I think the detail your missing is that it's not that utilities are worried about people going off grid.
I don't need 20Kw of instantaneous power generation, I need 20Kw of instantaneous power available to me for a very short period of time, and I need to generate 12Mwh per year to cover my total needs (including my electric car BTW). When I'm not using all my power, it goes on the grid for someone else to use.
Today, the utilities keep my lights on by generating enough power to make up for the fact that distributed generation is not producing enough at night or on cloudy days to meet the peak demand, but what happens when we have more distributed generation as well as distributed storage?
The answer is the utility still exists, but it makes its money by servicing it's line and providing a market, not by generating itself.
Solar panels typically come with 30 or 40 year warranties, and are tested against golf ball size hail and hurricane winds. However, the inverter you'd use to convert the DC to AC will need to be replaced every 5 or 10 years.
That's an interesting comment because the price you quoted is roughly the cost of building a new 1 gigawatt nuclear power plant. How do you think the costs of nuclear qualified workers, nuclear fuel, insurance, long-term storage of spent fuel all compare with the labor costs of cleaning plastic mirrors once a year?
It says things you can and cannot do with the source, just like GPL says things you can and cannot do with the source. It doesn't say I can't tell people I downloaded the source. It doesn't say that I can't tell people I found a bug in the source. It just lays out the terms under which you can and cannot modify and/or redistribute the source, just as GPL does (with different terms).
Are you saying that the GPL is an NDA? Perhaps you should that that up with Stallman.:P
1. The problem really isn't the $13/mo vs. $80/mo, it's $1000+$13/mo vs. $0 + $10/mo. Clearly from a cash perspective cable DVR vs. HDTivo doesn't work.
2. I've owned several Tivo's, a replayTv, and now a cable dvr (DCT6412). While Tivo is certainly the best of the three, the DCT6412 isn't too shabby and works for most things. It has all the basics: dual hdtv tuners, conflict resolution, fine tuning priorities, viewing/modifing the list of things the box has scheduled to record, 30-sec skip, timebar. The important features it lacks are also lacking on Tivo (being able to record a program just 4 days a week, and only in a certain time slot.) And given $1000 + $3/mo more of the Tivo, how can I justify it?
"The small waves, btw, travel around the speed of a jetliner, hence the lack of warning."
It's not a lack of warning, it's a lack of sufficient warning. At the speed of a "jetliner", there would still be several hours of warning, but it's not enough to evacuate the entire eastern seaboard.
The amount I actually pay is hard to determine becuase it is mixed in with 2 phone lines and cable tv. But I figure it's about $40 for a 5mbps/2mbps connection.
Making physical and IT play nice is hard, but it is getting better every day. There are now even products on the market (ahm.. plug) that can help in this area such as eTrust 20/20
Should have just bought one of these: SGI SAN 3000
It would be easier and cheaper to manage, scales better, and you wouldn't have to spend the money to create and maintain the file system.
I've been there. The building I was in needed an id card and a plam scan to get past the armed guard and the two barbwire fences, and the heavy full height turnstile. Then once inside, I need to go to a second guard to check out a temperary badge to get into a room that had secret stuff. That room (a machine room) had an armed guard 24/7.
Not sure which Los Alamos he broke into...
I just bought one a few weeks ago. A few random thoughts:
1. There is a distinction between monitor and tuner. I went with the "just the monitor" route, and picked up a $150 HDTV tuner off ebay. I plan on replacing it with a HDTV TIVO late this year or early next. Unlike previous posts suggest, you can get tuners with digital outs, but they use some sort of "copy protection" on them.
2. It's amazing how hard it is to get a good over-the-air signal. From my apartment I can SEE the actual antennas on the tower that transmit HDTV for my area, but the signal still goes in and out with a normal indoor UHF antenna. On the other hand, maybe you live in an area that has HDTV over cable.
their HDTV PVR late this year.
3. Everybody Loves Raymond looks great in 1080i, but does it really matter?
It breaks down as a big lie. In the article they claim to be the first to reach 30-bit color. Are they high? Have they even seen an SGI in the last 7 years?
> OK, let's do some simple math. Let's say I run 1024x768
Not to mention that I run my screen at 2048x1536. The press release say "20 times" the average resolution of a monitor, but it's only 4 times the resolution of my screen.
Instead of using 20 boxes, they could use 4 (and use Geforce3's to make up for the fill).
h.
I should warn you that it is not targeted toward file
sharing, but massive-multiplayer VR and games. Some of the concepts
are still the same, but you may need to extrapolate to get to others.
Here is the link, and I'd be interested in any questions or comments
you have.
http://www.npsnet.org/~howard/dis.pdf
Slashdot Mirror
I think the detail your missing is that it's not that utilities are worried about people going off grid.
I don't need 20Kw of instantaneous power generation, I need 20Kw of instantaneous power available to me for a very short period of time, and I need to generate 12Mwh per year to cover my total needs (including my electric car BTW). When I'm not using all my power, it goes on the grid for someone else to use.
