Not necessarily. If this new technology could eventually reach 15% efficiency, then it's still nothing particularly wonderful when you take into account the fact that some firms like Boeing Spectrolabs boast solar cells with efficiencies as high as 40%
That's interesting. Are they claiming 40% efficiency based on <energy output per unit area of cell>/<insolation per unit area of cell>, which isn't very interesting, and kind of misleading, or 40% based on the energy per unit area of the entire device?
Now that would be the holy grail of, at least, the entertainment industry, which as others have pointed out drives much of the quest for greater processing power.
I really don't see how that's possible. The entire US film industry's gross receipts were only $10 billion last year. Microsoft's net income last year was $17 billion, and Microsoft is only ONE company in the tech industry.
Heh, Computational Fluid Dynamics is a complicated and diverse field. ALL CFD codes are characterized by the simplifying assumptions they make in order to actually have results in a time period where the results could potentially be useful. Further, the models aren't so much good as actual predictors, but as filters for more general theories: If the theory doesn't work in the model that uses its assumptions, then the it and/or the assumptions are wrong, or there are hidden assumptions which have not been characterized.
The point of all this is that if a model reproduces "El Nino" it very likely was designed to. There are other effects which it will wildly mis characterize or miss entirely. The interesting option occurs when the model is designed to reproduce some other effect, and happens to reproduce "El Nino" as well. Then there is a lot of good work to be had determining if it offers real insight, or is just a fluke of the results.
Ensemble averaging is bullshit. You can't just take a series of specialized models and tie them together and expect to get anything out of it but the original assumptions. Especially true as many models are descendants of other models, which will interfere with your weighting even more. What you can do is apply several different models to different domains and link them together. But the problem there is that the complexity makes it more difficult to determine what's really going on.
You should consider a five-minute loop, rather than the youtube permanent, total record. You want to catch the cops weaving in and out of traffic at ludicrous speed with no lights on, leaving traffic waves or worse in their path. You don't want documentation of ten thousand slight exceedings of the speed limit, stops just over the line, rolling stops, and the myriad of other trivial things they could harass you with in retaliation;.
Well, you're obviously happy with your current provider, having stayed with them for so long. Just commit that satisfaction to writing for two years and they'll give you a phone with no camera for "free." You can probably even get it for actually free if you just bitch at them a bit. Explain you've been a customer for ten years, and if they won't replace your phone with one that works, without forcing you into a contract or changing your plan in any way, you'll be happy to change carriers.
They're both an order of magnitude less effective at causing distracted-driving accidents than eating while driving, yet you can still go through the drive-through, order a super-sized McWhopper, and drive off merrily munching away, clogging arteries both natural and national.
Just goes to show who has the more powerful lobbies, Big "Food", vs. Big Cell and Big Friend.
No, the CVS price isn't $30/200 pages. That's the price of just the ink on certain HP printers that are really designed for home use. For a company with a lot of printing, you'd certainly want to do everything in-house on machines designed to actually print stuff, rather than machines designed to be able to print stuff occasionally.
The needs are different. My point, and it's a little orthogonal since it mostly applies to inkjet color printers, is that the local drugstore can give you photo print which are both better quality and lower price than printing at home ("up to 200 pages" at 5% ink coverage, which is.. graphs? photos would be closer to 50% ink coverage). And since they're drugstores, they're convenient enough that they're a real option. So, what else are you printing from home that really needs color? And are you doing it frequently enough that it's worth it to sacrifice black-quality, cost per page, wasted ink, the ability to print circuit traces for PCB etching, and when the ink-dots finally trickle down to inkjets, security?
So, as in TFA, you think the film making license to "The Lord of the Rings" universe for life+something is = approximately $65,000?
No, I think it's worth more than zero dollars, although the actual amount due now definitely depends on the terms of the original contract and how much was paid up front for the rights.
You have to have a saleable commodity before you can start talking about negotiating the price of that commodity. If New line could just take his work for free instead of negotiating a contract, they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to do just that.
What doesn't make sense here, though, is that New Line's rights are set to expire soon, and the Tolkien estate has expressed a desire for Jackson to be the one to direct the Hobbit film. In other words, All he had to do was wait out New Line, and they'd write him into the next contract they negotiate with another studio.
How about, 5) don't get a color printer. Get a nice, crisp, inexpensive black laser or led printer. Do all your color printing at CVS on their glossy/matte photopaper. It's less costly per page just on consumables, at least if 200 pages @ 5% coverage for $29.98 means what I think it means.
