Bah, giving the government any kind of power just opens it up for abuse.
The four words "promote the general welfare" in the US Constitution have given rise to social security, medicare and other unconstitutional entitlement programs (They only reason why they are not unconstitutional is because there is no guarantee of any entitlement)
The commerce clause - "The Congress shall have power . . . To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;" has been used to stretch the reach of federal regulation. Where it was originally meant to keep commerce from being uninhibited, it is not used for regulating everything that might ever be sold across state lines.
The problem I have is these traffic "safety" devices are a back-end tax. And as a revenue generator, they are subject to different levels of enforcement based on budgetary needs. What was once acceptable becomes unacceptable, not due to risk, but because there is a budget deficit.
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws. -Ayn Rand
Of course, being Nanosolar, they will have a solar slant, but their thin-film technology is supposed to be light on manufacturing costs. Given that you can go solar direct to drive or battery, why would you want to go through he process of using it to split H and O apart? (And then recombine it?)
I'm proposing a new tag "thinkofthecarbonfootprint". For those of you who are about such things. I think it stands to reason that recharging via this method would increase existing power consumption (and therefore co2) by 25%.
Yeah, it'd be fun ans great, but who is willing to sacrifice the planet for the plug-in inconvenience?
(FTR: I am not an anthropogenic global warming believer)
That URL 99% of the time includes a named address, via the DNS system which is unreliable and insecure. Maybe when DNSSEC gets used, then we can agree, but until such time, absolutely not.
That is, unless the IP address is explicitly used. However this would break many, many applications. (DNS rotation load balancing)
Mod parent down, it is the opposite of insightful.
In a perfect world, the parent is right, some cert > no cert.
However, given the recent disclosure of the DNS vulnerability, and that the fix does not fix anything. Certs are fundamentally used to establish identity, not provide encryption. You can *NEVER* establish identity with a self-signed cert. Even with a cert from an authority the idea of "trust" is not binary. Gaining trust is subjective, and when you trust an authority, you implicitly effectively incorporate and endorse their verification methods them as your own.
The only thing you can establish with a self-signed cert that is that the cert has not changed. For this to be secure, you need the first time you see the cert for it to be accurate. But there is a flip side. If an attacker get his cert to you first, and the attack ends, and the real cert is restored, then you don't know if the attack just ended or started. You have 0 additional information.
Your mom and pops need to get authority-signed certs.
You used to have to buy writable 650Mg CDs for $1. Now you can get a gig of flash, near infinitely rewritable for $7. Impervious to scratches, can survive several trips through the washer, and have fast read/write speeds. I cannot understand how TFA is so optimistic. When CDs came out, it would take weeks to download a full CD, now I can download a 720p torrent in an few hours. My HDDVD player has a Ethernet jack... so how long until we stop spinning discs and start slinging bits?
If you want some scary stuff about Obama, check site out
I have no idea how true it is, but it seems well-researched.
I also find it interesting that the Democratic Party, while meaning well, is a far bigger abuser of the Constitution. Its just that they seem smaller because they are better intentioned.
That means the aging GeForce 6800 GT card in your closet might be useful once again and the future of one motherboard supporting both AMD and NVIDIA multi-GPU configurations could be very near.
This statement shows a lack of understanding of how video card hardware works. You could never combine the different platforms to render a single image. You'd be able to tell that there were two separate rendering implementations. Think back long ago, to the days when quake 3 was just coming out... ATI had a very lousy fog implementation. NVIDIA had a reasonable one. Now imagine that you're flipping the fog implementation between cards. One frame it might be ATI style the next, NVIDIA. Or even worse, two different implementations in the same frame!
This is also why you can't render 3D movies (like from 3DSMax) using hardware acceleration. Every pixel of every frame must be from the same algorithm. 3DSM does that in its own software.
Oh, I completely agree[d] with you. But so many times people don't make decisions based on the right reasons. Sometimes just having a via backup plan is enough to allow progress.
I don't think orbital disposal is cost effective or safer than a hole. But that won't silence the critics.
I do have to point out that both your contentions are based on today's state affairs. My main argument is that in 50 years, the state of affairs will be much better, therefore cheaper and safer. Cost always comes down, and safety is a packaging issue.
But yes, it is moot if 200 years is the hazardous duration. But for those against nuclear power, you can bet the waste will be their #2 issue (with meltdowns & leaks still being #1). As you point out the new reactor designs fix those issues. But if we can address the concerns in multiple ways, it bodes well for more clean nuclear power.
