What are you on about? You seem to be dissatisfied with a particular bluetooth manager GUI app. How is this anything inherent in the bluetooth stack? You say it's GUI only, but then you mention connecting from the command line?
If you don't like that bluetooth manager, you can always try a different one. If you don't like certain features, you've g ot the code, and can change it.
Many landfills already do produce power from garbage.
The local landfill where I live, the Johnston landfill, here in Rhode Island, operates a methane recovery plant. This methane gas then flow through eleven twelve-cylinder turbocharged engines, to power a bank of generators.
This produces 15.3 megawatts of power. 1.3 megawatts is used to power the plant and landfill site. The remaining 14 megawatts is sold back to the grid, and provides power for 21,000 homes.
It's not quite 1.21 gigawatts, but it's still pretty cool.
I did RTFA, and I understand what they mean. But the poster, as well as the article, as you can see in my quote above, are both misleading.
No matter what's going on, it's still not creating 90% more energy than is put in. You can't just discount the energy derived from the material being processed because it makes for a more impressive story. Anyway, I've been chatty enough about this. Time to try for bed again!
OK, well either way, that's conceptually what I was thinking, too. I was just thinking in terms of electricity. So E = energy consumed, M = matter consumed, so E+M=E*1.90 or something...
I don't know, it's 3:21am here and I've not touched math since college.
Anyway, it's not the poster's fault, the article itself is just as misleading. Eep.
OK, now I did read the article, and it simply says:
Researchers tested the first tactical biorefinery prototype in November and found that it produced approximately 90 percent more energy than it consumed, said Jerry Warner, founder of Defense Life Sciences LLC, a private company working with Purdue researchers on the project. He said the results were better than expected.
So, as we've all been commenting, this makes no sense. They simply must mean that it takes a certain amount of energy to power the thing. And that this energy (is it electric?) plus the mass being 'converted', will produce 90% more energy than it took to power the contraption.
Maybe I'm just rationalising outrageous claims or something, but I simply can't think of another way that this could make any sense.
Ok, wait... It produces 90% more energy than it consumes? I didn't RTFA yet, so I'm sure in there, they state that it produces 90% more energy than it takes to run the thing.
Is this statement predicated on the assumption that the matter being 'converted' to energy does not count toward the amount of energy consumed? Otherwise it's an outright impossibility, no?
Argh. I need to learn to actually act on some of the cool ideas I think of. Ages ago, I built a prototype of a system like this. My idea involved standard AA, AAA, and other size batteries with inductive charging circuits built into each cell. The idea being that you'd then be able to trivially retrofit it in any device.
My idea was just to make a generic pad that could be affixed to the bottom of any desk, countertop, shelf, etc.
Ah well, I need to learn to act on my ideas before someone else does. Same thing with those persistance of vision clocks available at Spencer Gifts and the like. Built one of those back in the 80s, and never did anything with it. But this idea has for more potential than a clock. More power to them for running with it, I guess.
PS: Tried any of the free Parallels replacements like QEMU or the Cocoa QEMU port? Well, it's hardly a Parallels "replacement". It's still considered alpha-quality software, for one thing.
QEMU by default is a virtual machine emulator. They do have what they call the "QEMU Accelerator", which is available for Linux on x86 and x86_64, which provides proper virtualisation, more akin to what VMWare and Parallels are doing. That is to say, it runs most code on the host processor directly, without emulation, which as you know, slows things down a lot.
I've been watching the "Q Project", which I'm pretty sure is the OS X/Cocoa QEMU port you mentioned. They have a module called "Virtualizer", which is similar in scope to the QEMU accelerator, but it's still in development.
And, the hardware support within the VM is still not really close to that in the commercial solutions.
So, I wouldn't consider it a viable alternative to VMWare or Parallels just yet. Anyway, Parallels for MacOS costs less than $100US, and is worth every penny, for those folks that need to run Windows apps now and then, but don't want to dual boot every time, and don't want to spend the money for a dedicated Windows machine.
Plus there's just something I find amazing about seeing a 6.5" square Mac Mini run two modern, resource hungry operating systems at once, without breaking a sweat.
Not to nitpick, but this case isn't a Woz design, unless this happens to be a picture of his own computer. The Apple I was sold as a bare board, it was left to the customer to add a case, PSU, keyboard, display, etc.
This is why every Apple I picture you see looks entirely different.
Pray tell, (ok, pun not intended), what is the point of this thing? Is this for when you really need that Jesus fix, and are at a computer with no net access? I don't get it...
