I'm sure that I can creatively construct a few holes -- and fill them in with appropriately matching chunks from out there on the web. And tell a much different story about her than reality at it's worst would not even begin to approximate in terms of horrible implications. [not that the reasons for which I divorced her weren't bad enough mind you, but I could construct a photo built scenario that is much worse.]
Interesting bit of science.... dangerous applications.
Einstein predicted a certain bending of light in terms of the general "predicted theory of relativity and it was not proven to be absolutely spot on until the 1960's, I believe. So the science "predicted fact" is recognized as valid ("true") after the prediction is fulfilled.
But there are extant copies of things like Isaiah (from the Dead Sea Scrolls) that include nearly word for word what the Masoretic text used in the KJV holds, and some of the prophecies in Isaiah are fulfilled long after the DSS were placed in the caves. Or much of the book of Daniel -- which not only correctly foretells the decline of the Persion empire(s) but the rise later of the Greek, still later the Roman, and then a bunch of little kingdoms, some strong, some weak. (the feet of iron and clay), for example. Predates the rise of the little kingdoms...
So if the predictions in the OT are evaluated after the fact, --and the source document predates the fulfillment of the "prophecy", it's the same method as science is using and therefore equally valid as "truth".
This sounds wonderful. Now if I can just output those images in my head from the "dreams that I want to come true" subdirectory, and turn this nifty program loose to fill in the holes. I should be rich in no time.
Oh wait, that particular technique is probably 1) patented, 2)copyrighted, and 3) a DMCA protected, non-reverse engineerable trade secret to boot. (yes I know that #1 and #2 are incompatible with #3. Get a life, people.
*sigh*. Guess I'll have to do those dreams myself the long way.
Much of the Old Testament IS historical documents of the tribe of Judah, and prior to Judah, the history of a particular family line. Trouble with considering the bible to be "only legend and history" is that interspersed with an amount of "prophetic utterances" or writings that on the whole have been much more accurate than seems to be explainable by simple scientific investigation or logical deduction.
Big old hairy difference -- so obvious I am surprised at the question...
Sleeping pills, ADHD, and prescription pain killers are all controlled -- by a medical provider, and usages closely monitored because all of those are "schedule" prescriptions
You, me or anyone (of legal age) can go out and buy and drink enough alcohol to bring about (for example) 2003's statistics for drunk-driving related fatalities (17,013) and injuries (over 500,000) are published by the NHTSA are well known.
I have yet to read a significant nationwide study on how many people are killed by drivers who are under the adverse influence of an ADHD med (theoretically more alert people would cause less accidents), sleeping pills (sleeping people don't cause too many accidents), or pain killer induced accidents. (a larger number to be sure and quantifiable -- I just don't have any data at my fingertips)
Yes but that $5 would be more than offset by the savings generated because most people who drink don't stop with one glass of wine, and just one alcohol related major traffic accident can cost millions of dollars in insurance costs could pay my company's entire insurance policy costs for a year.
Because of that and tertiary illnesses related to the two, I have read (wish I could find it on a web page but was given the statistic in a community college course a ways back) that the combined total cost of treating alcohol and tobacco related events and illnesses has been estimated to add a total of as much as 25% of the overall cost of health insurance.
So go ahead and have your one glass of wine. Just don't ask me to pick up the tab for your medical costs incurred because of the rest of the bottle.
Smokers at our company pay more, and those who participate in wellness programs get a discount. I personally wish they would add an additional charge for those who drink alcoholic beverages and a discount for those who absolutely don't -- such as myself.
But the problem is that employer's aren't supposed to have access to much of an employee's medical or insurance information because otherwise they can discriminate in hiring/firing/promotions etc. based on how much an employee or his/her family is costing on the health insurance group policy. Which means, for example that in my case I might as well file for unemployment now because I have a family member with a disabling illness. And the law prohibits discriminating against me on that basis. So if a person who has an ADA disability gets docked more on their paycheck because the disability messes with their blood sugar level, etc., or if the information crosses the limits set by "HIPAA"?
Well, personally I would hope to be the plaintiff's attorney in that class action suit and that my target defendant business had a great big fat bank account.
For the simple reason that the SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the US) is likely to get involved as soon as the State of California appeals the ruling.
