I am very skeptical. Maybe I'll be more convinced when I finish reading the report. But 1) what about when it's dark? 2) there's significant losses when transmitting electricity over long distances. This can be minimized by the use a very-high voltage transmission lines, but that requires greater expense, and bigger, uglier towers. 3) What land use is going to be lost when we have so much of the country covered with solar panels? 4) photovoltaics don't work as well in the heat as the do in the cold. How are you going to fix the problem of their heating? 5) some of the newer technologies use Indium and other rare metals - are these going to become even more scarce? 5) China has killed the PV cell business in the US. 6) wind 7) nuclear
RT 128 in Massachusetts had the tech boom before Silicon Valley really took off and surpassed it. Yet, enough of that early success lives on and keep real estate prices high. But people in Massachusetts realized that not all growth was good, and started to put limits on development back in the 70s. Thus, we still have a decent culture around in much of the area. The quality of life is considered far better in Massachusetts than in Silicon valley by many. Sure, there's not as many sunny days, but there's trees, snow, far lass pollution, open spaces (which are not deserts), and so forth. If you want a bit more freedom, less taxes, and less services, then go a few miles further north into New Hampshire and you've got it. But I am not proclaiming the glory of Massachusetts over Silicon Valley - housing prices are still high here, and taxes too. But some Yankees decided they'd like to retain the character of the place and set limits. This is sort of in line with what others have said, that there can not by another Silicon Valley. Instead of trying to duplicate SV, cities should try out their own formula for a successful economy and high quality of living. Focus on what the area can do best. In Mass, it is the deep roots of old money and old Universities. Other places may have sun and fun, others quiet and family-centered, and so forth. Phoenix sounds great if you like high temperatures, lots of sun, room to spread out, can speak Spanish, like pollution, prefer not to have stores within walking distance, etc. I am sure that's fine for many people but it just would never, ever do for me. Seattle, Halifax, Montreal, Vancouver, Dublin all might work for me. But none of them are going to be the 'next Silicon Valley'.
Damn it, the ability to memorize boring data IS important! Sure, you have this Internet thing in front of you that puts a lot of information at your fingertips, but that doesn't excuse you from having to remember boring facts! When one is in high school and elementary school, much of what students are expected to learn may seem boring to them. They may not think it's important to know that Ben Franklin was older than George Washington, or that Napolean was defeated twice. They don't think it's important to know the difference between kilowatt and kilowatt-hour. The first time a teenager depends on knowledge which he had recently obtained, which had seemed useless to him at the time of their instruction, a light should dawn in his mind and some respect for schooling by thus obtained. The first time that he realizes that the skills which were acquired in order to learn the 'useless trivia' of their schooling have prepared him for more rapidly acquiring, for instance, the nautical terms describing his beloved boat, then we should hope that respect for the SKILL of learning increases.
butt math is hard! i dont no why u think that everyone nedes to learn hard stuff i have an iphone witch has a calculader app so why do i need to care about sily stuff like math and speling. well my spellin app is broken write now but i can still talk and stuff so what watt is the biggie? u dont have to kno how a car work in order too drive. i dont use math @ work , I sell furnituer. so y did i have 2 sufer so much @ school bcuz u geeks want 2 proove u are so smart. but u r not.
yes, since the late 90s, there has been a non-profit ISP for 'people with clue' in the Cambridge/Boston area. Things went well for a while, when we were able to get T1 circuits at a discount, colocation, peering, various telco services. But as T1s die, much of the value proposition is dying as well. Doing more VPN stuff these days. But we have way more IP space than we need. We're just a dozen low key people.
