Just what we need...
Another window manager when we already have a good one!
Although, it is always nice to have some peaceful quiet fun, rather than those rowdy programmers writing operating systems. Plus, they never learn from looking at other operating systems code.
I'd say the article is a very heavy on the coverage angle with virtually no mention of the other things. My current provider is sprint... in all categories but phones offered, they SUCK! Now to explain why Sprint sucks.
I switched to sprint because it was supposed to be cheap and offer good coverage. Then I found out that voice dialing was $10 per month extra, e-mail was $10 extra, international dialing directly from the phone was $10 extra. Sporadic service on the PCS network and constant dropped calls. One day I'd have great service at my house, the next I'd be flipping between analog roaming and the PCS network.
Customer service blows. I was originally able to place a call via the operator for international calls, but then they disabled that a month after I started. I requested the service be reinstated and they told me it would take 5 days. Calling them to get service is a nightmare. I was on hold for 15 minutes to get a supervisor on the line after I was told my international service would be immediately available. When I got a supervisor and they wouldn't tell me why the prior representative told me my service would be available immediately and they couldn't tell who I spoke to (even after I gave them a name) they told me they didn't have a supervisor I could speak to.
So now my $34.99 service runs me about $70 per month even after I disabled every feature that I could get away with. I have to write a letter of complaint via snailmail to the Assistant VP at a po box in Kansas (like that'll go anywhere).
Nextel reps have always been courteous and kind. Offering services that seem more expensive at first, but I admit the old adage "Cheap is expensive and expensive is cheap," is sooooo right. They offer business class service at a business class price. Their phones aren't the best but they're damn good in terms of reception and features right on the phone. Now they're doing nationwide DirectConnect walkie talkie feature, all I can say is badass!
Consider this post a glowing endorsement for Nextel, and a warning from a former customer of Sprint who is Irate with their service, coverage, price, and features.
Sigs are like birthmarks, some people have 'em, others dont.
Why don't we send some of the original bible texts to the last few slashdot stories about automatic computer translation?
I can see it now...The King Taco translation: "In the beginning, there was ATT who begat UNIX, who begat Novell, who begat SCO, who claims to have begat all code ever written.
But in all seiousness, linguistics might be a science, and we're all nerds. These translation articles are getting old like the SCO jokes (bad joke intended).
In order to reduce the slashdot effect and avoid ads, presented for your viewing pleasure:
Linux Journal: Could you tell us a little about yourself?
Brian Kernighan: I was born in Toronto and went to the University of Toronto as an undergraduate, in a course [of study] called Engineering Physics. It was basically a lot of science, math and engineering for kids who were good at math and thought they might be engineers but didn't know what kind. It was a tough course, and about two thirds of the people eventually dropped out, but I managed to survive and learned a lot (a small amount of which I still remember).
I didn't really know much about computers--this was in 1960-64--and there was only one big computer at Toronto, an IBM 7090, plus a small 1620 in the electrical engineering department. I saw my first computer, an IBM 650, after my second year, and I learned a bit of Fortran when I was in my third year. I spent a summer writing Cobol for a big oil company (honest) after that. It was enough to get me hooked on programming, though I sure didn't know what I was doing and was a terrible programmer.
At Toronto, I also did a senior thesis (a literature survey, really) on artificial intelligence, which was showing all kinds of promise in 1964. So I decided to go to graduate school, without really knowing what that was all about. But it was easier than looking for a job. I wound up at Princeton because they made a better financial offer than any other school. I had a good friend, Al Aho, who was already there; he had been one year ahead of me at Toronto, in the same course.
Princeton didn't have a CS department at that time, only a group of good young people in electrical engineering, but I enjoyed it and had a good time for several years before settling down to work on a thesis. It was a very nice place to be a graduate student.
LJ: How did your life become connected with computers?
BK: I think the real turning point was the summer of 1966, where through good luck I got a job at Project MAC at MIT, [working] for Fernando Corbato. This was a fantastic experience: I was using CTSS, which was the first general purpose time sharing system and is still one of the nicest to use. It was infinitely more productive than the punch cards I was used to up to that point. I learned to program in MAD and wrote programs to help collect information for the Multics machine; the first GE 645 arrived that summer. It was a wonderful place to live and work, with great people (like Corby, who is still alive and active). It was definitely one of the best times of my life.
The next summer, probably because of the MIT experience, I got a job at Bell Labs in the Computing Science Research Center. This time I learned assembly language properly and met a bunch of the people who I had heard of while at MIT (they also were working on Multics). Another great summer.