Well in '69 the engines were all simple by today's standards. A 4-barrel carb with butterfly valves was as complex as it got. You could fiddle with timings, but only by manipulating belts, grinding cam lobes, or turning screws.
Now, you've got multi-port fuel injection, multi-pressure fuel systems, 4 valves per cylinder, variable-valve-timing, per-cylinder throttle control, and that's not even getting into the emissions side - exhaust gas recirculation, narrow-band o2 sensors, mas air flow sensors...
There is one point everyone seems to miss with radioactive waste though - and that it is a temporary problem. If we aren't content that we can't build a hole safe enough to hold it forever, we can just keep it for 50 more years in temporary storage, then once single-stage-to-orbit transport is reliable and safe, we can hurl it at the sun (or some other body - I can see environmentalists worrying about shortening the life span of the sun with a few tons of heavy elements). I say 50 years because 50 years ago we didn't have a space program, but now we do, and in 50 years the private companies should be as reliable as the airline industry.
The concerns over radioactive waste are indeed overblown.
Pamela A. Wilderman, Marlboro's code enforcement officer, said... "I think Mr. Deeb has crossed a line somewhere."... "There are regulations about how much you're supposed to have, how it's detained, how it's disposed of."
She thinks he crossed the line. (what line? - is he incorporated at this address, and this doing this commercially?)
She thinks he violated possession regulations.
She thinks he has been illegally disposing.
All of which she thinks. Absent a warrant, it is unlawful search & seizure. If they had observed the chemicals and then issued an investigation, finding he was actually in violation, that would be a hell of a lot better than this "he's doing something I don't approve of".
The only game I ever bought was Quake (1). Yet I've played many more. Lately, I've not been playing much at all. Here's how you can get me buying games again:
1) I'm [still] waiting for the Orange box to go on sale. Fun games are always fun. This is game play over technology. There's not a lot to do about this one.
2) The last demo I downloaded was Bioshock. It was good but I had issues with my video card. (I think my hardware was at fault, but I'm not ready to replace it.) a) Why not allow in-game downloads, to convert the demo to the full version as you play? b) If we have incremental level loading, why not just have us play for as far as we get. Let's face it, I suck at a lot of games. I don't finish most of them. Why should I pay full price? Charge me per level, first level is free, with a price cap. c) With incremental levels, there is no media to protect. Given multiple paths (plot choices), no one can have a full copy of the game until the game is completely beaten. The downloads can also be coded per computer so they can't be copied. Also, this puts pressure on some really fantastic levels. This way the game doesn't open strong, then fall apart after level 3. When you're paying per level, we'll get our value or stop p[l]aying.
d) While levels are nice, I really only ever play at LAN parties. Making network-only versions (pricing and lack of levels). I've dabbled with some single player for a few games, mostly to just get good at multiplayer. Having cheap or free multiplayer play is a great way to get us interested.
Finally, this isn't about piracy, but please for the love f god, have a common key-binding system between games. I've been playing FPS for over 10 years and I've always used the same key bindings whenever possible. It would help if it would take my common key bindings automatically so I can jump right into game play.
1. So maybe violent video games don't cause additional violence in society. If games made violence acceptable, then these "pilots" would not experience the degree of trauma that they do. Sorry parents - the violence is your fault.
2. Maybe we should be more intent on using diplomacy and bringing someone to justice through the legal process rather than turning them into ground chuck.
The idea is to have an industry standard hi-def player that has UBS ports and key management features. Call it a HTPC is you will but it will be a turn-key device.
You could walk into the store (or up to a kiosk) and load it immediately. You spend your time there rather than in a line at check out. If it is a store, it should be simple enough to have 20 or so USB ports going at once. (I've never seen more than 10 people in a block buster at once)
The capacity issue is temporary, as 32Gig drives are only $100, and falling fast.
You could download the media at Block Buster, encoded with a time-sensitive key, which you take home and plug in. Your reader then looks for the valid keys (on the disk or on the net) (one for each day of rental period, which is only 3-5 days) and tries the keys in the first block of the file until it works. This should take less than a second. Then you watch your movie.
The player is what determines the valid keys. Essential to this is a time service that can come from the 'net or from GPS.
The whole idea of rotational, optical media is outmoded. I should be able to take a flash drive (any flash drive) to Blockbuster and load on my drive a movie where I can play it anywhere. And the only reason to do that, is because we don't have a lot of bandwidth for real-time streaming of perfect quality.
Plastic media is prone to scratching, and carries with it some value based on on its manufacture, but the bits put on it. It is not reusable either.
