http://www.clavius.org/envsun.html but it takes the equivalent energy of about 620,000,000,000,000 million electron volts (MeV) per second to light up a 100-watt light bulb
So the question becomes, how much of this stuff (and how big a "battery") would it take to handle all my energy needs, and does the resulting crap that comes out the other end (when it breaks down) pose an unecessary risk to my health or the health of the environment (ie, is there a way to really "seal" the battery)
Something the fileshare networks haven't considered... orbital filesharing (nice big sat with a big nasty raid, lots of shielding), outside the jurisdiction of - well - everyone excepting the military.
every customer I have will ask the following question.. "So, with this leenux thing, we can just re-use some of these old boxes and get great performance and stuff? At least for a few years right? And you say we only need to really just buy one copy of it to fund the folks who put it out.. so $50-$100 and we're set right?" To which I will say "um, yeah.. I wouldn't bother with the Longhorn crap until you absolutely have to, and by then some linux coder will have built most of the compatibility you are looking for"...
Alternately, they'll say "What kind of linux box can we run if we skip buying Longhorn.."
Ahh.. I wonder if they will actually look on the other machines in the data center to make sure the theft wasn't just a cover for loading services/keyloggers/etc on the boxes through the data center... sort of a distraction with the fringe benefit of some sellable hardware.
SCO seems to have found a lucrative business model, if you don't mind becoming a huge douche-bag... Fire the developers and sue your way to profitability.
Lawyers go out of their way to find lucrative suits... they don't sit around and wait for them. Many firms go out and hunt down this sort of thing, and then send letters to their clients. Fishing expiditions are very common.
Alternately, why not just make it obvious by adding "non-competitive" to the adwords section.. so all these bozo's will click it, and have results filtered so that no other adwords competition shows for the highest setting.. while those who click "competitive" will show up as the action is designed to be... course everyone will search in "competative mode only".. ALSO, why not just make google a social club (free membership, click wrap), then you can just tell them its private and they should go away.
I think the lawyers responsible for such litigation should be required by the judge to supply (for free to the public) a list of every trademarked word... and keep it updated in perpetuity, oh.. and have their fingernails pulled off for being such a pest.
Harken back to the GPS-sensitive gaming, and you might even be able to do overlays... so that someones character in the game world is overlayed (roughly) on top of them... and you can "battle" in the 3d world.
Would be cool for virtual offices as well.. teleworker shows at the meeting if you have the sunglasses.
At the time I thought it fitting that my "girlfriend" actually was called "My girlfriend 500" (Amiga 500)... she was fickle, but you could always count on her.
Not that they give a crap about free-speach, its more that they are very adept at looking the other way... Although that kind of environment is wonderful soil for all sorts of illicit activity, it also gives you a great climate for anything that might normally get snuffed out in lawyer happy environments...
It really makes me think about the human "meme cloud"..
I mean, its not the leonardo necessarily was the first person to think about these sorts of things, but its more like it takes a genius to synthesize all the little meme's floating out there. The steam engine was employed by the greeks to open temple doors in Socrate's time... How long did it take for someone to combine the idea with the cart meme?
Seems that if you have a genius on hand, they can have a flash of insight and put this sort of stuff together.
Which is probably why science fiction has lead to so many inventions.. it sort of gives you a "pre-patent" description... I have this idea, and here's a plausable description of its operation. Given enough time, some genius will connect it with all the ideas that currently DO exist, and will create the ide ain question. So these geniuses (like Leonardo) might not be creating much of anything, just incredible synthesists. Or, given that many of them were also very talented artists, they are able to create *just* enough themselves to fill in all the "*poof* a miracle occurs" spots in the plan.
Even if you live more than once (an option I don't argue against).. you should live as if you only live once, and live as best you can (working to make the world a better place)...
Do something that makes you happy and helps make other people's lives easier/happier. If you're not happy and you're not making the world a better place, whats the use of waking up in the morning. Find something that makes you happy, and adjust your lifestyle to meet your new (likely lower) income level. Be happy, and you'll enjoy your short life that much more. Note, your *wife* may not agree with the idea... so ya might want to talk with her, it is after all a marraige - she might have her own goals she's working for.
Stealth does not protect optically, only against radar... They show up quite well against white clouds. You could build a pattern recognition system to scan the skies around for dark spots that don't match up to things on radar... granted this might be mistaken for something else, but if it has a trajectory not consistent with a heavenly body or an object on the ground, then you have a pretty good candidate for a stealth fighter. zaAap
A better solution (that would make a good candidate for traditional vending machine owners), would be a special vending machine that has the bot attached... orders would cause the item to drop into the bot for delivery.. you'd be able to have a MUCH larger selection, you could go ahead and stock some extra "popular" items in the bot incase it had an extra delivery come in while it was out.
