The earth's surface is on the inside surface of a sphere, light bends towards the centre, relativity is expanded so that the centre of the sphere is an infinite distance away and presto you have our reality.
In the 50's it was Japan, In the 60's it was Hong Kong In the 70's it was Taiwan In the 80's and early 90's it was South East Asia In the late 90's to now it has been China To be worthwhile producing elsewhere you have to be able to produce for less than 30% of your home costs. There is nowhere left to go We have to manufacture our own again So maybe we will get decent working conditions at last!
The BUS TICKET took on a new significance today for John Smith. John discarded the ticket 5 years ago, dropping it in the rubbish bin. His ticket was tracked down as being THE ticket that the Shangai and Metropolitan (S&M) ticketing Authority used as the template for the english translation of their ticket. So far S&M have issued 5 billion tickets with the wording, all from the ticket that John discarded. John's action in not protecting his ticket from intellectual pirates or thieves has cost him a $100 billion fine, which is growing each day as S&M continue issuing tickets.
The Copyright holders association was still not happy with the jurys award of $20 for each infringement. They had wanted and believe that $1,000 per copy would have been fair. The copyright association believe that John's fine will increase further as the Moscow Metro (MM) is believed that have used the wording on a S&M ticket as the template for their new English ticket.
Many people are asking what they should do with valuable intellectual property that they no longer have a use for. The copyright association advises that all paper with any copywritten material on it should be incinerated and the ash thoroughly pulverised. They will actively pursue cases against any people who do not thoroughly protect their intellectual property from thieves, even for a moment. Currently they are following up a case of a two year old who threw a baby food tin out of their pram which allowed another person to read it. People have to realize just how serious this is. As another person, a pirate, could reproduce the words written on the tin. The copyright association has written to Baby Dumpling asking to settle out of court for only $500.
Must be lucky TV stations that broadcast are differentiated from ISP's, because they don't know who picks up their signals. If a TV station starts sending out public http/tcp packets then no-one knows who picks up the packet, so one half of their connection information does not exist. Then all you need is a similar narrowcast upload methodology and the other half of the connection information does not exist either. Besides, public broadcasting of http/tcp packets, combined with a cache on your computer, would cut traffic. Would anyone know if this has been implemented and whether any browsers support it? I mean, for 99.999% of my traffic i do not give a frig who sees it, and for 80% I do not care who knows that I asked for it. Public http with a ticker tape in the browser of what is coming in, with the browser set to store pages of particular interest would speed up my connection (most items would already have been read by one of the 10,000 people on my node within the last hour!), would cut down on network complexity (if 50% of traffic is node-to node instead of peer-to-peer) and cut down on traffic.
I have a couple of ceiling fans with a light fitting underneath them. They are designed to take incandescent size and shape globes. Fluoro lights will not fit, even the newer twirly compact ones are the wrong shape.
These ceiling fans are still sold so I hope the legislators will also check and ban any light fittings that don't take the fluoro globes.
Bridges come in all shapes and sizes, from the 4,200 ft span of the Golden Gate to the pipes under the road at the top end of Sandy Creek. If anything software is even more diverse, from programs with tens of millions of lines of code down to simple routines of a line or two to automate some mundane task.
Constructing a bridge costs, as does developing software. The vast majority of bridges are public property. They have been funded and built by such a large pool of people - government's of one form or another - for the common good, for use by anyone at anytime. However there is a substantial pool of private bridges. Most of these are bridges built for specific non standard vehicles such as trains. Others are built for the conveyance of standard vehicles but tolls are charged for a variety of reasons.
Starting from the precept "We are human, we can do anything and get to anywhere we want", a toll bridge must provide a cheaper and/or quicker alternative to other ways of getting from A to B. To invest in the toll bridge its constructor determines that he can charge a particular toll, at that toll he will get a particular amount of traffic and that this income will repay the cost of building the bridge. The constructor needs to satisfy themselves about the surety of the factors that affect the bridge usage. They minimize their risk by identifying as many factors that will adversely affect bridge traffic as possible and blocking these adverse factors where possible.
