I'd personally like to see the General Patent License; a license written by those who hold patents, saying something like:
You may freely use, modify, and derive from our patent, so long as all improvements on the patent you devise are under this license. If you release an improvement, that improvement is released under this license and you cannot restrict the further release of the improvement by the recipient. If you violate the terms of this license, it is revoked and you lose all rights to use, modify, and derive from the work contained within this patent.
Energy density is only important if you need to store/transport. Thus, hydrogen might not be ideal for cars, but if you can generate it onsite, its great for powerplants.
Onsite hydrogen generation could conceivably allow for extremely clean/efficient power plants, running directly on hydrogen and producing water as a byproduct, either at a large scale or even at the individual scale, depending on the amount of support structure necessary.
For that matter, depending on how much bacteria it takes to generate a given volume of hydrogen, you could maybe even fit a bactank on to the back of your car and run it directly, no storage. Just take the hydrogen stream and burn it as it comes out of the bugs. When the car is parked, turn the turbine or IC engine into a generator, plug into the grid, and help the rest of the world (assuming there's no way to tell the bacteria to knock off for lunch).
There are many things you can only do with C compiled directly to the core on an embedded system, effectively writing your own OS. This does not make programming to the raw iron any better than UNIX or even Windows, just different.
See, when I know I'm going to work from home I just take my corporate VOIP phone home and VPN in.
As to the 90 minute calls where my presence is required but attention is not... I've found that in practice my presence is not required either, since I can usually come up with some "emergency" that supersedes a telecon. But don't those suck when you do have to be in on them?
Costwise, VOIP is only cheaper for people who spend a *lot* of time on the phone in one place.
IIRC, GSM compression gets a single voice channel down to ~8kbps, so getting it down to 4kbps with significantly more computational power (and quite a few years of algorithm research) doesn't impress me terribly.
Just a question - what *are* your non-cell needs? I haven't had a landline (other than a year where I had a stripped-to-the-bone line for DSL purposes) in about 5 years now, and haven't really felt the need at any point during that span. I'm curious why people maintain a landline.
My company uses Cisco VOIP; we're big enough to have offices throughout the US, as well as overseas, and routing inter-office traffic over our leased inter-office IP lines saves us a lot on long distance calls (think: design engineers in IL, manufacturing in Texas, Mexico, China, and France; lots of phone calls).
Because I have a cell phone and have no need to call western Europe? VOIP might save me 20 bucks a month over my cellphone... but I can take my cellphone with me.
Honestly, for a lot of the stuff that's in the LoC. it isn't findable elsewhere. They have a lot of rare/unique volumes.
Keywords should be pretty doable also, since that's likely already going to be in the card catalog, but quotes would be a huge step up in effort required.
Get a rack and pannier bags, and you'll find it isn't that hard after all.
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It's different. I'd say give it a shot, 14 days should let you know whether or not its different enough. I played for about a year and a half before I just lost interest.
And remember: it'll play GBA games. Much like the SP pretty much cannibalized sales of the original GBA, this should take over a lot of the sales of the SP (hmm... $80 for an SP or $150 for a DS that can do everything the SP can, plus a lot more?)
We have some Windows-based Tektronix scopes at work. They're kind of annoying, actually; I still use the old HP 2 channel + 16 channel logic analyzer scope whenever its open.
You assume too quickly. I know a few people (not many, but I assume they're the sort who the original person had to be referring to) who assume that Google is the one producing the news, despite the very obvious credit saying who did.
Speaking for journalists (slash their employers), can you blame them for wanting people to understand that the news is actually coming from reporters, and that Google just aggregates it?
Did you mean the Dreamcast? Gamecube came out Sept 14, 2001 (in Japan) while PS2 was out a year and a half earlier, in March of 2000 (again, in Japan). Dreamcast came out Nov 25, 1998 (yep... Japan). Poor Dreamcast.
Minidisc actually found itself a weird little niche with theater audio; a lot of theaters (not movie, live - you know, Shakespeare!) use Minidisc as their audio source because its easy to edit at the deck, and relatively cheap.
Also does reasonably well with people who tape live shows (legally or not); I have one for just this reason, it was a cheap way to record interviews and shows.
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You mean, like this?
If they're anything like what I'm working on, they are not solid-state, they're MEMS. Moving mechanical parts, but little tiny moving parts.
Hey, I have karma to burn. Mod me however the fuck they want, I'll still be right, and they'll still be twits.
