Who's going to pay for that junk when they can get freeware that works as well or better? Normal users are tired of being burnt and IT people know better. People who use Sun are not going to touch MS stuff with a 10 foot pole! Regular users are going to go for the better alternatives they now have. MS really screwed the pootch.
Remember what happened the last time college students all started copying an OS? It was called Windows 3.1 and it made MS. I continue to advocate Lunix and free software and I'm going to do what I can to set up an install fest at my University. Imagine all the broken computers working again! Wow.
Every free user is less power MS has to screw the world.
Talal Shamoon, who heads up SDMI's "perimeter technologies" working group, says:
There are plans in place to deal with that: This is not a group of dilettantes. These are serious businessmen who called for this malicious attack testing. When you call for that, one of the things you build into your schedule is the concept that it may all get broken. There are backup plans in place to discover new paradigms."
I was going to shorten this quote up some, but all of it was just too funny. I can just imagine him running around, "Quick Surresh, get me that new web paradigm you developed last week! What? You don't have it?, This is terrible, get out of my office, YOU ARE FIRED!"
You are a very bad man Talal, and belong in a maximum security federal bang you in the ass prison.
You can sign up right behind the lawyers, doctors, engineers, plumbers and all the other people earning an honest living. Get there first and you might establish yourself. Get there later and you can still make a good living, even get rich, but don't expect to screw the world like Bill Gates did.
Not to gloat or anything, but these are bad times for Microsoft.
First they have poor sales of Win2k, ME, or whatever they call it due to the reputations they've built screwing people.
Next we see that stupid "naked pc" page. All that tells me is that dealers are looking to get out from under the MS thumb, and are -gasp- considering other OS options. Hopefully, the trickle will become a flood and the extortion of one copy of Windoze per PC will die.
Now IBM has taken this up a Linux with their mainframes. Sure, we've seen the demos with thousands of virtual machines and we know that some of the bussiest sites run Linux (HOTMAIL), but now PHB will know it. It's going to come to him in glossy adds with great graphic design and skinny young people, circus acts, blah, blah, blah. PHB might even lean why free software works and embrace it (well, ok maybe not) stanger things have happened.
Die you source code horading, lawsuit wielding monster you, die! May the sins of your past haunt you. IBM may get the last laugh on you yet, Bill Gates. For every user that's lost work to a format change or broken program, for every poor sucker that thought it was cool that you could "pirate" windows so easily only to suffer it, for every legitimate user who has suffered the same after plunking down hundreds of dollars a year trying to keep current, for every dealer forced to carry that bloatware against their will, Die Bitch Die!!
Poster is mild mannered in real life. He is, however, still angry that his quick window routines and FORTRAN were broken between Windows 93 and 95. He also feels for all those people screwed much worse than himself by Visual Basic. He also has to use NT at work, and hates it. OK, that's enough now.
Actually, you would be suprised at how many people who ordinarilly consider themselves rabbid free market belive in free software. The whole idea is very powerful, and will eventually win out.
This is NOT bad for software developers anymore than open laws are bad for laywers. The same thing can be said for any other proffesional group, doctors, engineers, consultants. The product is not a shiny binary, but the knowledge of how it works, how to fix it, and how to get things done. This is best done with open, hopefully free, source. The whole MS nightmare is comming to an end fast. When it comes to source, sharing is just going to be better for everyone. No one is going to keep you from charging $200/hour to make everything work right, and it will work when you are finished.
Microsoft's strong arm tactics are an abomination that infringes on all of us. Bill Gates just about invented software copyrights to close people out of the source he stole from dumpsters and got other people to write. The "naked PC" page is an attempt to maintain revenue for his broken bloat code/advert package and stem the tide of defectors. Dealers know full well that they will be blamed is some warez dude goes and pirates the Win2000 they sold. This page is to remind them to pay up or get beat up. The whole philosophy is just wrong and I'm glad it's about to eat a dusty death. I fart in their general direction!
Poster has no desire to infringe on MS software, and MS should be very concerned about that.
Whey your municipality grants a most unnatural monopoly cable franchise to a single company, people who live there go without the joys of capitalism. Why is it that I can't run a cable around my neighborhood? I don't know! Might be because someone wants to shear their sheep.
I'm careful about this too, even at home. It amounts to thought control. This is one of the drawbacks of email in general. It's funny how the filters you build for yourself can change your thoughts. It can be frustrating.
