"You could launch a bunch of cells into space and transmit the power back to earth for less money than that."
Solar power will become baseload when we can generate it in space, but before that can happen we will have to wait for a lot of Chinese infrastructure development, such as asteroidal mining of the base metals needed.
Is there a "Ten Most Expensive" gallery that actually works? This one shows me three projects and then collapses into advertising and coming attractions without presenting the next link.
It's a certainty that at some point the bad guys of this world will start using CRISPR. This makes it doubly important that the good guys get good at using it.
"I did a quick calc and for a town of 20,000 using water conservatively, it would take 6 football field size solar arrays to supply water for personal use..."
Think of San Luis Obispo as a possible location. The solar arrays could be sited in the sheltered arm of Avila Beach, feeding a pipeline run up Hwy 101 into town.
No, in fact I think it's glorious that renewables advocates are getting hit by these cranks too. This is our best chance to finally get NIMBYs laughed off the political stage.
I'm not claiming that solar desalination would satisfy the needs of California, but that it would be a good usage match for intermediate-scale wind and solar as power sources. A number of California coastal towns are already building small desalination plants for their own water supply. Once the culturally influential coastal population gets used to desalinated water, the idea will spread inland. This will require a new generation of large baseload power plants. More nuclear jobs for Arizona!
Take a look at the Adore Me site. It advertises "advantages of membership" right on the first page, making the subscription model as obvious as Columbia House.
Desalination is an ideal use for fluctuating power sources, so long as you can find enough sheltered bays and estuaries to float them. Hawaii has a particular problem finding a carbon-free power source that will work on scattered islands, and has quite a few locations where these panels could be located.
But the real potential for this idea would be the atolls of the south Pacific. These places rely on diesel generators now, and generally have a small number of users who have no need for an industrial baseload.
There is no legal risk if you have half a brain. The hotel manager was an idiot to sign the original contract. If you hire someone to do any work that involves IP, you make darn sure the contract says "work for hire", and that the contractee has full rights to anything produced. If the photographer doesn't agree to the terms, then find another photographer, which should take about five minutes.
We're talking about European law here, though, under which workers have rights. If bad faith on top of IP theft can be shown, perhaps a payout like this might work in their system.
To get this kind of legal payday, we would have to find a puddle of pee at Walmart to slip and fall in.
Just for grins, I just actually tried doing this. Yes, the context menu action Create MP3 Version works, in the same sense that scrubbing the bathroom tile with a toothbrush will eventually get the floor clean. Each right-clicked track gets its export version plopped down inline in the source library, with nothing to indicate which is the copy and which is the original. Okay, the copy appears to be the second of each pair. When I do a Create Mp3 Version on a whole album, the converted tracks appear interleaved with the originals, just to make life really interesting. So in my output folder I manually create a subfolder for the album, and then drag converted tracks to it one by one, hoping that I get all the MP3. Then I have to separately delete each one from the library. I'm operating on an iMac under El Capitan.
A real Export dialog works like this: I select the albums I want to export, select a format, and designate an output folder. When I hit Go, the album titles are exported as subfolders containing each track in the designated format. I now have a utility that does this, which is high-rated in App Store precisely because everyone wishes that iTunes still worked this way.
"Think about a smart fluid which could be made much more viscous by a radio signal. "
But make sure that you get back all copies of the penile remote in your divorce settlement. In the middle of a hot date, you wouldn't want your ex pressing the 'deflate' button.
"every respectable totally open access journal... has fees about the same as all the well established journals in the same field."
No they don't. What you mean is that most of the prestige journals have an option they call 'open access' which means articles not paywalled to the reader. They charge the same exorbitant page fees to the author, and have the same requirement that his IP be signed away for no compensation, as for the paywall-publication route. The fake 'open access' option is nothing but a fig leaf allowing the journal to claim it is part of the new world.
A real open access journal costs nothing to run except the costs of maintaining a website and salaries for the small full-time staff. Just as with the prestige journals nobody else in the chain gets paid. The submission cost for a paper is thus minuscule.
There used to be an Export facility in iTunes. Inexplicably, it was taken out in version 11. App Store has third-party utilities for accessing your library and pulling off songs in the MP3 format readable by car audio. Other utilities are available for cleaning up the resource-fork mess left by the first export utility on your SD card.
Peer review is what separates the wheat from the chaff. Like all other parts of the publishing process, peer review can operate even more easily as part of an online site than on paper. But in the time when science was published on paper, some journals accumulated more prestige than others. The only reason these journals still exist is they coast on the prestige acquired in the days of paper. Because journals, even the most prestigious of them never paid the reviewers who defined the very exclusivity of the publication, there is no reason for reviewers not to jump ship to the online world. Researchers and libraries will do it because it saves them a pile of money, while reviewers will be in the same financial position as always. There is no reason whatever to keep churning out those dead-tree buggy whips.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm talking about the steel, etc. used for large support structures and wiring. The cells themselves will probably have to be exported from Earth.
And you never mentioned Futurama.
"We should first create AI before we start selling it on fucking USB sticks."
It's a neural network on a stick. It's up to you too try to make it usable as an AI.
"You could launch a bunch of cells into space and transmit the power back to earth for less money than that."
Solar power will become baseload when we can generate it in space, but before that can happen we will have to wait for a lot of Chinese infrastructure development, such as asteroidal mining of the base metals needed.
Is there a "Ten Most Expensive" gallery that actually works? This one shows me three projects and then collapses into advertising and coming attractions without presenting the next link.
