Year ago I read about this stuff. There is a relatively cheap and simple fix that allows high DC current to short strait to ground instead of going through the transformer.
Too bad our government hasn't cared to enforce the use of such devices to protect us from a nation wide black out if a solar storm did hit us.
My understanding of X is that it is a complex abstract layer that makes porting extremely easy and very flexible. My other understanding is that X has a horrible amount of overhead and was designed a long time ago and can't properly make use of modern technology.
X has it's place, but it's not with low latency low overhead 3D accelerated desktop rendering. Everyone preaches about how great Opensource/Linux would be for gaming, but then people out-right refuse to make use of the newest of 3D hardware.
Wayland has a lot of promise for better 3D support. Might finally let me switch to Linux once it matures.
I always play the latest games on the latest hardware, so Linux' current situation doesn't work well for me, but I've been reading on a lot of future projects that makes it sound possible in the next 5 years. Opensource ATI drivers, Wayland, DX11 support.. sign me up.
"Personally I consider a free country to be one where I can walk around freely" "Freedom is great until people abuse those freedoms and impact the freedoms of others"
Which is why you're talking about removing other people's freedom from walking around freely?
"I'd much rather live in my world than yours" - Yeah, where you have freedom and no one else does.
"Because they failed to support its way of doing things.NET has always been a second class Windows citizen unable to make direct use of the Windows APIs"
I heard that Win8 will have many new APIs that you can't call in unmanaged code. It should start to swing the other way. MS is currently trying to "start over" with a lot of their APIs and clean them up.
" most houses in Japan and the US can only support maybe 30 amps at 220/240v. That's a couple of circuits for lights and the fridge and you're tapped out."
I'm consuming less than 15KWh/day with the AC running nearly 50% of the time in this 90f day 80f night, 2 computers running 24/7, and a fridge.
15kwh/24hr = About 630watt/hour. I'm sure most circuits can handle a 3 amp average
This would be great for me, other than I would rather spent $30k towards a house so I can leave my duplex. Crappy duplex with 12amp breakers, virtually no insulation, and central air that needs to run about 1 hour to drop 1 degree. Can't even get thermostat to drop below 78f in this heat wave, it'll just run 24/7.
"There are no monopolies in free market anyway, there is no such thing as a natural monopoly. It's a ruse by the government and gov't hired charlatans that people think are economists to justify gov't interference with the market."
Keep your head in the sand.
Just look at infrastructure. Nearly every type of infrastructure is a natural monopoly. This is why most places in the USA don't have competing gas/electric/roads/cable/phone.
Imagine two companies trying to run their own power lines. Imagine having several competing cable companies, each requesting property rights to dig up everyone's front yards to lay new lines right next to another companies lines. Imagine having several companies laying interstate roads right next to each other. Imagine several different companies offering water and having several under-used water towers.
There would be so much waste, the up-front costs are enormous, and the ROI would be horrible. aka, natural monopoly
They have newer batteries coming out in the next 5-10 years that will store 10 times the power and charge/discharge 10-100 times faster. They already have working prototypes of full size batteries.
Lets see what kind of cycle life these have before we go around saying batteries are a dead end.
" And 100B per year is about the cost of both wars"
The one war alone cost over 3 trillion. That's 30 years at 100B/year. Last I checked, it started after 9/11/2001, not back in the 1980's
Even if they were the same, guess which one has a return on investment?
Six years ago, back when I was in college, my poli-sci teacher showed us an interesting thing. He added up the average cost for insurance people in the USA pay, and he added up the average cost of college. The amount of money we spent on the war(9/11) in those four years was enough to give free health care and college(for those of college age) to every person in the USA for 10 years.
That didn't include the cost of long term care for our wounded vets or the other hundreds of billions in budgeted costs.
I say we just make education free, give everyone health care and stop having a war. It would actually save us money immediately and eventually save us more long term money because of less health care overhead and better jobs.
They should make a new rule. If you don't immediately(reasonable amount of time, 1-2 months?) sue another company once you found out they've made a product based on your patent, you give up any rights to said patent.
You shouldn't be able to sit on it and wait for it to be more "lucrative" to sue.
I saw a box , that was shaped like a blade server, get delivered to my work a few weeks back and it had a Google logo printed on the box. Not a sticker, actually printed on the box.
I couldn't find anyone in my area that knew what it was.
I wonder if this attack would work on CDMA. Even though it's a lot more expensive, can it be done? It's a basic MTM attack. Without some sort of public key system, how can we know if we're talking to a legitimate tower?
silly silly person. English doesn't have rules, it just has a few coincidences that look like rules. The rest of the language is just learning "exceptions"
In English, rules are the exception and exceptions are the rule.
I was imagining something more along the lines of a small datacenter near residential houses, like each block, and the hot water gets pumped from the mini-center to everyone's houses.