I'm sorry, you want to use your toaster in the bathtub? You have to purchase extra permissions to do that: $50 at amazon.com.
Well that's a terrible example. Some people think that doing incredibly stupid things like putting a high-current electric appliance with exposed elements in an appliance filled with electrolytic water (the salts provided by the you) and your naked person should have at least one aggravating step.
ID is the bastard child of religious misunderstanding (understandable, it is Faith after all) and scientific dogmatism (inexcusable, since science is supposed to be dogma-free (tm)).
The point is that they combine elements of both to produce something that is at the same time universally, unequivocally wrong, and, from a faith point of view, abominable. If Science explains faith, it's not really faith, is it?
Anyway, spore takes the essence of that idea: evolution, but directed by an all-powerful being, and attempts to turn it into an amusing game with neat, sometimes humorous, graphics. According to TFA, we'll know by the end of the year if they're successful.
They're developing advanced technology that would be nice now, but not always useful for the next brand of warfare.
You hear this a lot, but it's actually a good thing. Not that they're not fully prepared for whatever the next conflict will be, but that they are prepared for tactics that have already been used: They shouldn't be caught off guard against things they know about. In fact, this is what forces the new tactics to be tried, and being new tactics, the enemy won't be as effective as they could be with experience, which provides some time to develop countermeasures.
No, the energy in that plan doesn't come from the sea temp, it comes from the ballast. The thing you're depleting is the available buoyancy material, whether it be helium, air, or oil.
For a closed-circuit buoyancy engine, you have to physically pump the buoyancy material around to get your change in density. This pumping is against whatever the ambient pressure is, so the deeper you allow it to drop, the more force you have to pump against to get your buoyancy back and return to the surface.
Since you have to pump the same volume of material either way, against a force that depends on the depth , it takes more work to get your buoyancy back the deeper you go. This works whether do the pumping on the bottom with oil-bladders, or at the top with air bladders.
Market penetration even for the winner is quite low at the moment. With movies-over-internet coming "Real Soon Now" (TM), it's possible that although they defeat HD-DVD, they will never overtake DVD itself.
But is there an indication on the disks that they won't play on a profile 1.0 player, a vague, "some features may not be available on all players" warning, or nothing at all?
It certainly does require an upgrade path implicitly if there exist blu-ray disks which it will not play, and for which no indication is given.
I feel the same way about patent. If an inventor wants to monetize his invention, he should either develop it himself or license it to a company to develop. When he dies, it should become public domain.
And that's why it's life +something. You can argue that the +something is too large, but it needs be non-zero (or an absolute right whose expiration is completely independent of the life of the creator) to mitigate the risk to the licensee that the idea they're paying for suddenly becomes worthless to them by virtue of being free to everyone else.
Obviously, even with that risk, there is some value to the company to have the ability to produce things before other companies and whatnot. It's just that the risk modifies how much the company can pay the creator for his work. Compensation would have a substantial modifier due to the creator's health, rather than simply how much benefit his work is to society.
You can hold the sole rights of production, you can charge people for the right to produce more of the thing, you can just let anyone produce more of the thing, or presumably, you can do something in between: offer limited rights to reproduce your invention for free if certain conditions are met, which is precisely the goal of the GPL with respect to software copyright.
Is it so much of a stretch that one or more of the stock "open" software licenses might be suitable with zero or few changes in wording to apply to patent licensing as well?
The flaw with that flaw is that the existing power companies would love to cut their resource expenses to zero. But even if they rob you of your perpetual motion machine and secretly replace all their existing infrastructure with magic power, it's still a net gain for the environment and the human race in general*
*except for the teeny tiny problem of heat rejection by all the processes that use the unlimited "free" energy. But the obvious solution to that is to just use yet more free energy to pump the waste heat away.
Well the grass-roots effort still works, just slower. Wire your house up. Then your neighbor's for free (in fact, pay for the electrician that wires the generator into the grid, too. Your neighbors might be skeptical, but at least one will be willing to gamble some basement space on free power forever) after you've saved enough, under the condition that he helps pay for the next neighbor with the money he saves. Continue until your entire neighborhood is clear of the power company. By then, someone will have taken notice.
Obviously, you'll have to continue working a day job until you reach critical mass. Then, profit!
If you really have a perpetual motion machine, it'll pay for itself very quickly. You don't really even need recognition.
Move to a state where power companies have "buy-back" requirements.
install device effectively taking you off grid and turning your home into a mini-power plant.
profit.
