I'm looking into similar gear, minus the solar currently. I'm planning on putting in a Trace DR series 3600 watt inverter/charger/UPS with a 200-400 amp hour bank. Probably wire it up into a subpanel and put some circuits directly on it. We get frequent power outages from storms and such where I live. The rationale is "Why spend $1200 for three 400 watt UPSes with expensive SLA batteries when I can get something like the Trace and put as many flooded batteries as I want on it."
I was amazed how cheap something like the Trace DR is compared to the equivalent computer UPS from APC. IIRC both are modified sine output.
BTW- Did trace change their name to Xantrex? That sounds like some prescription drug.:)
But the story isn't about reclaiming the ground with the plants, the story is about how they have a new (patented) way to extract salts from the plants, and about selling the salt to offset the cost.
My point is, there's very little money in selling salt.
Lets see, a pound of retail salt runs about 25 cents US. The label and packaging cost about 5-7 cents. It amazes me that salt companies make any money at all on regular salt.
Why would one even bother researching new ways to get salt?
You do sacrifice something when you change to that paradigm, the ability to exploit the ultra-high-level languages like Bash.
Writing tight, fast-starting applications that are completely command-line driven is the ultimate in flexibility when it comes to executing multi-language cross platform code.
Many complex things such as CORBA and COM have been developed to attempt to emulate the simple thing that the Unix shell has been doing for 20 years, a way to easily integrate disparate code modules.
SSH is my distributed application system, Bash is my COM. It has worked extremely well for the applications I write, is very easy to maintain, and is acceptable for a large majority of applications.
The ITU suggests that this is 'an excellent opportunity to launch public campaigns and advocacy activities in favour of greater access to [information and communication technology]
The same ITU that refuses to drop the Morse Code requirements for ham radio licenses under 30Mhz?:)
My father had a federal firearms license, trust me, it's not something where you just mail in money and a little form and you are done. Tons of paperwork, reporting requirements, requirements about gunsafes, audits (they do check to make sure you are in compliance!)...etc, etc.
Getting a FFL to do illegal things would be the height of stupidity, since they are then watching you extra closely.
It's very similar to the requirements of getting a Class B display fireworks license, in other words, a huge pain in the ass.
For armor piercing, lately the goal has been to keep the caliber down, and increase mass and/or hardness with depleted uranium or tungsten, which are very dense and harder than lead.
In the civilian area, teflon tipped bullets (so-called cop-killer) made a big splash a while back, but it was mostly anti-gun hype, they were designed for law enforcement use, and never available to the public. They were designed to penetrate things like car doors, not kevlar.
The teflon was actually mostly to prevent excess wear on the barrel of the gun, since the bullet was made almost entirely from brass. No cop has ever been killed by the bullets so named (As far as anyone can tell). I'd imagine a diamond coated bullet would tear up a barrel in short order, and would be totally impractical.
An interesting factoid regarding expansion: hollow and soft tipped bullets are mostly banned in engagements of war by the Hague Peace Conferences, which the US didn't technically sign on to, but they follow this part anyway. The Geneva convention also bans "weapons that cause superfluous injury". I guess the point of war is to maim, not to kill.
The claim doesn't have to have merit, since when has any MS FUD claim had much serious merit at all?
All it has to do is cast doubt. A somewhat complex legal situation that most PHBs can't understand in a 20 second sound byte, SCO claiming lost IP, etc... all the elements are there for MS to FUD this up.
I always wonder why people have to come up with such complex solutions to problems.
Just the other day, we needed some type of thing to act as a hot folder for a web application that needed to copy files from one location to another remote one.
I wrote a 6 line bash script to run from cron every minute, and simultaneously, my coworker at the other location who wasn't aware I was working on the problem, wrote a 100 line multithreaded java program to do almost the same thing.:)
Because a third party put the code under the GPL, not SCO.
MS has argued this repeatedly in their FUD, if you license some parts of your software under the GPL, you are risking all your IP (the "viral" comments).
If SCO loses due to a GPL argument, MS will make a huge deal about it, it will be tons of ammo for their FUD machine. Not might, will.
That's why it is important that SCO lose (and they will, either way) on other legal grounds, not due to the GPL.
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They distribute(ed) a version of Linux under the GPL, a licence that legally permits people to copy and branch the code assuming they put it under the GPL. Unfortunately for SCO, whether or not they knew they were distributing their own IP under the GPL or not is irrelevant to the rather compelling argument that they did put their IP under the GPL, and now that they continued to distribute linux after they found the alleged infringements means that no court would declare that licence invalid.
