The phone will dual boot Ubuntu or Android, so there will be a wealth of applications. After launch there will be an enhancement to run Android UNDER Ubuntu which would be even better. At launch there will be a way to run Ubuntu under Android. So you will have lots of opportunity to run just about any application.
Interesting, they have sold 78 T-Shirts for $50 a pop in just a few hours. It'd be funny to get our phones funded by swag.
If you look at the bottom graph http://ubuntu-edge.info/ you will see that although they have slipped under the trend line it's not that far off, and some people may be waiting till late in the project to plop down the $830 or less. That may be a wise move as I have tied up my money for a month, I have no doubt I can get it back but I'd rather have the phones.
Shuttle worth has already said that he will not buy up unsold units, as that defeats the idea of crowd sourcing. Some of his ideas will make it into mainstream phones in a few years.
BTW I bought 2.
My home power is 100% wind power. If I charge an electric car there is almost no polution (tires and a tad of grease here and there), so his argument is only valid if you don't make an informed choice to buy a renewable energy plan. I'm personally waiting for Tesla to come out with their $30k car and then I'll definately be looking to buy.
I think these House Republicans are a bunch of doomsday preppers who think that by getting to another planet/moon everything will be rosy for the human race. What they don't understand (because of their lack of science background) is that it's a lot easier to live in SPACE than on a body with a gravity well.
We should be building ships to go to the asteroid belt and/or Jupiter and Saturn not wasting our time on cold dead planets/moons. Let's go somewhere interesting and easy not hard.
I spent my youth reading everything sci-fi I could find (and there wasn't nearly as much as there is now). I wanted to be an astronaut so I took flying lessons (all astronauts were pilots back then) but my eyes were not good enough (late nights reading sci-fi?) but I ended up working at NASA and still love reading sci-fi. I tried to get my daughter interested in sci-fi but she is more into adventure. Oh well, each to their own. She did go to a very good school and Farentheit 451, 1984, and Flowers for Algernon were on her reading list.
I would think any asteroid with that much valuable material would require a huge refining effort. We are talking many times the size of anything ever launched. Even assuming you do a progressive approach where small refineries build larger ones you are talking centuries before much could come out of this kind of effort.
I would think grabbing an asteroid into orbit and tunneling into it to build a radiation resistant habitat would be more feasable. You could use the tunneled material as propulsion mass to get it into L2 or a good orbit.
Why bother mining asteroids when there is a bunch of pre-refined materials floating in LEO. Re-refine the materials in Proton boosters, non-functional satellites and such. Stop throwing used up stuff back into the atmosphere to burn up. Build a refinery at the Space Station.
I have a poster from the original Thunderbirds puppet show on my wall at work. Occasionally an older person will say "...I remember that show". It was one of my favorites, along with Original Trek, Outer Limits, Hitchcok, and Twilight Zone.
Global Thermonuclear Warfare.
Looks to me like escalation has begun. Loser will be end users. Buy stock in both Apple as well as Samsung as higher prices mean higher profit margins.
I was a one man ISP for 10 years. It was an outgrowth of my BBS that I ran for 10 years prior to that. It's fun but thankless, and competition is fierce. Packet traffic became commodity, which means minimal profit margins and large companies (read AT&T and before them Southwestern Bell) willing to come in and throw large amounts of money at stealing the market.
If you want to sell DSL get an ATM T3 router and get a big PVC to a provider with some ATM bandwidth. Then allocate bandwidth to your customers on SVC connections. You will need some infrastructure servers, billing, DNS, Web hosting, DHCP, etc. I'd say you could get into it in a minimal way for $100k and a few employees. If you are wanting to do a one man operation you are basicly nuts, you will want to sleep, take a vacation or a night out. I made that mistake and would not recommend it to anyone. Contact me if you want more insight. I have a reasonable hourly contract rate:)
Pretty much everything by John Brunner will bumb you out. Stand On Zanzabar is my favorite. Sheep Look up is excellent, and Shockwave Rider is also. The rest of his stuff is pretty much pulp, very obscure and hard to find. I spent years collecting his books, he has well over 60 that I found, lots published in magazines that I never got my hands on. Very little online about him. Really classic sci-fi, I highly recommend it.
Yes, I agree it was a very poor TED talk but it appears to be one of several kids that were on the stage so he may have been limited to what he could talk about. Got to admit, a 17 year old doing Polywell Fusion research in his garage is pretty impressive. His web site: http://sciradioactive.com/Taylors_Nuke_Site/Welcome.html
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The phone will dual boot Ubuntu or Android, so there will be a wealth of applications. After launch there will be an enhancement to run Android UNDER Ubuntu which would be even better. At launch there will be a way to run Ubuntu under Android. So you will have lots of opportunity to run just about any application.
Interesting, they have sold 78 T-Shirts for $50 a pop in just a few hours. It'd be funny to get our phones funded by swag. If you look at the bottom graph http://ubuntu-edge.info/ you will see that although they have slipped under the trend line it's not that far off, and some people may be waiting till late in the project to plop down the $830 or less. That may be a wise move as I have tied up my money for a month, I have no doubt I can get it back but I'd rather have the phones.
