I'll agree with you. However, does this mean that if you have never seen tobiko, you should still pay for tobiko when you eat masago? Because if so, I've got some great Northern Free-Range Angus beef I can sell you... as well as some rare Chilean Zucchini that takes some extraordinary greenhouse conditions to grow properly.
Moron. One irate girlfriend with access to your password means no more money earning interest in your paypal account, and no more money in your bank account, because she transferred it all to your paypal before she shifted it somewhere else.
Click I forgot my password... and it is emailed to your email account, which she has access to. SO now, she has access to any other account you signed up with, that you used the original email to sign up with.
Sure, in a relationship, there is always a certain amount of trust. And just as in any relationship that goes south, there are bank accounts that get cleaned out. Is that the price to pay for being in a relationship? Why? Why does it have to be? Do you feel like going through the hassle of getting access to all your online accounts again, after your passwords have been changed... or worse yet, facing having all those accounts closed/deleted?
Just because someone values and understands privacy, doesn't mean they are alone.
Now.. someone who feels they must give up all privacy and hand over everything they have to a significant other just to keep them, is rather desperate and lacks self worth. Also, no woman will respect a guy like that. No man respects a woman like that either.
I don't think it your scenario would lead to a rise in efficiency, unless you mean how efficiently the company handles it's money. It would not have to pay as much, as people would be getting paid by how much work they do, rather than getting paid for a 40 hour work week.
What happens if we change the composition of the air we breathe? Like, say change the amount of Oxygen in our air? I mean, fossilized amber contains some of the earliest samples, which are about 35% oxygen. However, that is way before our time. We are currently at abuot 20%, with polluted cities sometimes as low as 12%. Less than 7% kills.
Now, from Wikipedia (sorry). "Hyperoxia is excess oxygen in body tissues or higher than normal partial pressure of oxygen. Hyperoxia is caused by breathing gas at pressures greater than normal atmospheric pressure or by breathing oxygen-rich gases at normal atmospheric pressure for a prolonged period of time."
This is also called Oxygen Toxicity. Oxygen Toxicity affects individuals in several different ways. Through the Central Nervous System... "CNS oxygen toxicity manifests as symptoms such as visual changes, ringing in the ears, nausea, twitching (especially on the face), irritability (personality changes, anxiety, confusion, etc.), dizziness, and convulsions. The onset depends upon partial pressure of oxygen (ppO2) in the breathing gas and exposure duration."... through Pulmonary Oxygen Toxicity... "Experimentally, early symptoms of breathing 100% oxygen are breathing difficulty and substernal pain or discomfort. The lungs show inflammation and pulmonary edema." (and) "The risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia ("BPD") in infants, or adult respiratory distress syndrome in adults, begins to increase with exposure for over 16 hours to oxygen partial pressures of 0.5 bar (50 kPa) or more. At sea-level, 0.5 bar (50 kPa) is exceeded by gas mixtures having oxygen fractions greater than 50%. Lung oxygen toxicity damage-rates at sea-level pressure rise non-linearly between the 50% threshold of toxicity, and the rate of damage on 100% oxygen. For this reason, intensive care patients requiring more than 60% oxygen, and especially patients at fractions near 100% oxygen, are considered to be at especially high risk. If the situation is not corrected, the treatment may begin to cause lung damage which exacerbates the original problem requiring the high-oxygen mixture. Care must be used in distinguishing oxygen mole fraction from oxygen partial pressure. Partial pressures between 0.2 bar (20 kPa) (normal at sea level) and 0.5 bar (50 kPa) usually are considered non-toxic. BPD is reversible in the early stages during "break" periods on lower oxygen pressures, but it may eventually result in irreversible lung damage, if allowed to progress to severe damage. Usually several days of exposure without "oxygen breaks" are needed to cause severe lung damage."... and through Retinopathic oxygen toxicity "Prolonged exposure to high inspired fractions of oxygen causes damage to the retina. Oxygen may be a contributing factor for the disorder called retrolental fibroplasia. Hyperoxic myopia has occurred in closed circuit oxygen rebreather divers with prolonged exposures."
So... why all these stupid quotes that are marginally related to tons of sea plants and phytoplankton? We don't want an ocean that is full of only Algae, and phytoplankton. Meaning Too much Oxygen can be very bad. Or, more to the point, fucking with the ecology of our planet is bad. If we fuck with our ocean life, we will fuck with the composition of our air... I consider Air far more important than our oceans.
I'm not discussing what plant is better at making oxygen.
I'm discussing where most of our current oxygen comes from. Phytoplankton may or may not be less efficient than other plants at producing Oxygen. That fact is irrelevant, since the sheer volume of phytoplankton provides MORE than half (my bad, not "about half" like I said earlier) of the Oxygen that is produced on Earth.
