There's absolutely no reason not to publish such stuff in respected journals
There are two very good reasons not to do this. The first being that Rossi does not have a proper scientific explanation either so there's not much to publish. And that's the immediate cause for very good reason number two: without this explanation, WIPO and EPO will not grant him a patent. Even worse, USPTO effectively refuses all patents involving cold fusion. Rossi currently only holds an Italian patent. Publishing how it works at this point would be financial suicide.
That does not mean it is not a scam. However, if it is, it is a brilliant one. See this very thorough analysis of "possible fakes":
It's not an opinion. Whether mail is spam or not can be objectively decided and thus is not an opinion. Therefore any statement on whether someone sent spam is not an opinion either. It's either a fact, a lie or a mistake.
And since spamming is illegal, claiming someone sends spam is defamation, which is illegal in many countries, including the Netherlands and the rest of the EU, where spamhaus has registered offices. Therefore they're probably not that far away from losing in court at all.
In Europe, unsubsidized solar is actually cheaper than buying electricity from the grid. During daylight, that is;-) It's just that it's getting cheaper so fast that in the long run, investing in PV panels today would still be more expensive than living of the grid for a few more years and buying then.
Also, nobody said we'd run out of oil. We will never run out of oil, it'll just get very expensive.
What seems to be missing from this analysis is the constantly changing infrastructure. While the cost for additional traffic may be low given that infrastructure, in the real world the intrastructure - especially the mobile one - needs regular updates, increasing the costs of the future additional traffic that drives the needs for these infrastructure updates.
In the past decades we've seen regular modems, 56K, ISDN, ADSL in many varieties, Internet over cable TV, fiber, GSM, WAP, GPRS, UMTS, Edge, HDSPA, all requiring massive infrastructure upgrades.
The pace at which customers demand such upgrades seems to be increasing with their data demands. So the ISPs may have a point but this article does not since it does not factor in the cost of the infrastructure.
The reasons are crap. I won't even start to explain why the first one is crap, that should be plain obvious.
The second is crap since it is perfectly doable to require children to put their phones on silent mode or to keep them in their locker during classes. The school should teach them the discipline to do that. They will carry phones for the rest of their lives and will have to deal with it no matter what. Distractions have always been around and teachers have always dealt with them. Stealing things (yes, that's what it is) is not a respectful solution, at most it is an indication of the incompetence of the school and/or its teachers.
The 3rd reason is probably the most crappy one. It is probably just as effective against bullying as ducttaping all students mouths but it fails to deal with the actual problem. It only postpones it until after school. Also it is very effective against sending friendly things to eachother. It just sends out a very, very wrong message.
But the most important reason why it is crap, is that it is none of the schools business what a child carries in its bag or clothes as long as it does not interfere with the lessons. Children have a right of privacy too and school absolutely should not have the right to take away the property of their CLIENTS. It is disrespectful and helps tremendously in teaching students that disrespectful behavior is the norm nowadays. I wouldn't even remotely be able to show any respect to a school that treats me like crap, escpecially if the reasons (the ones you stated) are so incredibly irrational. It is a very nice beginning of an awesome negative spiral of irrational behavior, disrespect and abuse of authority.
This may be new to you, but some children actually happen to have a social life. Much of which nowadays inevitably happens online. No facebook/twitter/whatever will mean missing out for an ever increasing number of children.
Also, children need to travel from home to school and back again, often by foot or by bike. How are they going to find the 10 minute timeslot in which they can get there without raining wet when they don't have a phone?! How are they going to call mom to discuss whether they can go play with a friend? How are they going to send in their homework? On paper? LOL. And how are they going to post on slashdot without a phone? Wait until they get home? Sounds kind of 1996ish to me.
That's why children need telephones as well. Simply being young does not mean their needs are that much different from us or they have no right to fulfill those needs with the same technology us adults use for it.
And, no, I'm not talking out of my ass. I'm a dad myself and am not going to accept my children missing out just due to some irrational opinions or incompetent schools.
And now that we're finally getting rid of those CRTs, we're buried under switching power supplies in phone chargers and the like. They're even more annoying because they're not next to a noisy computer but typically next to my bed... Argl.
Carriers leasing phones, but only a specific subset of what's on the market. Best idea since sliced bread. It'd be totally awesome if I'd also be able to lease my shower from the water utility and then be stuck with them and my water-utility-branded shower until the lease expires:P Lol.
This does not have to be an oxymoron. Obviously, the social networks of today are not much more than the successor to what personal homepages of a decade ago, wired together with some sort of email/irc replacement and displaying your friends' RSS feeds.
