To the contact provided on this web link and I bet this will put a fat dent in it coming to fruition:
Mr. Harper,
Speaking as an American citizen, I'm glad you are selling out to our interests. I love having more slaves indebted to our system and YOU especially make a rather appropriate addition to our collection of sockpuppets with no real power or intelligence.
Keep up the good work, and bring me more slaves to do our bidding!
"Really, you have a communication device powered by over the air electricity?"
My router sits on an induction base for power. NO WIRES except the modified induction coil/transformer that comes out of the back of the router's power jack. Ditto the cable modem.
I could put my cell phone on there, turn on the speakerphone, and tether it to my computer. Shit I've got a near-watch sized wireless modem and cell phone right there, powered by over-the-air electricity.
It's amazing what you can come up with when you're blowing power supplies because of a crappy power line and need to find a better solution.
I don't know about either of you two, but my GPS can get live traffic updates by telling to to connect to the traffic network, so at least MINE is two-way. Thank you, Garmin. You're a lifesaver in LA traffic.
"They're not terribly expensive, they're sturdy as hell, and they're durable and easy to sterilize -- which almost certainly cannot be said of something made of disposable plastics and hot glue."
I see someone has never DIY a full hydroponics system before using almost those exact materials - disposable plastics (cat litter buckets) and hot glue (to hold the net pots to the modified lid.)
"However you must also realize that Analog has a fundamental weakness is that it isn't accurate and cannot be copied exactly."
Which makes digital doubly useless as you then introduce further loss trying to replicate an analog signal, preserve it in a digital format, then re-convert it for output from an analog device (no matter how 'digital' your LCD or Plasma screen claims to be) you are analog and thus it must output in analog.
Looks like digital is JUST AS LOSSY, especially when the original source is analog.
"In this sentence Tesla proved he did not understand one of the most basic laws of the universe, the inverse square of distance law, first proposed by Newton and never disproved by anyone."
Last time I checked, tightly-focused visible wavelength beams did not suffer from the Inverse square, NEARLY as bad as an un-directed visible signal. Hang on, let me get my incident meter and quantum meter, and try my laser and flashlight.
The effect of the inverse square *SEEMS* nowhere near as devastating to a laser as it is to a flashlight, judging by both luminous output and umol/m^2/s-1 levels tested against both lights on both meters.
"The devices we have that are the size of a watch can only transmit signals as far as the nearest cell tower."
How do you think GPS works (My tomtom is far smaller than most smartphones)? How do you think micro-satellite phones work? Not by a cell tower, that's for damned sure.
'Oh no, another book with "Ninja" in the title.' But in this case, the authors have established a case for that: they explained that the first Ninjas were peasants who could not take the abuse from the Samurai anymore and how they used everyday objects as weapons.
If you seriously didn't know that's how the ninja came to be, you should probably drop your geek card off at the "expired" bin.
It's not a misconception. In fact there are multiple ways for Windows to break entirely requiring a full reinstall because even the repair option on the install disc won't work.
Let me install Norton on your system and give me ten minutes - you'll need a full reinstall.
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You know, I remember my 128 kbit ISDN. I seem to recall having no issues uploading or downloading 20MB within a reasonable amount of time.
And I remember that cost about $1,000 to install when I had it.
Show me a $1,000 56kbit POTS line, please.
To the contact provided on this web link and I bet this will put a fat dent in it coming to fruition:
Mr. Harper,
Speaking as an American citizen, I'm glad you are selling out to our interests. I love having more slaves indebted to our system and YOU especially make a rather appropriate addition to our collection of sockpuppets with no real power or intelligence.
Keep up the good work, and bring me more slaves to do our bidding!
"Really, you have a communication device powered by over the air electricity?"
My router sits on an induction base for power. NO WIRES except the modified induction coil/transformer that comes out of the back of the router's power jack. Ditto the cable modem.
I could put my cell phone on there, turn on the speakerphone, and tether it to my computer. Shit I've got a near-watch sized wireless modem and cell phone right there, powered by over-the-air electricity.
It's amazing what you can come up with when you're blowing power supplies because of a crappy power line and need to find a better solution.
You do realize this new fiber link is likely being joined with the USB 3.0 + optical spec, right?
It's already under control, and that fiber is going to necessitate a minimum jack size.
Guess why we prefer to use stranded wire instead of solid core for most power transmission?
