I was thinking the same thing. But on the same token the reason it is affordable to drive a car on pavement to work, have electric at home, fly in a airplane, etc is because the government has pooled our resources to subsidize each. Without the Rural Electrification act it would be much cheaper for me to use solar, than buy and maintain the powerlines running to my house. Which has the higher subsidy? that is beyond my legal authority to get real numbers to figure out, so I'll just keep evaluating which is cheaper (no solar) until it changes (or not).
If that galaxy is more dense than ours, then it would also have higher gravity, correct? So it is possible for Sum of Mass to be nearly equal, yet our sum of weight would be much lower. I guess if all galaxies are orbiting some super distant super mass, and thus we had some weight related orbital decay, this discussion might matter?
why didn't you just walk to the back of the bus Rosa, and just make your self feel all smug by outsmarting the police. Letting them feel good for exerting power at the same time. Seriously, it's good thing for serious photographers to stand up for the profession. But it is also OK to not, somedays we just don't have the time to try and fix the world, then your advice will be used.
obviously if you're buying a gold plated stove with platinum racks this won't quite hold true
likely still holds. their both found in lower concentrations, so require mining more dirt, digging deeper, hauling more dirt, and more processing of that dirt once transported up. that is all very petroleum based, rubber tires, natural gas furnaces, diesel mining machines...
I think you missed the getting rid of part, 6 amp switch is rated for 1200 watt situation. If 100 watts now lights your whole house, go look at your electric box, and count the lighting breakers, count the cost for them, and the cost to wire them, and run separate wiring from that to the switches. Your 6 amp switch needs to pass enough current so if that light is shorted it will pop the breaker without damage, your breakers are rated to protect the wire, and switches. Now that 1 Amp lights your entire house, and a voltage drop of 20% doesn't affect your lighting intensity at all. Your new entire house lighting wiring can be closer to a phone cable, and your switching can be accomplished by the equivalent of a set of dip switches. Look under any light, or switch now, you see a 4"x2" box nailed to a 2x4 with thick wires taking every bit of the box up. replace that by phone cable, and a crimp on led, no need for any boxes, no need to plan to replace bulbs, just pull a small flexible 6 conductor cable through the house, where you want a light you drill a 1/16" hole, put a light, crimp on, no need to fix drywall, no need for separate circuits.
I probably would keep the big switches, but instead add a capacitor in the now freed space. Since led lights work equally on ac or dc, a diode, and a capacitor in the switch housing equals a complete lighting ups.
Thats definitely per cost, not per watt preventing room lighting. I suspect it is the same as CFL, many manufactures overstate the "equivalent light" factor causing a perception of dimmer. I bought led lights for my aquarium, just the 4 watt night lighting lights up 2 rooms ( not reading wise, but way too bright for a night light, the water diffuses the light nicely) The directional nature also means to be truly efficient you would want more locations, the lasts (nearly) forever nature would tend to lead to a permanent mount. So saving the cost of running thicker wires, fixture boxes, fixtures, 5 amp switches, etc should make LED lighting affordable for new houses/additions/remodels fairly soon. (Especially for warm locations where you pay for all heat sources double, with AirCond)
require both would be harder to get them to agree, I know people that either use a tack or a GPS for speed, then loosened the connector under the dash, pulled just 1/2 the connector out a little, everything worked but the speed. Or disconnect the pickup at the transmission. (company car, with limited mileage allowance.) So a $1 screwdriver or buy expensive devices meant for fraud, without immediately obvious did it work, will it be detected.
not just efficiency, but alternative fuel. Propane, Bio-Diesel (if home grown), electric, steam (ie coal, wood, fuel oil) all completely avoid the gas tax. Add a propane injection to a diesel and pay 1/3 less taxes.
doesn't need to. It only needs to pick up a point occasionally, actually the new 12 channel GPS, I haven't lost GPS except in a tunnel for some time, then if they assume a straight line once recovered...
Blocking is a issue, but even a cheap accelerometer could flag it to use gallon tax, or be within 10%. Might be easier to just find the power and snip it half the time.