As a side note... What started as a desire to create an Algae that would be the perfect fish tank decoration (one that fish would not eat, one that would flourish in a wide variety of waters and conditions, one that would proliferate easily) has turned into one of the world's greatest threats. One that could extinguish us. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/519228.html In a nutshell, we made the stuff in Germany, it was studied at the Jacque Cousteau Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, and it got out... as it was first discovered in the Mediterranean under this very building. It is extraordinarily hard to kill, and it drives off all other sea life in any area where it grows. It drive off and suffocates other sea plant life, which drives off the little fish that eat that stuff, which drives off the larger fish that eat the small fish. Go ahead. Search for Killer Algae. See what it has taken to eradicate the outbreak in a lagoon in Australia... and the outbreak in Southern California (I hear it is threatening the Florida coast in some spots). If we destroy the ocean's ecology, we are soon to follow. And apparently our desire for the perfect fish tank may be our downfall.
Also, it is possible to desalinate salt water, making it into fresh water. So sorry, I'm not with you that protecting our fresh water is more important. We've got to get on the ball and protect that which sustains our oxygen production, and ocean life. Else we die with lots of fresh water.
I think so. It is called phytoplankton and about half of the Oxygen we need to breathe is produced by this, and guess where it is.... salt water! That is, half of the Earth's oxygen production is handled by these little guys. It is also the base of the oceanic food chain.
other than THAT... I suppose that salt water isn't as important as fresh water... because breathing is of secondary importance to industrial uses of fresh water.
Too many people feel that the roads should have higher speed limits... and too many people are getting into accidents because they are driving too fast for individual roads.
If a person gets a ticket for doing 90 in a 35 zone (happens outside my house all the time... in front of an elementary school), that person obviously felt they could handle going 90 on that single lane road. It is much harder to stop for a car pulling out of a driveway, or a kid crossing the street, when you are going that fast as opposed to actually doing the speed limit. But they don't care. They aren't even thinking of the houses they are passing at a blur, that are less than 30 years from their car. They aren't thinking of the pets that live in those houses, or the people, or anything other than getting to their destination as soon as they possibly can.
Instead of leaving their house earlier, and driving casually to their destination, they wait until the last moment (or after they are late) and drive like maniacs. Then when they get a ticket, they blame the city/state for having the speed limit too low... instead of facing the fact that there is no friggin reason for them to be blazing down this back road. The GP's perception of what reasonable speed is, is based on his driving with one hand on the wheel, listening to the radio cranked, talking on his cell phone, trying to get to work because he just can't get out of his house on time. He feels that since he's got a decade (maybe two) of driving under his belt, that he is now an expert at judging conditions.
Intel can currently supply all their own chipset needs inhouse. They currently do. Everything.
AMD, with their partnering with Nvidia can supply all their own chipset needs. I would not be surprised to see AMD cut out Nvidia, and do it all themselves.
Too true.. I got caught up in the moment and forgot how hard it is to get people in tech support (or customer support) to step away from the scripts and use their heads.
Actually the Sterling Engine that uses a small "sealed" container of hydrogen to transfer the heat from the focal point to where it heats water to steam, is quite efficient. Hydrogen is one of the best materials for transfer of heat.
And as far as being explosive... this is true. But I hope to Zeus that you aren't one of those nuts who believes that the Hindenburg blew up because of Hydrogen. I've watched demonstrations in how a hydrogen leak is not dangerous, because of how fast it dissipates. It also doesn't hang around an accident scene in spill form, like gasoline. For example, a car in an accident with a ruptured fuel tank is a hazard, because the fuel spreads, and will ignite, spreading the fire. A hydrogen gas powered car with a ruptured fuel tank loses fuel. That's all. It dissipates too quickly to be a hazard. I've got to believe what I've seen with my own eyes. Now... a small rupture will expel the gas at force. So that is an issue. Gasoline isn't under nearly the pressure.
But a fuel that is more explosive than gasoline, and produces free oxygen and water vapor as an exhaust, and cleans the air of pollutants as it burns... that's a win win win over gasoline. More bang for the buck, and you could leave the vehicle running overnight in your garage, producing electricity for your home, running on the garden hose you have in your tank, being converted to HHO gas by electrolysis.
I suppose you've never seen the Brown Gas cutting torches either.
You do make a very good point, but I'd like to point out that a big part of the reason why newer energy technologies are not being researched, has nothing whatsoever to do with funding. It doesn't matter a whit if money is going to scientists studying this fossilized pigmentation.
Since the early 60's, a gentleman in Arizona has been converting internal combustion engines of all types to run on hydrogen. The reason why this technology has not been explored more has nothing to do with funding, and everything to do with large companies that deal in oil having the money to pay lobbyists to push their interests through congress, fund research to further the use of their product, and having the power and money to squash things like Hydrogen Technology. I've seen the guys videos, I've read his literature, I've met the man. His simplest demonstration really says it all. He simply removes the carb from a Briggs and Stratton engine, sticks a feed from a tank of hydrogen directly into the hole left behind, opens the tank and starts the engine. How fast the engine goes is decided by how much hydrogen he lets flow into the engine. He doesn't even modify anything (unless pulling the carb off is modification).
