Our civil war was a "might makes right" war, plenty of legal opposition to it, just the stronger armed force won. There's little to show it was legal to keep those states in who wished to leave. But, water over the dam, past history now.
With that said, the US states as a whole CAN convene a constitutional convention, completely independent of the federal government wishes, I mean they can just demand it happen and it will, one way or the other, and if they choose to, with the required super majority, completely abolish the current union, heavily modify it, make a new union or go their separate ways..whatever they want. An open constitutional convention is just that, open. All legal under our laws. Not done yet ever, but it is a possibility that it might happen should our economy really tank much worse than it has so far (and I think it will due to debt loads in the near future) and the social construct get too contentious and out of whack (anyone would have to be living in a cave to not see this happening now). I am in favor of it, an open convention leading to dissolution then rearrangement under regional lines, because I think our current federal government is just way too broken and corrupt to "fix", similar to how the USSR dissolved quickly when they went bankrupt along with a lot of the member nations just not wishing to be in that organization any longer. It was just too big, got to be too much to keep together, too much broken, too much corruption, just too much epic fail, so it dissolved.
All our states in the US-"United States"-started out as separate nations, and could return to that, or form new regional alliances, or whatever. In addition, this is one form of our law that neither requires the approval signature of, nor can be vetoed by, any federal executive branch clerk in chief.
Along with those huge wealth skimming casino banks, "too big to fail" should also mean "too big to exist" and apply it to large political organizations. The bigger they get, the farther they get from the "we the people" folks and it gets too easy for them to get hijacked by multinational big money interests or other assorted bad influences (like today). Now that's my *opinion*, but I think today's political realities and headlines are showing that sometimes, bigger is just not necessarily better all the time. Ultra small, maybe not a good idea either, but huge lumbering out of touch corrupt and incompetent..we should think twice and thrice about that "size" government as well.
You want all the neat stuff you need to actually live in a heavy urban area delivered to you from the rural areas, plus have it cheap. Swell, this is now possible because as a nation we invested in a set of "commons", we now have decent roads everywhere, rail service, and seized property where electric transmission lines, natural gas lines and water lines exist..all to bring stuff to you in the cities, our royal "blues" bloods now by voting demographics, cheaply. So, if the rural people just want a little better internet, all of a sudden this "commons" idea gets bad? OK, maybe it is! How about you voluntarily give up all your cheap trucked in stuff and piped in stuff and go out and start contracting for your food and water and electricity, and pay transit fees and tolls, boundary line by boundary line, to each owner, to all the rural landowners to get that stuff? What do you think your urban existence would really cost then?
I'm all for it really, dump the commons, privatize everything including the roads, no more eminent domain seizure and use for the transmission towers and water pipelines, toll roads everywhere, all of that, let it simmer for a few months, just to see what is really valuable today or not. Let's rock! Bring it on, we'll see who cracks first.
Here, just to show you we rural people have some compassion for our now starving urban area "neighbors" under the "chuck you farley, we got ours now you pay up what we demand if you want anything better like normal 21st century stuff" private everything model of society and economics... you might need this http://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/e-sermons/butcher.html You need to print out a hard copy now while you can..my guess is your electricity would go to, oh..a few hundred bucks a kilowatt hour at a minimum once all our transit fees are paid to us. Maybe more..or maybe we just wouldn't care and say "no, tough luck, we don't need anything you have, including your scam fiat currency crap. We could do that, too. We got the food, water and energy, you got...consumers. That's it..you just consume what we provide, and provide cheap.
Have fun! Let's do it, the grand experiment, get this sorted out what is really worth what, once and for all. Then no more debates, we'll all know what is necessary and what isn't, who gets paid too much and who gets paid too little, and what is more important, and whether or not a "commons" is a good idea. Let's let a real free market and no more public commons *anything* sort this all out. I'm totally ready and would really like to see it. Making my bucket of popcorn right now!
I would guess that tribalism, the benevolent dictator old chief, plus a council of elders, and a loose blend of tribal socialism combined with individual ownership of smaller things, but not the surrounding land, is probably the most successful government organization ever. Trouble is, it does not scale beyond a small tribe.
Nothing open source gets any better if no one wants to work on it. And usually any open source project starts out at the "this kinda sorta works, but still sucks..needs more love" stage.
Like I mentioned in another post, I am neither a programmer nor an EE, so I can't help on making a truly open phone a reality. There is definitely a niche market there though for a good open phone that could be used across the US networks. Heck, I don't even have technically a smartphone yet, just a good enough feature phone with a full keyboard, but if an open phone existed that worked for me I would consider that for my next phone. That's the best I could do to help.
