The best way to remove the increasingly hotter air around the earth is actually quite simple.
Execute all of the lawyers and politicians. I've calculated a reduction of 2 degrees within the next year increasing by an order of magnitude per year if we prevent people from becoming lawyers or politicians.
A related bonus is that they are the ones in control of the debate anyway so it's a win-win situation.
While my day job is as a Computer Progammer Analyst, my love is researching everything else in my lab (with funding preferably). Tesla was a Slashdotter in that he did his thing without buying into the conventional wisdom of the time. He unfortunately trusted Thomas Edison, a man who was neither a scientist nor an original thinker and one who makes Bill Gates look like Mother Theresa. Why do you think the movie studios moved to Hollywood, CA?
I am currently working on several products that will replace current measuring instruments that use nuclear technology. Thanks to what may appear to be worthless patents filed by Tesla regarding resonance in solid bodies, I am having success beyond what I could have imagined.
It's unfortunate that someone with so much to offer is now regarded as a marginal creator of useless technology.
The next time someone promises $10,000 to increase the effiency of your DC Dynamos, kick him in the....
Living in Florida, one would expect that we would be the world leader in Solar Technology. The truth is that Florida's solar policy is worse than Maine's. The state is dominated by Utilities that believe research and development is a four letter word. Worse yet the local Orlando Utility, OUC, was involved in the pseudo energy crisis in California a few years ago and has continued to be run by management that places profit over efficiency consistantly.
However the one good comment I will make about Florida's Solar policy is that they increased the amount of KW one could generate so that if you were to create a solar panel array that was three or four times your usage, the power company couldn't balk at paying for the electricity you put back on the grid.
Not considering cost, which should come down dramatically with increased usage, Solar energy provides anywhere from fifty to one-thousand times more energy per acre than any other technology.
That is why I am so thankful that I still have ten XP licenses from a MSDN subscription I bought back in 2003. The first thing I do when I get a new computer or laptop for personal use is reload it with XP.
Since I'll never have more than ten personal computers or laptops I'm going to be set for at least the next few releases.
I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy but when I get ten calls every day for consulting because nobody knows.Net 3.5, Vb.net or C#, I must be doing something right. When I was single living at home I could afford to be ideological but with a house, wife and two kids I'm gonna go where the money is.
That being said the three biggest reasons to at least try asp.net 3.5 is:
1) Built in Authentication without code, including sha256. (No Code is with SQL Server Only)
2) Linq to Sql. This is a game changer and prevents having to duplicate code on the
class and sql side. One downside is that it isn't supported as well in vb as it is in c#.
3) N-Tier application building. If you use Visual Studio and.Net right, you will
automatically separate the presentation, business logic and data access layers.
That one is saving me with a new contract where the backend data access can be anything DB2, Orlacle, SQL, XML, and anything else. With a separate data access layer the rest of the code stays the same. Also we are creating both web forms and win forms but only need to change the presentation.
Before you flame me, I don't work for Microsoft, although my brother-in-law does. He doesn't return my calls since I tried to get free software from him so I don't think that counts.
This has already happened with radar guns. If they are not calibrated frequently they will register a tree moving at twenty miles an hour.
That being said, in Florida, even if you are below the legal limit, you can still be charged with driving while impaired if it can be shown that your driving was impaired.
One of my closest friends is a Criminal Defense Attorney and he tells everyone he knows, "Don't drink a drop and drive". Also, you are within your legal rights in all fifty states to request a blood test instead of the breath test. You will be booked, but the results will be indisputable in court. So if you're sure you only drank one beer it will be dead on.
Here in Central Florida we have the big paper, Orlando Sentinel and its' five local county web sites. Not surprisingly since they are owned by The Tribune Company, the web sites are treated as billboards and some of the local sites are almost 90 percent advertisements. The local Lake Sentinel site's posted news will often go unchanged for four days and once went an entire week before updating.
The bottom line is that newspapers as we know it will be dead and buried within twenty years maybe sooner. I think the biggest reason is that people already get ninety percent of their news online. Also the newspapers are being laughed out of business with their claim to objective or fair and balanced approach to news. It's scary but I believe that most people under fifty specifically choose an online newsource and definitely a blog source based on an obvious political slant.
RIP Paper and Gasoline Dinosaurs.
Better yet setup a bot on the computer to constantly ping the NSA, DHS and CIA. You won't get your computer back but he'll probably see a black van pulling up within a few minutes.
