You have to wonder if a high R-Value wall with "traditional" solar panels, correctly oriented, along with LED monitor "windows" and daylight LED (or CFL) bulbs would be more energy efficient.
With LED monitors you could pick your location to match your mood. Summer in the Caribbean and winter in the Alps!
Well, the purpose of the poster in identifing the ROW was to demonstrate the Telcos dependance on the public and so in some way pressure the them into behaving in some consumer-friendly way.
Assuming you are correct in say that the Telcos pay fair "rent" for the ROW they use, then I'm totally confused as to the point of the exercise of identifying the ROW.
I tend to think that the Telcos impose less on the public purse than many other companies. Suggesting that, for example, a freight company (or any road user) pay the ACTUAL cost of using the road rather than the trifling fuel cost they currently pay would be heresy or that polluters pay for the cost of the damage they create, or that packagers pay for the cost of disposal no just manufacturing, etc. etc. etc.
All these are cost that we, or our elected officials, have decided the public will pay, so what the heck's the point of going after the Telco ROW?
Why would any of the Telcos (or anyone else) care that they're using public infrastructure? The current "free market" business model in the US it to get the government to pay for as much as you possibly can. Football teams get public money for stadiums, businesses that are "too big to fail" get handouts. Almost all companies use the public infrastructure. This model is strongly supported by both parties.
Well, it's not a research project, it's an engineering project. All the technology behind your build is well understood. There is nothing to reaseach (except for reading on the web).
So, if you could help providing additional advice and information, it would be awesome.
How did this make the front page of/.? It's not news or even a vaguely new idea.
Converting an SUV, or just about any fossil fuel vehicle to an EV is well understood. There are kits available for a good number of cars.
There's a lot of information here:
http://www.diyelectriccar.com/forums/
read it all. It will explain how to choose a good donor vehicle. An SUV might work, but choose a light one, preferably aerodynamic. Small (S10,ranger,etc.) pickup trucks are popular because you have carrying capacity for batteries (often under the bed).
Adding a range extender is extremely difficult, depending on how you do it. A generator charging the batteries is easy, but hopeless ineffiicient (and you need a big generator). Driving the wheels with either the existing engine, or the electric motor is do-able, but non-trivial and either solution has the weight of the electric drive-chain plus batteries and the fossil fuel drive chain.
If you really want some advice, convert a small car, or SUV to all-electric and develop a "pusher" trailer with a diesel or gas engine that you can hook up for longer journeys. There are already DIY and commercial plans for such trailers.
$50,000 is also excessive. Conversion kits run about $10K, add $10K of Lithiums, $20K if you choose something heavy and want a realistic range. Even if you start with a $10K donor your still not at $50K.
Anyone have contacts at Sapient (http://www.sapient.com/). As far as we can tell they own the rights to "ChessMates" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Mates Still probably the best program for teaching chess to young beginners.
Would seem to me they could get a good tax deduction by donating this IP to a chess charity of some sort and the game could get back in circulation.
The source reference always includes "Insurance" in with healthcare cost. Without reading the document, I assume that means things like unemployment insurance. Please don't drink the right wing cool-aid and ignore/manipulate the facts.
The healthcare cost for Greece is around 10% (whether you take the WHO numbers or OECD):
So, if we went to a single-payer system, like Greece, we'd spend less (whether it's tax dollars or the "hidden" tax of health insurance makes no difference) and get better coverage (as judged by a greater life expectancy).
The US spends the most of any Country (15+%) and still has people dying from curable diseases and people using emergency rooms as primary care facilities.
So, absent any viable argument that supports your position, I would say that you have a purely ideological objection.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) - the people US tax payers employ to calculate costs for them, have consistently said that the individual cost for health care would DECREASE with a Single Payer system (Candian/UK/everywhere else style system) and, of course, coverage would be universal. So if the Republicans were really interested in cutting the deficit, etc. etc. then this would be the way to go.
The Insurance Companies have spent huge sums of money to prevent Single Payer, which is, partly, why it doesn't exist in the US (yet).
What really surprises me is that the big companies, who have to deal with this health care debacle, haven't lobbied more for Single Payer. It would get them out of a huge adminstrative quagmire that has nothing to do with their business and can have a negative effect when they do something wrong (WalMart).
