Like you can just make a magic wand to detect illegal computer activity.
Someone better not tell them about Linux boot CD's or USB sticks. They only things they will catch are music and movie pirates. as if the RIAA needed more help.
It's not about the few rich a holes who will get their cars. I couldn't care less about these guys, and don't intend to help them. But here is how helping them helps the rest of us.
And it's not trickle down economics. It's trickle down technology.
Tesla will drive a whole food chain of electric car parts vendors, driving research and pushing costs down. This will eventually make it economical for the rest of us.
If you remember computers in the 50, 60 and 70 where the domains of fortune 500 and large government projects. But without the investment into these dinosaurs of the computing world, the PC would never had happened.
If we don't support electric car companies now, the we will never move off oil.
It's like the Nike Commercial, which I didn't get for a long time.
Just Do it!
Sure sounds so simple, and it is in a way. You just start doing it.
There are companies that hire based on tests and papers, they usually get OK people but more importantly the managers covered there asses.
Smaller companies are interested in those to can get the job done, to hell with the degrees and certificates. This is where to start.
Set up your box, in a Colo, around $100 per month. And Start doing things, setting up sites, hosting other people, scripting. Setting up services. Then start feeding back into the FOSS community with bug reports asking and answering questions etc.
I find if your the guy answering questions, jobs soon follow. www.videotechnology.com has been my bread and butter for a long time. I don't sell anything, just field questions on the subject and occasionally write something useful.
My name is now in the Linux Kernel too, that helps. And over enough time I have so much experience that seldom do I have any problems getting accepted. It's just with the Big names that I get stonewalled, for example getting into a E-bay, Yahoo or Google, which is odd since I taught some of there early sysadmins on how to set up their networks at the Silicon Valley BSD users group. (svbug)
So stop whining and just do it, and keep doing it. and eventually you will be going places. Since those with certificates only know what they trained for, those that are self taught, can get up to speed on anything.
I am going to respond to a few things I have seen in here.
It's a cynical way of saying that completing college shows you are capable of taking on something and seeing it through to completion.
College just shows you had some privilege in life. This a crock of shit, about being able to compete. So far I have help 3 people finish there Masters Thesis and one PhD Thesis. These guys couldn't complete this on there own, on the other hand I am more then capable of competing work, but just can't afford to sit around for 10 years in school to get my PhD. and there it little point in anything less for me at this time. I started making money with electronics repair when I was 12, and have had to support my self 100% since I was 16. Where was my chance to attend school where I get the luxury to take my time to learn something?
For all of you that think a degree is needed, bite me.
I just spend a little time reading thought the MS web site, and it never really says!
WTF is Silverlight?
Is it some web server? or a browser? or some scripting language?
I don't get it, and I don't feel like downloading it and installing it to find out, or watching there video.
Am I the only one confused by all this meaningless marketing speak?
I mean it talks about XML and features, but never says what the hell the damb thing is!!!!
They really have made an excellent platform for making pda's/laptops and desktops, but few have really taken advantage of it so far. Just Set top boxes, and embedded platforms, which is where I have been using them.
I just don't understand why OLPC didn't use ARM...
They were brand less, but interchangeable with Lego's. The problem was the tolerances where not as good and so they didn't lock together as well.
Lego has one large advantage which is quality precision plastic molding. I don't think many low end toy companies will be able to make blocks of the same quality that are dramatically cheaper.
Still I do hope the costs will come down. Some of these sets are getting ridiculously expensive for such a small amount of blocks.
Well I just finished a project with the Perc JVM on arm.
I had no problems taking stuff developed on suns JVM on Windows PC's and running then on the arm. Trivial really.
The arm platform is something we designed from scratch based on Linux. Yea I know people could do the same in Wince, but I don't think the C# would port over as easy.
