It appears there's a very twisted opportunity here: patent as many evil ideas as you can then wait for companies to pursue those strategies by patent trolling them. How about starting by patenting violations of net neutrality like "a system and method for filtering internet content to prevent civil unrest." Or protecting an emerging tech like SVG: "System and method to extend svg-format files with any non-svg content."
It's the cars! So many people have their pet problem to itch of ___ while driving. Driving on your cell, driving and texting, driving drunk - in some US states they even banned driving and talking! They banned driving under 18 with friends in the car. Driving is obviously the common theme here. The fact is a car is between 2000-7000lbs of metal moving 5-20x faster than you can run. Allowing them to become something everyone uses to accomplish a fundamental task like get to work has guaranteed we put fast-moving, fatal machines in the hands of poorly trained people, sometimes in poorly thought-out situations, and in some cases, just plain idiots.
This is especially stupid in London where there are such great alternatives to driving.
In the US, Boston has taken the right approach - make it impossible to drive fast on local roads and bury the highways. This puts the dangerous vehicles out of the way of pedestrians and buildings where they can do damage. The only remaining risk is to the drivers themselves, who put themselves at the peril of everyone else choosing this dangerous method of travel over Boston's excellent subway system. Few sane residents of Boston elect to drive in that environment.
Stop making stupid laws about driving and just bury the expressways in populated areas. Laws saying "Stop that" are the easy, cheap way out, and they'll never work.
1) This sounds better suited to desalination. A house on California's beaches or a boat could use this to evaporate ocean water. Current methods use too much electricity.
2) Maintaining a vacuum - how is the vacuum maintained? The sun sets, pausing evaporation. The exit tube drains or dries. Vacuum lost. It seems like there's more to a closed loop, specifically a solar panel, battery, valve, and controller. When the sun sets the valve would shut to keep water in the tube. When evaporation resumes the valve opens and trickling continues.
Or perhaps there is a power-free mechanical solution where the tube expands for a lot of water and squeezes shut when there is little.
Ergonomically that's how far you're supposed to be... 14 inches in fact. Were these users blind or something? You're just making yourself nearsighted otherwise.
We need a public standard for battery interfaces so the replacement process is cheap and the batteries can be trusted. That makes swapping them cheap and robots like this can improve to be faster and cheaper, and battery manufacturers compete broadly across all electric cars on cost, performance, range, and durability.
The US could ask existing players for comment, establish the standard, then enforce it to incentivize interested businesses and ensure consumers can trust the battery claims on what they swap in.
With this kind of competition freed up, you separate the car, which is largely a style choice, from the batteries which advance rapidly every year, avoiding justified fears of obsolescence.
This is exactly why I still use Windows Mobile, despite how difficult it is to develop for (thousand dollar Visual Studio license fee) and its browser being well behind iPhone and Android.
Now, some providers block this built-in tether (Verizon, Sprint) so they can charge you double to enable it - but without an app store to lock you into, it's easy to install an app that works around their block (PDANet). With tethering officially blocked on Android, I am kinda freaked out to say Windows Mobile is officially the most open cellphone platform. Weird.
Yes but then moving into previously worthless land to grow biofuels means converting a lot of animal habitat that once was left alone. Animals like tigers are in danger because where humans are they tend to get shot, no matter why it is we're there.
If those new farms can actually provide habitat to existing local species you mitigate this but it takes smart government incentive to get there, the kind that doesn't exist on anyone's law books yet.
Yes, this is my problem with the story. The CEO sets policy. Nowhere in his blog response is a statement about what would happen to a salesperson if they were found to be selling review removal, or moving ads. The entry should have stated how they check for this (like the way Starbucks uses Secret Shoppers to pose as customers) and that salespeople violating it will be fired.
Instead the response read as, "We're doing nothing wrong, because if we did, we'd be violating what we say we do"... yes that's what you're accused of... that you run a business doesn't imply you do so honorably.
And he spends time impeaching the sources, which is sometimes the proper response but often how liars get away with a lie - reframe the conversation to be about those who speak up's honesty, and you'll kick up some dirt but most importantly shift the conversation to be about them, not you.
It sounds to me like this CEO is out of his league. There's probably some salespeople out of line and nothing being done to account for it.
In my opinion it's just lack of competition. The Windows standard for running apps needs to become a fully documented public, free work so that competing OS manufacturers can finally start showing up. Then you'll get great boot times.
Vista is a crime but in a competitive market it would have been a blip everyone ignored for other, better competitors. Ubuntu with Wine is almost there but still too complex for your average user with a Windows software install CD and without a clue.
