If you are in a garage or car park, the solar panels will still be charging slowly from the overhead lighting and maybe even from sunlight if the car park is open air.
I always thought a hybrid car would be good for using in traffic jams. If you are stuck in a evening rush-hour (at least in Summer), the energy per square foot of solar panel would be 200-300 watts. For a car that would be 4x8x200 watts or 6 kilowatts.
In ten 10 minutes, you can travel half a mile walking or about two city blocks.The problem isn't that people are using cars to travel two blocks, the problem is that people can't afford or don't want to live within two blocks of where they work.
This is either due to the location being somewhere deprived so their is a lot of vandalism/theft or it is somewhere extremely desirable in which case senior staff salaries price out junior staff.
In these situations staff are forced to live either in the other side of the city, if not in an entirely different city or village.
Didn't CNN report that the average commute to work was 30 miles?
There was article some time where the scientists demonstrated how it was possible to solve the "Travelling salesman problem". Different strands of DNA were constructed to represent the different route segments that were possible and replicated. These were all mixed up together in a container and stirred together. As they were mixed together different strands would join up.
The solution to the problem was the shortest strand that had the starting point and ending point, along with each and every route destination.
I like the idea of retro-programming 1980's home computers with the knowledge that we have now.
These machines had so much potential and so much style in the simplicity of the design of the system ie. keyboard + IO/ports + TV = computer.
I really wish that the manufacturers had been able to update their systems with current CPU's and graphics chips and still keep their operating systems, rather than everything being swallowed up by one OS maker.
It's amazing how things change in 10 years. Back in the mid 1990's, getting access to the university from home required a 14K baud modem with PPP, with a university modem pool of two modems.
10 to 15 years later, and every student can just sftp or ssh to their university account through broadband internet. Some even have their own PC security cameras set up so they can watch their own room from anywhere on campus.
I've done both methods - the camera is far quicker, but a hand-held camera will blur unless you are in direct sunlight. Then you have problems with shadows if the light is directly behind you . The author seems to have solved all of these problems with a reflector, tripod and macro lens.
Even a manually held flat-bad scanner will take about a 1 minute per page - 30 seconds to scan, and 30 seconds to flip the page and replace. With some skill it is possible to do the flip page while the scanner is returning to the starting position.
And if you get the public sector to solve these problems, you will find that the money will be spent on luxury offices and furniture, govnernment pension schemes, staff motivation jollies, banquet style power lunch meetings and chauffeurs, all for career beauracrats. Sometimes charities and foundations are better for such things.
If you watched the BBC interview will Bill Gates, you will see that has already been Microsoft's strategy: Get the OS installed on every possible machine even at a loss if necessary. After a few months, all users will be "locked in" as all they will know are how to use are the Microsoft technology.
Maybe he can run traceroute - some head-end systems of cable networks are named after their location. Some even name the cable modems after their postcode.
You need to find the address of the property. Then you can contact the police to claim the property back. If you have proof of ownership (purchase order, receipts, serial numbers), then this shouldn't be a problem.
As others have posted, don't disable the system - that might tip the crooks off.
Try and access the internet communications to get usernames and ISP accounts. Maybe you can use the webcam/microphone to identify the owners.
Because the owners want to maintain a log of how much water is consumed and when? Perhaps this would aid in managing the water budget for the maintenance of gardens? If the grass is turning yellow, increase the irrigation pattern. If the grass gets too long too quickly, reduce the irrigation pattern.
Adding a wireless communications would be extremely simple to such a system. Just have a dynamo driven by water pressure to charge a battery. And power a mobile phone chip using this battery. Instant internet connectivity.
At the turn of the century (and steampunk fans will probably appreciate this), they still had all the same services that we have now.
If you wanted to order something from the local department in the North of the UK, you could simply read through the printed catalog, phone up the store and have it ordered. They would have the item transferred by express stream train (7 hours 20 minutes between London/Edinburgh), and delivered to your door by their own staff.
For the wealthy house owners, orders could be placed with the local greengrocer, butcher and baker, who would each have their own delivery staff (using either a bicycle with large baskets or trailer).
It's either blame the banks for speculating on oil instead of mortgages or blame China. China is rapidly industrializing. They are producing 5 million graduates/year in order to create a middle class. Given that their total population is 1 billion, their goal is probably going to be to get 30% of the population through university (a total of 300 million people).