Then slowly ramp up your basement power production until you're putting so much electricity back out to the grid that state regulators come to investigate you. If they never do, you can just use the profits to build ever larger plants until you ARE a power company, and then you'll have to talk to the state regulators whether you want to or not.
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Well use a write-once versioning filesystem and change the OTP when you apply the diffs.
That's interesting. Are they claiming 40% efficiency based on <energy output per unit area of cell>/<insolation per unit area of cell>, which isn't very interesting, and kind of misleading, or 40% based on the energy per unit area of the entire device?
I really don't see how that's possible. The entire US film industry's gross receipts were only $10 billion last year. Microsoft's net income last year was $17 billion, and Microsoft is only ONE company in the tech industry.
Intel, one of the major producers of the actual processing power had a net profit of nearly $7 billion.
I think it's safe to say that the special effects industry far from a principle driver of processing speed advances.
Heh, Computational Fluid Dynamics is a complicated and diverse field. ALL CFD codes are characterized by the simplifying assumptions they make in order to actually have results in a time period where the results could potentially be useful. Further, the models aren't so much good as actual predictors, but as filters for more general theories: If the theory doesn't work in the model that uses its assumptions, then the it and/or the assumptions are wrong, or there are hidden assumptions which have not been characterized.
The point of all this is that if a model reproduces "El Nino" it very likely was designed to. There are other effects which it will wildly mis characterize or miss entirely. The interesting option occurs when the model is designed to reproduce some other effect, and happens to reproduce "El Nino" as well. Then there is a lot of good work to be had determining if it offers real insight, or is just a fluke of the results.
Ensemble averaging is bullshit. You can't just take a series of specialized models and tie them together and expect to get anything out of it but the original assumptions. Especially true as many models are descendants of other models, which will interfere with your weighting even more. What you can do is apply several different models to different domains and link them together. But the problem there is that the complexity makes it more difficult to determine what's really going on.
You should consider a five-minute loop, rather than the youtube permanent, total record. You want to catch the cops weaving in and out of traffic at ludicrous speed with no lights on, leaving traffic waves or worse in their path. You don't want documentation of ten thousand slight exceedings of the speed limit, stops just over the line, rolling stops, and the myriad of other trivial things they could harass you with in retaliation;.
Well, you're obviously happy with your current provider, having stayed with them for so long. Just commit that satisfaction to writing for two years and they'll give you a phone with no camera for "free." You can probably even get it for actually free if you just bitch at them a bit. Explain you've been a customer for ten years, and if they won't replace your phone with one that works, without forcing you into a contract or changing your plan in any way, you'll be happy to change carriers.
They're both an order of magnitude less effective at causing distracted-driving accidents than eating while driving, yet you can still go through the drive-through, order a super-sized McWhopper, and drive off merrily munching away, clogging arteries both natural and national.
Just goes to show who has the more powerful lobbies, Big "Food", vs. Big Cell and Big Friend.
No, the CVS price isn't $30/200 pages. That's the price of just the ink on certain HP printers that are really designed for home use. For a company with a lot of printing, you'd certainly want to do everything in-house on machines designed to actually print stuff, rather than machines designed to be able to print stuff occasionally.
The needs are different. My point, and it's a little orthogonal since it mostly applies to inkjet color printers, is that the local drugstore can give you photo print which are both better quality and lower price than printing at home ("up to 200 pages" at 5% ink coverage, which is.. graphs? photos would be closer to 50% ink coverage). And since they're drugstores, they're convenient enough that they're a real option. So, what else are you printing from home that really needs color? And are you doing it frequently enough that it's worth it to sacrifice black-quality, cost per page, wasted ink, the ability to print circuit traces for PCB etching, and when the ink-dots finally trickle down to inkjets, security?
You have to have a saleable commodity before you can start talking about negotiating the price of that commodity. If New line could just take his work for free instead of negotiating a contract, they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to do just that.
What doesn't make sense here, though, is that New Line's rights are set to expire soon, and the Tolkien estate has expressed a desire for Jackson to be the one to direct the Hobbit film. In other words, All he had to do was wait out New Line, and they'd write him into the next contract they negotiate with another studio.
How about, 5) don't get a color printer. Get a nice, crisp, inexpensive black laser or led printer. Do all your color printing at CVS on their glossy/matte photopaper. It's less costly per page just on consumables, at least if 200 pages @ 5% coverage for $29.98 means what I think it means.