I have been tiring to work with Microsoft tools since 1985. With the exception of there original gwbasic which I love and the original DOS debug, Most of what they have written since has been a nightmare, so much so I help port a version of BSD Unix to the PC! I work there there C compiler from before the bought it, when it was Lattic C. I have programming in window 3.0, 3.1 windows for work groups, 98, 2K, and XP. Visual Studio 6 being the best they ever had it at.
It all sucks when compared with simple plain vanilla GCC and Linux/BSD Unix.
Windows always take 10x longer to develop code for, it's a nightmare. I don't know C# I am told it's just like Java, so then why not just use Java? Microsoft started with using Java and make up C# just to fuck with Sun and Netscape/Mozilla.
I have no time for their crap. So many times have I followed there technology strategy down a dead end, I spend countless hours learning the MCI,VFW, then Direct Show, the DDK, COM, ALT. Seems like every 6 months there is yet another API, but they never expose the "system call's" the low level function so we can build our own high level calls. I don't need them to make me a.net HttpWebRequest method! I can do this just fine with raw TCP/IP. As a matter of fact it's faster to write one then figure out there retarded docs on how to use there high level methods anyhow.
Each API is ambiguous, lacking key functionality. I do Video and in the end I find it next to impossible to get some of what I want to do accomplished without writing a driver!
In Unix there was nothing new I needed to learn, fopen("/dev/vga") fopen("/dev/audio") presto I have video output access.
Why bother even playing with other people screwy stuff.
I program C, C++. It works everywhere! Does everything almost. the few places it's can't go is downloadable browser code. So I do Java - javascript for that. Active X has been a nightmare.
I have nothing against python, it seems to server it's users well, and it finding it's way in to many embedded applications, as well as the enterprise.
So far I have learned and used over 100+ languages, many are now dead or might as well be. Things that I loved dearly like Turbo Pascal or hated ever moment of like Pick Basic or foxbase.
After some time you start to realize the different between real things with substance and shiny new objects that are being shoved down your throat.
> Java and C# are nearly interchangeable yes I know.
So then why bother with something closed source?
> Actionscript This is it's own beast, I'd have the same gripes with flash, except it's getting much more open, and they have done an excellent job for what it is, but it's very limited in it's use again and so it's not a "real language" by my definition.
I am sure there is some compsci student out there that can come up with a better term for it, but it's a Niche Language and as such has limited use.
I am a VI user not an Emacs user. Why? Because emacs often requires installation, where VI is by default on almost every Linux and Unix system, it's also an extended version of "ed" that is a very useful tool.
Anyhow it's not small mindedness, because C# is closed and proprietary it very limited in it use.
For example you will not see developers porting the language to new systems. Only Microsoft can do that! Hence it's not a real language in that respect.
How about project usage? Can you write an OS with it. Or program set top boxes or other embedded applications?
real languages can go anywhere. it's not some petty personal bias. It's a real fact, C, C++, Forth, Java can be counted on as running on almost even known CPU and hardware device ever developed.
C and Forth are almost university the first languages to run on any CPU!!!
Where C and Forth goes, Python, perl, php, java, pascal and many other languages are easy to port over on top of the C compiler. Except C#, J++ and other proprietary solutions.
Try that with C#. Oh you don't have the language source code... Oooh too bad. You don't have source for all of your libraries or even a clean spec on how things are supposed to work. Oh well call m$ and see if they can help.
> API Lead at Twitter, Alex Payne Yes Newbie. He clearly has no appreciation of the history or how things came to be. It's not like TCP/IP was the only choice, many other network technologies tried to become the Internet and failed. TCP/IP won out because it was the first to work and was open enough to work across all platforms. Novell, IBM, Microsoft all had their Networking technologies that they tried to push out TCP/IP with and almost completely did for a while with LAN's. But that all fell apart when companies want to move to WAN's and scaling up, TCP/IP was the only thing what work for both LAN and WAN. People forget the large push ATM to the desktop had, where they tried to replace TCP/IP with ATM. ATM's strength coming from preexisting telecoms switches for large voice WAN's was the only thing that supported the high bandwidth fiber for a long time. But TCP/IP just tunneled right over ATM, where ATM was too sensitive to tunnel, and was limited in what medium it can operate over. (No ATM over 2400 Baud Modems for example!)
