As a response to the difficulty of regulating and selling power:
There would still have to be a wired infrastructure at some level. Think of all of the power relay stations being replaced with big towers to receive power. This would eliminate the high-tensile powerlines and all the electrical resistance that they produce. It would be difficult for someone to setup a tower on their property as the costs would be high and there would likely be regulations similar to FCC regulations that would prohibit it.
The power could be metered at the relay stations and per-household. The losses would then be limited to very remote locations where a tower could be constructed without many people knowing. Like any other electromagnitic field though, the power 'grid' produced around the earth could be monitored with well calibrated and sophisticated induction coils. Therefore allowing the 'proper' authorities to locate rogue towers that use non-trivial amounts of energy.
There would be meters at the power plants to determine their output and they would receive a portion of the money collected from the consumers based on the percentage of the overall power distributed. This would greatly encourage the production of 'clean' power like hydroelectric power because each company would be receiving the same rate for their power as any other company. Because the power could be generated anywhere and efficiently transmitted anywhere else it would also be easier to generate power cleanly.
I work for the technology department in my school district, and there have been a few changes over the last couple years.
At the three elementary schools they are still 100% mac except in some of the offices. In the middle school (6-8th grade) they have transitioned from 100% Mac to 100% PC except the art department which is still Mac. In the High School (9-12th grade) the are and have been for at least 7-8 years 100% PC exceptin the art department. Most of the servers have transitioned from Sun to Microsoft, except for a few routers and some new XServe's running DHCP in the elementarys.
On a side note they are moving the frame relay between schools and to our ISP from a T1 to gigabit this summer!
Sounds like a waste to me. I mean, are we really going to be sending that many more rovers before we start considering sending a human exploration team?
He had his ssid changed, wasn't broadcasting it, had MAC filtering on, and had WEP enabled. In three days his neighbors had hacked it and were running his connection full throttle.
Although I do agree more people should use the security that is already there, if everyone did people (wardrivers/neighbors) would more often take the time to break the WEP.
Hopefully widespread adoption of WiFi services fuels the market for wireless network security.
I know somebody who can't use his WAP because his neighbors keep hacking his encryption.
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As a response to the difficulty of regulating and selling power:
There would still have to be a wired infrastructure at some level. Think of all of the power relay stations being replaced with big towers to receive power. This would eliminate the high-tensile powerlines and all the electrical resistance that they produce. It would be difficult for someone to setup a tower on their property as the costs would be high and there would likely be regulations similar to FCC regulations that would prohibit it.
The power could be metered at the relay stations and per-household. The losses would then be limited to very remote locations where a tower could be constructed without many people knowing. Like any other electromagnitic field though, the power 'grid' produced around the earth could be monitored with well calibrated and sophisticated induction coils. Therefore allowing the 'proper' authorities to locate rogue towers that use non-trivial amounts of energy.
There would be meters at the power plants to determine their output and they would receive a portion of the money collected from the consumers based on the percentage of the overall power distributed. This would greatly encourage the production of 'clean' power like hydroelectric power because each company would be receiving the same rate for their power as any other company. Because the power could be generated anywhere and efficiently transmitted anywhere else it would also be easier to generate power cleanly.
That is not how Tesla was proposing we implement wireless power. A simple tesla-coil like that on a large scale would be deadly.
t esla/projecttesla.html
Here is an article explaining how Tesla's wireless power would work. http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/9654/
I work for the technology department in my school district, and there have been a few changes over the last couple years.
At the three elementary schools they are still 100% mac except in some of the offices. In the middle school (6-8th grade) they have transitioned from 100% Mac to 100% PC except the art department which is still Mac. In the High School (9-12th grade) the are and have been for at least 7-8 years 100% PC exceptin the art department. Most of the servers have transitioned from Sun to Microsoft, except for a few routers and some new XServe's running DHCP in the elementarys.
On a side note they are moving the frame relay between schools and to our ISP from a T1 to gigabit this summer!
Looks pretty sweet. I don't even have a HDTV yet, but with this I could view it using my computer.
"So is that 1 billion users or installations?"
"There are 600 million Windows PCs today, according to Microsoft. But by 2010, there will be more than 1 billion of them..."
Sounds like a waste to me. I mean, are we really going to be sending that many more rovers before we start considering sending a human exploration team?
It is good to know that they aren't just sitting on it.
He had his ssid changed, wasn't broadcasting it, had MAC filtering on, and had WEP enabled. In three days his neighbors had hacked it and were running his connection full throttle. Although I do agree more people should use the security that is already there, if everyone did people (wardrivers/neighbors) would more often take the time to break the WEP.
Hopefully widespread adoption of WiFi services fuels the market for wireless network security. I know somebody who can't use his WAP because his neighbors keep hacking his encryption.
If they trim the fat now, they can later concentrate that money back into the more promising divisions in hope of spurring new innovations.
They are fairly cheap, effective, and are small enough to lock away in a fireproof safe if deemed necessary.
Do we know when the complete version is expected to hit the shelves?
The browser may be lean but that is the way I like it. Something as simple as a web browser shouldn't be eating my system resources.
He created the kernel.
Sounds like a scam...