If you dig around they are marketing a home system that doubles as a furnace for home heating. Heat is generated using natural gas or propane, and electricity is generated simultaneously that could be used to power a forced air system. Unfortunately like everything else of this nature that seems revolutionary, the home unit is "not currently for sale and available only for testing by suitable partners", and the few products actually for sale are priced so far out of reach as to be functionally useless. I can get a decent 5KW generator for under 1000$ easily, and a good permanent installation could be had for well under 2000$, so this product more or less falls in the same category as the 800,000$ electric car: If you can afford it, you don't need it and could do more for the environment by using that money elsewhere. It seems there is a whole industry based on technology that never comes to fruition. Anyone else remember the computer company in Utah making ASIC based computers that compiled each time they ran to a benefit of 10x the running speed? whatever happened to them?....
Now, if someone like GE or Kohler were to license this tech, it could be produced a magnitude of order cheaper. But then a major player runs the risk of re-tooling at a substantial cost to begin production, only to have their investment dashed by next years innovation which will be even more efficient. There really aren't that many conspiracies out there. We have painted ourselves into an economic hole with the business models we use for capitol investment. Intel could be making chips three times as fast, but until they pay off the 2 billion dollar factory they just finished building for last years chip innovation, it just isn't happening. The conspiracy is just supply and demand economics....
okay, normally I ignore most of the nonsense said here, but calmly and factually asserting Greenland was green a few centuries ago and hence the name is beyond false and transcends comical to a territory I dont even have a name for.
Greenland was named as such to encourage colonists. Iceland was named as such to discourage travellers. During the middle age warming small coastal portions of Greenland were in fact moderately lush and viking colonists thrived there, however a return to more typical climate for the area and the colosts all perished. The majority of Greenland has been under an Ice Cap thousands of feet thick for many thousands of years. During the same time period that Greenland was "greener", Iceland was even more hospitable than it is now, yet somehow they avoided naming it Greenerland or Greenestland.
Its REALLY bad factual assertions like "Greenland was named such because it was once green" that keep the whole discussion of climatology on shakey if not infirm ground. The search for useful information to base ideas upon becomes exceptionally fatiguing when every attempt to present an idea is demeaned by half truths, selective application of knowledge, or just damn lies purported to prove any particulare point. I blame Al Gore for this. Facts have become secondary to presentation almost universally now.
Really people. Its fairly simple. Polluting less would be great, lets get on with it. The earth has been warmer, and its certainly reasonable to expect it will do so again no matter how many hybrids we buy or how much toilet paper Sheryl Crow saves. How about we all pay more attention to how to live through it and thrive. Even if we DO manage to undo any damage we might have done, the evidence that it will happen regardless is FAR AND BEYOND irrefutable. Its just the way the erath works. Thanks for showing us Polar Bear cartoons and fancy graphs, Al. Now shut the F**K up and let us get on with survivng as a race. Or we can all work on carbon trading pyramid scemes, growing ethanol that uses more energy that in produces, and shopping at Whole Foods because paying 7$ for a loaf of bread somehow makes me green.
if you are an expert, you might wanna work on reading skills. No where does it say 60 times more efficiant. It says 60x the current, and an unspecified but dramatic drop in voltage. I.E.. they dont actually claim an increace in effeciency at all as best as I read. Hope your expert service includes much better information processing that youve demonstrated, or its no wonder solar power doesnt catch on with experts of this caliber.
almost any dvd player software can read an IFO/VOB set and display menus. The problem is they dont serve the video up in any way. It can be done and rather simply, but someone will need to write the program. and the typical dvd is actually MUCH more tha 4.7gig pre movie. Commercial releases are dual layer and even occasionally double sided. You are generally looking at 6-8gig of data on a typical commercial release DVD with menus and extra features. The movie itself can be condensed quite a bit and easily server without the menu system, so me thinks you will have to forgo the luxury of menus if you want a hundred films available on demand in your house. Mostly this sounds like a HUGE waste of time and resources, but hey.....
good point. my bad. I didnt notice it was vivendi refusing. Seems like asking them to do anything is like asking a brick to be gasseous....would take bout the same temperature
on the front page of CNet is a feedback link. Not that Im naive enough to think 5 emails will do it, but a few hundred pointing out that they are alienating the very demographic they were concieved to serve might help a bit....CNet was started as a way to mainstream nerd-dom. Its not really a great resource now, but coporations always fear alienating customers to some extent. Only takes a second, and please be calm and articulate. Insults and ranting get ignored EVERYWHERE, not just here.
sure enough, Webmail comes back online and away goes netidentity. AOL should have a LOT of really bored lawyers sitting around waiting for things like this. "As soon as our mail server has an issue you redirect them to another service selling email address that YOU own?......could you repeat that?"