...what you think it means. You have maker and repraps, nice and clean places where politicians and 'community leaders' are welcome. Places where people would not seriously consider smoking weed or breaking the law. Your places buy furniture from IKEA. Our hackerspaces are in rundown buildings with fat Net connections, with wierd lights and music, found furniture and v-ger'd computers, old console games and circuit bending, law bending, beer drinking, funny hair, places that smell like stale beer and burnt greek food. Our hackerspaces are always full, and disorganized, because we collect technological cast-off as we dream the new techs. Our hackerspaces have dog-eared copies of VAX/VMS manuals and William Gibson stories. Yours...yours are too clean, too premeditated, too concerned with some social good, too eager to be helpful civic citizens. We hack because it is in our blood. You create things like hackharvard, which is in incubator for social media companies, while we create trouble and get into BSD vs Linux grudge matches while planning our roadtrips to DEFCON and Burning Man. Call them FabLabs or computer clubs or incubators (if you must). I knew l0pht, and you, sirs, are no l0pht.
--Doctor Who, $LOD$, and founder of a hacker space which is only well known among people who know what a real hacker space is
1.11GB seems bloated. The only spare SD card I have around is 512MB. I know, I should go out and get myself some modern SD flash, which will probably be a lot faster too. My only question is why 1.11GB...? Because you've included all the ports, or...?
There's a big difference between being able to focus a large amount on energy in a small area for a very short time, and being able to transfer enough power to 'blow shit up'. Think static electricity versus a soldering iron.
The measurement is in watts, not watt-hours. Since the burst is so short, the ELECTRIC POWER consumed is very small. Now, if you had paid attention in 7th grade science class, I wouldn't have to be telling you this.
Olimex and gooseberry both look decent, but what is the price or target price? I for my rasp-pi-B, but it's too expensive for me to use it to roll out the project I want which would require a larger number of boards at a lower price. I don't care about video I want: 1) low cost 2) 2+ USB ports 3) some rudimentary DSP, a sound card will do and most importantly I want Debian compatibility.
Israel bans skinny models; new york bans unhealthy foods. What's next, a ban on unsafe sex? Israel is a screwed-up country so I can't expect much out of it, but the US has some feet in reality. I think that Bloomberg ought to be banned.
List of things that are illegal (or soon may be )which I believe should be legal: unhealthy foods skinny models gambling file sharing politically sensitive speech beer weed shrooms modifying a consumer device which you own
I used to say nudity should be legal, but I have changed my opinion on this since to many people are now fat. I think only the good-looking should be allowed to be nude in public. The problem with this is; who gets to decide? So, let's cover it up for now. For some of you, a niqab or burka should be required.
I don't care about video output, a serial port would be just fine. What I DO care about is D/A-A/D I/O - even a sound subsystem would be fine. The PI is missing this. The VIA board seems to have it, if the color of the ports are any indication of it. More USB is good too. I want a decent SBC for various apps, that has good I/O. A bonus would be lower power consumption, which I imagine this has, but what I probably won't get is extended temperature ranges.
So, this is behaviorism making itself felt in the realm of science. Good, so perhaps we can take advantage of this by making the penalty for badly conducted science much higher...wait, then you have Fleishman-Pons...and wait again, there's the problem of irrationality in loss avoidance behavior. Well, basically we're screwed.
I do computer security research for a living Because of the general lack of scientific rigor that accompanies this field, no one is interested in results which do not produce some newsworthy result. A well-designed study which shows the lack of a security problem, where there is a good reason to suspect there may be one, is not considered valuable by anyone other than the manufacturer of the product.
There is also a lack of interest in problems which are not 'interesting'. If an attack methodology is only successful in one in a thousand cases, it is not sufficiently interesting to get attention because it is not easy to show. If you can't craft an easy plugin for MetaSploit, it is as though the problem doesn't exist.
It's been nearly two hundred years since Friedrich Wöhler synthesized urea, a compound which has previously been known only from biological source, from substances not of biological origin. This should have demonstrated that we are all made of chemicals, as are animals and plants, and that no substance exists which is not chemical in nature. Yet, this Vitalism persists. I don't know if Vitalism is the cause or effect of the Chemophobia which seems to be increasing its hold on the populace of advanced nations. I see both as related to the fear of fire and the disregard for human observation. The legend of Prometheus, and others like it, seem to demonstrate a recurrent thread of thought which damns such uses of powerful natural forces by man. In the twentieth century, the twin gift and curse of fire became more powerful with the harnessing of nuclear energy for productive or destructive purposes. In the twenty-first century, we are brought again to the question of Vitalism with the boom and boon of biotechnology, and this time the Vitalism is contained within the DNA itself, and when humans directly change these molecules, other humans rise up in a resentment that goes beyond reason, though it is often cloaked in arguments which attempt to manipulate reason.
