I'm waiting for something like a cross between an iPhone and a laptop. About 6" x 6". About one pound. Fits in a coat pocket. More fit for reading web pages. Solid-state drive. Working voice-recognition highly-desirable. Intelligently (adaptively) pre-fetches daily content based on preferences. WiMax.
An intelligent, non-fiddley little info monkey that requires a minimum of attention and stays current. Knows what you want, knows where to get it, learns your priorities. When you ask for something, 90% of the time it's already on-board. When you have to wait, it plays a selection from your all-time top 100 whatever. Apologizes profusely when it fucks up.
That's a stupid quote, often abused by people excusing their cynicism. Who cares about the appeal to the authority of Winnie?
If you're not a conservative by the time you're 40, congratulations. You whipped the pressure to become a greedy bitch in your slovenly old age, triumphed over the typical decline into selfish cynicism, and recognized that the future of humanity lies in universal compassion and justice.
Logic Studio is a great professional solution for editing audio...
Logic Studio is a professional solution. I guarantee you it's not a great solution. Maybe in a few more years.
The 300,000 year hypothesis isn't widely supported.
"Many scientists reject Keller's analysis, some arguing that the 10 meter (32.8 ft) layer on top of the impact spherules should be attributed to tsunami activity resulting from impact. Few researchers support Keller's dating of the impact crater." -- Wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-T_boundary
I've liked the idea of electric vehicles for a long time, but not without new generating capacity. Conventional thermal energy is not very efficient. And, while it'd be nice, it may be a while before people start dropping square-kilometers of solar capacity around the countryside.
Too, massive growth in the use of large banks of batteries will lead to new problems with heavy-metal mining and disposal.
So when very high efficiency fuel-cells (particularly a factor of ten cheaper) show up, they'd probably be preferable to all-electric cars... especially if they burn low-carbon fuels.
This isn't Bush's fault.
Nothing is Bush's fault. He'd have to be able to understand what's being done over his signature for it to be his fault. Perfect Tool... like his most vociferous supporters.
"Liberal" nanny-state? You can still say shit like that after the last 7 years? I think you're just peddling disinfo. Because "liberal" people believe in freedom to experiment, so long as noone is being hurt by that experimentation. Whereas totalitarian assholes, like the ones that are pretending to govern us while they rob us blind, fear knowledge because it lets people see through their ruses.
Funny how the slogan-peddling people who rail against "liberals" alla time how SO VERY LITTLE idea what they're talking about -- including the principles which they profess to adhere to.
Before I gave up holding out for CD prices to get lower, I collected vinyl for 20 years. I also spent 6 years working as a radio DJ playing vinyl records -- thousands of them -- owned by radio stations.
IF your turntable is properly adjusted and IF it doesn't contribute much wow, flutter or rumble and IF the audio chain is properly equalized and noise-free and IF the audio amplifier is decent quality and IF the vinyl is new and IF it's kept reasonably (never completely) free of dust and scratches and pizza crumbs and hand grease and IF the recording has no manufacturing defects...
THEN the occasional record will, for the first few plays, sound as good or better than a CD. Maybe.
But DESPITE THE KNOWN REAL-WORLD PERFORMANCE of vinyl, some people will continue to pay more for less, because digital pollutes their bodily fluids. They'll learn the hard way about those little accidental scratches that you'll listen to for the life of the record that -- like tube hiss and bias -- the purists call "ambience", "warmth", etc.
Not to mention the day that your best friend trips over the dog and snaps the needle outta the cartridge and, once again, you learn that vinyl is best for *very finicky and cautious* people with *lots of money*.
Am I the only one tired of hearing every problem... even easily surmountable ones... referred to as a "crisis"??
Crisis: "a time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger"
Not enough routers is an *intense* difficulty? Uhhhh... how about shifting Youtube use to after-business-hours only? How about routing phone calls through wired telephone networks?
"Crisis" solved?
"The person operating the technology"... A stick, a rock, a screwdriver, all tools. Can I kill somebody with a screwdriver? A Glock, on the other hand, is designed for a reason.
The better a tool is a doing crime, the more we need to ask: who designed it and why?
Do computers make some crimes easier? Yeah. But they also make detecting and preventing crimes easier. They're general-purpose tools.
Nothing has changed in 2000 years about how much character it takes to avoid criminality. So if there's more crime, there's less instilling or more unbridled greed.
