Interesting Statistic
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Global Dimming
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Every day, we get enough sunlight to power 27 years worth of the world's energy needs. Now, I thought about the implications of that. Obviously, we couldn't absorb/store the entire amount, but if we could put a dent in it, we'd have some global cooling. That is what this article is about.
On a similar note, the US could obtain all energy from the sun if it were to install a 200 mile square solar installation (assuming 15 percent efficiency... easily doable today). I say, put a dime of tax on each gallon of gas and use this money to subsidize solar generation - one of the only energy producers out there with net positive energy (more energy produced in the cell's lifetime than it takes to produce the cell itself). Hydro, wind and solar... I can't wait for the day.
On yet another related note, I'm in the process of building a solar/NiMH PC. I'm simply going to use store-bought NiMH rechargables to store excess daytime solar input. It certainly won't be cost effective but it'll be pretty high on the geek factor.
It'll burst when someone creates a non-RIAA internet radio station / distribution hub. Unsigned artists submit their music to the site, a group of public moderators give the music good/bad karma and the good stuff gets streamed to millions of PCs. Users can download the stuff that they like with a simple click and yet another simple click burns it to CD or moves it to the player.
That is actually a big part of the problem now. Their products don't suck so it makes it difficult to migrate to products that do suck (or even don't suck to a lesser degree). Don't get me wrong, some of the open source out there is really nice but there are different sets of issues.
Obviously, once the cost issue comes up, issues seems smaller but most people are using their free Office 97 and IE just fine. OpenOffice and Mozilla need a configuration option that will allow them to look/function like their MS counterparts. I use IE because Mozilla Shift+Click doesn't spawn a new Windows (like IE does). Every 6 months or so, I *try* but wind up uninstalling after a few weeks of this bad habbit.
Simply making the interface consistent would probably help OSS garner two to three times more installed base, IMHO.
Because RIAA music is what 98.5% of listeners want to hear.
No - because the RIAA makes it impossible (via Payola and monopoly) for any non-RIAA band to be widely heard. There are plenty of great bands out there that won't make it big until they sell out to the RIAA for pennies on the dollar.
iTunes and the like are getting us one step closer to circumventing the RIAA altogether. We only need one smart geek DJ at this point and the whole thing will get blown apart. My idea is as follows:
- Set up massive P2P network of FCC-legal low-power broadcast stations (i.e. - garage, cable modem and some unsigned bands) - Distribute media through internet and synchronize broadcast thereof - every node broadcasts the same song at the same time with allowance for DJs to input their local color (they just have to watch the clock so that they know when the next song will come on) - Create an open system providing for anyone to participate - Voila, profit
You could distribute the media on DVD for those rural areas without broadband access. You'd simply need a good model of synchronizing everything. I got the idea when a local high school started their own radio station. It was at this point that I realized that EVERY other station MUST be taking money for air time because this new station was just so refreshing. I mean, they were playing R&B followed by classic rock followed by obscure alternative (unsigned stuff). It was all great and I hadn't heard much of it in a while, if at all. The kids just play what they like, instead of what Clearchannel likes.
Windows has a native 64-bit version but Intel have prompted MS to delay the release until they can come up with a competitive processor. AMD serves to steal much of Intel's marketshare otherwise. Useful or not, console wars has caused "64 bits to be better than 32".
See a previous post in this very thread regarding "when". SCO will be no longer *very* soon. Soon enough that it would be dumb not to short the stock with interest rates as low as they currently are. Even if you had to short it for six years, the interest will be negligible once they cease to exist.
SCO stock didn't just double, it went up twenty-fold at one point. If you are as smart, you'll short the stock like some of the smarter geeks out there. The stock will eventually be sued into the ground and you'll have made 100 percent on your investment (minus comission and interest).
Re:does it matter all that much?
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Living on Mars Time
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does it matter all that much?
I would be very curious about the implications on aging. I mean, is the physical age of one's body related to the solar cycle?
Intel has been plugging their "Digital Briefcase" initiative recently. Basically, they want to create a PDA/phone/blender type device with copius amounts of storage. The idea is to allow "Digital Briefcase" compliant PCs to automagically recognize the device via 802.11 (and/or Bluetooth) and subsequently allow a user to log into that PC as if it were their own - all settings, configuration, eye candy, etc are configured on-the-fly. The device would also hold a replica of the user's data (documents, MP3s, everything).
