Ok, did not know that. Still, 6% is far away from that of e.g. solar power towers. And as I said, you could still add plants with 6% efficiency underneath.
Also, what exactly is your argument about high-tech? I definitely don't call a bunch of mirrors on pillars and a brick tower with some water tube and steam turbines "high tech". It's less technology than the tractor, fertilizer machine, plant grinder, countless other agricultural machinery and chemical plant that biofuel requires. Also, it takes less space, and it can be built in 100% dead desert where not even bacteria can survive.
I have the feeling that you have a strong emotional drive in defending this, that in not built on reason.
Correct. What we need for mobile phones, is the same modular flexibility as for desktop PCs. So everyone can get into it, offering parts. But hopefully without the ugly generic gray cases.;)
Otherwise I can just think of cars as an example. Luckily, there you can still "mod" your cars, no matter what the vendor expects. You'll only lose your guarantee. But modders offer you a new one. So other companies can make spare parts. With phones that is obviously also true, no matter how much Apple would like to to think it's not.
If someone would create such a open modular phone, and get the Chinese/Taiwanese/Japanese/... on board, they'd flood the market with parts until the coolness of what phone you could get that way would crush the lock-in companies. (At least so I hope.)
May I add that the same thing happened in the hardware sector too. IBM-compatible PCs prevailed, because everybody could do with it whatever he wanted. Interestingly, fragmentation was prevented, because if your hardware wasn't really 100% compatible, nobody liked it, for that exact reason.:)
I just hope there will be no incompatible fragmentation in Android after the initial “I’m the dominating standard” struggle. Oh well... as long as MS doesn't get into it...;)
I'm sorry, but I have to pull you back to reality, from media distribution mafia world. (Can't let a fellow Slashdotter die in there.;)
They both had not a single sale. Since all that software was actually licensed. The reason is (I think you already know this, but just to clear the head...), that they can't sell you something that can't be owned, now can they?;) So they write a contract that you will not pass on their valuable secret. But since physically and morally, nothing is stopping you from doing it anyway, they make up this elaborate world about how you still "buy" it, but yet they "own" it anyway.
Anyway: I wouldn't give more value to app licensing numbers in a market than to lines of code in a program. Because honestly, most of those apps are so worthless that not only are they not a valuable secret, but you wouldn’t even value them high enough to pass them on at all.;) As a prime example, I raise the app that costs $1000, whose sole "function" it is, to display that you paid $1000 for the app, so you can brag about your money bags.;))
Not to kill your happiness, but do you mean other than NASA putting a man on the moon?;)
Let's be honest: Over the lies and deceptions that is politics, businesses and laws, we often forget, that there are really a lot of awesome people out there, that we can be mighty proud of.
The sheer fact that we can predict nearly all the world around us from nanoseconds after the big bang to the far future in such precision, that we haven't yet invented a measuring instrument exact enough to show its error (quantum electrodynamics, last time I checked), removes all doubt about that.
Well, I changed the e-mail address to a random Mailinator one, changed the password to a scrambled one, and logged out, so I would never ever get dragged in here again. Then years later, I tried the same with my... second account.
Now I'm back. So I guess I must be some kind of leader since/. will follow me to the grave. Go figure.
You’re right. Above 5-6 MP, the more there are, the worse the image will look. What I really want to know about cameras, is the size of the chip.
Then again, what is a article about a phone of a company that employs totalitarian control doing on a website of a open source network? Selling your soul for a shiny shiny glass bead much?
And you didn't get the memo of those plants having 0.1% efficiency in transforming sunlight to energy. of which only a fraction ends up being fuel.
While concentrated solar power plants have at least 100 times higher efficiency, and in deserts catch air humidity, which allows life in the humid shaded ground below them, where you could still grow those very same plants without problems (assuming you put the mirrors on pillars with big enough spacing to farm the plants). <Ricky Gervais>In the desert!! How cool is that?!</Ricky Gervais> And without the power plant causing any carbon dioxide or other toxins.
