Drive on the right side of the road? Ooh, that's a severe violation in England Actually it isn't. It's perfectly legal to use the whole carriageway as long as it's safe to do so.
Which basically tape over an existing screen, LCD or CRT. I briefly investigated them for an epos system I was putting together but eventually decided on a ELO screen, why add hassle you don't need.
They are right now creating their own currency for trading oil. What this means is that we will all have to buy their currency in order to pay them for their oil. Essentially they'll get paid twice for the oil.
What makes currency traders, central bank managers, and others who work with the U.S. Dollar lose sleep is the fear that some day soon, the rest of the OPEC countries will announce a switch from selling crude oil in Dollars to Euros. They're already dumping their reserve of US debt, hence the falling dollar and increasing interest rates. What would happen is that euros would become the reserve currency. Now, this means that the Euro would be in great demand, the central banks would need to hold trillions worth of the stuff and the value of a Euro would increase dramatically.
It would also be a bad thing for Europe, because we would see our pump prices jump by at least 40%, and more likely the increase would be close to 100% as the world economies adjusted to the new "base" currency. In fact the reverse would happen. Everything would start to become cheaper, including gas. The Euro would gain huge amounts of buying power. Given 30 years the Euro and europeans would be in the same position as the dollar is now. The politicians would be printing them with abandon to finance their pet war and europeans would be fat and lazy because of the flood of cheap imports, jobs would be flooding abroad even faster because the europeans are too expensive.
I can never work out whether a strong pound is good or bad for Britain - whichever sector is hurt by the current situation always screams about it so loudly you'd think the world was coming to an end. As you surmised, it's good for some people, bad for others. It's neither good nor bad overall for Britain. The main problem is that industry has strong lobby groups who shout loudest at the government to drive the currency in one direction or another to further their own personal interest at the expense of the rest of the population within the country.
They could sell it on to a distributor in exactly the same way they will with the $100 OLPC laptop. They'd just get a little more for it. They'll then go spend the money on things they really need instead.
American products and Americans are still overpriced relative to their European counterparts even with that drop in the dollar. Just goes to show how distorted an economy can become when it's based on the currency being the oil reserve currency.
Mmmmm, compelling proposition there. Course, what they should have done is made sure that MS Office was subtly broken on XP. Well, you never know, now I've made that particular suggestion on this highly read web site we might well see that feature in future windows updates.
and some clever quantum effects. All chemical processes involve some clever quantum effects.
Such a mechanism would not have evolved unless either: Or C. The existing blue & red process produces more total energy for the same input than other processes.
However, it is by no means obvious that there is not a much simpler photosynthetic pathway using a single photon absorbtion, and it did not evolve simply because the conditions at the time - the predominant biochemistry of the bacteria and the wavelengths of light falling on them - were not suitable. You seem to be assuming that evolution has in some way stopped. If the pathway you suggest was significantly better, more energy producing then surely there's a pretty good chance that there would be some plants/bacteria out there using it and they should in theory be more successful than the existing green ones.
This is almost tautologic. Almost. Except my argument is that it's the energy production of the specific chemical process which produces the most energy for the plant rather than the amount of energy shining down on the plant.
i.e. It's my argument that chlorophyll produces more energy for less effort than entirely different chemical processes which make use of more abundant wavelengths. Basically, plants are chemical factories which require specific compounds and processes to function, they're not heat engines which can use arbitrary energy. Or. It's the output which matters to the plant, not the input.
ow, we'll have great roads to places we wouldn't have gone in the first place, and crappy roads to very promising and desirable places. If you contro, here people can go easily, you control the economy. Sorry, this is utter, utter junk. What're you, a sheep?
Nobody would bother to build a road to a location people didn't want to go, huge investment, fuck all traffic, and they'd make much more money building more roads to places people do want to go.
Even then the analogy is bollocks because you can choose your ISP. If one is crap, then there are plenty of others.
Specific wavelengths of light are required to kick the electrons in specific molecules into the required energy level... i.e. Plants are green because red & blue light is required for a successful sequence of highly specific chemical reactions.
It has nothing to do with total levels of energy absorbed from the sun, but the energy produced by the chemical reaction which is triggered by photons. Or, plants are powered by chemicals, not by heat.
What he's really talking about is the Network Effect, but doesn't seem to realise. The Network effect is why we speak national languages instead of reegional ones, why some form of English is ultimately going to replace all others, why TCP/IP is the only protocol our machines talk now. Why all keyboards are querty. Why we use the same currencies, why we all drive on the same side of the road. There is utility in all things being the same.
It also applies to user interfaces, libraries, operating systems etc but to a much weaker level. This simply means that it takes longer for the users of the various interfaces, libraries, development tools to converge on the same solution. The need can't particularly great because if it was, the convergence would be happening far quicker. It'll happen over time in the Linux environment, in the meantime, the market is going through the various Linux softwares and choosing the one which fits their needs best.