Personally I find that this is probably a distasteful ruling -- voting is supposed to be a matter of conscience in one's own locality -- not somewhere across party lines where presumably money could also change hands to encourage the vote swap -- i.e. who says a person can't claim to vote swap with multiple people, or even use a spam list to fake the trades -- thus essentially buying votes -- which IS illegal.
But on the one on one level, since this is America a person ought to be able to say whatever they want short of "fire" in a crowded theater type stuff, so this isn't necessarily a bad ruling.
The question is, what SHOULD the law or at least constitutionality of something like this be given the 'Net?
In lieu of patent reform, in general I am for the defendant in any patent trolling case, which this appears to be. Even though my Linux loving heart hates to see M$ win anything. But given that Fraunhofer wasn't sued, this looks alot more like trying to shoot the biggest fish in the barrel with a pellet gun and expecting the fish and everyone involved to roll over and play dead, AKA pay up. So if M$ won this time, good for them.
Missed my point slightly but I should have been more specific about the link between Google manipulation and how many sites can be run on a single server. A huge number of "sites" nowadays are nothing more than "Google manipulating front ends" for the same site in the background. As Microsoft has been buying web space in the form of GoDaddy, etc. I would expect their numbers to jump quite quickly and profoundly -- without really adding content sites, and since the same server can offer up a huge increase in what are in reality jump sites it is cheap good business news (not to mention FUD) for M$ to convert a bunch of formerly Apache driven junk sites to IIS junk sites.
Professionally I have yet to see an IIS driven content management suite that I would pay the MS license cost for, let alone a software developer making a proprietary CMS on a closed source server. Vs. numerous Open Source CMS sites which I have already installed.
Namely a little bit of boredom in the web world plus the difficulty of trying to find new and interesting sites now that folks have figured out how to manipulate Google rankings.
Plus the fact that you can now run many more LAMP web sites per server than was previously possible. I mean, figure it out -- how many virtual sites can a person run on a modern fully configured Apache server than they could in say, 1999 before the dot com bubble burst. CPUs cores are something like 4-5x more powerful if not more, hard disk arrays bigger and faster, and the configuration setups probably ten times better. So it takes less Apache servers to run more sites, yes?
... is that corporations have been granted rights that citizen's don't even have. And while abolishing the concept of a corporation as a legal entity isn't a workable solution, neither is how corporations and special interest money are used to "tweak" the government into granting loopholes, exceptions, and many other financially lucrative little deals against the citizenry of the nation, which in the end amount to nothing more than special rights based on money -- an idea 100% counter to American ideals.
Unless I am mistaken, this is quite literally at the heart of the patent issue -- because when patents came into existence, only individuals could be granted patents. And in the ideal system, the patent owner either produces the item, or licenses other groups of people (which could include companies) to produce the item during the patent period. It was not designed to support the idea of "I had an idea first, threw together some government approved documentation, and can sit like a spider waiting for some profitable fly to get entangled in my legal web".
Bottom line for me is that if the citizenry actually cared enough to use their elector power to force the politicians and bureacracies to take away some of the most misused corporate "special rights", and how many of the problems in our society become ten times more solvable?
Aside from all the obligatory funnies about CZ vs. Diamonds (and all of the female [and not the good kind of] heat energy created but not harnessable when a male substitutes the former for the later...), this seems at best 'kinda sorta interesting'.
The Carnot law of thermodynamics has a specific ratio that even a fuel cell can't beat, and a temp range of 100C just isn't efficient no matter what fuel is used. (1-273K/373k = about 27% max). So the question is what level of intermediate heat ranges can be developed with any fuel to heat technology, and the air pressure required for an efficient burn has to be factored in, that is, does the fuel cell operate at atmospheric pressures, and if not how much pressure energy is required?
But if this same technology can work at moderate temperatures and horsepower levels at say 370C with moderate pressurization requirements, then this becomes workable at about double the fuel efficiency of current IC engines. Make it work with a hybrid engine plus have a non-petroleum or NG based infrastructure and safe storage medium for the hydrogen, and this might just be worth it.
In other words. Don't expect this to amount to much in the near future. Middle future, maybe.
With all the heat piping in this thing it sounds really great for quietness -- except that the heat still has to be removed from the enclosure so that it doesn't toast lots of other electronic whatzits Of course, if they put a little coffee plate on the top of the enclosure you could prolly use one of things to brew up a pot but otherwise the quiet factor goes away because of the newly required higher capacity enclosure fan.
