True, but it does improve mobility when you can wirelessly recharge your batteries at a train station (for example). When your laptop battery is drained because you took it with you (to school or work), you don't need to be chained with it to the wall when you're back at home.
Setting aside concerns about increasing environmental EMF, what would wireless power offer other than convenience?
Mobility.
Wireless power transmission is more wasteful than conventional methods of power delivery.
... to this day. I am sure research can make it more efficient over time. Maybe by sensors that are able to locate devices so that power supplies can target them, therefore being more efficient. When devices are not in range, power supplies could be automatically switched off
On another note, why would we create infrastructure that could interfere with neural interfaces?
Nobody said that wireless power needs to work the way that it works now. Who knows? Maybe a new scientific discovery at CERN could enable non-damaging wireless power implementation?
[...] why would we saturate our environment with electricity when the next gen of interfaces rely on reading minute electrical impulses?
It is totally uncertain as to whether these interfaces are going the be accepted, but a work-around could be blocking signals of electric pulses that are not minute. Of course there is always a solution... I would even like it if there would be anything to disrupt mind-reading technology as it opens up a huge possibility to impair privacy and personal security.
Wireless power is only suitable for everything that is portable. Portable electronics require chargeable batteries. Chargeable batteries are also a wasteful.
Chargeable batteries also generate heat, are harmful to the environment when disposed and can cause fires and serious injury to the point of death when they explode.
Why? F10 (I am using Fedora for the first time in my life, but haven't ran into problems yet although I am using the KDE4 spin) has a stricter SEL policy then F9.
By looking at the number of downloads I see that NoScript has been downloaded over 31 milion times and a quarter of a milion downloads each week on avarage...
[...]You need to find the Resurrection Ship and put a nuke in its colon.... preferably making it a HUGE swollen colon, that no deep space Ben-Gay nor Preparation H can favorabley re-sequence[...]
You want to take on Microsoft?
The only way to do that is to make sure no major retailer wants to sell Windows and preloaded Windows computers
You can't kill zombies with ice or water. We need flames. Maybe we can send baestie up their ass... Cash cow? Apple? Steve would surely love to see Redmond going up in flames!
All joking aside... the real battle is IBM and Novell Vs Microsoft. In the sense of "First they ignore you, then laugh at you, then hate you, then they fight you and then you win", the road to Linux on the desktop is 80% completed. May IBM and Novell win...
Never believe in something that Microsoft says until they release it. Let's start of by asking ourselves where their Cloud OS has gone. Shouldn't that have been released my now? Oh wait...
This is ofcourse bullshit: The fastest Quad Core x86-64 CPU doesn't have the power to play Crysis at all and everybody here knows that.
It may be possible that NT6.1 comes with this but only if you can get 3D Aero to run on a system with Intel integrated graphics so that Micosoft could make Intel a little happier (Please excuse us for making NT6.0 such a resource hog that your integrated GPU can't process 3D Aero)
"And you do realize that MS Windows has nothing to do with nerds, right?"
no
Ah, so you don't realise it. Hey I can do this kinda crap too!
To you. I couldn't care less[...]
Here's another one: So you are the majority of/.? Oh and before you start complaining as to why I made such assumption: The majority on/. cares about FLOSS, so when you say that I might but you don't then you're asuming that you realy are/. minus me. Yeah, one more time.
this IS NOT A WEBSITE DEVOTED TO OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE.
This is a website devoted to FLOSS, but not solely devoted to FLOSS!
"You meant; "I am too stupid to comprehent (sic) smart people"
At least you finally admit it, but you really shouldn't be so hard on yourself.
You are such a girl trying to turn around everything that is reasonable, or related to any kind of logic. Or you're still stuck in the days of your ignorant chilhood.... or both.
Wow that's such intelligent behavior! You know what kind of people your behavior matches? 'nuff said. If the answer to this doesn't instantly pop to your head that you are far beyond help.
But in all seriousness, you do realize that this is "news for nerds, stuff that matters" right?
And that much of that news doesn't have a fucking thing to do with "FLOSS" right?
