Only if they recognize that is the case, though. Humans are very quick to believe anything which fits nicely into their established view of the world, or the view they prefer to favor. They need to find the points which resonate. For the GOP, that would mean access to cheap labor, reduced taxes (say, for nanny/personal services), etc.
Were only the interface not a steaming pile of laggy shit, I would agree with you. But, oh, the torture of actually trying to curate a collection of anything but consumer audio in iTunes (and even just audio in iTunes) has made me long for the days of frustrating Media Monkey add-ons. I use iTunes because I have iDevices, but it sucks so bad I've done essentially nothing with mu library organization since I switched 5 years ago. And don't even get me started on video - I can't even use video on my portables - Apple decided with the last update to eliminate the titles, so all I have of my collection is a screen cap of the first few seconds of video - a hundred different views of the Universal or Fox or Disney logo. Dumb shits. Not to mention that, afaik, you can't stream from your library to a portable device (though you can to ATVs, which can be nice, but nowhere near as user friendly/useful as, say, Plex).
iTunes is probably useful if you purchased everything - and only commercial - audio from Apple iTMS, like/agree with their tagging standards, and listen casually. That may be a lot of folks, but it certainly isn't my use case.
"The PMA also champions a magnetic inductive wireless charging technology that requires a more tightly coupled link between the charger and device. In addition, the PMA developed an open network API for network services management. So, for instance, Starbucks would be able to identify mobile devices charging in its cafes and gather usage pattners or target users with marketing and advertising."
So they'll give up convenience for most of their (high end phone wielding) clientele for a swipe at tracking you and selling you and your information. The decision makes sense in that light. Nothing is free, not even free wireless charging. Unless, of course, Apple decides to weigh in with the PMA this fall, in which case there will be a huge batch of high end, security poor sheep ready to fleece.
That's an easy one - the fee is charged in all three cases, but for customers of the bank the fee is automatically refunded. QED. It's like not being allowed to charge a surcharge for Visa/MC transactions, so vendors jack the prices up 3% and then offer a discount for cash. (This has mostly ended as V/MC got wise and changed the wording to close that loophole, but governments are much slower to catch such things, and politicians are well paid to not close those loopholes)
It does seem a bit odd (or, perhaps, telling) to expect that the only value of a humanities PhD is to teach in the humanities. If that's the case, it follows that since the only value is internal, they may as well eliminate the program entirely.
Departments rarely monitor the performance of instruction themselves.
This is not a new problem, and teaching ability or efficacy - from what I've seen - has absolutely no bearing on granting tenure. Adjunct professors may not challenge students as much as tenured professors, but a large swath of tenured (and untenured) professors seem down right hostile to teaching classes, with many of the rest being indifferent. Research is what they enjoy, and what lines their pockets. Teaching is a necessary evil that, given a choice, they would eliminate entirely.
True, but Darth Vadar (or at least his voice) is the one hocking Verizon services. Once you pass those two, you have to decide whether it's worth having pretty sparse cell coverage (2nd tier carriers might be great in your town, but that's never guaranteed if you travel).
That's like golf courses. I've heard it said that a golf course needs to go bankrupt twice in order to become profitable. Satellite dev and launch is a very expensive business, as is golf course creation. I hope this works, but sat comm is still a tough service to bring to the masses.
It works well with several sources. For solar or wind, the demand is not driven by time - you fill what you can (sort of; this is smelting, which does penalize multiple startups). For nuclear, you could run as a continuous process as long as you had the demand for batteries and the alumina supply. In that case the lack peaking demand makes it conducive.
I don't know how efficient the conversion is. I suspect it's low compared to Li-ion recharging. Still, even if you paid double per Wh, it would be a great option to have for either long trips or emergency backup (range anxiety).
If they were to reduce the size to a manageable weight (and size) per piece - say 10 or 20kg - they could be purchased/installed in singles or groups and used individually (or in pairs, if needed to produce enough amperage), burned in sequence, and replaced as needed. For example, a car like the (dead) Aptera might only have two 20kg slots, and use one at a time if you ran the rechargeable down; if you bought an all-electric suburban, you might have a dozen 20kg slots, and it might use 4 or 6 "cells" in parallel to power that vehicle. One cell type and configuration which can be ganged for the expected demand. As you burn up your first cell/set, the indicator comes on and you swap them, while the car activates the next cell/set in the bank.
