I don't really think it'll save them....they need to bring something new to the table, and all they're doing here is bringing more of what everyone else has already brought.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer claimed that Linux violated more than 200 patents.
Honestly, how do you take such a claim seriously??? If M$ wasn't such a financial juggernaut, this would be hilarious. As it stands, it's depressingly sobering...M$ has the financial clout to do a lot of damage in court, event if the cases are ultimately thrown out.
It would have been nice to include a link to the material, so us non-subscribers could have perused the material while waiting for the 'please move along' dialog to go away...
1). Better locate this focus point well away from any bird, insect, or bat migration routes (not to mention rerouting human air traffic).
2). Not sure what concentrated sunlight on a patch of atmosphere would do to ozone levels...but it would be interesting to find out...
3.) One big problem with bringing energy from outside the Earth to Earth in any form: the earth is too darned hot to begin with, and only getting warmer. We really ought to address the whole global-warming issue before we start importing more energy.
4). Ever see an ant fried by a magnifying glass? Imagine if terrorists managed to hack into the mirror's aiming mechanism.
Yeah, he's a real fuckup, isn't he? A textbook example of how not to run a company. Whenever I'm presented with a decision, I think 'what would Bill do?', and then I do the exact opposite. A lifetime of such decisions has enabled me to avoid the oppresive wealth and power that Bill must struggle with every day.
In your experience, can managers with little technical knowledge successfully run a technically-oriented company?"
Yes' it's entirely possible...assuming that the manager, in addition to being compentent in all manageresque activities, understand and accepts that he simply doesn't know what the fsck is going on in regards to the technical aspects, and solicits information, knowledge, and advice from those who do on a regular basis.
That being said, I've been in situations where the tech-impaired manager does just that (result: success and happiness), as well as situation where he/she doesn't (result: seppuku-inspiring failure).
I have to say I prefer the former, although a lot can be said for the latter; watching your manager continually make a fool of himself is entertaining, although you will eventually find yourself chuckling to yourself while standing in the unemployment line.
I said a patchwork. Like a quilt or a checkerboard.
So we get only half the algae die-off. Still a bad day.
Black squares let the sun through.
Um...I thought the black squares were the solar collectors....but nevermind.
And we wouldn't need to cover the entire ocean
I certainly hope not....we need to reserve a little free space for boats.
Seriously, though, the oceans' algae population is already considerably stressed due to pollution...cutting off sunlight to the marine ecosystem is just not a good idea, period. It's academic, anyway, as all the other problems Ipointed out still stand.
Um....bad idea...even assuming we could keep these things working in a heaving ocean, full of corrosive brine, through the tides and storms, not to mention the ocasional (not-so-occasional these days) hurricane, those 'wasteful oceans' contain the algae that manufacture most of the planet's O2.
And how, precisely, do you propose to deliver this power to the earth's surface?
I could go into all sorts of theories on how this might be done (orbital tethers, microwave transmissions, etc.), but the truth of the matter is that I propose no such thing. Space-based solar power is for space...where we ought to be by now anyway.
Intriguing idea....would be cheaper and easier than orbit, and also easier to get the power to the surface...however, you'd still have gravity and wind to consider, meaning the structure would have to be more robust...and it would be in shadow half the time.
Could we "coat" a laptop with these in order to enhance its battery life duration ?
From the article:
The flagship product, Nanosolar SolarPly, is a 14 feet x 10 feet solar electricity module delivering 120 watts per square inch at 110V. The company is now offering solar panels at below $1 per peak watt.
Sound like something you want to carry around?
Seriously, solar power is ridiculously overrated. The energy density of sunlight at the earth's surface is simply too low to be practical. Way too much real estate would have to be used to make any realistic amounts of power, and at those scales, upkeep becomes prohibitively expensive.
Solar power stations belong in space, where the collection grids can be as big as you like, damage from inclement weather would be eliminated (although damage from micrometeroids would have to be addressed), and the sunlight is unfiltered by atmosphere. Solar power on a planetary surface simply makes no sense.
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All the serious gamers will have 2 PCs connected in series to their monitor..one just for all the video rendering, and one for everything else.
Lol, why does M$ never learn, they keep trying to get market shares by using sneaky tricks.
Well, since they've got something around 98% of the market share, I'd say their 'sneaky little tricks' are paying off.
Sometimes it works but on the other hand sometimes it dont and then they get sued.
Exactly. and when it doesn't work, they simply settle for what seems to us mere mortals to be exorbitant sums of money, but to them is merely pocket change. I'm not sure you realize just how deep M$'s pockets really are.
Well just wish they could crash and burn once and for all.
No, you don't. You don't want to be under something that big if it's about to 'crash and burn'...and face it...we're all under it.
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You've been here for, hmm.. must be 2 weeks or so given your UID?
While this UID has been here about that long, I've been part of the Slashdot community (in various guises), since 1998.
You've got some nerve pointing out my UID, however...considering you don't seem to have one.
Either you don't have one, which means you don't matter,
or you have one, but are afraid to reveal it to me, which means you don't matter.
Either way do us all a favor and go read http://timecube.com/ which is undoubtedly more your pace.
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I don't really think it'll save them....they need to bring something new to the table, and all they're doing here is bringing more of what everyone else has already brought.
