But seriously, it's pretty cool that a utility is playing friendly with independent energy producers like this. I wonder if the individual farms are paid the premium rate for their renewable energy, or what the deal is.
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Add an AM/FM tuner to the base machine and they will give up the REAL cash cow that is iTunes Music Store. You can buy an FM tuner for another $49 directly from apple but I really doubt you'll ever see it included.
The voice recorder, possibly, but a tuner I think is pretty unlikely.
Where do you live? Right now there are only two fuel cells (UTC PAFC and FCE's MCFC) that can be purchased that would be suited for utility power generation, and these would be installed at premium to customers even after all federal state and local buy-downs.
The only one that I am aware of that is supplying power to the grid is a FCE MCFC that is installed in Westerville, OH. I'd be interested to know where another utility connected fuel cell is installed.
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Commercial speech is not protected speech under the first ammendment. Check out:
Take a look at any of the anti-advertising laws...
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and you'll find that there is a loophole in there for political solicitation.
Yes, phone robot autodialers are illegal... except of course if they are talking about something political. Spam and do-not-call as well. It's all in there.
Imagine the analog for mugging laws; mugging is illegal unless it is being done to raise campaign funds, in which case it is forgivable. Sounds silly, doesn't it, but I don't see a difference from the way they are writing the laws now.
If a tactic is annoying, intrusive and disliked enough to make it illegal, I have no idea why the politicians involved in this are unable to see that it is not a good idea to be the exception.
Here is california politicians are perticularly fond of auto-dialers; even the local unions use them.
There were a bunch of connectors inside the G1 iMacs that had no external connections; it would not surprise me that there are additional connections inside the mini.
It seems a little hasty to call this a proto ipod dock without a little more evidence than the firewire lines. Now, hack up a dock interface, then we're talking. People made SCSI cards for the mezzanine slot; this just sounds like guessing to me.
I don't know about you guys, but if I had a plasma screen, GPS enabled, internet connected whatsamadoozit in my car it would be gone in about, oh, one night of parking near the damn section 8 housing up the street.
Actually, TVs are illegal in the front seat in Japanese cars. If you have a factory installed system it has to blank itself when the car is in gear. GPS is OK, but no TVs or DVD players. Of course, that's not to say that people don't put them in illegally. When I was in Japan in 1998, my boss had a hi-8 vcp and a 5" trinitron monitor bolted to the dash of his subaru. He would dub rented VHS tapes to hi-8 and watch them in his car.
Yes, but they don't regulate what features are included with the cost of the line, nor do they ask the AT&T reps to act as if they are annoyed with you should you want service on your account.
Nor do they dictate that whenever you call about a screw up that is their problem, or about the phone drop to your house being down AGAIN, that they start by treating you like an a$$hole and finish by trying to hard-sell you "line backer" or voice mail.
My point is simply that I celebrate an alternative to a utility that I find to be, as a consumer, severely lacking in quality and politeness.
It'll be just as great a deal as their landline service...
Extra 2.50 for call waiting
extra 7.00 for voice mail, plus an extra 2.50 per mailbox and a charge for each message.
Extra 2.50 for three way calling
Extra charges for caller ID blocking, caller ID blocker blocking, and caller ID blocker blocker blocking.
Extra charge for "line backer", which means that they will come to the house and fix the non-premise wiring that is not my freaking problem anyway. Extra charge for touching a phone in the house, and an additional $70 for the service call.
And of course, for toggling any of these options on my account, a $10 charge each for "installation".
GODS I am glad that I don't have to deal with AT&T anymore. Hell, I would take a really crappy VOIP company over AT&T, if only to avoid giving that crappy monopoly a cent more of my money.
Unless they are also planning to totally change their crappy attitude towards customers and their nickle-and-dime pricing scheme, this won't change a thing. I would love to see POTS go out of business forever.
If you put down wax, you can easily do lost wax investment casing, or you could make a plaster mold and then do a wax burn out in an oven if you want a plaster positive mold.