I went back to Bell Labs the summer after that. This time, I got lucky and worked with Shen Lin, a great mathematician and problem solver. Shen was interested in hard combinatorial optimization problems, such as the Traveling Salesman Problem. I had been working in a casual way on what came to be called the graph partitioning problem for my Princeton thesis. Shen had an idea of how to attack the general case, and I made the algorithm work in a Fortran program. It became the core of my thesis, along with some other special cases. Anyway, I had such a great time at the Labs those two summers that when I finished my thesis early in 1969, I didn't even look for another job--I just went to the Labs. I was lucky to be in the group that did UNIX and C and all of the great things that came with them; that started just after I arrived. In many ways it was the best computer science research group anywhere, part of a large and productive research organization, and it had an enormous influence on the world. I stayed there until 2000, 30 wonderful years with an amazing group of people.
I know it's cool to live in fantasy world where we get to own the original Terminator jacket, but...
How many unemployed, or people who've taken paycuts on slashdot can afford the ridiculous prices these people are charging? It would probably inflate Hollywood's egos far more than they already are or need to be. It's not like these overpaid buffoons need more money either.
I'd feel guilty supporting the movie industry like this. I'd much rather take a chunk of money like that and donate it to someone fighting the MPAA or RIAA. I mean having the stuff is cool, but you'd probably be funding their foundation of slimy lawyers.
I'm keeping what little money I have out of lower Cali, and in Silicon Valley...Screw the MPAA!
Intro blah blah blah...corporations and patents...blah
9. PRODUCT'S PRIMARY FUNCTION
The primary function of a solar power tower is to produce clean electricity for the world's electricity grids.
Solar power towers:
Dispatch electricity to the grid when needed--even at night or around-the-clock,
Are unique among solar electric technologies in their ability to efficiently store solar energy,
Are non-polluting and do not release greenhouse gases, and
Will be the lowest-cost solar electricity.
The concept is simple: A few thousand heliostats
(mirrors that continuously track the sun) concentrate
sunlight onto a central receiver (a high-tech heat
exchanger) that sits atop a tower. The central receiver
heats molten salt at 290C, pumped from a "cold"
storage tank, to 565C, where it flows to a "hot" tank
for storage. When the grid load dispatcher decides
electricity is needed from the plant, hot salt is
pumped to a steam generating system that produces
superheated steam for a turbine/generator. The salt
then is returned to the cold tank, where it is stored and eventually reheated in the receiver to complete the
cycle.
The salt storage medium is a common fertilizer, a mixture of 60% sodium nitrate and 40% potassium nitrate. It
melts at 220C and is always molten in the "cold" storage tank. Molten salt is used because it is inexpensive
and provides for efficient storage (99%); it is liquid at atmospheric pressure and its "hot" operating temperature
perfectly matches the needs of today's high-pressure and high-temperature steam turbines. The molten salt is
safe since it is nonflammable and nontoxic.
The collector field, salt storage capacity, and the receiver are optimally sized for the needs of the utility. In a
typical installation, solar energy collection occurs at a rate that exceeds the maximum rate of energy consumption
by the turbine. Storage tanks can be designed with enough capacity to power a turbine at nearly full output
for 24 hours per day and up to 70% of the total hours in a year--as compared to 24% if electricity
were only generated when the sun shines.
The readiness of power tower technology is illustrated by the successful completion of the Solar Two project in
1999 (see Appendix for Aug. 30, 1999 press release). Solar Two was a partnership between government and
private parties to complete the development of solar power towers. Solar Two was the world's largest power
tower, producing 10 MW of electricity with enough thermal storage to operate the turbine for three hours at
full capacity.
Solar Two has mitigated the risk associated with the first commercial power tower plants now being offered for
sale in four countries by proving that the technology is practical on a large scale. Solar power towers in the
10-400 MWe range can now be built--and indeed, design of the first plant in Spain is now underway.
10A. PRODUCT'S COMPETITORS
(by manufacturer, brand name, and model number)
The nearest solar competitor to solar power towers is solar trough technology [e.g., Solel
(Israel) and Pilkington Solar (Germany)]. However, troughs do not have cost-effective thermal
storage. Other grid-connected renewable energy competitors are photovoltaics, wind, hydro-electric,
and biomass. We also compete with all conventional, intermediate load, and grid-connected
electricity generating technologies including coal, gas, and nuclear. However,
unlike our competitors, power towers do not emit pollution.