Hmmmm. New business model. Disparage a competitor anonymously online to drive down their stock price and company value. Buy the company. Let the stock price come back up to where it would have normally been because my company stock is now much more valuable. Profit profit profit.
You must be referring to the newer IBM, the one that "lost" the PC wars, lost the x86 war, and then lost a huge segment of their mainframe market to hardware commoditization, and yet not only survives, but thrives -- because they finally got that captured market share is only worth so much and that a completely reliable and powerful application stack that they are better at implementing than just about anyone else is where the money is.
Let me put it plainly -- if I had the pure skills to implement the full stack which underpin IBM's web-related solutions at an extremely high level, I would be making well into the six digits in terms of income (in USD), and IBM's markup on me would push the cost to client companies to around double or triple that amount. Multiple "me" by around ten thousand bodies or more and you can see how it makes sense for IBM to be on the forefront of interoperability technology because that is where the $$ is at.
I get the gist of the argument but not the specifics -- since the frequency ranges are being auctioned, doesn't that imply a limitation that only the carriers who pay for the spectrum get to play? So how does an "unlocked" spectrum help?
For example, if I have a given phone that can access the various sub-channels in the frequency, how do I take my service from one carrier to another, etc.? given that alot of the services are essentially thin client apps run from data on the carrier's backbone servers.
Within every IT organization I have ever dealt with, Open Source or not, all but a few of the most talented programmers inevitably move to code oversight roles, and for a simple reason: their knowledge of the "why(s)" in the code becomes vastly more important than the code itself. Consider these two:
Samba (for example): Which is more important now, for the original coders to write new code, or do be able to oversee the current code base and insure nothing that M$ can use as a "we own the patent" hammer creeps into the code.
Data quality and security conformance to government rules: which is more important for the talented programmer, to write new code, or make sure that the code as written and the data rules as written meet Sarbanes Oxley compliance?
The other aspect of code oversight being a role for the most talented is the fact that programmers in the 18-35 age range tend to be willing and able to put in the extreme hours of coding time required for prodigious quantities of code, but there is no guarantee of quality without oversight by a more experienced hand. So one senior coding guru's guidance of many newer programmers is a much better use of time.
This particular type of study is old news -- on average "older children" have slightly more advanced problem solving skills than their younger siblings precisely because of birth order -- because the oldest child is taught their problem solving skills directly from an adult, no "just barely older but still a kid" filter in between. So they got one or two more questions right on a paper test that only measures certain kinds of problem solving ability and other skills not at all.
I can't put my hands on the exact set of studies right now so this will only be anecdotal evidence, but there are examples of "quite young" siblings being quite brilliant compared to next older siblings precisely because there was just enough age difference between the youngster and an older (teenage plus) sibling that was close enough to an adult to provide direction in problem skills at a nearly adult level AND still be young enough and close enough to how a little kid thinks to teach those skills in a way that makes sense to littler kid at their lower developmental level.
What I am really saying is that an article built around an averaging statistic like those quoted are useless news, not stuff that matters.
The highest percentage of the most profitable world-wide movies originate in the US,
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The US has fairly effective anti-trust and anti-monopoly legislation at the federal level, and
the DMCA is a federal law that allows fair use copying
the author of the article is absolutely correct in asserting that this amendment to the current DVD copy control license is effectively illegal and will subject any company that goes along with it to legal actions.
Among other things, the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act et. al outlaws activities such as tying, Price Fixing, etc. What the US RIAA and MPAA are trying to do is form defacto monopolies for how digital media can be used in violation of all of these other laws by using strong-armed licensing agreements and trying to bind the technology companies to go along with it. For example, why would Sony Electronics go against the wishes of Sony Entertainment, etc.?
The real question is how long the courts and legislators at the state and federal levels will allow the collusion to continue before it comes to an end, or will the corruption of government by corporate money continue unabated until we have no rights left?
Humans were given free will, and with it the opportunity to really screw things up.
True. But the Hebrew OT is replete with examples where basically God says "hey, you can choose this way (good) or that way (evil), but if you choose that way, you'll be toasted by {curse of Cain, flood, language changes, turned to salt, burned by fire (Sodom and Gomorrah), Nile regional plagues, invasions by Babylonian/Assyrian/Egyptian/Philistine armies etc. to name a few of the ways that the "disobedient" humans got the sharp end of the point}, where if you choose this way, you {survive,be protected, be blessed, etc.}.