My oh my, nothing helpful and how rude you are. I suppose that I should have expected specific insults from someone who would make negative blanket statements about an entire continent. Thanks for all the useful links and the solid reasons to look up Square. So sad, you could have been helpful but chose to be insulting instead.
You should learn to define "different" before you think of yourself as free from groupthink, troll. While trying to understand what "same" is you may learn that it does not exist and that nothing goes according to plan. Unless you can define these things, you post had no point. Your reply shows off no more than a fragile ego.
Credit list is BA Classics, Tulane University, BS Mechanical Engineering, LSU, and current graduate student in Nuclear Science. I am surrounded by mundane people doing extrordinary work. None ask for glory, simply respect and polite treatment.
Jerking around salesmen is a waste of time. If you enjoy this kind of thing you will soon find that salesmen who don't know you are the only people who talk to you.
It's better to let all of this DVD stuff fall flat on it's face just like Sony digigal audio tape. If it's a pain to use it will fail. Rember DIVX?
Why would anyone (in the US) buy video equipment now anyway? HDTV standards are still up in the air. The old TV and VCR satisfies all my prefab cultrue needs for now.
That stupid gesture is left over from the days of steel cans that really were hard to crush on your head. Someone who could crush a steel can had a real bone head. Oh, I know, they had a bone head to want to do it too, but it was impressive. Crushing aluminum cans is about as macho as ripping open a candy wrapper.
If you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything at all.
I'm not too sure what is particularly inightful here. Assides from calling your neighbors, "general North American...average nimrod(s)" without the taste to enjoy something different, you add little to this disscusion. Could you tell us a little more about Square instead? What do you mean by different, warped plots? Links would be nice too.
Give your neighbors some credit. Holywood is part of North America and it's products, good and bad, are certianly polished and excellent pieces of craft. You might also remember that your neighbors created jazz, R&B, the electric guitar, the internet, and all sorts of interesting forms of entertainment. Vast audiences of them have apreciated films as diverse as Pulp Fiction, Sixth Sense, Blade Runner, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and Jungle Fever. Why should you care if they like this or not? Frankly, Fight Club's preachy and puerile attitude towards mental illness mixed with tooth spitting violence was a turn off to me. It was fun, but I'd rather see Forest Gump again. What exaclty have you done better? Zone5, User 179243, all you have to your credit is a single post.
Taste is a poor thing to judge people by. Differences make life fun.
You don't know what full bore is. The bridges have been crossed.
As an advocate of nuclear energy, I've seen excessive caution cause great harm. It's funny that you should claim that there are no infinite energy sources. In fact, there are. A clear sucession of forms of nuclear energy production has been well understood for about 60 years, yet the US has foolishly decided to pervert the first stage and halt the second stage alltogether. The result is a fuel cycle that will deplete the world's supply of uranium in a few hundred years, and dependence on fosil fuels with all of their negative environmental consequences.
Breeder reactors, by producing more fuel than they consume, could generate enough electricity for everyone to live at a US standard for thousands of years. Two flawed arguements were given to kill them, waste disposal and wepons proliferation. Waste disposal is a non issue when you consider fuel reprocessing which seperates long and short lived fision products. Short lived fision products decay in a few hundred years, and can easily be contained in sturctures built by men. The longer lived isotopes are generally fuel and should not be thrown away. Deneying the world the benifits of nuclear power has not prevented weapons proliferation and it should not be expected to.
Why is this? It might be that such plants are not in the best interest of companies that currently produce power generating equipment. It might be that such people would also recomend deregulation and distributed power generation. You should look to such hidden interests when people recomend restrictions on consumption. The collective interests of the world do not always lead their advocates to power. I'm not getting anywhere fast.
The freedom to swing your fist ends where someone else's nose begins. I do not call for any price exploitation, but full use of availale tools to maximize social benifit. Reasonable laws to protect resources do not conflict with proper expoitation. Consumption side restrictions always cause harm.
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What you are seeing is not a gut reaction, but a reasoned response to serveral bad laws and their ever more obvious implications. To be better informed, you should read the links and keep up with the issue. In the mean time, let me help you understand the dishonesty of your casual aquantence, Hillary Rosen. The main issue, in her words is:
Again, let's not forget the underlying issue. This is not a matter profits and losses or of one industry attempting to stifle another, but rather one of defending the creative community's right to do with their craft and their property how they wish. And what they wish -- I assure you -- is to meet consumer demand and bring music to the Internet.
