Where did the $4 / watt come from? I can currently buy a 75 watt solar panel for my RV, with all the hardware (mounting, converter, charging, etc) for about $1000 (CDN) with a 20 warranty on the panel: 1000 / 75 / 20 = 0.6667 dollars per watt.
The real cost in solar power are the batteries to store the power in, a good AGM (advanced glass mat) battery that is rated at 220 Ahr is around $650 (CDN)
Here you are talking commercially pressed CD's vs. CD-R, very different components:
CD-R: Organic dye is sandwiched between the polycarbonate substrate and the metalized reflective layer of the media. Data is put onto the disc by "melting" pits in the organic dye to give the simulated pits and lands.
CD: The data layer is part of the polycarbonate substrate, and is pressed into the top side of it by a "stamper" during the injection moulding process. In this process there are actual pits and lands.
The problem is with the organic dye, since CD-R's are basically a sandwich of layers if there is any separation or contamination, the organic dye starts to break down causing data loss. Where as the data layer on CD's are physical, they have a higher tolerance for contamination.
Some of the software we have now is too stubborn to let you enter anything else than a 5-digit zip code.
If this is the case, then it is bad software, since "ZIP codes" are a "US centric" thing (most other contries call them Postal/Post Codes), we all have a good idea where the problem lies.
Ignorance is not a valid excuse, do a little research:
In Canada, from a 6 character postal code I can determine what side of the street you live on (if they added 1 more letter it would be specific to a house). The fist letter in a Canadian postal code is specific to a province/territory/Region, the next two identify the forward sorting area (FSA) within the first see here for specific details.
The NAC (Natural Area Coding) system that they are proposing is a mathamatical short-hand for the actual latitude and longitude (see here, good for systems, not easy for humans.
Violators will also be subject to repeated body slams, suplexes, and various other forms of punishment by the Governor. Public viewing available on Pay-Per-View for only $29.95.
Don't pay $4-5 for DVD-R. There is something like 4 companies in the world that physically make discs, and others just put their name on them.
I regularly see 100 packs of DVD-R discs going for less than $200 on eBay.
The scam started with floppy disks, in my Apple ][+ days, 5.25" discs were $6-7 a pop, then it carried to 5.25 HD, 3.5, 3.5 HD, CD-R, CD-RW, and so on.
This is still faster than a 24x CD-R burner (24 x 150 KB/s = 3600 KB/s = 3.52 MB/s). 4x DVD writing is 5.54 MB/S and they are in the fifth generation.
Not as fast a tape drives for writing (you can get 22 MB/s with compression 2:1, 11 MB/s real), but the random access capabilities of this type of media would put a tape to shame.
Their aimed at replacing MO drives, I currently don't know anybody with one of these at home, as they are still expensive (about $1500 USD). The people using these I am guessing are very interested in long-term archiving without degradation.
Seeing how this is a first generation drive, I guess this is "1x" speed, when the get the 60GB (2nd gen) and 120GB (3rd gen) drives out, if they double this in each generation, that would give you a "4x" (16 MB/sec - equivalent to a 109x CD-R) 120GB drive, this would still take 2 hrs 8 min to fill at "4x", but a 30 GB disc would only take 32 minutes.
When I was acontractor working at Boeing in Renton I would go there once a month.
Best Find: Dual Pentium II 300 with 2 SCSI wide 4 GB HD, a SCSI wide CD-ROM, 128 MB RAM and ATI Mach64 Graphics card with TV out - $240 + tax (with 25% Boeing Employee/Contracor discount). -- Now my web/mail server in the basement.
If you would do a poll now asking the average American whether a space elevator could be done, I'm willing to bet a month's salary that the result will be: "90% think it's a ridiculous idea and it can never be done." and answers like "That's all science fiction, we better stick to our rockets, and by the way spacefaring is very complex it can't be done just by stepping into an elevator."
This is because 90% of the American public is too busy watching TV Reality shows;)
Currently, I doubt that 99.9% of the population would need fiber to the home.