If anyone argues this, we lose in a bigger way. MS can then say "see, I told you so! GPL caused SCO to lose their IP!!!!".
It would benefit us greatly as a community if no company makes this argument in defense.
Yeah, just imagine if all those long flights from the north pole to the south pole were eliminated!
Seriously though, it's only useful if it's two places that people want to go.:)
Assuming we could build a stable tunnel through the earth, imagine this, we could come up with a system to capture the lateral energy, think something like a huge piezo crystal that would generate tons of voltage as it was crushed keeping the capsule on track, or something to that effect. Or instead of storing the energy kinetically, and travelling at relativistic speeds near the center of the earth, instead use a huge generator to generate electricity on the way down, and use the power on the way back up. Less efficient, but probably would still use a whole lot less power than flying a jet across the ocean.
I think it all really boils down to a materials science problem. Just need to come up with a material able to wall such an insane tunnel, and the rest is easy.:)
I meant from a intellectual property standpoint. If you want to reimplement someone's software via reverse engineering, you must not look at their source code, only the specs and interfaces.
"Dennis Forgue" is the anti-counterfeiting expert they interviewed?
Treasury has given these companies material they can use to update bill- acceptance devices, but nothing they can spend or use to make counterfeit bills.
This gives it away. Everyone knows that the Treasury department gives vending machine companies the master engravings.
If this were a real article, why didn't they interview the real experts
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The article said the oil was edible.
Thanks for the reply.
:)
I'm looking into similar gear, minus the solar currently. I'm planning on putting in a Trace DR series 3600 watt inverter/charger/UPS with a 200-400 amp hour bank. Probably wire it up into a subpanel and put some circuits directly on it. We get frequent power outages from storms and such where I live. The rationale is "Why spend $1200 for three 400 watt UPSes with expensive SLA batteries when I can get something like the Trace and put as many flooded batteries as I want on it."
I was amazed how cheap something like the Trace DR is compared to the equivalent computer UPS from APC. IIRC both are modified sine output.
BTW- Did trace change their name to Xantrex? That sounds like some prescription drug.
But the story isn't about reclaiming the ground with the plants, the story is about how they have a new (patented) way to extract salts from the plants, and about selling the salt to offset the cost.
My point is, there's very little money in selling salt.
But the story is about selling the salt extracted from the plant, not about reclaiming the soil.
BTW- I did read the fucking article, stop being a smartass.
Can't you sell the excess power back to the grid, or are you totally off-grid?
Talk about useless research.
Lets see, a pound of retail salt runs about 25 cents US. The label and packaging cost about 5-7 cents. It amazes me that salt companies make any money at all on regular salt.
Why would one even bother researching new ways to get salt?
Just as much as banks rely on the bank teller's honesty to keep track of your money.
Illegally incorporating someone's code knowingly opens you up to huge personal liabilities.
I based my post on a 60 Minutes story
:)
Ah, well there's your problem.
Seriously though, you can't do much with a FFL that you can't do without it. I guess one of the main things is that you can mail order firearms.
You do sacrifice something when you change to that paradigm, the ability to exploit the ultra-high-level languages like Bash.
Writing tight, fast-starting applications that are completely command-line driven is the ultimate in flexibility when it comes to executing multi-language cross platform code.
Many complex things such as CORBA and COM have been developed to attempt to emulate the simple thing that the Unix shell has been doing for 20 years, a way to easily integrate disparate code modules.
SSH is my distributed application system, Bash is my COM. It has worked extremely well for the applications I write, is very easy to maintain, and is acceptable for a large majority of applications.
So you agree that it's alright for folk to look at underage pornography
Is it alright to hire a hooker? Is it alright to smoke pot? Is it alright to copy a CD for a friend? Is it alright to go 60 in a 55?
You tell me.
But if you read any modern philosophy (Berkeley, Hume, Kant, etc) you would already have answered the questions
:)
If you think those works answer any questions, I think you missed the point.
And exactly who is the victim of him having the child porn?
Keep in mind, the porn would have been produced and existed whether he possessed it or not.
The ITU suggests that this is 'an excellent opportunity to launch public campaigns and advocacy activities in favour of greater access to [information and communication technology]
:)
The same ITU that refuses to drop the Morse Code requirements for ham radio licenses under 30Mhz?
