The electric company might just give the data to the cops without ever being asked. Power companies typically like average customers, not peak customers (although they do like customers who use lots of power at off-peak times). If someone hands the cops something, they don't need a warrant. The only question then is if the people with their doors busted in have any recourse against the power company.
I've got a 1080p DVI ioGear USB adapter I've been quite happy with, ran me $50 from newegg. The video isn't nearly as bad as you might think, even full screen. I think it should be adequate for an 800x600 photo frame.
I am frankly surprised that new monitors don't come with a USB option. If a separate dongle is $50, the Bill of Materials for the pcb and chips has to be under $20.
Personally, I think the big boon for USB 3.0 will not be storage, but the ability to hang a 2nd/ 3rd/ 6th monitor off of your PC via USB, and still get decent performance.
Due to the network effect, Skype has an effective monopoly on free phone service. While the barrier to entry in this market is technically low, in the real world filled with real users it's probably insurmountable.
Yeah. It's lilke MySpace. I sure wish something would come along to improve on MySpace. But hey, what ya gonna do? They're entrenched.
Our utility allows you to buy 100% renewable power, which our household does. We're not naive, (I used to work in power distribution) I know that it's not like they build a windmill just for me. But they charge a small premium for the distinction, and guarantee that they will buy enough renewable sources to provide for everyone that wants it. The idea is that you're actively developing the market for renewable sources. Just like the people who buy a prius or a leaf, or a Volt. There's a highly questionable economic and even green benefit when all is considered. But you're seeding the market with the hope that it develops into something more mature and self-sustainable.
Yes, you need them. But it's just a higher level need. Just like you need social interaction. If all we needed was food, we'd be on the same level as animals. The ability to consume and contemplate information from outside of your immediate observation is fundamental to being human.
Yeah. It's funny to think that they're OK with data coming in over TCP/IP if it goes to a set-top box provided by the cable provider. Which then goes out, potentially, over HDMI. Now they're (perpetually) developing wireless HDMI. And this would presumably be ok. Yet, bringing it into a box provided by the cable company, then streaming it out over 802.11 isn't ok. Go figure.
This reminds me a bit of when I put up my own web page in 1996. I actually sent emails to some companies asking if I could put their logo up on my site (my favorites page) as an image link to their site. A few of them (Mr. Showbiz was one), said no, because they needed to keep control of their trademarks. I feel like that level of market understanding is where the cable companies are now.
Looks like it's gone now. CNN often rewrites articles under the same URL when things are developing. Again, the NYT beats them on credibility by posting a change log for corrections at the bottom of the page. But at least one of CNN's local partners picked up the story off of their wire and has archived it:
http://www.12newsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=14254119&clienttype=generic&mobilecgbypass
Yeah. Yesterday they said American jets bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With news today, accuracy doesn't matter as much as time to market. The NYT tends to be a couple of hours behind CNN, but tend to do a better job, I think.
You specifically don't use F22's in a place like Libya. Less cutting edge stuff will easily do the job, as well as the fact that the only place you need to enforce no-fly zones is near the coast, making longer range naval surface to air a possiblity for large percentages of populated areas.
Even with your latest, greatest, there is always the chance that some guy with an AA gun will get lucky, or that you'll have a mechanical failure and crash. Then you have a big, big problem, as all of a sudden Russian and Chinese agents show up with giant duffle bags full of cash, offering farmers $$$ for anything that looks vaguely like busted up aircraft parts.
There's a lot of speculation that the latest Chinese stealth fighter was developed so quickly because they got hits from the parts of the F-117 that went down during the Kosovo operations.
Then they'll do what the rebels have been doing since the beginning. A lot of the early stuff was sneaker-netted on CDs and Flash drives across the border, and injected into the internet from there.
$60 a game is worth it because people are willing to pay it. If it wasn't, they'd be burrying truckloads of Call Of Duty boxes in the desert right now. Go on one of the big multiplayer tracked games, and look at their total number of hours played, then divide that by their revenue. The good games that do a half-a-billion dollars in revenue have, in some cases, a billion or more hours of logged player time. Average cost per played hour: less than a dollar. Compare that to a feature film, average cost per hour more than $5. Add the ability to resale many games, and the actual per hour drops even more.
