If you don't wear clothes while in public and someone sees you it's considered harmful to society. Same thing with health insurance. If you don't have it and you get sick, someone still has to pay and one way or another the costs get spread across the local population.
Of course you could always just force everyone to be OK with seeing a naked obese 37 year old skipping down the street and getting sqeezed up against you and your kids on public transport. Just like you could just force the medical field to lower their costs so everyone can afford to sprain an ankle on a sunday without having to pay a months wages for the asprin at the emergency room.
You're right, mobile will never have as much bandwidth as fiber/copper, that's why I didn't try to claim it would. My hope is someone big with a stake in getting everyone networked and using it (yup, google) jumps into the market and shakes things up to the point the big carriers shift towards mobile data as a utility. You have mobile to your handset, high speed to your home, voice and text via a VOIP provider, and you get a handset like any other piece of consumer electronics instead of bundled with an insanely overpriced plan.
The carriers are just begging for someone (google...) to come in, toss up a bunch of towers across the US, and offer a data only wireless access plan with no caps. And the nation will rejoice. A phone number tethered to a cell phone is unneeded anymore. Skype/gtalk/ect... clients on the phone can easily take over the voice calling aspects, text messages too. The ability to separate out the features a cell phone offers and shop around has been possible for awhile now. The carriers know this and are doing all they can to make sure you stay bundled together with them for voice/text/web/the handset.
I question the methodology of that research. Was it just pure number crunching, or did they actually do physical tests? If they did do physical tests, did they use a stack of paper as thick as the ipad, or as thick as the amount of notes the ipad would replace in an average political debate?
With a blunt weapons of equal contact area, it all comes down to the mass of your weapon. Against an equal thickness stack of paper, the ipad would win due to density. But against the ream of paper notes a ipad can easily replace in a debate, paper wins out.
And I bet your research completely left out the papercut factor...
Don't worry, soon all communications will require a 3 document identity verification and will be recorded in permanent storage for a minimum of 50 years. This includes not only internet communications of all kinds, but also phone calls, physical letters, and face to face communications. I hear the identity badges they're planning for every american to wear comes in a rather fetching grey, makes it easier to read the photo, full name, date of birth, social security number, listing of immediate family names, pet names, political party affiliation, job status, and citizenship status.
It was pronounced jiggawatt in the movie because that's the "true" pronunciation of gigawatt. Yes that includes jiggabyte and jiggahertz. Though only latin professors and apparently (according to google) a small group of old astronomers would actually care.
Solar for supplemental power, fully weather simulated flight plan could save a ton of fuel by using every available wind along the way. Heavy assistance from an autopilot could compensate for side winds long before a human pilot could notice. GPS enhanced with ground based transponders could allow the tethering and other ground operations to be almost completely automated.
Make it cheap enough and toss in a networked autopilot, electric copters could replace the family sedan. Suburbia would be filled with the sound of a thousand angry bees every morning.
Anaheim, CA. When I worked at disneyland and rode a bike to work (hey, they paid me extra to do it) there was a spot near my apartment where someone had moved their fence out to block off the sidewalk, forcing pedestrians to get much closer to the road. Usually while on that stretch of road atleast one idiot in a truck would gun their engine and swerve as close to me as possible in the ever popular game of "run the biker over!" One night after a small rain there was a huge puddle in that spot, so I knew there was no way the diesel I could hear a half block back could resist it. I just stopped before the puddle and waited, and watched as the idiot clipped the puddle trying to splash me, and quickly lost control because the puddle was in a rather sudden drop. He went crashing through the fence right infront of me.
I moved back to wyoming soon after. They may not treat bikers with any respect out here, but they atleast just ignore us instead of actively trying to kill us.
Cellphone internet access would cover a majority of a train route without any additions, solar powered repeaters could cover any tunnels.
I would love to be able to hop a train down to LA or florida for a couple of days at disneyland/world (wife is obsessed with them), even if it took 3x as long as driving. I've got the vacation days and we can afford it, but I can't stand driving at all, my wife is from LA and never learned to drive, and my state does not have passenger rail service anywhere.
Ya know, I know how they could guarantee this thing pays for itself in a year. Hogwarts express trains, starting in the US, making their way through this tunnel, picking up passengers along the way and stopping in england.
Ooo, nice stuff. I've used Openmesh before with good success before. Between openmesh and this unifi I might actually be able to convince the guys in charge of our physical network to upgrade to something from this century.