In the end it's about Evolution, it's not some engineer or any group of humans that get to make the final decision. Call it the market, but people will choose what ever get's there job done best for them. This includes many factors that engineers never consider, legacy gear, awareness of terminology, software support, reliability, cost, platform support, open-ness of standard, multi-vendor support, cost of HW/SW. Maturity of technology, what is the TOP and and BOTTOM end. By this I mean TCP/IP can run on a PIC Microchip and a billion Dollar super computer. It can run over radio, fiber, satellite, carrier pigeon(RFC 1149) even.
What ever takes it's place will have to be that flexible, where every light bulb can have it's own network address and still support TerraBit networks.
This is no small task, the reality is IP is flexible, so much so that you can run other protocols through it or it though other protocols. As such it will most likely be around forever and just have stuff layered over and under it. Like VPN's, PPPoE, RTP/RTSP.
Anyone is free to start creating there own IPv6 or what ever other kind of network and selling it, or running it in parallel with the internet or even over the IPv4/6 Internet.
So at this point to think your going to convince everyone to drop IPv4/6 and try something immature that is untried and untested it just unrealistic and ignorant to suggest.
Originally that was my plan, to sell this to individuals as a novelty if you will, silent computers. Since I do video, having a silent PC is important when recording audio in the same room as your PC is located.
(I was inventor & tech) But some of the people came in as management went for enterprise too soon, and I knew it wasn't a good fit at that point, while we were pre-funded, and no revenue, and unable to put the kind of money in to making those kinds of sales.
True they may not succeed, but what is frustrating is that they have still made it further then we did, in terms of getting a product on the market. I guess was undermined early on when the partners I brought in didn't see money in a novelty product, but time has shown that Alien Ware and other companies with stylish cases can do quite well. I still think it would sell although most companies have managed to quite there high end systems considerably, in 2002 the 3.2 Ghz P4 were up at the 75dB noise level, so it was really a good time for such a product, the idea being that once that market started to dry up we'd be in a much better position to create products for the enterprise market.
We had an all aluminum design as well as a water cooled design. I also came up with an advanced Carbon Fiber material with 4x the thermal conductivity of Copper that was light weight.
These systems provide much more cooling then oil could ever do.
The system was sealed, 100% total silent and easy to disassemble and re-assemble. Even easier to work on then a regular PC...
We even had the hard drives in a thermally conductive rubber allowing them to run cooler then in a normal system with fans.
The main system was sealed and designed to run with a descant and dry gas like argon inside so when overclocking using peltier thermoelectric coolers on the CPU where wouldn't be any condensation. Condensation is a major problem for overclockers that up the voltage and have to supercool the CPU.
We are still planning to open source the designs.
We never were able to raise the money to start production of these. To be honest 1/2 our problem was management wanted to court Intel,HP, SUN, and they just didn't get it. The large companies really weren't interested in something that didn't conform to what they already were doing.
We never did talk to enough small investors, and finally we ended up with a bad apple in the company that try to do a hostile take over and killed the company when he failed...
Finally the last 20 polished heat sinks I had were stolen out of my garage 2 weeks ago:( Some idiots problem going to get standard aluminum recycling prices for them too, considering each one cost me over $100 each!
I always felt doing oil was just idiotic and still do.
Too bad being an entrepreneur isn't as easy as programming.
If anyone is still interested in this tech, let me know. I have 3 years invested in it, and we were partners with NASA for much of it.
On Cable they the Discover Channel had a show in HD where they build a CO2 scrubber almost identical to the ones describe in the papers from the University of Calgary's David Keith that the article was about.