That said, I don't think tech issues are the biggest issue, privacy issues seam more a problem.
people can be bought/pressured to change their vote.
we currently allow absentee/mail in ballots which have the same feature. I think a few minor tweaks like having independently programed/run servers. And having just 1-2% of the total voters who are selected be trusted voters (randomly changed each election) some from each pole who get to know their voter ID (everyone else can't verify their vote) Basically by having a general insignificant number able to be pressured, but still a significant enough amount to verify the system, We could have everyones votes published, without everyone being able to be pressured.
Your going to need some more marketing spin on it.
"I am being forced to sell my Computer to pay rent, paid $6000 new, and have added $2000 in upgrades, I will let go for just $4000 to the first lucky person to bring cash. Thanks to Vista, this model is very difficult to come by, it comes preloaded with over $1000 worth of software."
Then just load it with linux, openoffice, and all the free games you can find"
The University nearest me re-images the entire PC on every boot-up. I am not sure what all they use to enforce the no other OS image can connect to the network, but they have one. This wouldn't make the laptop "secure" in the no key-logger sense, but it would have the desired effect of enforcing what software and configs are allowed. They were able to force a re-boot 30 minutes before the beginning of the first class, and track any PC that wasn't on the network when it booted (PC would reboot immediately on network connect, if it didn't get a new image in the last 24 hours.) This of course requires a solid network, and lots of work to maintain that image, and nearly identical hardware, etc. But it scales easily.
school has no jurisdiction over what the student does off school grounds. Including what they do on their computer.
reality is the school should have none, but likely does have plenty. Supreme courts have essentially ruled that anything with the ability to "unnecessarily" disrupt in class, can be punished even if it occurs out of class. In this case it would be a easy argument, that any materials loaded onto the computer out of class, can disrupt in class (either by displaying content accidentally or on purpose, or the ability to affect the computers performance) , therefore it would likely be within the rights of the school system to say "1: these laptops are for in class use" "2: we won't allow any laptops not restricted by "XYZ" into the class" the combination of 1 & 2 would imply these laptops stay locked down 24/7. It would actually be fairly simple to require the students to keep their materials on one partition, and to regularly and automatically re-image the OS partition. The ability of students to boot something else off USB for use at home would make the above a even more compelling argument, IE their allowed to exercise their free speech at home with a separate OS on a $40 USB drive if wanted, but leave the rest un-touched (and leave that drive at home.)
I remember 1/1/2000 the drones re-booted my computer, bios gave the same IRQ conflict warning it did every boot, therefore it wasn't Y2K compliant and I got a new PC. (the OS can handle multiple serial ports on the same IRQ, but the old BIOS didn't know that)
Children are not yet developmentally ready for the psychological burdens of
I doubt that is the true reason (at least not for Santa in 2nd Grade). I suspect it is more that the parents are the ones not "ready", but that still doesn't change the truth in your post. (IE it is not a simple decision to be made in 5 minutes by a substitute teacher who doesn't have to live with the long term results.) in my experience the shattering of these illusions is always harder on the parents, so they delay these concepts (like sex, drugs, death, etc) well beyond the needed developmental stage of the children.
That would be guaranteed true if the number of programing tasks remained unchanged. basic economics says that as worker productivity goes up, that economies expand and standard of living increases. Generally a jump in productivity does cause short term employment loss, then long term net employment gain.
in this case, a lower cost of entry for problems solved by software happens, so more problems that can be economically solved by software opens up. So in a true open market economy, more money should be spent on software development vs other less software intensive options (as productivity in software is increased by open source.)
So in the long run, open source, will bring MORE money into software, as more projects are solved by said software, when compared to the result from non open software. now: k*(# JobsCompleted)= Productivity * # employees
solving this for # of employees, when the number of jobs goes up, and productivity goes up is not a guaranteed direction.
can make drivers for their machines that work in OS X, they just cant put OS X ON their machines nor inform you how to do it.
And that is what makes this story likely to be true. IE Realtek has been asked to provide drivers by people who clearly plan to use those drivers to extend the functionality of devices that apple lawyers keep a real close eye on, with the intent to prevent this application. While Realtek's work wouldn't aid in overcoming copy protections, it probably encourages people to overcome those protections. Clearly taking a close look at laws like the DMCA was required before proceeding, and they apparently came to the conclusion that they were in the clear. I see that with things like mod chips, catering to businesses/people that violate US laws, is usually a fuzzy line.