(table explaining effectiveness)
COST EFFECTIVENESS PERFORMANCE
Electricity
cost of
200 MW
plant
Installed cost
of energy
storage for
200 MW
plant
Lifetime of
storage
system
(years)
Annual
roundtrip
storage
efficiency
Maximum
capacity
factor of
optimized
system
Annual
solar to
electric
efficiency
POWER TOWER
SYNTHETIC OIL
PARABOLIC
TROUGH
PHOTOVOLTAICS
WITH BATTERY
STORAGE
$0.06/kWhr $23/kWhre 30 99 percent 70 percent 17 percent
$0.12/kWhr $200/kWhre 30 95 percent 24 percent** 13 percent
$0.25/kWhr $650/kWhre * 7.5 76 percent 24 percent** 10 percent
(a
First of all, Thanks for all your work and dedication to a great cause, I am a believer in open source and the concept behind it.
I have a friend who is planning on releasing some software to utilize a piece of patent pending hardware. I asked him if he'd be releasing the software as open source as he already had a patent on the hardware. He answered that he would release his file format specs but not the software itself as open source. He didn't want garbage programs created that were based on his original work.
What kind of benefits does open source software provide that negate the someone trashing your original work and polluting the pool of good software out there based on something you create, should there be safeguards to protect the quality of original works?
Please stay away from Boulder. It has NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research), LASP (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics), CASA (Center for A... and Space Administration), NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technologies), NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), a kickass physics dept at University of Colorado (Last years Nobel winners for physics), a lot of beer, Denver of course has a cool aquarium, and the worlds largest (at least used to be) bookstore in the Tattered Cover at Cherry creek.
Please don't move there though, there are already too many people.
Sig adapted slightly from Full Metal Jacket - This is my sig. There are many like it but this one is mine. My sig is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my sig is useless. Without my sig I am useless. I must write my sig wittily. I must write clearer than my enemy, who is trying to slashdot me. I must slashdot him before he slashdots me. I will. Before God I swear this creed: my sig and myself are defenders of my OS, we are the masters of my enemy, we are the saviors of Linux. So be it, until there is no enemy, but peace. Amen.
Hmmm...I post thisdon't beat the dead SCO horse comment and I get 0 redundant. This post says it's a bit much and he gets +4 insightful...Damn, I wish I had a little bit of karma, (I wish I was a little bit talla' and drove a '64 Impala.) Just so I could mod crap like this down or mod myself up.
God has a hard on for Slashdotters, because we Slashdot every link we see. Webmasters play their games, we play ours. To show our appreciation for so much power, we keep Datacenters packed with fresh webservers. Websites were here before the slashdotters, so you can give your heart to Bandwith, but your webserver belongs to TACO! - boy that sig was long...
They let the beaten dead horse rest long enough. Now that SCO stories have re-emerged, we now have another 700 or so comments about how SCO sux to wade through. Please don't beat the horse (Run horsey run!)
Anyway, I think I liked it more when there was no SCO (story or company that is). Enough of my ranting, time to read and wish I could mod 90% of articles in this thread as reduntant.
Go ahead! Mod my post as a redundant, flamebaiting, troll, see what I care.
This sig is a hand typed one of a kind sig, there are many like it, but this one is mine.
Re:Maybe they can run with the Buffalo?
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Wayyy off topic but...
Jeez, I read that recipe link as
Regarding the other response to this parent: Seeing a buffalo in a National Park, does not a wild buffalo make. Darwinism will eventually get rid of idiots who try to get close to large animals with herding and stampeding instincts. It's just a step away from trying to feed the bears or pet the lions. I just wish the animals would win more dammit!
Each sig of mine is a hand crafted, one-of-a-kind.
When was the last time you tried to use windows for clustered computering? Doesn't happen. This should be modded down for trolling not up for insightful.
With posts modded like this, I'll change thresholds for only +5 now.
Would it be possible to have a government entity look at the code to determine fraud?
Could the readers here at slashdot stop the meteoric rise of SCO stock?
Go to The SEC complaints site
Fill out a complaint for False or misleading statements about a company complaint, a price fixing complaint, or a fraud in the marketing of securities complaint.
If enough complaints happen at once, coupled with the strange stock price activity of late. The SEC might start an investigation. Maybe the SEC can look at the code and determine whether or not they are lying just to make their stock skyrocket.
