A satellite (or other relatively still object) is up in space. It has a large collection grid that is basically a peltier in reverse (heat makes electricity). Fire a laser from the ground at the grid. Boom, wireless power.
Another model: A heat-pipe in reverse (a tank of water or highly boilable liquid with steam pipes turning a generator). Fire said laser at heating point. Liquid boils and turns generator. Liquid cools and returns to heating chamber. Boom, wireless power.
A third model: High-efficiency solar panels on the object? Didn't we recently see a story about a solar panel breakthrough in which the new panel captures infrared and converts that to electricity as well? I think it had a 25-30% transfer efficiency, WAY beyond current methods. Go talk to those guys. Boom, wireless power.
I mean, c'mon, there's all kinds of ways to do this with existing technology. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!;-)
SCO may have been good for Linux in some fashion, but it placed enough FUD into the Linux thought-space to deter many companies from trying Linux out, and literally COST some Linux users some $600 and up (whoever was dumb enough to actually pay the license fee.)
Frankly, I think the management team at SCO should be fired (or arrested) for taking a failing company on such a desperate ride, simply for market share gains (which have largely evaporated, I would hope).
Just get them to try to design a chamber with the fastest plant growing potential. I guarantee you that they will be interested.
To grow various types of plants, of course. Herbs for their kitchens, I'm sure.;-)
Ahem, hello? http://tvtorrents.net/
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*A friend of mine* has been enjoying http://tvtorrents.net/ for a while now. And, yes it is the best thing - No TiVo, no ads, HDTV quality and usually 350MB per hour of DivX encoded video. Plus you can search.
Just check the site the day after airing, and pull down the torrent. The HDTV-LOL versions are some of the best for Galactica, Lost, all the hot shows.
Since Slashdot has had absolutely NO political discussions in previous articles.
Whoever wrote this up: only NOW are you giving us the opportunity to express our political views? As if every politically-oriented story doesn't turn into a flame-war already?
Thanks for the gasoline. Exactly what we need, I'm sure.
Several people here have correctly mentioned SpywareBlaster, the freeware tool from:
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.htm l
However, you need to go one step further for large deployments. In my unattended XP install scripts, I go ahead and install the SpywareBlaster application silently using the following code:
In the above example, I have renamed the SpywareBlaster app "Spyware1.exe" for 8.3 compatibility, then I kill the process since it starts running after installation. Finally, I have the latest spyware definition files that the program downloads in the same folder, and I just xcopy them to the program's native directory.
When it finishes, it is installed, and the data files are already updated, during your unattended install. The problem is, you have to open the app on every machine and click on Enable All Protection in order for the registry to be changed. That would suck on 2000 machines.
But you can go a step further, doing that step automatically. You can take all the registry changes that the program generates (to disable evil ActiveX controls), and fold them directly into your registry during install.
Here's How:
Install SpywareBlaster on a test PC, run the updates, then enable all protection.
That's it! It's very easy and I do it all the time for my unattended installs. Since it generates registry entries, you can push those out to all users without any further installs, if you wanted to. I think GPEDIT.MSC does that or can do that.
1. Dr. Torok is vulcan and this is the first seeding of Vulcan technology (apart from the T'Pol grandmother selling velcro to Americans in the 1950's).
2. Isn't Torok that caveman stuck in the futuristic jumping / FPS game? He's certainly progressed.
Well, I guess that TNG Season 6-7 episode where all the races work together to figure out the DNA message was true after all.
Too bad we haven't met up with the Klingons yet, since they have a critical piece of the message.
Oh well.;-)
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OK, imagine this scenario:
;-)
A satellite (or other relatively still object) is up in space. It has a large collection grid that is basically a peltier in reverse (heat makes electricity). Fire a laser from the ground at the grid. Boom, wireless power.
Another model: A heat-pipe in reverse (a tank of water or highly boilable liquid with steam pipes turning a generator). Fire said laser at heating point. Liquid boils and turns generator. Liquid cools and returns to heating chamber. Boom, wireless power.