Openmesh. Support for a public and a private network, standard encryption choices on both, coupon codes could be used to limit guest vs parking lot access. Just have to run a cable to strategic points so your bandwidth isn't completely limited by wireless speeds at the last mesh hop.
Say 100 lumen per watt backlight, 10% capture on the solar layer with 20% conversion efficiency. Starting with a 1 watt draw, the final transmitted light is 90 lumen. Of the 10 lumen caught, 2 actually get converted to energy. Since 683lumen/watt is max efficacy (of lighting, assuming going in reverse is true), that 2 lumen equals a whopping 0.003 watts. Bringing the final total to 0.997 watt net draw for 90 lumen.
Dimming the display 10% on the other hand, gives 90 lumen for.9 watts.
The solar option is a net loss of 0.097 watts.
Reflective backlighting is the only way this would be useful, and would still be less efficient that just lining non-display areas of the device with normal solar cells.
It'll never hit mainstream, it's being suppressed by the silk industry to keep prices high. Just like the coal and oil industry and water reactors. Our energy needs could be a thing of the past just by creating a running water loop with a pump, and power that pump with a water wheel running off the water loop.
Back in the early 90's my grandfather bought a ring style florescent screw in bulb to use in his reading lamp. After he passed on my brothers and I made sure it found a new home (grandpa was rather proud of it, he was a huge techie and loved the new stuff) and it's been getting daily use in my dad's garage even since. 100F+ summers, -20F winters, still going strong.
Temperature extremes are a factor, but the core issue with CFLs is they're made to be as crappy as possible anymore. Over the years we've amassed a house full of "factory defect" bulbs, ones that don't crap out above 80F or after the 6 months they're designed to fail at. Had to go through a lot of burnt bulbs to do it, but we still saved a ton on power costs.
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If you don't wear clothes while in public and someone sees you it's considered harmful to society.
Same thing with health insurance. If you don't have it and you get sick, someone still has to pay and one way or another the costs get spread across the local population.
Of course you could always just force everyone to be OK with seeing a naked obese 37 year old skipping down the street and getting sqeezed up against you and your kids on public transport.
Just like you could just force the medical field to lower their costs so everyone can afford to sprain an ankle on a sunday without having to pay a months wages for the asprin at the emergency room.
What the flux are you talking about. This is a transformertive technology, 10-15 years at best.
My next cell phone could come with a 100' tesla tower?
Awesome! Allied forced aren't getting anywhere near my ore refinery now.
You're right, mobile will never have as much bandwidth as fiber/copper, that's why I didn't try to claim it would.
My hope is someone big with a stake in getting everyone networked and using it (yup, google) jumps into the market and shakes things up to the point the big carriers shift towards mobile data as a utility. You have mobile to your handset, high speed to your home, voice and text via a VOIP provider, and you get a handset like any other piece of consumer electronics instead of bundled with an insanely overpriced plan.
The carriers are just begging for someone (google...) to come in, toss up a bunch of towers across the US, and offer a data only wireless access plan with no caps. And the nation will rejoice.
A phone number tethered to a cell phone is unneeded anymore. Skype/gtalk/ect... clients on the phone can easily take over the voice calling aspects, text messages too.
The ability to separate out the features a cell phone offers and shop around has been possible for awhile now. The carriers know this and are doing all they can to make sure you stay bundled together with them for voice/text/web/the handset.
"Ye know why it's called a Kilt? Because I kilt the last man who called it a skirt!"
Also, I would rock a wizzards robe at work if not for the dress code.
I question the methodology of that research. Was it just pure number crunching, or did they actually do physical tests? If they did do physical tests, did they use a stack of paper as thick as the ipad, or as thick as the amount of notes the ipad would replace in an average political debate?
With a blunt weapons of equal contact area, it all comes down to the mass of your weapon. Against an equal thickness stack of paper, the ipad would win due to density. But against the ream of paper notes a ipad can easily replace in a debate, paper wins out.
And I bet your research completely left out the papercut factor...
Don't worry, soon all communications will require a 3 document identity verification and will be recorded in permanent storage for a minimum of 50 years. This includes not only internet communications of all kinds, but also phone calls, physical letters, and face to face communications. I hear the identity badges they're planning for every american to wear comes in a rather fetching grey, makes it easier to read the photo, full name, date of birth, social security number, listing of immediate family names, pet names, political party affiliation, job status, and citizenship status.
It was pronounced jiggawatt in the movie because that's the "true" pronunciation of gigawatt. Yes that includes jiggabyte and jiggahertz.