If this is just a backup for when you have a long trip or are unexpectedly out of power, it may not be that big a deal. Cars may come "batteries not included" and you can buy your own. If it costs you $100 to recharge your car from the power mains for 1800 miles, and it costs a $1200 "option" for the slots and $300 for a backup battery that will take you 1800 miles you're not going to use that backup on a regular basis. But if you have 3-6 long (out of range) trips a year, and it means only needing one car (vs a second gasoline engine car plus your electric commuter), all of a sudden it makes sense to do this instead of buying two cars, or renting a car for every long trip.
Batteries are generally referred to as primary or rechargable batteries. It has nothing to do with whether it is the primary source, but rather that is not rechargeable. This battery isn't rechargable in the traditional sense (run power through it backwards and it stores energy). It has to be remanufactured starting all the way back at the ore-reduction process (though simplified as there will be few impurities as there are with mined ore).
A criminal negligence statute that all reasonable protections against hacking must be taken to secure customer data or data which affects a countries national security. Applicable to specifically to any company officer. Make safety of data a priority.
The only part they overlooked was not that there wan't anyone in the middle of nowhere, but that most of the people in the middle of nowhere found $5/minute on a large, dedicated device a touch on the pricey side.
Their exclusive contracts with the existing infrastructure. Oh, we're an open town - I can change providers any time I like, but it requires moving to a new house.
That's great, except that most homes happen to have walls. It's like putting railroad tracks down to fix the problem of poor efficiency of rubber tired vehicles, only to find that the majority of cars don't have steel wheels, but rubber tires. But for those folks who have steel wheels, it's gonna be awesome!
My monitor is so black that I can't see any light at all (Dell IPS). Don't get me wrong, it's not black - at night, with all the lights off, it's clearly not completely black. However, since about 99.999% of my time in front of the computer is with some other form of illumination, or with some portion of the screen being light (and fouling my night vision). I find it hard to get really worked up over "good" blacks that aren't "perfect."
No it's not illegal, but it's also not really practical either. You will collect energy, but short of being right next to the transmitting antenna and fully surrounding it, you're going to get no more than the fractional area of the spherical surface (well, lobe pattern), which drops off pretty damned quickly. Quickly enough never to pay back the cost of the antenna, in all likelihood.
And, like you're neighbor's newspaper subscription, it may not cost you anything to read it, but just because someone else paid for it doesn't mean it's actually free.
You missed line three, which could be restated as "Won't someone think of the children" and is essentialy the same as what you wrote...
The message was almost the exact opposite of welcoming. It presented the picture of an epic national calamity, a whole country losing its grip on a cornerstone of civilization, the ability to read, and delivering the nation's youngsters into a life of limited horizons and to third world status at a time when the rest of the world is in strong ascendency.
To call the message merely bleak is a colossal understatement. Far from appealing to cuteness, it appealed directly to severe guilt and intense worry among all those who understand that the last generation put the gears of civilization in reverse.
None of this is news of course. The kickstarter succeeded so well because this very high profile problem has been worrying millions of people for many years.
If curved surfaces were optimal for viewing content, we would have transitioned to curved paintings and photos centuries or decades ago. But, it turns out, we're replicating a 3D space on a 2D surface. Whether than 2D is flat or curved makes little practical difference to the observer, but makes the manufacture and mounting of said piece a great deal less efficient,
The Magnificent Seven is $4.99 from Amazon (and that includes shipping if you're a Prime member), or it's $3.99 to rent it for 24 hours from iTunes. The BR disc re-sells for $4-8 on eBay, the iTunes purchase can't even be watched the second day.
Being the faithful/.er, I didn't read it either. I guess it depends on whether you have kids or not, and I would bet the authors don't, because if you have kids there is no possible way that streaming a movie 10000 times is more economical than buying the damned disc.
