shows the current generating costs of wind, nuclear and coal plant in the UK which stills shows nuclear the cheapest, but not by a great a margin."
While there's some debate over nuclear's cost compared to fossil fuels and renewables, your statement that it is simply not cost-effective seems uninformed.
Desktop Windows has become such a bloated mess that I simply don't believe Microsoft (or anyone else for that matter) is capable of porting it to another architecture. Maybe they could adapt their Windows Mobile line?
The wikipedia says US oilfields are running dry. You're already down to 1940s levels of production, less than half of what you used to produce.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Hubbert_US_high.svg