So what does that mean to costs like.. umm.. I don't know... "salary"???
that's the question. Those whose job was to re-invent the wheel, and re-write from scratch a new application to compete with a existing one, their pay should be driven to 0. Those who's job is to use whats out their to be as productive as possible should be way more productive, thus more valuable, and thus their pay can be much higher, while still making their parent company more profitable. So the computing, support, and customization jobs in general, pay should expand. The create stuff from scratch jobs should go away. Does that result in fewer jobs, probably not, but a slower growth of jobs.
Direct TV card encryption, the earlier versions were easy to crack, but the later revisions proved much too difficult
yes, but it took 3 things, A) it took replacing hardware 3 different times, B)satellite takes real time cracking to be of value.C) A 24/7 satellite feed to automatically update software remotely. IE with these disks you have a fixed input and key to crack. With satellite, if you crack the encryption they used last week it is useless today, unless they are still using the same key now. These BD+ "fixes" each require legit purchasers the headache of manually updating (or having a separate service, internet access, to continue to use the players)
so only 10% of customers pissed off, and a equal number staying clear altogether would be success? We all know it will be cracked, We just don't know what kind of HW well need to do that.
It doesn't take 10% complaints, more like 1% for me to stay clear of a faulty product.
a google search for BD+ gives me this
"The Samsung BDP-1200 and LG BH100 cannot play the discs at all while the Samsung BDP-1000 give error messages and playback "stutter".
The discs do work with other players, including the PS3, although some have reported lengthy load times of up to 2 minutes. "
well order of magnitude is not really correct. But batteries are not yet ready as a replacement is a better statement. IE the battery techs you mention are either not yet affordable at size, or not efficient enough to displace gas/diesel yet (when you add in the losses of transmission, the charger, the battery the motors, etc.) The reason a electric car might save you money today is because 1) they are highly subsidized + 2) they don't sell a equivalent small hp low rolling/air resistance enclosed gas car. + 3) re-gen If they were to start manufacturing light weigh 40 hp 800# EFI diesel cars we would easily be past the 100 mpg range (my very un-aerodynamic + carburetor 10 year old motorcycle gets 50+ mpg.) The best batterys available taking the battery cost divided by net KWhr that my last employer tested came out to be over $.30/ Kwhr. These batteries met every other criteria of a gas replacement though, so as your numbers suggest, we are half way their, but that's taken a long time to get half way their.
Even if you're OK with the inefficiency of electrical heating
inefficiency of the heater is not a issue. Electric heat is generally 100% efficient. especially a geothermal heatpump with a COP greater than 3 (giving 3* the output energy as the amount of input energy.) So the problem is just that per BTU Natural gas has been half or less of the cost of electric. And Gas Furnaces cost is so much cheaper, compared to a Heat pump system. (I guess the cost of the efficient electrical generators is prohibitive as well) I do have a heat pump, and a radiant propane heater as a backup, I am dreading the repair costs also, ng heaters last longer also.
Who HONESTLY needs wireless power, that rechargable batteries can't provide?
charging a defibrillator, or anything you want inside your body, but not having enough battery power to last a lifetime (also maybe a embedded cellphone) And places where size seriously matters, perhaps a microbot that does surgery.
free speech would not protect the poster, if disclosed (since dunkin donuts is not a public official, etc.) So he would have a case in a civil suit, but since this sounded more like a opinion than a fact it would be very week. free speech amendment only applies when loss of liberty, etc or government is involved, so it should protect the ISP that published this, and thus the persons identity if the ISP doesn't want disclose, but it would not protect anything said about a private business/individual.
good point, I would also think to start concentrating on areas where the environment is being overloaded with man made pollution. That doesn't seam like a volcanic island where man made pollution probably isn't even 3% of the local greenhouse gas, or air pollution causes. Also where the pollution spreads out, and is easily scrubbed by natural means, unlike places like California, where it gets trapped.
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I was thinking the same thing. But on the same token the reason it is affordable to drive a car on pavement to work, have electric at home, fly in a airplane, etc is because the government has pooled our resources to subsidize each.