A place as large as slashdot, one might think there was already a someone out there who could see the potential market you describe. I just slap wasn't aware that open moko wasn't a good radio choice for the US. Seems a rather decent little niche for a startup to fill, especially in this hard to find a job economy. Creating your own job for a product that could have a decent demand seems somewhat doable. As in not trying to get uber rich, but make a fair living at it maybe.
I have zero idea how to do it, not an EE or radio engineer though, so I can't help ya there.
So, there's a wide open market for a completely wide open hacker friendly phone geared towards the US market right now? Maybe someone here who knows what they are doing might jump on that...
I'm on an odder network, iden (sprint/nextel) with boost prepaid. It may not be the fastest network, well, it's the slowest, but it is very reliable where I am, the data plan is only 35 cents a day unlimited, calls are ten cents a minute or you get all of the above unlimited, along with push to talk walkie talkie and texting, etc for a flat rate of $50 a month, yada yada. I went that way from another prepaid and a verizon account before then. Also, where I am in the southeast, they have the *best* emergency backup gear for dealing with outtages and so on, the power line guys use it, etc. Complete mobile towers ready to roll to any hill top and turn on with their own gennys and stuff. Backups for backups.
That's funny as shit man! I love learning new goofy stuff like that. the open booger phone! Yes, I can see why this might not catch on too well in some areas! BWAHAHAHAHA!
Glad you liked "euro-peon". I see a lot of murican bashing all the time, thought I would contribute a little good natured back whenever the opportunity presented itself. Good natured razzing and all. Heck, I am a US southerner, a RURAL southerner, we get bashed here all the doo dad day long....fun is fun, we can take it...
I guess that is the euro-peon way to spell boogers..how quaint and continental and all...
anyway, I said "like" Openmoko. And here's the deal. No huge corporation is going to sell you an open anything any more, it conflicts with their skewed notion of "shareholder value" and "leveraging their intellectual properties" and other buzz speak. So..ya'all phone modders can either start supporting projects like openmoko, so it can be developed beyond the "boogers" stage, or just keep whining that your new iGS turboprofitphone is "locked down" and you can't do what you want to do with it.
Also on telco "plans".. I see kvetching galore about stupid two year "plans".. geez loweez this *ain't* rocket surgery, stop using plans, stop rewarding those lame ass "plans", go prepaid. Vote with your wallet, or don't be surprised when eventually your options for cellphones plus connectivity have been narrowed down to very sucky versus extremely sucky. You get what you pay for, keep paying for closed off/locked down two year suck plans on closed off/locked down suck phones, they'll keep selling that to you.
You keep getting handed options, then just purchase the stuff that is designed on purpose to frustrate you. Why not more love for projects like openmoko?
Government jobs are now -generally speaking- higher paying than civilian jobs, at least in the US. Of course this will contribute to the insane economic trickle down theory of boom and eventual bust/collapse (along with the usury and wealth skimming industry and money "creation" model we have), but they hold most of the aces now and can just demand that everyone else support their growth and raises.
There's really no point to it, because you still need another box, a "computer" to wirelessly attach to that has the kick ass graphics and so on..we have that already, called a desktop, and they are cheap now, too. You would still be plopping down your integrated graphics lightweight netbook next to what would basically have to be another full computer, or dang close to it, something that houses the big graphics card and the assorted other stuff it needs to function. You aren't eliminating a box at home, so there's not much of a point to it. If it would completely eliminate a box, sure, but it can't by default, and if it can't, might as well just use your desktop when at home. The freq this proposed system works at only works at extreme close distances, like a few feet at the most, you won't be running this from server two floors away in the basement, so really...just use your ethernet cable then.
Really, I think if they offered him immunity for his past crimes, just for offing fearless glorious leader..he might could pull it off. Maybe if they taunted him first and bet him he couldn't do it...
We had a previous story here about how the strongest ATT coverage is right at the Apple campus. So, it worked nice there. The prototypes got used "out in the field" while in cases, so the antenna bridging problem never occurred.
They screwed up, plain and simple, just slap missed it.
Ha, mine's free now. I use a solar panel to charge a deep cycle battery to run an electric trolling motor. Ya, no water skiing with it, but I clean up on the bass for the frying pan;)
Anyway, I don't have any huge problem with richer guys being the earlier adopters of more modern tech (usually), it's the only way people with lower incomes can ever get anything better.