I am absolutely sure, that it's physically impossible to not think that’s cool.;))
It's like putting a sign next to your sheep herd, telling the wolves to please no kill your sheep. It’s like having a firewall, that sends “Please would you be so kind, dear haxxor, to not wreck my system” packets out to the sources of incoming connection requests.
Biofuels are about the most retarded thing, since a tricycle with four-wheel drive or a water-tight sun dial. Let's... now sit down and prepare yourself for that level of stupidity... take our food... put it through a expensive resource-eating process... and burn the result into highly toxic environmental pollution. Whoever came up with that fuckin' great idea?? It’s like a joke in which Dick Cheney is told to come up with a system that's even more stupid and evil than using fossil fuels. Cause you got to literally have a empty hole in your chest where your heart should be, to come up with that level of evilness!
Kelly enters in her waitress outfit and hangs up her coat. KELLY) Daddy, I'm afraid I have some bad news for you. AL) Oh, Pumpkin, that can't be! The horror with the scope here [looks over at Peggy] says "Good luck's a-comin'"! KELLY) The Health Inspector's closing down the diner for two days. PEGGY) Well, that's not so bad. KELLY) Then they're tearing it down. [sits on couch] Can you believe it? I'm unemployed. And it's all because of those stupid raisin cookies. AL) What, the raisin cookies you were getting me free everyday? KELLY) Yeah. You know, it turns out that only half the raisins were actually raisins. Al looks at her. AL) Well, what was the other half!? KELLY) Oh, believe me, Daddy, you do not want to know! Al makes a oh-fuck-no face. KELLY) Oh well. I guess I'm out of a J-O-D. AL) Oh well, I guess you won't have enough money to move O-U-L. KELLY) Not necessarily. It seems that one of people at the extermination company whichdeloused me, remembered me as the Verminator a couple of years ago and want me to be their new local mascot. Now, here's the part that's important to you, Dad. AL)You're going to tell me what the other half of those raisins were?? KELLY) Can't, Daddy. The guys at the Atomic Energy Commission said that mom's the word on this one. [Al makes a horrified going-crazy face] But the good news is, I'll be making more money than I did at the diner and will be able to move out sooner than I thought! Well, I better get busy. I'm under court order to burn this uniform.
Obviously the media mafia says yes. It’s like when some senator said that we should let companies decide which amount of taxes they should pay. As Jon Steward did put it: "Weeel... let me see... it is rouuuund (*draws a circle in the air with his finger*)... and it has a hooole in the middle...".
Fact is: If you ask someone else what you "should" do, they will tell you what they want to have. Duh. What is good for you, is to ask what's in it for you. This includes those that you care for.
In my case, I care for me and my friends... and free music is best for them... and for great artists... and maximum rewards is best for them. In no case is the media reproduction and artist extortion mafia even related to those that I care for. So my rule is to... GIVE. THEM. NOTHING! BUT. TAKE. FROM. THEM. EEEVERYTHING! (Then give much of that to artists so they can make free music for me and my friends.)
Well, if you watched the actual NHK live feed, you would have seen that actually, the flooding knocked the tanks for the fuel over. Big standing-tube like white tanks. Two per reactor. They were completely gone after the wave. That’s the real actual cause of all the problems. The tanks were unprotected, since nobody assumed such a huge wave (7 meters!) with such a immense power (Remember that those waves, when on the open sea, are 1m high but 150 km long, going at 500-1000 km/h! This then "piles up" on the shore.)
Of course, if the reactors hadn’t been shut down in the first place, the tanks would not have been needed. But who in his right mind would have let them continue running after a 9.0 quake and facing a huge tsunami?
I would, learning from this, of course put another monster-tsunami-safe casing around the tanks, but separate from the reactor, in case the tanks catch fire. (I guess that’s why they weren’t inside the building.) But obviously, you can’t prepare for events that you don’t predict. So if something happens that can still wreck this, my change would still be moot.