And you do realize that MS Windows has nothing to do with nerds, right? And that FLOSS and Linux is kinda important here on "/.", right?
You're not very bright so I suppose it's possible you didn't know that until just now....
Telling the truth? Seriously... what are you basing this 'truth' on?
About the ranting; sorry, but you realy, no... realy asked for it... Instead of going for the 'context' you were going for the 'person'. If you have (and I'm not saying you haven't) got social skills then you would know what your post would trigger.
It is if one counters them and you can't counter ones counter argument(s).
And you call ME stupid...
Not only is some part of 'YOUR' brain unable to properly read (I clearly asked what part of your brain was too stupid and I haven't said that you were stupid) but you also continuing making people hate you (flaimebait, -1). What a great life do you have there man!
I'm glad you think I'm right, and that I don't need to make any more arguments.
What part of your brain is too stupid to understand that if you run out of arguments then you are, you know, wrong?!
Now go watch nascar, er... I mean code some open source project.
Good idea, after I figured out exactly what I'm going to do with the ideas that I have, I am going to code it. You see, I might even make some money with it, but it so happens that I am not an antisocial, greedy person.
You're losers who identify with a movement because your life is otherwise meaningless.
Thank you for already going fast-forward to the part where I, and the 99,99% of/., can only laugh at you because there are no arguments left on your side of this conversation
Sit the fuck down and listen to the reason why the hell we, FLOSS users, hate proprietary software.
If I give you a hard copy of a document then you can read it. But what if I gave you a hard copy of a document with a flashy 3D graph that you cannot see without purchasing $300 glasses? Oh I am sorry, you must buy the $300 dollar glasses because the company patented-, and has hidden, the inner workings of it.
WTF?! We expect you to buy glasses when we can just, what? Provide an freely readable document?
Well hello and welcome to the digital fucking age. Why the hell do people give me digital documents that I can only view with Microsoft Office 200x? Oh wait, I can't...?- No. We made sure you can't possible make something else compatible with it because we lobbied for the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act".
Same goes with games. Do I have to agree to a EULA when I buy a actual Real Life board game of, let's say, chess? No ofcourse not! Ofcourse not? Well if I want a digital game of chess I do... Oh and wait, you cannot take the chess game with you when you move, because you may only take it to three houses (DRM). Oh and wait, you can't possible make you own chess game out of wood because then you are pirating the board game.
"But, but... It's for protecting the Intellectual Property!" Yeah right, so no-one may sell a set of bricks because LEGO already did it, in Real Life? Well I have to in the digital age...
Do you see and understand the fucking reason/necessity for free software now?
Proprietary software restricts our rights in the digital age. Please think of your children who grow up in it!
Here it's the other way around...
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In the Netherlands everyone who was intelligent used to get massive respect. Then when I got in high-school it suddenly changed. It was there that getting A's and 10's was uncool because you had to learn a lot for it and therefore you were probably not hanging around with other because you probably didn't had the time for it. Than, one yer ago, I read in some gratis newspaper that they give away in busses, that being intelligent was suddenly not cool anymore. Being dumb was totally 2007/2008. First I thought; OK what the hell? And now when you say something that requires a little amount of inteligence you are not showing others respect because you try the be the "Hey look at me I'm smarter than you!"-type...
better product? that must explain the overwhelming market share held by apple, and the competetive pricing they use, and the non propritery stuff too... oh wait
When I said better I didn't mean best. That's quite a big difference. But do you really consider Windows better than the Unix Mac OS X? What in the name of everything that's holy are you doing here on/.?
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True, but it does improve mobility when you can wirelessly recharge your batteries at a train station (for example). When your laptop battery is drained because you took it with you (to school or work), you don't need to be chained with it to the wall when you're back at home.
Setting aside concerns about increasing environmental EMF, what would wireless power offer other than convenience?
Mobility.
Wireless power transmission is more wasteful than conventional methods of power delivery.
... to this day. I am sure research can make it more efficient over time. Maybe by sensors that are able to locate devices so that power supplies can target them, therefore being more efficient. When devices are not in range, power supplies could be automatically switched off
On another note, why would we create infrastructure that could interfere with neural interfaces?