Couple of quotes from the Ira- erm SCO information minster Darl McBride...
"I blame IBM - they are marketing for the Linux users.!"
"Our initial assessment is that they(Linux Users) will all die"
"God will roast their (IBM's) stomachs in hell at the hands of SCO."
'We have destroyed 2 laser printers, CPUs, 2 T1's and their shovels - We have driven them back."
"We will welcome them with lawsuits and shoes."
"Their linux users are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of SCO. Be assured, SCO is safe, protected."
"On this occasion, I am not going to mention the number of lines of code who were copied and the number of misappropriated trade secrets. The operation continues"
NO", snapped Mr al-Sa-erm Darl McBride, "We have proof. There is plenty of code there. I will take you there and show you. IN ONE HOUR!"
"IBM, this company is a war criminal, and we will see that he is brought to trial"
"The GNU license....[is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Linux Users."
About Linus Torvalds: "the leader of the international criminal gang of bastards."
About Torvalds and Cringely: "Those only deserve to be hit with shoes."
I. It seems to me that SCO would have kept this under wraps or at least quieter until they were in court.
a)SCO must have known that the Linux community would react like this(Although their behavior makes me second guess this opinion).
b)If I(SCO) were were to sue a giant like IBM, I'd try to at least get the element of surprise before being going up against them in court.
c)If SCO thinks they are tipping their cards by showing 80 lines of code to people with no credentials, they don't know they still look like their bluffing. Thereby they're just begging IBM to go to court.
II. Darl knows he's pissing off the community and he knows that IBM and virtually everyone is going to call his bluff. Two reasons...
a)If Darl is crazy, then fuck him, let him try to get anything he can.
b)It's too late for him to embrace opensource, and now he's successfully currying favor with Microsoft.
III. If IBM is guilty of putting SCO owned stuff into Linux...
a)SCO's fscked...It'll be years before anybody gets coin (except lawyers). I trust IBM's legal team over David Boiese or whoever that scumbag is.
b)The code will change so fast that they'll never be able to prove what kernels major companies were using before the kernels come out in court (proper sysadmins should know to hide this...).
IV. If IBM isn't guilty
a) SCO's fscked....There'll be enough suits against them for violating GPL and everything else that they can be sued for. I imagine they'll never be able to operate internationally again.
b) SCO's double fscked, I hope IBM would sue for their money back. I would also hope Sun and anybody else would try and sue to get something back (let alone shareholders).
I just had to be part of the herd and rant about sco with everyone else...Thanks.
This sounds like a great company. Personally, I wonder what they'd do if I started an account there, and made copies of their work and started to resell what they made?
I mean technically, I own what they distributed to me since I'm part of the Co-Op. It's no longer the product that the director or studio made, so does it belong to either one?
I actually endorse CleanFlicks on this one. I still would like to see them go out of business though (can't stand those holier than thou morals).
I wonder if their movies are still encrypted with CSS controls? Or should these guys get nailed by the DMCA? I'd think this would be the way the acronyms of America (MPAA/RIAA/DGA) would go to sue these guys. They must be circumventing Copy Protection to create copies of the videos right?
More power to CleanFlix to sue the fuck out of the acronyms of America. I think we should all send Fucking Profane e-mail to cleanflicks showing our full-fucking-fledged goddamn whoring support.
Nah, they probably have content filters on their e-mail...
Doesn't this seem like it's furthering their status as a monopoly? Can lawyers use Microsoft's current tactics as an example in the current USDOJ case against them? It seems like that since they have already been found guilty of being a monopoly, they should have to stop using tacticts to further their monopoly. Or is it that they are able to do whatever the hell they want until a punishment is handed down from the "justice -hehe" system?
I don't believe that this idea is for the best yet.
I hate spam as much as anyone else but, when the government starts to regulate what you or anybody can or cannot send online, I'd say it starts to become a regulation of speech.
Don't get me wrong, I hate spam. I don't give out my e-mail address to any business if I can help it. I believe one of the easiest routes to take is to not give out your e-mail address to online businesses. Or set up a dummy address for all the crap that you've signed up for.
I've always enjoyed using the Internet because of the lack of regulation on speech. This is just another step in the wrong direction.
I'd rather delete spam and configure mail servers correctly and fight spam intelligently rather than have the government regulate with stupidity and make the problem go away along with some of my rights.
Peace out...
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Just what we need... Another window manager when we already have a good one!
