At this point the extruder can extrude any thermoplastic with a melting point of less than 200 Celcius. A high temperature extruder made of stainless steel is being worked on, and if it works it would be able to extrude the full range of thermoplastics. That experiment is at: http://hydraraptor.blogspot.com/2008/03/high-temperature-extruder.html
The priority, however, is making something that can make the majority of itself. Because then you can make the custom parts needed for high resolution printing cheaply; for a typical material cost of twenty dollars, rather than having to order several hundred dollars of parts just for an experiment.
For fun stuff that can be built with low resolution plastic, hopefully I'll be able to print a small kayak next summer:)
One cause of Crohn's disease is an insufficient amount of good bacteria. To resolve the problem, add as much good bacteria to the diet as you can and eat foods which support good bacteria.
Foods which contain good bacteria are yogurt, home made kraut, and home made kefir.
Actually GE's patent on variable speed turbines is widely considered to be a bogus patent with an immense amount of prior art before it. There were several companies building variable speed turbines before GE did, Bergey being the best best known, they just did not patent the principle of electronic conversion in wind turbines because electronic converters have been used since at least the sixties in a variety of applications. GE's patent has been overturned in Europe by a patent dispute board. The GE patent, acquired when GE bought Enron Wind, is currently only in force in North America and it is being challenged there.
I'm in a similar situation, only I'm depending on my mom for housing and I have some temporary jobs which now barely pay the interest on my debts. I suggest you try tutoring, the pay is little; but, it is relatively easy to get. Should you want to talk more, email me at perez_enrique (at) yahoo.com
I'm starting a prior art site; right now it's at: http://members.axion.net/~enrique/invention.html and it is a release early, release often place for ideas. Every idea which can be expressed as code is under the GPL, everything else is under the Open Content License. The bolded links are ideas which are largely complete, the rest are going to be worked on over the next few months. People are welcome to ideas, comments or requests for inventions. Posting on the message board leaves a record with a time and date to establish that the idea was developed by a certain time.
As I've added ideas to the site, I noticed that hardware ideas can be thought up as fast as software ideas, you just can't implement most of the hardware ideas in a short time. In my opinion, the only reason to have patents on hardware inventions is so that the inventor could get the capital to bring them to market, there's no need to encourage the initial idea because that happens relatively often without financial incentive.
Are you considering broadening the mandate of free speech products to include open art, open music, etc... Do you think that the open content license: http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml is a good idea ?
Will the free software foundation support open hardware efforts like: http://www.opencores.org/
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Thanks for the links to project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.net and the database of open content works http://wiley.byu.edu/opencontent/
I'll update the project Gutenberg link, as I had an old one that didn't have Gutenberg in its title and I'll add the open content database link. Since my posting I also found an excellent set of links to online texts in the open directory project at: http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Electronic_Text_ Archives/
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One way to retain the freedoms we love is to use the free resources we have now, rather than paying for an ebook or real book. Here's links to online non - fiction book sites:
What they could do with their first two launches, which are sending up dummy payloads, is to launch tanks filled with water. They're going to have to pay the launch costs anyways, so they might as well put something up that has a low cost on the ground; but, a high value in orbit. The International Space Station will need a lot of water once it's operational, Beal could have the water waiting for them.
There are many excellent projects mentioned on this thread to donate money to. However, if they're not tax deductible, in effect, the tax man will be getting a lot of your donation. In the US, there are two tax deductible charities that I know of: http://www.fsf.org/ http://www.spi-inc.org/donations.html
Are there any tax deductible free software charities outside of the US? Any tax deductible BSD or Linux Users Groups?
My mom can use it! I had to get someone else to install KDE on the laptop, unpack the PCMCIA drivers and that was tough. Once done, my mom loves her laptop; the 40M ram is not enough to run Netscape / KDE well; but, it is enough for KDE's browser.
It would of been a lot easier if I could of bought the computer with Linux preinstalled. In my opinion, that's the biggest missing piece in easy to use linux, because once it's on a laptop you don't have to worry about cables, plugging in the keyboard, speakers, mouse, etc... you just use it. The only vendor I've found that offers Linux laptops without having to search their website or make a special request to customer service is: http://www.tuxtops.com
I hope some other vendors step in here, as it was, despite my best efforts, I had to pay the Microsoft tax even though I had no intention of ever using Windows.
