1. Use garden hose for conduit and cheap plastic fiber. 2. You get paid by providing network services with the fiber you laid. 3. Watch porn. 4. 3G is licensed spectrum. WiMax is open to all.
It's my bandwidth, I paid for it, I should be able to do whatever I want with it. Hell if I open my base station to all and some poor person uses it I'd like to be able to take that as a charitable donation as a matter of fact. The real problem here is that the last mile is controlled by a bunch of people that know for a fact that the end of their business model is neigh. Cell phones? Well the advent of WiMax and VoIP means that a great many of them are totally fucked. In fact as a owner of a Nokia e61 with Fring and a Wifi antenna living in a city with MetroFi I can already not use a cell phone a great deal of the time. Peer to peer mobile phones combined with Merkai type mesh base stations could be the beginning of a true free nationwide cloud. Buy alarm lines to your neighbors and run Ethernet over unlit POTS. Run your own fiber from the edge of neighborhood to the next one. Hell why not go whole hog and make most of the spectrum into one open cloud. Then we use peer to peer mesh handsets, towers and base stations that have wide bandwidth fractal antennas that can use any part of the spectrum. If you want access you give the devices the ability to buy and sell redirection in a free market system. So I have a handset and want a very large file quickly, in my area there is low use and it is two hops to the nearest fiber, My handset negotiates with the people around me to rebroadcast from the fiber to me. I pay them the agreed upon rate for the retransmission. We could wipe away massive amounts of garbage and open up a huge vibrant pervasive ultra high bandwidth world. You can give military, EMS, and aviation fixed spectrum or just make them pay drastically lower rates when needed.
The current system is being crippled by the fact that it is easier for Verizon to buy a congressman or a local assembly then to fix their business model.
Joseph Davidovits believes that the Egyptians used fly ash, powdered limestone, natron salt, and water to make "pourable limestone" or Geopolymers that they then used to pour the pyramids at Giza. The main benefit of Geopolymers is that they last longer than Portland Cement and they are a carbon sink not a carbon emitter.
If you take the layout of the deck and then compare it to ships in port at known times and locations it would be easy to ident. ships even with a meter resolution. The color and organization of shipping containers has got to be nearly as good a fingerprint even form space.
Well, WiFi means Skype, Skype means phone calls, and phone calls are well... phone calls. The reason they don't want cell phones is the rapid motion of handsets from tower to tower increases network stress drastically.
I can't understand why you idiots aren't bothered by this merger in general. Duopoly or oligopoly is only marginally less effective than a monopoly. This focus on monopoly totally ignores the fact that if it ends it -opoly it's not a fucking free market economy and is basically a license to bone people sans lube.
Ok, here's the plan, we seize all the bastards assets without compensation and turn them into a national internet search utility paid for by an internet sales tax. (Just kidding.) Or wait, no... we break them up into tiny companies and force total transparency and low barriers to entry on them. (Just kidding.) Oh shit neither communism or capitalism will ever work, WE'REALLGOINGTODIEAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Lets say for argument RISK = DAMAGE x LIKELYHOOD. Also let us assume that either of these doomsday scenarios whatever their likeyhood that the result would be very very bad in fact that the DAMAGE = INFINITE. Given infinite damage then even if LIKEYHOOD = VERY SMALL when that small number is multiplied by infinity the risk is infinite. Therefore any activity that might completely destory all known life in the cosmos is IN FACT a unreasonable risk. Where's the debate? It would be hubris to think that the pursuit of knowedge is worth risking not having anyone around to contemplate it.
This ignores the GSV style of travel. Build a ship big enough to fit a few billion people. Who cares if it takes a long time to get there, you can fuck and drink and take drugs and live and die the whole way there.
How do you think Al-Qaeda in Iraq operates? 1. Import brainwashed literate Saudi youth. 2. Attach explosive collar. 3. Prophet! (Ha! I kill me!)
Seriously this is the mercenary approach to war. Tell illegal immigrants that in return for 5 years hard labor in Iraq they can be a citizen. George Carlin covers this in a comedy routine. Hell I think that Starship Troopers approach isn't too bad an idea. Tell the youth of the U.S. if they want o be able to vote they have to go for service, now granted I give an option for Peace Corps or some type of domestic service instead of just war but the idea is the same. Make teenagers pick fruit, clean up shit in hospitals, or hump a pack if they want to be part of society. Entitlement breeds stupidity and laziness.
