They are NOT at suggesting using solid thorium and making fuel rods. That would indeed be truly stupid.
The LFTR uses thorium dissolved in molten floride salt. It is proven tech, since the US government built one back in the late 60s and ran it for 5 years -- with 1.5 years at full power...
Watch the video http://thoriumremix.com/2011/ then and only then can you properly comment on thorium....
The Moon. Jupiter and its moons. Saturn. Venus. The Orion Nebula. The Andromeda Galaxy.
And get out there and look at the dramatic and easy stuff. Jupiter and its moons is really cool to watch. And you just can't go wrong with the moon. All of the things I listed above should be easy to find with a small telescope. Looking for much more is going to be frustrating and boring for a group of students. Looking at stars is going to be very boring (stars look like points of light, even with the best telescopes). Go grab a copy of http://www.stellarium.org/ to help you find things and you should be good to go.
Fortunately, researchers from Leeds' Faculty of Engineering have discovered how to recover significant quantities of rare-earth oxides, present in titanium dioxide minerals.... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091215101708.htm
Pointy Haired Boss: Our goal is to write bug-free software. I'll pay a ten dollar bonus for every bug you find and fix. Dilbert: Yahoo! Alice: We're rich Wally: Yes!!! Yes!!! Yes!!! Pointy Haired Boss: I hope this drives the right behavior. Wally: I'm gonna write me a new minivan this afternoon!
Yep. I've had broadvoice for quite a while now. For $20/month I get unlimited calling to the US and a bunch of other contries. I can call my sister in Sweden, my wife's father in Denmark, my busines partner in the UK, or anyone long-distance in the US and talk all I want. Sound quality is great, and with their Bring-Your-Own-Device plan, I was able to setup one channel on my Sipura-2000 (the other channel is setup with FWD). I've been very pleased.
If they use a knife (microkeratome) rather than a femtosecond laser to cut the flap, they are not using the latest and greatest. If they are not using wavefront (adaptive optics as adopted from astronomy applications) they are not using the latest and greatest. As for experience, you have to ask... I had my eyes corrected at lasikutah.com and the doctor there, Dr. Clark, has a lot of experience... It does cost more than the cheap, low end, lasik. You get what you pay for....
I recently had my vision corrected. And I did my homework first. The place where
I had my eyes done uses a couple of the latest developments.
First, do not let them use a knife on your eyes. Traditional lasik uses a knife to cut a flap. This type of cut causes much more damage to the eye by cutting several layers. The place I went uses a femtosecond laser to cut a flap that is computer programmed to match your eye. This pretty much 100% avoids problems with the eye flap ripping off and such. It also helps the nerves in your eye heal faster, so your eye can inform your brain of dryness so your brain can turn on the tear ducts, reducing problems with dry eyes.
Secondly, in traditional lasik they would take a few measurements and use the laser to zap your eyes with the setting that is correct, on average. The newer machines (the call it "wavefront") use adaptive optics (per what is used on telescopes) to crate an an exact model of your eye and ablate a pattern that will give you optimal vision, the best your eyes are capable of.
I am happily glasses free, with no astigmatism, no problems with low light, no problems with dry eyes, and I am seeing 20/15 in both eyes.
So go for it, but be sure the doctor has experience, and is using the latest and greatest equipment!
I suppose that might work if he was a copyright holder. The sveasoft firmware, like the Linksys firmware, is based on the Linux kernel, Busybox, uClibc, iptables, and several other projects. I am the maintainer of BusyBox and uClibc even I could not offer these projects under some alternative license since I have accepted many patches written by others. The Linux kernel is built up from millions of patches, all under the GPL. The iptables/netfilter code is licensed under the GPL, and is similarly composed of patches from many people. There is absolutely no chance anybody can ever offer any of these components under any alternative license. I think my BusyBox Licensing Page make it very clear what is expected of people that distribute my code, and more generally, for any GPL licensed code...