Nobody said that wireless power needs to work the way that it works now. Who knows? Maybe a new scientific discovery at CERN could enable non-damaging wireless power implementation?
[...] why would we saturate our environment with electricity when the next gen of interfaces rely on reading minute electrical impulses?
It is totally uncertain as to whether these interfaces are going the be accepted, but a work-around could be blocking signals of electric pulses that are not minute. Of course there is always a solution... I would even like it if there would be anything to disrupt mind-reading technology as it opens up a huge possibility to impair privacy and personal security.
Wireless power is only suitable for everything that is portable. Portable electronics require chargeable batteries. Chargeable batteries are also a wasteful.
Chargeable batteries also generate heat, are harmful to the environment when disposed and can cause fires and serious injury to the point of death when they explode.
There is no point not to use wireless power.
An open spec for crunching a shitload of calculations on a GPU on a card that handless dedicated rastering graphics...
Call it far-fetched but... do I smell the opportunity of real-time ray tracing games running on top of rasterised 3D desktop?
It automatically updates itself so that's not a part of the equation...
You, sir, have a very good memmory...
Why? F10 (I am using Fedora for the first time in my life, but haven't ran into problems yet although I am using the KDE4 spin) has a stricter SEL policy then F9.
Security guy #1 to security guy #2: "Quickly! The chairs! The CHAIRS! Bolt 'um to the ground! Do it now! DO IT NOW!"
By looking at the number of downloads I see that NoScript has been downloaded over 31 milion times and a quarter of a milion downloads each week on avarage...
Best against unknown viruses...
And you Windows users know it but oh... the pain... the pain...
[...]You need to find the Resurrection Ship and put a nuke in its colon.... preferably making it a HUGE swollen colon, that no deep space Ben-Gay nor Preparation H can favorabley re-sequence[...]
You want to take on Microsoft?
The only way to do that is to make sure no major retailer wants to sell Windows and preloaded Windows computers
Good luck with that!
You can't kill zombies with ice or water. We need flames. Maybe we can send baestie up their ass... Cash cow? Apple? Steve would surely love to see Redmond going up in flames!
All joking aside... the real battle is IBM and Novell Vs Microsoft. In the sense of "First they ignore you, then laugh at you, then hate you, then they fight you and then you win", the road to Linux on the desktop is 80% completed. May IBM and Novell win...
Never believe in something that Microsoft says until they release it. Let's start of by asking ourselves where their Cloud OS has gone. Shouldn't that have been released my now? Oh wait...
This is ofcourse bullshit: The fastest Quad Core x86-64 CPU doesn't have the power to play Crysis at all and everybody here knows that.
It may be possible that NT6.1 comes with this but only if you can get 3D Aero to run on a system with Intel integrated graphics so that Micosoft could make Intel a little happier (Please excuse us for making NT6.0 such a resource hog that your integrated GPU can't process 3D Aero)
"And you do realize that MS Windows has nothing to do with nerds, right?"
no
Ah, so you don't realise it. Hey I can do this kinda crap too!
To you. I couldn't care less[...]
Here's another one: So you are the majority of /.? Oh and before you start complaining as to why I made such assumption: The majority on /. cares about FLOSS, so when you say that I might but you don't then you're asuming that you realy are /. minus me. Yeah, one more time.
this IS NOT A WEBSITE DEVOTED TO OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE.
This is a website devoted to FLOSS, but not solely devoted to FLOSS!
"You meant; "I am too stupid to comprehent (sic) smart people"
At least you finally admit it, but you really shouldn't be so hard on yourself.
You are such a girl trying to turn around everything that is reasonable, or related to any kind of logic. Or you're still stuck in the days of your ignorant chilhood.... or both.
Payback's a bitch...
Making fun of you, at least today.
Thanks for making it easy.
Wow that's such intelligent behavior! You know what kind of people your behavior matches? 'nuff said. If the answer to this doesn't instantly pop to your head that you are far beyond help.
