Agreed. I like content, and *want* a stream of new content coming from artists, writers, and so forth. I'm not against that; I'm against the middlemen scooping up all the profit, and than complaining that *their* content is too valuable to sell for $1-10.
Disclaimer: I use bittorrent all the time, but when artists provide an opportunity for me to enrich them, I do. Trent Reznor has gotten quite a bit of my cash, and I also kick in for people like Louis CK when they do their direct-to-consumer projects.
You can also always get an HDHomeRun from SiliconDust, which is a HDTV->IP converter; one end plugs into an HD antenna, the other end into your network with ethernet. You can than pull the stream (two tuners) to an iPad, iPhone, VLC, or any other device/software that can read the IPTV stream. I put one in the datacenter I've got gear at ($60 purchase, free colo), bought my wife the iPad app for $4, and now she can watch TV on her iPad anywhere in the world (Chicago TV).
Because fiber costs anywhere between $300K and $800K per mile to pull in urban/suburban areas, where coax and copper pairs are already in place. Existing infrastructure vs massive capex expenses and so forth.
Pot is illegal too, but I don't have much of a problem with folks doing that either. Let's not waste our time until we talk about real crimes that actually cause harm to someone (and forgoing profit is not "harm").
The traditional process used in these operations is vacuum distillation—essentially the boiling of water at less than atmospheric pressure and thus a much lower temperature than normal. This is because the boiling of a liquid occurs when the vapor pressure equals the ambient pressure and vapor pressure increases with temperature. Thus, because of the reduced temperature, energy is saved. A leading distillation method is multi-stage flash distillation accounting for 85% of production worldwide in 2004.[6]
The principal competing processes use membranes to desalinate, principally applying reverse osmosis technology.[7] Membrane processes use semi-permeable membranes and pressure to separate salts from water. Reverse osmosis plant membrane systems typically use less energy than thermal distillation, which has led to a reduction in overall desalination costs over the past decade. Desalination remains energy intensive, however, and future costs will continue to depend on the price of both energy and desalination technology.
So, yes, thermal distillation continues to take places, and reverse osmosis is no panacea considering the extensive costs involved with continual membrane replacement/service.
Condensing water directly out of the air avoids a major hurdle of desalination, the evaporation process using heat. By doing it this way, you're machinery will last longer, and nature will naturally evaporate more moisture into the local atmosphere from available sources.
You could server your site from multiple EC2 regions, and use anycasting if you don't need to manage state server-side. You're going to pay out the nose for traffic and instance time, but Amazon's AWS should have *more* that enough capacity to server as a sink for all but the largest of attackers.
If humans can write software to control space vehicles hurtling through the air at Mach 3 with extremely limited control surfaces, they can write software to educate idiots. Which set of software is more complex? That's to be seen.
I also believe that you don't need a TA in the feedback loop.
I very firmly believe you can eliminate the need for people in teaching; it will take time, and it will take engineers to build software capable of optimizing teaching a student the material. Once you have the foundation though, you'll be able to add subjects to the framework once, and teach millions of people at little to no additional cost.
See what Khan Academy and CK-12.org are doing to K-12 teaching materials? K-12? HAH. College courses are next. The last nails in the coffin is an open certification body where you can go for testing without getting gouged, and an open marketplace for tutors/subject matter experts to work with you online.
Yet another reason to remove professors from the equation. You should be able to communicate the knowledge of a course in written/recorded form (software/multimedia included). If you require a human body, you've failed.
Bro, I get it. I've worked on data taking for the LHC. I understand its easy to run the commands. You assume the following:
1) You have a server somewhere, either at a datacenter, or at your home and your ISP allows you to make it publically available on the internet
2) That you own the server, a server you have to pay for, and have RAIDed volumes
3) That you want to maintain that server
My hourly rate is $125-$200/hr. If I spend more than 10-15 minutes a month working on this, I've already lost money, hence, Dropbox.
Sure, if you already have the gear, can get free colo, and have a bunch of free time to admin the box, go for it. That just isn't practical for most people.
$10-20/month to Dropbox vs how many hours setting up SparkleShare, worrying about hosting it yourself, etc?
Hell, if you're super cheap, buy space from Google and shove it all into Google Docs (yeah, theres an API). $5 for 20GB of storage or $20 for 80GB of storage (per YEAR).
I think its awesome that while we had to build a GPS constellation for earth, the Universe has naturally provided a system usable for precision guidance for interstellar travel. Science is fucking awesome.