I am sorry if following the rules hurts sveasoft's business. Tough. Guess how much money I earn for every device sold based on my code? Zero. I see no reason why other's such as sveasoft should profit where the authors of the code earn nothing. Expecting to earn royalties off of what he received for free and has modified slightly is a poor business model.
Sure, you would not be able to install just one in your basement. But if you keep them local to where DC power is used it could be very efficient indeed. I think a good solution would be some sortof cross between a power strip and a UPS, with multiple DC power plugs. Each DC power plug would inform the power strip when the device is on, and inform it of its current requirements (hi, I'm on now and I need 500 mA of 5V). That way, when no devices are in use the thing can drop to 0 power consumption. By keeping the thing local, one avoids the long wire DC resistive loses, and by adding DC power plugs like a power strip, it can service a number of devices, unlike a wall-wart.
I think the correct solution would be some sortof cross between a power strip and a UPS, with multiple DC plugs. Each plug would inform the power strip when the device is on, and inform it of its current requirements. That way, when no devices are in use the thing can drop to 0 power consumption. By keeping the thing local, one avoids the long wire DC resistive loses.
I really wish there were a standard 5V/12V DC interface for home/office use. If you want 60 Hz 120V AC (or 50Hz 220V AC for much of the world) you plug in your device into a standard power connector (ignorning the us, uk, and european connector divergance). Anyway, if you are like me, you probably have about 20 little wall warts (smallish DC power transformers) plugged in under your desk. Wouldn't it be wonderful if there were an ANSI/ISO standard 5V/12V DC power bus that all these devices could plug into? Imagine the joy of not having 20 wall warts plugged into 4 power strips under your desk!
What will the dairy farmers of the world think when they discover their Dairy Records Management System has been compromised? I will never drink milk ever again!!!
Once again, Babbage was thinking ahead...
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"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage
I'm happy to see Linux being used on all sorts of devices, but I am also very concerned that they fulfil their obligations for the GPL'd source in their device. So where is the source? I grow tired of getting at least 1-2 emails per week about some new router or wireless access point or whatever that is violating the GPL distributing BusyBox with no source and no offer for source. So I truly hope Motorola is behaving itself and doing what it is legally obligated to do. I've searched their site but I see nothing but press releases. Has anyone obtained one of these phones? If you have, can you confirm whether Motorola is fulfilling their obligations per the GPL?
Flourescents easily put out 60 to 90 lumens per watt. Low Pressure Sodium lamps of the sort used for outdoor lighting put out around 180 lumens per watt. So remind me again why NIST is spending our tax dollars developing OLEDs?
I have a Sipura SPA-2000 (which is very very cool) connected to 2 phone lines in my 4 line phone (one line is empty, the forth line connects to my local land line and lets us conference in other people who don't use VOIP yet). I use it to call my business partners for free over the net. That saves us a ton of money over using traditional land lines and paying long distance. Call quality is excellent, and the FWD service works perfectly. We each pay our local ISP for broadband net access (which we were doing anyway before we switched to using VOIP).
FWD works great and I highly recommend it. They even provide voice mail. Pulver has done a great thing, and the FCC has absolutely no business screwing it up! I don't need to call 911 over IP, and I don't want regulatory access fees and taxes to pay for 911...
I make a point of not asking. When they have offered an explanation, it has usually been along the lines of "we thought we were in compliance, since you can get busybox from the busybox website", or "the company we bought the software from in Taiwan didn't tell us", and similar things.
It is not intended to be "shocking". It is intended to try and get at least a bit more license compliance. Having my lawyer send letters is a great way to get nothing done. The Hall of Shame has been far more effective at getting companies to talk to me about making the needed changes. To the extent it is working, I am glad it is there.
Heh. Nice troll... You forgot to mention that I have snakes for hair and I eat babies for breakfast...:-)
I have spent thousands of dollars of my own money, and zillions of hours developing busybox and uClibc and paying for hosting to make them available to the world. I really don't care if you happen to like me or not -- that is your business. I also don't care if you happen to like opensource stuff or not. Also your business. For the record, I did not post this to slashdot. I tried having my lawyer send letters to companies violating the busybox license. A good way to accomplish nothing -- it was just not working. Then I came up wit the idea of the Hall of Shame, and I have found it to be a far more effective tool for getting compliance. Most companies claim they didn't realize they were not in compliance, and are taking steps to fix the problems. Which I think is much better than getting lawyers involved, especially since I'm not very interested in suing people.
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They are NOT at suggesting using solid thorium and making fuel rods. That would indeed be truly stupid.
The LFTR uses thorium dissolved in molten floride salt. It is proven tech, since the US government
built one back in the late 60s and ran it for 5 years -- with 1.5 years at full power...
Watch the video http://thoriumremix.com/2011/
then and only then can you properly comment on thorium....
George Washington had no internet access -- and now he is dead.
Taking my cue from the NRA:
Hybrids Don't Kill Pedestrians... People Kill Pedestrians...
The Moon. Jupiter and its moons. Saturn. Venus. The Orion Nebula. The Andromeda Galaxy.
And get out there and look at the dramatic and easy stuff. Jupiter and its moons is really cool to watch. And you just can't go wrong with the moon. All of the things I listed above should be easy to find with a small telescope. Looking for much more is going to be frustrating and boring for a group of students. Looking at stars is going to be very boring (stars look like points of light, even with the best telescopes). Go grab a copy of http://www.stellarium.org/ to help you find things and you should be good to go.
Fortunately, researchers from Leeds' Faculty of Engineering have discovered how to recover significant quantities of rare-earth oxides, present in titanium dioxide minerals....
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091215101708.htm
Every cell is sacred! When a cell is wasted, God gets quite irate.
Pointy Haired Boss: Our goal is to write bug-free software. I'll pay a ten dollar bonus for every bug you find and fix.
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Dilbert: Yahoo!
Alice: We're rich
Wally: Yes!!! Yes!!! Yes!!!
Pointy Haired Boss: I hope this drives the right behavior.
Wally: I'm gonna write me a new minivan this afternoon!
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Nah, Val Kilmer was indeed what he meant.
Yep. I've had broadvoice for quite a while now. For $20/month I get unlimited calling to the US and a bunch of other contries. I can call my sister in Sweden, my wife's father in Denmark, my busines partner in the UK, or anyone long-distance in the US and talk all I want. Sound quality is great, and with their Bring-Your-Own-Device plan, I was able to setup one channel on my Sipura-2000 (the other channel is setup with FWD). I've been very pleased.
If they use a knife (microkeratome) rather than a femtosecond laser to cut the flap, they are not using the latest and greatest. If they are not using wavefront (adaptive optics as adopted from astronomy applications) they are not using the latest and greatest. As for experience, you have to ask... I had my eyes corrected at lasikutah.com and the doctor there, Dr. Clark, has a lot of experience... It does cost more than the cheap, low end, lasik. You get what you pay for....
First, do not let them use a knife on your eyes. Traditional lasik uses a knife to cut a flap. This type of cut causes much more damage to the eye by cutting several layers. The place I went uses a femtosecond laser to cut a flap that is computer programmed to match your eye. This pretty much 100% avoids problems with the eye flap ripping off and such. It also helps the nerves in your eye heal faster, so your eye can inform your brain of dryness so your brain can turn on the tear ducts, reducing problems with dry eyes.
Secondly, in traditional lasik they would take a few measurements and use the laser to zap your eyes with the setting that is correct, on average. The newer machines (the call it "wavefront") use adaptive optics (per what is used on telescopes) to crate an an exact model of your eye and ablate a pattern that will give you optimal vision, the best your eyes are capable of.
I am happily glasses free, with no astigmatism, no problems with low light, no problems with dry eyes, and I am seeing 20/15 in both eyes.
So go for it, but be sure the doctor has experience, and is using the latest and greatest equipment!
I am sorry if following the rules hurts sveasoft's business. Tough. Guess how much money I earn for every device sold based on my code? Zero. I see no reason why other's such as sveasoft should profit where the authors of the code earn nothing. Expecting to earn royalties off of what he received for free and has modified slightly is a poor business model.