Where huge bridges are required, the Golden Gate, Sydney Harbour and the like, tolls can be seen to be fair without imposing monopoly conditions on the general populace. No conditions need imposing on ferry services, no conditions need imposing blocking alternate routes, the bridge operates in a standard competitive environment because it is so obviously a beneficial object.
On less obviously beneficial bridges the actions of people are substantial factors that affect the financial viability of the bridge. Controlling these actions is a form of monopoly rights granted by the relevant government(s). These rights include: restricting other river crossings; guarantees of road construction to ensure their bridge is the prime route over the river; concessions that the investors have the sole rights to offer peripheral services, service centres offering fuel and food etc. These rights are generally granted for a limited time and the bridge often reverts to public ownership at the expiration of this time.
This model is open to abuse. The rights granted may be disproportionate to the benefits. A bridge may be built over a small creek for little cost and the constructor granted a perpetual ban on any other bridges being built 20 miles in either direction. Or the government may agree that other routes will be closed or allowed to degrade, or they may put restrictions on other services, or they may allow the operator to insist that users of the bridge utilize other services before they can use the bridge etc. etc.
Transferring this view of bridges to intellectual property one would have to conclude that there are no Golden Gates or Sydney Harbour's. Every method developed has alternatives that can be simply developed and deployed. Intellectual property monopoly rights can only be related to the pipes under the headwaters of Sandy Creek with a guaranteed monopolies 20 miles in either direction. They are completely out of proportion with the benefits these pipes offer.
In fact the situation is worse than this. A better metaphor is monopoly rights to a pipe under a train line. The pipe owners charge not only a toll for using the bridge but force you to load your car onto their railway carriage and force you to utilize their passenger service for the 200 yard journey over the Sandy Creek floodplain. The alternative is to drive an extra 50 miles through the mountains because they have monopoly veto rights over any road bridges over Sandy Creek.
Gas on Off peak? Not the I have ever heard of. Electricity on off-peak.
By-the by, storage heaters I believe are relatively efficient, the insulation of them is effective so they only lose some small amount of heat in 24 hours (which is why off peak works, because you only heat the water once a day and it stays hot for 24 hours)
By-the-by-2 a calorie of energy is going to heat a gram of water 1 degree C whether it is inserted into the water by microwave or by elemnet. A 2 kw electic kettle will heat the same amount of water twice as much as a 1000 watt microwave. 2 kw (or 478 calories/sec) will heat.478 liters of water by 1 degree C per second, so in-line if your cold water needs heating by 30 degrees C to shower you get a flow of less than 1 liter per minute from a 2 kw element or microwave. At that flowrate I would take a book, or a friend because you will be in there a while.
Now, lets just look at the problem. We currently jump into a car weighing 1500 kg, running a 20% efficient motor, to transport an 80 kg person. This is an efficiency of 1.01%, which is what the problem really is.
Hydrogen power, well it solves none of the major problem.
The of Luxembourg council presidency explained itself after information from diplomat circles ready to shift the planned official verabschiedung of the disputed position of the Minister committee as the guideline over the patenting bar of "computer-implemented inventions" again around one week. Instead of of the agrarian and fishery advice on Monday in May the point of view fastened under troubles is therefore to be abgenickt on 31 January in the advice for general questions and external relations. From the further delay above all the proponents of a complete restart now nearly for three years of the running legislative procedure in the European Union parliament could profit. Once more made the Polish government pressure on the Luxemburger. Thus the advised point disappeared after information of German Ministry representatives at Friday noon of yesterday of the agenda of the agrarian advice. More than one week delay did not want to grant the council presidency Poland however. In the new entry country in the course of the week the European Union committee of the government had exerted itself seriously for a shift, since the position of Poland was not yet finally co-ordinated to the past advice point of view. The European Hightech branch federation EICTA, to which companies belong such as Microsoft, Nokia, SAP or Siemens, reacted disappointed to the time extension. The "uncertainty" for enterprises will now continue to persist still after the many months of the treatment of the guideline suggestion, was called it with EICTA. The industry needs the extended patent protection for genuine, software using inventions urgently. A speaker of the promotion association for a free Informationelle infrastructure (FFII) welcomed the grace period against it as "positively". Crucial now the further negotiations are in the European parliament to a way out of the festgefahrenen situation according to software patent opponents. In the constant back and forth the advice sees Florian Mueller, Manager of the campaign NoSoftwarepatents.com, an indication for the fact that the Minister committee begs "formally for a restart of the procedure". The delegates would have to accept this "invitation". This applies particularly to prominent union politicians in the European Union parliament, who had stated so far doubts against a new start, said Mueller. They could shift "the mortal blow" as a parliamentary group most powerful with distance now the "inexpressible" advice text. If the Minister committee at the end of should refer January actually publicly a rejecting position, one period up to the beginning of the then following Plenarwoche would remain for the parliamentarians on 21 February for requesting a new beginning. (Stefan Krempl)
Thank you, so a cost of $93 sqm making close to $4,000 to cover 40sqm, or a repayment time of 6 years. Not so good, They won't get you to disconnect from the grid
They quote 7% efficiency, 1 euro per watt.