Because of idiots like you I can't view recent movies on my Roku. The days of hacking and pirating are over and as soon as we can convince the entertainment industry that you are in the minority and most people just want to watch any movie or tv show ever made at their convenience we will have our cake and eat it to. The setup for the unit was brain-dead simple and the quality of the video was better than most dvd players. I had immediate access to my queue and found the interface and remote very easy to use. Considering that they do not charge anything additional for total access to their instant view library, I find it hard to believe that one could complain. Netflix has nailed the distribution model. Now we need to get the a*(holes in the entertainment industry on board.
This is why monitors should have the ability to adjust to ambiant light conditions. While color plays a definite role in readability, we don't have the luxury of forcing every web page to display according to our preferences. Like almost all LED based displays in radios and clocks, a sensor automatically adjusts for ambiant light to provide a clearer display.
That being said, I believe that we will never completely close the gap between illuminated and reflective vision. Reading a book in almost any light with black on white is without question the best for readablility. However the variations in display technologies will continue to evolve thereby increasing the complexity of optimal viewing conditions.
I was smart enough not to include the products we are testing in our research and development laboratories. To be honest there are products we are testing right now that will knock the socks off the scientific community. However smart researchers wait until they have all of their ducks in a row before releasing their products and associated data.
When the top physics professors of the Wright Brother's day heard of their successful flight, it was considered a scam, a fraud and a complete attack on known physical laws.
The bottom line is that more damage has been done in the progress of science by arrogance then ignorance. Fortunately the smart researchers wait until they can send the supposed brilliant minds of Academia back to there mommies crying that we made them look bad before we release our products.
Long Live Tesla and Death to Edison!
I build residential, commercial and industrial power factor correction devices. I've seen some large water treatment plant motors operating at below 50% efficiency. Before we start blowing money on free energy we should look at how much is wasted right now.
As a test I went to a local applicance store and tested five identical EnergyStar refrigerators for the efficiency of the compressor motor. Every one of them was less than 95% efficient because motors must be sized larger than the actual load to account for loss over time.
I had one Subway restaurant save about forty percent on their monthly electric bill due to increase in inductive energy efficiency.
For whatever reason we can't seem to see the forest through the trees.
There is a thin line between genius and insanity; I know I've spent the last forty-two years on both sides. The bottom line is that this world sucks in a really big way and if you don't have some sort of anchor you're screwed. Whether is it God, family or friends you will need them becasue if you are blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it with almost supernatural technical insight you will also be troubled by the pure insanity of this world.
If it has not already happened it will no doubt happen eventually that one of our fellow slashdotters will be a serial killer or a victim of suicide. The only hope is to find some non-technical, non-computer, non-geek outlet for the fact that we are human and need what everyone else needs.
P.S. If you ever think you are going insane or have nothing to live for just check yourself voluntarily into the local mental health facility. I can guarantee you that within four hours you will realize:
1) That you are sane.
2) That there are worse things than being smarter than most people.
3) That you never want to go back.
P.P.S.
Would you believe that they show horror movies on halloween night in mental hospitals?
Oh please are you out of your mind? I asked my manager almost ten years ago about using downtime to browse the web, program or other things. You know what he said? I pay you for being available to use your skills to solve problems most people wouldn't even understand or fix. That being said, because I got the monkey off my back I designed an Intranet Website for the company that provided software distribution, remote control, and comprehensive searching with asp linked databases that eventually went nationwide. I would have never even tried that if I thought that some middle-manager was going to question what I was doing during downtime. By the way I also created a interactive web site for my son who was born December 8, 1998 that allowed my family and friends to view the pictures like the fancy web sites we have now.
This is only one of possibly dozens of pre-existing patents. How about the Shell Gas Station rfid? That's been around for a least three to five million years!
Just One Patent.
It's so bizzare that after reading about the lawsuit being filed against Comcast that I install wireless router. I do have Limewire installed but hardly ever use it but after installing the router, there was an obvious increase in network speed. It was kind of freaky as under normal circumstances I would have lost some speed with the new router. I'm not sure if this is evidence of Comcast throttling peer to peer users but it seems pretty strange.
Exactly! This is computers were talking about, not social and political regimes that affect our lives. I've worked with almost every type of computer, operating system and programming language over the last thirty years and when deciding what is best for a client I don't act like some high priest, either for MS or AP, when deciding what type of system to implement. I don't care if you don't believe in God but please don't replace him (or her) with Steve Jobs or Bill Gates!
