For everything else, there's iPredator + Demonoid...
FWIW, we only download stuff we can't find on Netflix online, since it's quicker to download from Demonoid torrents than wait for the same DVD to arrive in the mail.
People are stupid, mostly. They'll say "Netflix sux; give me VOD". This is clearly anti-competitive but NBC is going to be very sad they bought sCamcast.
And re Netflix servers in Comcast's datacenters, Netflix would pay for, support and maintain them for the cable customer's benefit, so WTF?!?!
Netflix works great on Qwest DSL - we laugh at the "$100 rebate" and "3 months for $29" offers from sCumcast.
Let us know what you saw in your last journey through the interior of the damaged reactors. Oh, you havent been there?
Then you simply have no real idea of what is going on either...
If you perceive the current situation as "under control", your statements indicate you suffer from a lack of understanding of the concept of "control"...
Get back to us when you figure out what to do with the thousands of tons of spent fuel rods which will be toxic long after our civilization ceases to exist.
Until you figure this one out, you can't characterize nuke power as being "without huge environmental impact".
Everytime we've had a failure of these systems, it's caused a huge environmental impact.
except, when the molten core hits all that water in the bottom of the containment, you're going to get a steam explosion which exceeds the containment's original design parameters. then the fun really starts...
In 1989, I knew a man on the island of St. John in the US Virgin Islands who wanted to build a house at the far end of the island in Coral Bay, but the local power authority said it would cost him $65,000 to run power lines to his new home.
Instead, he spent the $65k to outfit his house with a state of the art (at the time) DC power system, using DC appliances powered by solar & wind w/battery storage. He also had passive solar for hot water, and I believe he also took delivery of LP gas once a month for cooking.
Basically, he told me that he had wired his house like a big sailboat, using DC power instead of AC, and DC appliances like you can buy for any large sailboat. Living in the islands, he was very familiar with this type of power generation, since it is very common on sailboats. He just scaled the tech up for his house.
His home was beautiful and with all the creature comforts of a luxury home. There was nothing spartan or inconvenient about it.
All of the 'paradigms' for energy management in the western world start with 'big science' style power generation and distribution. The technology existed in 1989 to go off the grid (though expensively at the time), so it's a shame that we've moved even farther away from a distributed power generation model since then.
If more R&D had been done to develop energy-efficient DC technology for home appliances in the intervening 20 years (as well as passive and active solar, and wind generation), TEPCO, et al would have lost their raison d'etre long ago.
Economies of scale would have made the cost per home implementation competitive with "Big Science Power Co, Inc.".
By "more R&D" I mean the money wasted on such things atomic and 'clean coal' technology development, instead redirected towards solar/wind/battery tech. Oil, coal & atomic power have such huge hidden government subsidies, if the true cost were honestly revealed, people would be up in arms.
Remember that GE, #4 on the Fortune 500, paid no income tax last year. This is but a glimpse of the 'free market' reality regarding energy distribution in the Western world.
If a guy who owned a hardware store in the Virgin Islands figured out a way to go off the grid in 1989 with off-the-shelf components, and sailboats have been effectively using the technology for decades, why isn't everyone else moving in the same direction?
This past April 26th marked the 24th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident. It came as the nuclear industry and pro-nuclear government officials in the United States and other nations were trying to "revive" nuclear power. And it followed the publication of a book, the most comprehensive study ever made, on the impacts of the Chernobyl disaster.
Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment was published by the New York Academy of Sciences.
It is authored by three noted scientists:
Russian biologist Dr. Alexey Yablokov, former environmental advisor to the Russian president;
Dr. Alexey Nesterenko, a biologist and ecologist in Belarus; and
Dr.Vassili Nesterenko, a physicist and at the time of the accident director of the Institute of Nuclear Energy of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
Its editor is Dr. Janette Sherman, a physician and toxicologist long involved in studying the health impacts of radioactivity.
The book is solidly based -- on health data, radiological surveys and scientific reports -- some 5,000 in all.
It concludes that based on records now available, some 985,000 people died, mainly of cancer, as a result of the Chernobyl accident. That is between when the accident occurred in 1986 and 2004. More deaths, it projects, will follow.
The book explodes the claim of the International Atomic Energy Agency-- still on its website that the expected death toll from the Chernobyl accident will be 4,000. The IAEA, the new book shows, is under-estimating, to the extreme, the casualties of Chernobyl.
A triple shot of powerful, room-sized generators as well as four massive rows of very large batteries are in place should the lights go out. . .
. . . the whole (generator) room is sunk a bit deeper than the rest of the facility to ensure anything that could happen would be contained to the room.
So the batteries and generators are below the level of all other flooring.
During flooding, won't water flow first to the lowest point in the building?