Full sun is 1000 watts/sq metre, so with 7% efficiency we get 70 watts/square metre, so it has a cost of 70 euros/sq metre or, at 1.33 euros to the dollar, about $US52.60/sq metre.
Cover a 10 * 4 metre area of roof for $2,100 and get enough energy, in the middle of summer, to boil your 2 kw electic kettle all day.
At 12c per kwH for electricity, @ 2.8 kw * 6 hours/day * 365 days/year gives a cost saving of $735 pa, or a repayment of the $2,100 capital in 3 years
Are these numbers OK?
At this price will it be practical to disconnect from the grid sometime soon?
When Bill Gates was designing MS Windows just how much do you believe went into ensuring the mouse worked the absolute best that they could devise? My money would be heaps and heaps and heaps. And the result is MS Windows mouse movement.
The point - the default mouse works differently in Linux, at least in the two installations that I have tried. Instead of accepting, and using, Bill's research and getting mouse movement as close to Windows as can be done, we have default mouse movement that is different. Mouse movement is the most basic of basics with a UI. Bill's engineers, I have no doubt tried the equivalent of current Linux mouse settings during their designing but opted for what is in MS Windows.
So what did the Linux designers believe: either it didn't matter, or their research was better than Bills, or they wanted to make it different and making it different was worth taking second best.
And this is on the most basic of basics, mouse movement.
Me thinks there is some way to go.
Thank you for your time
There are many groups pushing for abolition of software patents, but no-one appears to be pushing the complete and absolute abolition of all IP.
Are there any groups with this philosphy?
"Trust me, i'm a weather forecaster" is my standard "you can trust me line". I still use it, but if forecasts get better I may have to change back to "I'm a used car salesman" or "I work for SCO" or the like.
The 10Gb drive out of XBoxes are useless, they are password protected, Low level formats etc do not work.
When I installed a larger drive in the Xbox I expected to have a usable 10 gb drive.
As I wasn't advised the drive was disabled when I bought the Xbox what is the chance of suing to get the cost of the drive back?
Move to canberra, transact's ISPs are finally getting their acts together. Unlimited for $100 per month or 2gb plans for $50 (over 2gb connection slows to 48k, so no excess charges) www.transact.com.au
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Try 13,620 km Sierra Lieone to ZhangZhou I think their program need tweaking. See Google Earth
The progress report from March 2010, available at http://gcep.stanford.edu/research/factsheets/petesolor_results.html, provides a more detailed and understandable summary of what they are doing
I used the SRTM data extensively last year developing a program to identify set gradients for intelligent transport.
One liter of fuel passed through a small engine will provide enough energy to raise you to the height of Mount Everest.
From the top of Mt Everest a consistent 0.7% gradient will travel for over 1,000 km
Current technology, like an aero-dynamic coffin on rails, will roll down a 0.7% gradient at over 65 km/hr
That's 1,000 km/litre, or over 2,500 mpg, and the efficiency we need to be aiming for with our transport system
check it at http//www.megametrelitre.com
The earth's surface is on the inside surface of a sphere, light bends towards the centre, relativity is expanded so that the centre of the sphere is an infinite distance away and presto you have our reality.
