The way to make a hydrogen car viable is to take your nth generation series hybrid car and replace the engine/generator with a hydrogen fuel cell. Once you are mainly using electricity off the grid, you only need to refill your gas tank occasionally, since you are only doing it every now and again, going to a hydrogen dispensary is less of an issue, even if there isn't one right around the corner. As hydrogen/electric cars become more palatable, hydrogen fuelling plants become more common, eventually you don't need as big of a battery to get between them.

A migration path is key. series hybrid cars let companies experiment with different supplimental energy sources without producing vehicles completely dependent on some external infrastructure.

Heck, I'd like to see a 'standard' for pluggable electric generators in series hybrid cars, pull out the diesel engine, replace it with a hydrogen fuel cell, or a bigger battery pack, or just leave it out and have a pure electric car.

Presumably they used one of the other dozen or so scientific instruments in orbit around mars to examine the site. The image they showed us on the site was just the one the 7th graders were examining when they found the cave.

Um, no. When you own stock, you own a part of the company. As in, you own a part of a real company that is designing and building things and making money. That has intrinsic value independently of the dividends. To say stock that doesn't pay dividends doesn't have value is equivalent to saying this gold bar is worthless because it doesn't pay dividends. Both stock and the gold bar have value in the future because they represent actual wealth.

Whether a company's profits go towards increasing the stock price or paying out dividends is not really relevant to the intrinsic value of owning a percentage of the company.

The Nexus One has a big beautiful OLED display right now. So do some of the other new android phones. Check one out next to an LCD iphone and the difference is quite apparent.

Indeed. In fact, I hear that $ is the root of all evil.

Besides, everyone knows that poor parenting is what makes great men.

It depends on the jurisdiction. Some places have laws that say _everyone_ in a party buying alcohol must be 21, not just the person buying it. Pretty silly actually since it is trivial to work around. It really only catches people from out of town who are surprised by it.

We don't at all. The strongest statement the original paper makes is

"Lightning electromagnetic pulse induced transcranial magnetic stimulation of phosphenes in the visual cortex is concluded to be a plausible interpretation of a large class of reports on luminous perceptions during thunderstorms."

just plausible. It's the editors that decided to publish it as if it were accepted fact.

Have you ever tried to get an expensive prescription filled on insurance in the US? Just because it is recommended by a doctor it doesn't mean you get it, my insurance takes any opprotunity they can to deny a prescription just because it is expensive. Of course, I am not sure what the rules are in australia, but 'the doctor recommended it' does not mean 'it is covered' in general here.

Obligatory KOTH quote:

Dale Gribble: "If you want, I can teach you how to make a bomb out of a toilet paper roll and a stick of dynamite."

DjVu is a good distribution format, but they want an archival format. something that can store everything down to the grain of the paper and the pen strokes used to write them. And not neccesarily just in the wavelengths of "red" "green" and "blue", they may want bands that preserve the previous works on palimpsests. FITS allows storage of much more data than just what is required to look at the page and have it look like it would to a human holding it at arms length. They want something suitable for scientific analysis in the future. But yes, if they were to distribute them on the web for viewing by humans, DjVu would be a fine format to do it in indeed, just not as the main archival format.

That was in no way his argument.

It was more "if we have X dollars and we can either spend it on cutting 50% of the environmental impact of Y products, or 5% of the environmental impact of 10000*Y products, we should do the later."

It in no way said that small amounts of pollution don't matter. just that stopping a small amount of polution is less important than stopping a large amount of pollution if you had to choose between the two in your efforts. Of course doing both would be ideal.

$500 for 4'x7'? I think I will cut that down by requesting to be buried vertically to save space.

Even that is no guarentee of safety.

my_func(int foo[]) {
  foo[1024] = 0;
}

now, we call malloc to allocate some memory, then pass it to my_func not realizing it returned NULL, my_func happily overwrites the first word in the second page not generating a SEGFAULT as only the first page is unmapped to protect against NULL pointer dereferences.

If you had a supercapacitor able to hold as much energy as the battery can in order to slowly recharge it fully. Then why use the battery at all? Just run off the supercap.

However, this may help if you had a whole lot of little recharging stops to give the supercap a boost and let it charge the battery while driving, but that has its own issues and you would still need a supercap of the same order of energy density as a battery.