We colo for 4 units of rackspace, connected to dual redudant DS3s for $240/month. Right now we only have one server in it, but plan to add anther early next year. Because we have a close relationship with the ISP, we don't have a monthly throughput cap.
The decimation of salmon has largely been the result of over-fishing at sea, where salmon spend the majority of their lives. The Hydroelectric dams, while having an impact, were no where near as extreme as you describe. Besides, many dams also have hatcheries built along with them (at least they do in the Pacific Northwest).
Wind farms, if placed in the correct areas, with the right kind of technology, and given enough open space, can be efficient, non-poluting sources of electricity. They are also expensive, and compared to other possbile sources of power, are not space efficient.
As for your completely "green" hydrogen power, what about the plants that produce the hydrogen? Or where it is mined from underground? I'm willing to bet that both of those will have some kind of adverse effect on some kind of living thing. There is no way to produce a perfectly clean energy source. The only way to solve that problem would be to completely wipe out the human race. I don't know about you, but I'd rather it didn't come to that.
I'm not talking about chaning the world with this right now. However it is worth mentioning thats comming from the Pacific Norhwest, the majority of the power I use is green. From wind farms and hydroelectric dams largely. I know it is, I pay extra for it. What I'm specificly refering in my last post is using a full cell based UPS. In that, when it's plugged into the wall, there is power available to create they hydrogen inside the machine. This keeps you from having to buy the stuff from coleman or some other supplier.
The theoretical subteranean cache of hydrogen is supposed to be largely contained inside rocks at depths well over what is currently being drilled for oil. It's also not known for certain how much Hydrogen is there, nor how easy it would be to exrect the hydrogen from whatever contains it.
While We're on the subject of clean energy, I thought this was kind interesting.
What's not typically known is using electricity you can reletively easily seperate water in to Oxygen and Hydrogen. Both of which could be stored to later go through a fuel cell and turned back into water and electricity. These conversions are very near to 100% perfect in terms of energy transfer. I've seen it demostrated at an alternative-fuel car show. It was very interesting, and got me interested in Hydrogen as a possible fuel for cars (and other things).
Since this thing is supposed to be plugged into the wall anyways when it functions as a UPS, why can't it use the house voltage to generate the Hydrogen, rather then forcing you to buy bottles of the stuff. Granted, you may not be able to store it at the same preassures manufactures can, but I bet you could at least store enough in low pressures to keep you running for an hour or more, I mean how long does the average power-outage last? Last one I expiranced was only about 10 seconds.
As for the safety of Hydrogen, from what I undersand, a fiber-wrapped steel bottle would be quite safe, but since hydrogen is so very light, any and all flame would just go straight up. All the combustable gass would burn in a second or less.
Does anyone know how easy it is to run a carberated car off Hydrogen? Remove the carborator, insert metered hydrogen pipe, start engine. Because the fuel is not carbon-based, you don't even have to change your oil for litterally years (add some additives maybe...). The emissions are clean water, and it develops nearly the same ammount of power as regular Gasoline does. They only down sides are getting hydrogen in quantity, and the price (equivalent of about $3/gal).
Just for the record, I did live in Japan when I was younger.
And I can see your point, when I was there, the homes I stayed in were mostly much older, and had been built well before or just after WWII.
As for cars and such, yes, many cars are quite new, but then the same thing goes in parts of Europe. After a car is more then 5 or 10 years old, it gets very expensive to keep since it doesn't meet the current safety and economy standards. I personally feel this is not so bad a thing. The only reason that the US can never really do this is the lack of any kind of efficient, effective national transportation system. Much of the US road system was built for the car, rather then in Japan and Europe, where many were simply adapted for the car.
How many times have you been to Japan? I've visited it in several places, from Tokyo Area to Southern Japan. I have reletives who live their, and my Dad grew up in the Tokyo Area.
The houses I've been in and most of those that I've seen have all been quite well made, Japan has a history of making quality things. Now, maybe the structures you're talking about are in very low-income areas of the country, but I've never personally witnessed them.
The modular houses I was talking about were basically the Japanese version of Manufactured homes. Instead of the whole house being pre-designed, you could select modules that could lock tother, and wire together very quickly. Made mostly of steel and other non-wood products, they were quick to setup, and, unlike the manufactured houses in the US, were all custom to what you wanted. I think it's a better idea in manufactured homes then what is largely available in the US.
