Sounds interesting... but there's very little information here. They list about 20 names of people I haven't heard of mostly in 3rd world countries. Where are all the US citizens? The Euro zone? Name names, give us account balances... Put the data on the pirate bay and I'll start believing this.
Yes, having been around and associated with computer geeks at the time, I can say for certain that the primary computers we were using back them were Commandos. They were everywhere. Apples would pop up here and there but mostly you just saw ads for them, not in actual use. Even in the 80s Apple was all about marketing.
There are many different varieties of cicadas. Each with their own song. In northern MS when some of my family lives, they have a long 2 to 5 min drone and each individual has a slightly different pitch so it's a continuous diatonic white noise that pretty much starts in the spring and doesn't stop until fall. There are so many of them they are impossible to escape.
In North Carolina, where I used to live near the mountains, they were more like frogs. They had shorter 3 to 5 seconds drones that weren't so bad.
where I live now in southern Wi, each individual seems to play the same tone almost exactly. it usually starts with a short "chirp chirp" and then they lay into a long 5 min drone. Because they are all playing basically the same tone it doesn't seem to end. But, there are far fewer here and they collect near certain areas where there's food. So you can escape them by driving elsewhere if you're about to go over the edge because of them.
Geothermal releases CO2 and other nasty chemicals as part of its production directly into the atmosphere. Nuclear powers waste is containable and easily disposed of. The barriers there are all political, not physical. It is more expensive, but we're trying to save the world here. Geothermal, Hyrdo and wind all have significant risks for workers when it comes to production and damn and turbine failures are common. Despite the relatively few wind turbines in the world now, incidents of blades flying off and hitting houses and cars are alarmingly common. You may argue that these failures are relatively rare, and relegated to very old damns that were poorly maintained, but of course failures at nuclear facilities are even less common, and in every case been in reactors that were decades out of date. No modern reactor has ever failed. You may say that the dangers of a nuclear failure are far more horrible... but they are not. The only failure in world history that was of the horrific type you envision was Chernobyl... and that can not be used as a model for anything else in the world. The failures in design, safety, emergency response, it was almost beyond comprehension. The number and simplicity of the mistakes made are so numerous I can not get into them all here, you'll have to Wikipedia it. Hydro electric damns however have a nasty tendency to fail and kill huge numbers of people. Usually in 3rd world countries so we don't hear about it much. But they are very dangerous and have a huge impact on ecosystems up and downstream from them.
So then we get to solar and wind. They don't work. They are limited by the weather, cloud cover, seasons. They need backup power to compensate for when their output is low. As a result power companies have to ramp up and cool down Coal plants to make up the difference. Coal plants burn relatively efficient when they are operated for long periods. Bringing them online and shutting them down regularly destroys their efficiency and likely destroys any gains the wind and solar would have given you.
The solutions to our energy problems are obvious, but those of us that want a perfect work just refuse to accept them. We need a LARGE nuclear power initiative. We need proper waste disposal. We need breeder reactors. We need every coal plant in this country replaced with a newly designed nuclear reactor within the next 10 years. Then we need a tax on this power that helps pay for the development of improved solar, wind, and wave turbine research. We need to learn to grown Algee and other plants in the ocean and harvest them for ethanol for transportation.
This could, potentially, be a very big deal. But we need more info: Price point? Does it do media? Can we modify the OS? Will it come with a decent solution to the "Keyboards from the couch suck" problem?
I have a lot of hope here for Valve, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
And the laws are protecting them from what? The people that will abuse them are certainly getting them anyway. The people that wouldn't abuse them are the only ones obeying the law. So the law does nothing more than prevent those who'd use them responsibly from doing so.
This is for enterprise and ISPs. Most of the equipment that uses this kind of bandwidth just splits it up and sends it on its way. Imagine the trunks that connect ATT to Sprint... They aren't going anything with the data but routing it. Check out this switch, and it's an old one: http://www.tech.proact.co.uk/foundry/foundry_bigiron_rx16_switch.htm
What feeds that? Trunks like we're talking about here.
Well I imagine that if these small changes are not enough to get a new patent, then they are saying that this new variation of the old drug falls under the protection of the old drug.
