I've been fascinated by holograms for decades and read a couple of pseudo-scientific books on the subject but that was many years ago. Is there a future for holography or have we moved beyond the umbrella concept into more application-specific development?
"Coal is a disaster for air quality" is a generalization but is generally true. There is a definite cost/benefit analysis and at some point coal will fall below the threshold. I propose that nuclear be the tipper some day but I may be dreaming. America had two entire generations grow up believing that we would be either vaporized or mutated by anything radioactive. Meanwhile the damn Frogs are making most of their power from the stuff.
I will grant that I may be up to 1.1% wrong in my statement. The linked chart HERE indicates that up to 1.1% of electricity is generated by "Petrolium". Graph data is represented as such: Coal 48.2% Petroleum 1.1% Natural Gas 21.4% Other Gases 0.3% Nuclear 19.6% Hydroelectric Conventional 6.0% Other Renewables 3.1% Other 0.3%
It is true that you CAN produce fuel oil with which to heat a home, and thereby supplant the need for electricity in that home, from crude oil. This is, however, one of the lowest ROI products of a commodity that you've gone to all the trouble of carting around the globe (or at least across the border). I submit that little or none of that 1.1% of electricity generated by petroleum was imported. The cost factor simply nets out better when you sell whatever commodity you produce to the highest-paying consumer, which would mean you're going to be selling that imported commodity to a wholesaler at markup, not a power station. My understanding is that natural gas plants use petroleum as a primer. If someone has a link regarding this hit us up. Otherwise I'm betting that this petroleum that is being consumed is byproduct and made in the USA my friends.
I love the suggestion that these turbines somehow reduce our dependence on foreign oil. We don't use any foreign oil whatsoever to generate electricity. Sorry Mr. Salazar.
Imagine all the money! Awesome that future technologies like wind energy only cost gobs more than all those technologies of the past. Even the article suggests that cost/kwh will go up for consumers. These are being built on subsidized contracts, of course, because the only thing that would make THIS project (not all wind projects) doable is massive cash injections from the feds. Still, with the low cost of "fossil" fuel and the billions of other products (you can't make plastics out of air power) that rely on oil, there is no way that wind and oil even exist in the same product category. Salazar's claim that this will contribute to "America's energy independence" is an empty claim since the energy that is generated by these windfarms will replace exactly zero percent of imported energy! Also, the article lauds this as a green jobs boon which, of course, has been repeatedly disproven a-la Spain's booming "Green/d" economy.
To preserve battery you can also use bluetooth to tether your devices... or just use USB. Bluetooth SHOULD save battery life. Not the highest performance for local file transfers but your internet connection is still the choke point, not the BT.
I don't believe that phones are artificially slowed but can tell you that the data should be limited only by the bandwidth of the connection technology (GPRS/Edge/HSPA/Etc.) If you were to aggregate multiple devices/data streams (make the cell you're connected to THINK that you were multiple devices) you could increase your bandwidth... theoretically.
Simply maintaining a HSDPA connection is hard on a battery. You can configure your cellular radio software for optimal data transport, don't know how effective that is either or what it does to the voice signal.
I'm not saying "don't use WMWiFiRouter"... it's a cool product that manages several features of WM.
Yep, the only problem is that technically you're breaking the terms of most contracts by using the data service with other devices.
Of course, this should stop no one.
Also, I would encourage anyone who would even consider BUYING a software add-on that permits tethering to make a quick jaunt over to xda-developers.com and flash a new ROM onto your device that will give you that native functionality of Windows Mobile (5 and 6 both have internet connection sharing native in the OS) but will also give you better performance and features than your phone vendor would ever care for you to have access to.
ALSO, you can tether using bluetooth, so as long as your phone is on you can get to the internet from your other bluetooth-enabled devices like your netbook or laptop and without all the battery drain of provisional 802.X wifi.
It's just crazy that phone companies would create this "device" to charge you for what you've already got in your pocket.
If you've got a WM phone do yourself a favor and log in to xda-developers.com.
Whenever you find an unlocked wireless signal it's best practice to lock it down for the owner. Sure, this limits their ability to access it, but you can assume they have access to the reset switch. Whenever possible you can access a network print resource and print the password for them.
He's not a developer, he doesn't even work on cell phones. When he said "application" he's thinking of "cell phones" as an application for the material they're designing. I, on the other hand, am thinking of "shape-shifting robotic beer can" as an application.
I feel as though I just wasted an additional entire minute and a half re-reading this review for content... It appears as though this is a "review" of a book about iTouch software development. iWouldn't eRead this rEview.
Book: The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot
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The Universe As Hologram
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· Score: 2, Informative
It's actually a challenging and inspiring read. The holographic principles of interference fields present an incredible perspective on the world we live in. It touches on spirituality, string theory, and quantum physics as well as good old material science.