Is nothing new - it's called corundum or as you more probably know it, sapphire (or ruby when it is red).
And hard is only one part of the story. Glass is hard, yet I wouldn't want to make structural elements of an aircraft from large hunks of glass... Aluminum is light and Tough (high energy to break). It is also ductile (deforms before breaking) something that no ceramic is...
So, while this is cool, and will probably be used for super scratch proof layers on spyplane camera transparencies or something like that where they can afford something like this, it isn't what you think it is.
As an aside, translucent alumina is used in something you see everyday - sodium vapor lamps use alumina to encapsulate the sodium metal that they use as their filament.
Most CD changers that are worth a damn, even if they use FM modulation to tie into the car's system, don't do it over free space, but rather through a tee in the antenna feed line. From there we are back to the FM capture effect - I don't care if you pull that little antenna out 4 feet, it's not going to be more signal than the one injected directly into the antenna feed line.
Let's forget about the fm capture effect for a minute (the most powerful station on a signal will be the only one de-modulated) and think. Don't most people with loud amps just have a CD player with "Ultrabass volume IX" or something rather than actually listening to the radio?
Is this slashdot or some shitty zine put together by highschool age "hackers"?
It's a pretty simple case of diminishing returns. If there are now 2 cpus in charge of doing rendering, they have to spend some of their power cooperating and communicating rather than just crunching numbers all of the time.
Of course that is a terrible over simplification. There are cases in which 2 cpus are actually slower than one, notably SMP P1 chips that had the L2 cache on the motherboard.
Yeah, I agree. My point was that no one who isn't a licensed pyrotechnician can buy the kind of stuff that is being restricted by these laws. Hence, the laws are solving a non-problem.
McVeigh did not use legal fireworks, nor did he purchase anything with a pyrotechnician's license. Restricting the actions of competent, licensed pyrotechnicians is, therefore, not accomplishing the law's original intention.
Similarly, the people buying these kind of model rocket engines are not terrorists, and it would be trivial to allow exceptions in this law that would make this hobby easier. But as in the case of most beurocratic solutions, laws are applied with a broad brush and often accidentally outlaw or restrict obviously benign activities.
It's a shame, but I can't see a way around it since there is no way that hobbyists could constantly scour every law that is being passed for potential conflicts.
Ever since the Oklahoma City bombing there have been restrictions on pyrotechnicians. I don't know if it is a state law or a federal one but here in Ohio you are not allowed to have your shells for more than 3 days before a scheduled performance and there are a lot of permits to be filled out (this is all coming from a friend of mine).
I don't know if I feel more annoyed by this kind of thing, or more safe. It seems that if someone actually has a permit to buy display scale fireworks, they wouldn't be using them for anything questionable. Plus, once they have that level of expertise it wouldn't be too difficult for them to brew up their own home grown bomb if they really wanted to blow something up.
Maybe these would not have been spread if people properly administered their linux boxes, but that is the same problem that causes the spread of worms on Windows. Slapper was designed with the express purpose of using infected machines as attack zombies. You just didn't hear about it as much since there are fewer poorly administered linux systems out there.
I don't know if a current Redhat default install has as many open services as the last time I installed it (back in the 5.x days) but their security was no better than default NT/2000/XP. If you didn't stay on top of updates, a worm would get you.
Take a look at the Linux worm site (OK, some of these are rootkits) here.
It seems to me that there are two major categories of spyware:
The kind that tries to be "legit" and actually tells the user (somewhere in the EULA) that it is installing. Claria/Gator is this type.
The kind that doesn't give a damn and installs through known IE exploits and weaknesses (Cool Web Search and Xupiter are like this)
The problem that I can see is that type 1, even though it sucks and no sane person wants it on their computer if it were presented honestly, is probably already compliant with these laws because somewhere in the EULA it explains what it is doing. Never mind that even moderately intelligent people just click "OK" as soon as any dialog box pops up on their computer (my fiance still hits "OK" whenever she goes to an encrypted page since she doesn't take the time to read the box and click "don't show this dialog again").
