"Space rockets aren't produced in big enough batches BY CHINA" FTFY.
Really the limiting factor here is the payload. No one wants to make 5 expensive payloads, take a chance of getting one up there, and deal with the additional logistics just so they can have cheap launch fees. Better to get it right the first time. Even if the payloads are insured.
It is the simplicity. Both manufacturing and maintenance. Current solar panels top out at 19% efficiency, but take a whole host of environmentally bad chemicals and processes to make. Then they degrade over time. This suggests common glass could power the world.
You approach 30% on a sterling engine, with a perfect source and sync. But you have moving components that will wear out and need maintenance.
Basically, imagine a piece of glass with integrated lens with wires on it - solid state, reliable, durable, and cheap.
It is important to remember that when a man of principal speaks, he is speaking axiomatically. In reality though, the true solution lies between here and the solution. Case and point: his stance on the fed. He wants it gone, but he's just trying to audit it now. The big change might come later after the audit. And every politician knows, drastic changes create social upheaval and that's a sure way to not get reelected.
What can be expected isn't radical sweeping changes even though his speeches identify that as a goal. Rather what you can expect is progress towards that goal. Eventually the situation will become rectified some where between the extremes and the focus will move on to a subject of more value. Look at social movements. When they start out, there is widespread support, and it accomplishes its goals. As the goals are achieved, people stop participating, leaving only the extremists. This is why any social movement eventually produces extremists and eventually becomes marginalized.
Really, if you shift your schedule... What to you miss? TV. TV is the problem here. The fact that shows are broadcast at a certain time. I predict (and hope) one day soon we'll be able to get The Daily Show and Colbert Report, when it is done production, and available on-demand. That way, you can watch them at any time. Without favorite TV shows to control our bed time, we can get as much sleep as we need. If you're willing to be a day behind that reality can be now. But it makes for hard water cooler talk. "Did you see XXXX last night?" There is a lot of idle time in my evening when I am not watching anything, If I could move the later shows to that time slot, by sleep and wake schedules and over0all health would be positively impacted.
Then you have to look at wake-up time which is set by work hours for most people. Most places these days have flex time. But By getting to bed at a good time, you can compensate.
During the first and second Iraq operations, Saddam's forces were using French GPS jammers. Our missiles still hit the target. You can choose a good enough trajectory that when you finally get to the target, and are jammed you're close enough. The distance you can jam for is not that large, and is governed by 1/r^2.
Real world example.... Say you fly somewhere. You only get scanned once in a day right? Well, not at Newark. If you need to go from concourse A to C, there is a shuttle. But if you go from A-B or B-C, you have to go through security again. Mere hours after your last scan...
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As someone who worked in medical imaging, I'll add there is no documentation of what exposure you are getting, when you got it, etc. At least in a hospital, they make sure they don't X-ray you too much.
TSA does not have your health in mind, else these scanners would be FDA approved. Unlike a hospital which would get sued into oblivion if they ever used something not FDA approved.
While not a password, this kind of "opportunistic data gathering" adds up. Digital records remain for ever. Next week ask for the first 5. Then join them later. But the first 5 aren't needed if you know birth year and region.
Why can't we make a security token out of an MD5 sum the SSN with trailing garbage text (to prevent a dictionary attack - say a GUID which would identify the use of this security token) and use that? GUID is chosen by the SSN holder, so the host cannot dictionary attack its own participants.
A lot of people would argue.Net is a much better development environment than Qt. I can't understand why someone would willingly use C++ to develop user applications ( not systems dev ) in 2011. Even Android promotes Java for this.
I've used all three. I prefer Qt, though.Net does win in some areas. Qt comes with Boost (or vice-versa, please, I know that is not technically correct, but work with me here) but Boost is a C++ library that brings C++ into modern times, adding parenting, introspection and events (publish/subscribe - not just window messages) and a ton of other features that makes it 90% of what.Net is. This is proven by the Jambi and PyQt/PySide projects which are Java/Python wrappers respectively. C++ is effectively updated to a usable language that is compiled nativity.
The biggest difference to me, are a few things Qt lacks (XQuery update support, proper SOAP, etc, but these are on the roadmap) and the documentation. Qt's docs are a joy.
If the PSN isn't required for PS3, then they can ban you from it. But, why can't there be a replacement network? Up until recently, it was not technically possible to create unauthorized software (software subject to their licensing & TOS restrictions) however it is now.