At the same time, the manufacturing factories are moving to the more distant provinces as the workers start shopping around for the best paying jobs.
Another report suggests that while China produces 60% of their consumed oil, that is going to go away within the next 6 years.
One of the SF Bay Area radio stations had a discussion on this some time ago - The DJ described one of the environmentalists group as a bunch of yuppies who had gone up into the mountains, cut down trees to build their luxury log cabins and now didn't want anyone else to move in.
I don't know how true it is, but the same happens in the UK. You have ex-financial city people downsizing to the countryside, who buy up all the rustic farmhouses (designed to house entire extended farming families) and then object to the mass construction of new housing to replace the homes that they have bought up.
For a GPRS modem card, it cost around 10 pounds to download 1 Megabyte of memory internationally. Sending a maximum 150 byte, single text message cost 25p.
For E-mail, $2 gets you 105K/data, while SMS gets you 300 bytes.
These stories are being reported everywhere. Factories are being shut down because somebody stole the copper coils out of air conditioning units. There is ongoing theft of manhole covers due to the demand for scrap metal.
I wonder how long it will be before thiefs start digging up roads for the tar.
It shouldn't be too difficult to recover metals from the landfill sites. If it is possible to turn bodies into dust using "promession" or deep freezing, surely it would be possible to do the same with landfill sites?
You would take out a container load of debris, freeze to -196C, shake the contents until they disintegrate into a powder. Then you can extract the metals using electromagnets?
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If you are in a garage or car park, the solar panels will still be charging slowly from the overhead lighting and maybe even from sunlight if the car park is open air.
I always thought a hybrid car would be good for using in traffic jams. If you are stuck in a evening rush-hour (at least in Summer), the energy per square foot of solar panel would be 200-300 watts. For a car that would be 4x8x200 watts or 6 kilowatts.
In ten 10 minutes, you can travel half a mile walking or about two city blocks.The problem isn't that people are using cars to travel two blocks, the problem is that people can't afford or don't want to live within two blocks of where they work.
This is either due to the location being somewhere deprived so their is a lot of vandalism/theft or it is somewhere extremely desirable in which case senior staff salaries price out junior staff.
In these situations staff are forced to live either in the other side of the city, if not in an entirely different city or village.
Didn't CNN report that the average commute to work was 30 miles?
7Hz-8Hz is the resonant frequency of an adult human skull.
And the commodity price of photo diodes shoots up to match that of photon counters.
There was article some time where the scientists demonstrated how it was possible to solve the "Travelling salesman problem". Different strands of DNA were constructed to represent the different route segments that were possible and replicated. These were all mixed up together in a container and stirred together. As they were mixed together different strands would join up.
The solution to the problem was the shortest strand that had the starting point and ending point, along with each and every route destination.
There's quite a few such articles:
The 256-processor laptop with roll up screen and keyboard
Flatter laptops
Fold-up screens
Clip-together screens
Gas-turbine batteries
Dual touchscreen laptop
Mac Tablets
I like the idea of retro-programming 1980's home computers with the knowledge that we have now.
These machines had so much potential and so much style in the simplicity of the design of the system ie. keyboard + IO/ports + TV = computer.
I really wish that the manufacturers had been able to update their systems with current CPU's and graphics chips and still keep their operating systems, rather than everything being swallowed up by one OS maker.
It's amazing how things change in 10 years. Back in the mid 1990's, getting access to the university from home required a 14K baud modem with PPP, with a university modem pool of two modems.
10 to 15 years later, and every student can just sftp or ssh to their university account through broadband internet. Some even have their own PC security cameras set up so they can watch their own room from anywhere on campus.
64K should be enough for anyone (16-bit addressing)
There is always the defence of "I share my broadband connection with my flatmates using a wi-fi router. It wasn't me - it was someone else."
I've done both methods - the camera is far quicker, but a hand-held camera will blur unless you are in direct sunlight. Then you have problems with shadows if the light is directly behind you . The author seems to have solved all of these problems with a reflector, tripod and macro lens.
