I think the idea is that you have not only control of the killswitch, you have instant control over access to individual files on the device instead of adjusting settings over a web interface and waiting x number of hours for the new settings to propagate. Nice idea, not new, but the implementation is fairly novel in a "I want one of those but in shocking pink" kind of way.
I used to use an ICQ account (redirected via a domain account on 123reg) and client as a webserver for various files, when I didn't want the webserver on I just switched my computer off (or just killed the ICQ client). Worked very well for years.
basic battery chemistry hasn't really changed, charger tech has. OK, the dendrite problem has always been a problem particularly when it comes to rapid chargers, but that can be mitigated by using pulsed charging rather than straight DC. This is why a laptop charges a 48WH battery pack in an hour instead of 18 hours - the battery might still get hot, that's because dendritic growth is still occurring, but as long as that thermal cutoff is still there, and the charging circuit is smart enough (a potential switch) it isn't a real issue in the short term but it *will* eventually be the (sole) cause of battery death. The hack of simply replacing individual cells in the laptop battery is a worker because dead cells are dendritic graveyards, they're like the internal fuse for the rest of the pack - chances are that a dead laptop battery has just one dead cell. Worth a look if you know what you're doing and a new battery costs two hundred quid (some do!).
...is when it comes to fast charging the things. You run the risk of dendritic shorting, which is where lithium dendrites cross the electrolyte and touch the graphite electrode, causing the battery to short. THAT is where the heat comes from, not a dry chemical reaction. That's also where the risk of batteries exploding arises, and why certain laptop batteries have been exploding - thermal safeties have been omitted from aftermarket batteries, these are the ones that have been exploding because laptops in powered-off state are charging the batteries with the full whack of the PSU which causes the shorting. Without the safeties, the power isn't cut, the dendrites continue to grow until BOOM! Rechargeable batteries have an additive in the electrolyte that's supposed to inhibit dendrite growth, but it doesn't stop it, particularly when the battery is being abused. Anecdotally, I have rechargeable batteries that I've had for 20+ years and they still hold usable charge - for the simple reason that I have never and will never use a fast charger on them.
20KW would *melt* domestic feeds even before you get to the meter. Over here the average home has a 60-100A meter fuse (with 60A becoming more and more common, I had to pretty much demand a 100A and a leg main out to my garage) at 220V, that's 13KW or so at the meter - before you get to the distribution bus. Your ring main is rated at 3.6KW max total load *for the entire circuit*.
if a quantum processor can crack RSA, it can blow through any passphrase. It's getting very close to breaking RSA (it's already technically broken the Internet).
thinking about it, an AC clamp induces a Hall effect in the wire being measured, so the mere act of measuring in this way biases the experiment (unless you know precisely the calibration offset for the meter, which is in most cases unlikely).
A black box test invalidates itself simply because you don't know what's in the box. I could put a PP3 battery in a blackbox and connect it to a meter and absent any input, claim solid state cold fusion - but you're not allowed to see what the meter's connected to or what's in the box. After an hour the battery might be dead but the experiment is validated because according to you, the parameters are satisfied, and my invention of a PP3 battery in a box is validated as a SSCF device.
(by the way, the device under discussion was connected to a power grid the entire run without proper metering of ALL connected conductors, the calorific output measurement was fatally flawed and was in fact set up by a known colleague of Rossi and himself in fact a known fraudster and I've got a sudden feeling of deja vu in discussing this shit but having been on the receiving end of threats from Rossi's company myself for publicly voicing my own concerns about his cold fusion claims, I'll put my neck on the block again and say "Come get me, bitch. Rossi, Levi et. al, you're frauds, and you know we know it.")
no, the scepticism is the demand to prove your claim. I start screaming "hoax" when you attempt to monetise your claim before proving it in an independently reproducible manner such as letting people look into the black box - which is doable without risking commercial advantage, that is what patents are for.
I would fully expect the community to demand proof of claim if I invent something, that proof of claim comes in the form of something which either fits current understanding or fundamentally rewrites it, that something beyond my claims but tangible and repeatable by *anybody*.