Since you "own" your console, you should be able to connect it to any network. I would assert that Sony by way of only allowing only one network (PSN) is given an unfair monopoly and is engaging in anti-competitive business practices. (Same for for XBLN) Even if you agree to the ToS, the ToS is only binding on the first owner of the console (First Sale doctrine) there is no provision for Sony to continue the ToS and License agreements past the shrink-wrap seal.
Clearly, you have the right to network the unit you own and have the right to connect it to networks of your choosing. I call for Sony to publish specifications which would allow alternate, private or open networks to be functionally equivalent to the PSN, as well as the PS Store. If Sony is going to force the issue, we'll make sure the stakes get really high.
This all started when they took Linux away anyway. That in itself has to be bait and switch.
You aren't the Wright Brothers. You're not going to get off the ground, much like a turkey. Walled off in MS's garden, you'll never experience love like this...
It is rather simple. Create an expectation of rich web with video, then roll out tiered plans. If we were still using HTML3 and NCSA mosaic, we'd be consuming far less data. But this shift to a multi-media internet brings data usage. Then to push it into mobile space is the last distribution niche, where prices are far higher per GB. VerizonFIOS has data capacity to spare so it is dirt cheap, but wireless doesn't.
There is no video out, which is my big problem with it. In the end you're better off with a nettop anyway, because for $275 you a 1.6Gz dual-core atom and some 2d and 3d acceleration.
If you want "video" out, you have to use the linux vfb (virtual frame buffer) and connect to it from a computer over the network with a display using a network vfb client. Think VNC.
You'd have to argue that it would be a storage medium (or manifestation of) information on the various states of the universe. The problem with that, is that it is not uniformly distributed, and seems to have formed the backbone for our universe. Then you'd have to consider that is (or effect at least are) present in our universe, meaning that it both is the medium for and expression of at the same time. Our universe would then be dependent on the other universes, and vice-versa, therefore collapsing us back into fundamentally one universe and destroying your proposition at the start. Else, you'd have a paradox.
I like the way you think, and I would give you enough leash to explore, but there are a couple assumptions. That in this multiverse, there is some way to get between universes, at least mathematically. Math all works the same, though the values may change. The other universes at a fundamental level need to have some distinctions between "something" and "nothing", and some variation within itself. Sure, gravity may be stronger, leading to different processes for galaxy formation, but I would contend that 1/r^2 is common to all fields, regardless of constants. Meaning that probably, just maybe you'd likely get something that looks similar.
Also other theories that speculate 10, 12, 16 etc dimensions still contain our familiar 3 meaning that some of that matrix is ours, that at least parts of it function like ours.
I sincerely hope it was, but when you make the statements and the public hears it, they don't know a joke from the real. It was a statement that should have never been released from the mind of the individual without at least a formal theoretical proof.
It is a general "parallel universe" or "alternate reality" problem, and not any problem with your understanding. You (and everyone else) have failed to identify the matter/energy constraint. That is to say, if there is an alternative, it must be expressed in matter, and maintaining more than one reality requires additional matter (or base state of energy). I've conceptualized it with a familiar software developer concept: MVC: Model-View-Controller. Anytime when looking at gobs of data (including the state of reality) you need to look and interact with data in a uniform way. MVC allows for this. The model is the data model - the structure of, and data itself. List, tree, etc. The universe would probably express this as dimensional (3 or 10) planes of energy. Next is the view, with is the manifestation of the model. This would be an instantaneous snapshot of the universe, including velocities, etc. Finally the controller are the laws that work on the data. They do not work on the view, as the view is dependent of the model.
Every time you propose an alternate time line, then you need to copy the model (you can share the viewer and controller (if you didn't things would be "noticeably different")) But to copy the model is to acquire the energy to express a whole other universe, and not once, but at every decision point on the time line.
Physicists are just now starting to realize this and many are starting to argue that space-time is quantized on the order of Planck length (and time). While this is infinitesimally small, it vastly reduces the possible outcomes from infinite to a manageable number, possibly 1. Quantized space time locks down the source state and limits the possibilities of the next state, so it is feasible that the laws of the universe would only allow 1 possible next state. Heim was the first (that I know of) to argue for quantized space-time. I've since seen other people derive it on their own and get a similar (yet not identical) result (but all are some close value to Planck length)
In Denver, a bar I went to had a novelty breathalyzer that would tell you your BAC for $1. I blew 0.10, but wasn't driving but I considered myself way past the point of safe driving. Why have I only ever seen this device once? Why not place it everywhere, for free, and let people check themselves before getting behind the wheel? It would be waaaay more cost effective and everyone could use it. And the cab companies could sponsor it. The ones who don't give a damn aren't going to care and drive drunk anyway.
