I'm concerned about the assertion that the Sun radiates in a narrow band. It has a very broad band of emission.
If he's talking about just the infrared, maybe there is a narrow band that's most efficient for conversion, but the other freqs will prevent the cooling effect.
Some bona-fide original thinking though.
The best idea I've seen here is tubes under the house underground, to 'normalize' the outside air. Take advantage of the Earth's heat sink, AND have fresh air all the time. (unless you're in Houston) I guess they'd have to be buried 6' down, and be spread out over twice the area of the house footprint, ideally under the house to conserve its moderate temp.
I need to make a cast for a transparent object, which will be two plates of glass, seperated by some kind of spacer. I thought maybe window screen spline would work, if I could find it in square cross-section or concave. So went to Lowes hardware and no, only round and ribbed in 20 flavors. Not good for a flat object's edge.
Wandered around the store for an hour or so, looking for anything that might work. Yeah, it took time, and I was impatient, but I've gotten some great ideas before this way. I came across string trimmer line which is actually square in cross-section, comes in various sizes, and has a polished finish! Perfect.
It's really just silica atoms, with great spaces between. It is a solid, and so could never be lighter than air, unless filled with a lighter-than-air gas, as the previous poster said.
Not really. The fear that they try to instill in us every day really reflects the fear they have of us. If we credulously believe that alQuada actually -exists- then we are complicit in our demise.
What's really happening, has happened over the millenia time and time again: large societies go through phases, essentially in the same order:
- Crashed and dead;
- Gradually enlightening;
- Renaissance;
- Decline and regression/repression;
- Militarization;
- Crashed and dead.
Rinse and repeat. (these ideas stolen from Megatrends)
What's really happening under the surface:
- Everything's broken and hopeless;
- People start to realize that their actions actually can be effective, opposed to what they've been convinced. Without the cacaphony of poli'tics and nay-sayers, heretics are not discouraged from standing up and proposing new ways;
- Many of the new ideas actually work, and all benefit from the crazy ideas of the 5%, as the tide rises;
- Poli'tics learn the new landscape and take measures to aquire control of key levers. Cheaters get rich by shortcuts -- stifling competition, using inside information, and nastily propagandizing things they don't like;
- No one is paying attention to The King/Party/whatever (herding cats), or worse, speaking out against The Party, so a two-pronged attack against the people:
--- FUD - always a useful tool for control. ("The govt has increased to Threat Level Orange -- there may be an attack on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day or New Year's Week... somewhere." Just as everyone is traveling... take your shoes off. But oh, don't worry about thousands of unchecked shipping containers in ports) (Where TF are all the terrorist attacks that we've been promised, these past three years?)
--- Repression - possible only if you control certain levers. Stalin, Kim Jong Il, and Saddam knew nothing else.
- Eventually the few originals give up, but the society keeps riding that pony, whipping it harder, and getting fatter all the time.
- So progress peters out.... everything stinks, but no one can locate the source of the smell.
- Either the poli'tics give out (Athens, Soviet Russia), or are overthrown (French, American Revolutions). (these ideas are my original)
I propose that, because at least 40% of Americans are convinced that the Bush White House, operates much the same as West Wing on TV, they are hopelessly stupid. But the rest have a chance.
{rant}
Education is the center, and the key, to living well. It's something that no one can ever take away from you, and you can never have enough. Our (passing) renaissance was really due in large part to quality public education for the masses (now gutted), and to the old GI Bill. (That GI education plan made far more back for the government in taxes from higher incomes, than it ever, ever cost) If you actually study and do the work/thinking, you will be sincerely transformed. More horsepower; you can rise above the muck and see more things, and see them much better. There is no better source of self-generated self-confidence, in any situation.
{/rant}
The Hubble abandonment is a direct result of broader funding cutbacks (which include reduction of Combat and Hazardous Duty pay for our soldiers). The US government has slingshotted from a $450 billion surplus... to a $500 billion deficit, in just three years -- a $1 trillion reversal of fortune. Think about that for a second, because it is very real.
9/11? We're told that that cost 'only' $79bb. So, what happened to the other 871 billion?! Tax cuts for the richest 5% of our population, is what. If you're old enough to remember the Reagan tax cuts of '82, they directly led to the oil and real estate collapse of the late '80's, but at least that time we came out with new buildings. The Tax Act of '86 had to undo the imbalances. So how could anyone imagine that tax cuts without corresponding spending reductions would have any different result today? This time, they cut out the inefficiencies in transfer of wealth (building new buildings), by granting 'relief' directly to the corporation and high net-worth individual. The Party has been tipping up the US Treasury and shaking it empty.