Without the Rural Electrification act it would be much cheaper for me to use solar, than buy and maintain the powerlines running to my house. Which has the higher subsidy? that is beyond my legal authority to get real numbers to figure out, so I'll just keep evaluating which is cheaper (no solar) until it changes (or not).
If that galaxy is more dense than ours, then it would also have higher gravity, correct? So it is possible for Sum of Mass to be nearly equal, yet our sum of weight would be much lower. I guess if all galaxies are orbiting some super distant super mass, and thus we had some weight related orbital decay, this discussion might matter?
why didn't you just walk to the back of the bus Rosa, and just make your self feel all smug by outsmarting the police. Letting them feel good for exerting power at the same time.
Seriously, it's good thing for serious photographers to stand up for the profession. But it is also OK to not, somedays we just don't have the time to try and fix the world, then your advice will be used.
obviously if you're buying a gold plated stove with platinum racks this won't quite hold true
likely still holds. their both found in lower concentrations, so require mining more dirt, digging deeper, hauling more dirt, and more processing of that dirt once transported up. that is all very petroleum based, rubber tires, natural gas furnaces, diesel mining machines...
I think you missed the getting rid of part, 6 amp switch is rated for 1200 watt situation. If 100 watts now lights your whole house, go look at your electric box, and count the lighting breakers, count the cost for them, and the cost to wire them, and run separate wiring from that to the switches.
Your 6 amp switch needs to pass enough current so if that light is shorted it will pop the breaker without damage, your breakers are rated to protect the wire, and switches.
Now that 1 Amp lights your entire house, and a voltage drop of 20% doesn't affect your lighting intensity at all. Your new entire house lighting wiring can be closer to a phone cable, and your switching can be accomplished by the equivalent of a set of dip switches.
Look under any light, or switch now, you see a 4"x2" box nailed to a 2x4 with thick wires taking every bit of the box up. replace that by phone cable, and a crimp on led, no need for any boxes, no need to plan to replace bulbs, just pull a small flexible 6 conductor cable through the house, where you want a light you drill a 1/16" hole, put a light, crimp on, no need to fix drywall, no need for separate circuits.
I probably would keep the big switches, but instead add a capacitor in the now freed space. Since led lights work equally on ac or dc, a diode, and a capacitor in the switch housing equals a complete lighting ups.
Thats definitely per cost, not per watt preventing room lighting. I suspect it is the same as CFL, many manufactures overstate the "equivalent light" factor causing a perception of dimmer. I bought led lights for my aquarium, just the 4 watt night lighting lights up 2 rooms ( not reading wise, but way too bright for a night light, the water diffuses the light nicely)
The directional nature also means to be truly efficient you would want more locations, the lasts (nearly) forever nature would tend to lead to a permanent mount.
So saving the cost of running thicker wires, fixture boxes, fixtures, 5 amp switches, etc should make LED lighting affordable for new houses/additions/remodels fairly soon.
(Especially for warm locations where you pay for all heat sources double, with AirCond)
require both would be harder to get them to agree, I know people that either use a tack or a GPS for speed, then loosened the connector under the dash, pulled just 1/2 the connector out a little, everything worked but the speed. Or disconnect the pickup at the transmission. (company car, with limited mileage allowance.)
So a $1 screwdriver or buy expensive devices meant for fraud, without immediately obvious did it work, will it be detected.
not just efficiency, but alternative fuel. Propane, Bio-Diesel (if home grown), electric, steam (ie coal, wood, fuel oil) all completely avoid the gas tax. Add a propane injection to a diesel and pay 1/3 less taxes.
GPS doesn't work reliably in...
doesn't need to. It only needs to pick up a point occasionally, actually the new 12 channel GPS, I haven't lost GPS except in a tunnel for some time, then if they assume a straight line once recovered...
Blocking is a issue, but even a cheap accelerometer could flag it to use gallon tax, or be within 10%. Might be easier to just find the power and snip it half the time.
