Dude, everything on digital cable is broadcast over the wire... you could have as many tuners as there are channels. Lord knows what the technical issues are that would prevent it, but it's not bandwidth.
And no, you wouldn't need 3 dishes, you'd use the same one you have now, with diseqc switches. Duh.
How about a decent PICMG backplane, so you can have more than a handful of slots? (Mine has 18 32bit pci slots, but there are more expensive ones that have just as many pcie)
Why not a DVB-S tuner?
Why not have the hard drives external to the case? You'd have more power for those cards that demand it, less heat to cook your CPUs?
Anyone that uses USB, even USB2 for something like this makes me laugh. Just sad. Why not bolt on some lame parallel port tuner from 1997, and claim that it's 12 tuners?
Biodiesel can't ever be more than a 3-5% solution, just as windmills can't be more than that. Once you try to scale past that, there will be problems. People like to dream about PV solar, too, but at the moment at least, it's pretty much only capable of the same.
We have 4 options: coal, oil/gas, fission and fusion.
The truth is, only fusion is ideal, but we don't know how far away we are from it. But instead of building ITER, we quibble for decades on where it will be built, because no one wants to foot the entire $10 billion themselves.
We've wasted what, $200-300 billion on an Iraq fiasco? Just shows where our priorities are.
That you have some sense still doesn't excuse making jokes about depopulation. If you are my age (~30), you will live to see how unfunny it really is. If I had to put money on it, I'm not sure if I'd go with mass starvation, or neofascists forcibly depopulating entire continents. Of course, collecting on the bet even if right, would be pretty hollow....
I got my X10 controller for 25 cents, complete with an appliance and lamp module. It works with anything with a serial port, including supposedly a few sun boxes. Why would he need a mac to use one? There's any number of open source X10 apps, and most linux ones (such as heyu, the one that I use), are scriptable. If he wants pretty eye candy software, no doubt he can do that too, and certainly without spending $90 on software. Jesus tapdancing Christ.
That said, X10 is a pretty crappy home automation system. But it's about all there is that is open.
I am glad that, in your fog of reason, you seemed to figure out the depopulation jab. You really should congratulate yourself on your astute ability to indentify sarcasm. Two solid pats on back.
Really. Some things are too serious, too fucking evil to joke about. I can't see someone even mention it sarcastically without feeling sick to my stomach. Maybe you're too dense to realize that, but it's a goddamned wet dream of a few, and I'm bright enough to realize that I won't "make the cut" when their committee brings down the verdict on NoMoreNicksLeft. Hell, even if they do want to keep me around as a toilet cleaner or something, it's still fucking evil.
Why don't you turn your sarcastic humor up a notch? You hardly even spoke of gassing jews in a death chamber, or raping newborns.
Hardly unique, coal releases quite a bit of radioactivity too. Scared of things you can't see, but that new-fangled science tells you must be there? Well, develop an irrational fear of radiation then, and ignore innovations like pebble bed reactors!
that will keep an area aglow for millennia.
We are talking nuclear power plants, not detonating cobalt bombs. But I guess we should just ignore that, because NUCULAR IS T3H EV1L!
Personally, I favor switching everything to biodeisel.
I have a better idea, let's burn newspaper for our energy needs, no one reads them anymore anyway! Seriously though, do you have any idea how fucking stupid this sounds? Biodiesel is for portable energy use, cars, trucks and so forth. There are about a million other ways to generate energy that are more convenient and appropriate, assuming the thing doesn't have to move. The article is about wind power, for grid generation, and the parent comment was about nuclear for the same thing. Or are you trying to suggest that he was insinuating nuclear-powered cars?
Once our cars are competing directly for the agricultural resources needed to feed humans, we will see the population drop to a sustainable level.
Yes, let's talk about depopulation. Since the sociopaths who always love to talk about how "there are too many people" are almost certainly unwilling to wait the time it would take even for "1 child per couple" laws to lower it sufficiently, they're really talking about more immediate depopulation. We have an entire galaxy to live in, but that's too much work, when really you'd just rather be some elitist aristocrat living out grandiose fantasies while earth's 200 million toil away, so that you can live in some gardenesque paradise. Oh wait, you're not an aristocrat, you're just some cretinish good who likes to repeat the words those elitists spout off, because it makes you feel powerfully snobby like they do? Gee, there's a surprise waiting for you, and I don't want to ruin it.
If not for stupid people, there is more than enough energy to be had, more than enough resources, more than enough space. Why are you so blind?
Someday we might realize that there isn't a magic bullet. Each alternative engery source has draw backs and we need to be developing them all. PS, I agree nuclear will be the long term solution. This solution has to be developed slowly and more thought than other alternatives.
Yeh. Except here, walmart *always* hires the investigator, even if it was petty shoplifting, and then claims that as an expense. If they tried that in the real world, the judge would throw it out, but if it involves computers, it's considered par for the course?