It means, as the poster alluded to FREE ENERGY. Though, as he says - it's not - because then we would call him a quack. He's just implying that 100-102% efficiency is possible when you synchronize the frequency of your input power source to the harmonic frequency of your target power consumption or device.
If you need a car analogy, it's like filling your gasoline tank in your car and marking down the mileage, and then checking to see how many miles you have gone when you fill up the next time. This is where the quantum effect also plays a role, because by simply never filling the tank all the way up, you'll get an infinite number of miles per gallon. Example: Fill tank at 12,400miles, partial fill 4 times, then complete fill of 8.26 gallons at 13,175 miles = (13,175-12,400)/8.26 = 93.8 miles per gallon. Once you fill up the tank and mark the mileage down, though, you've cut off your "harmonics" and you'll get a finite value. That's why it's not really "free energy" because to get free energy or over unity you would never be able fill up the car all the way. The longer you can go without completely filling the tank and triggering the measurement, the closer you are to matching the engine/gasoline fill harmonics. I've achieved well over 300mpg in my truck this way, but I've also got special magnets on my fuel line and installed an "open flow" regulator on the air intake, so there are other advantages which helped me achieve this which are unrelated to the harmonics.
The same thing applies to power - whether it be lightbulbs or networking equipment or freely spinning bicycle wheels, though in an entirely different way.
If my ideas are intriguing to you, I would be happy to subscribe you to my newsletter.
The lottery proceeds doesn't even dent the school budget, and with the remainder coming from the legislature it's really just a balancing act. With revenue growing slower than educational costs, the leg can still put more money into the system every year (so it doesn't look like they're using the lotto money to shore up the general fund) and still have the whole thing lose ground to educational inflation. And there's no way they would put that money on top of a "fully funded" school (ha!).
They use these because they're dirt cheap compared to building an entirely new school or renovating an old one. Schools are very expensive, mainly because parents want something prettier than is necessary, and architects like to spend money to create their "signature" look. Couple that with contractors who know what the budget for the school is and will either not bid (if it's too low) or "match the budget" if it's got a nice profit in it for them, and you have a recipe for the $200+/sf educational building of today.
But nobody wants to pay for it. Have you heard the banshee cries of builders when the city/county suggests a tariff on each new residence to cover the cost of a new school? You'd think they were going to cut off his dick and feed it to the hounds. But it's the new housing that brings the students and requires the expansion. It's rare that a place with no new houses has any meaningful increase in student population.
Howard County, Maryland does it right by putting caps on new residences at 105% of the school capacity (to allow for some flexibility). Once that cap is hit, no more building permits are issued until the school capacity is increased. Then, all of a sudden, it's in the builders' interests to find a way to get the money and land to build new facilities, no different than roads and sewers, and they seem to find the money and agree on a fee structure to pay for the new schools. But Texas will never do that, because it's anti-business.
I'm in the industry, and your idea actually does have merit. Even ignoring the red tape, like zoning, the building code requirements for commercial buildings is lower than for schools, so some simply are not acceptable for school use. Those that are will require extensive upfit to work for classrooms and educational spaces - it's not uncommon for the finishing of a commercial space to be 75% or more of the cost of the building (as compared to the "shell") and that doesn't include the need to strip the inside of the building even before the renovation starts. And schools are all-or-nothing; it's very hard to have some classrooms on a remote campus which is more than 5-10 minutes from the main school. Which means you need a gym, locker rooms, and cafeteria space in addition to classrooms (at a minimum).
The other problem is ownership. Many of the owners of those buildings (at least in my town), seem to think they're absolute castles of perfection. They'll never sell them below a "market" value, and that value would anticipate a profitable commercial establishment using it to generate revenue. The city can't just take over the buildings, because somebody owns them. You can't simply change the zoning of an area, and in many places changing the zoning of a specific plot of land is illegal (called "spot zoning"). They can make the owner fix it up or tear it down if it becomes a hazard, but you can imagine how helpful that owner is going to want to be if the same city that just told him he needs to invest several hundred thousand dollars turns around and wants to buy it from him or lease space.
