The problem with solar power conversion has always been the high Total Cost of Ownership. You have to figure the cost of the real estate these items sit on, versus what other purposes the land could be used for.
In the case of other power technologies, the land use is relatively concentrated. Mines, transport routes, powerplants, refineries, etc. don't take up nearly as much space. In a number of cases the land surface can be used for dual purposes, as in ranging cattle on scrub land sitting on top of an oil patch, or growing crops on reclaim land.
There is cheap land available for this, but it's often located some distance from the use points, and energy doesn't store well and transport is expensive. Figure in the TCO of building that intertie to your solar farm in the middle of nowhere, and the pickings start looking a lot smaller.
No regulation, three telecomms companies managed by what is probably a collusion monopoly, civil strife, no taxes, crumbling physical infrastructure, cheap labor, clannish minimally industrialised society, and a chance to live the bwana lifestyle?
Woohoo! I'm off! Got my ticket already. I'm sick up to here with bleeding regulatory commissions rate findings. No more of this namby-pamby court-mandated be-a-nice-telco manure. I could get some REAL billing done there, let me tell you. Probably none of those pesky monetary exchange rules, either. Want that cell phone? Well, then fast up with it, son, in hard currency or goods. I'm not picky...
available to most theatre managers and projectionists. After all, when you pay all your staff the same minimum wage, there has to be some compensation for putting up with the extra BS.
The film canisters or DVDs, etc, goes out the back door sometime after the last show, ends up at a film/video dubbing chain somewhere (usually one of the smaller local broadasting outfits) with the admonishment that "that has to be back here by morning..."
Compensation accepted in the form of legal or illegal tender, upon transfer at the shipping door. Not that I would know, or anything.
These people produce antibiotics, which they dump into their environment. Some bacteria die because of this. Some bacteria live and reproduce in their new environment.
These bacteria produce toxins, which they dump into their environment. Some people die because of this. Some people live and reproduce in their new environment.
The amazing thing about broadband in America that the lousy service and high costs are forcing the more creative among us to develop alternative data infrastructures that are less expensive and more robust. Community-based wireless or fiber, creative use of the ISM bands, house-to-house infrared, etc. All become the testbeds for tommorrow's commercializations.
It also ensures that know-how about alternatives to centralized data infrastucture become (relatively) common knowledge.
Forgive my paranoia, but is this accidental or intentional?
Get a cheap part fifteen TV modulator, hook it to a wire antenna, tune it to a channel unused in your area, and then stick a commonly available tv tuner card into laptop.
Not as cool as doing it over wireless networking, but think of all that bandwidth you will save...
Lead-acid batteries make hydrogen as they charge. In normal environments this is not a problem, but in the places that UPSs are likely to hide (closets, racks, mechanical rooms, under the raised floor...), there may be enough of an air restriction to cause a buildup.
If nobody bought anything advertised by spam, then folks wouldn't even use it. The fact that it exists tell me that somebody, somewhere, sent off money or value enough to fund the spam generated.
STOP IT!
1. Never ever buy anything from a spammer, and let all you friends know it.
2. Set up open relays that modify the messages sent by them at random intervals. Insert an educational advertisment letting the recipient know that purchasing anything advertised by unsolicited email is evil, and that they screw it up for themselves and the rest of us when they do.
First, set timer for while you are out, to avoid noise. Lock dog in same room. Second, replace rotating floor-cleaning brush with small cutoff saw blades. Place in cube office full of Ethernet jumpers and power cords hanging down on floors..., Anybody know how this critter defines a room boundary? What happens if it goes outside?
If you look around in wholesale surplus places you can often find the little calculator-style multi-meter in black plastic folding case for less than five bucks. Have a printing shop foil stamp the plastic cover. Duct tape is good, too...
I suspect that the US government (and some others) have been using what they euphemistically term "biologic sensing platforms/delivery systems" for some time.
Maybe not at the insect size range, but perhaps at the dog/dolphin/avian level.
Lets face it. Without a W/D set you would be whacking your clothes on a washboard in a tub and wringing them out by hand.
Instead you drop your clothes and soap into a box and give some instructions (turn indicator knob). No human labor involved. Sounds like just as much of a robot as the other items mentioned above
Used to be that you could ask for the archival services branch, and they could reproduce all the old 1401, 1620, and 1130 software you could ever want.
