So the hair in my nose and ears starts falling out? I would pay for that gene therapy. Or how about a replacement for this endless bikini waxing sessions. Genes, the final frontier...
They may remove CO2 from the air, but where does it end up and in what form? Very, very strange. If they do not beam the stuff to Melmac (then 100kwh per ton would be REALLY efficient) it has to be transformed into something else which then has to be stored somewhere. That is a very strange article which explains only one side of the equation. Maybe I did not read it right, maybe it is some kind of magic.
http://www.broadbanduk.org/ and the report (PDF):http://www.broadbanduk.org/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,1036/Itemid,63/ (4 MB).
Wy dont submitters bother to give the source of a news report?
and we are all going to regret it.
Remember the public library system? Or the archival organizations? A bunch of highly trained people with literally centuries of experience in classifying and cataloging information, preserving the originals and investing heavily in digitization to help with that task and to make them more accessible? Most of their services are free or at a minimal cost, especially for students and researchers. And completely ad-free (at least here in Europe). Sure, their marketing sucks, they do not have the latest Web x.0 gimmicks. The tend to be a bit stuffier, old fashioned and not as flashy as our bubble heroes of the "do no evil" (but don't do anyting good either) kind, but then they on average tend to think in decades and not in quarterly results.
Data (even massive amounts of it) is not information and Google is not a research tool. Google will always tweak search results towards higher advertising revenues. It is at best a brute force instrument with a vey low signal to noise ratio. It is a pest because it leads people to believe that keyword search is a solid method for research and it adds to the funding problems for libraries because who needs a library, when you can "google" everything.
Google sucks up all it can get and leaves behind a desert without structure, significance or context,
Support and use your local (national) library, while you still have it.
Who needs a satellite? That technology could be interesting for any kind of reconnaissance aircraft, especially UAVs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle) that delivers high resolution pictures but should have the same problems (looking straight down from rather high altitudes) identifying someone in a crowd. And as you need video footage (MOVEMENT), i am not sure how many spy sats can provide that, never mind the resolution...
Could you choose another icon for this section? Thinking about burning books, however bad the books may be, always gives me the creeps and puts you in very bad company. Find a shelf in a dark corner, donate them to charity, send them back but never, ever think about burning. Please.
The company that build them (WALL AG http://www.wall.de/ or their american subsidiary WALL USA) are operating close to a 100 of those in Berlin and they work fine. I do not know how they sold this service in Seattle, but three things they did in Berlin that could've solved some of the problems are:
1) The toilets are not free. 0.5 Euro per session.
2) They are financed through advertising with included billboards and everything, which also helps maintaining them, because everytime the posters are renewed (at least once week), they do necessary repair jobs. The newer models are networked for remote monitoring and maintenance. The latest models even include Interactive displays.
3) Doors open after 30 minutes, no matter what.
In Berlin, Wall has pretty much revolutionized (and almonst monopolized) public installations like these, because they are doing a hell of a job designing "street furniture" as they call it. Public toilets before these were installed were anything from a nuisance to a biohazard and the cityscape drastially improved in most places through their work.
Just imagine, driving a car from the street onto an airstrip, with several gallons of liquids in the tank and a trunk big enough to house a thermonuclear device. Why do you need a button for transfoming it into an airplane? Airport security will dismantle it anyway before allowing it onto the runway and I am sure for a couple of dollars extra, they'll reassemble your car as an airplane. Saves a lot in production cost, if you do not need all the fancy pneumatics, hydraulics and transforming gizmos...
Quote from the factsheet of CalCars:
[quote]
* Heavy lead-acid batteries add approx. 300 lb total, reducing mileage by approx. 5 mpg in standard HEV operation on city streets (because of acceleration losses), but by little or nothing at highway speeds (where wind resistance is the main factor). Lower internal resistance of future (lighter) battery packs is expected to increase the efficiency of standard HEV operation sufficiently to restore original standard HEV city mileage even when grid-charging energy is not involved
[end quote]
So the car is getting a lot heavier, slower acceleration (and longer distance to standstill), I loose a lot of the unmodified Toyota's additional load (app. 371kg).
Any driving experience with a car like that? What would other battery types weigh?
What's next? A critical appraisal of "Pokemon. Past, Present and Future" with a foreword by Steven Seagal and Jean Claude Van Damme?
You are not afraid of the dark, are you?:-)
Picture this: In Germany you not only have to identify yourself, but you have to do so with a valid ID-Card with picture (ID-Card "Personalausweis"; Passport or Drivers Licence), which is machine readable (of course).
Failing to do so can get you arrested till your identity is confirmed (which could also mean having your fingerprints taken, depending on the circumstances).
