I only walk and ride my bicycle. In the last 4 years (since I gave up driving) I haven't used any gasoline (hydrogen, natural gas, or electricity) while going from point A to point B.
When I can buy a car with that kind of effencieny I'll look into it, but until then, a walkin' I a' go.
Probably not. Although their specs (ibm vs. viewsonic) are identical, the the Viewsonic isn't a rebranded IBM, and the IBM isn't a rebranded Viewsonic.
I gaurantee that they both use the same LCD component, from the same manufacturer, and probably from the same fab, but they didn't just rebrand eachother's product.
Didn't you hear? Microsoft won, but not because they had a better product.
They've been getting away with inferior (and dangerous) products long before they became they gained monopoly over the browser domain. Using their existing OS monopoly to force vendors to not package Netscape or Opera they effectively nulled out the competition. Customers knew they had a choice then exactly as much as they do now: hardly at all.
Microsoft doesn't have to listen to customers any less now than they have ever have been. The only thing they listen to is the ka-ching of the cash drawers whenever another customer buys a machine bundled with Windows.
My thought has always been "why hydrogen?" exactly because of those reasons. The biggest reason that we'll be running out of fossil fuels and other non-renewable resources soon (within 50 years) is not because we're consuming a lot, it's because of the rate at which we're consuming them is rapidly increasing. If we (mostly Americans/Japanese/Chinese/Europeans) were to switch over to more fuel efficient engines, reducing our rate of increase to 1-2%, we'd add an extra 100 years onto that timeline.
I've been complaining for a long time, but now I'm finally leaving.
Slashdot is way too U.K.-centric. Where's my news about America (land of the free, home of the brave)? I'm sick and tired of all this "Metres this" and "Stones that" crap.
Almost all objects on the planet have large amounts of hydrogen in them. Hydrogen is not a fossil fuel, and being the most abundent material in the universe, we won't be running out of it any time soon.
Having lived in Utah for the last 13 years, and growing up in a Mormon household, I've learned a few things. Perhaps the most disturbing of which you've slightly stumbled upon.
According to LDS doctrine their religion is the "only true" religion. In the afterlife you have a choice of converting or staying in a sort of wait period forever. After the Second Coming of Christ, in the "Heaven on Earth" period, the world will be united, with The Church as the ruling government. During this time a twisted sort of socialism will be the main-stay (the Law of Consecration). All property will be owned by The Church. All your gain will be given to the Bishop's Warehouse, and divided up fairly (not evenly, but "fairly") by The Church. The LDS tithing program (10% of the gross) is supposed to prepare the people for this.
It will be at that time that, once again according to LDS doctrine, we will either welcome our new Mormon overlords or go to their version of hell (or "heck" around here).
Although all of these statements are true, and I'm not LDS, they should in no way be construed to say that I'm anti-Mormon. Many LDS families are nice people with good intentions. Hell, my Dad's a Bishop. It's really just the BYU students and Orrin Hatch you want to stay away from.
Third - (much more work that the other two:o) try to develop into some sort of social network
AudioGalaxy came out right after Napster became huge. It provided a p2p music sharing scheme with 2 odd twists.
- The first, and lesser, of the two is that to browse songs, you opened up your browser and went directly to Audiogalaxy.com and started browsing. When you found the song you wanted to download, you'd click a link. Very simple and easy to use. This centralized the process, and eventually led to the RIAA-induced downfall of the p2p part of Audio Galaxy.
- The second, and very important, is the way the music was organized. It actually let you browse through music based on your taste. Songs didn't have a "rating" like Schon suggests, but rather a "grouping." Audio Galaxy grouped like songs together. For example, clicking on Elf Power would bring up Neutral Milk Hotel and clicking on The Who would bring up Yes. It didn't have anythign to do with genre, just what people liked. It was based entirely on how people shared their songs. The system would see that 30% (my guess, I don't really know) of the people sharing Beck songs would also be sharing Poe songs, and the link would be made on the site. I found almost all of the bands I listen to today using this method on Audio Galaxy.
Philo T. Farnsworth didn't invent the Cathode Ray Tube, he invented a way to view pictures on it. Philo just made the electronics to have the CRT scan in horizontal lines to fill the entire screen, and to dynamically change the brightness so that a picture or moving picture could be shown.
Some people don't believe that Philo invented the TV since the patent was ownded by RCA, and RCA claimed that they invented it. Philo spent years fighting RCA over the rights. I think he enventually lost. Check out the Wikipedia for more info.
