FAIL. I own two cars that are project cars. Neither was bought with an engine in them, yet I drive both on public roads in Illinois, with plates issues by the State of Illinois. Please check your facts before posting.
Perhaps you should start complaining about car dealerships first. They do exactly what you've outlined on a grand scale, yet Apple only has about 5% market share. Me thinks someone is just bitchy they can't get Apple gear cheap.
UMA a short-term hack? Hardly. Until EVERYONE uses VoIP, UMA will be needed. Also, unless the transition from GSM->VOIP/VOIP->GSM is seemless, it's a hack. UMA is seemless. Also, so what if the carrier needs to cooperate? Decent carries (i.e. T-Mobile) already cooperate.
No business would last long if they paid the sales tax without collecting it from the buyer. Also, how would you build it into the cost of your products, since sales tax varies state to state (and county to county sometimes).
I agree with your point about the massiveness needed to output a substational amount of energy, but if you increase efficiency across hundreds of thousands of homes (CFLs now, LEDs when the price is $1-$2/bulb, smart strip outlets, etc), you don't need to put out as much power as a coal plant. I'm not a big fan of solar plants myself, as I think wind puts out more power per square mile, but solar does indeed make sense on your roof at the $1/watt price point Nansolar is getting to.
Typically, if you're a customer, you have to pay sales tax to the seller if they have a "business presence" in your state. Business presence, of course, is quite ambiguous. Several online retailers have simply rolled over instead of fighting against this (Crucial.com comes to mind; they charge sales tax even if they don't have a presence in the state, and remit the tax to the taxing body in your state). Amazon on the other hand doesn't have the luxury of rolling over. Part of their competitive edge is not having a sales tax, and frankly, they shouldn't have to pay one as someone else mentioned, as the services their distribution centers use should be covered by their property taxes.
Nansolar's new printing process for creating solar panels (as well as their super-cool SolarPly material you simply cut to the desired size/shape and attach leads to pull power off) is extremely environmentally friendly compared to high vacuum deposition used in older glass panels.
In addition, generation facilities using solar thermal energy (i.e. heating a medium such as molten sodium) instead of photovoltaic panels are pretty "green", as they're just a bunch of mirrors.
Excellent point. Once the bugs are worked out, I look forward to higher resolution/multiple wavelength retina replacements, with the connections to the brain handled by some sort of self-organizing interface (so we don't have to try to connect the interface to the brain ourselves).
Honestly, depending on the tech available at the time, I would be glad to donate one of my good eyes to someone wealthier than I in exchange for enough cash to purchase an eye that could see at multiple wavelengths. Bonus points if I can wirelessly transmit the output from the eye to hardware and it can run off the glucose in my body.
And how long did it take Microsoft to spit out Windows XP (arguably the first rock-solid version of their product for the desktop)? And they have billions upon billions of dollars in capital to work with.
For an open hardware project, they're making fantastic progress. If you want 3G, offer to help. I'm not saying you shouldn't expect great things from a project of this sort (look at Firefox, it's turned out fantastically well), but you need to give a little to get a little (a la public broadcasting).
AMD uses those numbers because comparing a 3.2Ghz Intel processor to a 3.2Ghz AMD processor is comparing apples to oranges. The AMD processor is more efficient at the same clock speed as the Intel processor, and therefor AMD needed a way to market that. Hence, the marketing numbers instead of clock speed for advertising.
Or said projects could just use Amazon's EC2 cluster, which is uber-cheap (why yes, I use both EC2 and S3, and it's ridiculous how cheap computing power and disk space is).
If they have speed issues, SSL hardware accelerator cards in their frontend tracker cluster boxes should fix the problem right now. SSL is damn fast when you're offloading to a hardware card.
But as soon as you use the card for something that be tied to you (Netflix subscription, etc), all your other transactions are tied to you. For anonymity, cash is still king.
I don't see your point. If you don't agree with their terms of service, DON'T USE THEM. Works with Netflix, DSL, Cable, or any other service out there.
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Have the plugin talk to a bucket at Amazon S3. Encrypt the data. Done.
FAIL. I own two cars that are project cars. Neither was bought with an engine in them, yet I drive both on public roads in Illinois, with plates issues by the State of Illinois. Please check your facts before posting.