Although, it is always nice to have some peaceful quiet fun, rather than those rowdy programmers writing operating systems. Plus, they never learn from looking at other operating systems code.
Here's a link to the Mcafee site re: the worm. Here's a link to the source code of the worm.
1. Buy shitloads of SCO stock and sell it short to Darl McBride
2. Sue SCO, watch SCO stock tank. Yeeha!
3. PROFIT!!!!
In Soviet Russia, Linux sues you!!!
This is a nice freshly crafted sig.
I think Cell service involves more than just coverage. Cell service is a combination of(not necessarily in that order):
* Services offered.
* Price.
* Coverage.
* Customer Satisfaction
* Phones offered
* Clarity
I'd say the article is a very heavy on the coverage angle with virtually no mention of the other things. My current provider is sprint... in all categories but phones offered, they SUCK! Now to explain why Sprint sucks.
I switched to sprint because it was supposed to be cheap and offer good coverage. Then I found out that voice dialing was $10 per month extra, e-mail was $10 extra, international dialing directly from the phone was $10 extra. Sporadic service on the PCS network and constant dropped calls. One day I'd have great service at my house, the next I'd be flipping between analog roaming and the PCS network.
Customer service blows. I was originally able to place a call via the operator for international calls, but then they disabled that a month after I started. I requested the service be reinstated and they told me it would take 5 days. Calling them to get service is a nightmare. I was on hold for 15 minutes to get a supervisor on the line after I was told my international service would be immediately available. When I got a supervisor and they wouldn't tell me why the prior representative told me my service would be available immediately and they couldn't tell who I spoke to (even after I gave them a name) they told me they didn't have a supervisor I could speak to.
So now my $34.99 service runs me about $70 per month even after I disabled every feature that I could get away with. I have to write a letter of complaint via snailmail to the Assistant VP at a po box in Kansas (like that'll go anywhere).
Nextel reps have always been courteous and kind. Offering services that seem more expensive at first, but I admit the old adage "Cheap is expensive and expensive is cheap," is sooooo right. They offer business class service at a business class price. Their phones aren't the best but they're damn good in terms of reception and features right on the phone. Now they're doing nationwide DirectConnect walkie talkie feature, all I can say is badass!
Consider this post a glowing endorsement for Nextel, and a warning from a former customer of Sprint who is Irate with their service, coverage, price, and features.
Sigs are like birthmarks, some people have 'em, others dont.
Why don't we send some of the original bible texts to the last few slashdot stories about automatic computer translation?
I can see it now...The King Taco translation: "In the beginning, there was ATT who begat UNIX, who begat Novell, who begat SCO, who claims to have begat all code ever written.
But in all seiousness, linguistics might be a science, and we're all nerds. These translation articles are getting old like the SCO jokes (bad joke intended).
1. Maybe someone could tell SCO that the Access Point uses unauthorized derivatives of SYS V unix containing hundreds of thousands of lines of code.
2. Then SCO could sue Linksys to release their code so they could see if it contains their "IP". Then the Slashdotters could see the code.
3. PROFIT!!!
Take this sig and shove it.
Here is a picture of his Red Bull Sponsored Carbon wing in action.
In order to reduce the slashdot effect and avoid ads, presented for your viewing pleasure: Linux Journal: Could you tell us a little about yourself?
Brian Kernighan: I was born in Toronto and went to the University of Toronto as an undergraduate, in a course [of study] called Engineering Physics. It was basically a lot of science, math and engineering for kids who were good at math and thought they might be engineers but didn't know what kind. It was a tough course, and about two thirds of the people eventually dropped out, but I managed to survive and learned a lot (a small amount of which I still remember).
I didn't really know much about computers--this was in 1960-64--and there was only one big computer at Toronto, an IBM 7090, plus a small 1620 in the electrical engineering department. I saw my first computer, an IBM 650, after my second year, and I learned a bit of Fortran when I was in my third year. I spent a summer writing Cobol for a big oil company (honest) after that. It was enough to get me hooked on programming, though I sure didn't know what I was doing and was a terrible programmer.
At Toronto, I also did a senior thesis (a literature survey, really) on artificial intelligence, which was showing all kinds of promise in 1964. So I decided to go to graduate school, without really knowing what that was all about. But it was easier than looking for a job. I wound up at Princeton because they made a better financial offer than any other school. I had a good friend, Al Aho, who was already there; he had been one year ahead of me at Toronto, in the same course.
