You can pull a vacuum in a pringles can, right? I think we just solved the big problems with 60GHz AND what to do with all those waste pringles cans from all night coding sessions. You just cut the ends off and duct tape them together and viola! Miles of range with high speed wireless! All you need is a ~3" vacuum pringles can duct from one antenna to the other...easy.
An email saying you won't buy their game doesn't mean shit to them. If you buy it, don't open it and return it, the retailers see the backlash directly. Then maybe they will talk to the distributors, who talk to the publishers. They won't really care any other way because enough people will buy the game and keep it that a few angry emails won't matter to them.
My phone has "airplane" mode where it doesn't transmit/receive, so I can still use it for its camera/music abilities.
On to the more important aspect: I hope this never gets implemented and for the most part I don't think it will. Lots of people like to sleep on planes and won't be able to with others yammering on their phones. Plus there is the extra time and cost for airlines to install the equipment to relay the signals. God only knows what "roaming" means at 38000 ft.
W3C also says this:
Line 3, Column 62: character data is not allowed here....ref="http://www.cybertriallawyer.com/user-agreement/"/ You can't put user agreements in code! Maybe they were trying to get us to implicitly agree to them by hiding them in the code we're not allowed to view! Crafty bastards...
Really though, they are idiots. HTML isn't some magical closed source EXE, as much as they would like it to be.
The most searched for term on the internet is "asian" not "Asia." I propose a.asian TLD so that the porn surfers (me included) can have maximum search efficiency!
Just need to make that clear, you think it is fine, others don't. I personally don't like it. I'll kick them a couple of bucks to round out the dollar amount, but unless they're stellar, that's all they get. And yes I have worked in the food service industry and my sister still does. Just because their wages suck doesn't justify customers trying to make up for the employers' decision to pay their employees like crap. It is a stupid loophole in the minimum wage system that they should fix. I wish someone would drop by my desk every day and hand me a $20 just for being here but they don't.
There are a lot of unknowns in your question, but you could build a remote satellite station to wherever you can get the signal and then hardwire it to your home. Or power it there and use wireless equipment to get the signal to you. I had the idea of using surplussed directv/dish dishes and relays to create a highly directional signal relay to the closest place that you can get access. I wouldn't recommend that route if you were doing satellite also because of the crazy ping times, but if someone near you can get a decent DSL connection it might work well enough for what you're asking for. One of your neighbors would probably be grateful for the free DSL use as part of your agreement to install a dish somewhere on their property if you have line of sight. As far as power, my router at home draws half an amp, so you could set up a battery/solar setup to power it if you needed a relay point in the middle to get around/over a hill.
Knowledgeable people feel free to shoot me down, its just an idea.
It only works that way in different load directions. You can take a sheet of CF in a typical layer configuration (say a 45/90/135) and bend it 45 degrees or more and it won't break or even look like it was bent when you return it to its former shape. But if you pull on it it doesn't stretch like aluminum. What people misunderstand is that because it doesn't stretch, they think it is more prone to failure which just isn't true. It is absorbing the same (or more) energy but it doesn't exhibit the same behavior while doing so. Aluminum will fail and snap also, but people are more comfortable with it stretching first because that's what they are used to seeing. It doesn't make it better, just different.
The types of CF composite that degrade faster are the ones where the resin doesn't have a UV inhibitor in it. UV degrades the resin just like it does to any plastic but with proper protection that isn't a problem. Once this was understood companies developed UV inhibitors for the resins to make them resistant to UV degradation. And you can bet the farm on a $150+ million dollar plane being adequately protected. There is no reason to think that they won't last just as long as an aluminum plane. Never mind that the resin only carries a tiny fraction of the load, in the directions the fibers aren't laid up for. Meaning the resin is mainly there to keep the material from delaminating.
