Not to take away from your joke.. It is funny. The real gain comes from not losing 1/3 to 2/3 of your power generated to transmission line loss. Yes, it can be that much. Twice as much power is generated than is ever used due to line loss. Some of this loss can me mitigated by using extremely high voltages and of course alternating current but most of the power produced is lost to resistance and therefore heat. If you can generate electricity onsite efficiently, you can reduce the amount of hydrocarbons used to produce a given amount of electricity locally.
Yes, this means that plugging your emissions free EV-6 actually produces three times as much pollution than a gasoline burning car but the car's exhaust comes out of a power plant's smoke stack not the car's exhaust pipe. Robbing Peter to pay Paul. I will be the first person to get one of these. I know long term that there is no way the power company can compete with me generating electricity locally price wise. Then again, I am under Pacific Gas and Electric. What they do not take from me in Kilowatt/Hours they'll take from me in Pounds of Gas.
I have to agree with your definition of Mage: "trendy cyber-goth woe-is-me-woe-is-my-world." I also agree that Ars Magica is a superior game when it comes to environmental feel. But I am going to have to geek out a moment here and point you to some deep holes in its game mechanics. Create a mage character. Take the virtue "life linked spontaneous magic" and the rest of your virtues points in auqeum, mutae and ignium I think..
On your very first adventure, create a hurricane, turn the hurricane into oil and ignite the hurricane. This will promptly kill your character but not before unleashing the most hellish firestorm imaginable. A hurricane is a heat engine. 80f+ water creates 200 mph wind speeds. what happens when the air temperature in a 50 mile wide area instantly becomes 500 degrees?
So your newly created mage although now dead was worse than a walking nuclear bomb. forget the mirv as a motorcycle sidecar gag. Serious flaw? There are many of them. Try "Harnmaster" by Columbia Games. Same feel better system. As for "Shadowrun" try "Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0". For you vampire live action role-playing freaks, get a real social life and quit hanging out in front of Starbucks on Friday night after dark. It hasn't gotten you laid. It never will. Lucky someone doesn't catch you in an alley with a baseball bat.
Katz: it's a game not a philosophy. Need some insight into reality? Read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", "Emotional Intelligence", "Chaos", "The Quark and the Jaguar" and "How the Mind Works". No, really read them. No, go read them and meditate apon your teachings in Alaska for a year and a day before posting on/. again.
Features: JonKatz takes his ego out and plays with it before a live audience of one!
Text of Memorandum of Understanding Between the People of the United States and The Department of Justice on Inspections of CARNIVORE
September 4, 2000
1. The Department of Justice reconfirms its acceptance of all relevant resolutions of the People of the United states, including the declaration of independence and the bill of rights. The Department of Justice further reiterates it's undertaking to cooperate fully with the People of the United States.
2. The People of the United States reiterate the consent of all people to respect the lawful application of justice. We hear by give the department of justice permission to execute our will as defined by the Constitution and bill of rights.
3. The Department of Justice undertakes to accord to The People of the United States immediate, unconditional and unrestricted access to CARNIVORE
4. The People of the United States and the Department of Justice agree that the following special procedures shall apply to the initial and subsequent inspections of CARNIVORE.
a) A special group shall be established for this purpose by the People. This group shall comprise a group of people selected an modded on/. The group shall be headed by a commissioner elected by the group. Possible people include Linus Tovaralds, Steve Gibson, Neal Stephenson and Kevin Mitnick
b) In carrying out its work, the special group shall operate under no mandated guidelines other than this: Find the Truth. This is the will of the people.
c) The report of the special group on its activities and findings shall be submitted to the People.
5. The People of the United States and the Department of Justice agree that all other areas, facilities, equipment, records and means of transportation shall be subject to Inspection at all times.
This contract was derived from The memo we sent Iraq in regards to inspections involving weapons of mass destruction...The DOJ is pulling all the same tricks that Iraq did. This is an example of Government NOT deriving their just power from the consent of the governed.