Princeton didn't have a CS department at that time, only a group of good young people in electrical engineering, but I enjoyed it and had a good time for several years before settling down to work on a thesis. It was a very nice place to be a graduate student.
LJ: How did your life become connected with computers?
BK: I think the real turning point was the summer of 1966, where through good luck I got a job at Project MAC at MIT, [working] for Fernando Corbato. This was a fantastic experience: I was using CTSS, which was the first general purpose time sharing system and is still one of the nicest to use. It was infinitely more productive than the punch cards I was used to up to that point. I learned to program in MAD and wrote programs to help collect information for the Multics machine; the first GE 645 arrived that summer. It was a wonderful place to live and work, with great people (like Corby, who is still alive and active). It was definitely one of the best times of my life.
The next summer, probably because of the MIT experience, I got a job at Bell Labs in the Computing Science Research Center. This time I learned assembly language properly and met a bunch of the people who I had heard of while at MIT (they also were working on Multics). Another great summer.
I went back to Bell Labs the summer after that. This time, I got lucky and worked with Shen Lin, a great mathematician and problem solver. Shen was interested in hard combinatorial optimization problems, such as the Traveling Salesman Problem. I had been working in a casual way on what came to be called the graph partitioning problem for my Princeton thesis. Shen had an idea of how to attack the general case, and I made the algorithm work in a Fortran program. It became the core of my thesis, along with some other special cases. Anyway, I had such a great time at the Labs those two summers that when I finished my thesis early in 1969, I didn't even look for another job--I just went to the Labs. I was lucky to be in the group that did UNIX and C and all of the great things that came with them; that started just after I arrived. In many ways it was the best computer science research group anywhere, part of a large and productive research organization, and it had an enormous influence on the world. I stayed there until 2000, 30 wonderful years with an amazing group of people.
LJ: What is your work these day
I know it's cool to live in fantasy world where we get to own the original Terminator jacket, but...
How many unemployed, or people who've taken paycuts on slashdot can afford the ridiculous prices these people are charging? It would probably inflate Hollywood's egos far more than they already are or need to be. It's not like these overpaid buffoons need more money either.
I'd feel guilty supporting the movie industry like this. I'd much rather take a chunk of money like that and donate it to someone fighting the MPAA or RIAA. I mean having the stuff is cool, but you'd probably be funding their foundation of slimy lawyers.
I'm keeping what little money I have out of lower Cali, and in Silicon Valley...Screw the MPAA!
Intro blah blah blah...corporations and patents...blah
9. PRODUCT'S PRIMARY FUNCTION The primary function of a solar power tower is to produce clean electricity for the world's electricity grids. Solar power towers:
Dispatch electricity to the grid when needed--even at night or around-the-clock,
Are unique among solar electric technologies in their ability to efficiently store solar energy,
Are non-polluting and do not release greenhouse gases, and
Will be the lowest-cost solar electricity. The concept is simple: A few thousand heliostats (mirrors that continuously track the sun) concentrate sunlight onto a central receiver (a high-tech heat exchanger) that sits atop a tower. The central receiver heats molten salt at 290C, pumped from a "cold" storage tank, to 565C, where it flows to a "hot" tank for storage. When the grid load dispatcher decides electricity is needed from the plant, hot salt is pumped to a steam generating system that produces superheated steam for a turbine/generator. The salt then is returned to the cold tank, where it is stored and eventually reheated in the receiver to complete the cycle.
The salt storage medium is a common fertilizer, a mixture of 60% sodium nitrate and 40% potassium nitrate. It melts at 220C and is always molten in the "cold" storage tank. Molten salt is used because it is inexpensive and provides for efficient storage (99%); it is liquid at atmospheric pressure and its "hot" operating temperature perfectly matches the needs of today's high-pressure and high-temperature steam turbines. The molten salt is safe since it is nonflammable and nontoxic.
The collector field, salt storage capacity, and the receiver are optimally sized for the needs of the utility. In a typical installation, solar energy collection occurs at a rate that exceeds the maximum rate of energy consumption by the turbine. Storage tanks can be designed with enough capacity to power a turbine at nearly full output for 24 hours per day and up to 70% of the total hours in a year--as compared to 24% if electricity were only generated when the sun shines.
The readiness of power tower technology is illustrated by the successful completion of the Solar Two project in 1999 (see Appendix for Aug. 30, 1999 press release). Solar Two was a partnership between government and private parties to complete the development of solar power towers. Solar Two was the world's largest power tower, producing 10 MW of electricity with enough thermal storage to operate the turbine for three hours at full capacity.
