I just finished a disk burn in my PowerMac G4 which has a Lite-On LTR24826 dvd-burner - a drive that has never been officially fitted to any Mac. Apples disk burning works with any drive
"Solar energy provides anywhere from fifty to one-thousand times more energy per acre than any other technology."
Probably true but its a law of accelerating returns. The base footprint of a single wind rotor pylon would be of no great utility for solar power. On larger sites if you replace 500 rotors with a complete surface coverage of PV cells the logic is more convincing...
Re - maintenance visits. one of the biggest draws for power/utility companies towards Plugin-Hybrid Electric Vehicles is the fact that power company service vehicles spend their entire life moving between on-grid locations.
Already, EVs are commonly used for such trips. This will slowly increase as the economics requiring it are beautifully simple.
Something it seems often is overlooked is that energy storage in the form of fuel is pretty much essential for any activity that's effectively off-grid
You can knock Nuclear for its waste issues as far as you like but it' still unique in offering massively replicable dependable power for long periods - and if you need to pour half your national electricity supply into electrolysing hydrogen or anhydrous ammonia as fuel for internal combustion engines and/or fuel cells, reliable and steady power has a lot going for it.
Here in Britain, if the police see you with a phone while driving, you get 2 'penalty points' - when you reach 12 penalty points for any reason (speeding is 3 or 4 penalty points, other offences have varying penalty point levels) you lose your driving licence for 6 months
Has no effect whatsoever. I favour issuing our police with rocket launchers.
the owners handbook to my dad's 2003 VW Passat states that mobile phones must never be used in the car while driving as the EM radiation they create can cause the ABS braking control computer to crash !!!!
I live in south-east England - which means that since the Channel Tunnel opened I'm able to get my car into Northern France more easily than I can get it into central London. I've taken lots of friends over there and one thing I brief them all about during the car-transporter-train trip thru' the tunnel is 'don't distract me when I'm driving'
Driving in France (they drive on the right, we Brits drive on the left) is scary even before you contemplate the suicidally daring nature of the average French driver. I suspect that if I and other British drivers paid as much attention when driving in our home countries as we must when driving abroad, passengers, phones, radios would be always told to be silent, or turned off...
Not having any hardware would, unfortunately, curtail one's freedom to compute at all.
There has to be a line you draw for the simple reason that hardware patents are the legal mechanism that makes it possible to research-and-design new products as they alow the designer to profit from their design (when nt abused, as they often are)....
If you want intellectually free hardware.. well the answer might be the answer often given to feature requests by newcomers to OSS - get the specs and design it yourself.
So if I send someone a box with an electrified surface marked 'don't touch', that isnt attempted murder? She deliberately pushed someone over the edge. Only jail is an appropriate response to that.
Microsoft is subject to monopoly regulation, unlike Apple. It wouldn't be allowed to do that.
If they have a built-in download-and-install system in Windows, that could greatly improve Windows security as well as greatly benefiting free/OSS software on Windows. . It disadvantages Linux but helps both Microsoft (re: security), and the user...
.. my files are getting to see parts of the world I've never even been to, via Jungledisk. Anyway, as an S3 customer, the more data centres they have, the better.
On an Ecological level I hope electricity in Oregon is mainly nuclear, wind or Hydro....
this could render horrible, spyware-laden free app download sites like the current ones a thing of the past. if Microsoft hosts and vets downloads, it means higher quality apps for users, as well as an extra distribution channel for vendors
Get a very long network cable. Plug one end in at your principle location. Send the other end by mail to your secondary location. Wait for it to arrive
This may take a while as threading the mail system tends to cause kinks that have to be sorted autonomously by remote postman protocol.
When it arrives, plug in and use normal LAN remote control technology. Thanks to XKCD for the idea
Building apps to run well in a touchscreen environment is probably a good idea - but will an app that plays well with an HP Touchsmart also run on say, XP Tablet Edition?
