I've been reading slashdot long before they had logins (and was part of the controversy when they were introduced). Anyway what made the site great was that it as very technology focused and users didn't have to wade through political debates in every comment section.
Ideas were discussed by technical merit and often at a level that took a fair amount of knowledge and intelligence to follow. Often times, I had trouble following a thread because it was beyond me, but on the other hand, I learned quite a bit.
I think over the years, the people who had deep knowledge in a field have left, but it would be nice t get them back.
I didn't miss out (I even interview with them back in the early 90's). The point is that you have to build a very expensive infrastructure for very low populations of users and is better (economically) to provide some spot coverages.
Technically the US doesn't have a system and it is left up to individuals to use whatever they want. The exception to this is anything sold by weight or volume in which case it is required by law to be labeled in grams. Like most videos I watch from the UK where people talk in miles, unless they are doing it for the benefit of US viewer which seems a little silly.
70% of the capability these systems will be unused when over water and/or the polar regions. Generally paying customers are grouped together in small dense areas, that is what they found out with iridium. And small dense areas are mostly now served by cell networks.
The problem is not technological, it is economic. I received an advertisement from a company that I bought my solar panels from yesterday and they are offering panels by the boatload (in the very literal sense of the word) at $0.28/watt. OT, but where I live, that is a one year payback period.
Now you have to ask, how much will these road capable solar panels cost and is it less expensive to buy conventional solar panels and use the savings for some other purpose (like buying even more solar panels or putting the savings towards a better infrastructure).
Not berating Apple (it's the same for everyone), but Apple did not do anything that was not at least in science fiction or talked about a long time before. ipad - Star Trek, 2001. iphone - improved cell phone+palm pilot. Remember he apple newton? Most techy people knew that it was only a matter of time before technology and economics developed to the point of where these devices could realize their full potential, but the idea was there. I believe the problem that Apple, and others, are facing is everyone is out of ideas that can be accomplished at that scale (smaller than a breadbox). I mean I've worked in a number of engineering disciplines in my career and used stuff a decade before making it into public consciousness, but now nothing really new.
Not to say there are no more things to be done, but things for the consumer scale? 32k resolution tv, yawn. If someone were to make a video like this today, what would it show? The most accurate predictions that I've read, IMO, have been by Kurzweil and Gersenfeld and other than wildly futuristic things like nanotechnology, there is nothing that isn't already out there.
I have a good friend who did just that - and at the time we all thought he was throwing his money away; it seemed really stupid. Unfortunately (for him) he sold it all as soon as it went up a little bit.
That's the worst. As the techie in the family (including the families of friends and distant relations), even though my job has nothing to do with computers other than I use them at work, I'm constantly bombarded with questions like why won't my internet work. Fine, I'll help, should take 20 seconds and save someone from a lot of misery. Wait, where did all of the settings pages go? Google for ten minutes, wrong version, google another ten minutes...an hour later the internet is working again. W.T.F. The only thing these people use a computer for are solitaire and chrome.
Google pulls the same crap. Yes, I can figure it out. Yes, I have much better things to do than learning a new interface for zero productivity gain. People have been using the same interface to drive a car for the last 100 years. If car companies operated like software companies, besides being all dead now we would have gone through joysticks, paddle wheels, slider buttons, push buttons, hand gestures, foot pedals, voice control and mice just to make a right turn. And the left turn would have yet another interface. And they would alternate between them on different models.
No, but it would if you raised the frequency above 60hz. All of this stuff is described by Maxwell's equations. More specifically, the Maxwell–Faraday equation which says an electric field is created that it proportional to the time derivative of a magnetic field.
None of the simulations or games that I made had any graphics (the horrors). Just pages of numbers. I got so used to looking at columns of numbers that I slightly disliked graphics (for that use) when it started to come out. Kinda like that scene out of The Matrix. I'm old and lazy and not as smart anymore and now mostly watch videos.
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Ideas were discussed by technical merit and often at a level that took a fair amount of knowledge and intelligence to follow. Often times, I had trouble following a thread because it was beyond me, but on the other hand, I learned quite a bit.
I think over the years, the people who had deep knowledge in a field have left, but it would be nice t get them back.
Perhaps people should use their own intelligence to filter out the signal from the noise, rather than having everything curated for them
If this were the case, might as well read the youtube comment section.
