Cap'n Refsmmat

There are three things I will say on this topic, although it's something rather hard to comment on. Don't be disappointed by a business failure when you're not even out of college. At this stage in life, you don't have much practical experience, knowledge, and credentials (not to insult you, btw). Wait for your graduation and start looking for an opportunity that would suit you, and you would enjoy doing. It doesn't matter if it's your own business or someone else's, as long as you're happy where you work. Make friends up the wazoo. You won't necessarily lose them after college - that's why you get their email addresses and phone numbers so you can talk to them and keep in touch after you graduate. No, don't tell me you can't make good friends that soon and progress that fast - many people do it, and the most common reason people don't do it is because of shyness. Try taking a simple public speaking class or just socializing at random sometime. You may find you learn a lot about people just talking to them, even if you're not friends, and it can help build up relationships rather nicely. And no, just walking up and talking to somebody won't kill you, unless they're actually an irritable tarantula or something. I'd better not see any nasty comments in this thread. Please stay serious.

This thread is way off-topic, and seeing that most of those involved have decided to leave it, it's closed. Frankly, I'm rather disappointed overall in the behavior shown by many users in this thread, and as Phi said, ad-hominem attacks and flaming will get you nowhere. Let's take time to cool down before we post the next time there's an emotionally charged issue, please. Note: If you feel that this thread should not have been closed, as I am certain many people feel, PM me. This section of the forum seems to have taken a rapid downturn and I'm just trying to make sure things don't implode here.

Hence why the hydrogen plant would have to be right next to the power generation plant. I haven't, however, accounted for the distribution of the hydrogen, which adds to its environmental cost - although gasoline goes through the same process as well.

Granted, but that involved a 16-ton crate of lasagna being opened over your head. I wish I had the Easy Button from those Staples commercials...

The point is that the plant in Wyoming would be more efficient than the car in LA, meaning that less pollutants would be emitted for the same energy use (theoretically).

XHTML is basically a revised HTML, and the changes are so minor (relatively speaking) that getting a XHTML/HTML book would not hurt at all.

I believe we've already been shown links to every imaginable conspiracy theory about 9/11.

You could relatively position them: location = urlBarLocation + 40

Couldn't it be simple enough to just have it base the widths of everything off of some formula, so you just calculate the base value for the formula using their screen resolution, and then calculate the size for things as you go? i.e. to make something 10% width, you just do width = .1 * baseWidth (perhaps with rounding)

Nope. Hydrogen dissipates rapidly, too rapidly for it to ignite, much of the time. I've watched a comparison of a hydrogen fuel leak and a gasoline fuel leak. The hydrogen just made a nice big tall flame (like you'd get from a blowtorch), while the gasoline spewed fire all over the place.

It's possible to power cars with HHO, but not H2O (different bonding stuff involved). Converting H2O to HHO, however, takes energy as well.

Except that with our current level of technology, getting that energy would require fossil fuels somehow or another. The reduction in pollution would be minimal.

Isn't it simple enough in Visual Basic to detect the user's screen resolution and adapt the program's interface dynamically to fit?

Granted, but it has trichinosis. I wish people wouldn't make all sorts of trouble on SFN.

It takes just as much energy to split water into hydrogen as you'd get from recombining hydrogen into oxygen again.

Where do you get the electric current? You're just using hydrogen as another method of storing the energy you got somehow or another earlier. Most often, it would be fossil fuels->electricity->electrolysis (splitting water)->fuel cells, and that wouldn't be all that much more efficient than the current system, if at all.

The fact is that there are people who use 800x600, for any number of reasons.

Many people use old hardware. Something around 20% of people still use 800x600 (http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp). The big question here is: If you're just clicking a link and then switching tabs rapidly, how are you benefiting that site in the traffic exchange? It's not like you're paying attention to its content.

Unless we warned every country with an early warning system (like Russia) beforehand, I imagine you'd get about half of the world scared ****less within about five minutes of the launch. Even if they did know, how could they be sure it really wasn't a nuclear warhead? Nope. What most detection systems look for is the heat emitted when the rocket launches, and unless you can come up with a rocket that doesn't involve heat, they'd still pick it up. Right. It's a convenient way to get rid of our existing stocks, of course. Frankly, I think high-speed cruise missiles are a better system anyways - accuracy, difficulty of detection, flexibility - and ICBMs have all sorts of risks attached.

That'd be fine with me. Just stick it in some blocks.

More accurately, it represents the amount of money you owe.

And what does that let you achieve but get a higher number on your hit counter? And locking out everybody from the browser if your website is down or hacked. Perfect. They might even be able to hack into it, replace the key file, and exploit some sort of buffer overflow in your code, exploiting everybody using it at once. Show me an example of pop-ups that get through Firefox.

The phrase "but begin not hostilities" is pretty important.

http://nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-emotion.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Muslim_societies#Domestic_violence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_behaviour_in_Islam#Wife_beating Please read and educate yourself on what their law really says. Get all sides of an issue before you go and jump to conclusions. Not technically Islam, but their distorted and radical misinterpretation of it.

ParanoiA: You may provide all of those quotes, but you missed one big one. As lucaspa said in another thread: