I and my company will, as sure as night follows the day, sue anyone that takes (or tries to take) me off the Internet for using BitTorrent. I use BitTorrent to download things like Fedora Core 6. I need BitTorrent (and p2p in general) for work, and my work is my livelihood. My livelihood feeds my family. I would have no choice but to sue.
Electrolyzing water is short sighted at best. The second law of thermodynamics (which we obey in this house!) dictates that it will always take more energy to get the free hydrogen that you can ever get back in a fuel cell. This means that it will take a LOT of power to supply a hydrogen economy which means new power plants, which means burning more natural gas and coal. The single best leveragabile solution to a hydrogen economy is new nuclear power plants... Wait isn't nuclear bad? At least that's what the majority of the public thinks so it won't happen.
Since it will take 20 to 30 years for this hydrogen car thing to really happen. That is if you don't get all Chicken Little about the early adopters. Then, hydrogen energy delivery will be just in time for FUSION reactors.
Since fusion reactors have already achieved a break-even experiment, I for one, think that real fusion will arrive in 20 years. Then you will have all this free energy looking for a mobile delivery system.
Hydrogen is a tool that solves a significant mobile energy delivery problem. It separates the delivery issue from the energy creation issues, something that gasoline will never do (obviously.) So it's a good thing.
The way to not loose the kite is to use a deep sea fishing reel. A good modern high-test deep sea fishing line will not break unless your out in weather that would break the kite first anyway.
AOL is not really in the dial-up industry. They are a marketing company that happens to sell dial-up. Just like General Motors and cars, they are in it for the money and nothing else. Period.
As for where do they go from here? Nowhere. It is just a matter of time. AOL must play marketing hardball to survive and they always have done that. As revenues decline so will their ability to market a waning product, and so-on down and down.
Tried it. Slight typo in your instructions, but it gives the results you describe.
[foobar:/Applications/Safari.app]memyselfi% cd Contents [foobar:/Applications/Safari.app/Content s] memyselfi% cd MacOS [foobar:Safari.app/Contents/MacOS] memyselfi% strings Safari | grep June Safari Beta will expire on June 30, 2003. Safari Beta expired on June 30, 2003. [foobar:Safari.app/Contents/MacOS] memyselfi%
I heard the NPR radio show. The commentator delved in with quick blunt and descriptive hands-on fact checking. Seeing for himself exactly how well the cloth did in both light and dark conditions. The SlashDot editors could really take a que from this guy!
I don't know what they are doing in other areas, but here in Arizona's Phoenix valley Cox Communications is pushing "digital" cable TV, "digital" telephone, and broadband all together at a package rate that makes sense to a lot of people, ($100 per month?)
There are problems with their service: line noise, security, and support, but in this post-dotcom-bubble era some people are making decisions based on price without considering the quality.
Here in AZ the only reliable residential DSL is through QWest which basically forces residential customers into a pseudo-MSN account. I suppose that those people count a MSN customers. They get MSN e-mail addresses and rely on MSN tech support.
The closest thing like this I have seen in person is my Mac desktop machine. It was a PowerMac 6400 (a PPC 603e fixed to the motherboard). It was never meant to be upgraded. 3rd-Party upgraders developed G3 processor cards that snapped into the L2 Cache slot. The card then tells the original 603e CPU to "sleep" and the L2 mounted G3 takes over all CPU functions. It works perfectly.
In 1984 I was the computer literacy teacher at the Bridgeport, CT Boys and Girls Club. (Granted I only had one Apple II to do everything.) You run the risk with elementary school students of trying too hard. Under classic child psychology they simply are not ready for algebra -- which is a key part of any programming language I can think of, including the LOGO mentioned by others.
You can get them comfortable with the physical parts of the computer -- turn it on, how to load a CDROM. You can get them comfortable with using a computer via almost any edutainment application.
You could try HTML! There is no algebra in that -- values with equals signs, but those are not true variables. And all the software tools you need are free and pre-installed.
Personally, I cut my teeth on BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) at the age of 10, but I doubt you can get a typical room of 10 year olds to do anything with, say RealBASIC.
If you can demystify the computer and get them (especially the girls) using the computers I think you will have achieved something.