...robot butler, how about a robot horse? This thing would be more fun to ride thana damn Segway. It makes me think of the devices out of Diamond Age.
Either way Robot butlers are a total waste of time and effort. It costs about $150 dollars to buy a person through human trafficking. Go get a real butler for a fraction of the cost. Granted you might have to train them but when they realized they are going to making your ass mint juleps instead of being raped for 10 years on the streets of Paris they might even be pretty happy about their job.
These are neat and nifty becasue we may have moved the detectors from the equivilent of tubes to transistors. That is a revolutionary change to this technology. This is especaily interesting when combined with the recent visual mapping techniques for fMRI. With smaller, lower power, cheaper detectors, that also require a far lower magnetic fields that mythical ability to read minds is one serious step closer. I for one welcome our new brainscan overloards.
A friend of a friend was very upset when he found out who doesn't know how to operate a seatbelt; his four year old son. Apparently the kid looked at the stewardess, looked at the buckle, looked at his dad, un-hooked, and smiled like a mad man. Dad said "Oh for the love of god..."
Most of those are not from western civ. they are Roman (yes), Arab, Mesopotamian, Mesopotamian, Mesopotamian, Mesopotamian, and post industrial European (yes). Don't forget Cordoba, while the western civ. was in the dark ages black Muslims maintained logic, math, science, and hygiene for us.
Sorry but you're totally wrong. Go try and buy some carbon fiber, I dare you. You won't find any. My decease friend Alex was working on P motor rockets and could not find enough carbon to make the rocket bodies for love or money. See there's this thing called the Dreamliner made by these people at Boeing and it has pretty much sucked all the carbon out of the planet while giggling at Airbus' aluminum wiring harnesses.
I was on United flight from Portland to somewhere east. The crew informed us that we had basically 15 minutes to board the plane or we would lose our spot and have to wait on the runway for an hour. She then told us "You will line up by rows with the highest numbers at the front of the line and the lowest at the back. If you neighbor in line has a higher number you will let them go in front of you. If you don't have any carryon baggage and see someone who needs help you will help them." She also told us we would be polite and helpful to each other, and put our bags in any nearby compartment. The plane filled up like pouring water into a cup. It really was a moment of Zen, by being enslaved we were set free. Everything went according to plan. Everyone was polite (it was a flight out of Portland) and we were done with 5 minutes to spare everyone clapped. It was honestly one of the best moments of flying I ever had. I am sure the flight crew had been working for Southwest or had recently flown southwest because one of them made a joke about people who hadn't been in a car since 1960 not knowing how to operate a seatbelt. The opposite is true anytime I fly in Asia. I fly a lot in the gulf and India and the people's behavior is horrible. When they announce the flight everyone jumps up and starts pushing. It is the same as the driving here, get yours first and fuck everyone else. God I miss America.
Sorry but you seem to have confused a big metal wheel attached to a grinder or a pottery wheel and a modern flywheel battery.
1. Modern flywheels are low mass high RPM and are made of carbon fiber and other composites. 2. Flywheels are a HUGE energy buffer with the highest energy density storage levels per Kg. of any battery tech. 3. They use magnetic gimbals not bearings. 4. They operate in a vacuum not in air. 5. Locomotives are hybrid in terms of diesel-->DC-->AC but have no storage of electrical power. GE's newest tech locomotive is the first one with storage ever made. 6. The benefit of the Beacon power system is to relight grid links during an outage. If one substation can power itself for even a tiny amount of time they can reopen grid paths back to working generation sites and reroute power from working systems. They do not provide power to consumers. They are not strictly designed for off peak energy storage. 7. Modern flywheels loose power over a period of months so would in fact be fine for nightly off peak energy balancing.
Yu are right that capacitors could be better if the price comes down. You are right that flow batteries work very well. So do ice batteries.
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1. Use garden hose for conduit and cheap plastic fiber.
2. You get paid by providing network services with the fiber you laid.
3. Watch porn.
4. 3G is licensed spectrum. WiMax is open to all.