Dave Winer wrote an article on how we could escape the patent straightjacket at: http://davenet.userland.com/2000/02/28/noMorePes osForSenorBezos
One of his points was that we should all put our ideas on the web and let them be linked to. To that end I'm putting my idea for a memory efficient hashtable on the web: http://www.worldforge.org/website/servers/notpat ented/
Ideally someone will make a searchable open idea database; but, in the meantime, the web and search engines can serve.
I was wondering if anyone knew of a good place to get a low end notebook with linux preinstalled, preferably with Mandrake and available in Canada.
I've seen: http://www.tuxtops.com/ but, that's about it, http://www.linuxlaptops.com has basically closed and Dell canada doesn't seem to have any yet. Has anyone bought a laptop with linux preinstalled?
People have been looking for a haven for servers, somewhere where DeCSS code could be worked on at a permanent site, for example. South Africa is already ignoring patents on AIDS medicines for instance and with all this open source in the country; might be willing to stand up to RIAA and MPAA among others.
Is there anyone in Africa who would like to start a server haven? Is there a way to rent or buy access to a server with good bandwidth in Africa? Is there a country which is especially immune to pressures from copyright laws?
The only logical reason for these attacks that I can see is that they'll temporarily lower the stock price of the corporations who own the sites which were taken down. The stock market was car bombed in Venezuela once by people shorting the stocks to make some quick guaranteed gains.
A clue to the attackers in this case would be to find who had very leveraged short term shorts in these companies at this time. This attack would only be financially worth it if you had say on the order of 10,000 shares short, so it should be noticable in stock transaction records.
The net in general including slashdot has felt slow in the last few hours, has the internet in general been caught in the crossfire?
One place that is trying to create legal arguments in an open forum is: http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/ maybe they would be interested in using this as a test case?
While I appreciate the legal effort the EFF has been putting towards the defense, I think the best way to help is to donate time, code or cash to open source code in general, mainly since our opponents will always have more lawyers than we will, we should fight where they can't. To donate cash, the FSF, US tax deductible charity is at: http://www.fsf.org/fsf/fsf.html
By the way, is there an equivalent tax deductible open source software oriented charity in Canada?
Jonath asked "I'd be interested in hearing what people consider to be *the* book of nanotech."
Drexler has written possibly the nanotech book, available online in html form at: http://www.foresight.org/EOC/
It was written in 1986; some of its predictions, like de novo protein design and atom manipulators like the atom force microscope have come true. Most of what is written there hasn't yet been implemented; but, if we're heading towards a technological singularity, then about half of the technologies will be developed in the last year before the singularity.
Here an unfortunately small list of links to independent films. Please email me at perez_enrique@yahoo.com if you know of any other web sites with independent films or legally available video downloads.
Here's a site for a Petition against the treatment received by Jon Johansen. From the site:
This is an open letter of protest to norwegian authorities, DoEC (Department of Economic Crime). This is an expression of my personal opinion, an opinion I hope all linux-enthusiasts in Norway will see fit to support (and all others interested in the freedom of speech and government abusal). This letter, including all attenders will be forwarded to DoEC, with a copy to Johansens lawyer.
Here's a site for a Petition against the treatment received by Jon Johansen. From the site:
This is an open letter of protest to norwegian authorities, DoEC (Department of Economic Crime). This is an expression of my personal opinion, an opinion I hope all linux-enthusiasts in Norway will see fit to support (and all others interested in the freedom of speech and government abusal). This letter, including all attenders will be forwarded to DoEC, with a copy to Johansens lawyer.