MUST READ! Amazon Link Here
Oh, I am by no means attempting to validate usage of the alleged "word" disorientate. I just find it amusing that it's even in the dictionary. I guess I find it even more amusing that it appears in the headline of a slackdot. As I mentioned immediately after the first post, this is a total "college idiot" word, the mere fact that someone could make the jump from orient to orientate is pretty terrible. Then to go so far as to use DISorientate... it's either ebonics or a PhD talking.:)
I had meant to mention that "orientated" is my favorite college idiot word. Too bad that it's terribly underused these days. Ever since "whatnot" started making the rounds "orientated" has fallen back out of favor.
Yeah, I had the same experience when it was released, unofficially, last week. I assumed that, since I already installed 7b6, it was trying to install over the previous installation and kept failing. I went to uninstall 7b6 and it informed me that I had installed it with a different user account and that I would have to log in as that user in order to uninstall it... Yeah, like that's going to happen... like I have all this time to close my current projects, figure out which user it was installed under, then log in and uninstall it, then relog into my current account and install the current release.
So maybe you installed a 7b version as well? Let me know if this actually has nothing to do with the install failure for you.
Yay! Someone who uses my technique... In the basement at work I once destroyed over a terrabyte in 8Gig drives out of our SAN array. This was, of course, after overwriting all the data with zeroes. We were closing up shop and, as much as I wanted to sneak one of the SANs home and use it on my workgroup... I promised the owner that no one would ever be able to get the data.
SMASH SMASH SMASH
Then into a garbage can and directly to the transfer station.
As much as I tend to disdain the very novelty of redhook beers and patently despise the evil empire that Howard Shultz begat I can say without hesitation that Double Black was one of the better middle-of-the-road too-sweet porters out there and it was ONLY the bitterness of harbucks' over-roasted (they call it "full city") mcdonald's-coffee-for-three-dollars-a-cup beans that made the bland sweetness of yet another redhook underachiever stand up and say hello. I mean, the only beverage I hate more than Redhook beer is Starbucks coffee... but this stuff was pretty tolerable.
To take only a small tangent, did you know that the now world famous "full city" starbucks roast is the result of an ever-increasing demand for espresso-quality beans? Turns out that starbucks buys so many boatloads of coffee every year that they no longer bother much with traditional coffee plantations and now specialize in converting any massive coffee crop into either House Blend or Espresso Roast? You see, when you sell more coffee than Folgers and Maxwell House it means that, guess what, you don't get quality, you only get quantity! How to compensate for a decidedly lower quality bean? Burn it just a little more than the other guy and call it your signature roast. How you call it a signature roast when there are no human roasters at the plant any more is beyond me. I but you didn't know that either! Robots make starbucks coffee. Oh, and it tastes exactly like dog shit which is why no one has ordered an actual "espresso" at starbucks in nearly 14 years. I'm surprised they even have it on the menu. "Oh, do you want that con pana (because otherwise you can taste the feces)?" Also, who are you retards who order a "viente" latte? Did you know that baby cows don't drink that much milk in one day? And you're having one with a feckin' currant scone? Oh, sorry, make that a viente latte with sugar free chocolate squeezins. Aaaaaargh... I HATE YOU! Get back in your Touareg and die.
No, seriously, I don't think you can mod this troll. This "article" is pulled from some sort of promotional flier or something. Not only is there a complete lack of any type of criticism but there's no hint as to what sorts of infrastructure would really be required to implement this "thing". I'm all for supporting the sciences and research and hey, I'm even psyched for the eventual advent of hydrogen or other yet unnamed types of personal transportation, but this piece makes it sound like a done deal when there's nothing at all in the article to make any judgement about...
...other than the fact that the fuel coil will be 3 TIMES THE WEIGHT OF A CONVENTIONAL PETROL TANK.
They may be "developing" but they have more people with college degrees than we do.
The problem is the inherent instablity due to their location in the world and their monsterous underclass. Let's employ them but it will still be a while before we can trust them with our precious consumer data... Oh, what the hell am I saying???
I have to say that this article is short on news and long on nearly-obsolete acronyms. I think this may be the state of WiFi from a few years ago. Nothing wrong with wrapping up some of the general concepts, as this article seems to do, but perhaps it could be included in the next SLASHBACK?
Slashdot Mirror
Where's Jimmy?
What is holographic storage and how does it work?
I've been fascinated by holograms for decades and read a couple of pseudo-scientific books on the subject but that was many years ago. Is there a future for holography or have we moved beyond the umbrella concept into more application-specific development?
Thank you Dr. Bad (or BA?)
"Coal is a disaster for air quality" is a generalization but is generally true.