Yeah. the only issue with rollbacks is that you also want to get security patches. So, you ocasionally go back to your clean copy, install patches (only, no surfing!) then make that your new clean copy. If you're really paranoid, use the on-screen mouse driven keyboard to enter your passwords/credit card #'s on the trusted machine; This would defeat any keystroke loggers which had managed to infect your host machine.
They don't have to be there long... only as long as it takes to type in a password or credit card number. My advice is to use multiple VMs, running linux. One for your naughty activities, and one for your trusted activities. Only use the trusted VM to do banking or personal information related stuff, only accessing trusted sites. And, as you say, wipe it periodically, potentially as often as every use.
The middle east is not an island, and neither are we. Yes, Saudi Arabia might fall, become extremeist, and topple Kuait, Egypt, northeastern african states etc. We could live with that, from a global power/ economic standpoint. But as the chaos moved north and west, eventually it would get to places we have traditionally cared about.
So you're saying that we should hold back progress because some people in the middle east might become terrorists if we don't?
I'm not saying that at all. Overall, it would be a good thing. Right now, we're effectively subsidizing these governments because we can't or won't reduce our dependence on oil, which they have, and we need. Right now we go to them, largely on their terms, or they threaten to shut off the spigot (a largely empty threat, as it is also self-destructive to them). A change to energy-self sufficiency would mean that we would stop subsidizing their governments. All I'm saying is that we'd have to consider the effect on that region, and telling them to "go pound sand" would probably not be in our best interests.
A technology like this would give us the opportunity to give aid on our terms, not theirs. Much as we do today, to Yemen.
. The other good thing is that this should act to stabilize energy prices. The United States is in for a shock in the next few years as the global economy rebounds, and the chinese and indians continue to buy a million or more cars a year. This would help soften the blow of all that additional demand coming into a limited supply market. Right now, we are, IMHO, on track to $5 or $6 / gallon gas in the next 5 years.
On a related note, I think the idea of adding additional domestic production in the short term is a mistake. I'd rather send $80 per barrel to the middle east now, than $400 a barrel a generation or three from now. Leave ours in the ground, then get it out when other world supplies run out. Then our children will be in the position OPEC enjoys now.
Sounds great, but doesn't really address the problem of internal combustion engines having only 30% efficiency.
Who cares? If the whole thing is carbon-neutral, it seems to me that the net result of 30% vs 60% efficienty on an engine is zero. The bacteria work for free, right?
I know that sounds appealing. But it's interesting to think about what might happen if the single biggest source of wealth in the Middle East was suddenly worthless. Despite what you see on the news, the average middle easterner is, for the most part, the kind of person that John Stewart would describe as "Someone with shit to do." They live their lives, produce income, spend it, raise a family, etc. These activities would be severely disrupted if oil dropped back to $20 / barrel. All of the sovergn governments over there would collapse (some are in trouble even if oil drops to $60 a barrel, due to over-commitment from the $100+ days). And pre-surge iraq-style chaos would reign.
Yemen is a good example of what the entire middle east might look like if this happened. And, as the Joker famously said, Dynamite and Gasoline are cheap. The violent extremeists would still find ways to buy bullets and ammunition. But they'd have much more freedom to operate, and a much larger base of disenchanted population to recruit from.
Or, they can argue that the screws are less likely to strip than the old philips screws. It's a standard, and you can buy the screwdrivers without much problem.
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The electric company might just give the data to the cops without ever being asked. Power companies typically like average customers, not peak customers (although they do like customers who use lots of power at off-peak times). If someone hands the cops something, they don't need a warrant. The only question then is if the people with their doors busted in have any recourse against the power company.