Oddly, Republicans ARE interested in a mandate, just that the mandate be on companies rather than individuals. From the same poll, 57% or Republicans favor subsiding health care for those who cannot afford it and 54% favor mandating that companies (50 employees and larger) provide coverage.
The right wing mouth pieces are spouting crap that even the average Republican doesn't agree with. In other words, the Republicans party is still listening to the loud, but minority, Tea Baggers.
Actually, there's a lot of opposition to the healthcare reform. The right oppose it for ideological reasons, and many on the left because it falls too far short of the universal health care that any civilized country should have.
Interestingly, the right's opposition is purely an ideological objection to "Obamacare". Opposition is 56% to 44% BUT if you ask about the different pieces (Reuters-Ipsos poll), 80% of Rebublicans favor creating "insurance pools", 52% favor letting kids stay on their parent's healthcare until age 26, 78% favor banning insurance from denying coverage for "pre-existing" conditions and 82% favor banning insurance companies from dropping sick people. The numbers are, of course, much higher amongst independents/democrats.
So, the right wing objects to Obamacare while favoring all the major provisions.
Except that, if I have a BS patent, I'm going to throw it against all of these guys with, say, a $5000 settlement price. That shakedown should work against most significant companies since just involving a lawyer to respond in any way will cost more.
The big companies have already asked for, and failed to get, patent reform that would prevent this. I would have thought that there would be enough entrepreneurs out there to apply this business model to have the big guys looking for real patent reform (eg end of software patents).
Um, is there any reason not to learn Mandarin? Immersed in the language and culture I doubt it would take you as much as a year to become competent in the language. What a great freeking oportunity. Your life in China will improve dramatically. If your technical skills are worth selling you could probably get a job (especially one where English is a plus), even if not, competency in Chinese would be fun and useful in just about any international company.
Take the job teaching English for 6-months, learn Mandarin then figure out what you want to do.
To start with, creating a government website is like trying to index the contents of a land fill. So much trash in so many places.
That's a feature not a bug.
Now, take the task that's virtually impossible with a full blown browser and make it work on a 3"x2" screen with a touch pad interface.
Much easier to make information difficult to find. A good start. Will still take a little spin go justify why all the text and important images have to be supersmall, but the name or photo of any politician who has a finger in the project will be easy to find and large, but that's not that difficult.
Yeah. All the tech people in the government have a complete WTF? look on their faces.
What? No, their real job, not the job we'd expect them to be doing, just go a lot easier.
An excellent opportunity to double the amount of babble presented making it twice as difficult to find the information you want and hide the fact that many things that we should know are just omitted.
As scientifically minded people, we have tendency to model systems. The only model that really fits most democratic systems is extreme cynicism. The politicians may not be exclusively power- and money-driven with just about total disregard for the will of the people, but if you apply a model based on that you can fairly accurately predict outcomes.
I've used SnapFish which is available in Europe (at least in the UK) and in the US.
I used to upload photos from the US and have them mailed to my mother directly from the UK - faster and cheaper than mailing from the US and I'd upload/print a small note to go along with them so she could keep up with what the grandchildren were doing. Mostly boring, day-to-day, family snapshots, but it helped to keep in touch with a computer-less, distant, elderly parent.
Downside is that when she died I got back about 2000 uninteresting, printed photos. Maybe the OP has a point and I should keep them around for the kids.
I think you missed the point.
If I set up an organization to grope people in libraries people have the option not to use the library, but that doesn't make my groping legal.
There are a bunch of JVMs for ARM (OpenJDK, JAMVM, etc.), but no free/open JDKs that have JITs.
The only open way I know of to get JIT performance is to run the Java classes through IKVMC and then use Mono with its ARM JIT.
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Technically, there's nothing that shows they are the SAME flags, just SOME flags.
You have to wonder if a high R-Value wall with "traditional" solar panels, correctly oriented, along with LED monitor "windows" and daylight LED (or CFL) bulbs would be more energy efficient.
With LED monitors you could pick your location to match your mood. Summer in the Caribbean and winter in the Alps!
Don't you need a warrant to go through someone's address book?
Well, the purpose of the poster in identifing the ROW was to demonstrate the Telcos dependance on the public and so in some way pressure the them into behaving in some consumer-friendly way.
Assuming you are correct in say that the Telcos pay fair "rent" for the ROW they use, then I'm totally confused as to the point of the exercise of identifying the ROW.
