RGB LEDs and PWM: any color is craftable. I'm no pot-grower, but I read a long time ago, that red-blue light is the best for increasing growth and yield. This was for a zero-g hydroponic garden, though, so it might not apply to marijuana...
Of course, if you plant to torrent or watch streaming HD movies on your cellphone (I don't know why anyone would want to watch movies on the tiny screen, though, it makes my eyes hurt after about 20 min), that's your call. Just remember that you pressed the button. I use my 500MB plan for checking email, occasionally browsing, using Google Reader, or Maps for navigation, and in the three months I've had my Nexus S, I have yet to hit even 400MB.
I have to: my router doesn't seem to handle local DNS, only DynDNS. Also, I use the Google DNS servers, but since I'm not an IT-professional, I don't know if that's significant (I imagine I could substitute the primary or secondary for my local DNS). And my home network is your nightmare due to retarded ISP restrictions and lack of trust in my Chinese-made ISP router.
No. Because those are handled by DNS-servers now. If you expect us not to bother with IPs in an age where every single device on the face of the Earth has its unique, globally routable address, you're going to have to give us a DNS that handles them all. Even if I want to FTP to the PC in the other room from my laptop, I'd have to type the full v6 address (back to square minus one), a shorter NAT-ted-mangled address of some sort (back to square one), or a device name. As the addresses are globally routed, there needs to be a global DNS record for that PC and my laptop, otherwise we're back to addresses...
Riiight, so when can we expect you bringing online the DNS-server that provides AAAAA-records for every single device on the planet so we don't have to deal with IP-addresses any more?
Plus, ipv4 is easy to manage; your average network engineer has IPs memorized for when things break, or at least a somewhat logical addressing scheme so it's super-easy to guess the IP of a specific component when DNS breaks or is inaccessible, to be able to log into the device and fix it. the dot-quads make things really easy, four integers with a max of three digits (people memorize numbers and spelling most easily when broken down into chunks of three or less) per integer.
I can agree with this part. Practically the sole reason I'm fearing the change is that I'll no longer be able to set up devices and connections easily. As it stands right now, I take one look at an IPv6 address, and it's enough to make me blanch and think "Holy hellbore, how am I going to remember that monstrosity of an address??".
[...]technology is mature for both (PV solar is semiconductor, and if semiconductor industry is not mature, I don't know what is).[...]
Semiconductor industry may be mature, but PV-tech has a long way to go before it becomes as efficient as simple turbines. And I'm talking about 'in the wild' efficiency, where many frequencies are encountered and the light is often diffused, not a laboratory setting, where the light is single-frequency, direct illumination.
[...]But I was always against building nuclear power plants in deserts, like Saudi Arabia or Nevada. These places receive lots of sun, every day. Use that energy. Solar-thermal solutions are 100% efficient at converting energy into heat. 25-35% final efficiency is very reachable and it is base load capable. Something that we can't say for PV solar.
Now that's true, like I said, PV has ways to go before it can compete with more 'traditional' power generation methods.
... but my university network, which was touted as 'modern' doesn't even offer it. Of course, it does offer some rather obnoxious censoring since last September: what the FUCK did Google Labs ever do to Corvinus?
Also I note that "Company Devices" can no longer be used for anything but tracking. This will mean that companies can no longer check if truck drivers follows the rules about rest periods, nor can they check to see if they are speeding... which might (probably will) lead to more tired truckers driving way to fast to meet deadlines. Unintended consequence, I hope.
I think that still comes under the heading of tracking. It is, after all, just a matter of referencing the positions to timestamps to get the speed. Plus, this area is already covered by tachographs for professional trucking, and the new digital ones cannot be tampered with easily. Having an extra layer of certainty always helps, though...
To the best of my knowledge, they never did prove that the US created Stuxnet. In fact, I've seen Israel blamed far more, based on vague references in the code.
Except that it breaks copypaste: when I hit CTRL+C, I expect to see EXACTLY the same thing when hitting CTRL+V, but Chrome modifies the clipboard before posting. I don't like that. Also, it may be ideal for you, but it doesn't cut it for me, I liked seeing the protocol prefix. They could at least insert a flag to re-enable it, even if it's off by default.
How is privacy over, may I ask? This still has a way to go before it can be used in real-time analysis of CCTV footage. And even then, you can just put on a Guy Fawkes mask like V (purposely not anonymous), or one of the Anonymizer Masks of Doktor Sleepless, and presto! anonymity.
Then it's a bad idea for you, but not necessarily for everyone else too. Just like you don't want Google to force their UI choices on you, don't try forcing your UI choices on others! Netbooks may not be a majority, but their numbers are quite numerous still. At my university alone, I see hundreds of them, and their users could benefit from as much screen estate as they can get, due to the tiny screen. It's also an option for tablets. But for laptops and desktops, please, just have it as a flag or an option, even if it's the default. Just give me a way to change it to my liking (likewise with the HTTP prefix, btw...)!
I hope to everything that's holy and unholy that this will remain as a flag or a config setting, not some forced idiocy like hiding the "http://". The whole of Chrome is too well done to have them ruin it with a nonsensical move like this...