Even a manually held flat-bad scanner will take about a 1 minute per page - 30 seconds to scan, and 30 seconds to flip the page and replace. With some skill it is possible to do the flip page while the scanner is returning to the starting position.
And if you get the public sector to solve these problems, you will find that the money will be spent on luxury offices and furniture, govnernment pension schemes, staff motivation jollies, banquet style power lunch meetings and chauffeurs, all for career beauracrats. Sometimes charities and foundations are better for such things.
Unless that software is used to analyze relationships between DNA, RNA genes, proteins for genomics and proteonomics.
If you watched the BBC interview will Bill Gates, you will see that has already been Microsoft's strategy: Get the OS installed on every possible machine even at a loss if necessary. After a few months, all users will be "locked in" as all they will know are how to use are the Microsoft technology.
Maybe he can run traceroute - some head-end systems of cable networks are named after their location. Some even name the cable modems after their postcode.
You need to find the address of the property. Then you can contact the police to claim the property back. If you have proof of ownership (purchase order, receipts, serial numbers), then this shouldn't be a problem.
As others have posted, don't disable the system - that might tip the crooks off.
Try and access the internet communications to get usernames and ISP accounts. Maybe you can use the webcam/microphone to identify the owners.
Because the owners want to maintain a log of how much water is consumed and when? Perhaps this would aid in managing the water budget for the maintenance of gardens? If the grass is turning yellow, increase the irrigation pattern. If the grass gets too long too quickly, reduce the irrigation pattern.
Adding a wireless communications would be extremely simple to such a system. Just have a dynamo driven by water pressure to charge a battery. And power a mobile phone chip using this battery. Instant internet connectivity.
At the turn of the century (and steampunk fans will probably appreciate this), they still had all the same services that we have now.
If you wanted to order something from the local department in the North of the UK, you could simply read through the printed catalog, phone up the store and have it ordered. They would have the item transferred by express stream train (7 hours 20 minutes between London/Edinburgh), and delivered to your door by their own staff.
For the wealthy house owners, orders could be placed with the local greengrocer, butcher and baker, who would each have their own delivery staff (using either a bicycle with large baskets or trailer).
It's either blame the banks for speculating on oil instead of mortgages or blame China. China is rapidly industrializing. They are producing 5 million graduates/year in order to create a middle class. Given that their total population is 1 billion, their goal is probably going to be to get 30% of the population through university (a total of 300 million people).
At the same time, the manufacturing factories are moving to the more distant provinces as the workers start shopping around for the best paying jobs.
Another report suggests that while China produces 60% of their consumed oil, that is going to go away within the next 6 years.
One of the SF Bay Area radio stations had a discussion on this some time ago - The DJ described one of the environmentalists group as a bunch of yuppies who had gone up into the mountains, cut down trees to build their luxury log cabins and now didn't want anyone else to move in.
I don't know how true it is, but the same happens in the UK. You have ex-financial city people downsizing to the countryside, who buy up all the rustic farmhouses (designed to house entire extended farming families) and then object to the mass construction of new housing to replace the homes that they have bought up.
The domain information for the US court system is:
United State District Court
Southern District of New York
http://www1.nysd.uscourts.gov/index.php
207.41.15.28
Country IP Range: 207.40.0.0 to 207.43.255.255
It should be fun finding out what Youtube videos, the court system have been viewing...
For a GPRS modem card, it cost around 10 pounds to download 1 Megabyte of memory internationally. Sending a maximum 150 byte, single text message cost 25p.
For E-mail, $2 gets you 105K/data, while SMS gets you 300 bytes.
I do buy a new PC every three years, but buy a new graphics card every year (much like many other developers) whenever new 3D API extensions appear.
In the past I have installed new hard disk drives whenever larger capacity models became available (going from 80Gb to 250Gb).
These stories are being reported everywhere. Factories are being shut down because somebody stole the copper coils out of air conditioning units. There is ongoing theft of manhole covers due to the demand for scrap metal.
I wonder how long it will be before thiefs start digging up roads for the tar.
It shouldn't be too difficult to recover metals from the landfill sites. If it is possible to turn bodies into dust using "promession" or deep freezing, surely it would be possible to do the same with landfill sites?
You would take out a container load of debris, freeze to -196C, shake the contents until they disintegrate into a powder. Then you can extract the metals using electromagnets?