Once again this type of silly invention pops up. No normal person would use it, except for a work out. we're talking of robbing 30% or so of the energy a human uses to walk. A person in peak athletic shape can make 75W for a length of time, that's 1/10 of a horsepower. The rest of us would get quickly tired. That's why these "walk to generate" electricity devices mostly go nowhere since the 60s (and maybe someone older can tell me if they saw them in 50s or 40s)
even in "small" disk arrays the replacements are automated with hot spares. of course you periodically replenish the hot spare pool, but one doesn't need to go running every time a disk fails
true that, but I was speaking of anything with digital fet IC, which is just about everything now. the radio controlled cars and planes of my childhood would be fine
sure, old analog toys would be fine.
But I have practical experience with nuke plant and high energy physics environments and digital mos-fets getting wacked up
why do you put "western" in there, every country with a government and that has some industry has that. From the poorest SE asian one to african to middle east to south america......where does this NOT happen?
hah, automatic safety system trips reactor offline during moderate quake - big deal. It would be interesting to see how a typical USA old gen II plant (GE or CE) holds up during a 7.5 or greater quake, but we might have a long wait for that.
They could have gotten by with consumer-grade parts.
Absolutely false, consumer grade electronics will not function at all in the high rad environment around the damaged Fukushima reactors or fuel pools, with thousands of charged particles per second passing through each square centimeter. This will flip logic circuits including memory cell states. This is why they had to wait for shipped rad-hardened robots.
Must be no running water either as the inhabitants are dirty and un-bathed. But at least the federal government's response to the detroit devastation was fast. Already, you can see the long lines at the post offices for the relief checks. 400 lbs. whore-bags are redeeming them for ding-dongs and orange drink at the 7-11, however they are finding they don't cover much needed medicinal supplies such as glass tubes with paper roses in them and copper scrubbing pads.
strange view there... the things I build make money for companies, and jobs for people who operate and administer. No one is getting laid off from using my wares, no company is going into the ground. Yet you somehow equate me with CEO types? that's funny, they generally don't build anything of value in this day and age.
I live in the real world where open source code driver code for some phone devices already exists, and where a company called Google has enough pull they could make a totally open source phone a reality and even beat carriers into submission to accept it. Rumor has it google may become a carrier themselves, by the way.
yes, you don't know what "car" really means do you? let me help you, it covers enclosed transport for freight or people. "Car" includes chariots, wagons, elevator cabs, carts, automobiles among other things
very funny you bring up a fictional romantic scene in a movie about hobbits, wizards, elves, dwarves... as if reality in history were that way. Plenty of kings were cowardly power and money grubbing little shits (oh, and I could have mentioned inbred too) who with the nobles drained their subjects of wealth and life. What percentage of wars were fought for evil reasons because of that crowd? Answer, just about all of them. Throughout the ages concepts like "patriotism, nobility, loyalty, fealty" were merely a bunch of religious bullshit to brainwash people into believing that some two-legged sack of crap was somehow worthy to be obeyed. Things got somewhat better in the western world when people started to see through that scam, but now the pendulum is swinging back as we are making elite out of elected dirtbags. we need to flush the toilet again, the bowl is starting to stink with the turds of senators and presidents and judges and their big corporate/big bank backers.
we have illegal aliens that do that. go by on garbage day to get metal and other redeemable things from trash which is fine by me, but also take other things like bikes out of yards, hose reels, anything else metal that isn't nailed down. in my father's generation they'd have earned at least an assfull of rock salt from a shotgun for that, but we live in gentler times.
Why do you assume computer literacy? why do you assume the software has flaw? I'm not going to post anonymous just because I point out uncomfortable truth. No one has that problem with LibreOffice of people I know, and that is dozens. A minute tail end of the bell curve means nothing, except the tail has a problem. Tails don't wag the dog.
The food supply chain is being taken over by mega-corporations using information and biological technology. Those are the two disciplines that are being used as tools to take over the world. However, do not make the mistake of believing that either the IT worker or lab worker will be some kind of privileged person in this future. The steps have been taken in the last ten years to ensure the wages they earn will be a small fraction of what they were in times past, and also to ensure that no one person understands the entirety of the systems being built, all will be replaceable cogs in the machine.