I'd personally like to see the General Patent License; a license written by those who hold patents, saying something like:
You may freely use, modify, and derive from our patent, so long as all improvements on the patent you devise are under this license. If you release an improvement, that improvement is released under this license and you cannot restrict the further release of the improvement by the recipient. If you violate the terms of this license, it is revoked and you lose all rights to use, modify, and derive from the work contained within this patent.
Etc, etc, etc.
Energy density is only important if you need to store/transport. Thus, hydrogen might not be ideal for cars, but if you can generate it onsite, its great for powerplants.
Onsite hydrogen generation could conceivably allow for extremely clean/efficient power plants, running directly on hydrogen and producing water as a byproduct, either at a large scale or even at the individual scale, depending on the amount of support structure necessary.
For that matter, depending on how much bacteria it takes to generate a given volume of hydrogen, you could maybe even fit a bactank on to the back of your car and run it directly, no storage. Just take the hydrogen stream and burn it as it comes out of the bugs. When the car is parked, turn the turbine or IC engine into a generator, plug into the grid, and help the rest of the world (assuming there's no way to tell the bacteria to knock off for lunch).
There are many things you can only do with C compiled directly to the core on an embedded system, effectively writing your own OS. This does not make programming to the raw iron any better than UNIX or even Windows, just different.
What, your babysitter doesn't have a cellphone? All the 12-16 year olds I know these days do. Scary, really.
See, when I know I'm going to work from home I just take my corporate VOIP phone home and VPN in.
As to the 90 minute calls where my presence is required but attention is not... I've found that in practice my presence is not required either, since I can usually come up with some "emergency" that supersedes a telecon. But don't those suck when you do have to be in on them?
Costwise, VOIP is only cheaper for people who spend a *lot* of time on the phone in one place.
IIRC, GSM compression gets a single voice channel down to ~8kbps, so getting it down to 4kbps with significantly more computational power (and quite a few years of algorithm research) doesn't impress me terribly.
Just a question - what *are* your non-cell needs? I haven't had a landline (other than a year where I had a stripped-to-the-bone line for DSL purposes) in about 5 years now, and haven't really felt the need at any point during that span. I'm curious why people maintain a landline.
My company uses Cisco VOIP; we're big enough to have offices throughout the US, as well as overseas, and routing inter-office traffic over our leased inter-office IP lines saves us a lot on long distance calls (think: design engineers in IL, manufacturing in Texas, Mexico, China, and France; lots of phone calls).
Because I have a cell phone and have no need to call western Europe? VOIP might save me 20 bucks a month over my cellphone... but I can take my cellphone with me.
Honestly, for a lot of the stuff that's in the LoC. it isn't findable elsewhere. They have a lot of rare/unique volumes.
Keywords should be pretty doable also, since that's likely already going to be in the card catalog, but quotes would be a huge step up in effort required.
Honestly, the important searchability is author/title, not so much full text searching. I'd bet on PDF files.
Get a rack and pannier bags, and you'll find it isn't that hard after all.
It's different. I'd say give it a shot, 14 days should let you know whether or not its different enough. I played for about a year and a half before I just lost interest.
I wonder if new games won't include routines to use the DS multiplayer hardware; old games, however, are probably a lost cause.
And remember: it'll play GBA games. Much like the SP pretty much cannibalized sales of the original GBA, this should take over a lot of the sales of the SP (hmm... $80 for an SP or $150 for a DS that can do everything the SP can, plus a lot more?)
We have some Windows-based Tektronix scopes at work. They're kind of annoying, actually; I still use the old HP 2 channel + 16 channel logic analyzer scope whenever its open.
You assume too quickly. I know a few people (not many, but I assume they're the sort who the original person had to be referring to) who assume that Google is the one producing the news, despite the very obvious credit saying who did.
People are dumb, what can I say?
Speaking for journalists (slash their employers), can you blame them for wanting people to understand that the news is actually coming from reporters, and that Google just aggregates it?
Oh, civils are alright. They actually have to learn structures (statics), and fluid dynamics, and fun engineering stuff like that.
It's the industrial and operations people who shouldn't get engineering degrees.
What?
Did you mean the Dreamcast? Gamecube came out Sept 14, 2001 (in Japan) while PS2 was out a year and a half earlier, in March of 2000 (again, in Japan). Dreamcast came out Nov 25, 1998 (yep... Japan). Poor Dreamcast.
Minidisc actually found itself a weird little niche with theater audio; a lot of theaters (not movie, live - you know, Shakespeare!) use Minidisc as their audio source because its easy to edit at the deck, and relatively cheap.
Also does reasonably well with people who tape live shows (legally or not); I have one for just this reason, it was a cheap way to record interviews and shows.