The efficiency of solar PV cells is poor, unless you start using rarified elements that are increasingly in short supply.
Using solar thermal, where focused sunlight is used to create steam and turn a turbine could be a good solution for electricity production. Used along with local solar water heating and we might have something, but it isn't by any means trivial. And we'd still face the issue of fuel for transportation. I'm not sure how many electric plants you'd have to build if we converted all the vehicles to pure electric. Probably somewhere between "a lot" and "a metric assload".
Next thing they'll be telling us is we could GROW our own medications in gardens. Medicine and pharmaceuticals are *hard* and require a lot of big government seed money, research, lobbyists, more money, more lobbyists, advertising, etc. The idea that you could grow, say a drug to suppress inter-ocular pressure in glaucoma patients, or a nausea-suppressive for chemotherapy patients is patently absurd! I mean, what next? Analgesics from tree bark?!
While the audio-book business may be a billion dollar industry, how many people buy BOTH the print and audio versions of a book? I'm guessing the answer is "not very many".
When buying an e-book for the Kindle, the author and publishers both get their royalties. With what I am assuming to be a negligible amount of people purchasing BOTH, there really isn't a lot of lost royalty rights from non-e double-dipping. The people that might have a beef are the voice actors that are hired to read for audio books. THEY are in serious danger of being replaced by technology. Well, that's progress. Go commiserate with the slide-rule and buggy whip unions.
Having an artificial voice read an e-book really doesn't cut into any publisher or author profits. Instead of revenues shifting solely from paper books to e-books, there is also some shift from audio books to e-books. But the sum total shifting is still the same.
What it sounds like is the Author's Guild saw dollar signs in the potential to get paid twice for the same thing and doesn't like it that the rest of the world doesn't agree with them, hence the temper tantrum.
Once, long ago, Excel had a full flight simulator hidden in the code. Then Microsoft created the Flight Simulator team and it was one of their landmark "games".
Fast forward many years. Microsoft closed down Flight Simulator and a few days later there is a "several year old zero-day" exploit in, of all places, Excel.
Coincidence? I THINK NOT! Paybacks are a bitch, aren't they Mr. Ballmer?
That is what they get for mandating the code be in ANSI C. How about allowing reference implementation in SPARK, ADA or something else using design-by-contract. After all, isn't something as critical as a international standard for a hash function the type of software d-b-c was meant for?
Except most of the cameras aren't going to be used for prevention of crime. They're there for two purposes.
1. When a 911 call comes in, to recon the area in advance for the police. 2. After the fact analysis and evidence.
Hmmmm...if they're going to run cameras and cables to every street corner, how about attaching a wi-fi node at the same time? You already are running the power and cables. Might as well have a city-wide mesh network at the same time.
Except that "making available" was thrown out in U.S. court. If they're convicted of "assisting making available" in Sweden it'll mean that the U.S. is the more liberal country and I don't think Sweden can live with that. No one in the E.U. would talk to them anymore.
I once too the time to put the core programs that make up a basic Linux distro into a spreadsheet, making notes on the programming language they used, file size and license. I used Linux From Scratch, so I could get an idea of a "core" working system, as opposed to thousands of packages. I think I narrowed it down to just over 60 packages to provide the basics. It taught me a couple of things.
1. Richard Stallman is right, the correct term is GNU/Linux. I was amazed at the percentage of packages in the core OS -- not applications -- that were from the GNU project. It was something like 75% or so. 2. C is by far an away the most dominant programming language. (Yeah, I know it should have been obvious. Duh!) 3. There are too many licenses. Off the top of my head I bumped into: GPL2, GPL3, BSD-2, BSD-3, MIT, Artistic, OpenSSL's "thou must advertise us" variation, Vi's Charityware, and at least one public domain.
Have you looked at it from this perspective? And would you consider approaching some of the existing projects with changing their license to one of your four?
In Soviet Russia, Lamarckism as interpreted by Lysenko in agriculture, was the state mandated approach and genetics was essentially outlawed until the 1960s. Geneticists were fired from jobs, sent to work camps, prison or just executed.
Squeeze? What about Squiggy? I thought "Lenny" was supposed to segue into using Laverne & Shirley names, which would allow further migration into Happy Days, Mork & Mindy and other entertainment favorites of the 1970s.
I'm perfectly capable of entering a useful bug report, but BZ is a pain in the ass. If you ask for end-user help, then you need to accommodate end user methods without trying to pretend you can turn them into developers.
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The efficiency of solar PV cells is poor, unless you start using rarified elements that are increasingly in short supply.
Using solar thermal, where focused sunlight is used to create steam and turn a turbine could be a good solution for electricity production. Used along with local solar water heating and we might have something, but it isn't by any means trivial. And we'd still face the issue of fuel for transportation. I'm not sure how many electric plants you'd have to build if we converted all the vehicles to pure electric. Probably somewhere between "a lot" and "a metric assload".
NASA, surprise, surprise.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/
While I appreciate all the information you posted on Swiss accounts, you'd better read that link to Panama accounts again.
Scroll down to the last account type, Panama Bearer Share Corporate Bank Account and read it again. Quote:
Panama has essentially replicated the numbered bank account by combining anonymous bearer share corporations with their strong bank secrecy.
