People and companies here in the EU or over there in the US are used to being rather lazy (I'm certainly a good example myself). Less work means a lower general level of competition, which means that you can charge more money for lower quality of goods and services. Japan and South Korea will probably charge ahead of us for another generation before they too develop the same kind of lazyness cultures that we have in the western world. It will even itself out. We just have to wait 30 years. Or stop being lazy (as if).
Good news if it means that weapons might get more expensive. That would mean that parties that wage war against each other would have to rely more on machetes and other weapons that kill inefficiently. Also good news for so called "peace-keeping" forces from rich countries that already pay license fees for their rifles. They will face ill-equipped soldiers. Might also give Russia the upper hand in future separatist wars like the one in Chechnya, of course...
If i understand the pictures correctly the memory is actually inside a mini-card that fits into a slot on a normal SD/MMC form factor card. The mini card can also be plugged into the "hole" in a USB-connector. Pretty clever stuff. I suppose the only thing they forgot is a tool to help you locate and pick up dropped mini-cards from the floor.
It is impossible to create an independent colony on Mars without some fundamental technologies. From the top of my mind:
*Nuclear propulsion (to be able to send a meaningful amount of advanced technology to Mars).
*An extremely slim, clever "leapfrog" production system.
Mars is not independent until they can build everything that we have here on Earth. Everything from paper and pencils (or e-paper) to things like solar cells, integrated circuits, heavy machinery and whole spaceships. With today's technology almost every factory on Earth is needed to produce all the items that the Mars people will need.
Sanctions is such a nasty word. I'm completely for "climate compensation support" to be paid on all US goods. The fee would be based on how much energy was used in the production of every export item. The income from the fees could for example be ear-marked for renewable energy programs here in the EU.
Well, it does affect the average power over time, if "time" is longer than a few milliseconds. The total radiation exposure is proportional to how much data you transmit.
Let's throw around some numbers. The total exposure to radiation is ((Exposure Time) * (Exposure Power)) / Distance^2
WiFi and mobile phones transmit at frequencies very close to one another so we can probably assume that they add up. Mobile phone handsets transmit at roughly one order of magnitude more power than a computer with WiFi when they are used at maximum power. Let's say 1 W and 0.1 W respectively. A typical mobile phone antenna is used approximately 0.05 m from human tissue for 5 minutes per day (or something similar).
The computers on the kid's school tables does transmit the whole school day (5 hours), but does not transmit at every millisecond (unless the kids are downloading educational movies at maximum speed all day). Even if they have a room full of laptops the main source of radiation for each kid would be the laptop closest to that particular kid (because of the square law). Let's say the closest laptop is transmitting at an average of 0.01 W at 0.5 m distance for 5 hours.
Mobile exposure per day: (5 minutes * 1 W)/0.05^2 = 2000
WiFi exposure per day: (300 minutes * 0.01)/0.5^2 = 12
Unfortunately, the typical activist's response to this kind of reason is probably something like: "Well, in my personal opinion the multi-national corporations blah blah blah commercial blah government blah blah violating yadda yadda corporate-sponsored biased old fashioned science blah violations violations violations give me money".
The RealPlayer application for Windows, ca 2000-2001. But that is not my personal opinion - it is an indisputable fact. Personally I would have to say some early version of Windows or Gnome.
It may be a good idea to even locate a few real photo labs where people develop your photos from a CD/DVD to prints. Try ordering a few prints from those and see if any of them are worth the price they charge. If those shops are still alive where you live, of course.
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People and companies here in the EU or over there in the US are used to being rather lazy (I'm certainly a good example myself). Less work means a lower general level of competition, which means that you can charge more money for lower quality of goods and services. Japan and South Korea will probably charge ahead of us for another generation before they too develop the same kind of lazyness cultures that we have in the western world. It will even itself out. We just have to wait 30 years. Or stop being lazy (as if).
Good news if it means that weapons might get more expensive. That would mean that parties that wage war against each other would have to rely more on machetes and other weapons that kill inefficiently. Also good news for so called "peace-keeping" forces from rich countries that already pay license fees for their rifles. They will face ill-equipped soldiers. Might also give Russia the upper hand in future separatist wars like the one in Chechnya, of course...
If i understand the pictures correctly the memory is actually inside a mini-card that fits into a slot on a normal SD/MMC form factor card. The mini card can also be plugged into the "hole" in a USB-connector. Pretty clever stuff. I suppose the only thing they forgot is a tool to help you locate and pick up dropped mini-cards from the floor.
It is impossible to create an independent colony on Mars without some fundamental technologies. From the top of my mind: *Nuclear propulsion (to be able to send a meaningful amount of advanced technology to Mars). *An extremely slim, clever "leapfrog" production system. Mars is not independent until they can build everything that we have here on Earth. Everything from paper and pencils (or e-paper) to things like solar cells, integrated circuits, heavy machinery and whole spaceships. With today's technology almost every factory on Earth is needed to produce all the items that the Mars people will need.
Oh you mean (AL)GORESAT? Guessing it may be launched soon after the next president throws Bush's space plans in the trashcan.
Sanctions is such a nasty word. I'm completely for "climate compensation support" to be paid on all US goods. The fee would be based on how much energy was used in the production of every export item. The income from the fees could for example be ear-marked for renewable energy programs here in the EU.
Well, it does affect the average power over time, if "time" is longer than a few milliseconds. The total radiation exposure is proportional to how much data you transmit.
Let's throw around some numbers. The total exposure to radiation is ((Exposure Time) * (Exposure Power)) / Distance^2 WiFi and mobile phones transmit at frequencies very close to one another so we can probably assume that they add up. Mobile phone handsets transmit at roughly one order of magnitude more power than a computer with WiFi when they are used at maximum power. Let's say 1 W and 0.1 W respectively. A typical mobile phone antenna is used approximately 0.05 m from human tissue for 5 minutes per day (or something similar). The computers on the kid's school tables does transmit the whole school day (5 hours), but does not transmit at every millisecond (unless the kids are downloading educational movies at maximum speed all day). Even if they have a room full of laptops the main source of radiation for each kid would be the laptop closest to that particular kid (because of the square law). Let's say the closest laptop is transmitting at an average of 0.01 W at 0.5 m distance for 5 hours. Mobile exposure per day: (5 minutes * 1 W)/0.05^2 = 2000 WiFi exposure per day: (300 minutes * 0.01)/0.5^2 = 12 Unfortunately, the typical activist's response to this kind of reason is probably something like: "Well, in my personal opinion the multi-national corporations blah blah blah commercial blah government blah blah violating yadda yadda corporate-sponsored biased old fashioned science blah violations violations violations give me money".
The RealPlayer application for Windows, ca 2000-2001. But that is not my personal opinion - it is an indisputable fact. Personally I would have to say some early version of Windows or Gnome.
It may be a good idea to even locate a few real photo labs where people develop your photos from a CD/DVD to prints. Try ordering a few prints from those and see if any of them are worth the price they charge. If those shops are still alive where you live, of course.