The problem with the second type is that they don't give a damn now and they're not going to give a damn. I can't belive that using exploits to install software is not already illegal somewhere, and many of these type of companies are already out of jurisdiction...
To tell the truth, I can't think of a good way that we will get around this. We have to remove the motive - perhaps prosecuting the people that advertise this way?
When I worked in the corrosion group at GM, corrosion design lifetime was 10 years. Modern engines and warranties certainly outlast that.
Most cars I have owned have been killed by rust (Two Fords, a Subaru and a Benz). Here in Ohio, we salt the bejesus out of our roads to keep them ice free. You see a lot of 80s GM cars driving around still though, since they were full body hot dip galvanized.
What I am saying is, there is a lot of fancy stuff on the concept cars, and even on luxury cars, but this will never see the light of day for most of us who drive mass market automobiles because it will cost the manufacturers too much money.
The only way that this kind of stuff will be used is if it becomes mandated by law (like catalytic converters or airbags) or becomes cheaper than conventional manufacturing (can't think of an example).
I'd belive this a lot more for fields that are higher tech, but not the automotive industry.
if you think that a cheapskate industry like the automotive industry will be all up in nanotech.
Manufacturers are too cheap to do things like hot dip galvanizing body and frame, but they will use a bunch of nanotech? Ironic. Something as simple and low-tech as galvinizing cars that would double or triple their lifetime are left out as too expensive...
yeah, but whatever they do it will take that much more energy to accomplish than not doing this in the first place.
I hate to say it, but DIV-X's software solution to the same end that they are going for here makes a lot more sense environmentally. I'd be surprised if a Div-X-ish hardware time bomb wasn't integrated into the next round of the DVD spec.
Most recycling programs for things like this are just lip service to make people feel less bad about supporting a very wasteful technology. Polycarbonate (what most of a DVD is made of) is currently a low-margin material. It can be "down-cycled" into products that do not require optical properties like a DVD does, but recycling for primary re-use is not economical.
Yes, and if voting by the populace were the way that we made all decisions, women wouldn't be able to vote and southern schools would still be segregated.
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But seriously, it's pretty cool that a utility is playing friendly with independent energy producers like this. I wonder if the individual farms are paid the premium rate for their renewable energy, or what the deal is.
The voice recorder, possibly, but a tuner I think is pretty unlikely.
Where do you live? Right now there are only two fuel cells (UTC PAFC and FCE's MCFC) that can be purchased that would be suited for utility power generation, and these would be installed at premium to customers even after all federal state and local buy-downs.
The only one that I am aware of that is supplying power to the grid is a FCE MCFC that is installed in Westerville, OH. I'd be interested to know where another utility connected fuel cell is installed.
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thank fvcking god for that.
Yes, phone robot autodialers are illegal... except of course if they are talking about something political. Spam and do-not-call as well. It's all in there.
Imagine the analog for mugging laws; mugging is illegal unless it is being done to raise campaign funds, in which case it is forgivable. Sounds silly, doesn't it, but I don't see a difference from the way they are writing the laws now.
If a tactic is annoying, intrusive and disliked enough to make it illegal, I have no idea why the politicians involved in this are unable to see that it is not a good idea to be the exception.
Here is california politicians are perticularly fond of auto-dialers; even the local unions use them.
Doesn't the content of their argument more surely show that the arguments of zealots are emotional?
When people present obvious results like this, do they really feel that it is moving their field forward?
I have to wonder...
There were a bunch of connectors inside the G1 iMacs that had no external connections; it would not surprise me that there are additional connections inside the mini.
It seems a little hasty to call this a proto ipod dock without a little more evidence than the firewire lines. Now, hack up a dock interface, then we're talking. People made SCSI cards for the mezzanine slot; this just sounds like guessing to me.