Next thing they'll be telling us is we could GROW our own medications in gardens. Medicine and pharmaceuticals are *hard* and require a lot of big government seed money, research, lobbyists, more money, more lobbyists, advertising, etc. The idea that you could grow, say a drug to suppress inter-ocular pressure in glaucoma patients, or a nausea-suppressive for chemotherapy patients is patently absurd! I mean, what next? Analgesics from tree bark?!
Hippie, commie, open-sourcers will never learn.
Alice, as in from the late-1970s sitcom?
You need to aim a little higher in your standards.
While the audio-book business may be a billion dollar industry, how many people buy BOTH the print and audio versions of a book? I'm guessing the answer is "not very many".
When buying an e-book for the Kindle, the author and publishers both get their royalties. With what I am assuming to be a negligible amount of people purchasing BOTH, there really isn't a lot of lost royalty rights from non-e double-dipping. The people that might have a beef are the voice actors that are hired to read for audio books. THEY are in serious danger of being replaced by technology. Well, that's progress. Go commiserate with the slide-rule and buggy whip unions.
Having an artificial voice read an e-book really doesn't cut into any publisher or author profits. Instead of revenues shifting solely from paper books to e-books, there is also some shift from audio books to e-books. But the sum total shifting is still the same.
What it sounds like is the Author's Guild saw dollar signs in the potential to get paid twice for the same thing and doesn't like it that the rest of the world doesn't agree with them, hence the temper tantrum.
Once, long ago, Excel had a full flight simulator hidden in the code. Then Microsoft created the Flight Simulator team and it was one of their landmark "games".
Fast forward many years. Microsoft closed down Flight Simulator and a few days later there is a "several year old zero-day" exploit in, of all places, Excel.
Coincidence? I THINK NOT! Paybacks are a bitch, aren't they Mr. Ballmer?
Mmmmm...USB 2.0 for storage and SDIO WiFi for tether-free connectivity.
You don't think Minesweeper and Solitaire are going to play themselves, do you?
That is what they get for mandating the code be in ANSI C. How about allowing reference implementation in SPARK, ADA or something else using design-by-contract. After all, isn't something as critical as a international standard for a hash function the type of software d-b-c was meant for?
Now with tint control!
Except most of the cameras aren't going to be used for prevention of crime. They're there for two purposes.
1. When a 911 call comes in, to recon the area in advance for the police.
2. After the fact analysis and evidence.
Hmmmm...if they're going to run cameras and cables to every street corner, how about attaching a wi-fi node at the same time? You already are running the power and cables. Might as well have a city-wide mesh network at the same time.
"This fascinating little gadget is supposed to replace the CD; guess I'll have to buy the White Album again." - Agent K, Men In Black
Then we're going to have to ask you to turn in your webcam.
This, sir, is the best argument for EU membership that I have heard so far! Nordic babes and muppets!
Except that "making available" was thrown out in U.S. court. If they're convicted of "assisting making available" in Sweden it'll mean that the U.S. is the more liberal country and I don't think Sweden can live with that. No one in the E.U. would talk to them anymore.
I once too the time to put the core programs that make up a basic Linux distro into a spreadsheet, making notes on the programming language they used, file size and license. I used Linux From Scratch, so I could get an idea of a "core" working system, as opposed to thousands of packages. I think I narrowed it down to just over 60 packages to provide the basics. It taught me a couple of things.
1. Richard Stallman is right, the correct term is GNU/Linux. I was amazed at the percentage of packages in the core OS -- not applications -- that were from the GNU project. It was something like 75% or so.
2. C is by far an away the most dominant programming language. (Yeah, I know it should have been obvious. Duh!)
3. There are too many licenses. Off the top of my head I bumped into: GPL2, GPL3, BSD-2, BSD-3, MIT, Artistic, OpenSSL's "thou must advertise us" variation, Vi's Charityware, and at least one public domain.
Have you looked at it from this perspective? And would you consider approaching some of the existing projects with changing their license to one of your four?
In Soviet Russia, Lamarckism as interpreted by Lysenko in agriculture, was the state mandated approach and genetics was essentially outlawed until the 1960s. Geneticists were fired from jobs, sent to work camps, prison or just executed.
Squeeze? What about Squiggy? I thought "Lenny" was supposed to segue into using Laverne & Shirley names, which would allow further migration into Happy Days, Mork & Mindy and other entertainment favorites of the 1970s.
Yes, but can it get us to alternate universes?
(For the humorless, the novel "Twistor" describes an effect sort of like this and is a damned good "hard" science fiction book.)
Full frontal nudity.
Cool!
http://www.getmiro.com/download/for-ubuntu/
Where are they?
I'm perfectly capable of entering a useful bug report, but BZ is a pain in the ass. If you ask for end-user help, then you need to accommodate end user methods without trying to pretend you can turn them into developers.
The download section for Miro doesn't use the numbers, only the names and they aren't the only ones that insist on doing that.
Click the "Report Bug" link in Miro and you'll see the connection. It opens a link to their BugZilla form, asking you to create an account or login.