Solar Two has mitigated the risk associated with the first commercial power tower plants now being offered for sale in four countries by proving that the technology is practical on a large scale. Solar power towers in the 10-400 MWe range can now be built--and indeed, design of the first plant in Spain is now underway.
10A. PRODUCT'S COMPETITORS (by manufacturer, brand name, and model number) The nearest solar competitor to solar power towers is solar trough technology [e.g., Solel (Israel) and Pilkington Solar (Germany)]. However, troughs do not have cost-effective thermal storage. Other grid-connected renewable energy competitors are photovoltaics, wind, hydro-electric, and biomass. We also compete with all conventional, intermediate load, and grid-connected electricity generating technologies including coal, gas, and nuclear. However, unlike our competitors, power towers do not emit pollution.
(table explaining effectiveness)
COST EFFECTIVENESS PERFORMANCE Electricity cost of 200 MW plant Installed cost of energy storage for 200 MW plant Lifetime of storage system (years) Annual roundtrip storage efficiency Maximum capacity factor of optimized system Annual solar to electric efficiency POWER TOWER SYNTHETIC OIL PARABOLIC TROUGH PHOTOVOLTAICS WITH BATTERY STORAGE $0.06/kWhr $23/kWhre 30 99 percent 70 percent 17 percent $0.12/kWhr $200/kWhre 30 95 percent 24 percent** 13 percent $0.25/kWhr $650/kWhre * 7.5 76 percent 24 percent** 10 percent (a
First of all, Thanks for all your work and dedication to a great cause, I am a believer in open source and the concept behind it.
I have a friend who is planning on releasing some software to utilize a piece of patent pending hardware. I asked him if he'd be releasing the software as open source as he already had a patent on the hardware. He answered that he would release his file format specs but not the software itself as open source. He didn't want garbage programs created that were based on his original work.
What kind of benefits does open source software provide that negate the someone trashing your original work and polluting the pool of good software out there based on something you create, should there be safeguards to protect the quality of original works?
Please stay away from Boulder. It has NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research), LASP (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics), CASA (Center for A... and Space Administration), NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technologies), NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), a kickass physics dept at University of Colorado (Last years Nobel winners for physics), a lot of beer, Denver of course has a cool aquarium, and the worlds largest (at least used to be) bookstore in the Tattered Cover at Cherry creek.
Please don't move there though, there are already too many people.
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Hmmm...I post thisdon't beat the dead SCO horse comment and I get 0 redundant. This post says it's a bit much and he gets +4 insightful...Damn, I wish I had a little bit of karma, (I wish I was a little bit talla' and drove a '64 Impala.) Just so I could mod crap like this down or mod myself up.
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They let the beaten dead horse rest long enough. Now that SCO stories have re-emerged, we now have another 700 or so comments about how SCO sux to wade through. Please don't beat the horse (Run horsey run!)
Anyway, I think I liked it more when there was no SCO (story or company that is). Enough of my ranting, time to read and wish I could mod 90% of articles in this thread as reduntant.
Go ahead! Mod my post as a redundant, flamebaiting, troll, see what I care.
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Wayyy off topic but... Jeez, I read that recipe link as
www.tripleraunch.com.
Buffalo Tongue, ewww.
Regarding the other response to this parent: Seeing a buffalo in a National Park, does not a wild buffalo make. Darwinism will eventually get rid of idiots who try to get close to large animals with herding and stampeding instincts. It's just a step away from trying to feed the bears or pet the lions. I just wish the animals would win more dammit!
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When was the last time you tried to use windows for clustered computering? Doesn't happen. This should be modded down for trolling not up for insightful.
With posts modded like this, I'll change thresholds for only +5 now.
Mod this as a troll, see what I care!
Would it be possible to have a government entity look at the code to determine fraud?
Could the readers here at slashdot stop the meteoric rise of SCO stock?
Go to The SEC complaints site
Fill out a complaint for False or misleading statements about a company complaint, a price fixing complaint, or a fraud in the marketing of securities complaint.
If enough complaints happen at once, coupled with the strange stock price activity of late. The SEC might start an investigation. Maybe the SEC can look at the code and determine whether or not they are lying just to make their stock skyrocket.
Couple of quotes from the Ira- erm SCO information minster Darl McBride...
"I blame IBM - they are marketing for the Linux users.!"