They do something like this, except for cooling in some places. Instead of each data center having it's own cooling, the have one large chiller to cool water. They run the chiller at night and freeze most of the water. Then during the day, the pump the water to the other data centers. Overall it uses less power and it also uses very little peak power.
I forget which cities implemented this, but they said it saved a lot of money for local businesses.
"[...] It was a money sink[...]we should have set-out to create a permanent presence on the moon[...]"
Yeah, moon would have been cheaper. We don't have the tech or the resources currently to put a safe residence on the moon. Lots of radiation. We would need to haul A LOT of lead into space to make it safe to be on the moon. Imagine the cost of lifting lead into space. Unless we can get fusion working and create out own magnetic field on the moon.
" How would you ever GET to 10% if 9.8% means nobody will ever care."
I think what they're saying, is the rate at which ideas exchange below 10% is abysmally low. So low, that if that same rate was applied to the entire population, it would take billions of years. But that rate changes once it gets past 10%. Once it hits 10%, it spreads fast.
It could be 10% with in a given group.
Say you have a small group of 20 really smart people (PHDs in a certain field). One person comes up with an idea and convinces his co-worker. Now you have two people in this small group. It may be the 10% tipping point. So now everyone in this small group believes something.
Next level. Since you have this entire group of 20 people who believe this new idea, they now publish their idea to the next group for review. Either 10% of this group accepts the idea or it doesn't. If the idea is believable enough, it will break the 10% barrier and take off or it will not not take off and their will always be this small sub-set of the entire group that has some idea that the group as a whole doesn't accept.
Cascade effect working it's way up through groups. The final group is the general population. But within the general population, you have sub groups. Just get 10% of people with-in a group to accept an idea and with-in a short time, you will have near the entire group accepting the idea. Once that happens, that group may be able to cause it's parent group to accept the idea.
It makes sense. Not saying it's correct, but the logic seems sound. The average person isn't going to blindly accept a new idea unless enough other people accept the idea also.
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Not at the speed of light, but quite fast. Talking only hours to travel 92 mil miles
Year ago I read about this stuff. There is a relatively cheap and simple fix that allows high DC current to short strait to ground instead of going through the transformer.
Too bad our government hasn't cared to enforce the use of such devices to protect us from a nation wide black out if a solar storm did hit us.
Google should give the option to not use history to "enhance" search results. Based on your description, I could see how that could be useful.
Personally, I do a lot of tech based searches, so my history is extremely useful.
My understanding of X is that it is a complex abstract layer that makes porting extremely easy and very flexible. My other understanding is that X has a horrible amount of overhead and was designed a long time ago and can't properly make use of modern technology.
X has it's place, but it's not with low latency low overhead 3D accelerated desktop rendering. Everyone preaches about how great Opensource/Linux would be for gaming, but then people out-right refuse to make use of the newest of 3D hardware.
Wayland has a lot of promise for better 3D support. Might finally let me switch to Linux once it matures.
I always play the latest games on the latest hardware, so Linux' current situation doesn't work well for me, but I've been reading on a lot of future projects that makes it sound possible in the next 5 years. Opensource ATI drivers, Wayland, DX11 support.. sign me up.
"Personally I consider a free country to be one where I can walk around freely"
"Freedom is great until people abuse those freedoms and impact the freedoms of others"
Which is why you're talking about removing other people's freedom from walking around freely?
"I'd much rather live in my world than yours" - Yeah, where you have freedom and no one else does.
"Because they failed to support its way of doing things .NET has always been a second class Windows citizen unable to make direct use of the Windows APIs"
I heard that Win8 will have many new APIs that you can't call in unmanaged code. It should start to swing the other way. MS is currently trying to "start over" with a lot of their APIs and clean them up.
Good luck recharging your gas car with no power. Every time the power goes out, I can't buy gas, or even pump it if they allowed you to.
Wait.. did you just make a differentiation between the "Jewish" and "Christian" God?
" most houses in Japan and the US can only support maybe 30 amps at 220/240v. That's a couple of circuits for lights and the fridge and you're tapped out."
I'm consuming less than 15KWh/day with the AC running nearly 50% of the time in this 90f day 80f night, 2 computers running 24/7, and a fridge.
15kwh/24hr = About 630watt/hour. I'm sure most circuits can handle a 3 amp average
This would be great for me, other than I would rather spent $30k towards a house so I can leave my duplex. Crappy duplex with 12amp breakers, virtually no insulation, and central air that needs to run about 1 hour to drop 1 degree. Can't even get thermostat to drop below 78f in this heat wave, it'll just run 24/7.
"There are no monopolies in free market anyway, there is no such thing as a natural monopoly. It's a ruse by the government and gov't hired charlatans that people think are economists to justify gov't interference with the market."
Keep your head in the sand.
Just look at infrastructure. Nearly every type of infrastructure is a natural monopoly. This is why most places in the USA don't have competing gas/electric/roads/cable/phone.