In the 50's it was Japan,
In the 60's it was Hong Kong
In the 70's it was Taiwan
In the 80's and early 90's it was South East Asia
In the late 90's to now it has been China
To be worthwhile producing elsewhere you have to be able to produce for less than 30% of your home costs.
There is nowhere left to go
We have to manufacture our own again
So maybe we will get decent working conditions at last!
The BUS TICKET took on a new significance today for John Smith. John discarded the ticket 5 years ago, dropping it in the rubbish bin. His ticket was tracked down as being THE ticket that the Shangai and Metropolitan (S&M) ticketing Authority used as the template for the english translation of their ticket. So far S&M have issued 5 billion tickets with the wording, all from the ticket that John discarded. John's action in not protecting his ticket from intellectual pirates or thieves has cost him a $100 billion fine, which is growing each day as S&M continue issuing tickets.
The Copyright holders association was still not happy with the jurys award of $20 for each infringement. They had wanted and believe that $1,000 per copy would have been fair. The copyright association believe that John's fine will increase further as the Moscow Metro (MM) is believed that have used the wording on a S&M ticket as the template for their new English ticket.
Many people are asking what they should do with valuable intellectual property that they no longer have a use for. The copyright association advises that all paper with any copywritten material on it should be incinerated and the ash thoroughly pulverised. They will actively pursue cases against any people who do not thoroughly protect their intellectual property from thieves, even for a moment. Currently they are following up a case of a two year old who threw a baby food tin out of their pram which allowed another person to read it. People have to realize just how serious this is. As another person, a pirate, could reproduce the words written on the tin. The copyright association has written to Baby Dumpling asking to settle out of court for only $500.
Must be lucky TV stations that broadcast are differentiated from ISP's, because they don't know who picks up their signals.
If a TV station starts sending out public http/tcp packets then no-one knows who picks up the packet, so one half of their connection information does not exist.
Then all you need is a similar narrowcast upload methodology and the other half of the connection information does not exist either.
Besides, public broadcasting of http/tcp packets, combined with a cache on your computer, would cut traffic.
Would anyone know if this has been implemented and whether any browsers support it? I mean, for 99.999% of my traffic i do not give a frig who sees it, and for 80% I do not care who knows that I asked for it.
Public http with a ticker tape in the browser of what is coming in, with the browser set to store pages of particular interest would speed up my connection (most items would already have been read by one of the 10,000 people on my node within the last hour!), would cut down on network complexity (if 50% of traffic is node-to node instead of peer-to-peer) and cut down on traffic.
I have a couple of ceiling fans with a light fitting underneath them. They are designed to take incandescent size and shape globes. Fluoro lights will not fit, even the newer twirly compact ones are the wrong shape. These ceiling fans are still sold so I hope the legislators will also check and ban any light fittings that don't take the fluoro globes.
Bridges come in all shapes and sizes, from the 4,200 ft span of the Golden Gate to the pipes under the road at the top end of Sandy Creek. If anything software is even more diverse, from programs with tens of millions of lines of code down to simple routines of a line or two to automate some mundane task.
Constructing a bridge costs, as does developing software. The vast majority of bridges are public property. They have been funded and built by such a large pool of people - government's of one form or another - for the common good, for use by anyone at anytime. However there is a substantial pool of private bridges. Most of these are bridges built for specific non standard vehicles such as trains. Others are built for the conveyance of standard vehicles but tolls are charged for a variety of reasons.
Starting from the precept "We are human, we can do anything and get to anywhere we want", a toll bridge must provide a cheaper and/or quicker alternative to other ways of getting from A to B. To invest in the toll bridge its constructor determines that he can charge a particular toll, at that toll he will get a particular amount of traffic and that this income will repay the cost of building the bridge. The constructor needs to satisfy themselves about the surety of the factors that affect the bridge usage. They minimize their risk by identifying as many factors that will adversely affect bridge traffic as possible and blocking these adverse factors where possible.
