Here are two companies who are offering commercial installations of VAWTs. Although they haven't sold many to date, at least we see that these are both past the R&D phase.
Don't forget the technology used in the training regimen that athletes use today. Technology has created advances in areas of sports science including biomechanics, motion analysis and nutrition among others. These advances have been the major factor in the number of records being broken and re-broken in every sport over the last decade.
Think about how Babe Ruth would have fared going up against Roger Clemens or Sammy Sosa. Not well. Or another babe, Babe Zaharious playing tennis against Serena Williams...ugly. This is the reason all comparison of records uses the term "the modern era" for recent achievements.
Of course, performance enhancing drugs like androstenedione (a testosterone booster) are often cited as being a major 'contributor' to baseball and other sports today, but this isn't true in all cases. Lance Armstrong doesn't use anything and he has won 4 Tour de France races in a row.
Here is an interesting project that combines learning some basic Java with the entertainment value that a younger programmer requires to keep them focused: Robocode
We fought hard in congress, courts and in the business world to make MP3 a universal standard because it was the best thing for music fans who were our ultimate customers. Today MP3 is a universal standard...
What's wrong with this statement? Is it just me or should the United States Congress be the absolute last place to get informed viewpoints on digital data format standardization? We're still operating in a free market system correct? Then shouldn't the most useful data format become standardized on, rather than the one lobbyists are paid to promote by special interest groups? I'm not complaining about the MP3 format, but rather the process by which it became a standard.
doesn't anyone else notice the striking resemlance of the Apple/Microsoft patent issue back in the '80s? which one? well, the one where Apple claimed that Microsoft stole many ideas from it's 'windowing system' which was developed for the IIe. they got off easy back then, and now they're sticking it to OpenGL in the same way.
its ironic how in their infancy they were the ones stealing the IP, now they are probably one of the most defensive companies when it comes to that.
That's actually/usr/games/lib/fortune/fortunes.dat if you have 4.3.3, it's a 4.3.3.0 level base fileset.
On another note, the man page for fortune(on AIX anyway) says that for related info see the 'bj command'. I'll have to say I don't think my terminal type has that functionality.
The point that cable providers seem to miss, is that I am paying for 10 MB/s, and 90% of the time I'm using 1/100th of that(when I'm idle). I should be refunded for that, or because I seriously doubt Adelphia is going to give me a refund, I should take the bandwidth that is allocated me. We all should resell our unused bandwidth to our neighbors, this way, we get are truly using what we pay for.
Not to mention, Adelphia claims they don't have a 'level of service' that is required to be met. I have had many 8 or 12 hour outages, and when I complain, they say that I am not entitled to 100% uninterrupted service. I say bull. I'm paying a monthly fee, if the service is only there for 98% of the time, what makes them think I don't deserve to be compensated?
Quoting Baker on Carnivore: "What is the Internet equivalent of acquiring every phone number the target dials? The Justice Department thinks that's an easy question-it's the Internet address of the sites he visits, the "to" line on his e-mails..."
But what is to stop the FBI from actually reading the content of the message sent in that email? We need more than congressional oversight on projects like Carnivore. When they have this much technical capability, the ability to ensure that it be used properly must also be stronger. Hell, the judicial system requires a jury of the accused's peers; why can't we call on the same private sector to provide security professionals to verify the legal use of information gleaned from Carnivore. This way, the checks and balances that were built into the government from day one are upheld, and they get their toy.
In a separate thread, the loudest message I seem to hear so far is regarding the trade of small amounts of freedom for lives. These people seem to be trying to make the point that 'we are in a war, sacrifices must be made from every American.' If this holds true, than the war has been raging for years. The unfortunate sacrifice was the 6000+ people in the WTC. Let us all honor their sacrifice, and uphold our freedoms that much stronger. America is not simply the land, the buildings and the people who occupy it, but also an intangible property that gives it's citizens freedom and rights. To paraphrase a movie, the politicians think the people of this country exist to give them power, but we think the power the politicians wield exists to provide those people with freedom.
I'll admit I wanted to see what the XFL was like, so Saturday night I watched the NY Hitmen play the Las Vegas whoever. Anyway, I realized only a few minutes into the game that the whole reason for Vince McMahon to do this was for the gambling interests in Las Vegas. The announcers said flat out what the line was, and how many points were given. And just think about it, the first game, possibly the biggest game of the season for this new league, was IN LAS VEGAS.
Vince knows what people want to see. He has perfected his art in the WWF. Now, all the cult followers of the WWF are going to do what they could never do with wrestling: bet on the outcome.