I found humor in compairing the Lone Gunmen and X-Files to Rosencrantz & Gildenstern and Hamlet. This linkage was so obvious to me that I'll have to watch the reruns for such a sub-plot.
They already exist -- Solid State RAM Disks. These are memory chip arrays (usually with battery back-up.) Just like early hard drives they are very expensive. $30,000+, 3.2GB, 30+MB/s, and 9000+ I/Os per sec, see . Aside from the above, it is easy to see that all hard drive makes are going be shipping 100GB drives by the November time-frame.
They already exist -- Solid State RAM Disks. These are memory chip arrays (usually with battery back-up.) Just like early hard drives they are very expensive.
$30,000+, 3.2GB, 30+MB/s, and 9000+ I/Os per sec, see .
Aside from the above, it is easy to see that all hard drive makes are going be shipping 100GB drives by the November time-frame.
They already exist -- Solid State RAM Disks. These are memory chip arrays (usually with battery back-up.) Just like early hard drives they are very expensive. $30,000+, 3.2GB, 30+MB/s, and 9000+ I/Os per sec, see . Aside from the above, it is easy to see that all hard drive makes are going be shipping 100GB drives by the November time-frame.
These things are usually one time builds. They take into account everything from Earth launch to Mars landing (as a trajectory). The whole fuel-weight-timing thing is carefully balanced.
Further, in the time it has taken them to design, build, (under-)test, and execute the state-of-the-art has changed. You might as well redesign and rebuild anyway.
On the other hand, you're right. I'd rather see them spend a few million dollars more on a heavy lift, and recycle a design ten or twenty times.
So to recap: "build once"-"test many" or "build many"-"test some". Pick one and get on with it.
What, if anything, could the next President of the United States and Congress do different to help physicists brake through on applicable (real-world) fusion energy?
The only reasonable way to go portable with a big screen is to use eye-ware level LCDs. As reported on Slashdot a few months ago, Sony is making headway in this area. These things result in about 30 inch screens. And while they need further development, it seems to me to be the only reasonable course.
Secondarily we can then evolve on to stereo-scopic 3D. Some gamers and scientists are already doing this. There is no reason we all can't get a better GUI for the mundane stuff too.
There are other benefits too. Like no one looking over your shoulder at the airport reading you E-mail or passwords.
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I and my company will, as sure as night follows the day, sue anyone that takes (or tries to take) me off the Internet for using BitTorrent. I use BitTorrent to download things like Fedora Core 6. I need BitTorrent (and p2p in general) for work, and my work is my livelihood. My livelihood feeds my family. I would have no choice but to sue.
Since it will take 20 to 30 years for this hydrogen car thing to really happen. That is if you don't get all Chicken Little about the early adopters. Then, hydrogen energy delivery will be just in time for FUSION reactors.
Since fusion reactors have already achieved a break-even experiment, I for one, think that real fusion will arrive in 20 years. Then you will have all this free energy looking for a mobile delivery system.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/ 05/2034240&from=rss
Hydrogen is a tool that solves a significant mobile energy delivery problem. It separates the delivery issue from the energy creation issues, something that gasoline will never do (obviously.) So it's a good thing.
The way to not loose the kite is to use a deep sea fishing reel. A good modern high-test deep sea fishing line will not break unless your out in weather that would break the kite first anyway.
AOL is not really in the dial-up industry. They are a marketing company that happens to sell dial-up. Just like General Motors and cars, they are in it for the money and nothing else. Period.
As for where do they go from here? Nowhere. It is just a matter of time. AOL must play marketing hardball to survive and they always have done that. As revenues decline so will their ability to market a waning product, and so-on down and down.
The question is not where, but when.
The World's population will not rise over 11 or 12 Billion people.
That can be arranged...
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.11/digisce
Oldtimer: Ok, put the keyboard down and back a way from the VAX!
Kid: What?! All I was going to do was click this red "break" key. What does that do anyway?
Tried it. Slight typo in your instructions, but it gives the results you describe.
t s] memyselfi% cd MacOS
[foobar:/Applications/Safari.app]memyselfi% cd Contents
[foobar:/Applications/Safari.app/Conten
[foobar:Safari.app/Contents/MacOS] memyselfi% strings Safari | grep June
Safari Beta will expire on June 30, 2003.
Safari Beta expired on June 30, 2003.