In the face of solar thermal power plants and pumped-storage hydroelectric systems (for 24 h all-season energy), which only need abundant materials, are cheap and easy to repair, and even are good for nature since the mirrors allow water to condense, which causes a whole ecosystem to develop in the previously dead desert below them, I don’t think nuclear power plants are that bad of an idea they have just become pointless.:)
Put a hardened repeater-like device on a parachute, and drop it out of a helicopter. If you put it on a wire, and put some weight below it, you can fly pretty high without risking dropping it at the wrong place. Or wait just put the repeater right on the robot. I bet you can even connect it to its Ethernet port.
Don’t get me wrong. My arguments do not contain attacks of any person or group. I also don’t care at all about how I or others feel about things. I’m simply looking at the things I observed and the logical conclusions I have to make from that. I may be missing information. I may have made an error in my logic. And I’m grateful for any corrections. But until I get them, this is what I conclude:
They say "no original research". So correct me if I’m wrong, but I understand that that means you can not use logical reasoning to come up with new knowledge. Instead it has to come from somewhere else. Logically:
They also say "citation needed". Otherwise there would be no source of knowledge left. Again, correct me if I’m wrong, but from my experience, this seems to mean, that you are forced to do a appeal to authority. Meaning survival of content is required to rely on a fallacy of defective induction. Making it inherently unacceptable for scientists relying on the scientific principle.
And finally, the last word on what is defined as a trustworthy authority, is controlled by the people who control the server. And since those people have their own views (as we all do), and some of those people and views will oppose what we deem as neutral and correct, based on our observations and logic, we will have situations of disagreement. Which will be "resolved" by the ones who have the last word.
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Ok, did not know that. Still, 6% is far away from that of e.g. solar power towers. And as I said, you could still add plants with 6% efficiency underneath.
Also, what exactly is your argument about high-tech? I definitely don't call a bunch of mirrors on pillars and a brick tower with some water tube and steam turbines "high tech". It's less technology than the tractor, fertilizer machine, plant grinder, countless other agricultural machinery and chemical plant that biofuel requires.
Also, it takes less space, and it can be built in 100% dead desert where not even bacteria can survive.
I have the feeling that you have a strong emotional drive in defending this, that in not built on reason.
I'm an apple you insensitive clod!
And what the fuck is this?
Correct. What we need for mobile phones, is the same modular flexibility as for desktop PCs. So everyone can get into it, offering parts. But hopefully without the ugly generic gray cases. ;)
Otherwise I can just think of cars as an example. Luckily, there you can still "mod" your cars, no matter what the vendor expects. You'll only lose your guarantee. But modders offer you a new one. So other companies can make spare parts.
With phones that is obviously also true, no matter how much Apple would like to to think it's not.
If someone would create such a open modular phone, and get the Chinese/Taiwanese/Japanese/... on board, they'd flood the market with parts until the coolness of what phone you could get that way would crush the lock-in companies. (At least so I hope.)
May I add that the same thing happened in the hardware sector too. IBM-compatible PCs prevailed, because everybody could do with it whatever he wanted. :)
Interestingly, fragmentation was prevented, because if your hardware wasn't really 100% compatible, nobody liked it, for that exact reason.
I just hope there will be no incompatible fragmentation in Android after the initial “I’m the dominating standard” struggle. ;)
Oh well... as long as MS doesn't get into it...
I'm sorry, but I have to pull you back to reality, from media distribution mafia world. (Can't let a fellow Slashdotter die in there. ;)
They both had not a single sale. Since all that software was actually licensed. ;)
The reason is (I think you already know this, but just to clear the head...), that they can't sell you something that can't be owned, now can they?
So they write a contract that you will not pass on their valuable secret.
But since physically and morally, nothing is stopping you from doing it anyway,
they make up this elaborate world about how you still "buy" it, but yet they "own" it anyway.
Anyway: I wouldn't give more value to app licensing numbers in a market than to lines of code in a program. Because honestly, most of those apps are so worthless that not only are they not a valuable secret, but you wouldn’t even value them high enough to pass them on at all. ;) ;))
As a prime example, I raise the app that costs $1000, whose sole "function" it is, to display that you paid $1000 for the app, so you can brag about your money bags.