Though some may not know it, but as aluminum oxidizes over time it becomes aluminum oxide which is more brittle and prone to fracture. So you face the same problem with aluminum, but it is adequately protected and hasn't been a problem for the many many years that commercial aircraft have been flying. Just like fiberglass boats, adequately protected and maintained they last a long time.
But what do I know, I'm just an aerospace engineer with some composite materials training. I should leave the science to Dan Rather.
Since they've built ONE so far and they are trying to make that one fly. The 787 static wing load test isn't for months. Perhaps you're thinking of the 777 static test, which is the only one to my knowledge that has been videoed and released. Posting from a Boeing computer...
Before that they just didn't think it was feasible to try to detect them chemically since they could be made from so many different things. When was the last time anyone heard about an ANFO bomb going off somewhere anyway?
AMD isn't going to tape out a new die specifically for three cores, that's a year's worth of work at least, and for what? There's no market gap there, people aren't chomping at the bit for something between a dual and a quad. They're using the quads with a bad core, same as they (and Intel) do with a dual core chip with a single faulty core. They electrically isolate it from the functional section of the silicon to prevent aberrant behavior and ship it out. It is just trying to recoup some manufacturing costs, that's all. A quad downgraded to a dual cost you twice as much silicon to make the same part, your margin sucks there. But if you can sell a triple at somewhere in between, you get a little more back. Intel doesn't do it because they glue two duals, the failed chips are downgraded to singles and shipped that way.
Do you live here? Go to a mall. Every prostitot walking around there has a cellphone (and is usually on it). I know of maybe 5 people in my extended family/friend circles that don't have a cellphone and I'm from a very rural area in the midwest. The primary contract provider in that area (Cingular/ATT) required phone updates (mostly free) so that they were GSM-capable several years ago.
They aren't clear as to what they mean by "ringtone," especially since most new phones can play songs as ringtones, but I'm assuming it isn't a song. So that's only two songs...for $6-7...I'm guessing the ringtone will be a midi version of the single but that is just speculation. Maybe if you're looking for a midi it might be worth it, but modern phones can play non-midi files as ringtones. They should have done it 4 years ago when we would actually buy ringtones.
How do you put that into law? IANAL or wouldn't even attempt to write a law, but I've been behind the idea of revoking a patent that a company isn't actively using/developing a product with after a set period of time (3 years?). This would prevent IP holdings companies from existing very effectively. But I'm also a proponent of reforming the patent law back to 7 years and we see how far that is getting...and the copyright law, etc.
That is what most people are arguing against: normalizing the 8 hour workday against what an employee can actually produce. Who says 8 is the right number? If employees aren't working/can't work that, it sounds to me like 8 is the wrong number. 1 is clearly ridiculous. But we trust that they've done the studies and that's the best number, though from these statistics maybe that's not the case. Other studies have suggested that a 7 hour work day yields more productivity per hour, why aren't we doing that?
The truth is that if companies could make people work 12, they would (they used to) because somehow more employees is worse than maximum productive hours. I know a lot of people who work 9-10 hour days 5 days a week already. They aren't better employees by default just because they get more work done than I do. They're here more, that's why they get more done. I don't want to be here more, work is a means to an end (living), not the end itself.
Gasoline engine efficiency is in the 20-30% range. Fossil fuel power plants are in the 30-50% range. Nuclear is in the 30-40% range.
Fact remains that these are all way more expensive than burning fossil fuels, otherwise we'd have switches _ages_ ago. And the only cost you're considering is the actual use cost by the end user, not the costs associated with cleaning up the mess you make or the impact on the economy when the temps go up, potable water gets scarce and food is harder to grow. What is the impact of a supertanker burning thousands of gallons of diesel to steam from the middle east to the US just to deliver more petrol for people to burn? How much of that can we shortcut by switching to a fuel we can make locally, anywhere there is water and sunlight?
