I guess the best idea would be to have many smaller reactors that could be faster to build. The only problem there is that the nuclear fuel would be spread all over the country. If they can fit a nuclear generator on a submarine, I don't see why they couldn't build small reactors and have them easily dispersed all over the country. A standardized design would mean that it would benefit from economies of scale. Also, because each station only contains a small amount of nuclear fuel, meltdowns would be much easier to contain. The grid would become less centralized, and a lot less energy would be lost due to long transmission distances.
I've seen quite a few playbooks, but then, I live in Ottawa. And go past 2 RIM offices on the bus ride from work. I'm pretty sure however, that I haven't seen anybody who doesn't work for RIM with a playbook.
I agree. The CIA website most likely (definitely?) doesn't contain any classified information, and taking it down isn't something that would stop the CIA website from going down. In the same way you aren't going to overthrow your US government by taking down the whitehouse home page, attacking the CIA public website doesn't cause any problems for the CIA, except for maybe a public image problem.
Very much agree. There's no reason for a wireless network in a building like a school. I've even considered running wires through my house. Wireless N is even terribly slow if you're more than 30 feet from the access point. Wireless is fine for homes and coffee shops, but put 30 computers in a room and it quickly becomes useless.
But it removes the choice from the consumer. Maybe some of us want to watch the US commercials. Especially during events like the SuperBowl. I to get ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX and a bunch of other US networks on my TV. I want those channels to come through unaltered.
Not a car for you then. Who cares. There's 7 billion people on the planet. Not everyone has the same driving habits as you. There's a reason that GM has 57different models of cars. If they can get 100,000 people to buy a Tesla, they would probably have a pretty good start. If I had a little bit more money, I would seriously consider buying one, because they fit my driving habits perfectly. For a family with 2 cars, it wouldn't matter if one of them would only be of use to commute back and forth across the city. Anybody who goes out of town can just use the other one. On the rare occurrence that both people are going out of town at the same time, somebody could rent. The savings alone in fuel and maintenance would make up for the cost of the rental. Just because I don't have and iPod or an iPad, or a Rolex, doesn't mean they are terrible products. It just means they are aiming for a different market.
Maybe not your house garage, but perhaps the parking garage at the mall or something. Those things have pretty low clearance sometimes. However, it appears that only the rear doors are gull-wing, and therefore you could always drop people off outside the garage, and drive in after.
But when they rot in the field, the nutrients go back into the soil. If you plan on collecting all this fruits and vegetables, in order to capture the gases from them rotting, you also have to have a plan for returning the compost back to the fields. Not saying it's impossible, but can you get more natural gas from these things that it takes to transport them back and forth between the field wherever the gas is harvested?
Well, they could have it both ways. It all depends on what the contract says. My guess is that they keep on using the same old contracts from before they had digital sales. They may not even technically allowed to do digital sales because it doesn't really fall into either category. A physical sale implies that they are creating discs/tapes and selling them. A digital sale obviously doesn't fall into that category. On the other hand, a license is usually something reserved for letting others perform your music, or use the music in a movie or something. Before digital sales, there wasn't really a concept of licensing a song to somebody for personal listening. If you wanted to just listen to something personally, you would buy the CD. If you wanted to perform the music, or broadcast it, or use it in a film or radio play, you would license it. But digital downloads are neither. They aren't physical sales, and they aren't really licenses either, because the record company gets a lot more than 99 cents for license, because they are meant for public peformance, which is why they pay the artist a bigger cut.
I've heard similar reports about the labels taking their cut for loss and breakage on digital sales. The artists are getting screwed over. The contract probably doesn't say anything about digital sales at all. Only about physical sales, and licensing. Since digital sales doesn't clearly fall into any one of those categories, one would think that a whole new contract would have to be drawn up to even sell the MP3/AAC version of the song.
Agreed. This reminds me of the AllAdvantage. That didn't work either. People got bots to do all the browsing for them. For this service you require a google account. So at least you would have to create hundreds of Google accounts. Google accounts require verified by a telephone call. It may take you a while to set up, and they may be able to track it back to you. Especially if you are doing thousands. I don't see any reason why you wouldn't be able to set up 3 or 4 accounts in a single household though. Sign up your wife, your kids, your pets, an a maybe a few others.