Perhaps you should start complaining about car dealerships first. They do exactly what you've outlined on a grand scale, yet Apple only has about 5% market share. Me thinks someone is just bitchy they can't get Apple gear cheap.
UMA a short-term hack? Hardly. Until EVERYONE uses VoIP, UMA will be needed. Also, unless the transition from GSM->VOIP/VOIP->GSM is seemless, it's a hack. UMA is seemless. Also, so what if the carrier needs to cooperate? Decent carries (i.e. T-Mobile) already cooperate.
No business would last long if they paid the sales tax without collecting it from the buyer. Also, how would you build it into the cost of your products, since sales tax varies state to state (and county to county sometimes).
I agree with your point about the massiveness needed to output a substational amount of energy, but if you increase efficiency across hundreds of thousands of homes (CFLs now, LEDs when the price is $1-$2/bulb, smart strip outlets, etc), you don't need to put out as much power as a coal plant. I'm not a big fan of solar plants myself, as I think wind puts out more power per square mile, but solar does indeed make sense on your roof at the $1/watt price point Nansolar is getting to.
Typically, if you're a customer, you have to pay sales tax to the seller if they have a "business presence" in your state. Business presence, of course, is quite ambiguous. Several online retailers have simply rolled over instead of fighting against this (Crucial.com comes to mind; they charge sales tax even if they don't have a presence in the state, and remit the tax to the taxing body in your state). Amazon on the other hand doesn't have the luxury of rolling over. Part of their competitive edge is not having a sales tax, and frankly, they shouldn't have to pay one as someone else mentioned, as the services their distribution centers use should be covered by their property taxes.
In addition, generation facilities using solar thermal energy (i.e. heating a medium such as molten sodium) instead of photovoltaic panels are pretty "green", as they're just a bunch of mirrors.
Excellent point. Once the bugs are worked out, I look forward to higher resolution/multiple wavelength retina replacements, with the connections to the brain handled by some sort of self-organizing interface (so we don't have to try to connect the interface to the brain ourselves).
Honestly, depending on the tech available at the time, I would be glad to donate one of my good eyes to someone wealthier than I in exchange for enough cash to purchase an eye that could see at multiple wavelengths. Bonus points if I can wirelessly transmit the output from the eye to hardware and it can run off the glucose in my body.
You, sir, owe me a coke. I'll handle wiping my keyboard off myself.
And how long did it take Microsoft to spit out Windows XP (arguably the first rock-solid version of their product for the desktop)? And they have billions upon billions of dollars in capital to work with.
For an open hardware project, they're making fantastic progress. If you want 3G, offer to help. I'm not saying you shouldn't expect great things from a project of this sort (look at Firefox, it's turned out fantastically well), but you need to give a little to get a little (a la public broadcasting).
AMD uses those numbers because comparing a 3.2Ghz Intel processor to a 3.2Ghz AMD processor is comparing apples to oranges. The AMD processor is more efficient at the same clock speed as the Intel processor, and therefor AMD needed a way to market that. Hence, the marketing numbers instead of clock speed for advertising.
Or said projects could just use Amazon's EC2 cluster, which is uber-cheap (why yes, I use both EC2 and S3, and it's ridiculous how cheap computing power and disk space is).
Depends on the tracker site. Some do encrypt, some don't.
If they have speed issues, SSL hardware accelerator cards in their frontend tracker cluster boxes should fix the problem right now. SSL is damn fast when you're offloading to a hardware card.
To keep the batteries warm, you insulate the battery box and use the charge controller to dump excess energy into an electric resistor heater.
The call is low-voltage. On ILEC phones that run over copper from the CO to your house, the ringing is almost 100VAC.
But as soon as you use the card for something that be tied to you (Netflix subscription, etc), all your other transactions are tied to you. For anonymity, cash is still king.
Hazah! No one from Illinois voted yes! Makes my day.
Long day. I've been up 28 hours so far. My mistake.
I don't see your point. If you don't agree with their terms of service, DON'T USE THEM. Works with Netflix, DSL, Cable, or any other service out there.
Agreed. Planet Earth in HD is an amazing show.
Now if only Tesla could ramp up domestic production...