Also note, that the legal limits are on the extremely cautious side of impairment. I urge everyone to read The DUI Exception to the Constitution. While I support safe roads, the extremes (rights violations) we go to to prevent drunk driving do not enthuse me. Now, some states are putting judges at checkpoints to make on-site court-orders possible.
There are two scapegoats that always work in America: think of the children and think of drunk driving. These seem to be more noble causes than the rights that get violated by them.
While it is not yet standard practice, there is absolutely no reason why your server cannot be completely under version control. The only point of contention is the password/groups file. Aside from that, you should be able to use something like TinyCoreLinux to get a minimalist boot image, with a version control system, (SVN, CVS, etc) configure the version control and save that image. Then once you boot the image, you issue a get/sync/update command which gets the most recent version of everything.
TCL Linux will with slight modification of the filetool script, give you a way to automatically check your changes in. Once they are in the source repository you can then have a reviewer review the changes and push them to the approved main/head branch.
The only way a hostile administrator can attack this is by moving things out of the filetool script purview. In order to overcome this vulnerability, you must re-image your server periodically based off the approved mainline/head branch. Any unsubmitted changes will be lost. To do this safely, load a new VM or real hardware until the new image is verified that nothing is lost. Then move the old hardware to spare, and use that for the load in the next cycle.
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"Space rockets aren't produced in big enough batches BY CHINA"
FTFY.
Really the limiting factor here is the payload. No one wants to make 5 expensive payloads, take a chance of getting one up there, and deal with the additional logistics just so they can have cheap launch fees. Better to get it right the first time. Even if the payloads are insured.
Your judgement is the same as the original problem. The effect has been dismissed, so you've never heard of it. It consequently should feel dishonest.
It is the simplicity. Both manufacturing and maintenance. Current solar panels top out at 19% efficiency, but take a whole host of environmentally bad chemicals and processes to make. Then they degrade over time. This suggests common glass could power the world.
You approach 30% on a sterling engine, with a perfect source and sync. But you have moving components that will wear out and need maintenance.
Basically, imagine a piece of glass with integrated lens with wires on it - solid state, reliable, durable, and cheap.
But what the hell is this?
How about don't be ridiculous too?
It is important to remember that when a man of principal speaks, he is speaking axiomatically. In reality though, the true solution lies between here and the solution. Case and point: his stance on the fed. He wants it gone, but he's just trying to audit it now. The big change might come later after the audit. And every politician knows, drastic changes create social upheaval and that's a sure way to not get reelected.
What can be expected isn't radical sweeping changes even though his speeches identify that as a goal. Rather what you can expect is progress towards that goal. Eventually the situation will become rectified some where between the extremes and the focus will move on to a subject of more value. Look at social movements. When they start out, there is widespread support, and it accomplishes its goals. As the goals are achieved, people stop participating, leaving only the extremists. This is why any social movement eventually produces extremists and eventually becomes marginalized.
Why change it at all?
Really, if you shift your schedule... What to you miss? TV. TV is the problem here. The fact that shows are broadcast at a certain time. I predict (and hope) one day soon we'll be able to get The Daily Show and Colbert Report, when it is done production, and available on-demand. That way, you can watch them at any time. Without favorite TV shows to control our bed time, we can get as much sleep as we need. If you're willing to be a day behind that reality can be now. But it makes for hard water cooler talk. "Did you see XXXX last night?" There is a lot of idle time in my evening when I am not watching anything, If I could move the later shows to that time slot, by sleep and wake schedules and over0all health would be positively impacted.
Then you have to look at wake-up time which is set by work hours for most people. Most places these days have flex time. But By getting to bed at a good time, you can compensate.
Surprisingly, no.
During the first and second Iraq operations, Saddam's forces were using French GPS jammers. Our missiles still hit the target. You can choose a good enough trajectory that when you finally get to the target, and are jammed you're close enough. The distance you can jam for is not that large, and is governed by 1/r^2.