While we're taking off our shoes in airports... almost every shipping container coming into US ports goes unchecked. WTF? Is this asymmetry solely to convey a message of fear to the populous? To distract us with FUD, from thinking about important matters?
It appears tp me that Repubs do the opposite of what they say: Spend, and Spend, and abridge the Constitution, and Spend.
So, one abusive monopoly... doesn't get along with another abusive monopoly? Glad to hear it; but I don't trust Oracle anyway.
I use exclusively Konq for browsing, file management, FTP, configuration (components), and more. Konq does it all, and presents itself as anything you want, better than anything else. The only time I use IE is to update the obligatory Win2k inside VMware, because you are forced by them to use it. Saw the newest IE at the library yesterday, and I see little change from 3 years ago. Ossified.
Sometimes I use Moz, but it takes quite alot to make it pretty; they could increase their following with a better OOTB experience. Glad they're still doing releases, and surprised, after their commercial enterprise was hideously eviscerated by M$ (who dumped their product for free, illegal in most civilized countries), and never compensated for it.
By 'great', do you mean a great number of subtle, dumb errors which you spend all of your free time and weekends, chasing?
Seems clear you haven't tried Suse9. It is a trainwreck. After losing approx 25% of my productivity over three years with Suse, I am now running Mandrake9.2, and every day am shocked and awed that everything works.
Time is an important factor. I think the BSDs are great for internet servers, though I don't see how they're any more secure than a properly set up Mandrake system. Yes, I use Mandrake, not because I'm a n00b, but because Suse cost me at least a month of downtime over the past year. I need my systems, to get actual work done.
Though I'm glad the BSDs are there, for my purposes Linux just works.
As far as TV, I don't think you can do better than 10' HDTV, with front-projection. Dazzling.
For a portable player, how about an IPaq running Opie? Run almost any Linux software, including GPS, contact management, SIM phone, movie player, etc in a pocket-sized computer. Yeah, it is HP, but I think the 3970 is the finest device I've ever owned. (once I tore out Winduhs and put in Opie)
I read this CES review, because it's by/. and that's what I wanted to read. I have the option of reading other reviews, but I choose this one, OK?
I can't understand why some high net-worth individual hasn't hired a sniper to take out drug lords? Surely some rich kids have died of smack? So why hasn't Dad done something about it?! Chicken, I guess.
Oh, another drug lord takes his place? No problem.... Give them the same security hysteria that's trying to be sold to us.
All you need is call setup, to get IP/ports at both ends of the virtual circuit. Get this with any of the (already-installed) Carnivore machines at ALL major ISPs; get setup with a new machine at Vontage; or by port-sniffing the backbone. Thence track the call at level2 router taps (backbone).
Do you mean a judicially-reviewed warrant? Because that power has now been taken away from the Judiciary. The Executive branch has been given authority by The Party (Dec 03), to issue a blanket letter. An historic change in (im)balance of power.
GPG and PGP relies on numbers that are extremely hard to factor. In fact unfactorability is the lynchpin of most encryption methods. So a massively-parallel factoring engine made up of specialized ASICs could work wonders... (cough)
Also, I have to wonder about the AES (Rijndael) algo, which is a recent development. Although it is Dutch, it is the product of our 'modern political times', so could it have a backdoor?
It used to cost more in time and money to go to FISA, so marginal cases were discouraged. But no need to bother with that anymore -- with the (blanket, mass-produced) National Security Letter (implemented December, 03), they've endowed law enforcement with all the powers of the Stazi. These are historic, unprecedented, regressive, repressive, changes to our government. Congratulations, to The Party and our corrupt Congress.
To those who would depend on encryption, yes I use it as a matter of course as well, but if outlawed (the very next step), no dice.
I'm surprised that the twenty-somethings here just do not think you can effect any change whatsoever, and adopt a defensive posture. Concentrating on avoidance, rather than repair. That just does not work; if you run, it activates a pursuit reflex (as in wolves), and things get exponentially worse for you. It's the world that you're inheriting, you know. Maybe you just don't appreciate what regimes of the past were like... it's the only answer I can think of for this cultural apathy.
You have to speak out, rationally and clearly, especially when you're in a crowd hostile to your ideas. That's when you have the most effect, because at least half the people in that crowd are uncertain. Yeah, it's harder, but just bitching among friends does absolutely fscking nothing.
