Modern devices can stream video offsite live, either for immediate viewing or for endless archived replays. Because anybody might have this technology, police have to assume that everybody does. The era of policemen thinking they can get a way with a little manual correction is over. Whether it's legal or not is irrelevant because there are enough people who would violate that law despite what punishment might come.
They don't know if you're recording video. All you have to do to engage their restraint is hold up the cell phone and pretend to be recording to restrain their exuberance.
Look, I'm going to explain this to you in very simple terms. Geothermal is here now. Geothermal was not here when this plant was built. Geothermal is cheaper than nuclear. Geothermal does not have these risks. Geothermal is renewable, carbon-neutral base-load power. In a modern Geothermal plant everything that comes up from the deep goes back down because it's a closed cycle and there are no emissions AT ALL. Not radioactive emissions, not CO2 emissions, not bad Karma emissions. No emissions ever except for heat from the depths of the Earth that would have got here eventually anyway.
Geothermal, because it has no fuel, also has no spent fuel the disposition of which has no plan AT ALL. Geothermal, because it has no fuel, has no mining deaths, no shipping risks, no proliferation issues, no spent fuel with indeterminate storage and/or theoretical reprocessing. Fuel supply cannot be constrained by global economics nor international strife because THERE IS NO FUEL.
No geothermal plant which entered commercial energy production has been decommissioned ever - and geothermal has been around twice as long as nuclear. No misadventure at a geothermal plant has killed anybody ever, or involved the evacuation of a single home - let alone the evacuation of 80,000 people like Fukushima.
It's clean renewable energy. Japan has the third most explored such resources of any nation on Earth, remarkable for a nation so small geographically - more than enough to meet their energy needs for a thousand years.
So if you have an endless supply of cheaper energy from a trusted, well established reliable source of base-load power why do you need nuclear? Because dicking with fission is edgy and exciting? Because of cultural inertia? No really, why? Japan is also the only nation on Earth to feel the brunt of nuclear weapons. It took a lot to sell them on nuke power. It ought to take much less to sell them on geothermal. The Geothermal plant nearest Fukushima Daiichi didn't even shut down during the earthquake and tsunami, let alone create a mess the residents' grandchildren will need to clean up.
For the most part we don't need nuclear power. For electricity generation provided by nuclear power many places can use geothermal instead. Particularly Japan. It's cheaper, doesn't require foreign fuels or technologies, doesn't leave a mess afterward, the plants don't have to be decommissioned - and they don't have the potential for their lives to be extended long beyond their safe operating life due to political and fiscal exigencies because they don't become unsafe over time. The spent fuel doesn't stack up on the roof until it's five times the design level when there's no place to dump it - because there is no spent fuel.
This "OMG Fossil Fuels are the only alternative to nuclear" nonsense has got to stop.
At the current rate of progress it should be a useful method of storing energy for weapons or space travel in about 15 years. It's not linear. They're doing good work here. I don't know why you think a starship would require hundreds of tons of antimatter. That's an awful lot.
We don't need any new weapons. We've enough applied physics to immolate the world already and enough applied chemistry and biology to wipe out the survivors. Of course weapons will be made, but we're past the point where they make the global tension situation any more dire. It's not like smuggling an antimatter bomb into some close quarter and detonating it is going to be a deniable thing. We all pretty much know who has the antimatter.
While I agree with you, there is still more potential here. In the implementation phase of a project the field engineers may come across opportunities that neither sales people nor sales engineers get to see. For example, in the implementation of a server consolidation farm an aging network or fiber channel infrastructure may be preventing the customer from getting the best benefit from the gear. Or the power infrastructure is inadequate. Or the backup system is discontinued and deprecated. Sales engineers get to see some of this in their post-sales support role, but the field engineers see more and are more likely to identify areas of maximum benefit. It's almost never the case that the project plan involves forklifting the entire infrastructure.
Field Engineers want to help both the customer and their company. The ideal answer here is to provide a channel for the engineers to pass these opportunities back to sales for followup. Some engineers will be best motivated by feedback that the customer was helped. Others might want the implementation work. Others might feel that more direct compensation for identifying these opportunities is more fair. Whatever it takes, closing this loop engages a Virtuous Cycle of continuous improvement for both the company and the customer. This helps build an ongoing relationship of lasting mutual benefit. It also helps the engineers think about their long-term relationships with the customer and the company in a more concrete fashion, cements the relationship between engineering and sales, and builds team spirit.