I've got a video somewhere (Chaos Communication Congress, I forget which year) of someone discussing the "upcoming" ReiserFS and how much better it will be for GNU/Linux than "extended filesystems"...
ok, for all instances of "ChromeOS", substitute "Mac OS". Reread.
The point is marketing. Google want to basically give you a cheap piece of hardware built like a toaster with limited functionality in software which is selected and customised for the hardware. That's your MacBook of the Linux world. The REAL selling point of the whole Chromebook thing isn't the netbook, though some might see that as a nice deal anyway, it's the premium cloud storage and the other online bits.
nothing wrong with a 1TB filesystem formatted in FAT32. Apart from the fact that you have a niggling problem of a 4GB filesize limit which given the amount of space you'd be sorely tempted to try and breach anyway (I use a 1TB drive for video capture and editing - average file size on that thing can and does hit 700+GB - necessarily it's formatted in NTFS).
kinda reminds me of what happened when Lotus Smartsuite went magazine cover. My college dropped Microsoft like it was lava and switched EVERYTHING over to Smartsuite. Worst move they ever made, to be honest; at least the MS setup kinda worked, short the frequent reboots. The Lotus stuff was just so much junk. It wouldn't even play with the litho suite.
I thought dog was a table speciality in Seoul, and that it was cat in Beijing?
(assumption based on the local chinese buffet being closed due to EHO finding cat carcasses in various states of dismemberment in the walk-in. That was being served up as "mongolian lamb". Also, the first and last Korean restaurant I know of opening in my area lasted all of three months before the RSPCA accidentally found an RFID tag out of a labrador's leg on a plate of "lamb" cutlets).
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I think the idea is that you have not only control of the killswitch, you have instant control over access to individual files on the device instead of adjusting settings over a web interface and waiting x number of hours for the new settings to propagate. Nice idea, not new, but the implementation is fairly novel in a "I want one of those but in shocking pink" kind of way.
I used to use an ICQ account (redirected via a domain account on 123reg) and client as a webserver for various files, when I didn't want the webserver on I just switched my computer off (or just killed the ICQ client). Worked very well for years.
basic battery chemistry hasn't really changed, charger tech has. OK, the dendrite problem has always been a problem particularly when it comes to rapid chargers, but that can be mitigated by using pulsed charging rather than straight DC. This is why a laptop charges a 48WH battery pack in an hour instead of 18 hours - the battery might still get hot, that's because dendritic growth is still occurring, but as long as that thermal cutoff is still there, and the charging circuit is smart enough (a potential switch) it isn't a real issue in the short term but it *will* eventually be the (sole) cause of battery death. The hack of simply replacing individual cells in the laptop battery is a worker because dead cells are dendritic graveyards, they're like the internal fuse for the rest of the pack - chances are that a dead laptop battery has just one dead cell. Worth a look if you know what you're doing and a new battery costs two hundred quid (some do!).
not over a 30A ring, I don't.
someone check, this isn't a Rossi "invention" is it??
...is when it comes to fast charging the things. You run the risk of dendritic shorting, which is where lithium dendrites cross the electrolyte and touch the graphite electrode, causing the battery to short. THAT is where the heat comes from, not a dry chemical reaction. That's also where the risk of batteries exploding arises, and why certain laptop batteries have been exploding - thermal safeties have been omitted from aftermarket batteries, these are the ones that have been exploding because laptops in powered-off state are charging the batteries with the full whack of the PSU which causes the shorting. Without the safeties, the power isn't cut, the dendrites continue to grow until BOOM! Rechargeable batteries have an additive in the electrolyte that's supposed to inhibit dendrite growth, but it doesn't stop it, particularly when the battery is being abused. Anecdotally, I have rechargeable batteries that I've had for 20+ years and they still hold usable charge - for the simple reason that I have never and will never use a fast charger on them.
yeah, you're not talking about rewiring a house for that, you're talking about a direct feed to the turbine.