High Def Video-on-Demand is also working to obsolete rotational disk, however the limitation is that movie inventories are limited. Given that inventories will increase, this will fix itself.
The only remaining space of rotational media is for portability, but flash drives can fit several movies. In addition flash drives are more rugged and portable than temperature and scratch-vulnerable rational media.
Blu-Ray won the war that never needed to be fought.
This would equate to 1.9cm a day, which is a lot, when you factor in that the earliest adjustments result in the widest changes. It is also worthy to note that by delaying or hastening the asteroid a mere 5 minutes would take a global killer to a near miss.
How can you argue: First off, you are contradicting yourself here. If the Fed reports to congress... that's transparency. The congress has the full authority to investigate the Federal Reserve at any time. That's transparency.
Then say: To a certain extent the Fed needs to operate in a relatively opaque manner.
And you also say: If one were able to fully predict Fed actions and Fed operations then one could game the system. This would not only undermine the Fed's ability to control markets but it would also probably ruin those markets.
Then you agree the market "more or less" exists on its own. I have 126 years of the US working just fine without the Fed, vs 95 years with the fed. During which time we've suffered numerous depressions and bubbles. In the same 95 years, we've seen the dollar decline to 4 cents of its original value, with the two drops shortly after the fed started, and again when Nixon took us off the gold standard. Prior to the fed, yes, there were dollar fluctuations, but never like what we are experiencing.
Finally, you touched on the Fed holding the debt... This is worthless when you have a fiat currency. I personally believe, as well as several of my coworkers, that barring some miracle, we're headed for hyper-inflation. At which point all that debt is worthless. The whole fiat currency is abut to collapse. And what it hinges on isn't the Fed, it foreign investment. If the foreign investors pull out of the American economy (after running their investments through the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and this high inflation) we will be left with even more worthless dollars as the value goes out to other countries. We're seeing preference for Euro-bought goods over dollar bought goods because they convert to higher profits when put into Yen.
I could go on, but I feel we're going to fail to convince each other...
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Bah, giving the government any kind of power just opens it up for abuse.
The four words "promote the general welfare" in the US Constitution have given rise to social security, medicare and other unconstitutional entitlement programs (They only reason why they are not unconstitutional is because there is no guarantee of any entitlement)
The commerce clause - "The Congress shall have power . . . To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;" has been used to stretch the reach of federal regulation. Where it was originally meant to keep commerce from being uninhibited, it is not used for regulating everything that might ever be sold across state lines.
The problem I have is these traffic "safety" devices are a back-end tax. And as a revenue generator, they are subject to different levels of enforcement based on budgetary needs. What was once acceptable becomes unacceptable, not due to risk, but because there is a budget deficit.
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws. -Ayn Rand
Please see image at this page
For a breakdown of efficiencies.
Of course, being Nanosolar, they will have a solar slant, but their thin-film technology is supposed to be light on manufacturing costs. Given that you can go solar direct to drive or battery, why would you want to go through he process of using it to split H and O apart? (And then recombine it?)
I'm proposing a new tag "thinkofthecarbonfootprint". For those of you who are about such things. I think it stands to reason that recharging via this method would increase existing power consumption (and therefore co2) by 25%.
Yeah, it'd be fun ans great, but who is willing to sacrifice the planet for the plug-in inconvenience?
(FTR: I am not an anthropogenic global warming believer)
Arguably no.
That URL 99% of the time includes a named address, via the DNS system which is unreliable and insecure. Maybe when DNSSEC gets used, then we can agree, but until such time, absolutely not.
That is, unless the IP address is explicitly used. However this would break many, many applications. (DNS rotation load balancing)
Mod parent down, it is the opposite of insightful.
In a perfect world, the parent is right, some cert > no cert.
However, given the recent disclosure of the DNS vulnerability, and that the fix does not fix anything. Certs are fundamentally used to establish identity, not provide encryption. You can *NEVER* establish identity with a self-signed cert. Even with a cert from an authority the idea of "trust" is not binary. Gaining trust is subjective, and when you trust an authority, you implicitly effectively incorporate and endorse their verification methods them as your own.
The only thing you can establish with a self-signed cert that is that the cert has not changed. For this to be secure, you need the first time you see the cert for it to be accurate. But there is a flip side. If an attacker get his cert to you first, and the attack ends, and the real cert is restored, then you don't know if the attack just ended or started. You have 0 additional information.
Your mom and pops need to get authority-signed certs.
Any PC with rsync?
I have vinyl of the 2008 release of Ghosts (Nine Inch Nails) Someone still thinks it is important...