The actions of the RIAA are in stark contrast to this statement. The $250,000,000 or so judgement they just earned against MP3.com is a manifest attempt to shut down potential competition. Their efforts to ban forms of file sharing and network traffic that might be used to violate copyright is a heavy handed attempt to control an entire medium of communication. Anyone who thinks that the "artists" of the RIAA have any real control of how their works are marketed and distibuted, is very naive. All of these efforts are far from "moderate" and all of them have been well covered and documented here.
The goal that RIAA and other greed heads are persuing is pay for play. The Cuecat and uniqe processor IDs are nascent efforts to controle the very hardware in your house by "copyright," with the very obvious goal of "protecting" copyright material. The DeCSS case is a more blatent example of the potential misuses of the DMCPA where it is illegal to dissminate, link to or even use a piece of software that undoes a lame encryption technique. All of these things put together with the RIAA's raketeering history of payolla, control of music sales by exclusivity, and airwave domination, should be enough to convice you that there is a large class of leaches that would like to make a living by comming between you and all creative effort.
I also bought one of these things on fire sale in the 80's, but mine was one of the fancy 16k and rubber key jobs. Oh yeah, by mail order it cost about $16.
There are so many better micro controlers out there these days, why would anyone fool with one of these old things? The Basic Stamp is an older example that can run for hours off a 9V battery (SWAG time, this is a low estimate bassed on personal experiance, poster is too lazy to check out real power consumption). It comes with an easy DOS bases programer that uses your PC as a display and it's ports to talk to it. Stand alone displays are available. Hell, if you are in love with Z80's go get a new eZ80.
What's the problem with electronic evidence? The same burdens of proff should apply to it as have applied to any other collected evidence. Eliminating it, just because it's old is stupid. Eliminating it because it can not really be tied to the accused is sensible.
Here is a word to all you incompetent criminals, tough luck. Creep says, "That letter with the char marks on it should be thrown out!". Judge says, "Bullshit."
This is a seperate issue from unreasonable searches like Carnivore. We should not let one bad decision force us into even less reasonable laws. Reasonable searches should not be impeeded.
People who design restictions on consumption have done some thinking for me that I don't apreciate. First they have decided, often with poor justification, that a certian resource needs to be preserved. Second they have decided how much of that resource people really need. Bunk. How many times have we seen the end of fossil fuel predicted in 30 years? How many Malthusian dissaster stories do we have to hear to realize that people simply adapt? The economic consequences of restriction are too great to ignore. Artificial scarcity is abonmible.
The only safe use of resources is maximal. Renuable resources must be gaurded to insure they renew themselves. Non renuable resources should be expoited as fast as the market will bear without craping other things up. Saving them for tomorow imprverishes us today and lessens our ability to plan and adapt.
A good example of this is gassoline taxes. Imagine the drain on the US economy if gassoline were taxed up to $4.00/gallon as it is in Europe. The money collected by government could never compensate for the opertunites lost by individuals, yet consumption would not really decline. You don't see electric cars in Europe do you? I'll bet they use almost as much per capita as we do here in the good old USA after you normalize for population density. All of that money would be beter spent on more basic human needs like shelter and education. Cheap gassoline has a great effect on our economy by encouraging a mobile workforce and real profits the government can tax and have more. I hate my 45 minute drive to work, but I can afford it until I move closer. As a result, I can do my little part in putting 1GW of electricty onto the grid at $0.02/kWhr, while saving up to buy a house and educate planned children. I can get the things I want while providing for others, neat.
Now think about a place like India. Instead of fussing at them to cap their emmisions by reducing consumption, we should be using our wealth to provide them with cleaner equipment. People there have basic needs like potable water, food and shelter unmet. Who are we to tell them not to exploit their resources?
If some fool wants to spend his money on cars and all that, let them. I'd rather mitigate such behavior by education and ridicule than by laws. Leave people free to persue what makes them happy and things will work themselves out. His loss is my loss, and yours too.
You might also note that some people recomending that everyone reduce consumption have no problems living it up. You might rember the Clinton Administration flying two 747s on a pleasure tour, I mean environmental tour, of the whole freaking world. Some animals are more equal than others.