This seems like panacea and one might ask how Intel would cram such capability into such a small device. See my sig for more on that...
Alternatively, you could hit their house. It really is amazing that a spammer would use their home address to register their spam business. In case you were wondering, the delivery joints in this area won't deliver stuff to this address anymore. Mr. Ralsky apparently didn't pay for *any* of the last 500 large with pineapple and andchovie pizzas that were ordered.
Actually, you can get UNLIMITED (North America) for $20 from packet8.net. Seriously, Packet8 should subcontract all of the independent geeks out there and offer $25/month service with a $5/month comission to the installer. I recently set up a 4-line packet8 system for a partner's (at my employer) home. It is saving him approximately $700/month over PSTN and I'm wishing that I'd get a piece of that aside from the initial fee that I charged...
It is only a matter of time before the wireless routers out there start building in SIP/2.4ghz cordless phone functionality. I'll laugh if I ever buy a Linksys or Netgear cordless phone.
Red sky at night shepards delight. Red sky in the morning shepards warning.
Lot of truth in that saying
You can actually use that for most anything because the rhyming has nothing to do with the conditions. For example, you could substitute "green" for the color and "sailor" for the type of delight to yield:
Green sky at night, sailors delight. Green sky in the morning, sailors take warning.
As long as it rhymes, people will think that you are a genious... and it is about as accurate as the weather report so who is the wiser?
Rumour spreadin' a-'round in that Texas town 'bout that shack outside La Grange And you know what I'm talkin' about. Just let me know if you wanna go To that home out on the range. They gotta lotta nice girls.
Have mercy. A haw, haw, haw, haw, a haw. A haw, haw, haw.
Well, I hear it's fine if you got the time And the ten to get yourself in. A hmm, hmm. And I hear it's tight most ev'ry night, But now I might be mistaken. Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm.
They didn't even tackle the the Green Celeron. After all, Celeron is derived from the latin word 'celer', meaning speed. Of course, celery is the fastest of all vegetables.
On a serious note, people, including myself, are starting to worry about power consumption. I'd like to pick up a low power device for a BSD gateway.
( (12*23.90)+299 )
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AOL's $299 PC
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You didn't need the extra set of parentheses - the math already assumes that.
Hint: it isn't the millions of idiots who click 'yes' when that annoying Gator applet pops up. Trusted Computing will be the best thing since sliced bread for 99.999 percent of the computer-using population.
If the open-source community wants to sit and watch DRM and Trusted Computing take the industry by storm, at least they should try and develop an alternate solution to the problem. A keystroke logger is easily embedded in a midget bowling application that will be run by 99.999 percent of the recipients. And most of those people are at work when they do it...
The little man has no say in this, these "public meetings" are all a charade.
In this case, I would have to disagree.
Any Joe Schmoe with the proper resources (either intellectual or financial) can whip up a VoIP application and communicate over the internet merely free of regulators. This won't change.
Now, all these telecom taxes exist because the PSTN (public switched telephone network) is a monopoly - you can't have multiple PSTN networks. It would become too bulky and there would be no economy of scale. The taxes exist so that this monopoly can be regulated.
Now, I can see a tax when a VoIP device interfaces with the PSTN. But this should only pressure the VoIP industry to move away from the PSTN. PSTN, as stated above, is bulky and not practical when we have efficient packet-switching networks that can easily replace it at 60 percent of the cost.
I vote for taxes on a per-PSTN call basis. This would be a good compromise - those that use packet-switching would not have to support the junk that is PSTN.
I would also like a module to interface with my home phone system. If I dial a "normal" PSTN phone number, it simply routes my call over my POTS phone line. If I dial a # or * prior to an IP address or URL, then it should route my call over my internet connection.
After a while, I wouldn't see the need for a PSTN, anymore.
I have several ideas that could make great money but they ultimately require money to make money. Does anyone have a good suggestion for raising capital without forfeiting the rights to one's intellectual property?
Slashdot Mirror
See the link in my sig. It is coming soon.
In case of slashdotting, there is a mirror here.
Every day, we get enough sunlight to power 27 years worth of the world's energy needs. Now, I thought about the implications of that. Obviously, we couldn't absorb/store the entire amount, but if we could put a dent in it, we'd have some global cooling. That is what this article is about.