The last thing we need is new ideas put through some bureaucratic nightmare to determine if it they are obvious. If a product were that obvious why haven't the millions or perhaps billions of people constantly coming up with new ideas applied for a patent or even placed it in the public domain? Let the normal prior art and legal procedures handle any new patents. I have a patent pending that one could say was obvious to an electrical engineer and uses modifications of previous ideas but there is no prior art or patents. Let's worry about obvious patents that are currently being used or have twenty-five years of prior art as in most of the rediculous patents currently being filed by computer companies.
First I believe to the core of my being that all politicians are bought and paid for long before they get to DC. That being said my point was that if I wanted to I could create emails and IM's that would tie you to anything from child pornography, terrorism, mail fraud, or any other thing you can think of. Unfortunately this is a fact of the "Brave New World" we are living in and once the more nefarious geeks realize it we are in for a world of trouble.
Now it turns out the IMs might have been a prank by the page involved. He has lawyered up with Timonthy McVeigh's old lawyer (which can't be good considering McVeigh was executed) and was supposedly goaded into creating the fake IM's.
That is the scarier problem since emails and IM's or almost any computer information can be faked, time-stamped and passed off as real by anyone reading this post. I don't think we have seen the last of the dirty tricks on either side of the aisle.
It's funny, I always thought fake photos and videos would be the bane of the Criminal Justice system, it turns out it fake data files.
While working at desk support for Sprint many years ago we would get a call at least once a month from a high level management employee. She would call and say her computer was beeping at her and there was nothing she could do to stop it. Each time the solution was pulling her keyboard out from under her monitor which was holding down the ESC key. When one of my fellow employees pointed out her stupidity he was fired. So every month or so until I left that position we simply pulled her keyboard our from under the monitor and said nothing.
I live in Florida where we spend a lot of money staying cool. We also have a lot of swimming pools that stay as cold as 68F in the middle of the summer. I'm surprised no one has come up with a hybrid swamp-cooler / evaporation system using the pool water. You'd end up with a cool house and a warm pool.
I got a card as well. I'm a contract web developer maintaining a major Telco's national software distribution intranet pages. I work at home and have a dozen computers setup in a lab running all sorts of software. I recently dropped $800+ on a MSDN Professional Subscription since the company is standardizing on MS servers, broswers, and applications. At one time or another I have just about every application the company uses installed for testing purposes. I'll be interested to see what the BSAs interpretation of my licensing is for that software.
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The best way to remove the increasingly hotter air around the earth is actually quite simple.
Execute all of the lawyers and politicians. I've calculated a reduction of 2 degrees within the next year increasing by an order of magnitude per year if we prevent people from becoming lawyers or politicians.
A related bonus is that they are the ones in control of the debate anyway so it's a win-win situation.
While my day job is as a Computer Progammer Analyst, my love is researching everything else in my lab (with funding preferably). Tesla was a Slashdotter in that he did his thing without buying into the conventional wisdom of the time. He unfortunately trusted Thomas Edison, a man who was neither a scientist nor an original thinker and one who makes Bill Gates look like Mother Theresa. Why do you think the movie studios moved to Hollywood, CA?
....
I am currently working on several products that will replace current measuring instruments that use nuclear technology. Thanks to what may appear to be worthless patents filed by Tesla regarding resonance in solid bodies, I am having success beyond what I could have imagined.
It's unfortunate that someone with so much to offer is now regarded as a marginal creator of useless technology.
The next time someone promises $10,000 to increase the effiency of your DC Dynamos, kick him in the
Living in Florida, one would expect that we would be the world leader in Solar Technology. The truth is that Florida's solar policy is worse than Maine's. The state is dominated by Utilities that believe research and development is a four letter word. Worse yet the local Orlando Utility, OUC, was involved in the pseudo energy crisis in California a few years ago and has continued to be run by management that places profit over efficiency consistantly.
However the one good comment I will make about Florida's Solar policy is that they increased the amount of KW one could generate so that if you were to create a solar panel array that was three or four times your usage, the power company couldn't balk at paying for the electricity you put back on the grid. Not considering cost, which should come down dramatically with increased usage, Solar energy provides anywhere from fifty to one-thousand times more energy per acre than any other technology.
That is why I am so thankful that I still have ten XP licenses from a MSDN subscription I bought back in 2003. The first thing I do when I get a new computer or laptop for personal use is reload it with XP.
Since I'll never have more than ten personal computers or laptops I'm going to be set for at least the next few releases.
I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy but when I get ten calls every day for consulting because nobody knows .Net 3.5, Vb.net or C#, I must be doing something right. When I was single living at home I could afford to be ideological but with a house, wife and two kids I'm gonna go where the money is.