I know it is the "less money is better than no money" mantra that they are trying to apply, but I still find it fascinating that a relatively non-free market is getting a better price for the same product than a supposedly free market like the US and European countries. It looks like "illegal" activities can be an artificial competitor when no direct competitor exists. The question is, will people in China buy it, even at this price? I really doubt it. I wonder what the EULA looks like...
With copyright, I am involved in the system whether I like it or not. My right to use and change data is restricted by government intervention in order to protect the profits of a small minority who rely on an otherwise broken business model. You choose to listen to music, just like you choose (or don't) to read books. You could easily go through your entire life not ever paying a dime for any music and not listening to it. But you choose it, just like most of the rest of us. What they want to do is to restrict your rights in the same way that you are restricted with a book. You can't make a perfect copy very easily or print your own and distribute them. But nobody seems to be up in arms about that and the barrier to entry is just as high for a new author. And sticking your book on a website or myspace isn't as effective as it is in the music industry. I'm not arguing for the term length, I really think it should be no more than 10 years in any case. Just pointing out what we're willing to swallow with in one industry and its parallels in another.
Whether or not you can change the CO2 for oxygen is irrelevant if you can't magic up a lot of nitrogen. And remember you're talking about replacing most of a planet's atmosphere with a different element altogether. Its not feasible on a century scale.
So what do you do with it? 95% CO2 on mars, you could put some plants there (they don't seem to need the nitrogen, at least for photosynthesis). But that will only get you the O2 and create a sink for water (which is scarce as is). You might be able to mine the nitrogen there and blow it into the atmosphere, but is there enough? I'm very skeptical, you'd need millions of millions of tons.
Honestly the best plan for using mars for living is to plant some crap outside (but trap the O2 it makes) and live in contained environments. Short of either a)mining nitrogen or b)using fission to make it, it is likely that there's not going to be enough to make "air." We need to establish a presence and figure out if the ingredients are there to do the job, not brag that "it can be done soon!" without even having been there.
Seriously, that's all they need to do. Print a small paper receipt and drop that into a box and the county clerks could even count them all manually, but at their liesure. We'd have an electronic tabulation immediately, no staying up till midnight waiting for results, people working late, etc. Open source the code for peer review and its a solidly secure, reliable system. Who exactly isn't getting this? Oh...the people in charge who are techno idiots. Right...
All they do is eat bamboo, there's no fat in there, they'd be lean and tough. Try eating some beef from a cow that's been raised on 100% grass. Tough and bland.
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You can pull a vacuum in a pringles can, right? I think we just solved the big problems with 60GHz AND what to do with all those waste pringles cans from all night coding sessions. You just cut the ends off and duct tape them together and viola! Miles of range with high speed wireless! All you need is a ~3" vacuum pringles can duct from one antenna to the other...easy.
An email saying you won't buy their game doesn't mean shit to them. If you buy it, don't open it and return it, the retailers see the backlash directly. Then maybe they will talk to the distributors, who talk to the publishers. They won't really care any other way because enough people will buy the game and keep it that a few angry emails won't matter to them.
My phone has "airplane" mode where it doesn't transmit/receive, so I can still use it for its camera/music abilities.
On to the more important aspect: I hope this never gets implemented and for the most part I don't think it will. Lots of people like to sleep on planes and won't be able to with others yammering on their phones. Plus there is the extra time and cost for airlines to install the equipment to relay the signals. God only knows what "roaming" means at 38000 ft.
Really though, they are idiots. HTML isn't some magical closed source EXE, as much as they would like it to be.
The most searched for term on the internet is "asian" not "Asia." I propose a .asian TLD so that the porn surfers (me included) can have maximum search efficiency!
Just need to make that clear, you think it is fine, others don't. I personally don't like it. I'll kick them a couple of bucks to round out the dollar amount, but unless they're stellar, that's all they get. And yes I have worked in the food service industry and my sister still does. Just because their wages suck doesn't justify customers trying to make up for the employers' decision to pay their employees like crap. It is a stupid loophole in the minimum wage system that they should fix. I wish someone would drop by my desk every day and hand me a $20 just for being here but they don't.
