Why don't you quit spamming slashdot? There's your feedback.
Or, why don't you post something that would show how citizenre corp is not a pyramid scheme? Like for example, an actual system in operation? Look, I hate to be negative about something like this, I live on solar power (do you?) but your spam is lame.
"and let you get off the roller coaster of everyone else deciding what latest and greatest features you just have to have."
This will never happen, for any class of user. Hardware and software requirements continue to change, all the time. No computer user can "get off the roller coaster". It's hard not to throw out a generalization here about Linux advocates failing to realize this.
I understand that your reproductive actions or lack thereof will not affect world population trends significantly. Nevertheless, I don't think your data indicates that population growth is not a problem. It is still increasing, albeit linearly. The exceptions are few. It was interesting to see the reduction of rate of increase in recent years, however, and if that trend continues, perhaps you are right.
Well, if you were to eliminate the current building codes, auto registration fees, and general limits on commerce you allude to, and replace them with high toll roads intelligently managed, I would be for that. The problem is, all that other stuff is not going to go away, and so I have to assume your toll idea would be superimposed on all the other government programs we already have. Which makes the idea less appealing as it seems like just more fees + spending.
You, and the o.p., have a different definition of market than I do.
Tired old anti-libertarian rants aside, setting up toll roads and magically giving the money to transit is classic government stuff, which is not to say bad, but setting up public transit is not a market activity, as I understand it, no matter how you, and the o.p., paint it. Again, not to say it's bad, but lose the "market" language, or explain just how this is a market. It's government fees + government spending. Sorry. The word you, and the o.p., want, is "incentive". I.e., what we have today in many forms, such as high fees of many kinds for auto users and subsidized fees for bus riders. You just want to make it moreso.
"put up tolls heavy enough to clear congestion. This creates the financial incentives necessary for market-driven mass transit..." Yeah, that sounds really market-driven, with none of that tedious regulation, government-run services, and invasive control over people's lives.
I read your computerworld article, and it quite clearly says KDE is *maybe someday* offering most of what a company wants, or some such. Look, nobody wants Kolab to be usable by average people more than me, but it aint there yet. Why are you so obsessed with misleading people on this subject, which you know so little about?
Regular cells obviously don't work. Perhaps one could make them small enough to put on a circuit board and small enough that millions of overcurrent protection devices or managed switches could practically be put on the same board.
"Unless you divide the battery into segments and give each segment a unique load. However, that would require a fundamental re-thinking of how electronic devices are powered."
Right. They could never combine any logic circuits or protections with this.
"The reason Li-Ion batteries are dangerous is the sheer energy density."
I think the reason is because they haven't figured out how to segment it yet. Using small quanta is a step towards figuring out how to regulate it. If you can segment it, it seems to me you could theoretically make a battery more energy dense, but limit potential peak current very precisely, and limit peak currents anywhere within the battery. It may be the case that there is a density penalty for this sort of safety, compared to an ideal single sheet.
Nothing is ever proven philosophically nor scientifically. Things either occur or they don't. Some things are more likely to occur than others. Science is helpful in distinguishing those. You sending me a message after your death is unlikely to occur.
Seems to me that if you are searching for energy density, the only way to safety is intelligent partitioning. I forsee what I call a "quantum battery" with logic being an integral part of the battery, allowing management of discreet, small packets.
Putting attachments in an assigned directory allows some neat functionality, like receivng xml files which are automatically placed where a script can find them for processing. Plus it's just nicer for ordinary use knowing where attachments are.
Direcway may have been a good option at one time, but fixed wireless is 100X better. I have heard newer satellite services, even if using the same satellites / bandwidth, are also better. eg wild blue or ground control. I hope Direcway decides to improve their service someday, since I am still a customer. So it's not worthless, but it's not very good either.
I guess you didn't see me on vacation with my folks back in the seventies, using my dad's little cassette player and some lightweight headphones they had given me so I could watch my own TV shows.
It's pretty obvious.
Streaming was only 128 last I checked. That's why I switched to Yahoo. Otherwise Rhapsody is way nicer. Anbody know the streaming rate now for Rhapsody?
"Businesses (especially in already-low-value areas) tend to be the ones most likely to release toxins (you don't often see that in farmland)."
Not that this affects your main point, but I think farms release more toxins than most other businesses these days. Crop dusters, particulates, diesel exhaust, etc.
"Generally speaking, businesses do best when they stick to their core business- when they stick to one thing that they know how to do."
Businesses do best when they do what customers are willing to pay for. Your aphorism is a common notion, which I recently realized is just wrong, and which can really hurt a business. This is not my insight - I read it somewhere the other day. To me it was a large a-ha moment. In other words, you have to do what customers want, even if you are not (yet) all that good at it. imo. But then I am not thinking of big business as much as small business.
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Why don't you quit spamming slashdot? There's your feedback. Or, why don't you post something that would show how citizenre corp is not a pyramid scheme? Like for example, an actual system in operation? Look, I hate to be negative about something like this, I live on solar power (do you?) but your spam is lame.
"and let you get off the roller coaster of everyone else deciding what latest and greatest features you just have to have."