[foobar:Safari.app/Contents/MacOS] memyselfi%
I heard the NPR radio show. The commentator delved in with quick blunt and descriptive hands-on fact checking. Seeing for himself exactly how well the cloth did in both light and dark conditions. The SlashDot editors could really take a que from this guy!
I don't know what they are doing in other areas, but here in Arizona's Phoenix valley Cox Communications is pushing "digital" cable TV, "digital" telephone, and broadband all together at a package rate that makes sense to a lot of people, ($100 per month?)
There are problems with their service: line noise, security, and support, but in this post-dotcom-bubble era some people are making decisions based on price without considering the quality.
Here in AZ the only reliable residential DSL is through QWest which basically forces residential customers into a pseudo-MSN account. I suppose that those people count a MSN customers. They get MSN e-mail addresses and rely on MSN tech support.
The closest thing like this I have seen in person is my Mac desktop machine. It was a PowerMac 6400 (a PPC 603e fixed to the motherboard). It was never meant to be upgraded. 3rd-Party upgraders developed G3 processor cards that snapped into the L2 Cache slot. The card then tells the original 603e CPU to "sleep" and the L2 mounted G3 takes over all CPU functions. It works perfectly.
In 1984 I was the computer literacy teacher at the Bridgeport, CT Boys and Girls Club. (Granted I only had one Apple II to do everything.) You run the risk with elementary school students of trying too hard. Under classic child psychology they simply are not ready for algebra -- which is a key part of any programming language I can think of, including the LOGO mentioned by others.
You can get them comfortable with the physical parts of the computer -- turn it on, how to load a CDROM. You can get them comfortable with using a computer via almost any edutainment application.
You could try HTML! There is no algebra in that -- values with equals signs, but those are not true variables. And all the software tools you need are free and pre-installed.
Personally, I cut my teeth on BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) at the age of 10, but I doubt you can get a typical room of 10 year olds to do anything with, say RealBASIC.
If you can demystify the computer and get them (especially the girls) using the computers I think you will have achieved something.
I found humor in compairing the Lone Gunmen and X-Files to Rosencrantz & Gildenstern and Hamlet. This linkage was so obvious to me that I'll have to watch the reruns for such a sub-plot.
They already exist -- Solid State RAM Disks. These are memory chip arrays (usually with battery back-up.) Just like early hard drives they are very expensive. $30,000+, 3.2GB, 30+MB/s, and 9000+ I/Os per sec, see . Aside from the above, it is easy to see that all hard drive makes are going be shipping 100GB drives by the November time-frame.
They already exist -- Solid State RAM Disks. These are memory chip arrays (usually with battery back-up.) Just like early hard drives they are very expensive.
$30,000+, 3.2GB, 30+MB/s, and 9000+ I/Os per sec, see .
Aside from the above, it is easy to see that all hard drive makes are going be shipping 100GB drives by the November time-frame.
They already exist -- Solid State RAM Disks. These are memory chip arrays (usually with battery back-up.) Just like early hard drives they are very expensive. $30,000+, 3.2GB, 30+MB/s, and 9000+ I/Os per sec, see . Aside from the above, it is easy to see that all hard drive makes are going be shipping 100GB drives by the November time-frame.
These things are usually one time builds. They take into account everything from Earth launch to Mars landing (as a trajectory). The whole fuel-weight-timing thing is carefully balanced.
Further, in the time it has taken them to design, build, (under-)test, and execute the state-of-the-art has changed. You might as well redesign and rebuild anyway.
On the other hand, you're right. I'd rather see them spend a few million dollars more on a heavy lift, and recycle a design ten or twenty times.
So to recap: "build once"-"test many" or "build many"-"test some". Pick one and get on with it.
What, if anything, could the next President of the United States and Congress do different to help physicists brake through on applicable (real-world) fusion energy?
The only reasonable way to go portable with a big screen is to use eye-ware level LCDs. As reported on Slashdot a few months ago, Sony is making headway in this area. These things result in about 30 inch screens. And while they need further development, it seems to me to be the only reasonable course.
Secondarily we can then evolve on to stereo-scopic 3D. Some gamers and scientists are already doing this. There is no reason we all can't get a better GUI for the mundane stuff too.
There are other benefits too. Like no one looking over your shoulder at the airport reading you E-mail or passwords.