I'm not a Biologist but I've read ~5 years ago most malignant tumor cells emit proteins that "encourage arterial growth" - increase bloodflow. Malignant tumors that don't will most likely starve so it's hard for cancer to get far without emitting that marker.
A more helpful response: Probabilities don't add quite that way. Does the first missile hitting or missing affect the other? No.
The math you're looking for is basically.6 + (1-.6)x.6 = 84% minimum,.9 +(1-.9)x.9 = 99% maximum. Using 60%, missile 1 hits or doesn't. If it does the target is destroyed. Of the 40% chance it doesn't there's another 60% the other missile does the job. That's a total of 84%.
Just increase the Gas Tax then. This GPS tracking idea is expensive both in money and personal privacy, and it's best to tax what hurts the country anyway. Keep incentivizing fuel efficiency and we'll keep seeing better efficient cars. Duh.
I get the scalability factor here - every new windplant comes with the necessary storage - but in total battery capacity this seems wasteful. The batteries are better downstream, closer to the electricity's ultimate destination. The transmission losses can be significant so why not store the lesser amount of energy close to the last mile instead of at the start before the transmission losses?
As a specific example the windfarms near Palm Springs and the Arizona border power many homes and businesses in LA. "Edge caching" the power nearer to the energy's endpoint could cut back battery costs significantly here.
And I rather read those things you like in a physical paper online. If there's a deathknell for the physical papers, it's that the one common justification of them is just a personal opinion and not a justification at all. The group of people saying physical papers will continue on "because I spend 8 hours at a computer already" is a dying breed. Your statistical sample size of 1 does not a print market make.
Personally I get my news on my cellphone while I ride the subway and Public Radio and podcasts while I drive. Those are likely growing ways of getting news, but my sample size of 1 can't tell.
I still think the best opinion on this is that the industry is in an entrepeneurial, innovation-demanding state requiring investment capital, lots of experimentation, and lots of failing players, and instead you have a few big players tweaking a little here, a little there, and so just falling further and further behind Slashdot, Digg, and the bloggers they criticize - while they let them win.
This article is sounding like bad marketing but my guess is having no physical connection means the antenna is isolated completely, and the lack of nearby circuitry reduces the noise floor on what it sends and receives, reducing the necessary power to send a clear signal.
He mentions "other parts" being part of the existing antenna connection... what would those be?
A previous Slashdot article included an nVidia executive saying Intel has been wrong on cpu design for a long time - that the critical design feature needs to be memory bandwidth, not cpu ticks or speed or any of the numbers they've so far focused on.
But I think this just shows supercomputer designers need to stop thinking about CPUs and start thinking about GPUs. Multicore is here and commoditized already, and if you can do your work on shaders then you're looking at not 8, 16, or 32 cores but 640 or 1280 cores to do your work, all with bus designs that put memory first.
If anyone working for me chose/recommended IBM Lotus Notes, that would definitely put them teetering on the brink of fired. That thing is a nightmare for everyone.
That's a rational but twisted point of view. We should cure cancer. It's widely shown modern civilizations (e.g. many of today's EU) stable out on their own and the key is easy access to contraception in all its forms. If becoming a parent is always a rational choice, populations tend to stagnate or even shrink a little. Solve it on the supply side.
That assumes you aren't using DNS the way MX works. With DNS, it's shorter:
username@domain.com
Because DNS handles the Auth server for the user. That's the way it should be - it leverages an existing open standard and is intuitive - average users don't view URLs as usernames.
Yes, there are. Here's my non-biologist attempt to explain what a real biologist explained to me:
Bone marrow seeps blood stem cells slowly into your blood every day. An AIDS patient has blood drawn, and that is spun down for the small number of adult blood stem cells present (so they are partially differentiated like the fat cells in this article - they can become blood cells but probably not liver cells).
The filtered cells are cultured, differentiated to T-Cells, and allowed to divide in culture until they reach 50x normal body levels. Then they are put back into the patient's blood stream and, ideally, the body wins the war by brute force.
I probably screwed that up but as I understannd it, it works some of the time and they were able to get through this process in a few months and save a few people a year.
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Pull the network cable or disable your net connection while he's doing it. If he asks you if your machine is having problems, say no.
If everyone gets in on it at once he'll be unable to single anyone out as the cause and presume it's his machine.