Today, the utilities keep my lights on by generating enough power to make up for the fact that distributed generation is not producing enough at night or on cloudy days to meet the peak demand, but what happens when we have more distributed generation as well as distributed storage?
The answer is the utility still exists, but it makes its money by servicing it's line and providing a market, not by generating itself.
Solar panels typically come with 30 or 40 year warranties, and are tested against golf ball size hail and hurricane winds. However, the inverter you'd use to convert the DC to AC will need to be replaced every 5 or 10 years.
That's an interesting comment because the price you quoted is roughly the cost of building a new 1 gigawatt nuclear power plant. How do you think the costs of nuclear qualified workers, nuclear fuel, insurance, long-term storage of spent fuel all compare with the labor costs of cleaning plastic mirrors once a year?
It says things you can and cannot do with the source, just like GPL says things you can and cannot do with the source. It doesn't say I can't tell people I downloaded the source. It doesn't say that I can't tell people I found a bug in the source. It just lays out the terms under which you can and cannot modify and/or redistribute the source, just as GPL does (with different terms).
:P
Are you saying that the GPL is an NDA? Perhaps you should that that up with Stallman.
http://download.java.net/jdk6/
This One seems ok...
A few things:
1. The problem really isn't the $13/mo vs. $80/mo, it's $1000+$13/mo vs. $0 + $10/mo. Clearly from a cash perspective cable DVR vs. HDTivo doesn't work.
2. I've owned several Tivo's, a replayTv, and now a cable dvr (DCT6412). While Tivo is certainly the best of the three, the DCT6412 isn't too shabby and works for most things. It has all the basics: dual hdtv tuners, conflict resolution, fine tuning priorities, viewing/modifing the list of things the box has scheduled to record, 30-sec skip, timebar. The important features it lacks are also lacking on Tivo (being able to record a program just 4 days a week, and only in a certain time slot.) And given $1000 + $3/mo more of the Tivo, how can I justify it?
So mozilla should drop JPEG too?
"The small waves, btw, travel around the speed of a jetliner, hence the lack of warning."
It's not a lack of warning, it's a lack of sufficient warning. At the speed of a "jetliner", there would still be several hours of warning, but it's not enough to evacuate the entire eastern seaboard.
RTFA: He protected his rights, but he was owned by Battelle, and they sold the rights for next to nothing.
Where do you think federal employees' fingerprints go now?
"What is stopping them from letting it catch on and then asking for $1 from each project? "
The license agreement they make you sign.
I'm in San Francisco.
The amount I actually pay is hard to determine becuase it is mixed in with 2 phone lines and cable tv. But I figure it's about $40 for a 5mbps/2mbps connection.
Making physical and IT play nice is hard, but it is getting better every day. There are now even products on the market (ahm.. plug) that can help in this area such as eTrust 20/20
Should have just bought one of these: SGI SAN 3000 It would be easier and cheaper to manage, scales better, and you wouldn't have to spend the money to create and maintain the file system.
I had no problem getting some shares to short today.
I've been there. The building I was in needed an id card and a plam scan to get past the armed guard and the two barbwire fences, and the heavy full height turnstile. Then once inside, I need to go to a second guard to check out a temperary badge to get into a room that had secret stuff. That room (a machine room) had an armed guard 24/7.
Not sure which Los Alamos he broke into...
I just bought one a few weeks ago. A few random thoughts:
1. There is a distinction between monitor and tuner. I went with the "just the monitor" route, and picked up a $150 HDTV tuner off ebay. I plan on replacing it with a HDTV TIVO late this year or early next. Unlike previous posts suggest, you can get tuners with digital outs, but they use some sort of "copy protection" on them.
2. It's amazing how hard it is to get a good over-the-air signal. From my apartment I can SEE the actual antennas on the tower that transmit HDTV for my area, but the signal still goes in and out with a normal indoor UHF antenna. On the other hand, maybe you live in an area that has HDTV over cable.
their HDTV PVR late this year.
3. Everybody Loves Raymond looks great in 1080i, but does it really matter?
Good Luck.
It breaks down as a big lie. In the article they claim to be the first to reach 30-bit color. Are they high? Have they even seen an SGI in the last 7 years?
Not only does it rock, so does it's music. Check out McChris's web site.
Wow, all one-year-old SIGGRAPH papers should be slashdot stories.
> OK, let's do some simple math. Let's say I run 1024x768 Not to mention that I run my screen at 2048x1536. The press release say "20 times" the average resolution of a monitor, but it's only 4 times the resolution of my screen. Instead of using 20 boxes, they could use 4 (and use Geforce3's to make up for the fill). h.
Read up on MTA, it's cool. Supports 128 active threads per processor.
I should warn you that it is not targeted toward file sharing, but massive-multiplayer VR and games. Some of the concepts are still the same, but you may need to extrapolate to get to others. Here is the link, and I'd be interested in any questions or comments you have.
http://www.npsnet.org/~howard/dis.pdf