apparently AOL webmail is haivng some issues at the moment, and what comes up on my screen instead of an error message? Whoops! The file you were looking for on webmail.aol.com was not found, but here; look at our ads for email services. The company is called netidentity, and brags of being a verisign secure site....now THATS pure hijacking. The adddress bar still claims its veiwing http://webmail.aol.com/
the clear impression here to the uninformed would be that AOL was encouraging you to buy email services from these people.....
what better way to get everyone who WOULD get caught by such a tactic completely riled up against the RIAA. Obviously its well crafted humor/statement relating to bugs they have likely found. This is simply genius in terms of getting the troops riled up BEFORE the battle. Do the bugs exist? yeah....Does the RIAA have it together enough to use them? not yet...Would Gobbles be dumb enough to make a bullet point list of recent capitol offenses and publisize it? no....are people who dont know any better upset enough about all of this to do something about it now? Yes......
A number is not intellectual property. Niether is a prime number. no one is is copying xbox games nor would the key alow them to. In fact, the key does not really qualify as copy protection. its merely a way to make it difficult for you to give anyone but Micro$oft money to use a pile of parts that YOU purchased with your own money. Its an obstacle. nothing more. finding the key then creating legitimate content to be used on the Xbox would not even appear on the DMCA radar. Now...if you used the key to make illegal copies of content created by microsoft you might have an argument....but just because someone CAN use something illegally does not make it illegal. Unless you want it to...in such case the computer you type on would be illegal because you COULD do something bad with it.
dumbass.
its processing just fine. their servers are ignoring your answers. their client is designed to cache results and collect them at intervals. I can only assume that not having or not USING the ability to kill the clients was a veiled attempt to allow someone else to use their source code or structure to continue work at a later date. Its pointless though in the long run. For it to work at all there needs to be better math up front.
I think that the audience interested in getting cheaper Xbox games, and the audience who dabbles in high strength math and complex technology may have a decidedly lesser coincedent subset than many here assume. An MIT student has already gone to all the trouble of recovering the key and explaining how to use it. He published a REALLY complete document on how he recovered the key and how it could be used and included the fact that if the key is changed, the architecture is such that it could be recovered again. While he doesnt actually give the key (he was discouraged from doing so after discussing his paper with M$), it would seem the measures needed would cost MUCH less than 100K for someone motivated. You can find your holy grail here: http://web.mit.edu/bunnie/www/proj/anatak/AIM-2002 -008.pdf
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If you dig around they are marketing a home system that doubles as a furnace for home heating. Heat is generated using natural gas or propane, and electricity is generated simultaneously that could be used to power a forced air system. Unfortunately like everything else of this nature that seems revolutionary, the home unit is "not currently for sale and available only for testing by suitable partners", and the few products actually for sale are priced so far out of reach as to be functionally useless. I can get a decent 5KW generator for under 1000$ easily, and a good permanent installation could be had for well under 2000$, so this product more or less falls in the same category as the 800,000$ electric car: If you can afford it, you don't need it and could do more for the environment by using that money elsewhere. It seems there is a whole industry based on technology that never comes to fruition. Anyone else remember the computer company in Utah making ASIC based computers that compiled each time they ran to a benefit of 10x the running speed? whatever happened to them?.... Now, if someone like GE or Kohler were to license this tech, it could be produced a magnitude of order cheaper. But then a major player runs the risk of re-tooling at a substantial cost to begin production, only to have their investment dashed by next years innovation which will be even more efficient. There really aren't that many conspiracies out there. We have painted ourselves into an economic hole with the business models we use for capitol investment. Intel could be making chips three times as fast, but until they pay off the 2 billion dollar factory they just finished building for last years chip innovation, it just isn't happening. The conspiracy is just supply and demand economics....
okay, normally I ignore most of the nonsense said here, but calmly and factually asserting Greenland was green a few centuries ago and hence the name is beyond false and transcends comical to a territory I dont even have a name for. Greenland was named as such to encourage colonists. Iceland was named as such to discourage travellers. During the middle age warming small coastal portions of Greenland were in fact moderately lush and viking colonists thrived there, however a return to more typical climate for the area and the colosts all perished. The majority of Greenland has been under an Ice Cap thousands of feet thick for many thousands of years. During the same time period that Greenland was "greener", Iceland was even more hospitable than it is now, yet somehow they avoided naming it Greenerland or Greenestland. Its REALLY bad factual assertions like "Greenland was named such because it was once green" that keep the whole discussion of climatology on shakey if not infirm ground. The search for useful information to base ideas upon becomes exceptionally fatiguing when every attempt to present an idea is demeaned by half truths, selective application of knowledge, or just damn lies purported to prove any particulare point. I blame Al Gore for this. Facts have become secondary to presentation almost universally now. Really people. Its fairly simple. Polluting less would be great, lets get on with it. The earth has been warmer, and its certainly reasonable to expect it will do so again no matter how many hybrids we buy or how much toilet paper Sheryl Crow saves. How about we all pay more attention to how to live through it and thrive. Even if we DO manage to undo any damage we might have done, the evidence that it will happen regardless is FAR AND BEYOND irrefutable. Its just the way the erath works. Thanks for showing us Polar Bear cartoons and fancy graphs, Al. Now shut the F**K up and let us get on with survivng as a race. Or we can all work on carbon trading pyramid scemes, growing ethanol that uses more energy that in produces, and shopping at Whole Foods because paying 7$ for a loaf of bread somehow makes me green.
