Under the Kyoto Protocol, if a developing nation can manage to keep its emissions under their limit, they can "sell" the extra amounts on the global market to nations that are having trouble meeting their limit. The Kyoto Protocol creates a capitalistic incentive for the reduction of pollution where there were none. With this capitalistic incentive, developing nations will be as encouraged as first world nations to force pollution restrictions on factories, even those owned by global companies.
The Kyoto protocol was specifically designed to hamper american economic dominance....
No, it was specifically designed to reduce pollution and drastic global climate change, actually. If you discredit conspiracy theories.
A treaty that places tight restrictions on CO2 coming from developed countries, but no restrictions what so ever on developing countries like China is really going to just result in dirty industries moving to china where they can get away from all pollution controls.
Developing nations have looser restrictions, however if you actually look at how much pollution China makes per capita compared with how much US makes, it's practically nothing. Despite this fact, China still puts much more effort in keeping its climate - and thus the world's climate - clean. Whatever you may think about its human rights records, China does an amazing job at some things, including keeping the environment clean and targeting drug traffic.
Badnarik and Nader both had loads of arguments as to why Bush was the wrong commander-in-chief, but I didn't hear a lot of arguments against Kerry from them. Most of the flip-flopper claims came from the GOP camp. I thought it was a clever attack, because even if Kerry tried to tell people what his position was and what his solutions were, people wouldn't listen because they've been implanted a mental block -- even if he stated his position, people still won't think he had a position!! I voted for Kerry by the way.
Cool concept, but $15.00 for piggy-backing? Wow. Well it seems to be a cheaper solution than alternative in-ear earbuds.
By the way, I am listening to my music right now with Sony MDR-EX51 headphones right now (predecessor to the EX71), and the quality is great. Hopefully it doesn't have a short lifespan like the previous Sony headphones I've owned.
My feeling on the photo capability addition is that this is a form of oneupmanship with Microsoft, who's been advertising and promoting their future plans of rolling out a handheld audio/video player. And here, Apple beat MS in delivering images.
I think video would be a mistake, though... Watching movies is too much of a personal and indoors activity that you don't really need portability for, plus it drains battery far faster. Portable TVs didn't take off for a reason. Photos make more sense because far more people own digital still cameras than digital video cameras, so more people want to share photos.
I hope MS will flop with this like they did with IE's "push" technology (anyone remember that?). Sometimes all the latest and greatest features, bells, and whistles - as well as the additional complexities and increased costs - aren't worth it.
You like the crippled-ness aspect of iPod's calendar?
From the article:...he has an even more ambitious vision: that small clusters of the engines could serve as home generating plants, freeing consumers from the power grid, with its occasional black- and brownouts.
and:
The technology could be especially useful in poor countries and remote areas that lack extensive and reliable grids for distributing electricity.
Being free from the grid has some benefits. For instance if your country loses a reliable source of power because the US People's Liberation Army decided to "liberate" your country, this option may be the only way to go for once again obtaining reliable source, which some companies need more than others.
It could save you money also as a result of being freed from an expensive local Electric monopoly, and from not using a rather inefficient solution. Producing power at home means electricity doesn't have a long way to travel, hence there won't be all that energy loss that happens when power is transported traditionally over a long distance of high-power grids.
But isn't the benefit of a micro-generator somewhat lost if you're going to be using a cluster of them? Why power our homes with generators designed to be small enough to fit into our PDAs? I would think a single generator for a home would be a cheaper solution (both short and long term) than a cluster of micro-generators, natch.
The/. summary states: The engineers even think their engines on a chip could be used in poor countries to bring electricity there.
More like power for the rich people with PDAs in poor countries without decent infrastructure, rather than a solution for the poor? Wouldn't it be a cheaper solution overall to just get a decent infrastructure for the country? I cannot see how a cheaper solution can exist for poor countries only. If it was a truly cheaper solution than what rich countries have already, it'd be a solution for rich countries as well, but since that doesn't seem to be the case, it probably means that we already have the better sollution for the poor countries' woes.
Actually you need to click a button or unplug the cable. Moving the mouse isn't good enough to wake up the laptop - at least that's how it is for my Logitech. Even if you wake it up, it goes back to sleep if the lid is still closed, so back to squre one, I suppose.
Yeah, wireless isn't first, but this one supports more standards than just FTP and it also has automation. As soon as the photographter takes a shot, the photo is instantaneously transfered with encryption over the network. This makes for a good argument to choose digital over film in business - imagine the amount of time that's saved when getting the photos ready for clients by choosing digital over film. On the other hand, I don't see this technology as being too useful for personal use.
I can see photographers shooting sporting events with a 12" Powerbook in a backpack receiving images to its 80GB drive and automatically uploading them to SI.