And you actually hit the nail on the head. You're entirely correct. Think about it this way, if the Original patten were still valid and another company came up with the same "Changes" could the first company sue under that patent and win? Of course they could. So how can that very same company claim that those changes are innovation? If they are innovation then the generic company should be able to make small changes and reproduce it.
India is a screwed up country but this is one area they are getting right. If only the rest of the world would follow their lead. This issue is literally killing people by the hundreds of thousands. It's sick.
The same thing happens in every art medium. Look at Rock and Roll, that was supposed to be indicative of it's "strangeness" but after a few decades it was mainstream. The music industry got hold of it. Then came along "Alternative Rock" which was a more direct reference to it's "otherness" from normal rock. But of course, it got so popular, my friends and I joked back in the 90's "Alternative to what? It's the only thing on the radio!" And now we have "Indie Rock" which has already peaked and is pretty regularly being played on radio stations. What's next? It's all labels and doesn't really matter.
A little piracy is free advertising; universal piracy kills the bottom line.
Universal Piracy kills the bottom line of the current system. That needs to happen anyway. The longer the industry stretches this out with lawsuits and legal maneuvers the worse it will be for them. The world has changed, there is no way to stop piracy and the vast majority of the public doesn't see it as wrong. If the recording industry refuses to change, they are doomed.
Because he's going to get railroaded with shitty evidence, the court isn't going to have a clue what any of it means, and then he'll get sentenced to 50yrs for something that the victim claims had little effect on their operations. It's not that he isn't guilty (I have no idea if he is or not) it's the farce that surrounds such trials that every despises, and the sentencing is ridiculous. He's should have to pay their costs for overtime to keep their sites up, any other damages that occurred and then serve a YEAR max. Murderers and rapists get less time than most computer related offenses.
We've been using Saas and cloud services for years now... and it's a mess. Contract negotiations are such a nightmare with these companies, we end up employing more people specializing in "contracts" than we would have if we just kept the service in house. We recently had a major project held up for 4 months because we found out the vendor had a different "understanding" of how our data was supposed to be encrypted and they had to haggle all that nonsense out before we could move forward. Don't even get me started on Oracle...
Then you have the whole problem of: You have no control over the vendors financial well being. Not only that, but it's in their best interest to hide financial troubles from you. So suddenly they go belly up and your entire service vanishes. We had a vendor maintaining our series of websites for us and they vanished overnight. Their staff walked out, but lucky for us the owner was a reasonable guy and did his best to get all the data he could to our guys. Meanwhile we had no staff that was in the business of doing web development, though some had a pretty good idea of what to do. But once we got the data we could from the owner, it ended up parts of it were compiled and there was no source code. (I'm sure it was somewhere but the owner wasn't a developer so...) It was a freaking mess. We ended up having to run a website for months with no idea what the source code looked like for some of the more complex bits until we were able to rebuild it from scratch ourselves.
I blacksmith. So I don't use the fancy stuff you use for heat. Sulfur content doesn't matter. Also, those of us that do old school things that require coal stick together. Often 1 guy gets 100 ton, because he's got a train (no I'm not kidding) then he'll sell the rest of us a couple of truck beds worth here and there at cost provided the next time he has a steam exhibition we help out by giving demos.
So I was noticing how filthy the wheels are... and I'm wondering, if the planets as dry as it's supposed to be, why would dirt be sticking to anything? What's making it sticky? Static? I'm a bit perplexed by what seems to be moist earth rather than desert sands as I'd expect.
Coal is about $80/ton. Take about 1lb of that, light it, set a bunch of hard drives in the middle of it, put a house fan next to it... hard drives are a puddle of molten steel/plastic in about 10min and it cost you pennies. You can do the same with propane, but you'll need to build a burner and such.
And before anyone gets on their high horse about burning coal, keep in mind the little device they're using her was most likely powered by coal generated electricity.
Ok, I'm not saying that Global warming isn't happening, but you're just so off base I've got to correct you.