Linux's 100% uptime and hundreds of distinguished posters have clouded the issue. You live your life online, system ready, at least one eyeball on the pulse of the internet. Great. But if you have something important to conceal on a computer Disconnect it from the internet or in the case of these "privacy invading" bluetooth Peer to Peer devices, Turn off their transmitters or turn them off entirely Just like the television set... don't like what is on? Shut it off. In reality the only thing the engineers did not think of was even a technical user's stupidity.
Great, now we have self inflating Martian atmospheric research probes. Of all the geeks ever seen on/. these guys REALLY need girlfriends. I wonder if the cameras will have blue tinted peripheral vision (viagra). These guys could have made a round balloon but chose a sausage shape instead.
"The United States, as the world's current sole superpower, is enjoying unprecedented economic prosperity. Unprecedented. In this climate I have found it impossible to discuss, much less make clear, a number of topics, all of which seem obvious to those of us who read slashdot and are informed on the issue, and are apparently unfathomable by most of those who do not:"
Clinton cannot take credit for the economy. The internet can not take credit for the economy. Greenspan cannot take credit for the economy.
Historicly American's prime income earning years are from 45 to retirement. Well, baby boomers account for the largest demographic lump and they are all in their prime income earning years. They have and spend most of the money that gets spent. We are not all in that income bracket/demographic. Most of us hear the rosy economic news and know we are not earning a living wage. The latest greatest economic figures do not apply to us. Internet news is all about Silicon Valley/Redmond economy. High wage twentysomethings and Baby boomers despite Making for great economic statistics are still a minority. The vast majority of us are not seeing the benefits of this Gilded Age economy. Our eyes are open and we are hungry for a change. Change will come in the form of baby boomer retirement. Generally their retirement plans involve some sort of pension at half their retirement wage and social security. They will be unproductive and sucking money out of the system and at the same time earning less and putting less back in. I foresee at least a recession and possibly a depression. If that also collapses the stock market then I see 90% of pension funds and most of their mutual funds/IRA etceteras collapsing with it. That leaves them with social security Which we should all know is bankrupt!
Money wins elections. Bush will be the next president because he has the most money. Every election and piece of legislation passed in the last 25 years has been fixed with corporate funding. Therefore corporations are the government. All the important decisions are made by their will and their will alone. The problem will fix itself though. Think about what stock market crashes do to corporations. My standard of living, like almost every one else's in America is below the poverty line already. I will glide through global recession like I've glided through my personal recession. Bill and Bush will take it right on the nose.
BTW, we will never have to worry about information as a commodity to be bought and "licensed". Information of all kind as memes has a natural habit of making itself free. In internet time information that today gets sold is free tomorrow.
Let's say toshiba "owns" by investment an arbitrary figure, say 33 percent of transmetta. They would not have invested in the first place if they were not fairly sure of Transmetta's ability to give Intel serious competion in the mobile market. Transmetta needs more cash so is going to do an IPO. That will dilute Toshiba's ownership percentage to an arbitrary figure of 16.5 percent. Now, Toshiba can slam Transmetta's IPO in order to invest even more in them, gaining a controlling interest. When Transmetta's Crusoe arrives it will be good enough for everyone to forget that Toshiba ever said it might not be up to par. End result: Toshiba owns and controls a potential Intel killer, and they got it on the cheap because they scared away all the other investors. They chose now because Transmetta is in their mandatory pre-IPO quiet period.
How the hell do these guys get a patent on research done using a federal grant? This is all public domain. Hate to burst their for profit bubble but Nortel, Cisco, and Agilent I'm sure will have something to say about this.
Ok, this is faster than the speed of sound in air... how fast does a sound wave travel in the sea? If it is faster than a sound wave will travel in the sea it cannot use sonar to "see" at all.
Black, Green, Red are the best light absorbers in order. Black, Red, Green are the best radiant heat absorbers. Reasoning = Infrared (radiant thermal EM) is right next to red on the EM spectrum. Tornadoes typically form on the leading edge of a super cell. Soil absorbs and holds heat. A thermometer placed in the soil at high noon will read 120f while the air is only 90f. In order to explosively heat the air and cause the dramatic updrafts associated with tornado formation there must be a catalyst to place the heat that is in the ground into the air. This is accomplished by wind, where a gust will pick up a bunch of dust and sand off the ground increasing the effective surface area of the ground to air heat transfer or by the first rains that fall immediately evaporating and transferring all the ground's heat to the air. A tornado stirs up dust and dirt feeding itself with newly heated air directly from the ground. The ground can stay warmer than the air well into the night because it holds heat accumulated while the sun shines. The most severe tornadoes are associated with extreme differential between ground and air temperature.