Not to kill your happiness, but do you mean other than NASA putting a man on the moon? ;)
Let's be honest: Over the lies and deceptions that is politics, businesses and laws, we often forget, that there are really a lot of awesome people out there, that we can be mighty proud of.
The sheer fact that we can predict nearly all the world around us from nanoseconds after the big bang to the far future in such precision, that we haven't yet invented a measuring instrument exact enough to show its error (quantum electrodynamics, last time I checked), removes all doubt about that.
Well, I changed the e-mail address to a random Mailinator one, changed the password to a scrambled one, and logged out, so I would never ever get dragged in here again.
Then years later, I tried the same with my... second account.
Now I'm back. So I guess I must be some kind of leader since /. will follow me to the grave.
Go figure.
Been there, done that.
Cheers,
Eli Lilly
You’re right. Above 5-6 MP, the more there are, the worse the image will look.
What I really want to know about cameras, is the size of the chip.
Then again, what is a article about a phone of a company that employs totalitarian control doing on a website of a open source network? Selling your soul for a shiny shiny glass bead much?
And you didn't get the memo of those plants having 0.1% efficiency in transforming sunlight to energy. of which only a fraction ends up being fuel.
While concentrated solar power plants have at least 100 times higher efficiency, and in deserts catch air humidity, which allows life in the humid shaded ground below them, where you could still grow those very same plants without problems (assuming you put the mirrors on pillars with big enough spacing to farm the plants). <Ricky Gervais>In the desert!! How cool is that?!</Ricky Gervais> And without the power plant causing any carbon dioxide or other toxins.
I am absolutely sure, that it's physically impossible to not think that’s cool. ;))
And make the choices the viewpoints of all directions of extreme viewpoints.
While the default stays the writer’s viewpoint.
Then let us set our viewpoint in the settings. ;)
And we call all happily live in our own egocentric world that we live in anyway.
(Bonus points for making the moderation’s effect relative to the relationship between your viewpoint and that of the moderator. :)
And I thought the current mystical beast would be "terrorists".
Or is it "radical atheistsâ already? (As Newt Gingrich put it.)
It's like putting a sign next to your sheep herd, telling the wolves to please no kill your sheep.
It’s like having a firewall, that sends “Please would you be so kind, dear haxxor, to not wreck my system” packets out to the sources of incoming connection requests.
Smart move, genius.
Biofuels are about the most retarded thing, since a tricycle with four-wheel drive or a water-tight sun dial.
Let's... now sit down and prepare yourself for that level of stupidity... take our food... put it through a expensive resource-eating process... and burn the result into highly toxic environmental pollution.
Whoever came up with that fuckin' great idea?? It’s like a joke in which Dick Cheney is told to come up with a system that's even more stupid and evil than using fossil fuels.
Cause you got to literally have a empty hole in your chest where your heart should be, to come up with that level of evilness!
</Lewis Black>
But it’s the best. Beats the rest.
Cellular, modular, interactivodular...
You missed the question. I’ll quote Al here:
Kelly enters in her waitress outfit and hangs up her coat.
KELLY) Daddy, I'm afraid I have some bad news for you.
AL) Oh, Pumpkin, that can't be! The horror with the scope here [looks over at Peggy] says "Good luck's a-comin'"!
KELLY) The Health Inspector's closing down the diner for two days.
PEGGY) Well, that's not so bad.
KELLY) Then they're tearing it down. [sits on couch] Can you believe it? I'm unemployed. And it's all because of those stupid raisin cookies.
AL) What, the raisin cookies you were getting me free everyday?
KELLY) Yeah. You know, it turns out that only half the raisins were actually raisins.
Al looks at her.
AL) Well, what was the other half!?
KELLY) Oh, believe me, Daddy, you do not want to know!
Al makes a oh-fuck-no face.
KELLY) Oh well. I guess I'm out of a J-O-D.