It appears there's a very twisted opportunity here: patent as many evil ideas as you can then wait for companies to pursue those strategies by patent trolling them. How about starting by patenting violations of net neutrality like "a system and method for filtering internet content to prevent civil unrest." Or protecting an emerging tech like SVG: "System and method to extend svg-format files with any non-svg content."
Yes switch providers and post them here so we know to avoid them.
Find a provider with a good uptime SLA (EC2 for example) that doesn't root you when they screw up.
It's the cars! So many people have their pet problem to itch of ___ while driving. Driving on your cell, driving and texting, driving drunk - in some US states they even banned driving and talking! They banned driving under 18 with friends in the car. Driving is obviously the common theme here. The fact is a car is between 2000-7000lbs of metal moving 5-20x faster than you can run. Allowing them to become something everyone uses to accomplish a fundamental task like get to work has guaranteed we put fast-moving, fatal machines in the hands of poorly trained people, sometimes in poorly thought-out situations, and in some cases, just plain idiots.
This is especially stupid in London where there are such great alternatives to driving.
In the US, Boston has taken the right approach - make it impossible to drive fast on local roads and bury the highways. This puts the dangerous vehicles out of the way of pedestrians and buildings where they can do damage. The only remaining risk is to the drivers themselves, who put themselves at the peril of everyone else choosing this dangerous method of travel over Boston's excellent subway system. Few sane residents of Boston elect to drive in that environment.
Stop making stupid laws about driving and just bury the expressways in populated areas. Laws saying "Stop that" are the easy, cheap way out, and they'll never work.
2 comments:
1) This sounds better suited to desalination. A house on California's beaches or a boat could use this to evaporate ocean water. Current methods use too much electricity.
2) Maintaining a vacuum - how is the vacuum maintained? The sun sets, pausing evaporation. The exit tube drains or dries. Vacuum lost. It seems like there's more to a closed loop, specifically a solar panel, battery, valve, and controller. When the sun sets the valve would shut to keep water in the tube. When evaporation
resumes the valve opens and trickling continues.
Or perhaps there is a power-free mechanical solution where the tube expands for a lot of water and squeezes shut when there is little.
Ergonomically that's how far you're supposed to be... 14 inches in fact. Were these users blind or something? You're just making yourself nearsighted otherwise.
We need a public standard for battery interfaces so the replacement process is cheap and the batteries can be trusted. That makes swapping them cheap and robots like this can improve to be faster and cheaper, and battery manufacturers compete broadly across all electric cars on cost, performance, range, and durability.
The US could ask existing players for comment, establish the standard, then enforce it to incentivize interested businesses and ensure consumers can trust the battery claims on what they swap in.
With this kind of competition freed up, you separate the car, which is largely a style choice, from the batteries which advance rapidly every year, avoiding justified fears of obsolescence.
It's crime-riddled isn't it? Ridding of something removes it, so wouldn't crime-ridden be free of crime?
Unless a multicore CPU is actually duplicating calculations, and multiple hard drives are duplicating writes, etc
This is exactly why I still use Windows Mobile, despite how difficult it is to develop for (thousand dollar Visual Studio license fee) and its browser being well behind iPhone and Android.
Now, some providers block this built-in tether (Verizon, Sprint) so they can charge you double to enable it - but without an app store to lock you into, it's easy to install an app that works around their block (PDANet). With tethering officially blocked on Android, I am kinda freaked out to say Windows Mobile is officially the most open cellphone platform. Weird.
Yes but then moving into previously worthless land to grow biofuels means converting a lot of animal habitat that once was left alone. Animals like tigers are in danger because where humans are they tend to get shot, no matter why it is we're there.
If those new farms can actually provide habitat to existing local species you mitigate this but it takes smart government incentive to get there, the kind that doesn't exist on anyone's law books yet.
Yes, this is my problem with the story. The CEO sets policy. Nowhere in his blog response is a statement about what would happen to a salesperson if they were found to be selling review removal, or moving ads. The entry should have stated how they check for this (like the way Starbucks uses Secret Shoppers to pose as customers) and that salespeople violating it will be fired.
Instead the response read as, "We're doing nothing wrong, because if we did, we'd be violating what we say we do"... yes that's what you're accused of... that you run a business doesn't imply you do so honorably.
And he spends time impeaching the sources, which is sometimes the proper response but often how liars get away with a lie - reframe the conversation to be about those who speak up's honesty, and you'll kick up some dirt but most importantly shift the conversation to be about them, not you.
It sounds to me like this CEO is out of his league. There's probably some salespeople out of line and nothing being done to account for it.