Also, the US government in the late 80's funded a research project that studied how often cows chew their cud. This project received $250,000. At about the same time, the US government funded a study into how often people smile in bowling alleys. This project received $375,000. These amounts of money might be drops in the bucket, however, these two projects are both far more useless than studying pigmentation in something we thought previously lacked pigmentation... namely fossils. And there are far more projects receiving money out there that are just as ludicrous as cud chewing or pleasant bowling alleys. I dunno.
So it's one thing when worthy projects are competing for the same money as unworthy projects. It's another when money is actively being spent to suppress technologies that would supplant the suppressor. In the case of energy tech, there have always been large entities that do not want us researching alternate ways of putting them out of business.
I suppose that it is all about not wanting to remain ignorant.
I suppose it is an extension of "Those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it." Now, I'm sure plenty of ignorant people will reply about how we don't need to know about what color dinosaurs were to avoid following in their footsteps... and they would be right. However, once we start standardizing what parts of our past we don't need to learn about, the list grows until it includes things we SHOULD learn about and remember...
Then there is the whole thing about pigmentation, and if we find what pigmentation survives fossilization, we can make better, more permanent inks. It might turn out that creatures of a certain color lasted longer than others did, which could in turn assist our survival. Who knows what we could learn from this... except we know we can learn nothing from it if we don't study it.
But I doubt that even occurred to you.
you know.. all that bogus stuff that deals with knowledge.
Good story, but it doesn't apply. Because he would tell them his name, and they would reply... with.. sorry, maybe you should try misspelling your name.
I'm really glad I read the article.
Crap. I forgot. If I read the articles, I can't post.
So how did that crude obscenity filter come into place when he spoke to people at Verizon... multiple times? People in the billing department... people in different parts of the country... people who suggested he Misspell his name, change his name, etc...
It wasn't until the press got involved that someone said "Well, this needs personal attention." Which is odd because he was talking to people all along, aside from the initial online signup attempt.
However, if as Verizon says, this can be worked around because it is indeed their name... why couldn't anyone else that this doctor spoke to offer him the same appropriate treatment? So, since Verizon could have fixed this all along but did not until the press got involved... it was not *just* a crude obscenity filter on the email address he wanted when he signed up.
I've got to wonder what his email address was with AT&T, since he was using AT&T for dialup first.
"The "crash" jokes may be old, but depending on usage patterns, for me
Windows XP still requires a healthy regimen of "reinstall and start fresh" for
long-term use."
There. Fixed that for you.
And I'm sure you don't depend on Norton 360 for protection, nor do you skimp
on daily spyware scans... right? Because almost everyone who uses
Windows is picking up spyware/malware/grayware/adware to one degree or another
(hey, if you aren't then I'm not talking about YOU.. so get your finger off that
reply click there) and needs to be regularly cleaning their system for things
OTHER than just potential Virus infections.
I mean... I had to Install WinXP when I finally moved away from Win2k...
about 2 years ago. Haven't needed a reinstall yet. I'm using XP on
my laptop and I've never had to reinstall it.
And I use them both for Gaming, Surfing, Office type apps, movie encoding and
editing, graphic work and more... including testing software friends ask me
about that they want to know more about.
I can almost see a vision of game companies allowing a mini-OS construction
kit online, then a customized download of the game that when burned to a CD/DVD
will boot to an OS that detects and uses only your hardware (detected when you
purchase the game online, and drivers for just that hardware included in the
build). This way, you maximize the resources. NO, it;s not the same
as the old DOS games, {sarcasm} unless you mean those old DOS games that each
came with their own customized version of DOS that was tailored to your specific
hardware.{/sarcasm}
You already have the necessary software/firmware on your system. Ever look at your boot device list? Notice that Network Boot option? If your network cable was plugged into an active network, and there was a server you could connect to that would offer you something to boot... you could be booting off your network card now. It has been an option for more than a decade on just about every NIC made... longer for companies like 3COM and Intel.
Hey, we all know the unspoken rules... if you read the article, you aren't supposed to post... and if you post, you aren't supposed to read the article. That's how a million geeks can slam a site from a Slashdot link, because there surely aren't a million posts in the thread of discussion about the same article.
Sorry about crossing the 30 word barrier though, and all the pain I caused those who have read this far...
Precedent proves that just because his production company is involved, it does not automatically follow that he would be onscreen. I present you with Richard Dean Anderson, Executive producer of Stargate SG1... noticeably absent but was still producing the show.
It doesn't work out that way though. I'll see that blazing speed if I download the linux ISOs via an HTTP link, or from an FTP site. Of course, if anything were to go wrong while I'm downloading that 700mb to 3gb.. then I'm out of luck and I have to download it all over again. However, I"ll see plenty of blazing speed.
Sure, I could and probably should get a download assist program like GetRight... or maybe I should even start using BitComet and have it intercept the clicks... but even then, some servers will recognize that the click has been intercepted, and not allow what I want to download, to be downloaded by BitComet. I've had it happen enough where I had to turn off that feature and download some files "manually"
But the speed is there. The speed is there for watching Youtube videos. The speed is there for listening to streaming music with VLC.
It is only Bittorrent traffic that will cause the ISP to get upset and start messing with the connection.