20KW would *melt* domestic feeds even before you get to the meter. Over here the average home has a 60-100A meter fuse (with 60A becoming more and more common, I had to pretty much demand a 100A and a leg main out to my garage) at 220V, that's 13KW or so at the meter - before you get to the distribution bus. Your ring main is rated at 3.6KW max total load *for the entire circuit*.
if a quantum processor can crack RSA, it can blow through any passphrase. It's getting very close to breaking RSA (it's already technically broken the Internet).
thinking about it, an AC clamp induces a Hall effect in the wire being measured, so the mere act of measuring in this way biases the experiment (unless you know precisely the calibration offset for the meter, which is in most cases unlikely).
neutron cannons are easily built, all you need is a cathode ray tube and a cloud chamber.
or via an induction coil. Hall effect.
because brown's the only available colour and... well, I don't think that'd work.
wrong, wrong, WRONG.
A black box test invalidates itself simply because you don't know what's in the box. I could put a PP3 battery in a blackbox and connect it to a meter and absent any input, claim solid state cold fusion - but you're not allowed to see what the meter's connected to or what's in the box. After an hour the battery might be dead but the experiment is validated because according to you, the parameters are satisfied, and my invention of a PP3 battery in a box is validated as a SSCF device.
(by the way, the device under discussion was connected to a power grid the entire run without proper metering of ALL connected conductors, the calorific output measurement was fatally flawed and was in fact set up by a known colleague of Rossi and himself in fact a known fraudster and I've got a sudden feeling of deja vu in discussing this shit but having been on the receiving end of threats from Rossi's company myself for publicly voicing my own concerns about his cold fusion claims, I'll put my neck on the block again and say "Come get me, bitch. Rossi, Levi et. al, you're frauds, and you know we know it.")
"Mummy, is that dove on a period?"
Yeah. I'm not even going to ask where she hid that one.
no, the scepticism is the demand to prove your claim. I start screaming "hoax" when you attempt to monetise your claim before proving it in an independently reproducible manner such as letting people look into the black box - which is doable without risking commercial advantage, that is what patents are for.
I would fully expect the community to demand proof of claim if I invent something, that proof of claim comes in the form of something which either fits current understanding or fundamentally rewrites it, that something beyond my claims but tangible and repeatable by *anybody*.
post-it notes, for one (invented by accident by a technician working on a batch of cyanoacrylate or somesuch).
money ink, for another (you know, the ink on a British fifty that never dries).
that movie was a fucking lie, it wasn't a centipede, it was a dodecapede.
uh... no, that was bought with the blood of patriots the same way regime change has always happened anywhere in the entire history of civilisation.
I've got a video somewhere (Chaos Communication Congress, I forget which year) of someone discussing the "upcoming" ReiserFS and how much better it will be for GNU/Linux than "extended filesystems"...
ok, for all instances of "ChromeOS", substitute "Mac OS". Reread.
The point is marketing. Google want to basically give you a cheap piece of hardware built like a toaster with limited functionality in software which is selected and customised for the hardware. That's your MacBook of the Linux world. The REAL selling point of the whole Chromebook thing isn't the netbook, though some might see that as a nice deal anyway, it's the premium cloud storage and the other online bits.
nothing wrong with a 1TB filesystem formatted in FAT32. Apart from the fact that you have a niggling problem of a 4GB filesize limit which given the amount of space you'd be sorely tempted to try and breach anyway (I use a 1TB drive for video capture and editing - average file size on that thing can and does hit 700+GB - necessarily it's formatted in NTFS).
Google don't give a shit what you can afford, all they care about is how much you want it.
kinda reminds me of what happened when Lotus Smartsuite went magazine cover. My college dropped Microsoft like it was lava and switched EVERYTHING over to Smartsuite. Worst move they ever made, to be honest; at least the MS setup kinda worked, short the frequent reboots. The Lotus stuff was just so much junk. It wouldn't even play with the litho suite.
I thought dog was a table speciality in Seoul, and that it was cat in Beijing?
(assumption based on the local chinese buffet being closed due to EHO finding cat carcasses in various states of dismemberment in the walk-in. That was being served up as "mongolian lamb". Also, the first and last Korean restaurant I know of opening in my area lasted all of three months before the RSPCA accidentally found an RFID tag out of a labrador's leg on a plate of "lamb" cutlets).