What creates the strongest tornadoes? Hot ground combined with a cold front (cold air). What color is good top soil? Black. What color are all the farmers trying to make their topsoil? Black. What color absorbs light and heat best? Black. After the dustbowl of the '20s and '30s we learned all sorts of soil conservation and enrichment techniques. Now all the soil is black and the ground is hotter. You can start growing earlier and harvest later in hot black soil. You can also make the best tornado formation zones the planet has ever seen.
Cities are a minor effect on the weather when it comes to man made alterations. The weather is "critically dependent on initial conditions" (chaos theory) So, to find the things that man has done you need to look far into the past and find the event with the greatest impact in its time. I believe it is sheep grazing. In Kuwait the US Army has a firing range where no Bedouin shepherds are allowed. The Impact area is verdant and lush. It looks a lot like the great plains (USA) do. Outside of the impact area sheep over graze, ripping vegetation out by the roots, leaving baked dust and sand. This has gone on for thousands of years. Kuwait is very near the Tigris and Euphrates rives, the cradle of civilization. The entire middle east is man (domestic sheep) made desert. About the time god cast man out of Eden he also decided that being a shepherd was better than being a farmer(Cain and Able). I speculate that early man even in Africa domesticated animals and possible even created the Sahara. The loss of Eden was not from god, but man destroying Eden. Cities are recent have a small effect compared to the thousands of years man made deserts have had to work their magic on the environment.
Let's say you are a lefty like me and 11% of the planet (more of us than all non windows OS users combined). Let's say I use my mouse in my left hand. Now hit CMD Q, CMD W and CMD Z with your right hand. Universal? Hardly. Now double click the mouse icon in the control panel. Select "use left handed mouse". Windows is trash but Linux and Mac OS could take some lessons on ease of use and accessibility features.
Remember when assigning options for your cyberoptics if you want to get full function from your smartgun(tm) link you must have the Image Enhancement(tm), Anti-Dazzle(tm) and Targeting Scope(tm) options. Of course you will need at least one times square marque, IR optic, Telescopic, Macro, Night vision, UV optic, Thermographic and SHF (radar optic). Since all Cyberoptics only contain 4 option spaces and the first three are taken, You must have at least 7 eyes.
Just imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
Oh, never mind I just imagined it and it wasn't that exciting...
"Privacy Concerns: Information about our genes could be helpful, but some implications are disturbing and dangerous. Genetic information has been used by some companies when hiring. Legislation now being considered in Capitol Hill would guarantee genetic privacy. "As we unlock the secrets of the human genome, we must work simultaneously to ensure that new discoveries never pry open the doors of privacy," the president said. "And we must guarantee that genetic information cannot be used to stigmatize or discriminate against any individual or group." Others also worry about even bigger questions. "I'm concerned that some day we may decide to start modifying the human genome to think that we can do better than the genome," Lander said."
Let me assume that Steven Pinker "The mind [and therefore the propensity for certain behaviors] is an expression of our genome" is right. Let me also assume that there are corporations in the world (Aureate/Radiate, etc..) That do a great deal of data mining on behavior.
Anecdote: Bob has male pattern baldness, a beer gut and hairy shoulders.
The genome is the source code to the human mind and body. "But it's just binaries" you may say. Binaries are an expression of the source. Humans are an expression of the genome. So, Bob is carrying Gene X. Gene X also dictates that Bob will die of a heart attack and has poor impulse control. Bob cannot get insurance. Bob cannot get a job. Even if Bob has never beaten his wife or gotten into a brawl, Bob carries Gene X and has the propensity to throw his fists around. Bill is easily manipulated. Ann forms unnatural attachments to inanimate objects. There is a 30% chance that you are sociopathic.