The corollary to this, as Noam Chomsky says, is that free speech means allowing precisely that speech which you abhor, at the time you abhor it.
Understand that ALL messages of importance are directed to the 20% of the population which is politically participating. EVERYthing else (sitcoms, sports, shopping hysteria, etc) are just to keep that other 80% from thinking about important matters... to keep them busy. (mooo)
Will the 2004 elections be suspended? I doubt it, but I also doubt that we'll see 2008 elections since Gen. Tommy Franks feels that another major terrorist attack would require suspension of the Constitution. (Why hasn't this guy been arrested for treason?!)
We all use credit cards, which are really the flakiest form of currency ever invented. Pure electrons.
Sure, they can track us if we use electronic money, and that's a concern especially in an age of subpoenaless power (taken by the ruling Party from Judiciary and given to the Executive branch in December). But I think of even more concern is day-to-day verification. With cash, you can physically, mindlessly count it in each transaction, and it's easily verifiable. But how many of us, at the end of the month, actually reconcile grocery store receipts with our charge statements? Few, I think.
Without open-source certified proof and automatic self-journalling/reconcile, it's another avenue to be nickel-and-dimed... or wiped out. And without instant transaction extinguishment, it's another avenue for identity/CC# theft.
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I'm concerned about the assertion that the Sun radiates in a narrow band. It has a very broad band of emission.
If he's talking about just the infrared, maybe there is a narrow band that's most efficient for conversion, but the other freqs will prevent the cooling effect.
Some bona-fide original thinking though.
The best idea I've seen here is tubes under the house underground, to 'normalize' the outside air. Take advantage of the Earth's heat sink, AND have fresh air all the time. (unless you're in Houston) I guess they'd have to be buried 6' down, and be spread out over twice the area of the house footprint, ideally under the house to conserve its moderate temp.
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I need to make a cast for a transparent object, which will be two plates of glass, seperated by some kind of spacer. I thought maybe window screen spline would work, if I could find it in square cross-section or concave. So went to Lowes hardware and no, only round and ribbed in 20 flavors. Not good for a flat object's edge.
Wandered around the store for an hour or so, looking for anything that might work. Yeah, it took time, and I was impatient, but I've gotten some great ideas before this way. I came across string trimmer line which is actually square in cross-section, comes in various sizes, and has a polished finish! Perfect.
Tame your inner beast, and make discoveries.
This is what I wanted to know, thanks.
No doubt a respirator is advisable. There's a lung condition from exposure to concrete powder (silica), which is nearly as bad as asbestiosis.
Well see, with air between panes, theres convection, which reduces efficiency. A vacum eliminates convection, but allows energy to pass.
Aerogel would both stop convection and (much) energy transfer, but there's no way it'd be transparent enough for windows.
I think Mr. Kelley has done a masterful job describing modern day industrial design in terms and examples we can all relate to.
Thank you, Mr. Kelly.
It's really just silica atoms, with great spaces between. It is a solid, and so could never be lighter than air, unless filled with a lighter-than-air gas, as the previous poster said.
Keep telling your colleagues about all the problems you wish to tell them about. Then keep very quiet in the meeting, they'll come out. ;-)
Nice attitude, man. I think you've fscked me before.
This is not the right way... it's actually dishonest.
Instead, prepare brief descriptions of the problems, proposed solutions, timelines and estimated costs to fix.
Oh, so you think science will make it with them? As much as I wish this were true, no, sickeningly it will get him fired.
We are worried about what we discuss coming back to our directors ultimately to bite us.
Depends on what stage of ossification your company is in: early, middle, or late.
From the tone of IT concerns, you are in late stages, so shut up. When there are vested interests, the messenger always get shot.
We are so fucked.
Not really. The fear that they try to instill in us every day really reflects the fear they have of us. If we credulously believe that alQuada actually -exists- then we are complicit in our demise.
What's really happening, has happened over the millenia time and time again: large societies go through phases, essentially in the same order:
- Crashed and dead;
- Gradually enlightening;
- Renaissance;
- Decline and regression/repression;
- Militarization;
- Crashed and dead.
Rinse and repeat.