On a side note, I wasn't very impressed by the resolution of the cameras. And I don't even have a DTV set. In fact the majority of the shots were so grainy that I couldn't follow the ball most of the time until the receiver had it.
Folks: This is why people regard some of you "advocates" as loose cannons and discount all of what you say. It says right in the article that the guy couldn't afford to hire Charlton Heston as the narrator.
Hell, if Gates is so philantropic these days, maybe he could be persuaded to foot the bill to get Moses to do the voiceover.
CoSource and sourceXchange have been mildy successful in promoting a sort of auction style commercial OSS development model. Ultimately, what kind of success do you think these sites will have. What changes do they need to make to become the next Ebay? Can you give an example of one more type of business model in which a web community will work together in the spirit of the open source movement?
Who knows, maybe these guys are taking the Amazon approach to profits one step farther. They figure that if they can found a company, offer an IPO, and _not even_ lose money their stock will skyrocket. It doesn't have to go out to investors that they shipped 0 units, just the fact that they are not losing money as an Internet startup is good enough. Seriously though, it was bound to happen that someone would try to ride in on the coattails of the big names like Red Hat. And no, it's not wrong to re-package the RedHat distribution. But they need to offer some valuation added to the distro, and I can't see a RedHat binary of Microsoft Office as the answer.
I think this particular subject has dead horse syndrome. It's been beaten quite enough now. There is evidence that a good amount of code is reused from the blackdown port, but there is also the fact that the virtual machine runs faster. This says to me that an effort was made to optimize the code to increase performance, as we all know the blackdown jvm was not without issues in the area.
the same code? Why is the release by Sun 21MB while the largest JDK 1.1.* release by Blackdown only 13MB? If you want to discuss the Blackdown 1.2 releases, the largest of those is 19MB in bzipped format. It doesn't appear to me to be the exact same package.
Cyber-cops already exist, with the proliferation of inexpensive Van Eck monitoring you will see mercenaries(similar to the information gatherers in Stephenson's Snow Crash) offering their contracted services to law enforcement agencies. This may benefit those of us who do care about privacy by speeding up the development of countermeasures. -Matt
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Here are two companies who are offering commercial installations of VAWTs. Although they haven't sold many to date, at least we see that these are both past the R&D phase.
http://web.mckenziebay.com/
http://www.solwind.co.nz/vertical.htm
Don't forget the technology used in the training regimen that athletes use today. Technology has created advances in areas of sports science including biomechanics, motion analysis and nutrition among others. These advances have been the major factor in the number of records being broken and re-broken in every sport over the last decade.
Think about how Babe Ruth would have fared going up against Roger Clemens or Sammy Sosa. Not well. Or another babe, Babe Zaharious playing tennis against Serena Williams...ugly. This is the reason all comparison of records uses the term "the modern era" for recent achievements.
Of course, performance enhancing drugs like androstenedione (a testosterone booster) are often cited as being a major 'contributor' to baseball and other sports today, but this isn't true in all cases. Lance Armstrong doesn't use anything and he has won 4 Tour de France races in a row.
Here is an interesting project that combines learning some basic Java with the entertainment value that a younger programmer requires to keep them focused: Robocode
-gnudot
He says:
We fought hard in congress, courts and in the business world to make MP3 a universal standard because it was the best thing for music fans who were our ultimate customers. Today MP3 is a universal standard...
What's wrong with this statement? Is it just me or should the United States Congress be the absolute last place to get informed viewpoints on digital data format standardization? We're still operating in a free market system correct? Then shouldn't the most useful data format become standardized on, rather than the one lobbyists are paid to promote by special interest groups? I'm not complaining about the MP3 format, but rather the process by which it became a standard.
-gnudot
doesn't anyone else notice the striking resemlance of the Apple/Microsoft patent issue back in the '80s? which one? well, the one where Apple claimed that Microsoft stole many ideas from it's 'windowing system' which was developed for the IIe. they got off easy back then, and now they're sticking it to OpenGL in the same way.
its ironic how in their infancy they were the ones stealing the IP, now they are probably one of the most defensive companies when it comes to that.
thought of making the dog taking the shit in the picture disappear?
That's actually /usr/games/lib/fortune/fortunes.dat if you have 4.3.3, it's a 4.3.3.0 level base fileset.
On another note, the man page for fortune(on AIX anyway) says that for related info see the 'bj command'. I'll have to say I don't think my terminal type has that functionality.
The point that cable providers seem to miss, is that I am paying for 10 MB/s, and 90% of the time I'm using 1/100th of that(when I'm idle). I should be refunded for that, or because I seriously doubt Adelphia is going to give me a refund, I should take the bandwidth that is allocated me. We all should resell our unused bandwidth to our neighbors, this way, we get are truly using what we pay for.