Notice, I didn't ever drop the coin on an expensive video card, I am always several generations back (currently running an nvidia fx 5500, works fine..) but I did on the solar panels, wanted to do my part (besides using them obviously) to get prices down and quality up so that eventually they are a lot more affordable and get wider use for "the masses" guys.. Today, the little trolling motor, maybe tomorrow, the all electric ride...
I think we can all agree that in the last 20 years, china has kicked the most ass on increasing its national wealth. One of the things they do is swap accumulated pieces of paper for vast holdings of metals, ingots, tons of them, fields of them, any metal you can imagine. they are stockpiling real useful stuff, because they ain't stupid and realise the world revolves around tangibles way more than fictitious financial contracts, real stuff takes work, fictitious contracts take..nothing, complicated server entires that can be inflated a thousand fold on a whim, or devalued just as easily. So, they accumulate metals, ag land all over, buy up mines, energy sources, or "wealth". They gladly swap fiat magic beans for the real mc coy cow, retards all over in the developing world and the de evolving already developed and failing rapidly world line up to take the swap daily.believing in fairy tales.
Gold is part of what they are accumulating (and actually advertise to their citizens to do the same, stockpile bullion), but everything, you name it, they accumulate it, aluminum to zinc, because it's *real stuff*. then they manufacture with it, giving it value added worth.
Which is, barring global thermonuclear war that they might lose, why china will win this century, they grok producing wealth as opposed to what the western nations are doing now, producing BS fiat smoke and mirrors "financial products". Sure, they have some of those too, but it is way secondary to their major global grab for every useful tangible they can get their hands on. Again, they ain't stupid, and will gladly work with any nations economic traitors to transfer real wealth to them. The traitors make a small killing, nation X's people gets the shaft and is put into debt...forever China loves it, so do the traitors/grifters. The rest of the people are slowly waking up to just how much they have given away now. It's too late to fix it, but at least they are starting to understand the difference between produced wealth and some liar's paper promises.
There's real wealth, then *promises* of wealth, said promises being some elaborate IOU scheme concocted by high level grifters in black suits with impressive nonsense titles..two different things really. Most people still get them confused and think and believe they are the same thing. And that's because their leaders, the black suited grifter crowd, keep telling them this lie over and over and over again.
So ya, if you stick your surplus labor into accumulating real wealth, including metals or any other useful tangible, by and large in the long term you will do good. Stick it into liars paper..just as much a crapshoot as betting against the house in vegas. Some winners, mostly a lot of big losers, and the house always turns a profit as long as people walk in the door willing to swap the cow for the magic beans.
It's a great con, been used for thousands of years. I am amazed people still fall for it all over then act so surprised when they find out..they've been conned!
Mine would let me watch, and would answer politely asked questions, but no chatter. I also could borrow tools if I was careful to clean and replace after use. Growing up poor in the depression made him really treasure even simple tools, or anything functional. And no waste, like you, recycle, make do, cobjob, make it work. I got a lot of that from him. My electronics training though, said to say, lacked, just too color blind to deal with it back then, so I skipped it for the most part. He was very good at it, eventually became a big iron fixer in the early days of mainframes, but I just couldn't follow it enough to absorb much, so my pursuits went elsewhere, basically anything to do with the outside or nature. Still that way today.
What luxury, no wonder people are soft today, they coddle their kids!
Back in the day, we had to stop work in the granite quarry at 4 AM, then they hitched us to travois (none of your fancy "wheel" gadgets), where we had to drag granite boulders to school. Playtime at recess consisted of banging larger boulders into smaller ones, to make gravel, which we spread on the playground, all the time dodging the pteranadons they let loose to pick off the slower kids, to improve the gene pool.
Can't say we really liked it, but you got really creative learning to dodge those snapping beaks!
Different vaccines? How about food, when was high fructose corn syrup added to everything, or aspartame or...anything like that? Could there be an ingestible or injectable correlation? Air quality and different trace pollution gases around then?
Besides social differences in the latest generations, that I addressed in a different reply, I would also suspect some biochemical differences. And someone else brought up the deal where they now force addict kids to ritalin and so on, this just wasn't done in the 60s and earlier. When did this become common?