1. Everything absorbs heat (well almost everything) 2. There is no carbon in the atmosphere. It's Carbon dioxide, a GAS. One's an element, the others not. Christ. CO2 absorbs radiation from the sun and then re-radiates it in all directions. So heat that was at one time moving linearly, is now diffuse and goes in all directions. Radiation that traveled down to the earths surface and was then reflected back my ice, snow, water, or whatever, would normally have an unimpeded path back to space. But when it hits the atmosphere, the atmosphere again diffuses the radiation. Some gasses can absorb more than others. The majority of our atmosphere is made up of mostly Nitrogen followed by oxygen. They do not absorb a lot of radiation. By far, the fast majority of greenhouse effect is generated by water vapor (70% or more) followed by CO2. CO2 accounts for less than 0.04% of the atmosphere. 3. Combustion engines do produce carbon, it's deposited on valves, cylinders, exhaust pipes... lucky for us ITS NOT A GAS. 4. They don't, so lets pretend for a second you know what CO2 is, and understand that burning fossil fuels produces carbon dioxide and not carbon. That's fine... but the fact of the matter is burning fossil fuels doesn't significantly increase CO2 in the atmosphere. Even diehard global warming supporting scientists wouldn't say that. They'd argue that the modest increase our activity is creating is dangerous. But futhermore, CO2 isn't the biggest problem. Water vapor is. The soot from Coal burning power plants, factories and poorly maintained car exhausts are an even bigger problem. Soot gets into the atmosphere and gives water droplets something to cling to... they increase water vapor in the atmosphere. But scientists don't want the issue to get swept under the rug, after all, CO2 is still a problem if not quite as bad. So lets get of all fossil fuels they say. 5. God damn it learn what carbon is! 6. If there was a God, he'd have stuck you dead by now. 7. What in your entire previous six points had anything to do with logic? You don't even know what CARBON is, how the greenhouse effect works, and you're trying to school someone on their stupidity in regards to both?
yes, and stop posting beneath shit you don't want to see... the only reason I'm aware of the post is your 2 replies. I know I'm adding to the problem but Christ something needs to be said. STOP REPLYING TO SPAM and go set your visibility to exclude 0 posts.
Thank walmart for this. Their phone plans are currently killing the market with little to no advertising. The big problem they, and now T-mobile will have is their phones will look really expensive at first. But thanks to Android I think we'll be seeing some much more reasonably priced smartphones in the near future. There's no reason we can't have a decent sub $40 phone with no contract that can do everything 90% of the market needs. In 10years I think people will laugh at you if you pull out a $600 phone.
If they were just storing the stereoscopic movie it'd be under 20gig. Clearly they are storing the entire data set including models, textures, etc... In fact, I'm rather surprised that the space increased at all. The rendered version of the movie should be tiny compared to all those assets stored for re-use in McDonalds ads, and sequels.
Also make the point that, films that were pirated, will never be lost. The entire Tom and Jerry archive was lost in a vault fire. We have none of the originals left. All they had after the fire was the film that had been cut down for TV viewing. That's why all the Tom and Jerry episodes are in 4:3 instead of their original wide screen format.
Except SCOTUS was entirely correct in that decision. What the constitution guarantees is not always a good thing. Had they allowed this law to limit political speech in the way that it did, you could easily see how future laws could be used against the public rather than for its best interest.
Sure but until local idiots start downloading guns with one click and running them off on a standard peripheral, they won't worry. People with the ability to 3D print a gun can already make all sorts of weapons.
This is true. But you're making a rational argument. Since when has public policy had anything to do with rational thought? The first time one of these printed guns so much as explodes during use and injures its creator the governments going to come down on this entire premise like a ton of bricks. Can you imagine the headlines the first time ones used in a crime? And both cases are inevitable. The same way of thinking that makes a distinction between Gun Violence and just plain violence, or Gun death, and death, will come into play here. Put the word Gun in front of it and it's much more terrible. The number of rounds in a clip will make the massacre worse... despite the fact that clips cost $10 and can be swamped out in a fraction of a second. More kids DIE playing highschool sports every year than from guns. Why is football legal? Because it's fun? We're not any further up the evolutionary ladder from our cavemen ancestors praying to a benevolent witchdoctor to protects us from serpents in the night.
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I'm sorry, but you've no idea what you're talking about. Modern professional DSL cameras out perform physical film cameras in every measurable way.