Which still fits with the concept of free will at the "human set" level, but the ability to intervene at the supervisory set level -- which is still pretty much off limits, right?
Interesting, but I question the concept
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Because many of the crops they are looking at require pollenization -- and I have yet to see a massive greenhouse implementation that takes into account the difficulty of turning a colony of honeybees loose inside a building, and sustaining the hives.
Secondarily, I wonder about the sunlight question -- a 4 acre farm gets 4 acres of sunlight -- their proverbial building gets that much less. I have yet to see a viable method of transporting sunlight around, and while the full spectrum lights may do pretty well for some things, I don't think they approach the benefits of sunlight -- such as the fact that the UV rays in solar insolation are nicely anti-microbial, etc.
Other thoughts on other difficulties or solutions to my named problems, anyone?
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I'm sure that I can creatively construct a few holes -- and fill them in with appropriately matching chunks from out there on the web. And tell a much different story about her than reality at it's worst would not even begin to approximate in terms of horrible implications. [not that the reasons for which I divorced her weren't bad enough mind you, but I could construct a photo built scenario that is much worse.]
Interesting bit of science.... dangerous applications.
Ya lost me there AC.
Einstein predicted a certain bending of light in terms of the general "predicted theory of relativity and it was not proven to be absolutely spot on until the 1960's, I believe. So the science "predicted fact" is recognized as valid ("true") after the prediction is fulfilled.
But there are extant copies of things like Isaiah (from the Dead Sea Scrolls) that include nearly word for word what the Masoretic text used in the KJV holds, and some of the prophecies in Isaiah are fulfilled long after the DSS were placed in the caves. Or much of the book of Daniel -- which not only correctly foretells the decline of the Persion empire(s) but the rise later of the Greek, still later the Roman, and then a bunch of little kingdoms, some strong, some weak. (the feet of iron and clay), for example. Predates the rise of the little kingdoms...
So if the predictions in the OT are evaluated after the fact, --and the source document predates the fulfillment of the "prophecy", it's the same method as science is using and therefore equally valid as "truth".
This sounds wonderful. Now if I can just output those images in my head from the "dreams that I want to come true" subdirectory, and turn this nifty program loose to fill in the holes. I should be rich in no time.
Oh wait, that particular technique is probably 1) patented, 2)copyrighted, and 3) a DMCA protected, non-reverse engineerable trade secret to boot. (yes I know that #1 and #2 are incompatible with #3. Get a life, people.
*sigh*. Guess I'll have to do those dreams myself the long way.
Much of the Old Testament IS historical documents of the tribe of Judah, and prior to Judah, the history of a particular family line. Trouble with considering the bible to be "only legend and history" is that interspersed with an amount of "prophetic utterances" or writings that on the whole have been much more accurate than seems to be explainable by simple scientific investigation or logical deduction.
Big old hairy difference -- so obvious I am surprised at the question...
Sleeping pills, ADHD, and prescription pain killers are all controlled -- by a medical provider, and usages closely monitored because all of those are "schedule" prescriptions
You, me or anyone (of legal age) can go out and buy and drink enough alcohol to bring about (for example) 2003's statistics for drunk-driving related fatalities (17,013) and injuries (over 500,000) are published by the NHTSA are well known.
I have yet to read a significant nationwide study on how many people are killed by drivers who are under the adverse influence of an ADHD med (theoretically more alert people would cause less accidents), sleeping pills (sleeping people don't cause too many accidents), or pain killer induced accidents. (a larger number to be sure and quantifiable -- I just don't have any data at my fingertips)
Because of that and tertiary illnesses related to the two, I have read (wish I could find it on a web page but was given the statistic in a community college course a ways back) that the combined total cost of treating alcohol and tobacco related events and illnesses has been estimated to add a total of as much as 25% of the overall cost of health insurance.
So go ahead and have your one glass of wine. Just don't ask me to pick up the tab for your medical costs incurred because of the rest of the bottle.
Smokers at our company pay more, and those who participate in wellness programs get a discount. I personally wish they would add an additional charge for those who drink alcoholic beverages and a discount for those who absolutely don't -- such as myself.