Well, there's also the old adage that "necessity is the mother of invention". People were a lot more hands on back then with their day to day..well, stuff, plus a lot of things got repaired, not just thrown away when something trivial broke. This lead to "how do I make this better" type efforts..back to caveman days. As applies to children..they mimic adults, they don't see adults doing this anymore that much, repairing or building anything from scratch, figuring out a new tool or how to do something, so they don't either. How many kids today really watch their dad fixing things, or building anything from scratch? the world went from a lot of generalists who could use any tool thrown at them, plus make new tools, to now you need to be an extreme specialist in just one subject to even think about it. I know when I was a little shitter, I was following pops around as he tore down and rebuilt cars, did his own plumbing and carpentry, rebuilt TVs and radios, etc. So..I started doing similar, all the way to getting into trouble for disassembling the lawnmower, etc, building forts, etc with saws and hammer and nails. Kids today..are they really doing that, or mostly just..dunno..playing video games? Being a tool user means you need to use tools, then getting creative with that.
And then, where is the dividing line between art and tech/engineering? Hard to define creativity when we have no real distinction. Perhaps creativity is just not being recognized clearly enough today?
OK, I am downloading one just to try it out, there's no way in heck I can stream it, I can't even stream "normal" you tube vids yet, just can't get a good enough internet connection around here for that. So..what is this ultra high resolution for again? Who has a 25 foot screen at home? Why the bandwith wasteage? Really, just an honest question, if the bulk of humanity can't watch this in the manner it was designed for..why bother? Isn't this like driving around a 3 ton SUV to get to work in? Aren't we supposed to be all doing our part to just stop wasting resources for the hell of it? Just "because you can" is somehow bad when it comes to some forms of energy use, but other forms get a pass because it's connected to a computer? Google is supposedly "green", I am not seeing pushing this as being all that "green". How about "good enough" video quality with less megs being needed to be transferred instead, as a focus?
China developed an exchange with the US because way back nixon and kissinger decided that helping china develop would be an effective counter to them working with the USSR. they exploited the differences to keep those two nations divided. The offshoot was that to do that they allowed the destruction of manufacturing in the US and transferred it to china, industry by industry. China needed that at the time to develop, because the currency they received they plowed back into the US (and europe) to buy stuff like machine tools, etc, all the things they needed to develop a manufacturing industry.
That's *done* now, it is past tense. Times are changing. They can build anything, in mass quantities, cheap. Hence, they no longer "need" the US market, and they are gradually shifting to their internal billion and half people market and to nations where they get raw materials and energy sources from. It's not an overnight change deal, but that is the basic trend.
Well, I guess you didn't know, but there are still a lot of trans Atlantic cruises going on. Just google it (I just did, exists a plenty). And a lot of people have longer than two weeks off, heck, a lot of people with cash to burn are this thing called "retired" now and can take all the time they want.
We can't settle this now because we have no long range zeppelin service, but my guess is when/if it happens again they'll be sold out all the time.
As to your teleconferencing, I thought all you VIP IT biz guys used multiple screens now, yes? I read that here all the dang time, you just ain't cool unless you have your own server setup and multiple screens (multiple good big screens equals cost of one airline ticket). So, one screen shows the whiteboard, one screen shows the crowd, one shows the presenter, etc. It's called normal camera work, pros do it all the time. On TV and stuff, maybe you've seen that, how they can magically shift around and focus on different things, or even use more than one camera at a time.....
This is a tech board, you are arguing against tech that exists now, saying it is impossible or something to be used more, instead of moving sacks of water and protein around expensively. Nuts. I mean dang, I'm an old curmudgeon and you got me beat with the entrenched luddism from the last century, ha! I'm just saying a lot of so called "necessary" biz travel..isn't, along with a lot of normal day to day commuting. 60 years ago and earlier, sure, necessary, but not so much today. There's mostly inertia against using the web more, that's all, but it's changing.
I don't know about that. An airfoil type plane, not happening, but a solar electric dirigible, cruising at a slower speed but in comfort..there might be a lot of people opt for a longer duration "air cruise" across oceans, etc. Pretty big surface area on a blimp or dirigible for some thin film solar cells... As to "business travel", I am seriously disappointed that in 2010 we still have meatsacks traveling all over heck when teleconferencing can do the job. Same with meatsacks commuting daily to *go sit in front of a keyboard and monitor* when they could be doing that in the home office and skip the commuting part.
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Our civil war was a "might makes right" war, plenty of legal opposition to it, just the stronger armed force won. There's little to show it was legal to keep those states in who wished to leave. But, water over the dam, past history now.