I also want to start a service keeping the list of banned urls from the Attorney General's office (distributed with a nominal fee for value added, of course...).
I also have to make sure to get the best value for my salesforce dollar, so I will donate to a non-profit group of little old ladies who's only thought is to protect the children of PA from the evils of these horrible smutmongers. In gratitude I am sure they will return a list of non-complying ISP's to me...:)
I wonder who in PA is already set up like this? I also wonder if they had anything to do with the passage of this law?
Each piece of the spectrum being at a different depth, will the modern apochromatic lens (designed to focus all colors in the same plane) be needing an adjustment to work well with this sensor?
Due to the sensor thickness, is depth of field going to be restricted to smaller stops in order to have the entire thickness of the sensor in focus?
I have dealt with the above technology in exactly the proposed configuration. It was designed by my predecessor, and left to me for implementation. Several things surprised the hell out of me:
1. During a good snow, it will not cross a street (200ft, +-10). (Commercial units. Had a demonstrable five mile range on a pretty day.
2. I don't know where you are located, but when it snows or rains here, it snows and rains pretty much all over the city (Anchorage, AK). Redundancy only works if a few of your transports get interrupted. Otherwise you get sit back and answer the user support line and make up excuses while watching the routes flap in the routing table.
3. Glass windows in many larger buildings are infrared mirrors. Heat loss reduction. Don't even think about the cost of changing one in a space-frame building. Equipment goes outside.
4. By the time we got "redundantised" and "routerised" to make the system even remotely reliable, paying the local one of the LECs for SONET transport was looking pretty good.;(
I might be tempted to use this where the sun shines a lot, or in large enclosed structures, or to some place completely inacessable by other means, but I don't think it's ready for prime time.
Be careful with this suggestion. Adult individuals in some cultures react badly to having information about other cultures dropped on their progeny without the adult's former consent.
As the playwright said, "Do unto others as they would do unto you is dangerous. Their tastes might not be the same".
Converting currency to credits in this fashion looks very similar to the conversions done by "barter businesses" during the early eighties. These businesses were required to pay tax in most places, as the law does not currently restrict the concept of "money" to any one implementation (and rightfully so...)
So what about local, state, and federal tax? Sales tax? When I sell somebody a super duper magic cloak, do I have to collect? Where do I send it? Do I need a business license and associated tax number?
Wonder how long before cash-strapped local and state govs will settle on this?
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service after the gun-luggers do the phone mugging. I won't insist that they finish out the contract, unlike some wireless marketing execs I know.
The problem with solar power conversion has always been the high Total Cost of Ownership. You have to figure the cost of the real estate these items sit on, versus what other purposes the land could be used for.
In the case of other power technologies, the land use is relatively concentrated. Mines, transport routes, powerplants, refineries, etc. don't take up nearly as much space. In a number of cases the land surface can be used for dual purposes, as in ranging cattle on scrub land sitting on top of an oil patch, or growing crops on reclaim land.
There is cheap land available for this, but it's often located some distance from the use points, and energy doesn't store well and transport is expensive. Figure in the TCO of building that intertie to your solar farm in the middle of nowhere, and the pickings start looking a lot smaller.
No regulation, three telecomms companies managed by what is probably a collusion monopoly, civil strife, no taxes, crumbling physical infrastructure, cheap labor, clannish minimally industrialised society, and a chance to live the bwana lifestyle?
Woohoo! I'm off! Got my ticket already. I'm sick up to here with bleeding regulatory commissions rate findings. No more of this namby-pamby court-mandated be-a-nice-telco manure. I could get some REAL billing done there, let me tell you. Probably none of those pesky monetary exchange rules, either. Want that cell phone? Well, then fast up with it, son, in hard currency or goods. I'm not picky...
available to most theatre managers and projectionists. After all, when you pay all your staff the same minimum wage, there has to be some compensation for putting up with the extra BS.
The film canisters or DVDs, etc, goes out the back door sometime after the last show, ends up at a film/video dubbing chain somewhere (usually one of the smaller local broadasting outfits) with the admonishment that "that has to be back here by morning..."
Compensation accepted in the form of legal or illegal tender, upon transfer at the shipping door. Not that I would know, or anything.
Not quite sure what this is going to solve...
These people produce antibiotics, which they dump into their environment. Some bacteria die because of this. Some bacteria live and reproduce in their new environment.