(these ideas stolen from Megatrends)
What's really happening under the surface:
- Everything's broken and hopeless;
- People start to realize that their actions actually can be effective, opposed to what they've been convinced. Without the cacaphony of poli'tics and nay-sayers, heretics are not discouraged from standing up and proposing new ways;
- Many of the new ideas actually work, and all benefit from the crazy ideas of the 5%, as the tide rises;
- Poli'tics learn the new landscape and take measures to aquire control of key levers. Cheaters get rich by shortcuts -- stifling competition, using inside information, and nastily propagandizing things they don't like;
- No one is paying attention to The King/Party/whatever (herding cats), or worse, speaking out against The Party, so a two-pronged attack against the people:
--- FUD - always a useful tool for control. ("The govt has increased to Threat Level Orange -- there may be an attack on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day or New Year's Week... somewhere." Just as everyone is traveling... take your shoes off. But oh, don't worry about thousands of unchecked shipping containers in ports) (Where TF are all the terrorist attacks that we've been promised, these past three years?)
--- Repression - possible only if you control certain levers. Stalin, Kim Jong Il, and Saddam knew nothing else.
- Eventually the few originals give up, but the society keeps riding that pony, whipping it harder, and getting fatter all the time.
- So progress peters out.... everything stinks, but no one can locate the source of the smell.
- Either the poli'tics give out (Athens, Soviet Russia), or are overthrown (French, American Revolutions).
(these ideas are my original)
I propose that, because at least 40% of Americans are convinced that the Bush White House, operates much the same as West Wing on TV, they are hopelessly stupid. But the rest have a chance.
{rant} Education is the center, and the key, to living well. It's something that no one can ever take away from you, and you can never have enough. Our (passing) renaissance was really due in large part to quality public education for the masses (now gutted), and to the old GI Bill. (That GI education plan made far more back for the government in taxes from higher incomes, than it ever, ever cost) If you actually study and do the work/thinking, you will be sincerely transformed. More horsepower; you can rise above the muck and see more things, and see them much better. There is no better source of self-generated self-confidence, in any situation. {/rant}
The Hubble abandonment is a direct result of broader funding cutbacks (which include reduction of Combat and Hazardous Duty pay for our soldiers). The US government has slingshotted from a $450 billion surplus... to a $500 billion deficit, in just three years -- a $1 trillion reversal of fortune. Think about that for a second, because it is very real.
9/11? We're told that that cost 'only' $79bb. So, what happened to the other 871 billion?! Tax cuts for the richest 5% of our population, is what. If you're old enough to remember the Reagan tax cuts of '82, they directly led to the oil and real estate collapse of the late '80's, but at least that time we came out with new buildings. The Tax Act of '86 had to undo the imbalances. So how could anyone imagine that tax cuts without corresponding spending reductions would have any different result today? This time, they cut out the inefficiencies in transfer of wealth (building new buildings), by granting 'relief' directly to the corporation and high net-worth individual. The Party has been tipping up the US Treasury and shaking it empty.
While we're taking off our shoes in airports... almost every shipping container coming into US ports goes unchecked. WTF?
Is this asymmetry solely to convey a message of fear to the populous? To distract us with FUD, from thinking about important matters?
It appears tp me that Repubs do the opposite of what they say: Spend, and Spend, and abridge the Constitution, and Spend.
So, one abusive monopoly... doesn't get along with another abusive monopoly? Glad to hear it; but I don't trust Oracle anyway.
I use exclusively Konq for browsing, file management, FTP, configuration (components), and more. Konq does it all, and presents itself as anything you want, better than anything else. The only time I use IE is to update the obligatory Win2k inside VMware, because you are forced by them to use it. Saw the newest IE at the library yesterday, and I see little change from 3 years ago. Ossified.
Sometimes I use Moz, but it takes quite alot to make it pretty; they could increase their following with a better OOTB experience. Glad they're still doing releases, and surprised, after their commercial enterprise was hideously eviscerated by M$ (who dumped their product for free, illegal in most civilized countries), and never compensated for it.
Suse is great.
By 'great', do you mean a great number of subtle, dumb errors which you spend all of your free time and weekends, chasing?
Seems clear you haven't tried Suse9. It is a trainwreck. After losing approx 25% of my productivity over three years with Suse, I am now running Mandrake9.2, and every day am shocked and awed that everything works.
Agree.
Time is an important factor. I think the BSDs are great for internet servers, though I don't see how they're any more secure than a properly set up Mandrake system. Yes, I use Mandrake, not because I'm a n00b, but because Suse cost me at least a month of downtime over the past year. I need my systems, to get actual work done.
Though I'm glad the BSDs are there, for my purposes Linux just works.
As far as TV, I don't think you can do better than 10' HDTV, with front-projection. Dazzling.