Such social networks will inevitably someday be replaced with a decentralized solution that is not controlled by a single entity like Facebook or Google. That would take away the privacy-harming aspects that today finance such huge operations. Instead, we can all choose our own hosting provider or host it ourselves. All we need for something like this to take of, is a set of open standards for interaction between such decentralized nodes.
Maybe, anon is planning on building something like this. And if they're not, somebody else will eventually.
Too bad Palm is sort of out of business. They came up with the buttons-below-the-touchscreen concept that's been copied by just about every touchscreen-enabled device since 1997.
(Which reminds me... Sony, please, please make new Clies!!1 Thank you.)
The article says "could become the greenest laptop ever made". I'm pretty sure it's not. While such a laptop might be convenient in certain situations, its lifetime is way too short for the EROI of the solar cells to become even near positive, even if left permanently in the sun.
Sony started making phones again?? No? Too bad, I really liked their scrollwheel-enabled phones and if Sony came out with an Android running Sony Clie that also happened to be a phone, I'd be the first to race to the store. Man, that would be so awesome...
Or, in other words: this is not about Sony. It's about Sony-Ericsson. A 50/50 joint venture between Sony and Ericsson. It's ridiculous to call it Sony, it's ridiculous to call it a Sony division and it's especially ridiculous to make a comparison with the Sony OtherOS crap.
I still hate to reply to myself but I keep doing it anyway:P In other (non-english) news-sources there's some more info about how it's powered: for now by a 9 volt battery.
I hate to reply to myself, but anyways: in the picture it also seems as if the USB cable that connects to the device is held together with a piece of tape. I guess this means it's actually a proper USB-port indeed and it's connected to a hub using a provisionary USB-cable with two identical plugs on it.
The keyboard and mouse are connected to this hub and the hub probably also provides (USB) power via the flatcable that can be seen on the picture. Probably the final version will have either a seperate power input or it'll have two USB-connectors, one for power and one for actual USB.
The USB-port seems to be an USB A plug, not a USB A Receptacle (port). A keyboard cannot be directly connected to it. Either it uses rather odd off-spec USB cabling, or it is not an USB host but an USB client device.
It appears to have a third connector for power. In the picture this appears to be connected to another USB cable.
No no no! Most definately not. It's obvious from just about anything Canonical does that they're simply not able to create an experience that's as polished as the Apple experience. They don't even come close. Much worse is that they turn just about everything upside down with each release. All my perfectly tweaked settings gone with a single click. It's just crap. I'll keep using it and will never succumd to the Apple vendor lock-in, but my god, is Canonical trying to push me to the other side...
That's excluding subsidies an tax credits. However, the electricity prices keep hovering around the breakeven point so the case is not as clear as I said it was.
Nothing comes from it? During the last year, in most western countries below 50 degrees latitude, producing your own electricity using PV has become cheaper than electricity from the net if you count the taxes for the net electricity. And that's without government funding. Why did you think Google invests so much in that solar project of theirs? For their image? No, they're probably simply in it for the money.
The production capacity for PV panels already is 1/18th of the capacity we'd need for the entire world to produce all it's electricity with PV and replace all PV panels every 25 years.
But you're right; obviously new efficiency levels don't take off. Nor does solar paint. There's a reason for that and that's that only thing that counts is price per watt since at the moment we have more than enough surfaces exposed to the sun. Efficiency simply doesn't count. Most of those extremely efficient PV panels use rather rare materials; they're simply not worth the money nor will they ever be. Such things are interesting only in situations where weight (think sattelites) or efficiency (think airplanes or cars in the solar challenge etc.) matters a lot.
The problem isn't a lack of solar breakthroughs. We don't need them, the solar PV panels we have now are perfectly fine if not great. What we desperately need now is a breakthrough in energy storage so we can get through the night.
There's surely only so much multitasking a smartphone user can do.
WTF? It's at least checking RSS feeds, discovering wifi networks, uploading GPS data, scanning for bluetooth devices, playing music, displaying the clock, receiving mail, shouting PONG to an IRC server, checking for twitter and facebook updates, receiving interrupts from the compass and the motion- and position sensors and sitting around on MSN. And then I haven't even taken it out of my pocket yet.
Once it comes out it's also supposed to display webpages with video content and multiple threads on them while responding to me touching the screen and downloading some files in the background while syncing/backupping. And then I haven't even mentioned any phone functions. Not that this cannot all be done on a single core, but it's perfectly reasonable to use a qua core processor for it.
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There's absolutely no reason not to publish such stuff in respected journals
There are two very good reasons not to do this. The first being that Rossi does not have a proper scientific explanation either so there's not much to publish. And that's the immediate cause for very good reason number two: without this explanation, WIPO and EPO will not grant him a patent. Even worse, USPTO effectively refuses all patents involving cold fusion. Rossi currently only holds an Italian patent. Publishing how it works at this point would be financial suicide.