I could be wrong, but I believe there is a $12 per departure 'security fee' on your plane ticket, so it's not free. If you really like it, stuff a dollar bill in the TSA agent's waistband...
I only give out my Google Voice number. It can route incoming calls, using it's address book, to ring on combinations of phone numbers I have responsibility for: home phone, my cell, wife cell, direct to voice mail, etc. These parameters can be set globally and also for specific address book entries.
When I switched cellphone providers, I didn't bother to transfer the old number; I just updated google voice. Now the new phone number rings, the old phone number is deleted, and nobody in my address book even notices, or needs to.
Have a busy hair salon? Just have GV ring all the stylist's cellphones with the caller's ID, and the stylist who knows the name can pick up. The front desk landline can also pick up directly. If nobody picks up, the call goes to digital voicemail with immediate (dubious) transcription to SMS or email.
When customers call, they get right through. If bill collectors or mom calls, they can hear a 'number out of service' tone that blocks robocallers.
Web accessible logs with numbers, names and call history. All this virtual functionality with no IP telephony snake oil. A free service like this has tremendous value for anyone. If google or the CIA or the new world order want to listen to calls, have at it. It works well 98% of the time. It's FREE.
How will vendors of office IP phone systems compete in such a market? See: CISCO earnings...!
Slashdot Mirror
It's not HD, but Netflix works GREAT on the Wii
As posted elsewhere, if a movie is only available on DVD from Netflix, I'll grab it from P2P.
If it's online on Netflix, why download? I'm only watching it once and I can see it again anytime.
What demonizing folks like yourself fail to realize is that it's not about piracy/free, it's about convenient access to content.
Why does iTunes have 300 million users' credit cards? Convenient access to content.
All revolutions start with piracy. That's ok - a wise man once said "It's better to be a pirate than join the navy".
Unlimited content for a fixed, reasonable monthly price is what consumers want. Right now, only Netflix and P2P offer this.
Sorry but I don't value studios' content as much as they do. Piracy is the ultimate expression of the 'free market'.
Antenna + P2P w/VPN + Netflix is so vastly superior to cable that I'm amazed people aren't leaving in droves - there, fixed that for you!
Yeah, corporate oligarchy masquerading as democracy is SO much better.
Government by the lobbyist, of the lobbyist, for the lobbyist.
I'm Lovin' It!
For everything else, there's iPredator + Demonoid...
FWIW, we only download stuff we can't find on Netflix online, since it's quicker to download from Demonoid torrents than wait for the same DVD to arrive in the mail.
People are stupid, mostly. They'll say "Netflix sux; give me VOD". This is clearly anti-competitive but NBC is going to be very sad they bought sCamcast.
And re Netflix servers in Comcast's datacenters, Netflix would pay for, support and maintain them for the cable customer's benefit, so WTF?!?!
Netflix works great on Qwest DSL - we laugh at the "$100 rebate" and "3 months for $29" offers from sCumcast.
Level of physical skill required to play a "sport" is much higher than for a "game".
Stephen Hawking could beat you at chess, but not at tennis . . .
And being a sysadmin apparently automatically includes membership in the "arrogant" pool...
That's a longtime to wait to go home...
Let us know what you saw in your last journey through the interior of the damaged reactors. Oh, you havent been there?
Then you simply have no real idea of what is going on either...
If you perceive the current situation as "under control", your statements indicate you suffer from a lack of understanding of the concept of "control"...
Get back to us when you figure out what to do with the thousands of tons of spent fuel rods which will be toxic long after our civilization ceases to exist.
Until you figure this one out, you can't characterize nuke power as being "without huge environmental impact".
Everytime we've had a failure of these systems, it's caused a huge environmental impact.
except, when the molten core hits all that water in the bottom of the containment, you're going to get a steam explosion which exceeds the containment's original design parameters. then the fun really starts...
again, I don't think wrecked solar and wind power are going to disrupt our genome for 50,000 years....
I don't think wrecked solar and wind power are going to disrupt our genome for 50,000 years....
In 1989, I knew a man on the island of St. John in the US Virgin Islands who wanted to build a house at the far end of the island in Coral Bay, but the local power authority said it would cost him $65,000 to run power lines to his new home.
Instead, he spent the $65k to outfit his house with a state of the art (at the time) DC power system, using DC appliances powered by solar & wind w/battery storage. He also had passive solar for hot water, and I believe he also took delivery of LP gas once a month for cooking.
Basically, he told me that he had wired his house like a big sailboat, using DC power instead of AC, and DC appliances like you can buy for any large sailboat. Living in the islands, he was very familiar with this type of power generation, since it is very common on sailboats. He just scaled the tech up for his house.
His home was beautiful and with all the creature comforts of a luxury home. There was nothing spartan or inconvenient about it.