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What are you on about? You seem to be dissatisfied with a particular bluetooth manager GUI app. How is this anything inherent in the bluetooth stack? You say it's GUI only, but then you mention connecting from the command line?
If you don't like that bluetooth manager, you can always try a different one. If you don't like certain features, you've g ot the code, and can change it.
Many landfills already do generate power from garbage. I don't want to duplicate my post, but if you want to see, check here.
The local landfill where I live, the Johnston landfill, here in Rhode Island, operates a methane recovery plant. This methane gas then flow through eleven twelve-cylinder turbocharged engines, to power a bank of generators.
This produces 15.3 megawatts of power. 1.3 megawatts is used to power the plant and landfill site. The remaining 14 megawatts is sold back to the grid, and provides power for 21,000 homes.
It's not quite 1.21 gigawatts, but it's still pretty cool.
I did RTFA, and I understand what they mean. But the poster, as well as the article, as you can see in my quote above, are both misleading.
No matter what's going on, it's still not creating 90% more energy than is put in. You can't just discount the energy derived from the material being processed because it makes for a more impressive story. Anyway, I've been chatty enough about this. Time to try for bed again!
OK, well either way, that's conceptually what I was thinking, too. I was just thinking in terms of electricity. So E = energy consumed, M = matter consumed, so E+M=E*1.90 or something...
I don't know, it's 3:21am here and I've not touched math since college.
Anyway, it's not the poster's fault, the article itself is just as misleading. Eep.
So, as we've all been commenting, this makes no sense. They simply must mean that it takes a certain amount of energy to power the thing. And that this energy (is it electric?) plus the mass being 'converted', will produce 90% more energy than it took to power the contraption.
Maybe I'm just rationalising outrageous claims or something, but I simply can't think of another way that this could make any sense.
Ok, wait... It produces 90% more energy than it consumes? I didn't RTFA yet, so I'm sure in there, they state that it produces 90% more energy than it takes to run the thing.
Is this statement predicated on the assumption that the matter being 'converted' to energy does not count toward the amount of energy consumed? Otherwise it's an outright impossibility, no?
Argh. I need to learn to actually act on some of the cool ideas I think of. Ages ago, I built a prototype of a system like this. My idea involved standard AA, AAA, and other size batteries with inductive charging circuits built into each cell. The idea being that you'd then be able to trivially retrofit it in any device.
My idea was just to make a generic pad that could be affixed to the bottom of any desk, countertop, shelf, etc.
Ah well, I need to learn to act on my ideas before someone else does. Same thing with those persistance of vision clocks available at Spencer Gifts and the like. Built one of those back in the 80s, and never did anything with it. But this idea has for more potential than a clock. More power to them for running with it, I guess.
QEMU by default is a virtual machine emulator. They do have what they call the "QEMU Accelerator", which is available for Linux on x86 and x86_64, which provides proper virtualisation, more akin to what VMWare and Parallels are doing. That is to say, it runs most code on the host processor directly, without emulation, which as you know, slows things down a lot.
I've been watching the "Q Project", which I'm pretty sure is the OS X/Cocoa QEMU port you mentioned. They have a module called "Virtualizer", which is similar in scope to the QEMU accelerator, but it's still in development.
And, the hardware support within the VM is still not really close to that in the commercial solutions.
So, I wouldn't consider it a viable alternative to VMWare or Parallels just yet. Anyway, Parallels for MacOS costs less than $100US, and is worth every penny, for those folks that need to run Windows apps now and then, but don't want to dual boot every time, and don't want to spend the money for a dedicated Windows machine.
Plus there's just something I find amazing about seeing a 6.5" square Mac Mini run two modern, resource hungry operating systems at once, without breaking a sweat.
Not to folks that live in most countries outside of the US...
Not to nitpick, but this case isn't a Woz design, unless this happens to be a picture of his own computer. The Apple I was sold as a bare board, it was left to the customer to add a case, PSU, keyboard, display, etc.
This is why every Apple I picture you see looks entirely different.
I learned of the existence of this in a SkyMall catalog on a particularly awful Delta flight today:
USB Bible
Pray tell, (ok, pun not intended), what is the point of this thing? Is this for when you really need that Jesus fix, and are at a computer with no net access? I don't get it...
It's Greek, actually... autos- self, matos thinking.
I've been looking for this for a while. I'd like to get a PIC programmer, write a cdrom driver in PIC assembler, and build an mp3 discman type unit...