Point proven, though.
It's a certainty that at some point the bad guys of this world will start using CRISPR. This makes it doubly important that the good guys get good at using it.
"I did a quick calc and for a town of 20,000 using water conservatively, it would take 6 football field size solar arrays to supply water for personal use..."
Think of San Luis Obispo as a possible location. The solar arrays could be sited in the sheltered arm of Avila Beach, feeding a pipeline run up Hwy 101 into town.
"I think you forgot about the NIMBYs."
No, in fact I think it's glorious that renewables advocates are getting hit by these cranks too. This is our best chance to finally get NIMBYs laughed off the political stage.
I'm not claiming that solar desalination would satisfy the needs of California, but that it would be a good usage match for intermediate-scale wind and solar as power sources. A number of California coastal towns are already building small desalination plants for their own water supply. Once the culturally influential coastal population gets used to desalinated water, the idea will spread inland. This will require a new generation of large baseload power plants. More nuclear jobs for Arizona!
Take a look at the Adore Me site. It advertises "advantages of membership" right on the first page, making the subscription model as obvious as Columbia House.
Desalination is an ideal use for fluctuating power sources, so long as you can find enough sheltered bays and estuaries to float them. Hawaii has a particular problem finding a carbon-free power source that will work on scattered islands, and has quite a few locations where these panels could be located.
But the real potential for this idea would be the atolls of the south Pacific. These places rely on diesel generators now, and generally have a small number of users who have no need for an industrial baseload.
Copyright laws are negotiated through international treaties. That includes circumventing geographical restrictions. Australia is in violation.
Good for Australia in this case. The rest of us will follow shortly.
There is no legal risk if you have half a brain. The hotel manager was an idiot to sign the original contract. If you hire someone to do any work that involves IP, you make darn sure the contract says "work for hire", and that the contractee has full rights to anything produced. If the photographer doesn't agree to the terms, then find another photographer, which should take about five minutes.
We're talking about European law here, though, under which workers have rights. If bad faith on top of IP theft can be shown, perhaps a payout like this might work in their system.
To get this kind of legal payday, we would have to find a puddle of pee at Walmart to slip and fall in.
Has Klingon ever been officially released to open source, like Swift?
You're arguing for more stories on the cultural impact of science and technology, which would be great. This one is not an example.
Just for grins, I just actually tried doing this. Yes, the context menu action Create MP3 Version works, in the same sense that scrubbing the bathroom tile with a toothbrush will eventually get the floor clean. Each right-clicked track gets its export version plopped down inline in the source library, with nothing to indicate which is the copy and which is the original. Okay, the copy appears to be the second of each pair. When I do a Create Mp3 Version on a whole album, the converted tracks appear interleaved with the originals, just to make life really interesting. So in my output folder I manually create a subfolder for the album, and then drag converted tracks to it one by one, hoping that I get all the MP3. Then I have to separately delete each one from the library. I'm operating on an iMac under El Capitan.
A real Export dialog works like this: I select the albums I want to export, select a format, and designate an output folder. When I hit Go, the album titles are exported as subfolders containing each track in the designated format. I now have a utility that does this, which is high-rated in App Store precisely because everyone wishes that iTunes still worked this way.
Don't judge all Apple software by iTunes.
An hour to boot up Windows? What's the boot time if you disable Norton?
"Think about a smart fluid which could be made much more viscous by a radio signal. "
But make sure that you get back all copies of the penile remote in your divorce settlement. In the middle of a hot date, you wouldn't want your ex pressing the 'deflate' button.
"every respectable totally open access journal... has fees about the same as all the well established journals in the same field."
No they don't. What you mean is that most of the prestige journals have an option they call 'open access' which means articles not paywalled to the reader. They charge the same exorbitant page fees to the author, and have the same requirement that his IP be signed away for no compensation, as for the paywall-publication route. The fake 'open access' option is nothing but a fig leaf allowing the journal to claim it is part of the new world.
A real open access journal costs nothing to run except the costs of maintaining a website and salaries for the small full-time staff. Just as with the prestige journals nobody else in the chain gets paid. The submission cost for a paper is thus minuscule.
"And then we have stupidity like this bogus story [now8news.com]"
I hope that when this guy starts dating agin, he understands that neigh means neigh.
There used to be an Export facility in iTunes. Inexplicably, it was taken out in version 11. App Store has third-party utilities for accessing your library and pulling off songs in the MP3 format readable by car audio. Other utilities are available for cleaning up the resource-fork mess left by the first export utility on your SD card.
Yes, what has made Chinese kids fat is capitalism. Those 20-hour workdays in Mao's fields have been replaced by online gaming.
Perhaps the logical cure is to introduce Western-style hipsterism in China. Let them eat kale.
Obesity explosion is nothing new, Monty Python did it years ago.
Get the bloody bucket!
Peer review is what separates the wheat from the chaff. Like all other parts of the publishing process, peer review can operate even more easily as part of an online site than on paper. But in the time when science was published on paper, some journals accumulated more prestige than others. The only reason these journals still exist is they coast on the prestige acquired in the days of paper. Because journals, even the most prestigious of them never paid the reviewers who defined the very exclusivity of the publication, there is no reason for reviewers not to jump ship to the online world. Researchers and libraries will do it because it saves them a pile of money, while reviewers will be in the same financial position as always. There is no reason whatever to keep churning out those dead-tree buggy whips.