We should always try to provide more for people rather than restrict them.
This is an impressive use of fuel, as a little high school physics demonstrates. 1kg/day kicked out by 1kW should only produce.15 N, but these folks got 3N. Someone check this to make sure I have not boned up my rocket science:
(1) Force = Mass rate * Exit Velocity
(2) Power = 1/2 Mass rate * square of Velocity
Rearange 2 to solve for exit velocity from the given mass rate 1kg/day/24 (hours/day)/3600 (seconds/hour), and power 1000 Joules/second, then plug it back into the first equation to get force in a perfect world with no losses of power.
Now this is a fine multiplication, but it's still a low absolute force that needs help and mission times will be long. While it is least expensive to change your orbits at infinity, you will still need some other propulsion system to do it. Then, of course, you might want to make some course adjustments when you get closer to the target. Consider the period of other bodies that orbit the sun, like Hales commet to get an idea of how long it might take you to get places this way. Then remember that you will have to turn your shield off while you fall back, Ouch! I need another shield! Ohhhh! the solar winds are not my friends! Better to use this to move supplies.
Slingshots are cool, but if your only travel direction is a radial arc, you might have to wait a while for a planet to be in the right place.
What do you mean "having the better of me"? People telling me where to set my thermostat, what kind of shower and toilet I have to use (in Louisiana we have a drainage problem, but must follow national codes for areas with water shortages), pisses me off. People letting forests that were planted for timber burn rather than be harvested really makes me angry. Some people would rather things go up in smoke before they would see people have cheap lumber to make houses. Their restrictions are either based on a hatred of people, ala "Cheap energy is like putting a machine gun in the hands of a child," or they are misguided. They are not getting the better of anyone.
No luck for you, in any case! I love my wife and we want lots of children. What can be more important than making nice people? We hope the same for all people. What is it, be fruitful and multiply? Rights of reproduction are firmly entrenched in the United Nations Charter and well protected in most of the world.
We also hope that there will be enough for everyone and belive that restrictions on consumption are short sighted and foolish. Unrestricted, wealth has a way of spreading.
It is obvious that you don't like people that dissagree with you. I am sorry, and hope you get better. You should catch some of my flu and start striving with me for better things for yourself and others.
Well, the only thing those two have in common on your two links is Steady State Universe theory. It was fun to go track that down.
Here's some information about "formerly great cosmologists", for those of you who don't want to use a search engine. I wish UCLA could be less strident about it, but it was fun to think big thoughts for a while.
More is better, unless you don't like people. There's a difference between expoitation and ruin. The universe is an infinite abundance that we will expand into as long as we strive. Complacency and self denial based on 100 to 1000 year trend information is foolish. The more we make, the more people we can support. The more people we have, the faster things are improved, ad infinitum. I like people and want to see lots of worlds full of them.
Want to consume fewer resources, fine. Show me better ways, that's good. Force me to sit? Keep me from things to suit you? Tell me how to run my life, Get Lost!
Hammer? I've got lots of tools. Nuclear power is available, cheap and potentialy inexhaustable alternate energy. Well managed forests can provide housing for everyone. Cheap petrolium can move things right now. The more you have today, the more you can do with tomorow. Damn you naysayers! Full speed ahead!
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Remember what happened the last time college students all started copying an OS? It was called Windows 3.1 and it made MS. I continue to advocate Lunix and free software and I'm going to do what I can to set up an install fest at my University. Imagine all the broken computers working again! Wow.
Every free user is less power MS has to screw the world.
There are plans in place to deal with that: This is not a group of dilettantes. These are serious businessmen who called for this malicious attack testing. When you call for that, one of the things you build into your schedule is the concept that it may all get broken. There are backup plans in place to discover new paradigms."
I was going to shorten this quote up some, but all of it was just too funny. I can just imagine him running around, "Quick Surresh, get me that new web paradigm you developed last week! What? You don't have it?, This is terrible, get out of my office, YOU ARE FIRED!"
You are a very bad man Talal, and belong in a maximum security federal bang you in the ass prison.
You can sign up right behind the lawyers, doctors, engineers, plumbers and all the other people earning an honest living. Get there first and you might establish yourself. Get there later and you can still make a good living, even get rich, but don't expect to screw the world like Bill Gates did.
First they have poor sales of Win2k, ME, or whatever they call it due to the reputations they've built screwing people.
