This isn't "bulletproofly" reliable either. My brothers and I run a small local ISP. Years ago I created an address for my youngest daughter. She never used it, it was never posted anywhere, and it wasn't an easy to guess address since it was a combination of her name and her nickname. However spammers are constantly trying to discover email addresses on our domain, we get about 2,000 invalid recipient attempts every hour of the day. So eventually they discovered her address and she now gets a small amount of spam. (6 to 12 a day)
If you want something 100% effective, then cancel all of your email accounts. A more reasonable course of action is to use an excellent solution like DSPAM.
I was an Engineering student in the late 70's. I took an elective course in the Geology Dept., about fossil fuels. About 10 or so of my fellow engineering students also took the course. As a result, I NEVER went to a regular class, and just asked them to tell me when the mid-term was coming up. I went to the class for the first time on the day of the mid-term, & got an 89. (I DID have to read the textbook) The lowest score among the engineering students was an 87. The average score in the entire class was in the low 70's. We all joked about the fuel crisis, because evidently the Geology majors are too dumb to find the oil!
Also, they didn't say how the source should be provided. Print it all out & give them a 12" stack of paper. If you are really in a bad mood you can shuffle the pages.
Stop up the pipe vents on his roof. All kinds of interesting things happen when he flushes. Preferably stop them up permanently, like with rags saturated with epoxy stuffed 2-3 feet down.
Spell out SPAMMER in his front yard using Round-Up or similar grass-killing product.
Spread Deer Musk throughout his landscaping. (Skunk musk is even better if you can get it)
Tie a large carp to his exhaust manifold.
Spread several pounds of thistle seed throughout his lawn. He won't notice until next year, but what the hell.
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I think there is a lot of room for improvement here. For example, TI has a family of RISC microcontrollers that use a tenth of a microamp in sleep mode, but only take 6 microseconds to wake up due to an interrupt.
In typical usage, there is a lot of time that the CPU is doing nothing. Design one that can take snoozes for as little as a millisecond at a time with insignificant latency and you can save a lot of power.
It's a nice thought, but problematic because current woody crops don't match the output of traditional crops.
Actually this is not necessarily the case. It depends on a variety of factors, including the weather, soil, availability of labor, availability of equipment & the fuel to run it, etc. In the middle of Illinois, you are better off with corn/soybeans. (however you might struggle to make a living at it) There are many acres of land that are not productive in grains, but could produce viable crops on shrubs or trees. At full production woody crops would easily out-produce grains. A couple of tons per acre is certainly doable.
Woody crops DO take longer to produce food. However this is not as long as you think. Phil has chestnut seedlings that were started from nuts in his greenhouse THIS YEAR, and have already flowered and produced a handfull of nuts. These varieties will probably not be the most productive in the long run, but do demonstrate that a field of mixed varieties could produce a limited amount of food in the short run, and as the long term producers come on line the precocious producers could be culled.
If you are ever in south-eastern Minnesota, pay Phil a visit. He is making a difference.
You can offset the increase in CO2 production by planting woody plants for agriculture rather than annual grains. Check out these articles by Phil Rutter of Badgersett Research Farms:
Just a coincidence I am sure, but over on anti-slashdot.org they have an article about some guy who actually built one of these babies...
It topped out at 3,492,901 MPH, and then the impact of space dust turned their little umbrella thingy inside out. Now they're trying to figure out how to stop the damn thing, by firing a cold fusion cannon out the front...
Q: Are any new robotic products coming to the market soon? A:Yes, our R&D is currently developing other household products that will eliminate spending time on mundane choirs.
Are they targeting the Vienna Choir Boys or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir? Either way it seems like this is kind of a small market.
Years ago Bruce Tognazzini of Apple wrote a couple of books "Tog on Interface" & "Tog on Software Design". It's been awhile since I read them, but the thing that stood out for me was that he was reasonably critical of the MacOS.
He also has a website:
http://www.asktog.com/
Useful if you haven't seen it yet.