They're only directional because the typical enclosure is a spherical polymer lens.
Imaginary smells?
Are you sure it's not a tumor?</thick_austrian_accent>
Well that's a terrible example. Some people think that doing incredibly stupid things like putting a high-current electric appliance with exposed elements in an appliance filled with electrolytic water (the salts provided by the you) and your naked person should have at least one aggravating step.
They'd call it, "Spore."
ID is the bastard child of religious misunderstanding (understandable, it is Faith after all) and scientific dogmatism (inexcusable, since science is supposed to be dogma-free (tm)).
The point is that they combine elements of both to produce something that is at the same time universally, unequivocally wrong, and, from a faith point of view, abominable. If Science explains faith, it's not really faith, is it?
Anyway, spore takes the essence of that idea: evolution, but directed by an all-powerful being, and attempts to turn it into an amusing game with neat, sometimes humorous, graphics. According to TFA, we'll know by the end of the year if they're successful.
They don't call it an "arms race" for nothing.
No, the energy in that plan doesn't come from the sea temp, it comes from the ballast. The thing you're depleting is the available buoyancy material, whether it be helium, air, or oil.
For a closed-circuit buoyancy engine, you have to physically pump the buoyancy material around to get your change in density. This pumping is against whatever the ambient pressure is, so the deeper you allow it to drop, the more force you have to pump against to get your buoyancy back and return to the surface.
Since you have to pump the same volume of material either way, against a force that depends on the depth , it takes more work to get your buoyancy back the deeper you go. This works whether do the pumping on the bottom with oil-bladders, or at the top with air bladders.
Market penetration even for the winner is quite low at the moment. With movies-over-internet coming "Real Soon Now" (TM), it's possible that although they defeat HD-DVD, they will never overtake DVD itself.
But is there an indication on the disks that they won't play on a profile 1.0 player, a vague, "some features may not be available on all players" warning, or nothing at all?
It certainly does require an upgrade path implicitly if there exist blu-ray disks which it will not play, and for which no indication is given.
And that's why it's life +something. You can argue that the +something is too large, but it needs be non-zero (or an absolute right whose expiration is completely independent of the life of the creator) to mitigate the risk to the licensee that the idea they're paying for suddenly becomes worthless to them by virtue of being free to everyone else.
Obviously, even with that risk, there is some value to the company to have the ability to produce things before other companies and whatnot. It's just that the risk modifies how much the company can pay the creator for his work. Compensation would have a substantial modifier due to the creator's health, rather than simply how much benefit his work is to society.
Which way were you surprised?
Enclosed space, supersonic round.
You could deafen half the plane in an instant, some of them permanently. On a large plane, this could conceivably include at least one musician.
Yet, you still have the issue of licensing.
You can hold the sole rights of production, you can charge people for the right to produce more of the thing, you can just let anyone produce more of the thing, or presumably, you can do something in between: offer limited rights to reproduce your invention for free if certain conditions are met, which is precisely the goal of the GPL with respect to software copyright.
Is it so much of a stretch that one or more of the stock "open" software licenses might be suitable with zero or few changes in wording to apply to patent licensing as well?
The flaw with that flaw is that the existing power companies would love to cut their resource expenses to zero. But even if they rob you of your perpetual motion machine and secretly replace all their existing infrastructure with magic power, it's still a net gain for the environment and the human race in general*
*except for the teeny tiny problem of heat rejection by all the processes that use the unlimited "free" energy. But the obvious solution to that is to just use yet more free energy to pump the waste heat away.
Well the grass-roots effort still works, just slower. Wire your house up. Then your neighbor's for free (in fact, pay for the electrician that wires the generator into the grid, too. Your neighbors might be skeptical, but at least one will be willing to gamble some basement space on free power forever) after you've saved enough, under the condition that he helps pay for the next neighbor with the money he saves. Continue until your entire neighborhood is clear of the power company. By then, someone will have taken notice.
Obviously, you'll have to continue working a day job until you reach critical mass. Then, profit!
If you really have a perpetual motion machine, it'll pay for itself very quickly. You don't really even need recognition.
- Move to a state where power companies have "buy-back" requirements.
- install device effectively taking you off grid and turning your home into a mini-power plant.
- profit.
Then slowly ramp up your basement power production until you're putting so much electricity back out to the grid that state regulators come to investigate you. If they never do, you can just use the profits to build ever larger plants until you ARE a power company, and then you'll have to talk to the state regulators whether you want to or not.