I'd blame the latter. Leadership sets the example.
"somebody (possibly giant alien lizards) who are deliberately trying to ruin the country?" Yeah. I started wondering that about three years ago.
Then I discovered the words of Grover Norquist**, and now -- after studying the 2006 GOA report that our total obligations exceed $50 trillion -- feel certain that they are intent on ruining the US.
They're aliens too, from a small planet called "Cretonia", which orbits an extremely dense neutron star in the constellation "Tres Stoogiana". According to my information, they learned everything they know about intelligent life by intercepting Monte Python sketches on the way here. Watch the facial expressions closely for verification.
-- ** "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
If they want him to "save the record business", the first thing they better do is lose the RIAA, and stop manufacturing that huge steaming pile of bad will.
The industry's refusal to get into digital sales online was criminally stupid. Everyone told them that, and they just dug in. They're a brontosaurus standing on its head.
We now know how they always worked; the truth is out there. You can feel it all over. If we ever did, we don't *need* them any more. We don't like them any more, and we don't like the homogenizing and genericizing of the sound. Artists need them for one thing only: marketing.Since they've been worse than useless for decades, they'll need a lot of re-org and a lot of giveaways and a lot of goodwill-mending to survive.
I don't think they can; I hope they can't. Good riddance. I haven't bought a new RIAA product in five years; I won't pay $20 for a record I bought 20 years ago either. Personally I'll smile every time one of them buys it. They had their chance, and they gave us the finger.
If you insist on holding onto an attitude like that, you may actually stand a chance of discovering something significant, instead of adding a digit or two of precision to some theory....
Right on about the humility; right on about missing huge qualifiers. Thanks for the fresh air.
Obviously, any drugs found can't be tied to any specific user, but how much longer until the drug warriors want to deploy automatic sampling units farther upstream?
"TVA gets about 60 percent of its electricity from coal-fired power plants, 30 percent from nuclear plants and 10 percent from its 29 hydroelectric dams. Renewable energy sources such as wind and solar account for less than 1 percent."
That was their choice. Now it's clear that wasn't such a good choice. TVA is one leg of the old dinosaur. Sounds like gangrene is setting in.
Well gosh. Here it is a day later, and Diebold is trying to skulk into staying in business by changing its name.
Don't worry Diebold, the word will spread FAST.
Huh. Gosh. See, if we'd invested in a MIX of power instead of depending so heavily on coal and nuclear (which the industry is trying to bump up in significance), we wouldn't be facing such a predicament.
Germany has wisely seen fit to invest one-seventh of its power money in wind energy. And it has legislated, and many Germnans have benefited for years already, from a solar-energy subsidy.
Too bad we don't have uncorrupted, uncronyed leadership in the US with the courage and vision to diversify the energy portfolio. Pay now or pay MUCH MUCH more later.
Nuke-lovers are always griping that wind-energy is too unreliable. Huh, guess what?
If they didn't worry about in the 60s, when all the teachers could read and write, labor unions were strong, being liberal wasn't a stain, and we were up against another superpower... and they assuredly didn't, unless you had the do-re-mi... no one should expect it to happen this time and this country.
It's not about genius, it's about money and the illusion of power. You must be thinking about 2 or 3 centuries down the road. "Shape of Things To Come."
You're exactly right. There is no technical reason a wide, tall, flat 1.5 vdc battery can't be made. But they won't until people refuse to buy such products.
But then there's no reason a phone can't have a simple jack added to support an external battery pack. Technically, this is trivial. A great opening for someone to exploit... if they can get the phone open without ruining it.
Apart from that, the average consumer can shop carefully for products that don't involve propietary power solutions. Buy, for example, digital cameras that use AA battery packs. That kind of shopping takes work, but, as I see it, the alternative is being victimized.
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I'm waiting for something like a cross between an iPhone and a laptop. About 6" x 6". About one pound. Fits in a coat pocket. More fit for reading web pages. Solid-state drive. Working voice-recognition highly-desirable. Intelligently (adaptively) pre-fetches daily content based on preferences. WiMax.
An intelligent, non-fiddley little info monkey that requires a minimum of attention and stays current. Knows what you want, knows where to get it, learns your priorities. When you ask for something, 90% of the time it's already on-board. When you have to wait, it plays a selection from your all-time top 100 whatever. Apologizes profusely when it fucks up.