That does not mean it is not a scam. However, if it is, it is a brilliant one. See this very thorough analysis of "possible fakes":
http://lenr.qumbu.com/rossi_ecat_proof_frames_v401.php
It's not an opinion. Whether mail is spam or not can be objectively decided and thus is not an opinion. Therefore any statement on whether someone sent spam is not an opinion either. It's either a fact, a lie or a mistake.
And since spamming is illegal, claiming someone sends spam is defamation, which is illegal in many countries, including the Netherlands and the rest of the EU, where spamhaus has registered offices. Therefore they're probably not that far away from losing in court at all.
In Europe, unsubsidized solar is actually cheaper than buying electricity from the grid. During daylight, that is ;-) It's just that it's getting cheaper so fast that in the long run, investing in PV panels today would still be more expensive than living of the grid for a few more years and buying then.
Also, nobody said we'd run out of oil. We will never run out of oil, it'll just get very expensive.
What seems to be missing from this analysis is the constantly changing infrastructure. While the cost for additional traffic may be low given that infrastructure, in the real world the intrastructure - especially the mobile one - needs regular updates, increasing the costs of the future additional traffic that drives the needs for these infrastructure updates.
In the past decades we've seen regular modems, 56K, ISDN, ADSL in many varieties, Internet over cable TV, fiber, GSM, WAP, GPRS, UMTS, Edge, HDSPA, all requiring massive infrastructure upgrades.
The pace at which customers demand such upgrades seems to be increasing with their data demands. So the ISPs may have a point but this article does not since it does not factor in the cost of the infrastructure.
The reasons are crap. I won't even start to explain why the first one is crap, that should be plain obvious.
The second is crap since it is perfectly doable to require children to put their phones on silent mode or to keep them in their locker during classes. The school should teach them the discipline to do that. They will carry phones for the rest of their lives and will have to deal with it no matter what. Distractions have always been around and teachers have always dealt with them. Stealing things (yes, that's what it is) is not a respectful solution, at most it is an indication of the incompetence of the school and/or its teachers.
The 3rd reason is probably the most crappy one. It is probably just as effective against bullying as ducttaping all students mouths but it fails to deal with the actual problem. It only postpones it until after school. Also it is very effective against sending friendly things to eachother. It just sends out a very, very wrong message.
But the most important reason why it is crap, is that it is none of the schools business what a child carries in its bag or clothes as long as it does not interfere with the lessons. Children have a right of privacy too and school absolutely should not have the right to take away the property of their CLIENTS. It is disrespectful and helps tremendously in teaching students that disrespectful behavior is the norm nowadays. I wouldn't even remotely be able to show any respect to a school that treats me like crap, escpecially if the reasons (the ones you stated) are so incredibly irrational. It is a very nice beginning of an awesome negative spiral of irrational behavior, disrespect and abuse of authority.
This may be new to you, but some children actually happen to have a social life. Much of which nowadays inevitably happens online. No facebook/twitter/whatever will mean missing out for an ever increasing number of children.
Also, children need to travel from home to school and back again, often by foot or by bike. How are they going to find the 10 minute timeslot in which they can get there without raining wet when they don't have a phone?! How are they going to call mom to discuss whether they can go play with a friend? How are they going to send in their homework? On paper? LOL. And how are they going to post on slashdot without a phone? Wait until they get home? Sounds kind of 1996ish to me.
That's why children need telephones as well. Simply being young does not mean their needs are that much different from us or they have no right to fulfill those needs with the same technology us adults use for it.
And, no, I'm not talking out of my ass. I'm a dad myself and am not going to accept my children missing out just due to some irrational opinions or incompetent schools.
And now that we're finally getting rid of those CRTs, we're buried under switching power supplies in phone chargers and the like. They're even more annoying because they're not next to a noisy computer but typically next to my bed... Argl.
Budget? Yes. Groundbreaking or newsworthy? No. There's a gazillion tablets with similar specs and similar pricing on the market.
Carriers leasing phones, but only a specific subset of what's on the market. Best idea since sliced bread. It'd be totally awesome if I'd also be able to lease my shower from the water utility and then be stuck with them and my water-utility-branded shower until the lease expires:P Lol.
This does not have to be an oxymoron. Obviously, the social networks of today are not much more than the successor to what personal homepages of a decade ago, wired together with some sort of email/irc replacement and displaying your friends' RSS feeds.
Such social networks will inevitably someday be replaced with a decentralized solution that is not controlled by a single entity like Facebook or Google. That would take away the privacy-harming aspects that today finance such huge operations. Instead, we can all choose our own hosting provider or host it ourselves. All we need for something like this to take of, is a set of open standards for interaction between such decentralized nodes.