I don't know about the whole caustic soda CO2 sequestration seems complex. David Keith papers have the whole chemistry capture and extracting the CO2 from the working fluid to reuse them.
The whole thing is like a glorified swamp cooler, and if they were smart, they could just retrofit existing cooling towers and swamp coolers to serve dual purpose of evaporation cooling and CO2 extraction.
I had an interesting though here, which is this is the first steps of terraforming. We could store CO2 underground when it's too hot, and expel CO2 if we start to get an ice age.
Anyhow I think at this time, methane hydrates warming up on the sea floor and releasing methane in to the atmosphere is starting to occur. Or at least we are just beginning to notice anyhow. This could end up becoming a much larger problem then CO2 soon.
Slashdot Mirror
I already seen this site like a year or two ago.
How can this make slashdot now.
Tesla's very cool, but there is little new here.
And how come we are not talking about the shoe that almost hit George Bush instead.
Like you can just make a magic wand to detect illegal computer activity.
Someone better not tell them about Linux boot CD's or USB sticks. They only things they will catch are music and movie pirates. as if the RIAA needed more help.
Next they will want mind probe helmets.
It's not about the few rich a holes who will get their cars. I couldn't care less about these guys, and don't intend to help them. But here is how helping them helps the rest of us.
And it's not trickle down economics. It's trickle down technology.
Tesla will drive a whole food chain of electric car parts vendors, driving research and pushing costs down. This will eventually make it economical for the rest of us.
If you remember computers in the 50, 60 and 70 where the domains of fortune 500 and large government projects. But without the investment into these dinosaurs of the computing world, the PC would never had happened.
If we don't support electric car companies now, the we will never move off oil.
It's like the Nike Commercial, which I didn't get for a long time.
Just Do it!
Sure sounds so simple, and it is in a way.
You just start doing it.
There are companies that hire based on tests and papers, they usually get OK people but more importantly the managers covered there asses.
Smaller companies are interested in those to can get the job done, to hell with the degrees and certificates. This is where to start.
Set up your box, in a Colo, around $100 per month.
And Start doing things, setting up sites, hosting other people, scripting. Setting up services.
Then start feeding back into the FOSS community with bug reports asking and answering questions etc.
I find if your the guy answering questions, jobs soon follow. www.videotechnology.com has been my bread and butter for a long time. I don't sell anything, just field questions on the subject and occasionally write something useful.
My name is now in the Linux Kernel too, that helps. And over enough time I have so much experience that seldom do I have any problems getting accepted. It's just with the Big names that I get stonewalled, for example getting into a E-bay, Yahoo or Google, which is odd since I taught some of there early sysadmins on how to set up their networks at the Silicon Valley BSD users group. (svbug)
So stop whining and just do it, and keep doing it.
and eventually you will be going places. Since those with certificates only know what they trained for, those that are self taught, can get up to speed on anything.
I am going to respond to a few things I have seen in here.
It's a cynical way of saying that completing college shows you are capable of taking on something and seeing it through to completion.
College just shows you had some privilege in life. This a crock of shit, about being able to compete. So far I have help 3 people finish there Masters Thesis and one PhD Thesis. These guys couldn't complete this on there own, on the other hand I am more then capable of competing work, but just can't afford to sit around for 10 years in school to get my PhD. and there it little point in anything less for me at this time.
I started making money with electronics repair when I was 12, and have had to support my self 100% since I was 16. Where was my chance to attend school where I get the luxury to take my time to learn something?
For all of you that think a degree is needed, bite me.
I dunno, a million dollars didn't help me much in that department, unless you want to rent a date by the hour.
The High Priests have already had there chance to do this and failed, repeatedly. Now they are just throwing more money at them.
This should be an open grand challenge with clear rules like the autonomous vehicle challenge was.
http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/
Even I was surprised at how well they managed to get these cars to drive themselves.
I am sure the same would happen with other AI problems if a large enough prize was put out there.
So basically pure evil.. ;)
I just spend a little time reading thought the MS web site, and it never really says!