But the problem is that employer's aren't supposed to have access to much of an employee's medical or insurance information because otherwise they can discriminate in hiring/firing/promotions etc. based on how much an employee or his/her family is costing on the health insurance group policy. Which means, for example that in my case I might as well file for unemployment now because I have a family member with a disabling illness. And the law prohibits discriminating against me on that basis. So if a person who has an ADA disability gets docked more on their paycheck because the disability messes with their blood sugar level, etc., or if the information crosses the limits set by "HIPAA"?
Well, personally I would hope to be the plaintiff's attorney in that class action suit and that my target defendant business had a great big fat bank account.
Yep. Just before the British navy made pancakes from Argentinians (jets, that is).
Okay, that wasn't nice, I admit it.
Personally I find that this is probably a distasteful ruling -- voting is supposed to be a matter of conscience in one's own locality -- not somewhere across party lines where presumably money could also change hands to encourage the vote swap -- i.e. who says a person can't claim to vote swap with multiple people, or even use a spam list to fake the trades -- thus essentially buying votes -- which IS illegal.
But on the one on one level, since this is America a person ought to be able to say whatever they want short of "fire" in a crowded theater type stuff, so this isn't necessarily a bad ruling.
The question is, what SHOULD the law or at least constitutionality of something like this be given the 'Net?
Thoughts?
In lieu of patent reform, in general I am for the defendant in any patent trolling case, which this appears to be. Even though my Linux loving heart hates to see M$ win anything. But given that Fraunhofer wasn't sued, this looks alot more like trying to shoot the biggest fish in the barrel with a pellet gun and expecting the fish and everyone involved to roll over and play dead, AKA pay up. So if M$ won this time, good for them.
Prolly good for us as well.
Missed my point slightly but I should have been more specific about the link between Google manipulation and how many sites can be run on a single server. A huge number of "sites" nowadays are nothing more than "Google manipulating front ends" for the same site in the background. As Microsoft has been buying web space in the form of GoDaddy, etc. I would expect their numbers to jump quite quickly and profoundly -- without really adding content sites, and since the same server can offer up a huge increase in what are in reality jump sites it is cheap good business news (not to mention FUD) for M$ to convert a bunch of formerly Apache driven junk sites to IIS junk sites.
Professionally I have yet to see an IIS driven content management suite that I would pay the MS license cost for, let alone a software developer making a proprietary CMS on a closed source server. Vs. numerous Open Source CMS sites which I have already installed.
Namely a little bit of boredom in the web world plus the difficulty of trying to find new and interesting sites now that folks have figured out how to manipulate Google rankings.
Plus the fact that you can now run many more LAMP web sites per server than was previously possible. I mean, figure it out -- how many virtual sites can a person run on a modern fully configured Apache server than they could in say, 1999 before the dot com bubble burst. CPUs cores are something like 4-5x more powerful if not more, hard disk arrays bigger and faster, and the configuration setups probably ten times better. So it takes less Apache servers to run more sites, yes?
Unless I am mistaken, this is quite literally at the heart of the patent issue -- because when patents came into existence, only individuals could be granted patents. And in the ideal system, the patent owner either produces the item, or licenses other groups of people (which could include companies) to produce the item during the patent period. It was not designed to support the idea of "I had an idea first, threw together some government approved documentation, and can sit like a spider waiting for some profitable fly to get entangled in my legal web".
Bottom line for me is that if the citizenry actually cared enough to use their elector power to force the politicians and bureacracies to take away some of the most misused corporate "special rights", and how many of the problems in our society become ten times more solvable?
Aside from all the obligatory funnies about CZ vs. Diamonds (and all of the female [and not the good kind of] heat energy created but not harnessable when a male substitutes the former for the later...), this seems at best 'kinda sorta interesting'.
The Carnot law of thermodynamics has a specific ratio that even a fuel cell can't beat, and a temp range of 100C just isn't efficient no matter what fuel is used. (1-273K/373k = about 27% max). So the question is what level of intermediate heat ranges can be developed with any fuel to heat technology, and the air pressure required for an efficient burn has to be factored in, that is, does the fuel cell operate at atmospheric pressures, and if not how much pressure energy is required?
But if this same technology can work at moderate temperatures and horsepower levels at say 370C with moderate pressurization requirements, then this becomes workable at about double the fuel efficiency of current IC engines. Make it work with a hybrid engine plus have a non-petroleum or NG based infrastructure and safe storage medium for the hydrogen, and this might just be
worth it.