It's my bandwidth, I paid for it, I should be able to do whatever I want with it. Hell if I open my base station to all and some poor person uses it I'd like to be able to take that as a charitable donation as a matter of fact. The real problem here is that the last mile is controlled by a bunch of people that know for a fact that the end of their business model is neigh. Cell phones? Well the advent of WiMax and VoIP means that a great many of them are totally fucked. In fact as a owner of a Nokia e61 with Fring and a Wifi antenna living in a city with MetroFi I can already not use a cell phone a great deal of the time. Peer to peer mobile phones combined with Merkai type mesh base stations could be the beginning of a true free nationwide cloud. Buy alarm lines to your neighbors and run Ethernet over unlit POTS. Run your own fiber from the edge of neighborhood to the next one.
Hell why not go whole hog and make most of the spectrum into one open cloud. Then we use peer to peer mesh handsets, towers and base stations that have wide bandwidth fractal antennas that can use any part of the spectrum. If you want access you give the devices the ability to buy and sell redirection in a free market system. So I have a handset and want a very large file quickly, in my area there is low use and it is two hops to the nearest fiber, My handset negotiates with the people around me to rebroadcast from the fiber to me. I pay them the agreed upon rate for the retransmission. We could wipe away massive amounts of garbage and open up a huge vibrant pervasive ultra high bandwidth world. You can give military, EMS, and aviation fixed spectrum or just make them pay drastically lower rates when needed.
The current system is being crippled by the fact that it is easier for Verizon to buy a congressman or a local assembly then to fix their business model.
You would need some LOX with your LoC to make it fun, and damn it I don't mean the tasty fish product.
Joseph Davidovits believes that the Egyptians used fly ash, powdered limestone, natron salt, and water to make "pourable limestone" or Geopolymers that they then used to pour the pyramids at Giza. The main benefit of Geopolymers is that they last longer than Portland Cement and they are a carbon sink not a carbon emitter.
GREAT! Even since Locke blew up the other one I've been jonesing to get off this damn Island.
If you take the layout of the deck and then compare it to ships in port at known times and locations it would be easy to ident. ships even with a meter resolution. The color and organization of shipping containers has got to be nearly as good a fingerprint even form space.
1) Send a submarine to wait at a cable
2) Unwrap cable & bend so light leaks out
3) Jimmy Carter!
...becasue when your 787 is underwater things are great!
Well, WiFi means Skype, Skype means phone calls, and phone calls are well... phone calls. The reason they don't want cell phones is the rapid motion of handsets from tower to tower increases network stress drastically.
You can increase refresh upto 75 Hz on most LCDs in XP. It helps me but then again I can see 60 Hz flciker in my periferal vision pretty clearly.
I can't understand why you idiots aren't bothered by this merger in general. Duopoly or oligopoly is only marginally less effective than a monopoly. This focus on monopoly totally ignores the fact that if it ends it -opoly it's not a fucking free market economy and is basically a license to bone people sans lube.
Ok, here's the plan, we seize all the bastards assets without compensation and turn them into a national internet search utility paid for by an internet sales tax. (Just kidding.) Or wait, no... we break them up into tiny companies and force total transparency and low barriers to entry on them. (Just kidding.) Oh shit neither communism or capitalism will ever work, WE'REALLGOINGTODIEAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Lets say for argument RISK = DAMAGE x LIKELYHOOD. Also let us assume that either of these doomsday scenarios whatever their likeyhood that the result would be very very bad in fact that the DAMAGE = INFINITE. Given infinite damage then even if LIKEYHOOD = VERY SMALL when that small number is multiplied by infinity the risk is infinite. Therefore any activity that might completely destory all known life in the cosmos is IN FACT a unreasonable risk. Where's the debate? It would be hubris to think that the pursuit of knowedge is worth risking not having anyone around to contemplate it.
This ignores the GSV style of travel. Build a ship big enough to fit a few billion people. Who cares if it takes a long time to get there, you can fuck and drink and take drugs and live and die the whole way there.
How do you think Al-Qaeda in Iraq operates? 1. Import brainwashed literate Saudi youth. 2. Attach explosive collar. 3. Prophet! (Ha! I kill me!)
Seriously this is the mercenary approach to war. Tell illegal immigrants that in return for 5 years hard labor in Iraq they can be a citizen. George Carlin covers this in a comedy routine. Hell I think that Starship Troopers approach isn't too bad an idea. Tell the youth of the U.S. if they want o be able to vote they have to go for service, now granted I give an option for Peace Corps or some type of domestic service instead of just war but the idea is the same. Make teenagers pick fruit, clean up shit in hospitals, or hump a pack if they want to be part of society. Entitlement breeds stupidity and laziness.