With that said, the US states as a whole CAN convene a constitutional convention, completely independent of the federal government wishes, I mean they can just demand it happen and it will, one way or the other, and if they choose to, with the required super majority, completely abolish the current union, heavily modify it, make a new union or go their separate ways..whatever they want. An open constitutional convention is just that, open. All legal under our laws. Not done yet ever, but it is a possibility that it might happen should our economy really tank much worse than it has so far (and I think it will due to debt loads in the near future) and the social construct get too contentious and out of whack (anyone would have to be living in a cave to not see this happening now). I am in favor of it, an open convention leading to dissolution then rearrangement under regional lines, because I think our current federal government is just way too broken and corrupt to "fix", similar to how the USSR dissolved quickly when they went bankrupt along with a lot of the member nations just not wishing to be in that organization any longer. It was just too big, got to be too much to keep together, too much broken, too much corruption, just too much epic fail, so it dissolved.
All our states in the US-"United States"-started out as separate nations, and could return to that, or form new regional alliances, or whatever. In addition, this is one form of our law that neither requires the approval signature of, nor can be vetoed by, any federal executive branch clerk in chief.
Along with those huge wealth skimming casino banks, "too big to fail" should also mean "too big to exist" and apply it to large political organizations. The bigger they get, the farther they get from the "we the people" folks and it gets too easy for them to get hijacked by multinational big money interests or other assorted bad influences (like today). Now that's my *opinion*, but I think today's political realities and headlines are showing that sometimes, bigger is just not necessarily better all the time. Ultra small, maybe not a good idea either, but huge lumbering out of touch corrupt and incompetent..we should think twice and thrice about that "size" government as well.
You want all the neat stuff you need to actually live in a heavy urban area delivered to you from the rural areas, plus have it cheap. Swell, this is now possible because as a nation we invested in a set of "commons", we now have decent roads everywhere, rail service, and seized property where electric transmission lines, natural gas lines and water lines exist..all to bring stuff to you in the cities, our royal "blues" bloods now by voting demographics, cheaply. So, if the rural people just want a little better internet, all of a sudden this "commons" idea gets bad? OK, maybe it is! How about you voluntarily give up all your cheap trucked in stuff and piped in stuff and go out and start contracting for your food and water and electricity, and pay transit fees and tolls, boundary line by boundary line, to each owner, to all the rural landowners to get that stuff? What do you think your urban existence would really cost then?
I'm all for it really, dump the commons, privatize everything including the roads, no more eminent domain seizure and use for the transmission towers and water pipelines, toll roads everywhere, all of that, let it simmer for a few months, just to see what is really valuable today or not. Let's rock! Bring it on, we'll see who cracks first.
Here, just to show you we rural people have some compassion for our now starving urban area "neighbors" under the "chuck you farley, we got ours now you pay up what we demand if you want anything better like normal 21st century stuff" private everything model of society and economics... you might need this http://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/e-sermons/butcher.html You need to print out a hard copy now while you can..my guess is your electricity would go to, oh..a few hundred bucks a kilowatt hour at a minimum once all our transit fees are paid to us. Maybe more..or maybe we just wouldn't care and say "no, tough luck, we don't need anything you have, including your scam fiat currency crap. We could do that, too. We got the food, water and energy, you got...consumers. That's it..you just consume what we provide, and provide cheap.
Have fun! Let's do it, the grand experiment, get this sorted out what is really worth what, once and for all. Then no more debates, we'll all know what is necessary and what isn't, who gets paid too much and who gets paid too little, and what is more important, and whether or not a "commons" is a good idea. Let's let a real free market and no more public commons *anything* sort this all out. I'm totally ready and would really like to see it. Making my bucket of popcorn right now!
I would guess that tribalism, the benevolent dictator old chief, plus a council of elders, and a loose blend of tribal socialism combined with individual ownership of smaller things, but not the surrounding land, is probably the most successful government organization ever. Trouble is, it does not scale beyond a small tribe.
Nothing open source gets any better if no one wants to work on it. And usually any open source project starts out at the "this kinda sorta works, but still sucks..needs more love" stage.
Like I mentioned in another post, I am neither a programmer nor an EE, so I can't help on making a truly open phone a reality. There is definitely a niche market there though for a good open phone that could be used across the US networks. Heck, I don't even have technically a smartphone yet, just a good enough feature phone with a full keyboard, but if an open phone existed that worked for me I would consider that for my next phone. That's the best I could do to help.
