Let's use the excess heat in some parts of the chip and use that as a secondary power source.
So... maybe you could use the heat from your CPU to spin the HDD or something? That sounds possible and I guess it would make the system as a whole more efficient. The biggest problem is probably going to be cooling the CPU. It would seem to me that any sort of heat engine driven by heat from the cpu is going to impede the cooling of said CPU. And for that heat engine to be very efficient at all it's going to have to have a high temperature gradient. If the gradient is 75C to 22C it can only be 15% efficient (I think. It's been a while since I studied thermo.).
...as elderly gamers probably spend very little time in their cars.
Mod parent up. I was going to try to post something funny, but I don't think I can top that.
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Unlike existing CRT SDTVs, a new TV can receive VGA and ATSC signals.
I suspect many people will just buy the ATSC converter or buy a new STDV. I wonder how many people will buy an HDTV before February only because they don't understand the difference between HD and digital?
How did we get from "fundamentalist Christians" to "all churches"?(And, no, those quotes aren't out of context. The poster to whom you were responding didn't say that all churches in the US were biblical literalists, he/she said that only "fundamentalist Christians" were.)
Well, the original post said:
... in the rest of the world you can be a Christian without believing every single word in the Bible is the absolute truth.
That to me implies that churches (maybe I should have said "Christians"?) in "the rest of the world" are different from those here. I'm challenging that part of the statement because based on my visits to churches in other countries, I don't see Christians in other countries being that much different from those in my country. Some are very "fundamentalist", some are very liberal and some are in between.
Specifically: Unless you also violently disagree with in-vitro fertilization, you have absolutely no right to protest the use of fetal stem cells.
I assume you're referring to the fact that they typically create multiple embryos, implant some and destroy the rest. Many pro-lifers that are aware of that aspect of the process DO oppose it (E.g., I believe the whole Roman Catholic Church officially opposes it).
No, it's only the fundamentalist Christians who would think that, in the rest of the world you can be a Christian without believing every single word in the Bible is the absolute truth.
You seem to imply that all churches in the U.S. believe in a literal interpretation of scripture, and that no church outside the U.S. does. I know from experience that neither is true. There are both very liberal churches in the U.S. and very conservative churches outside it.
in fact it is almost inevitable there are older ones
And it is almost certain that we will find at least one of these older rocks. And it is almost inevitable that there will be older rocks than that. Therefore it is almost certain that the age of the earth is infinite!
I'd like to thank my fellow American IorDMUX for boldly using "us Americans" as a sentence subject. Us Americans will live free of the repressive constraints of English grammar!
Every time I install a piece of "legit" software, I have to click through an agreement claiming that there is no guarantee the code will work or that it won't fry my hard drive or mess up my other software or destroy my life's work or render me sterile or cause a resonance cascade scenario. I think that sort of thing is what most trains less technical users to just "click through" anything. They click through warnings all the time and nothing bad ever happens... at least until something bad does happen, and even then they might not understand the connection if it doesn't happen immediately.
The picture in the linked article is missing a beard.
I was going to mod you funny, then I thought maybe a lot of people wouldn't get the beard reference, so I decided to post instead. Anyone else want to mod parent funny?
"Holland is a very very diverse country. The alternative to social liberalism is chaos. There are so many different groups with different beliefs that we have to have liberal laws".
Forgive me, but I don't follow that train of thought at all. Could you maybe give me some examples of the laws you are talking about and what sort of chaos would ensue without them?
Is it perhaps possible that instead of someone's political leanings influencing their career choices, their career choices and accumulated knowledge have influenced their political leanings?
I believe academia itself is conducive to liberalism. The "real world" tends to drive people back towards conservatism (IMO, that is. Unlike Mr. Adams, I'll leave you to guess my bias).
... or is "you run when you hear something that *might* be a lion coming to eat you" a really strange thing to be called "superstition" or especially an "incorrect linkage of cause and effect"? I'd say it's a correct linkage --- and a correct reaction, but maybe I'm being superstitious.
And even IF the bible contains the tiniest shred of historical truth, that still doesn't support the supernatural side of it
"IF"? Much of the Bible IS historical fact. Many towns mentioned in the Bible that were thought to be mythical (because scholars said "we all know this was written 700 years after the fact for political reasons... yada yada yada"), have been unearthed by archeologists. And it may have been rewritten and translated many times, but that also makes it the most well documented and verified (by comparing copies and translations) ancient text in existence.