/. and that's what I wanted to read. I have the option of reading other reviews, but I choose this one, OK?
For a portable player, how about an IPaq running Opie? Run almost any Linux software, including GPS, contact management, SIM phone, movie player, etc in a pocket-sized computer. Yeah, it is HP, but I think the 3970 is the finest device I've ever owned. (once I tore out Winduhs and put in Opie)
I read this CES review, because it's by
LOL, they'll get stuck in no time, if they expect to go on any, but concrete with less than a 20 degree grade.
I can't understand why some high net-worth individual hasn't hired a sniper to take out drug lords? Surely some rich kids have died of smack? So why hasn't Dad done something about it?! Chicken, I guess.
Oh, another drug lord takes his place? No problem.... Give them the same security hysteria that's trying to be sold to us.
All you need is call setup, to get IP/ports at both ends of the virtual circuit. Get this with any of the (already-installed) Carnivore machines at ALL major ISPs; get setup with a new machine at Vontage; or by port-sniffing the backbone. Thence track the call at level2 router taps (backbone).
Unfortunately, no problem.
Do you mean a judicially-reviewed warrant? Because that power has now been taken away from the Judiciary. The Executive branch has been given authority by The Party (Dec 03), to issue a blanket letter. An historic change in (im)balance of power.
They could mandate that any attempt to subvert the govt's ability to listen is illegal. This defeats all hope of encryption as defense.
How about concentrating on who's passing these damned laws, for a change? Get to the source of the problem?
Also, those P2P VoIP calls go through level2 routers on the way, which have taps. VoIP packets are easy to spot, by port#.
GPG and PGP relies on numbers that are extremely hard to factor. In fact unfactorability is the lynchpin of most encryption methods. So a massively-parallel factoring engine made up of specialized ASICs could work wonders... (cough)
Also, I have to wonder about the AES (Rijndael) algo, which is a recent development. Although it is Dutch, it is the product of our 'modern political times', so could it have a backdoor?
It matters because it's a question of degrees.
It used to cost more in time and money to go to FISA, so marginal cases were discouraged. But no need to bother with that anymore -- with the (blanket, mass-produced) National Security Letter (implemented December, 03), they've endowed law enforcement with all the powers of the Stazi. These are historic, unprecedented, regressive, repressive, changes to our government. Congratulations, to The Party and our corrupt Congress.
To those who would depend on encryption, yes I use it as a matter of course as well, but if outlawed (the very next step), no dice.
I'm surprised that the twenty-somethings here just do not think you can effect any change whatsoever, and adopt a defensive posture. Concentrating on avoidance, rather than repair. That just does not work; if you run, it activates a pursuit reflex (as in wolves), and things get exponentially worse for you. It's the world that you're inheriting, you know. Maybe you just don't appreciate what regimes of the past were like... it's the only answer I can think of for this cultural apathy.
You have to speak out, rationally and clearly, especially when you're in a crowd hostile to your ideas. That's when you have the most effect, because at least half the people in that crowd are uncertain. Yeah, it's harder, but just bitching among friends does absolutely fscking nothing.
The corollary to this, as Noam Chomsky says, is that free speech means allowing precisely that speech which you abhor, at the time you abhor it.
Understand that ALL messages of importance are directed to the 20% of the population which is politically participating. EVERYthing else (sitcoms, sports, shopping hysteria, etc) are just to keep that other 80% from thinking about important matters... to keep them busy. (mooo)
Will the 2004 elections be suspended? I doubt it, but I also doubt that we'll see 2008 elections since Gen. Tommy Franks feels that another major terrorist attack would require suspension of the Constitution. (Why hasn't this guy been arrested for treason?!)
Mandrake 9.2, for one. But after compile, it doesn't boot on a Thinkpad. Maybe .1 will.
We all use credit cards, which are really the flakiest form of currency ever invented. Pure electrons.
Sure, they can track us if we use electronic money, and that's a concern especially in an age of subpoenaless power (taken by the ruling Party from Judiciary and given to the Executive branch in December). But I think of even more concern is day-to-day verification. With cash, you can physically, mindlessly count it in each transaction, and it's easily verifiable. But how many of us, at the end of the month, actually reconcile grocery store receipts with our charge statements? Few, I think.
Without open-source certified proof and automatic self-journalling/reconcile, it's another avenue to be nickel-and-dimed... or wiped out. And without instant transaction extinguishment, it's another avenue for identity/CC# theft.