On a similar note, the US could obtain all energy from the sun if it were to install a 200 mile square solar installation (assuming 15 percent efficiency... easily doable today). I say, put a dime of tax on each gallon of gas and use this money to subsidize solar generation - one of the only energy producers out there with net positive energy (more energy produced in the cell's lifetime than it takes to produce the cell itself). Hydro, wind and solar... I can't wait for the day.
On yet another related note, I'm in the process of building a solar/NiMH PC. I'm simply going to use store-bought NiMH rechargables to store excess daytime solar input. It certainly won't be cost effective but it'll be pretty high on the geek factor.
It'll burst when someone creates a non-RIAA internet radio station / distribution hub. Unsigned artists submit their music to the site, a group of public moderators give the music good/bad karma and the good stuff gets streamed to millions of PCs. Users can download the stuff that they like with a simple click and yet another simple click burns it to CD or moves it to the player.
Those damn Chinese Sons of Bitches!
Microsoft isn't stupid
That is actually a big part of the problem now. Their products don't suck so it makes it difficult to migrate to products that do suck (or even don't suck to a lesser degree). Don't get me wrong, some of the open source out there is really nice but there are different sets of issues.
Obviously, once the cost issue comes up, issues seems smaller but most people are using their free Office 97 and IE just fine. OpenOffice and Mozilla need a configuration option that will allow them to look/function like their MS counterparts. I use IE because Mozilla Shift+Click doesn't spawn a new Windows (like IE does). Every 6 months or so, I *try* but wind up uninstalling after a few weeks of this bad habbit.
Simply making the interface consistent would probably help OSS garner two to three times more installed base, IMHO.
The industry is going to hate it.
Blockbuster is the industry.
Because RIAA music is what 98.5% of listeners want to hear.
No - because the RIAA makes it impossible (via Payola and monopoly) for any non-RIAA band to be widely heard. There are plenty of great bands out there that won't make it big until they sell out to the RIAA for pennies on the dollar.
iTunes and the like are getting us one step closer to circumventing the RIAA altogether. We only need one smart geek DJ at this point and the whole thing will get blown apart. My idea is as follows:
- Set up massive P2P network of FCC-legal low-power broadcast stations (i.e. - garage, cable modem and some unsigned bands)
- Distribute media through internet and synchronize broadcast thereof - every node broadcasts the same song at the same time with allowance for DJs to input their local color (they just have to watch the clock so that they know when the next song will come on)
- Create an open system providing for anyone to participate
- Voila, profit
You could distribute the media on DVD for those rural areas without broadband access. You'd simply need a good model of synchronizing everything. I got the idea when a local high school started their own radio station. It was at this point that I realized that EVERY other station MUST be taking money for air time because this new station was just so refreshing. I mean, they were playing R&B followed by classic rock followed by obscure alternative (unsigned stuff). It was all great and I hadn't heard much of it in a while, if at all. The kids just play what they like, instead of what Clearchannel likes.
Amazing...
If you are near an IMAX, they are running their History of Flight special. Breathtaking!
Windows has a native 64-bit version but Intel have prompted MS to delay the release until they can come up with a competitive processor. AMD serves to steal much of Intel's marketshare otherwise. Useful or not, console wars has caused "64 bits to be better than 32".
I take it that you are long in SCO, no?
See a previous post in this very thread regarding "when". SCO will be no longer *very* soon. Soon enough that it would be dumb not to short the stock with interest rates as low as they currently are. Even if you had to short it for six years, the interest will be negligible once they cease to exist.
This is a no-brainer...
3)Sue until your stock price doubles!
SCO stock didn't just double, it went up twenty-fold at one point. If you are as smart, you'll short the stock like some of the smarter geeks out there. The stock will eventually be sued into the ground and you'll have made 100 percent on your investment (minus comission and interest).
does it matter all that much?
I would be very curious about the implications on aging. I mean, is the physical age of one's body related to the solar cycle?
Intel has been plugging their "Digital Briefcase" initiative recently. Basically, they want to create a PDA/phone/blender type device with copius amounts of storage. The idea is to allow "Digital Briefcase" compliant PCs to automagically recognize the device via 802.11 (and/or Bluetooth) and subsequently allow a user to log into that PC as if it were their own - all settings, configuration, eye candy, etc are configured on-the-fly. The device would also hold a replica of the user's data (documents, MP3s, everything).