Where huge bridges are required, the Golden Gate, Sydney Harbour and the like, tolls can be seen to be fair without imposing monopoly conditions on the general populace. No conditions need imposing on ferry services, no conditions need imposing blocking alternate routes, the bridge operates in a standard competitive environment because it is so obviously a beneficial object.
On less obviously beneficial bridges the actions of people are substantial factors that affect the financial viability of the bridge. Controlling these actions is a form of monopoly rights granted by the relevant government(s). These rights include: restricting other river crossings; guarantees of road construction to ensure their bridge is the prime route over the river; concessions that the investors have the sole rights to offer peripheral services, service centres offering fuel and food etc. These rights are generally granted for a limited time and the bridge often reverts to public ownership at the expiration of this time.
This model is open to abuse. The rights granted may be disproportionate to the benefits. A bridge may be built over a small creek for little cost and the constructor granted a perpetual ban on any other bridges being built 20 miles in either direction. Or the government may agree that other routes will be closed or allowed to degrade, or they may put restrictions on other services, or they may allow the operator to insist that users of the bridge utilize other services before they can use the bridge etc. etc.
Transferring this view of bridges to intellectual property one would have to conclude that there are no Golden Gates or Sydney Harbour's. Every method developed has alternatives that can be simply developed and deployed. Intellectual property monopoly rights can only be related to the pipes under the headwaters of Sandy Creek with a guaranteed monopolies 20 miles in either direction. They are completely out of proportion with the benefits these pipes offer.
In fact the situation is worse than this. A better metaphor is monopoly rights to a pipe under a train line. The pipe owners charge not only a toll for using the bridge but force you to load your car onto their railway carriage and force you to utilize their passenger service for the 200 yard journey over the Sandy Creek floodplain. The alternative is to drive an extra 50 miles through the mountains because they have monopoly veto rights over any road bridges over Sandy Creek.
Another alternative, that can be likened to op
so we'd all better find another website or start paying the piper.
Gas on Off peak? Not the I have ever heard of. Electricity on off-peak. By-the by, storage heaters I believe are relatively efficient, the insulation of them is effective so they only lose some small amount of heat in 24 hours (which is why off peak works, because you only heat the water once a day and it stays hot for 24 hours) By-the-by-2 a calorie of energy is going to heat a gram of water 1 degree C whether it is inserted into the water by microwave or by elemnet. A 2 kw electic kettle will heat the same amount of water twice as much as a 1000 watt microwave. 2 kw (or 478 calories/sec) will heat .478 liters of water by 1 degree C per second, so in-line if your cold water needs heating by 30 degrees C to shower you get a flow of less than 1 liter per minute from a 2 kw element or microwave. At that flowrate I would take a book, or a friend because you will be in there a while.
Now, lets just look at the problem. We currently jump into a car weighing 1500 kg, running a 20% efficient motor, to transport an 80 kg person. This is an efficiency of 1.01%, which is what the problem really is.
Hydrogen power, well it solves none of the major problem.
And we are the intelligent species on the planet!
Can anyone actually comment on the legality of downloading what you already "own" in another format?
I am a fairly old fart and mostly I have downloaded music that I have already paid for, mostly old vinyl records and some that I have on video
Just what are the legals of this situation in the USA? What are the legals elsewhere, europe & Australia?