If this is a programming environment that relies on HPs proprietary libraries being present it hardly seems a compelling prospect
Its interesting however that as in the PC world, we're moving toward a fight between Windows, Mac and Linux, but with extra proprietary players too. I am curious to see how this will end.
I swear the average IQ level of postings around here is sinking fast. It should be - no, sorry, it is - blindingly obvious that when i say NETBOOKS I mean items which are NOT A PHONE and therefore ARENT USED TO MAKE CALLS
Netbooks are used appliance-style, few applications are installed and the principle usages are PIM-style apps, web apps, surfing, media replay (classic smartphone usages)
Furthermore, the OS on a netbook is ideally tailored to run of low-powered hardware, optimised for small screens and long battery life, has to support various input methods (keyboard, mouse, stylus, touchscreen) and various communications/networking technologies - again these are the classic necessities of a Smartphone OS
Also remember that several of the presentday Smartphone OS's (Symbian, PalmOS, Windows Mobile) are directly descended from PDA operating systems. In my idealised example, a Smartphone OS migrates the other way, for the same reasons.
the iPod Touch 2nd generation has a Bluetooth controller chip onboard. Any of the product disassembly sites will tell you that. Its disabled in software
I was saying - get a cheap Bluetooth phone, use the iPod Touch tethered to it for all the clever web stuff that other phones dont do as well and that is the main sales driver for the iPhone. Apple prevents bluetooth tethering on ipod touches and iPhones (although the Touch has a bluetooth chip!) as well as preventing the more well-known audio bluetooth uses
also the SDK and source probably includes lots of files which are specific to one particular hardware/CPU platform. Android probably runs on ARM, SH, MIPS, x86, etc and needs different bits of specific code on each
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I just finished a disk burn in my PowerMac G4 which has a Lite-On LTR24826 dvd-burner - a drive that has never been officially fitted to any Mac. Apples disk burning works with any drive
"Solar energy provides anywhere from fifty to one-thousand times more energy per acre than any other technology."
Probably true but its a law of accelerating returns. The base footprint of a single wind rotor pylon would be of no great utility for solar power. On larger sites if you replace 500 rotors with a complete surface coverage of PV cells the logic is more convincing...
Re - maintenance visits. one of the biggest draws for power/utility companies towards Plugin-Hybrid Electric Vehicles is the fact that power company service vehicles spend their entire life moving between on-grid locations.
Already, EVs are commonly used for such trips. This will slowly increase as the economics requiring it are beautifully simple.
Something it seems often is overlooked is that energy storage in the form of fuel is pretty much essential for any activity that's effectively off-grid
You can knock Nuclear for its waste issues as far as you like but it' still unique in offering massively replicable dependable power for long periods - and if you need to pour half your national electricity supply into electrolysing hydrogen or anhydrous ammonia as fuel for internal combustion engines and/or fuel cells, reliable and steady power has a lot going for it.
Here in Britain, if the police see you with a phone while driving, you get 2 'penalty points' - when you reach 12 penalty points for any reason (speeding is 3 or 4 penalty points, other offences have varying penalty point levels) you lose your driving licence for 6 months
Has no effect whatsoever. I favour issuing our police with rocket launchers.
the owners handbook to my dad's 2003 VW Passat states that mobile phones must never be used in the car while driving as the EM radiation they create can cause the ABS braking control computer to crash !!!!
I live in south-east England - which means that since the Channel Tunnel opened I'm able to get my car into Northern France more easily than I can get it into central London. I've taken lots of friends over there and one thing I brief them all about during the car-transporter-train trip thru' the tunnel is 'don't distract me when I'm driving'
Driving in France (they drive on the right, we Brits drive on the left) is scary even before you contemplate the suicidally daring nature of the average French driver. I suspect that if I and other British drivers paid as much attention when driving in our home countries as we must when driving abroad, passengers, phones, radios would be always told to be silent, or turned off...