Though only latin professors and apparently (according to google) a small group of old astronomers would actually care.
Solar for supplemental power, fully weather simulated flight plan could save a ton of fuel by using every available wind along the way.
Heavy assistance from an autopilot could compensate for side winds long before a human pilot could notice.
GPS enhanced with ground based transponders could allow the tethering and other ground operations to be almost completely automated.
Make it cheap enough and toss in a networked autopilot, electric copters could replace the family sedan.
Suburbia would be filled with the sound of a thousand angry bees every morning.
Anaheim, CA. When I worked at disneyland and rode a bike to work (hey, they paid me extra to do it) there was a spot near my apartment where someone had moved their fence out to block off the sidewalk, forcing pedestrians to get much closer to the road. Usually while on that stretch of road atleast one idiot in a truck would gun their engine and swerve as close to me as possible in the ever popular game of "run the biker over!"
One night after a small rain there was a huge puddle in that spot, so I knew there was no way the diesel I could hear a half block back could resist it. I just stopped before the puddle and waited, and watched as the idiot clipped the puddle trying to splash me, and quickly lost control because the puddle was in a rather sudden drop. He went crashing through the fence right infront of me.
I moved back to wyoming soon after. They may not treat bikers with any respect out here, but they atleast just ignore us instead of actively trying to kill us.
Cellphone internet access would cover a majority of a train route without any additions, solar powered repeaters could cover any tunnels.
I would love to be able to hop a train down to LA or florida for a couple of days at disneyland/world (wife is obsessed with them), even if it took 3x as long as driving. I've got the vacation days and we can afford it, but I can't stand driving at all, my wife is from LA and never learned to drive, and my state does not have passenger rail service anywhere.
Ya know, I know how they could guarantee this thing pays for itself in a year. Hogwarts express trains, starting in the US, making their way through this tunnel, picking up passengers along the way and stopping in england.
Ooo, nice stuff. I've used Openmesh before with good success before.
Between openmesh and this unifi I might actually be able to convince the guys in charge of our physical network to upgrade to something from this century.
Openmesh. Support for a public and a private network, standard encryption choices on both, coupon codes could be used to limit guest vs parking lot access. Just have to run a cable to strategic points so your bandwidth isn't completely limited by wireless speeds at the last mesh hop.
http://www.open-mesh.com/
Say 100 lumen per watt backlight, 10% capture on the solar layer with 20% conversion efficiency.
Starting with a 1 watt draw, the final transmitted light is 90 lumen.
Of the 10 lumen caught, 2 actually get converted to energy. Since 683lumen/watt is max efficacy (of lighting, assuming going in reverse is true), that 2 lumen equals a whopping 0.003 watts.
Bringing the final total to 0.997 watt net draw for 90 lumen.
Dimming the display 10% on the other hand, gives 90 lumen for .9 watts.
The solar option is a net loss of 0.097 watts.
Reflective backlighting is the only way this would be useful, and would still be less efficient that just lining non-display areas of the device with normal solar cells.
Yeah, I know. http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Water_reactor#Dwarven_Water_Reactor
You do know you're only supposed to point out jokes wooshing over other people's heads, not your own.
It'll never hit mainstream, it's being suppressed by the silk industry to keep prices high.
Just like the coal and oil industry and water reactors. Our energy needs could be a thing of the past just by creating a running water loop with a pump, and power that pump with a water wheel running off the water loop.
Back in the early 90's my grandfather bought a ring style florescent screw in bulb to use in his reading lamp. After he passed on my brothers and I made sure it found a new home (grandpa was rather proud of it, he was a huge techie and loved the new stuff) and it's been getting daily use in my dad's garage even since. 100F+ summers, -20F winters, still going strong.
Temperature extremes are a factor, but the core issue with CFLs is they're made to be as crappy as possible anymore. Over the years we've amassed a house full of "factory defect" bulbs, ones that don't crap out above 80F or after the 6 months they're designed to fail at. Had to go through a lot of burnt bulbs to do it, but we still saved a ton on power costs.
Secrets Of the Universe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ld-twoeg2s
I wonder how small of a plasma antenna could be used for something like this?
Interesting capitalization there, anyone else get the feeling these goatse posts are actually communication messages for a secretive organization?
So almost enough to but the mats for a piece of firelands crafted armor.
So they're arresting Kevin Bacon?
A browser plugin can easily use a adblock-like list subscription to keep updated.
Someone maintains a list of the dns blocks put forth by this law, browsers check the list before DNS, internet functions normally for them.