perhaps the person handing over the facts meant quieter in terms of RF emissions, and the writer mis-interpreted. Or maybe the japanese interpreter misinterpreted? The language barrier can be a bitch sometimes.
I'm no physicist but I know about the technology. He (Minato) is using Neodymium-Iron-Boron magnets (NdFeB -- google it) which do not have any appreciable demagnetization over a [projected] period of 1300 years.
I do honestly believe that magnets are mankind's greatest battery (greatest energy potential per unit volume), and learning to harness magnetic circuits will lead to the future of not only electricity generation, but cars that run on AA batteries--and not RC cars, either.
You're assuming that a conventional fuel or launch system would be used.
If you had a way to get into orbit with little to no fuel expenditure, you would barely need to take more fuel with you than you'd need to nudge yourself into a decaying orbit and start falling back to earth. A squirt gun filled with water might be enough for that.
I'm waiting for somebody to get arrested because of sniffed emails and then it'll turn out that he was playing a wargame-by-email or something and then the government will have some serious egg on their face. It'll happen, just you wait.
Do you know how many rapists, murderers, serial killers, hitmen, and girl scouts like pornography? DO YOU? If you take Penthouse off the shelves, people will be hunting you down at YOUR penthouse to give you a piece of their mind.
And some pieces of yours.
All over the room.
The last thing I think you want right now is more people that hate you with nothing but a lot of time on their hands.
If you, the (non-power) user, can write to the application's main executable file, then you can conceivably open it up in vi and put malicious machine code in there. Or, ideally, copy your trojan over the top of the application.
I think that's the issue being raised, not how file ownership affects installation or the like.
I saw a Russian film once, ironically entitled Stalker. It too made reference to "the zone" though not to chernobyl by name. Boring movie, painfully so. Didn't finish watching the whole thing. heh.
no pen? Victorinox already makes one with a pen in it...
What you really want though, is probably their "SwissCard Lite" which includes all the above-mentioned features, and the pen. (yes, even the rod. don't know if it's carbon-steel or not, but it's a rod. they call it a "pin")
Want to really throw them for a loop? Find a lady (or 600) without a safeway club card, and have her sign up under a man's name. Then, encourage her to only buy tampons and chocolate at Safeway using that card. Get as many people to do it as possible!
I think the important thing here isn't the 2.5gbit link itself, but how it performs in comparison to other highspeed connections.
If you have one computer (the one on the 2.5gbit link) streaming 300 DVDs in realtime, and another computer streaming 1 with an exremely jerky and possibly laggy DSL/cable connection, it will allow people to grasp the depth of the situation. Just showing that it's blindingly fast won't do anything for you if you can't provide a baseline from which the average joe can compare.
Somebody else suggested having it download "war and peace" over and over, while having a hard-copy sitting nearby so you could have something tangible to say "All of this information is being transferred from office to office in a matter of seconds. With this kind of highspeed link, e-mails with attachments the size of the statue of liberty would be received almost instantly." etc.
Geeks know what 2.5gbps gets you. Real people don't, and you need some way to contrast the power of their current internet connection with the power of the new proposed one.
Doing multiple things at once, if not the playing of multiple DVDs, is what's going to win people over. Streaming video gets the layperson response of "My TV does that" (as another commenter pointed out). However, if you can have a computer displaying every single cable channel available all at once or something along those lines, then THAT would be impressive to the average joe. Or perhaps a video conference with hundreds of remote parties? Each client connection would have its own bi-directional video stream, such that the clients could see the person doing the presentation, and the person presenting can tile 100 windows on a 2048x1280 (or whatever high resolution) screen, all showing a different person in a different place all in fluid motion, in realtime.
I had an idea a while ago to get large piezoelectric strips and put them in the roadways of the USA. They would power LEDs in the little road-top reflector thingies for enhanced roadway visibility. It'd be costly, but man it'd be cool!
Actually, I think they should make a website where they list all patents while they are "pending" for 90 days. During those 90 days, anybody who reads the pending patent(s) can submit proof of prior art to the USPTO, voiding the patent claim. All of this accomplished through volunteer work by anyone who wants to keep an eye out for his fellow man and keep a leash on the USPTO. (Read: geeks on their lunchbreaks will keep the USPTO in line.)
In much the same ways that people open the source of their projects so they can get hundreds of different opinions on their coding methods and practices, this kind of thing would allow for a general public peer review of all patent applications, and since it's a public peer review, there's really no limit to who might know of prior art and be able to submit proof.
Thoughts? I'm thinking about an "Ask Slashdot" on this topic: How do we clean up the mess which is the USPTO?
The way I understand it, this problem isn't a concern now. Now they're prototyping composite cored aluminum powerline which carries an optical signal through the composite core, uninterrupted by the electrical currents on the outer aluminum sheath. It's not so much "broadband over powerlines" as "powerlines over broadband" (har, har) but the end effect is the same: internet wherever you have power--what more could you ever ask for, really, besides power and internet?;)
I use one similar, but it has 4 ports. Is recognized as a USB joystick interface on both the Mac and the PC. I got mine off of ebay; search for: (PS2,PSX) to PC USB
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apply it to what? your fine crop of marijuana?
perhaps the person handing over the facts meant quieter in terms of RF emissions, and the writer mis-interpreted. Or maybe the japanese interpreter misinterpreted? The language barrier can be a bitch sometimes.
I'm no physicist but I know about the technology. He (Minato) is using Neodymium-Iron-Boron magnets (NdFeB -- google it) which do not have any appreciable demagnetization over a [projected] period of 1300 years.