So when someone sells a connection promising blazing speeds, and DELIVERS said blazing speeds, and then it turns out that this company is pretty much shaping the torrent traffic to eliminate those blazing speeds until there is no more torrent traffic... I'd say there's nothing wrong.
People who aren't torrenting don't ever see this crap.
If you point out the existence of restrictions, you make my point for me. It does not make a whit of difference who put those restrictions there.
And Yes, I compare P2P with child porn. Does the person who is into child porn think there is anything wrong with it? Nope. What about countries where it is perfectly legal to have sex with what we in the US would consider a minor? We say a video record of that is Child Porn. In that country, it is not. So child porn is not a Universally defined thing. Photographs of underage individuals living in a nudist colony is not considered child porn, since they are in their natural state. Place the same underaged individual in a studio and take nude pictures, and it is child porn. Get official sanctioning and take the pictures for identification purposes, or to show the extend of damage from abuse or an accident, and it is no longer child porn.
You argue that what you are downloading over a P2P network is not illegal.. or it should not be illegal. This is no different than the person who argues that his child porn should not be illegal. You just think you are standing on moral high ground. Both activities are considered illegal.
Now, when I regularly download ISOs of linux distributions for work, so I can test and decide which distro we are going to recommend, and how much progress is being made with installers and such... I will torrent them. And it sucks that Time Warner will throw TCP kill packets at me. I have to live with it because of all the people downloading illegal copies of movies and software and music with the same software I use to download linux. There are currently more than 170 different distros of linux.. some are still under development, and some aren't. That's a lot of downloading I've still got to do.
But, by your argument, I should be able to walk into any gun store and buy a pistol and bullets without even showing an ID. Because there should be no restrictions. Because it doesn't matter if people do illegal things with the same hardware I want to buy. Because I'm not going to do anything illegal (supposedly), then I should not face any of the same restrictions.
{whine} Oh, it's not fair. Movies should be free. Software should be free. Comcast doesn't like me because of what I download. wuaaah! {/whine}
Comcast isn't affecting what people download because they don't like it. Comcast, and every other major ISP out there in the USA is getting slammed by entities like 20th Century Fox. You *are* aware that 20th Century Fox is monitoring what people download with BitTorrent? All you need is a fucking client. You can then see the IP addresses of anyone who connects to you. Thus, Fox can see who is downloading whatever files they want to monitor. They then send a nice letter to the ISP, saying that such-and-such a file was downloaded by such-and-such an IP, over such-and-such a port range. After a few hundred or thousand of those letters, COmcast is going to get pretty sick of facilitating theft. And when 20th Century Fox can grab the same software and watch people stealing THEIR SHIT... I'd expect them to push ISPs like Comcast to do something about it.
I'm just in the minority who understands what's going on, and has to deal with it. You need to stop downloading illegally copied stuff... or accept that what you are doing is wrong, but that you are going to do it anyway, and face the responsibility for your actions.
No, not in "that" way, or any other way. If I have Comcast, and I don't download anything (I don't surf, I don't IM, I don't email, I don't use my connection) for a month... what is my bill going to be? Now, after I've returned home from living at my girlfriend's for that month, I decide to upload a bunch of videos we made to youtube, and I'm downloading a ton of other things I think she will find "cute" (since VLC will save video streams onto your harddrive)... and I do that every day for another month.. what will my bill be now?
Guess what.... the bill will be the same for both months.
Now, with time warner AND comcast sending out those TCP kill packets... all that happens is your connection burps for a moment. You never notice it when you are surfing, you might notice it when YouTubing, and you will definitely notice it if you are downloading torrents. Although, if you aren't torrenting, you won't be sent TCP kill packets.
People are all like "I paid for the connection. I should be able to do whatever I want with it!" Where did this attitude come from? Who thinks that they can do whatever they want with whatever they buy?More often than not, there are restrictions of use on what you purchase. You cannot buy a baseball bat and then legally go beat your neighbor with it. Sure, they don't need to put a warning label on it. How about an aerosol can? They come all kinds of restrictions on the back, that if you are caught doing one of those restricted activities, you face a penalty. Ok. Why aren't you arguing about how your ISP doesn't protect your anonymity when you surf child porn sites? Because that is sick and damaging to children? How much of a hypocrite does that make you? It's Ok for an ISP to restrict some access and traffic.. but NOT when it interferes with what you want to do?
Slashdot Mirror
What?? They sure do go dump Toxic Waste because there aren't specific injunctions and court orders not telling them to...
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/11165
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/5/27/93622.shtml?s=ic
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Toxic_waste_dump_killing_children_in_Kenya_UN_report_999.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/06/MN2510MASF.DTL&type=printable
You think these companies waited until they were in trouble to start dumping their crap?
I'll agree with you. However, does this mean that if you have never seen tobiko, you should still pay for tobiko when you eat masago? Because if so, I've got some great Northern Free-Range Angus beef I can sell you... as well as some rare Chilean Zucchini that takes some extraordinary greenhouse conditions to grow properly.