All of the 'paradigms' for energy management in the western world start with 'big science' style power generation and distribution. The technology existed in 1989 to go off the grid (though expensively at the time), so it's a shame that we've moved even farther away from a distributed power generation model since then.
If more R&D had been done to develop energy-efficient DC technology for home appliances in the intervening 20 years (as well as passive and active solar, and wind generation), TEPCO, et al would have lost their raison d'etre long ago.
Economies of scale would have made the cost per home implementation competitive with "Big Science Power Co, Inc.".
By "more R&D" I mean the money wasted on such things atomic and 'clean coal' technology development, instead redirected towards solar/wind/battery tech. Oil, coal & atomic power have such huge hidden government subsidies, if the true cost were honestly revealed, people would be up in arms.
Remember that GE, #4 on the Fortune 500, paid no income tax last year. This is but a glimpse of the 'free market' reality regarding energy distribution in the Western world.
If a guy who owned a hardware store in the Virgin Islands figured out a way to go off the grid in 1989 with off-the-shelf components, and sailboats have been effectively using the technology for decades, why isn't everyone else moving in the same direction?
Simple: it threatens the status quo.
Here's some real science regarding the number of deaths caused by chernobyl. Note that the study was completed more than 20 years after the disaster. It takes a long time to experience, record and document the effects of radioactive contamination.
This past April 26th marked the 24th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident. It came as the nuclear industry and pro-nuclear government officials in the United States and other nations were trying to "revive" nuclear power. And it followed the publication of a book, the most comprehensive study ever made, on the impacts of the Chernobyl disaster.
Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment was published by the New York Academy of Sciences.
It is authored by three noted scientists:
Russian biologist Dr. Alexey Yablokov, former environmental advisor to the Russian president;
Dr. Alexey Nesterenko, a biologist and ecologist in Belarus; and
Dr.Vassili Nesterenko, a physicist and at the time of the accident director of the Institute of Nuclear Energy of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
Its editor is Dr. Janette Sherman, a physician and toxicologist long involved in studying the health impacts of radioactivity.
The book is solidly based -- on health data, radiological surveys and scientific reports -- some 5,000 in all.
It concludes that based on records now available, some 985,000 people died, mainly of cancer, as a result of the Chernobyl accident. That is between when the accident occurred in 1986 and 2004. More deaths, it projects, will follow.
The book explodes the claim of the International Atomic Energy Agency-- still on its website that the expected death toll from the Chernobyl accident will be 4,000. The IAEA, the new book shows, is under-estimating, to the extreme, the casualties of Chernobyl.
Your "retirement money" will be worthless by the time you retire, but I'm sure the investment bankers will enjoy the use of it in the meantime...
Banks gave loans to unqualified borrowers so they could profit from the securitization of those loans.
Had there been no loans, there would have been no blowout, and thus, no bailout.
The problem originated with the investment bankers, aided and abetted by the regulators. Greed, plain and simple.
A triple shot of powerful, room-sized generators as well as four massive rows of very large batteries are in place should the lights go out. . .
. . . the whole (generator) room is sunk a bit deeper than the rest of the facility to ensure anything that could happen would be contained to the room.
So the batteries and generators are below the level of all other flooring.
During flooding, won't water flow first to the lowest point in the building?
Will It Blend?
I agree - where's Robert Tappan Morris's Internet worm?
I can tell ya, playing this is a bitch on my iPhone 4...
I could be wrong, but I believe there is a $12 per departure 'security fee' on your plane ticket, so it's not free. If you really like it, stuff a dollar bill in the TSA agent's waistband...
what do you expect? - it's San Francisco...!
I only give out my Google Voice number. It can route incoming calls, using it's address book, to ring on combinations of phone numbers I have responsibility for: home phone, my cell, wife cell, direct to voice mail, etc. These parameters can be set globally and also for specific address book entries.
When I switched cellphone providers, I didn't bother to transfer the old number; I just updated google voice. Now the new phone number rings, the old phone number is deleted, and nobody in my address book even notices, or needs to.
Have a busy hair salon? Just have GV ring all the stylist's cellphones with the caller's ID, and the stylist who knows the name can pick up. The front desk landline can also pick up directly. If nobody picks up, the call goes to digital voicemail with immediate (dubious) transcription to SMS or email.
When customers call, they get right through. If bill collectors or mom calls, they can hear a 'number out of service' tone that blocks robocallers.
Web accessible logs with numbers, names and call history. All this virtual functionality with no IP telephony snake oil. A free service like this has tremendous value for anyone. If google or the CIA or the new world order want to listen to calls, have at it. It works well 98% of the time. It's FREE.
How will vendors of office IP phone systems compete in such a market? See: CISCO earnings...!