Also, how safe would someone be from a coordinated suicide attack on TSA screening checkpoint lines? Not at all. Assume ~50 ppl in switchback lines at a checkpoint, 3-5 checkpoints per terminal, 3 terminals per airport (at least). With very little effort, a group of people could kill more than what took place on 9/11. Don't believe you can coordinate on that scale without being caught? Look at the Indian massacare a terrorist group effected several years ago.
We hit the diminished returns part of the curve a long time ago, way before getting groped in public and body scanners.
As a world traveler, I tried to get permission to travel to Cuba purely for tourist reasons. I explained that I would be staying with a friend (not family), and would be spending under $100 USD while in Cuba. Denied by Dept of State AND Dept of TOFAC.
The workaround? If you want, you can fly to Cancun or other Mexican cities and hop a short flight to Havana, without a Cuban passport stamp ever hitting your passport. Its almost as silly as the TSA itself.
I spent some time working on the data side of the LHC's CMS detector; we got to use Storagetek Tape Silos that were the size of school busses. Each one held 10s of PBs:
During a Google talk, they mentioned that the front radar on the autonomous car can detect objects in front of an 18-wheeler tractor trailer from behind said truck.
Google's autonomous cars are capable of things humans would never be capable of. Its time to embrace the future, just as we did when we said goodbye to horse-drawn carriages.
Except solyndra was about payback for democratic political donors rather than developing tech.
I disagree. Proof please?
If they really want to spur domestic production they should simply tie any subsidies or tax breaks for solar installations to using US made products. The chinese are deliberately trying to crush manufacturers of everything in the US. It's economic warfare and they're winning because we aren't even trying to play.
So? We're supposed to be fine with everything else being manufactured in China except our solar panels? So what if China heavily subsidizes their industry? Take advantage of it; buy your panels at fire sale prices (~80% off what they used to cost).
Taxing the chinese products is more proof that obama and the dems have absolutely no idea how to handle the economy. To them it's all magic, which is why so many of their policies turn out to be smoke and mirrors.
Sooooo we're not supposed to tax chinese products, we're just supposed to be less competitive by relying on US manufacturing to do the job at a higher cost? Your logic is faulty my friend.
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Agreed. I like content, and *want* a stream of new content coming from artists, writers, and so forth. I'm not against that; I'm against the middlemen scooping up all the profit, and than complaining that *their* content is too valuable to sell for $1-10.
Disclaimer: I use bittorrent all the time, but when artists provide an opportunity for me to enrich them, I do. Trent Reznor has gotten quite a bit of my cash, and I also kick in for people like Louis CK when they do their direct-to-consumer projects.
You can also always get an HDHomeRun from SiliconDust, which is a HDTV->IP converter; one end plugs into an HD antenna, the other end into your network with ethernet. You can than pull the stream (two tuners) to an iPad, iPhone, VLC, or any other device/software that can read the IPTV stream. I put one in the datacenter I've got gear at ($60 purchase, free colo), bought my wife the iPad app for $4, and now she can watch TV on her iPad anywhere in the world (Chicago TV).
Because fiber costs anywhere between $300K and $800K per mile to pull in urban/suburban areas, where coax and copper pairs are already in place. Existing infrastructure vs massive capex expenses and so forth.
Pot is illegal too, but I don't have much of a problem with folks doing that either. Let's not waste our time until we talk about real crimes that actually cause harm to someone (and forgoing profit is not "harm").
Huh? It is $3 an episode, or $31 for the whole season ($2.40/episode). Seems reasonable to me....
Not when you're competing with free.
Ahh! Ok. Glad we're all in agreement =)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination#Methods
The traditional process used in these operations is vacuum distillation—essentially the boiling of water at less than atmospheric pressure and thus a much lower temperature than normal. This is because the boiling of a liquid occurs when the vapor pressure equals the ambient pressure and vapor pressure increases with temperature. Thus, because of the reduced temperature, energy is saved. A leading distillation method is multi-stage flash distillation accounting for 85% of production worldwide in 2004.[6]
The principal competing processes use membranes to desalinate, principally applying reverse osmosis technology.[7] Membrane processes use semi-permeable membranes and pressure to separate salts from water. Reverse osmosis plant membrane systems typically use less energy than thermal distillation, which has led to a reduction in overall desalination costs over the past decade. Desalination remains energy intensive, however, and future costs will continue to depend on the price of both energy and desalination technology.
So, yes, thermal distillation continues to take places, and reverse osmosis is no panacea considering the extensive costs involved with continual membrane replacement/service.
Condensing water directly out of the air avoids a major hurdle of desalination, the evaporation process using heat. By doing it this way, you're machinery will last longer, and nature will naturally evaporate more moisture into the local atmosphere from available sources.
Redirect these IP ranges to a sacrificial server on a different pipe to the backbone.