Moron. One irate girlfriend with access to your password means no more money earning interest in your paypal account, and no more money in your bank account, because she transferred it all to your paypal before she shifted it somewhere else.
Click I forgot my password... and it is emailed to your email account, which she has access to. SO now, she has access to any other account you signed up with, that you used the original email to sign up with.
Sure, in a relationship, there is always a certain amount of trust. And just as in any relationship that goes south, there are bank accounts that get cleaned out. Is that the price to pay for being in a relationship? Why? Why does it have to be? Do you feel like going through the hassle of getting access to all your online accounts again, after your passwords have been changed... or worse yet, facing having all those accounts closed/deleted?
Just because someone values and understands privacy, doesn't mean they are alone.
Now.. someone who feels they must give up all privacy and hand over everything they have to a significant other just to keep them, is rather desperate and lacks self worth. Also, no woman will respect a guy like that. No man respects a woman like that either.
I don't think it your scenario would lead to a rise in efficiency, unless you mean how efficiently the company handles it's money. It would not have to pay as much, as people would be getting paid by how much work they do, rather than getting paid for a 40 hour work week.
What happens if we change the composition of the air we breathe? Like, say change the amount of Oxygen in our air? I mean, fossilized amber contains some of the earliest samples, which are about 35% oxygen. However, that is way before our time. We are currently at abuot 20%, with polluted cities sometimes as low as 12%. Less than 7% kills.
Now, from Wikipedia (sorry).
"Hyperoxia is excess oxygen in body tissues or higher than normal partial pressure of oxygen. Hyperoxia is caused by breathing gas at pressures greater than normal atmospheric pressure or by breathing oxygen-rich gases at normal atmospheric pressure for a prolonged period of time."
This is also called Oxygen Toxicity. ... through Pulmonary Oxygen Toxicity... ... and through Retinopathic oxygen toxicity
Oxygen Toxicity affects individuals in several different ways. Through the Central Nervous System...
"CNS oxygen toxicity manifests as symptoms such as visual changes, ringing in the ears, nausea, twitching (especially on the face), irritability (personality changes, anxiety, confusion, etc.), dizziness, and convulsions. The onset depends upon partial pressure of oxygen (ppO2) in the breathing gas and exposure duration."
"Experimentally, early symptoms of breathing 100% oxygen are breathing difficulty and substernal pain or discomfort. The lungs show inflammation and pulmonary edema."
(and)
"The risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia ("BPD") in infants, or adult respiratory distress syndrome in adults, begins to increase with exposure for over 16 hours to oxygen partial pressures of 0.5 bar (50 kPa) or more. At sea-level, 0.5 bar (50 kPa) is exceeded by gas mixtures having oxygen fractions greater than 50%. Lung oxygen toxicity damage-rates at sea-level pressure rise non-linearly between the 50% threshold of toxicity, and the rate of damage on 100% oxygen. For this reason, intensive care patients requiring more than 60% oxygen, and especially patients at fractions near 100% oxygen, are considered to be at especially high risk. If the situation is not corrected, the treatment may begin to cause lung damage which exacerbates the original problem requiring the high-oxygen mixture. Care must be used in distinguishing oxygen mole fraction from oxygen partial pressure. Partial pressures between 0.2 bar (20 kPa) (normal at sea level) and 0.5 bar (50 kPa) usually are considered non-toxic. BPD is reversible in the early stages during "break" periods on lower oxygen pressures, but it may eventually result in irreversible lung damage, if allowed to progress to severe damage. Usually several days of exposure without "oxygen breaks" are needed to cause severe lung damage."
"Prolonged exposure to high inspired fractions of oxygen causes damage to the retina. Oxygen may be a contributing factor for the disorder called retrolental fibroplasia. Hyperoxic myopia has occurred in closed circuit oxygen rebreather divers with prolonged exposures."
So... why all these stupid quotes that are marginally related to tons of sea plants and phytoplankton? We don't want an ocean that is full of only Algae, and phytoplankton. Meaning Too much Oxygen can be very bad. Or, more to the point, fucking with the ecology of our planet is bad. If we fuck with our ocean life, we will fuck with the composition of our air... I consider Air far more important than our oceans.
I'm not discussing what plant is better at making oxygen.
I'm discussing where most of our current oxygen comes from. Phytoplankton may or may not be less efficient than other plants at producing Oxygen. That fact is irrelevant, since the sheer volume of phytoplankton provides MORE than half (my bad, not "about half" like I said earlier) of the Oxygen that is produced on Earth.
References?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoplankton
Nasa's take on the stuff
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Phytoplankton/
This one claims two-thirds of the photosynthesis on the planet occurs within them
http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu/factsheets/phytoplankton.html
As a side note...
What started as a desire to create an Algae that would be the perfect fish tank decoration (one that fish would not eat, one that would flourish in a wide variety of waters and conditions, one that would proliferate easily) has turned into one of the world's greatest threats. One that could extinguish us.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/519228.html
In a nutshell, we made the stuff in Germany, it was studied at the Jacque Cousteau Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, and it got out... as it was first discovered in the Mediterranean under this very building. It is extraordinarily hard to kill, and it drives off all other sea life in any area where it grows. It drive off and suffocates other sea plant life, which drives off the little fish that eat that stuff, which drives off the larger fish that eat the small fish.
