Li, with the 3 electrons make pretty good batteries - but there isn't anything that is going to improve them by a factor of 100 that it would take to make them competitive with fuels.
Of course they don't understand - or they wouldn't have written such a silly article. If you take the cost of the batteries/(cycle life * capacity) you get a cost of delivering the power (pretending that the charging power was somehow free). This number is magnitudes too high for any practical system.
Sounds like you guys are really new to the *nix world. If you have Linux friendly hardware it is really easier than installing windoze these days.
If you are using a proprietary DB vendor you really don't understand how to best make use of opensource and are locked in anyway.
As far as support, I hear this all the time, but don't get it. I find the free support of the community fixes things faster than any paid support I've ever used. (I've used almost all of them). The differences betweent he distributions are actually very small and someone with experience with RedHat would have no problem supporting Debian or Susie.
I have tried OO several times and always go back to ABIword gnumeric nvu (nvu is for html development). OO is just to heavy. The beauty of GLP-open-source is the real competition between the parts and pieces, a software suite just isn't going to shine. They should break OO into it's component parts if they want it to get better.
No matter how you transmit the power, you still have to drive the gate capacitance and that takes a little bit of power. My hunch is that the writer didn't understand anything they guy said and was just winging it to the publics detriment.
You can dissipate power by radiating when you don't want to - may ways around this.
From what I understand the lead leaching out of landfills is from the broken lead containing glass of CRT tubes not from solder.
Now this is what happens. Lead ore in the form of oxides in the ground is toxic. It gets smelted down to metallic lead which is less toxic. Then alloyed with Tin and even less toxic. Then used as solder and put back in the ground.
On the other hand, the no-lead substitutes are less reliable and cause electronics to have shorter life-spans and thus fill up land-fills. The no lead devices also are finding their way into life critical electronics (or used in a life critical way (think cell phone)) and cause more people to die.
I suppose we have reached the tipping point, but M$ hasn't figured it out yet. (They have their heads in the cloud computing buzz). I never thought that Taiwanese house-wives would be the ones to trigger the change - EEE-PC and all. How to short M$ stock with some kind of long term move?
Cloud computing is just a recycled bad idea. When the mainframe went down - all work stoped - things got better with PCs. If a local machine goes down, just that work stops. If you want to risk your competition mining your contacts, use cloud computing. If you think the *.doc file lock-in has cost you - just wait for cloud computing. If you want someone else to determine which version of software you will run, use cloud computing.
M$ thinks it is their future (now that they are losing the desktop) - lots of easy marks will use the cloud.
Looks like most slash-dotters don't understand why PV are not going to be powering the grid any time soon. If you really want to understand, I advise going to http://www.tinaja.com/ and search on PV.
In the mean time - this struck me as being on the same level of wasting recourses as the failed pig-iron production of the communist era. Some things don't do well on the small scale (small is often not at all beautiful if you have any hope of being practical).
The very best in PV are tying to get to $1/watt (not there). The reality is they will not be practical unless they can reach $0.10/watt. This magnitude of improvement has fundamentals to overcome.
Remember these are government workers - don't expect any of this was competent. I don't know if he was innocent or not, and I doubt we will ever know - in the mean time, this takes the heat off the law men.
I just don't think I trust the government anymore -- they are all telling too many lies:
Hmm Republicans no longer stand for small government and Democrats no longer stand for personal freedoms - time for a third party - You might consider voting Libertarian this year?
Software in the Public Interest Should be your first step. (Supporting Debian indirectly supports your interests as many packages are sourced from there)
I was thinking the same thing. If randomness is needed, getting it reliably from garbage left in memory is a REALLY_BAD_IDEA! Either it is needed or it isn't!
Slashdot Mirror
A patent is a license to enrich ones lawyer. - kps
Once you read Don's writings on this topic - there isn't much left to be said.
See:
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=003767467503737118174%3Aw_hild2gcro&q=patents&sa=Search+Guru's+Lair&cof=FORID%3A0#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=patents&gsc.page=1
Someone should note that kde4 did not appear in Debian stable until it was ready. I just run stable and miss all the trouble..
My take also -- M$ has been reduced to lying - I love it!
Li, with the 3 electrons make pretty good batteries - but there isn't anything that is going to improve them by a factor of 100 that it would take to make them competitive with fuels.
Of course it is Vista re-branded.. Look at the driver lists..
Well, there is R and kicad -there are 26951 packages in Debian right now - not sure how many are research related.
wajig listall |grep science
beneath-a-steel-sky - a science fiction adventure game
science-astronomy - Debian Science Astronomy packages
science-biology - Debian Science Biology packages
science-chemistry - Debian Science Chemistry packages
science-config - Debian Science Project config package
science-electronics - Debian Science Electronics packages
science-engineering - Debian Science Engineering packages
science-geography - Debian Science Geography packages
science-linguistics - Debian Science Linguistics packages
science-mathematics - Debian Science Mathematics packages
science-mathematics-dev - Debian Science Mathematics-dev packages
science-physics - Debian Science Physics packages
science-robotics - Debian Robotics packages
science-statistics - Debian Science Statistics packages
science-tasks - Debian Science tasks for tasksel
science-typesetting - Debian Science typesetting packages
science-viewing - Debian Science data visualisation packages
texlive-science-doc TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-science
texlive-science TeX Live: Typesetting for natural and computer sciences
zope-zms Content management for science, technology and medicine
med-pharmacy Debian Med packages for pharmaceutical research
Of course they don't understand - or they wouldn't have written such a silly article. If you take the cost of the batteries/(cycle life * capacity) you get a cost of delivering the power (pretending that the charging power was somehow free). This number is magnitudes too high for any practical system.