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Once again this type of silly invention pops up. No normal person would use it, except for a work out. we're talking of robbing 30% or so of the energy a human uses to walk. A person in peak athletic shape can make 75W for a length of time, that's 1/10 of a horsepower. The rest of us would get quickly tired. That's why these "walk to generate" electricity devices mostly go nowhere since the 60s (and maybe someone older can tell me if they saw them in 50s or 40s)
mounting in alternating directions? I saw some twin girl porns like that.....
the government is too busy with its War on Terrabytes to worry about the petafiles
even in "small" disk arrays the replacements are automated with hot spares. of course you periodically replenish the hot spare pool, but one doesn't need to go running every time a disk fails
they discard the common uninteresting decays, no point in storing it
true that, but I was speaking of anything with digital fet IC, which is just about everything now. the radio controlled cars and planes of my childhood would be fine
sure, old analog toys would be fine. But I have practical experience with nuke plant and high energy physics environments and digital mos-fets getting wacked up
why do you put "western" in there, every country with a government and that has some industry has that. From the poorest SE asian one to african to middle east to south america......where does this NOT happen?
hah, automatic safety system trips reactor offline during moderate quake - big deal. It would be interesting to see how a typical USA old gen II plant (GE or CE) holds up during a 7.5 or greater quake, but we might have a long wait for that.
They could have gotten by with consumer-grade parts.
Absolutely false, consumer grade electronics will not function at all in the high rad environment around the damaged Fukushima reactors or fuel pools, with thousands of charged particles per second passing through each square centimeter. This will flip logic circuits including memory cell states. This is why they had to wait for shipped rad-hardened robots.
yes, those are serious bugs but they put out a patch. Things have been much better for me since I applied that patch to my hard drive.
because no one is sending text spams or using cell phone numbers to telemarket......
meanwhile, on the third rock from the sun.....
Must be no running water either as the inhabitants are dirty and un-bathed. But at least the federal government's response to the detroit devastation was fast. Already, you can see the long lines at the post offices for the relief checks. 400 lbs. whore-bags are redeeming them for ding-dongs and orange drink at the 7-11, however they are finding they don't cover much needed medicinal supplies such as glass tubes with paper roses in them and copper scrubbing pads.
and look at all the good it did
strange view there... the things I build make money for companies, and jobs for people who operate and administer. No one is getting laid off from using my wares, no company is going into the ground. Yet you somehow equate me with CEO types? that's funny, they generally don't build anything of value in this day and age.
red herring. killing service and viral malware can and has been be done already, without low level access.
Microsoft and others made the same argument about OSS for PC and servers.
It's just another computer
I live in the real world where open source code driver code for some phone devices already exists, and where a company called Google has enough pull they could make a totally open source phone a reality and even beat carriers into submission to accept it. Rumor has it google may become a carrier themselves, by the way.
yes, you don't know what "car" really means do you? let me help you, it covers enclosed transport for freight or people. "Car" includes chariots, wagons, elevator cabs, carts, automobiles among other things
very funny you bring up a fictional romantic scene in a movie about hobbits, wizards, elves, dwarves... as if reality in history were that way. Plenty of kings were cowardly power and money grubbing little shits (oh, and I could have mentioned inbred too) who with the nobles drained their subjects of wealth and life. What percentage of wars were fought for evil reasons because of that crowd? Answer, just about all of them. Throughout the ages concepts like "patriotism, nobility, loyalty, fealty" were merely a bunch of religious bullshit to brainwash people into believing that some two-legged sack of crap was somehow worthy to be obeyed. Things got somewhat better in the western world when people started to see through that scam, but now the pendulum is swinging back as we are making elite out of elected dirtbags. we need to flush the toilet again, the bowl is starting to stink with the turds of senators and presidents and judges and their big corporate/big bank backers.
yeah, it would run so much better on IIS backed by a MS-SQL server database. Then we could use IE for a richer user experience.
so then they would have to open source them. a good thing
we have illegal aliens that do that. go by on garbage day to get metal and other redeemable things from trash which is fine by me, but also take other things like bikes out of yards, hose reels, anything else metal that isn't nailed down. in my father's generation they'd have earned at least an assfull of rock salt from a shotgun for that, but we live in gentler times.
the word comes from French word meaning "an artist's jointed model", a dummy to substitute for a live model, not a human.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannequin
Why do you assume computer literacy? why do you assume the software has flaw? I'm not going to post anonymous just because I point out uncomfortable truth. No one has that problem with LibreOffice of people I know, and that is dozens. A minute tail end of the bell curve means nothing, except the tail has a problem. Tails don't wag the dog.
The food supply chain is being taken over by mega-corporations using information and biological technology. Those are the two disciplines that are being used as tools to take over the world. However, do not make the mistake of believing that either the IT worker or lab worker will be some kind of privileged person in this future. The steps have been taken in the last ten years to ensure the wages they earn will be a small fraction of what they were in times past, and also to ensure that no one person understands the entirety of the systems being built, all will be replaceable cogs in the machine.