Accoding to the article they're running Dynix. I'm not exactly sure what the license fees are for a public library of their size, but I can give you an average guess. I work for one of Dynix's competitors (COMPanioncorp.com), and we offer the "low-range" price point, and Dynix offers the "high-range." Our "low cost" software often runs $10K plus for a single library. Since they're running with the web module, that'll drive costs up even more. I expect them to being paying about $50K for the license, and $10K a year for tech support.
On that note, OpenBiblio seems like it has a fairly large range of basic features (circulation, overdue notices, everything web based), but is lacking in a lot of features that librarians (especially head librarians) need. The statistics produced by OpenBiblio seem to be lacking all but the most basic information, Z 3 of 9 support is missing (aka Z3950 searching), card printing is non-functional, images can't be attached to patrons, users, or items (books, videos, etc), multiple collection libraries (ie a library with multiple branches) can't interconnect, it doesn't currently export (in any format), patron status is harcoded to either Adult or Juvenile (what about for K-12 libraries?), item status seems marginal at best, and finally the report functionalities are just bad.
Without these basic needs that every commercial library automation software provides, how can they expect to actually serve a running library? What about advanced features that college libraries need? There's no interlibrary-loan, checkout polices, SIP2 support (alarm protocol), and the fine structure is too weak to handle complex situations.
Maybe in 5 years OpenBiblio will be caught up to where commercial library automation is now. At least it's not chasing a moving target. The library automation market is very stagnant. New useful features are few and far between. Follet, for example, hasn't updated their software in over a year, they've fired their development team, and are continuing to sell the same product at the same price with plenty of success. Dynix, up until about 2 years ago, was still running all of their client machines on dumb terminals with those green/black screens in text-mode only. And guess what? it worked just fine for everyone.
If you really want to know about breakthroughs in electric motor design, not just another free-energy scam, mosey on over to http://www.rasertech.com/.
Raser Technologies recently (ie within the last year) introduced technology to convert existing electric motor designs to run not more effeciently, but more powerfully. Their patented (with a real US patent) design allows a motor to produce up to three times as much power than previously achievable. All electric motors can be "overdriven" to provide more power in short bursts. This technology (which they dub Symetron) allows the motor to run at those higher powers at a sustained rate without burnout or explosion.
Unlike Kohei Minato, Raser Technologies has been to various trade shows, hosted several demonstrations and posts results done by 3rd party test facilities. Also unlike Japan Magnetic Fan Company, Raser Technology is a publicly traded company under the stock symbol RSTG.OB.
Although not as revolutionary or jaw-droppingly-fake, this new technology does have a huge amount of practicle applications. For example, currently to run an electric car you need about a 50-HP motor. Here's an example of how big a motor that's rated for 50 horsepower continious usage can be (610 lbs). A counterexample would be this video from a trade show where Raser Tech runs a bus on 500 horsepower motor that is noticably smaller.
Yes, these motors still have the same efficiency rating as the motors without the Symetron adjustment, but they are extremely small for their power ratings. The key is truly the power density.
Apart from providing no evidence (which is hard to provide over the internet anyway) I'd at least like some credibility.
...the US patent office recognized his invention and gave him the first of two patents.
Maybe you'd have more luck than me, but I just ran a thorough search at US Patent and Trademark Office and found not even a patent, let alone the two that Mr. Kohei Minato claims to have.
For all of those moderators out there that are unaware, the above post is indeed funny.
From Dictionary.com:
paean also pean n.
1. A song of joyful praise or exultation.
2. A fervent expression of joy or praise: "The art... was a paean to paganism" (Will Durant).
3. An ancient Greek hymn of thanksgiving or invocation, especially to Apollo.
So "A paean in the ass" or "A [fervent expression of joy] in the ass" is indeed very different from "a pain in the ass."
This isn't that bad of news for the Boeing company, just United Technologies. Because the US is no longer bankrolling the Comanche project, they will have to upgrade existing Apache attack helicopters over time. The Apaches are built by Boeing.
When I was in my last weeks of high school, 3 years ago, I posted my resume on Monster. That night I had a job offer. Within a week I'd had about six, one of which I took and am still at.
Later I updated my information, and again, within a week people were calling me up asking me to work for them.
Of course, this is just my experience. My resume is pretty decent, and I'm not trying to price myself too high. So what's the real problem? People expecting what I got at the edge of the dot-com bubble. I gaurantee that if you price yourself in the same league as a third-world worker you'd be job offers up the ying-yang.
Don't rely on someone else to keep your computer secure. Take steps yourself.