Identity is confirmed by looking up your info in a nationwide system of databases which holds all citizens' place of residence, because you are (of course) required by law to register your place of residence with the "Landeseinwohneramt" (roughly: state residents office), which is normally situated at a police station. Failing to do so within a period of time (I think half a year) after you moved to a new place of residence could cost you quite an amount of money in fines.
I always envied you americans that you could happily live your lives with the minimum of a social security number (if at all) and I pity you for your lost right of anonymity.
I am sorry about that, your are right. I mixed up dates. (I must confess, that I didn't own a TV for some time now, wristwatch or otherwise:-). Analog terrestial TV ended in Berlin on August 4th 2003 and rollout was completed in some other regions on May 24th of this year.
For more information (if anyone of you ever carries his or her TV to Europe:-):
The official site (in german, I am afraid) is:
Das Ueberall-Fernsehen (http://www.ueberall-tv.de), for DVB-T and for digital TV in general Die TV-Plattform (http://www.tv-plattform.de).
There is an overview over switchover activities in nine european countries from the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (in French, where DVB-T is translated as: La télévision numérique terrestre (TNT). The report has the title: Le développement de la TNT en Europe (http://www.csa.fr/actualite/dossiers/dossiers_det ail.php?id=14948).
There is a lot of (2002) material about the "switchover" to digital to be found at the Information Society website of the European Union. The study from April 2002 can be found here:http://europa.eu.int/information_society/topi cs/ecomm/useful_information/library/studies_ext_co nsult/index_en.htm#2002 (scroll down to April 2002) and a lot of contributions by several broadcasters can be found here: http://europa.eu.int/information_society/topics/ec omm/useful_information/library/public_consult/inde x_en.htm#pc_digital_switchover_broadcasting. Sorry again.
In Berlin, they turned analog VHF/UHF off and switched to digital DVB-T this spring. The rest of good old Germany will follow suit in the next couple of years, which would make this the most expensive display of white noise around:-).
A DVB-T wristwatch with a USB port would be very cool though: watch TV while they send that 2gigabyte file to your Notebook...
A few (maybe long answered, in that case, ashes on my head and tears in my eyes:-) questions:
Where can I find BBeB specs?
Can I use it without the DRM?
Is there a developers kit or something?
As it is (some kind of?) XML, other formats should translate nicely?
Thanks a lot for any help.
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So the hair in my nose and ears starts falling out? I would pay for that gene therapy. Or how about a replacement for this endless bikini waxing sessions. Genes, the final frontier...
They may remove CO2 from the air, but where does it end up and in what form? Very, very strange. If they do not beam the stuff to Melmac (then 100kwh per ton would be REALLY efficient) it has to be transformed into something else which then has to be stored somewhere. That is a very strange article which explains only one side of the equation. Maybe I did not read it right, maybe it is some kind of magic.
http://www.broadbanduk.org/ and the report (PDF):http://www.broadbanduk.org/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,1036/Itemid,63/ (4 MB). Wy dont submitters bother to give the source of a news report?
and we are all going to regret it. Remember the public library system? Or the archival organizations? A bunch of highly trained people with literally centuries of experience in classifying and cataloging information, preserving the originals and investing heavily in digitization to help with that task and to make them more accessible? Most of their services are free or at a minimal cost, especially for students and researchers. And completely ad-free (at least here in Europe). Sure, their marketing sucks, they do not have the latest Web x.0 gimmicks. The tend to be a bit stuffier, old fashioned and not as flashy as our bubble heroes of the "do no evil" (but don't do anyting good either) kind, but then they on average tend to think in decades and not in quarterly results. Data (even massive amounts of it) is not information and Google is not a research tool. Google will always tweak search results towards higher advertising revenues. It is at best a brute force instrument with a vey low signal to noise ratio. It is a pest because it leads people to believe that keyword search is a solid method for research and it adds to the funding problems for libraries because who needs a library, when you can "google" everything. Google sucks up all it can get and leaves behind a desert without structure, significance or context, Support and use your local (national) library, while you still have it.
Who needs a satellite? That technology could be interesting for any kind of reconnaissance aircraft, especially UAVs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle) that delivers high resolution pictures but should have the same problems (looking straight down from rather high altitudes) identifying someone in a crowd. And as you need video footage (MOVEMENT), i am not sure how many spy sats can provide that, never mind the resolution...
Fun toy, with lots of power (Must be great for racing with real dolphins :-)
More details:
http://innespace.com/current%20projects.html
http://www.seabreacher.com/ (With movie...)
Could you choose another icon for this section? Thinking about burning books, however bad the books may be, always gives me the creeps and puts you in very bad company. Find a shelf in a dark corner, donate them to charity, send them back but never, ever think about burning. Please.