I do honestly believe that magnets are mankind's greatest battery (greatest energy potential per unit volume), and learning to harness magnetic circuits will lead to the future of not only electricity generation, but cars that run on AA batteries--and not RC cars, either.
That makes baby jesus cry.
You're assuming that a conventional fuel or launch system would be used.
If you had a way to get into orbit with little to no fuel expenditure, you would barely need to take more fuel with you than you'd need to nudge yourself into a decaying orbit and start falling back to earth. A squirt gun filled with water might be enough for that.
I'm sure that the NSA can get some time on ASCI Q or Tungsten or ASCI White or some other supercomputer, if they ask nicely.
Mathematics is only a limitation if your funding and computing resources are zero.
I'm waiting for somebody to get arrested because of sniffed emails and then it'll turn out that he was playing a wargame-by-email or something and then the government will have some serious egg on their face. It'll happen, just you wait.
...Ashcroft, you're a fucking moron.
Do you know how many rapists, murderers, serial killers, hitmen, and girl scouts like pornography? DO YOU? If you take Penthouse off the shelves, people will be hunting you down at YOUR penthouse to give you a piece of their mind.
And some pieces of yours.
All over the room.
The last thing I think you want right now is more people that hate you with nothing but a lot of time on their hands.
If you, the (non-power) user, can write to the application's main executable file, then you can conceivably open it up in vi and put malicious machine code in there. Or, ideally, copy your trojan over the top of the application.
I think that's the issue being raised, not how file ownership affects installation or the like.
I saw a Russian film once, ironically entitled Stalker. It too made reference to "the zone" though not to chernobyl by name. Boring movie, painfully so. Didn't finish watching the whole thing. heh.
no pen? Victorinox already makes one with a pen in it...
What you really want though, is probably their "SwissCard Lite" which includes all the above-mentioned features, and the pen. (yes, even the rod. don't know if it's carbon-steel or not, but it's a rod. they call it a "pin")
In my experience as an in-home pc technician, in the residential sector it's more like four out of five. Especially if it's a household with children.
No, but people who leave their windows down and their keys in the ignition deserve to have their cars stolen.
Much more fair comparison, that.
well of course. how else would he make them sit still while figuring out what frequency of sound makes them explode?
Want to really throw them for a loop? Find a lady (or 600) without a safeway club card, and have her sign up under a man's name. Then, encourage her to only buy tampons and chocolate at Safeway using that card. Get as many people to do it as possible!
I think the important thing here isn't the 2.5gbit link itself, but how it performs in comparison to other highspeed connections.
If you have one computer (the one on the 2.5gbit link) streaming 300 DVDs in realtime, and another computer streaming 1 with an exremely jerky and possibly laggy DSL/cable connection, it will allow people to grasp the depth of the situation. Just showing that it's blindingly fast won't do anything for you if you can't provide a baseline from which the average joe can compare.
Somebody else suggested having it download "war and peace" over and over, while having a hard-copy sitting nearby so you could have something tangible to say "All of this information is being transferred from office to office in a matter of seconds. With this kind of highspeed link, e-mails with attachments the size of the statue of liberty would be received almost instantly." etc.
Geeks know what 2.5gbps gets you. Real people don't, and you need some way to contrast the power of their current internet connection with the power of the new proposed one.
Doing multiple things at once, if not the playing of multiple DVDs, is what's going to win people over. Streaming video gets the layperson response of "My TV does that" (as another commenter pointed out). However, if you can have a computer displaying every single cable channel available all at once or something along those lines, then THAT would be impressive to the average joe. Or perhaps a video conference with hundreds of remote parties? Each client connection would have its own bi-directional video stream, such that the clients could see the person doing the presentation, and the person presenting can tile 100 windows on a 2048x1280 (or whatever high resolution) screen, all showing a different person in a different place all in fluid motion, in realtime.
I had an idea a while ago to get large piezoelectric strips and put them in the roadways of the USA. They would power LEDs in the little road-top reflector thingies for enhanced roadway visibility. It'd be costly, but man it'd be cool!
Actually, I think they should make a website where they list all patents while they are "pending" for 90 days. During those 90 days, anybody who reads the pending patent(s) can submit proof of prior art to the USPTO, voiding the patent claim. All of this accomplished through volunteer work by anyone who wants to keep an eye out for his fellow man and keep a leash on the USPTO. (Read: geeks on their lunchbreaks will keep the USPTO in line.)
In much the same ways that people open the source of their projects so they can get hundreds of different opinions on their coding methods and practices, this kind of thing would allow for a general public peer review of all patent applications, and since it's a public peer review, there's really no limit to who might know of prior art and be able to submit proof.
Thoughts? I'm thinking about an "Ask Slashdot" on this topic: How do we clean up the mess which is the USPTO?
no, no you aren't. I sat here thinking "what the hell does Final Fantasy II have to do with Amazon.com?"
The way I understand it, this problem isn't a concern now. Now they're prototyping composite cored aluminum powerline which carries an optical signal through the composite core, uninterrupted by the electrical currents on the outer aluminum sheath. It's not so much "broadband over powerlines" as "powerlines over broadband" (har, har) but the end effect is the same: internet wherever you have power--what more could you ever ask for, really, besides power and internet? ;)
I use one similar, but it has 4 ports. Is recognized as a USB joystick interface on both the Mac and the PC. I got mine off of ebay; search for: (PS2,PSX) to PC USB
...and replace them with munchies!
You should probably read this article if you haven't already.
or install windows and play freelancer. It's rather scenic.
ooh! give us an example!
Wait! Let me guess, all the variables are named i1 through i99?