Before going crazy overhauling, let's audit the devices that are out there. Then you can assign marketing labels (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum) in case you can't read the numbers. (Numbers would be watts per day, assuming constant usage)
Just create something the FCC registration process/database, and let certified labs submit their own engineering reports on the TRUE power consumption. I've never seen any Energy Star audit reports.
Voting is a form of Action. But you can do even more to support education by volunteering in the school systems. Volunteer to help on your school's curriculum committees, and offer to help the technology directors/coordinators understand open source technologies, and the open educational resource movement.
Computing is so pervasive now, that it makes sense to incorporate it more directly into the educational process. There are several ways to do this.
My (older) Mac has 256M or 512M of RAM. Garageband likes more RAM, and not all hardware is equal in Apple's eyes, especially since they have a profit motive to see new hardware AND software every few years.
The bigger issue is Apple's constant forced obsolescence of older OS X compatible hardware platforms.
You can get fink or other Unixy package managers and veriants of *BSD ports systems, but you'll quicly find you need certain bits or header files that you only get by installing Xcode/developer tool releases in succession.
I tried looking for Apple's X (windows) server recently, and found that the more recent installers seemed to insist on me first finding an OS X 10.1 or 10.2 installer disk, which had the original binary distribution. From there, you could download updates, but you were SOL if you wanted to use Apple's binaries and you couldn't find that 7-year old CD to start with. There's no excuse for this kind of customer abuse, especially since X is an Open Source product.
Would that kind of behavior be tolerated in the GNU/Linux community? No.
I was working with an old dual-USB iBook with a 10G drive to start with, Mac OS X was evicted, and Yellow Dog Linux for PPC moved in (since Ubuntu stopped doing PPC installers)
No more X worries, and the wireless worked fine.
I suspect that the next thing is I'll be forced to abandon my pre-G4 PPC hardware completely if I want to run iTunes 8 on my newer hardware. Because once you run a major version increment of iTunes on one of your authorized boxes, ALL boxes have to be upgraded to that latest major version.
So (summarizing article) water vapor as part of a cloud is OK, because the greenhouse effect of the water vapor is counteracted by the albedo of the cloud?
More research is needed. Wider-scale experiments to see if the predicted and unpredicted effects are OK.
BTW, if you want to do something about the Earth's albedo today, you can always order a T-shirt.... or a mouse pad ---- 50 million mousepads should just about cover Texas. (This is an old Freeman Dyson joke)
The 'DNA layman' hears Craig Ventner, and we get the impression that DNA sequencing is on the same path as Moore's law, where it's exponentially less costly to sequence someone's DNA every few years.
So I'm still not 100% clear on why proper storage of samples far into the future won't create a virtual 'DNA dragnet' for future analysis.
Yeah, you really want to avoid those ISS certified parts - their laptops are so 'high-tech', they run Windows and get Windows spyware which steals passwords
Well, you might avoid the Western Digital "Mybook" series then. I've had drives fail after 13 months, one month out of warranty. Some of my friends, who coincindentally bought their drives from the same retailer, have had similar 13 month lifetimes.
This is unacceptable, so I've switched to drive vendors with 5 year warranties.
Some (at least 50%) of these breachers could be the result of social engineering. Will the CEO take the "pounding" for the IT admin error?
Unlikely
But financial ruin much easier and probably more effective. A court hearing should be able to impose appropriate civil penalty - this has been done in cases of Accounting Fraud.
Sanctions could include:
- unable to work for a firm which is incorporated in the state of (select state here) for X years
- unable to work for a firm whose stock is publicly traded in the US.
These firms have NO BUSINESS retaining the credit card data, especially if its in the same database as other customer details. Perhaps they could keep the output of a one-way has of the card # with something else, but they just shouldn't keep that number on file.
Open Source, by itself, doesn't guarantee usability, or reduce code bloat.
I've found that most companies producing extremely usable software have a culture that supports it, combined with staff members dedicated to usability efforts. In Apple's case, it helps that Steve Jobs is very focused on usability.
But usable software has to be publicized.. What software reviewers call out usability in a separate rating alongside other factors such as performance, features, and documentation?
MacWeek did this 15 years ago, but then got absorbed into a series of mergers, never to been seen again.
Amazon still has separate ratings for toys, based on fun,durability and educational value
In quantum physics, all outcomes are possible.
Even the one where you get to go on the same mission, twice.
I suppose the physics education is a worthy goal for all that time that's otherwise wasted....
This is good fodder for science fiction, but in hindsight, I'm surprised it took this long to implement, given the overlap of the communities.
For a discussion of the quantum physics link, read the Many Worlds interpretation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_many-worlds_interpretation
Does anyone remember the virtual gamestation? Does Sony?
Years ago, Microsoft purchased Connectix, which developed Virtual PC AND PS1 emulator technology that runs on the PowerPC chip, and emulates the MIPS chipset used in the PS1 and PS2.
Why is the PowerPC chip important in this? That CPU is now used by Sony, Microsoft, AND Nintendo in their respective consoles.
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Before going crazy overhauling, let's audit the devices that are out there. Then you can assign marketing labels (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum) in case you can't read the numbers. (Numbers would be watts per day, assuming constant usage)
Just create something the FCC registration process/database, and let certified labs submit their own engineering reports on the TRUE power consumption. I've never seen any Energy Star audit reports.