The page with these links is: http://members.axion.net/~enrique/book.html and if anyone would like to add links to that list, please email me at: perez_enrique@yahoo.com
Slashdot Mirror
While CAPA and PLA are the primary materials, there are also experiments with ABS, at:
http://hydraraptor.blogspot.com/2008/04/absolution.html
and HDPE, at:
http://hydraraptor.blogspot.com/2008/03/hdpe-pu.html
At this point the extruder can extrude any thermoplastic with a melting point of less than 200 Celcius. A high temperature extruder made of stainless steel is being worked on, and if it works it would be able to extrude the full range of thermoplastics. That experiment is at:
http://hydraraptor.blogspot.com/2008/03/high-temperature-extruder.html
There is work on high resolution printing, like at:
http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?1,10726
The priority, however, is making something that can make the majority of itself. Because then you can make the custom parts needed for high resolution printing cheaply; for a typical material cost of twenty dollars, rather than having to order several hundred dollars of parts just for an experiment.
For fun stuff that can be built with low resolution plastic, hopefully I'll be able to print a small kayak next summer:)
The other part of the treatment for Chrohn's disease is to stop feeding bad bacteria, as explained at:
http://www.healingcrow.com/dietsmain/crohn/crohn.html
The Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) mentioned in that explanation, is at:
http://www.healingcrow.com/dietsmain/scd/scd.html
One cause of Crohn's disease is an insufficient amount of good bacteria. To resolve the problem, add as much good bacteria to the diet as you can and eat foods which support good bacteria.
Foods which contain good bacteria are yogurt, home made kraut, and home made kefir.
Ingredients which support good bacteria are dandelion leaves, Jerusalem artichokes, chicory, bananas, garlic, onions and leeks, mentioned at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/humanbody/truthaboutfood/healthy/prebiotics2.shtml
A prepared food which supports good bacteria is broth, mentioned at:
http://www.townsendletter.com/FebMarch2005/broth0205.htm
Actually GE's patent on variable speed turbines is widely considered to be a bogus patent with an immense amount of prior art before it. There were several companies building variable speed turbines before GE did, Bergey being the best best known, they just did not patent the principle of electronic conversion in wind turbines because electronic converters have been used since at least the sixties in a variety of applications. GE's patent has been overturned in Europe by a patent dispute board. The GE patent, acquired when GE bought Enron Wind, is currently only in force in North America and it is being challenged there.
I'm in a similar situation, only I'm depending on my mom for housing and I have some temporary jobs which now barely pay the interest on my debts. I suggest you try tutoring, the pay is little; but, it is relatively easy to get. Should you want to talk more, email me at perez_enrique (at) yahoo.com
I'm starting a prior art site; right now it's at:l
http://members.axion.net/~enrique/invention.htm
and it is a release early, release often place for ideas. Every idea which can be expressed as code is under the GPL, everything else is under the Open Content License. The bolded links are ideas which are largely complete, the rest are going to be worked on over the next few months. People are welcome to ideas, comments or requests for inventions. Posting on the message board leaves a record with a time and date to establish that the idea was developed by a certain time.
As I've added ideas to the site, I noticed that hardware ideas can be thought up as fast as software ideas, you just can't implement most of the hardware ideas in a short time. In my opinion, the only reason to have patents on hardware inventions is so that the inventor could get the capital to bring them to market, there's no need to encourage the initial idea because that happens relatively often without financial incentive.
Are you considering broadening the mandate of free speech products to include open art, open music, etc... Do you think that the open content license:
http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml
is a good idea ?
Will the free software foundation support open hardware efforts like:
http://www.opencores.org/
Thanks for the links to project Gutenberg:
_ Archives/
http://www.gutenberg.net
and the database of open content works
http://wiley.byu.edu/opencontent/
I'll update the project Gutenberg link, as I had an old one that didn't have Gutenberg in its title and I'll add the open content database link. Since my posting I also found an excellent set of links to online texts in the open directory project at:
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Electronic_Text
One way to retain the freedoms we love is to use the free resources we have now, rather than paying for an ebook or real book. Here's links to online non - fiction book sites:
x .html p enbook/lw-oclicense.html
e x.html o ry.html
i n.htm m l . htm _ Arts/Online_Stories/ _ Arts/Books/
o n.html
http://samizdat.mines.edu/
http://www.icemall.com/free/free_books.html
http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/ggad.html
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/largest.dtl
http://www.itknowledge.com/
http://photo.net/wtr/thebook/
http://www.reciprocality.org/Reciprocality/inde
http://www.ipl.org/
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/idgbooks-o
which are available at:
http://members.axion.net/~enrique/book.html
links to online fiction book sites:
http://www.abika.com/
http://www.bnl.com/shorts/
http://www.airwindows.com/fiction/index.html
http://www.wirenot.net/X/Stories/Ghost/Ghostind
http://members.aol.com/howiecombs/hard_s-f.htm
http://tale.com/
http://promo.net/pg/list.html
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
http://www.rider.edu/users/suler/zenstory/zenst
which are available at:
http://members.axion.net/~enrique/fiction.html
and online children's stories:
http://www.the-office.com/bedtime-story/indexma
http://HCA.Gilead.org.il/
http://www.lionpaw.org/library.html
http://indy4.fdl.cc.mn.us/~isk/maya/mayastor.ht
http://homes.acmecity.com/oz/baum/123
http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/stories/stories/index
http://www.yahooligans.com/School_Bell/Language
http://www.yahooligans.com/School_Bell/Language
which are available at:
http://members.axion.net/~enrique/childrenficti
If someone is working on open books or stories or know where some more can be found, please email me.
