....How often have you seen someone add a service to a machine which becomes a critical part of your infrastructure then they forget to add it into the RC system?
"Cool tech, but will people really pay $4 a month for this?"
Depends. If it's your laptop, I suspect the answer is no. If it's your server farm, I suspect the answer is yes.
As an aside: Novell used to run contests to see who had the server with the greatest uptime since its last boot. Best one I ever saw was the Netware server that ran so long that everyone forgot where it was and it was accidentally walled-up inside a closet. Wouldn't it be great if the Linux community could run this type of contest?:)
Critics would decry giving money to criminals, but the "buy" could actually take place at the farming level where that's an option, thus totally undercutting the criminals.
And where, in regions that routinely grow opium, would this be an 'option?' The criminals will show up at the farmer's doorstep, take the money, then butcher both the farmer and his family to make an example.
I saw the same sort of thing happen in S.A., where this one campesino decided he wasn't going to grow coca anymore: the local enforcers promptly showed-up, dragged him and his family out and forced them to kneel in front of their house, then went right down the row, from youngest to oldest. Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.
The term 'naive' doesn't even begin to describe your idea.
Build a wind turbine in the US or EU, and it's "Agggh! You might hurt some birds!" Lawsuit-lawsuit-lawsuit....
Build a hydroelectric dam in the US or EU, and it's "Agggh! You might hurt some snails!" Lawsuit-lawsuit-lawsuit....
Build a solar panel in the US or EU, and it's "Agggh! You might shade some weeds!" Lawsuit-lawsuit-lawsuit....
Build a nuclear reactor in the US or EU, and it's "AGGGH! GIANT ANTS!" Lawsuit-lawsuit-lawsuit....
Folks in China don't seem to have to deal with as many of the "technology is baaaaad" types. I suspect it's because they have far more-recent memories of what it's like to freeze in the dark.
Boeing designed and built a heavy commercial aircraft, the 777, around the concept of "fly-by-wire," yet Toyota can't build a gas pedal. Is it the fault of the electronics, or it the fault of some little bean-counter who insisted the pedal be designed to be as cheap as possible? Gee; hard question.
The difficulty of delivering such a large amount of power in such a short time would be bypassed if the battery packs were designed to be easily swapped in and out.
....And how is this different from having the political leanings of my UNION boss amplified through UNION DUES which I have to pay, whether I like it or not?
Sorry; but I have to call conflict of interest here, simply from the amount of revenue PCWorld realizes from MS adspace buys. MS routinely 'votes with its dollars' by shifting the bulk of its ads, and therefore ad revenue, to the publications most favorable to the MS party line.
As a result, an article on Microsoft published by someone like PCWorld is like an article on global warming published by a wholly-owned subsidiary of a coal company: Take it with an iceberg-sized grain of salt.
Nobody in a government bureaucracy ever gets fired, no matter how much they screw-up. So, when the pundits and the politicians huff and puff, all the bureaucrats do is roll their eyes and go back to business as usual.
Go all the way down the chain of the command, and FIRE every single person who touched this mess. Only then will you get the bureaucrats' attention.
Sorry, but the only sort of "Stop Oppression" message a totalitarian state ever pays attention to is the the type that's steel-jacketed and arrives at a velocity of 930 m/s.
A "stiff letter of diplomatic protest" doesn't cut it.
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Is that the British term for "incumbents?"
];)
Now that's what I call outsourcing run amok. :(
....If I hadn't been around for the AI prognostications of the:
----60's :"Real Soon Now!" :"Real Soon Now!" :"Real Soon Now!" :"Real Soon Now!" :"Real Soon Now!...."
----70's
----80's
----90's
----00's
....by the same state that put George "Dubyuh" Bush on the path to become America's 43rd president.
....How often have you seen someone add a service to a machine which becomes a critical part of your infrastructure then they forget to add it into the RC system?
Um, never?
"Cool tech, but will people really pay $4 a month for this?"
Depends. If it's your laptop, I suspect the answer is no. If it's your server farm, I suspect the answer is yes.
As an aside: Novell used to run contests to see who had the server with the greatest uptime since its last boot. Best one I ever saw was the Netware server that ran so long that everyone forgot where it was and it was accidentally walled-up inside a closet. Wouldn't it be great if the Linux community could run this type of contest? :)
Critics would decry giving money to criminals, but the "buy" could actually take place at the farming level where that's an option, thus totally undercutting the criminals.