When a new hire is set up with a network account, it costs $20,000 in bumbling MSCE ineptitude to click on the gui widgets in User and Groups, and create one?
Because the cost of the investigation can't be counted. If you steal a $1 candybar from walmart, they're not allowed to add in the costs of the police investigation/arrest to the crime itself. Or else there'd never be any petty crime.
You really think we can best algae at converting sunlight to useful energy? The little buggers have been around billions of years. We've been screwing with photovoltaics for decades. There's this thing known as "expertise"...
A coal plant with a 2000 acre algae farm might produce 40 million gallons of biodiesel. Sold at market value, that's $100million USD. Per year. Amortized over a period of many years, just how much could the system cost for that one coal plant, before it's not worth it?
Especially considering that it means staving off new regulatory costs when we have a non-asshat president and something like Kyoto goes through? (If we were going to have to spend $25 million per year starting in 2009 anyway, just to be clean...)
Economically, it reduces demand for oil, once there's less pressure on supply from all the diesel guzzlers out there, the economy would improve.
There are too many reasons to do this to list, supposing it works at all.
Not quite. As is, we only get to use that CO2 once, before it's in the air. With this, we get to use it from coal, for electricity, and then again in trucks/cars, before it's released. Basically twice the energy, for the same amount of CO2 production (or to look at it another way, half the CO2, for the same amount of energy).
Are you serious? I've only ever submitted twice, they never got chosen. My slashdot sig used to generated up to 500 hits a month, even when I wasn't commenting heavily...
You mean like kuro5hin? The users get to vote up stories, before they reach the front page. It has its problems too.
No, what they oughtta do, is force Roland Piqueneauze to submit a story explaining why he is such an asshat. If he refuses, or if it's anything other than completely contrite and apologetic, his submissions are ignored.
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It's a trupe. That already means it must be something they like. It's like proven.
Hah. Do what I do, resubmit every dupe you see. Eventually I'll get an article posted that way...
You NASCAR people make me sick, and I'll use every trick in the book to make sure you don't get promoted or even hired.
Yeh. If I desire to have a million little doodads hanging out the back of my computer. Usb2 is to firewire what ide is to scsi.
Who says he's the only consumer? With ethernet, it could be farmed out to several viewing devices and viewers.
Dude, everything on digital cable is broadcast over the wire... you could have as many tuners as there are channels. Lord knows what the technical issues are that would prevent it, but it's not bandwidth.
And no, you wouldn't need 3 dishes, you'd use the same one you have now, with diseqc switches. Duh.
Maybe something like this?
Or even this?
In that overcooked case? Wouldn't be surprised if both drives failed simultaneously. This was built for the showroom, not sunday drives.
How about a decent PICMG backplane, so you can have more than a handful of slots? (Mine has 18 32bit pci slots, but there are more expensive ones that have just as many pcie)
Why not a DVB-S tuner?
Why not have the hard drives external to the case? You'd have more power for those cards that demand it, less heat to cook your CPUs?
Anyone that uses USB, even USB2 for something like this makes me laugh. Just sad. Why not bolt on some lame parallel port tuner from 1997, and claim that it's 12 tuners?
Biodiesel can't ever be more than a 3-5% solution, just as windmills can't be more than that. Once you try to scale past that, there will be problems. People like to dream about PV solar, too, but at the moment at least, it's pretty much only capable of the same.
We have 4 options: coal, oil/gas, fission and fusion.
The truth is, only fusion is ideal, but we don't know how far away we are from it. But instead of building ITER, we quibble for decades on where it will be built, because no one wants to foot the entire $10 billion themselves.
We've wasted what, $200-300 billion on an Iraq fiasco? Just shows where our priorities are.
That you have some sense still doesn't excuse making jokes about depopulation. If you are my age (~30), you will live to see how unfunny it really is. If I had to put money on it, I'm not sure if I'd go with mass starvation, or neofascists forcibly depopulating entire continents. Of course, collecting on the bet even if right, would be pretty hollow....
I got my X10 controller for 25 cents, complete with an appliance and lamp module. It works with anything with a serial port, including supposedly a few sun boxes. Why would he need a mac to use one? There's any number of open source X10 apps, and most linux ones (such as heyu, the one that I use), are scriptable. If he wants pretty eye candy software, no doubt he can do that too, and certainly without spending $90 on software. Jesus tapdancing Christ.
That said, X10 is a pretty crappy home automation system. But it's about all there is that is open.
I am glad that, in your fog of reason, you seemed to figure out the depopulation jab. You really should congratulate yourself on your astute ability to indentify sarcasm. Two solid pats on back.