You used to have to buy writable 650Mg CDs for $1. Now you can get a gig of flash, near infinitely rewritable for $7. Impervious to scratches, can survive several trips through the washer, and have fast read/write speeds. I cannot understand how TFA is so optimistic. When CDs came out, it would take weeks to download a full CD, now I can download a 720p torrent in an few hours. My HDDVD player has a Ethernet jack... so how long until we stop spinning discs and start slinging bits?
If you want some scary stuff about Obama, check site out
I have no idea how true it is, but it seems well-researched.
I also find it interesting that the Democratic Party, while meaning well, is a far bigger abuser of the Constitution. Its just that they seem smaller because they are better intentioned.
That means the aging GeForce 6800 GT card in your closet might be useful once again and the future of one motherboard supporting both AMD and NVIDIA multi-GPU configurations could be very near.
This statement shows a lack of understanding of how video card hardware works. You could never combine the different platforms to render a single image. You'd be able to tell that there were two separate rendering implementations. Think back long ago, to the days when quake 3 was just coming out... ATI had a very lousy fog implementation. NVIDIA had a reasonable one. Now imagine that you're flipping the fog implementation between cards. One frame it might be ATI style the next, NVIDIA. Or even worse, two different implementations in the same frame!
This is also why you can't render 3D movies (like from 3DSMax) using hardware acceleration. Every pixel of every frame must be from the same algorithm. 3DSM does that in its own software.
Oh, I completely agree[d] with you. But so many times people don't make decisions based on the right reasons. Sometimes just having a via backup plan is enough to allow progress.
I don't think orbital disposal is cost effective or safer than a hole. But that won't silence the critics.
I do have to point out that both your contentions are based on today's state affairs. My main argument is that in 50 years, the state of affairs will be much better, therefore cheaper and safer. Cost always comes down, and safety is a packaging issue.
But yes, it is moot if 200 years is the hazardous duration. But for those against nuclear power, you can bet the waste will be their #2 issue (with meltdowns & leaks still being #1). As you point out the new reactor designs fix those issues. But if we can address the concerns in multiple ways, it bodes well for more clean nuclear power.
Well in '69 the engines were all simple by today's standards. A 4-barrel carb with butterfly valves was as complex as it got. You could fiddle with timings, but only by manipulating belts, grinding cam lobes, or turning screws.
Now, you've got multi-port fuel injection, multi-pressure fuel systems, 4 valves per cylinder, variable-valve-timing, per-cylinder throttle control, and that's not even getting into the emissions side - exhaust gas recirculation, narrow-band o2 sensors, mas air flow sensors...
Excellent post.
There is one point everyone seems to miss with radioactive waste though - and that it is a temporary problem. If we aren't content that we can't build a hole safe enough to hold it forever, we can just keep it for 50 more years in temporary storage, then once single-stage-to-orbit transport is reliable and safe, we can hurl it at the sun (or some other body - I can see environmentalists worrying about shortening the life span of the sun with a few tons of heavy elements). I say 50 years because 50 years ago we didn't have a space program, but now we do, and in 50 years the private companies should be as reliable as the airline industry.
The concerns over radioactive waste are indeed overblown.
Pamela A. Wilderman, Marlboro's code enforcement officer, said ... "I think Mr. Deeb has crossed a line somewhere." ... "There are regulations about how much you're supposed to have, how it's detained, how it's disposed of."
All of which she thinks. Absent a warrant, it is unlawful search & seizure. If they had observed the chemicals and then issued an investigation, finding he was actually in violation, that would be a hell of a lot better than this "he's doing something I don't approve of".
The only game I ever bought was Quake (1). Yet I've played many more. Lately, I've not been playing much at all. Here's how you can get me buying games again:
1) I'm [still] waiting for the Orange box to go on sale. Fun games are always fun. This is game play over technology. There's not a lot to do about this one.
2) The last demo I downloaded was Bioshock. It was good but I had issues with my video card. (I think my hardware was at fault, but I'm not ready to replace it.)
a) Why not allow in-game downloads, to convert the demo to the full version as you play?
b) If we have incremental level loading, why not just have us play for as far as we get. Let's face it, I suck at a lot of games. I don't finish most of them. Why should I pay full price? Charge me per level, first level is free, with a price cap.
c) With incremental levels, there is no media to protect. Given multiple paths (plot choices), no one can have a full copy of the game until the game is completely beaten. The downloads can also be coded per computer so they can't be copied. Also, this puts pressure on some really fantastic levels. This way the game doesn't open strong, then fall apart after level 3. When you're paying per level, we'll get our value or stop p[l]aying.
d) While levels are nice, I really only ever play at LAN parties. Making network-only versions (pricing and lack of levels). I've dabbled with some single player for a few games, mostly to just get good at multiplayer. Having cheap or free multiplayer play is a great way to get us interested.