Next we see that stupid "naked pc" page. All that tells me is that dealers are looking to get out from under the MS thumb, and are -gasp- considering other OS options. Hopefully, the trickle will become a flood and the extortion of one copy of Windoze per PC will die.
Now IBM has taken this up a Linux with their mainframes. Sure, we've seen the demos with thousands of virtual machines and we know that some of the bussiest sites run Linux (HOTMAIL), but now PHB will know it. It's going to come to him in glossy adds with great graphic design and skinny young people, circus acts, blah, blah, blah. PHB might even lean why free software works and embrace it (well, ok maybe not) stanger things have happened.
Die you source code horading, lawsuit wielding monster you, die! May the sins of your past haunt you. IBM may get the last laugh on you yet, Bill Gates. For every user that's lost work to a format change or broken program, for every poor sucker that thought it was cool that you could "pirate" windows so easily only to suffer it, for every legitimate user who has suffered the same after plunking down hundreds of dollars a year trying to keep current, for every dealer forced to carry that bloatware against their will, Die Bitch Die!!
Poster is mild mannered in real life. He is, however, still angry that his quick window routines and FORTRAN were broken between Windows 93 and 95. He also feels for all those people screwed much worse than himself by Visual Basic. He also has to use NT at work, and hates it. OK, that's enough now.
This is NOT bad for software developers anymore than open laws are bad for laywers. The same thing can be said for any other proffesional group, doctors, engineers, consultants. The product is not a shiny binary, but the knowledge of how it works, how to fix it, and how to get things done. This is best done with open, hopefully free, source. The whole MS nightmare is comming to an end fast. When it comes to source, sharing is just going to be better for everyone. No one is going to keep you from charging $200/hour to make everything work right, and it will work when you are finished.
Microsoft's strong arm tactics are an abomination that infringes on all of us. Bill Gates just about invented software copyrights to close people out of the source he stole from dumpsters and got other people to write. The "naked PC" page is an attempt to maintain revenue for his broken bloat code/advert package and stem the tide of defectors. Dealers know full well that they will be blamed is some warez dude goes and pirates the Win2000 they sold. This page is to remind them to pay up or get beat up. The whole philosophy is just wrong and I'm glad it's about to eat a dusty death. I fart in their general direction!
Poster has no desire to infringe on MS software, and MS should be very concerned about that.
Whey your municipality grants a most unnatural monopoly cable franchise to a single company, people who live there go without the joys of capitalism. Why is it that I can't run a cable around my neighborhood? I don't know! Might be because someone wants to shear their sheep.
I'm careful about this too, even at home. It amounts to thought control. This is one of the drawbacks of email in general. It's funny how the filters you build for yourself can change your thoughts. It can be frustrating.
Some things just can't be written.
Carnivore must be destroyed.
You should learn to define "different" before you think of yourself as free from groupthink, troll. While trying to understand what "same" is you may learn that it does not exist and that nothing goes according to plan. Unless you can define these things, you post had no point. Your reply shows off no more than a fragile ego.
Credit list is BA Classics, Tulane University, BS Mechanical Engineering, LSU, and current graduate student in Nuclear Science. I am surrounded by mundane people doing extrordinary work. None ask for glory, simply respect and polite treatment.
Grow up, put up or shut up.
It's better to let all of this DVD stuff fall flat on it's face just like Sony digigal audio tape. If it's a pain to use it will fail. Rember DIVX?
Why would anyone (in the US) buy video equipment now anyway? HDTV standards are still up in the air. The old TV and VCR satisfies all my prefab cultrue needs for now.
That stupid gesture is left over from the days of steel cans that really were hard to crush on your head. Someone who could crush a steel can had a real bone head. Oh, I know, they had a bone head to want to do it too, but it was impressive. Crushing aluminum cans is about as macho as ripping open a candy wrapper.
If you don't like the films that make it to your back yard, your house might be in the wrong town. Check out the NYT film to see what kind of movies are always showing. Most of these films make it around in one form or another, but let's face it not everybody has time to see everything.
I'm not too sure what is particularly inightful here. Assides from calling your neighbors, "general North American...average nimrod(s)" without the taste to enjoy something different, you add little to this disscusion. Could you tell us a little more about Square instead? What do you mean by different, warped plots? Links would be nice too.
