There is already a to-scale model of Little Boy in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. It is quite disturbing seeing it, but a visit to the museum is a difficult experience generally.
It looks like the world's elite have mostly given up on technology as a solution to increasing scarcity/cost of (jet) fuel and decided to solve the problem instead by reducing the availability of air travel. The price of ever more scarce kerosene doesn't increase when it is no longer economical for most people to fly and a great many carriers have gone bust due to the drop in custom.
I think in the near future air travel will once again cease to be a mode of mass transit and return to the exclusive realm of the super-rich. In this case it won't matter what fuels the jets as there will be more than enough of it at an acceptable (economic/environmental) cost to go round.
"Fields and applications that could benefit from their work are numerous, including computational models to solve problems in nuclear medicine, computer graphic design, and finance."
Sorry, that laptop in the article just looks lop-sided and ugly with the sidecar-screen pulled out. Once somebody does a triptych version, let me know.
Personally I'd miss sodium vapor street lights if LED replacements became fashionable. Perhaps it is a romantic notion, but it seems to be that one of the reasons sodium lamps have become so popular is that the orange light they emit is reminiscent of fire, and in colder northern climates their warm glow is comforting to people at some deep instinctual level.
It's great that Intel are working on die shrinks for their processors, but I wish they would do the same for their support chipsets. It's annoying that on most laptops the northbridge for Atom processors uses more power than the processor does.
With the rise of netbooks, I think the laptop market is moving more towards smaller and more efficient, rather than big and powerful. I'd much rather see an ultra-portable Apple laptop that needs _no_ cooling assistance and gets 12-18 hours on a basic battery (so I can leave the power brick at home!) than another high-wattage crotch burner in the marketplace.
It is extremely basic, but it is at least interesting to see what is possible at the low-end of the laptop market these days. Looks like it would be fine for very basic wifi browsing (wikipedia etc) email and document creation at least.
Given that the world population shot up by a factor of 4 in the last 100 years, mainly due to fossil fuel usage which won't last even another 100 years, I think some kind of near-term die-off is inevitable. However, I'd suggest that the lower the human population, the less stress as a whole the population is under as more per-capita resource with less competition is available, so complete extinction would become less and less likely as the population drops.
Not one of the higher-power green ones obviously, just a regular 3-5mw red pocket one. Much fun to be had with these, and I wish I had access to them when I was a kid.
I'm jealous of you folks in the US, at least you've got a new government in 2 months time. We're stuck with the same leadership over here for likely another 18 months or so. Given the current recession and the billions plowed into bailing out the UK banking system, I'm pissed off that such big budget projects such as this - with dubious benefits - are still on the agenda.
as a sysadmin, I found the easiest way to remove accidentally created files with a '-' in the same was to prefix the filename with './' as in: rm./-helloworld
Interesting to view the 6 ISPs involved - BT, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali, Carphone Warehouse (TalkTalk, AOL) and BSkyB - on this independent UK ISP ratings site
While the sentiment is admirable, please don't use 'going green' as an excuse to buy more toys; just buy the toys. Realistically, the power ranges you are talking about are in the 50-100W range for portable solar charging. In comparison, a typical 100 horsepower car is using around 75KW. (1HP=750W), so the power savings possible by simply traveling less dwarf anything possible via solar.
If you are _really_ concerned about going green, the biggest (and likely simplest) impact you can have is to never have children, especially in the developed world where per-capita energy consumption is highest.
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This is what I think music would sound like without drugs. (NSFW, but WTF, it's Sunday...)
There is already a to-scale model of Little Boy in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. It is quite disturbing seeing it, but a visit to the museum is a difficult experience generally.
The litigants will be offered a 'free' copy of lower-end-friendly XP Pro to upgrade to, maybe a copy of Office thrown in too. Cost to Microsoft = $0.
Is it just me or does this look at lot like a TV Tray?