Finally, this isn't about piracy, but please for the love f god, have a common key-binding system between games. I've been playing FPS for over 10 years and I've always used the same key bindings whenever possible. It would help if it would take my common key bindings automatically so I can jump right into game play.
1. So maybe violent video games don't cause additional violence in society. If games made violence acceptable, then these "pilots" would not experience the degree of trauma that they do. Sorry parents - the violence is your fault.
2. Maybe we should be more intent on using diplomacy and bringing someone to justice through the legal process rather than turning them into ground chuck.
The idea is to have an industry standard hi-def player that has UBS ports and key management features. Call it a HTPC is you will but it will be a turn-key device.
You could walk into the store (or up to a kiosk) and load it immediately. You spend your time there rather than in a line at check out. If it is a store, it should be simple enough to have 20 or so USB ports going at once. (I've never seen more than 10 people in a block buster at once)
The capacity issue is temporary, as 32Gig drives are only $100, and falling fast.
This is easy to fix.
You could download the media at Block Buster, encoded with a time-sensitive key, which you take home and plug in. Your reader then looks for the valid keys (on the disk or on the net) (one for each day of rental period, which is only 3-5 days) and tries the keys in the first block of the file until it works. This should take less than a second. Then you watch your movie.
The player is what determines the valid keys. Essential to this is a time service that can come from the 'net or from GPS.
My 128MB USB 1.1 drive stil works, and its been through the wash...
The whole idea of rotational, optical media is outmoded. I should be able to take a flash drive (any flash drive) to Blockbuster and load on my drive a movie where I can play it anywhere. And the only reason to do that, is because we don't have a lot of bandwidth for real-time streaming of perfect quality.
Plastic media is prone to scratching, and carries with it some value based on on its manufacture, but the bits put on it. It is not reusable either.
High Def Video-on-Demand is also working to obsolete rotational disk, however the limitation is that movie inventories are limited. Given that inventories will increase, this will fix itself.
The only remaining space of rotational media is for portability, but flash drives can fit several movies. In addition flash drives are more rugged and portable than temperature and scratch-vulnerable rational media.
Blu-Ray won the war that never needed to be fought.
only 0.22 microns per second each day
It helps to read all the words.
This would equate to 1.9cm a day, which is a lot, when you factor in that the earliest adjustments result in the widest changes. It is also worthy to note that by delaying or hastening the asteroid a mere 5 minutes would take a global killer to a near miss.
How can you argue:
First off, you are contradicting yourself here. If the Fed reports to congress... that's transparency. The congress has the full authority to investigate the Federal Reserve at any time. That's transparency.
Then say:
To a certain extent the Fed needs to operate in a relatively opaque manner.
And you also say:
If one were able to fully predict Fed actions and Fed operations then one could game the system. This would not only undermine the Fed's ability to control markets but it would also probably ruin those markets.
Then you agree the market "more or less" exists on its own. I have 126 years of the US working just fine without the Fed, vs 95 years with the fed. During which time we've suffered numerous depressions and bubbles. In the same 95 years, we've seen the dollar decline to 4 cents of its original value, with the two drops shortly after the fed started, and again when Nixon took us off the gold standard. Prior to the fed, yes, there were dollar fluctuations, but never like what we are experiencing.
Finally, you touched on the Fed holding the debt... This is worthless when you have a fiat currency. I personally believe, as well as several of my coworkers, that barring some miracle, we're headed for hyper-inflation. At which point all that debt is worthless. The whole fiat currency is abut to collapse. And what it hinges on isn't the Fed, it foreign investment. If the foreign investors pull out of the American economy (after running their investments through the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and this high inflation) we will be left with even more worthless dollars as the value goes out to other countries. We're seeing preference for Euro-bought goods over dollar bought goods because they convert to higher profits when put into Yen.
I could go on, but I feel we're going to fail to convince each other...
Thanks that was very "informative"
Mods, have at it! :-)
Thanks for the clarification....
I would like more clarification though.
1) I have SolidEdge.
2) Could you define "per piece" - Volume constraints (size), weight, etc...
Let me get this straight, you participated in this "story" (really a marketing moment) and didn't prepare your website for the ensuing curiosity?
Things I want to know:
What software can generate the models?
Costs?
Turn-around time?
And you don't even have a gallery...