I'll have you know that "dollars" are completely supported by futures in unsecured bad debt; the most sophisticated financial instrument yet devised by man.
Turn a shaft and you have electricity. It really is as simple as that. Turning a shaft isn't exactly high tech by modern standards, but many of us live in a world where just raising a window requires a 3L internal combustion engine, so we forget how simple things really are. We are disconected from the tech we rely on. We know only its shadow, not its true form.
Think about this; all the techonolgy to build a steam driven generator has been available since about the time of Christ. All that was missing was the raw knowledge that it could be done.
Simple DC has been doable since the Copper Age. Some copper wire spinning between a couple Hunks-O-Magnetite.
Who wants to predict howlong it will take for those old fashion 1080P sets to become outdated, and that you really must have one of tese new 2160p sets if you want to even THINK of keeping up with the jonses.
I won't be happy until I have a 4320p Jumbotron in my media room. All I need to do is figure out where to get a half kilometer long media room so I can watch the thing.
I was reading the Illiad and Bhaghava-Gita at 11, because there was no one around to tell me I wasn't advanced enough. Dickens, Twain, Conan Doyle; piece of cake; although perhaps my favorite work was the Larousse Encyclopedia of Astronomy. I lugged that puppy most of the way from Cananda to Guatamala. That one's not in the public domain, but most of the material in it is.
It's amazing what a kid can accomplish if there isn't someone force feeding him "age appropriate" material at a graded rate. The modern American education is actually designed to hold you back.
Basically there's people on the go all over the world with no steady supply of power or fuel who have to be prepared for intense weather conditions - they're called yachties
I came to make the same recommendation for info and suppliers; however:
I've written about my yachtiness in posts over the years; and one of the things I've written is that solar is nice to have around when things are going well, as a luxury, but never, ever, ever bet your life on it.
That is when it will fail. Every time.
Solar is supplimentary technology. Not core. People on the go all over the world with no steady supply of power or fuel who have to be prepared for intense weather conditions and rely on solar - are called dead.
Nothing bails faster than a scared man with a bucket.
The reason people use general databases is not because they think it's the ultimate in performance, it's because it's already written, already debugged, and -- most importantly. ..
. ..has some level of definable and gauranteed data integrity.
When they get better with metals and ceramics we can kiss any sort of gun control goodbye.
You can just go to the home store and buy fabbed metals.
The only thing standing between you and a zip gun right now is a few tools, twenty bucks and a bit of knowledge. The knowledge is available on the web.
Effective gun control has always been as impossible as effective DRM. It's medieval technology for goodness sake. At heart a gun is nothing more than a tube, a pebble and something to make the pebble leave the tube really, really fast.
Well, that would depend a good deal on what you were feeding into it as a consumable, wouldn't it?
Corn Starch and water would be pretty cheap. Molten platinum a bit more.
This isn't a "product." There are no offical accessories and supplies. You build it yourself and then pour whatever you can into the hopper (well, syringe I guess) and see what you can do with it.
This is a real fabber for real fabbers. It's fun, but not a "toy."
The ink in those cartridges costs about a buck. The reason the cartridges are so expensive is because they are a propriatary item for which the printer maker can; and does, charge whatever the market can be forced to bear, usually to make up for the fact that they sold the printer at about cost.
This fabber is a DIY; open "source" device. You get parts lists and plans, then it's up to you. "Refills" will cost only whatever the raw materials are going for on the open market.
To suggest that people gravitate towards Open Source Software because it isn't as specific as Free Software is silly.
That's why I didn't say that.
. ..otherwise they are synonymous.
Now that is silly. The whole point of ESR coining the term "Open Source" was to mean something rather different. See the disagreement over the BSD license.
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I'll have you know that "dollars" are completely supported by futures in unsecured bad debt; the most sophisticated financial instrument yet devised by man.
KFG
Or they can tie a goat to the yo-yo!!!!!!!!!!
Well yeah, but what do they do after dinner?
KFG
I wonder what they pay?
Money.
KFG
Death camp? Whooooooa! Where did that come from?
They knocked down the WTC? Whoooooooooa! I never saw that coming.
There are people in this world who are perfectly capable of ignoring the reality of what "everyone" is talking about. People are funny critters.
KFG
I think. . .
Well, we're obviously going to have to put a stop to that sort of shit!
KFG
. . .the tech companies want to carve the market into multiple walled gardens. Theoretically free market should react and break it up. . .
. . . but there's this shit called "The Law(tm)".
KFG
Turn a shaft and you have electricity. It really is as simple as that. Turning a shaft isn't exactly high tech by modern standards, but many of us live in a world where just raising a window requires a 3L internal combustion engine, so we forget how simple things really are. We are disconected from the tech we rely on. We know only its shadow, not its true form.
Think about this; all the techonolgy to build a steam driven generator has been available since about the time of Christ. All that was missing was the raw knowledge that it could be done.