Too bad most people who use computers don't know what steps to take. Even with Windows Update enabled to run automatically, people won't have secure computers. It is the responsibility of the car makers to make cars safe, should it not be the responsibility of operating system makers to make desktops safe?
Unfortunately, without government intervention car makers wouldn't have made their cars as safe as they are today by themselves. Now it's gotten to the point where safe is a selling feature to many buyers. Shouldn't the same apply to operating system makers like Microsoft, Apple, etc? Should the goverment regulate? no, but safety should definately be a selling point.
The Maya Personal Learning Edition restricts users to non-commercial applications through the display of a watermark on images as well as through the use of a special non-commercial file format.
i.e. useless for making money, useful for learning. I remember Bryce 3D having something similar.
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When I can buy a car with that kind of effencieny I'll look into it, but until then, a walkin' I a' go.
I gaurantee that they both use the same LCD component, from the same manufacturer, and probably from the same fab, but they didn't just rebrand eachother's product.
They've been getting away with inferior (and dangerous) products long before they became they gained monopoly over the browser domain. Using their existing OS monopoly to force vendors to not package Netscape or Opera they effectively nulled out the competition. Customers knew they had a choice then exactly as much as they do now: hardly at all.
Microsoft doesn't have to listen to customers any less now than they have ever have been. The only thing they listen to is the ka-ching of the cash drawers whenever another customer buys a machine bundled with Windows.
My thought has always been "why hydrogen?" exactly because of those reasons. The biggest reason that we'll be running out of fossil fuels and other non-renewable resources soon (within 50 years) is not because we're consuming a lot, it's because of the rate at which we're consuming them is rapidly increasing. If we (mostly Americans/Japanese/Chinese/Europeans) were to switch over to more fuel efficient engines, reducing our rate of increase to 1-2%, we'd add an extra 100 years onto that timeline.
It happens. Momma said they'll be days like this.
I've been complaining for a long time, but now I'm finally leaving.
Slashdot is way too U.K.-centric. Where's my news about America (land of the free, home of the brave)? I'm sick and tired of all this "Metres this" and "Stones that" crap.
Give me American, or give me death!
Almost all objects on the planet have large amounts of hydrogen in them. Hydrogen is not a fossil fuel, and being the most abundent material in the universe, we won't be running out of it any time soon.
Having lived in Utah for the last 13 years, and growing up in a Mormon household, I've learned a few things. Perhaps the most disturbing of which you've slightly stumbled upon.
According to LDS doctrine their religion is the "only true" religion. In the afterlife you have a choice of converting or staying in a sort of wait period forever. After the Second Coming of Christ, in the "Heaven on Earth" period, the world will be united, with The Church as the ruling government. During this time a twisted sort of socialism will be the main-stay (the Law of Consecration). All property will be owned by The Church. All your gain will be given to the Bishop's Warehouse, and divided up fairly (not evenly, but "fairly") by The Church. The LDS tithing program (10% of the gross) is supposed to prepare the people for this.
It will be at that time that, once again according to LDS doctrine, we will either welcome our new Mormon overlords or go to their version of hell (or "heck" around here).
Although all of these statements are true, and I'm not LDS, they should in no way be construed to say that I'm anti-Mormon. Many LDS families are nice people with good intentions. Hell, my Dad's a Bishop. It's really just the BYU students and Orrin Hatch you want to stay away from.
AudioGalaxy came out right after Napster became huge. It provided a p2p music sharing scheme with 2 odd twists.
- The first, and lesser, of the two is that to browse songs, you opened up your browser and went directly to Audiogalaxy.com and started browsing. When you found the song you wanted to download, you'd click a link. Very simple and easy to use. This centralized the process, and eventually led to the RIAA-induced downfall of the p2p part of Audio Galaxy.
- The second, and very important, is the way the music was organized. It actually let you browse through music based on your taste. Songs didn't have a "rating" like Schon suggests, but rather a "grouping." Audio Galaxy grouped like songs together. For example, clicking on Elf Power would bring up Neutral Milk Hotel and clicking on The Who would bring up Yes. It didn't have anythign to do with genre, just what people liked. It was based entirely on how people shared their songs. The system would see that 30% (my guess, I don't really know) of the people sharing Beck songs would also be sharing Poe songs, and the link would be made on the site. I found almost all of the bands I listen to today using this method on Audio Galaxy.
I'm never heard of Netallica before. Is that some kind of new filesharing program? Perhaps a hard-metal nerd band?
Some people don't believe that Philo invented the TV since the patent was ownded by RCA, and RCA claimed that they invented it. Philo spent years fighting RCA over the rights. I think he enventually lost. Check out the Wikipedia for more info.