WTF is Silverlight?
Is it some web server? or a browser? or some scripting language?
I don't get it, and I don't feel like downloading it and installing it to find out, or watching there video.
Am I the only one confused by all this meaningless marketing speak?
I mean it talks about XML and features, but never says what the hell the damb thing is!!!!
Did I miss the memo on this somewhere?
I think I have Marvin Minsky on Video saying the exact same thing.
ARM kicks ass.
They really have made an excellent platform for making pda's/laptops and desktops, but few have really taken advantage of it so far. Just Set top boxes, and embedded platforms, which is where I have been using them.
I just don't understand why OLPC didn't use ARM...
They were brand less, but interchangeable with Lego's.
The problem was the tolerances where not as good and so they didn't lock together as well.
Lego has one large advantage which is quality precision plastic molding. I don't think many low end toy companies will be able to make blocks of the same quality that are dramatically cheaper.
Still I do hope the costs will come down.
Some of these sets are getting ridiculously expensive for such a small amount of blocks.
tar -cf - * | rsh -l sokol 192.168.1.105 "tar -xf -"
Some interesting related sites I have on Unix trivia tricks and tips.
The best utils are awk, sed, grep and bc, just using these there are so many things possible.
Yes they could be cleaned up some.
http://www.churchofbsd.org/
and
http://www.unixprogram.com/
Well I just finished a project with the Perc JVM on arm.
I had no problems taking stuff developed on suns JVM on Windows PC's and running then on the arm. Trivial really.
The arm platform is something we designed from scratch based on Linux. Yea I know people could do the same in Wince, but I don't think the C# would port over as easy.
I have been tiring to work with Microsoft tools since 1985. With the exception of there original gwbasic which I love and the original DOS debug, Most of what they have written since has been a nightmare, so much so I help port a version of BSD Unix to the PC! I work there there C compiler from before the bought it, when it was Lattic C. I have programming in window 3.0, 3.1 windows for work groups, 98, 2K, and XP.
Visual Studio 6 being the best they ever had it at.
It all sucks when compared with simple plain vanilla GCC and Linux/BSD Unix.
Windows always take 10x longer to develop code for, it's a nightmare. I don't know C# I am told it's just like Java, so then why not just use Java? Microsoft started with using Java and make up C# just to fuck with Sun and Netscape/Mozilla.
I have no time for their crap. So many times have I followed there technology strategy down a dead end, I spend countless hours learning the MCI ,VFW, then Direct Show, the DDK, COM, ALT. Seems like every 6 months there is yet another API, but they never expose the "system call's" the low level function so we can build our own high level calls. I don't need them to make me a .net HttpWebRequest method! I can do this just fine with raw TCP/IP.
As a matter of fact it's faster to write one then figure out there retarded docs on how to use there high level methods anyhow.
Each API is ambiguous, lacking key functionality. I do Video and in the end I find it next to impossible to get some of what I want to do accomplished without writing a driver!
In Unix there was nothing new I needed to learn, fopen("/dev/vga") fopen("/dev/audio") presto I have video output access.
Why bother even playing with other people screwy stuff.
I program C, C++. It works everywhere! Does everything almost. the few places it's can't go is downloadable browser code. So I do Java - javascript for that. Active X has been a nightmare.
I have nothing against python, it seems to server it's users well, and it finding it's way in to many embedded applications, as well as the enterprise.
So far I have learned and used over 100+ languages, many are now dead or might as well be.
Things that I loved dearly like Turbo Pascal or hated ever moment of like Pick Basic or foxbase.
After some time you start to realize the different between real things with substance and shiny new objects that are being shoved down your throat.
C# being in the latter category.
> Java and C# are nearly interchangeable
yes I know.
So then why bother with something closed source?
> Actionscript
This is it's own beast, I'd have the same gripes with flash, except it's getting much more open, and they have done an excellent job for what it is, but it's very limited in it's use again and so it's not a "real language" by my definition.