if you are an expert, you might wanna work on reading skills. No where does it say 60 times more efficiant. It says 60x the current, and an unspecified but dramatic drop in voltage. I.E.. they dont actually claim an increace in effeciency at all as best as I read. Hope your expert service includes much better information processing that youve demonstrated, or its no wonder solar power doesnt catch on with experts of this caliber.
Vandals...hmmmm....you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it does........
almost any dvd player software can read an IFO/VOB set and display menus. The problem is they dont serve the video up in any way. It can be done and rather simply, but someone will need to write the program. and the typical dvd is actually MUCH more tha 4.7gig pre movie. Commercial releases are dual layer and even occasionally double sided. You are generally looking at 6-8gig of data on a typical commercial release DVD with menus and extra features. The movie itself can be condensed quite a bit and easily server without the menu system, so me thinks you will have to forgo the luxury of menus if you want a hundred films available on demand in your house. Mostly this sounds like a HUGE waste of time and resources, but hey.....
good point. my bad. I didnt notice it was vivendi refusing. Seems like asking them to do anything is like asking a brick to be gasseous....would take bout the same temperature
on the front page of CNet is a feedback link. Not that Im naive enough to think 5 emails will do it, but a few hundred pointing out that they are alienating the very demographic they were concieved to serve might help a bit....CNet was started as a way to mainstream nerd-dom. Its not really a great resource now, but coporations always fear alienating customers to some extent. Only takes a second, and please be calm and articulate. Insults and ranting get ignored EVERYWHERE, not just here.
sure enough, Webmail comes back online and away goes netidentity. AOL should have a LOT of really bored lawyers sitting around waiting for things like this. "As soon as our mail server has an issue you redirect them to another service selling email address that YOU own?......could you repeat that?"
apparently AOL webmail is haivng some issues at the moment, and what comes up on my screen instead of an error message? Whoops! The file you were looking for on webmail.aol.com was not found, but here; look at our ads for email services. The company is called netidentity, and brags of being a verisign secure site....now THATS pure hijacking. The adddress bar still claims its veiwing http://webmail.aol.com/ the clear impression here to the uninformed would be that AOL was encouraging you to buy email services from these people.....
what better way to get everyone who WOULD get caught by such a tactic completely riled up against the RIAA. Obviously its well crafted humor/statement relating to bugs they have likely found. This is simply genius in terms of getting the troops riled up BEFORE the battle. Do the bugs exist? yeah....Does the RIAA have it together enough to use them? not yet...Would Gobbles be dumb enough to make a bullet point list of recent capitol offenses and publisize it? no....are people who dont know any better upset enough about all of this to do something about it now? Yes......
A number is not intellectual property. Niether is a prime number. no one is is copying xbox games nor would the key alow them to. In fact, the key does not really qualify as copy protection. its merely a way to make it difficult for you to give anyone but Micro$oft money to use a pile of parts that YOU purchased with your own money. Its an obstacle. nothing more. finding the key then creating legitimate content to be used on the Xbox would not even appear on the DMCA radar. Now...if you used the key to make illegal copies of content created by microsoft you might have an argument....but just because someone CAN use something illegally does not make it illegal. Unless you want it to...in such case the computer you type on would be illegal because you COULD do something bad with it. dumbass.
its processing just fine. their servers are ignoring your answers. their client is designed to cache results and collect them at intervals. I can only assume that not having or not USING the ability to kill the clients was a veiled attempt to allow someone else to use their source code or structure to continue work at a later date. Its pointless though in the long run. For it to work at all there needs to be better math up front.
I think that the audience interested in getting cheaper Xbox games, and the audience who dabbles in high strength math and complex technology may have a decidedly lesser coincedent subset than many here assume. An MIT student has already gone to all the trouble of recovering the key and explaining how to use it. He published a REALLY complete document on how he recovered the key and how it could be used and included the fact that if the key is changed, the architecture is such that it could be recovered again. While he doesnt actually give the key (he was discouraged from doing so after discussing his paper with M$), it would seem the measures needed would cost MUCH less than 100K for someone motivated. You can find your holy grail here: http://web.mit.edu/bunnie/www/proj/anatak/AIM-2002 -008.pdf