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Only if they recognize that is the case, though. Humans are very quick to believe anything which fits nicely into their established view of the world, or the view they prefer to favor. They need to find the points which resonate. For the GOP, that would mean access to cheap labor, reduced taxes (say, for nanny/personal services), etc.
Were only the interface not a steaming pile of laggy shit, I would agree with you. But, oh, the torture of actually trying to curate a collection of anything but consumer audio in iTunes (and even just audio in iTunes) has made me long for the days of frustrating Media Monkey add-ons. I use iTunes because I have iDevices, but it sucks so bad I've done essentially nothing with mu library organization since I switched 5 years ago. And don't even get me started on video - I can't even use video on my portables - Apple decided with the last update to eliminate the titles, so all I have of my collection is a screen cap of the first few seconds of video - a hundred different views of the Universal or Fox or Disney logo. Dumb shits. Not to mention that, afaik, you can't stream from your library to a portable device (though you can to ATVs, which can be nice, but nowhere near as user friendly/useful as, say, Plex).
iTunes is probably useful if you purchased everything - and only commercial - audio from Apple iTMS, like/agree with their tagging standards, and listen casually. That may be a lot of folks, but it certainly isn't my use case.
And here's the reason:
"The PMA also champions a magnetic inductive wireless charging technology that requires a more tightly coupled link between the charger and device. In addition, the PMA developed an open network API for network services management. So, for instance, Starbucks would be able to identify mobile devices charging in its cafes and gather usage pattners or target users with marketing and advertising."
So they'll give up convenience for most of their (high end phone wielding) clientele for a swipe at tracking you and selling you and your information. The decision makes sense in that light. Nothing is free, not even free wireless charging. Unless, of course, Apple decides to weigh in with the PMA this fall, in which case there will be a huge batch of high end, security poor sheep ready to fleece.
That's an easy one - the fee is charged in all three cases, but for customers of the bank the fee is automatically refunded. QED. It's like not being allowed to charge a surcharge for Visa/MC transactions, so vendors jack the prices up 3% and then offer a discount for cash. (This has mostly ended as V/MC got wise and changed the wording to close that loophole, but governments are much slower to catch such things, and politicians are well paid to not close those loopholes)
It does seem a bit odd (or, perhaps, telling) to expect that the only value of a humanities PhD is to teach in the humanities. If that's the case, it follows that since the only value is internal, they may as well eliminate the program entirely.
Departments rarely monitor the performance of instruction themselves.
This is not a new problem, and teaching ability or efficacy - from what I've seen - has absolutely no bearing on granting tenure. Adjunct professors may not challenge students as much as tenured professors, but a large swath of tenured (and untenured) professors seem down right hostile to teaching classes, with many of the rest being indifferent. Research is what they enjoy, and what lines their pockets. Teaching is a necessary evil that, given a choice, they would eliminate entirely.
True, but Darth Vadar (or at least his voice) is the one hocking Verizon services. Once you pass those two, you have to decide whether it's worth having pretty sparse cell coverage (2nd tier carriers might be great in your town, but that's never guaranteed if you travel).
That's like golf courses. I've heard it said that a golf course needs to go bankrupt twice in order to become profitable. Satellite dev and launch is a very expensive business, as is golf course creation. I hope this works, but sat comm is still a tough service to bring to the masses.
It works well with several sources. For solar or wind, the demand is not driven by time - you fill what you can (sort of; this is smelting, which does penalize multiple startups). For nuclear, you could run as a continuous process as long as you had the demand for batteries and the alumina supply. In that case the lack peaking demand makes it conducive.
I don't know how efficient the conversion is. I suspect it's low compared to Li-ion recharging. Still, even if you paid double per Wh, it would be a great option to have for either long trips or emergency backup (range anxiety).
If they were to reduce the size to a manageable weight (and size) per piece - say 10 or 20kg - they could be purchased/installed in singles or groups and used individually (or in pairs, if needed to produce enough amperage), burned in sequence, and replaced as needed. For example, a car like the (dead) Aptera might only have two 20kg slots, and use one at a time if you ran the rechargeable down; if you bought an all-electric suburban, you might have a dozen 20kg slots, and it might use 4 or 6 "cells" in parallel to power that vehicle. One cell type and configuration which can be ganged for the expected demand. As you burn up your first cell/set, the indicator comes on and you swap them, while the car activates the next cell/set in the bank.