"Our initial assessment is that they(Linux Users) will all die"
"God will roast their (IBM's) stomachs in hell at the hands of SCO."
'We have destroyed 2 laser printers, CPUs, 2 T1's and their shovels - We have driven them back."
"We will welcome them with lawsuits and shoes."
"Their linux users are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of SCO. Be assured, SCO is safe, protected."
"On this occasion, I am not going to mention the number of lines of code who were copied and the number of misappropriated trade secrets. The operation continues"
NO", snapped Mr al-Sa-erm Darl McBride, "We have proof. There is plenty of code there. I will take you there and show you. IN ONE HOUR!"
"IBM, this company is a war criminal, and we will see that he is brought to trial"
"The GNU license....[is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Linux Users."
About Linus Torvalds: "the leader of the international criminal gang of bastards."
About Torvalds and Cringely: "Those only deserve to be hit with shoes."
Damn Ir-erm SCOvians.
I. It seems to me that SCO would have kept this under wraps or at least quieter until they were in court. a)SCO must have known that the Linux community would react like this(Although their behavior makes me second guess this opinion). b)If I(SCO) were were to sue a giant like IBM, I'd try to at least get the element of surprise before being going up against them in court. c)If SCO thinks they are tipping their cards by showing 80 lines of code to people with no credentials, they don't know they still look like their bluffing. Thereby they're just begging IBM to go to court. II. Darl knows he's pissing off the community and he knows that IBM and virtually everyone is going to call his bluff. Two reasons... a)If Darl is crazy, then fuck him, let him try to get anything he can. b)It's too late for him to embrace opensource, and now he's successfully currying favor with Microsoft. III. If IBM is guilty of putting SCO owned stuff into Linux... a)SCO's fscked...It'll be years before anybody gets coin (except lawyers). I trust IBM's legal team over David Boiese or whoever that scumbag is. b)The code will change so fast that they'll never be able to prove what kernels major companies were using before the kernels come out in court (proper sysadmins should know to hide this...). IV. If IBM isn't guilty a) SCO's fscked....There'll be enough suits against them for violating GPL and everything else that they can be sued for. I imagine they'll never be able to operate internationally again. b) SCO's double fscked, I hope IBM would sue for their money back. I would also hope Sun and anybody else would try and sue to get something back (let alone shareholders). I just had to be part of the herd and rant about sco with everyone else...Thanks.
Nuff said.
This sounds like a great company. Personally, I wonder what they'd do if I started an account there, and made copies of their work and started to resell what they made?
I mean technically, I own what they distributed to me since I'm part of the Co-Op. It's no longer the product that the director or studio made, so does it belong to either one?
I actually endorse CleanFlicks on this one. I still would like to see them go out of business though (can't stand those holier than thou morals).
I wonder if their movies are still encrypted with CSS controls? Or should these guys get nailed by the DMCA? I'd think this would be the way the acronyms of America (MPAA/RIAA/DGA) would go to sue these guys. They must be circumventing Copy Protection to create copies of the videos right?
More power to CleanFlix to sue the fuck out of the acronyms of America. I think we should all send Fucking Profane e-mail to cleanflicks showing our full-fucking-fledged goddamn whoring support.
Nah, they probably have content filters on their e-mail...
I think there are too many cooks in the distro kitchen...
Why not use Linneighborhood (http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/) with Gentoo, Slack, or Redhat?
It seems like this shouldn't be news.
Does it mean they're losing their case against State ATTY's General? I hope so.
Doesn't this seem like it's furthering their status as a monopoly? Can lawyers use Microsoft's current tactics as an example in the current USDOJ case against them? It seems like that since they have already been found guilty of being a monopoly, they should have to stop using tacticts to further their monopoly. Or is it that they are able to do whatever the hell they want until a punishment is handed down from the "justice -hehe" system?
I don't believe that this idea is for the best yet. I hate spam as much as anyone else but, when the government starts to regulate what you or anybody can or cannot send online, I'd say it starts to become a regulation of speech. Don't get me wrong, I hate spam. I don't give out my e-mail address to any business if I can help it. I believe one of the easiest routes to take is to not give out your e-mail address to online businesses. Or set up a dummy address for all the crap that you've signed up for. I've always enjoyed using the Internet because of the lack of regulation on speech. This is just another step in the wrong direction. I'd rather delete spam and configure mail servers correctly and fight spam intelligently rather than have the government regulate with stupidity and make the problem go away along with some of my rights. Peace out...