That would be how corporations behave in a perfect world, yes. However, the board of directors are likely other executives of other companies. The CEO is on their boards. They also travel in the same social circles, and are members of the same country club. They are getting the most money possible for their "friend", just like he'll do for them. It has nothing to do with ability anymore.
Very likely true. HEPA certified shop vacs can now be found for a "reasonable" cost because they are required for lead paint removal by the EPA now. I own one. It was 400 dollars. I would run a shroud around the blade that is hooked up to the HEPA vac. Try to process as much exhaust as possible through the vacuum. Also where a P100 mask ( HEPA rating used for masks, they are pink. ) and put a fan in a window or do it all outside.
It doesn't say it in this article, so I can't RTFA you;) but in others that I've read it's stated that 90% of the energy goes back into the grid. The plant itself is very "green".
Most state governments have huge deficits because of health care costs these days. Extra revenue from speeding with the added benefit as a deterrent seems like a win-win to me. It's like being able to choose to not pay your taxes. Drive safe, and you get more money to spend, drive like a moron, give up some cash. I also think speeding fines should be factored by kinetic energy. That dicates possible damage, and would increase the fine at all speed levels for recreational tank, errr, SUV drivers. I see far too many people being very very careless on the road. In the US over 10,000 people die on the roads every year. If you are under the age of 50 in the US and you die, you will be killed in a car. Driving in your car is the most dangerous thing you will ever do in your life by a factor of 1000. I will never understand how people can act so carelessly when so many lives depend on their actions.
I use sunrays in my home. As soon as you move to more then 3 computers, in your home, or in an office, the electrical savings will pay for the sunray investment in a year or two. You can find the "old" sunray 1g devices on ebay for around 100 dollars or so. Hooked up to a nice cheap LCD @ 1280@1024 and they are the ultimate work machine. 2D graphics are fast even on a 100Mbit wire. I personally have never found a need for 3D in normal day to day work. ( I imagine if you are in that business you should have a big workstation under your desk anyway. )
I was introduced to the sunray in college. When better then 100 workstations are needed the cost and administration savings become very apparent. 100 * 40 watts (sunray and LCD) == 4000 watts..... 100 * 200 watts ( PC and LCD ) == 20000 watts. The new devices draw 10 watts of power. ( but cost a lot more )
Also, they have very good power managment and go to sleep quickly, saving more energy. They are also fanless, giving a much more pleasent work (or in my case bedroom) environment.
I like all that too. I'm a long time MythTV user. What bothers me, as someone dedicating my life to technological progress, is the masses "don't" have access to these kind of features, and this level of technology. Why not? All the functionality in MythTV that you've described is perfectly legal, and already exists. It bothers me that people are wasting millions of dollars buying DVDs with TV shows on them that were freely broadcast over the air. The only thing stopping some company from mass producing MythTV boxes for all cable providers in scale is the TV guide listings. zap2it has commericial licensing available, but it's very very expensive and no start up can pull it off. What's the solution? How can we get a MythTV box in every living room in america? You could never enable sweeping DRM then... people would riot.
Old school projector bulbs do get bright enough do use with modern projectors. There are still two problems with them though. First, the light is not white at all, it tends a lot toward yellow, which is unacceptable for a color projection. Second, to deliver that much light, they draw anywhere from 600-900 watts. That hurts in two ways, heat, which puts a strain on size and cooling methods. People don't want that much noise in their living room. It also cuts into the only advantage, which is cost. 600 watts vs 200 watts will cost an extra $180 in electricity over 3000 hours at.15 cents per KiloWatt Hour. So there really is no advantage at all. They are the best technology for the purpose. Don't you think if there was something better in an up and comming market like this someone would be selling it? The world is not out to get you.
Mecury arc lamps have much _lower_ profit margins then other consumer electronic parts. So do projectors in general. The lamps have very exotic materials in them, like very very pure tungsten and specially manufactured quartz casings. You're not getting ripped off. The prices would come down some if more projectors were out there in people's living rooms, but not by much. If there were really a racket on mecury arc lamps, we could do something about it. Hopefully laser tech will eliminate the need for these expensive ( and very polluting, in manufacture and waste ) mecury arc lamps.
What needs to happen before ANY success will be made in space exploration is the tree hugging variety ( The ones that are very loud. ) of the american public needs to get over the word "Nuclear". It's not a bad word people, and it's good clean abundant energy. You are going to breath hundreds of times more Uranium and other radioactive material from the Coal fired powered plants on this planet then you will ever near within 50 miles of if 100% of the worlds power was Nuclear Fission based..... Back to space travel. I saw a protest for the Casini launch. I don't think I'm alone is banging my head against the desk at what an uneducated group that was....
Gas Core Nuclear Rockets, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_core_reactor_rock et , are the only feasible way to launch the mass needed for real space exploration. A single stage multi-engine(4-6) GCR could launch the entire completed IIS in one fell swoop! Every couple of years NASA revists this technology, and it always gets put back on the shelf because "Americans aren't ready for it". The only issue with these engines when they _were running_ back in the 70's were material issues. Carbon fiber and modern silicon manufacturing now makes these issues all but solved. You want to see a moon colony in your lifetime... Educate people on the efficiency of GCR technology.
The latest NASA designs are a joke. It's the same old, same old... boring hydrogen and oxygen rockets that are no different from Goddard's orignal made nearly 80 YEARS AGO. Can't we 'think different' by now?
Yeah.... You need to two boxen if you're going to record two DirecTV channels at once. The same goes for "most" digital cable, they require you to have a box to decode them. My setup is a digital cable box through Svideo into the MythTV, and a "standard" second tuner to get the 70 or so cable stations. So I can record a digital and an analog (really... they're all still analog)... at once... My god... how much TV do you people watch?
The other minor issue with MythTV is changing channels on the external box. You either need to use an IR device stuck to the front of it(How a model of TiVo does it), or hope there is a firewire or USB port that supports channel changing ( becoming more common )... I don't see this changing as time goes on. The cable companies want to turn off the analog signals, and require everyone to have to have a cable box. Multiple stacked cable boxes arn't the best decor.... However... at least with MythTV you can put them all in the basement with a file server, and just have pretty little computer on each TV set.
The screen I am replying on is running at 1920x1200..... and I wish DVDs were 1280x480!!! That'd be frickin awesome!!... googlism seem to vote at the correct answer of 720x480.
Like my math teacher always said... show your work... Let's use $4 a gallon, and 32mpg and 42mpg for the normal car, and the hybrid.
(the diff)$6000 / $4 (gas price ) = 1500 gallons
so we need to _save_ 1500 gallons of gas to break even.
Sidebar: That's a lot of gas. 1500 gallons at 42mpg is 63,000 miles, at 32mpg it's 48,000 miles.... ( using 42mpg and 32mpg ) hybrid.. every 100 miles we burn 2.38 gallons normal.. every 100 miles we burn 3.13 gallons so... for every 100 miles we _save_.75 gallons
1500 gal /.75 gal to save per * 100 miles = 200,000 miles
People have different driving habits, but I agree, a 200,000 mile payout is still a bit excessive. However, that's with a 10mpg difference and an ever more reasonable future gas price average of $4.00 a gallon.
An interesting point! Java was invented with incredible foresight. It is an amazing 'platform' ( notice I didn't say language. ) for embedded devices. It allows rapid development and consistant testing even the most esoteric environments. ( Mars rovers anyone? ) A few big time device deployments is all you need to work out the hardware details and Java and JINI technology will be everywhere.
This is 'Insightful'?! This is a troll to start Java is slow because applets are stupid war. Java is a platform. Code it how you will. It's obviously a damn good platform considering its extremely wide spread use despite strong arm tactics by its competitors.
You should ask the slashdot crew for anyone that has this CD to send you a copy of it. It's not like you're the only person who bought the product, and there is this whole great super communication thing called the internet;)... You'll get that nomad back running in no time...
Also... Creative does offer downloadable applications. "Creative NOMAD Explorer (Version 3.01.10) (11.22 MB)"... http://www.nomadworld.com/downloads/drivers/downlo ad2.asp?Product_ID=239&dlcentric=8069&Product_Name =JukeBox+2&OSName=Windows+XP
What do you mean? I've installed MPlayer via apt-get in binary form on all my machines, except my HDTV machine because I needed that little bit of extra compile time optimization. There are plenty of pre-compiled mplayer installs in various packages for nearly all linux distros.
When I install Linux on my personal laptops I usually have to buy software to watch a movie.
What? MPlayer and/or Ogle aren't good enough for you? What are you buying? Use MPlayer and donote to them. They were looking for a hard drive the other day I think.
I actually did an undergrad project reverse engineering these little things. Now, (not then) there are a few web sites online that have info on how they operate. Like someone said, very similar to VNC, The protocol is actually called THIN. There is a short paper from Sun on the protocol. It mentions how they ran quake 2 on it. There are a few extra auth tricks as well. For instance, after it gets a DHCP lease it expects to keep a TCP connection open to the server forever more, and do nothing with it by keep alives. Everything else is UDP packets. We had nearly 100 of these running off a single 8 way V880 server using a gigabit switch to feed dedicated 100t lines to each ray.
My goal was to write a server in Java that could at least auth and issue a few commands, draw a rectangle, draw an image. They actually send images and image change data in ascii pixel maps. I was impressed.
The coolest feature for college anyway was the smartcards. They could store your session key and you could go to any other ray and use the card to bring back the screen right where you left off.
"distance really has little to do with the voltage, it is more related to the resistance and current."
uhhhh, cowboy neal says you need to go back to high school and learn thy self Ohm's Law. (V = I*R) Anything that is like you said "related to the resistance and current" is directly related by Ohm's Law to the voltage. Is silicon, distance has everything to do with everything.
You bring up the exact point that makes this an entirely different beast. As much as M$ doesn't get security right, some over there much be reading some theory books. Real security requires authentication as well as encryption. This is why those self signing AIM certificates don't make sense... no authentication. And if you pay for the authentication, then save the stream and crack it... your name is even closer to illegal act, much easier to figure out it was you. The line-out re-record is never going to go away. Most people don't mind the slight quality loss. However, it is a "process" and time is money, the majority of people won't bother, and that's the point. Nothing will ever be "uncrackable" you just have to make it hard enough to be a nusience.
There is one feature that Dell laptops have Mac laptops beat in. "Screen Resolution" I have a 8500 with a 15.4 inch screen at an amazing "1920x1200" Not even the 17 inch TiBook comes close at 1440x900. The 15 inch is a measly 1280x854. I will gladdly put up with some Linux hassles ( I haven't used a modem in nearly a decade. ) to get the best screen possible. My ideal laptop would be one without a CD-ROM, with a really thin harddrive, medium CPU power and good battery life... and really really thin.... BUT A HUGE HIGH RES SCREEN. I don't understand why no company makes one. Now I'm ranting...
Release it? Have you not be paying attention? There is NO business, NO development, NO engineering and certainly, NO manufacturing. It's a scam that makes a few people rich and the expense of some other people that are richer.... ahh the american way... You act like they have a warehouse full of consoles rearing to go once the lawsuit pans out... The real story is they never got INTO the design phase... that would... of course cut back on the size house the CEO could buy.
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That would be how corporations behave in a perfect world, yes. However, the board of directors are likely other executives of other companies. The CEO is on their boards. They also travel in the same social circles, and are members of the same country club. They are getting the most money possible for their "friend", just like he'll do for them. It has nothing to do with ability anymore.
Very likely true. HEPA certified shop vacs can now be found for a "reasonable" cost because they are required for lead paint removal by the EPA now. I own one. It was 400 dollars. I would run a shroud around the blade that is hooked up to the HEPA vac. Try to process as much exhaust as possible through the vacuum. Also where a P100 mask ( HEPA rating used for masks, they are pink. ) and put a fan in a window or do it all outside.
It doesn't say it in this article, so I can't RTFA you ;) but in others that I've read it's stated that 90% of the energy goes back into the grid. The plant itself is very "green".
Most state governments have huge deficits because of health care costs these days. Extra revenue from speeding with the added benefit as a deterrent seems like a win-win to me. It's like being able to choose to not pay your taxes. Drive safe, and you get more money to spend, drive like a moron, give up some cash. I also think speeding fines should be factored by kinetic energy. That dicates possible damage, and would increase the fine at all speed levels for recreational tank, errr, SUV drivers. I see far too many people being very very careless on the road. In the US over 10,000 people die on the roads every year. If you are under the age of 50 in the US and you die, you will be killed in a car. Driving in your car is the most dangerous thing you will ever do in your life by a factor of 1000. I will never understand how people can act so carelessly when so many lives depend on their actions.
I use sunrays in my home. As soon as you move to more then 3 computers, in your home, or in an office, the electrical savings will pay for the sunray investment in a year or two. You can find the "old" sunray 1g devices on ebay for around 100 dollars or so. Hooked up to a nice cheap LCD @ 1280@1024 and they are the ultimate work machine. 2D graphics are fast even on a 100Mbit wire. I personally have never found a need for 3D in normal day to day work. ( I imagine if you are in that business you should have a big workstation under your desk anyway. )
I was introduced to the sunray in college. When better then 100 workstations are needed the cost and administration savings become very apparent. 100 * 40 watts (sunray and LCD) == 4000 watts..... 100 * 200 watts ( PC and LCD ) == 20000 watts. The new devices draw 10 watts of power. ( but cost a lot more )
Also, they have very good power managment and go to sleep quickly, saving more energy. They are also fanless, giving a much more pleasent work (or in my case bedroom) environment.
It's not LCD paper. It's eInk paper. The technology is quite different from LCD. It's much closer to an etch-a-sketch then an LCD.
I like all that too. I'm a long time MythTV user. What bothers me, as someone dedicating my life to technological progress, is the masses "don't" have access to these kind of features, and this level of technology. Why not? All the functionality in MythTV that you've described is perfectly legal, and already exists. It bothers me that people are wasting millions of dollars buying DVDs with TV shows on them that were freely broadcast over the air. The only thing stopping some company from mass producing MythTV boxes for all cable providers in scale is the TV guide listings. zap2it has commericial licensing available, but it's very very expensive and no start up can pull it off. What's the solution? How can we get a MythTV box in every living room in america? You could never enable sweeping DRM then... people would riot.
Old school projector bulbs do get bright enough do use with modern projectors. There are still two problems with them though. First, the light is not white at all, it tends a lot toward yellow, which is unacceptable for a color projection. Second, to deliver that much light, they draw anywhere from 600-900 watts. That hurts in two ways, heat, which puts a strain on size and cooling methods. People don't want that much noise in their living room. It also cuts into the only advantage, which is cost. 600 watts vs 200 watts will cost an extra $180 in electricity over 3000 hours at .15 cents per KiloWatt Hour. So there really is no advantage at all. They are the best technology for the purpose. Don't you think if there was something better in an up and comming market like this someone would be selling it? The world is not out to get you.
Mecury arc lamps have much _lower_ profit margins then other consumer electronic parts. So do projectors in general. The lamps have very exotic materials in them, like very very pure tungsten and specially manufactured quartz casings. You're not getting ripped off. The prices would come down some if more projectors were out there in people's living rooms, but not by much. If there were really a racket on mecury arc lamps, we could do something about it. Hopefully laser tech will eliminate the need for these expensive ( and very polluting, in manufacture and waste ) mecury arc lamps.
What needs to happen before ANY success will be made in space exploration is the tree hugging variety ( The ones that are very loud. ) of the american public needs to get over the word "Nuclear". It's not a bad word people, and it's good clean abundant energy. You are going to breath hundreds of times more Uranium and other radioactive material from the Coal fired powered plants on this planet then you will ever near within 50 miles of if 100% of the worlds power was Nuclear Fission based..... Back to space travel. I saw a protest for the Casini launch. I don't think I'm alone is banging my head against the desk at what an uneducated group that was....
k et , are the only feasible way to launch the mass needed for real space exploration. A single stage multi-engine(4-6) GCR could launch the entire completed IIS in one fell swoop! Every couple of years NASA revists this technology, and it always gets put back on the shelf because "Americans aren't ready for it". The only issue with these engines when they _were running_ back in the 70's were material issues. Carbon fiber and modern silicon manufacturing now makes these issues all but solved. You want to see a moon colony in your lifetime... Educate people on the efficiency of GCR technology.
Gas Core Nuclear Rockets, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_core_reactor_roc
The latest NASA designs are a joke. It's the same old, same old... boring hydrogen and oxygen rockets that are no different from Goddard's orignal made nearly 80 YEARS AGO. Can't we 'think different' by now?
Yeah.... You need to two boxen if you're going to record two DirecTV channels at once. The same goes for "most" digital cable, they require you to have a box to decode them. My setup is a digital cable box through Svideo into the MythTV, and a "standard" second tuner to get the 70 or so cable stations. So I can record a digital and an analog (really... they're all still analog)... at once... My god... how much TV do you people watch?
The other minor issue with MythTV is changing channels on the external box. You either need to use an IR device stuck to the front of it(How a model of TiVo does it), or hope there is a firewire or USB port that supports channel changing ( becoming more common )... I don't see this changing as time goes on. The cable companies want to turn off the analog signals, and require everyone to have to have a cable box. Multiple stacked cable boxes arn't the best decor.... However... at least with MythTV you can put them all in the basement with a file server, and just have pretty little computer on each TV set.
The screen I am replying on is running at 1920x1200..... and I wish DVDs were 1280x480!!! That'd be frickin awesome!! ... googlism seem to vote at the correct answer of 720x480.
http://www.googlism.com/what_is/d/dvd_resolution/
Like my math teacher always said... show your work... Let's use $4 a gallon, and 32mpg and 42mpg for the normal car, and the hybrid.
... ( using 42mpg and 32mpg ) .. every 100 miles we burn 2.38 gallons .. every 100 miles we burn 3.13 gallons .75 gallons
.75 gal to save per * 100 miles =
(the diff)$6000 / $4 (gas price ) = 1500 gallons
so we need to _save_ 1500 gallons of gas to break even.
Sidebar:
That's a lot of gas. 1500 gallons at 42mpg is 63,000 miles, at 32mpg it's 48,000 miles.
hybrid
normal
so... for every 100 miles we _save_
1500 gal /
200,000 miles
People have different driving habits, but I agree, a 200,000 mile payout is still a bit excessive. However, that's with a 10mpg difference and an ever more reasonable future gas price average of $4.00 a gallon.
An interesting point! Java was invented with incredible foresight. It is an amazing 'platform' ( notice I didn't say language. ) for embedded devices. It allows rapid development and consistant testing even the most esoteric environments. ( Mars rovers anyone? ) A few big time device deployments is all you need to work out the hardware details and Java and JINI technology will be everywhere.
This is 'Insightful'?! This is a troll to start Java is slow because applets are stupid war. Java is a platform. Code it how you will. It's obviously a damn good platform considering its extremely wide spread use despite strong arm tactics by its competitors.
Good thing Maddox doesn't isn't an Aussy...
= ma nly_suicide
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u
(take out the space)
You should ask the slashdot crew for anyone that has this CD to send you a copy of it. It's not like you're the only person who bought the product, and there is this whole great super communication thing called the internet ;) ... You'll get that nomad back running in no time...
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Also... Creative does offer downloadable applications. "Creative NOMAD Explorer (Version 3.01.10) (11.22 MB)"... http://www.nomadworld.com/downloads/drivers/downl
Not what you need?
What do you mean? I've installed MPlayer via apt-get in binary form on all my machines, except my HDTV machine because I needed that little bit of extra compile time optimization. There are plenty of pre-compiled mplayer installs in various packages for nearly all linux distros.
When I install Linux on my personal laptops I usually have to buy software to watch a movie.
What? MPlayer and/or Ogle aren't good enough for you? What are you buying? Use MPlayer and donote to them. They were looking for a hard drive the other day I think.
I actually did an undergrad project reverse engineering these little things. Now, (not then) there are a few web sites online that have info on how they operate. Like someone said, very similar to VNC, The protocol is actually called THIN. There is a short paper from Sun on the protocol. It mentions how they ran quake 2 on it. There are a few extra auth tricks as well. For instance, after it gets a DHCP lease it expects to keep a TCP connection open to the server forever more, and do nothing with it by keep alives. Everything else is UDP packets. We had nearly 100 of these running off a single 8 way V880 server using a gigabit switch to feed dedicated 100t lines to each ray.
My goal was to write a server in Java that could at least auth and issue a few commands, draw a rectangle, draw an image. They actually send images and image change data in ascii pixel maps. I was impressed.
The coolest feature for college anyway was the smartcards. They could store your session key and you could go to any other ray and use the card to bring back the screen right where you left off.
"distance really has little to do with the voltage, it is more related to the resistance and current."
uhhhh, cowboy neal says you need to go back to high school and learn thy self Ohm's Law. (V = I*R) Anything that is like you said "related to the resistance and current" is directly related by Ohm's Law to the voltage. Is silicon, distance has everything to do with everything.
You bring up the exact point that makes this an entirely different beast. As much as M$ doesn't get security right, some over there much be reading some theory books. Real security requires authentication as well as encryption. This is why those self signing AIM certificates don't make sense... no authentication. And if you pay for the authentication, then save the stream and crack it... your name is even closer to illegal act, much easier to figure out it was you. The line-out re-record is never going to go away. Most people don't mind the slight quality loss. However, it is a "process" and time is money, the majority of people won't bother, and that's the point. Nothing will ever be "uncrackable" you just have to make it hard enough to be a nusience.
There is one feature that Dell laptops have Mac laptops beat in. "Screen Resolution" I have a 8500 with a 15.4 inch screen at an amazing "1920x1200" Not even the 17 inch TiBook comes close at 1440x900. The 15 inch is a measly 1280x854. I will gladdly put up with some Linux hassles ( I haven't used a modem in nearly a decade. ) to get the best screen possible. My ideal laptop would be one without a CD-ROM, with a really thin harddrive, medium CPU power and good battery life... and really really thin.... BUT A HUGE HIGH RES SCREEN. I don't understand why no company makes one. Now I'm ranting...
Release it? Have you not be paying attention? There is NO business, NO development, NO engineering and certainly, NO manufacturing. It's a scam that makes a few people rich and the expense of some other people that are richer.... ahh the american way... You act like they have a warehouse full of consoles rearing to go once the lawsuit pans out... The real story is they never got INTO the design phase... that would... of course cut back on the size house the CEO could buy.
Hit Goodwin's Law quick with this one.