These bacteria produce toxins, which they dump into their environment. Some people die because of this. Some people live and reproduce in their new environment.
What made you think you were an exception?
The amazing thing about broadband in America that the lousy service and high costs are forcing the more creative among us to develop alternative data infrastructures that are less expensive and more robust. Community-based wireless or fiber, creative use of the ISM bands, house-to-house infrared, etc. All become the testbeds for tommorrow's commercializations.
It also ensures that know-how about alternatives to centralized data infrastucture become (relatively) common knowledge.
Forgive my paranoia, but is this accidental or intentional?
Makes Columbia House look good. On the other hand, what the public wants, the public gets...
Get a cheap part fifteen TV modulator, hook it to a wire antenna, tune it to a channel unused in your area, and then stick a commonly available tv tuner card into laptop.
Not as cool as doing it over wireless networking, but think of all that bandwidth you will save...
Lead-acid batteries make hydrogen as they charge. In normal environments this is not a problem, but in the places that UPSs are likely to hide (closets, racks, mechanical rooms, under the raised floor...), there may be enough of an air restriction to cause a buildup.
It's kind of ugly when catches fire...
If nobody bought anything advertised by spam, then folks wouldn't even use it. The fact that it exists tell me that somebody, somewhere, sent off money or value enough to fund the spam generated.
STOP IT!
1. Never ever buy anything from a spammer, and let all you friends know it.
2. Set up open relays that modify the messages sent by them at random intervals. Insert an educational advertisment letting the recipient know that purchasing anything advertised by unsolicited email is evil, and that they screw it up for themselves and the rest of us when they do.
{software manufacturer holds fingers in ears}
La La La...I can't hear you...La La La...
First, set timer for while you are out, to avoid noise. Lock dog in same room.
Second, replace rotating floor-cleaning brush with small cutoff saw blades. Place in cube office full of Ethernet jumpers and power cords hanging down on floors...,
Anybody know how this critter defines a room boundary? What happens if it goes outside?
If you look around in wholesale surplus places you can often find the little calculator-style multi-meter in black plastic folding case for less than five bucks. Have a printing shop foil stamp the plastic cover. Duct tape is good, too...
If you stopped eating for long enough, I bet that the watch would stop also...
How do I know that I'll get my own liver back?
Maybe not at the insect size range, but perhaps at the dog/dolphin/avian level.
Instead you drop your clothes and soap into a box and give some instructions (turn indicator knob). No human labor involved. Sounds like just as much of a robot as the other items mentioned above
Used to be that you could ask for the archival services branch, and they could reproduce all the old 1401, 1620, and 1130 software you could ever want.
2. project on floor.
3. Portable "Dance, Dance, Revolution"...
4. Somebody hose me down before I come up with more ideas....
I also have to make sure to get the best value for my salesforce dollar, so I will donate to a non-profit group of little old ladies who's only thought is to protect the children of PA from the evils of these horrible smutmongers. In gratitude I am sure they will return a list of non-complying ISP's to me...:)
I wonder who in PA is already set up like this? I also wonder if they had anything to do with the passage of this law?
Due to the sensor thickness, is depth of field going to be restricted to smaller stops in order to have the entire thickness of the sensor in focus?
1. During a good snow, it will not cross a street (200ft, +-10). (Commercial units. Had a demonstrable five mile range on a pretty day.
2. I don't know where you are located, but when it snows or rains here, it snows and rains pretty much all over the city (Anchorage, AK). Redundancy only works if a few of your transports get interrupted. Otherwise you get sit back and answer the user support line and make up excuses while watching the routes flap in the routing table.
3. Glass windows in many larger buildings are infrared mirrors. Heat loss reduction. Don't even think about the cost of changing one in a space-frame building. Equipment goes outside.
4. By the time we got "redundantised" and "routerised" to make the system even remotely reliable, paying the local one of the LECs for SONET transport was looking pretty good.
I might be tempted to use this where the sun shines a lot, or in large enclosed structures, or to some place completely inacessable by other means, but I don't think it's ready for prime time.
As the playwright said, "Do unto others as they would do unto you is dangerous. Their tastes might not be the same".
So what about local, state, and federal tax? Sales tax? When I sell somebody a super duper magic cloak, do I have to collect? Where do I send it? Do I need a business license and associated tax number?
Wonder how long before cash-strapped local and state govs will settle on this?