I don't know about you guys, but if I had a plasma screen, GPS enabled, internet connected whatsamadoozit in my car it would be gone in about, oh, one night of parking near the damn section 8 housing up the street.
Actually, TVs are illegal in the front seat in Japanese cars. If you have a factory installed system it has to blank itself when the car is in gear. GPS is OK, but no TVs or DVD players. Of course, that's not to say that people don't put them in illegally. When I was in Japan in 1998, my boss had a hi-8 vcp and a 5" trinitron monitor bolted to the dash of his subaru. He would dub rented VHS tapes to hi-8 and watch them in his car.
Nah, the OP is referring to the use of "nipponese" in Snow Crash mostly (is this in other books too?)Which is not a period book.
My take on it was that he thought that it sounded more L337 or something, like da5id.
Yes, but they don't regulate what features are included with the cost of the line, nor do they ask the AT&T reps to act as if they are annoyed with you should you want service on your account.
Nor do they dictate that whenever you call about a screw up that is their problem, or about the phone drop to your house being down AGAIN, that they start by treating you like an a$$hole and finish by trying to hard-sell you "line backer" or voice mail.
My point is simply that I celebrate an alternative to a utility that I find to be, as a consumer, severely lacking in quality and politeness.
GODS I am glad that I don't have to deal with AT&T anymore. Hell, I would take a really crappy VOIP company over AT&T, if only to avoid giving that crappy monopoly a cent more of my money.
Unless they are also planning to totally change their crappy attitude towards customers and their nickle-and-dime pricing scheme, this won't change a thing. I would love to see POTS go out of business forever.
If you put down wax, you can easily do lost wax investment casing, or you could make a plaster mold and then do a wax burn out in an oven if you want a plaster positive mold.
Is nothing new - it's called corundum or as you more probably know it, sapphire (or ruby when it is red).
And hard is only one part of the story. Glass is hard, yet I wouldn't want to make structural elements of an aircraft from large hunks of glass... Aluminum is light and Tough (high energy to break). It is also ductile (deforms before breaking) something that no ceramic is...
So, while this is cool, and will probably be used for super scratch proof layers on spyplane camera transparencies or something like that where they can afford something like this, it isn't what you think it is.
As an aside, translucent alumina is used in something you see everyday - sodium vapor lamps use alumina to encapsulate the sodium metal that they use as their filament.
Most CD changers that are worth a damn, even if they use FM modulation to tie into the car's system, don't do it over free space, but rather through a tee in the antenna feed line. From there we are back to the FM capture effect - I don't care if you pull that little antenna out 4 feet, it's not going to be more signal than the one injected directly into the antenna feed line.
How the fvck did that get posted?
Let's forget about the fm capture effect for a minute (the most powerful station on a signal will be the only one de-modulated) and think. Don't most people with loud amps just have a CD player with "Ultrabass volume IX" or something rather than actually listening to the radio?
Is this slashdot or some shitty zine put together by highschool age "hackers"?
It's a pretty simple case of diminishing returns. If there are now 2 cpus in charge of doing rendering, they have to spend some of their power cooperating and communicating rather than just crunching numbers all of the time.
Of course that is a terrible over simplification. There are cases in which 2 cpus are actually slower than one, notably SMP P1 chips that had the L2 cache on the motherboard.
Yeah, I agree. My point was that no one who isn't a licensed pyrotechnician can buy the kind of stuff that is being restricted by these laws. Hence, the laws are solving a non-problem.
McVeigh did not use legal fireworks, nor did he purchase anything with a pyrotechnician's license. Restricting the actions of competent, licensed pyrotechnicians is, therefore, not accomplishing the law's original intention.
Similarly, the people buying these kind of model rocket engines are not terrorists, and it would be trivial to allow exceptions in this law that would make this hobby easier. But as in the case of most beurocratic solutions, laws are applied with a broad brush and often accidentally outlaw or restrict obviously benign activities.
