First, yes there is Hydrogen Stations already, Chicago should have a few they were Beta Testing the Ballard Fuel Cells, for years, in busses. British Columbia has actually started to build out hydrogen filling stations as well.
Hydrogen does not directly require fossil fuels like some think, it is obtained from water, though it does require electricity, which could be obtained through fossil fuels.
Hydrogen Fuel Cells, are not as enviornmentally friendly as people would think, the pollution is only redirected to other locations, and other sources, such as Nuclear waste, or pollution at the power plant in another state or province.
There is an exception to this pollution issue, is hydrogen fuel cells based around other sources of stored hydrogen, such as methane(natural gas) based fuel cells, or even sugar water. And for those who will flame me, with "Methane is a fossil fuel" this is not 100% true, the majority of methane in the world is not held in the crude oil of the world, its being produced from agriculture.
Again I have said this before, and I would say this again. LCD's are too expensive to buy and to expensive to own (though compared to CRT they still use less power). But with the advent of newer and cheaper technologies, why isn't there such a push to get these products developed. (Oh wait the consortium that was formed to push LCD technologies might be a reason for this)
There is many other technologies coming to the market place in the next few years, such as TDEL (http://www.ifire.com/ warning flash heavy site) or even OLED's. Both of these eliminate (or nearly eliminate) the dead pixel problem, they both use way less power, and in the case of TDEL they will be cheaper to manufacturer hence cheaper displays.
Maybe it's time to encourage companies like Samsung, or the other manufacturers on this push.
according to blu-ray.com http://www.blu-ray.com/faq/#1.10 the disc's now have a new coating to make them harder.
But again if you really want to protect them, cartridges would be the way to go.
Well considering the dire predictions that the next form of popup ads and such will be coming from Flash apps and not directly from coding on the webpage. And with little control by the flash player to control such actions I can see why they would be concerned.
Yeah I know but hey can't please all of the people all of the time (By the way they are planning to start production on large scale displays by 2q2005).
This is the email I got, as I made a request to them.
Thank you for your interest in iFire Technology.
iFire Technology is currently upgrading its plant in preparation for pilot production of mid 30-inch flat panel television displays based on its proprietary TDEL technology. The construction of the pilot plant in Toronto is well underway. The pilot plant previously served as iFire Technology's research and development facility. The pilot production facility is anticipated to be completed in the mid-2005 timeframe.
iFire Technology's focus remains on the flat panel television industry and the Company expects to commercialize its technology in partnership with major industry players, and plans to target the mid-30-inch screen size television segment with commercial production planned for the 2006
timeframe.
Regards,
As I have mentioned before, I do not know why LCD's remain to be popular. Oh wait I do, it's the consortium that has put billions into trying to force them onto the market, even though they are undercutting their own manufacturing costs the last I have heard they are actually charging half the cost of manufacuturing on the 15" displays.
Now their are some new technologies coming in the next year, the main one is the TDEL from iFire
The TDEL display technology has the benefit of being cheaper to make, and less sensitive to microscopic dust, it is 10 to 20% greater tolerance to this dust. From their own Technology Comparison page they manufacuturing costs would be 30 to 50% cheaper then conventional flat panel technologies.
For those in the know, or not in the know the core for MacOSX aka Darwin is available currently from www.opendarwin.org and comes with a PPC and ix86 version. When I get home I am going to look into it in more detail.
jason
I really wish that the w3c would also adopt for the client side of the http protocol support for the SRV records.
(also wouldn't be a bad idea with MUA's)
How many would like to see the ability to have your content on multiple locations without costly equipment, or lb'ed dns
First off I don't see much in current trends the big oil companies control it too much. Look at it, 50 years of technology that hasn't been introduced because of the oil industry.
Now things, I do think one idea that could be done, reducing the need for infra-red cams and such, why not use UV lights, most clothing this will reflect off of, and it doesn't require specialized displays or equipment.
LED lighting would be more used, they are bright and low powered.
I would love heads up display would be nice, even for such things as speed and such.
I do see drive-by wire, to being used more, you could have instead of a central control of pressure to break.. you could have 4 different electrically controlled breaks.. which means if one fails, the rest don't.
Megnetic fluids will also be used in cars for transmissions and steering column, possibly even shocks.
Now if we get into electric motor based systems (not mentioning how the electricity is supplied, as there's issues with that), I see the use of plate motors being used more, this would give true 4 wheel steering, and make it possible to parallel park by pulling up beside of the parking spot.
Now if you get into my exotic ideas, I see the following (idea comes from many areas including racing):
First you have a Chassis, this you buy, one size fits all.
Now the first option is the transmission, its mounted to the chassis. The engine is then dropped onto the transmission, this would be a quick mount, where only a few bolts hold the two together.