...robot butler, how about a robot horse? This thing would be more fun to ride thana damn Segway. It makes me think of the devices out of Diamond Age.
Either way Robot butlers are a total waste of time and effort. It costs about $150 dollars to buy a person through human trafficking. Go get a real butler for a fraction of the cost. Granted you might have to train them but when they realized they are going to making your ass mint juleps instead of being raped for 10 years on the streets of Paris they might even be pretty happy about their job.
How about a mesh network peer to peer mobile phone network. Oh wait we already talked abou this.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=07/09/11/1546258
These are neat and nifty becasue we may have moved the detectors from the equivilent of tubes to transistors. That is a revolutionary change to this technology. This is especaily interesting when combined with the recent visual mapping techniques for fMRI. With smaller, lower power, cheaper detectors, that also require a far lower magnetic fields that mythical ability to read minds is one serious step closer. I for one welcome our new brainscan overloards.
Clean pressed Irish linen sheets every day.
I love massive robots; Gundams, Transformers, those round balls with legs from the Akira comics I love em all.
A friend of a friend was very upset when he found out who doesn't know how to operate a seatbelt; his four year old son. Apparently the kid looked at the stewardess, looked at the buckle, looked at his dad, un-hooked, and smiled like a mad man. Dad said "Oh for the love of god..."
Most of those are not from western civ. they are Roman (yes), Arab, Mesopotamian, Mesopotamian, Mesopotamian, Mesopotamian, and post industrial European (yes). Don't forget Cordoba, while the western civ. was in the dark ages black Muslims maintained logic, math, science, and hygiene for us.
Sorry but you're totally wrong. Go try and buy some carbon fiber, I dare you. You won't find any. My decease friend Alex was working on P motor rockets and could not find enough carbon to make the rocket bodies for love or money. See there's this thing called the Dreamliner made by these people at Boeing and it has pretty much sucked all the carbon out of the planet while giggling at Airbus' aluminum wiring harnesses.
I was on United flight from Portland to somewhere east. The crew informed us that we had basically 15 minutes to board the plane or we would lose our spot and have to wait on the runway for an hour. She then told us "You will line up by rows with the highest numbers at the front of the line and the lowest at the back. If you neighbor in line has a higher number you will let them go in front of you. If you don't have any carryon baggage and see someone who needs help you will help them." She also told us we would be polite and helpful to each other, and put our bags in any nearby compartment. The plane filled up like pouring water into a cup. It really was a moment of Zen, by being enslaved we were set free. Everything went according to plan. Everyone was polite (it was a flight out of Portland) and we were done with 5 minutes to spare everyone clapped. It was honestly one of the best moments of flying I ever had. I am sure the flight crew had been working for Southwest or had recently flown southwest because one of them made a joke about people who hadn't been in a car since 1960 not knowing how to operate a seatbelt. The opposite is true anytime I fly in Asia. I fly a lot in the gulf and India and the people's behavior is horrible. When they announce the flight everyone jumps up and starts pushing. It is the same as the driving here, get yours first and fuck everyone else. God I miss America.
https://www.llnl.gov/str/pdfs/04_96.2.pdf
Sorry but you seem to have confused a big metal wheel attached to a grinder or a pottery wheel and a modern flywheel battery.
1. Modern flywheels are low mass high RPM and are made of carbon fiber and other composites.
2. Flywheels are a HUGE energy buffer with the highest energy density storage levels per Kg. of any battery tech.
3. They use magnetic gimbals not bearings.
4. They operate in a vacuum not in air.
5. Locomotives are hybrid in terms of diesel-->DC-->AC but have no storage of electrical power. GE's newest tech locomotive is the first one with storage ever made.
6. The benefit of the Beacon power system is to relight grid links during an outage. If one substation can power itself for even a tiny amount of time they can reopen grid paths back to working generation sites and reroute power from working systems. They do not provide power to consumers. They are not strictly designed for off peak energy storage.
7. Modern flywheels loose power over a period of months so would in fact be fine for nightly off peak energy balancing.
Yu are right that capacitors could be better if the price comes down. You are right that flow batteries work very well. So do ice batteries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage