FYi, its 40 time better than standard solar cells and 4 times better than their previous results.
The reference from the FAQ 1. Currie, M. J., Mapel, J. K., Heidel, T. D., Goffri, S. & Baldo, M. A. High-efficiency Organic Solar Concentrators for Photovoltaics. Science. In Press.
What makes you think that because MS is discontinuing new licensing of a product that it has become abandoned? Abandoned/ abandonware implies that a company/license holder no longer cares about it. I doubt that is the case here. MS is intentionally discontinuing new licenses to eventually remove the product from the market place and "encourage" software writers to move to a newer platform, which MS will likely sell to them for more than they were making off of the old product. They very much care about the old product and do not want it used, therefore it could be argued that it has not been abandoned.
Perhaps, they feel with the change in composition in the Supreme Court with Bush's last couple of appointments that this has a better chance of standing up that previous attempts.
In your opinion, if I wanted to give my best effort to extending the number of years I'm alive, what would be the top things I should do? I'll let you decide how many things to include.
I believe, that's not quite accurate. They would still need to be in possession of the hardware, but they would not need your password, they just need to overwrite the white space on the drive from their perspective. Truecrypt has no provisions to prevent overwriting of an encrypted volume. But why would law enforcement do this, they want to see the encrypted data if it exists, not destroy it. It could be an accident, but then they should make a sector level copy of the hard drive, including white space before doing "anything" with the drive. So they would always have the original to go back to and to submit to the court as evidence. Copies can be used by law enforcement to search through, you almost never touch the original.
It's been a while since I've even looked at this and I've forgotten some of the details. I was thinking that the Riemann hypothesis was the larger conjecture. I preferred the way you stated the techniques could be generalized. While I certainly understood what he meant, I just thought that using the term "feel" was a tad unscholarly, but perhaps I'm just getting old.
If we can pin either of the down sufficiently,we can derive the other.
For example, if we pin down Jennifer Lopez's Ass Mass accurately enough we can state that a kilogram is a 1/785,235th (for instance) of the LAM *Lopez Ass Mass".
This paper is only for the "rational number field" thus does not encompass all possible number fields and the technique, while believed to be generalizable, may not be. So even if this proof pans out, the way I read it, for the time being it is a partial proof and would need to be generalized, before the hypothesis could be considered proven. Second should he really be using language such as "I feel" to describe his thoughts on the possibility on this generalization.
To avoid the complication of writings, I only considered the rational number field in this paper. But, I feel that techniques of this paper can be adopted to any algebraic number field without much difficulty to give a proof of the Riemann hypothesis for Dedeking zeta functions.
From the article: By now, most open source users understand that free refers to freedom, not to price. The new lesson is that the freedom belongs to the software, not to users. You are not free to do whatever you want with the open source software and may find yourself in a legal fight if what you do restricts the freedom of the software.
I disagree with several statements that the author doesn't understand the GPL. While the article does tend toward "scaremongering" I think the author has a pretty fair understanding and is looking forward from a legal point of view and he's a tad nervous about what he sees as potential areas of conflict.
You could move a circuit or two off of the grid breaker box to their own solar/wind powered circuit(s). Simply install a small second breaker / fuse box and move a couple of wires.
Might want to have an electrician do the work or inspect it to make sure you've covered everything.
Do you want to have battery backup for night time/no wind use? That does change the options available for the inverter selection/components as they have to manage multiple inputs, charging, etc.
Once your hobby has progressed to the point of wanting more of the house on the other solar wind then you can think about the grid inter-tie inverter.
The higher end inverters also tend have a cleaner A/C output, that is its closer to a sine wave than the lower end ones, at least that used to be the case. It isn't much of a deal for most things but some electronics are picky about the shape of the input wave.
Time to buy some stock in manufacturers of storage solutions.
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That was my aunt's name and she passed away many years ago.
I was running out the door with my zombie survival guide & bug out bag heading for my arctic hideout to escape the impending invasion and I noticed out of the corner of my eye a reference to programming.
Thank god, Aunt Ada was a tad weird when she was alive, I really didn't want to meet zombie Ada.
This didn't elude me.
Its still an area over twice the size of Yellowstone. About the size of New Jersey, as another poster pointed out. Why do you seem to think all is ok if the thing is broken up into smaller chunks.
Lets break it up into 100 smaller projects, that's 100 projects covering 84.6 sq miles each or about 9.2 x 9.2 miles. This is huge by itself and we're talking 100 of 'em. The desert is a vibrant ecosystem not just a bunch of piles of dead sand & rock, there's going to be an enormous impact not just at the building sites, but for miles around.
I'm not saying this can't be part of a more comprehensive energy plan for the country, but to say that building building giant solar power collector of whatever type in the sunny SW to power the whole country is simply ludicrous.
That would be 92x92 miles or 8464sq miles.
For comparison Yellow National park is "only" 3472sq miles.
So by undertaking the largest construction project ever and cover over that much area we can power the US with concentrated solar power.
I can only imagine the environmental impact statement required for such a project. What's the backup plan for the cloudy days? Tucson,AZ has about 89 of them per year. Lots of local backup required.
All that power generation in one area creates a transmission problem as well.
I'd rather see a Pebble Bed Reactors or some other relatively clean nuclear power with plants spread around the the country.
Here's another thought with centralized power, centralized damage could take the whole thing off line. A ripe target prior to an invasion/attack or just to make us spend the money to build it again. Nope, while I'm not opposed to solar power, this massive project is just plain stupid.
Anyone injured in an accident at an intersection, in those cities, now is going to be looking very hard at the light timing and if it contributed to the accident.
Is the city culpable? Let a jury determine.
Is the company that set the timing culpable? Let a jury determine.
And on, and on....
This could get interesting.
Well granted, if they're going to be sending over a likely allowed port makes things more difficult but you can do a similar this with http traffic and run all of it through a proxy so at least all of it should be hitting the firewall from a known limited set of ip-addesses otherwise its dropped. Is this a perfect solution, of course not, does this increase the level of management overhead, required, yes it does and yes it costs more money to do it too. But just throwing up your hands and saying well they could just do x, y & z so there's no point to it is BS, force them to do x, y & Z and then start working on how to stop that too.
sending a text message, however brief, and it is not hand free and thus may fall under the guidelines of some of the laws that are on the books or proposed. Especially if you get someone who has some cell phone activity right before an accident.
What they're saying is that the tiger would only need to get to 26 mi/hr at a launch angle of 55 degrees to clear the 12.5 ft wall 33 ft away, however, the maximum speed of a tiger is 35 mi/hr - 9 mi/hr faster than needed, thus the tiger could clear either a taller wall at 33 ft away or a 12.5 wall farther away.
In any event given the maximum known speed of the tiger it should have been a simple matter to know that it was capable of jumping out of its "cage". Converting lateral velocity to highly inclined is called jumping perhaps you've heard of it. Also at 35 mi/hr the tiger wouldn't need as steep an angle as it could leap from farther away.
My cats at home don't seem to have a problem with going from a near full run to near straight up if they want to, enough so that I can easily imagine a large cat going from full run to only 55 degrees.
Wow, there are illegal ones? Seriously, since when is BitTorrent illegal?
To him, the first time it was theoretically possible for someone to make an unauthorized copy of one of U2's works, was the moment Bit Torrent became illegal. The next step is to actually make it illegal.
I agree that, that would be interesting:
From the 1997 Patent - 6278884:
Abstract: A conventional portable cellular phone modified such that the phone housing incorporates a digital cameras security alarm system and other functions. In another embodiment, the portable cellular phone is modified such that the phone housing incorporates a security alarm system, radio receiver and other functions.
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From 2000 Patent - 6681120:
Abstract: A mobile entertainment and communication device in a palm-held size housing has a cellular or satellite telephone capable of wireless communication with the internet and one or more replaceable memory card sockets for receiving a blank memory card for recording data directly from the internet and, in particular, musical performances that then can be selectively reproduced by the device for the enjoyment of the user, including both audio and visual recordings and reproductions. The device also includes a camera and microphone for recording images and sound within the range of the device that can be wirelessly transmitted, either selectively or automatically to a remote telephone. Further, the device includes sensors for sensing unusual conditions that may also be transmitted to a remote telephone, together with the location of the device as determined by a GPS section of the device.
It details 125 combinations of things in a hand-held device.
Here's the first the rest are an extensive list of variations on the theme:
1. A mobile entertainment and communication device for communicating with the Internet and remotely located telephones, comprising: a housing of a palm-held size; a cellphone provided in said housing, said cellphone adapted for selectively and wirelessly connecting to the Internet and remotely located telephones and adapted for controlling selection of at least one of (1) downloading data or uploading data from or to the Internet, or (2) downloading data to a computer or other electronic device and said cellphone having at least one of (1) voice controlled dialing, (2) a wireless earphone or (3) a wire connection jack earphone with a microphone for operation of the mobile entertainment and communication device; a memory operatively connected to said cellphone; a microprocessor operatively connected to said memory; said microprocessor adapted for storing data to said memory that is received from the Internet or a remotely located telephone; and a display panel operatively connected to said microprocessor, said display panel adapted for reproducing images or other data from at least one of said memory or the Internet, said other data including at least one of moving images, combined sounds and moving images, or music with or without images.
The whole thing looks like the product of a brainstorming session with everything under the sun included in the list.
The patent was filed on Nov 20, 2003. It lists an inventor but they haven't invented anything as far as I can tell only tried to be the first ones to list these items together in a patent application. In going over the list I doubt there's anything to terribly non-obvious in there. I'd be surprised if this isn't challenged rather than just paid out, but that's just an opinion and IANAL.
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FYi, its 40 time better than standard solar cells and 4 times better than their previous results.
The reference from the FAQ
1. Currie, M. J., Mapel, J. K., Heidel, T. D., Goffri, S. & Baldo, M. A. High-efficiency Organic Solar Concentrators for Photovoltaics. Science. In Press.
What makes you think that because MS is discontinuing new licensing of a product that it has become abandoned?
Abandoned/ abandonware implies that a company/license holder no longer cares about it.
I doubt that is the case here. MS is intentionally discontinuing new licenses to eventually remove the product from the market place and "encourage" software writers to move to a newer platform, which MS will likely sell to them for more than they were making off of the old product. They very much care about the old product and do not want it used, therefore it could be argued that it has not been abandoned.
Perhaps, they feel with the change in composition in the Supreme Court with Bush's last couple of appointments that this has a better chance of standing up that previous attempts.
In your opinion, if I wanted to give my best effort to extending the number of years I'm alive, what would be the top things I should do?
I'll let you decide how many things to include.
Thank you
Gary
I believe, that's not quite accurate.
They would still need to be in possession of the hardware, but they would not need your password, they just need to overwrite the white space on the drive from their perspective. Truecrypt has no provisions to prevent overwriting of an encrypted volume.
But why would law enforcement do this, they want to see the encrypted data if it exists, not destroy it. It could be an accident, but then they should make a sector level copy of the hard drive, including white space before doing "anything" with the drive. So they would always have the original to go back to and to submit to the court as evidence. Copies can be used by law enforcement to search through, you almost never touch the original.
Ok, thank you.
It's been a while since I've even looked at this and I've forgotten some of the details. I was thinking that the Riemann hypothesis was the larger conjecture.
I preferred the way you stated the techniques could be generalized. While I certainly understood what he meant, I just thought that using the term "feel" was a tad unscholarly, but perhaps I'm just getting old.
If we can pin either of the down sufficiently,we can derive the other.
For example, if we pin down Jennifer Lopez's Ass Mass accurately enough we can state that a kilogram is a 1/785,235th (for instance) of the LAM *Lopez Ass Mass".
This paper is only for the "rational number field" thus does not encompass all possible number fields and the technique, while believed to be generalizable, may not be. So even if this proof pans out, the way I read it, for the time being it is a partial proof and would need to be generalized, before the hypothesis could be considered proven.
Second should he really be using language such as "I feel" to describe his thoughts on the possibility on this generalization.
To avoid the complication of writings, I only considered the rational number
field in this paper. But, I feel that techniques of this paper can be adopted to
any algebraic number field without much difficulty to give a proof of the Riemann
hypothesis for Dedeking zeta functions.
From the article:
By now, most open source users understand that free refers to freedom, not to price. The new lesson is that the freedom belongs to the software, not to users. You are not free to do whatever you want with the open source software and may find yourself in a legal fight if what you do restricts the freedom of the software.
I disagree with several statements that the author doesn't understand the GPL. While the article does tend toward "scaremongering" I think the author has a pretty fair understanding and is looking forward from a legal point of view and he's a tad nervous about what he sees as potential areas of conflict.
You could move a circuit or two off of the grid breaker box to their own solar/wind powered circuit(s). /no wind use? That does change the options available for the inverter selection /components as they have to manage multiple inputs, charging, etc.
Simply install a small second breaker / fuse box and move a couple of wires. Might want to have an electrician do the work or inspect it to make sure you've covered everything. Do you want to have battery backup for night time
Once your hobby has progressed to the point of wanting more of the house on the other solar wind then you can think about the grid inter-tie inverter.
The higher end inverters also tend have a cleaner A/C output, that is its closer to a sine wave than the lower end ones, at least that used to be the case. It isn't much of a deal for most things but some electronics are picky about the shape of the input wave.
Just some things to think about.
Time to buy some stock in manufacturers of storage solutions.
That was my aunt's name and she passed away many years ago.
I was running out the door with my zombie survival guide & bug out bag heading for my arctic hideout to escape the impending invasion and I noticed out of the corner of my eye a reference to programming.
Thank god, Aunt Ada was a tad weird when she was alive, I really didn't want to meet zombie Ada.
This didn't elude me. Its still an area over twice the size of Yellowstone. About the size of New Jersey, as another poster pointed out.
Why do you seem to think all is ok if the thing is broken up into smaller chunks.
Lets break it up into 100 smaller projects, that's 100 projects covering 84.6 sq miles each or about 9.2 x 9.2 miles. This is huge by itself and we're talking 100 of 'em. The desert is a vibrant ecosystem not just a bunch of piles of dead sand & rock, there's going to be an enormous impact not just at the building sites, but for miles around.
I'm not saying this can't be part of a more comprehensive energy plan for the country, but to say that building building giant solar power collector of whatever type in the sunny SW to power the whole country is simply ludicrous.
That would be 92x92 miles or 8464sq miles.
For comparison Yellow National park is "only" 3472sq miles.
So by undertaking the largest construction project ever and cover over that much area we can power the US with concentrated solar power.
I can only imagine the environmental impact statement required for such a project.
What's the backup plan for the cloudy days? Tucson,AZ has about 89 of them per year. Lots of local backup required.
All that power generation in one area creates a transmission problem as well.
I'd rather see a Pebble Bed Reactors or some other relatively clean nuclear power with plants spread around the the country.
Here's another thought with centralized power, centralized damage could take the whole thing off line. A ripe target prior to an invasion/attack or just to make us spend the money to build it again. Nope, while I'm not opposed to solar power, this massive project is just plain stupid.
What were the names of the companies involved and how can the families of people that were on the voyage sue them.
Anyone injured in an accident at an intersection, in those cities, now is going to be looking very hard at the light timing and if it contributed to the accident. Is the city culpable? Let a jury determine. Is the company that set the timing culpable? Let a jury determine. And on, and on.... This could get interesting.
Well granted, if they're going to be sending over a likely allowed port makes things more difficult but you can do a similar this with http traffic and run all of it through a proxy so at least all of it should be hitting the firewall from a known limited set of ip-addesses otherwise its dropped. Is this a perfect solution, of course not, does this increase the level of management overhead, required, yes it does and yes it costs more money to do it too. But just throwing up your hands and saying well they could just do x, y & z so there's no point to it is BS, force them to do x, y & Z and then start working on how to stop that too.
Yes, I meant outbound outbound mail. I should have been more clear and that incoming mail must be filtered, cleaned, etc.
Well for starters all SMTP traffic should be dumped at the firewall except that coming from the white listed servers.
Douglas Adams would be proud.
sending a text message, however brief, and it is not hand free and thus may fall under the guidelines of some of the laws that are on the books or proposed.
Especially if you get someone who has some cell phone activity right before an accident.
What they're saying is that the tiger would only need to get to 26 mi/hr at a launch angle of 55 degrees to clear the 12.5 ft wall 33 ft away, however, the maximum speed of a tiger is 35 mi/hr - 9 mi/hr faster than needed, thus the tiger could clear either a taller wall at 33 ft away or a 12.5 wall farther away.
In any event given the maximum known speed of the tiger it should have been a simple matter to know that it was capable of jumping out of its "cage". Converting lateral velocity to highly inclined is called jumping perhaps you've heard of it. Also at 35 mi/hr the tiger wouldn't need as steep an angle as it could leap from farther away.
My cats at home don't seem to have a problem with going from a near full run to near straight up if they want to, enough so that I can easily imagine a large cat going from full run to only 55 degrees.
Wow, there are illegal ones? Seriously, since when is BitTorrent illegal?
To him, the first time it was theoretically possible for someone to make an unauthorized copy of one of U2's works, was the moment Bit Torrent became illegal. The next step is to actually make it illegal.
I agree that, that would be interesting:
From the 1997 Patent - 6278884:
Abstract: A conventional portable cellular phone modified such that the phone housing incorporates a digital cameras security alarm system and other functions. In another embodiment, the portable cellular phone is modified such that the phone housing incorporates a security alarm system, radio receiver and other functions.
&
From 2000 Patent - 6681120:
Abstract: A mobile entertainment and communication device in a palm-held size housing has a cellular or satellite telephone capable of wireless communication with the internet and one or more replaceable memory card sockets for receiving a blank memory card for recording data directly from the internet and, in particular, musical performances that then can be selectively reproduced by the device for the enjoyment of the user, including both audio and visual recordings and reproductions. The device also includes a camera and microphone for recording images and sound within the range of the device that can be wirelessly transmitted, either selectively or automatically to a remote telephone. Further, the device includes sensors for sensing unusual conditions that may also be transmitted to a remote telephone, together with the location of the device as determined by a GPS section of the device.
The 2000 Patent references the 1997 one Full text:
Patent 6278884
Patent 6681120
Here's a page with list of all the patents that reference this inventor by name:
USPTO Ki Il Kim
It details 125 combinations of things in a hand-held device.
Here's the first the rest are an extensive list of variations on the theme:
1. A mobile entertainment and communication device for communicating with the Internet and remotely located telephones, comprising: a housing of a palm-held size; a cellphone provided in said housing, said cellphone adapted for selectively and wirelessly connecting to the Internet and remotely located telephones and adapted for controlling selection of at least one of (1) downloading data or uploading data from or to the Internet, or (2) downloading data to a computer or other electronic device and said cellphone having at least one of (1) voice controlled dialing, (2) a wireless earphone or (3) a wire connection jack earphone with a microphone for operation of the mobile entertainment and communication device; a memory operatively connected to said cellphone; a microprocessor operatively connected to said memory; said microprocessor adapted for storing data to said memory that is received from the Internet or a remotely located telephone; and a display panel operatively connected to said microprocessor, said display panel adapted for reproducing images or other data from at least one of said memory or the Internet, said other data including at least one of moving images, combined sounds and moving images, or music with or without images.
The whole thing looks like the product of a brainstorming session with everything under the sun included in the list.
The patent was filed on Nov 20, 2003. It lists an inventor but they haven't invented anything as far as I can tell only tried to be the first ones to list these items together in a patent application. In going over the list I doubt there's anything to terribly non-obvious in there. I'd be surprised if this isn't challenged rather than just paid out, but that's just an opinion and IANAL.