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It was here 50 years ago with nuclear power. Thankfully, it's finally getting attention again.

I will just dump a mess of links from an old E-mail I did on this some time ago. It's all good stuff, Solar two in Mojave was also molten salt based. I knew someone who bought it after it failed and got to explore it before it was partly dismantled.

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Solar two was a flat mirror array.

Search google image search with
            "solar two" Mojave

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=yermo,+ca&ie=UTF8&ll=34.871919,-116.83416&spn=0.005915,0.010042&t=h&z=17&om=1

Take the link above and zoom out, just below and to the right is a Parabolic glass mirrors plant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Two

http://www.powerfromthesun.net/Chapter10/Chapter10new.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Solar_Two_2003.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Solar_Two_Heliostat.jpg

http://theothersolar.com/?m=200702

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1101-10.htm

http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/solar-central-power-towers.html

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/edu/dees/U4735/projections/pitman/solar.elec.jpg

http://fixedreference.org/2006-Wikipedia-CD-Selection/wp/s/Solar_power.htm
(search for "Solar two")

http://www.reia-nm.org/HTML_Docs/Solar_Thermal_Electrical.html

http://greatgreengadgets.com/gadgets/category/solar/

http://www.answers.com/topic/solar-thermal-energy

http://blogs.business2.com/greenwombat/2006/week44/index.html

Excellent page on many technologies - Sorry it's in Spanish.
      http://g3nergy.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_archive.html
      Search for "Australia to Build 154 MW Solar Energy Plant"
      This one is identical in design to the one in the Mojave Dessert here.

http://ludb.clui.org/ex/i/CA4965/ Abandoned Solar Power Plant

Zed would have railed against the open secrets that allowed the tiger escape at the San Francisco zoo, and then he'd have been fired or reprimanded for not being politically and socially correct in his approach.

Have you looked at what is available in your area online (such as http://www.titantv.com or www.tvfool.com)?

I blog about this, and other related stuff as I find it fascinating!
williambryson.blogspot.com

Good luck!

I collect content from "social" sites and some people really dig it. :)

Don't get me wrong, tv is pretty much all crap. The difference is cable costs money, whereas dtv is free. Free crap is better than crap that costs money.

In the end, it's all crap.

williambryson.blogspot.com

I'll stick with free, over-the-air digital television as long as it is available, and keep blogging about it.

williambryson.blogspot.com

There were problems with the site yesterday morning (1/1), but it appears to be working fine now.

Talk about government waste all you want, the alloted money is going fast.

not totally bus oriented but has several busses in it http://rigsofrods.blogspot.com/

I know everyone is complaining that oil and gas is way too expensive. They are wrong. I used to think the same way. I saw a nice chart showing gasoline prices adjusted for inflation over a period of about eighty years. You know what? It really hasn't changed that much. It was still higher in 1981 than it is now. What has changed is a decrease in our earning power.

Proof that gasoline is still too cheap: I still see tons of Hummers, Expeditions, Navigators, Armadas, Sequoias and other mondo SUVs (aka Urban Assault Vehicles) on the road.

http://www.blognotiziedigitali.blogspot.com/

http://www.digitalurban.blogspot.com/

The above links to a blog that covers some of the aspects of Google Earth.

Wow! You sir, are an absolute jerk. There are many reasons why you may be buying pet food if you do not have a pet. For example, I have a blind friend, and I regularly go grocery shopping for her. I even buy cat food for her pet on occasion. I also have a pail of kitty litter that I use as grit when the path through my front yard gets icy. It is easier on my garden than salt-laden run-off is.

http://mrsquid.blogspot.com/

I hope to see more home entertainment devices driven by linux, especially in the world of digital television as analog is phased out. For instance, right now I'm receiving free over-the-air digital television by using a linux-based digital-to-analog conversion box from the now defunct US Digital. I'm keeping a close watch as Feb. 2008 approaches to see what develops on my blog - http://williambryson.blogspot.com/.

OpenStreetMap can be loaded on the iPhone and here's the State of the Map Conference wrap up, the OpenStreetMap conference.

And collaborative mapping is big deal. Google recently launched Google Our Maps, which is basically Google My Maps but with collaboration capabilities.

From my previous comment: There's NAVTEQ's MapReporter tool to submit updates to NAVTEQ's data by the casual user, [and also] Tele Atlas' Map Insight and TomTom's MapShare.

Check out eeeuser.com hacks & mods forum to find some more interesting "hacks" such as adding a touchscreen.

A bit late now, as you've already learned Spanish, but there are now translation bots available for exactly this use case. Learning how to work around the quirks of the old translator is a pretty unusual situation, I'm not surprised that doesn't work anymore :( Even so, when I translate short conversational phrases from English to German/vice-versa I've found quality to improve ... in particular, with idiomatic expressions.