Go ahead. Search for Killer Algae. See what it has taken to eradicate the outbreak in a lagoon in Australia... and the outbreak in Southern California (I hear it is threatening the Florida coast in some spots). If we destroy the ocean's ecology, we are soon to follow. And apparently our desire for the perfect fish tank may be our downfall.
Also, it is possible to desalinate salt water, making it into fresh water. So sorry, I'm not with you that protecting our fresh water is more important. We've got to get on the ball and protect that which sustains our oxygen production, and ocean life. Else we die with lots of fresh water.
Hello... Are we forgetting something important?
I think so. It is called phytoplankton and about half of the Oxygen we need to breathe is produced by this, and guess where it is.... salt water! That is, half of the Earth's oxygen production is handled by these little guys. It is also the base of the oceanic food chain.
other than THAT... I suppose that salt water isn't as important as fresh water... because breathing is of secondary importance to industrial uses of fresh water.
I'm with you.
Too many people feel that the roads should have higher speed limits... and too many people are getting into accidents because they are driving too fast for individual roads.
If a person gets a ticket for doing 90 in a 35 zone (happens outside my house all the time... in front of an elementary school), that person obviously felt they could handle going 90 on that single lane road. It is much harder to stop for a car pulling out of a driveway, or a kid crossing the street, when you are going that fast as opposed to actually doing the speed limit. But they don't care. They aren't even thinking of the houses they are passing at a blur, that are less than 30 years from their car. They aren't thinking of the pets that live in those houses, or the people, or anything other than getting to their destination as soon as they possibly can.
Instead of leaving their house earlier, and driving casually to their destination, they wait until the last moment (or after they are late) and drive like maniacs. Then when they get a ticket, they blame the city/state for having the speed limit too low... instead of facing the fact that there is no friggin reason for them to be blazing down this back road. The GP's perception of what reasonable speed is, is based on his driving with one hand on the wheel, listening to the radio cranked, talking on his cell phone, trying to get to work because he just can't get out of his house on time. He feels that since he's got a decade (maybe two) of driving under his belt, that he is now an expert at judging conditions.
Think about it this way.
Intel can currently supply all their own chipset needs inhouse. They currently do. Everything.
AMD, with their partnering with Nvidia can supply all their own chipset needs. I would not be surprised to see AMD cut out Nvidia, and do it all themselves.
Who is VIA going to sell chipsets to?
You don't mean "also" do you?
Because that would mean you would fear a world with ONE dominant processor manufacturer who make the whole motherboard. That's what the parent said.
We currently HAVE two, and VIA intends to make it three.
Too true.. I got caught up in the moment and forgot how hard it is to get people in tech support (or customer support) to step away from the scripts and use their heads.
Actually the Sterling Engine that uses a small "sealed" container of hydrogen to transfer the heat from the focal point to where it heats water to steam, is quite efficient. Hydrogen is one of the best materials for transfer of heat.
And as far as being explosive... this is true. But I hope to Zeus that you aren't one of those nuts who believes that the Hindenburg blew up because of Hydrogen. I've watched demonstrations in how a hydrogen leak is not dangerous, because of how fast it dissipates. It also doesn't hang around an accident scene in spill form, like gasoline. For example, a car in an accident with a ruptured fuel tank is a hazard, because the fuel spreads, and will ignite, spreading the fire. A hydrogen gas powered car with a ruptured fuel tank loses fuel. That's all. It dissipates too quickly to be a hazard. I've got to believe what I've seen with my own eyes. Now... a small rupture will expel the gas at force. So that is an issue. Gasoline isn't under nearly the pressure.
But a fuel that is more explosive than gasoline, and produces free oxygen and water vapor as an exhaust, and cleans the air of pollutants as it burns... that's a win win win over gasoline. More bang for the buck, and you could leave the vehicle running overnight in your garage, producing electricity for your home, running on the garden hose you have in your tank, being converted to HHO gas by electrolysis.
I suppose you've never seen the Brown Gas cutting torches either.
You do make a very good point, but I'd like to point out that a big part of the reason why newer energy technologies are not being researched, has nothing whatsoever to do with funding. It doesn't matter a whit if money is going to scientists studying this fossilized pigmentation.
Since the early 60's, a gentleman in Arizona has been converting internal combustion engines of all types to run on hydrogen. The reason why this technology has not been explored more has nothing to do with funding, and everything to do with large companies that deal in oil having the money to pay lobbyists to push their interests through congress, fund research to further the use of their product, and having the power and money to squash things like Hydrogen Technology. I've seen the guys videos, I've read his literature, I've met the man. His simplest demonstration really says it all. He simply removes the carb from a Briggs and Stratton engine, sticks a feed from a tank of hydrogen directly into the hole left behind, opens the tank and starts the engine. How fast the engine goes is decided by how much hydrogen he lets flow into the engine. He doesn't even modify anything (unless pulling the carb off is modification).