I'm way over 40, and Gene Simmons had nothing to say way back when he *was* selling.
Slagger sounds like Ted Nugent innnit?
That's a stupid quote, often abused by people excusing their cynicism. Who cares about the appeal to the authority of Winnie?
If you're not a conservative by the time you're 40, congratulations. You whipped the pressure to become a greedy bitch in your slovenly old age, triumphed over the typical decline into selfish cynicism, and recognized that the future of humanity lies in universal compassion and justice.
Fuck Churchill. And his fat stinking cigar.
My inner swarm tells me to suspect the validity of this concept when applied to educated individuals running free-will simulations.
Not to mention my inner hippy.
I just went to Google to convert 45 EeV to about 7 watt-seconds.
.02 amps at 2 volts, or .04 watts. The energy of that one particle would keep it lit for 7/.04 seconds ... nearly 3 minutes!
A little red LED needs
Logic Studio is a great professional solution for editing audio... Logic Studio is a professional solution. I guarantee you it's not a great solution. Maybe in a few more years.
The 300,000 year hypothesis isn't widely supported.
... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-T_boundary
"Many scientists reject Keller's analysis, some arguing that the 10 meter (32.8 ft) layer on top of the impact spherules should be attributed to tsunami activity resulting from impact. Few researchers support Keller's dating of the impact crater." -- Wikipedia
I've liked the idea of electric vehicles for a long time, but not without new generating capacity. Conventional thermal energy is not very efficient. And, while it'd be nice, it may be a while before people start dropping square-kilometers of solar capacity around the countryside.
... especially if they burn low-carbon fuels.
Too, massive growth in the use of large banks of batteries will lead to new problems with heavy-metal mining and disposal.
So when very high efficiency fuel-cells (particularly a factor of ten cheaper) show up, they'd probably be preferable to all-electric cars
Obviously Mr. Smith saw what happened in "I Robot", and doesn't want anything to do with it.
This isn't Bush's fault. Nothing is Bush's fault. He'd have to be able to understand what's being done over his signature for it to be his fault. Perfect Tool ... like his most vociferous supporters.
"Liberal" nanny-state? You can still say shit like that after the last 7 years? I think you're just peddling disinfo. Because "liberal" people believe in freedom to experiment, so long as noone is being hurt by that experimentation. Whereas totalitarian assholes, like the ones that are pretending to govern us while they rob us blind, fear knowledge because it lets people see through their ruses.
Funny how the slogan-peddling people who rail against "liberals" alla time how SO VERY LITTLE idea what they're talking about -- including the principles which they profess to adhere to.
Before I gave up holding out for CD prices to get lower, I collected vinyl for 20 years. I also spent 6 years working as a radio DJ playing vinyl records -- thousands of them -- owned by radio stations.
...
IF your turntable is properly adjusted and IF it doesn't contribute much wow, flutter or rumble and IF the audio chain is properly equalized and noise-free and IF the audio amplifier is decent quality and IF the vinyl is new and IF it's kept reasonably (never completely) free of dust and scratches and pizza crumbs and hand grease and IF the recording has no manufacturing defects
THEN the occasional record will, for the first few plays, sound as good or better than a CD. Maybe.
But DESPITE THE KNOWN REAL-WORLD PERFORMANCE of vinyl, some people will continue to pay more for less, because digital pollutes their bodily fluids. They'll learn the hard way about those little accidental scratches that you'll listen to for the life of the record that -- like tube hiss and bias -- the purists call "ambience", "warmth", etc.
Not to mention the day that your best friend trips over the dog and snaps the needle outta the cartridge and, once again, you learn that vinyl is best for *very finicky and cautious* people with *lots of money*.
Am I the only one tired of hearing every problem ... even easily surmountable ones ... referred to as a "crisis"??
Crisis: "a time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger"
Not enough routers is an *intense* difficulty? Uhhhh ... how about shifting Youtube use to after-business-hours only? How about routing phone calls through wired telephone networks?
"Crisis" solved?
"The person operating the technology" ... A stick, a rock, a screwdriver, all tools. Can I kill somebody with a screwdriver? A Glock, on the other hand, is designed for a reason.
The better a tool is a doing crime, the more we need to ask: who designed it and why?