What they could do with their first two launches, which are sending up dummy payloads, is to launch tanks filled with water. They're going to have to pay the launch costs anyways, so they might as well put something up that has a low cost on the ground; but, a high value in orbit. The International Space Station will need a lot of water once it's operational, Beal could have the water waiting for them.
The specific impulse of various propellants in seconds in vacuum is:
m e ad.htm
compressed nitrogen 80
compressed steam 130
hydrogen peroxide 190
kerosene / hydrogen peroxide 310
kerosene / liquid oxygen 375
liquid methane / liquid oxygen 445
liquid hydrogen / liquid oxygen 520
liquid hydrogen / liquid ozone 600
Hydrogen peroxide information:
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/SSC/H2O2CONF/jgay.ht
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/SSC/H2O2CONF/jwhiteh
Space links:
http://msia02.msi.se/~lindsey/spaceLinks.html
There are many excellent projects mentioned on this thread to donate money to. However, if they're not tax deductible, in effect, the tax man will be getting a lot of your donation. In the US, there are two tax deductible charities that I know of:
http://www.fsf.org/
http://www.spi-inc.org/donations.html
Are there any tax deductible free software charities outside of the US? Any tax deductible BSD or Linux Users Groups?
My mom can use it! I had to get someone else to install KDE on the laptop, unpack the PCMCIA drivers and that was tough. Once done, my mom loves her laptop; the 40M ram is not enough to run Netscape / KDE well; but, it is enough for KDE's browser.
It would of been a lot easier if I could of bought the computer with Linux preinstalled. In my opinion, that's the biggest missing piece in easy to use linux, because once it's on a laptop you don't have to worry about cables, plugging in the keyboard, speakers, mouse, etc... you just use it. The only vendor I've found that offers Linux laptops without having to search their website or make a special request to customer service is:
http://www.tuxtops.com
I hope some other vendors step in here, as it was, despite my best efforts, I had to pay the Microsoft tax even though I had no intention of ever using Windows.
Dave Winer wrote an article on how we could escape the patent straightjacket at:s osForSenorBezos
t ented/
http://davenet.userland.com/2000/02/28/noMorePe
One of his points was that we should all put our ideas on the web and let them be linked to. To that end I'm putting my idea for a memory efficient hashtable on the web:
http://www.worldforge.org/website/servers/notpa
Ideally someone will make a searchable open idea database; but, in the meantime, the web and search engines can serve.
I was wondering if anyone knew of a good place to get a low end notebook with linux preinstalled, preferably with Mandrake and available in Canada.
I've seen:
http://www.tuxtops.com/
but, that's about it,
http://www.linuxlaptops.com
has basically closed and Dell canada doesn't seem to have any yet. Has anyone bought a laptop with linux preinstalled?
People have been looking for a haven for servers, somewhere where DeCSS code could be worked on at a permanent site, for example. South Africa is already ignoring patents on AIDS medicines for instance and with all this open source in the country; might be willing to stand up to RIAA and MPAA among others.
Is there anyone in Africa who would like to start a server haven? Is there a way to rent or buy access to a server with good bandwidth in Africa? Is there a country which is especially immune to pressures from copyright laws?