Give your neighbors some credit. Holywood is part of North America and it's products, good and bad, are certianly polished and excellent pieces of craft. You might also remember that your neighbors created jazz, R&B, the electric guitar, the internet, and all sorts of interesting forms of entertainment. Vast audiences of them have apreciated films as diverse as Pulp Fiction, Sixth Sense, Blade Runner, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and Jungle Fever. Why should you care if they like this or not? Frankly, Fight Club's preachy and puerile attitude towards mental illness mixed with tooth spitting violence was a turn off to me. It was fun, but I'd rather see Forest Gump again. What exaclty have you done better? Zone5, User 179243, all you have to your credit is a single post.
Taste is a poor thing to judge people by. Differences make life fun.
Just wait until this happens to your UTILITY BILL!
Some things are better left regulated.
The point of this post is not that deregulating the phones was bad.
Just wait until this happens to your electric bill! Ahhhh, ha-ha ha-ha ha-ha haaa! Where's your light bulb going to be then?
As an advocate of nuclear energy, I've seen excessive caution cause great harm. It's funny that you should claim that there are no infinite energy sources. In fact, there are. A clear sucession of forms of nuclear energy production has been well understood for about 60 years, yet the US has foolishly decided to pervert the first stage and halt the second stage alltogether. The result is a fuel cycle that will deplete the world's supply of uranium in a few hundred years, and dependence on fosil fuels with all of their negative environmental consequences.
Breeder reactors, by producing more fuel than they consume, could generate enough electricity for everyone to live at a US standard for thousands of years. Two flawed arguements were given to kill them, waste disposal and wepons proliferation. Waste disposal is a non issue when you consider fuel reprocessing which seperates long and short lived fision products. Short lived fision products decay in a few hundred years, and can easily be contained in sturctures built by men. The longer lived isotopes are generally fuel and should not be thrown away. Deneying the world the benifits of nuclear power has not prevented weapons proliferation and it should not be expected to.
Why is this? It might be that such plants are not in the best interest of companies that currently produce power generating equipment. It might be that such people would also recomend deregulation and distributed power generation. You should look to such hidden interests when people recomend restrictions on consumption. The collective interests of the world do not always lead their advocates to power. I'm not getting anywhere fast.
The freedom to swing your fist ends where someone else's nose begins. I do not call for any price exploitation, but full use of availale tools to maximize social benifit. Reasonable laws to protect resources do not conflict with proper expoitation. Consumption side restrictions always cause harm.
Again, let's not forget the underlying issue. This is not a matter profits and losses or of one industry attempting to stifle another, but rather one of defending the creative community's right to do with their craft and their property how they wish. And what they wish -- I assure you -- is to meet consumer demand and bring music to the Internet.
The actions of the RIAA are in stark contrast to this statement. The $250,000,000 or so judgement they just earned against MP3.com is a manifest attempt to shut down potential competition. Their efforts to ban forms of file sharing and network traffic that might be used to violate copyright is a heavy handed attempt to control an entire medium of communication. Anyone who thinks that the "artists" of the RIAA have any real control of how their works are marketed and distibuted, is very naive. All of these efforts are far from "moderate" and all of them have been well covered and documented here.
The goal that RIAA and other greed heads are persuing is pay for play. The Cuecat and uniqe processor IDs are nascent efforts to controle the very hardware in your house by "copyright," with the very obvious goal of "protecting" copyright material. The DeCSS case is a more blatent example of the potential misuses of the DMCPA where it is illegal to dissminate, link to or even use a piece of software that undoes a lame encryption technique. All of these things put together with the RIAA's raketeering history of payolla, control of music sales by exclusivity, and airwave domination, should be enough to convice you that there is a large class of leaches that would like to make a living by comming between you and all creative effort.
There are so many better micro controlers out there these days, why would anyone fool with one of these old things? The Basic Stamp is an older example that can run for hours off a 9V battery (SWAG time, this is a low estimate bassed on personal experiance, poster is too lazy to check out real power consumption). It comes with an easy DOS bases programer that uses your PC as a display and it's ports to talk to it. Stand alone displays are available. Hell, if you are in love with Z80's go get a new eZ80.
Here is a word to all you incompetent criminals, tough luck. Creep says, "That letter with the char marks on it should be thrown out!". Judge says, "Bullshit."