Sounds interesting... but there's very little information here. They list about 20 names of people I haven't heard of mostly in 3rd world countries. Where are all the US citizens? The Euro zone? Name names, give us account balances... Put the data on the pirate bay and I'll start believing this.
Yes, having been around and associated with computer geeks at the time, I can say for certain that the primary computers we were using back them were Commandos. They were everywhere. Apples would pop up here and there but mostly you just saw ads for them, not in actual use. Even in the 80s Apple was all about marketing.
There are many different varieties of cicadas. Each with their own song. In northern MS when some of my family lives, they have a long 2 to 5 min drone and each individual has a slightly different pitch so it's a continuous diatonic white noise that pretty much starts in the spring and doesn't stop until fall. There are so many of them they are impossible to escape.
In North Carolina, where I used to live near the mountains, they were more like frogs. They had shorter 3 to 5 seconds drones that weren't so bad.
where I live now in southern Wi, each individual seems to play the same tone almost exactly. it usually starts with a short "chirp chirp" and then they lay into a long 5 min drone. Because they are all playing basically the same tone it doesn't seem to end. But, there are far fewer here and they collect near certain areas where there's food. So you can escape them by driving elsewhere if you're about to go over the edge because of them.
Geothermal releases CO2 and other nasty chemicals as part of its production directly into the atmosphere. Nuclear powers waste is containable and easily disposed of. The barriers there are all political, not physical. It is more expensive, but we're trying to save the world here. Geothermal, Hyrdo and wind all have significant risks for workers when it comes to production and damn and turbine failures are common. Despite the relatively few wind turbines in the world now, incidents of blades flying off and hitting houses and cars are alarmingly common. You may argue that these failures are relatively rare, and relegated to very old damns that were poorly maintained, but of course failures at nuclear facilities are even less common, and in every case been in reactors that were decades out of date. No modern reactor has ever failed. You may say that the dangers of a nuclear failure are far more horrible... but they are not. The only failure in world history that was of the horrific type you envision was Chernobyl... and that can not be used as a model for anything else in the world. The failures in design, safety, emergency response, it was almost beyond comprehension. The number and simplicity of the mistakes made are so numerous I can not get into them all here, you'll have to Wikipedia it. Hydro electric damns however have a nasty tendency to fail and kill huge numbers of people. Usually in 3rd world countries so we don't hear about it much. But they are very dangerous and have a huge impact on ecosystems up and downstream from them.
So then we get to solar and wind. They don't work. They are limited by the weather, cloud cover, seasons. They need backup power to compensate for when their output is low. As a result power companies have to ramp up and cool down Coal plants to make up the difference. Coal plants burn relatively efficient when they are operated for long periods. Bringing them online and shutting them down regularly destroys their efficiency and likely destroys any gains the wind and solar would have given you.
The solutions to our energy problems are obvious, but those of us that want a perfect work just refuse to accept them. We need a LARGE nuclear power initiative. We need proper waste disposal. We need breeder reactors. We need every coal plant in this country replaced with a newly designed nuclear reactor within the next 10 years. Then we need a tax on this power that helps pay for the development of improved solar, wind, and wave turbine research. We need to learn to grown Algee and other plants in the ocean and harvest them for ethanol for transportation.
This could, potentially, be a very big deal. But we need more info:
Price point?
Does it do media?
Can we modify the OS?
Will it come with a decent solution to the "Keyboards from the couch suck" problem?
I have a lot of hope here for Valve, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
And the laws are protecting them from what? The people that will abuse them are certainly getting them anyway. The people that wouldn't abuse them are the only ones obeying the law. So the law does nothing more than prevent those who'd use them responsibly from doing so.
This is for enterprise and ISPs. Most of the equipment that uses this kind of bandwidth just splits it up and sends it on its way. Imagine the trunks that connect ATT to Sprint... They aren't going anything with the data but routing it. Check out this switch, and it's an old one: http://www.tech.proact.co.uk/foundry/foundry_bigiron_rx16_switch.htm
What feeds that? Trunks like we're talking about here.
Well I imagine that if these small changes are not enough to get a new patent, then they are saying that this new variation of the old drug falls under the protection of the old drug.