A place as large as slashdot, one might think there was already a someone out there who could see the potential market you describe. I just slap wasn't aware that open moko wasn't a good radio choice for the US. Seems a rather decent little niche for a startup to fill, especially in this hard to find a job economy. Creating your own job for a product that could have a decent demand seems somewhat doable. As in not trying to get uber rich, but make a fair living at it maybe.
I have zero idea how to do it, not an EE or radio engineer though, so I can't help ya there.
So, there's a wide open market for a completely wide open hacker friendly phone geared towards the US market right now? Maybe someone here who knows what they are doing might jump on that...
I'm on an odder network, iden (sprint/nextel) with boost prepaid. It may not be the fastest network, well, it's the slowest, but it is very reliable where I am, the data plan is only 35 cents a day unlimited, calls are ten cents a minute or you get all of the above unlimited, along with push to talk walkie talkie and texting, etc for a flat rate of $50 a month, yada yada. I went that way from another prepaid and a verizon account before then. Also, where I am in the southeast, they have the *best* emergency backup gear for dealing with outtages and so on, the power line guys use it, etc. Complete mobile towers ready to roll to any hill top and turn on with their own gennys and stuff. Backups for backups.
That's funny as shit man! I love learning new goofy stuff like that. the open booger phone! Yes, I can see why this might not catch on too well in some areas! BWAHAHAHAHA!
Glad you liked "euro-peon". I see a lot of murican bashing all the time, thought I would contribute a little good natured back whenever the opportunity presented itself. Good natured razzing and all. Heck, I am a US southerner, a RURAL southerner, we get bashed here all the doo dad day long....fun is fun, we can take it...
Here, have some yuks at our expense ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBocef6iQps&feature=related
I guess that is the euro-peon way to spell boogers..how quaint and continental and all...
anyway, I said "like" Openmoko. And here's the deal. No huge corporation is going to sell you an open anything any more, it conflicts with their skewed notion of "shareholder value" and "leveraging their intellectual properties" and other buzz speak. So..ya'all phone modders can either start supporting projects like openmoko, so it can be developed beyond the "boogers" stage, or just keep whining that your new iGS turboprofitphone is "locked down" and you can't do what you want to do with it.
Also on telco "plans".. I see kvetching galore about stupid two year "plans".. geez loweez this *ain't* rocket surgery, stop using plans, stop rewarding those lame ass "plans", go prepaid. Vote with your wallet, or don't be surprised when eventually your options for cellphones plus connectivity have been narrowed down to very sucky versus extremely sucky. You get what you pay for, keep paying for closed off/locked down two year suck plans on closed off/locked down suck phones, they'll keep selling that to you.
You keep getting handed options, then just purchase the stuff that is designed on purpose to frustrate you. Why not more love for projects like openmoko?
Government jobs are now -generally speaking- higher paying than civilian jobs, at least in the US. Of course this will contribute to the insane economic trickle down theory of boom and eventual bust/collapse (along with the usury and wealth skimming industry and money "creation" model we have), but they hold most of the aces now and can just demand that everyone else support their growth and raises.
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20091211/1afedpay11_st.art.htm
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503983_162-5007862-503983.html
There's really no point to it, because you still need another box, a "computer" to wirelessly attach to that has the kick ass graphics and so on..we have that already, called a desktop, and they are cheap now, too. You would still be plopping down your integrated graphics lightweight netbook next to what would basically have to be another full computer, or dang close to it, something that houses the big graphics card and the assorted other stuff it needs to function. You aren't eliminating a box at home, so there's not much of a point to it. If it would completely eliminate a box, sure, but it can't by default, and if it can't, might as well just use your desktop when at home. The freq this proposed system works at only works at extreme close distances, like a few feet at the most, you won't be running this from server two floors away in the basement, so really...just use your ethernet cable then.
Thanks for the headsup, I'll check it out. Hard to keep track of all the news and updates lately.
After going rogue, they finally nabbed him in the bahamas when the cops shot the motor out on his stolen speed boat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colton_Harris-Moore
Really, I think if they offered him immunity for his past crimes, just for offing fearless glorious leader..he might could pull it off. Maybe if they taunted him first and bet him he couldn't do it...
We had a previous story here about how the strongest ATT coverage is right at the Apple campus. So, it worked nice there. The prototypes got used "out in the field" while in cases, so the antenna bridging problem never occurred.
They screwed up, plain and simple, just slap missed it.
Ha, mine's free now. I use a solar panel to charge a deep cycle battery to run an electric trolling motor. Ya, no water skiing with it, but I clean up on the bass for the frying pan ;)
Anyway, I don't have any huge problem with richer guys being the earlier adopters of more modern tech (usually), it's the only way people with lower incomes can ever get anything better.
