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Most of the wind available on land is too gentle to push commercial wind turbine blades, but now researchers in China have designed a kind of "tiny wind turbine" that can scavenge wind energy from breezes as little as those created by a brisk walk. I leave the obvious jokes to others
But apparently I could be a power plant in the future due to my..."breeze"
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Your "breeze" could also be captured and burnt, but it wouldn't be carbon-neutral. Yet the alternative is to let it mingle with all those cow breezes that are worse than CO2.
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Greg Utas wrote: Your "breeze" could also be captured and burnt, but it wouldn't be carbon-neutral.
Why not?
The carbon was ingested from the environment, either as plants or as animals that ate plants. Much of the carbon in the plants came from atmospheric CO2. Burning the "natural breezes" would simply convert the methane and other hydrocarbons back to water and CO2, would it not?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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A compelling analysis, but CO2 and especially CH4 must be eradicated!
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Eradicate CO2 and you eradicate plants. Eradicate CH4 and other hydrocarbons and you eradicate most fart jokes.
Hmm...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Balboos is always talking about flatulence. I hope he gets a whiff of this article.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Microsoft has long been working on storing data in glass, with Project Silica being their project to store data permanently in a write-once archival medium. It's our only hope (yeah...sorry)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's our only hope (yeah...sorry) I think something from the house of "El" would be a bit more accerated
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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A WSL alternative for users who prefer an MS-DOS environment. DOS Subsystem for Linux integrates a real Linux environment into MS-DOS systems, allowing users to make use of both DOS and Linux applications from the DOS command prompt. Because it's The Year of DOS
What the actual what?
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So can you run Office 365 on WINE inside DSL?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Microsoft released a new version of the Windows 10 WinGet Package Manager that adds experimental features, including the ability to install applications from the Microsoft Store and a command auto-completion feature. Assuming there are any Windows Store apps you want to install
OK, Terminal. But after that, I'm blanking.
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Well, there's always Solitaire and FreeCell
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Ah, right. Forgot they're not automatically installed anymore. Definitely essentials!
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: that adds experimental features, So... if they already manage to break the system with the normal features... I wonder what will happen with experimental ones
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The Z4, which was built in 1945, runs on tape, takes up most of a room and needs several people to operate it. Forsooth! If thys machine of counting doth fall widershins, deny it ye lightning and once more energize it before ye summon a guide.
OK, it's not that old. (and fingers crossed someone considers that a joke - as I'm pretty sure people will 'get it'.)
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sorry I was threwn-oof bye yer misspelling of the wyrd "geyed"
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Quote: runs on tape, takes up most of a room and needs several people to operate it
Well... now I know that my doppelganger was alive 75 years ago.
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Three years ago at Ignite, Microsoft announced Office 2019, its latest version of Office that can be purchased on a perpetual license, meaning that you own it forever. You mean I don't own that copy of Word 2003 forever? Are they going to come and take my DVD back?
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Native Windows app compilation, some early plugins, and a desktop-ready Flutter Gallery app Because you might want to take a flutter
Hey look, it's Chris Sells! I remember him!
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Businesses have high expectations of IT staff, but aren't doing enough to support their continued development. Don't forget to collect those experience points and get to the next level
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Free time?
What's that?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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article: [^] Microsoft Acquires Game Studio Ahead of Xbox Launch by Felix Richter, Sep 22, 2020
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Microsoft has too much money.
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There was an interview a while back with someone from Google who was saying exactly that about Google.
To paraphrase, the point they were making was that they had more money that they knew what to do with and that this was a problem as it means that technical innovations that could be taking place with that cash were not taking place.
Essentially as they had more cash than they knew what to do with, they were just holding onto the cash and not using it within the economy.
They were basically saying that having too much cash leads to stagnation.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 23-Sep-20 5:11am.
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Having too much cash can mean that Google isn't using it effectively, but it doesn't mean stagnation for an economy as a whole. This is an economic fallacy perpetuated by Keynes (the "paradox of thrift"). Unless the money is held in a mattress, the bank holding it will lend it out, so someone else will make use of it, and the bank and Google will receive interest.
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