I don't think this would be commonplace since Apple laptops go to sleep when you close the lid. The fast transfer speeds is aimed at studio photographers who want to take a lot of photos in quick succession. For ordinary consumers, Bluetooth is nice because it doesn't use too much battery juice, although Bluetooth adapters are expensive...
In any network, the net total uploaded is always equivalent to the net total downloaded, so all P2P networks has the same leech to share ratio (1 to 1). Bittorrent isn't very good for file diversity though, IMHO. It's easier to share 40 gigs of esoteric files on traditional P2P networks, while for BitTorrent you'd need to run 400 simultaneous connections to servers running trackers just to make visible to the world four hundred 100 MB files that have trackers.
BTW, this thing has more computing power than my 12-inch 4-GB-HDD Win-98 Vaio that I bought back in Windows-1998, so I'm sure it can comfortably run Windows 9x, at least. Would be cool if it had GBA-like controllers built in (think emulators).
Checking Apple Japan's website (they use metric. Ooo... new iMac G5s!), size comparison with the modern iPods are:
ipod mini: 91.4×50.8×12.7mm ipod 20GB: 104.1×60.9×14.5mm ipod 40GB: 104.1×60.9×17.5mm HagakiPC: 135 x 109 x 18 mm
So it's slightly larger than two iPod 40GBs placed next to each other. It beats my Vaio by a large margin, but not spectacularly small compared to the average handheld. But wait, it can run programs that weren't designed for handhelds!
# A new option to prevent sites from using JavaScript to block the browser's context menu.
So there should be support of this disabling-blocking (or whatever you want to call it), otherwise I guess you can stick with Mozilla. I myself haven't tried the new Netscape, nor do I think I will in the near future.
Specifically... Browse to 'about:config'. In the filter box type 'update'. Double click 'update.app.updatesAvailable' and change the value from 'true' to false. Restart Browser.
Still, I was shocked to be getting 80 KB/s... I think they should also consider making bittorrent and/or magnet links available sooner in order to trim unnecessary costs.
> Also, why is it we cannot search the bookmarks in the sidebar wihtout crashinf the whole application?
I also get this on my Windows box. I thought maybe my profile files were causing the problems, and that using a new profile might solve the crash occurances...
When it comes to algorithms for numeric analysis involving precise floating point calculations with big matrices, for example, the result of a faster, patented algorithm can be the same as the result of a slower, non-patented algorithm. In this case it can be hard to tell which algorithm a closed-source program is using especially since closed source applications are protected from analysis by the DMCA.
Actually, cell phones with cameras are really big in Japan. It's a total cultural phenomenon. People often use their cellphones to connect to the internet, because landline monopolies have raised their price too much. I think this is one of the reasons why cellphones got so much more advanced in Japan - the landline monopolies suck, so more poeple switched to cordless quicker.
If you're often running out of juice on your iPod mini, you should always carry around the adapter with you (which is also very portable, btw). I carry it to my office since playing without an adapter is neither necessary nor good for the battery's life (the battery only has finite charge cycles it can withstand before it croaks). Since mine runs on battery only when I'm walking or biking, it has never ran out of juice on me. It also seems to last longer than the advertised 3hr battery life. I haven't tested the iPod on any plane flights / air terminals yet though.
The third & fourth gen models have virtually the same size and weight (4G is like 0.05 inches thinner...). The iPod is very small compared to most HD MP3 players out there. I have an iPod mini but I think I wouldn't have complained about size or weight had I gotten the iPod.
How about this: when there is an attempt to overwrite the RFID data, the RFID will ask for a password. If the password isn't entered successfully within n trys, it sends a distress signal...
FeliCa chips are already in SuiCa cards which have been used for paying train toll fees for awhile now. RFID is also already used in the US - EZPass for automatically paying highway tolls in the New England area, I-Pass for Illinois, and Im sure other states have similar technologies that are the same. Unlike disposable RFIDs on grocery items, FeliCa chips are more expensive, so it can use more secure technology such as encryption.
There's no sane reason why RFID should have a feature added that would allow wireless re-writes. It costs more and it only adds a security issue. RFDump doesn't overwrite data stored in any RFID. It's just a spreadsheet program, and of course it can modify the data in the spreadsheet cells, but it's not changing the data stored in the original source! Note that on RFDump's webpage itself, they claim that it only works with RFID READERS - that is, it can't MODIFY the source RFID data. RFDump can import RFID data to a computer, and change the RFID data within the computer's memory - no RFID chip modified! RFDump can't do that. But apparently it's good enough for creating a hyped up CNet article. I think CNet is only covering RFID obsessively because it's a buzzword and it can bring in alot of eyeballs to their website - that's why they like to write so many super-exaggerated RFID articles.
