Where musicians just make music and the net carries it to those who like it. Fame, sponsors and concert proceeds are their pay. It's basically a world with a build-in distribution system and low cost production equipment.
The cost of video recorders goes down and their quality goes up. This is going to lead to the democritization of video entertainment. The only barrier to making something will be time, not money and finding distribution channels. Anyone will be able to publish. There will be an unbelievable amount of crap out there, but it will allow some really talented folks to 'break in'.
The ad companies have to be sweating bullets. If I want to watch a series, I will get the DVD. I've not seen a commercial in about 5 years. They are going to have to up the entertainment value of commercials if they want people to see 'em. Traditional TV is dying.
It sounds like Vista's pretty pathetic. I have a box I got for a 10$ lunch. Its 400 MHz and is more than good enough to be a web server and simple development box (running BSD). I'm not ever going back to windows. My job uses 100% linux, my "fun" box is a mac and my server is BSD. There is no longer anything remotely compelling about windows for me.
Seriously, when I was writing simple C programs on an 8088, that was suuuuper slow and an upgrade shaved about an hour of compile time a day. For programming, I chose an extra monitor over a dual core box. Long gone are the days of starting the compile and finishing the cup of coffee before its done.
good point, but I'd say that current word processing, email, web browsing and spreadsheeting technologies are at a point where tossing more hardware at them makes no discernable difference after about a gig of ram and a one gigaherz processor. Number crunching, Image and movie manipulation is an other matter. Most offices don't do those things.
That is a pretty good test. I wonder if it would be hard to get a law passed stating that any new voting method must be at least clearly as secure than a previous method.
The comments that the punishment are too harsh are likely coming from the side that accuses the other of "coddling" criminals. They mean people who don't wear nice suits and don't scare them.
Jail is full of matchstick men; con men. These people are often not violent. They just do fraud and embezzelment. Should they be there? Most folks think 'yes'. Their crimes have anything to do with violence? No!
Jail is full of potheads. Are those folks a danger? No, they are too lazy to be. Their 'crime' is being a bunch of useless sleepyheads.
So why should we coddle and tolerate any type of felon? You can argue wether or not some crimes should be felonies, but that is a different argument.
be stripped of all your income and effectively be cast out on the street, or serve a few months in a penetentiary knowing that when you get out, you'll still have a home and property?
Electronic secret ballot just allows fraud to move at a much faster speed, and move invisibly.
Non-secret ballots like caucuses are less prone to fraud as long as voter registration is strictly checked. Those are not immune to social pressure though.
A silly impracticle idea would be to have an arena filled with remote controlled cars. people would be piloting their cars to the area for their candidate. This way the anonymity is pretty much preserved. (this could be done with moving dots and screen shots, too..something..)
The trial will determine guilt or innocence. The punishment phase is something entirely different. The courts can grant clemency when they determine their remedy.
Still, I suppose there might be some money to be made from selling really basic anti-malware programs which might do nothing - but because they're closed source it'd be illegal to find out ; )
I think the probability that that will happen is astronomically high.
I still think people will be worried and carefull. They might manage to remove the recycling bin from their desktop if they get some idea that its dirty and has viruses or worms growing on it.
Come on, these are the same people who fell for "this email contains a virus" before there was Outlook. These are people who worried about a knock from the cops when their program performed an illegal access and had to be shut down.
This is going to make the general population more aware of 'internet sanitation'. Its going to enter the public consciousness that there are some nasty things out there. People probably won't learn that using IE is like picking up a dirty syringe that washed up on the beach, but they may be a little more careful about what they click.
Expect snakeoil anti-malware companies to flourish as well.
They are currently profitable. Apple has a good enough feel for the market that I'd bet they have the designs complete for the next 3 versions of the ipod and are just waiting for the right time to take them to market.
As for Microsoft, it reacts to the market and hopes things stick. It can afford many failures as long as it has the inertia that it does. An occasional success will keep its big katamari ball rolling as long as it has the number of desktops it does.
As for a phone, I would not want my music player tied to a particular phone company.
Efficiency can be a function of size in some cases. For example, cyclone separators become far more efficient when small.
If you have a tiny turbine, there is going to be less of an area for air resistence to its turning, for example. Dust would become an issue at that point, though.
The chemistry is a challenge. Complete combustion usually requires a hot enough environment, but for a tiny turbine, it might be sufficient to have a catalyst to achieve good combustion.
The article did not mention the efficiency achieved but 10 wats is tremendous for such a small thing. But to give an idea, gasoline has about 30 MegaJoules per liter. This translates to 30 KJ per ml. That means that a mililiter would power the 10 watt turbine for about 8 hours. To give you an idea, a typical cigarette lighter holds 25 ml.
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Where musicians just make music and the net carries it to those who like it. Fame, sponsors and concert proceeds are their pay.
It's basically a world with a build-in distribution system and low cost production equipment.
Nice place. Thanks for the quote.
Dozens of thousands of lines of it compiled pretty quickly. My comment was about the .NET monstrocity.