Don't forget the Mini-E either.
http://www.miniusa.com/minie-usa/
100-150mi/charge, $850/mo lease
In my opinion it's just lack of competition. The Windows standard for running apps needs to become a fully documented public, free work so that competing OS manufacturers can finally start showing up. Then you'll get great boot times.
Vista is a crime but in a competitive market it would have been a blip everyone ignored for other, better competitors. Ubuntu with Wine is almost there but still too complex for your average user with a Windows software install CD and without a clue.
I'm not a Biologist but I've read ~5 years ago most malignant tumor cells emit proteins that "encourage arterial growth" - increase bloodflow. Malignant tumors that don't will most likely starve so it's hard for cancer to get far without emitting that marker.
A more helpful response: Probabilities don't add quite that way. Does the first missile hitting or missing affect the other? No.
The math you're looking for is basically .6 + (1-.6)x.6 = 84% minimum, .9 +(1-.9)x.9 = 99% maximum. Using 60%, missile 1 hits or doesn't. If it does the target is destroyed. Of the 40% chance it doesn't there's another 60% the other missile does the job. That's a total of 84%.
Just increase the Gas Tax then. This GPS tracking idea is expensive both in money and personal privacy, and it's best to tax what hurts the country anyway. Keep incentivizing fuel efficiency and we'll keep seeing better efficient cars. Duh.
I get the scalability factor here - every new windplant comes with the necessary storage - but in total battery capacity this seems wasteful. The batteries are better downstream, closer to the electricity's ultimate destination. The transmission losses can be significant so why not store the lesser amount of energy close to the last mile instead of at the start before the transmission losses?
As a specific example the windfarms near Palm Springs and the Arizona border power many homes and businesses in LA. "Edge caching" the power nearer to the energy's endpoint could cut back battery costs significantly here.
And I rather read those things you like in a physical paper online. If there's a deathknell for the physical papers, it's that the one common justification of them is just a personal opinion and not a justification at all. The group of people saying physical papers will continue on "because I spend 8 hours at a computer already" is a dying breed. Your statistical sample size of 1 does not a print market make.
Personally I get my news on my cellphone while I ride the subway and Public Radio and podcasts while I drive. Those are likely growing ways of getting news, but my sample size of 1 can't tell.
I still think the best opinion on this is that the industry is in an entrepeneurial, innovation-demanding state requiring investment capital, lots of experimentation, and lots of failing players, and instead you have a few big players tweaking a little here, a little there, and so just falling further and further behind Slashdot, Digg, and the bloggers they criticize - while they let them win.
This article is sounding like bad marketing but my guess is having no physical connection means the antenna is isolated completely, and the lack of nearby circuitry reduces the noise floor on what it sends and receives, reducing the necessary power to send a clear signal.
He mentions "other parts" being part of the existing antenna connection... what would those be?
A previous Slashdot article included an nVidia executive saying Intel has been wrong on cpu design for a long time - that the critical design feature needs to be memory bandwidth, not cpu ticks or speed or any of the numbers they've so far focused on.
But I think this just shows supercomputer designers need to stop thinking about CPUs and start thinking about GPUs. Multicore is here and commoditized already, and if you can do your work on shaders then you're looking at not 8, 16, or 32 cores but 640 or 1280 cores to do your work, all with bus designs that put memory first.
If anyone working for me chose/recommended IBM Lotus Notes, that would definitely put them teetering on the brink of fired. That thing is a nightmare for everyone.
That's a rational but twisted point of view. We should cure cancer. It's widely shown modern civilizations (e.g. many of today's EU) stable out on their own and the key is easy access to contraception in all its forms. If becoming a parent is always a rational choice, populations tend to stagnate or even shrink a little. Solve it on the supply side.
That assumes you aren't using DNS the way MX works. With DNS, it's shorter:
username@domain.com
Because DNS handles the Auth server for the user. That's the way it should be - it leverages an existing open standard and is intuitive - average users don't view URLs as usernames.
Yes, there are. Here's my non-biologist attempt to explain what a real biologist explained to me:
Bone marrow seeps blood stem cells slowly into your blood every day. An AIDS patient has blood drawn, and that is spun down for the small number of adult blood stem cells present (so they are partially differentiated like the fat cells in this article - they can become blood cells but probably not liver cells).
The filtered cells are cultured, differentiated to T-Cells, and allowed to divide in culture until they reach 50x normal body levels. Then they are put back into the patient's blood stream and, ideally, the body wins the war by brute force.
I probably screwed that up but as I understannd it, it works some of the time and they were able to get through this process in a few months and save a few people a year.