If I activate Windows Vista on my current machine and then in six months I upgrade my machine that of course will require new motherboard, processor and memory. Does the new activation process work? How do I deactivate my previous version? If the new activation is not possible, then what do I do with my obsolete machine and my already used license for Windows Vista? Isn't the best option to buy a Windows Vista license store it and never use it?, then install a pirated[hacked] copy of it, in this case you can keep upgrading machines and always you have the original in a safe place to protect you from be prosecuted and avoid the pain of all this activation?

Totally agree, vote 1 for an article should take away the anonymity. That's one reason why people stop publishing good articles; why to spend hundred of hours writing an article when later some jerk will vote you down for no reason at all.

If the are immigrant robots, then Will they need H1B visa to work in North America?. What about illegal immigrant robots? Will they be deported to Japan? Will they work for minimal wage? I bet when robots work on McDonald, the hamburgers won't taste the same. I don’t think INS will be happy about it. :laugh:

> Biodiesel is looking up as a possibly easier transition. IMHO I think the oil business is too powerful to let biodiesel take the market, I think the only thing will happen is that governments will enforce to gas stations to deliver a minimum of B20, doing that the oil business has another 50 years to make money because B20 will still be cheaper than B50 so real biodiesel like B100 will go to sleep for a long time, hydrogen is way too dangerous to store in bigger tanks in cars “for now”. Electrolysis on the fly will never make it, Solar power now way… So the only method I personally think will make a long run is electric cars, the evolution of the batteries in the last years is amazing. Of course there you have another problem. Lead batteries are too heavy. Nickel will give cancer Lithium-Polymer is a bomb ready to explode, Lithium-Ion is the only thing can make it, although still are dangerous. How to charge the batteries will be via fast charger stations and auxiliary may be hydrogen will be used with a small engine, in this case the hydrogen tank will be a lot smaller. I don’t know… if I have to bet, I bet for electric cars, also the amount of torque in a electric car is incredible, so if we keep advancing with new batteries inclusive race cars will be electric in a near future.

May be we will be able to do it when we finish the first space elevator made with nanotubes. (Don't confuse with YouTube :laugh:)

- Greetings from Earth (The third one from the sun). That was a good one :laugh:

Also instead send it to the sun, we could create a spacecraft like Voyager and send it to deep space and instead a gold-plated copper disk we can put a metal plate with a message, so when aliens decode the message it will read. “DON'T OPEN THE CONTAINER, if you can read this message means you have been exposed to a lethal dose of radioactivity and you are screw” ;P

I'm not kidding to send it to space, nuclear waste releases weak nuclear force (radioactivity), in space the amount of it is huge, drop our waste on space is like release a drop or water in a sea 1 billion (randomly small number) times bigger than out earth. I think only two reason why it is not been done in that way. 1) If the rocket fail and explodes before cross the atmosphere there is a risk to create a not so nice cloud of radioactivity. 2) Is cheaper paying to a corrupt government country to bury the waste under their land.

> What measures would be taken to handle nuclear waste if new plants are set up? Put it in a rocket and send it to space. Also for fun we could aim to the Sun.

#20 the best :-D;P Thought for the day: Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

Yes, gold and silver togheter take the 58% left, the problem is to discover how much porcent of gold and how much procent of silver. There is about 57 possible answers and only one is the correct, but I can't find the pattern yet.

This problem came to my hands today, does someone knows the answer? The following fictitious compound is primarily made up of the following elements. Two large components have been omitted. What percentage does the compound have of Gold and Silver?

Al = 22% Fe = 2%
Sn = 10% Ag = ?
Pt = 8% Au = ?

I don't know the answer, but I bet there is a relation between the % and the atomic number or atomic weight, so don't ask me. :) Some chemical engineer araound?

Steve jobs had the red lightsabers, he is the "dark side" :), so you know who was going to lose.

>> is it going to take us *14* years to get back to the Moon hmmm... When was the first time? :doh:

>> Does anyone have a idea of the reasons for such a strange behaviour ? Norton Antivirus 2006 !!! There are many links how to fix it, but basically everything narrow to "Format, reinstall Windows and install AV" http://www.avast.com/[^]

That was my first computer.... Commodore 64 rocks :) With its amazing 8 sprites by hardware... wow... Poke and Peek what else did you need ;P

Yes, but then you don't have a movie to make :)

No... We are talking about chickens...

In our table (of 5 people for two legs) where everyone wanted them, the maximum you could get after the fight is only one leg, if I wanted the two legs then probably I would had to kill my brother in the fight. :)

I know you are not polarizing Windows = bad, I just mention Antritust[^] movie because it is about "one company" spying developers from different companies or freelance to steal the source code, they do it with cameras, they are fiber optic cams but the thread talk about web cam which is close enough. :)