With the government policy on privacy protection being "industry will police itself", How can we believe this technology will not be used against us? We said "Oooh, ahhh!" when Curie discovered radiation, Einstein discovered Relativity and We dropped Nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The genome and radiation both have great medical potential but every advancement of technology ever developed has been weaponized. Assume the military is a tool to enforce political decisions. Who "owns" (can weaponize or make more subtle use of) this technology? Any corporation or government with:
a) A large database of human behavior. b) The processing power to correlate behavior to specific genetic markers. c) The will to dominate.
I'm going to guess there are at least a dozen government agencies and corporations in the world that can do this. It's their world now. We just live here.
When you play certain combinations of notes on a piano or other instrument you can hear some high frequency harmonics accompanying the chord. Play a simple chord on the piano by hitting any three keys on the keyboard but leave a space between your fingers (10101). Try this on the lower (left half) of the keyboard so the resulting harmonics are not outside of your hearing range. You will hear a much higher note that could not possibly be produced by any of the three keys you hit by themselves. Part of what makes chords sound good or bad are their accompanying harmonics. Since MP3 does not record the high frequency harmonics, most users can hear, but not identify a difference. Harmonic frequencies produced by a given chord are predictable. This Kenwood setup apparently "listens ahead" and reproduces the appropriate harmonic for a given chord.
Here is a price list from sharky's. It includes shipping costs. We overclock to get a 950mhz processor for 159 bucks.
Duron 600 $92 Spartan Technologies 888-393-0340
Duron 650 $125 PC Progress 888-727-7647
Duron 700 $159 United Micro 800-943-7255
Athlon 950 $581 Econo PC 888-326-6660
P3-933/133 $777 Atacom Inc. 877-228-2266
If you burn two processors shooting for 950mhz you still have not spent 581 bucks for a "real" 950mhz processor.
For those of you wondering about multi processor setups, imagine using two 950 Durons with mo-bo for less than the price of a single "real" 950 without a motherboard.
The entire universe is fractal... Ferns grow by a simple fractal algorithm. seemingly random anything, from data bit errors to turbulence to the bursty asymetric eb and flow of the internet "tide". All natural shapes can by reduce to and created from fractal algorithms... so says chaos theory, overused and way to "trendy" as it is... it does apply to Everything.
AMD must set a standard even if it means staying number two. If their standard becomes THE STANDARD they stand to gain MUCH. If their standard is not embraced by the masses what have they lost? They stay number two. It's Intel's game to lose... AMD just has to keep playing and wait for the leader to stumble...
Slashdot Mirror
Cryptinomicon, while an entertaining book, is fiction :)
Yes, this means that plugging your emissions free EV-6 actually produces three times as much pollution than a gasoline burning car but the car's exhaust comes out of a power plant's smoke stack not the car's exhaust pipe. Robbing Peter to pay Paul. I will be the first person to get one of these. I know long term that there is no way the power company can compete with me generating electricity locally price wise. Then again, I am under Pacific Gas and Electric. What they do not take from me in Kilowatt/Hours they'll take from me in Pounds of Gas.
On your very first adventure, create a hurricane, turn the hurricane into oil and ignite the hurricane. This will promptly kill your character but not before unleashing the most hellish firestorm imaginable. A hurricane is a heat engine. 80f+ water creates 200 mph wind speeds. what happens when the air temperature in a 50 mile wide area instantly becomes 500 degrees?
So your newly created mage although now dead was worse than a walking nuclear bomb. forget the mirv as a motorcycle sidecar gag. Serious flaw? There are many of them. Try "Harnmaster" by Columbia Games. Same feel better system. As for "Shadowrun" try "Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0". For you vampire live action role-playing freaks, get a real social life and quit hanging out in front of Starbucks on Friday night after dark. It hasn't gotten you laid. It never will. Lucky someone doesn't catch you in an alley with a baseball bat.
Katz: it's a game not a philosophy. Need some insight into reality? Read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", "Emotional Intelligence", "Chaos", "The Quark and the Jaguar" and "How the Mind Works". No, really read them. No, go read them and meditate apon your teachings in Alaska for a year and a day before posting on /. again.
Features: JonKatz takes his ego out and plays with it before a live audience of one!