If this is just a backup for when you have a long trip or are unexpectedly out of power, it may not be that big a deal. Cars may come "batteries not included" and you can buy your own. If it costs you $100 to recharge your car from the power mains for 1800 miles, and it costs a $1200 "option" for the slots and $300 for a backup battery that will take you 1800 miles you're not going to use that backup on a regular basis. But if you have 3-6 long (out of range) trips a year, and it means only needing one car (vs a second gasoline engine car plus your electric commuter), all of a sudden it makes sense to do this instead of buying two cars, or renting a car for every long trip.
Batteries are generally referred to as primary or rechargable batteries. It has nothing to do with whether it is the primary source, but rather that is not rechargeable. This battery isn't rechargable in the traditional sense (run power through it backwards and it stores energy). It has to be remanufactured starting all the way back at the ore-reduction process (though simplified as there will be few impurities as there are with mined ore).
The rest is a bit ranty, though, I'd agree.
A criminal negligence statute that all reasonable protections against hacking must be taken to secure customer data or data which affects a countries national security. Applicable to specifically to any company officer. Make safety of data a priority.
The only part they overlooked was not that there wan't anyone in the middle of nowhere, but that most of the people in the middle of nowhere found $5/minute on a large, dedicated device a touch on the pricey side.
Their exclusive contracts with the existing infrastructure. Oh, we're an open town - I can change providers any time I like, but it requires moving to a new house.
That's great, except that most homes happen to have walls. It's like putting railroad tracks down to fix the problem of poor efficiency of rubber tired vehicles, only to find that the majority of cars don't have steel wheels, but rubber tires. But for those folks who have steel wheels, it's gonna be awesome!
My monitor is so black that I can't see any light at all (Dell IPS). Don't get me wrong, it's not black - at night, with all the lights off, it's clearly not completely black. However, since about 99.999% of my time in front of the computer is with some other form of illumination, or with some portion of the screen being light (and fouling my night vision). I find it hard to get really worked up over "good" blacks that aren't "perfect."
No it's not illegal, but it's also not really practical either. You will collect energy, but short of being right next to the transmitting antenna and fully surrounding it, you're going to get no more than the fractional area of the spherical surface (well, lobe pattern), which drops off pretty damned quickly. Quickly enough never to pay back the cost of the antenna, in all likelihood.
And, like you're neighbor's newspaper subscription, it may not cost you anything to read it, but just because someone else paid for it doesn't mean it's actually free.
You missed line three, which could be restated as "Won't someone think of the children" and is essentialy the same as what you wrote...
The message was almost the exact opposite of welcoming. It presented the picture of an epic national calamity, a whole country losing its grip on a cornerstone of civilization, the ability to read, and delivering the nation's youngsters into a life of limited horizons and to third world status at a time when the rest of the world is in strong ascendency.
To call the message merely bleak is a colossal understatement. Far from appealing to cuteness, it appealed directly to severe guilt and intense worry among all those who understand that the last generation put the gears of civilization in reverse.
None of this is news of course. The kickstarter succeeded so well because this very high profile problem has been worrying millions of people for many years.
If curved surfaces were optimal for viewing content, we would have transitioned to curved paintings and photos centuries or decades ago. But, it turns out, we're replicating a 3D space on a 2D surface. Whether than 2D is flat or curved makes little practical difference to the observer, but makes the manufacture and mounting of said piece a great deal less efficient,
The Magnificent Seven is $4.99 from Amazon (and that includes shipping if you're a Prime member), or it's $3.99 to rent it for 24 hours from iTunes. The BR disc re-sells for $4-8 on eBay, the iTunes purchase can't even be watched the second day.
Being the faithful /.er, I didn't read it either. I guess it depends on whether you have kids or not, and I would bet the authors don't, because if you have kids there is no possible way that streaming a movie 10000 times is more economical than buying the damned disc.