Now regarding the "supernatural" side of it, I'd like to point out that arguing for the supernatural with a materialist (i.e., most of the posters on slashdot) is as pointless as arguing against it with a religious person. A materialist has decided that those sorts of things just can't happen at all:
How do you know the miracles are fake?
Because it's scientifically impossible.
But here's an eyewitness account...
It's false.
How do you know it's false?
Because it's scientifically impossible!
Personally, I try not to *completely* discount anyone's claimed experiences, whether it be about God or ghosts or UFOs or whatever. I may have an *opinion* about it based on what I believe, but what do I know? Only God is omniscient. (that's what *I* believe, anyway.)
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Huh? That's like saying "sparky stuff known as electricity" or "an attractive force known as magnetism". If you don't know what a proton is, is knowing it's a particle going to help you understand the article?
Mod parent up. I was getting annoyed that no-one seemed to care about anything except what they named the release! I was starting to think I was on a PHB forum!
You can't patent things that aren't feasible with current technology.
I'm pretty sure you can, or at least it may be a gray area. I say this because I remember a story about Richard Feynman discovering he held a patent on the Nuclear Submarine. As I recall the story (I don't have the book here), he was working on the atomic bomb project at Los Alamos and someone from the gov't was there to get ideas for patents. He suggested a number of things that could possibly be done with atomic power, including atomic airplanes and ships and submarines. He wound up being the patent holder for these ideas. Arguably none of these ideas were "feasible" at the time he got the patents.
Even the Jews, who wrote the book you believe to be inerrant, know it to be a fairy tale.
There are Jews who would disagree with you on that. OTOH, there are Jews who don't believe in God at all, since one can be considered Jewish by heredity alone.
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Let's use the excess heat in some parts of the chip and use that as a secondary power source.
So ... maybe you could use the heat from your CPU to spin the HDD or something? That sounds possible and I guess it would make the system as a whole more efficient. The biggest problem is probably going to be cooling the CPU. It would seem to me that any sort of heat engine driven by heat from the cpu is going to impede the cooling of said CPU. And for that heat engine to be very efficient at all it's going to have to have a high temperature gradient. If the gradient is 75C to 22C it can only be 15% efficient (I think. It's been a while since I studied thermo.).
...as elderly gamers probably spend very little time in their cars.
Mod parent up. I was going to try to post something funny, but I don't think I can top that.
Unlike existing CRT SDTVs, a new TV can receive VGA and ATSC signals.
I suspect many people will just buy the ATSC converter or buy a new STDV. I wonder how many people will buy an HDTV before February only because they don't understand the difference between HD and digital?
Only problem is the gun pointed at the back of your head and all, but people have endured worse to secure grant money.
Take what happened at Aperture Science, for instance ...
How did we get from "fundamentalist Christians" to "all churches"?(And, no, those quotes aren't out of context. The poster to whom you were responding didn't say that all churches in the US were biblical literalists, he/she said that only "fundamentalist Christians" were.)
Well, the original post said:
... in the rest of the world you can be a Christian without believing every single word in the Bible is the absolute truth.
That to me implies that churches (maybe I should have said "Christians"?) in "the rest of the world" are different from those here. I'm challenging that part of the statement because based on my visits to churches in other countries, I don't see Christians in other countries being that much different from those in my country. Some are very "fundamentalist", some are very liberal and some are in between.
I think AC has lost his mind. Not only are his posts completely off topic, but he's arguing with himself!
Specifically: Unless you also violently disagree with in-vitro fertilization, you have absolutely no right to protest the use of fetal stem cells.
I assume you're referring to the fact that they typically create multiple embryos, implant some and destroy the rest. Many pro-lifers that are aware of that aspect of the process DO oppose it (E.g., I believe the whole Roman Catholic Church officially opposes it).
No, it's only the fundamentalist Christians who would think that, in the rest of the world you can be a Christian without believing every single word in the Bible is the absolute truth.
You seem to imply that all churches in the U.S. believe in a literal interpretation of scripture, and that no church outside the U.S. does. I know from experience that neither is true. There are both very liberal churches in the U.S. and very conservative churches outside it.
in fact it is almost inevitable there are older ones
And it is almost certain that we will find at least one of these older rocks. And it is almost inevitable that there will be older rocks than that. Therefore it is almost certain that the age of the earth is infinite!