In other words. Don't expect this to amount to much in the near future. Middle future, maybe.
With all the heat piping in this thing it sounds really great for quietness -- except that the heat still has to be removed from the enclosure so that it doesn't toast lots of other electronic whatzits Of course, if they put a little coffee plate on the top of the enclosure you could prolly use one of things to brew up a pot but otherwise the quiet factor goes away because of the newly required higher capacity enclosure fan.
Hello FTC, SEC, etc. How is this not illegal?
Let me put it plainly -- if I had the pure skills to implement the full stack which underpin IBM's web-related solutions at an extremely high level, I would be making well into the six digits in terms of income (in USD), and IBM's markup on me would push the cost to client companies to around double or triple that amount. Multiple "me" by around ten thousand bodies or more and you can see how it makes sense for IBM to be on the forefront of interoperability technology because that is where the $$ is at.
For example, if I have a given phone that can access the various sub-channels in the frequency, how do I take my service from one carrier to another, etc.? given that alot of the services are essentially thin client apps run from data on the carrier's backbone servers.
Wouldn't it be cool to read the rest of the document for other prior net related prior art?
- Samba (for example): Which is more important now, for the original coders to write new code, or do be able to oversee the current code base and insure nothing that M$ can use as a "we own the patent" hammer creeps into the code.
- Data quality and security conformance to government rules: which is more important for the talented programmer, to write new code, or make sure that the code as written and the data rules as written meet Sarbanes Oxley compliance?
The other aspect of code oversight being a role for the most talented is the fact that programmers in the 18-35 age range tend to be willing and able to put in the extreme hours of coding time required for prodigious quantities of code, but there is no guarantee of quality without oversight by a more experienced hand. So one senior coding guru's guidance of many newer programmers is a much better use of time.Where's a mod point when I need it? At least +2 insightful!!
I can't put my hands on the exact set of studies right now so this will only be anecdotal evidence, but there are examples of "quite young" siblings being quite brilliant compared to next older siblings precisely because there was just enough age difference between the youngster and an older (teenage plus) sibling that was close enough to an adult to provide direction in problem skills at a nearly adult level AND still be young enough and close enough to how a little kid thinks to teach those skills in a way that makes sense to littler kid at their lower developmental level.
What I am really saying is that an article built around an averaging statistic like those quoted are useless news, not stuff that matters.
- The highest percentage of the most profitable world-wide movies originate in the US,
- ,
- The US has fairly effective anti-trust and anti-monopoly legislation at the federal level, and
- the DMCA is a federal law that allows fair use copying
the author of the article is absolutely correct in asserting that this amendment to the current DVD copy control license is effectively illegal and will subject any company that goes along with it to legal actions.Among other things, the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act et. al outlaws activities such as tying, Price Fixing, etc. What the US RIAA and MPAA are trying to do is form defacto monopolies for how digital media can be used in violation of all of these other laws by using strong-armed licensing agreements and trying to bind the technology companies to go along with it. For example, why would Sony Electronics go against the wishes of Sony Entertainment, etc.?
The real question is how long the courts and legislators at the state and federal levels will allow the collusion to continue before it comes to an end, or will the corruption of government by corporate money continue unabated until we have no rights left?
True. But the Hebrew OT is replete with examples where basically God says "hey, you can choose this way (good) or that way (evil), but if you choose that way, you'll be toasted by {curse of Cain, flood, language changes, turned to salt, burned by fire (Sodom and Gomorrah), Nile regional plagues, invasions by Babylonian/Assyrian/Egyptian/Philistine armies etc. to name a few of the ways that the "disobedient" humans got the sharp end of the point}, where if you choose this way, you {survive,be protected, be blessed, etc.}.
Which still fits with the concept of free will at the "human set" level, but the ability to intervene at the supervisory set level -- which is still pretty much off limits, right?
Secondarily, I wonder about the sunlight question -- a 4 acre farm gets 4 acres of sunlight -- their proverbial building gets that much less. I have yet to see a viable method of transporting sunlight around, and while the full spectrum lights may do pretty well for some things, I don't think they approach the benefits of sunlight -- such as the fact that the UV rays in solar insolation are nicely anti-microbial, etc.
Other thoughts on other difficulties or solutions to my named problems, anyone?