Since nVidia hasn't made XBox chips since 2003 and the ownership of the company is no longer material to Microsoft this contract should have been terminated long ago. No doubt making this commitment permanent after the companies part ways was not nVidia's intent. That Microsoft retains this right is just part of the Faustian bargains available there. If you dance with the devil, you will pay his fee. I wonder how many similar contracts are lingering out there...
Once all apps are browser based, they work everywhere. Phones, tablets, laptops, pcs, in-dash navi, blu-ray players, game consoles, embedded in the TV. Even Mac. No more being chained to one way of doing things; not having your familiar tools where you want them. Because it never was about the OS or the hardware. It has been all about the apps utility to the end user this whole time.
Maybe they should have skipped the fancy magnet bearings and just made really huge smooth very massive flywheels that turn much more slowly. Like say almost half the width of that site in diameter, out of something cheap like steel reinforced concrete. Engineers get so excited about their advanced materials these days that they forget the simple things like if you're storing energy as angular momentum the more mass you have, and the greater the distance the mass from the axis, the slower you can go to store the same amount of energy. Start turning a few thousand tons on a disk 30 meters wide and a lot of the finer engineering challenges might just magically go away.
You're on to something here. In the trades they have bonding. The tradesman posts a reasonable bond held by a neutral third party which in the event of negligence or poor work is forfeit to the extent of damages. Say, $10,000 bond gives up to $1000 to the first users to claim damage from being compromised by included malware. A bond agent reduces the upfront cost of this by investigating the tradesman and putting up his own money, for a reasonable fee. Profit motive keeps people checking apps. Interest on the bonds pays for the overhead of the third party as in the vast majority of cases no claims will be made. Malware authors have to be particularly resourceful to post bond and still turn a profit before they're discovered, and the economic model of rootkits falls apart.
It can be completely voluntary too: It's your choice if you want to run apps from unbonded sources. Once you have sufficient reputation you don't need bonding any more, or can post your own bonds.
Well if you subtract out their $11.5B in cash and short term investments, Nokia can be had today for $15B. So it's getting close. Your target would put the price at $5.26, or 25 percent off today's closing price. That's easily doable by the end of the year if they keep cranking out the bad news.
That author had some stunningly forward looking observations back then. For example, here and here. He's not always coherent, but it's still great work.
A11. The licensing used will be in line with the existing licensing plan for the open source projects. If we were to create a new project, we would choose an appropriate OSI approved license.
Q12. Are Linaro software and tools free and available to anyone?
A12: Yes. Tools and software are available now as monthly releases to make it easy to get the latest code and tools.
Q13. Does Linaro make money?
A13. No. Linaro is a not for profit organization doing useful open source engineering work for the good of the industry.
Essentially it's a club of about 100 engineers from various sources with the mission to accelerate development and use of Linux on ARM. Naturally they would partner with various hardare and distro partners to get various flavors of Linux on various flavors of ARM, and encourage wide distribution of all of this. These groups typically use a "Cambrian Explosion" approach to innovation and selection, so you shouldn't marry any platform they produce, but rather be flexible about exploiting the potentials presented. It's for learning. That geeks will send this thing to the upper levels of the atmosphere and perhaps to space; to the deepest levels of our oceans, fly UAVs, and program robots in elementary schools is incidental to the main thrust. Those folks buy units in the hundreds: they're not the target market - but it's still cool that this stuff is available to do that.
While dev boards are normally available for just about everything, you have to be a ninth level nerd to navigate all the various vendor agreements, partnerships and docs in a way that doesn't lead to a halt in open source progress with development NDA's, unsupported hardware or other roadblocks. Sometimes you have to be working for a Fortune 500 company to get the DevKit. These guys are doing away with all that, and that's a good thing. It's important that they're doing it not for money, but because they crave progress. Whether their craving is personal or institutional is irrelevant because we all benefit from progress. This is a good way to isolate progress drivers such that they can work and not harm their sponsors.
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The Transformer did come $100 cheaper, and did offer me more than the iPad2 did. And now I have it and I really like it. YMMV
Stop that. We like to pretend.
The headline is missing the word "some" somewhere in it.
Modern devices can stream video offsite live, either for immediate viewing or for endless archived replays. Because anybody might have this technology, police have to assume that everybody does. The era of policemen thinking they can get a way with a little manual correction is over. Whether it's legal or not is irrelevant because there are enough people who would violate that law despite what punishment might come.