The company that build them (WALL AG http://www.wall.de/ or their american subsidiary WALL USA) are operating close to a 100 of those in Berlin and they work fine. I do not know how they sold this service in Seattle, but three things they did in Berlin that could've solved some of the problems are: 1) The toilets are not free. 0.5 Euro per session. 2) They are financed through advertising with included billboards and everything, which also helps maintaining them, because everytime the posters are renewed (at least once week), they do necessary repair jobs. The newer models are networked for remote monitoring and maintenance. The latest models even include Interactive displays. 3) Doors open after 30 minutes, no matter what. In Berlin, Wall has pretty much revolutionized (and almonst monopolized) public installations like these, because they are doing a hell of a job designing "street furniture" as they call it. Public toilets before these were installed were anything from a nuisance to a biohazard and the cityscape drastially improved in most places through their work.
Just imagine, driving a car from the street onto an airstrip, with several gallons of liquids in the tank and a trunk big enough to house a thermonuclear device. Why do you need a button for transfoming it into an airplane? Airport security will dismantle it anyway before allowing it onto the runway and I am sure for a couple of dollars extra, they'll reassemble your car as an airplane. Saves a lot in production cost, if you do not need all the fancy pneumatics, hydraulics and transforming gizmos...
I already have one of those and as they protect me from the alien mind control rays, gamma should be walk in the park :-).
Quote from the factsheet of CalCars: [quote] * Heavy lead-acid batteries add approx. 300 lb total, reducing mileage by approx. 5 mpg in standard HEV operation on city streets (because of acceleration losses), but by little or nothing at highway speeds (where wind resistance is the main factor). Lower internal resistance of future (lighter) battery packs is expected to increase the efficiency of standard HEV operation sufficiently to restore original standard HEV city mileage even when grid-charging energy is not involved [end quote] So the car is getting a lot heavier, slower acceleration (and longer distance to standstill), I loose a lot of the unmodified Toyota's additional load (app. 371kg). Any driving experience with a car like that? What would other battery types weigh?
I stand corrected. Playing and working out like THAT, he should be a role model for us all. (no irony intended). None the less, it sounds very funny.
What's next? A critical appraisal of "Pokemon. Past, Present and Future" with a foreword by Steven Seagal and Jean Claude Van Damme? You are not afraid of the dark, are you? :-)
Picture this: In Germany you not only have to identify yourself, but you have to do so with a valid ID-Card with picture (ID-Card "Personalausweis"; Passport or Drivers Licence), which is machine readable (of course).
Failing to do so can get you arrested till your identity is confirmed (which could also mean having your fingerprints taken, depending on the circumstances).
Identity is confirmed by looking up your info in a nationwide system of databases which holds all citizens' place of residence, because you are (of course) required by law to register your place of residence with the "Landeseinwohneramt" (roughly: state residents office), which is normally situated at a police station. Failing to do so within a period of time (I think half a year) after you moved to a new place of residence could cost you quite an amount of money in fines.
I always envied you americans that you could happily live your lives with the minimum of a social security number (if at all) and I pity you for your lost right of anonymity.
I am sorry about that, your are right. I mixed up dates. (I must confess, that I didn't own a TV for some time now, wristwatch or otherwise :-). Analog terrestial TV ended in Berlin on August 4th 2003 and rollout was completed in some other regions on May 24th of this year.
For more information (if anyone of you ever carries his or her TV to Europe :-):
The official site (in german, I am afraid) is:
Das Ueberall-Fernsehen (http://www.ueberall-tv.de), for DVB-T and for digital TV in general Die TV-Plattform (http://www.tv-plattform.de).
There is an overview over switchover activities in nine european countries from the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (in French, where DVB-T is translated as: La télévision numérique terrestre (TNT). The report has the title: Le développement de la TNT en Europe (http://www.csa.fr/actualite/dossiers/dossiers_det ail.php?id=14948).
There is a lot of (2002) material about the "switchover" to digital to be found at the Information Society website of the European Union. The study from April 2002 can be found here:http://europa.eu.int/information_society/topi cs/ecomm/useful_information/library/studies_ext_co nsult/index_en.htm#2002 (scroll down to April 2002) and a lot of contributions by several broadcasters can be found here: http://europa.eu.int/information_society/topics/ec omm/useful_information/library/public_consult/inde x_en.htm#pc_digital_switchover_broadcasting. Sorry again.
In Berlin, they turned analog VHF/UHF off and switched to digital DVB-T this spring. The rest of good old Germany will follow suit in the next couple of years, which would make this the most expensive display of white noise around :-).
A DVB-T wristwatch with a USB port would be very cool though: watch TV while they send that 2gigabyte file to your Notebook...
A few (maybe long answered, in that case, ashes on my head and tears in my eyes :-) questions:
Where can I find BBeB specs?
Can I use it without the DRM?
Is there a developers kit or something?
As it is (some kind of?) XML, other formats should translate nicely?
Thanks a lot for any help.