Also, the US government in the late 80's funded a research project that studied how often cows chew their cud. This project received $250,000. At about the same time, the US government funded a study into how often people smile in bowling alleys. This project received $375,000. These amounts of money might be drops in the bucket, however, these two projects are both far more useless than studying pigmentation in something we thought previously lacked pigmentation... namely fossils. And there are far more projects receiving money out there that are just as ludicrous as cud chewing or pleasant bowling alleys. I dunno.
So it's one thing when worthy projects are competing for the same money as unworthy projects. It's another when money is actively being spent to suppress technologies that would supplant the suppressor. In the case of energy tech, there have always been large entities that do not want us researching alternate ways of putting them out of business.
I suppose it is part of learning about the past.
I suppose that it is all about not wanting to remain ignorant.
I suppose it is an extension of "Those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it." Now, I'm sure plenty of ignorant people will reply about how we don't need to know about what color dinosaurs were to avoid following in their footsteps... and they would be right. However, once we start standardizing what parts of our past we don't need to learn about, the list grows until it includes things we SHOULD learn about and remember...
Then there is the whole thing about pigmentation, and if we find what pigmentation survives fossilization, we can make better, more permanent inks. It might turn out that creatures of a certain color lasted longer than others did, which could in turn assist our survival. Who knows what we could learn from this... except we know we can learn nothing from it if we don't study it.
But I doubt that even occurred to you.
you know.. all that bogus stuff that deals with knowledge.
Good story, but it doesn't apply. Because he would tell them his name, and they would reply... with.. sorry, maybe you should try misspelling your name.
I'm really glad I read the article.
Crap. I forgot. If I read the articles, I can't post.
So how did that crude obscenity filter come into place when he spoke to people at Verizon... multiple times? People in the billing department... people in different parts of the country... people who suggested he Misspell his name, change his name, etc...
It wasn't until the press got involved that someone said "Well, this needs personal attention." Which is odd because he was talking to people all along, aside from the initial online signup attempt.
However, if as Verizon says, this can be worked around because it is indeed their name... why couldn't anyone else that this doctor spoke to offer him the same appropriate treatment? So, since Verizon could have fixed this all along but did not until the press got involved... it was not *just* a crude obscenity filter on the email address he wanted when he signed up.
I've got to wonder what his email address was with AT&T, since he was using AT&T for dialup first.
"The "crash" jokes may be old, but depending on usage patterns, for me Windows XP still requires a healthy regimen of "reinstall and start fresh" for long-term use."
There. Fixed that for you.
And I'm sure you don't depend on Norton 360 for protection, nor do you skimp on daily spyware scans... right? Because almost everyone who uses Windows is picking up spyware/malware/grayware/adware to one degree or another (hey, if you aren't then I'm not talking about YOU.. so get your finger off that reply click there) and needs to be regularly cleaning their system for things OTHER than just potential Virus infections.
I mean... I had to Install WinXP when I finally moved away from Win2k... about 2 years ago. Haven't needed a reinstall yet. I'm using XP on my laptop and I've never had to reinstall it.
And I use them both for Gaming, Surfing, Office type apps, movie encoding and editing, graphic work and more... including testing software friends ask me about that they want to know more about.
I can almost see a vision of game companies allowing a mini-OS construction kit online, then a customized download of the game that when burned to a CD/DVD will boot to an OS that detects and uses only your hardware (detected when you purchase the game online, and drivers for just that hardware included in the build). This way, you maximize the resources. NO, it;s not the same as the old DOS games, {sarcasm} unless you mean those old DOS games that each came with their own customized version of DOS that was tailored to your specific hardware.{/sarcasm}
You already have the necessary software/firmware on your system. Ever look at your boot device list? Notice that Network Boot option? If your network cable was plugged into an active network, and there was a server you could connect to that would offer you something to boot... you could be booting off your network card now. It has been an option for more than a decade on just about every NIC made... longer for companies like 3COM and Intel.
Hey, we all know the unspoken rules... if you read the article, you aren't supposed to post... and if you post, you aren't supposed to read the article. That's how a million geeks can slam a site from a Slashdot link, because there surely aren't a million posts in the thread of discussion about the same article.
Sorry about crossing the 30 word barrier though, and all the pain I caused those who have read this far...
if all the other ways we are going to destroy ourselves weren't enough...
We're building Skynet one aspect at a time.
OMG dude.. haven't we learned anything from The Terminator?
We've got http://www.skynetusa.com/ which makes switching power supply units, http://www.skynet.net/ air freight, and http://www.tntskynet.com/ Internet service.
Power, the ability to travel globally, network and internet access... the only thing lacking was automated intelligent guns. And here they are.
"If man can dream it, man can achieve it."
We're doomed. Dooooooooooooooooooooooooooomed!
Precedent proves that just because his production company is involved, it does not automatically follow that he would be onscreen. I present you with Richard Dean Anderson, Executive producer of Stargate SG1... noticeably absent but was still producing the show.