I was talking to Phil Rutter of Badgersett Research Farm who grows hybrid hazel bushes. He says that hazels absorb large amounts of manganese (>2000 ppm) & other metals & store them in their leaves. He thinks they do this to make the leaves less palatable for deer browsing.
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This isn't "bulletproofly" reliable either. My brothers and I run a small local ISP. Years ago I created an address for my youngest daughter. She never used it, it was never posted anywhere, and it wasn't an easy to guess address since it was a combination of her name and her nickname. However spammers are constantly trying to discover email addresses on our domain, we get about 2,000 invalid recipient attempts every hour of the day. So eventually they discovered her address and she now gets a small amount of spam. (6 to 12 a day) If you want something 100% effective, then cancel all of your email accounts. A more reasonable course of action is to use an excellent solution like DSPAM.
I was an Engineering student in the late 70's. I took an elective course in the Geology Dept., about fossil fuels. About 10 or so of my fellow engineering students also took the course. As a result, I NEVER went to a regular class, and just asked them to tell me when the mid-term was coming up. I went to the class for the first time on the day of the mid-term, & got an 89. (I DID have to read the textbook) The lowest score among the engineering students was an 87. The average score in the entire class was in the low 70's. We all joked about the fuel crisis, because evidently the Geology majors are too dumb to find the oil!
Also, they didn't say how the source should be provided. Print it all out & give them a 12" stack of paper. If you are really in a bad mood you can shuffle the pages.
Stop up the pipe vents on his roof. All kinds of interesting things happen when he flushes. Preferably stop them up permanently, like with rags saturated with epoxy stuffed 2-3 feet down.
Spell out SPAMMER in his front yard using Round-Up or similar grass-killing product.
Spread Deer Musk throughout his landscaping. (Skunk musk is even better if you can get it)
Tie a large carp to his exhaust manifold.
Spread several pounds of thistle seed throughout his lawn. He won't notice until next year, but what the hell.
They liked EyeTV as well.
In typical usage, there is a lot of time that the CPU is doing nothing. Design one that can take snoozes for as little as a millisecond at a time with insignificant latency and you can save a lot of power.
Actually this is not necessarily the case. It depends on a variety of factors, including the weather, soil, availability of labor, availability of equipment & the fuel to run it, etc. In the middle of Illinois, you are better off with corn/soybeans. (however you might struggle to make a living at it) There are many acres of land that are not productive in grains, but could produce viable crops on shrubs or trees. At full production woody crops would easily out-produce grains. A couple of tons per acre is certainly doable.
Woody crops DO take longer to produce food. However this is not as long as you think. Phil has chestnut seedlings that were started from nuts in his greenhouse THIS YEAR, and have already flowered and produced a handfull of nuts. These varieties will probably not be the most productive in the long run, but do demonstrate that a field of mixed varieties could produce a limited amount of food in the short run, and as the long term producers come on line the precocious producers could be culled.
If you are ever in south-eastern Minnesota, pay Phil a visit. He is making a difference.
Reducing Greenhouse CO2 Through Shifting Staples Production To Woody Plants
Woody Agriculture: Increased Carbon Fixation and Co-Production Of Food and Fuel
It will shoot the bullets out of the air before they hit you.
It topped out at 3,492,901 MPH, and then the impact of space dust turned their little umbrella thingy inside out. Now they're trying to figure out how to stop the damn thing, by firing a cold fusion cannon out the front...
Are they targeting the Vienna Choir Boys or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir? Either way it seems like this is kind of a small market.
Finally a use for that embarrassing gas problem I have!
Years ago Bruce Tognazzini of Apple wrote a couple of books "Tog on Interface" & "Tog on Software Design". It's been awhile since I read them, but the thing that stood out for me was that he was reasonably critical of the MacOS. He also has a website: http://www.asktog.com/ Useful if you haven't seen it yet.
...three Cokes for breakfast... Ahhh... THE Breakfast of Champions!
I was talking to Phil Rutter of Badgersett Research Farm who grows hybrid hazel bushes. He says that hazels absorb large amounts of manganese (>2000 ppm) & other metals & store them in their leaves. He thinks they do this to make the leaves less palatable for deer browsing.