Then you would purchase a body, to fit who you are. this could be a mixture of plastics, and metal, or something like CerMet, or what ever you want. The body is a complete kit, that sits on the Chassis, and is removable. From the body to the engine there is mounting points for power and such, but no other mount points (remember drive-by wire) simple wire connector.. like the ATX connector or such.
Now the idea with this, is if I decide that I want the new model, I just buy the body, I take it in, they pull off the body and replace it with a new one.. the existing engine, and chassis you keep..
If i decide to upgrade the engine.. I take it in, they pull out the engine and drop in a new one, make the connections and your done..
just my ideas.
The reasons from my point of view, for 10G ethernet is not for end users, as I see rare requirements for the average user to require such bandwidth, in the near future.
But with such devices, as IP KVM's, NAS, iSCSI, among many other devices that require high speeds, just think of a network, 24 devices of 1Gbps connected devices, needing to talk to a NAS at 1Gbps, all transfering a 1TB worth of data at the same time. And what if 2 devices that are talking to each other decide to change their priority or TOS so that they take precedence over all other traffic, that could be problems.
It's Fluorinert
Here's an interesting thing for you overclockers, this guy got out of the Celeron 366 he got it to over 600
http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?caller=articles/s ubmersion/submersion.html
http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?caller=articles/s ubmersion2/submersion2.html
First in years gone by there was rumours that seagate had a fluid filled drive, this was to protect against movement of the drive heads to allow more platters in the smaller frame.
Second using a non-conductive liquid (such fluids exist 3M i think makes it, but right now it's expensive), you could have a completely sealed system, with a heat exchanger, outside of the case. This benefits the computer, in a few ways, no dust (which most people have a dust elephants in their computers); better performance(this fluid actually improves electrical flows with small gaps); quieter system, if needed you could move a fan to another area, or altenatively larger water reserves as well; lastly with a sealed case, you have better security of the system, which is more important in a work environment.
My Solution:
Would be to use a split type airconditioner.
These generally have a wall mounted blower on the inside, and on the outside there is cooling box like central Airconditioning, except this has it's own fan system.
Panasonic does have them, but they do not have a link on their page anymore
and LGE as well.
The worst job I saw was about 3 years ago..
The job required a MCSE in a pure unix shop. I called up and asked how many windows machines were in the environment, and there were none.
When asked why does it require an MCSE, the statement was that they were best qualified to operate the servers.
Go figure..
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Again as someone mentioned there is antiword which is here http://www.winfield.demon.nl/index.html
First, yes there is Hydrogen Stations already, Chicago should have a few they were Beta Testing the Ballard Fuel Cells, for years, in busses. British Columbia has actually started to build out hydrogen filling stations as well. Hydrogen does not directly require fossil fuels like some think, it is obtained from water, though it does require electricity, which could be obtained through fossil fuels. Hydrogen Fuel Cells, are not as enviornmentally friendly as people would think, the pollution is only redirected to other locations, and other sources, such as Nuclear waste, or pollution at the power plant in another state or province. There is an exception to this pollution issue, is hydrogen fuel cells based around other sources of stored hydrogen, such as methane(natural gas) based fuel cells, or even sugar water. And for those who will flame me, with "Methane is a fossil fuel" this is not 100% true, the majority of methane in the world is not held in the crude oil of the world, its being produced from agriculture.
Again I have said this before, and I would say this again. LCD's are too expensive to buy and to expensive to own (though compared to CRT they still use less power). But with the advent of newer and cheaper technologies, why isn't there such a push to get these products developed. (Oh wait the consortium that was formed to push LCD technologies might be a reason for this) There is many other technologies coming to the market place in the next few years, such as TDEL (http://www.ifire.com/ warning flash heavy site) or even OLED's. Both of these eliminate (or nearly eliminate) the dead pixel problem, they both use way less power, and in the case of TDEL they will be cheaper to manufacturer hence cheaper displays. Maybe it's time to encourage companies like Samsung, or the other manufacturers on this push.
according to blu-ray.com http://www.blu-ray.com/faq/#1.10 the disc's now have a new coating to make them harder. But again if you really want to protect them, cartridges would be the way to go.
One solution that you could do is make a ram disk and put the swap file on that.
This is not out of the realm of possibility, though there are other cheaper solutions then vmware, such as QEMU http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
I know with VMWare, you can configure the HD's as Undo or Non-Persistant.
And Qemu has snapshot mode (-snapshot), so there are some useful bits in both.
Well considering the dire predictions that the next form of popup ads and such will be coming from Flash apps and not directly from coding on the webpage. And with little control by the flash player to control such actions I can see why they would be concerned.