But in all seriousness, you do realize that this is "news for nerds, stuff that matters" right?
And that much of that news doesn't have a fucking thing to do with "FLOSS" right?
And you do realize that MS Windows has nothing to do with nerds, right? And that FLOSS and Linux is kinda important here on "/.", right?
You're not very bright so I suppose it's possible you didn't know that until just now....
You meant; "I am too stupid to comprehent smart people and laugh at them for not understanding anything they say. But hé! I can allways find some minor thing to quote that has nothing to do with the entire message the parent that I'm quoting. That way I can still win the discussion because I have simply cutt it off".
Well if you hate all these 'FLOSS fanboys' here so much, then I can only wonder; what are you doing here?
Telling the truth? Seriously... what are you basing this 'truth' on?
About the ranting; sorry, but you realy, no... realy asked for it... Instead of going for the 'context' you were going for the 'person'. If you have (and I'm not saying you haven't) got social skills then you would know what your post would trigger.
Um, not if the arguments are correct.
It is if one counters them and you can't counter ones counter argument(s).
And you call ME stupid...
Not only is some part of 'YOUR' brain unable to properly read (I clearly asked what part of your brain was too stupid and I haven't said that you were stupid) but you also continuing making people hate you (flaimebait, -1). What a great life do you have there man!
I'm glad you think I'm right, and that I don't need to make any more arguments.
What part of your brain is too stupid to understand that if you run out of arguments then you are, you know, wrong?!
Now go watch nascar, er... I mean code some open source project.
Good idea, after I figured out exactly what I'm going to do with the ideas that I have, I am going to code it. You see, I might even make some money with it, but it so happens that I am not an antisocial, greedy person.
No.
You're losers who identify with a movement because your life is otherwise meaningless.
Thank you for already going fast-forward to the part where I, and the 99,99% of /., can only laugh at you because there are no arguments left on your side of this conversation
Sit the fuck down and listen to the reason why the hell we, FLOSS users, hate proprietary software.
If I give you a hard copy of a document then you can read it. But what if I gave you a hard copy of a document with a flashy 3D graph that you cannot see without purchasing $300 glasses? Oh I am sorry, you must buy the $300 dollar glasses because the company patented-, and has hidden, the inner workings of it.
WTF?! We expect you to buy glasses when we can just, what? Provide an freely readable document?
Well hello and welcome to the digital fucking age. Why the hell do people give me digital documents that I can only view with Microsoft Office 200x? Oh wait, I can't...?- No. We made sure you can't possible make something else compatible with it because we lobbied for the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act".
Same goes with games. Do I have to agree to a EULA when I buy a actual Real Life board game of, let's say, chess? No ofcourse not! Ofcourse not? Well if I want a digital game of chess I do... Oh and wait, you cannot take the chess game with you when you move, because you may only take it to three houses (DRM). Oh and wait, you can't possible make you own chess game out of wood because then you are pirating the board game.
"But, but... It's for protecting the Intellectual Property!" Yeah right, so no-one may sell a set of bricks because LEGO already did it, in Real Life? Well I have to in the digital age...
Do you see and understand the fucking reason/necessity for free software now?
Proprietary software restricts our rights in the digital age. Please think of your children who grow up in it!
In the Netherlands everyone who was intelligent used to get massive respect. Then when I got in high-school it suddenly changed. It was there that getting A's and 10's was uncool because you had to learn a lot for it and therefore you were probably not hanging around with other because you probably didn't had the time for it. Than, one yer ago, I read in some gratis newspaper that they give away in busses, that being intelligent was suddenly not cool anymore. Being dumb was totally 2007/2008. First I thought; OK what the hell? And now when you say something that requires a little amount of inteligence you are not showing others respect because you try the be the "Hey look at me I'm smarter than you!"-type...
*Sigh*
... point this at someones face.
better product? that must explain the overwhelming market share held by apple, and the competetive pricing they use, and the non propritery stuff too... oh wait
When I said better I didn't mean best. That's quite a big difference. But do you really consider Windows better than the Unix Mac OS X? What in the name of everything that's holy are you doing here on /.?