Now there's a neat project idea: create a GPS spoofing device that plugs into a GPS instead of the antenna. Loads of fun with GNU Radio and signal processing:)
Dude I've had it to here with old PCs as appliances. 250W PSU? Are you kidding me? Have you seen how much power a newish VIA mini-ITX board draws? Hint: it's in low single digits.
Can you afford the extra electricity to power the old PC, and the extra air conditioning to get rid of the massive amounts of heat that old thing is going to put out?
Heh. We've had people talking this talk since 1998 now, but whoever had tried to walk the walk discovered how hard it is to make work. These guys actually implemented something along those lines.
Yeah, really. My 2 cents: there is a function in our lpc-based mudlib called when a player dies, which takes away some experience, prints some messages, writes to appropriate logs, etc. Its name is second_life().
Do you have ANY idea how much electricity your vehicle needs to store to be able to provide a sustained power output of 100kW (assuming electrical engine efficiencies are close to those of internal combustion engines)?
They are not, modern electric motors are around 93% efficient. Factor of close to 5 better.
You want to add millions of CARS that need millions of Watts EACH?
Megawatts of power for EACH car?:)
There is NO substitute for crude oil. NONE. It is IMPOSSIBLE, no matter how many "nuclear" power plants you want to build.
Depends by what you mean by "substitute."
But frankly once the oil is gone, our "free ride" is over. Oil companies aren't "stalling" at trying to find an alternative energy source. THERE ISN'T ONE.
In general I agree with your assessment of the quality of oil, but I don't share the pessimistic sentiment. I think the world will adapt; vehicles will be downsized, commutes will shorten, alternative sources will be used.
Though our MUD is not a sissy roleplaying MUD. The play style is actually frighteningly similar to that of Diablo, just without the graphics and with better quests and content.
While this wouldn't change things much for popular content, which people would want at the same time, it seems that for "long-tail" content it would be almost equivalent to making it free as in beer. For example, take some esoteric textbook and make it a free e-book. Anyone can download it, use it, and delete it, which is more or less what would happen with the library scheme.
I'm impressed with what the big broadcasters did with Hulu.com. Shows stream with no strings attached, and the ads are extremely short and unintrusive.
Plenty of nerds boast about cutting ads out, but the sad truth is that they pay for the content. It's nice to see an ad scheme subtle enough not to cause people to subvert it.
Privacy has long not been a problem to the members of the Internet generation, who seem to thrive on making their lives public; besides, the idea of having impromptu message boards tied to location is actually pretty cool.
However, it seems it would be really hard to prevent spoofing. Unless all possible GPS chips are locked down by DRM, or the geoblogs locked to known non-hacked phone models---which is as likely to happen as hell freezing over---there will be all sorts of issues that already popped up elsewhere, like spam, trolls, griefers, etc.
Maybe the real value of the companies that come into this field will be solving these issues in some reasonable way, like Slashdot did with comment moderation.
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Now there's a neat project idea: create a GPS spoofing device that plugs into a GPS instead of the antenna. Loads of fun with GNU Radio and signal processing :)
Dude I've had it to here with old PCs as appliances. 250W PSU? Are you kidding me? Have you seen how much power a newish VIA mini-ITX board draws? Hint: it's in low single digits.
Can you afford the extra electricity to power the old PC, and the extra air conditioning to get rid of the massive amounts of heat that old thing is going to put out?
Heh. We've had people talking this talk since 1998 now, but whoever had tried to walk the walk discovered how hard it is to make work. These guys actually implemented something along those lines.
Take it a step further, put some kind of ceramic container in the focal point and smelt stuff.
This is getting complicated, but stick lots of individually steerable little mirrors inside. You can imagine the rest :)
Yeah well the bigger the better. A BUD has been used to break 802.11 distance records.
She must be drinking Powerthirst. Sounds like you might become a prolific uncle :)
How about we focus on the letter B there, I'd vote for that :)
Be glad you got away without any broken limbs. Warehouse people can be dangerous and you probably threatened jobs.
Heh one word: HAL2001 :)
Yeah, really. My 2 cents: there is a function in our lpc-based mudlib called when a player dies, which takes away some experience, prints some messages, writes to appropriate logs, etc. Its name is second_life().
They ran into a judge who happened to be a casual WoW player.
Do you have ANY idea how much electricity your vehicle needs to store to be able to provide a sustained power output of 100kW (assuming electrical engine efficiencies are close to those of internal combustion engines)?
They are not, modern electric motors are around 93% efficient. Factor of close to 5 better.
You want to add millions of CARS that need millions of Watts EACH?
Megawatts of power for EACH car? :)
There is NO substitute for crude oil. NONE. It is IMPOSSIBLE, no matter how many "nuclear" power plants you want to build.
Depends by what you mean by "substitute."
But frankly once the oil is gone, our "free ride" is over. Oil companies aren't "stalling" at trying to find an alternative energy source. THERE ISN'T ONE.
In general I agree with your assessment of the quality of oil, but I don't share the pessimistic sentiment. I think the world will adapt; vehicles will be downsized, commutes will shorten, alternative sources will be used.
We have never needed a good summary as much as this time!
They are different; utilization has the added implication that the use was somehow beneficial.
Ohyes oh yes oh yes oh yes
They both reached for the gun!
I wish they did do it, so that Google could finally put up Google Auctions and we finally got rid of eBay.
Under no circumstances should you use anything other than water to clean the display.
Orly? I use nail polish remover all the time, with great results.
I'd think twice about doing this. You will end up killing 99% of the bugs, but the 1% that survive will be sunlight resistant! You'll kill us all!
Nod that :)
Though our MUD is not a sissy roleplaying MUD. The play style is actually frighteningly similar to that of Diablo, just without the graphics and with better quests and content.
While this wouldn't change things much for popular content, which people would want at the same time, it seems that for "long-tail" content it would be almost equivalent to making it free as in beer. For example, take some esoteric textbook and make it a free e-book. Anyone can download it, use it, and delete it, which is more or less what would happen with the library scheme.
I dunno, have you compared the encoding quality of HDTV OTA channels vs. cable lately?
I'm impressed with what the big broadcasters did with Hulu.com. Shows stream with no strings attached, and the ads are extremely short and unintrusive.
Plenty of nerds boast about cutting ads out, but the sad truth is that they pay for the content. It's nice to see an ad scheme subtle enough not to cause people to subvert it.
Privacy has long not been a problem to the members of the Internet generation, who seem to thrive on making their lives public; besides, the idea of having impromptu message boards tied to location is actually pretty cool.
However, it seems it would be really hard to prevent spoofing. Unless all possible GPS chips are locked down by DRM, or the geoblogs locked to known non-hacked phone models---which is as likely to happen as hell freezing over---there will be all sorts of issues that already popped up elsewhere, like spam, trolls, griefers, etc.
Maybe the real value of the companies that come into this field will be solving these issues in some reasonable way, like Slashdot did with comment moderation.