Yeah I know but hey can't please all of the people all of the time (By the way they are planning to start production on large scale displays by 2q2005). This is the email I got, as I made a request to them. Thank you for your interest in iFire Technology. iFire Technology is currently upgrading its plant in preparation for pilot production of mid 30-inch flat panel television displays based on its proprietary TDEL technology. The construction of the pilot plant in Toronto is well underway. The pilot plant previously served as iFire Technology's research and development facility. The pilot production facility is anticipated to be completed in the mid-2005 timeframe. iFire Technology's focus remains on the flat panel television industry and the Company expects to commercialize its technology in partnership with major industry players, and plans to target the mid-30-inch screen size television segment with commercial production planned for the 2006 timeframe. Regards,
As I have mentioned before, I do not know why LCD's remain to be popular. Oh wait I do, it's the consortium that has put billions into trying to force them onto the market, even though they are undercutting their own manufacturing costs the last I have heard they are actually charging half the cost of manufacuturing on the 15" displays. Now their are some new technologies coming in the next year, the main one is the TDEL from iFire The TDEL display technology has the benefit of being cheaper to make, and less sensitive to microscopic dust, it is 10 to 20% greater tolerance to this dust. From their own Technology Comparison page they manufacuturing costs would be 30 to 50% cheaper then conventional flat panel technologies.
For those in the know, or not in the know the core for MacOSX aka Darwin is available currently from www.opendarwin.org and comes with a PPC and ix86 version. When I get home I am going to look into it in more detail. jason
I really wish that the w3c would also adopt for the client side of the http protocol support for the SRV records. (also wouldn't be a bad idea with MUA's) How many would like to see the ability to have your content on multiple locations without costly equipment, or lb'ed dns
First off I don't see much in current trends the big oil companies control it too much. Look at it, 50 years of technology that hasn't been introduced because of the oil industry. Now things, I do think one idea that could be done, reducing the need for infra-red cams and such, why not use UV lights, most clothing this will reflect off of, and it doesn't require specialized displays or equipment. LED lighting would be more used, they are bright and low powered. I would love heads up display would be nice, even for such things as speed and such. I do see drive-by wire, to being used more, you could have instead of a central control of pressure to break.. you could have 4 different electrically controlled breaks.. which means if one fails, the rest don't. Megnetic fluids will also be used in cars for transmissions and steering column, possibly even shocks. Now if we get into electric motor based systems (not mentioning how the electricity is supplied, as there's issues with that), I see the use of plate motors being used more, this would give true 4 wheel steering, and make it possible to parallel park by pulling up beside of the parking spot. Now if you get into my exotic ideas, I see the following (idea comes from many areas including racing): First you have a Chassis, this you buy, one size fits all. Now the first option is the transmission, its mounted to the chassis. The engine is then dropped onto the transmission, this would be a quick mount, where only a few bolts hold the two together. Then you would purchase a body, to fit who you are. this could be a mixture of plastics, and metal, or something like CerMet, or what ever you want. The body is a complete kit, that sits on the Chassis, and is removable. From the body to the engine there is mounting points for power and such, but no other mount points (remember drive-by wire) simple wire connector.. like the ATX connector or such. Now the idea with this, is if I decide that I want the new model, I just buy the body, I take it in, they pull off the body and replace it with a new one.. the existing engine, and chassis you keep.. If i decide to upgrade the engine.. I take it in, they pull out the engine and drop in a new one, make the connections and your done.. just my ideas.
The reasons from my point of view, for 10G ethernet is not for end users, as I see rare requirements for the average user to require such bandwidth, in the near future. But with such devices, as IP KVM's, NAS, iSCSI, among many other devices that require high speeds, just think of a network, 24 devices of 1Gbps connected devices, needing to talk to a NAS at 1Gbps, all transfering a 1TB worth of data at the same time. And what if 2 devices that are talking to each other decide to change their priority or TOS so that they take precedence over all other traffic, that could be problems.
It's Fluorinert Here's an interesting thing for you overclockers, this guy got out of the Celeron 366 he got it to over 600 http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?caller=articles/s ubmersion/submersion.html
http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?caller=articles/s ubmersion2/submersion2.html
First in years gone by there was rumours that seagate had a fluid filled drive, this was to protect against movement of the drive heads to allow more platters in the smaller frame. Second using a non-conductive liquid (such fluids exist 3M i think makes it, but right now it's expensive), you could have a completely sealed system, with a heat exchanger, outside of the case. This benefits the computer, in a few ways, no dust (which most people have a dust elephants in their computers); better performance(this fluid actually improves electrical flows with small gaps); quieter system, if needed you could move a fan to another area, or altenatively larger water reserves as well; lastly with a sealed case, you have better security of the system, which is more important in a work environment.
My Solution: Would be to use a split type airconditioner. These generally have a wall mounted blower on the inside, and on the outside there is cooling box like central Airconditioning, except this has it's own fan system. Panasonic does have them, but they do not have a link on their page anymore and LGE as well.
The worst job I saw was about 3 years ago.. The job required a MCSE in a pure unix shop. I called up and asked how many windows machines were in the environment, and there were none. When asked why does it require an MCSE, the statement was that they were best qualified to operate the servers. Go figure..