Not to mention, Adelphia claims they don't have a 'level of service' that is required to be met. I have had many 8 or 12 hour outages, and when I complain, they say that I am not entitled to 100% uninterrupted service. I say bull. I'm paying a monthly fee, if the service is only there for 98% of the time, what makes them think I don't deserve to be compensated?
Quoting Baker on Carnivore: "What is the Internet equivalent of acquiring every phone number the target dials? The Justice Department thinks that's an easy question-it's the Internet address of the sites he visits, the "to" line on his e-mails..."
But what is to stop the FBI from actually reading the content of the message sent in that email? We need more than congressional oversight on projects like Carnivore. When they have this much technical capability, the ability to ensure that it be used properly must also be stronger. Hell, the judicial system requires a jury of the accused's peers; why can't we call on the same private sector to provide security professionals to verify the legal use of information gleaned from Carnivore. This way, the checks and balances that were built into the government from day one are upheld, and they get their toy.
In a separate thread, the loudest message I seem to hear so far is regarding the trade of small amounts of freedom for lives. These people seem to be trying to make the point that 'we are in a war, sacrifices must be made from every American.' If this holds true, than the war has been raging for years. The unfortunate sacrifice was the 6000+ people in the WTC. Let us all honor their sacrifice, and uphold our freedoms that much stronger. America is not simply the land, the buildings and the people who occupy it, but also an intangible property that gives it's citizens freedom and rights. To paraphrase a movie, the politicians think the people of this country exist to give them power, but we think the power the politicians wield exists to provide those people with freedom.
PS - the subject line is as intended.
I'll admit I wanted to see what the XFL was like, so Saturday night I watched the NY Hitmen play the Las Vegas whoever. Anyway, I realized only a few minutes into the game that the whole reason for Vince McMahon to do this was for the gambling interests in Las Vegas. The announcers said flat out what the line was, and how many points were given. And just think about it, the first game, possibly the biggest game of the season for this new league, was IN LAS VEGAS.
Vince knows what people want to see. He has perfected his art in the WWF. Now, all the cult followers of the WWF are going to do what they could never do with wrestling: bet on the outcome.
On a side note, I wasn't very impressed by the resolution of the cameras. And I don't even have a DTV set. In fact the majority of the shots were so grainy that I couldn't follow the ball most of the time until the receiver had it.
Folks: This is why people regard some of you "advocates" as loose cannons and discount all of what you say. It says right in the article that the guy couldn't afford to hire Charlton Heston as the narrator.
Hell, if Gates is so philantropic these days, maybe he could be persuaded to foot the bill to get Moses to do the voiceover.
John Markoff (the author of this Times article) paired up with Tsutomu Shimomura to write the book "Takedown" about the original capture of Kevin Mitnick. He also co-wrote "Cyberpunk : Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier" with Katie Hafner.
CoSource and sourceXchange have been mildy successful in promoting a sort of auction style commercial OSS development model. Ultimately, what kind of success do you think these sites will have. What changes do they need to make to become the next Ebay? Can you give an example of one more type of business model in which a web community will work together in the spirit of the open source movement?
Make sure you all write to your congresspeople if you want to make your position known!
Who knows, maybe these guys are taking the Amazon approach to profits one step farther. They figure that if they can found a company, offer an IPO, and _not even_ lose money their stock will skyrocket. It doesn't have to go out to investors that they shipped 0 units, just the fact that they are not losing money as an Internet startup is good enough.
Seriously though, it was bound to happen that someone would try to ride in on the coattails of the big names like Red Hat. And no, it's not wrong to re-package the RedHat distribution. But they need to offer some valuation added to the distro, and I can't see a RedHat binary of Microsoft Office as the answer.
I think this particular subject has dead horse syndrome. It's been beaten quite enough now. There is evidence that a good amount of code is reused from the blackdown port, but there is also the fact that the virtual machine runs faster. This says to me that an effort was made to optimize the code to increase performance, as we all know the blackdown jvm was not without issues in the area.
the same code? Why is the release by Sun 21MB while the largest JDK 1.1.* release by Blackdown only 13MB? If you want to discuss the Blackdown 1.2 releases, the largest of those is 19MB in bzipped format. It doesn't appear to me to be the exact same package.
Cyber-cops already exist, with the proliferation of inexpensive Van Eck monitoring you will see mercenaries(similar to the information gatherers in Stephenson's Snow Crash) offering their contracted services to law enforcement agencies. This may benefit those of us who do care about privacy by speeding up the development of countermeasures. -Matt