Actually, didn't the Japanese Standard of living just surpass the US's?
Actually the issue of Aliens looking like Humans with funny heads (or hands, or feet...), was fairly well taken care of in a couple of TNG episodes. The episodes eventually disclosed the existance of some very early, very advanced race. Supposesedly came into being many millions of years before there was life on Earth, or anyplace else. These aliens predicted their own downfall, and as such, left pieces of themselves in the form of early life on hundreds of planets. Supposedly, this is why better then 80% of DNA in the different species in ST was identical. They also left a message in that all of the groups would have to work together to retrieve.
I've always changed them. Some of the fun color's I've used:
The logitec dual-sensor: blue and gree
Old logitec optical (with blue glowing logo): white
New logitec opticals: blue
And one more I did just to see if it would work: an Infrared LED (from a remote control) in one of the newer Logitec opticals. It's great, make people think that your mouse's light is burned out, but somehow still works fine.
Well, that's fine and dandy, but what if you're completely blind? There are solutions out there, like a brail strip on the front of the desk that can be read line by line, but I'm willing to bet it's either expensive or very propriatary, or both. As far as I Know, there isn't a really viable solution to help the blind use computers and the internet.
I already have one of these. It's called the GyroPoint, and was made by ixMicro. They've been out and around for years, as the version I have is the "GyroPoint Pro 2", and I've had it for better then 2 years. It's wireless (RF) and has worked in all kinds of situations. I purchased it with the intention of using it for presentations. It fills that role wonderfully well. Otherwise, it was difficult to use, and took a lot of concentration to keep pointed at the right thing.
The base station had two ports on it, a RJ-45 for the cable that connected to the computer, and a RJ-12 for connecting to the mouse, if you had no batteries or if in a very noisy enviroment. With a simple change of a cable, it was both Mac and Wintel compatible, had ADB and PS/2 cables. I have had several clients who've used it for presentations, and they all really liked it.
I never used it for more then 20 minutes (durring presentations), and could not imagine using it for gamming, it was just to hard to control movement with. Maybe I should have sold it to one of my clients...
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We colo for 4 units of rackspace, connected to dual redudant DS3s for $240/month. Right now we only have one server in it, but plan to add anther early next year. Because we have a close relationship with the ISP, we don't have a monthly throughput cap.
The decimation of salmon has largely been the result of over-fishing at sea, where salmon spend the majority of their lives. The Hydroelectric dams, while having an impact, were no where near as extreme as you describe. Besides, many dams also have hatcheries built along with them (at least they do in the Pacific Northwest).
Wind farms, if placed in the correct areas, with the right kind of technology, and given enough open space, can be efficient, non-poluting sources of electricity. They are also expensive, and compared to other possbile sources of power, are not space efficient.
As for your completely "green" hydrogen power, what about the plants that produce the hydrogen? Or where it is mined from underground? I'm willing to bet that both of those will have some kind of adverse effect on some kind of living thing. There is no way to produce a perfectly clean energy source. The only way to solve that problem would be to completely wipe out the human race. I don't know about you, but I'd rather it didn't come to that.
I'm not talking about chaning the world with this right now. However it is worth mentioning thats comming from the Pacific Norhwest, the majority of the power I use is green. From wind farms and hydroelectric dams largely. I know it is, I pay extra for it. What I'm specificly refering in my last post is using a full cell based UPS. In that, when it's plugged into the wall, there is power available to create they hydrogen inside the machine. This keeps you from having to buy the stuff from coleman or some other supplier.
The theoretical subteranean cache of hydrogen is supposed to be largely contained inside rocks at depths well over what is currently being drilled for oil. It's also not known for certain how much Hydrogen is there, nor how easy it would be to exrect the hydrogen from whatever contains it.
While We're on the subject of clean energy, I thought this was kind interesting.
What's not typically known is using electricity you can reletively easily seperate water in to Oxygen and Hydrogen. Both of which could be stored to later go through a fuel cell and turned back into water and electricity. These conversions are very near to 100% perfect in terms of energy transfer. I've seen it demostrated at an alternative-fuel car show. It was very interesting, and got me interested in Hydrogen as a possible fuel for cars (and other things).
Since this thing is supposed to be plugged into the wall anyways when it functions as a UPS, why can't it use the house voltage to generate the Hydrogen, rather then forcing you to buy bottles of the stuff. Granted, you may not be able to store it at the same preassures manufactures can, but I bet you could at least store enough in low pressures to keep you running for an hour or more, I mean how long does the average power-outage last? Last one I expiranced was only about 10 seconds.