That said, I don't think tech issues are the biggest issue, privacy issues seam more a problem.
people can be bought/pressured to change their vote.
we currently allow absentee/mail in ballots which have the same feature. I think a few minor tweaks like having independently programed/run servers. And having just 1-2% of the total voters who are selected be trusted voters (randomly changed each election) some from each pole who get to know their voter ID (everyone else can't verify their vote)
Basically by having a general insignificant number able to be pressured, but still a significant enough amount to verify the system, We could have everyones votes published, without everyone being able to be pressured.
Your going to need some more marketing spin on it.
"I am being forced to sell my Computer to pay rent, paid $6000 new, and have added $2000 in upgrades, I will let go for just $4000 to the first lucky person to bring cash.
Thanks to Vista, this model is very difficult to come by, it comes preloaded with over $1000 worth of software."
Then just load it with linux, openoffice, and all the free games you can find"
The University nearest me re-images the entire PC on every boot-up. I am not sure what all they use to enforce the no other OS image can connect to the network, but they have one.
This wouldn't make the laptop "secure" in the no key-logger sense, but it would have the desired effect of enforcing what software and configs are allowed. They were able to force a re-boot 30 minutes before the beginning of the first class, and track any PC that wasn't on the network when it booted (PC would reboot immediately on network connect, if it didn't get a new image in the last 24 hours.)
This of course requires a solid network, and lots of work to maintain that image, and nearly identical hardware, etc. But it scales easily.
school has no jurisdiction over what the student does off school grounds. Including what they do on their computer.
reality is the school should have none, but likely does have plenty. Supreme courts have essentially ruled that anything with the ability to "unnecessarily" disrupt in class, can be punished even if it occurs out of class.
In this case it would be a easy argument, that any materials loaded onto the computer out of class, can disrupt in class (either by displaying content accidentally or on purpose, or the ability to affect the computers performance) , therefore it would likely be within the rights of the school system to say "1: these laptops are for in class use" "2: we won't allow any laptops not restricted by "XYZ" into the class" the combination of 1 & 2 would imply these laptops stay locked down 24/7.
It would actually be fairly simple to require the students to keep their materials on one partition, and to regularly and automatically re-image the OS partition.
The ability of students to boot something else off USB for use at home would make the above a even more compelling argument, IE their allowed to exercise their free speech at home with a separate OS on a $40 USB drive if wanted, but leave the rest un-touched (and leave that drive at home.)
I remember 1/1/2000 the drones re-booted my computer, bios gave the same IRQ conflict warning it did every boot, therefore it wasn't Y2K compliant and I got a new PC. (the OS can handle multiple serial ports on the same IRQ, but the old BIOS didn't know that)
Children are not yet developmentally ready for the psychological burdens of
I doubt that is the true reason (at least not for Santa in 2nd Grade). I suspect it is more that the parents are the ones not "ready", but that still doesn't change the truth in your post. (IE it is not a simple decision to be made in 5 minutes by a substitute teacher who doesn't have to live with the long term results.)
in my experience the shattering of these illusions is always harder on the parents, so they delay these concepts (like sex, drugs, death, etc) well beyond the needed developmental stage of the children.
The supply of workers for the jobs left increases
That would be guaranteed true if the number of programing tasks remained unchanged. basic economics says that as worker productivity goes up, that economies expand and standard of living increases. Generally a jump in productivity does cause short term employment loss, then long term net employment gain.
in this case, a lower cost of entry for problems solved by software happens, so more problems that can be economically solved by software opens up. So in a true open market economy, more money should be spent on software development vs other less software intensive options (as productivity in software is increased by open source.)
So in the long run, open source, will bring MORE money into software, as more projects are solved by said software, when compared to the result from non open software.
now: k*(# JobsCompleted)= Productivity * # employees
solving this for # of employees, when the number of jobs goes up, and productivity goes up is not a guaranteed direction.
can make drivers for their machines that work in OS X, they just cant put OS X ON their machines nor inform you how to do it.
And that is what makes this story likely to be true. IE Realtek has been asked to provide drivers by people who clearly plan to use those drivers to extend the functionality of devices that apple lawyers keep a real close eye on, with the intent to prevent this application. While Realtek's work wouldn't aid in overcoming copy protections, it probably encourages people to overcome those protections. Clearly taking a close look at laws like the DMCA was required before proceeding, and they apparently came to the conclusion that they were in the clear.