Chemophobia is merely another aspect of a widening rift between those who trust in reason and its utilization in the realms of science and technology, and those who do not. The anti-science people conglomerate in the anti-evolution movement on the right side of the political spectrum, and the anti-chemical movement on the left.
This was done years ago. I remember seeing the story, I think it was on gbppr. The problem is, these laser pointers aren't designed to be used constantly and they wear out.
I am pro-thorium LFTR, but uranium isn't that bad. The Japanese have figured out how to extract it from seawater for a reasonable price, and have been working on lowering that price for some time (I suppose they won't do so any longer). The great thing about this is that the constant extraction and quantifiable cost of uranium fuel would make very long term cost projections of energy possible. Instead, we'll be subject to speculation and manipulation as the costs of wind power increase and petroleum decrease, shifting us back to petroleum for another 18 year cycle, and the oil barons and their brethren international bankers will get even more riches and power. Green is the color of Money.
There just aren't enough talented female programmers to balance the gender ratio. It's not that men don't want women programmers - quite the opposite - I even suspect that in some places being female is more likely to get one interviewed - and probably given the job, if competent. The problem is that fewer women are interested in programming. Interest in programming generally starts at an early age, and the skills that enable one to be a very good programmer are learned at an early age. Some women I have met just decided they would get a CS degree in their second year of college. The women I am thinking about are fine, competent programmers, but lack the passion of the nerds.
So, what major open-source project was started by a woman? Which operating system had a female chief architect? Well...there you go.
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I am very skeptical. Maybe I'll be more convinced when I finish reading the report. But 1) what about when it's dark? 2) there's significant losses when transmitting electricity over long distances. This can be minimized by the use a very-high voltage transmission lines, but that requires greater expense, and bigger, uglier towers. 3) What land use is going to be lost when we have so much of the country covered with solar panels? 4) photovoltaics don't work as well in the heat as the do in the cold. How are you going to fix the problem of their heating? 5) some of the newer technologies use Indium and other rare metals - are these going to become even more scarce? 5) China has killed the PV cell business in the US. 6) wind 7) nuclear
RT 128 in Massachusetts had the tech boom before Silicon Valley really took off and surpassed it. Yet, enough of that early success lives on and keep real estate prices high. But people in Massachusetts realized that not all growth was good, and started to put limits on development back in the 70s. Thus, we still have a decent culture around in much of the area. The quality of life is considered far better in Massachusetts than in Silicon valley by many. Sure, there's not as many sunny days, but there's trees, snow, far lass pollution, open spaces (which are not deserts), and so forth. If you want a bit more freedom, less taxes, and less services, then go a few miles further north into New Hampshire and you've got it. But I am not proclaiming the glory of Massachusetts over Silicon Valley - housing prices are still high here, and taxes too. But some Yankees decided they'd like to retain the character of the place and set limits. This is sort of in line with what others have said, that there can not by another Silicon Valley. Instead of trying to duplicate SV, cities should try out their own formula for a successful economy and high quality of living. Focus on what the area can do best. In Mass, it is the deep roots of old money and old Universities. Other places may have sun and fun, others quiet and family-centered, and so forth. Phoenix sounds great if you like high temperatures, lots of sun, room to spread out, can speak Spanish, like pollution, prefer not to have stores within walking distance, etc. I am sure that's fine for many people but it just would never, ever do for me. Seattle, Halifax, Montreal, Vancouver, Dublin all might work for me. But none of them are going to be the 'next Silicon Valley'.