I am sure there is some compsci student out there that can come up with a better term for it, but it's a Niche Language and as such has limited use.
I am a VI user not an Emacs user.
Why? Because emacs often requires installation, where VI is by default on almost every Linux and Unix system, it's also an extended version of "ed" that is a very useful tool.
Anyhow it's not small mindedness, because C# is closed and proprietary it very limited in it use.
For example you will not see developers porting the language to new systems. Only Microsoft can do that!
Hence it's not a real language in that respect.
How about project usage? Can you write an OS with it. Or program set top boxes or other embedded applications?
real languages can go anywhere. it's not some petty personal bias. It's a real fact, C, C++, Forth, Java can be counted on as running on almost even known CPU and hardware device ever developed.
C and Forth are almost university the first languages to run on any CPU!!!
Where C and Forth goes, Python, perl, php, java, pascal and many other languages are easy to port over on top of the C compiler. Except C#, J++ and other proprietary solutions.
Try that with C#. Oh you don't have the language source code... Oooh too bad. You don't have source for all of your libraries or even a clean spec on how things are supposed to work. Oh well call m$ and see if they can help.
vi for life!
see my site http://www.churchofbsd.org/
C#!?!?!
If you think that's a step up, you really have a lot to learn.
Why don't you learn a real language. C, C++, Assembly, Java, Perl, forth, pascal, fortan or COBOL even, before criticizing Python.
But coming back with C# is just beyond lame.
> API Lead at Twitter, Alex Payne
Yes Newbie. He clearly has no appreciation of the history or how things came to be.
It's not like TCP/IP was the only choice, many other network technologies tried to become the Internet and failed. TCP/IP won out because it was the first to work and was open enough to work across all platforms. Novell, IBM, Microsoft all had their Networking technologies that they tried to push out TCP/IP with and almost completely did for a while with LAN's. But that all fell apart when companies want to move to WAN's and scaling up, TCP/IP was the only thing what work for both LAN and WAN. People forget the large push ATM to the desktop had, where they tried to replace TCP/IP with ATM. ATM's strength coming from preexisting telecoms switches for large voice WAN's was the only thing that supported the high bandwidth fiber for a long time. But TCP/IP just tunneled right over ATM, where ATM was too sensitive to tunnel, and was limited in what medium it can operate over. (No ATM over 2400 Baud Modems for example!)
In the end it's about Evolution, it's not some engineer or any group of humans that get to make the final decision. Call it the market, but people will choose what ever get's there job done best for them. This includes many factors that engineers never consider, legacy gear, awareness of terminology, software support, reliability, cost, platform support, open-ness of standard, multi-vendor support, cost of HW/SW. Maturity of technology, what is the TOP and and BOTTOM end.
By this I mean TCP/IP can run on a PIC Microchip and a billion Dollar super computer. It can run over radio, fiber, satellite, carrier pigeon(RFC 1149) even.
What ever takes it's place will have to be that flexible, where every light bulb can have it's own network address and still support TerraBit networks.
This is no small task, the reality is IP is flexible, so much so that you can run other protocols through it or it though other protocols. As such it will most likely be around forever and just have stuff layered over and under it. Like VPN's, PPPoE, RTP/RTSP.
Anyone is free to start creating there own IPv6 or what ever other kind of network and selling it, or running it in parallel with the internet or even over the IPv4/6 Internet.
So at this point to think your going to convince everyone to drop IPv4/6 and try something immature that is untried and untested it just unrealistic and ignorant to suggest.
Originally that was my plan, to sell this to individuals as a novelty if you will, silent computers. Since I do video, having a silent PC is important when recording audio in the same room as your PC is located.
(I was inventor & tech)
But some of the people came in as management went for enterprise too soon, and I knew it wasn't a good fit at that point, while we were pre-funded, and no revenue, and unable to put the kind of money in to making those kinds of sales.