Simple DC has been doable since the Copper Age. Some copper wire spinning between a couple Hunks-O-Magnetite.
Knowledge is power.
KFG
The way that an ebook is delivered removes that experience from the equation.
The way books are delivered removes that experience from much of the world.
KFG
Who wants to predict howlong it will take for those old fashion 1080P sets to become outdated, and that you really must have one of tese new 2160p sets if you want to even THINK of keeping up with the jonses.
I won't be happy until I have a 4320p Jumbotron in my media room. All I need to do is figure out where to get a half kilometer long media room so I can watch the thing.
KFG
I was reading the Illiad and Bhaghava-Gita at 11, because there was no one around to tell me I wasn't advanced enough. Dickens, Twain, Conan Doyle; piece of cake; although perhaps my favorite work was the Larousse Encyclopedia of Astronomy. I lugged that puppy most of the way from Cananda to Guatamala. That one's not in the public domain, but most of the material in it is.
It's amazing what a kid can accomplish if there isn't someone force feeding him "age appropriate" material at a graded rate. The modern American education is actually designed to hold you back.
KFG
They will be children using these devices, you prick.
Children who, for the most part, probably get to see a modicum of real life fucking going on.
Most of the world does not operate by the prudish to the point of psychosis standards of Peoria. They live too close to the metal of reality.
KFG
Say 100W per laptop. . .
Say 3w at cruising speed; 5w flat out. Less than a standard nightlight.
2 1/2 hours of manual "labor" for a full charge, or 2 1/2 seconds of lifting the brick to the ceiling if you're a bit clever.
KFG
Basically there's people on the go all over the world with no steady supply of power or fuel who have to be prepared for intense weather conditions - they're called yachties
I came to make the same recommendation for info and suppliers; however:
I've written about my yachtiness in posts over the years; and one of the things I've written is that solar is nice to have around when things are going well, as a luxury, but never, ever, ever bet your life on it.
That is when it will fail. Every time.
Solar is supplimentary technology. Not core. People on the go all over the world with no steady supply of power or fuel who have to be prepared for intense weather conditions and rely on solar - are called dead.
Nothing bails faster than a scared man with a bucket.
KFG
The reason people use general databases is not because they think it's the ultimate in performance, it's because it's already written, already debugged, and -- most importantly. . .
.has some level of definable and gauranteed data integrity.
. .
KFG
I'm thinking of factory or near-factory quality. . .
Ahhhhhhhhhh, junk.
KFG
When they get better with metals and ceramics we can kiss any sort of gun control goodbye.
You can just go to the home store and buy fabbed metals.
The only thing standing between you and a zip gun right now is a few tools, twenty bucks and a bit of knowledge. The knowledge is available on the web.
Effective gun control has always been as impossible as effective DRM. It's medieval technology for goodness sake. At heart a gun is nothing more than a tube, a pebble and something to make the pebble leave the tube really, really fast.
KFG
. . .buy a 3D printer and make another one for a friend . . .
.lathe.
Ok, but you'll need a . .
KFG
how much do the consumables for this thing cost?
Well, that would depend a good deal on what you were feeding into it as a consumable, wouldn't it?
Corn Starch and water would be pretty cheap. Molten platinum a bit more.
This isn't a "product." There are no offical accessories and supplies. You build it yourself and then pour whatever you can into the hopper (well, syringe I guess) and see what you can do with it.
This is a real fabber for real fabbers. It's fun, but not a "toy."
KFG
Can't this 3D printer just duplicate itself by printing a clone of itself.
Build one and try to print a stepper motor. You'll find out.
KFG
The ink in those cartridges costs about a buck. The reason the cartridges are so expensive is because they are a propriatary item for which the printer maker can; and does, charge whatever the market can be forced to bear, usually to make up for the fact that they sold the printer at about cost.
This fabber is a DIY; open "source" device. You get parts lists and plans, then it's up to you. "Refills" will cost only whatever the raw materials are going for on the open market.
KFG
Kiss goodbye to freeware games for starters.
Ya think that's an accident?
KFG
I may be wrong, but doesn't Wild Tangent have a rep for being pseudo spyware?
http://www.pchell.com/support/wildtangent.shtml
KFG
To suggest that people gravitate towards Open Source Software because it isn't as specific as Free Software is silly.
.otherwise they are synonymous.
That's why I didn't say that.
. .
Now that is silly. The whole point of ESR coining the term "Open Source" was to mean something rather different. See the disagreement over the BSD license.
KFG
I wonder what comes next, after beverage containers, and interplanetary spacecraft.
Condoms. You won't believe what those green chicks will do after you get half a liter of beer into 'em.
KFG
Why is it improper for them to have decided they don't want that RPG included in their competition.
Because, as already noted, they invited it and then declared it among the elite of the entrants before throwing it out?
KFG