September 4, 2000
1. The Department of Justice reconfirms its acceptance of all relevant resolutions of the People of the United states, including the declaration of independence and the bill of rights. The Department of Justice further reiterates it's undertaking to cooperate fully with the People of the United States.
2. The People of the United States reiterate the consent of all people to respect the lawful application of justice. We hear by give the department of justice permission to execute our will as defined by the Constitution and bill of rights.
3. The Department of Justice undertakes to accord to The People of the United States immediate, unconditional and unrestricted access to CARNIVORE
4. The People of the United States and the Department of Justice agree that the following special procedures shall apply to the initial and subsequent inspections of CARNIVORE.
a) A special group shall be established for this purpose by the People. This group shall comprise a group of people selected an modded on /. The group shall be headed by a commissioner elected by the group. Possible people include Linus Tovaralds, Steve Gibson, Neal Stephenson and Kevin Mitnick
b) In carrying out its work, the special group shall operate under no mandated guidelines other than this: Find the Truth. This is the will of the people.
c) The report of the special group on its activities and findings shall be submitted to the People.
5. The People of the United States and the Department of Justice agree that all other areas, facilities, equipment, records and means of transportation shall be subject to Inspection at all times.
This contract was derived from The memo we sent Iraq in regards to inspections involving weapons of mass destruction...The DOJ is pulling all the same tricks that Iraq did. This is an example of Government NOT deriving their just power from the consent of the governed.
Linux's 100% uptime and hundreds of distinguished posters have clouded the issue. You live your life online, system ready, at least one eyeball on the pulse of the internet. Great. But if you have something important to conceal on a computer Disconnect it from the internet or in the case of these "privacy invading" bluetooth Peer to Peer devices, Turn off their transmitters or turn them off entirely Just like the television set... don't like what is on? Shut it off. In reality the only thing the engineers did not think of was even a technical user's stupidity.
Linux is free if your time is worth nothing. Medical Doctors need not apply.
Great, now we have self inflating Martian atmospheric research probes. Of all the geeks ever seen on /. these guys REALLY need girlfriends. I wonder if the cameras will have blue tinted peripheral vision (viagra). These guys could have made a round balloon but chose a sausage shape instead.
Clinton cannot take credit for the economy. The internet can not take credit for the economy. Greenspan cannot take credit for the economy.
Historicly American's prime income earning years are from 45 to retirement. Well, baby boomers account for the largest demographic lump and they are all in their prime income earning years. They have and spend most of the money that gets spent. We are not all in that income bracket/demographic. Most of us hear the rosy economic news and know we are not earning a living wage. The latest greatest economic figures do not apply to us. Internet news is all about Silicon Valley/Redmond economy. High wage twentysomethings and Baby boomers despite Making for great economic statistics are still a minority. The vast majority of us are not seeing the benefits of this Gilded Age economy. Our eyes are open and we are hungry for a change. Change will come in the form of baby boomer retirement. Generally their retirement plans involve some sort of pension at half their retirement wage and social security. They will be unproductive and sucking money out of the system and at the same time earning less and putting less back in. I foresee at least a recession and possibly a depression. If that also collapses the stock market then I see 90% of pension funds and most of their mutual funds/IRA etceteras collapsing with it. That leaves them with social security Which we should all know is bankrupt!
Money wins elections. Bush will be the next president because he has the most money. Every election and piece of legislation passed in the last 25 years has been fixed with corporate funding. Therefore corporations are the government. All the important decisions are made by their will and their will alone. The problem will fix itself though. Think about what stock market crashes do to corporations. My standard of living, like almost every one else's in America is below the poverty line already. I will glide through global recession like I've glided through my personal recession. Bill and Bush will take it right on the nose.
BTW, we will never have to worry about information as a commodity to be bought and "licensed". Information of all kind as memes has a natural habit of making itself free. In internet time information that today gets sold is free tomorrow.