Sounds like you guys are really new to the *nix world. If you have Linux friendly hardware it is really easier than installing windoze these days.
If you are using a proprietary DB vendor you really don't understand how to best make use of opensource and are locked in anyway.
As far as support, I hear this all the time, but don't get it. I find the free support of the community fixes things faster than any paid support I've ever used. (I've used almost all of them). The differences betweent he distributions are actually very small and someone with experience with RedHat would have no problem supporting Debian or Susie.
There is this thing called energy density. http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/Energy_density
Also - suppose you store a large amount of power in a flywheel - if it ever fails it will be released in ways that make even Hydrogen look safe.
I have tried OO several times and always go back to ABIword gnumeric nvu (nvu is for html development). OO is just to heavy. The beauty of GLP-open-source is the real competition between the parts and pieces, a software suite just isn't going to shine. They should break OO into it's component parts if they want it to get better.
I left M$ because of lock in. If you don't want to get locked in, think of Debian or at least Ubuntu.
To work on open software and retain rights to the contibution is not at all in the spirit of GPL-Opensource software.
In other words, it is useless as a way to power a car. Energy density matters.
No matter how you transmit the power, you still have to drive the gate capacitance and that takes a little bit of power. My hunch is that the writer didn't understand anything they guy said and was just winging it to the publics detriment.
You can dissipate power by radiating when you don't want to - may ways around this.
Of course that totally ignores shipping modules available for OSCommerce such as tship I suppose you work for one of the proprietary firms??
Best to own your own computer programs and SMTP server. If this stands, it has profound implications.
From what I understand the lead leaching out of landfills is from the broken lead containing glass of CRT tubes not from solder.
Now this is what happens. Lead ore in the form of oxides in the ground is toxic. It gets smelted down to metallic lead which is less toxic. Then alloyed with Tin and even less toxic. Then used as solder and put back in the ground.
On the other hand, the no-lead substitutes are less reliable and cause electronics to have shorter life-spans and thus fill up land-fills. The no lead devices also are finding their way into life critical electronics (or used in a life critical way (think cell phone)) and cause more people to die.
Is this really progress?
I suppose we have reached the tipping point, but M$ hasn't figured it out yet. (They have their heads in the cloud computing buzz). I never thought that Taiwanese house-wives would be the ones to trigger the change - EEE-PC and all. How to short M$ stock with some kind of long term move?
Cloud computing is just a recycled bad idea. When the mainframe went down - all work stoped - things got better with PCs. If a local machine goes down, just that work stops. If you want to risk your competition mining your contacts, use cloud computing. If you think the *.doc file lock-in has cost you - just wait for cloud computing. If you want someone else to determine which version of software you will run, use cloud computing.
M$ thinks it is their future (now that they are losing the desktop) - lots of easy marks will use the cloud.
Looks like most slash-dotters don't understand why PV are not going to be powering the grid any time soon. If you really want to understand, I advise going to http://www.tinaja.com/ and search on PV.
In the mean time - this struck me as being on the same level of wasting recourses as the failed pig-iron production of the communist era. Some things don't do well on the small scale (small is often not at all beautiful if you have any hope of being practical).
The very best in PV are tying to get to $1/watt (not there). The reality is they will not be practical unless they can reach $0.10/watt. This magnitude of improvement has fundamentals to overcome.
Remember these are government workers - don't expect any of this was competent. I don't know if he was innocent or not, and I doubt we will ever know - in the mean time, this takes the heat off the law men.
I just don't think I trust the government anymore -- they are all telling too many lies:
Here are some government lies
You got it - Linux is getting big in the Philippines. The school system has started using it.
link
link2
Hmm Republicans no longer stand for small government and Democrats no longer stand for personal freedoms - time for a third party - You might consider voting Libertarian this year?
Software in the Public Interest Should be your first step.
(Supporting Debian indirectly supports your interests as many packages are sourced from there)
http://www.spi-inc.org/projects
Also see gnome friends and kde.
I also recommend supporting wine.
To change-out server keys:
/etc/ssh
Had to change out all the other machines.
if you
$ cd
$ rm ssh_host*
$ wajig reconfigure openssh-server
changing user keys - become user and ssh-keygen
You may have to fiddle with knownhosts and authorized_hosts as documented many places..
I was thinking the same thing. If randomness is needed, getting it reliably from garbage left in memory is a REALLY_BAD_IDEA! Either it is needed or it isn't!