More appropriately, have your upstream provider(s) null route these address blocks before they get to your uplink.
You could server your site from multiple EC2 regions, and use anycasting if you don't need to manage state server-side. You're going to pay out the nose for traffic and instance time, but Amazon's AWS should have *more* that enough capacity to server as a sink for all but the largest of attackers.
If humans can write software to control space vehicles hurtling through the air at Mach 3 with extremely limited control surfaces, they can write software to educate idiots. Which set of software is more complex? That's to be seen.
I also believe that you don't need a TA in the feedback loop.
I very firmly believe you can eliminate the need for people in teaching; it will take time, and it will take engineers to build software capable of optimizing teaching a student the material. Once you have the foundation though, you'll be able to add subjects to the framework once, and teach millions of people at little to no additional cost.
I guess we'll just call it a big experiment, and see what happens when all the content is open sourced and freely available.
That should have read: "If you require a human body to teach a subject to someone, you've failed"
This. This. This.
See what Khan Academy and CK-12.org are doing to K-12 teaching materials? K-12? HAH. College courses are next. The last nails in the coffin is an open certification body where you can go for testing without getting gouged, and an open marketplace for tutors/subject matter experts to work with you online.
Are you implying that only professors of a subject can serve this purpose?
Yet another reason to remove professors from the equation. You should be able to communicate the knowledge of a course in written/recorded form (software/multimedia included). If you require a human body, you've failed.
Bro, I get it. I've worked on data taking for the LHC. I understand its easy to run the commands. You assume the following:
1) You have a server somewhere, either at a datacenter, or at your home and your ISP allows you to make it publically available on the internet
2) That you own the server, a server you have to pay for, and have RAIDed volumes
3) That you want to maintain that server
My hourly rate is $125-$200/hr. If I spend more than 10-15 minutes a month working on this, I've already lost money, hence, Dropbox.
Sure, if you already have the gear, can get free colo, and have a bunch of free time to admin the box, go for it. That just isn't practical for most people.
$10-20/month to Dropbox vs how many hours setting up SparkleShare, worrying about hosting it yourself, etc?
Hell, if you're super cheap, buy space from Google and shove it all into Google Docs (yeah, theres an API). $5 for 20GB of storage or $20 for 80GB of storage (per YEAR).
I think its awesome that while we had to build a GPS constellation for earth, the Universe has naturally provided a system usable for precision guidance for interstellar travel. Science is fucking awesome.
Also, how safe would someone be from a coordinated suicide attack on TSA screening checkpoint lines? Not at all. Assume ~50 ppl in switchback lines at a checkpoint, 3-5 checkpoints per terminal, 3 terminals per airport (at least). With very little effort, a group of people could kill more than what took place on 9/11. Don't believe you can coordinate on that scale without being caught? Look at the Indian massacare a terrorist group effected several years ago.
We hit the diminished returns part of the curve a long time ago, way before getting groped in public and body scanners.
As a world traveler, I tried to get permission to travel to Cuba purely for tourist reasons. I explained that I would be staying with a friend (not family), and would be spending under $100 USD while in Cuba. Denied by Dept of State AND Dept of TOFAC.
The workaround? If you want, you can fly to Cancun or other Mexican cities and hop a short flight to Havana, without a Cuban passport stamp ever hitting your passport. Its almost as silly as the TSA itself.
I spent some time working on the data side of the LHC's CMS detector; we got to use Storagetek Tape Silos that were the size of school busses. Each one held 10s of PBs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-eWDuEo-3Q
Watching 4-8 robotic arms fly through the enclosure is humbling to say the least.
During a Google talk, they mentioned that the front radar on the autonomous car can detect objects in front of an 18-wheeler tractor trailer from behind said truck.
Google's autonomous cars are capable of things humans would never be capable of. Its time to embrace the future, just as we did when we said goodbye to horse-drawn carriages.
Except solyndra was about payback for democratic political donors rather than developing tech.
I disagree. Proof please?
If they really want to spur domestic production they should simply tie any subsidies or tax breaks for solar installations to using US made products. The chinese are deliberately trying to crush manufacturers of everything in the US. It's economic warfare and they're winning because we aren't even trying to play.
So? We're supposed to be fine with everything else being manufactured in China except our solar panels? So what if China heavily subsidizes their industry? Take advantage of it; buy your panels at fire sale prices (~80% off what they used to cost).
Taxing the chinese products is more proof that obama and the dems have absolutely no idea how to handle the economy. To them it's all magic, which is why so many of their policies turn out to be smoke and mirrors.
Sooooo we're not supposed to tax chinese products, we're just supposed to be less competitive by relying on US manufacturing to do the job at a higher cost? Your logic is faulty my friend.