Shuttle worth has already said that he will not buy up unsold units, as that defeats the idea of crowd sourcing. Some of his ideas will make it into mainstream phones in a few years. BTW I bought 2.
My home power is 100% wind power. If I charge an electric car there is almost no polution (tires and a tad of grease here and there), so his argument is only valid if you don't make an informed choice to buy a renewable energy plan. I'm personally waiting for Tesla to come out with their $30k car and then I'll definately be looking to buy.
I think these House Republicans are a bunch of doomsday preppers who think that by getting to another planet/moon everything will be rosy for the human race. What they don't understand (because of their lack of science background) is that it's a lot easier to live in SPACE than on a body with a gravity well. We should be building ships to go to the asteroid belt and/or Jupiter and Saturn not wasting our time on cold dead planets/moons. Let's go somewhere interesting and easy not hard.
Does this mean I can pay my taxes in ISK now?
I would go with one of the Ethernet based terminal server solutions. They are reliable and well proven.
I can't believe /. approved this.
Truly, you have to be kidding. If I'm going to mine it'd be for myself.
I spent my youth reading everything sci-fi I could find (and there wasn't nearly as much as there is now). I wanted to be an astronaut so I took flying lessons (all astronauts were pilots back then) but my eyes were not good enough (late nights reading sci-fi?) but I ended up working at NASA and still love reading sci-fi. I tried to get my daughter interested in sci-fi but she is more into adventure. Oh well, each to their own. She did go to a very good school and Farentheit 451, 1984, and Flowers for Algernon were on her reading list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Extremely_Large_Telescope at 39m http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/vlt.html at 4 x 8.2m and my favorite mainly because of it's sheer size http://www.gmto.org/ at 6 x 8.4m
http://www.spacex.com/webcast/ All thrusters now operational.
Elon Musk has reported that thrusters 1 and 4 are now online. https://twitter.com/elonmusk Good news for SpaceX. I hope they make this a success.
+1 exactly.
I would think any asteroid with that much valuable material would require a huge refining effort. We are talking many times the size of anything ever launched. Even assuming you do a progressive approach where small refineries build larger ones you are talking centuries before much could come out of this kind of effort. I would think grabbing an asteroid into orbit and tunneling into it to build a radiation resistant habitat would be more feasable. You could use the tunneled material as propulsion mass to get it into L2 or a good orbit.
Why bother mining asteroids when there is a bunch of pre-refined materials floating in LEO. Re-refine the materials in Proton boosters, non-functional satellites and such. Stop throwing used up stuff back into the atmosphere to burn up. Build a refinery at the Space Station.
I have a poster from the original Thunderbirds puppet show on my wall at work. Occasionally an older person will say "...I remember that show". It was one of my favorites, along with Original Trek, Outer Limits, Hitchcok, and Twilight Zone.
Global Thermonuclear Warfare. Looks to me like escalation has begun. Loser will be end users. Buy stock in both Apple as well as Samsung as higher prices mean higher profit margins.
I was a one man ISP for 10 years. It was an outgrowth of my BBS that I ran for 10 years prior to that. It's fun but thankless, and competition is fierce. Packet traffic became commodity, which means minimal profit margins and large companies (read AT&T and before them Southwestern Bell) willing to come in and throw large amounts of money at stealing the market. If you want to sell DSL get an ATM T3 router and get a big PVC to a provider with some ATM bandwidth. Then allocate bandwidth to your customers on SVC connections. You will need some infrastructure servers, billing, DNS, Web hosting, DHCP, etc. I'd say you could get into it in a minimal way for $100k and a few employees. If you are wanting to do a one man operation you are basicly nuts, you will want to sleep, take a vacation or a night out. I made that mistake and would not recommend it to anyone. Contact me if you want more insight. I have a reasonable hourly contract rate :)
They did this a long time before The Core. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059065/ with really disastrous results.
Pretty much everything by John Brunner will bumb you out. Stand On Zanzabar is my favorite. Sheep Look up is excellent, and Shockwave Rider is also. The rest of his stuff is pretty much pulp, very obscure and hard to find. I spent years collecting his books, he has well over 60 that I found, lots published in magazines that I never got my hands on. Very little online about him. Really classic sci-fi, I highly recommend it.
No.
Guess inbreeding causes faulty logic.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5953630 The US Government is putting it's dollars where it's mouth is on this, but VERY small amounts vs. BIG Fusion. This is $100 million dollar fusion, not multi-billion.
Yes, I agree it was a very poor TED talk but it appears to be one of several kids that were on the stage so he may have been limited to what he could talk about. Got to admit, a 17 year old doing Polywell Fusion research in his garage is pretty impressive. His web site: http://sciradioactive.com/Taylors_Nuke_Site/Welcome.html
Very closely related TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/taylor_wilson_yup_i_built_a_nuclear_fusion_reactor.html