And you actually hit the nail on the head. You're entirely correct. Think about it this way, if the Original patten were still valid and another company came up with the same "Changes" could the first company sue under that patent and win? Of course they could. So how can that very same company claim that those changes are innovation? If they are innovation then the generic company should be able to make small changes and reproduce it.
India is a screwed up country but this is one area they are getting right. If only the rest of the world would follow their lead. This issue is literally killing people by the hundreds of thousands. It's sick.
Unless the last 200 years of science were all some incredible mistake, we will never find a way to violate the speed of light.
The same thing happens in every art medium. Look at Rock and Roll, that was supposed to be indicative of it's "strangeness" but after a few decades it was mainstream. The music industry got hold of it. Then came along "Alternative Rock" which was a more direct reference to it's "otherness" from normal rock. But of course, it got so popular, my friends and I joked back in the 90's "Alternative to what? It's the only thing on the radio!" And now we have "Indie Rock" which has already peaked and is pretty regularly being played on radio stations. What's next? It's all labels and doesn't really matter.
A little piracy is free advertising; universal piracy kills the bottom line.
Universal Piracy kills the bottom line of the current system. That needs to happen anyway. The longer the industry stretches this out with lawsuits and legal maneuvers the worse it will be for them. The world has changed, there is no way to stop piracy and the vast majority of the public doesn't see it as wrong. If the recording industry refuses to change, they are doomed.
Because he's going to get railroaded with shitty evidence, the court isn't going to have a clue what any of it means, and then he'll get sentenced to 50yrs for something that the victim claims had little effect on their operations. It's not that he isn't guilty (I have no idea if he is or not) it's the farce that surrounds such trials that every despises, and the sentencing is ridiculous. He's should have to pay their costs for overtime to keep their sites up, any other damages that occurred and then serve a YEAR max. Murderers and rapists get less time than most computer related offenses.
We've been using Saas and cloud services for years now... and it's a mess. Contract negotiations are such a nightmare with these companies, we end up employing more people specializing in "contracts" than we would have if we just kept the service in house. We recently had a major project held up for 4 months because we found out the vendor had a different "understanding" of how our data was supposed to be encrypted and they had to haggle all that nonsense out before we could move forward. Don't even get me started on Oracle...
Then you have the whole problem of: You have no control over the vendors financial well being. Not only that, but it's in their best interest to hide financial troubles from you. So suddenly they go belly up and your entire service vanishes. We had a vendor maintaining our series of websites for us and they vanished overnight. Their staff walked out, but lucky for us the owner was a reasonable guy and did his best to get all the data he could to our guys. Meanwhile we had no staff that was in the business of doing web development, though some had a pretty good idea of what to do. But once we got the data we could from the owner, it ended up parts of it were compiled and there was no source code. (I'm sure it was somewhere but the owner wasn't a developer so...) It was a freaking mess. We ended up having to run a website for months with no idea what the source code looked like for some of the more complex bits until we were able to rebuild it from scratch ourselves.
I blacksmith. So I don't use the fancy stuff you use for heat. Sulfur content doesn't matter. Also, those of us that do old school things that require coal stick together. Often 1 guy gets 100 ton, because he's got a train (no I'm not kidding) then he'll sell the rest of us a couple of truck beds worth here and there at cost provided the next time he has a steam exhibition we help out by giving demos.
So I was noticing how filthy the wheels are... and I'm wondering, if the planets as dry as it's supposed to be, why would dirt be sticking to anything? What's making it sticky? Static? I'm a bit perplexed by what seems to be moist earth rather than desert sands as I'd expect.
Coal is about $80/ton. Take about 1lb of that, light it, set a bunch of hard drives in the middle of it, put a house fan next to it... hard drives are a puddle of molten steel/plastic in about 10min and it cost you pennies. You can do the same with propane, but you'll need to build a burner and such.
And before anyone gets on their high horse about burning coal, keep in mind the little device they're using her was most likely powered by coal generated electricity.
Ok, I'm not saying that Global warming isn't happening, but you're just so off base I've got to correct you.