My father had a federal firearms license, trust me, it's not something where you just mail in money and a little form and you are done. Tons of paperwork, reporting requirements, requirements about gunsafes, audits (they do check to make sure you are in compliance!)...etc, etc.
Getting a FFL to do illegal things would be the height of stupidity, since they are then watching you extra closely.
It's very similar to the requirements of getting a Class B display fireworks license, in other words, a huge pain in the ass.
For armor piercing, lately the goal has been to keep the caliber down, and increase mass and/or hardness with depleted uranium or tungsten, which are very dense and harder than lead.
In the civilian area, teflon tipped bullets (so-called cop-killer) made a big splash a while back, but it was mostly anti-gun hype, they were designed for law enforcement use, and never available to the public. They were designed to penetrate things like car doors, not kevlar.
The teflon was actually mostly to prevent excess wear on the barrel of the gun, since the bullet was made almost entirely from brass. No cop has ever been killed by the bullets so named (As far as anyone can tell). I'd imagine a diamond coated bullet would tear up a barrel in short order, and would be totally impractical.
An interesting factoid regarding expansion: hollow and soft tipped bullets are mostly banned in engagements of war by the Hague Peace Conferences, which the US didn't technically sign on to, but they follow this part anyway. The Geneva convention also bans "weapons that cause superfluous injury". I guess the point of war is to maim, not to kill.
What did Mr. 100-liner say when he/she saw yours?
:)
Hehe, well, I have to be polite, because he outranks me by a mile, but he did appreciate the small size.
The claim doesn't have to have merit, since when has any MS FUD claim had much serious merit at all?
All it has to do is cast doubt. A somewhat complex legal situation that most PHBs can't understand in a 20 second sound byte, SCO claiming lost IP, etc... all the elements are there for MS to FUD this up.
Wow, SSH satisfies at least 6 of those.
:)
I always wonder why people have to come up with such complex solutions to problems.
Just the other day, we needed some type of thing to act as a hot folder for a web application that needed to copy files from one location to another remote one.
I wrote a 6 line bash script to run from cron every minute, and simultaneously, my coworker at the other location who wasn't aware I was working on the problem, wrote a 100 line multithreaded java program to do almost the same thing.
Because a third party put the code under the GPL, not SCO.
MS has argued this repeatedly in their FUD, if you license some parts of your software under the GPL, you are risking all your IP (the "viral" comments).
If SCO loses due to a GPL argument, MS will make a huge deal about it, it will be tons of ammo for their FUD machine. Not might, will.
That's why it is important that SCO lose (and they will, either way) on other legal grounds, not due to the GPL.
Is anyone planning anything? A party or chat room or anything?
971 pages ... ORA must have some huge nuts.
They distribute(ed) a version of Linux under the GPL, a licence that legally permits people to copy and branch the code assuming they put it under the GPL. Unfortunately for SCO, whether or not they knew they were distributing their own IP under the GPL or not is irrelevant to the rather compelling argument that they did put their IP under the GPL, and now that they continued to distribute linux after they found the alleged infringements means that no court would declare that licence invalid.
If anyone argues this, we lose in a bigger way. MS can then say "see, I told you so! GPL caused SCO to lose their IP!!!!".
It would benefit us greatly as a community if no company makes this argument in defense.
Yeah, just imagine if all those long flights from the north pole to the south pole were eliminated!
:)
:)
Seriously though, it's only useful if it's two places that people want to go.
Assuming we could build a stable tunnel through the earth, imagine this, we could come up with a system to capture the lateral energy, think something like a huge piezo crystal that would generate tons of voltage as it was crushed keeping the capsule on track, or something to that effect. Or instead of storing the energy kinetically, and travelling at relativistic speeds near the center of the earth, instead use a huge generator to generate electricity on the way down, and use the power on the way back up. Less efficient, but probably would still use a whole lot less power than flying a jet across the ocean.
I think it all really boils down to a materials science problem. Just need to come up with a material able to wall such an insane tunnel, and the rest is easy.
I meant from a intellectual property standpoint. If you want to reimplement someone's software via reverse engineering, you must not look at their source code, only the specs and interfaces.
Like that.
This is obviously a hoax.
"Dennis Forgue" is the anti-counterfeiting expert they interviewed?
Treasury has given these companies material they can use to update bill- acceptance devices, but nothing they can spend or use to make counterfeit bills.
This gives it away. Everyone knows that the Treasury department gives vending machine companies the master engravings.
If this were a real article, why didn't they interview the real experts
And what is up with the ugly guy holding a stick?