It would be so much more fun if they just speeded up the videos and dubbed over the Benny Hill song (props to b3ta)
It looks like the world's elite have mostly given up on technology as a solution to increasing scarcity/cost of (jet) fuel and decided to solve the problem instead by reducing the availability of air travel. The price of ever more scarce kerosene doesn't increase when it is no longer economical for most people to fly and a great many carriers have gone bust due to the drop in custom.
I think in the near future air travel will once again cease to be a mode of mass transit and return to the exclusive realm of the super-rich. In this case it won't matter what fuels the jets as there will be more than enough of it at an acceptable (economic/environmental) cost to go round.
"Fields and applications that could benefit from their work are numerous, including computational models to solve problems in nuclear medicine, computer graphic design, and finance."
This explains a great deal.
"Texting is the closest thing to pure profit ever invented" - Sir Chris Gent, founder of Vodafone.
I live in Scotland, you insensitive clod.
You're doomed. Just give them your telephone number and book out 3 hours per week of your time for the rest of your life.
Sorry, that laptop in the article just looks lop-sided and ugly with the sidecar-screen pulled out. Once somebody does a triptych version, let me know.
Personally I'd miss sodium vapor street lights if LED replacements became fashionable. Perhaps it is a romantic notion, but it seems to be that one of the reasons sodium lamps have become so popular is that the orange light they emit is reminiscent of fire, and in colder northern climates their warm glow is comforting to people at some deep instinctual level.
It's great that Intel are working on die shrinks for their processors, but I wish they would do the same for their support chipsets. It's annoying that on most laptops the northbridge for Atom processors uses more power than the processor does.
Reminds me of the world's first webcam at Cambridge University.
With the rise of netbooks, I think the laptop market is moving more towards smaller and more efficient, rather than big and powerful. I'd much rather see an ultra-portable Apple laptop that needs _no_ cooling assistance and gets 12-18 hours on a basic battery (so I can leave the power brick at home!) than another high-wattage crotch burner in the marketplace.
I remember when HP was run by Engineers, not the marketing and legal department.
Spotted on Engadget a few months ago:
$89 laptop
It is extremely basic, but it is at least interesting to see what is possible at the low-end of the laptop market these days. Looks like it would be fine for very basic wifi browsing (wikipedia etc) email and document creation at least.
Given that the world population shot up by a factor of 4 in the last 100 years, mainly due to fossil fuel usage which won't last even another 100 years, I think some kind of near-term die-off is inevitable. However, I'd suggest that the lower the human population, the less stress as a whole the population is under as more per-capita resource with less competition is available, so complete extinction would become less and less likely as the population drops.
Not one of the higher-power green ones obviously, just a regular 3-5mw red pocket one. Much fun to be had with these, and I wish I had access to them when I was a kid.
I'm jealous of you folks in the US, at least you've got a new government in 2 months time. We're stuck with the same leadership over here for likely another 18 months or so. Given the current recession and the billions plowed into bailing out the UK banking system, I'm pissed off that such big budget projects such as this - with dubious benefits - are still on the agenda.
This makes me think of Wallace and Gromit.
"It's the wrong trousers Gromit, and they've gone wrong!"
as a sysadmin, I found the easiest way to remove accidentally created files with a '-' in the same was to prefix the filename with './' as in: ./-helloworld
rm
I'm not sure there's even another way to do it.
I wonder whether they would have invented aerosol deodorant before the wheel.
Interesting to view the 6 ISPs involved - BT, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali, Carphone Warehouse (TalkTalk, AOL) and BSkyB - on this independent UK ISP ratings site
While the sentiment is admirable, please don't use 'going green' as an excuse to buy more toys; just buy the toys. Realistically, the power ranges you are talking about are in the 50-100W range for portable solar charging. In comparison, a typical 100 horsepower car is using around 75KW. (1HP=750W), so the power savings possible by simply traveling less dwarf anything possible via solar.
If you are _really_ concerned about going green, the biggest (and likely simplest) impact you can have is to never have children, especially in the developed world where per-capita energy consumption is highest.