Imagine two companies trying to run their own power lines. Imagine having several competing cable companies, each requesting property rights to dig up everyone's front yards to lay new lines right next to another companies lines. Imagine having several companies laying interstate roads right next to each other. Imagine several different companies offering water and having several under-used water towers.
There would be so much waste, the up-front costs are enormous, and the ROI would be horrible. aka, natural monopoly
They have newer batteries coming out in the next 5-10 years that will store 10 times the power and charge/discharge 10-100 times faster. They already have working prototypes of full size batteries.
Lets see what kind of cycle life these have before we go around saying batteries are a dead end.
Imagine the car owners surprise when his car is trying to power the entire neighborhood and the power inverter burns out in a few seconds.
I'm sure they'll have some safety device.
Google had a YouTube video of their security practices. They do actually have hearing protection for the server rooms.
" And 100B per year is about the cost of both wars"
The one war alone cost over 3 trillion. That's 30 years at 100B/year. Last I checked, it started after 9/11/2001, not back in the 1980's
Even if they were the same, guess which one has a return on investment?
Six years ago, back when I was in college, my poli-sci teacher showed us an interesting thing. He added up the average cost for insurance people in the USA pay, and he added up the average cost of college. The amount of money we spent on the war(9/11) in those four years was enough to give free health care and college(for those of college age) to every person in the USA for 10 years.
That didn't include the cost of long term care for our wounded vets or the other hundreds of billions in budgeted costs.
I say we just make education free, give everyone health care and stop having a war. It would actually save us money immediately and eventually save us more long term money because of less health care overhead and better jobs.
They should make a new rule. If you don't immediately(reasonable amount of time, 1-2 months?) sue another company once you found out they've made a product based on your patent, you give up any rights to said patent.
You shouldn't be able to sit on it and wait for it to be more "lucrative" to sue.
I saw a box , that was shaped like a blade server, get delivered to my work a few weeks back and it had a Google logo printed on the box. Not a sticker, actually printed on the box.
I couldn't find anyone in my area that knew what it was.
I wonder if this attack would work on CDMA. Even though it's a lot more expensive, can it be done? It's a basic MTM attack. Without some sort of public key system, how can we know if we're talking to a legitimate tower?
silly silly person. English doesn't have rules, it just has a few coincidences that look like rules. The rest of the language is just learning "exceptions"
In English, rules are the exception and exceptions are the rule.
The Trojan asteroid now comes with a fire & ice sensation.
"And the way that the robots are being used is to produce crap that breaks after five years, even furniture."
Robots don't make crap, crappy robots make crap. You get what you pay for. Pay a little extra for premium.
I was imagining something more along the lines of a small datacenter near residential houses, like each block, and the hot water gets pumped from the mini-center to everyone's houses.
They do something like this, except for cooling in some places. Instead of each data center having it's own cooling, the have one large chiller to cool water. They run the chiller at night and freeze most of the water. Then during the day, the pump the water to the other data centers. Overall it uses less power and it also uses very little peak power.
I forget which cities implemented this, but they said it saved a lot of money for local businesses.
Same thing, but with heat, and for residential.
Chance of the ISS landing on someone's head in the middle of the ocean is much less than aiming for land.
Anyway, the ocean is where we plunge all of our unwanted satellites.
"[...] It was a money sink[...]we should have set-out to create a permanent presence on the moon[...]"
Yeah, moon would have been cheaper. We don't have the tech or the resources currently to put a safe residence on the moon. Lots of radiation. We would need to haul A LOT of lead into space to make it safe to be on the moon. Imagine the cost of lifting lead into space. Unless we can get fusion working and create out own magnetic field on the moon.
" How would you ever GET to 10% if 9.8% means nobody will ever care."
I think what they're saying, is the rate at which ideas exchange below 10% is abysmally low. So low, that if that same rate was applied to the entire population, it would take billions of years. But that rate changes once it gets past 10%. Once it hits 10%, it spreads fast.
It could be 10% with in a given group.
Say you have a small group of 20 really smart people (PHDs in a certain field). One person comes up with an idea and convinces his co-worker. Now you have two people in this small group. It may be the 10% tipping point. So now everyone in this small group believes something.
Next level. Since you have this entire group of 20 people who believe this new idea, they now publish their idea to the next group for review. Either 10% of this group accepts the idea or it doesn't. If the idea is believable enough, it will break the 10% barrier and take off or it will not not take off and their will always be this small sub-set of the entire group that has some idea that the group as a whole doesn't accept.
Cascade effect working it's way up through groups. The final group is the general population. But within the general population, you have sub groups. Just get 10% of people with-in a group to accept an idea and with-in a short time, you will have near the entire group accepting the idea. Once that happens, that group may be able to cause it's parent group to accept the idea.
It makes sense. Not saying it's correct, but the logic seems sound. The average person isn't going to blindly accept a new idea unless enough other people accept the idea also.
you will once 10% of /. believes it