According to World Bank data, India had 20.3 traffic fatalities per 10,000 vehicles in 2003, which compares to only 1.86 traffic deaths in the U.S. per 10,000 vehicles according to these NCSA data (note the U.S. reports deaths per 100,000 vehicles as 18.59). Therefore, it is more than 10X more dangerous to drive in India than the U.S., measured by traffic deaths per 10,000 vehicles - Link from the article

• India has less cars and many more pedestrians the USA.
• So more of its accidents are car-on-pedestrian, which are more likely to cause death.
• On the other hand, pedestrian-on-pedestrian and bike-on-pedestrian accidents are relatively low risk.
• So for India, unless you plan to put everyone in cars, the way to reduce road deaths is less cars, not more.

Why imagine a future city when one can build it using game engines like Oblivion

• 33 HP 660 cc gas engine. Also a 700 cc diesel option. (4)
• 80 mph top speed (4)
• single windshield wiper blade as a "cost-saving measure"(2)
• Four doors (4)
• 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) per liter. Call it 60 mpg using company supplied numbers(3)
• Picture here maybe with an scanned in article about it listing engine options

This has nothing to do with TFA per se, but if you're into this stuff you should check out the excellent blog Paleo-Future, which is dedicated to "the future that never was" -- how people in various times over the last 140 years or so have thought the future would look.

Correct, it is not really an encounter, but it is not the entire medical record. CCR was designed as a way for clinicians to share information about a specific incident/episode of care and not the entire medical record. I sort of think of it as a new "medical document" (i.e. just as problem list is another document type), rather than a real data exchange mechanism.

As for CCD being an abysmal failure, I think you may be incorrect. CCD was just approved by HITSP and is moving forward. From article http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071023/FREE/310230003/0/FRONTPAGE

"The CCD is in effect a CCR implementation within HL7's Clinical Document Architecture. The CCD was approved by HL7 in January. HL7 has since dropped work on its own Care Record Summary."

Check john halamka's blog reviews HITSP approval for CCD:
http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com/2007/12/standards-for-personal-health-records.html

You should also check out this critical review of the CCR and CDA. They authors claim that the CCR v1a (which I called v2 in my prior post) is very complicated and not at all a step in the right direction. Interesting read:

http://www.jamia.org/cgi/content/full/13/3/245?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&author1=Hammond&andorexacttitle=and&titleabstract=ccr&andorexacttitleabs=and&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&fdate=1/1/1997&tdate=1/31/2007&resourcetype=HWCIT,HWELTR

Interestingly, there's a big debate on just this topic. The blueprint is Hardy-reducing-duplication. There's a strong movement (not including me) to remove Mono, Tomboy, and F-Spot from the Ubuntu default install and use Gnome Sticky Notes and GThumb, which are also included. There really seems to be a big anti-Mono movement out there.

I personally think that most of the fast, interesting work on Gnome apps is happening with Mono, so I don't want to see it removed, but that's just my opinion. Top 10 Improved Ubuntu Applications of 2007 from my blog talks a little about it. While this is officially self-promotion, there are no ads on my blog, so it doesn't make me any money.

Blogspam warning! I did an overview of the likely improvements in Ubuntu (no K) Hardy just today. http://ibeentoubuntu.blogspot.com/2007/12/upcoming-hardy-heron-features.html. The blueprints which don't have to do with the desktop will be in Kubuntu, though, so the article might still be useful for Kubuntu people.

After he ripped them he did make them available to everyone else in the world using Kazaa. Assuming this is the same guy

I couldn't be happier with linux running my hdtv receiver/analog-to-digital converter box from (the now defunct) us digital. I wonder how many consumers are running linux without even knowing it.

BTW, free over-the-air digital television rocks!

http://williambryson.blogspot.com/

Is there any info regarding how soon KDE 4 will be out?
I'm having problems with KDE under FreeBSD, but now Mr Yushchenko suggests I should just use the latest release. I'm not sure if 3.5 will do the trick, or I should just wait for 4.0?

I have two examples of when the American media industri have missused the term terrorism:

Music piracy funds terrorism: IFPI
http://techlogg.com/cMusic piracy funds terrorism: IFPIontent/view/230/31/

"Terroristgruppen Gula Brigaderna spred träningsmanualer på piratserver!" (in Swedish, 2005)
http://copyriot.blogspot.com/2005/10/terroristgruppen-gula-brigaderna-spred.html

(above) A mail sent from MPA to the Swedish version of them: "After a raid by Swedish representatives of Antipiratbyrån and police of one of the largest Internet provider. they found 23 TB of pirated material.". More interesting is that noone knows (yet) of what was on the servers, and it is a small Internet provider. By looking at the revisions of the document sent they found that a paragraph was removed, what it said was: "Information from the local goverments implies that the servers also was used to distribute traininginstructions for a terrorgroup called Yellow Brigades". All of this was false information from MPA.