This is what I was thinking. Install the tool bar on a virtual machine version of chrome. Maybe even bring it up from time to time and browse some crazy mix of sites to screw around with their data. Do they send you the gift cart as soon as you install it? $25 may be a case of marshmallow fluff, but it's also 2 or 3 paperback books, or many other useful things. Sign up under 4 different aliases and you could probably easily have yourself $100.
Send them an anonymous email, send a letter with a fake return address (or none at all), call them from a payphone. Lots of ways to get in touch with these people.
Perhaps you can identify the original owner. If the original owner is some large company, perhaps they can help convince hard disk manufacturers from selling drives that haven't been wiped. A single person complaining to Newegg might not help much. A large corporation which buys hundreds or thousands of drives a year giving their hard drive vendor a hard time might help to change things.
I imagine it's because that writing a file system driver is extremely complicated in Windows. Last time I looked there wasn't even a good solution for reading EXT2 formatted drives (though one may exist now). I'm not sure if there are technological limitations in Windows for writing file system drivers, but it seems that their must be, simply by the lack of any. The solutions i've seen for reading and writing to other formats seem to all be utilities that read the raw data, and don't allow you to actually just mount the drive as you would with FAT32 and NTFS.
Personally, I'm happy paying for monthly hosting services that allow me to just have proper WebDav, SSH, or FTP access to storage space. This type of technology is much more accessible. You can do the same thing with rsync and ssh as you can do with DropBox. Plus a system that relies on standard transfer protocols makes it much easier to switch providers whenever a better deal comes along. My hosting provider gives me 50 GB of storage to do with as I please. That's separate from the space I'm allowed to use for my website.
Maybe it will just convince people to drive less. If you are being tracked everywhere you go in your car, perhaps people won't want to drive their cars so often. I don't even own a car, and just my bicycle and public transit to get around everywhere, but this isn't for most people (though more people should be doing it). Perhaps using a system like this, some people who drive very infrequently, like only on weekends to get groceries could get steep discounts on their car insurance.
I agree. I don't know if I'm a special case or not, but I always got the most out of lectures when I sat there and listened/participated. Taking detailed notes of everything the professor said just made it so that I would have (partial) paper record of what was said, but would have no recollection of what actually went on in the lecture. Having a computer wouldn't have helped anything. I think most people approach lectures in completely the wrong way.
What's the marketable value of English class. Once you pass the point of writing coherent sentences and basic reading comprehension, there isn't much use to a lot of it. All the parts about picking apart old stories, finding the archetypes. That kind of stuff. Pretty much as un-marketable as gym class. You could probably do away with the entire study of English (or whatever your native language is that they teach), and just incorporate the language lessons into all the other classes. Instead of spending all that time reading for readings sake, and writing book reports. Have students read texts on biology, history, geography, chemistry, math, and write reports about those subjects.
Why not the same for math then? Some people are naturally gifted at math, just as others may be gifted at basketball. Maybe none of these people are naturally gifted at all, but their parents chose to do a lot of sports with them from a very young age, so they seem naturally gifted. Maybe the kids who is good at math had his parents asking him math questions every day. There shouldn't be a concept of A for effort. Because I know a lot of people who tried really hard in school, but still couldn't grasp the material. If you can't grasp the material, then you shouldn't get a good mark.
A PC Doesn't work with a room full of people. The only time I've seen a PC work with a room full of people is when It's a LAN party, and each person in the room has their own PC.
If it's really only letting water through, you'd still have to add minerals in at the other end. Last I checked, drinking distilled pure water is probably as bad as drinking salt water.. With salt water your body accumulates too much salt. With distilled water. all the minerals (that your body needs to function) get picked up by the water. However it it works well, it would be simple to add minerals back in after everything had been extracted.