AL) Oh well, I guess you won't have enough money to move O-U-L.
KELLY) Not necessarily. It seems that one of people at the extermination company whichdeloused me, remembered me as the Verminator a couple of years ago and want me to be their new local mascot. Now, here's the part that's important to you, Dad.
AL)You're going to tell me what the other half of those raisins were??
KELLY) Can't, Daddy. The guys at the Atomic Energy Commission said that mom's the word on this one. [Al makes a horrified going-crazy face] But the good news is, I'll be making more money than I did at the diner and will be able to move out sooner than I thought! Well, I better get busy. I'm under court order to burn this uniform.
So: What are the other 99 pounds?
Obviously the media mafia says yes. It’s like when some senator said that we should let companies decide which amount of taxes they should pay. As Jon Steward did put it: "Weeel... let me see... it is rouuuund (*draws a circle in the air with his finger*)... and it has a hooole in the middle...".
Fact is: If you ask someone else what you "should" do, they will tell you what they want to have. Duh.
What is good for you, is to ask what's in it for you. This includes those that you care for.
In my case,
I care for me and my friends... and free music is best for them...
and for great artists... and maximum rewards is best for them.
In no case is the media reproduction and artist extortion mafia even related to those that I care for.
So my rule is to... GIVE. THEM. NOTHING! BUT. TAKE. FROM. THEM. EEEVERYTHING!
(Then give much of that to artists so they can make free music for me and my friends.)
I find it sad that you, in the face of a slight breeze, completely fold, like a blob without a spine. ;)
But I also find is very useful. Now give me all your money, or I'll come and give you the evil eye.
It will be evil! So evil!
Sorry, /. ate my Unicode. It should have been: "I don’t think nuclear power plants are that bad of an idea... they have just become pointless. :)"
You only need one book to teach them all anyway!
Well, if you watched the actual NHK live feed, you would have seen that actually, the flooding knocked the tanks for the fuel over. Big standing-tube like white tanks. Two per reactor. They were completely gone after the wave.
That’s the real actual cause of all the problems. The tanks were unprotected, since nobody assumed such a huge wave (7 meters!) with such a immense power (Remember that those waves, when on the open sea, are 1m high but 150 km long, going at 500-1000 km/h! This then "piles up" on the shore.)
Of course, if the reactors hadn’t been shut down in the first place, the tanks would not have been needed. But who in his right mind would have let them continue running after a 9.0 quake and facing a huge tsunami?
I would, learning from this, of course put another monster-tsunami-safe casing around the tanks, but separate from the reactor, in case the tanks catch fire. (I guess that’s why they weren’t inside the building.)
But obviously, you can’t prepare for events that you don’t predict. So if something happens that can still wreck this, my change would still be moot.
In the face of solar thermal power plants and pumped-storage hydroelectric systems (for 24 h all-season energy), which only need abundant materials, are cheap and easy to repair, and even are good for nature since the mirrors allow water to condense, which causes a whole ecosystem to develop in the previously dead desert below them, I don’t think nuclear power plants are that bad of an idea they have just become pointless. :)
Put a hardened repeater-like device on a parachute, and drop it out of a helicopter. If you put it on a wire, and put some weight below it, you can fly pretty high without risking dropping it at the wrong place.
Or wait just put the repeater right on the robot. I bet you can even connect it to its Ethernet port.
And don’t forget when the US was providing tech support to India. For India’s space program!
They will be prosecuted over this crap.
By who, you ask?
Well... if you have any balls/spine to follow through with what you think should happen, you will be the first to rise, and walk the walk. :)
If not, then please donâ(TM)t say it in the first place. Nobody will hate you for it. There are bigger problems in our lives. :)
Don’t get me wrong. My arguments do not contain attacks of any person or group. I also don’t care at all about how I or others feel about things. I’m simply looking at the things I observed and the logical conclusions I have to make from that.
I may be missing information. I may have made an error in my logic. And I’m grateful for any corrections. But until I get them, this is what I conclude:
Ouch.