Real world example.... Say you fly somewhere. You only get scanned once in a day right? Well, not at Newark. If you need to go from concourse A to C, there is a shuttle. But if you go from A-B or B-C, you have to go through security again. Mere hours after your last scan...
Mod parent up.
As someone who worked in medical imaging, I'll add there is no documentation of what exposure you are getting, when you got it, etc. At least in a hospital, they make sure they don't X-ray you too much.
TSA does not have your health in mind, else these scanners would be FDA approved. Unlike a hospital which would get sued into oblivion if they ever used something not FDA approved.
792 - 'Password Reuse"
While not a password, this kind of "opportunistic data gathering" adds up. Digital records remain for ever. Next week ask for the first 5.
Then join them later. But the first 5 aren't needed if you know birth year and region.
Why can't we make a security token out of an MD5 sum the SSN with trailing garbage text (to prevent a dictionary attack - say a GUID which would identify the use of this security token) and use that? GUID is chosen by the SSN holder, so the host cannot dictionary attack its own participants.
Why not just a USB transducer?
I've looked at this, and the commercially available ones are only good for a few (4-6) inches. that's 10-15cm for metric folk.
A lot of people would argue .Net is a much better development environment than Qt. I can't understand why someone would willingly use C++ to develop user applications ( not systems dev ) in 2011. Even Android promotes Java for this.
I've used all three. I prefer Qt, though .Net does win in some areas. Qt comes with Boost (or vice-versa, please, I know that is not technically correct, but work with me here) but Boost is a C++ library that brings C++ into modern times, adding parenting, introspection and events (publish/subscribe - not just window messages) and a ton of other features that makes it 90% of what .Net is. This is proven by the Jambi and PyQt/PySide projects which are Java/Python wrappers respectively. C++ is effectively updated to a usable language that is compiled nativity.
The biggest difference to me, are a few things Qt lacks (XQuery update support, proper SOAP, etc, but these are on the roadmap) and the documentation. Qt's docs are a joy.
If the PSN isn't required for PS3, then they can ban you from it. But, why can't there be a replacement network? Up until recently, it was not technically possible to create unauthorized software (software subject to their licensing & TOS restrictions) however it is now.
Since you "own" your console, you should be able to connect it to any network. I would assert that Sony by way of only allowing only one network (PSN) is given an unfair monopoly and is engaging in anti-competitive business practices. (Same for for XBLN) Even if you agree to the ToS, the ToS is only binding on the first owner of the console (First Sale doctrine) there is no provision for Sony to continue the ToS and License agreements past the shrink-wrap seal.
Clearly, you have the right to network the unit you own and have the right to connect it to networks of your choosing. I call for Sony to publish specifications which would allow alternate, private or open networks to be functionally equivalent to the PSN, as well as the PS Store. If Sony is going to force the issue, we'll make sure the stakes get really high.
This all started when they took Linux away anyway. That in itself has to be bait and switch.
You aren't the Wright Brothers. You're not going to get off the ground, much like a turkey. Walled off in MS's garden, you'll never experience love like this...
It is rather simple. Create an expectation of rich web with video, then roll out tiered plans. If we were still using HTML3 and NCSA mosaic, we'd be consuming far less data. But this shift to a multi-media internet brings data usage. Then to push it into mobile space is the last distribution niche, where prices are far higher per GB. VerizonFIOS has data capacity to spare so it is dirt cheap, but wireless doesn't.
ATT does it with phantom data, Verizon just shoves video in your face.
There is no video out, which is my big problem with it. In the end you're better off with a nettop anyway, because for $275 you a 1.6Gz dual-core atom and some 2d and 3d acceleration.
If you want "video" out, you have to use the linux vfb (virtual frame buffer) and connect to it from a computer over the network with a display using a network vfb client. Think VNC.
You'd have to argue that it would be a storage medium (or manifestation of) information on the various states of the universe. The problem with that, is that it is not uniformly distributed, and seems to have formed the backbone for our universe. Then you'd have to consider that is (or effect at least are) present in our universe, meaning that it both is the medium for and expression of at the same time. Our universe would then be dependent on the other universes, and vice-versa, therefore collapsing us back into fundamentally one universe and destroying your proposition at the start. Else, you'd have a paradox.
I didn't think Sony would remove the Linux option, which was a feature from day 1. I was wrong.