Pre-printed ballots have a security code on them (otherwise anyone with a decent photocopier could make 100 of them).

It's theoretically possible to link the ballot number to the person but quite hard.

The worst are postal ballots are 100% traceable, and 0% verifiable. In the UK they forced postal ballots on us for a couple of years (closed the polling stations) - you had to fill in your vote then sign and date the form!! So much for anonymous ballots... (only ref. I can find these days is an old blog: http://postalvoting.blogspot.com/)

The practice was stopped, luckily. It was found people were stealing/buying unused ballot forms and sending them in bunches to influence the vote (the whole husband/wife thing came out.. with no anonymous voting the pressure on one person to vote the same as their spouse was extremely strong).

Ah, right, they meant you to use the iTunes 7 "Back up to disc" option back before there was an iTunes 7. How could I have imagined anything else?

Yes, I've got my tongue firmly in my cheek here, but I'm not the only one who saw the karmic connection between Apple's "RIP MIX BURN" campaign and the iTunes store:

http://epeus.blogspot.com/2006/07/rip-mix-burn.html

This is not Machiavellian levels of subtlety, folks.

@ http://geekvideo.blogspot.com/2007/12/3c321-black-hole-odyssey.html

Or a solar focus telescope, then you can use the sun as your lens. There's just that little detail about getting out to 550 AU!

My favorite Quote "$21million a year in intellectual property rights suspension going forward indefinitely is not such a bad asset to have." I for one can hardly wait for my case of Antiguan Mickey Mouse T-shirts to arrive.

http://auctionguild.blogspot.com/2007/09/has-your-ebay-account-been-compromised.html http://www.firemeg.com/2007/09/ebay-inc-proof-of-hacking-video-pulled.html http://budmalcolm.bravejournal.com/entry/24291

They also threatened, intimidated, and blackballed websites that had dared to post the facts about them being hacked. http://auctionguild.com/generic150.html

What about the massive hack & hijacking attacks all summer long? Looky here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Xufh1VVzY 60 thousand fake items! They tried to cover all that up too. They pulled threads about it warning people in record time, while the fake listings stayed up forever, and kept coming.

Simply put, ebay is hacked. Ebay is dishonest. ebay has been caught too many times in too many falsehoods to ever be trusted by any reasonable person again. Let me also remind everyone that ebay is sending bills to the hijack victims, & trying some strongarm tactics to make the victims pay. http://www.ebaymotorssucks.com/scams032707.htm

To top everything off, the ebay execs have been dumping their own stock like there is no tomorrow.

Does anyone really trust this creepy outfit?

The howard government was the highest taxing government in the history of australia, and still had to sell off natural monopolies to try and cover its worthless military forays. The only western government less capable is the bush government who took the debt free country left by clinton and drove it nearly $1T into debt.

Interest rates are much the same world wide and howard's early rate reduction was more due to keating's management than anything howard did:
http://petermartin.blogspot.com/2007/11/quick-quiz-whats-wrong-with-this-graph.html

.... since there seems to be some confusion - I do not, in fact, endorse either dystopic transhumanism, or Ron Paul, or a cyberpunk-esque corporate-dominated hellscape. I would like a DNI, though. In case my sarcasm is completely lost on people: Ron Paul is a bespittled lunatic.

  The political class is perfectly well aware that the general public is unhappy - it's not like we need to send them a message in order to make this clear. If we did, we could use giant billboards (notice - I am trying to stay on topic.)

  Rather than taking action to "send messages", we need to take action to change policy. Elecing Ron Paul would certainly change policy although, assuming he was able to carry through on his proposals, most of the policy changes would be bad, and his fanatical adherence to his own particular brand of ideologically-based political economic theory would lead to disaster in any case.

más bonicas.

reminds me of this great picture

*cool* - thanks!

Linkage for others. Status: "Parser is pretty complete. Generates PIR for basic Ruby programs"

not to mention countless bugs

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tell me about it

this blog i found has some great reviews of it

I tried Android out -- we banged out a personalized weather application (even without a GPS chip, Android is capable of triangulating satellites to get within 300m of the user's position, which is sufficient for weather applications). The whole process took under an hour and was easy as pie.. So, no it's not vaporware. The hardware may be still be a few months away, but the software is enough to create real-world, practical applications.

It's not just bad music, its bad recording and production. Theres an ineresting article in Rolling Stone this month about the death of HiFi. I'm not going to do it justice, so if you care, try and go read the whole article. The general claim then make is that because most people are now listening to their music in compressed formats, such as mp3, aac, and wmv, produceres are changing the sound of music, making it louder so that it sounds better on an iPod type device, to the detriment of how it sounds on full size speakers in an uncompressed format.

the userscript i posted earlier on my blog should help!