It's a shame, but I can't see a way around it since there is no way that hobbyists could constantly scour every law that is being passed for potential conflicts.
Ever since the Oklahoma City bombing there have been restrictions on pyrotechnicians. I don't know if it is a state law or a federal one but here in Ohio you are not allowed to have your shells for more than 3 days before a scheduled performance and there are a lot of permits to be filled out (this is all coming from a friend of mine).
I don't know if I feel more annoyed by this kind of thing, or more safe. It seems that if someone actually has a permit to buy display scale fireworks, they wouldn't be using them for anything questionable. Plus, once they have that level of expertise it wouldn't be too difficult for them to brew up their own home grown bomb if they really wanted to blow something up.
Do you remember perhaps:
Maybe these would not have been spread if people properly administered their linux boxes, but that is the same problem that causes the spread of worms on Windows. Slapper was designed with the express purpose of using infected machines as attack zombies. You just didn't hear about it as much since there are fewer poorly administered linux systems out there.
I don't know if a current Redhat default install has as many open services as the last time I installed it (back in the 5.x days) but their security was no better than default NT/2000/XP. If you didn't stay on top of updates, a worm would get you.
Take a look at the Linux worm site (OK, some of these are rootkits) here.
The problem that I can see is that type 1, even though it sucks and no sane person wants it on their computer if it were presented honestly, is probably already compliant with these laws because somewhere in the EULA it explains what it is doing. Never mind that even moderately intelligent people just click "OK" as soon as any dialog box pops up on their computer (my fiance still hits "OK" whenever she goes to an encrypted page since she doesn't take the time to read the box and click "don't show this dialog again").
The problem with the second type is that they don't give a damn now and they're not going to give a damn. I can't belive that using exploits to install software is not already illegal somewhere, and many of these type of companies are already out of jurisdiction...
To tell the truth, I can't think of a good way that we will get around this. We have to remove the motive - perhaps prosecuting the people that advertise this way?
EXCEPT that the stupid XP firewall service is not started when the interface is started. You have your ass in the wind every time the machine boots.
When I worked in the corrosion group at GM, corrosion design lifetime was 10 years. Modern engines and warranties certainly outlast that.
Most cars I have owned have been killed by rust (Two Fords, a Subaru and a Benz). Here in Ohio, we salt the bejesus out of our roads to keep them ice free. You see a lot of 80s GM cars driving around still though, since they were full body hot dip galvanized.
What I am saying is, there is a lot of fancy stuff on the concept cars, and even on luxury cars, but this will never see the light of day for most of us who drive mass market automobiles because it will cost the manufacturers too much money.
The only way that this kind of stuff will be used is if it becomes mandated by law (like catalytic converters or airbags) or becomes cheaper than conventional manufacturing (can't think of an example).
I'd belive this a lot more for fields that are higher tech, but not the automotive industry.
if you think that a cheapskate industry like the automotive industry will be all up in nanotech.
Manufacturers are too cheap to do things like hot dip galvanizing body and frame, but they will use a bunch of nanotech? Ironic. Something as simple and low-tech as galvinizing cars that would double or triple their lifetime are left out as too expensive...
Let's start with the simple stuff please.
yeah, but whatever they do it will take that much more energy to accomplish than not doing this in the first place.
I hate to say it, but DIV-X's software solution to the same end that they are going for here makes a lot more sense environmentally. I'd be surprised if a Div-X-ish hardware time bomb wasn't integrated into the next round of the DVD spec.
Most recycling programs for things like this are just lip service to make people feel less bad about supporting a very wasteful technology. Polycarbonate (what most of a DVD is made of) is currently a low-margin material. It can be "down-cycled" into products that do not require optical properties like a DVD does, but recycling for primary re-use is not economical.
Yes, and if voting by the populace were the way that we made all decisions, women wouldn't be able to vote and southern schools would still be segregated.