The cost of video recorders goes down and their quality goes up. This is going to lead to the democritization of video entertainment. The only barrier to making something will be time, not money and finding distribution channels. Anyone will be able to publish. There will be an unbelievable amount of crap out there, but it will allow some really talented folks to 'break in'.
The ad companies have to be sweating bullets. If I want to watch a series, I will get the DVD. I've not seen a commercial in about 5 years. They are going to have to up the entertainment value of commercials if they want people to see 'em. Traditional TV is dying.
that sounds ueber-pathetic :(
I'm sorry for you folks who have to deal with that.
It sounds like Vista's pretty pathetic.
I have a box I got for a 10$ lunch. Its 400 MHz and is more than good enough to be a web server and simple development box (running BSD). I'm not ever going back to windows. My job uses 100% linux, my "fun" box is a mac and my server is BSD. There is no longer anything remotely compelling about windows for me.
Playing games?
Seriously, when I was writing simple C programs on an 8088, that was suuuuper slow and an upgrade shaved about an hour of compile time a day. For programming, I chose an extra monitor over a dual core box. Long gone are the days of starting the compile and finishing the cup of coffee before its done.
make it seem likely most companies would have to upgrade their hardware.
good point, but I'd say that current word processing, email, web browsing and spreadsheeting technologies are at a point where tossing more hardware at them makes no discernable difference after about a gig of ram and a one gigaherz processor. Number crunching, Image and movie manipulation is an other matter. Most offices don't do those things.
That is a pretty good test. I wonder if it would be hard to get a law passed stating that any new voting method must be at least clearly as secure than a previous method.
There is no need for something more than 1 GHz for standard office and even programming use.
The comments that the punishment are too harsh are likely coming from the side that accuses the other of "coddling" criminals. They mean people who don't wear nice suits and don't scare them.
Jail is full of matchstick men; con men. These people are often not violent. They just do fraud and embezzelment. Should they be there? Most folks think 'yes'. Their crimes have anything to do with violence? No!
Jail is full of potheads. Are those folks a danger? No, they are too lazy to be. Their 'crime' is being a bunch of useless sleepyheads.
So why should we coddle and tolerate any type of felon? You can argue wether or not some crimes should be felonies, but that is a different argument.
be stripped of all your income and effectively be cast out on the street, or serve a few months in a penetentiary knowing that when you get out, you'll still have a home and property?
Electronic secret ballot just allows fraud to move at a much faster speed, and move invisibly.
Non-secret ballots like caucuses are less prone to fraud as long as voter registration is strictly checked. Those are not immune to social pressure though.
A silly impracticle idea would be to have an arena filled with remote controlled cars. people would be piloting their cars to the area for their candidate. This way the anonymity is pretty much preserved. (this could be done with moving dots and screen shots, too..something..)
The trial will determine guilt or innocence. The punishment phase is something entirely different. The courts can grant clemency when they determine their remedy.
Wealth is not just money, it is power and influence.
I think the probability that that will happen is astronomically high.
I still think people will be worried and carefull. They might manage to remove the recycling bin from their desktop if they get some idea that its dirty and has viruses or worms growing on it.
Come on, these are the same people who fell for "this email contains a virus" before there was Outlook.
These are people who worried about a knock from the cops when their program performed an illegal access and had to be shut down.
This is going to make the general population more aware of 'internet sanitation'. Its going to enter the public consciousness that there are some nasty things out there. People probably won't learn that using IE is like picking up a dirty syringe that washed up on the beach, but they may be a little more careful about what they click.
Expect snakeoil anti-malware companies to flourish as well.
To dig a hole miles deep and toss it there? The core is radioactive anyway.
I read that as 'To Moon a Harsh Mistress' at first.
They could revolutionize software by putting 'Sell By' dates on the package.
They are currently profitable. Apple has a good enough feel for the market that I'd bet they have the designs complete for the next 3 versions of the ipod and are just waiting for the right time to take them to market.
As for Microsoft, it reacts to the market and hopes things stick. It can afford many failures as long as it has the inertia that it does. An occasional success will keep its big katamari ball rolling as long as it has the number of desktops it does.
As for a phone, I would not want my music player tied to a particular phone company.
I think you are right.
That would be a killer player. I would buy it.
"When the package says 'Real Chocolity Goodness', what's that mean? No chocolate."
-George Carlin (paraphrased)
Efficiency can be a function of size in some cases. For example, cyclone separators become far more efficient when small.
If you have a tiny turbine, there is going to be less of an area for air resistence to its turning, for example. Dust would become an issue at that point, though.
The chemistry is a challenge. Complete combustion usually requires a hot enough environment, but for a tiny turbine, it might be sufficient to have a catalyst to achieve good combustion.
The article did not mention the efficiency achieved but 10 wats is tremendous for such a small thing. But to give an idea, gasoline has about 30 MegaJoules per liter. This translates to 30 KJ per ml. That means that a mililiter would power the 10 watt turbine for about 8 hours. To give you an idea, a typical cigarette lighter holds 25 ml.