Damn it, the ability to memorize boring data IS important! Sure, you have this Internet thing in front of you that puts a lot of information at your fingertips, but that doesn't excuse you from having to remember boring facts! When one is in high school and elementary school, much of what students are expected to learn may seem boring to them. They may not think it's important to know that Ben Franklin was older than George Washington, or that Napolean was defeated twice. They don't think it's important to know the difference between kilowatt and kilowatt-hour. The first time a teenager depends on knowledge which he had recently obtained, which had seemed useless to him at the time of their instruction, a light should dawn in his mind and some respect for schooling by thus obtained. The first time that he realizes that the skills which were acquired in order to learn the 'useless trivia' of their schooling have prepared him for more rapidly acquiring, for instance, the nautical terms describing his beloved boat, then we should hope that respect for the SKILL of learning increases.
butt math is hard! i dont no why u think that everyone nedes to learn hard stuff i have an iphone witch has a calculader app so why do i need to care about sily stuff like math and speling. well my spellin app is broken write now but i can still talk and stuff so what watt is the biggie? u dont have to kno how a car work in order too drive. i dont use math @ work , I sell furnituer. so y did i have 2 sufer so much @ school bcuz u geeks want 2 proove u are so smart. but u r not.
yes, since the late 90s, there has been a non-profit ISP for 'people with clue' in the Cambridge/Boston area. Things went well for a while, when we were able to get T1 circuits at a discount, colocation, peering, various telco services. But as T1s die, much of the value proposition is dying as well. Doing more VPN stuff these days. But we have way more IP space than we need. We're just a dozen low key people.
...what you think it means. You have maker and repraps, nice and clean places where politicians and 'community leaders' are welcome. Places where people would not seriously consider smoking weed or breaking the law. Your places buy furniture from IKEA. Our hackerspaces are in rundown buildings with fat Net connections, with wierd lights and music, found furniture and v-ger'd computers, old console games and circuit bending, law bending, beer drinking, funny hair, places that smell like stale beer and burnt greek food. Our hackerspaces are always full, and disorganized, because we collect technological cast-off as we dream the new techs. Our hackerspaces have dog-eared copies of VAX/VMS manuals and William Gibson stories. Yours...yours are too clean, too premeditated, too concerned with some social good, too eager to be helpful civic citizens. We hack because it is in our blood. You create things like hackharvard, which is in incubator for social media companies, while we create trouble and get into BSD vs Linux grudge matches while planning our roadtrips to DEFCON and Burning Man. Call them FabLabs or computer clubs or incubators (if you must). I knew l0pht, and you, sirs, are no l0pht.
--Doctor Who, $LOD$, and founder of a hacker space which is only well known among people who know what a real hacker space is
1.11GB seems bloated. The only spare SD card I have around is 512MB. I know, I should go out and get myself some modern SD flash, which will probably be a lot faster too. My only question is why 1.11GB...? Because you've included all the ports, or...?
There's a big difference between being able to focus a large amount on energy in a small area for a very short time, and being able to transfer enough power to 'blow shit up'. Think static electricity versus a soldering iron.
The measurement is in watts, not watt-hours. Since the burst is so short, the ELECTRIC POWER consumed is very small. Now, if you had paid attention in 7th grade science class, I wouldn't have to be telling you this.
Olimex and gooseberry both look decent, but what is the price or target price? I for my rasp-pi-B, but it's too expensive for me to use it to roll out the project I want which would require a larger number of boards at a lower price. I don't care about video I want: 1) low cost 2) 2+ USB ports 3) some rudimentary DSP, a sound card will do and most importantly I want Debian compatibility.
Now we're all sons of bitches.
nuclear power is NOT the bomb!
Which German are you talking about? Probably the standard Haupt. Low German (Platt Deutsch) is facing extinction.
...and what does this do to the battery life? For me, that's more important than the performance of a video game.
Israel bans skinny models; new york bans unhealthy foods. What's next, a ban on unsafe sex? Israel is a screwed-up country so I can't expect much out of it, but the US has some feet in reality. I think that Bloomberg ought to be banned.
List of things that are illegal (or soon may be )which I believe should be legal:
unhealthy foods
skinny models
gambling
file sharing
politically sensitive speech
beer
weed
shrooms
modifying a consumer device which you own
I used to say nudity should be legal, but I have changed my opinion on this since to many people are now fat. I think only the good-looking should be allowed to be nude in public. The problem with this is; who gets to decide? So, let's cover it up for now. For some of you, a niqab or burka should be required.
