I read a suggestion that when someone has a loud "private" conversation, you simply join into the conversation as they clearly intended all their neighbors to do by talking so loudly:
"Oh you're right about that. I wouldn't put up with it for a minute. You should just tell him where to go."
"How long has your sister had this disease?"
"That's great news for you. I sure hope none of your competitors find out that you're going to bid 20k. Will you give me a call later and tell me how it comes out?"
Verizon didn't lock me in. They just drove me to T-Mobile. I could switch back if they allowed their phones to work with my car, my computer, etc., and generally offered a better set of services for the money. So far they must conclude that they make more money by squeezing their customers rather than by getting more customers.
Night is typically the time when there are ample electricity reserves. Even if all night time energy were produced from fossil fuel, these could be the most efficient and least polluting of fossil fuel plants. During the day when most energy is consumed, solar could provide much more. Solar could reduce the need for lower efficiency higher pollution peaker plants.
The production curves of solar and wind are complementary. Both together are better than either alone.
Concentrated solar, as opposed to PV, can have energy storage designed into the plant (e.g. molten salt) to keep providing power at night.
Plug-in hybrid vehicles could add their batteries to the total grid storage, recharging from cheap night-time power and/or providing power back into the grid depending on the state of the grid and the state of their charge.
I'm sorry, but/. is of notable interest only to a very small segment of society. Therefore this article will be deleted. Please see instead the new article on Britney Spears rehab.
Speaking of prior art, Accessline for almost 10 years has been selling voice mail integrated with email and a desktop applet.
Long before that I used a type of visual voicemail which we referred to as the secretary. [S]he would take voice messages using a speech to text mechanism dubbed the pencil. The user interface was an array of pink sheets of paper labeled While You Were Out. Think of them as pop-up windows, affixed to your desktop - computer desktop or oak as the case may be. Each dialog would give the caller's name, time of call, urgency, caller ID to return the call, and the message. You would dismiss the dialog by crumpling it and throwing it into the trash can. In another early innovation you didn't need a special command to empty the trash can. Something called a "janitor" would come by daily to do so.
Yes it's great that EPA is working with industry to get some more meaningful power ratings of computer equipment. But it's not easy to give "typical" energy use. What's typical gas mileage of your car? Does a 25 MPG EPA rating mean you'll get 25 MPG? How heavy is your foot, where do you drive, how far, how hilly, how many stoplights, etc.?
From the SPEC power benchmark you'll get not just a single composite number, but all the details so you can judge what is most relevant to your own system. Is it idle most of the day? Then look at that end of the graph, and check the power management software settings to automatically suspend. Does it run flat out? Then look at that end of the graph. For even better information you can test your own systems with your own workload.
Oh, the "summary" is supposed to be just a quote from the article, and then if I want to ask a question I should wait until when (and if) the posting is accepted and then comment on my own posting? That makes sense, and I probably would have found that if I had RTFM. Next time. Thanks.
This discussion thread is exactly what I was asking about, and I guess I have my answer that AT&T got U-verse classified as an Internet service (which just happens to provide cable TV) as opposed to Time-Warner's cable TV service (which just happens to provide Internet service). From a consumer point of view there is no essential difference, so I am surprised that FCC treats them differently. With both you connect TV's to set top boxes connected to coax plugs in the wall, and you connect computers to Ethernet plugs or to Wifi.
U-verse has a lot of nice features that regular cable doesn't have. And with regular cable you can plug a TV into the coax without a set top box and get fuzzy reception of basic cable channels, while with U-verse you get a blank screen.
Cable card doesn't seem very interesting since it doesn't support things like video on demand. But try hooking up an HDTV to an antenna (remember what those are?) even a cheap indoor antenna. I was surprised to find how many digital stations are on the air already, and not just high definition, but many standard definition stations. A rooftop HDTV antenna would pick up many more. Together with a good subscription-free DVR like Toshiba it would be a plausible alternative to cable.
You're right that people will criticize Microsoft whatever they do.
> who gets to decide what is trusted code and what is not? Will small software vendors have to pay
I like the security model of Java Web Start (disclaimer: I work for Sun) where you decide who you trust, and they can earn your trust by paying for a security certificate from a trusted commercial issuing authority, or they can self certify with a certificate from Thawte and earn your trust in other ways. I could imagine a PGP style web of trust relationships where I might authorize my system to run code from sources sufficiently trusted by people who I trusted.
Of course all my friends could get fooled, and draw me into a trap, and my other friends after me. But that's the same as if I trust an auto mechanic because you recommended him and I trust you.
Regardless of how much blame goes to Microsoft, to Skype, and to users for running unknown executables, all of them are harmed by it and have an interest in fixing it. For users the best thing is just to take this as another warning to be careful what you click on. Myself I just try not to use Windows or Explorer, *and* try to be careful with Firefox. Though the best fix could come from Microsoft not allowing arbitrary untrusted code to be run, Skype could intercept suspicious links and add some advice - just to avoid being blamed, fairly or unfairly.