And where, in regions that routinely grow opium, would this be an 'option?' The criminals will show up at the farmer's doorstep, take the money, then butcher both the farmer and his family to make an example.
I saw the same sort of thing happen in S.A., where this one campesino decided he wasn't going to grow coca anymore: the local enforcers promptly showed-up, dragged him and his family out and forced them to kneel in front of their house, then went right down the row, from youngest to oldest. Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.
The term 'naive' doesn't even begin to describe your idea.
Hey; I have an idea: Let's apply the nuke plant standard for isotope release to COAL plants!
];)
Spend your time wading in 775,000 picocuries of tritium, or spend your time downwind of a coal-fired power plant.
Betcha I know which one will kill you first....
];)
...that Brits feel this overwhelming need to resurrect it?
Every citizen a government informer: The old Stasi crew must be laughing their arses off.
Pfft; if someone solves this, ten million will be pocket change.
You thought the 80's were bad? When it comes to Bad Taste, nothing can ever approach the 70's, and may we fervently pray that nothing ever will.
Build a wind turbine in the US or EU, and it's "Agggh! You might hurt some birds!"
Lawsuit-lawsuit-lawsuit....
Build a hydroelectric dam in the US or EU, and it's "Agggh! You might hurt some snails!"
Lawsuit-lawsuit-lawsuit....
Build a solar panel in the US or EU, and it's "Agggh! You might shade some weeds!"
Lawsuit-lawsuit-lawsuit....
Build a nuclear reactor in the US or EU, and it's "AGGGH! GIANT ANTS!"
Lawsuit-lawsuit-lawsuit....
Folks in China don't seem to have to deal with as many of the "technology is baaaaad" types.
I suspect it's because they have far more-recent memories of what it's like to freeze in the dark.
Boeing designed and built a heavy commercial aircraft, the 777, around the concept of "fly-by-wire," yet Toyota can't build a gas pedal.
Is it the fault of the electronics, or it the fault of some little bean-counter who insisted the pedal be designed to be as cheap as possible?
Gee; hard question.
The difficulty of delivering such a large amount of power in such a short time would be bypassed if the battery packs were designed to be easily swapped in and out.
....If I receive my CompTIA certification in Vacuum Tube Theory prior to 2011, I'm all set, right?
];)~
....And how is this different from having the political leanings of my UNION boss amplified through UNION DUES which I have to pay, whether I like it or not?
Why not? It emits one hell of a lot less radiation and other pollution than a coal-fired one does.
Do your homework before you consign everyone to freezing in the dark.
Sorry; but I have to call conflict of interest here, simply from the amount of revenue PCWorld realizes from MS adspace buys. MS routinely 'votes with its dollars' by shifting the bulk of its ads, and therefore ad revenue, to the publications most favorable to the MS party line.
As a result, an article on Microsoft published by someone like PCWorld is like an article on global warming published by a wholly-owned subsidiary of a coal company: Take it with an iceberg-sized grain of salt.
Honest. That's it.
Nobody in a government bureaucracy ever gets fired, no matter how much they screw-up. So, when the pundits and the politicians huff and puff, all the bureaucrats do is roll their eyes and go back to business as usual.
Go all the way down the chain of the command, and FIRE every single person who touched this mess. Only then will you get the bureaucrats' attention.
'Nuff said.
I nominate Goldbrick's Syndrome; also variously known as SomethingForNothingitis, Easy Street Flu, and the Gravy Train Trots.
I nominate Goldbrick's Syndrome.
Also known as: SomethingForNothingitis, the Easy Street Flu, and the Gravy Train Trots.
....Nope; Windows 7 isn't going to have any of the problems that any of the previous Windows versions had. Nope-nope-nope....
http://movies.apple.com/media/us/mac/getamac/2009/apple-mvp-broken_promises-us-20091023_480x272.mov
(Mad cackling ensues....)
Sorry, but the only sort of "Stop Oppression" message a totalitarian state ever pays attention to is the the type that's steel-jacketed and arrives at a velocity of 930 m/s.
A "stiff letter of diplomatic protest" doesn't cut it.
.... I'd actually like to see this go to court; if it's a fair trial, the Chinese probably will end up being better off because of it.
.... Your real name wouldn't happen to be Anne Frank, would it?
I suggest you go read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism. Pay attention to the first two paragraphs.