This seems like panacea and one might ask how Intel would cram such capability into such a small device. See my sig for more on that...
675 - 300 = 375
Am I missing something? Where does 450 come from?
Alternatively, you could hit their house. It really is amazing that a spammer would use their home address to register their spam business. In case you were wondering, the delivery joints in this area won't deliver stuff to this address anymore. Mr. Ralsky apparently didn't pay for *any* of the last 500 large with pineapple and andchovie pizzas that were ordered.
that I can get for 25 bucks from vonage
Actually, you can get UNLIMITED (North America) for $20 from packet8.net. Seriously, Packet8 should subcontract all of the independent geeks out there and offer $25/month service with a $5/month comission to the installer. I recently set up a 4-line packet8 system for a partner's (at my employer) home. It is saving him approximately $700/month over PSTN and I'm wishing that I'd get a piece of that aside from the initial fee that I charged...
It is only a matter of time before the wireless routers out there start building in SIP/2.4ghz cordless phone functionality. I'll laugh if I ever buy a Linksys or Netgear cordless phone.
Sigh...
Red sky at night shepards delight. Red sky in the morning shepards warning.
Lot of truth in that saying
You can actually use that for most anything because the rhyming has nothing to do with the conditions. For example, you could substitute "green" for the color and "sailor" for the type of delight to yield:
Green sky at night, sailors delight. Green sky in the morning, sailors take warning.
As long as it rhymes, people will think that you are a genious... and it is about as accurate as the weather report so who is the wiser?
Queue: ZZ TOP
Rumour spreadin' a-'round in that Texas town
'bout that shack outside La Grange
And you know what I'm talkin' about.
Just let me know if you wanna go
To that home out on the range.
They gotta lotta nice girls.
Have mercy.
A haw, haw, haw, haw, a haw.
A haw, haw, haw.
Well, I hear it's fine if you got the time
And the ten to get yourself in.
A hmm, hmm.
And I hear it's tight most ev'ry night,
But now I might be mistaken.
Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm.
They didn't even tackle the the Green Celeron. After all, Celeron is derived from the latin word 'celer', meaning speed. Of course, celery is the fastest of all vegetables.
On a serious note, people, including myself, are starting to worry about power consumption. I'd like to pick up a low power device for a BSD gateway.
You didn't need the extra set of parentheses - the math already assumes that.
Boy, I'm a geek...
Stop being such a FAT ass
Who should your computer take its orders from?
Hint: it isn't the millions of idiots who click 'yes' when that annoying Gator applet pops up. Trusted Computing will be the best thing since sliced bread for 99.999 percent of the computer-using population.
If the open-source community wants to sit and watch DRM and Trusted Computing take the industry by storm, at least they should try and develop an alternate solution to the problem. A keystroke logger is easily embedded in a midget bowling application that will be run by 99.999 percent of the recipients. And most of those people are at work when they do it...
The little man has no say in this, these "public meetings" are all a charade.
In this case, I would have to disagree.
Any Joe Schmoe with the proper resources (either intellectual or financial) can whip up a VoIP application and communicate over the internet merely free of regulators. This won't change.
Now, all these telecom taxes exist because the PSTN (public switched telephone network) is a monopoly - you can't have multiple PSTN networks. It would become too bulky and there would be no economy of scale. The taxes exist so that this monopoly can be regulated.
Now, I can see a tax when a VoIP device interfaces with the PSTN. But this should only pressure the VoIP industry to move away from the PSTN. PSTN, as stated above, is bulky and not practical when we have efficient packet-switching networks that can easily replace it at 60 percent of the cost.
I vote for taxes on a per-PSTN call basis. This would be a good compromise - those that use packet-switching would not have to support the junk that is PSTN.
I would also like a module to interface with my home phone system. If I dial a "normal" PSTN phone number, it simply routes my call over my POTS phone line. If I dial a # or * prior to an IP address or URL, then it should route my call over my internet connection.
After a while, I wouldn't see the need for a PSTN, anymore.
I have several ideas that could make great money but they ultimately require money to make money. Does anyone have a good suggestion for raising capital without forfeiting the rights to one's intellectual property?