Do computers make some crimes easier? Yeah. But they also make detecting and preventing crimes easier. They're general-purpose tools.
Nothing has changed in 2000 years about how much character it takes to avoid criminality. So if there's more crime, there's less instilling or more unbridled greed.
I'd blame the latter. Leadership sets the example.
"somebody (possibly giant alien lizards) who are deliberately trying to ruin the country?"
Yeah. I started wondering that about three years ago.
Then I discovered the words of Grover Norquist**, and now -- after studying the 2006 GOA report that our total obligations exceed $50 trillion -- feel certain that they are intent on ruining the US.
They're aliens too, from a small planet called "Cretonia", which orbits an extremely dense neutron star in the constellation "Tres Stoogiana". According to my information, they learned everything they know about intelligent life by intercepting Monte Python sketches on the way here. Watch the facial expressions closely for verification.
--
** "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
If they want him to "save the record business", the first thing they better do is lose the RIAA, and stop manufacturing that huge steaming pile of bad will.
The industry's refusal to get into digital sales online was criminally stupid. Everyone told them that, and they just dug in. They're a brontosaurus standing on its head.
We now know how they always worked; the truth is out there. You can feel it all over. If we ever did, we don't *need* them any more. We don't like them any more, and we don't like the homogenizing and genericizing of the sound. Artists need them for one thing only: marketing.Since they've been worse than useless for decades, they'll need a lot of re-org and a lot of giveaways and a lot of goodwill-mending to survive.
I don't think they can; I hope they can't. Good riddance. I haven't bought a new RIAA product in five years; I won't pay $20 for a record I bought 20 years ago either. Personally I'll smile every time one of them buys it. They had their chance, and they gave us the finger.
If you insist on holding onto an attitude like that, you may actually stand a chance of discovering something significant, instead of adding a digit or two of precision to some theory....
Right on about the humility; right on about missing huge qualifiers. Thanks for the fresh air.
Obviously, any drugs found can't be tied to any specific user, but how much longer until the drug warriors want to deploy automatic sampling units farther upstream?
Who gives a shit? Piss on teh dirt.
Next week: drug warriors take aim at the Sun.
"TVA gets about 60 percent of its electricity from coal-fired power plants, 30 percent from nuclear plants and 10 percent from its 29 hydroelectric dams. Renewable energy sources such as wind and solar account for less than 1 percent."
That was their choice. Now it's clear that wasn't such a good choice.
TVA is one leg of the old dinosaur. Sounds like gangrene is setting in.
Well gosh. Here it is a day later, and Diebold is trying to skulk into staying in business by changing its name. Don't worry Diebold, the word will spread FAST.
Huh. Gosh. See, if we'd invested in a MIX of power instead of depending so heavily on coal and nuclear (which the industry is trying to bump up in significance), we wouldn't be facing such a predicament.
Germany has wisely seen fit to invest one-seventh of its power money in wind energy. And it has legislated, and many Germnans have benefited for years already, from a solar-energy subsidy.
Too bad we don't have uncorrupted, uncronyed leadership in the US with the courage and vision to diversify the energy portfolio. Pay now or pay MUCH MUCH more later.
Nuke-lovers are always griping that wind-energy is too unreliable. Huh, guess what?
Perhaps Diebold could be encouraged to "do the right thing" with a "Diebold -- Made In Ohio" campaign.
If they didn't worry about in the 60s, when all the teachers could read and write, labor unions were strong, being liberal wasn't a stain, and we were up against another superpower ... and they assuredly didn't, unless you had the do-re-mi ... no one should expect it to happen this time and this country.
It's not about genius, it's about money and the illusion of power. You must be thinking about 2 or 3 centuries down the road. "Shape of Things To Come."
Maybe the thieves are planning to hold the rock hostage until the wreckage of the alien spacecraft is released.
You're exactly right. There is no technical reason a wide, tall, flat 1.5 vdc battery can't be made. But they won't until people refuse to buy such products.
... if they can get the phone open without ruining it.
But then there's no reason a phone can't have a simple jack added to support an external battery pack. Technically, this is trivial. A great opening for someone to exploit
Apart from that, the average consumer can shop carefully for products that don't involve propietary power solutions. Buy, for example, digital cameras that use AA battery packs. That kind of shopping takes work, but, as I see it, the alternative is being victimized.