Fiber SHOULD be run to the distribution point on your street though, then there would be none of the 4km to the central office bull.
Then everyone could have a 7.5Mbps line to their home.
But that raises the question, what to do with all that bandwidth? I currently have a 2.5Mbps DSL line to my house, and there are few sites that I can obtain maximum speed from, it would be like having a a high end sports car but no pavment to drive it on.
If they are calling 217kpbs (kilobits per second) fast, I want to know what they are smoking?
With a standard protocol it takes 11 bits to move one 8 bit byte, so that would give you about 19.7 kilobytes per second, and since under USB the controller can't allocate bandwidth (like FireWire), this is best case I'm guessing (couldn't find this in the article). I wouldn't want to try UT2003 over this.
I the article it stated that they were 2.4GHz devices, but only spec'ed a range of 10m (30 feet for the metrically challenged), that is not a lot of roaming range.
Lower power is good, but usually translated in to lower range, good of keyboards, mice, and such low bandwidth devices used for input/use close to your machine, but not good for surfing in another room
I have to agree here. I like Graffiti, it works, it's not that hard to learn.
I used a PalmPilot IIIx until it was dead, an now I have a Visor Prism, and have loved each. I have the eyeModule2 and the InnoGear MP3 handspring Modules for my Prism, both very cool, especially when traveling
I think my next PDA will be a Zarus though, as I use mine for just about everything.
Didn't Xerox try this with the mouse and windows/gui systems a while back.... patent weasels!
I think Micro$oft would disagree here, if Windows comes on your computer for free, then you have a pirated copy, don't confuse bundled with free, it's then, and you are paying for it (and it usually has to set itself up/install anyway).
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The real cost in solar power are the batteries to store the power in, a good AGM (advanced glass mat) battery that is rated at 220 Ahr is around $650 (CDN)
I want my Mr. Fusion!
Foreign ownership of utilities (i.e. Bell, Telus) are limited, something like 15-25%, which would limit the pressure applied.
- CD-R: Organic dye is sandwiched between the polycarbonate substrate and the metalized reflective layer of the media. Data is put onto the disc by "melting" pits in the organic dye to give the simulated pits and lands.
- CD: The data layer is part of the polycarbonate substrate, and is pressed into the top side of it by a "stamper" during the injection moulding process. In this process there are actual pits and lands.
The problem is with the organic dye, since CD-R's are basically a sandwich of layers if there is any separation or contamination, the organic dye starts to break down causing data loss. Where as the data layer on CD's are physical, they have a higher tolerance for contamination.Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Vilot Gives Willingly, sometimes for Gold, some times for Silver, and sometime for No Charge at all.
Value:
- Black - 0
Tolerance:Brown - 1
Red - 2
Orange - 3
Yellow - 4
Green - 5
Blue - 6
Violet - 7
Gray - 8
White - 9
- Gold - 5%
color1 + color 2 * ( 10 ^ color3 )Silver - 10%
None - 20%
color4 - Tolerance
If this is the case, then it is bad software, since "ZIP codes" are a "US centric" thing (most other contries call them Postal/Post Codes), we all have a good idea where the problem lies.
Ignorance is not a valid excuse, do a little research:
- Belgium & Switzerland: 9999
- France, Italy, Spain, & Mexico: 99999
- Japan: 999-9999
- USA: 99999 or 99999-9999")
- Canada: A9A 9A9
- GB: A99 9AA, AA9 9AA, A9A 9AA, AA99 9AA, AA9A 9AA, or A9 9AA
- Netherlands: 9999-AA
In Canada, from a 6 character postal code I can determine what side of the street you live on (if they added 1 more letter it would be specific to a house). The fist letter in a Canadian postal code is specific to a province/territory/Region, the next two identify the forward sorting area (FSA) within the first see here for specific details.The NAC (Natural Area Coding) system that they are proposing is a mathamatical short-hand for the actual latitude and longitude (see here, good for systems, not easy for humans.
followed by much heavy breathing
Violators will also be subject to repeated body slams, suplexes, and various other forms of punishment by the Governor. Public viewing available on Pay-Per-View for only $29.95.