I like the way you think, and I would give you enough leash to explore, but there are a couple assumptions. That in this multiverse, there is some way to get between universes, at least mathematically. Math all works the same, though the values may change. The other universes at a fundamental level need to have some distinctions between "something" and "nothing", and some variation within itself. Sure, gravity may be stronger, leading to different processes for galaxy formation, but I would contend that 1/r^2 is common to all fields, regardless of constants. Meaning that probably, just maybe you'd likely get something that looks similar.
Also other theories that speculate 10, 12, 16 etc dimensions still contain our familiar 3 meaning that some of that matrix is ours, that at least parts of it function like ours.
I sincerely hope it was, but when you make the statements and the public hears it, they don't know a joke from the real. It was a statement that should have never been released from the mind of the individual without at least a formal theoretical proof.
For they all are guilty of mental masturbation when it comes to physics. Oh, and include whomever postulated that the Higgs is so abhorrent to nature that it comes back through time to prevent its discovery.
It is a general "parallel universe" or "alternate reality" problem, and not any problem with your understanding. You (and everyone else) have failed to identify the matter/energy constraint. That is to say, if there is an alternative, it must be expressed in matter, and maintaining more than one reality requires additional matter (or base state of energy). I've conceptualized it with a familiar software developer concept: MVC: Model-View-Controller. Anytime when looking at gobs of data (including the state of reality) you need to look and interact with data in a uniform way. MVC allows for this. The model is the data model - the structure of, and data itself. List, tree, etc. The universe would probably express this as dimensional (3 or 10) planes of energy. Next is the view, with is the manifestation of the model. This would be an instantaneous snapshot of the universe, including velocities, etc. Finally the controller are the laws that work on the data. They do not work on the view, as the view is dependent of the model.
Every time you propose an alternate time line, then you need to copy the model (you can share the viewer and controller (if you didn't things would be "noticeably different")) But to copy the model is to acquire the energy to express a whole other universe, and not once, but at every decision point on the time line.
Physicists are just now starting to realize this and many are starting to argue that space-time is quantized on the order of Planck length (and time). While this is infinitesimally small, it vastly reduces the possible outcomes from infinite to a manageable number, possibly 1. Quantized space time locks down the source state and limits the possibilities of the next state, so it is feasible that the laws of the universe would only allow 1 possible next state. Heim was the first (that I know of) to argue for quantized space-time. I've since seen other people derive it on their own and get a similar (yet not identical) result
(but all are some close value to Planck length)
In Denver, a bar I went to had a novelty breathalyzer that would tell you your BAC for $1. I blew 0.10, but wasn't driving but I considered myself way past the point of safe driving. Why have I only ever seen this device once? Why not place it everywhere, for free, and let people check themselves before getting behind the wheel? It would be waaaay more cost effective and everyone could use it. And the cab companies could sponsor it. The ones who don't give a damn aren't going to care and drive drunk anyway.
Also note, that the legal limits are on the extremely cautious side of impairment. I urge everyone to read The DUI Exception to the Constitution. While I support safe roads, the extremes (rights violations) we go to to prevent drunk driving do not enthuse me. Now, some states are putting judges at checkpoints to make on-site court-orders possible.
There are two scapegoats that always work in America: think of the children and think of drunk driving. These seem to be more noble causes than the rights that get violated by them.
While the above is slanted towards Linux, there is no reason why this can't work on windows too.
TinyCoreLinux - http://www.tinycorelinux.com/
It is more up-to-date than DSL, and has an easy-to-use package manager.
While it is not yet standard practice, there is absolutely no reason why your server cannot be completely under version control. The only point of contention is the password/groups file. Aside from that, you should be able to use something like TinyCoreLinux to get a minimalist boot image, with a version control system, (SVN, CVS, etc) configure the version control and save that image. Then once you boot the image, you issue a get/sync/update command which gets the most recent version of everything.
TCL Linux will with slight modification of the filetool script, give you a way to automatically check your changes in. Once they are in the source repository you can then have a reviewer review the changes and push them to the approved main/head branch.
The only way a hostile administrator can attack this is by moving things out of the filetool script purview. In order to overcome this vulnerability, you must re-image your server periodically based off the approved mainline/head branch. Any unsubmitted changes will be lost. To do this safely, load a new VM or real hardware until the new image is verified that nothing is lost. Then move the old hardware to spare, and use that for the load in the next cycle.