Realistically, what does Google need to offer in the 1 Gbps range that can't be offered at 15 Mbps range?
Google wants to own your hard drive. If you are scanning or printing a document or up/downloading videos and photos to their data warehouse, 15 Mbps won't cut it.
Or, you can waste plenty of bandwidth on streaming HD video like TV, movies, gaming (e.g OnLive). Imagine having a family of four downloading four 72Mbit (BluRay 2x spec) streams at the same time.
On this type of card, the magnetic strip is replaced by a microcontroller with various cryptographic features (aka smart card) that are supposed to secure transactions and make the card a PITA to clone.
Explain to me why Google is able to produce solar panels at 1/10th the COST at the same POWER OUTPUT - but isnt selling them to consumers - much less anyone in the US - even though they are made here.
If you visit the solar-panel manufacturer's website, you will see that they are currently building their first factory to the tune of 100 million dollars. The CEO notes in the company blog that their entire output for 2008 is already sold out, but that they'll keep ramping up production.
Everyone is rallying against RIAA as a whole, but there is only a single RIAA member behind this lawsuit: Warner Music Group, which owns Atlantic Records.
Warner is the very same company that gave the children of late Mr Scantlebury 60 days to grieve before they would be sued. (Warner v. Scantlebury) They only dropped the suit after it got media attention.
Warner also owns Elektra Records that is suing a woman with multiple sclerosis. (Elektra v. Schwartz) MS is a disorder that can worsen rapidly if the sufferer is put under stress.
And, apparently it did: In a March 2 letter to the judge, her lawyer basically writes that she is now so sick that she can no longer defend herself. Guilty or not, Warner Music has shortened her life just the same. I guess "compassion" is a foreign concept to them.
I don't know about the part of his design that is above ground.
The underground bit however, works well in practice, at least in the Swedish climate.
Extracting heat from a temperature differential with a heat pump and storing it in the ground, is in wide commercial use here, and you can save money on it.
In a quick search in the Swedish yellow pages, I found hundreds of contractors to choose from.
There has also been plenty of research conducted in this field in various Swedish universities. The article author would probably save himself a lot of time if he looked some of it up. Here are a couple of abstracts (in English and Swedish): http://www.lib.kth.se/main/stems_projektrapporter. asp?subj=vp
These drives will probably use wear levelling. That means that (ideally) all sectors on the drive must be written to once, before any sector is written to a second time - and so on.
So, with 2 million writes per sector, you have to write 3200 MB * 2E6 = 6.4E9 MB before the drive fails.
If the average write speed over a 24h period is, say, 1 MB/s the drive will fail in 6.4E9 seconds, or about 200 years. Still, I don't think you will want to put your swap partition on one of these...
Ice cores show atmospheric gas content, not temperature.
From that Wikipedia page:
Because water molecules containing heavier isotopes exhibit a lower vapor pressure, when the temperature falls, the heavier water molecules will condense faster than the normal water molecules. The relative concentrations of the heavier isotopes in the condensate indicate the temperature of condensation at the time, allowing for ice cores to be used in global temperature reconstruction.
The OLPC is first and foremost a teaching tool for children. It will replace paper textbooks
and possibly, depending on how the touchscreen/trackpad design turns out, even notebooks and pens to some degree. So the device does not have to be complicated to use at all. I guess it will save money for the schools too, e-books are cheaper to print and distribute than paper books.
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Um, it is the website for a architecture publication, found by following the links in the aforementioned blogs. So, care to be more specific?
The original story is longer, with more pictures...
Realistically, what does Google need to offer in the 1 Gbps range that can't be offered at 15 Mbps range?
Google wants to own your hard drive. If you are scanning or printing a document or up/downloading videos and photos to their data warehouse, 15 Mbps won't cut it.
Or, you can waste plenty of bandwidth on streaming HD video like TV, movies, gaming (e.g OnLive). Imagine having a family of four downloading four 72Mbit (BluRay 2x spec) streams at the same time.
The EMV-card.
On this type of card, the magnetic strip is replaced by a microcontroller with various cryptographic features (aka smart card) that are supposed to secure transactions and make the card a PITA to clone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV
It is a quite recent innovation. It was only standardized oh ... 9 years ago, and its backers - VISA and Mastercard - are relatively unknown companies.
This is probably why many banks are wary about issuing EMV cards yet ... or that they are cheapskates. I'm not sure which.
http://www.think.no/
If you visit the solar-panel manufacturer's website, you will see that they are currently building their first factory to the tune of 100 million dollars. The CEO notes in the company blog that their entire output for 2008 is already sold out, but that they'll keep ramping up production.
More here: www.nanosolar.com
Everyone is rallying against RIAA as a whole, but there is only a single RIAA member behind this lawsuit: Warner Music Group, which owns Atlantic Records.
Warner is the very same company that gave the children of late Mr Scantlebury 60 days to grieve before they would be sued. (Warner v. Scantlebury) They only dropped the suit after it got media attention.
Warner also owns Elektra Records that is suing a woman with multiple sclerosis. (Elektra v. Schwartz) MS is a disorder that can worsen rapidly if the sufferer is put under stress.
And, apparently it did: In a March 2 letter to the judge, her lawyer basically writes that she is now so sick that she can no longer defend herself. Guilty or not, Warner Music has shortened her life just the same. I guess "compassion" is a foreign concept to them.
I don't know about the part of his design that is above ground.
. asp?subj=vp
The underground bit however, works well in practice, at least in the Swedish climate.
Extracting heat from a temperature differential with a heat pump and storing it in the ground, is in wide commercial use here, and you can save money on it.
In a quick search in the Swedish yellow pages, I found hundreds of contractors to choose from.
There has also been plenty of research conducted in this field in various Swedish universities. The article author would probably save himself a lot of time if he looked some of it up. Here are a couple of abstracts (in English and Swedish):
http://www.lib.kth.se/main/stems_projektrapporter
Ok, I'll give it a try.
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These drives will probably use wear levelling. That means that (ideally) all sectors on the drive must be written to once, before any sector is written to a second time - and so on.
So, with 2 million writes per sector, you have to write 3200 MB * 2E6 = 6.4E9 MB before the drive fails.
If the average write speed over a 24h period is, say, 1 MB/s the drive will fail in 6.4E9 seconds, or about 200 years. Still, I don't think you will want to put your swap partition on one of these
Ice cores show atmospheric gas content, not temperature.
From that Wikipedia page:
Because water molecules containing heavier isotopes exhibit a lower vapor pressure, when the temperature falls, the heavier water molecules will condense faster than the normal water molecules. The relative concentrations of the heavier isotopes in the condensate indicate the temperature of condensation at the time, allowing for ice cores to be used in global temperature reconstruction.
The OLPC is first and foremost a teaching tool for children. It will replace paper textbooks and possibly, depending on how the touchscreen/trackpad design turns out, even notebooks and pens to some degree. So the device does not have to be complicated to use at all. I guess it will save money for the schools too, e-books are cheaper to print and distribute than paper books.
Step 1: Invent gadget
Step 2: Get the US Government addicted to it.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit
I agree with you, but I don't think you need the ??? in step 3.
Step 3: Enjoy immunity from patent infringement lawsuits.