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One of the great uses for small country households was to use the Sears and Robuck catalog for various purposes as it was a great deal of free paper..
cause they still haven't told you about the huge mothership that's coming... we gotta have something beeter than nukes (they *never* work in movies) ;)
Found this online: (about the ~2.5Mev):
http://www.clavius.org/envsun.html
but it takes the equivalent energy of about 620,000,000,000,000 million electron volts (MeV) per second to light up a 100-watt light bulb
So the question becomes, how much of this stuff (and how big a "battery") would it take to handle all my energy needs, and does the resulting crap that comes out the other end (when it breaks down) pose an unecessary risk to my health or the health of the environment (ie, is there a way to really "seal" the battery)
Something the fileshare networks haven't considered... orbital filesharing (nice big sat with a big nasty raid, lots of shielding), outside the jurisdiction of - well - everyone excepting the military.
would be a firesale on a bankrupt SCO IP, that was donated to the OSS effort.
every customer I have will ask the following question.. "So, with this leenux thing, we can just re-use some of these old boxes and get great performance and stuff? At least for a few years right? And you say we only need to really just buy one copy of it to fund the folks who put it out.. so $50-$100 and we're set right?"
To which I will say "um, yeah.. I wouldn't bother with the Longhorn crap until you absolutely have to, and by then some linux coder will have built most of the compatibility you are looking for"...
Alternately, they'll say "What kind of linux box can we run if we skip buying Longhorn.."
Ahh.. I wonder if they will actually look on the other machines in the data center to make sure the theft wasn't just a cover for loading services/keyloggers/etc on the boxes through the data center... sort of a distraction with the fringe benefit of some sellable hardware.
SCO seems to have found a lucrative business model, if you don't mind becoming a huge douche-bag... Fire the developers and sue your way to profitability.
Prince had copies of the Musciology CD handed out at the door... good CD, I'm glad he;s getting back to his funky roots.
Every golfing game in existance. I remember holding a button down to build up power to a golf swing WAAAAAY back in the day.
Lawyers go out of their way to find lucrative suits... they don't sit around and wait for them. Many firms go out and hunt down this sort of thing, and then send letters to their clients. Fishing expiditions are very common.
Gee, sounds like gator got into academics.
Alternately, why not just make it obvious by adding "non-competitive" to the adwords section.. so all these bozo's will click it, and have results filtered so that no other adwords competition shows for the highest setting.. while those who click "competitive" will show up as the action is designed to be... course everyone will search in "competative mode only".. ALSO, why not just make google a social club (free membership, click wrap), then you can just tell them its private and they should go away.
I think the lawyers responsible for such litigation should be required by the judge to supply (for free to the public) a list of every trademarked word... and keep it updated in perpetuity, oh.. and have their fingernails pulled off for being such a pest.
Harken back to the GPS-sensitive gaming, and you might even be able to do overlays... so that someones character in the game world is overlayed (roughly) on top of them ... and you can "battle" in the 3d world.
Would be cool for virtual offices as well.. teleworker shows at the meeting if you have the sunglasses.
can be used by hackers to write malicious scripts to insert in emails.
At the time I thought it fitting that my "girlfriend" actually was called "My girlfriend 500" (Amiga 500) ... she was fickle, but you could always count on her.
spelling is not a string point this morning: free-speech not free-speach
Not that they give a crap about free-speach, its more that they are very adept at looking the other way... Although that kind of environment is wonderful soil for all sorts of illicit activity, it also gives you a great climate for anything that might normally get snuffed out in lawyer happy environments...
Need a good ol' fashioned Chinese to-hell-with-western-law hosting... works for spammers, why not legit projects that exist in that legal grey-zone?
It really makes me think about the human "meme cloud"..
I mean, its not the leonardo necessarily was the first person to think about these sorts of things, but its more like it takes a genius to synthesize all the little meme's floating out there. The steam engine was employed by the greeks to open temple doors in Socrate's time... How long did it take for someone to combine the idea with the cart meme?
Seems that if you have a genius on hand, they can have a flash of insight and put this sort of stuff together.
Which is probably why science fiction has lead to so many inventions.. it sort of gives you a "pre-patent" description... I have this idea, and here's a plausable description of its operation. Given enough time, some genius will connect it with all the ideas that currently DO exist, and will create the ide ain question. So these geniuses (like Leonardo) might not be creating much of anything, just incredible synthesists. Or, given that many of them were also very talented artists, they are able to create *just* enough themselves to fill in all the "*poof* a miracle occurs" spots in the plan.
Even if you live more than once (an option I don't argue against).. you should live as if you only live once, and live as best you can (working to make the world a better place)...
Do something that makes you happy and helps make other people's lives easier/happier. If you're not happy and you're not making the world a better place, whats the use of waking up in the morning. Find something that makes you happy, and adjust your lifestyle to meet your new (likely lower) income level. Be happy, and you'll enjoy your short life that much more. Note, your *wife* may not agree with the idea... so ya might want to talk with her, it is after all a marraige - she might have her own goals she's working for.
Stealth does not protect optically, only against radar... They show up quite well against white clouds. You could build a pattern recognition system to scan the skies around for dark spots that don't match up to things on radar... granted this might be mistaken for something else, but if it has a trajectory not consistent with a heavenly body or an object on the ground, then you have a pretty good candidate for a stealth fighter. zaAap
A better solution (that would make a good candidate for traditional vending machine owners), would be a special vending machine that has the bot attached... orders would cause the item to drop into the bot for delivery.. you'd be able to have a MUCH larger selection, you could go ahead and stock some extra "popular" items in the bot incase it had an extra delivery come in while it was out.