That being said the three biggest reasons to at least try asp.net 3.5 is:
.Net right, you will
1) Built in Authentication without code, including sha256. (No Code is with SQL Server Only)
2) Linq to Sql. This is a game changer and prevents having to duplicate code on the
class and sql side. One downside is that it isn't supported as well in vb as it is in c#.
3) N-Tier application building. If you use Visual Studio and
automatically separate the presentation, business logic and data access layers.
That one is saving me with a new contract where the backend data access can be anything
DB2, Orlacle, SQL, XML, and anything else. With a separate data access layer the rest of the code stays the same. Also we are creating both web forms and win forms but only need to change the presentation.
Before you flame me, I don't work for Microsoft, although my brother-in-law does. He doesn't return my calls since I tried to get free software from him so I don't think that counts.
This has already happened with radar guns. If they are not calibrated frequently they will register a tree moving at twenty miles an hour.
That being said, in Florida, even if you are below the legal limit, you can still be charged with driving while impaired if it can be shown that your driving was impaired.
One of my closest friends is a Criminal Defense Attorney and he tells everyone he knows, "Don't drink a drop and drive". Also, you are within your legal rights in all fifty states to request a blood test instead of the breath test. You will be booked, but the results will be indisputable in court. So if you're sure you only drank one beer it will be dead on.
Here in Central Florida we have the big paper, Orlando Sentinel and its' five local county web sites. Not surprisingly since they are owned by The Tribune Company, the web sites are treated as billboards and some of the local sites are almost 90 percent advertisements. The local Lake Sentinel site's posted news will often go unchanged for four days and once went an entire week before updating. The bottom line is that newspapers as we know it will be dead and buried within twenty years maybe sooner. I think the biggest reason is that people already get ninety percent of their news online. Also the newspapers are being laughed out of business with their claim to objective or fair and balanced approach to news. It's scary but I believe that most people under fifty specifically choose an online newsource and definitely a blog source based on an obvious political slant. RIP Paper and Gasoline Dinosaurs.
Better yet setup a bot on the computer to constantly ping the NSA, DHS and CIA. You won't get your computer back but he'll probably see a black van pulling up within a few minutes.
Because of idiots like you I can't view recent movies on my Roku. The days of hacking and pirating are over and as soon as we can convince the entertainment industry that you are in the minority and most people just want to watch any movie or tv show ever made at their convenience we will have our cake and eat it to. The setup for the unit was brain-dead simple and the quality of the video was better than most dvd players. I had immediate access to my queue and found the interface and remote very easy to use. Considering that they do not charge anything additional for total access to their instant view library, I find it hard to believe that one could complain. Netflix has nailed the distribution model. Now we need to get the a*(holes in the entertainment industry on board.
This is why monitors should have the ability to adjust to ambiant light conditions. While color plays a definite role in readability, we don't have the luxury of forcing every web page to display according to our preferences. Like almost all LED based displays in radios and clocks, a sensor automatically adjusts for ambiant light to provide a clearer display.
That being said, I believe that we will never completely close the gap between illuminated and reflective vision. Reading a book in almost any light with black on white is without question the best for readablility. However the variations in display technologies will continue to evolve thereby increasing the complexity of optimal viewing conditions.
I was smart enough not to include the products we are testing in our research and development laboratories. To be honest there are products we are testing right now that will knock the socks off the scientific community. However smart researchers wait until they have all of their ducks in a row before releasing their products and associated data. When the top physics professors of the Wright Brother's day heard of their successful flight, it was considered a scam, a fraud and a complete attack on known physical laws. The bottom line is that more damage has been done in the progress of science by arrogance then ignorance. Fortunately the smart researchers wait until they can send the supposed brilliant minds of Academia back to there mommies crying that we made them look bad before we release our products. Long Live Tesla and Death to Edison!
I build residential, commercial and industrial power factor correction devices. I've seen some large water treatment plant motors operating at below 50% efficiency. Before we start blowing money on free energy we should look at how much is wasted right now. As a test I went to a local applicance store and tested five identical EnergyStar refrigerators for the efficiency of the compressor motor. Every one of them was less than 95% efficient because motors must be sized larger than the actual load to account for loss over time. I had one Subway restaurant save about forty percent on their monthly electric bill due to increase in inductive energy efficiency. For whatever reason we can't seem to see the forest through the trees.
There is a thin line between genius and insanity; I know I've spent the last forty-two years on both sides. The bottom line is that this world sucks in a really big way and if you don't have some sort of anchor you're screwed. Whether is it God, family or friends you will need them becasue if you are blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it with almost supernatural technical insight you will also be troubled by the pure insanity of this world.