There is a definite cost/benefit analysis and at some point coal will fall below the threshold. I propose that nuclear be the tipper some day but I may be dreaming. America had two entire generations grow up believing that we would be either vaporized or mutated by anything radioactive. Meanwhile the damn Frogs are making most of their power from the stuff.
I will grant that I may be up to 1.1% wrong in my statement.
The linked chart HERE indicates that up to 1.1% of electricity is generated by "Petrolium".
Graph data is represented as such:
Coal 48.2%
Petroleum 1.1%
Natural Gas 21.4%
Other Gases 0.3%
Nuclear 19.6%
Hydroelectric Conventional 6.0%
Other Renewables 3.1%
Other 0.3%
It is true that you CAN produce fuel oil with which to heat a home, and thereby supplant the need for electricity in that home, from crude oil. This is, however, one of the lowest ROI products of a commodity that you've gone to all the trouble of carting around the globe (or at least across the border).
I submit that little or none of that 1.1% of electricity generated by petroleum was imported. The cost factor simply nets out better when you sell whatever commodity you produce to the highest-paying consumer, which would mean you're going to be selling that imported commodity to a wholesaler at markup, not a power station. My understanding is that natural gas plants use petroleum as a primer. If someone has a link regarding this hit us up. Otherwise I'm betting that this petroleum that is being consumed is byproduct and made in the USA my friends.
I love the suggestion that these turbines somehow reduce our dependence on foreign oil. We don't use any foreign oil whatsoever to generate electricity. Sorry Mr. Salazar.
Imagine all the money! Awesome that future technologies like wind energy only cost gobs more than all those technologies of the past. Even the article suggests that cost/kwh will go up for consumers. These are being built on subsidized contracts, of course, because the only thing that would make THIS project (not all wind projects) doable is massive cash injections from the feds. Still, with the low cost of "fossil" fuel and the billions of other products (you can't make plastics out of air power) that rely on oil, there is no way that wind and oil even exist in the same product category. Salazar's claim that this will contribute to "America's energy independence" is an empty claim since the energy that is generated by these windfarms will replace exactly zero percent of imported energy! Also, the article lauds this as a green jobs boon which, of course, has been repeatedly disproven a-la Spain's booming "Green/d" economy.
Just to have internet access for my DSi or PSP.
FYI, you can do the same thing with any WM6 cell phone AND you don't pay for the service, assuming you already have a data plan. Do the math!
xda-developers.com
To preserve battery you can also use bluetooth to tether your devices... or just use USB. Bluetooth SHOULD save battery life. Not the highest performance for local file transfers but your internet connection is still the choke point, not the BT.
I don't believe that phones are artificially slowed but can tell you that the data should be limited only by the bandwidth of the connection technology (GPRS/Edge/HSPA/Etc.) If you were to aggregate multiple devices/data streams (make the cell you're connected to THINK that you were multiple devices) you could increase your bandwidth... theoretically.
Simply maintaining a HSDPA connection is hard on a battery. You can configure your cellular radio software for optimal data transport, don't know how effective that is either or what it does to the voice signal.
I'm not saying "don't use WMWiFiRouter"... it's a cool product that manages several features of WM.
Yep, the only problem is that technically you're breaking the terms of most contracts by using the data service with other devices.
Of course, this should stop no one.
Also, I would encourage anyone who would even consider BUYING a software add-on that permits tethering to make a quick jaunt over to xda-developers.com and flash a new ROM onto your device that will give you that native functionality of Windows Mobile (5 and 6 both have internet connection sharing native in the OS) but will also give you better performance and features than your phone vendor would ever care for you to have access to.
ALSO, you can tether using bluetooth, so as long as your phone is on you can get to the internet from your other bluetooth-enabled devices like your netbook or laptop and without all the battery drain of provisional 802.X wifi.
It's just crazy that phone companies would create this "device" to charge you for what you've already got in your pocket.
If you've got a WM phone do yourself a favor and log in to xda-developers.com.
Whenever you find an unlocked wireless signal it's best practice to lock it down for the owner.
Sure, this limits their ability to access it, but you can assume they have access to the reset switch.
Whenever possible you can access a network print resource and print the password for them.
He's not a developer, he doesn't even work on cell phones. When he said "application" he's thinking of "cell phones" as an application for the material they're designing. I, on the other hand, am thinking of "shape-shifting robotic beer can" as an application.
Don't forget where you are...
I feel as though I just wasted an additional entire minute and a half re-reading this review for content...
It appears as though this is a "review" of a book about iTouch software development.
iWouldn't eRead this rEview.
It's actually a challenging and inspiring read. The holographic principles of interference fields present an incredible perspective on the world we live in. It touches on spirituality, string theory, and quantum physics as well as good old material science.