Not having any hardware would, unfortunately, curtail one's freedom to compute at all.
There has to be a line you draw for the simple reason that hardware patents are the legal mechanism that makes it possible to research-and-design new products as they alow the designer to profit from their design (when nt abused, as they often are)....
If you want intellectually free hardware.. well the answer might be the answer often given to feature requests by newcomers to OSS - get the specs and design it yourself.
So if I send someone a box with an electrified surface marked 'don't touch', that isnt attempted murder? She deliberately pushed someone over the edge. Only jail is an appropriate response to that.
What she did isnt just bitchinesss. What she did, with malice intended, ended a human life. She deserves jail. a LOT of jail.
Are you implying that coconuts migrate????
Are you suggesting that cononuts migrate to online services??????
I have a sealed copy of Windows NT4 for PowerPC. Never seen a machine that supports it though - New World Powermacs can't boot it.
Microsoft is subject to monopoly regulation, unlike Apple. It wouldn't be allowed to do that.
If they have a built-in download-and-install system in Windows, that could greatly improve Windows security as well as greatly benefiting free/OSS software on Windows. . It disadvantages Linux but helps both Microsoft (re: security), and the user...
.. my files are getting to see parts of the world I've never even been to, via Jungledisk. Anyway, as an S3 customer, the more data centres they have, the better.
On an Ecological level I hope electricity in Oregon is mainly nuclear, wind or Hydro....
this could render horrible, spyware-laden free app download sites like the current ones a thing of the past. if Microsoft hosts and vets downloads, it means higher quality apps for users, as well as an extra distribution channel for vendors
Get a very long network cable. Plug one end in at your principle location. Send the other end by mail to your secondary location. Wait for it to arrive
This may take a while as threading the mail system tends to cause kinks that have to be sorted autonomously by remote postman protocol.
When it arrives, plug in and use normal LAN remote control technology. Thanks to XKCD for the idea
Building apps to run well in a touchscreen environment is probably a good idea - but will an app that plays well with an HP Touchsmart also run on say, XP Tablet Edition?
If this is a programming environment that relies on HPs proprietary libraries being present it hardly seems a compelling prospect
Its interesting however that as in the PC world, we're moving toward a fight between Windows, Mac and Linux, but with extra proprietary players too. I am curious to see how this will end.
I swear the average IQ level of postings around here is sinking fast. It should be - no, sorry, it is - blindingly obvious that when i say NETBOOKS I mean items which are NOT A PHONE and therefore ARENT USED TO MAKE CALLS
Than, not For (it changes the meaning)
Netbooks are used appliance-style, few applications are installed and the principle usages are PIM-style apps, web apps, surfing, media replay (classic smartphone usages)
Furthermore, the OS on a netbook is ideally tailored to run of low-powered hardware, optimised for small screens and long battery life, has to support various input methods (keyboard, mouse, stylus, touchscreen) and various communications/networking technologies - again these are the classic necessities of a Smartphone OS
Also remember that several of the presentday Smartphone OS's (Symbian, PalmOS, Windows Mobile) are directly descended from PDA operating systems. In my idealised example, a Smartphone OS migrates the other way, for the same reasons.
I would like to see it on Netbooks, its probably more appropriate than a full desktop OS for such a specialised bit of hardware....
the iPod Touch 2nd generation has a Bluetooth controller chip onboard. Any of the product disassembly sites will tell you that. Its disabled in software
I was saying - get a cheap Bluetooth phone, use the iPod Touch tethered to it for all the clever web stuff that other phones dont do as well and that is the main sales driver for the iPhone. Apple prevents bluetooth tethering on ipod touches and iPhones (although the Touch has a bluetooth chip!) as well as preventing the more well-known audio bluetooth uses
also the SDK and source probably includes lots of files which are specific to one particular hardware/CPU platform. Android probably runs on ARM, SH, MIPS, x86, etc and needs different bits of specific code on each