Notice, I didn't ever drop the coin on an expensive video card, I am always several generations back (currently running an nvidia fx 5500, works fine..) but I did on the solar panels, wanted to do my part (besides using them obviously) to get prices down and quality up so that eventually they are a lot more affordable and get wider use for "the masses" guys.. Today, the little trolling motor, maybe tomorrow, the all electric ride...
I think we can all agree that in the last 20 years, china has kicked the most ass on increasing its national wealth. One of the things they do is swap accumulated pieces of paper for vast holdings of metals, ingots, tons of them, fields of them, any metal you can imagine. they are stockpiling real useful stuff, because they ain't stupid and realise the world revolves around tangibles way more than fictitious financial contracts, real stuff takes work, fictitious contracts take..nothing, complicated server entires that can be inflated a thousand fold on a whim, or devalued just as easily. So, they accumulate metals, ag land all over, buy up mines, energy sources, or "wealth". They gladly swap fiat magic beans for the real mc coy cow, retards all over in the developing world and the de evolving already developed and failing rapidly world line up to take the swap daily.believing in fairy tales.
Gold is part of what they are accumulating (and actually advertise to their citizens to do the same, stockpile bullion), but everything, you name it, they accumulate it, aluminum to zinc, because it's *real stuff*. then they manufacture with it, giving it value added worth.
Which is, barring global thermonuclear war that they might lose, why china will win this century, they grok producing wealth as opposed to what the western nations are doing now, producing BS fiat smoke and mirrors "financial products". Sure, they have some of those too, but it is way secondary to their major global grab for every useful tangible they can get their hands on. Again, they ain't stupid, and will gladly work with any nations economic traitors to transfer real wealth to them. The traitors make a small killing, nation X's people gets the shaft and is put into debt...forever China loves it, so do the traitors/grifters. The rest of the people are slowly waking up to just how much they have given away now. It's too late to fix it, but at least they are starting to understand the difference between produced wealth and some liar's paper promises.
There's real wealth, then *promises* of wealth, said promises being some elaborate IOU scheme concocted by high level grifters in black suits with impressive nonsense titles..two different things really. Most people still get them confused and think and believe they are the same thing. And that's because their leaders, the black suited grifter crowd, keep telling them this lie over and over and over again.
So ya, if you stick your surplus labor into accumulating real wealth, including metals or any other useful tangible, by and large in the long term you will do good. Stick it into liars paper..just as much a crapshoot as betting against the house in vegas. Some winners, mostly a lot of big losers, and the house always turns a profit as long as people walk in the door willing to swap the cow for the magic beans.
It's a great con, been used for thousands of years. I am amazed people still fall for it all over then act so surprised when they find out..they've been conned!
You sound like a great dad..
Mine would let me watch, and would answer politely asked questions, but no chatter. I also could borrow tools if I was careful to clean and replace after use. Growing up poor in the depression made him really treasure even simple tools, or anything functional. And no waste, like you, recycle, make do, cobjob, make it work. I got a lot of that from him. My electronics training though, said to say, lacked, just too color blind to deal with it back then, so I skipped it for the most part. He was very good at it, eventually became a big iron fixer in the early days of mainframes, but I just couldn't follow it enough to absorb much, so my pursuits went elsewhere, basically anything to do with the outside or nature. Still that way today.
What luxury, no wonder people are soft today, they coddle their kids!
Back in the day, we had to stop work in the granite quarry at 4 AM, then they hitched us to travois (none of your fancy "wheel" gadgets), where we had to drag granite boulders to school. Playtime at recess consisted of banging larger boulders into smaller ones, to make gravel, which we spread on the playground, all the time dodging the pteranadons they let loose to pick off the slower kids, to improve the gene pool.
Can't say we really liked it, but you got really creative learning to dodge those snapping beaks!
Different vaccines? How about food, when was high fructose corn syrup added to everything, or aspartame or...anything like that? Could there be an ingestible or injectable correlation? Air quality and different trace pollution gases around then?
Besides social differences in the latest generations, that I addressed in a different reply, I would also suspect some biochemical differences. And someone else brought up the deal where they now force addict kids to ritalin and so on, this just wasn't done in the 60s and earlier. When did this become common?