True they may not succeed, but what is frustrating is that they have still made it further then we did, in terms of getting a product on the market. I guess was undermined early on when the partners I brought in didn't see money in a novelty product, but time has shown that Alien Ware and other companies with stylish cases can do quite well.
I still think it would sell although most companies have managed to quite there high end systems considerably, in 2002 the 3.2 Ghz P4 were up at the 75dB noise level, so it was really a good time for such a product, the idea being that once that market started to dry up we'd be in a much better position to create products for the enterprise market.
Well how is this oil cooled company able to come out with their product? It can't be much cheaper then what I was doing?
This is from a now dead startup I did from 2002 to 2005. 100% totally silent High end PC's.
http://www.silentcomputing.com/i.html Look at the last photo.
We had an all aluminum design as well as a water cooled design. I also came up with an advanced Carbon Fiber material with 4x the thermal conductivity of Copper that was light weight.
These systems provide much more cooling then oil could ever do.
The system was sealed, 100% total silent and easy to disassemble and re-assemble. Even easier to work on then a regular PC...
We even had the hard drives in a thermally conductive rubber allowing them to run cooler then in a normal system with fans.
The main system was sealed and designed to run with a descant and dry gas like argon inside so when overclocking using peltier thermoelectric coolers on the CPU where wouldn't be any condensation. Condensation is a major problem for overclockers that up the voltage and have to supercool the CPU.
We are still planning to open source the designs.
We never were able to raise the money to start production of these. To be honest 1/2 our problem was management wanted to court Intel,HP, SUN, and they just didn't get it. The large companies really weren't interested in something that didn't conform to what they already were doing.
We never did talk to enough small investors, and finally we ended up with a bad apple in the company that try to do a hostile take over and killed the company when he failed...
Finally the last 20 polished heat sinks I had were stolen out of my garage 2 weeks ago :( Some idiots problem going to get standard aluminum recycling prices for them too, considering each one cost me over $100 each!
I always felt doing oil was just idiotic and still do.
Too bad being an entrepreneur isn't as easy as programming.
If anyone is still interested in this tech, let me know. I have 3 years invested in it, and we were partners with NASA for much of it.
;) lol
Maybe so.
Yes I know this is off topic, but I had to check out the tag line on this one.
"I'm making a Low Budget HDV Filipino Horror Movie in NYC [bangamovie.com]"
Interesting, I don't know about your special effects they could be better, but the girl is just beautiful.
http://www.videotechnology.com/ is my site.
Interesting,
In my article I had the link:
http://www.tse.gov.br/eleicoes/urna_eletronica/simulacao_votacao/UrnaApplet.htm
You just pointed to another link on the same site:
http://www.tse.gov.br/internet/eleicoes/urna_eletronica/simulacao_votacao/2008/SimUrnaBR.html
I wonder what the difference is?
On Cable they the Discover Channel had a show in HD where they build a CO2 scrubber almost identical to the ones describe in the papers from the University of Calgary's David Keith that the article was about.
Discover Channel
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/project-earth/explores/carbon.html
David Keith Home page
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~keith/CO2%20Capture%20and%20Storage.html
I don't know about the whole caustic soda CO2 sequestration seems complex. David Keith papers have the whole chemistry capture and extracting the CO2 from the working fluid to reuse them.
The whole thing is like a glorified swamp cooler, and if they were smart, they could just retrofit existing cooling towers and swamp coolers to serve dual purpose of evaporation cooling and CO2 extraction.
I had an interesting though here, which is this is the first steps of terraforming.
We could store CO2 underground when it's too hot, and expel CO2 if we start to get an ice age.
Anyhow I think at this time, methane hydrates warming up on the sea floor and releasing methane in to the atmosphere is starting to occur. Or at least we are just beginning to notice anyhow.
This could end up becoming a much larger problem then CO2 soon.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hundreds-of-methane-plumes-discovered-941456.html