Maybe, anon is planning on building something like this. And if they're not, somebody else will eventually.
Too bad Palm is sort of out of business. They came up with the buttons-below-the-touchscreen concept that's been copied by just about every touchscreen-enabled device since 1997.
(Which reminds me... Sony, please, please make new Clies!!1 Thank you.)
The article says "could become the greenest laptop ever made". I'm pretty sure it's not. While such a laptop might be convenient in certain situations, its lifetime is way too short for the EROI of the solar cells to become even near positive, even if left permanently in the sun.
Sony started making phones again?? No? Too bad, I really liked their scrollwheel-enabled phones and if Sony came out with an Android running Sony Clie that also happened to be a phone, I'd be the first to race to the store. Man, that would be so awesome...
Or, in other words: this is not about Sony. It's about Sony-Ericsson. A 50/50 joint venture between Sony and Ericsson. It's ridiculous to call it Sony, it's ridiculous to call it a Sony division and it's especially ridiculous to make a comparison with the Sony OtherOS crap.
I still hate to reply to myself but I keep doing it anyway:P In other (non-english) news-sources there's some more info about how it's powered: for now by a 9 volt battery.
I hate to reply to myself, but anyways: in the picture it also seems as if the USB cable that connects to the device is held together with a piece of tape. I guess this means it's actually a proper USB-port indeed and it's connected to a hub using a provisionary USB-cable with two identical plugs on it.
The keyboard and mouse are connected to this hub and the hub probably also provides (USB) power via the flatcable that can be seen on the picture. Probably the final version will have either a seperate power input or it'll have two USB-connectors, one for power and one for actual USB.
The USB-port seems to be an USB A plug, not a USB A Receptacle (port). A keyboard cannot be directly connected to it. Either it uses rather odd off-spec USB cabling, or it is not an USB host but an USB client device.
It appears to have a third connector for power. In the picture this appears to be connected to another USB cable.
I give them to my gf. Whenever I need a document, I ask her to retrieve it. What happens in between, I don't know;]
No no no! Most definately not. It's obvious from just about anything Canonical does that they're simply not able to create an experience that's as polished as the Apple experience. They don't even come close. Much worse is that they turn just about everything upside down with each release. All my perfectly tweaked settings gone with a single click. It's just crap. I'll keep using it and will never succumd to the Apple vendor lock-in, but my god, is Canonical trying to push me to the other side...
That's excluding subsidies an tax credits. However, the electricity prices keep hovering around the breakeven point so the case is not as clear as I said it was.
Nothing comes from it? During the last year, in most western countries below 50 degrees latitude, producing your own electricity using PV has become cheaper than electricity from the net if you count the taxes for the net electricity. And that's without government funding. Why did you think Google invests so much in that solar project of theirs? For their image? No, they're probably simply in it for the money.
The production capacity for PV panels already is 1/18th of the capacity we'd need for the entire world to produce all it's electricity with PV and replace all PV panels every 25 years.
But you're right; obviously new efficiency levels don't take off. Nor does solar paint. There's a reason for that and that's that only thing that counts is price per watt since at the moment we have more than enough surfaces exposed to the sun. Efficiency simply doesn't count. Most of those extremely efficient PV panels use rather rare materials; they're simply not worth the money nor will they ever be. Such things are interesting only in situations where weight (think sattelites) or efficiency (think airplanes or cars in the solar challenge etc.) matters a lot.
The problem isn't a lack of solar breakthroughs. We don't need them, the solar PV panels we have now are perfectly fine if not great. What we desperately need now is a breakthrough in energy storage so we can get through the night.
LOL. I type lot of irrelevant comments and do not get modded down. WTF is this shit.
LOL. I type â and get Ãf:P WTF is this shit.
LOL. I type euro symbol for great justice and get Ã:P WTF is this shit.
LOL. I pay â5.99 / month for an unlimited data plan:P WTF is this shit.
There's surely only so much multitasking a smartphone user can do.
WTF? It's at least checking RSS feeds, discovering wifi networks, uploading GPS data, scanning for bluetooth devices, playing music, displaying the clock, receiving mail, shouting PONG to an IRC server, checking for twitter and facebook updates, receiving interrupts from the compass and the motion- and position sensors and sitting around on MSN. And then I haven't even taken it out of my pocket yet.
Once it comes out it's also supposed to display webpages with video content and multiple threads on them while responding to me touching the screen and downloading some files in the background while syncing/backupping. And then I haven't even mentioned any phone functions. Not that this cannot all be done on a single core, but it's perfectly reasonable to use a qua core processor for it.