A third model: High-efficiency solar panels on the object? Didn't we recently see a story about a solar panel breakthrough in which the new panel captures infrared and converts that to electricity as well? I think it had a 25-30% transfer efficiency, WAY beyond current methods. Go talk to those guys. Boom, wireless power.
I mean, c'mon, there's all kinds of ways to do this with existing technology. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
Running Linux, I might add!
SCO may have been good for Linux in some fashion, but it placed enough FUD into the Linux thought-space to deter many companies from trying Linux out, and literally COST some Linux users some $600 and up (whoever was dumb enough to actually pay the license fee.)
Frankly, I think the management team at SCO should be fired (or arrested) for taking a failing company on such a desperate ride, simply for market share gains (which have largely evaporated, I would hope).
Just my $.02
JP
In Soviet Russia, Linux undermines YOU!
Sorry.
Folks,
I switch out the (incredibly not likable) Intel 2100 Mini-PCI cards for Dell 1350s all the time, and there is absolutely no problem with it.
I think this is a vendor-specific decision, so absolutely avoid vendors that do this.
Of course, Dell laptops are also not made as well as IBM's, so you may have a "lesser of two evils" decision to make.
JP
http://download.softpedia.com/software/tweak/Spher eXP.0-81.exe
You can get on Softpedia and read about it if you want.
Or not.
JP
That's a definite challenge, and worthy of a Nobel Prize, or something. ;-)
Audio only? WTF?
That's no moon...it's a Space Station! ;-)
Just get them to try to design a chamber with the fastest plant growing potential. I guarantee you that they will be interested.
;-)
To grow various types of plants, of course. Herbs for their kitchens, I'm sure.
*A friend of mine* has been enjoying http://tvtorrents.net/ for a while now. And, yes it is the best thing - No TiVo, no ads, HDTV quality and usually 350MB per hour of DivX encoded video. Plus you can search.
;-)
Just check the site the day after airing, and pull down the torrent. The HDTV-LOL versions are some of the best for Galactica, Lost, all the hot shows.
According to my friend, that is.
JP
I can see Sun's new ad campaign:
Java: the new platform for viruses and malware!
Heh. Sorry.
Whoever wrote this up: only NOW are you giving us the opportunity to express our political views? As if every politically-oriented story doesn't turn into a flame-war already?
Thanks for the gasoline. Exactly what we need, I'm sure.
JP
Oh, to live in an era where any politically-oriented Slashdot post didn't degrade into a hate-fest between sides.
Not this year.
JP
When it finishes, it is installed, and the data files are already updated, during your unattended install. The problem is, you have to open the app on every machine and click on Enable All Protection in order for the registry to be changed. That would suck on 2000 machines.
But you can go a step further, doing that step automatically. You can take all the registry changes that the program generates (to disable evil ActiveX controls), and fold them directly into your registry during install. Here's How:
- Install SpywareBlaster on a test PC, run the updates, then enable all protection.
- Open REGEDIT and export the following key:
- Import the reg entries from that branch using the following command during your post-install script:
That's it! It's very easy and I do it all the time for my unattended installs. Since it generates registry entries, you can push those out to all users without any further installs, if you wanted to. I think GPEDIT.MSC does that or can do that.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\
Good Luck,
JP
I can think of two scenarios:
1. Dr. Torok is vulcan and this is the first seeding of Vulcan technology (apart from the T'Pol grandmother selling velcro to Americans in the 1950's).
2. Isn't Torok that caveman stuck in the futuristic jumping / FPS game? He's certainly progressed.
JP
he can do is lock the transporter in a diagnostic loop and wait until there's a cure. Should take about 75 years. JP
OK, Strong Bad, pipe down about Sibbie, he's my man. Besides, Bubs still wants to produce that song.
Well, I guess that TNG Season 6-7 episode where all the races work together to figure out the DNA message was true after all. Too bad we haven't met up with the Klingons yet, since they have a critical piece of the message. Oh well. ;-)