MUST READ!
Amazon Link Here
2. "Change Toner" is not an encrypted message
also, I would add (predictably):
0. Reboot it
Oh, I am by no means attempting to validate usage of the alleged "word" disorientate. :)
I just find it amusing that it's even in the dictionary. I guess I find it even more amusing that it appears in the headline of a slackdot. As I mentioned immediately after the first post, this is a total "college idiot" word, the mere fact that someone could make the jump from orient to orientate is pretty terrible. Then to go so far as to use DISorientate... it's either ebonics or a PhD talking.
Yeah, I know, preview first...
I had meant to mention that "orientated" is my favorite college idiot word.
Too bad that it's terribly underused these days. Ever since "whatnot" started making the rounds "orientated" has fallen back out of favor.
http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?sourceid =Mozilla-search&va=disorientate
Yeah, I had the same experience when it was released, unofficially, last week. I assumed that, since I already installed 7b6, it was trying to install over the previous installation and kept failing. I went to uninstall 7b6 and it informed me that I had installed it with a different user account and that I would have to log in as that user in order to uninstall it... Yeah, like that's going to happen... like I have all this time to close my current projects, figure out which user it was installed under, then log in and uninstall it, then relog into my current account and install the current release.
So maybe you installed a 7b version as well? Let me know if this actually has nothing to do with the install failure for you.
Gracias,
Brandon
Yay! Someone who uses my technique... In the basement at work I once destroyed over a terrabyte in 8Gig drives out of our SAN array. This was, of course, after overwriting all the data with zeroes. We were closing up shop and, as much as I wanted to sneak one of the SANs home and use it on my workgroup... I promised the owner that no one would ever be able to get the data.
SMASH SMASH SMASH
Then into a garbage can and directly to the transfer station.
"that's some good shootin' boys"
Okay, so I only read the headline...
As much as I tend to disdain the very novelty of redhook beers and patently despise the evil empire that Howard Shultz begat I can say without hesitation that Double Black was one of the better middle-of-the-road too-sweet porters out there and it was ONLY the bitterness of harbucks' over-roasted (they call it "full city") mcdonald's-coffee-for-three-dollars-a-cup beans that made the bland sweetness of yet another redhook underachiever stand up and say hello. I mean, the only beverage I hate more than Redhook beer is Starbucks coffee... but this stuff was pretty tolerable.
To take only a small tangent, did you know that the now world famous "full city" starbucks roast is the result of an ever-increasing demand for espresso-quality beans? Turns out that starbucks buys so many boatloads of coffee every year that they no longer bother much with traditional coffee plantations and now specialize in converting any massive coffee crop into either House Blend or Espresso Roast? You see, when you sell more coffee than Folgers and Maxwell House it means that, guess what, you don't get quality, you only get quantity! How to compensate for a decidedly lower quality bean? Burn it just a little more than the other guy and call it your signature roast. How you call it a signature roast when there are no human roasters at the plant any more is beyond me. I but you didn't know that either! Robots make starbucks coffee. Oh, and it tastes exactly like dog shit which is why no one has ordered an actual "espresso" at starbucks in nearly 14 years. I'm surprised they even have it on the menu. "Oh, do you want that con pana (because otherwise you can taste the feces)?" Also, who are you retards who order a "viente" latte? Did you know that baby cows don't drink that much milk in one day? And you're having one with a feckin' currant scone? Oh, sorry, make that a viente latte with sugar free chocolate squeezins. Aaaaaargh... I HATE YOU! Get back in your Touareg and die.
Next week's rant:
Volkswagen
No, seriously, I don't think you can mod this troll. This "article" is pulled from some sort of promotional flier or something. Not only is there a complete lack of any type of criticism but there's no hint as to what sorts of infrastructure would really be required to implement this "thing". I'm all for supporting the sciences and research and hey, I'm even psyched for the eventual advent of hydrogen or other yet unnamed types of personal transportation, but this piece makes it sound like a done deal when there's nothing at all in the article to make any judgement about...
...other than the fact that the fuel coil will be 3 TIMES THE WEIGHT OF A CONVENTIONAL PETROL TANK.
Off topic but interesting on the current/impending SUV boom in Euroville...
India has the largest middle class in the world.
They may be "developing" but they have more people with college degrees than we do.
The problem is the inherent instablity due to their location in the world and their monsterous underclass. Let's employ them but it will still be a while before we can trust them with our precious consumer data... Oh, what the hell am I saying???
I have to say that this article is short on news and long on nearly-obsolete acronyms. I think this may be the state of WiFi from a few years ago. Nothing wrong with wrapping up some of the general concepts, as this article seems to do, but perhaps it could be included in the next SLASHBACK?