But then it would always take you a "faster" route that you've never taken before Well, yes, it would take you a few "faster" routes. But there just aren't that many different reasonable routes to any particular location. I don't think you would be late, each of the routes is theoretically faster than the existing one. At the very least you'd learn back routes to your destination.
Now maybe if you could get it to share information with others.. hmm... An 802.11b or Bluetooth connection would make fast learning possible.
ok so. 7.45 I leave for work every day and every day my satnav tells me the fastest route to take[1] based on the speed limit of the various roads. However, there are traffic lights and traffic on the route suggested, I can't get anywhere near the speed limit... The satnav is operating on incorrect information.
However. It knows the true average speed along those roads at those times of day because it's actually following the route. All it has to do is to store, and use the stored average speed information for that road at that time on that day of the week. It can automatically take a different/faster route if I happen to delay and hit the school run. I want a satnav that learns this average information as it travels.
[1] I use it for the Estimated Time of Arrival and detour features.
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Next step is to develop artificial intelligence so the computer will do it all for you.
Then you will have truly mastered the art of the sysadmin.
The people get the government they deserve.
Commonly attributed to a line in Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy In America", though I couldn't find it.
"Accidentally" send faxes to the phone numbers in their advertisement.
Which basically tape over an existing screen, LCD or CRT. I briefly investigated them for an epos system I was putting together but eventually decided on a ELO screen, why add hassle you don't need.
e.g.
http://www.magictouch.com/builtin.html
Given a few years, they'll be built into almost all screens.
Bargain... Just like most other transit projects...
At least, not in the longer term...
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They are right now creating their own currency for trading oil. What this means is that we will all have to buy their currency in order to pay them for their oil. Essentially they'll get paid twice for the oil.
e.g.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/30/business/g
This is a horrible way to do it. Whip out the hard disks and turn them into Thinstations or LTSP systems. Even the old pentiums.
Turn what's left of the better machines into an array of X servers.
They could sell it on to a distributor in exactly the same way they will with the $100 OLPC laptop. They'd just get a little more for it. They'll then go spend the money on things they really need instead.
Till I can order a dozen on Ebay.
American products and Americans are still overpriced relative to their European counterparts even with that drop in the dollar. Just goes to show how distorted an economy can become when it's based on the currency being the oil reserve currency.
Course. There's also the quality problem as well.
Ping!
Same old, same old. But with a few extra hassles.
Mmmmm, compelling proposition there. Course, what they should have done is made sure that MS Office was subtly broken on XP. Well, you never know, now I've made that particular suggestion on this highly read web site we might well see that feature in future windows updates.
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Bring back wolves.
i.e.
It's my argument that chlorophyll produces more energy for less effort than entirely different chemical processes which make use of more abundant wavelengths. Basically, plants are chemical factories which require specific compounds and processes to function, they're not heat engines which can use arbitrary energy. Or. It's the output which matters to the plant, not the input.
Nobody would bother to build a road to a location people didn't want to go, huge investment, fuck all traffic, and they'd make much more money building more roads to places people do want to go.
Even then the analogy is bollocks because you can choose your ISP. If one is crap, then there are plenty of others.
Specific wavelengths of light are required to kick the electrons in specific molecules into the required energy level... i.e. Plants are green because red & blue light is required for a successful sequence of highly specific chemical reactions.
It has nothing to do with total levels of energy absorbed from the sun, but the energy produced by the chemical reaction which is triggered by photons. Or, plants are powered by chemicals, not by heat.
What he's really talking about is the Network Effect, but doesn't seem to realise. The Network effect is why we speak national languages instead of reegional ones, why some form of English is ultimately going to replace all others, why TCP/IP is the only protocol our machines talk now. Why all keyboards are querty. Why we use the same currencies, why we all drive on the same side of the road. There is utility in all things being the same.
It also applies to user interfaces, libraries, operating systems etc but to a much weaker level. This simply means that it takes longer for the users of the various interfaces, libraries, development tools to converge on the same solution. The need can't particularly great because if it was, the convergence would be happening far quicker. It'll happen over time in the Linux environment, in the meantime, the market is going through the various Linux softwares and choosing the one which fits their needs best.
The growth is almost certainly more to do with the M3 figures.
ok so. 7.45 I leave for work every day and every day my satnav tells me the fastest route to take[1] based on the speed limit of the various roads. However, there are traffic lights and traffic on the route suggested, I can't get anywhere near the speed limit... The satnav is operating on incorrect information.
However. It knows the true average speed along those roads at those times of day because it's actually following the route. All it has to do is to store, and use the stored average speed information for that road at that time on that day of the week. It can automatically take a different/faster route if I happen to delay and hit the school run. I want a satnav that learns this average information as it travels.
[1] I use it for the Estimated Time of Arrival and detour features.