It doesn't work out that way though. I'll see that blazing speed if I download the linux ISOs via an HTTP link, or from an FTP site. Of course, if anything were to go wrong while I'm downloading that 700mb to 3gb.. then I'm out of luck and I have to download it all over again. However, I"ll see plenty of blazing speed.
Sure, I could and probably should get a download assist program like GetRight... or maybe I should even start using BitComet and have it intercept the clicks... but even then, some servers will recognize that the click has been intercepted, and not allow what I want to download, to be downloaded by BitComet. I've had it happen enough where I had to turn off that feature and download some files "manually"
But the speed is there. The speed is there for watching Youtube videos. The speed is there for listening to streaming music with VLC.
It is only Bittorrent traffic that will cause the ISP to get upset and start messing with the connection.
So when someone sells a connection promising blazing speeds, and DELIVERS said blazing speeds, and then it turns out that this company is pretty much shaping the torrent traffic to eliminate those blazing speeds until there is no more torrent traffic... I'd say there's nothing wrong.
People who aren't torrenting don't ever see this crap.
If you point out the existence of restrictions, you make my point for me. It does not make a whit of difference who put those restrictions there.
And Yes, I compare P2P with child porn. Does the person who is into child porn think there is anything wrong with it? Nope. What about countries where it is perfectly legal to have sex with what we in the US would consider a minor? We say a video record of that is Child Porn. In that country, it is not. So child porn is not a Universally defined thing. Photographs of underage individuals living in a nudist colony is not considered child porn, since they are in their natural state. Place the same underaged individual in a studio and take nude pictures, and it is child porn. Get official sanctioning and take the pictures for identification purposes, or to show the extend of damage from abuse or an accident, and it is no longer child porn.
You argue that what you are downloading over a P2P network is not illegal.. or it should not be illegal. This is no different than the person who argues that his child porn should not be illegal. You just think you are standing on moral high ground. Both activities are considered illegal.
Now, when I regularly download ISOs of linux distributions for work, so I can test and decide which distro we are going to recommend, and how much progress is being made with installers and such... I will torrent them. And it sucks that Time Warner will throw TCP kill packets at me. I have to live with it because of all the people downloading illegal copies of movies and software and music with the same software I use to download linux. There are currently more than 170 different distros of linux.. some are still under development, and some aren't. That's a lot of downloading I've still got to do.
But, by your argument, I should be able to walk into any gun store and buy a pistol and bullets without even showing an ID. Because there should be no restrictions. Because it doesn't matter if people do illegal things with the same hardware I want to buy. Because I'm not going to do anything illegal (supposedly), then I should not face any of the same restrictions.
{whine} Oh, it's not fair. Movies should be free. Software should be free. Comcast doesn't like me because of what I download. wuaaah! {/whine}
Comcast isn't affecting what people download because they don't like it. Comcast, and every other major ISP out there in the USA is getting slammed by entities like 20th Century Fox. You *are* aware that 20th Century Fox is monitoring what people download with BitTorrent? All you need is a fucking client. You can then see the IP addresses of anyone who connects to you. Thus, Fox can see who is downloading whatever files they want to monitor. They then send a nice letter to the ISP, saying that such-and-such a file was downloaded by such-and-such an IP, over such-and-such a port range. After a few hundred or thousand of those letters, COmcast is going to get pretty sick of facilitating theft. And when 20th Century Fox can grab the same software and watch people stealing THEIR SHIT... I'd expect them to push ISPs like Comcast to do something about it.
I'm just in the minority who understands what's going on, and has to deal with it. You need to stop downloading illegally copied stuff... or accept that what you are doing is wrong, but that you are going to do it anyway, and face the responsibility for your actions.
Or get all the applicable laws changed.
No, not in "that" way, or any other way. If I have Comcast, and I don't download anything (I don't surf, I don't IM, I don't email, I don't use my connection) for a month... what is my bill going to be? Now, after I've returned home from living at my girlfriend's for that month, I decide to upload a bunch of videos we made to youtube, and I'm downloading a ton of other things I think she will find "cute" (since VLC will save video streams onto your harddrive)... and I do that every day for another month.. what will my bill be now?
Guess what.... the bill will be the same for both months.
Now, with time warner AND comcast sending out those TCP kill packets... all that happens is your connection burps for a moment. You never notice it when you are surfing, you might notice it when YouTubing, and you will definitely notice it if you are downloading torrents. Although, if you aren't torrenting, you won't be sent TCP kill packets.
People are all like "I paid for the connection. I should be able to do whatever I want with it!" Where did this attitude come from? Who thinks that they can do whatever they want with whatever they buy?More often than not, there are restrictions of use on what you purchase. You cannot buy a baseball bat and then legally go beat your neighbor with it. Sure, they don't need to put a warning label on it. How about an aerosol can? They come all kinds of restrictions on the back, that if you are caught doing one of those restricted activities, you face a penalty. Ok. Why aren't you arguing about how your ISP doesn't protect your anonymity when you surf child porn sites? Because that is sick and damaging to children? How much of a hypocrite does that make you? It's Ok for an ISP to restrict some access and traffic.. but NOT when it interferes with what you want to do?
Come ON!