I tend to think that the Telcos impose less on the public purse than many other companies. Suggesting that, for example, a freight company (or any road user) pay the ACTUAL cost of using the road rather than the trifling fuel cost they currently pay would be heresy or that polluters pay for the cost of the damage they create, or that packagers pay for the cost of disposal no just manufacturing, etc. etc. etc.
All these are cost that we, or our elected officials, have decided the public will pay, so what the heck's the point of going after the Telco ROW?
Why would any of the Telcos (or anyone else) care that they're using public infrastructure? The current "free market" business model in the US it to get the government to pay for as much as you possibly can. Football teams get public money for stadiums, businesses that are "too big to fail" get handouts. Almost all companies use the public infrastructure. This model is strongly supported by both parties.
Well, we can be sure he'll either be on the "no fly list" or will never have a problem getting through security again. Sadly, I'd guess the former.
Well, it's not a research project, it's an engineering project. All the technology behind your build is well understood. There is nothing to reaseach (except for reading on the web).
So, if you could help providing additional advice and information, it would be awesome.
How did this make the front page of /.? It's not news or even a vaguely new idea.
Converting an SUV, or just about any fossil fuel vehicle to an EV is well understood. There are kits available for a good number of cars.
There's a lot of information here: http://www.diyelectriccar.com/forums/ read it all. It will explain how to choose a good donor vehicle. An SUV might work, but choose a light one, preferably aerodynamic. Small (S10,ranger,etc.) pickup trucks are popular because you have carrying capacity for batteries (often under the bed).
Adding a range extender is extremely difficult, depending on how you do it. A generator charging the batteries is easy, but hopeless ineffiicient (and you need a big generator). Driving the wheels with either the existing engine, or the electric motor is do-able, but non-trivial and either solution has the weight of the electric drive-chain plus batteries and the fossil fuel drive chain.
If you really want some advice, convert a small car, or SUV to all-electric and develop a "pusher" trailer with a diesel or gas engine that you can hook up for longer journeys. There are already DIY and commercial plans for such trailers.
$50,000 is also excessive. Conversion kits run about $10K, add $10K of Lithiums, $20K if you choose something heavy and want a realistic range. Even if you start with a $10K donor your still not at $50K.
Quite a saving on tech support, if you're too dumb to open the package, your WAAAYYY to dumb to use the product. Just return it now, please, unopened.
Self-driven cars will need to be able to drive with the flow of traffic to be safe
So will self-driven Cadillacs in Florida drive in the right lane with the left turn signal on constantly just to go with the flow?
Anyone have contacts at Sapient (http://www.sapient.com/). As far as we can tell they own the rights to "ChessMates" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Mates Still probably the best program for teaching chess to young beginners.
Would seem to me they could get a good tax deduction by donating this IP to a chess charity of some sort and the game could get back in circulation.
The source reference always includes "Insurance" in with healthcare cost. Without reading the document, I assume that means things like unemployment insurance. Please don't drink the right wing cool-aid and ignore/manipulate the facts.
The healthcare cost for Greece is around 10% (whether you take the WHO numbers or OECD):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_(PPP)_per_capita
Greece spends less per capita on health care than the US, has universal care and a longer life expectancy.
http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/spend.php
So, if we went to a single-payer system, like Greece, we'd spend less (whether it's tax dollars or the "hidden" tax of health insurance makes no difference) and get better coverage (as judged by a greater life expectancy).
The US spends the most of any Country (15+%) and still has people dying from curable diseases and people using emergency rooms as primary care facilities.
So, absent any viable argument that supports your position, I would say that you have a purely ideological objection.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) - the people US tax payers employ to calculate costs for them, have consistently said that the individual cost for health care would DECREASE with a Single Payer system (Candian/UK/everywhere else style system) and, of course, coverage would be universal. So if the Republicans were really interested in cutting the deficit, etc. etc. then this would be the way to go.
The Insurance Companies have spent huge sums of money to prevent Single Payer, which is, partly, why it doesn't exist in the US (yet).
What really surprises me is that the big companies, who have to deal with this health care debacle, haven't lobbied more for Single Payer. It would get them out of a huge adminstrative quagmire that has nothing to do with their business and can have a negative effect when they do something wrong (WalMart).
Oddly, Republicans ARE interested in a mandate, just that the mandate be on companies rather than individuals. From the same poll, 57% or Republicans favor subsiding health care for those who cannot afford it and 54% favor mandating that companies (50 employees and larger) provide coverage.