The only logical reason for these attacks that I can see is that they'll temporarily lower the stock price of the corporations who own the sites which were taken down. The stock market was car bombed in Venezuela once by people shorting the stocks to make some quick guaranteed gains.
A clue to the attackers in this case would be to find who had very leveraged short term shorts in these companies at this time. This attack would only be financially worth it if you had say on the order of 10,000 shares short, so it should be noticable in stock transaction records.
The net in general including slashdot has felt slow in the last few hours, has the internet in general been caught in the crossfire?
One place that is trying to create legal arguments in an open forum is:
http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/
maybe they would be interested in using this as a test case?
While I appreciate the legal effort the EFF has been putting towards the defense, I think the best way to help is to donate time, code or cash to open source code in general, mainly since our opponents will always have more lawyers than we will, we should fight where they can't. To donate cash, the FSF, US tax deductible charity is at:
http://www.fsf.org/fsf/fsf.html
By the way, is there an equivalent tax deductible open source software oriented charity in Canada?
Jonath asked "I'd be interested in hearing what people consider to be *the* book of nanotech."
Drexler has written possibly the nanotech book, available online in html form at:
http://www.foresight.org/EOC/
It was written in 1986; some of its predictions, like de novo protein design and atom manipulators like the atom force microscope have come true. Most of what is written there hasn't yet been implemented; but, if we're heading towards a technological singularity, then about half of the technologies will be developed in the last year before the singularity.
Here an unfortunately small list of links to independent films. Please email me at perez_enrique@yahoo.com if you know of any other web sites with independent films or legally available video downloads.
ifilm--Streaming Independent Film
The New Venue
The Sync Online Film Festival
Here's a site for a Petition against the treatment received by Jon Johansen. From the site:
.php
This is an open letter of protest to norwegian authorities, DoEC (Department of Economic Crime). This is an expression of my personal opinion, an opinion I hope all linux-enthusiasts in Norway will see fit to support (and all others interested in the freedom of speech and government abusal). This letter, including all attenders will be forwarded to DoEC, with a copy to Johansens lawyer.
http://linuxguiden.linpro.no/protesteng
Take 2: sorry for the extra quotes in the URL of the previous comment
Here's a site for a Petition against the treatment received by Jon Johansen. From the site:
This is an open letter of protest to norwegian authorities, DoEC (Department of Economic Crime). This is an expression of my personal opinion, an opinion I hope all linux-enthusiasts in Norway will see fit to support (and all others interested in the freedom of speech and government abusal). This letter, including all attenders will be forwarded to DoEC, with a copy to Johansens lawyer.
"http://linuxguiden.linpro.no/protesten g.php"
Here's some links to legal mp3 music sites. I've stopped listening to the radio and I don't feel I've missed much :)
m achine.html
MP3.BOX.SK
D E A D A B A S E -free online music
MP3.com - Pedophagia
MP3.com - The MP3 resource on the Internet
Hungry Bands.com - your source for free mp3's by quality, unsigned, independant bands and artists.
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/0/ghost_in_the_
These links are at:
http://members.axion.net/~enrique/music.html
Please post or email me at perez_enrique@yahoo.com some more links to legal mp3 sites or your favorite mp3 legal bands.
Here's some links to legal mp3 music sites. I've stopped listening to the radio and I don't feel I've missed much :)
m achine.html
MP3.BOX.SK
D E A D A B A S E -free online music
MP3.com - Pedophagia
MP3.com - The MP3 resource on the Internet
Hungry Bands.com - your source for free mp3's by quality, unsigned, independant bands and artists.
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/0/ghost_in_the_
These links are at:
http://members.axion.net/~enrique/music.html
Please post or email me at perez_enrique@yahoo.com some more links to legal mp3 sites or your favorite mp3 legal bands.
Here's a list of links to online books:
Books On-line, Listed by Title
Free Books from Samizdat Press
Free Online Books At The Free Well
Hard Sci-Fi Stories
ITLibrary
Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
PROJECT GUTENBERG - ETEXT LISTINGS
The On-Line Books Page
The page with these links is:
http://members.axion.net/~enrique/book.html
and if anyone would like to add links to that list, please email me at:
perez_enrique@yahoo.com