I see that with things like mod chips, catering to businesses/people that violate US laws, is usually a fuzzy line.
So what does that mean to costs like .. umm .. I don't know ... "salary"???
that's the question. Those whose job was to re-invent the wheel, and re-write from scratch a new application to compete with a existing one, their pay should be driven to 0.
Those who's job is to use whats out their to be as productive as possible should be way more productive, thus more valuable, and thus their pay can be much higher, while still making their parent company more profitable.
So the computing, support, and customization jobs in general, pay should expand. The create stuff from scratch jobs should go away. Does that result in fewer jobs, probably not, but a slower growth of jobs.
Direct TV card encryption, the earlier versions were easy to crack, but the later revisions proved much too difficult
yes, but it took 3 things, A) it took replacing hardware 3 different times, B)satellite takes real time cracking to be of value.C) A 24/7 satellite feed to automatically update software remotely.
IE with these disks you have a fixed input and key to crack. With satellite, if you crack the encryption they used last week it is useless today, unless they are still using the same key now.
These BD+ "fixes" each require legit purchasers the headache of manually updating (or having a separate service, internet access, to continue to use the players)
without getting in the way of 90% of consumers
so only 10% of customers pissed off, and a equal number staying clear altogether would be success? We all know it will be cracked, We just don't know what kind of HW well need to do that.
It doesn't take 10% complaints, more like 1% for me to stay clear of a faulty product.
a google search for BD+ gives me this
"The Samsung BDP-1200 and LG BH100 cannot play the discs at all while the Samsung BDP-1000 give error messages and playback "stutter".
The discs do work with other players, including the PS3, although some have reported lengthy load times of up to 2 minutes. "
well order of magnitude is not really correct. But batteries are not yet ready as a replacement is a better statement. IE the battery techs you mention are either not yet affordable at size, or not efficient enough to displace gas/diesel yet (when you add in the losses of transmission, the charger, the battery the motors, etc.)
The reason a electric car might save you money today is because
1) they are highly subsidized +
2) they don't sell a equivalent small hp low rolling/air resistance enclosed gas car. +
3) re-gen
If they were to start manufacturing light weigh 40 hp 800# EFI diesel cars we would easily be past the 100 mpg range (my very un-aerodynamic + carburetor 10 year old motorcycle gets 50+ mpg.)
The best batterys available taking the battery cost divided by net KWhr that my last employer tested came out to be over $.30/ Kwhr. These batteries met every other criteria of a gas replacement though, so as your numbers suggest, we are half way their, but that's taken a long time to get half way their.
Even if you're OK with the inefficiency of electrical heating
inefficiency of the heater is not a issue. Electric heat is generally 100% efficient. especially a geothermal heatpump with a COP greater than 3 (giving 3* the output energy as the amount of input energy.)
So the problem is just that per BTU Natural gas has been half or less of the cost of electric. And Gas Furnaces cost is so much cheaper, compared to a Heat pump system. (I guess the cost of the efficient electrical generators is prohibitive as well)
I do have a heat pump, and a radiant propane heater as a backup, I am dreading the repair costs also, ng heaters last longer also.
Who HONESTLY needs wireless power, that rechargable batteries can't provide?
charging a defibrillator, or anything you want inside your body, but not having enough battery power to last a lifetime (also maybe a embedded cellphone)
And places where size seriously matters, perhaps a microbot that does surgery.
free speech would not protect the poster, if disclosed (since dunkin donuts is not a public official, etc.)
So he would have a case in a civil suit, but since this sounded more like a opinion than a fact it would be very week.
free speech amendment only applies when loss of liberty, etc or government is involved, so it should protect the ISP that published this, and thus the persons identity if the ISP doesn't want disclose, but it would not protect anything said about a private business/individual.
good point,
I would also think to start concentrating on areas where the environment is being overloaded with man made pollution. That doesn't seam like a volcanic island where man made pollution probably isn't even 3% of the local greenhouse gas, or air pollution causes. Also where the pollution spreads out, and is easily scrubbed by natural means, unlike places like California, where it gets trapped.