I don't care about video output, a serial port would be just fine. What I DO care about is D/A-A/D I/O - even a sound subsystem would be fine. The PI is missing this. The VIA board seems to have it, if the color of the ports are any indication of it. More USB is good too. I want a decent SBC for various apps, that has good I/O. A bonus would be lower power consumption, which I imagine this has, but what I probably won't get is extended temperature ranges.
If riaa/mpaa whomever attempts this on torrents for my legitimate content, I'll track them down and file charges for denial of service.
So, this is behaviorism making itself felt in the realm of science. Good, so perhaps we can take advantage of this by making the penalty for badly conducted science much higher...wait, then you have Fleishman-Pons...and wait again, there's the problem of irrationality in loss avoidance behavior. Well, basically we're screwed.
I do computer security research for a living Because of the general lack of scientific rigor that accompanies this field, no one is interested in results which do not produce some newsworthy result. A well-designed study which shows the lack of a security problem, where there is a good reason to suspect there may be one, is not considered valuable by anyone other than the manufacturer of the product.
There is also a lack of interest in problems which are not 'interesting'. If an attack methodology is only successful in one in a thousand cases, it is not sufficiently interesting to get attention because it is not easy to show. If you can't craft an easy plugin for MetaSploit, it is as though the problem doesn't exist.
It's been nearly two hundred years since Friedrich Wöhler synthesized urea, a compound which has previously been known only from biological source, from substances not of biological origin. This should have demonstrated that we are all made of chemicals, as are animals and plants, and that no substance exists which is not chemical in nature. Yet, this Vitalism persists. I don't know if Vitalism is the cause or effect of the Chemophobia which seems to be increasing its hold on the populace of advanced nations. I see both as related to the fear of fire and the disregard for human observation. The legend of Prometheus, and others like it, seem to demonstrate a recurrent thread of thought which damns such uses of powerful natural forces by man. In the twentieth century, the twin gift and curse of fire became more powerful with the harnessing of nuclear energy for productive or destructive purposes. In the twenty-first century, we are brought again to the question of Vitalism with the boom and boon of biotechnology, and this time the Vitalism is contained within the DNA itself, and when humans directly change these molecules, other humans rise up in a resentment that goes beyond reason, though it is often cloaked in arguments which attempt to manipulate reason.
Chemophobia is merely another aspect of a widening rift between those who trust in reason and its utilization in the realms of science and technology, and those who do not. The anti-science people conglomerate in the anti-evolution movement on the right side of the political spectrum, and the anti-chemical movement on the left.
This was done years ago. I remember seeing the story, I think it was on gbppr. The problem is, these laser pointers aren't designed to be used constantly and they wear out.
I am pro-thorium LFTR, but uranium isn't that bad. The Japanese have figured out how to extract it from seawater for a reasonable price, and have been working on lowering that price for some time (I suppose they won't do so any longer). The great thing about this is that the constant extraction and quantifiable cost of uranium fuel would make very long term cost projections of energy possible. Instead, we'll be subject to speculation and manipulation as the costs of wind power increase and petroleum decrease, shifting us back to petroleum for another 18 year cycle, and the oil barons and their brethren international bankers will get even more riches and power. Green is the color of Money.
Nuclear power is safe and there is enough nuclear fuel for millenia. Stupid NIMBYs and petroleum puppet "green" parties are going to doom us all.
Don't like the mac, the iphone, the ipod, the ipad, or the isoul. woz++
There just aren't enough talented female programmers to balance the gender ratio. It's not that men don't want women programmers - quite the opposite - I even suspect that in some places being female is more likely to get one interviewed - and probably given the job, if competent. The problem is that fewer women are interested in programming. Interest in programming generally starts at an early age, and the skills that enable one to be a very good programmer are learned at an early age. Some women I have met just decided they would get a CS degree in their second year of college. The women I am thinking about are fine, competent programmers, but lack the passion of the nerds.
So, what major open-source project was started by a woman? Which operating system had a female chief architect? Well...there you go.