Too little too late, IMHO.
Just quoting the article as posted...I work with what I'm given.
Isn't this typical...
I point out (correctly) that non-subscribers couldn't even see the material until they were cleared to post to it, and suddenly I'm a 'troll'.
Last time I try to be helpful.
You're missing the point....the material was inaccessable while the 'nothing to see here' dialog was up.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer claimed that Linux violated more than 200 patents.
Honestly, how do you take such a claim seriously??? If M$ wasn't such a financial juggernaut, this would be hilarious. As it stands, it's depressingly sobering...M$ has the financial clout to do a lot of damage in court, event if the cases are ultimately thrown out.
It would have been nice to include a link to the material, so us non-subscribers could have perused the material while waiting for the 'please move along' dialog to go away...
A happy dolphin.
Sometime's it's embrassing, but just being me is embarassing, so I've learned to live with it. It's pretty much my trademark now.
(The dolphin ringtone, that is...not being embarasssing.)
1). Better locate this focus point well away from any bird, insect, or bat migration routes (not to mention rerouting human air traffic).
2). Not sure what concentrated sunlight on a patch of atmosphere would do to ozone levels...but it would be interesting to find out...
3.) One big problem with bringing energy from outside the Earth to Earth in any form: the earth is too darned hot to begin with, and only getting warmer. We really ought to address the whole global-warming issue before we start importing more energy.
4). Ever see an ant fried by a magnifying glass? Imagine if terrorists managed to hack into the mirror's aiming mechanism.
No, really. Imagine it.
In other words, not Bill Gates
Yeah, he's a real fuckup, isn't he? A textbook example of how not to run a company. Whenever I'm presented with a decision, I think 'what would Bill do?', and then I do the exact opposite. A lifetime of such decisions has enabled me to avoid the oppresive wealth and power that Bill must struggle with every day.
A moron is you.
Yes' it's entirely possible...assuming that the manager, in addition to being compentent in all manageresque activities, understand and accepts that he simply doesn't know what the fsck is going on in regards to the technical aspects, and solicits information, knowledge, and advice from those who do on a regular basis.
That being said, I've been in situations where the tech-impaired manager does just that (result: success and happiness), as well as situation where he/she doesn't (result: seppuku-inspiring failure).
I have to say I prefer the former, although a lot can be said for the latter; watching your manager continually make a fool of himself is entertaining, although you will eventually find yourself chuckling to yourself while standing in the unemployment line.
I said a patchwork. Like a quilt or a checkerboard.
So we get only half the algae die-off. Still a bad day.
Black squares let the sun through.
Um...I thought the black squares were the solar collectors....but nevermind.
And we wouldn't need to cover the entire ocean
I certainly hope not....we need to reserve a little free space for boats.
Seriously, though, the oceans' algae population is already considerably stressed due to pollution...cutting off sunlight to the marine ecosystem is just not a good idea, period. It's academic, anyway, as all the other problems Ipointed out still stand.
The main protection Linux has is the developers looking at Microsoft and saying, "See those guys? Let's not be like those guys."
Um....bad idea...even assuming we could keep these things working in a heaving ocean, full of corrosive brine, through the tides and storms, not to mention the ocasional (not-so-occasional these days) hurricane, those 'wasteful oceans' contain the algae that manufacture most of the planet's O2.
No sunlight=no algae=no O2=very bad day.
Great explanation of buffer overflows here
I feel safer already.
Just don't pound roofing nails through it...
And how, precisely, do you propose to deliver this power to the earth's surface?
I could go into all sorts of theories on how this might be done (orbital tethers, microwave transmissions, etc.), but the truth of the matter is that I propose no such thing. Space-based solar power is for space...where we ought to be by now anyway.
Intriguing idea....would be cheaper and easier than orbit, and also easier to get the power to the surface...however, you'd still have gravity and wind to consider, meaning the structure would have to be more robust...and it would be in shadow half the time.
From the article:
Sound like something you want to carry around?
Seriously, solar power is ridiculously overrated. The energy density of sunlight at the earth's surface is simply too low to be practical. Way too much real estate would have to be used to make any realistic amounts of power, and at those scales, upkeep becomes prohibitively expensive.
Solar power stations belong in space, where the collection grids can be as big as you like, damage from inclement weather would be eliminated (although damage from micrometeroids would have to be addressed), and the sunlight is unfiltered by atmosphere. Solar power on a planetary surface simply makes no sense.
All the serious gamers will have 2 PCs connected in series to their monitor..one just for all the video rendering, and one for everything else.
It's sweet, sweet revenge for when Bill ripped off the Windows interface from Apple.
Guess that money will have to come from somewhere...
Well, since they've got something around 98% of the market share, I'd say their 'sneaky little tricks' are paying off.
Sometimes it works but on the other hand sometimes it dont and then they get sued.
Exactly. and when it doesn't work, they simply settle for what seems to us mere mortals to be exorbitant sums of money, but to them is merely pocket change. I'm not sure you realize just how deep M$'s pockets really are.
Well just wish they could crash and burn once and for all.
No, you don't. You don't want to be under something that big if it's about to 'crash and burn'...and face it...we're all under it.