Really. Some things are too serious, too fucking evil to joke about. I can't see someone even mention it sarcastically without feeling sick to my stomach. Maybe you're too dense to realize that, but it's a goddamned wet dream of a few, and I'm bright enough to realize that I won't "make the cut" when their committee brings down the verdict on NoMoreNicksLeft. Hell, even if they do want to keep me around as a toilet cleaner or something, it's still fucking evil.
Why don't you turn your sarcastic humor up a notch? You hardly even spoke of gassing jews in a death chamber, or raping newborns.
It pollutes in its own unique radiant style
Hardly unique, coal releases quite a bit of radioactivity too. Scared of things you can't see, but that new-fangled science tells you must be there? Well, develop an irrational fear of radiation then, and ignore innovations like pebble bed reactors!
that will keep an area aglow for millennia.
We are talking nuclear power plants, not detonating cobalt bombs. But I guess we should just ignore that, because NUCULAR IS T3H EV1L!
Personally, I favor switching everything to biodeisel.
I have a better idea, let's burn newspaper for our energy needs, no one reads them anymore anyway! Seriously though, do you have any idea how fucking stupid this sounds? Biodiesel is for portable energy use, cars, trucks and so forth. There are about a million other ways to generate energy that are more convenient and appropriate, assuming the thing doesn't have to move. The article is about wind power, for grid generation, and the parent comment was about nuclear for the same thing. Or are you trying to suggest that he was insinuating nuclear-powered cars?
Once our cars are competing directly for the agricultural resources needed to feed humans, we will see the population drop to a sustainable level.
Yes, let's talk about depopulation. Since the sociopaths who always love to talk about how "there are too many people" are almost certainly unwilling to wait the time it would take even for "1 child per couple" laws to lower it sufficiently, they're really talking about more immediate depopulation. We have an entire galaxy to live in, but that's too much work, when really you'd just rather be some elitist aristocrat living out grandiose fantasies while earth's 200 million toil away, so that you can live in some gardenesque paradise. Oh wait, you're not an aristocrat, you're just some cretinish good who likes to repeat the words those elitists spout off, because it makes you feel powerfully snobby like they do? Gee, there's a surprise waiting for you, and I don't want to ruin it.
If not for stupid people, there is more than enough energy to be had, more than enough resources, more than enough space. Why are you so blind?
Someday we might realize that there isn't a magic bullet. Each alternative engery source has draw backs and we need to be developing them all. PS, I agree nuclear will be the long term solution. This solution has to be developed slowly and more thought than other alternatives.
Funny, except that openldap is only difficult to set up, once done, adding more account is braindead simple... and can be scripted. Nice try though.
Yeh. Except here, walmart *always* hires the investigator, even if it was petty shoplifting, and then claims that as an expense. If they tried that in the real world, the judge would throw it out, but if it involves computers, it's considered par for the course?
When a new hire is set up with a network account, it costs $20,000 in bumbling MSCE ineptitude to click on the gui widgets in User and Groups, and create one?
Because the cost of the investigation can't be counted. If you steal a $1 candybar from walmart, they're not allowed to add in the costs of the police investigation/arrest to the crime itself. Or else there'd never be any petty crime.
Our focus really is in delivering the best experience to Windows customers.
So now they're going to buy all windows users a free mac?
You really think we can best algae at converting sunlight to useful energy? The little buggers have been around billions of years. We've been screwing with photovoltaics for decades. There's this thing known as "expertise"...
A coal plant with a 2000 acre algae farm might produce 40 million gallons of biodiesel. Sold at market value, that's $100million USD. Per year. Amortized over a period of many years, just how much could the system cost for that one coal plant, before it's not worth it?
Especially considering that it means staving off new regulatory costs when we have a non-asshat president and something like Kyoto goes through? (If we were going to have to spend $25 million per year starting in 2009 anyway, just to be clean...)
Economically, it reduces demand for oil, once there's less pressure on supply from all the diesel guzzlers out there, the economy would improve.
There are too many reasons to do this to list, supposing it works at all.
Yes, because the algae will absorb 100% of the arsenic, and the conversion process to biodiesel doesn't remove even a little bit of it either.
Read the article, up to 2000 acres.
Though even if they only have 500 acres to work with, that's still quite a reduction, don't you think?
Not quite. As is, we only get to use that CO2 once, before it's in the air. With this, we get to use it from coal, for electricity, and then again in trucks/cars, before it's released. Basically twice the energy, for the same amount of CO2 production (or to look at it another way, half the CO2, for the same amount of energy).
Are you serious? I've only ever submitted twice, they never got chosen. My slashdot sig used to generated up to 500 hits a month, even when I wasn't commenting heavily...
You mean like kuro5hin? The users get to vote up stories, before they reach the front page. It has its problems too.
No, what they oughtta do, is force Roland Piqueneauze to submit a story explaining why he is such an asshat. If he refuses, or if it's anything other than completely contrite and apologetic, his submissions are ignored.
That would kick ass. In so... so many ways. Why aren't we planning on sending something to Centauri?