Let's say toshiba "owns" by investment an arbitrary figure, say 33 percent of transmetta. They would not have invested in the first place if they were not fairly sure of Transmetta's ability to give Intel serious competion in the mobile market. Transmetta needs more cash so is going to do an IPO. That will dilute Toshiba's ownership percentage to an arbitrary figure of 16.5 percent. Now, Toshiba can slam Transmetta's IPO in order to invest even more in them, gaining a controlling interest. When Transmetta's Crusoe arrives it will be good enough for everyone to forget that Toshiba ever said it might not be up to par. End result: Toshiba owns and controls a potential Intel killer, and they got it on the cheap because they scared away all the other investors. They chose now because Transmetta is in their mandatory pre-IPO quiet period.
How the hell do these guys get a patent on research done using a federal grant? This is all public domain. Hate to burst their for profit bubble but Nortel, Cisco, and Agilent I'm sure will have something to say about this.
Does this fiber maintain polarization integrity to allow two data channels of the same color with 90 degree cross polarization's 83 dB attenuation?
Ok, this is faster than the speed of sound in air... how fast does a sound wave travel in the sea? If it is faster than a sound wave will travel in the sea it cannot use sonar to "see" at all.
Black, Green, Red are the best light absorbers in order. Black, Red, Green are the best radiant heat absorbers. Reasoning = Infrared (radiant thermal EM) is right next to red on the EM spectrum. Tornadoes typically form on the leading edge of a super cell. Soil absorbs and holds heat. A thermometer placed in the soil at high noon will read 120f while the air is only 90f. In order to explosively heat the air and cause the dramatic updrafts associated with tornado formation there must be a catalyst to place the heat that is in the ground into the air. This is accomplished by wind, where a gust will pick up a bunch of dust and sand off the ground increasing the effective surface area of the ground to air heat transfer or by the first rains that fall immediately evaporating and transferring all the ground's heat to the air. A tornado stirs up dust and dirt feeding itself with newly heated air directly from the ground. The ground can stay warmer than the air well into the night because it holds heat accumulated while the sun shines. The most severe tornadoes are associated with extreme differential between ground and air temperature.
Here is his take on this...
Releasing it to SLASHDOT!?!?!
After looking over the kernal source I'm simply terrified what they people here might do with the genome!!
Just imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
Oh, never mind I just imagined it and it wasn't that exciting...
About time...
Let me assume that Steven Pinker "The mind [and therefore the propensity for certain behaviors] is an expression of our genome" is right. Let me also assume that there are corporations in the world (Aureate/Radiate, etc..) That do a great deal of data mining on behavior.
Anecdote: Bob has male pattern baldness, a beer gut and hairy shoulders.
The genome is the source code to the human mind and body. "But it's just binaries" you may say. Binaries are an expression of the source. Humans are an expression of the genome. So, Bob is carrying Gene X. Gene X also dictates that Bob will die of a heart attack and has poor impulse control. Bob cannot get insurance. Bob cannot get a job. Even if Bob has never beaten his wife or gotten into a brawl, Bob carries Gene X and has the propensity to throw his fists around. Bill is easily manipulated. Ann forms unnatural attachments to inanimate objects. There is a 30% chance that you are sociopathic.
With the government policy on privacy protection being "industry will police itself", How can we believe this technology will not be used against us? We said "Oooh, ahhh!" when Curie discovered radiation, Einstein discovered Relativity and We dropped Nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The genome and radiation both have great medical potential but every advancement of technology ever developed has been weaponized. Assume the military is a tool to enforce political decisions. Who "owns" (can weaponize or make more subtle use of) this technology? Any corporation or government with:
a) A large database of human behavior.
b) The processing power to correlate behavior to specific genetic markers.
c) The will to dominate.
I'm going to guess there are at least a dozen government agencies and corporations in the world that can do this. It's their world now. We just live here.
Here is a price list from sharky's. It includes shipping costs. We overclock to get a 950mhz processor for 159 bucks.
Duron 600 $92 Spartan Technologies 888-393-0340
Duron 650 $125 PC Progress 888-727-7647
Duron 700 $159 United Micro 800-943-7255
Athlon 950 $581 Econo PC 888-326-6660
P3-933/133 $777 Atacom Inc. 877-228-2266
If you burn two processors shooting for 950mhz you still have not spent 581 bucks for a "real" 950mhz processor.
For those of you wondering about multi processor setups, imagine using two 950 Durons with mo-bo for less than the price of a single "real" 950 without a motherboard.