Because this move resets the software scene. There won't be "applications that they wanted on them" anyway, so it really is a golden opportunity to throw a proper, Joe User-oriented Linux distro out there.
Actually, the inverse is stated in Schlock Mercenary: Schlock is forbidden from using his trademark plasma cannon on ships because with his restraint, he'd blow a three-foot hole in half the bulkheads in 30 seconds. Therefore, the Thugs (and military troops) use bullets that just ricochet off the bulkhead, and don't cause a breach. Except for breaching their medic's skull, but that's a different story...
Except that fusion is being researched as we speak, and we'll have commercial power plants by 2050, as I noted in another comment. In the meantime, Senor Alcubierre's warp drive will take a while longer...
As for collapse, that may be so. According to the Kondratieff Cycle, we are reaching the apex of our civilization, so collapse and rebound can be expected. When it rebounds, it'll become even greater than the current one, and the cycle repeats, yada yada...
Hence no fission. Seriously, fission is the least efficient way to use nuclear energy (the most efficient being antimatter, of course). A fusion drive may be used for both, and even so, much of the trip can be spent coasting, where only power for life support is needed.
The title was "Dilemmas of Space Law", I'm an international relations student.:) And yes, Rods from God is mentioned explicitly as the title of this chapter "Rods from God and Crowbars - Striking from Orbit" (translated from Hungarian). The name I gave to this particular system was Crowbar, admittedly based on the webcomic UserFriendly, since that's where I saw it called such, and took a liking to the name. In the thesis, I explain the name as an analogue for the method: "[...]on a smaller scale, it's the equivalent of dropping a crowbar on the target's head from a tall tower."
Let me type up the maths for a 20t mass, I've got my notes right here: v = sqrt(2 x 20,350,000m x 9.81m/s^2) = ~1.998x10^4m/s (assuming no drag and no pre-acceleration, just a simple drop) E = (20,000kg x (1.998x10^4m/s)^2)/2 = ~3.993x10^12J = ~953.4t TNT equivalent. 20kg would get you about a ton of TNT equivalent. "Fairly Effective" indeed...
Sure, projectile profile means this is going to go deep rather than wide, and the transit time is on the order of tens of minutes, but even so, it's not so much a tank-buster but a bunker-buster.
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RGB LEDs and PWM: any color is craftable. I'm no pot-grower, but I read a long time ago, that red-blue light is the best for increasing growth and yield. This was for a zero-g hydroponic garden, though, so it might not apply to marijuana...
Of course, if you plant to torrent or watch streaming HD movies on your cellphone (I don't know why anyone would want to watch movies on the tiny screen, though, it makes my eyes hurt after about 20 min), that's your call. Just remember that you pressed the button.
I use my 500MB plan for checking email, occasionally browsing, using Google Reader, or Maps for navigation, and in the three months I've had my Nexus S, I have yet to hit even 400MB.
I have to: my router doesn't seem to handle local DNS, only DynDNS. Also, I use the Google DNS servers, but since I'm not an IT-professional, I don't know if that's significant (I imagine I could substitute the primary or secondary for my local DNS). And my home network is your nightmare due to retarded ISP restrictions and lack of trust in my Chinese-made ISP router.
No. Because those are handled by DNS-servers now. If you expect us not to bother with IPs in an age where every single device on the face of the Earth has its unique, globally routable address, you're going to have to give us a DNS that handles them all.
Even if I want to FTP to the PC in the other room from my laptop, I'd have to type the full v6 address (back to square minus one), a shorter NAT-ted-mangled address of some sort (back to square one), or a device name. As the addresses are globally routed, there needs to be a global DNS record for that PC and my laptop, otherwise we're back to addresses...
Riiight, so when can we expect you bringing online the DNS-server that provides AAAAA-records for every single device on the planet so we don't have to deal with IP-addresses any more?
Plus, ipv4 is easy to manage; your average network engineer has IPs memorized for when things break, or at least a somewhat logical addressing scheme so it's super-easy to guess the IP of a specific component when DNS breaks or is inaccessible, to be able to log into the device and fix it. the dot-quads make things really easy, four integers with a max of three digits (people memorize numbers and spelling most easily when broken down into chunks of three or less) per integer.
I can agree with this part. Practically the sole reason I'm fearing the change is that I'll no longer be able to set up devices and connections easily. As it stands right now, I take one look at an IPv6 address, and it's enough to make me blanch and think "Holy hellbore, how am I going to remember that monstrosity of an address??".
[...]technology is mature for both (PV solar is semiconductor, and if semiconductor industry is not mature, I don't know what is).[...]
Semiconductor industry may be mature, but PV-tech has a long way to go before it becomes as efficient as simple turbines. And I'm talking about 'in the wild' efficiency, where many frequencies are encountered and the light is often diffused, not a laboratory setting, where the light is single-frequency, direct illumination.
[...]But I was always against building nuclear power plants in deserts, like Saudi Arabia or Nevada. These places receive lots of sun, every day. Use that energy. Solar-thermal solutions are 100% efficient at converting energy into heat. 25-35% final efficiency is very reachable and it is base load capable. Something that we can't say for PV solar.