It's more convenient to whip out your iPod and check for a wireless spot before you even open up your laptop. I think the same thing can be said about people who walk around with a PDA and a laptop, but for some, the iPod's PDA-like feature is good enough that they don't care for a full-blown PDA (stylus and all).
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Under the Kyoto Protocol, if a developing nation can manage to keep its emissions under their limit, they can "sell" the extra amounts on the global market to nations that are having trouble meeting their limit. The Kyoto Protocol creates a capitalistic incentive for the reduction of pollution where there were none. With this capitalistic incentive, developing nations will be as encouraged as first world nations to force pollution restrictions on factories, even those owned by global companies.
The Kyoto protocol was specifically designed to hamper american economic dominance....
No, it was specifically designed to reduce pollution and drastic global climate change, actually. If you discredit conspiracy theories.
A treaty that places tight restrictions on CO2 coming from developed countries, but no restrictions what so ever on developing countries like China is really going to just result in dirty industries moving to china where they can get away from all pollution controls.
Developing nations have looser restrictions, however if you actually look at how much pollution China makes per capita compared with how much US makes, it's practically nothing. Despite this fact, China still puts much more effort in keeping its climate - and thus the world's climate - clean. Whatever you may think about its human rights records, China does an amazing job at some things, including keeping the environment clean and targeting drug traffic.
Badnarik and Nader both had loads of arguments as to why Bush was the wrong commander-in-chief, but I didn't hear a lot of arguments against Kerry from them. Most of the flip-flopper claims came from the GOP camp. I thought it was a clever attack, because even if Kerry tried to tell people what his position was and what his solutions were, people wouldn't listen because they've been implanted a mental block -- even if he stated his position, people still won't think he had a position!! I voted for Kerry by the way.
Cool concept, but $15.00 for piggy-backing? Wow. Well it seems to be a cheaper solution than alternative in-ear earbuds.
By the way, I am listening to my music right now with Sony MDR-EX51 headphones right now (predecessor to the EX71), and the quality is great. Hopefully it doesn't have a short lifespan like the previous Sony headphones I've owned.
My feeling on the photo capability addition is that this is a form of oneupmanship with Microsoft, who's been advertising and promoting their future plans of rolling out a handheld audio/video player. And here, Apple beat MS in delivering images.
I think video would be a mistake, though... Watching movies is too much of a personal and indoors activity that you don't really need portability for, plus it drains battery far faster. Portable TVs didn't take off for a reason. Photos make more sense because far more people own digital still cameras than digital video cameras, so more people want to share photos.
I hope MS will flop with this like they did with IE's "push" technology (anyone remember that?). Sometimes all the latest and greatest features, bells, and whistles - as well as the additional complexities and increased costs - aren't worth it.
You like the crippled-ness aspect of iPod's calendar?
From the article:
and:
The technology could be especially useful in poor countries and remote areas that lack extensive and reliable grids for distributing electricity.
Being free from the grid has some benefits. For instance if your country loses a reliable source of power because the US People's Liberation Army decided to "liberate" your country, this option may be the only way to go for once again obtaining reliable source, which some companies need more than others.
It could save you money also as a result of being freed from an expensive local Electric monopoly, and from not using a rather inefficient solution. Producing power at home means electricity doesn't have a long way to travel, hence there won't be all that energy loss that happens when power is transported traditionally over a long distance of high-power grids.
But isn't the benefit of a micro-generator somewhat lost if you're going to be using a cluster of them? Why power our homes with generators designed to be small enough to fit into our PDAs? I would think a single generator for a home would be a cheaper solution (both short and long term) than a cluster of micro-generators, natch.
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The engineers even think their engines on a chip could be used in poor countries to bring electricity there.
More like power for the rich people with PDAs in poor countries without decent infrastructure, rather than a solution for the poor? Wouldn't it be a cheaper solution overall to just get a decent infrastructure for the country? I cannot see how a cheaper solution can exist for poor countries only. If it was a truly cheaper solution than what rich countries have already, it'd be a solution for rich countries as well, but since that doesn't seem to be the case, it probably means that we already have the better sollution for the poor countries' woes.
Actually you need to click a button or unplug the cable. Moving the mouse isn't good enough to wake up the laptop - at least that's how it is for my Logitech. Even if you wake it up, it goes back to sleep if the lid is still closed, so back to squre one, I suppose.
Yeah, wireless isn't first, but this one supports more standards than just FTP and it also has automation. As soon as the photographter takes a shot, the photo is instantaneously transfered with encryption over the network. This makes for a good argument to choose digital over film in business - imagine the amount of time that's saved when getting the photos ready for clients by choosing digital over film. On the other hand, I don't see this technology as being too useful for personal use.
I can see photographers shooting sporting events with a 12" Powerbook in a backpack receiving images to its 80GB drive and automatically uploading them to SI.