This will never happen, for any class of user. Hardware and software requirements continue to change, all the time. No computer user can "get off the roller coaster". It's hard not to throw out a generalization here about Linux advocates failing to realize this.
I understand that your reproductive actions or lack thereof will not affect world population trends significantly. Nevertheless, I don't think your data indicates that population growth is not a problem. It is still increasing, albeit linearly. The exceptions are few. It was interesting to see the reduction of rate of increase in recent years, however, and if that trend continues, perhaps you are right.
Why look it up when I can just click on this map:
http://www.breathingearth.net/
Click on "about" to see their sources. I could find only one country where deaths outnumbered births.
Watch it for a while...
Well, if you were to eliminate the current building codes, auto registration fees, and general limits on commerce you allude to, and replace them with high toll roads intelligently managed, I would be for that. The problem is, all that other stuff is not going to go away, and so I have to assume your toll idea would be superimposed on all the other government programs we already have. Which makes the idea less appealing as it seems like just more fees + spending.
You, and the o.p., have a different definition of market than I do.
Tired old anti-libertarian rants aside, setting up toll roads and magically giving the money to transit is classic government stuff, which is not to say bad, but setting up public transit is not a market activity, as I understand it, no matter how you, and the o.p., paint it. Again, not to say it's bad, but lose the "market" language, or explain just how this is a market. It's government fees + government spending. Sorry. The word you, and the o.p., want, is "incentive". I.e., what we have today in many forms, such as high fees of many kinds for auto users and subsidized fees for bus riders. You just want to make it moreso.
Let me guess - you've done a study?
"put up tolls heavy enough to clear congestion. This creates the financial incentives necessary for market-driven mass transit..." Yeah, that sounds really market-driven, with none of that tedious regulation, government-run services, and invasive control over people's lives.
I read your computerworld article, and it quite clearly says KDE is *maybe someday* offering most of what a company wants, or some such. Look, nobody wants Kolab to be usable by average people more than me, but it aint there yet. Why are you so obsessed with misleading people on this subject, which you know so little about?
Some are coops, some are investor owned, for profit. All are monopolies.
Regular cells obviously don't work. Perhaps one could make them small enough to put on a circuit board and small enough that millions of overcurrent protection devices or managed switches could practically be put on the same board.
"Unless you divide the battery into segments and give each segment a unique load. However, that would require a fundamental re-thinking of how electronic devices are powered."
Right. They could never combine any logic circuits or protections with this.
"The reason Li-Ion batteries are dangerous is the sheer energy density."
I think the reason is because they haven't figured out how to segment it yet. Using small quanta is a step towards figuring out how to regulate it. If you can segment it, it seems to me you could theoretically make a battery more energy dense, but limit potential peak current very precisely, and limit peak currents anywhere within the battery. It may be the case that there is a density penalty for this sort of safety, compared to an ideal single sheet.
Nothing is ever proven philosophically nor scientifically. Things either occur or they don't. Some things are more likely to occur than others. Science is helpful in distinguishing those. You sending me a message after your death is unlikely to occur.
Maybe they will take the opportunity to be the first country to ban TV in cars.
Seems to me that if you are searching for energy density, the only way to safety is intelligent partitioning. I forsee what I call a "quantum battery" with logic being an integral part of the battery, allowing management of discreet, small packets.
Do tell.
Putting attachments in an assigned directory allows some neat functionality, like receivng xml files which are automatically placed where a script can find them for processing. Plus it's just nicer for ordinary use knowing where attachments are.
Direcway may have been a good option at one time, but fixed wireless is 100X better. I have heard newer satellite services, even if using the same satellites / bandwidth, are also better. eg wild blue or ground control. I hope Direcway decides to improve their service someday, since I am still a customer. So it's not worthless, but it's not very good either.
How many CSS inventors does it take to screw in a light bulb?
They can't, because browsers won't support it.
I guess you didn't see me on vacation with my folks back in the seventies, using my dad's little cassette player and some lightweight headphones they had given me so I could watch my own TV shows.
It's pretty obvious.
Streaming was only 128 last I checked. That's why I switched to Yahoo. Otherwise Rhapsody is way nicer. Anbody know the streaming rate now for Rhapsody?
Sounds to me like he is talking about a blog.
Hey editors - some time during the last year, Slashdot added a "Power" section for stories like this.
Actually I would have entitled it "Energy" but most people confuse the terms anyway.
"Businesses (especially in already-low-value areas) tend to be the ones most likely to release toxins (you don't often see that in farmland)."
Not that this affects your main point, but I think farms release more toxins than most other businesses these days. Crop dusters, particulates, diesel exhaust, etc.
How about we eliminate the middle man on this auction...
"Generally speaking, businesses do best when they stick to their core business- when they stick to one thing that they know how to do." Businesses do best when they do what customers are willing to pay for. Your aphorism is a common notion, which I recently realized is just wrong, and which can really hurt a business. This is not my insight - I read it somewhere the other day. To me it was a large a-ha moment. In other words, you have to do what customers want, even if you are not (yet) all that good at it. imo. But then I am not thinking of big business as much as small business.
Good answer. I meant to add that the only limitation on this idea is material properties...