The right wing mouth pieces are spouting crap that even the average Republican doesn't agree with. In other words, the Republicans party is still listening to the loud, but minority, Tea Baggers.
Actually, there's a lot of opposition to the healthcare reform. The right oppose it for ideological reasons, and many on the left because it falls too far short of the universal health care that any civilized country should have.
Interestingly, the right's opposition is purely an ideological objection to "Obamacare". Opposition is 56% to 44% BUT if you ask about the different pieces (Reuters-Ipsos poll), 80% of Rebublicans favor creating "insurance pools", 52% favor letting kids stay on their parent's healthcare until age 26, 78% favor banning insurance from denying coverage for "pre-existing" conditions and 82% favor banning insurance companies from dropping sick people. The numbers are, of course, much higher amongst independents/democrats.
So, the right wing objects to Obamacare while favoring all the major provisions.
Except that, if I have a BS patent, I'm going to throw it against all of these guys with, say, a $5000 settlement price. That shakedown should work against most significant companies since just involving a lawyer to respond in any way will cost more. The big companies have already asked for, and failed to get, patent reform that would prevent this. I would have thought that there would be enough entrepreneurs out there to apply this business model to have the big guys looking for real patent reform (eg end of software patents).
1. Sell failed product on eBay
2. Wait for community Android port
3. Re-introduce device with an OS people care about
4. Profit!
Although in the case of HP we seem to have:
3a. Introduce Win 8 tablet, go back to 1.
Maybe RIM can do better.
Um, is there any reason not to learn Mandarin? Immersed in the language and culture I doubt it would take you as much as a year to become competent in the language. What a great freeking oportunity. Your life in China will improve dramatically. If your technical skills are worth selling you could probably get a job (especially one where English is a plus), even if not, competency in Chinese would be fun and useful in just about any international company.
Take the job teaching English for 6-months, learn Mandarin then figure out what you want to do.
Monolingualism is not a disease without a cure.
To start with, creating a government website is like trying to index the contents of a land fill. So much trash in so many places.
That's a feature not a bug.
Now, take the task that's virtually impossible with a full blown browser and make it work on a 3"x2" screen with a touch pad interface.
Much easier to make information difficult to find. A good start. Will still take a little spin go justify why all the text and important images have to be supersmall, but the name or photo of any politician who has a finger in the project will be easy to find and large, but that's not that difficult.
Yeah. All the tech people in the government have a complete WTF? look on their faces.
What? No, their real job, not the job we'd expect them to be doing, just go a lot easier.
An excellent opportunity to double the amount of babble presented making it twice as difficult to find the information you want and hide the fact that many things that we should know are just omitted.
As scientifically minded people, we have tendency to model systems. The only model that really fits most democratic systems is extreme cynicism. The politicians may not be exclusively power- and money-driven with just about total disregard for the will of the people, but if you apply a model based on that you can fairly accurately predict outcomes.
prices vary across the board for converter replacements, whether diesel or gasoline.
Right, so what's the "expensive exhaust" and diesel. They're both expensive.
expensive exhaust systems
So the $500+ I've just spent on new Catlytic converters for a gasoline engine wasn't?
See, they saved us from latest Underware bomber, we should all be happy that they're keeping us safe!
Oh, wait, what? That was just old fashioned intelligence and police work and a hyped non-threat?
Well no matter, we must need better more intrusive scanners then they'll be able to save us next time!
I've used SnapFish which is available in Europe (at least in the UK) and in the US. I used to upload photos from the US and have them mailed to my mother directly from the UK - faster and cheaper than mailing from the US and I'd upload/print a small note to go along with them so she could keep up with what the grandchildren were doing. Mostly boring, day-to-day, family snapshots, but it helped to keep in touch with a computer-less, distant, elderly parent. Downside is that when she died I got back about 2000 uninteresting, printed photos. Maybe the OP has a point and I should keep them around for the kids.
I think you missed the point.
If I set up an organization to grope people in libraries people have the option not to use the library, but that doesn't make my groping legal.
There are a bunch of JVMs for ARM (OpenJDK, JAMVM, etc.), but no free/open JDKs that have JITs. The only open way I know of to get JIT performance is to run the Java classes through IKVMC and then use Mono with its ARM JIT.