I'd like to thank my fellow American IorDMUX for boldly using "us Americans" as a sentence subject. Us Americans will live free of the repressive constraints of English grammar!
Drives me crazy when I get UK motor cycle mag. The give the fuel economy in MPG and the fuel tank size in Liters!
Not only that, but British Gallons and U.S. gallons are different!
Every time I install a piece of "legit" software, I have to click through an agreement claiming that there is no guarantee the code will work or that it won't fry my hard drive or mess up my other software or destroy my life's work or render me sterile or cause a resonance cascade scenario. I think that sort of thing is what most trains less technical users to just "click through" anything. They click through warnings all the time and nothing bad ever happens ... at least until something bad does happen, and even then they might not understand the connection if it doesn't happen immediately.
The picture in the linked article is missing a beard.
I was going to mod you funny, then I thought maybe a lot of people wouldn't get the beard reference, so I decided to post instead. Anyone else want to mod parent funny?
"Holland is a very very diverse country. The alternative to social liberalism is chaos. There are so many different groups with different beliefs that we have to have liberal laws".
Forgive me, but I don't follow that train of thought at all. Could you maybe give me some examples of the laws you are talking about and what sort of chaos would ensue without them?
Is it perhaps possible that instead of someone's political leanings influencing their career choices, their career choices and accumulated knowledge have influenced their political leanings?
I believe academia itself is conducive to liberalism. The "real world" tends to drive people back towards conservatism (IMO, that is. Unlike Mr. Adams, I'll leave you to guess my bias).
... or is "you run when you hear something that *might* be a lion coming to eat you" a really strange thing to be called "superstition" or especially an "incorrect linkage of cause and effect"? I'd say it's a correct linkage --- and a correct reaction, but maybe I'm being superstitious.
And even IF the bible contains the tiniest shred of historical truth, that still doesn't support the supernatural side of it
"IF"? Much of the Bible IS historical fact. Many towns mentioned in the Bible that were thought to be mythical (because scholars said "we all know this was written 700 years after the fact for political reasons ... yada yada yada"), have been unearthed by archeologists. And it may have been rewritten and translated many times, but that also makes it the most well documented and verified (by comparing copies and translations) ancient text in existence.
Now regarding the "supernatural" side of it, I'd like to point out that arguing for the supernatural with a materialist (i.e., most of the posters on slashdot) is as pointless as arguing against it with a religious person. A materialist has decided that those sorts of things just can't happen at all:
How do you know the miracles are fake?
Because it's scientifically impossible.
But here's an eyewitness account...
It's false.
How do you know it's false?
Because it's scientifically impossible!
Personally, I try not to *completely* discount anyone's claimed experiences, whether it be about God or ghosts or UFOs or whatever. I may have an *opinion* about it based on what I believe, but what do I know? Only God is omniscient. (that's what *I* believe, anyway.)
Huh? That's like saying "sparky stuff known as electricity" or "an attractive force known as magnetism". If you don't know what a proton is, is knowing it's a particle going to help you understand the article?
Let's say you're a normal person.
Okay, you lost me there.
Seriously, tho, RTA. While your analysis is interesting, the "efficiency" of the human body seems pretty irrelevant to this discussion.
Mod parent up. I was getting annoyed that no-one seemed to care about anything except what they named the release! I was starting to think I was on a PHB forum!
At least that one looks cool but, really, who has the time to do this? If they have the time then do they have the interest or the money?
Right, I mean, we all have time for slashdot, but you can't exactly build a car in your cubicle without people noticing!
You can't patent things that aren't feasible with current technology.
I'm pretty sure you can, or at least it may be a gray area. I say this because I remember a story about Richard Feynman discovering he held a patent on the Nuclear Submarine. As I recall the story (I don't have the book here), he was working on the atomic bomb project at Los Alamos and someone from the gov't was there to get ideas for patents. He suggested a number of things that could possibly be done with atomic power, including atomic airplanes and ships and submarines. He wound up being the patent holder for these ideas. Arguably none of these ideas were "feasible" at the time he got the patents.
wasn't George Carlin that said "ever notice how your junk is stuff and everyone elses stuff is junk?"
Yes, only George didn't say "junk".
Even the Jews, who wrote the book you believe to be inerrant, know it to be a fairy tale.
There are Jews who would disagree with you on that. OTOH, there are Jews who don't believe in God at all, since one can be considered Jewish by heredity alone.
doubtful if it's using a snorkel for air
TFA says it uses a snorkel for air