There are a lot of unknowns in your question, but you could build a remote satellite station to wherever you can get the signal and then hardwire it to your home. Or power it there and use wireless equipment to get the signal to you. I had the idea of using surplussed directv/dish dishes and relays to create a highly directional signal relay to the closest place that you can get access. I wouldn't recommend that route if you were doing satellite also because of the crazy ping times, but if someone near you can get a decent DSL connection it might work well enough for what you're asking for. One of your neighbors would probably be grateful for the free DSL use as part of your agreement to install a dish somewhere on their property if you have line of sight. As far as power, my router at home draws half an amp, so you could set up a battery/solar setup to power it if you needed a relay point in the middle to get around/over a hill.
Knowledgeable people feel free to shoot me down, its just an idea.
It only works that way in different load directions. You can take a sheet of CF in a typical layer configuration (say a 45/90/135) and bend it 45 degrees or more and it won't break or even look like it was bent when you return it to its former shape. But if you pull on it it doesn't stretch like aluminum. What people misunderstand is that because it doesn't stretch, they think it is more prone to failure which just isn't true. It is absorbing the same (or more) energy but it doesn't exhibit the same behavior while doing so. Aluminum will fail and snap also, but people are more comfortable with it stretching first because that's what they are used to seeing. It doesn't make it better, just different.
The types of CF composite that degrade faster are the ones where the resin doesn't have a UV inhibitor in it. UV degrades the resin just like it does to any plastic but with proper protection that isn't a problem. Once this was understood companies developed UV inhibitors for the resins to make them resistant to UV degradation. And you can bet the farm on a $150+ million dollar plane being adequately protected. There is no reason to think that they won't last just as long as an aluminum plane. Never mind that the resin only carries a tiny fraction of the load, in the directions the fibers aren't laid up for. Meaning the resin is mainly there to keep the material from delaminating.
Though some may not know it, but as aluminum oxidizes over time it becomes aluminum oxide which is more brittle and prone to fracture. So you face the same problem with aluminum, but it is adequately protected and hasn't been a problem for the many many years that commercial aircraft have been flying. Just like fiberglass boats, adequately protected and maintained they last a long time.
But what do I know, I'm just an aerospace engineer with some composite materials training. I should leave the science to Dan Rather.
Since they've built ONE so far and they are trying to make that one fly. The 787 static wing load test isn't for months. Perhaps you're thinking of the 777 static test, which is the only one to my knowledge that has been videoed and released. Posting from a Boeing computer...
Before that they just didn't think it was feasible to try to detect them chemically since they could be made from so many different things. When was the last time anyone heard about an ANFO bomb going off somewhere anyway?
AMD isn't going to tape out a new die specifically for three cores, that's a year's worth of work at least, and for what? There's no market gap there, people aren't chomping at the bit for something between a dual and a quad. They're using the quads with a bad core, same as they (and Intel) do with a dual core chip with a single faulty core. They electrically isolate it from the functional section of the silicon to prevent aberrant behavior and ship it out. It is just trying to recoup some manufacturing costs, that's all. A quad downgraded to a dual cost you twice as much silicon to make the same part, your margin sucks there. But if you can sell a triple at somewhere in between, you get a little more back. Intel doesn't do it because they glue two duals, the failed chips are downgraded to singles and shipped that way.
King did warn you not to read it. I personally liked that story all the way through.
Do you live here? Go to a mall. Every prostitot walking around there has a cellphone (and is usually on it). I know of maybe 5 people in my extended family/friend circles that don't have a cellphone and I'm from a very rural area in the midwest. The primary contract provider in that area (Cingular/ATT) required phone updates (mostly free) so that they were GSM-capable several years ago.