Obviously a fake.
If it were a real Nigerian mail fraud letter, it would have more spelling errors and confusing punctuation.
But now, with Microsoft technology, they'll have a an advanced sprell chucker.
On Unix, all we have is 'ispell' too much trouble to use.
I'm very concerned.
What countermeasures can we adopt against Microsoft technology?
Voting is a form of Action. But you can do even more to support education by volunteering in the school systems. Volunteer to help on your school's curriculum committees, and offer to help the technology directors/coordinators understand open source technologies, and the open educational resource movement.
Computing is so pervasive now, that it makes sense to incorporate it more directly into the educational process. There are several ways to do this.
My (older) Mac has 256M or 512M of RAM. Garageband likes more RAM, and not all hardware is equal in Apple's eyes, especially since they have a profit motive to see new hardware AND software every few years.
The bigger issue is Apple's constant forced obsolescence of older OS X compatible hardware platforms.
You can get fink or other Unixy package managers and veriants of *BSD ports systems, but you'll quicly find you need certain bits or header files that you only get by installing Xcode/developer tool releases in succession.
I tried looking for Apple's X (windows) server recently, and found that the more recent installers seemed to insist on me first finding an OS X 10.1 or 10.2 installer disk, which had the original binary distribution. From there, you could download updates, but you were SOL if you wanted to use Apple's binaries and you couldn't find that 7-year old CD to start with.
There's no excuse for this kind of customer abuse, especially since X is an Open Source product.
Would that kind of behavior be tolerated in the GNU/Linux community? No.
I was working with an old dual-USB iBook with a 10G drive to start with, Mac OS X was evicted, and Yellow Dog Linux for PPC moved in
(since Ubuntu stopped doing PPC installers)
No more X worries, and the wireless worked fine.
I suspect that the next thing is I'll be forced to abandon my pre-G4 PPC hardware completely if I want to run iTunes 8 on my newer hardware. Because once you run a major version increment of iTunes on one of your authorized boxes, ALL boxes have to be upgraded to that latest major version.
So (summarizing article) water vapor as part of a cloud is OK, because the greenhouse effect of the water vapor is counteracted by the albedo of the cloud?
More research is needed. Wider-scale experiments to see if the predicted and unpredicted effects are OK.
BTW, if you want to do something about the Earth's albedo today, you can always order a T-shirt.... or a mouse pad ---- 50 million mousepads should just about cover Texas.
(This is an old Freeman Dyson joke)
http://www.cafepress.com/albedoproject
The 'DNA layman' hears Craig Ventner, and we get the impression that DNA sequencing is on the same path as Moore's law, where it's exponentially less costly to sequence someone's DNA every few years.
So I'm still not 100% clear on why proper storage of samples far into the future won't create a virtual 'DNA dragnet' for future analysis.
Yeah, you really want to avoid those ISS certified parts - their laptops are so 'high-tech', they run Windows and get Windows spyware which steals passwords
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3768196/Password+Stealing+Worm+Catches+NASA+Napping.htm
I'll just bet some astronaut has gone and used the same password for his WoW account as the station's computer.
Well, you might avoid the Western Digital "Mybook" series then. I've had drives fail after 13 months, one month out of warranty. Some of my friends, who coincindentally bought their drives from the same retailer, have had similar 13 month lifetimes.
This is unacceptable, so I've switched to drive vendors with 5 year warranties.
I know - we'll let a judge decide!
Some (at least 50%) of these breachers could be the result of social engineering. Will the CEO take the "pounding" for the IT admin error?
Unlikely
But financial ruin much easier and probably more effective. A court hearing should be able to impose appropriate civil penalty - this has been done in cases of Accounting Fraud.
Sanctions could include:
- unable to work for a firm which is incorporated in the state of (select state here) for X years
- unable to work for a firm whose stock is publicly traded in the US.
These firms have NO BUSINESS retaining the credit card data, especially if its in the same database as other customer details. Perhaps they could keep the output of a one-way has of the card # with something else, but they just shouldn't keep that number on file.
Open Source, by itself, doesn't guarantee usability, or reduce code bloat.
I've found that most companies producing extremely usable software have a culture that supports it, combined with staff members dedicated to usability efforts. In Apple's case, it helps that Steve Jobs is very focused on usability.
But usable software has to be publicized.. What software reviewers call out usability in a separate rating alongside other factors such as performance, features, and documentation?
MacWeek did this 15 years ago, but then got absorbed into a series of mergers, never to been seen again.
Amazon still has separate ratings for toys, based on fun,durability and educational value
In quantum physics, all outcomes are possible. Even the one where you get to go on the same mission, twice.
I suppose the physics education is a worthy goal for all that time that's otherwise wasted....
This is good fodder for science fiction, but in hindsight, I'm surprised it took this long to implement, given the overlap of the communities.
For a discussion of the quantum physics link, read the Many Worlds interpretation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_many-worlds_interpretation
Does anyone remember the virtual gamestation? Does Sony?
Years ago, Microsoft purchased Connectix, which developed
Virtual PC AND PS1 emulator technology that runs on the PowerPC
chip, and emulates the MIPS chipset used in the PS1 and PS2.
Why is the PowerPC chip important in this? That CPU is now
used by Sony, Microsoft, AND Nintendo in their respective
consoles.