I've got a 1080p DVI ioGear USB adapter I've been quite happy with, ran me $50 from newegg. The video isn't nearly as bad as you might think, even full screen. I think it should be adequate for an 800x600 photo frame. I am frankly surprised that new monitors don't come with a USB option. If a separate dongle is $50, the Bill of Materials for the pcb and chips has to be under $20. Personally, I think the big boon for USB 3.0 will not be storage, but the ability to hang a 2nd/ 3rd/ 6th monitor off of your PC via USB, and still get decent performance.
There are dozens of decent VoIP apps out there
Due to the network effect, Skype has an effective monopoly on free phone service. While the barrier to entry in this market is technically low, in the real world filled with real users it's probably insurmountable.
Yeah. It's lilke MySpace. I sure wish something would come along to improve on MySpace. But hey, what ya gonna do? They're entrenched.
You might try Quakerism. It's got all that, plus a tollerant religious attitude to bat.
Our utility allows you to buy 100% renewable power, which our household does. We're not naive, (I used to work in power distribution) I know that it's not like they build a windmill just for me. But they charge a small premium for the distinction, and guarantee that they will buy enough renewable sources to provide for everyone that wants it. The idea is that you're actively developing the market for renewable sources. Just like the people who buy a prius or a leaf, or a Volt. There's a highly questionable economic and even green benefit when all is considered. But you're seeding the market with the hope that it develops into something more mature and self-sustainable.
Yes, you need them. But it's just a higher level need. Just like you need social interaction. If all we needed was food, we'd be on the same level as animals. The ability to consume and contemplate information from outside of your immediate observation is fundamental to being human.
Yeah. It's funny to think that they're OK with data coming in over TCP/IP if it goes to a set-top box provided by the cable provider. Which then goes out, potentially, over HDMI. Now they're (perpetually) developing wireless HDMI. And this would presumably be ok. Yet, bringing it into a box provided by the cable company, then streaming it out over 802.11 isn't ok. Go figure.
This reminds me a bit of when I put up my own web page in 1996. I actually sent emails to some companies asking if I could put their logo up on my site (my favorites page) as an image link to their site. A few of them (Mr. Showbiz was one), said no, because they needed to keep control of their trademarks. I feel like that level of market understanding is where the cable companies are now.
Looks like it's gone now. CNN often rewrites articles under the same URL when things are developing. Again, the NYT beats them on credibility by posting a change log for corrections at the bottom of the page. But at least one of CNN's local partners picked up the story off of their wire and has archived it: http://www.12newsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=14254119&clienttype=generic&mobilecgbypass
Yeah. Yesterday they said American jets bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With news today, accuracy doesn't matter as much as time to market. The NYT tends to be a couple of hours behind CNN, but tend to do a better job, I think.
The trick, then, seems to be to have ... wait for it... Two missles!
You specifically don't use F22's in a place like Libya. Less cutting edge stuff will easily do the job, as well as the fact that the only place you need to enforce no-fly zones is near the coast, making longer range naval surface to air a possiblity for large percentages of populated areas.
Even with your latest, greatest, there is always the chance that some guy with an AA gun will get lucky, or that you'll have a mechanical failure and crash. Then you have a big, big problem, as all of a sudden Russian and Chinese agents show up with giant duffle bags full of cash, offering farmers $$$ for anything that looks vaguely like busted up aircraft parts.
There's a lot of speculation that the latest Chinese stealth fighter was developed so quickly because they got hits from the parts of the F-117 that went down during the Kosovo operations.
Then they'll do what the rebels have been doing since the beginning. A lot of the early stuff was sneaker-netted on CDs and Flash drives across the border, and injected into the internet from there.
$60 a game is worth it because people are willing to pay it. If it wasn't, they'd be burrying truckloads of Call Of Duty boxes in the desert right now. Go on one of the big multiplayer tracked games, and look at their total number of hours played, then divide that by their revenue. The good games that do a half-a-billion dollars in revenue have, in some cases, a billion or more hours of logged player time. Average cost per played hour: less than a dollar. Compare that to a feature film, average cost per hour more than $5. Add the ability to resale many games, and the actual per hour drops even more.
This never would have happened if they were running Lin...