They don't know if you're recording video. All you have to do to engage their restraint is hold up the cell phone and pretend to be recording to restrain their exuberance.
Really, that was an exceptional troll. I'd like to nominate you for Troll Of The Year if there was such a thing. It was beautiful.
Look, I'm going to explain this to you in very simple terms. Geothermal is here now. Geothermal was not here when this plant was built. Geothermal is cheaper than nuclear. Geothermal does not have these risks. Geothermal is renewable, carbon-neutral base-load power. In a modern Geothermal plant everything that comes up from the deep goes back down because it's a closed cycle and there are no emissions AT ALL. Not radioactive emissions, not CO2 emissions, not bad Karma emissions. No emissions ever except for heat from the depths of the Earth that would have got here eventually anyway.
Geothermal, because it has no fuel, also has no spent fuel the disposition of which has no plan AT ALL. Geothermal, because it has no fuel, has no mining deaths, no shipping risks, no proliferation issues, no spent fuel with indeterminate storage and/or theoretical reprocessing. Fuel supply cannot be constrained by global economics nor international strife because THERE IS NO FUEL.
No geothermal plant which entered commercial energy production has been decommissioned ever - and geothermal has been around twice as long as nuclear. No misadventure at a geothermal plant has killed anybody ever, or involved the evacuation of a single home - let alone the evacuation of 80,000 people like Fukushima.
It's clean renewable energy. Japan has the third most explored such resources of any nation on Earth, remarkable for a nation so small geographically - more than enough to meet their energy needs for a thousand years.
So if you have an endless supply of cheaper energy from a trusted, well established reliable source of base-load power why do you need nuclear? Because dicking with fission is edgy and exciting? Because of cultural inertia? No really, why? Japan is also the only nation on Earth to feel the brunt of nuclear weapons. It took a lot to sell them on nuke power. It ought to take much less to sell them on geothermal. The Geothermal plant nearest Fukushima Daiichi didn't even shut down during the earthquake and tsunami, let alone create a mess the residents' grandchildren will need to clean up.
Then they don't have any to spare for a 500sq km exclusion zone, do they?
In a modern plant what comes out of the ground goes back in the ground. It's a closed loop. There are no emissions.
Really?
Minor detail: 80,000 people.
For the most part we don't need nuclear power. For electricity generation provided by nuclear power many places can use geothermal instead. Particularly Japan. It's cheaper, doesn't require foreign fuels or technologies, doesn't leave a mess afterward, the plants don't have to be decommissioned - and they don't have the potential for their lives to be extended long beyond their safe operating life due to political and fiscal exigencies because they don't become unsafe over time. The spent fuel doesn't stack up on the roof until it's five times the design level when there's no place to dump it - because there is no spent fuel.
This "OMG Fossil Fuels are the only alternative to nuclear" nonsense has got to stop.
At the current rate of progress it should be a useful method of storing energy for weapons or space travel in about 15 years. It's not linear. They're doing good work here. I don't know why you think a starship would require hundreds of tons of antimatter. That's an awful lot.
We don't need any new weapons. We've enough applied physics to immolate the world already and enough applied chemistry and biology to wipe out the survivors. Of course weapons will be made, but we're past the point where they make the global tension situation any more dire. It's not like smuggling an antimatter bomb into some close quarter and detonating it is going to be a deniable thing. We all pretty much know who has the antimatter.
While I agree with you, there is still more potential here. In the implementation phase of a project the field engineers may come across opportunities that neither sales people nor sales engineers get to see. For example, in the implementation of a server consolidation farm an aging network or fiber channel infrastructure may be preventing the customer from getting the best benefit from the gear. Or the power infrastructure is inadequate. Or the backup system is discontinued and deprecated. Sales engineers get to see some of this in their post-sales support role, but the field engineers see more and are more likely to identify areas of maximum benefit. It's almost never the case that the project plan involves forklifting the entire infrastructure.
Field Engineers want to help both the customer and their company. The ideal answer here is to provide a channel for the engineers to pass these opportunities back to sales for followup. Some engineers will be best motivated by feedback that the customer was helped. Others might want the implementation work. Others might feel that more direct compensation for identifying these opportunities is more fair. Whatever it takes, closing this loop engages a Virtuous Cycle of continuous improvement for both the company and the customer. This helps build an ongoing relationship of lasting mutual benefit. It also helps the engineers think about their long-term relationships with the customer and the company in a more concrete fashion, cements the relationship between engineering and sales, and builds team spirit.