Now that's true, like I said, PV has ways to go before it can compete with more 'traditional' power generation methods.
... but my university network, which was touted as 'modern' doesn't even offer it. Of course, it does offer some rather obnoxious censoring since last September: what the FUCK did Google Labs ever do to Corvinus?
Now who's watching who? Did Mr. Munroe know about this first, or did the IARPA get the idea from him?
Well, it would certainly solve your internet access problems. After a fashion...
Also I note that "Company Devices" can no longer be used for anything but tracking. This will mean that companies can no longer check if truck drivers follows the rules about rest periods, nor can they check to see if they are speeding... which might (probably will) lead to more tired truckers driving way to fast to meet deadlines. Unintended consequence, I hope.
I think that still comes under the heading of tracking. It is, after all, just a matter of referencing the positions to timestamps to get the speed. Plus, this area is already covered by tachographs for professional trucking, and the new digital ones cannot be tampered with easily.
Having an extra layer of certainty always helps, though...
Call me old-fashioned, paranoid, or anything, but that's just the way I like it... I learned to live with it, but it still bugs me.
To the best of my knowledge, they never did prove that the US created Stuxnet. In fact, I've seen Israel blamed far more, based on vague references in the code.
Except that it breaks copypaste: when I hit CTRL+C, I expect to see EXACTLY the same thing when hitting CTRL+V, but Chrome modifies the clipboard before posting. I don't like that.
Also, it may be ideal for you, but it doesn't cut it for me, I liked seeing the protocol prefix. They could at least insert a flag to re-enable it, even if it's off by default.
Besides, how hard would it be to detect the screen size and set the default accordingly?
Now there's an idea! I'd take it up with Google as a feature request or recommendation, if I were you...
How is privacy over, may I ask? This still has a way to go before it can be used in real-time analysis of CCTV footage. And even then, you can just put on a Guy Fawkes mask like V (purposely not anonymous), or one of the Anonymizer Masks of Doktor Sleepless, and presto! anonymity.
Then it's a bad idea for you, but not necessarily for everyone else too. Just like you don't want Google to force their UI choices on you, don't try forcing your UI choices on others!
Netbooks may not be a majority, but their numbers are quite numerous still. At my university alone, I see hundreds of them, and their users could benefit from as much screen estate as they can get, due to the tiny screen. It's also an option for tablets. But for laptops and desktops, please, just have it as a flag or an option, even if it's the default. Just give me a way to change it to my liking (likewise with the HTTP prefix, btw...)!
I hope to everything that's holy and unholy that this will remain as a flag or a config setting, not some forced idiocy like hiding the "http://". The whole of Chrome is too well done to have them ruin it with a nonsensical move like this...
Because this move resets the software scene. There won't be "applications that they wanted on them" anyway, so it really is a golden opportunity to throw a proper, Joe User-oriented Linux distro out there.
Actually, the inverse is stated in Schlock Mercenary: Schlock is forbidden from using his trademark plasma cannon on ships because with his restraint, he'd blow a three-foot hole in half the bulkheads in 30 seconds. Therefore, the Thugs (and military troops) use bullets that just ricochet off the bulkhead, and don't cause a breach. Except for breaching their medic's skull, but that's a different story...
Except that fusion is being researched as we speak, and we'll have commercial power plants by 2050, as I noted in another comment. In the meantime, Senor Alcubierre's warp drive will take a while longer...
Damn, early submit...
As for collapse, that may be so. According to the Kondratieff Cycle, we are reaching the apex of our civilization, so collapse and rebound can be expected. When it rebounds, it'll become even greater than the current one, and the cycle repeats, yada yada...
Hence no fission. Seriously, fission is the least efficient way to use nuclear energy (the most efficient being antimatter, of course). A fusion drive may be used for both, and even so, much of the trip can be spent coasting, where only power for life support is needed.
The title was "Dilemmas of Space Law", I'm an international relations student. :)
And yes, Rods from God is mentioned explicitly as the title of this chapter "Rods from God and Crowbars - Striking from Orbit" (translated from Hungarian). The name I gave to this particular system was Crowbar, admittedly based on the webcomic UserFriendly, since that's where I saw it called such, and took a liking to the name. In the thesis, I explain the name as an analogue for the method: "[...]on a smaller scale, it's the equivalent of dropping a crowbar on the target's head from a tall tower."
Let me type up the maths for a 20t mass, I've got my notes right here:
v = sqrt(2 x 20,350,000m x 9.81m/s^2) = ~1.998x10^4m/s (assuming no drag and no pre-acceleration, just a simple drop)
E = (20,000kg x (1.998x10^4m/s)^2)/2 = ~3.993x10^12J = ~953.4t TNT equivalent.
20kg would get you about a ton of TNT equivalent. "Fairly Effective" indeed...
Sure, projectile profile means this is going to go deep rather than wide, and the transit time is on the order of tens of minutes, but even so, it's not so much a tank-buster but a bunker-buster.