This is a seperate issue from unreasonable searches like Carnivore. We should not let one bad decision force us into even less reasonable laws. Reasonable searches should not be impeeded.
mass expended per unit time is a rate.
People who design restictions on consumption have done some thinking for me that I don't apreciate. First they have decided, often with poor justification, that a certian resource needs to be preserved. Second they have decided how much of that resource people really need. Bunk. How many times have we seen the end of fossil fuel predicted in 30 years? How many Malthusian dissaster stories do we have to hear to realize that people simply adapt? The economic consequences of restriction are too great to ignore. Artificial scarcity is abonmible.
The only safe use of resources is maximal. Renuable resources must be gaurded to insure they renew themselves. Non renuable resources should be expoited as fast as the market will bear without craping other things up. Saving them for tomorow imprverishes us today and lessens our ability to plan and adapt.
A good example of this is gassoline taxes. Imagine the drain on the US economy if gassoline were taxed up to $4.00/gallon as it is in Europe. The money collected by government could never compensate for the opertunites lost by individuals, yet consumption would not really decline. You don't see electric cars in Europe do you? I'll bet they use almost as much per capita as we do here in the good old USA after you normalize for population density. All of that money would be beter spent on more basic human needs like shelter and education. Cheap gassoline has a great effect on our economy by encouraging a mobile workforce and real profits the government can tax and have more. I hate my 45 minute drive to work, but I can afford it until I move closer. As a result, I can do my little part in putting 1GW of electricty onto the grid at $0.02/kWhr, while saving up to buy a house and educate planned children. I can get the things I want while providing for others, neat.
Now think about a place like India. Instead of fussing at them to cap their emmisions by reducing consumption, we should be using our wealth to provide them with cleaner equipment. People there have basic needs like potable water, food and shelter unmet. Who are we to tell them not to exploit their resources?
If some fool wants to spend his money on cars and all that, let them. I'd rather mitigate such behavior by education and ridicule than by laws. Leave people free to persue what makes them happy and things will work themselves out. His loss is my loss, and yours too.
You might also note that some people recomending that everyone reduce consumption have no problems living it up. You might rember the Clinton Administration flying two 747s on a pleasure tour, I mean environmental tour, of the whole freaking world. Some animals are more equal than others.
We should always try to provide more for people rather than restrict them.
If 1kW only gets you 3N, you had better get one hell of a long arm.
(1) Force = Mass rate * Exit Velocity
(2) Power = 1/2 Mass rate * square of Velocity
Rearange 2 to solve for exit velocity from the given mass rate 1kg/day /24 (hours/day) /3600 (seconds/hour), and power 1000 Joules/second, then plug it back into the first equation to get force in a perfect world with no losses of power.
Now this is a fine multiplication, but it's still a low absolute force that needs help and mission times will be long. While it is least expensive to change your orbits at infinity, you will still need some other propulsion system to do it. Then, of course, you might want to make some course adjustments when you get closer to the target. Consider the period of other bodies that orbit the sun, like Hales commet to get an idea of how long it might take you to get places this way. Then remember that you will have to turn your shield off while you fall back, Ouch! I need another shield! Ohhhh! the solar winds are not my friends! Better to use this to move supplies.
Slingshots are cool, but if your only travel direction is a radial arc, you might have to wait a while for a planet to be in the right place.
No luck for you, in any case! I love my wife and we want lots of children. What can be more important than making nice people? We hope the same for all people. What is it, be fruitful and multiply? Rights of reproduction are firmly entrenched in the United Nations Charter and well protected in most of the world.
We also hope that there will be enough for everyone and belive that restrictions on consumption are short sighted and foolish. Unrestricted, wealth has a way of spreading.
It is obvious that you don't like people that dissagree with you. I am sorry, and hope you get better. You should catch some of my flu and start striving with me for better things for yourself and others.
Here's some information about "formerly great cosmologists", for those of you who don't want to use a search engine. I wish UCLA could be less strident about it, but it was fun to think big thoughts for a while.
Want to consume fewer resources, fine. Show me better ways, that's good. Force me to sit? Keep me from things to suit you? Tell me how to run my life, Get Lost!
Hammer? I've got lots of tools. Nuclear power is available, cheap and potentialy inexhaustable alternate energy. Well managed forests can provide housing for everyone. Cheap petrolium can move things right now. The more you have today, the more you can do with tomorow. Damn you naysayers! Full speed ahead!