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And I imagine the abstract was invented around the time of Gutenburg.
They'll block VoIP in the initial sky Wifi: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1506
I read a suggestion that when someone has a loud "private" conversation, you simply join into the conversation as they clearly intended all their neighbors to do by talking so loudly:
Verizon didn't lock me in. They just drove me to T-Mobile. I could switch back if they allowed their phones to work with my car, my computer, etc., and generally offered a better set of services for the money. So far they must conclude that they make more money by squeezing their customers rather than by getting more customers.
Yes, storage is important, but also remember...
Night is typically the time when there are ample electricity reserves. Even if all night time energy were produced from fossil fuel, these could be the most efficient and least polluting of fossil fuel plants. During the day when most energy is consumed, solar could provide much more. Solar could reduce the need for lower efficiency higher pollution peaker plants.
The production curves of solar and wind are complementary. Both together are better than either alone.
Concentrated solar, as opposed to PV, can have energy storage designed into the plant (e.g. molten salt) to keep providing power at night.
Plug-in hybrid vehicles could add their batteries to the total grid storage, recharging from cheap night-time power and/or providing power back into the grid depending on the state of the grid and the state of their charge.
I'm sorry, but /. is of notable interest only to a very small segment of society. Therefore this article will be deleted. Please see instead the new article on Britney Spears rehab.
Speaking of prior art, Accessline for almost 10 years has been selling voice mail integrated with email and a desktop applet.
Long before that I used a type of visual voicemail which we referred to as the secretary. [S]he would take voice messages using a speech to text mechanism dubbed the pencil. The user interface was an array of pink sheets of paper labeled While You Were Out. Think of them as pop-up windows, affixed to your desktop - computer desktop or oak as the case may be. Each dialog would give the caller's name, time of call, urgency, caller ID to return the call, and the message. You would dismiss the dialog by crumpling it and throwing it into the trash can. In another early innovation you didn't need a special command to empty the trash can. Something called a "janitor" would come by daily to do so.
Yes it's great that EPA is working with industry to get some more meaningful power ratings of computer equipment. But it's not easy to give "typical" energy use. What's typical gas mileage of your car? Does a 25 MPG EPA rating mean you'll get 25 MPG? How heavy is your foot, where do you drive, how far, how hilly, how many stoplights, etc.?
From the SPEC power benchmark you'll get not just a single composite number, but all the details so you can judge what is most relevant to your own system. Is it idle most of the day? Then look at that end of the graph, and check the power management software settings to automatically suspend. Does it run flat out? Then look at that end of the graph. For even better information you can test your own systems with your own workload.
Oh, the "summary" is supposed to be just a quote from the article, and then if I want to ask a question I should wait until when (and if) the posting is accepted and then comment on my own posting? That makes sense, and I probably would have found that if I had RTFM. Next time. Thanks.
This discussion thread is exactly what I was asking about, and I guess I have my answer that AT&T got U-verse classified as an Internet service (which just happens to provide cable TV) as opposed to Time-Warner's cable TV service (which just happens to provide Internet service). From a consumer point of view there is no essential difference, so I am surprised that FCC treats them differently. With both you connect TV's to set top boxes connected to coax plugs in the wall, and you connect computers to Ethernet plugs or to Wifi.
U-verse has a lot of nice features that regular cable doesn't have. And with regular cable you can plug a TV into the coax without a set top box and get fuzzy reception of basic cable channels, while with U-verse you get a blank screen.
Cable card doesn't seem very interesting since it doesn't support things like video on demand. But try hooking up an HDTV to an antenna (remember what those are?) even a cheap indoor antenna. I was surprised to find how many digital stations are on the air already, and not just high definition, but many standard definition stations. A rooftop HDTV antenna would pick up many more. Together with a good subscription-free DVR like Toshiba it would be a plausible alternative to cable.
You're right that people will criticize Microsoft whatever they do.
> who gets to decide what is trusted code and what is not? Will small software vendors have to pay
I like the security model of Java Web Start (disclaimer: I work for Sun) where you decide who you trust, and they can earn your trust by paying for a security certificate from a trusted commercial issuing authority, or they can self certify with a certificate from Thawte and earn your trust in other ways. I could imagine a PGP style web of trust relationships where I might authorize my system to run code from sources sufficiently trusted by people who I trusted.
Of course all my friends could get fooled, and draw me into a trap, and my other friends after me. But that's the same as if I trust an auto mechanic because you recommended him and I trust you.
Regardless of how much blame goes to Microsoft, to Skype, and to users for running unknown executables, all of them are harmed by it and have an interest in fixing it. For users the best thing is just to take this as another warning to be careful what you click on. Myself I just try not to use Windows or Explorer, *and* try to be careful with Firefox. Though the best fix could come from Microsoft not allowing arbitrary untrusted code to be run, Skype could intercept suspicious links and add some advice - just to avoid being blamed, fairly or unfairly.
The forthcoming energy efficiency benchmark from SPEC is generally described at http://www.spec.org/specpower/