Well, there's also the old adage that "necessity is the mother of invention". People were a lot more hands on back then with their day to day..well, stuff, plus a lot of things got repaired, not just thrown away when something trivial broke. This lead to "how do I make this better" type efforts..back to caveman days. As applies to children..they mimic adults, they don't see adults doing this anymore that much, repairing or building anything from scratch, figuring out a new tool or how to do something, so they don't either. How many kids today really watch their dad fixing things, or building anything from scratch? the world went from a lot of generalists who could use any tool thrown at them, plus make new tools, to now you need to be an extreme specialist in just one subject to even think about it. I know when I was a little shitter, I was following pops around as he tore down and rebuilt cars, did his own plumbing and carpentry, rebuilt TVs and radios, etc. So..I started doing similar, all the way to getting into trouble for disassembling the lawnmower, etc, building forts, etc with saws and hammer and nails. Kids today..are they really doing that, or mostly just..dunno..playing video games? Being a tool user means you need to use tools, then getting creative with that.
And then, where is the dividing line between art and tech/engineering? Hard to define creativity when we have no real distinction. Perhaps creativity is just not being recognized clearly enough today?
OK, I am downloading one just to try it out, there's no way in heck I can stream it, I can't even stream "normal" you tube vids yet, just can't get a good enough internet connection around here for that. So..what is this ultra high resolution for again? Who has a 25 foot screen at home? Why the bandwith wasteage? Really, just an honest question, if the bulk of humanity can't watch this in the manner it was designed for..why bother? Isn't this like driving around a 3 ton SUV to get to work in? Aren't we supposed to be all doing our part to just stop wasting resources for the hell of it? Just "because you can" is somehow bad when it comes to some forms of energy use, but other forms get a pass because it's connected to a computer? Google is supposedly "green", I am not seeing pushing this as being all that "green". How about "good enough" video quality with less megs being needed to be transferred instead, as a focus?
China developed an exchange with the US because way back nixon and kissinger decided that helping china develop would be an effective counter to them working with the USSR. they exploited the differences to keep those two nations divided. The offshoot was that to do that they allowed the destruction of manufacturing in the US and transferred it to china, industry by industry. China needed that at the time to develop, because the currency they received they plowed back into the US (and europe) to buy stuff like machine tools, etc, all the things they needed to develop a manufacturing industry.
That's *done* now, it is past tense. Times are changing. They can build anything, in mass quantities, cheap. Hence, they no longer "need" the US market, and they are gradually shifting to their internal billion and half people market and to nations where they get raw materials and energy sources from. It's not an overnight change deal, but that is the basic trend.
Well, I guess you didn't know, but there are still a lot of trans Atlantic cruises going on. Just google it (I just did, exists a plenty). And a lot of people have longer than two weeks off, heck, a lot of people with cash to burn are this thing called "retired" now and can take all the time they want.
We can't settle this now because we have no long range zeppelin service, but my guess is when/if it happens again they'll be sold out all the time.
As to your teleconferencing, I thought all you VIP IT biz guys used multiple screens now, yes? I read that here all the dang time, you just ain't cool unless you have your own server setup and multiple screens (multiple good big screens equals cost of one airline ticket). So, one screen shows the whiteboard, one screen shows the crowd, one shows the presenter, etc. It's called normal camera work, pros do it all the time. On TV and stuff, maybe you've seen that, how they can magically shift around and focus on different things, or even use more than one camera at a time.....
This is a tech board, you are arguing against tech that exists now, saying it is impossible or something to be used more, instead of moving sacks of water and protein around expensively. Nuts. I mean dang, I'm an old curmudgeon and you got me beat with the entrenched luddism from the last century, ha! I'm just saying a lot of so called "necessary" biz travel..isn't, along with a lot of normal day to day commuting. 60 years ago and earlier, sure, necessary, but not so much today. There's mostly inertia against using the web more, that's all, but it's changing.
...yes, Mohammed?
"I am sitting here in my mud hut and checking facebook, and son of a pig! Did you know we have infidels sneaking around our territory"?
"No way"!
"Way! Praise be Allah we have facebook to tell us these things, else, we would not know"!
I don't know about that. An airfoil type plane, not happening, but a solar electric dirigible, cruising at a slower speed but in comfort..there might be a lot of people opt for a longer duration "air cruise" across oceans, etc. Pretty big surface area on a blimp or dirigible for some thin film solar cells... As to "business travel", I am seriously disappointed that in 2010 we still have meatsacks traveling all over heck when teleconferencing can do the job. Same with meatsacks commuting daily to *go sit in front of a keyboard and monitor* when they could be doing that in the home office and skip the commuting part.