On that note, OpenBiblio seems like it has a fairly large range of basic features (circulation, overdue notices, everything web based), but is lacking in a lot of features that librarians (especially head librarians) need. The statistics produced by OpenBiblio seem to be lacking all but the most basic information, Z 3 of 9 support is missing (aka Z3950 searching), card printing is non-functional, images can't be attached to patrons, users, or items (books, videos, etc), multiple collection libraries (ie a library with multiple branches) can't interconnect, it doesn't currently export (in any format), patron status is harcoded to either Adult or Juvenile (what about for K-12 libraries?), item status seems marginal at best, and finally the report functionalities are just bad.
Without these basic needs that every commercial library automation software provides, how can they expect to actually serve a running library? What about advanced features that college libraries need? There's no interlibrary-loan, checkout polices, SIP2 support (alarm protocol), and the fine structure is too weak to handle complex situations.
Maybe in 5 years OpenBiblio will be caught up to where commercial library automation is now. At least it's not chasing a moving target. The library automation market is very stagnant. New useful features are few and far between. Follet, for example, hasn't updated their software in over a year, they've fired their development team, and are continuing to sell the same product at the same price with plenty of success. Dynix, up until about 2 years ago, was still running all of their client machines on dumb terminals with those green/black screens in text-mode only. And guess what? it worked just fine for everyone.
Good luck OpenBiblio.
Thank you
Raser Technologies recently (ie within the last year) introduced technology to convert existing electric motor designs to run not more effeciently, but more powerfully. Their patented (with a real US patent) design allows a motor to produce up to three times as much power than previously achievable. All electric motors can be "overdriven" to provide more power in short bursts. This technology (which they dub Symetron) allows the motor to run at those higher powers at a sustained rate without burnout or explosion.
Unlike Kohei Minato, Raser Technologies has been to various trade shows, hosted several demonstrations and posts results done by 3rd party test facilities. Also unlike Japan Magnetic Fan Company, Raser Technology is a publicly traded company under the stock symbol RSTG.OB.
Although not as revolutionary or jaw-droppingly-fake, this new technology does have a huge amount of practicle applications. For example, currently to run an electric car you need about a 50-HP motor. Here's an example of how big a motor that's rated for 50 horsepower continious usage can be (610 lbs). A counterexample would be this video from a trade show where Raser Tech runs a bus on 500 horsepower motor that is noticably smaller.
Yes, these motors still have the same efficiency rating as the motors without the Symetron adjustment, but they are extremely small for their power ratings. The key is truly the power density.
Maybe you'd have more luck than me, but I just ran a thorough search at US Patent and Trademark Office and found not even a patent, let alone the two that Mr. Kohei Minato claims to have.
For all of those moderators out there that are unaware, the above post is indeed funny.
From Dictionary.com:
paean also pean
n.
1. A song of joyful praise or exultation.
2. A fervent expression of joy or praise: "The art... was a paean to paganism" (Will Durant).
3. An ancient Greek hymn of thanksgiving or invocation, especially to Apollo.
So "A paean in the ass" or "A [fervent expression of joy] in the ass" is indeed very different from "a pain in the ass."
Bloomberg isn't going to crumble under the slashdot load. Stop Karma whoring before I beat you back into place.
This isn't that bad of news for the Boeing company, just United Technologies. Because the US is no longer bankrolling the Comanche project, they will have to upgrade existing Apache attack helicopters over time. The Apaches are built by Boeing.
Later I updated my information, and again, within a week people were calling me up asking me to work for them.
Of course, this is just my experience. My resume is pretty decent, and I'm not trying to price myself too high. So what's the real problem? People expecting what I got at the edge of the dot-com bubble. I gaurantee that if you price yourself in the same league as a third-world worker you'd be job offers up the ying-yang.
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Although UAV helis are relatively common, completely automated helis are a different, apparently missing, story.
Too bad most people who use computers don't know what steps to take. Even with Windows Update enabled to run automatically, people won't have secure computers. It is the responsibility of the car makers to make cars safe, should it not be the responsibility of operating system makers to make desktops safe?
Unfortunately, without government intervention car makers wouldn't have made their cars as safe as they are today by themselves. Now it's gotten to the point where safe is a selling feature to many buyers. Shouldn't the same apply to operating system makers like Microsoft, Apple, etc? Should the goverment regulate? no, but safety should definately be a selling point.
i.e. useless for making money, useful for learning. I remember Bryce 3D having something similar.
Informative?