I don't think this would be commonplace since Apple laptops go to sleep when you close the lid. The fast transfer speeds is aimed at studio photographers who want to take a lot of photos in quick succession. For ordinary consumers, Bluetooth is nice because it doesn't use too much battery juice, although Bluetooth adapters are expensive...
In any network, the net total uploaded is always equivalent to the net total downloaded, so all P2P networks has the same leech to share ratio (1 to 1). Bittorrent isn't very good for file diversity though, IMHO. It's easier to share 40 gigs of esoteric files on traditional P2P networks, while for BitTorrent you'd need to run 400 simultaneous connections to servers running trackers just to make visible to the world four hundred 100 MB files that have trackers.
Is the battery replaceable?
I've seen this design before, although I'm sure Apple did a much better job than Monorail. The older Apple designs were more innovative.
BTW, this thing has more computing power than my 12-inch 4-GB-HDD Win-98 Vaio that I bought back in Windows-1998, so I'm sure it can comfortably run Windows 9x, at least. Would be cool if it had GBA-like controllers built in (think emulators).
Checking Apple Japan's website (they use metric. Ooo... new iMac G5s!), size comparison with the modern iPods are:
ipod mini: 91.4×50.8×12.7mm
ipod 20GB: 104.1×60.9×14.5mm
ipod 40GB: 104.1×60.9×17.5mm
HagakiPC: 135 x 109 x 18 mm
So it's slightly larger than two iPod 40GBs placed next to each other. It beats my Vaio by a large margin, but not spectacularly small compared to the average handheld. But wait, it can run programs that weren't designed for handhelds!
Worked for me.
Still, I was shocked to be getting 80 KB/s... I think they should also consider making bittorrent and/or magnet links available sooner in order to trim unnecessary costs.
> Also, why is it we cannot search the bookmarks in the sidebar wihtout crashinf the whole application?
I also get this on my Windows box. I thought maybe my profile files were causing the problems, and that using a new profile might solve the crash occurances...
When it comes to algorithms for numeric analysis involving precise floating point calculations with big matrices, for example, the result of a faster, patented algorithm can be the same as the result of a slower, non-patented algorithm. In this case it can be hard to tell which algorithm a closed-source program is using especially since closed source applications are protected from analysis by the DMCA.
Actually, cell phones with cameras are really big in Japan. It's a total cultural phenomenon. People often use their cellphones to connect to the internet, because landline monopolies have raised their price too much. I think this is one of the reasons why cellphones got so much more advanced in Japan - the landline monopolies suck, so more poeple switched to cordless quicker.
If you're often running out of juice on your iPod mini, you should always carry around the adapter with you (which is also very portable, btw). I carry it to my office since playing without an adapter is neither necessary nor good for the battery's life (the battery only has finite charge cycles it can withstand before it croaks). Since mine runs on battery only when I'm walking or biking, it has never ran out of juice on me. It also seems to last longer than the advertised 3hr battery life. I haven't tested the iPod on any plane flights / air terminals yet though.
The third & fourth gen models have virtually the same size and weight (4G is like 0.05 inches thinner...). The iPod is very small compared to most HD MP3 players out there. I have an iPod mini but I think I wouldn't have complained about size or weight had I gotten the iPod.
How about this: when there is an attempt to overwrite the RFID data, the RFID will ask for a password. If the password isn't entered successfully within n trys, it sends a distress signal...
FeliCa chips are already in SuiCa cards which have been used for paying train toll fees for awhile now. RFID is also already used in the US - EZPass for automatically paying highway tolls in the New England area, I-Pass for Illinois, and Im sure other states have similar technologies that are the same. Unlike disposable RFIDs on grocery items, FeliCa chips are more expensive, so it can use more secure technology such as encryption.
There's no sane reason why RFID should have a feature added that would allow wireless re-writes. It costs more and it only adds a security issue. RFDump doesn't overwrite data stored in any RFID. It's just a spreadsheet program, and of course it can modify the data in the spreadsheet cells, but it's not changing the data stored in the original source! Note that on RFDump's webpage itself, they claim that it only works with RFID READERS - that is, it can't MODIFY the source RFID data. RFDump can import RFID data to a computer, and change the RFID data within the computer's memory - no RFID chip modified! RFDump can't do that. But apparently it's good enough for creating a hyped up CNet article. I think CNet is only covering RFID obsessively because it's a buzzword and it can bring in alot of eyeballs to their website - that's why they like to write so many super-exaggerated RFID articles.
It's more convenient to whip out your iPod and check for a wireless spot before you even open up your laptop. I think the same thing can be said about people who walk around with a PDA and a laptop, but for some, the iPod's PDA-like feature is good enough that they don't care for a full-blown PDA (stylus and all).
So now you're saying developing free tools for Mac users doesn't make sense?