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I guess the best idea would be to have many smaller reactors that could be faster to build. The only problem there is that the nuclear fuel would be spread all over the country. If they can fit a nuclear generator on a submarine, I don't see why they couldn't build small reactors and have them easily dispersed all over the country. A standardized design would mean that it would benefit from economies of scale. Also, because each station only contains a small amount of nuclear fuel, meltdowns would be much easier to contain. The grid would become less centralized, and a lot less energy would be lost due to long transmission distances.
I've seen quite a few playbooks, but then, I live in Ottawa. And go past 2 RIM offices on the bus ride from work. I'm pretty sure however, that I haven't seen anybody who doesn't work for RIM with a playbook.
I agree. The CIA website most likely (definitely?) doesn't contain any classified information, and taking it down isn't something that would stop the CIA website from going down. In the same way you aren't going to overthrow your US government by taking down the whitehouse home page, attacking the CIA public website doesn't cause any problems for the CIA, except for maybe a public image problem.
Very much agree. There's no reason for a wireless network in a building like a school. I've even considered running wires through my house. Wireless N is even terribly slow if you're more than 30 feet from the access point. Wireless is fine for homes and coffee shops, but put 30 computers in a room and it quickly becomes useless.
But it removes the choice from the consumer. Maybe some of us want to watch the US commercials. Especially during events like the SuperBowl. I to get ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX and a bunch of other US networks on my TV. I want those channels to come through unaltered.
Not a car for you then. Who cares. There's 7 billion people on the planet. Not everyone has the same driving habits as you. There's a reason that GM has 57different models of cars. If they can get 100,000 people to buy a Tesla, they would probably have a pretty good start. If I had a little bit more money, I would seriously consider buying one, because they fit my driving habits perfectly. For a family with 2 cars, it wouldn't matter if one of them would only be of use to commute back and forth across the city. Anybody who goes out of town can just use the other one. On the rare occurrence that both people are going out of town at the same time, somebody could rent. The savings alone in fuel and maintenance would make up for the cost of the rental. Just because I don't have and iPod or an iPad, or a Rolex, doesn't mean they are terrible products. It just means they are aiming for a different market.
Maybe not your house garage, but perhaps the parking garage at the mall or something. Those things have pretty low clearance sometimes. However, it appears that only the rear doors are gull-wing, and therefore you could always drop people off outside the garage, and drive in after.
But when they rot in the field, the nutrients go back into the soil. If you plan on collecting all this fruits and vegetables, in order to capture the gases from them rotting, you also have to have a plan for returning the compost back to the fields. Not saying it's impossible, but can you get more natural gas from these things that it takes to transport them back and forth between the field wherever the gas is harvested?
Well, they could have it both ways. It all depends on what the contract says. My guess is that they keep on using the same old contracts from before they had digital sales. They may not even technically allowed to do digital sales because it doesn't really fall into either category. A physical sale implies that they are creating discs/tapes and selling them. A digital sale obviously doesn't fall into that category. On the other hand, a license is usually something reserved for letting others perform your music, or use the music in a movie or something. Before digital sales, there wasn't really a concept of licensing a song to somebody for personal listening. If you wanted to just listen to something personally, you would buy the CD. If you wanted to perform the music, or broadcast it, or use it in a film or radio play, you would license it. But digital downloads are neither. They aren't physical sales, and they aren't really licenses either, because the record company gets a lot more than 99 cents for license, because they are meant for public peformance, which is why they pay the artist a bigger cut.
I've heard similar reports about the labels taking their cut for loss and breakage on digital sales. The artists are getting screwed over. The contract probably doesn't say anything about digital sales at all. Only about physical sales, and licensing. Since digital sales doesn't clearly fall into any one of those categories, one would think that a whole new contract would have to be drawn up to even sell the MP3/AAC version of the song.
Agreed. This reminds me of the AllAdvantage. That didn't work either. People got bots to do all the browsing for them. For this service you require a google account. So at least you would have to create hundreds of Google accounts. Google accounts require verified by a telephone call. It may take you a while to set up, and they may be able to track it back to you. Especially if you are doing thousands. I don't see any reason why you wouldn't be able to set up 3 or 4 accounts in a single household though. Sign up your wife, your kids, your pets, an a maybe a few others.