As for the safety of Hydrogen, from what I undersand, a fiber-wrapped steel bottle would be quite safe, but since hydrogen is so very light, any and all flame would just go straight up. All the combustable gass would burn in a second or less.
Does anyone know how easy it is to run a carberated car off Hydrogen? Remove the carborator, insert metered hydrogen pipe, start engine. Because the fuel is not carbon-based, you don't even have to change your oil for litterally years (add some additives maybe...). The emissions are clean water, and it develops nearly the same ammount of power as regular Gasoline does. They only down sides are getting hydrogen in quantity, and the price (equivalent of about $3/gal).
Haha.. That's one of the funniest things I've read all day.
Thanks for the laugh.
Just for the record, I did live in Japan when I was younger.
And I can see your point, when I was there, the homes I stayed in were mostly much older, and had been built well before or just after WWII.
As for cars and such, yes, many cars are quite new, but then the same thing goes in parts of Europe. After a car is more then 5 or 10 years old, it gets very expensive to keep since it doesn't meet the current safety and economy standards. I personally feel this is not so bad a thing. The only reason that the US can never really do this is the lack of any kind of efficient, effective national transportation system. Much of the US road system was built for the car, rather then in Japan and Europe, where many were simply adapted for the car.
How many times have you been to Japan? I've visited it in several places, from Tokyo Area to Southern Japan. I have reletives who live their, and my Dad grew up in the Tokyo Area.
The houses I've been in and most of those that I've seen have all been quite well made, Japan has a history of making quality things. Now, maybe the structures you're talking about are in very low-income areas of the country, but I've never personally witnessed them.
The modular houses I was talking about were basically the Japanese version of Manufactured homes. Instead of the whole house being pre-designed, you could select modules that could lock tother, and wire together very quickly. Made mostly of steel and other non-wood products, they were quick to setup, and, unlike the manufactured houses in the US, were all custom to what you wanted. I think it's a better idea in manufactured homes then what is largely available in the US.
Actually, didn't the Japanese Standard of living just surpass the US's?
Didn't Japan try this a few years ago.. I never head that it had gone anywhere? Anyone have more info on this?
Actually the issue of Aliens looking like Humans with funny heads (or hands, or feet...), was fairly well taken care of in a couple of TNG episodes. The episodes eventually disclosed the existance of some very early, very advanced race. Supposesedly came into being many millions of years before there was life on Earth, or anyplace else. These aliens predicted their own downfall, and as such, left pieces of themselves in the form of early life on hundreds of planets. Supposedly, this is why better then 80% of DNA in the different species in ST was identical. They also left a message in that all of the groups would have to work together to retrieve.
White is where it's at today.
I've always changed them. Some of the fun color's I've used: The logitec dual-sensor: blue and gree Old logitec optical (with blue glowing logo): white New logitec opticals: blue And one more I did just to see if it would work: an Infrared LED (from a remote control) in one of the newer Logitec opticals. It's great, make people think that your mouse's light is burned out, but somehow still works fine.
...it's not surprising that these kinds of stories don't get any airtime.
Well, that's fine and dandy, but what if you're completely blind? There are solutions out there, like a brail strip on the front of the desk that can be read line by line, but I'm willing to bet it's either expensive or very propriatary, or both. As far as I Know, there isn't a really viable solution to help the blind use computers and the internet.
I already have one of these. It's called the GyroPoint, and was made by ixMicro. They've been out and around for years, as the version I have is the "GyroPoint Pro 2", and I've had it for better then 2 years. It's wireless (RF) and has worked in all kinds of situations. I purchased it with the intention of using it for presentations. It fills that role wonderfully well. Otherwise, it was difficult to use, and took a lot of concentration to keep pointed at the right thing.
The base station had two ports on it, a RJ-45 for the cable that connected to the computer, and a RJ-12 for connecting to the mouse, if you had no batteries or if in a very noisy enviroment. With a simple change of a cable, it was both Mac and Wintel compatible, had ADB and PS/2 cables. I have had several clients who've used it for presentations, and they all really liked it.
I never used it for more then 20 minutes (durring presentations), and could not imagine using it for gamming, it was just to hard to control movement with. Maybe I should have sold it to one of my clients...
For the record, where are my pants?
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We know what's best for you, so you better do what we say?