More surface area = more capability to carry power.
The pins could probably all together support more power than the PSU power rails.
"You will not find a turbine (ok, rotor with blades) in your CPU"
Maybe not *IN* the CPU but the Delta that was on top of my heatsink was most certainly close to a turbine, right down to the ultra-high whining noise.
He's talking about PSU power rails, not mains power.
I don't know about either of you two, but my GPS can get live traffic updates by telling to to connect to the traffic network, so at least MINE is two-way. Thank you, Garmin. You're a lifesaver in LA traffic.
I see your reading and English comprehension is at a 5th grade level.
Stephen Turnbull says otherwise and I'd be willing to bet he's more credible a source than you are.
Satphones are not huge. An Iridium is the size of a cordless handset at home, without the handset's base station.
And they're getting smaller every single year.
And GPS is *NOT* receive only. How the hell is it supposed to sync with multiple satellites if it can't send a signal out for triangulation?
"They're not terribly expensive, they're sturdy as hell, and they're durable and easy to sterilize -- which almost certainly cannot be said of something made of disposable plastics and hot glue."
I see someone has never DIY a full hydroponics system before using almost those exact materials - disposable plastics (cat litter buckets) and hot glue (to hold the net pots to the modified lid.)
It's fucking TRIVIAL to clean and sterilize.
"That's real cute, linking to Google searches like that."
Whooo boy I got some news for you.
It is America's Taliban - go watch Jesus Camp and tell me otherwise.
Most of those girls look under 18, just comparing to the local high school kids that are running around right now for their lunch break.
No, they won't, if Intel decides to tightly control the connector specification.
I don't even think he's aware that our first broadband cable modems were analog.
"However you must also realize that Analog has a fundamental weakness is that it isn't accurate and cannot be copied exactly."
Which makes digital doubly useless as you then introduce further loss trying to replicate an analog signal, preserve it in a digital format, then re-convert it for output from an analog device (no matter how 'digital' your LCD or Plasma screen claims to be) you are analog and thus it must output in analog.
Looks like digital is JUST AS LOSSY, especially when the original source is analog.
"In this sentence Tesla proved he did not understand one of the most basic laws of the universe, the inverse square of distance law, first proposed by Newton and never disproved by anyone."
Last time I checked, tightly-focused visible wavelength beams did not suffer from the Inverse square, NEARLY as bad as an un-directed visible signal. Hang on, let me get my incident meter and quantum meter, and try my laser and flashlight.
The effect of the inverse square *SEEMS* nowhere near as devastating to a laser as it is to a flashlight, judging by both luminous output and umol/m^2/s-1 levels tested against both lights on both meters.
"I'd love to see someone whip out their phone a mile or so off shore and try to get cellular service."
Simple - Buy an Iridium for $1295.
That wasn't hard to google search 'satellite mobile phone.'
"The devices we have that are the size of a watch can only transmit signals as far as the nearest cell tower."
How do you think GPS works (My tomtom is far smaller than most smartphones)? How do you think micro-satellite phones work? Not by a cell tower, that's for damned sure.
"The device that Tesla predicted would look completely different from a technical standpoint than the devices we have today."
Really?
Tesla mentioned one device being the size of a watch that you wore on your wrist to communicate with people all over the world.
I HAVE ONE, it's called the M810 Tri-band wrist phone.
Do you even pay attention to the things we have today or do you just sit in the cave, on the computer?
"His prediction was for central switching stations, not distributed cell towers"
Oh, you mean kinda like our ISPs, which are both wired and wireless (central switching satellites in orbit, automated switches/routers on land.)
What Tesla was talking about WE HAVE TODAY. Think harder.
'Oh no, another book with "Ninja" in the title.' But in this case, the authors have established a case for that: they explained that the first Ninjas were peasants who could not take the abuse from the Samurai anymore and how they used everyday objects as weapons.
If you seriously didn't know that's how the ninja came to be, you should probably drop your geek card off at the "expired" bin.
You've *NEVER* had the OS degradation of 95 or 98 after about half a year due to the crappy registry back then?
"Tired of this misconception."
It's not a misconception. In fact there are multiple ways for Windows to break entirely requiring a full reinstall because even the repair option on the install disc won't work.
Let me install Norton on your system and give me ten minutes - you'll need a full reinstall.