Since nVidia hasn't made XBox chips since 2003 and the ownership of the company is no longer material to Microsoft this contract should have been terminated long ago. No doubt making this commitment permanent after the companies part ways was not nVidia's intent. That Microsoft retains this right is just part of the Faustian bargains available there. If you dance with the devil, you will pay his fee. I wonder how many similar contracts are lingering out there...
That doesn't seem likely. At least to me.
Once all apps are browser based, they work everywhere. Phones, tablets, laptops, pcs, in-dash navi, blu-ray players, game consoles, embedded in the TV. Even Mac. No more being chained to one way of doing things; not having your familiar tools where you want them. Because it never was about the OS or the hardware. It has been all about the apps utility to the end user this whole time.
Firefox, Opera and of course Chrome are enthusiastically embracing this. If the other browsers won't, they lose users.
Maybe they should have skipped the fancy magnet bearings and just made really huge smooth very massive flywheels that turn much more slowly. Like say almost half the width of that site in diameter, out of something cheap like steel reinforced concrete. Engineers get so excited about their advanced materials these days that they forget the simple things like if you're storing energy as angular momentum the more mass you have, and the greater the distance the mass from the axis, the slower you can go to store the same amount of energy. Start turning a few thousand tons on a disk 30 meters wide and a lot of the finer engineering challenges might just magically go away.
Ah, but where's the fun in that?
You're on to something here. In the trades they have bonding. The tradesman posts a reasonable bond held by a neutral third party which in the event of negligence or poor work is forfeit to the extent of damages. Say, $10,000 bond gives up to $1000 to the first users to claim damage from being compromised by included malware. A bond agent reduces the upfront cost of this by investigating the tradesman and putting up his own money, for a reasonable fee. Profit motive keeps people checking apps. Interest on the bonds pays for the overhead of the third party as in the vast majority of cases no claims will be made. Malware authors have to be particularly resourceful to post bond and still turn a profit before they're discovered, and the economic model of rootkits falls apart.
It can be completely voluntary too: It's your choice if you want to run apps from unbonded sources. Once you have sufficient reputation you don't need bonding any more, or can post your own bonds.
What a program can do, a program can do. We want rootable phones. As AC said above, with freedom comes responsibility.
Well if you subtract out their $11.5B in cash and short term investments, Nokia can be had today for $15B. So it's getting close. Your target would put the price at $5.26, or 25 percent off today's closing price. That's easily doable by the end of the year if they keep cranking out the bad news.
That author had some stunningly forward looking observations back then. For example, here and here. He's not always coherent, but it's still great work.
You might read the Linaro FAQ:
Q11. What license will you use?
A11. The licensing used will be in line with the existing licensing plan for the open source projects. If we were to create a new project, we would choose an appropriate OSI approved license.
Q12. Are Linaro software and tools free and available to anyone?
A12: Yes. Tools and software are available now as monthly releases to make it easy to get the latest code and tools.
Q13. Does Linaro make money?
A13. No. Linaro is a not for profit organization doing useful open source engineering work for the good of the industry.
Essentially it's a club of about 100 engineers from various sources with the mission to accelerate development and use of Linux on ARM. Naturally they would partner with various hardare and distro partners to get various flavors of Linux on various flavors of ARM, and encourage wide distribution of all of this. These groups typically use a "Cambrian Explosion" approach to innovation and selection, so you shouldn't marry any platform they produce, but rather be flexible about exploiting the potentials presented. It's for learning. That geeks will send this thing to the upper levels of the atmosphere and perhaps to space; to the deepest levels of our oceans, fly UAVs, and program robots in elementary schools is incidental to the main thrust. Those folks buy units in the hundreds: they're not the target market - but it's still cool that this stuff is available to do that.
While dev boards are normally available for just about everything, you have to be a ninth level nerd to navigate all the various vendor agreements, partnerships and docs in a way that doesn't lead to a halt in open source progress with development NDA's, unsupported hardware or other roadblocks. Sometimes you have to be working for a Fortune 500 company to get the DevKit. These guys are doing away with all that, and that's a good thing. It's important that they're doing it not for money, but because they crave progress. Whether their craving is personal or institutional is irrelevant because we all benefit from progress. This is a good way to isolate progress drivers such that they can work and not harm their sponsors.
Somebody's going to post this link. It may as well be me. Even CEO Can't Figure Out How RadioShack Still In Business.
Because it's better. Why else?