I regularly see 100 packs of DVD-R discs going for less than $200 on eBay.
The scam started with floppy disks, in my Apple ][+ days, 5.25" discs were $6-7 a pop, then it carried to 5.25 HD, 3.5, 3.5 HD, CD-R, CD-RW, and so on.
Not as fast a tape drives for writing (you can get 22 MB/s with compression 2:1, 11 MB/s real), but the random access capabilities of this type of media would put a tape to shame.
Their aimed at replacing MO drives, I currently don't know anybody with one of these at home, as they are still expensive (about $1500 USD). The people using these I am guessing are very interested in long-term archiving without degradation.
Seeing how this is a first generation drive, I guess this is "1x" speed, when the get the 60GB (2nd gen) and 120GB (3rd gen) drives out, if they double this in each generation, that would give you a "4x" (16 MB/sec - equivalent to a 109x CD-R) 120GB drive, this would still take 2 hrs 8 min to fill at "4x", but a 30 GB disc would only take 32 minutes.
Best Find: Dual Pentium II 300 with 2 SCSI wide 4 GB HD, a SCSI wide CD-ROM, 128 MB RAM and ATI Mach64 Graphics card with TV out - $240 + tax (with 25% Boeing Employee/Contracor discount). -- Now my web/mail server in the basement.
Naw, that would make sense, better to have a third party to blame/sue when your child turns out to be a mass murderer/cult wacko.
This is because 90% of the American public is too busy watching TV Reality shows ;)
Fiber SHOULD be run to the distribution point on your street though, then there would be none of the 4km to the central office bull.
Then everyone could have a 7.5Mbps line to their home.
But that raises the question, what to do with all that bandwidth? I currently have a 2.5Mbps DSL line to my house, and there are few sites that I can obtain maximum speed from, it would be like having a a high end sports car but no pavment to drive it on.
I just wonder why he has not sued both Markoff and the NYT for large sums of money regarding the libelous reporting?
Being in America and all, it's his right ;)
Still never under estimate the stupidity of people in large groups.
huh? I paid $250 (USD) for my 1 GB microdrive, a 1GB CF if well over $600 USD last I checked.
2 - horribly delicate.. pick up the microdrive and lightly pinch it... Oops.. it's dead now.
Simple fix, don't it's not that hard to remember.
we used to use microdrives here for some data recording... we went through 10 of them in 3 months.. while the CF cards dont fail.
CF card will and do fail, they are generally more rugged, but not immune to failure.
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With a standard protocol it takes 11 bits to move one 8 bit byte, so that would give you about 19.7 kilobytes per second, and since under USB the controller can't allocate bandwidth (like FireWire), this is best case I'm guessing (couldn't find this in the article). I wouldn't want to try UT2003 over this.
I the article it stated that they were 2.4GHz devices, but only spec'ed a range of 10m (30 feet for the metrically challenged), that is not a lot of roaming range.
Lower power is good, but usually translated in to lower range, good of keyboards, mice, and such low bandwidth devices used for input/use close to your machine, but not good for surfing in another room
I used a PalmPilot IIIx until it was dead, an now I have a Visor Prism, and have loved each. I have the eyeModule2 and the InnoGear MP3 handspring Modules for my Prism, both very cool, especially when traveling
I think my next PDA will be a Zarus though, as I use mine for just about everything.
Didn't Xerox try this with the mouse and windows/gui systems a while back.... patent weasels!
I think Micro$oft would disagree here, if Windows comes on your computer for free, then you have a pirated copy, don't confuse bundled with free, it's then, and you are paying for it (and it usually has to set itself up/install anyway).
Not being from the US, but living next door, I can just imagine being arrested at the border for possessing "illegal" material.