The of Luxembourg council presidency explained itself after information from diplomat circles ready to shift the planned official verabschiedung of the disputed position of the Minister committee as the guideline over the patenting bar of "computer-implemented inventions" again around one week. Instead of of the agrarian and fishery advice on Monday in May the point of view fastened under troubles is therefore to be abgenickt on 31 January in the advice for general questions and external relations. From the further delay above all the proponents of a complete restart now nearly for three years of the running legislative procedure in the European Union parliament could profit. Once more made the Polish government pressure on the Luxemburger. Thus the advised point disappeared after information of German Ministry representatives at Friday noon of yesterday of the agenda of the agrarian advice. More than one week delay did not want to grant the council presidency Poland however. In the new entry country in the course of the week the European Union committee of the government had exerted itself seriously for a shift, since the position of Poland was not yet finally co-ordinated to the past advice point of view. The European Hightech branch federation EICTA, to which companies belong such as Microsoft, Nokia, SAP or Siemens, reacted disappointed to the time extension. The "uncertainty" for enterprises will now continue to persist still after the many months of the treatment of the guideline suggestion, was called it with EICTA. The industry needs the extended patent protection for genuine, software using inventions urgently. A speaker of the promotion association for a free Informationelle infrastructure (FFII) welcomed the grace period against it as "positively". Crucial now the further negotiations are in the European parliament to a way out of the festgefahrenen situation according to software patent opponents. In the constant back and forth the advice sees Florian Mueller, Manager of the campaign NoSoftwarepatents.com, an indication for the fact that the Minister committee begs "formally for a restart of the procedure". The delegates would have to accept this "invitation". This applies particularly to prominent union politicians in the European Union parliament, who had stated so far doubts against a new start, said Mueller. They could shift "the mortal blow" as a parliamentary group most powerful with distance now the "inexpressible" advice text. If the Minister committee at the end of should refer January actually publicly a rejecting position, one period up to the beginning of the then following Plenarwoche would remain for the parliamentarians on 21 February for requesting a new beginning. (Stefan Krempl)
Thank you, so a cost of $93 sqm making close to $4,000 to cover 40sqm, or a repayment time of 6 years. Not so good, They won't get you to disconnect from the grid
They quote 7% efficiency, 1 euro per watt.
Full sun is 1000 watts/sq metre, so with 7% efficiency we get 70 watts/square metre, so it has a cost of 70 euros/sq metre or, at 1.33 euros to the dollar, about $US52.60/sq metre.
Cover a 10 * 4 metre area of roof for $2,100 and get enough energy, in the middle of summer, to boil your 2 kw electic kettle all day.
At 12c per kwH for electricity, @ 2.8 kw * 6 hours/day * 365 days/year gives a cost saving of $735 pa, or a repayment of the $2,100 capital in 3 years
Are these numbers OK?
At this price will it be practical to disconnect from the grid sometime soon?
Yes, this is my first thought.
Just what size propellers will they need. Else what other compressive (jet type) technology will they be using.
Whatever it has to do it 20 times more than at ground level, altough the work and energy required will be the same as at ground level, I think.
Putting the vent from the sewerage works in front of the intake will overpower the pig smell
When Bill Gates was designing MS Windows just how much do you believe went into ensuring the mouse worked the absolute best that they could devise? My money would be heaps and heaps and heaps. And the result is MS Windows mouse movement. The point - the default mouse works differently in Linux, at least in the two installations that I have tried. Instead of accepting, and using, Bill's research and getting mouse movement as close to Windows as can be done, we have default mouse movement that is different. Mouse movement is the most basic of basics with a UI. Bill's engineers, I have no doubt tried the equivalent of current Linux mouse settings during their designing but opted for what is in MS Windows. So what did the Linux designers believe: either it didn't matter, or their research was better than Bills, or they wanted to make it different and making it different was worth taking second best. And this is on the most basic of basics, mouse movement. Me thinks there is some way to go. Thank you for your time
There are many groups pushing for abolition of software patents, but no-one appears to be pushing the complete and absolute abolition of all IP. Are there any groups with this philosphy?
"Trust me, i'm a weather forecaster" is my standard "you can trust me line". I still use it, but if forecasts get better I may have to change back to "I'm a used car salesman" or "I work for SCO" or the like.
The 10Gb drive out of XBoxes are useless, they are password protected, Low level formats etc do not work. When I installed a larger drive in the Xbox I expected to have a usable 10 gb drive. As I wasn't advised the drive was disabled when I bought the Xbox what is the chance of suing to get the cost of the drive back?
Move to canberra, transact's ISPs are finally getting their acts together. Unlimited for $100 per month or 2gb plans for $50 (over 2gb connection slows to 48k, so no excess charges)
www.transact.com.au