Thy get it. You're not a big enough demographic to worry about. FWIW, I've lived on a boat off of LaPaz, BC :)
http://politics.slashdot.org/s...
I didn't miss out (I even interview with them back in the early 90's). The point is that you have to build a very expensive infrastructure for very low populations of users and is better (economically) to provide some spot coverages.
Or the fact that in the US, pop is sold by the liter or two liter or that my aunt's knitting group uses mm in thei patterns?
https://youtu.be/OL_eIZjiLUk?t...
Technically the US doesn't have a system and it is left up to individuals to use whatever they want. The exception to this is anything sold by weight or volume in which case it is required by law to be labeled in grams. Like most videos I watch from the UK where people talk in miles, unless they are doing it for the benefit of US viewer which seems a little silly.
Take a physic class. Doesn't work like that.
70% of the capability these systems will be unused when over water and/or the polar regions. Generally paying customers are grouped together in small dense areas, that is what they found out with iridium. And small dense areas are mostly now served by cell networks.
Yes. I've used a 9600baud modem over Iridium. Also ran PPP for and used ping, FTP and a web page.
Anything to avoid just doing the sensible boring thing and building the cheaper solutions.
The crux of the problem
In college, a prof talked about how people living near hv lines would do this. It's illegal.
Depends on who is in the group "we".
Reusing braking energy by storing it in batteries is over 100 years old.
Now you have to ask, how much will these road capable solar panels cost and is it less expensive to buy conventional solar panels and use the savings for some other purpose (like buying even more solar panels or putting the savings towards a better infrastructure).
vision for true innovation died with Steve Jobs
Not berating Apple (it's the same for everyone), but Apple did not do anything that was not at least in science fiction or talked about a long time before. ipad - Star Trek, 2001. iphone - improved cell phone+palm pilot. Remember he apple newton? Most techy people knew that it was only a matter of time before technology and economics developed to the point of where these devices could realize their full potential, but the idea was there. I believe the problem that Apple, and others, are facing is everyone is out of ideas that can be accomplished at that scale (smaller than a breadbox). I mean I've worked in a number of engineering disciplines in my career and used stuff a decade before making it into public consciousness, but now nothing really new.
Not to say there are no more things to be done, but things for the consumer scale? 32k resolution tv, yawn. If someone were to make a video like this today, what would it show? The most accurate predictions that I've read, IMO, have been by Kurzweil and Gersenfeld and other than wildly futuristic things like nanotechnology, there is nothing that isn't already out there.
Most tech sites are joke these days in a Lord of the Flies sort of way.
bought the stock
I have a good friend who did just that - and at the time we all thought he was throwing his money away; it seemed really stupid. Unfortunately (for him) he sold it all as soon as it went up a little bit.
Someone who understands...
When products that it's competitors sell are so inexpensive or even free nobody would think of paying for them.
engage in monoculture investing?
That's what Warren Buffet says to do....
Do not put your eggs in many baskets. Put all your eggs in one basket – and proceed to watch that basket.
should not invoke learning curves.
That's the worst. As the techie in the family (including the families of friends and distant relations), even though my job has nothing to do with computers other than I use them at work, I'm constantly bombarded with questions like why won't my internet work. Fine, I'll help, should take 20 seconds and save someone from a lot of misery. Wait, where did all of the settings pages go? Google for ten minutes, wrong version, google another ten minutes...an hour later the internet is working again. W.T.F. The only thing these people use a computer for are solitaire and chrome.
Google pulls the same crap. Yes, I can figure it out. Yes, I have much better things to do than learning a new interface for zero productivity gain. People have been using the same interface to drive a car for the last 100 years. If car companies operated like software companies, besides being all dead now we would have gone through joysticks, paddle wheels, slider buttons, push buttons, hand gestures, foot pedals, voice control and mice just to make a right turn. And the left turn would have yet another interface. And they would alternate between them on different models.
No, but it would if you raised the frequency above 60hz. All of this stuff is described by Maxwell's equations. More specifically, the Maxwell–Faraday equation which says an electric field is created that it proportional to the time derivative of a magnetic field.
None of the simulations or games that I made had any graphics (the horrors). Just pages of numbers. I got so used to looking at columns of numbers that I slightly disliked graphics (for that use) when it started to come out. Kinda like that scene out of The Matrix. I'm old and lazy and not as smart anymore and now mostly watch videos.