Oh. Right. Never mind.
Microsoft fanboys, begin your modding up now! Linux fanboys, begin your modding down now!
slowed by the necessity for peer review.
What credible software organization feels that peer review isn't necessary? Automated testing only gets you so far...
Yeah. the only issue with rollbacks is that you also want to get security patches. So, you ocasionally go back to your clean copy, install patches (only, no surfing!) then make that your new clean copy. If you're really paranoid, use the on-screen mouse driven keyboard to enter your passwords/credit card #'s on the trusted machine; This would defeat any keystroke loggers which had managed to infect your host machine.
They don't have to be there long... only as long as it takes to type in a password or credit card number. My advice is to use multiple VMs, running linux. One for your naughty activities, and one for your trusted activities. Only use the trusted VM to do banking or personal information related stuff, only accessing trusted sites. And, as you say, wipe it periodically, potentially as often as every use.
The middle east is not an island, and neither are we. Yes, Saudi Arabia might fall, become extremeist, and topple Kuait, Egypt, northeastern african states etc. We could live with that, from a global power/ economic standpoint. But as the chaos moved north and west, eventually it would get to places we have traditionally cared about.
So you're saying that we should hold back progress because some people in the middle east might become terrorists if we don't?
I'm not saying that at all. Overall, it would be a good thing. Right now, we're effectively subsidizing these governments because we can't or won't reduce our dependence on oil, which they have, and we need. Right now we go to them, largely on their terms, or they threaten to shut off the spigot (a largely empty threat, as it is also self-destructive to them). A change to energy-self sufficiency would mean that we would stop subsidizing their governments. All I'm saying is that we'd have to consider the effect on that region, and telling them to "go pound sand" would probably not be in our best interests.
A technology like this would give us the opportunity to give aid on our terms, not theirs. Much as we do today, to Yemen.
. The other good thing is that this should act to stabilize energy prices. The United States is in for a shock in the next few years as the global economy rebounds, and the chinese and indians continue to buy a million or more cars a year. This would help soften the blow of all that additional demand coming into a limited supply market. Right now, we are, IMHO, on track to $5 or $6 / gallon gas in the next 5 years.
On a related note, I think the idea of adding additional domestic production in the short term is a mistake. I'd rather send $80 per barrel to the middle east now, than $400 a barrel a generation or three from now. Leave ours in the ground, then get it out when other world supplies run out. Then our children will be in the position OPEC enjoys now.
Unless of course they've engineered the bacteria to eat fossil fuels. Wouldn't that be ripe!
Yeah. Then they'd be like fuel cell engines!
Sounds great, but doesn't really address the problem of internal combustion engines having only 30% efficiency.
Who cares? If the whole thing is carbon-neutral, it seems to me that the net result of 30% vs 60% efficienty on an engine is zero. The bacteria work for free, right?
I know that sounds appealing. But it's interesting to think about what might happen if the single biggest source of wealth in the Middle East was suddenly worthless. Despite what you see on the news, the average middle easterner is, for the most part, the kind of person that John Stewart would describe as "Someone with shit to do." They live their lives, produce income, spend it, raise a family, etc. These activities would be severely disrupted if oil dropped back to $20 / barrel. All of the sovergn governments over there would collapse (some are in trouble even if oil drops to $60 a barrel, due to over-commitment from the $100+ days). And pre-surge iraq-style chaos would reign.
Yemen is a good example of what the entire middle east might look like if this happened. And, as the Joker famously said, Dynamite and Gasoline are cheap. The violent extremeists would still find ways to buy bullets and ammunition. But they'd have much more freedom to operate, and a much larger base of disenchanted population to recruit from.
+1 informative.
Or, they can argue that the screws are less likely to strip than the old philips screws. It's a standard, and you can buy the screwdrivers without much problem.
Yup. Somewhere, a design engineer at Sony is getting his ass kicked for not thinking of using screws that require a screwdriver nearly nobody has.
"Yeah, I know, you came up with memory-stick. But that was years ago. Look at this! This is state of the art non-standardization!".