1. Everything absorbs heat (well almost everything)
2. There is no carbon in the atmosphere. It's Carbon dioxide, a GAS. One's an element, the others not. Christ. CO2 absorbs radiation from the sun and then re-radiates it in all directions. So heat that was at one time moving linearly, is now diffuse and goes in all directions. Radiation that traveled down to the earths surface and was then reflected back my ice, snow, water, or whatever, would normally have an unimpeded path back to space. But when it hits the atmosphere, the atmosphere again diffuses the radiation. Some gasses can absorb more than others. The majority of our atmosphere is made up of mostly Nitrogen followed by oxygen. They do not absorb a lot of radiation. By far, the fast majority of greenhouse effect is generated by water vapor (70% or more) followed by CO2. CO2 accounts for less than 0.04% of the atmosphere.
3. Combustion engines do produce carbon, it's deposited on valves, cylinders, exhaust pipes... lucky for us ITS NOT A GAS.
4. They don't, so lets pretend for a second you know what CO2 is, and understand that burning fossil fuels produces carbon dioxide and not carbon. That's fine... but the fact of the matter is burning fossil fuels doesn't significantly increase CO2 in the atmosphere. Even diehard global warming supporting scientists wouldn't say that. They'd argue that the modest increase our activity is creating is dangerous. But futhermore, CO2 isn't the biggest problem. Water vapor is. The soot from Coal burning power plants, factories and poorly maintained car exhausts are an even bigger problem. Soot gets into the atmosphere and gives water droplets something to cling to... they increase water vapor in the atmosphere. But scientists don't want the issue to get swept under the rug, after all, CO2 is still a problem if not quite as bad. So lets get of all fossil fuels they say.
5. God damn it learn what carbon is!
6. If there was a God, he'd have stuck you dead by now.
7. What in your entire previous six points had anything to do with logic? You don't even know what CARBON is, how the greenhouse effect works, and you're trying to school someone on their stupidity in regards to both?
yes, and stop posting beneath shit you don't want to see... the only reason I'm aware of the post is your 2 replies. I know I'm adding to the problem but Christ something needs to be said. STOP REPLYING TO SPAM and go set your visibility to exclude 0 posts.
Thank walmart for this. Their phone plans are currently killing the market with little to no advertising. The big problem they, and now T-mobile will have is their phones will look really expensive at first. But thanks to Android I think we'll be seeing some much more reasonably priced smartphones in the near future. There's no reason we can't have a decent sub $40 phone with no contract that can do everything 90% of the market needs. In 10years I think people will laugh at you if you pull out a $600 phone.
If they were just storing the stereoscopic movie it'd be under 20gig. Clearly they are storing the entire data set including models, textures, etc... In fact, I'm rather surprised that the space increased at all. The rendered version of the movie should be tiny compared to all those assets stored for re-use in McDonalds ads, and sequels.
Also make the point that, films that were pirated, will never be lost. The entire Tom and Jerry archive was lost in a vault fire. We have none of the originals left. All they had after the fire was the film that had been cut down for TV viewing. That's why all the Tom and Jerry episodes are in 4:3 instead of their original wide screen format.
Except SCOTUS was entirely correct in that decision. What the constitution guarantees is not always a good thing. Had they allowed this law to limit political speech in the way that it did, you could easily see how future laws could be used against the public rather than for its best interest.
It's nearly bankrupting several states. Most notably California, the most prosperous state in the union.
Sure but until local idiots start downloading guns with one click and running them off on a standard peripheral, they won't worry. People with the ability to 3D print a gun can already make all sorts of weapons.
This is true. But you're making a rational argument. Since when has public policy had anything to do with rational thought? The first time one of these printed guns so much as explodes during use and injures its creator the governments going to come down on this entire premise like a ton of bricks. Can you imagine the headlines the first time ones used in a crime? And both cases are inevitable. The same way of thinking that makes a distinction between Gun Violence and just plain violence, or Gun death, and death, will come into play here. Put the word Gun in front of it and it's much more terrible. The number of rounds in a clip will make the massacre worse... despite the fact that clips cost $10 and can be swamped out in a fraction of a second. More kids DIE playing highschool sports every year than from guns. Why is football legal? Because it's fun? We're not any further up the evolutionary ladder from our cavemen ancestors praying to a benevolent witchdoctor to protects us from serpents in the night.