It means, as the poster alluded to FREE ENERGY. Though, as he says - it's not - because then we would call him a quack. He's just implying that 100-102% efficiency is possible when you synchronize the frequency of your input power source to the harmonic frequency of your target power consumption or device.
If you need a car analogy, it's like filling your gasoline tank in your car and marking down the mileage, and then checking to see how many miles you have gone when you fill up the next time. This is where the quantum effect also plays a role, because by simply never filling the tank all the way up, you'll get an infinite number of miles per gallon. Example: Fill tank at 12,400miles, partial fill 4 times, then complete fill of 8.26 gallons at 13,175 miles = (13,175-12,400)/8.26 = 93.8 miles per gallon. Once you fill up the tank and mark the mileage down, though, you've cut off your "harmonics" and you'll get a finite value. That's why it's not really "free energy" because to get free energy or over unity you would never be able fill up the car all the way. The longer you can go without completely filling the tank and triggering the measurement, the closer you are to matching the engine/gasoline fill harmonics. I've achieved well over 300mpg in my truck this way, but I've also got special magnets on my fuel line and installed an "open flow" regulator on the air intake, so there are other advantages which helped me achieve this which are unrelated to the harmonics.
The same thing applies to power - whether it be lightbulbs or networking equipment or freely spinning bicycle wheels, though in an entirely different way.
If my ideas are intriguing to you, I would be happy to subscribe you to my newsletter.
The lottery proceeds doesn't even dent the school budget, and with the remainder coming from the legislature it's really just a balancing act. With revenue growing slower than educational costs, the leg can still put more money into the system every year (so it doesn't look like they're using the lotto money to shore up the general fund) and still have the whole thing lose ground to educational inflation. And there's no way they would put that money on top of a "fully funded" school (ha!).
They use these because they're dirt cheap compared to building an entirely new school or renovating an old one. Schools are very expensive, mainly because parents want something prettier than is necessary, and architects like to spend money to create their "signature" look. Couple that with contractors who know what the budget for the school is and will either not bid (if it's too low) or "match the budget" if it's got a nice profit in it for them, and you have a recipe for the $200+/sf educational building of today.
But nobody wants to pay for it. Have you heard the banshee cries of builders when the city/county suggests a tariff on each new residence to cover the cost of a new school? You'd think they were going to cut off his dick and feed it to the hounds. But it's the new housing that brings the students and requires the expansion. It's rare that a place with no new houses has any meaningful increase in student population.
Howard County, Maryland does it right by putting caps on new residences at 105% of the school capacity (to allow for some flexibility). Once that cap is hit, no more building permits are issued until the school capacity is increased. Then, all of a sudden, it's in the builders' interests to find a way to get the money and land to build new facilities, no different than roads and sewers, and they seem to find the money and agree on a fee structure to pay for the new schools. But Texas will never do that, because it's anti-business.
I'm in the industry, and your idea actually does have merit. Even ignoring the red tape, like zoning, the building code requirements for commercial buildings is lower than for schools, so some simply are not acceptable for school use. Those that are will require extensive upfit to work for classrooms and educational spaces - it's not uncommon for the finishing of a commercial space to be 75% or more of the cost of the building (as compared to the "shell") and that doesn't include the need to strip the inside of the building even before the renovation starts. And schools are all-or-nothing; it's very hard to have some classrooms on a remote campus which is more than 5-10 minutes from the main school. Which means you need a gym, locker rooms, and cafeteria space in addition to classrooms (at a minimum).
The other problem is ownership. Many of the owners of those buildings (at least in my town), seem to think they're absolute castles of perfection. They'll never sell them below a "market" value, and that value would anticipate a profitable commercial establishment using it to generate revenue. The city can't just take over the buildings, because somebody owns them. You can't simply change the zoning of an area, and in many places changing the zoning of a specific plot of land is illegal (called "spot zoning"). They can make the owner fix it up or tear it down if it becomes a hazard, but you can imagine how helpful that owner is going to want to be if the same city that just told him he needs to invest several hundred thousand dollars turns around and wants to buy it from him or lease space.