Sure, you would not be able to install just one in your basement. But if you keep them local to where DC power is used it could be very efficient indeed. I think a good solution would be some sortof cross between a power strip and a UPS, with multiple DC power plugs. Each DC power plug would inform the power strip when the device is on, and inform it of its current requirements (hi, I'm on now and I need 500 mA of 5V). That way, when no devices are in use the thing can drop to 0 power consumption. By keeping the thing local, one avoids the long wire DC resistive loses, and by adding DC power plugs like a power strip, it can service a number of devices, unlike a wall-wart.
I think the correct solution would be some sortof cross between a power strip and a UPS, with multiple DC plugs. Each plug would inform the power strip when the device is on, and inform it of its current requirements. That way, when no devices are in use the thing can drop to 0 power consumption. By keeping the thing local, one avoids the long wire DC resistive loses.
I really wish there were a standard 5V/12V DC interface for home/office use. If you want 60 Hz 120V AC (or 50Hz 220V AC for much of the world) you plug in your device into a standard power connector (ignorning the us, uk, and european connector divergance). Anyway, if you are like me, you probably have about 20 little wall warts (smallish DC power transformers) plugged in under your desk. Wouldn't it be wonderful if there were an ANSI/ISO standard 5V/12V DC power bus that all these devices could plug into? Imagine the joy of not having 20 wall warts plugged into 4 power strips under your desk!
What will the dairy farmers of the world think when they discover their Dairy Records Management System has been compromised? I will never drink milk ever again!!!
Here you go.... http://img-nex.theonering.net/movies/gollum_mtvawa rds_Bband.mov
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr.
Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers
come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas
that could provoke such a question."
-- Charles Babbage
I'm happy to see Linux being used on all sorts of devices, but I am also very concerned that they fulfil their obligations for the GPL'd source in their device. So where is the source? I grow tired of getting at least 1-2 emails per week about some new router or wireless access point or whatever that is violating the GPL distributing BusyBox with no source and no offer for source. So I truly hope Motorola is behaving itself and doing what it is legally obligated to do. I've searched their site but I see nothing but press releases. Has anyone obtained one of these phones? If you have, can you confirm whether Motorola is fulfilling their obligations per the GPL?
Flourescents easily put out 60 to 90 lumens per watt. Low Pressure Sodium lamps of the sort used for outdoor lighting put out around 180 lumens per watt. So remind me again why NIST is spending our tax dollars developing OLEDs?
FWD works great and I highly recommend it. They even provide voice mail. Pulver has done a great thing, and the FCC has absolutely no business screwing it up! I don't need to call 911 over IP, and I don't want regulatory access fees and taxes to pay for 911...
Yup.
I make a point of not asking. When they have offered an explanation, it has usually been along the lines of "we thought we were in compliance, since you can get busybox from the busybox website", or "the company we bought the software from in Taiwan didn't tell us", and similar things.
It is not intended to be "shocking". It is intended to try and get at least a bit more license compliance. Having my lawyer send letters is a great way to get nothing done. The Hall of Shame has been far more effective at getting companies to talk to me about making the needed changes. To the extent it is working, I am glad it is there.
Heh. Nice troll... You forgot to mention that I have snakes for hair and I eat babies for breakfast... :-)
I have spent thousands of dollars of my own money, and zillions of hours developing busybox and uClibc and paying for hosting to make them available to the world. I really don't care if you happen to like me or not -- that is your business. I also don't care if you happen to like opensource stuff or not. Also your business. For the record, I did not post this to slashdot. I tried having my lawyer send letters to companies violating the busybox license. A good way to accomplish nothing -- it was just not working. Then I came up wit the idea of the Hall of Shame, and I have found it to be a far more effective tool for getting compliance. Most companies claim they didn't realize they were not in compliance, and are taking steps to fix the problems. Which I think is much better than getting lawyers involved, especially since I'm not very interested in suing people.