They aren't clear as to what they mean by "ringtone," especially since most new phones can play songs as ringtones, but I'm assuming it isn't a song. So that's only two songs...for $6-7...I'm guessing the ringtone will be a midi version of the single but that is just speculation. Maybe if you're looking for a midi it might be worth it, but modern phones can play non-midi files as ringtones. They should have done it 4 years ago when we would actually buy ringtones.
How do you put that into law? IANAL or wouldn't even attempt to write a law, but I've been behind the idea of revoking a patent that a company isn't actively using/developing a product with after a set period of time (3 years?). This would prevent IP holdings companies from existing very effectively. But I'm also a proponent of reforming the patent law back to 7 years and we see how far that is getting...and the copyright law, etc.
That is what most people are arguing against: normalizing the 8 hour workday against what an employee can actually produce. Who says 8 is the right number? If employees aren't working/can't work that, it sounds to me like 8 is the wrong number. 1 is clearly ridiculous. But we trust that they've done the studies and that's the best number, though from these statistics maybe that's not the case. Other studies have suggested that a 7 hour work day yields more productivity per hour, why aren't we doing that?
The truth is that if companies could make people work 12, they would (they used to) because somehow more employees is worse than maximum productive hours. I know a lot of people who work 9-10 hour days 5 days a week already. They aren't better employees by default just because they get more work done than I do. They're here more, that's why they get more done. I don't want to be here more, work is a means to an end (living), not the end itself.
Fact remains that these are all way more expensive than burning fossil fuels, otherwise we'd have switches _ages_ ago. And the only cost you're considering is the actual use cost by the end user, not the costs associated with cleaning up the mess you make or the impact on the economy when the temps go up, potable water gets scarce and food is harder to grow. What is the impact of a supertanker burning thousands of gallons of diesel to steam from the middle east to the US just to deliver more petrol for people to burn? How much of that can we shortcut by switching to a fuel we can make locally, anywhere there is water and sunlight?
To the American Red Plus Sign. See? Not a cross.
I know it is the "less money is better than no money" mantra that they are trying to apply, but I still find it fascinating that a relatively non-free market is getting a better price for the same product than a supposedly free market like the US and European countries. It looks like "illegal" activities can be an artificial competitor when no direct competitor exists. The question is, will people in China buy it, even at this price? I really doubt it. I wonder what the EULA looks like...
I'm not arguing for the term length, I really think it should be no more than 10 years in any case. Just pointing out what we're willing to swallow with in one industry and its parallels in another.
Earth: 78% nitrogen
Mars: 3% nitrogen
Whether or not you can change the CO2 for oxygen is irrelevant if you can't magic up a lot of nitrogen. And remember you're talking about replacing most of a planet's atmosphere with a different element altogether. Its not feasible on a century scale.
So what do you do with it? 95% CO2 on mars, you could put some plants there (they don't seem to need the nitrogen, at least for photosynthesis). But that will only get you the O2 and create a sink for water (which is scarce as is). You might be able to mine the nitrogen there and blow it into the atmosphere, but is there enough? I'm very skeptical, you'd need millions of millions of tons.
Honestly the best plan for using mars for living is to plant some crap outside (but trap the O2 it makes) and live in contained environments. Short of either a)mining nitrogen or b)using fission to make it, it is likely that there's not going to be enough to make "air." We need to establish a presence and figure out if the ingredients are there to do the job, not brag that "it can be done soon!" without even having been there.
Seriously, that's all they need to do. Print a small paper receipt and drop that into a box and the county clerks could even count them all manually, but at their liesure. We'd have an electronic tabulation immediately, no staying up till midnight waiting for results, people working late, etc. Open source the code for peer review and its a solidly secure, reliable system. Who exactly isn't getting this? Oh...the people in charge who are techno idiots. Right...
Raising prices increases revenue!
All they do is eat bamboo, there's no fat in there, they'd be lean and tough. Try eating some beef from a cow that's been raised on 100% grass. Tough and bland.