If it has not already happened it will no doubt happen eventually that one of our fellow slashdotters will be a serial killer or a victim of suicide. The only hope is to find some non-technical, non-computer, non-geek outlet for the fact that we are human and need what everyone else needs.
P.S. If you ever think you are going insane or have nothing to live for just check yourself voluntarily into the local mental health facility. I can guarantee you that within four hours you will realize:
1) That you are sane.
2) That there are worse things than being smarter than most people.
3) That you never want to go back.
P.P.S.
Would you believe that they show horror movies on halloween night in mental hospitals?
No we're just the rare breed of geek that regularly have sex. Just kidding.. (Please keep my karma positive)
Oh please are you out of your mind? I asked my manager almost ten years ago about using downtime to browse the web, program or other things. You know what he said? I pay you for being available to use your skills to solve problems most people wouldn't even understand or fix. That being said, because I got the monkey off my back I designed an Intranet Website for the company that provided software distribution, remote control, and comprehensive searching with asp linked databases that eventually went nationwide. I would have never even tried that if I thought that some middle-manager was going to question what I was doing during downtime. By the way I also created a interactive web site for my son who was born December 8, 1998 that allowed my family and friends to view the pictures like the fancy web sites we have now.
This is only one of possibly dozens of pre-existing patents. How about the Shell Gas Station rfid? That's been around for a least three to five million years! Just One Patent.
It's so bizzare that after reading about the lawsuit being filed against Comcast that I install wireless router. I do have Limewire installed but hardly ever use it but after installing the router, there was an obvious increase in network speed. It was kind of freaky as under normal circumstances I would have lost some speed with the new router. I'm not sure if this is evidence of Comcast throttling peer to peer users but it seems pretty strange.
Exactly! This is computers were talking about, not social and political regimes that affect our lives. I've worked with almost every type of computer, operating system and programming language over the last thirty years and when deciding what is best for a client I don't act like some high priest, either for MS or AP, when deciding what type of system to implement. I don't care if you don't believe in God but please don't replace him (or her) with Steve Jobs or Bill Gates!
The last thing we need is new ideas put through some bureaucratic nightmare to determine if it they are obvious. If a product were that obvious why haven't the millions or perhaps billions of people constantly coming up with new ideas applied for a patent or even placed it in the public domain? Let the normal prior art and legal procedures handle any new patents. I have a patent pending that one could say was obvious to an electrical engineer and uses modifications of previous ideas but there is no prior art or patents. Let's worry about obvious patents that are currently being used or have twenty-five years of prior art as in most of the rediculous patents currently being filed by computer companies.
First I believe to the core of my being that all politicians are bought and paid for long before they get to DC. That being said my point was that if I wanted to I could create emails and IM's that would tie you to anything from child pornography, terrorism, mail fraud, or any other thing you can think of. Unfortunately this is a fact of the "Brave New World" we are living in and once the more nefarious geeks realize it we are in for a world of trouble.
Now it turns out the IMs might have been a prank by the page involved. He has lawyered up with Timonthy McVeigh's old lawyer (which can't be good considering McVeigh was executed) and was supposedly goaded into creating the fake IM's. That is the scarier problem since emails and IM's or almost any computer information can be faked, time-stamped and passed off as real by anyone reading this post. I don't think we have seen the last of the dirty tricks on either side of the aisle. It's funny, I always thought fake photos and videos would be the bane of the Criminal Justice system, it turns out it fake data files.
While working at desk support for Sprint many years ago we would get a call at least once a month from a high level management employee. She would call and say her computer was beeping at her and there was nothing she could do to stop it. Each time the solution was pulling her keyboard out from under her monitor which was holding down the ESC key. When one of my fellow employees pointed out her stupidity he was fired. So every month or so until I left that position we simply pulled her keyboard our from under the monitor and said nothing.
I live in Florida where we spend a lot of money staying cool. We also have a lot of swimming pools that stay as cold as 68F in the middle of the summer. I'm surprised no one has come up with a hybrid swamp-cooler / evaporation system using the pool water. You'd end up with a cool house and a warm pool.
The other good news is that the read time decreases as well because of the density. Imagine the implication of read times similar to hard drives.
I got a card as well. I'm a contract web developer maintaining a major Telco's national software distribution intranet pages. I work at home and have a dozen computers setup in a lab running all sorts of software. I recently dropped $800+ on a MSDN Professional Subscription since the company is standardizing on MS servers, broswers, and applications. At one time or another I have just about every application the company uses installed for testing purposes. I'll be interested to see what the BSAs interpretation of my licensing is for that software.