This is what I was thinking. Install the tool bar on a virtual machine version of chrome. Maybe even bring it up from time to time and browse some crazy mix of sites to screw around with their data. Do they send you the gift cart as soon as you install it? $25 may be a case of marshmallow fluff, but it's also 2 or 3 paperback books, or many other useful things. Sign up under 4 different aliases and you could probably easily have yourself $100.
Send them an anonymous email, send a letter with a fake return address (or none at all), call them from a payphone. Lots of ways to get in touch with these people.
Perhaps you can identify the original owner. If the original owner is some large company, perhaps they can help convince hard disk manufacturers from selling drives that haven't been wiped. A single person complaining to Newegg might not help much. A large corporation which buys hundreds or thousands of drives a year giving their hard drive vendor a hard time might help to change things.
I imagine it's because that writing a file system driver is extremely complicated in Windows. Last time I looked there wasn't even a good solution for reading EXT2 formatted drives (though one may exist now). I'm not sure if there are technological limitations in Windows for writing file system drivers, but it seems that their must be, simply by the lack of any. The solutions i've seen for reading and writing to other formats seem to all be utilities that read the raw data, and don't allow you to actually just mount the drive as you would with FAT32 and NTFS.
Personally, I'm happy paying for monthly hosting services that allow me to just have proper WebDav, SSH, or FTP access to storage space. This type of technology is much more accessible. You can do the same thing with rsync and ssh as you can do with DropBox. Plus a system that relies on standard transfer protocols makes it much easier to switch providers whenever a better deal comes along. My hosting provider gives me 50 GB of storage to do with as I please. That's separate from the space I'm allowed to use for my website.
Maybe it will just convince people to drive less. If you are being tracked everywhere you go in your car, perhaps people won't want to drive their cars so often. I don't even own a car, and just my bicycle and public transit to get around everywhere, but this isn't for most people (though more people should be doing it). Perhaps using a system like this, some people who drive very infrequently, like only on weekends to get groceries could get steep discounts on their car insurance.
But then why not buy a $70 phone and a $300 tablet? Cheaper in the end, and you get a much nicer internet experience.
I agree. I don't know if I'm a special case or not, but I always got the most out of lectures when I sat there and listened/participated. Taking detailed notes of everything the professor said just made it so that I would have (partial) paper record of what was said, but would have no recollection of what actually went on in the lecture. Having a computer wouldn't have helped anything. I think most people approach lectures in completely the wrong way.
Wikipedia states a record distance of 2.475 miles. And that's just actual sniper kills. Not sure how far they could hit a target during practice.
They built their own PHP compiler so that their PHP code is actually running as machine code.
What's the marketable value of English class. Once you pass the point of writing coherent sentences and basic reading comprehension, there isn't much use to a lot of it. All the parts about picking apart old stories, finding the archetypes. That kind of stuff. Pretty much as un-marketable as gym class. You could probably do away with the entire study of English (or whatever your native language is that they teach), and just incorporate the language lessons into all the other classes. Instead of spending all that time reading for readings sake, and writing book reports. Have students read texts on biology, history, geography, chemistry, math, and write reports about those subjects.
Why not the same for math then? Some people are naturally gifted at math, just as others may be gifted at basketball. Maybe none of these people are naturally gifted at all, but their parents chose to do a lot of sports with them from a very young age, so they seem naturally gifted. Maybe the kids who is good at math had his parents asking him math questions every day. There shouldn't be a concept of A for effort. Because I know a lot of people who tried really hard in school, but still couldn't grasp the material. If you can't grasp the material, then you shouldn't get a good mark.
A PC Doesn't work with a room full of people. The only time I've seen a PC work with a room full of people is when It's a LAN party, and each person in the room has their own PC.
If it's really only letting water through, you'd still have to add minerals in at the other end. Last I checked, drinking distilled pure water is probably as bad as drinking salt water.. With salt water your body accumulates too much salt. With distilled water. all the minerals (that your body needs to function) get picked up by the water. However it it works well, it would be simple to add minerals back in after everything had been extracted.